WEBVTT - Mick Shots: A Good Bye 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.440 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:20.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:24.520 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:32.879 Dallas Cowboys app Some of us are ready for another 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:38.200 edition of mix Shots. I'm not sure that Mickey is. Hey, look, 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:43.040 Dave Hellman looks very relaxed and ready for another edition 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:49.040 of mix Shots. How you doing, Dave Hellman? I'm doing wonderful, 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.200 bill Um. You know, not to make light of the situation, 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.040 but I think the Cowboys are being cautious with the 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.120 COVID protocols, which hasn't left a whole lot of work 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.240 for me to do. So I'm chilling and happy to 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.040 talk some cowboys with y'all. All right, very good. So 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:09.160 you survived the first your first appearance on mix Shots 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:13.240 yesterday without incident. It did, Yeah, so we can make 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.120 it through another forty five minutes. HECMA unable to be 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.800 here today, so we will press on for the next 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.960 forty five minutes. And Mickey, you wouldn't believe how many 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.560 notes he has in front of him. This reminds me 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.400 I used to hear stories when Norma Hitskis used to 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:36.520 do Rangers baseball games. Tom Grieve told me that they 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.440 would have a three man booth. It would be Mark Holtz, 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:44.959 Tom Grieve, and Norma Hitzkis and a space about four 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.480 feet wide, and Hitskis would take up about three feet 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.880 of the four feet with all his notes just all 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.600 taped down. That's what Mickey has right now. I was 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.960 prepared for yesterday because we didn't think you were going 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.440 to be with us, so I was going to have 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.480 to run the show, and I wanted to make sure 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.920 I had all my son, you can run this show. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.160 How about we do that. You're good to go, all right? 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.320 But I had my notes ready in case we ran 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.720 out of things to talk about, as if we would 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.399 run out of things to talk about, right, especially gonna 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.679 say there's no chance of that. Come on right, Yeah, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.160 that's right in, Dave. But since we last talked, you 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.720 don't you not only don't have a Cowboys game to 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.440 watch this weekend, you don't have an LSU game to 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:31.600 watch either, LSU Alabama. Uh, it looks like I canceled 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.400 for the whole season now, which is a good year 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.839 for LSU. If if you're not gonna play Alabama one year, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.600 this would be the year not to play them, right, 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.480 I never in my life thought that I would be 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:47.000 excited that LSU's not gonna play football. But yeah, my 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.480 Saturday is a lot more free, and I'm not mad 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.160 about it because that was probably gonna be ugly. So yeah, 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.480 I don't know. Maybe I'll go find a farmer's market 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.359 or a pumpkin patch. I don't I don't know. I 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.320 don't know what people do when there's no foot ball on, 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.079 but I guess I gotta figure it out. That's right, 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.400 all right? So how do you fee right behind them too? 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.640 Because they canceled the Missouri Georgia game? Did they really? Yes, well, 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.400 the SEC just canceled the whole weekend. Yeah, it sounds 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.960 basically yeah, Z and M still playing. No, they're yeah, 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.480 they got canceled too. They know they do have a 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.560 common open date where they can make it up December twelfth, 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:25.639 because Georgia can't do it. I think there's like, yeah, yeah, 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.600 that's what they're worried about right now. But LSU doesn't 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:32.239 have to worry about the SEC championship game, so it's okay. Yeah, 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.040 and the uh, the big twelve already, they basically had 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.360 an open date setting their schedule of this week because 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.080 Texas didn't playing OU and OSU play next week Bedlam, 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.680 so they're not playing this week. So so anyway, the 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.800 point of all this is what don't we do? What 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:49.880 are we going to do for football this week? Which 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.440 brings me to my first question out of the shoot 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.040 to both of you, do you, as a as a 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.840 member of the media or as a fan, do you 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:05.680 like the byeway? No? I don't be guys. Here's the 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.280 deal with the bye week. I think everybody. I think 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.160 there's this perception out there since the team is off, 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.440 we're off. We still got to do our jo. I 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.200 find myself doing more work during the bye week because 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.800 you don't have any subjects with you, right, that's right, 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.000 well in your crammy. We still have to do all 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.560 the shows, but we're doing it in four days time 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.960 instead of six days times. People, So at some point 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.880 there will be a light at the end of this tunnel. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.800 But more than that, and I think from a fans' perspective, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:39.880 all right, I want my Cowboys game on Sunday, okay, 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:44.560 And I understand if you look down the schedule here. Okay, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.240 the Cowboys are off this week. They play on a 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.680 Sunday next week at Minnesota, and then okay, yeah, there 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.000 is a Thanksgiving Day game, and there is a Thursday 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.840 night game against Baltimore. But three out of the next 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.880 four Sundays the Cowboys don't have a game, And it's 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:04.120 not like we're traveling the games, right, yep. I think 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.400 y'all are absolutely and I think y'all are crazy. Are 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.479 you kidding me? The bye week is great. I mean, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:16.200 it's a fair point relax for the first time since 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.120 August fifth, I'm gonna try my best to do nothing. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.320 I mean, it's a little bit different this year because 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.440 you're not traveling. You know, training camp was nowhere near 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.839 as intense this year as it is in a regular year. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.400 But by the time you get to the bye week, 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.479 I'm ready to just like lie down on my couch 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.839 for like three days. Bill, you make a great point. 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.039 You kind of have to cram a lot of work 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:39.839 into the early part of the week. I don't know 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.560 about y'all, but when I get done with this show, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:44.719 I got a couple of things left to right and 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.039 then I'm gonna try my best to like turn my 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.680 phone off on Thursday and Friday. And as far as 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.760 being a fan, I feel like people people lose sight 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.200 of this. But not playing is great because you can't 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:01.279 lose when you don't play, so your week's stress free, 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.800 especially when you're don't have to worry about losing a 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.920 ball game. I can, you know, if I want to 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.680 spend Sunday making you know, I can spend all day 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:11.600 making a pot of gumbo if I want to. I 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.840 could go out and visit people I don't. I can 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.560 do whatever I want because I don't have to spend 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.400 eight hours at at and T Stadium. I am firmly 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.240 in favor of it. I'm sorry that y'all are workaholics, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.719 but I am not. So you'd be in favor of 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.560 going back to having two bye weeks in a season, Oh, 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.279 sign me up? Yeah, I mean, and if they're gonna 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.520 if they're gonna increase the schedule, you know, if they're 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.400 gonna wind up playing eighteen games, I would guess we'll 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.000 see that. And yeah, I mean, so you talk about 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.560 you know again, Let's let's consider a regular year. You 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.720 report to training camp on like July eighteenth, and then 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.840 the regular season's gonna run until mid January. Yeah, you're 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.160 gonna need to bye weeks for the players, but for 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.600 me too. For sure. It just seems like it's a 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.160 week of work without a game, and to me, the 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.120 bonure payoff, the bonus of what we do is we 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.080 get to go cover a game, we get to go 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.799 to a game and watch a game. Now you work 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.600 and there's no bonus at the end. Okay, Yeah, what 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.200 is the most important three hours, three and a half 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.800 hours of your week? Yeah? The game. It's the game, right, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.760 the game. Yeah. So that's a funny thing. You said 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.960 that because my college roommate would get so upset when 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.280 he was trying to write in a press box and 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.360 it was so loud and people after the game, and 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.640 he would scream, these are the three hours that are 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.520 most important to me in my career. Shut the hell up. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.760 That's funny. That's like Dave, we were talking about. We 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.680 were talking about the interception that Gilbert threw um in 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.280 the game on Sunday, and Everson was talking about how 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.000 he was yelling at the TV and his wife didn't 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.400 understand why he was yelling, and I did. He was 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.880 on his cow and so on, Sunday, I'm watching the 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.080 game from home, and I'm on my couch watching the game, 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.040 and I'm logging every play, so I'm working as I'm 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.720 in I'm yelling at the TV too. At about that 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:15.440 time that that play happened, my sister in law was 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.800 in town from out of town. I hadn't seen her yet. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.640 She and my wife and my nephew. They walk into 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.800 the house and I'm totally ignoring them because I'm so 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.040 caught up into this game. And I just explained to him, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.000 this is the most important three hours of my week. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.640 I will say hello to you after this game was over. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.679 They went out on the back porch. So, y'all are 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.320 y'all are intense? Man, y'all are not playing games because 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.240 I've never I've never been that guy. Like I kind 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.200 of I work better in a noisy, busy environment. I 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.400 kind of like to have people talking and maybe not 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.640 distracting me, but it just kind of, I don't know, 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.280 like that background noise kind of helps me focus on 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.640 what I need to do. However, I think boys game 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.360 is more like work. Don't try to don't try to 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.480 talk to me during an LSU game. I will say 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.920 that that's that's a whole different person than what I 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.080 am on Sundays, So I guess I identify with that. Yeah, 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.280 all I know is I remember the two bye weeks. 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.240 That was what was it two seasons maybe like in 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:23.520 the early nineties. It was like ninety maybe, okay, eighty 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.120 nine somewhere now, I think it was ninety nine one 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.200 something like that. And you know where you're working for 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.720 the newspaper. The newspaper doesn't take a bye, right, you 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:38.160 gotta have something in there and people, yeah, absolutely, all 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:43.599 right before we get uh oh, I just let I 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.360 hear everything y'all are saying. And obviously we do this 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.920 job because we love it. I love covering the games, 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.880 but covering a game is a ten hour experience, and 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.800 I'm a okay not you know, getting a week where 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.480 I don't have to do that, and I don't have 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.840 to leave my apartment if I don't want too. I 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.720 can channel surf during the other NFL games and see 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.600 what's going on there. I'm I am just fine hanging 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.560 out on my couch this weekend. I get it ten hours. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:16.360 I'm going to fire up the smoker on Saturday. All right, Uh, 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:21.559 there you go, all right. The NFL was yesterday, today's Wednesday, 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:25.320 So they did it yesterday. The decision if there is 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:30.160 a weekend or games lost where they cannot be made 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:35.400 up to have the expanded playoff field sixteen team playoff field. 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.040 What are you your thoughts on that. It sounds like 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.040 they were very serious about doing it. I think it 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:45.679 has to get okayed by the nfl PA. But yeah, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.760 more the merrier, let's go it. It sort of worked 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.920 so the couples more closer to the playoffs, right yutely, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:57.920 because yeah, but as I pointed out yesterday, there's fifteen 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.839 teams in this league right now have no more than 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:05.040 three wins, right, so you know there could be a 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.400 fight to the finish to get to six. I hate 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.520 to be a cynic. I hate to be a cynic. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.880 But do we think it really affects the Dallas Cowboys 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.679 because I think, yeah, it's still they either got to 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.440 win the East. Yeah, they got to win the East. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.440 It's it's the East or bust. Well, and yeah, there's 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.800 not a wild card coming out of the East. I 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.760 can't remember where I say this stuff, And Dave you 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.560 stopped me if I said it yesterday after Bill left 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.480 or whatever. But the Cowboys only have one more game 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:38.920 against the team with a winning record Baltimore. Yeah, that's it. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:44.640 So you're saying teams of their own six and one 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.959 as a possibility. I didn't say they're going to win 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.880 every one of them because they putting beat Washington, right, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.920 I'm gonna say they've gotten their butts kicked by a 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.320 few teams of their own ELK too, So yeah, but 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.040 at least some of them. I mean Washington's really did 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.480 I'm not sure where Arizona is. I lost track to them. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.640 They're winning and then no, what Arizona's like five and three? 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.960 I really didn't get their butts kicked by Philadelphia until 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.280 they were able to return the fumble that wasn't that 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.600 was recovered before they recovered it and ran for a touchdown? 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.080 Or am I getting my games mixed? Right? So now 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:24.240 you're right. So you're right, and Philadelphia has one more 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:29.360 win than the Cowboys, that's right. It's gonna be interesting. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.400 I mean, your your logic is sound, but I gotta 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.559 see a little bit more to believe it, because we 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.040 got to see someone, you know, Yeah, this is a 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.400 two and seven team. Yeah, you're right, all right? Mickey, 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.000 what's on how many legal pads you have in front 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.880 of you? There? So I just got they all looked 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.520 like but I didn't put it. So I had to 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.680 give me one thing. Give us, give us one topic. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:54.640 We can go, take us to break. We can go 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.800 to break on this. How about this? So it's Veterans Day? Right, Yeah, 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:02.120 there you go, good one? All right? How about this? 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.560 This is a letter dated April seventeenth of nineteen forty 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:16.400 five the Army Department. We sent this letter to you 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:24.400 to my dad's mother, okay, all right, And they had 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:28.520 sent a previous letter to her when he was missing 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:34.640 in action. Okay, So she responded wanting more information. So 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.560 it happened in at the Battle of the Bulge, which 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.120 I think was like the end of December. It was 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:46.080 around right after Christmas, because I remember seeing when I 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.600 saw the movie there was snow on the ground or whatever. 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.840 So he had been missing. And so she sends a 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:57.040 letter back to the Military Department whatever it is, and 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:02.840 on April seventeenth, she gets this letter back. Dear Missus Spagnola, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.199 your letter inquiring about your son Dominic has been referred 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.160 to this office for disposition. It has been carefully read, 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.640 and we will keep We will attempt to answer all 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.160 your questions. Your son Dominic was missing in action in 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:21.760 Germany on the twenty first January nineteen forty five. During 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:26.080 an attack on a fortified position. On twenty one January 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.040 nineteen forty five, a number of men in the battalion 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:33.120 were moving toward a German town, this being their objective 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.200 company being met enemy opposition and was cut off from 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:41.000 their other supporting units, but it was impossible to reach them, 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.760 although communication by radio was maintained for a period of 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:48.760 forty eight hours. It is assumed that the men, including 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.880 your son, were taken prisoner, but as yet no word 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.200 has been received by this headquarter. How would you like 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:59.040 to be a parent of a child during World War two? 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:03.200 And that's the letter you get. They have no idea 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.880 where they're at. He had been a prisoner of war 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:13.280 from January to a week after this letter arrived. He 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.400 was liberated a week later, and they had no idea 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:23.640 where they were. Wow. So my sister dug this out 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.240 and sent it to me, and I've kind of hung 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:26.960 onto it and I said what am I going to 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.680 do with this? Right? And I was like, oh, it's 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.200 Veterans Day. Maybe because I heard some people reading letters 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.080 today about their fathers or what they sent back home 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:42.080 or their grandfathers. Probably mostly. And yeah, a week later, 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:47.160 he was liberated after four months in being moved from 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.160 prison camp to prison camp because they had to keep 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.000 him on the move because the Germans were retreating so 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.480 and they would they would basically blindfold him and put 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.760 them in the railroad cars so no one knew where 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.320 they were going, so they couldn't like have any espionage 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.960 and let somebody know where they were. So yeah, quite 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:12.760 an experience. But he was liberated, got back too. I 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.960 think they got back to England and at a whole 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:21.480 ninety five pounds. Wow. They didn't feed them. They were 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:27.000 eating potatoes. Probably I saw it when he was his 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:31.640 induction papers. He was like one hundred and forty, So, yeah, 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.920 how about that man. They were eating potato skins before 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:39.160 potato skins were appetizers because they had to peel the 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.480 potatoes in the prison camps for the Germans that they 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.920 would cook the potatoes and leave them with the skins. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.120 So we're sitting here a nice dose of perspective. Yeah, 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:57.080 we're sitting there talking to complaining about the cowboy gay buds. Yeah, yeah, thanks, Yeah, 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.760 Like I said, that's something that's a hell of a perspective. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.400 I appreciated they had no game whatsoever. Right, good gracious 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.560 wow it wanted answered P, I mean for your your grandmother, 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:11.840 and answered. All I got to say is I keep 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.040 telling people I'm like the miracle baby that he survived 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:20.600 that um and and and I also had a purple 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.280 heart too. He got wounded at one point. At one point. 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.919 And to answer your question of when the Battle of 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:33.280 the Bulge occurred, December sixteenth, nineteen forty four, is when 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:38.200 the counter offensive began and ended January twenty fifth, nineteen 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.320 forty five. Yeah, like one week in two days, and 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.480 it was like the turning point of World War two, 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:49.120 at least in the European. Uh continent. Well, I think 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:53.000 you found good use yes for mix shots there a 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:58.160 salute to our salute to our veterans. 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The reason that the 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:35.080 reason that the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders making the team is 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:41.199 the most competitive yet because it was virtual? Were you 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:44.359 judging this year? No? I did not report. My world 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.560 was supposed to have been gone at that time. So 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:49.359 I told them I couldn't do it, and then things 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.760 changed because they asked me in January. Right, It's like, 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.760 now that weekend is already booked when they were going 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:00.720 to have them here? Or was it? Or was what? 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.800 Or was it I'm saying? Or was it? Because everybody's 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.359 plans got thrown out the window. Yeah, so it turned 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:10.160 out it wasn't booked. It wasn't I was booked at 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:12.359 eight T and T. No, my trip was booked to 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:16.040 New Orleans. Yeah, did it happened though, No, it did 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.360 not happen. All right, So that's November twenty fourth, nine 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:24.840 o'clock Central time on c MT. Let's see today's the eleventh. 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:28.320 So that's a Tuesday, November twenty fourth. I was just 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:30.840 trying to figure out. I've got family coming into town 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.439 on that Tuesday, and so now I know what we 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:39.359 will be watching on Tuesday night Central Time. People watched 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.440 that stuff. Yeah, I'll use it like an eight week 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.760 series or whatever. I was at a Star game, that's 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:48.400 the premiere. I was at a Stars game one night. 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:50.640 I was walking down towards my seat and this lady 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.640 looked at me and she goes, I know who you are? 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:55.520 And I go, who am I? She goes, You're that 0:21:55.680 --> 0:22:00.560 judge on the Cheerleader show. That's like, I got to 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:04.840 be known for something, right, Dave you SEC guy Verne 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:08.399 Lundquist the long time voice of the SEC until this, 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:12.440 uh retirement from that. All right, the famous story you 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:15.480 may have heard, the famous story that Verne used to say, 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.720 going to a game in college station and getting and 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:21.800 getting gas and someone comes up to him and says, 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:24.320 I know you. I know you. You're the bowling for 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:29.920 dollars guy. That's right. Yeah. I actually met him at 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:32.680 the I met him at the local Emmy Award show 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:35.760 like two years ago. I felt bad because I told 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:38.000 him he was the voice of my childhood. And I 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:40.560 don't think he appreciated somebody telling him that he was 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:44.440 that old. It's one thing, Dad, it's one thing for 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:48.639 you to tell him that he's the voice of your childhood. 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:51.000 I would tell him the same thing, he was the 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:57.040 voice of my childhood too. I would probably really offend 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:00.480 That would really offend him. But yeah, and uh, channel 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:04.440 light back long long time ago before I got here, 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:06.879 he was doing no man, he was the time I 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:09.399 got here. He was he was the greatest, but all 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:11.919 one of the things that made and it's not like 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:15.720 a eulogees doing, but one of the things that made 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:18.840 Verne so great. And I loved him obviously calling Cowboys 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:23.600 games as well. But he was so relaxed on the air, 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:27.359 and you know, and he would probably admit it to 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:29.560 this day. There would be flub ups on the air, 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:31.720 there would be mistakes that were made, but he would 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:33.679 just carry on, you know, and he'd laugh at it 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:36.280 and just having a sense of humor, just to be 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:38.639 able to laugh at himself. Well, I screwed that up. 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:41.800 I think it was when Dave when we saw him 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:45.119 at the at the Emmy's here locally, and uh I 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:47.480