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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites. I'm black Jack Fletcher, And for

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Speaker 1: those of you who may be surprised to be hearing

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Speaker 1: my voice on IT Tuesday, just going to give you

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Speaker 1: a little bit of an explanation as to why that is.

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Speaker 1: From now through football season, you'll be getting the Favorites

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Speaker 1: twice a week. Generally, you'll be getting Chad on Tuesday

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Speaker 1: and myself on Thursday. Doesn't mean that we won't be

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Speaker 1: interacting with each other or dropping by on each other's days,

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Speaker 1: but that's just generally how this is gonna work until

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Speaker 1: we get to football season and go back to our

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Speaker 1: three show format. And so today I'm joined by legendary

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Speaker 1: baseball player, wonderful storyteller in my own personal rain man,

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Speaker 1: Paul La Duca. PAULI, how are we doing today? I'm

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Speaker 1: absolutely doing wonderful. It's like a kidney candy store right

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Speaker 1: before you're going to Vegas. It just depends on how

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Speaker 1: the drive back is. Me and Paul are heading out

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Speaker 1: to Vegas later to a I am both excited and terrified. Um.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure which feeling is stronger at this point. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I'm sure it'll be eventful. Yeah, I just want

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Speaker 1: that she did with the Bryce Harper picture. She seemed

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Speaker 1: like she was so excited to be at the Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas night game. Okay, okay, so all right, I'm glad.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know where that was going when you said

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Speaker 1: so great and everybody's focused on Bryce Harper when they

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Speaker 1: So you're well, you know what, PAULI, this is why

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Speaker 1: you're a pro, because that's a great segue. Uh, you're

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Speaker 1: talking about Bryce Harper. Obviously we did this show last week.

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Speaker 1: He hadn't signed yet. He proceeded to sign a couple

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Speaker 1: of hours later with Phillies for his thirteen years, three

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Speaker 1: thirty million dollar contract. There are a lot of prop

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Speaker 1: can bet on his home run over under total which

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Speaker 1: which is over under two seventy four, which one of

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Speaker 1: these speaks to you a little bit. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: be surprised actually that. I was actually surprised to know

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Speaker 1: I mean under the rest to me about the park though,

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Speaker 1: because you've made a great point about him playing in

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Speaker 1: Citizens Bank Park. Yeah, and that's the thing. How many

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Speaker 1: But they had Sigura Real Mudo, they've got Hoskins. I mean,

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Speaker 1: your now you you made a point about Citizens Bank Park.

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Speaker 1: And people are talking, are they gonna go headhunting after him?

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Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen. Um Uh. Do the DC pitchers

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Speaker 1: He's not changing divisions. Um. I know, inter league play

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Speaker 1: and talk of it's a little bit of NFL. There

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Speaker 1: are odds out there on the number one draft pick. Overall.

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Speaker 1: The top four players listed are Nick Bosa, who is

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Speaker 1: This is unbelievable? If you would have told me that

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Speaker 1: can you get for Rosen? That That's my my issue is, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like Josh Rosen, but I think it's pretty clear that

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Speaker 1: man going, don't worry, we got it. I'm like what.

426
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: So he brings out about fifteen like literally candles and

427
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 1: like candle labras, like almost like candle labs. I'm not lying.

428
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,439
Speaker 1: I mean they look like menorahs. I I mean they

429
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 1: were like lit on the table. And now I'm playing

430
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: Texas hold him with a power outage in Lake elson

431
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 1: Or after about a half hour delay. Now it's then

432
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,199
Speaker 1: we're playing with candles on the table so we can

433
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: see the cards. Wait, so they brought the candles or

434
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 1: the menorahs, whatever it may be into the casino. Yes, no,

435
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:52,120
Speaker 1: they had like candles, and I guess there's power outages.

436
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 1: How it happened in Lake elson Or, I don't know,

437
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 1: but they were ready. They didn't have a backup generator,

438
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 1: but they had candles ready. The action was going to

439
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: keep on going. Was full. All right, so we start

440
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: playing again, right, but here's the problem. Now, like you know,

441
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 1: we don't have any clocks on we're not looking at

442
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: it watches. We're playing. Next thing, you know, it's like

443
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: three in the morning. And I had remember I had

444
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: won like eight hundred bucks, which eight hundred dollars, and

445
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,640
Speaker 1: you're in a ball you're making eight fifty a month.

446
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: It's like gold. That's a month's rent. Like you're like,

447
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is unbelievable. And we came up

448
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: the hill at about three fifteen and we just came

449
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:39,679
Speaker 1: sprinting back and we get into our room. Now, when

450
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 1: you're in the minor leagues, you obviously have a roommate.

451
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: My roommate at the time was a guy named Mike

452
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,360
Speaker 1: metcalf U and he was with me. So we got

453
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Speaker 1: into our room and we went in and then one

454
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Speaker 1: of the other guys, a guy named Ken Huckabee, he

455
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 1: asked his roommate, who did not go, hey, was there

456
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Speaker 1: a bed check? And he goes no. So we're like, yes, okay,

457
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: we're cool, everything's cool. No bed check. We gambled because

458
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 1: whenever you go out in the minor leagues, it's curfew,

459
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 1: usually as midnight or one o'clock. UM. But our manager

460
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: was John Shelby T. Boon and Shelby UM he caught

461
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 1: the last out. Actually, the World Series for the Dodgers

462
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: played for the Oriels. The best manager I ever had,

463
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: the best. He was so awesome. So he never really

464
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: had a bed check, but you just wanted to make

465
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 1: sure just in case. So no bed check. Nothing. We

466
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 1: get to the ballpark the next day, obviously the lights

467
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: are back on, and like Alison or and it's about

468
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 1: three o'clock and he calls a team meeting and he

469
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: steps in front of us and he goes, okay, I

470
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,719
Speaker 1: saw about ten of you guys running up to your

471
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Speaker 1: rooms last night at about three o'clock in the morning.

472
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: It's a hunter dollars right now if you tell me

473
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 1: who you are, two if you don't. And he just

474
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 1: walks into his room and in the manager's office, and

475
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there now, we're all pondering. We all go

476
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,640
Speaker 1: in the bathroom, like how the lights were out. There's

477
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: no way he could have saw us. Did he do

478
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: a bed check? What is going on? Next thing, you know,

479
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: about fifteen guys walk into his room and he just

480
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: started dying laughing, and he goes, ha ha ha ha.

481
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 1: He goes La Duca, Mattcalf and Huckabee you stay here,

482
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,199
Speaker 1: and he goes all the rest of you guys. I

483
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: never saw any of you guys. I just saw these

484
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: three clowns, and I go, how in the heck did

485
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: you see us? See what happens is every minor league

486
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: manager has to write a report after a game. Um,

487
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: and what ended up happening is when lights went out,

488
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: t Bone was white right in his report. He fell asleep.

489
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: He got back up and he had to write his report,

490
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: and the lights were out. He went down to his

491
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 1: rent a car, his rent a car, turned on the

492
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: pilot light in the rent a car and was doing

493
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 1: his report. We ran right by him at three fifteen

494
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: in the morning. Wow, by his rent a car. Aren't

495
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: Casino is kind of a no no if you're playing

496
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: like professional baseball? I mean, like, what are the chances? Like?

497
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: He just started dying laugh in the funny cart. He laughed.

498
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: He laughed so loud, and like thought it was the

499
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: funniest thing. He goes, you three clowns ran right by

500
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: my car. I had the light on, I was doing

501
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: the report, and I just figured there was more people

502
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: down there. The best part is that he he just said,

503
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: I saw ten of you. He made up a number

504
00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: and fifteen guys walked in. But he took the fifts

505
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: and he had a party with us at the end

506
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: of the year. What a guy. Yeah, that's a true story.

507
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: And there is a casino in Lake elsin Or Yeah. Wow,

508
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: that's good to know if I'm ever in Lake Elsinore over, California. Now,

509
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: But that was nineteen ninety six, sure about that? Hold

510
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: on ninety four? Yeah, that was the same year that

511
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: we were in San Bernardino and we almost got arrested

512
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: because my buddy went behind the counter of Denny's because

513
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: he was upset because the lady said Denny's was closed

514
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: and he was drunk. And the guy goes, no Denny's

515
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: this twenty four hours and the ladies like, not this Denny's.

516
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: And he went behind the counter and started just cooking.

517
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: He went he went like into the kitchen and started cooking. Yeah,

518
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: he just started. You were back there, and yes, and

519
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: we were trying to drag him out of there because

520
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: she started just started down on the police. She was

521
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: by herself. What was he cooking? Um? I think he

522
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: was trying to cook moons over Mi haammy. That's all

523
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: he kept saying all night. What what moons over my hammy?

524
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 1: What is moon's over from my haammi? It's two pieces

525
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: of bread. It's wondrous. It's two pieces of bread ham

526
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:48,719
Speaker 1: and like eggs. It's like phenomenal. And I remember we

527
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: were walking in He's like, I want moons over my hammy,

528
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: and then ladies like it's closed, and I was like,

529
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: we're getting out of here, and he's like, no, 're not.

530
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: And he's like, I'm getting my moon over Miami. And

531
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: he's like I kind of get it to go and

532
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: he's like no, and he's like okay, and he hopped

533
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: over the counter and she's like what are you doing?

534
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: And she started getting scared a little bit. And then

535
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: I remember telling him like, bro, what are you doing?

536
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: She could have a gun, Like I said something to

537
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: that aspect, like what are you doing? And he's like,

538
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cook moons over Miami. And he went back

539
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: there and he started turning on like the grease or whatever.

540
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: And then finally, um, it was Miguel Cairo or one

541
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: of the other guys, one of the Latin guys, like

542
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: was like cursing on him in Latin, and finally like

543
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 1: just grab Spanish got him out of there, and like literally,

544
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: we ran out of there as the you could. I

545
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: don't know if the police were pulling up, but we

546
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: ran out of there like I thought we were going

547
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: to jump. So let me just get this story straight,

548
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: because there's a lot to unpack here. You had a

549
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 1: teammate who hopped the counter at a closed dead he

550
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: used to cook moons over my hammy, and then Miguel

551
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: Cairo was yelling at him in Latin. No no in Spanish. Okay, okay, okay,

552
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I didn't. I didn't Latin, and then I

553
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: took Latin in high school. Waited a second, old time.

554
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: You can't just casually drop that Latin in high school.

555
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I went to a prep school.

556
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: Somebody want to challenge me? Yeah, I do. I took

557
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,959
Speaker 1: five years of Latin. Oh my god, five years of Latin?

558
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: All right? What did you? How did you wind up

559
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: taking Latin? A V is a five? Okay? Those Roman numerals,

560
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: all right? I don't really think there's anything left to say. Um,

561
00:32:52,560 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: I'm that's what you've retained from Latin vas of five

562
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: I took. Here's what happened was when I went to

563
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: I went to a prep school and you had to

564
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: take something like so I took one year in Latin

565
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: and then I took French my second year. Because French,

566
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: I went to an all boys school, but French, where

567
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: it's an all girls school next to us French, French,

568
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: you could was taken up the all girls school. So

569
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: that's the only reason why I took French. So I

570
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: could just get away from all the guys and go

571
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: see some women. Can you speak any French? Hell no,

572
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: we we. The only thing I know in French is

573
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: when my French horse crosses the line on the turf course. Wow.

574
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: All right, but no, that is true, and I want

575
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: to say it happened in San Bernardino. San Bernardino had

576
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: a team. A lot of stuff happened in the colleague.

577
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: You gotta understand, Blackjack, A lot of stuff happened before

578
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: the cell phone and cell phone cameras. How many of

579
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: your stories involved in Denny's A lot you're gonna understand.

580
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: Like I said, I signed a ninety eight fifty dollars

581
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: a month, so like people always talk about, you professionally

582
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: signed your instant millionaire. No, I got twenty two dollars

583
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: in school, I bought a Camaro straight Guido move. And

584
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: you remember when like carpets for your dashboard were popular. No,

585
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: Paul I was born in I don't okay, Well at

586
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: one time that was popular black jack. Okay, you were

587
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: a A P I M P if you had for

588
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:41,919
Speaker 1: on your dashboard. Okay, it spells every week on the show. Okay. Yeah,

589
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: my spelling is better. It's gotten better. I've been I've

590
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 1: been into the sourus. Okay, you've been working on your

591
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 1: spelling and a thesaurus. Yes, hey, listen, if I have

592
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: to learn the harder words than the easier words will

593
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: be easier. Okay. That's how I challenge myself. It's called

594
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: G A M B I L I N G. See. Okay,

595
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: so you've been working on your spelling. Um, so okay,

596
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: the carpet on the dashboard. Yeah, so what you would

597
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: do is like that? Was it so like you had

598
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 1: four guys living in one house, I mean in Denny's

599
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: and top Ramen and Taco Bell, and there was just

600
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: like I mean, outpack was a treat. Outpack was a treat,

601
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's nothing he gets out back. You

602
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: can get a great steak for twelve bucks. But um,

603
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 1: that's the way it was in the minor leagues, and

604
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: you would lean on the bonus baby, so like literally

605
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: like if one of your guys on your team was

606
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: the first rounded to sign for a million dollars, he

607
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: was picking up the tab almost eight percent of the time. Wow,

608
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 1: whatever happened to that camaro? Yeah, that's a good question.

609
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: It might be still at Turf Paradise. Well, I wouldn't

610
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: be a turf Paradise. Well I was to it was

611
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: parked there a lot. I'll explain Turf Paradise for those

612
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: who don't know. That's the race track that or it's

613
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: at Phoenix Grayhound Park. We used to sneak out of

614
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: school and go to their or the Greyhounds. But the

615
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: Greyhounds was too far away. It was by the airport,

616
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: so we would usually go to the horses. So you

617
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: think you just left this car to race track of

618
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 1: some sort, You know, I really don't remember what happened

619
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: to that car. I don't. I think maybe I gave

620
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: it to my dad or my brother at the end

621
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: of it. And um, I bet you had some good

622
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: times in that car. Yeah I did. I U I

623
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: went to Arizona State and I had a girlfriend that

624
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: was a bad move. So yeah, like my high school

625
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 1: and my college years, I was actually a good boy.

626
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: I was actually a good boy. I am a good boy. Paul.

627
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: There's nobody that believes that. Come on black check, you

628
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: believe that you'd let me marry your daughter? All right,

629
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: I think it's time to wrap this. That has been

630
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: the Favorites with Paul Laduka. Thank you everybody for listening.

631
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: Chad and Scooch will be back on Thursday this week.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you download the Favorites on Apple podcast leaving

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Speaker 1: five star review uh and download on Radio dot Com, Slash,

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Speaker 1: the Action Network, or wherever you get your podcasts. Until

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Speaker 1: next time,