WEBVTT - Jason Benetti, Sunday Night Baseball, Game Shows and Even Counts 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.520 And welcome back to Is this a great game? Or 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:09.800 what with the Hall of Famer Tim Kirkchen. I'm his son, 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:14.840 Jeff Kirchen, joined today by fellow Syracuse graduate AKA Me 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:22.680 and Jason Jason Bennetti on the podcast Major League Baseball Broadcaster. Jason, 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.960 you are back for your second run as a guest 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.000 here on the show, and trust me, we had one 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.400 hundred questions left on the cutting room floor the first 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.640 time we had you on, so I'm excited to have 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:34.120 you back. 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.680 Hey, I'm excited to be back. We had a great 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.240 time when I was up in Eugene, Oregon, I think 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.240 last time at the darkenest hotel room in the history 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.760 of America. So ready to rock with a well lit 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.720 although maybe a Grand Central station a traffic booth here 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.600 if we have a plast one thousand walk behind you 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:55.800 can just ask them questions as well as we set 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:57.560 up for the Tigers game tonight. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.480 Well, we're not going to worry about that. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.080 So Jason, we just found out that you just interviewed 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:08.440 Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He's a drummer, 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.319 which I of course did not know since I know 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.040 nothing about music. For the longest time I thought Molly 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.399 Hatchett was a woman. There's so much I don't know here, 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:22.000 but please, Jason, tell me that you have a great 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:23.400 background in music. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.640 You know drummers, you know all this stuff. Am I 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:27.680 right or am I wrong? 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.080 Well, I'm surrounded by either real drummers or fake drummers. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.800 So Chad Smith is a Tigers fan. He grew up 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.400 in Detroit and he learned how to play drums on 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.360 Baskin Robbins vats of ice cream that they were throwing 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.399 out in the back of the Baskin Robbins. When they 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.000 were done with the big tub of cookies and cream, 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.600 he'd take it home and start hitting it with Lincoln logs, 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.200 no joke, Lincoln logs. And then one of the biggest 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.360 Tigers fans out there is JK. Simmons, the actor who 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:03.080 was Fantastic and Whiplage, where he very aggressively teaches somebody 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.120 how to play the drums. So I played the tuba 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:09.079 growing up. I never played the drums. But I do 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.880 think play by play in some ways is a little 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.919 bit like being a cover band, right, So you all 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.320 the lyrics are the same, swinging a ground ball to 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.720 short or there's strike three, but the way you change 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.480 it is with your tone and your tempo and your rhythm. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.720 So I think there is a little music in play 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:27.200 by play. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:33.600 You played the tuba, Yeah, I did. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:34.240 I did. 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.440 At what age were you bigger than the tuba? Because 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.919 I know a little bit about being a little man. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.240 I'm smaller than you, But was the tuba bigger than you? 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:45.959 For a while? 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.359 For forty two years on Earth, actually the tuba has 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:54.959 been bigger than me. Uh so, so you're gonna love this. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.560 The band director in high school is actually the guy 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.480 who put me in front of a micro phone for 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.960 the first time. So I couldn't play the suzophone because 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.079 of how I walk and whatnot. So what they did 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.280 was they put the tuba on a stand and while 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.000 the band was marching at halftime of the football game, 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.839 they would go in planetary orbit around me to make 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.839 letters for our logo, and I would just stand there 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.720 in place and march in place, and everybody else would 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.560 go make the H and the F and I would 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.280 be the bottom of the stem of everything. Right. So 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.720 the band director was like, well, that's kind of ugly 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.799 and weird, so what if we just get you upstairs 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.360 and you announced the sets for the band. And it 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.320 was the first time I ever was behind a microphone. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.320 Did you that chime? You became a broadcaster? 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.360 Because that's how I became a broadcaster is I couldn't 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.440 play the suzophone because of the I'm a little teapot routine, 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.360 you know, tipping over and the pouring out that you 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.120 would have had. And so they he said, you know 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.480 what if we put you upstairs, and so they were 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.960 playing that year, they were playing rag Time, the musical. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.240 So I would say, coming up next, Wheels of a 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.080 Dream by rag Time, you know from Ragtime. And that's 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.920 how I started. And I remember it distinctly. I don't 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.040 remember who the guy was, but there was somebody next 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.840 to me in the press box. It was like, hey, 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.279 you're kind of good at this. It was the first 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.520 time somebody ever gave me a compliment about saying things. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.200 Listen, I don't want to go down a rabbit hole here, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.280 but I was you're looking at Henry Ford in a 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:28.640 production of rag Time. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.320 Okay, wait, people, here's my theory of what this country 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.080 is moving toward. Every worker a coggin mojo. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.839 That's the notion of Henry Ford, here's my people. See 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.640 my theory of what this country is working toward? Yeah, 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.080 oh yeah, And I have a terrible story about this. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.279 And I'm just going to be quick because this interview 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.400 is not about me. But I was a theater kid 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.560 for a very very long time, and I was in 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.680 a production of Ragtime. And if you know the musical 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.800 at all, and we won't go into the weeds, it's 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.760 it's it's a transitional song, right, It's not really super 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.680 important to the plot, but the main character is buying 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.680 a car from Henry Ford. Right, Henry Ford is played 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.480 by me. This was a very quick change for all 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.640 of our dancers, right. So my first line, as Jason 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:19.520 pointed out in the song, is here's my workers, right, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:24.920 And I make this grand gesture, here's my workers. And 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:31.120 I turn around and zero of the four assembly line 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:36.360 worker dancers are on stage zero. So I turn around 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.839 and go, okay, we're going right back. 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:43.880 Here because there's. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.360 No people in my assembly how are we gonna make 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.680 this car? And I will never forget it because that 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:50.280 night the director goes. 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.280 Where were the workers? 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:58.040 Henry Ford needs his workers? A very energetic director we had, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.440 And I will never forget. It's too quick of a change. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.240 Nobody really cared about the number as the dancers and 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:04.520 they couldn't get out in time. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:05.880 Oh my gosh, that. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.400 Just sent me back, Jason. I can't believe ragtime came 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.080 up on a baseball podcast. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.560 That's crazy, and it is. It's the most interstitial of 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.839 interstitial songs, like you could got no offense, but you 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:24.000 could lose that number. Speaking to on the car, it's 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.680 like it's like the jfk assassination in mad Men. It's 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.039 a nice touch. You don't have to have it right 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.000 you you were expendable, but if you're gonna do it, 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:39.080 you gotta have workers. It's the whole point. It's automation 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:43.040 and manufacturing, and anybody can do it. The only person 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.120 who can't do it is nobody. Jeff right right. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.880 See my people, Well here's my theory. That's the line. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.080 See my people, you can't see them, they're not there, Dad. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.440 This was the invention of the assembly line. The whole 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.640 song was to try to show the historic momentum Henry 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.280 Ford created. And there's U workers. I think they were 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.560 taken over by AI in nineteen twenty. I'm not sure, 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.840 but yeah, that was when I talk theater fails. That's 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.920 my favorite. See my people, Well here's my theory. No people, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.000 none Jason. 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.320 How is it possible Jesus that you know about Henry Ford? 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.640 How is it possible that you played the tuba? You 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:27.480 are a sports guy where it's amazing your depth of knowledge. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.400 Am I giving you too much credit? Here? 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.160 The answer to that is always yes, anytime you're giving 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.760 me credit, it's too much credit? Yes, too much. Here's 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.440 where it comes from. Truly, I watched so many game 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:47.040 shows as a kid, trivia game shows like I would 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.960 sit at home watch Jeopardy. My parents claim that I 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.679 learned to read through Wheel of Fortune, So thanks Pat Jack. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:59.720 I always love trivia and curiosities and like esoteric game 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.200 show I'll still watch on YouTube. And my partner Andy Dirts, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.200 who's sitting over here, makes fun of me for it. 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.760 So that's like, that's one of the cornerstones of why 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.800 I know a lot of dumb stuff. 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.840 Right, And Dad, I have to say, I just apologize 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.720 because you're my father and you're my personal and professional hero. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.480 But you always seem so surprised when people who are 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.160 in the industry that you've committed your life to have 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.480 any other interests or knowledge of anything but the sport 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.920 they love. Most people, dad have been more than more 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.160 to two concerts in their life. Right, most people have. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.720 Been to three concerts? Right? And yeah, word made it? 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.959 Yellow Card, Kenny Chesney, You'll never see those straight on 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:43.559 a lineup. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.280 Wait wait wait wait wait wait did you say yellow Card? Yes? 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.880 Yes, yes, no joke, no joke. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.280 I'm I kid you not. One of the members of 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:01.280 Yellowcard was with Chad Smith when we just interviewed him. 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:06.600 No Way, the guitarist from Yellow Card. I just met 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.720 him moments ago. I said to him, Hey, this must 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.079 be a huge summer for you, what with the World 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:23.200 Cup going on, And he said, yeah, every four years 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.120 on social media we get a boot. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:30.720 That is so great. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.280 So Yellow Card, Jason. I, my daughter Kelly, was in 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.040 the seventh grade, and I took four three other seventh 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:42.280 grade girls to go see Yellow Card at a college 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.800 like an hour away. And I thought it was going 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.520 to start at seven thirty. There were three opening. 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.480 Acts and Yellow Card went on at ten thirty at night, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.320 and I'm with four seventh grade girls and Jeffrey was 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.520 with me, crying out loud, and I screwed up the 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.760 whole night and I kept hallowing him Green Card or 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:02.600 Yellow Day. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.080 I couldn't figure out anything. It was the worst. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.600 It was one of the worst experiences of my life. However, 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.560 when Yellow Card went on, you should have seen those 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.880 girls ten thirty at night sway into the music. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.360 It made it all worthwhile. It was incredible. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.040 That's great great. I cannot believe. I cannot believe the 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:23.640 ven diagram here. I cannot believe. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.440 Let's see, we are ten minutes into Jason Bennetti and 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:34.560 we've talked Ragtime, the musical, Yellow Card, and Chad and 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:38.160 the drummer from Red Hot. Are we ever going to 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:38.880 get to baseball? 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:39.240 Maybe not. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:45.480 That's the beauty of We'll get to it in a minute. 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.360 So we have to go back to the game shows 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:49.920 for a minute. 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.440 We had Kevin Brown, the great Kevin Brown, on the 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.360 podcast last year, and he's told me more than once. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.480 Oh I pulled it out of what a. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:02.160 Great jeopardy player he is, Okay, and I believe it 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:06.080 because he is wicked smart. You have never been in 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.160 the same room with Kevin playing Jeopardy, I assume, is 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:10.160 that correct? 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.319 No? I mean we did four years of minor league 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.360 baseball together, so it was a little bit like playing 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:21.839 Jeopardy for the audience on a nightly baseball. You want esoterica, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.320 You want to not understand play by play. Listen to 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:30.920 twenty eleven to twenty fourteen Syracuse Chiefs Baseball. You want 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.760 something to fly over your head for a longer amount 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.839 of time than you can dream. Put us to behind 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.960 a microphone with triple A baseball, where like, whose line 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.400 is it? Anyway? The points don't matter, and you're really 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:45.240 you're really in trouble. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.080 That is so great We ask We asked Kevin Brown 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:54.600 on the podcast to do his Sean McDonough impersonation, and 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.960 he refused to do it because he said, I will 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:02.280 just sound like Jason Bennetti doing Sean McDonough. And he said, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.120 and I'm not nearly as good as Jason Bennetti doing 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:10.360 Sean McDonough. How many times do you how many times 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.080 you've been asked to do Sean McDonough, Like a million. 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.840 Enough that I actually feel a little bit bad because 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.480 some people think I'm making fun of Sean, and I 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:27.040 hate that because I just like sounds. I think Sean 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.240 is truly one of the top three announcers that has 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.280 ever lived have seen it all times, no doubt, for 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.000 all time. He's a genius. His wit is beyond the 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:42.760 scale of anything that should really be behind a sports microphone. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.760 He's been great to me. So when I hear that, 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.040 a couple people have thought that I was making fun 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.640 of him, Like I hate I just I love the 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.320 sound of his voice. It comes out of the TV 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.520 and just it's a powerhouse, but it's got sort of 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:01.280 those like rounded edges that is fun to hear. So 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.440 you know, I've been asked a trillion times to do it, 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.280 and I love it so much. But I also like, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.120 I hate that people think I'm making fun of him 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.800 in any way, because like if I'm if I if 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.640 I sit here and I say, well, Tim, what are 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:21.240 you doing a game together? Am I making fun of you? 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:25.200 Or am I doing your voice? It's a caricature in 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.320 some way. And by the way, next time you have 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:33.560 Kevin brown on, ask him to do his impression of me. Really, 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.840 his impression of me is just me interrupting my own 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.640 sentences that when I really get on a roll, I'm like, 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.319 you know, the one thing, well, if you say, now, 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:51.479 the one problem with that is that's his whole impression. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.800 That was Jason doing Kevin doing Jason, which is so 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.000 beautiful that we just got that right. 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.480 And Jason, you might not appreciate this as much as 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.440 I do because I grew up watching Jim Palmer and 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.839 I worked with Jim Pommer. But Kevin Brown's impersonation of 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:16.199 Jim Palmer is so perfect it is really really scary. Now, Jason, 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.680 who else? Who else do you do now? Besides me? 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.040 That was pretty good, even though the difference between Sean 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.400 McDonald and me is he has a great voice and 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:26.680 I have a terrible voice. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:27.960 Who else can I do? 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.880 Voice? I love when you're in the middle of a 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.760 leaf and you kind of like you're in the middle 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.800 of a sentence and you can't get out of the 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.600 sentence without a cackle. That's my favorite part of you, 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.640 is when you're it's like a stable sentence and then 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:48.640 suddenly you're like, you just can't. It has to emanate 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:49.800 from you somehow. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:50.320 Uh. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.240 One of one of the other ones that I kind 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:57.520 of like is a droopy dog. You remember the yes dog, 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:04.400 So like, right, he'll go, hello you happy people, and 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.840 you wave a little flag. You know it I'm sad. Right, 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:15.520 that's a good one. I enjoy that one. I just 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.400 liked the jug you know, when there was like a 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.600 rain delay, I used to go into the other booth 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.240 at the White Sox, you know, and stay the end. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.240 Cast were like it's raining. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:32.040 Oh my cheek shirt. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:32.840 Oh I'm laughing. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.840 Chris Kelly, the Sports Center voiceover guy, is one of 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:41.880 my favorites too, because I like doing like really obscure 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:46.920 fake menu items from chain restaurants that he has to announce, 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.280 so like, uh, brought to you buy Applebee's new fruit 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:58.960 loops and crusted rib like very Americana forward menu items 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.760 that you could have imagine for the two hundred and fiftieth. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:07.440 Right, that is so great, Jesse, were you unfortunate? 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:09.600 Sorry? We unfortunately? 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:09.880 You know. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:10.520 He goes up. 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.480 My dad gets the seam head edition of Baseball Tonight. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.080 He's been an analyst's whole career. He finally gets to 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.520 host a show, and with hosting a show, you have 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.720 to do ad reads, and he goes up against who 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.560 but the legendary voice of ESPN. So they go to 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.920 my dad and I love my dad to death, and 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.360 he's amazingly talented, but he had to do Lows, and 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.280 they told him you have to pause between Low's Lows 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.640 Never Stop Improving, And we're watching the show and it 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.920 just came off. This is brought to you by Lows 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:47.120 Lows Never Stop Improving, And I don't we every time. 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.840 That was fifteen years ago, and every time we go 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.880 to Low's we say where are you going? I'm going 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:56.200 to Low's Lows for stop improving. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:57.560 For Dad, I. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.680 Thought something will make you feel better about that. So, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.720 you know, we have we have the cards over here 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.359 for the reads for the Tigers, and we do the 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.760 billboards live. So it's a couple different sponsors over videos, 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.040 you know, like it'll be by Skittles and buy the 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.880 Home Depot. You know, we do them live. And for 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.000 some reason, like a couple of weeks ago, I caught 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.720 myself looking ahead on the card and I like panicked 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:23.520 that I was going to do the wrong one. So 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.159 I was like, okay, take it slow, make sure you 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.320 read it right. So I do the McDonald's one. I say, 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:34.480 McDonald's get a five dollars mcdouble meal today. And then 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.159 I said, because I was going so slowly to make 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:41.040 sure I didn't overread, I go and buy wallside windows, 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:45.200 get a five dollars mcdouble meal. Today I hit the 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.800 McDonald's tagline for the windows place. Because I was so 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.920 worried about jumping ahead, I stalled out the same rapp 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:54.919 as last time. 0:17:56.480 --> 0:18:01.120 That is so funny, Jason, these impersonations. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.879 Were you doing these when you were five? Were you 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:05.320 doing them when you were ten? 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.280 Or is this something that's come up since you've become 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:09.920 an adult. 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.200 So I I used to do a Hawk Harrelson as 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.600 a kid. I was running around gym class, be like, 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:20.200 you can put it on the board there, it won't 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:25.040 you know. So that's that's where it started. But I 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.480 do you know, the more I the more I live, 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.920 the more I think all of the SNL I watched 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.840 all of the Carmen, I listened to all of that, 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.560 like Prime Comedy, Heyday of like growing up knowing John 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.640 Candy and Bill Murray and the like the great comedy 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.760 movies like Blazing Saddles and whatnot. Like I think there 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:50.800 was like satire always in my heart and I I 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.040 thought about this the other day. You guys are gonna 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.720 find this to be ridiculous. But there was a program 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.359 at my elementary school that sent to like fifth teen 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:05.560 kids to a cable access TV station, and our assignment 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.440 for this English class or whatever it was to was 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.879 to come up with our own product that we created, 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.440 and then we had to create an advertisement for the product. 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:19.359 So it was like an SNL commercial parody, like Little 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.520 Chocolate Donuts or Handy Off, you know, one of those things. 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.040 So I came up with I don't know how or why, 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.560 but it was right around the time dan Quayle. Remember 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:32.840 dan Quayle misspelled potato in that classroom, right, the kid 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.960 wrote potato and then dan Quayle was like, no, no, no, 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:38.960 and then added an e at the end of it. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:43.240 And it was like the first viral doofy political video 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.680 before Twitter, right, you know, and it was but he 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:52.440 So I did president Vice Presidential Alphabets was the name 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:56.479 of the product that I created, and the tagline was 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:04.320 even you can spell potato, Oh. 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:06.399 That is so beautiful. 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:11.280 So, Jason, we talk about sitcoms on this show a 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.800 lot because I'm you know, I'm twenty seven years older 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.800 than you, but get smart. It's my great favorite sitcom 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:22.400 of all time. Your favorite sitcom of all time is what. 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:28.160 Favorite sitcom of all time? Is a really hard one 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:32.719 because there are a couple. I mean, Sheers holds up beautifully. Still. 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:38.640 I think Larry Sanders spawns so many careers. I mean 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.000 from the pilot, you know, he's he's doing the garden 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:45.720 weasel ad in the pilot and he looks at it 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:47.520 and he treats it like a golf club, and he 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:51.159 looks down the little mini grass and he goes, I 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.919 think maybe about a seven weasel. Here's a cat, And 0:20:56.000 --> 0:21:01.040 I was hooked, right, So you know, Seinfeld's curb is 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.600 on the list. I like good Fast Wit. The one 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:08.600 that I would say probably gets underrated in the pantheon 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:12.760 but has a really high joke per second number is Veep. 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:18.480 Veep takes every advantage of every small moment to land 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.400 another blow, and you feel like you're kind of being 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:25.800 pummeled by comedy in an extremely cool, fun way. So 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.400 I love that one too. I love the Mike Shore shows. 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:31.199 I was very fortunate the one year twenty nineteen with 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:33.600 the White Sox that Mike Schore did a White Sox 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:37.159 game with me at the Angels. So the creator of 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:39.320 Parks and rec and the Good plays, he played cousin 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:41.520 Mose on the office, which is also on the list. 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.800 But he's a huge baseball fan and he was amazing 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.240 as a color analyst, Like he knew the cadence because 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:51.359 he's a performer, but he watches so much baseball that 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:54.879 that's kind of the confluence of comedy and baseball for me. 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:59.159 Is Mike being nine innings of nails in the color 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.359 chair for a while, Socks Angels game And are either 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:04.080 of you Parks and Recreation fans? 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:08.760 Hughe I am yes, and we're big Mike surefans. He 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:13.080 recently just became the commissioner of Is this a Great Game? 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:13.399 Or what? 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.199 We had him on for his second time just a 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:19.080 couple of weeks ago, and we were chatting about, you know, 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:22.919 listener questions and things, and he said he deemed it. 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:24.800 He said, if you ever need a ruling, if you 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:27.200 ever need I love baseball more than anything. So he's 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:31.399 already sent voice notes in for corrections and whatever it 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:31.760 might be. 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:32.239 He is. 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:36.240 He is, in fact, the third closest to third member 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:37.000 of this show. 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:41.960