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But speaking of James, James, 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.400 you're back from Philadelphia. I'm so sorry about the air quality. 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.080 As we're recording this, it is one of the worst 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:58.840 air qualities documented history in the city of Chicago. But 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:03.160 how was the All Star Game experience for you in Philadelphia? 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.560 Never again will I pack for a trip in the 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.960 middle of July and have two light colored dress shirts 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:15.960 that I wear out of the three days I have 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:16.919 to be at the ballpark. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:19.200 I feel like. 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.039 The shirt I wore to the All Star Game had 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.400 like different patterns of sweat from like various things I 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.559 did throughout the day or how I was holding my bag. 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.720 So yeah, that was my main takeaway from All Star weekend. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:36.800 But as far as like the players, up until the 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:41.640 eighth inning on Tuesday, like I was preparing to write 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.080 a story basically about like Miguel Vargus getting robbed of 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.960 a hit by his my league buddy Andy pa Has 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.760 and then things kind of flipped in a major way 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:54.799 with him. It's funny, like it's a game dominated by pitching. 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:55.560 Everyone liked. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.240 It's like elite arms that are on rest, and so 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.400 like no one e been you know, we saw the 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.920 socks skipt Kate Smith's when he's maybe a bit extended, 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.360 but like see him at the height of his powers. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.200 He got like how does anyone hit this dude? 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:08.800 And I feel like that was kind of like every 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.200 arm in the game to some degree, the Gail Vargas 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.560 ball people like people felt like bad luck with like 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:20.800 you know, Murakami being you know, kind of rusty as 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.120 he comes back. He's not at the full height of 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:23.799 his powers, and he's trying to compet to home run Derby, 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.640 Like he didn't look super and sync like that series 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.520 of Oakland or Not Oakly And and I think the 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.919 one at bat that Tristan Peters got it was against 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.200 a really tough lefty as well. 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.960 Marcus got two over no overpowered and. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.000 Lefties to like the guy who's basically, uh, you put 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.440 this minimum like one hundred and twenty five played appearances 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.080 the best hitter in the American League against left handed pitching. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.960 So he just smoked two balls from like these guys 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.240 that like can't get a breaking ball in on him. Uh, 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.159 the first one he gotta gets robbed of, but like 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.600 the next one is the only extra base hit of 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.039 the All Star Game, And all of a sudden, like 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.920 this is the guy who's talent is speaking the loudest 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.039 of seemingly a loud of the entire weekend when you know, 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.720 Caleb Bonhamer looked fine, looked pretty fast running out of 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:06.280 the base, but he. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.120 Went over to with a pop out on the groundout. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.799 He just looked like another guy who was like belonging 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.960 on the stage but didn't stand out. Mur Commy gets 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.000 eliminated in the first round. You know, Peter's is the 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.000 last second ad, and you know, obviously a lot of 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:23.000 his hubbub around him is like, you know, he doesn't 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:24.720 even get to enjoy the All Star weekend because his 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.560 wife is in the hospital. Nothing, he did enjoy it, 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.480 but like obviously a little bit more of a complicated weekend. Yeah, 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.760 Argus all of a sudden at the last moment, gets 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.120 this incredible late moment in the sun and winds up 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.200 being like kind of the big story of the weekend 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.960 compared to like how little offensive fireworks or where everywhere else, 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.240 And it's just kind of incredible. It's kind of like 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.560 his season the nutshell. We're like out of nowhere when 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.279 you least expected here's Miguel Vargus like starring the show. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.960 So and we've talked about him at length this season, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:59.640 but we didn't know where he's gonna go, especially since 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.320 like watch in the tunnel, like I came down in 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.520 the sixth inning because Pahes was getting pulled from the 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.279 game and he was about to do availabilding. It was like, 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.080 at this point, I don't have any of better angles. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:10.880 I might as well just go down there and talk 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.840 to Piaz and God could suffer him. He was he 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.440 was willing to play along. He's like I made a gesture, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.400 Begul made some gesture like I shouldn't have hit that, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.240 and I made a gesture like you should have hit 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.280 it harder, and like, all right, this would be a 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:22.760 fun little anecdote to tell a police. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:25.440 And then that happened. 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.080 I figure, once that happens, I'm not going to go 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.520 back upstairs the auxiliar press box, which is like a 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.280 part of the upper deck, and I'm just kind of 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.480 like waiting, like watching the rest of the game, and 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.240 that like happens, and we're not sure because we're watching 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:38.720 it on silent in the tunnel, like is he going 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:39.160 to get. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:40.280 Named al MVP? 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.080 And it's me and like there's an m wilbi dot 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.280 com writer who got a sign to like Fergus once 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.840 he hit the home run, and you know, Tribune's there 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.760 and we're watching the TV on mute and we're trying 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:52.480 to figure out if he's just been named like the 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.240 All Star Game MVP based on the camera because like 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.760 they show Cody Bellinger as like the team is walking 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.520 on the field, but then they cut the Vargus and 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.760 then we see Tom Verducci coming to Vargus. We're like, 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.760 oh my god, he's done it, because like where he's 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.840 gonna be if he's is he gonna come to the 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.360 clubhouse or is he going to go to this like 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.720 press conference room that's going to be swung by that, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.120 so we don't know. And then eventually, like we see 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.000 him on the field, he runs in at one point 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:16.840 into the clubhouse and then he runs back out and 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.280 he says like I gotta go do TV and I'm 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.240 looking at like Connor McKnight with PHSM was like we 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.960 should just follow him. So we run out onto the 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.840 field and he gets like taken, and we were watching 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.280 him like get interviewed by a Fox and like dap 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.680 up like David Ortiz and I'm at this moment, I'm like, 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.839 what is Miguel Vargus's life right now? This is such 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.520 an insane journey less than two years ago. I remember, 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.040 like there's like this routine loss I had to the Mets, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.520 but like Vargas pulled a fastball for a double. I 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.360 was just like he turned around Velosty like I need 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:45.880 to talk to him. Like that was like a big 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.640 development for him at the time. And I remember like 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.679 waiting for him at that point and like how much 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.120 skinnier he was back then compared to is he now. 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.840 Like it's like this is such an insane trajectory for 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:59.440 this guy, Like like he's doing live TV in his 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:03.599 second lifeguage for a national audience. And he used to 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.000 be this guy who were like, you know, he used 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:07.599 to be a big prospect. I think we're supposed to 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.640 cover him even though he's batty one oh seven. Now 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.960 I think he's a big deal to now, like everybody 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.520 knows he's a big deal. Like it's just it was 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.640 like a I don't know if like we got like 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.160 super amazing quotes because as he said repeatedly, I have 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:21.920 no words. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:23.240 He couldn't sum up what it was. 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.120 But just to kind of be there to see this 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.000 guy like go through this such such a one eighty 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.959 was just kind of like something I'll remember even if 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.679 like I don't know if like he might be summing 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.040 up better what it meant to him a year from 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.960 now than he was, you know, in a moment after 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.839 the game where he's just buzzing on adrenaline, so. 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.319 That the answer began with my shirts. But now I 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:45.840 think I brought it home eventually. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:48.920 I just want to say, when I was in Philadelphia 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:53.240 the weekend before you, James, he was even hotter. Not 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.680 that we're comparing. Philadelphia has been miserable. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.480 Pro I wore to the home run derby, I finding 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:05.280 that everyone's like, look at that normal man. Tuesday was like, hey, 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.439 how's it going. We've been here all day, Look you 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:09.080 look tired. 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:16.520 But like that, that's gonna ask you, Jim about the 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.960 cool moment with Migul Vargus. This season has had so 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.240 many cool moments, and I'm hoping that there are still 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:29.000 more cool moments for the Chicago White Sox, but at 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.880 least through mid July. Where does Miguel Vargus's home run 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.360 of the All Star Game stack up? 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:41.239 It's up there, I think, just as a symbolic moments 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.920 for where the White Sox are in terms of the league. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.720 Like I think there have been a lot of moments 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.000 that are more important to the White Sox season, like 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:53.120 Bradon Montgomery's debut walk off stands out, especially since now 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.839 we've learned what, yeah, that Rock Schwlowski was there and 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.200 that was the game that he dropped in on and 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:03.120 he's celebrating the clubhouse and that kind of informs his 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.240 worldview as to what the White Sox are really about 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.080 versus what the reputation was as he was learning about him. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.600 But in terms of where the White Sox are nationally, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.000 I think the reputations take long to repair. Like we 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:20.880 saw the athletic poll where they're still down among the teams. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.959 Nobody wants to play for people hear terrible things about, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.720 and that takes probably a couple of years of on 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:33.240 field performance or surprising investments to repair. But this is 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:34.880 the kind of thing that helps, and that's one of 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:39.920 the reasons why we decided to put our subscriber dollars 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:41.800 towards going to the All Star Game is just because 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.480 it felt like, if not a watershed moment, at least 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:50.520 one of those milestones to wear okates an All Star 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.440 who's a deserving All star, not like Shane Smith last year. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.000 He had a good year, but you know, it was 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.000 an awkward pick for trying to figure out who was 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.640 an All Star for that team. Like mcguil, argus is there. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.959 Miguel Vargus deserves that company on this roster. Whether or 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.079 not the White Sox you maintain fair performance in the 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.080 second half remains to be seen. But they've arrived to 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.480 a certain level on the national stage. He Murakami and 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.280 the home run Derby have Vargas. You know, he could 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:20.719 have been a starter, at least he could have been. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:21.360 Uh. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.679 I think cam Narrow is a worthy starter. But in 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.480 terms of like the way he's playing like he's uh, 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.240 he's up there, and if he keeps doing what he's doing, like, 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.400 I'd be curious to see where he is, like in 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:38.280 terms of MVP votes. But I'm happy that you know, 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.320 he provided such easy copy with the Homer. But I 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.080 think even if he didn't, even if he went like 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.360 a loud over two just being there. You like, there's 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.240 one quote that he gave to James saying like you 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.600 were there like when in in twenty twenty four, and 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.760 I think it's important for them, you know, to see 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.320 you know, James, or see us at these moments of 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.880 like lows and then highs. You know, it's nice that 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.360 they're having these highs to where like you travel and 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.760 see them and they see you, you know, whether it's 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.199 the occasional road trip, whether it's you know, the duel 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.199 events as they call him. So yeah, I'm I'm happy 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:19.000 that Vargas made such wonderful copy just you know, with 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:25.120 his like whirlwind tour of Philadelphia. But even if he didn't, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.600 just like it's it's it felt important, and that's why 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.640 we decided, Like even when we thought, like Davis Martin 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.560 was gonna be an easy rep and he wasn't, Like 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.520 that's when we decided to put the money for this. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.400 But like there was a there was a reason why 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.400 we did it, and I think Vargas did a nice 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.680 job of like making it very easy to see why 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.400 we were there. Is because the White Sox are nationally 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:47.120 relevant now. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.240 And you know, this week has been a great week 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.559 for those that argue that beat reporting is not that important. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.120 Like James, I love the stories that you produced in 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.960 Philadelphia and the relationship that you have with Miguel Vargas. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:04.160 I think at Sox machine tudor own horn. But as 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.959 far as that angle, the journey that Miguel Vargus and 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.320 the transition that he's made from somebody sulking after the 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.120 White Sox lose to the Oakland A's after he got 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.160 traded by the Dodgers to the White Sox to becoming 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.880 an All Star is a fascinating story. Cap tip to 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.200 Jesse Rodgers of ESPN dot com to be in the 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.720 draft war room for the Chicago White Sox and shine 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.160 a light on their it's higher draft process, so now 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.920 everybody is more aware of what went into that historic 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.000 decision for the Chicago White Sox and the internal debate 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.280 between Rock Schlowski and Grady Emerson. This has been a 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.440 great week for everyone that reports on the White Sox, 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.920 so round of applause to everyone that covers his team. 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.840 As I mentioned in WGN last night, there's so much 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.760 good news for the Chicago White Sox that it's hard 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.760 to keep up and cover everything. And we haven't even 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.000 talked about Tristan Peters all that much in his All 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.640 Star game and just making it for him even though 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.440 he had to be at the hospital to take care 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.080 of his wife. But he did get to play. So 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.000 everybody got to play for the Chicago White Sox, which 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.680 is a pretty awesome feed for the All Star Game. 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.920 So if that's the only All Star game in Tristan 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.640 Peters his career, he made it and he played, and 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.160 that's a pretty awesome highlight for him and hopefully he 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.600 gets more opportunities. But it's the opposite jim of Tim 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.800 Anderson making it and not getting it at bad, Like 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:28.800 I'm still sour about that. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.600 Yeah, it seems like they've figured it out over the 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.560 last few years in terms of getting everybody into the game. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.760 They're a lot more awkward mid inning changes, I think, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.840 but you know, it's fine and certainly Fox like they 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.360 seem to love the ads and like the full ad 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.280 breaks for pitching changes everything like that. You know, if 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.320 you want flow in a broadcast, you're not going to 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.000 get it. Yeah, but they are doing a good job 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:58.160 of making use of the players who are available and 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.640 working around the players who are unavailable, and after all 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.640 those years were counted towards World Series home field advantage, 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.640 and I kind of like that, Like I didn't. I 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.520 thought it was interesting experiment, but it really is an 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.720 exhibition and is it does mean a lot for these 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.960 players to be there and get into games, and so 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.600 it's nice that players can without worrying about like the 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.960 integrity of the game or with you know, worrying about 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.480 like the matchups. And if you have Peters against the 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.280 left East, so be it, because at least he's in 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:34.120 the game with his Banana's bats, yeah, showing showing where 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.320 he came from and being proud of it. And that's 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:37.600 that's worth seeing. 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:39.880 And through. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:45.000 Absolutely, it might just be me, but I appreciate seeing 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.120 Dylan cease at the All Star Game just because it's 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.040 his first one, and you know, I think everyone kind 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.200 of viewed him as deserving back in twenty twenty two, 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.840 and it was satisfying just because he's clearly, veryly still 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.080 didn't cease because the interaction we had, I thought he 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.160 had made eye contact with me when he was at 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.160 his like press conference, which he did in an Aladdin 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.480 T shirt while everyone else is in full uniform. I 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.960 guess John Schneider was merely in a shirt and pants 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.840 and not in a Laddin T shirt. But apparently he 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.880 did because I came up to him during battle practice 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.119 and he said, like, man, I saw you in the 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.399 in the press conference and the way the light was 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.760 hitting your head, it looked like you had frosted tips 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:30.200 in your hair, and I just thought to myself, Man, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.800 good for that dude taking a chance. But now you're 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.440 up close, I see that you just still have normal hair, 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.560 and that interaction couldn't happen with anyone else in Dylan Cease. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.160 And it's just like the guy I know is still 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.120 in there, even know one hundreds of million dollars later 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.480 and now they succeed in Toronto. So for me, it 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:52.600 was nice to have that interaction full circle. Then to 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.560 see him again in the tunnel as he's walking out 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:56.520 and be like, you really think I should get frost 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.240 tips and him be like they look great even though 0:17:59.240 --> 0:17:59.960 like what he's her from. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.280 I love looking at like not real like I. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:06.960 Don't know if a real quality of assessment if it 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.720 didn't happen, But it's great to see Dylan. Uh. Love 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.600 my time with Sai, love seeing other people get exposed. 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.800 The way he answers questions. It's like it makes me 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.800 like giggle in the middle of the press conferences like. 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.480 This, this is who I know and appreciate it. 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.240 And you guys are experiencing them for the first time, 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.280 like they asked them about like the avs, and he's like, well, 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.240 I like it when it goes my way. I don't 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:31.920 like it when it doesn't. And the end his answer 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.520 and you're like everyone waiting a beat for him to 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.359 expound more and like he's clearly done, Like yeah, that's Dylan, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:37.959 you got it. 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:40.480 That's that's why I love them. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.760 And this is why you should describe at soxmachine dot 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.760 com so we can send James to these events and 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.280 you can have these amazing interactions. And we do have 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:54.199 the technology now in James artificial intelligence can give you 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.040 frosted tips so we can play this out. 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:58.840 I feel like he was calling me a coward. Like 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.680 here he is taking risks, wearing like a old shirt, 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.080 says rub my lamp with the Genie from Aladdin on it, 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.280 and I can't even have the carriage to frost my tips. 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.159 Dylan's put down the gauntlet. I will see if we 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:12.600 have we need. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.960 To frost and tips here, we sure do. 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:21.800 Well. 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