Speaker 1: You won the Rookie of the Year. Now did that
Speaker 1: involve breaking your arm and suddenly being able to throw
Speaker 1: one hundred mile an hour fastball?
Speaker 2: Cash show.
Speaker 1: Cosh shot to show. All right, welcome to another toss show.
Speaker 1: Let's do roll call Eddie, President Dylan Here, Pete. You
Speaker 1: went to get lunch, went to get lunch. A ride? John, Yo,
Speaker 1: John's here? Oh, how you feeling John?
Speaker 2: I'm here John.
Speaker 1: He just underwent first of all every week. Uh, you
Speaker 1: have to ask John, like, how you doing? And then
Speaker 1: you have to be you need to block out thirty
Speaker 1: minutes because something horrible has happened. He does something like
Speaker 1: so cursed. Yeah, he some weird stuff happens to his
Speaker 1: body anyway. Yeah, I saw him there day. I was like,
Speaker 1: why are you dressed like that? And he's like like
Speaker 1: what And it just the way he was walking. He's
Speaker 1: just stiff and he's like, Oh, I just had an
Speaker 1: operation on my testicle. Yep, you had a vasectomy, a
Speaker 1: successful vasectomy.
Speaker 2: Correct, Oh yeah, nothing down there.
Speaker 1: Then how many days later did you find out that
Speaker 1: you had a bunch of righteous kidney stones?
Speaker 2: Two days later?
Speaker 1: Did you pass the kidney stone or you just knew
Speaker 1: that you had them.
Speaker 2: I thought something was wrong. I had to go to
Speaker 2: the er.
Speaker 1: I thought you thought something with your visectomy had gone haywire.
Speaker 1: Turns out you just had kidney stones.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So basically I went to the er. They're like
Speaker 2: peeing this cup and it was like chai masala. It
Speaker 2: was very red and gross, and they're like.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're urine was bloody.
Speaker 2: Oh it's covered in blood.
Speaker 1: This is not newsworthy. This is just this is a
Speaker 1: normal day in John's life. Is normal.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's an abnormal day. It never happened to
Speaker 2: my entire life.
Speaker 1: Shell maybe this hasn't, but there's always something, something crazy
Speaker 1: is going on.
Speaker 2: Well, the Lord works in mysterious ways.
Speaker 1: That is true. That is true, and it's all part
Speaker 1: of this plan. Now, because of the kidney stone, you
Speaker 1: are probably pushing aggressively and one of your testicles, what
Speaker 1: did it do?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 2: Tors it?
Speaker 1: Tors Now, how do you spell torst?
Speaker 2: It's like horse with a D at the end, but
Speaker 2: the t or the.
Speaker 1: That's not just somebody that can't spell. You can ever
Speaker 1: be Oh, it's like horse, but there's a D at
Speaker 1: the end and then there's no h and and what
Speaker 1: do you do to unthorst a ball.
Speaker 2: It had been like this for weeks after the vasectomy.
Speaker 2: When I went to out of town, we were staying
Speaker 2: at a hotel. We're up visiting Tarika's family.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like you can't tell the story
Speaker 1: that you just say your wife, because as soon as
Speaker 1: you say Tarika, we're gonna have to spend forty five
Speaker 1: minutes explaining that that's a name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So I married someone with an ethnic background
Speaker 2: who has a name that's not American. Yes, my wife.
Speaker 1: So anyways, I mean, I still can't wrap my head
Speaker 1: around it. At first, I learned the word thorst and
Speaker 1: Tarika so she called her rother.
Speaker 2: He took me to the er. What's his name? Why?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 1: What's her brother's name? That's a good question, Eddie Adam Adam? Oh?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: So ethnic?
Speaker 2: It's please I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get in trouble with with the
Speaker 1: Qoran right now. Yeah, So they diagnosed you immediately that
Speaker 1: your ball had twisted.
Speaker 2: So they took me in and did an ultrasound. They're like, hey,
Speaker 2: your testicle's upside down and twisted.
Speaker 1: And how do you know if a ball is upside
Speaker 1: down or not?
Speaker 2: That's that's what the ultrasound is.
Speaker 1: Was it actually on top of your penis?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, it was it was in the top.
Speaker 3: Wait were the beans on the franks?
Speaker 1: This does sound like something about Mary. It's just everybody
Speaker 1: coming in to like get a look at your ball. Exactly,
Speaker 1: Holy shit.
Speaker 2: They called in the specialist.
Speaker 1: Well, sure he wants to see it.
Speaker 2: He described that he'd have to cut open my scrotum
Speaker 2: and untwist the ball, remove it if it was dead,
Speaker 2: and then sutured me back up. I freaked out. He's
Speaker 2: like every second counts, and then he left for an hour.
Speaker 1: Why would you freak out? It's like not cancer, who
Speaker 1: gives it?
Speaker 2: I didn't know about testosterone levels.
Speaker 1: Sex cares. You know, much more productive you'd be if
Speaker 1: you would knock it off chasing Terika around the place.
Speaker 3: Right, Frank Thomas still takes pills, he gets plenty.
Speaker 1: Tee Doug flutie. Yeah, he's still he's still pounding out.
Speaker 1: All he does is like a simple smoothie every morning,
Speaker 1: and he's horned up and ready to go, ready to breed.
Speaker 1: Hold on, let me ask a serious question that's gonna
Speaker 1: sound ridiculous. Could have you successfully jacked off during this moment.
Speaker 1: Never if I would have sent in like I'm talking
Speaker 1: a ten thousand dollars horre. I'm telling you, she couldn't
Speaker 1: get you aroused. This was the most excruciaty. I don't
Speaker 1: think you've ever seen a ten thousand dollars horrer.
Speaker 2: Twenty thousand dollars, fifty thousand like, keep going, they.
Speaker 1: Would, They couldn't get you aroused.
Speaker 2: Walking was excrucia.
Speaker 3: I get she's not walking my scenario.
Speaker 1: You're saying you couldn't have gotten a boner.
Speaker 2: No, no way, huh, no way.
Speaker 1: I've never been in that kind of pain.
Speaker 2: The kidney stone was the worst pain. I'd take kidney
Speaker 2: stone every day for a month. Over two hours of
Speaker 2: this all.
Speaker 1: Right, anyway, So he on twisted, he cut your ball open,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't dead.
Speaker 2: Wasn't dead. I woke up. I had both my balls.
Speaker 1: He didn't take any of it out. He said they're fine,
Speaker 1: he said they're great. So you made the whole thing up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all a big lie. None of this happened.
Speaker 1: Well, how come it wasn't dead.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I'm glad it wasn't.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why you were so attached to this testicle.
Speaker 2: You take one of your balls right now.
Speaker 1: If they had it cut open, I'd say take them
Speaker 1: both out while you're there. What do they do? I'm
Speaker 1: fifty years old. I have no idea what my balls.
Speaker 1: I know that I don't want them to get kicked
Speaker 1: or cut out, and I'd love it if they weren't there.
Speaker 1: Speaking of balls, today's guest specializes in basket and bass balls.
Speaker 1: Enjoy cast Sha. My guest today has three or four
Speaker 1: part time jobs. He works for both LA's number one
Speaker 1: baseball team and it's number two basketball team. He's also
Speaker 1: an ace with a T shirt cannon. Please welcome, Mike.
Speaker 3: Hey, how are you?
Speaker 1: Thanks?
Speaker 3: That was that was great? That was beautiful.
Speaker 4: I don't do uh the the cannon?
Speaker 1: I wish I Have you ever fired a T shirt cannon?
Speaker 3: Hire?
Speaker 4: Not not yet. They haven't in trusted me with the
Speaker 4: T shirt. Ever fired a T shirt?
Speaker 3: No? No, but that's on my bucket list.
Speaker 1: Okay, first question, Yes, do you believe in ghosts?
Speaker 3: Generally?
Speaker 4: No, but I have had a couple of different instances
Speaker 4: that would prove otherwise. But one might just have been
Speaker 4: a case of sleep paralysis and the other one might
Speaker 4: have been just like an old lady with catlike reflexes.
Speaker 1: Give me the second story. I want to know about
Speaker 1: the old lady of the cat like.
Speaker 4: Well, this is just like a couple of years ago
Speaker 4: in Sherman Oaks. I'm walking down the street. There's an
Speaker 4: old lady walking kind of a little bit closer than
Speaker 4: I would like her to walk. You know, I look
Speaker 4: a couple of different times behind, and then the last
Speaker 4: time I look, she is like she's completely on and like,
Speaker 4: you know, there there were apartment complexes on the opposite
Speaker 4: side of the street.
Speaker 1: But again so she might have just lived there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but again, this lady's like eighty or ninety for
Speaker 4: her to have Like for the amount of times I
Speaker 4: looked back to like kind of size her up.
Speaker 1: You was a slow walker?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, general no, no, I'm actually I'm
Speaker 4: a very fast, fast walker. Again, like the third time
Speaker 4: I looked back, like I'm not, it's still like I get.
Speaker 3: Goosebumps, thing like she was completely gone.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not a little man. Why are you
Speaker 1: so scared of an old woman? I wasn't scared of
Speaker 1: like over your shoulder or something. Yeah, yeah, well she.
Speaker 4: Kind of gave me the creeps and now, like I said,
Speaker 4: then the third time completely vanished.
Speaker 1: Man, that's a ghost. You were born in Korea and
Speaker 1: then moved to Chicago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, born in Korea until I was two. The reason
Speaker 4: we moved over eventually, my dad was getting his master's
Speaker 4: at the University of Mississippi, So that was kind of
Speaker 4: odd that he chose Mississippi.
Speaker 3: Of hall place, beautiful place I've never been.
Speaker 1: You've never done the Bible Belt.
Speaker 4: No, I'm very, very scared of of of going east
Speaker 4: of what wait, what is the Bible Belt.
Speaker 1: Technically, well, it's it's I'm I'm going to say it's Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Uh,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia. I might as well throw
Speaker 1: Missouri in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all of those. I'm kind of a part of
Speaker 3: the belt.
Speaker 1: Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana.
Speaker 3: Oklahoma's part of that because I think, okay.
Speaker 1: They're they're like, you know, like the buckle there pretty
Speaker 1: much the Bible Belt. You haven't been to any of
Speaker 1: those places?
Speaker 4: No, No, actually I have, I've been to I was Oh,
Speaker 4: this is probably why I never wanted to go back,
Speaker 4: because uh, I went to Myrtle Beach for uhrle.
Speaker 1: Fucking Yeah, that's a good spring break.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, no, not not for me, not for me.
Speaker 1: Did you watch Magic Mike two?
Speaker 3: No? No, that was about Myrtle Beach? Was that said
Speaker 3: in Myrtle Beaches?
Speaker 4: No? For me, I felt very awkward. I felt very
Speaker 4: othered when I was.
Speaker 3: In the South.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and and so yeah, that kind of left the
Speaker 4: sour taste in my mouth. So I've I've never been
Speaker 4: east of of Illinois or Indiana pretty much ever since.
Speaker 3: You go back to Chicago about once a year, twice
Speaker 3: a year. You know.
Speaker 4: I have a two year old now, so we don't
Speaker 4: travel as much obviously in these last couple of years.
Speaker 4: So I know you have a couple of kids. Is
Speaker 4: your your daughter's two wish too?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my mine just turned to last money. So that's us.
Speaker 1: For having children, to just say no to other people's plans.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: She is kind of a built in excuse or at
Speaker 4: the very least leaving early.
Speaker 1: Pretend that's why I leave early at a Dodgers game,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I got kids.
Speaker 3: Wait, what time do you normally arrive?
Speaker 1: I try to miss the national anthem because I don't
Speaker 1: like to take my hat off. Okay, that's one.
Speaker 3: Okay, then what's that that's respectful?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and then I I definitely leave. The second
Speaker 1: take me out to the ballgame is sung?
Speaker 3: Okay, make it seven.
Speaker 1: And then some people say, oh, that's not good. Well,
Speaker 1: the games don't matter if you're gonna if you're gonna
Speaker 1: play a under nay games, then then me leaving after
Speaker 1: the seventh inning of one game shouldn't affect things.
Speaker 3: No, I totally agree.
Speaker 4: But the thing that's crazy, so now that we've had
Speaker 4: like the pitch clock these last couple of years, so
Speaker 4: you know, the games are yeah, like two and a
Speaker 4: half hours, you know typically, so we still have fans
Speaker 4: who I won't arrive until like they get there like
Speaker 4: at the fifth, sixth inning, and it's kind of like
Speaker 4: I that always blows me away. You're spending all that
Speaker 4: money to come out to the game, dealing with parking
Speaker 4: and so forth, and by the time you're actually in
Speaker 4: the stadium, like you have maybe like three innings left,
Speaker 4: I don't know them.
Speaker 1: By the way, I get free tickets, do you yes?
Speaker 3: Do you? Uh huh?
Speaker 1: You know. I don't ask a lot. I asked usually
Speaker 1: once a year. I want to go, and I like
Speaker 1: to go before it gets boiling hot. By the way,
Speaker 1: in Chicago, yes, were you You weren't a Dodgers fan.
Speaker 3: No, I was really a white Sox fan.
Speaker 1: So it's been are looking the camera right now and
Speaker 1: say fuck the Cubs out?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Easily fucked the Cubs? No? No, wait, but let me rephrase.
Speaker 4: I will never root against the Cubs are any team
Speaker 4: from Chicago.
Speaker 3: So I want everyone to do well. Okay, but push
Speaker 3: comes to shove. Yeah, I'm a white Sox fan for sure.
Speaker 1: Explain to people because you were in a show business
Speaker 1: for a.
Speaker 3: Bin, Yeah, I post production.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess technically accounts as show business, but
Speaker 4: it's not.
Speaker 1: You're working on television.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not the glamorous side of the business, that's
Speaker 4: for sure. You know you're stuck in a dark room.
Speaker 1: And there's what you went there because it was they
Speaker 1: paid more than the other side. Well, the dark rooms
Speaker 1: pay more.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I was a post production corninator before making this this
Speaker 3: uh this sports switch with a couple of post supervisor
Speaker 3: and associate producer credits.
Speaker 1: Well, you worked on the sing Off and I was
Speaker 1: a fan of that show. Real Nick was the host.
Speaker 1: It was on like only it was on a short run,
Speaker 1: like right before the Christmas holiday, and I always thought
Speaker 1: this was a great show. The singing was wonderful.
Speaker 3: That show has disappeared, well, you know, it actually like
Speaker 3: I don't know, if you're familiar with group Pentatonics, they're
Speaker 3: kind of like, are you kidding me? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I only listened to them during the holidays, but.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, I mean they came from the show,
Speaker 4: so it really hit like that bubble when like it's
Speaker 4: weird to say when a cappella singing got huge, oh yeah,
Speaker 4: but it kind of hit that little hit that bubble.
Speaker 4: So because that was right around the time what was
Speaker 4: that movie.
Speaker 1: With with the Cups?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, that was right around in
Speaker 4: that era, so it was like there was just this
Speaker 4: zeitgeist of a cappella singing going on, and I feel
Speaker 4: like we were on the forefront of that.
Speaker 1: So I know the show was good. And what's his name?
Speaker 1: I was always liked Sean from Boys to Men?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was a For me, that was extra
Speaker 4: special because I was a huge Boys and Men fan
Speaker 4: grown up, so then you know, being able to interact
Speaker 4: with them as a judge that was like, that was
Speaker 4: kind of surreal.
Speaker 1: So what made you want to transition from a career
Speaker 1: in the entertainment industry to sports?
Speaker 4: Ultimately, I was so burnt out from working in the
Speaker 4: entertainment industry. I knew I wanted to change, get a
Speaker 4: change in kind of pursue something different. I mean, as
Speaker 4: a kid, everybody, I mean, who doesn't love sports growing
Speaker 4: up as a kid, right, so.
Speaker 1: I know a few people. We get a name for him,
Speaker 1: but we're not supposed to say it in this day
Speaker 1: and age.
Speaker 3: But yeah, a huge sports fan growing up, you know.
Speaker 3: So fast forward to after COVID, it was like, oh,
Speaker 3: maybe that's something I want to pursue.
Speaker 1: Right, Talk about how the conversation went when you told
Speaker 1: your wife you were going to quit a steady, decent
Speaker 1: pay job to start over as a Dodger usher.
Speaker 3: No, it went well. So no, honestly, no, no.
Speaker 4: Right when I was making this decision, we were either
Speaker 4: just engaged or just you know, prior to getting engaged.
Speaker 4: And on top of that, we were talking about starting
Speaker 4: a family. Were kind of in that process and also
Speaker 4: wanting to buy a house because we wanted a family.
Speaker 4: All credit to my wife, she was supportive right from
Speaker 4: get go. She's like, if this is what you want,
Speaker 4: if this is what's going to make you happy, you know,
Speaker 4: let's let's.
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 4: The usher thing was right around that time, the Dodgers
Speaker 4: have posted like an open house interview for their usher
Speaker 4: staff and showed up to this interview, and it is
Speaker 4: like one of those cattle call interviews.
Speaker 3: Is like literally like speed dating.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: And so the first lady if you look.
Speaker 1: Around at the other people that were doing this and going,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, yeah, because you know, it's significantly younger
Speaker 1: or significantly older, yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And on top of it, like you know, there were
Speaker 4: kids showing up just wearing T shirts and I'm not
Speaker 4: joining like T shirts and sweats. I'm like, in my mind,
Speaker 4: like what is this world I'm getting into where it's like,
Speaker 4: you know, I was in a tie, I was, you know,
Speaker 4: like it's like, yes, the interview, even though it's an
Speaker 4: open house, it's an interview. And so the first lady
Speaker 4: sees my resume and she's just like, are you sure
Speaker 4: you want to be an usher? I'm like, I just
Speaker 4: want to get my foot in the door. You know,
Speaker 4: Hopefully this leaves other things. She's like, all right, passes
Speaker 4: my resume on to the next person, and then looks
Speaker 4: at my resume and he's like, yeah, you're not going
Speaker 4: to be happy being one.
Speaker 3: Of our ushers, but you know it's not much better.
Speaker 3: But are you interested in joining our fan services team?
Speaker 4: And so interviewed with our fan services manager pretty much
Speaker 4: got hired on the spot. And I don't know if
Speaker 4: you're familiar with that department, but where that team is
Speaker 4: basically the team that's like man's the help desk, so
Speaker 4: we're there to like kind of answer questions about percep
Speaker 4: policies so forth, where like Dodger dogs are throughout the stadium.
Speaker 4: But we also that department was the department that also
Speaker 4: fields all the complaints about like, oh why didn't I
Speaker 4: get like this, Baba, why didn't I get this?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: And people can be mean there.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Like one time it was Father's Day we
Speaker 4: were giving out bucket ats. First forty thousand people were
Speaker 4: getting Father's Day bucket ats. So I'm at one of
Speaker 4: the stations, and invariably when we run out of these
Speaker 4: bucket hats, people come to our stations to yell at
Speaker 4: us why don't you guys have enough bucket ats. And
Speaker 4: this was the first time, and in any aspect of
Speaker 4: my life, that I've ever had somebody say, do you
Speaker 4: know who so and so is? To like be like,
Speaker 4: you know, so he pulls the It's not just that
Speaker 4: he's family or he's like I'm the cousin of Jason Bateman.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna argue with you. I think I think
Speaker 1: he deserves a bucket hat. Come on, Dodgers do the
Speaker 1: right things.
Speaker 3: But because I don't feel like cousin at a certain point.
Speaker 1: Cousin's bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: For those who may not fully grasp what happens during
Speaker 1: live sporting events, please describe what a typical shift looks
Speaker 1: like for you.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 4: I'm under the marketing promotions department. My team specifically takes
Speaker 4: care of If it's not baseball, we're taking care of
Speaker 4: every other aspect of entertainment that happens. The national anthem,
Speaker 4: the DJ, the bobbleheads, any of our video games up
Speaker 4: on the scoreboard, any of our video hits.
Speaker 3: We get to the game.
Speaker 4: Roughly three hours before we show up for our briefing.
Speaker 4: We find out because every game we're assigned to a
Speaker 4: different they're called activations, and that we were typically done
Speaker 4: around the seventh eighth inning.
Speaker 1: Why do people care so much about bobbleheads?
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people care about them because
Speaker 4: they know they do well on the resell market.
Speaker 1: So they're just collecting them to resell them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how much do they resell before?
Speaker 1: How much could they resell them?
Speaker 4: I mean the show a Bobblehead that came out last year,
Speaker 4: there was like a variant where it was like it
Speaker 4: was gold. I don't know if they actually sold for it,
Speaker 4: but they were going on like eBay for like five six,
Speaker 4: seven thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Are you personally responsible when we see some unfortunate son
Speaker 1: of a bitch on the kiss cam get friend zoned
Speaker 1: in front of tens of thousands of people.
Speaker 4: My team with them, be responsible that we haven't actually
Speaker 4: done the kiss cam probably like in three or four years.
Speaker 1: Blow people's mind and let people know that because everybody
Speaker 1: will argue this, but the Dodgers are the ones that
Speaker 1: invented the kiss cam.
Speaker 4: That I couldn't confirm that either way, so you would
Speaker 4: know more about that than I would.
Speaker 3: I mean they invented the kiss camp.
Speaker 1: That they were they were the team they did, which
Speaker 1: is great, I mean because I'm sure it brought on
Speaker 1: tons of lawsuits. It's the only time legally you were
Speaker 1: allowed to make a move on someone sitting next to you,
Speaker 1: whether they want it or not. I think it holds
Speaker 1: up in court. Do people complain about the nets going
Speaker 1: the whole way down the baseline? Because I love it.
Speaker 3: You do. I think it's awful.
Speaker 1: I'm team safety on that one. I I zone out often.
Speaker 1: What are the odds? I mean, you may to send
Speaker 1: you some videos.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's happened, But like when you talk about
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty two games for thirty teams, like that's past.
Speaker 1: You're on the wrong side of this one. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of these.
Speaker 3: No they won't. They won't.
Speaker 4: But I'm just saying, like seeing that, like it's it's crazy,
Speaker 4: Like I like, okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, by the way, the helmet full of ice cream,
Speaker 1: first of all, it melts within eight seconds. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's just it's an ungodly amount of food.
Speaker 4: It's uh, well, yeah, I I don't the weird thing
Speaker 4: to I know they saw them as souvenir items, but
Speaker 4: like everyone always, what do you do with that?
Speaker 3: Helmet fits my daughter's head perfectly. But then where do
Speaker 3: you when do you wash it out?
Speaker 1: Like I didn't. I just kind of I just kind
Speaker 1: of little wipe it and there you go.
Speaker 3: Wait during the during the games.
Speaker 1: I did. I don't trust myself catching a pop fly over.
Speaker 3: The net, but those aren't protected.
Speaker 1: That won't better than hitting her head, I guess right.
Speaker 3: All right, yeah, how does your son six? Have you
Speaker 3: had them? Do the kids take the field? That's my department.
Speaker 3: Are you familiar with.
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with this. This is this is pre game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well so it's literally the very last thing we
Speaker 4: do before first pitch. Do we randomly select eight kids.
Speaker 4: That's actually one of my most favorite things that we
Speaker 4: do as a part of my team. We pick these
Speaker 4: eight kids, they get assigned a player, and literally right
Speaker 4: when the Dodgers take the field, we send them out,
Speaker 4: they go out to their assigned player, they get a
Speaker 4: baseball sign. I think it's like one of the coolest
Speaker 4: things we do because I don't think.
Speaker 1: Well, doesn't seem random If you're saying that I can
Speaker 1: shoehorn my kid in.
Speaker 4: Well no, no, no, I mean we it's a mixture
Speaker 4: of pre selected kids and then typically so it's eight
Speaker 4: and then some VIP kids, Uh well yeah, yeah we could,
Speaker 4: we can make that happen for you.
Speaker 3: But also we do genuinely because there's usually.
Speaker 4: Three or four spots that we have to fill game
Speaker 4: day of so we'll go out, we'll kind of scope
Speaker 4: the kids and see kids that are like, hey, these
Speaker 4: look like they're like really you know, big Dodger fans,
Speaker 4: and so parents always think we're trying to sell them something,
Speaker 4: which is always like, oh no, no, no, I'm not trying
Speaker 4: to sell you.
Speaker 1: I just want to take your kid away from you
Speaker 1: for a little bit.
Speaker 3: No, give them like a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Speaker 3: That's nice.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's wonderful. No, I don't want my kid
Speaker 1: to do that. Uh, stay away from my kid. Who's
Speaker 1: given the best first pitch you've ever seen?
Speaker 4: We had a minute your horse up here last season
Speaker 4: who threw out the first the bottom of the so
Speaker 4: it did this thing where it was it was pretty funny.
Speaker 4: It was like with its nose like inching the ball
Speaker 4: for to its home plate.
Speaker 3: So that was cool. I don't know if that's the best,
Speaker 3: but that was.
Speaker 1: The Do you remember the worst first pitch?
Speaker 4: We haven't had terrible ones because you know, they all
Speaker 4: get a chance to warm up, be sufficiently warm up
Speaker 4: before they actually have to go out there. And on
Speaker 4: top of it, they don't have to throw from the mound.
Speaker 4: You can throw just like you can't go onto the rubber,
Speaker 4: but like you can throw from.
Speaker 1: That affect my ball?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: My favorite first pitch is Bill Murray was in Chicago
Speaker 1: where he threw the first Oh really made me laugh.
Speaker 3: That's pretty funny.
Speaker 1: He like looked over her shoulder and then just whipped
Speaker 1: it at first. They had to have planned that, right,
Speaker 1: I don't know. There was nobody there the ball.
Speaker 3: There was no joke.
Speaker 1: Your promo team is called the Blue Crew. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got some I got some ideas for what you guys
Speaker 1: should do.
Speaker 3: Like wait, well, like what I can pass? I can
Speaker 3: pass them along?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 1: Okay? How about this backwards bases night backwards basis? Yes,
Speaker 1: you're flip flopping first and third. They're going to run
Speaker 1: the opposite way around. I think I think it'd be
Speaker 1: fun for everybody.
Speaker 3: I mean, it sounds like a Savannah bananas kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I'm just baseball. Every stadium is a different size. There's
Speaker 1: walls that are different, So knock it off. You're allowed
Speaker 1: to run backwards one night.
Speaker 3: The whole game or just like a whole game. Okay,
Speaker 3: because they did find one inning, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'll settle for one.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 4: They did kind of float I mean to that, like
Speaker 4: I think the league kind of floated out that idea,
Speaker 4: like the Golden Ball or something like that, Like if
Speaker 4: I don't think it's ever going to happen, but it's
Speaker 4: like if you hit a home run when it's the
Speaker 4: Golden Ball, it's for like five runs or something.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I got another promotion idea for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers game. Ready for this. This is something I
Speaker 1: will volunteer. We'll make it taste well because we've blown
Speaker 1: it out of proportion with security. Securities is the most
Speaker 1: important thing. Yes, but streakers on the field. We don't
Speaker 1: need to destroy them. We don't need to tack them.
Speaker 1: I get it that we don't want to, but the
Speaker 1: fans love it. So here's my pitch. It's it's not produced,
Speaker 1: but celebrity streakers.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. Okay, wait, but so they would get naked? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Ish, maybe maybe maybe maybe we just have like a
Speaker 1: little dong slingshot on whatever. Uh, but but we run.
Speaker 1: The security is allowed to tackle me. But but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go for it. And and no one's getting arrested.
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna cheer. I'm gonna try to juke and and
Speaker 1: and we'll see how long it can.
Speaker 3: Last between you pitched.
Speaker 1: That's celebrity streaker. I think people would love it. I'm
Speaker 1: okay with getting laid out, really, yes, Like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: just saying I don't want the consequences of now I
Speaker 1: have to go to jail. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: like my arms broken. No, they can take me down,
Speaker 1: they can lay me out.
Speaker 3: We have one of our ball girls famously, like a
Speaker 3: year or two ago, who she like a fan, was
Speaker 3: on the field and was about to hop over and
Speaker 3: she kind of like helped take them down because they're
Speaker 3: part of our team as well, our greater team. So
Speaker 3: that was kind of a cool moment for her.
Speaker 1: Where do you park?
Speaker 4: Oh, we get to park on lot too, so it's
Speaker 4: like not the it's one section over from the stadium,
Speaker 4: so it's pretty good parking.
Speaker 1: I love the Dodgers and I moved to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: in the late nineties and I hated every team, and
Speaker 1: I was like, and I love sports. Hey, I'm from
Speaker 1: South Florida, so I was like, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: cheer for these teams. But I was like, I have
Speaker 1: to pick one team locally here that I adopt, and
Speaker 1: it was the Dodgers, mainly because I liked Vince Scully.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I listen to him. And then
Speaker 1: it's just the most beautiful stadium. It just holds up.
Speaker 1: And people complain about the parking, but yet whenever I
Speaker 1: park in the worst possible spot, you know in the lot,
Speaker 1: it's still just easy enough to walk into the game.
Speaker 4: Well, I have a couple of hacks, so Stadium Way,
Speaker 4: as long as you get there in time where their
Speaker 4: spot's open, you can park for free on Stadium Way,
Speaker 4: and it's not much more than a three or four
Speaker 4: minute extra walk than if you're parking a lot one
Speaker 4: or two. And then are you familiar with like LAT fourteen?
Speaker 1: Not by number, but I get it.
Speaker 4: So if you're looking at Dodger Stadium going up Vin Scully,
Speaker 4: it's the outdoor lot, so not inside the stadium, but
Speaker 4: just to the right. So that lot costs like maybe
Speaker 4: five six bucks and you can part there for the game,
Speaker 4: and again.
Speaker 1: It's only like in to save five or six bucks.
Speaker 4: Well, but the best thing about parking on these areas,
Speaker 4: so it's not it's not that like you're saving money,
Speaker 4: which you are, but it's more so getting out because.
Speaker 3: It's it's the v's the worst. That's true, that's true.
Speaker 3: You have a different hack game, I got.
Speaker 1: A different hack. Yeah, I got a different hack. My
Speaker 1: hack is I don't care how much it cost, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to leave before the game end.
Speaker 4: But does it depend on like if it's a close game,
Speaker 4: will you stay or are you just out the children
Speaker 4: with me?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, when's the last time you stayed through the end.
Speaker 2: Of the game.
Speaker 1: I didn't stay. But when I grew up as a kid,
Speaker 1: my dad would bring me to Saint Louis Cardinal games
Speaker 1: in Missouri. He never stayed. We were always like.
Speaker 3: A family tradition. But then what if like that? But
Speaker 3: then I.
Speaker 1: Guess I don't even know what the end is, Like
Speaker 1: you're listen to it on the radio when you drive home.
Speaker 1: That's that's how I know sporting events.
Speaker 2: And last two an answer for the radio.
Speaker 3: But are there ever any instances where you're like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, I miss I wish I would have stayed
Speaker 3: because I missed that last show. I hit a grand
Speaker 3: slam to win a game.
Speaker 1: You won the Rookie of the Year. Now, did that
Speaker 1: involve breaking your arm and suddenly being able to throw
Speaker 1: one hundred mile an hour fastball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a cub's reference, So I don't. I don't.
Speaker 4: I would refuse to talk about that, but no, no,
Speaker 4: it was uh yeah, it was a pretty big honor.
Speaker 4: And again it's just this whole thing. I like any
Speaker 4: anything I do, I I hope that I put my
Speaker 4: best foot forward and try to make a good impression.
Speaker 1: By the way, this proves what I've always thought, hiring
Speaker 1: is the worst part of every job, and the people
Speaker 1: that work for you, for the most part, it's not
Speaker 1: their dream job. Therefore they're awful at it. And it
Speaker 1: definitely feels like it's magnified as I get older and
Speaker 1: look at younger generations that they're But like, if you're
Speaker 1: if you're just a hard worker and a good worker,
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna just do well. I how quickly
Speaker 1: did you get through this one season of the shit Job?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I knew pretty early on that. Yeah, that fan service
Speaker 4: is as grateful as I am for getting that position
Speaker 4: that that was I was not going to be their
Speaker 4: long term.
Speaker 1: You also worked for the Clippers. Yes, the stadium is beautiful.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's amazing. It's amazing. I mean it's been winning
Speaker 4: all sorts of awards for like being like innovative and technology,
Speaker 4: all the technologies that have you.
Speaker 3: Have you been to a game now? No, you should go.
Speaker 3: You should go.
Speaker 1: Are you doing the exact same thing at the Clippers
Speaker 1: games that you do in baseball?
Speaker 3: There no fairly similar.
Speaker 4: I'm under the sales department team basically, So basically for
Speaker 4: the Clippers, they sell experiences.
Speaker 1: You can play on the court before the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what does that cost?
Speaker 3: Honestly, it's not that much.
Speaker 4: I feel like after you buy your actual ticket package,
Speaker 4: it might be like an extra like ten to twenty
Speaker 4: dollars ahead.
Speaker 1: Can I hang on the rim?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: We actually have a strict no dunking policy. We've kicked
Speaker 4: people out for trying.
Speaker 1: To Guys, are monsters hanging on all game long? You
Speaker 1: think I'm going to affect the rim with my one
Speaker 1: to eighty five?
Speaker 3: Wait? Can you can you dunk?
Speaker 2: Are you?
Speaker 1: Can you tell I can definitely hang on a rim.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I you can still jump, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I'm six four.
Speaker 2: Wow, that impressive.
Speaker 1: If I was on an NBA team, they called me.
Speaker 3: Have you when's the last time yesterday?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 1: Well I got a goal in my yard and I
Speaker 1: touched it every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Well we would have to kick you out
Speaker 3: if you.
Speaker 1: If you hung on it. Yeah, if I paid the
Speaker 1: extra twenty dollars ahead, yeah yeah yeah. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been close enough to smell James Harden's beard?
Speaker 4: No, But we have this activation, so it's very much
Speaker 4: similar to like kids take the fail. It's called anthem buddies.
Speaker 4: So every game we line them up and they're standing
Speaker 4: in front of the players, but James specifically make sure
Speaker 4: he's off to the side. So there's definitely been different
Speaker 4: occasions where like, as we're shuffling the kids off, he's
Speaker 4: definitely given me several dirty looks throughout the course of the.
Speaker 2: Kind of season.
Speaker 4: Why, I think he's just you know, he wants to
Speaker 4: get into the zone for the game, so he doesn't
Speaker 4: want any distractions and so forth, a child touching him no,
Speaker 4: So I mean he's definitely off to the side like
Speaker 4: you you if you ever watch a game, he'll like,
Speaker 4: you'll see all the players and all the kids.
Speaker 3: Ran in front him and he's like six feet off
Speaker 3: to the side from that.
Speaker 1: Beard gets head like this. I always feel like it's
Speaker 1: because of the beard. Are you going to be involved
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty eight games here, Now, that's.
Speaker 3: A good question. I think they just didn't. They just
Speaker 3: announce a couple of weeks ago that Dodger Standing would
Speaker 3: be a venue. So I'm assumed, well, oh, that'd be
Speaker 3: fun if I'm still with the team. Hopefully I am
Speaker 3: in some capacity or another. But yeah, yeah, that would
Speaker 3: be amazing. Same thing. I think into it Dome is
Speaker 3: probably going to be a venue for some events as well,
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, we have the All Star Game
Speaker 3: coming next year, so that'll be cool to into a Dome.
Speaker 3: So that'll be fun.
Speaker 1: All Star Basketball game. Yeah, that one's barely something kind
Speaker 1: of a that's a notch above the in season playoff
Speaker 1: game or what.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, I mean it's the only
Speaker 3: thing the NBA has gotten completely right is the playing
Speaker 3: the playing game. That's fun. That's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that worked. What about you ever interested
Speaker 1: in football.
Speaker 4: I enjoy gambling on football. So now we're speaking my yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: So for instance, for both baseball and basketball, I'm sure
Speaker 4: it's for all sports. You can't gamble on that sport
Speaker 4: if you're working for the sport, at least knowingly.
Speaker 1: So that's why you won't work for football.
Speaker 4: Well no, no, not football is my No, I don't
Speaker 4: have a I mean, I guess I am Asian, so
Speaker 4: I have a little bit of a gambling problem.
Speaker 1: But is that the stereotype that is spot on?
Speaker 3: No? Yeah, right, this is like I feel like a
Speaker 3: GENI always people.
Speaker 1: I've been in casinos my entire working career, so I'm
Speaker 1: I'm very aware, like I always poker or anything I'll
Speaker 1: bet on sports. I love it, and I always assume
Speaker 1: that that Asians right, right or wrong? No more about
Speaker 1: whatever we're about to bet on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you a more of a blackshut guy or
Speaker 3: a poker guy?
Speaker 1: Back in the day, I used to play at the
Speaker 1: Hustler casino.
Speaker 4: Constantly lost a lot of money there, lost a lot
Speaker 4: of money.
Speaker 1: But did you get free donuts at six am?
Speaker 2: Six?
Speaker 3: No? I wasn't that much of a you. You would
Speaker 3: used to.
Speaker 1: Play until until the donut cart came around. There was
Speaker 1: a donut cuts at six am to reward us for
Speaker 1: staying all night. It was a good time. Larry Flint
Speaker 1: would roll up in his gold No, yes he did. Wait,
Speaker 1: I saw him playing with phil Ivy every night, all
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is having a wife and kid holding you back from
Speaker 1: achieving your dreams?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: No, not all because a lot of.
Speaker 1: People in these sports jobs just jump around the country constantly.
Speaker 3: You're right, you're right.
Speaker 4: So I know that that's one reality that's not going
Speaker 4: to be for me. Having my daughter being married, that
Speaker 4: actually gives me a more of a push and drive
Speaker 4: to do better and kind of be there to, you know,
Speaker 4: support my family.
Speaker 1: So you also have a blog that explores the hidden
Speaker 1: sides of California. Now, I hate leave my house, but
Speaker 1: if I wanted to blow my kid's minds, is there
Speaker 1: something that I should definitely mean be doing with them.
Speaker 4: The thing is for me, like, they don't have to
Speaker 4: be necessarily like these grandiose things. They can be, but
Speaker 4: they also can be small things. You're probably aware with that,
Speaker 4: like every September where they do the waves of flags
Speaker 4: out on the Pepperdine front, lawn. I mean, I think
Speaker 4: that's something a lot of people aren't aware that they
Speaker 4: do to memorialize the people that lost their lives.
Speaker 1: But I have photos of my kids in there, and
Speaker 1: we always try to find, you know, like one or
Speaker 1: two flags from different countries so the kids can name those.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So for me, like I'm Korean, as we kind of
Speaker 4: spoke about a little bit earlier, and so there is
Speaker 4: one Korean flat flat because there was one Korean national
Speaker 4: who lost his life.
Speaker 1: Do you flyd the flag? Does it take you a while?
Speaker 1: It's not easy?
Speaker 4: It's well, I for me because you know, I know what,
Speaker 4: I know what the flag looks like, and I can
Speaker 4: kind of yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Know what flag looks like.
Speaker 1: You're not that special.
Speaker 4: Are you familiar with the Malibu Hindu Temple. It's like
Speaker 4: this beautifully white ornate temple on Los Versions Canyon that's
Speaker 4: like just before you kind of get to the tunnel
Speaker 4: if you're going out to the ocean, right, it's beautiful
Speaker 4: and it's you know, you can visit it.
Speaker 1: If we're not Hindu.
Speaker 4: No, no, yeah, I mean they welcome all, you know,
Speaker 4: and then I mean, because you know, they want they
Speaker 4: want donations, so I'll anybody with a you don't have
Speaker 4: to donate.
Speaker 1: Do you go to the Santa Monica Children's Museum?
Speaker 3: Oh? Is that the one that's in the bottom of the.
Speaker 1: Pier in the laza. Yeah, that little plaza on the
Speaker 1: third street.
Speaker 3: At the end of it. Okay, now I'm not familiar.
Speaker 3: Here's the hack.
Speaker 1: You have to become a member, okay, because they let
Speaker 1: like one hour in the morning before they let the
Speaker 1: general public come in, and all the toys are arranged
Speaker 1: nicely everywhere, and all the all the things that the internet,
Speaker 1: and but then once once they let the riff raff in,
Speaker 1: you just got to grab your kid and run.
Speaker 3: It's like a tornado. Oh how much is the membership?
Speaker 1: I think it's a donation, you know, whatever you want.
Speaker 3: Other than the early access. Would you recommend it or.
Speaker 1: I recommend it because you're donating if it's like a
Speaker 1: children's museum.
Speaker 3: So it's a good thing to two year olds like
Speaker 3: my two year old, the best time.
Speaker 2: Of her life.
Speaker 1: There's all kinds of things. Does she have to climb?
Speaker 1: She has?
Speaker 4: You know, she's starting to really be self sufficient, I own,
Speaker 4: but she hasn't really started. She loves bubbles.
Speaker 1: I mean they have a they have a bubble machine
Speaker 1: that you can make literally a bubble the size of
Speaker 1: this room.
Speaker 3: No, yes, oh, like we're the magicians that can kind
Speaker 3: of get inside it. Well that's type of thing.
Speaker 1: This thing you just you crank this thing and it
Speaker 1: opens up the thing and then you start blowing into it.
Speaker 1: And this huge wall is a bubble and you start blowing.
Speaker 1: And the people that work there, they got they get
Speaker 1: really good with you know, it's like somebody working a
Speaker 1: kiosk in a mall with a boomerang.
Speaker 3: They know how to use it. But I love bubbles.
Speaker 4: I mean that that's but what's funny is the reason
Speaker 4: I say that is because like I think they're fantastic.
Speaker 4: But also I think like anytime you go to a
Speaker 4: bubble show, not a bubble.
Speaker 1: Show, well are you talking about a bubble show.
Speaker 4: It's like it looks weird if just adults go. I
Speaker 4: feel like that's something where you only have kids. Because
Speaker 4: we my now wife, we went to there was like
Speaker 4: this bubble magician who did a show kind of in
Speaker 4: the Long Beach area, So like I was excited for that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we got tickets and then of course it's all little
Speaker 4: kids and then here's like, you know, two adults without
Speaker 4: any kids watching the Bubble Show.
Speaker 3: So that was that was awesome.
Speaker 1: That's pizza in La And don't pick any place that
Speaker 1: does deep dish, just normal, normal pizza.
Speaker 4: Oh I've got one for you, Hail Mary Pizza in
Speaker 4: Atwater Village.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know, I don't haven't been there.
Speaker 3: They do.
Speaker 4: It's it's basically New York style. It's a sour dough crust.
Speaker 4: They kind of do some crazy toppings. If you get
Speaker 4: a pie there and don't and don't enjoy it, I
Speaker 4: will pay for that pie.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no, I will love it.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know why we haven't discussed this yet,
Speaker 1: but you were on the prices, right. You got to
Speaker 1: play Planko. You spun the wheel, you hit a dollar
Speaker 1: to beat someone who had spun ninety five cents prior. No, no,
Speaker 1: just to lose in the showcase.
Speaker 4: No yeah, yeah, so I so even more impressive though Plinko.
Speaker 1: How much cash did you win in Planko?
Speaker 3: I won almost sixty thousand in Plinko.
Speaker 1: Did you have a strategy on Planko?
Speaker 3: Who has a strategy on Plinko's completely.
Speaker 1: If you said it here, it's going to go in
Speaker 1: this region. I don't know, but it's all study.
Speaker 4: It's what's the from like Jurassic Park in chaos theory, right,
Speaker 4: like you can't even if you put it in the
Speaker 4: same spot, it's not going to go the exact same path.
Speaker 3: Because of all the right.
Speaker 4: So anyways, I got all six or seven coins from
Speaker 4: guessing all the the the items right, and so it
Speaker 4: was the fiftieth anniversary special TOOS because typically.
Speaker 1: And how were you there?
Speaker 4: It's been a dream of mine to be on prices
Speaker 4: right since like I moved out to La like I've
Speaker 4: actually there was one time we stood in line. Dream
Speaker 4: We stood in line in front of Television City one
Speaker 4: time and.
Speaker 1: A group of you and you had T shirts on.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And it turned out they weren't filming that day,
Speaker 3: so we had like stood out for like a couple
Speaker 3: hours until security comes out and he was like you
Speaker 3: got because we were like first in line, so we
Speaker 3: were like, we're getting There wasn't a line.
Speaker 4: No, we were the first in line. So we were
Speaker 4: all so like stoked. Find security comes out. I was like,
Speaker 4: we're not taping.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you there wasn't a line that day. I
Speaker 1: was right from the end. You called your name, you
Speaker 1: hug and kiss everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my wife gives me grief because I'm high fiving
Speaker 3: all my friends and I totally forget to like high
Speaker 3: five and acknowledge my wife as I'm going down. It
Speaker 3: was like, I feel bad about that. I really truly
Speaker 3: feel bad.
Speaker 1: But then yeah, I went down to contestants, rowe what
Speaker 1: was the item that you had a bit on?
Speaker 4: So it was a gold necklace, which we still have today.
Speaker 4: It was like valued at the time.
Speaker 3: It was a I think it was about ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: What'd you bid on that necklace?
Speaker 3: So I bid Usually it's not a.
Speaker 1: Ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Again, it was because it was the fiftieth anniversary, so.
Speaker 1: Everything was, man, everything was elevating.
Speaker 3: It got it.
Speaker 4: So my only strategy was whatever bid that I thought,
Speaker 4: you know, there's only I think like one or two people.
Speaker 3: I was just going to bid a dollar higher or
Speaker 3: go look.
Speaker 1: At this whole move got it. So I did and
Speaker 1: just fuck those people up.
Speaker 4: And again we all were bidding like I haven't seen
Speaker 4: I haven't watched it two thousand, not even like yeah,
Speaker 4: So and then so when like you know, Drew announces
Speaker 4: that it was like ten thousands of everyone was shocked,
Speaker 4: go up on stage. Then they reveal the first game that's.
Speaker 1: Plink Out, and I'm like, that's such a winner.
Speaker 3: That like dream come true for top of it, because
Speaker 3: that's that's the game you want.
Speaker 1: It's the only game that you just want cash.
Speaker 3: And again, you know, there's no there's no strategy, you
Speaker 3: just drop.
Speaker 1: You got to win all the coins.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, and I got all those you know, high,
Speaker 4: er lower, I got all those, right, I'm just trying
Speaker 4: to go random. But for the one that I got
Speaker 4: the fifty thousand dollars on after five, everyone's like, why
Speaker 4: didn't you keep dropping.
Speaker 3: It in the same spot. But then again, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I don't think that it works like that. For Plinko,
Speaker 3: it was nice. It was nice.
Speaker 1: Ten thousand dollars, necklace, sixty thousand Plinko, everything else a
Speaker 1: free roll. Now let's get to the big wheel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this was amazing. This was amazing. So I
Speaker 3: can't remember if it was the first or second woman,
Speaker 3: but the one woman lands on the dollar. So right
Speaker 3: then I'm like I'm done, you know, I am done.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: So the first one I think I spind like sixty five.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, do you eyeball where the forty five is?
Speaker 1: Or no?
Speaker 3: No, because you can't go the wheel it's it's heavy.
Speaker 1: So you got you got to forty five. You have
Speaker 1: to do a little spin off with her. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you've got one thousand dollars for that?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 1: Or one hundred dollars a.
Speaker 3: Thousand thousand, one thous thousand yea, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: Then and then so then then we go to a playoffs,
Speaker 4: So it doesn't so I just I had to get
Speaker 4: a dollar just to go.
Speaker 3: To a playoffs.
Speaker 1: Huh right, this is unbelievd.
Speaker 4: So then she spends and she spun it was low.
Speaker 4: So basically like any decent spin I'm going to move on.
Speaker 3: So I don't remember.
Speaker 1: But now you're the showcase showed on, you're the lead guy.
Speaker 1: You pass on the first showcase showed exactly, no matter
Speaker 1: what exactly, you don't even see it. Well, that wasn't.
Speaker 3: My My only strategy was if there's a boat, I'm
Speaker 3: passing because it's like I've heard horror stories of it.
Speaker 3: Do you own a boat? I don't know? Awful to
Speaker 3: own it really yeah, just like the.
Speaker 1: Storage and cleaning and all that clean and I don't
Speaker 1: store it.
Speaker 3: Well. I've always heard that, like it's awful to own.
Speaker 1: Everyone's the best day for a boat owners the day
Speaker 1: they buy and the day they sell whatever.
Speaker 4: So first, the big prize of the first batch of
Speaker 4: prizes for that first showcase, it's a boat.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, I'm passing, I'm passing.
Speaker 1: And I wish you had a boat right now to
Speaker 1: just driving around.
Speaker 3: L oh my god, it would have been awful.
Speaker 4: But then the second one there's a brand new BMW
Speaker 4: s u V a trip to South Africa.
Speaker 1: I don't like these trips. Yeah, what I don't believe.
Speaker 1: Don't buy it. Their trips are all weird.
Speaker 3: Wait, it's a trip to South Africa that first class
Speaker 3: air that I don't know, but I think you can,
Speaker 3: like let's say, let's say if it's coach, I'm sure
Speaker 3: you could, right, Okay, you must be able to do
Speaker 3: because at least for the cars, I think I heard that,
Speaker 3: like if you want a car, you can you can
Speaker 3: basically upgrade to whatever other model once you're because you
Speaker 3: you're basically going to the dealership. Okay, whatever, the inship.
Speaker 1: I didn't know this.
Speaker 3: I'm almost positive that that's true.
Speaker 1: But did you like the BMW that they hem?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So I
Speaker 3: was so stoked.
Speaker 1: What'd you bid?
Speaker 4: This is where the strategy bit me in the buck,
Speaker 4: because obviously you don't want to overbid, right.
Speaker 1: Because then you're you're just how did she do on
Speaker 1: her bid?
Speaker 3: Here's the thing.
Speaker 4: The only reason I feel good. She was like maybe
Speaker 4: like three to hundred dollars off.
Speaker 3: So in hindsight, it didn't matter what I've been unless
Speaker 3: I need Yeah, it didn't matter. Yeah, I way underbid
Speaker 3: it because I think I think I bid somewhere in
Speaker 3: like the mid forty thousands, and then the package the
Speaker 3: was like fifty five thousand, so I was I was
Speaker 3: way off.
Speaker 1: You don't get to talk to the models at all? No, No,
Speaker 1: did you get to hug any of them a little bit?
Speaker 3: No? I kind I wanted to hug the one. There's
Speaker 3: the one Australian guy. So he's kind of like.
Speaker 4: No, no, he's like like he's like a one man.
Speaker 4: He was, he's like a fan favorite. He's like really
Speaker 4: like yeah, he's like yeah. So like I was definitely
Speaker 4: you know, like when when when I was up.
Speaker 1: This has gone downhill since Bob Barker left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I never even seen this guy.
Speaker 1: But all right, so he met the Australian.
Speaker 3: Yeah no I didn't. I wish I had, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: But you did prices right here in America. Would you
Speaker 1: do squid games in in South Korea?
Speaker 3: I don't. I mean, is that like, that's not real?
Speaker 1: What I've heard rumlins that there is some truth to
Speaker 1: the squid games where you would potentially die. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: it doesn't even seem potential. It's like you're definitely gonna
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, it's like only one person gets a win.
Speaker 2: It's like big odds.
Speaker 1: That's a tough sell. But I love children's games. Gifts.
Speaker 1: Everybody's on the show gets gifts. Yes, oh man, it's
Speaker 1: just stuff I find around my house. You're gonna love this.
Speaker 1: By the way, first, recently I potty trained my daughter.
Speaker 1: So these are do you use Cotier? They're the best
Speaker 1: diapers in the world.
Speaker 3: We get Costco diapers.
Speaker 1: You're you're you're gonna blow your daughters kind These things
Speaker 1: are amazing. You got you a couple of hundred of these. Oh,
Speaker 1: they're so good.
Speaker 3: This is amazing.
Speaker 1: We just potty trained.
Speaker 3: This is amazing.
Speaker 1: These are the pant use the pant uh yeah, but
Speaker 1: don't let her sleep in the pull ups to use
Speaker 1: the red Okay, get that off my desk.
Speaker 3: This is this is what? This is size four then? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think the right size shell.
Speaker 3: If she's not a four yet, she will be Wait
Speaker 3: is your two year old and pull ups yet?
Speaker 1: My two year old's potty train. That's why I'm giving
Speaker 1: you the diapers.
Speaker 3: Here's two year olds already.
Speaker 1: She's two six, two and a half, so it's it's
Speaker 1: not a competition. Okay, my kids learned things at different rates.
Speaker 3: No, that's no, but two still pretty early.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest. She's fully now. That's why I'm giving
Speaker 1: you the diapers. She started at one for No, she
Speaker 1: still she likes you.
Speaker 3: This is amazing.
Speaker 1: This is a nice sleepsack. We don't need it anymore.
Speaker 3: Wait, this is huge. No, No, it's not huge. No,
Speaker 3: it's it's kind of moist.
Speaker 1: No, it's nice, it's moist. Whatever washing it. Here's some cute.
Speaker 3: Boots from her. Wait this this is is this? It's
Speaker 3: a two year old?
Speaker 1: If it doesn't fit her today, it'll fitter. Wait waitcause
Speaker 1: these are they don't work for her anymore? Oh so
Speaker 1: these are pre worn, Yes, the pre warn you're not
Speaker 1: getting anything for for that, isn't you. I don't like
Speaker 1: this anymore in my house. My wife like this, you
Speaker 1: bring anywhere for her?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's adorable.
Speaker 1: But it also has straps so that you can hook
Speaker 1: it too, like you can bring into a restaurant and
Speaker 1: put it on and it can be their booster. It's
Speaker 1: a lot nicer than a restaurant one. But I told
Speaker 1: my wife, I'm like, we're done. She doesn't use it anymore.
Speaker 3: She thank you. No, this is amazing some of it?
Speaker 2: Is there a trade for that?
Speaker 1: Oh I forgot, I'll grab I'll send you the tray.
Speaker 2: I'll send you. There's a tray.
Speaker 1: Here's some sweaters and some dresses. My god, look at this, one,
Speaker 1: says Paris. So it's so cute. She'll love it. A
Speaker 1: bunch of dresses.
Speaker 3: This is amazing. No, no, I no, no, this is
Speaker 3: I will whole hardly. We will whole hardly.
Speaker 1: Here's a dog that poops. Okay, whatever, show some got
Speaker 1: our big coloring book? My god, get this dog off
Speaker 1: my nesk.
Speaker 3: This is amazing.
Speaker 1: This has never been used. I don't think or maybe
Speaker 1: it's just a huge blanket for picnics. But uh, like
Speaker 1: when you go to the parks, but it's too big.
Speaker 1: My wife's like, why do you do it's so big?
Speaker 3: Is there?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I always feel like you want a bigger.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought. But now it's too big. Like
Speaker 1: my wife's like, we're taking up half the park.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Well, now you've got a big blanket.
Speaker 3: I don't know how I'm going to take this all.
Speaker 3: We'll get you something, okay.
Speaker 1: Cats, here's a cat and only hat.
Speaker 3: Wait is that a cat?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a cat. It's got whiskers like a whatever.
Speaker 1: Why where's the sun shades? I don't need those? I
Speaker 1: hate those things. You ever use those on your car?
Speaker 3: We do? These are kind of old?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Throw them?
Speaker 3: Wait I brought where were they? I brought you? Kiss
Speaker 3: because I don't want anything. No, well, it's it's also
Speaker 3: for your man, for your kids.
Speaker 1: As hold on, let me see what you you brought
Speaker 1: me from Nords? From rack?
Speaker 3: No, No, that's just the bag all right. Well it's
Speaker 3: funny that you mentioned Vin because this is a.
Speaker 1: Vin bobblehead, Vin boble that's not bad.
Speaker 3: That's for you. That's for you, like n this is
Speaker 3: for your son a Mookie Bets bobblehead.
Speaker 1: He doesn't like Mookie?
Speaker 3: How does he not like Mooky Bets?
Speaker 2: Okay, he likes me.
Speaker 3: And then that's for your daughter. Little Dodger. Hello, Kitty Plush.
Speaker 1: I'm not even that wasn't even for you. I always
Speaker 1: have my Dodger cat.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of hats. I got a lot
Speaker 3: of hats.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know that I actually am a
Speaker 1: Dodger fan.
Speaker 3: But but you don't. You don't put it on it
Speaker 3: all than this.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna wear a hat during the interview. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then why is it because because I wore it here?
Speaker 1: Oh I don't live here. Okay, okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Welcome. Yeah, yeah is it?
Speaker 1: By the way, let me tell you, at a complaint
Speaker 1: about Dodger Stadium, you could do better to put more
Speaker 1: uh toy type things in the gift shop. You'd make
Speaker 1: a killing. There's nothing the dumb Dodger dog that's like
Speaker 1: a gross shade of pink or the rally monkey. There's
Speaker 1: like three things that are you.
Speaker 3: Have you gone to the top Dex store, Like the
Speaker 3: top Dex stores.
Speaker 1: Are going to the top. I go to the entrance
Speaker 1: the store right on the entrance way and the outfield
Speaker 1: on the right there when you yeah, yeah yeah, Mike,
Speaker 1: thanks for being on the show.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Pasha, well to thank Mike for being on the show.
Speaker 1: And I look FOURD to throwing out that first pitch.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do the free plug now, but not without
Speaker 1: free plug music. Carl, go ahead, lovely all right. This
Speaker 1: week's free plug is for the Beverly Hills Horseshoe Club
Speaker 1: in beautiful Beverly Hills, Florida. Huh interesting Beverly Hills, Florida.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of it. I've lived in Florida. Where
Speaker 1: is that? Love Tampa above Tama. That's no man's land
Speaker 1: up there above Tampa. It's located just off State Road
Speaker 1: four ninety one, not Rodeo Drive. They have twenty four
Speaker 1: clay courts, mostly in shaded areas. That's fancy. It's like
Speaker 1: rollan Garos the Red Clays of Beverly Hills, Florida. At
Speaker 1: the Horseshoe Club, The courts are open during daylight hours,
Speaker 1: seven days a week for anyone who wishes to play
Speaker 1: or practice. Both club members and non members may make
Speaker 1: use of the facility. Okay, that makes no fucking sense.
Speaker 1: What's the point of a membership? Maybe maybe a membership
Speaker 1: gives you a deal. By the way, do you guys
Speaker 1: play horseshoes?
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 1: I have a horseshoe pit up in Tahoe, and I
Speaker 1: like to throw the shoes around. First of all, very
Speaker 1: dangerous heavy, they're heavy. Now, I know, if you get
Speaker 1: a ringer, is that three points? That's how we play
Speaker 1: the farthest away from the stick that you can. Is
Speaker 1: it called a stick or post whatever. It's only the
Speaker 1: width of one horseshoe. Anything past that doesn't count at all.
Speaker 1: So you get one point for that and three points
Speaker 1: for a ringer. And what are you supposed to play to?
Speaker 1: Because we always played a five because if not, it
Speaker 1: takes too long.
Speaker 2: Yes, I thought twenty one.
Speaker 1: Twenty one is what you're supposed to play to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what you're supposed to know.
Speaker 1: I've never done it. They hold a full schedule of
Speaker 1: sanctioned tournaments on the second Saturday of the month. Is
Speaker 1: that coming up? You figure that out? Look at a calendar.
Speaker 1: I don't know when you're listening to this. They also
Speaker 1: conduct handicap leagues. I don't do we say handicap.
Speaker 2: It probably shouldn't. That's out from their website.
Speaker 1: That's from their website. They should update their website. They
Speaker 1: have handicap leagues at nine am, not nine am. You
Speaker 1: know long it takes them to get up and get
Speaker 1: do all the things to get out the door.
Speaker 3: It quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Well you know what I meant.
Speaker 2: No, No, I get it.
Speaker 1: That's I think it should be, like they should get
Speaker 1: a nice afternoon. I guess in Florida, though, you don't
Speaker 1: want to be too late in the day. Or maybe
Speaker 1: they're talking about amateur horseshoe pitchers, like what's their handicap?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't get it. Well, anyway, this is
Speaker 1: the Beverly Hills Horseshoe Club in Beverly Hills, Florida. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sounds like a good time. See you next week.