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Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what with the Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer Tim Kirkshin. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshin, and

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Speaker 1: today's guest is none.

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Speaker 2: Other than our dear friend Dan Levitard is on the podcast. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: excited about it.

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Speaker 3: Look at that. Look at the enthusiasm of Tim Kirkshin.

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Speaker 3: Look at it.

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Speaker 4: He looks like a different human being, radiant and ready

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Speaker 4: for action. Do you know, Jeff, that your father was

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Speaker 4: one of the first legends in this industry to be

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Speaker 4: decent and kind to me. I still remember him walking

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Speaker 4: up to me on a spring He won't remember this

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Speaker 4: on a spring training field a million years ago when

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Speaker 4: I had no confidence in what I was doing, and

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Speaker 4: the legendary Tim Kirkshin, whose history I knew, said to me, Man,

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Speaker 4: that story you wrote about Craig Bigio moving from catcher

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Speaker 4: ever read in a newspaper. I must have been like

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Speaker 4: twenty two, twenty three years old, and it gave me

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Speaker 4: because everybody was You know, there are a lot of

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Speaker 4: insecurities threats in the business. Young kid doesn't know what

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Speaker 4: he's doing, thinks he's too hot, whatever, he gets put

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Speaker 4: in his place. And your dad and I knew his reputation.

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Speaker 4: Your dad was, as he always is, exceedingly kind. I

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Speaker 4: remember that you have no record.

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Speaker 5: I remember every bit of that.

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Speaker 6: I remember the story you wrote on Craig Vigio and

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Speaker 6: you were describing your drive to the spring training facility,

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Speaker 6: an amusement park, because this was an amazing transformation to

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Speaker 6: go from catcher to second base. So I was absolutely stunned.

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Speaker 6: I could not believe how good Dan Levitard was as

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Speaker 6: a writer. And that's what I told him. And this

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Speaker 6: many years later, he's even better now than he was

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Speaker 6: back then.

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Speaker 1: Dan, you wrote for the Miami Herald in high school.

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Speaker 1: For goodness sake, I couldn't get an internship in my

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Speaker 1: town school. You were writing for the Miami Harold. That's unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: I can't believe how much you sound like your father.

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Speaker 4: It's stunning. I've never met anyone who sounds like your father.

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Speaker 4: And your excitement level when you sound like your father

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Speaker 4: is identical. I did not know that that could be hereditary.

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Speaker 4: I was, Yeah, it's the only thing I've ever been

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Speaker 4: good at. I'm not that much different than your dad.

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Speaker 4: One of the many things I love about your dad

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Speaker 4: is how comfortable inside of knowing just how to know,

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Speaker 4: knowing just how to do a couple of things, and

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Speaker 4: one of them is loving baseball. And I would say

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Speaker 4: higher on that list as being a family man. I

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Speaker 4: don't know if you know any cooks occasionally poorly by

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Speaker 4: his own measure. I don't think that's accurate. I don't

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Speaker 4: think it's accurate, but poorly by his own measure. And

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Speaker 4: those are the three things I know your dad can do.

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Speaker 1: Right, jan let me brag about your dad really fast

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Speaker 1: and say, because you do take time on your show

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Speaker 1: to brag about how good of a dad.

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Speaker 2: And a human being my dad is.

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Speaker 1: But let me tell you my daughter McKinley was born

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Speaker 1: in August twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: My dad would be up in Bristol. He would drive.

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Speaker 1: Down and stop in my town in skip Back, Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 2: He would cook.

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Speaker 1: Multiple meals that can be reheated. He would go run

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Speaker 1: cooking meals, going to the grocery store, doing the things

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Speaker 2: Taking care of a child.

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Speaker 1: This man is an incredibly smart journalist and a lover

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Speaker 4: Look at how uncomfortable. I'm gonna make them even more. No,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna get to baseball in a second. I'm going

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Speaker 4: to say little more and then we'll get to whatever

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Speaker 4: you guys want to do. But and I'll leave this

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Speaker 4: very short. Your father is extraordinary in the way that

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Speaker 4: your grandmother late in life, and how he had to

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Speaker 4: to you that your father's love is an extraordinary thing

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Speaker 4: to have, and you cherish it the way that you should.

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Speaker 3: Let's move on to your baseball topics.

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Speaker 4: Tim, I know that as a repressed male, you're very

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Speaker 4: uncomfortable with all this discussing of feelings, No doubt.

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Speaker 6: I got to go back to the Miami Herald, and

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Speaker 6: speaking of great writers, Dan's one of the great writers ever.

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Speaker 6: Peter Richmond was one of the great writers ever.

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Speaker 5: I mean, so this is.

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Speaker 6: Embarrassing, but I'm going to tell it anyway. When I

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Speaker 6: was covering the Orioles in Miami, Dan in spring training.

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Speaker 5: Peter Richmond is.

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Speaker 6: Covering the game that night, and he's the last guy

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Speaker 5: He was a thousand times better than that.

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Speaker 6: Okay, So Peter screams out in the press box one night,

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Speaker 6: nineteen eighty seven, So I just jokingly, don't even look

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Speaker 6: up from my computer, and I say, Joe Horlan and

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Speaker 6: edition of the Miamy Harald, it's said today's probables for

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Speaker 6: the White Sox, Joe Morland and Gary Peters. So, Dan,

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Speaker 6: you think I'm the nicest guy in the world. That

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Speaker 6: I almost that was the worst thing I've ever done.

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Speaker 5: I was kidding.

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Speaker 6: I didn't think anyone's listening to me.

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Speaker 4: That's the worst thing you've ever done. That I believe that.

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Speaker 4: And Jeff, you you might not know what that name means,

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Speaker 4: but Peter Richmond was on a loaded sports staff at

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Speaker 4: the Miami Herald. Peter Richmond was a like this man

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Speaker 4: should not have been in a baseball press box doing

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Speaker 4: anything next to your dirty father, a plumber and a

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Speaker 4: no insult. Your father is a great writer. But Peter Richmond,

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Speaker 5: Oh that's so funny.

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Speaker 6: Yes, so sorry about that that I did that to

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Speaker 5: I've made some mistakes along the way.

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Speaker 4: Dan, if I can, though, Jeff, when I think of

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Speaker 4: a press box, malfeasans, I will tell you that being

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Speaker 4: with Jeff Miller of the Orange County Register. And this

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Speaker 4: is much worse. Your father would never do anything like this.

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Speaker 4: We were in Shay Stadium and he was looking at

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Speaker 4: me and he's like, you won't do it, and I'm like,

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Speaker 4: I will do it, I mean, and he's like, you

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Speaker 3: Don't treat me.

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Speaker 4: I pushed a piece of carrot cake out of the

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Speaker 3: I was in my early twenties.

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Speaker 4: And then I watched with delight as I pulled my

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Speaker 4: because nobody in the press box would do that, because

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Speaker 4: and he would never throw carrot cake at Chase Davis.

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Speaker 6: Carrot top gives a new name. Now, Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 6: All right, So Dan, I've never asked you this question.

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Speaker 6: I can't believe it. Growing up where you grew up,

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Speaker 6: who what got you interested in baseball? Who was your

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Speaker 4: So my favorite athlete of all time was Dave Winfield.

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Speaker 4: So it's not quite kid, right, but I'm you. You

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Speaker 4: have to understand that as a son of Cuban exiles,

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Speaker 4: I was not to sports in my early you know, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

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Speaker 3: And they're all terrible teams, all of them. So I'm

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Speaker 4: But the Yankees would come to spring training in Fort Lauderdale,

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Speaker 4: and Dave Winfield was unlike any athlete I had ever

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Speaker 6: Yes, all three sports, Yes, got drafted in all three sports, yes.

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Speaker 3: But not a first round pick in all three right.

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Speaker 4: But anyway, so my introduction to baseball was the closest

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Speaker 6: Dan, you also did a show with your dad for

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Speaker 4: Well, it's going to be a very different experience than

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Speaker 4: beautiful to watch the reverence that your son has for

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Speaker 3: Tom My father never really thought that was my show.

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Speaker 4: My father always viewed me as his son and couldn't

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Speaker 4: sitcom Dad is dying on television that gives people access

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Speaker 4: to something that made our show just slightly different. Whether

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Speaker 4: I got the greatest professional blessing of my adult life

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Speaker 4: to age with my father on television until he didn't

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Speaker 4: want to do it anymore. Like he couldn't bear to

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Speaker 4: tell me that he wanted to quit. This story's great

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Speaker 4: and it's true, and Tim working at ESPN will know

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Speaker 4: just how funny this is, ah honest to god true story.

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Speaker 4: My father couldn't tell me at the end that he

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Speaker 1: Oh god, Dan, does Mike sure look like a public

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Speaker 4: And he's like, nope, I like this ninety nine cents

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Speaker 5: Tim, I I am going to drink more water.

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Speaker 6: I have cut back on diet mountain dew and Jeffery

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Speaker 4: Jeff, Jeff, I gave your father the gift of a

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Speaker 3: If I were to say to you, hey, Tim, thanks

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna put a noisy thing in your fridge that does,

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Speaker 1: Well, there's plenty of stuff in my dad's garage already.

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Speaker 5: It's not him, not me, And we're not talking about that, Dan.

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Speaker 6: We're getting off this subject before I get in any trouble. Okay,

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Speaker 6: I dam back to the looks Like Game. Look, I've

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 6: I told Dan one day, Jeff, I said, don't.

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Speaker 6: I know you do every one of those looks like

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Speaker 4: But I mean if the visuals on this are exceptional,

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Speaker 6: Jeff, the first one, this set the tone, The first

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Speaker 4: Jeff, do you think that ad Nan Vert looks like

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Speaker 2: Dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

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Speaker 6: My life, and then Levchard the next day calls me

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Speaker 5: That's what it looks like.

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Speaker 6: Game does it spurns home run calls and follow up

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Jeff, I didn't mean to interrupt. You go ahead.

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Speaker 4: Everyone everyone says that, Yeah, exactly, you can it's the

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Speaker 3: Let's rye. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Let's be clear, Jeff, nobody reads it better than Dan

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Speaker 5: You got They're not the same. They're just not the same.

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Speaker 6: The cadence and the tempo that Dan has, and when

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Speaker 6: God, I can't get through an episode without Adam Silver.

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Speaker 5: A bag of onion rings at.

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Speaker 2: All, So Jeff.

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Speaker 6: The first thing that Dan ever did to me the

445
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 6: air was during the twenty fourteen All Star Game. I

446
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,840
Speaker 6: was in Miami and I came into the studio to

447
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,199
Speaker 6: meet all the guys. I had never met Billy Gill before.

448
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,439
Speaker 6: I'd never met Chris Cody, Roy Bellamy. It was just

449
00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,119
Speaker 6: hilarious to finally meet these guys after all these years.

450
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Speaker 6: And the night before at the All Star Game, I

451
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 6: had met Pitbull for the first time. Of course, I

452
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 6: had no idea who Pitbull was. Ad nan Berg, the

453
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,240
Speaker 6: mischievous ad nan Berg introduced me to Pitbull and said,

454
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 6: this is your greatest fan ever. And he introduces himself

455
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Speaker 6: with this complicated handshake.

456
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Speaker 5: He goes, I.

457
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Speaker 6: Understand you're my biggest fan, and I'm thinking, I don't

458
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Speaker 6: even know who it is. So the next day tell

459
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Speaker 6: him what you did. The next day, when I came

460
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Speaker 6: in and sat down, we had you.

461
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Speaker 4: I hope that your son can get this from our staff.

462
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,680
Speaker 4: I believe we have our library here, and it's funnier.

463
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Speaker 4: It's much funnier to hear and see your dad do

464
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Speaker 4: it than to have me recreate it.

465
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Speaker 3: But just suffice it to know.

466
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Speaker 4: Suffice to know that we had your father read an

467
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Speaker 4: assortment of sort.

468
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Speaker 3: Of lecherous pit bull lyrics.

469
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Speaker 4: It was, you know, his temperament with those lyrics made

470
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Speaker 4: it funny because the lyrics were a little scandalous.

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Speaker 6: Jeff, he first had me read them in Spanish, which

472
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Speaker 6: I don't know one word of. I've told you, Dan,

473
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Speaker 6: biggest mistake I ever made was taken French in high school,

474
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Speaker 6: in college, and now Eric Ganie is retired out and

475
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 6: everyone to talk to and Tim, you.

476
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 4: Would have had such an enormous advantage in baseball if

477
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 4: you could.

478
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 3: Have talked to the players in their language. Instead you

479
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 3: could just talk to real court.

480
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Speaker 6: I made the biggest mistake ever. So the first time

481
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Speaker 6: he has me read the lyrics in Spanish and I

482
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,640
Speaker 6: don't know one word of Spanish.

483
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 5: I didn't understand one word.

484
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 6: And then he had me read the lyrics in.

485
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 5: English and I still didn't understand.

486
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Speaker 6: Any of the lyrics because they were written by Pitbull.

487
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Speaker 2: It was the.

488
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Speaker 5: Dumbest thing I've ever seen.

489
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Speaker 6: But the kicker there, Dan, and I've told you this.

490
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Speaker 6: The next day, this goes out on social media and

491
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Speaker 6: Nan sends it out. The next day at the All

492
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Speaker 6: Star Game, I see Mike Trout, who at the time

493
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Speaker 6: is the greatest player that some people have ever seen.

494
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Speaker 6: He comes up to me with a look on his

495
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 6: face that I can't even describe. It's elation times a thousand.

496
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,120
Speaker 6: He goes, I see that you met pit Bull yesterday?

497
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Speaker 2: What was that like? I can't believe you got to

498
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 2: meet Mike. Drout is telling me.

499
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 5: How amazing it wasn't I got.

500
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Speaker 6: To meet Pitbull and I han't explained.

501
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I didn't know who mister three to five

502
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 2: was until yesterday.

503
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Speaker 3: Well, how about this story.

504
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you guys, this one is a good one,

505
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Speaker 4: and it's true.

506
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Speaker 3: It's my father.

507
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 4: So Lil Wayne is a giant sports fan, and for

508
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 4: some reason, he and a bunch of his friends want

509
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 4: to come one day to Highly Questionable. It's a very

510
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 4: small set at the Cleveland or a small place, and

511
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,360
Speaker 4: it's him in about ten guys, and it's just a

512
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Speaker 4: cloud of marijuana smoke, and he's got one hundred thousand

513
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Speaker 4: dollars of diamonds in his teeth because he wants to

514
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Speaker 4: meet my father, and he is literally hiding behind my leg.

515
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 4: Jeff would have at seven years old if you were

516
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Speaker 4: introducing him to the Disney character for the first time

517
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Speaker 4: at Disney World. He's hiding behind my leg because he's

518
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 4: sort of scared of my father and he thinks of

519
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,159
Speaker 4: him as a cartoon and he's sort of delighted to

520
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 4: be there. And it's a lovely ten minutes we get

521
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Speaker 4: to spend with a very childlike Lil Wayne. And after

522
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 4: he leaves, my father, who was just enormously affable the

523
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,879
Speaker 4: entire time, looks at me and says, who was that.

524
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Speaker 5: Oh God, that's so good.

525
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Speaker 6: My god, Dan, I'm ten years older than you at least,

526
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 6: and your dad is twelve years older than me, so

527
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Speaker 6: I can totally understand somebody who just doesn't get what

528
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 6: this is all about. I told Jeff the story one

529
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Speaker 6: of our first podcasts, a guy saw me on the

530
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Speaker 6: street and said he had all sorts of nice things

531
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Speaker 6: to say, and he said, man, you are the dope.

532
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Speaker 6: That's what he said, and I honestly thought he was

533
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Speaker 6: in he.

534
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 5: Was insulting me.

535
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 6: I thought, wow, I thought this guy liked me. Now

536
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 6: he called me a dope. And then now I just

537
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 6: Jeffrey had to explain that's.

538
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Speaker 2: What he calls dan, he calls me.

539
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: I'm the first line of defense to find out if

540
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 1: he got insulted or not. First of all, he said

541
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: you were the dopest dad, which the dope.

542
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 2: Would be an insult. So if he said the dope,

543
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:22,679
Speaker 2: you're probably a dope.

544
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Speaker 1: And last week on the podcast we had caw Rpken

545
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Speaker 1: Junior and his son Ryan Ripkin, and somebody wrote dope

546
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: crossover on Twitter, and we led the next podcast with

547
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Speaker 1: what does that mean?

548
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 2: Says my dad to me?

549
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: And I say, well, he's not talking about your move

550
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: on the basketball court, trust me, He's talking about the

551
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,439
Speaker 1: crossing of the Ripkins and the Kirchens doing a show together.

552
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Speaker 1: But that easily took four minutes to make sure he

553
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Speaker 1: knew he was not getting insulted.

554
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Speaker 4: Well, help me understand something, Jeff, because I have now

555
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Speaker 4: looking back at my experience with my father. You seem

556
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Speaker 4: to have a very strong relationship with your dad, and

557
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 4: I would assume that you also have great patience with

558
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 4: your dad. But I would imagine the technology of this

559
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 4: tests that patience, and so doing a daily television show

560
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 4: with my dad, there were any number of times that

561
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 4: he was just being my dad, and that would raise

562
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 4: whatever the frustrations are. I need to preface everything I'm

563
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 4: saying with this was a delightful experience. I'm just talking

564
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 4: about the day to day of working with anybody all

565
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,199
Speaker 4: the time, and it has its stuff, but especially if

566
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 4: you have family idiosyncrasies, and so there's some things I

567
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 4: look back on that I wish I had had more

568
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 4: patience with. I talked with Brian Dawkins, the Safety for

569
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 4: the Eagles, on this. He said he had the same

570
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 4: sort of frustrations with his father being a stubborn old

571
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 4: man and trying to help him ride a horse when

572
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 4: he could hurt himself riding a horse, and the frustrations

573
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Speaker 4: he had with the patients.

574
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Speaker 3: How does it work with you two? Does he get

575
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 3: frustrated with you?

576
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 4: Tim in a way that makes you feel like an

577
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,120
Speaker 4: actual dope instead of the dope Gus.

578
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Speaker 6: Jeff is the kindest son in the world, and I

579
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Speaker 6: mean it because he knows me so well. He recognizes

580
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 6: poor pop Up is trying, but he's just not capable

581
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 6: of doing these things. We had a big joke when

582
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,640
Speaker 6: the kids were young, seven and five, you know, give

583
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 6: me something that pop ups that dad is good at,

584
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 6: and Kelly and Jeffrey, h seven and five come up with, Okay,

585
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 6: he's good at baseball, he's good at basketball, and then

586
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 6: they can't find a third thing I'm good at, and

587
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 6: they huddle up like it's family feud or something, and

588
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 6: come bursting out he's good at feeding the dogs. So

589
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 6: it's baseball, basketball, and feeding the dogs.

590
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 5: Those are the only three things they can remember.

591
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 6: Jeffrey is unbelievably patient with me because he sees how

592
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 6: bad I am.

593
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 5: Jeff you know that right.

594
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Speaker 2: Well, Dan, you have grown quite an empire over there.

595
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 2: Your team.

596
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: Every member of your team is hardworking, hilarious. I have

597
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to meet them on the back end,

598
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: and we'll get to that in a minute, because I

599
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: want to talk about what we have planned to promote

600
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: to our audience what we're going to be doing.

601
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 2: But uh, you've got this great team. Let me look for.

602
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 3: I am the team. That's it. That's all.

603
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 4: That is, your it, your human resources, your everything, your management.

604
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: Dan, the patients I have built up just from experience.

605
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: Every time before an episode, we do three episodes a week.

606
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: Two of them are just content based. One of them

607
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: is an interview, just like this one. I will get

608
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: a rundown, which is a picture of my father's notebook,

609
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: not a typed up inf I get a photo. So

610
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: if you were to go into our text messages, all you.

611
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 2: Would see was just notebook.

612
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 3: That's it.

613
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 4: Yes, listen to me, young, you young, you young punk.

614
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 4: You listen to me right now, all right, you little

615
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 4: disrespectful you listen to me, and you listen to me.

616
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 3: Good.

617
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 4: Mike Lupica writes his books on legal pads. Tony Kornheiser

618
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 4: still writes on a yellow pad the best. It's how

619
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Speaker 4: they do it. It's how they'll always do it. And

620
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 4: you can take your computers and show.

621
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Speaker 6: Dan, Jeff it's true. I have to write everything down.

622
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 6: My two do list every day is pathetic. But if

623
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 6: I don't write it down, I might forget it. And

624
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 6: when I'm done at the end of the day and

625
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 6: I've circled everything, it is really good. If I don't

626
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 6: write it down, it might not happen. And I still

627
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 6: do this every day. I did this morning at five

628
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 6: o'clock with the dia mound dew. I wrote down all

629
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Speaker 6: the crazy things that happened to me.

630
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Speaker 3: Breakfast Tim, five am. Tim.

631
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Speaker 4: That is aggressive diet mountain dew at five am for bread.

632
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 6: I told you I'm trying to cut back, but it

633
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 6: really tastes good. At five am, I tried to drink coffee.

634
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 6: It didn't go very well. I had like two or

635
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 6: three cups. So I'm gonna do better. Because you told

636
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 6: your dad to drink water. Jeffrey tells me to drink water.

637
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 6: So I'm doing I'm trying, I really am.

638
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 4: It doesn't sound like and it sounds like at five

639
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 4: am this morning, you were trying it all and it

640
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 4: was totally within your choice and your full Yes, so right.

641
00:30:58,840 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 3: I am.

642
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 6: But I have no interest in quitting because it tastes

643
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 6: so good. And if I still had a refrigerator, I'd

644
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 6: be way.

645
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 4: A terrible gift just to give them a garage noise

646
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 4: to give someone a garage noise as a gift is terrible.

647
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:13,959
Speaker 3: Jeffy, we will have failed.

648
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 4: And what it is that we're doing tonight if there

649
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 4: are whenever it is that we're doing and I don't

650
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 4: know if this is airing the night of what it

651
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,719
Speaker 4: is that we're doing yep, so uh, but we will

652
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 4: have aired if we do not have a segment that

653
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 4: is the most adorable thing I've heard in the history

654
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 4: of sports media. Poor pop pop just something like they

655
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 4: call you pop pop, they call it what is the

656
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 4: is it with an ass?

657
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 5: Popops or pop pop pop pop?

658
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 6: Both single, the both p's are capitalized, and we have

659
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 6: a segment on our on our podcast called poor pop Pop.

660
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 6: When there are things that I just can't figure out,

661
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 6: I just can't get to them, and Jeffrey is just

662
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 6: again unbelievably patient with me about those things.

663
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Speaker 4: I'm just saying, if we don't recreate what you guys

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Speaker 4: do on the podcast on what it is that we're

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Speaker 4: doing together with poor pop Pop, we will have failed.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you, Poor Popop is one of

667
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Speaker 1: my favorite segments because nobody, and I mean nobody likes

668
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: making fun of themselves more than my dad. He recognizes

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Speaker 1: and it's created a lot of humility in my life,

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Speaker 1: Like I can look at myself and make fun of

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Speaker 1: myself because I saw my dad do it so much

672
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Speaker 1: and we have that relationship. And that's what makes this

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00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: podcast so fun. For example, every time I see my

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00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: dad now we see each other a lot more because

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Speaker 1: of the podcast. But when I was living out in

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas for five years, I'd come and I'd see

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Speaker 1: him in the first question I would ask him, Dad,

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Speaker 1: what's the first question I would ask you about your phone?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 6: Do you need any help with your phone? Do you

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Speaker 6: need any help with your app?

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Speaker 1: Because he has an iPhone, Dan, And you know how

683
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Speaker 1: you can move your apps, right, you put them in

684
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Speaker 1: a certain place, and for you and me, most likely

685
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: they're always in the same place.

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Speaker 2: You open.

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Speaker 1: You know where your app is, you know where the

688
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: MLB app is, you know where your techs are. I'll

689
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Speaker 1: go in there, Dan, and there's a folder that comprises

690
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: of the cam ruh, his duo authenticator to get into

691
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: his email. Not sure why those are in.

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Speaker 3: A calculator, a calculator.

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Speaker 1: I movie all in this folder and it's because he

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00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: doesn't lock his phone. He just takes he he just

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Speaker 1: takes the.

696
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Speaker 2: Raw dog phone and puts it in his pocket.

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Speaker 1: Dan, And then I'm worried because the poor guy butt

698
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: dials me every day, multiple times a day. He has

699
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Speaker 1: Cowarken Junior's number in his phone, Johnny Bench's number in

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00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: his phone, Jim Palmer's number in his phone. For goodness sake,

701
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: He's gonna he's gonna butt dial one of these guys.

702
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 3: In the bathroom.

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00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 4: That's right, that's what's gonna happen. He's gonna butt dial

704
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Speaker 4: a Hall of famer. And that Hall of Famer is

705
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Speaker 4: gonna be thrilled to be butt dialed by your father,

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Speaker 4: Great Tim Kirkson, a legend in this industry, and and

707
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 4: and Johnny Bench. If he gets a call from Tim Kirkshon,

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Speaker 4: I imagine he'll pick that up and talk to Tim's butt. Dan.

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Speaker 6: I did a butt tweet once several years ago, a

710
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 6: butt tweet that came out on Twitter. I hadn't tweeted

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Speaker 6: in like a copy.

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Speaker 3: It was a couple of letters, little gibberish.

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Speaker 5: Of course.

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Speaker 6: Then I get a call from Jeff and he said,

715
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 6: you better erase that. So I he erased it for me,

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00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 6: and then I wrote this apology.

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Speaker 5: I'm terrible at Twitter. I'm sorry. I didn't mean anything

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Speaker 5: by this.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what I'm doing, and I got ten

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Speaker 6: thousand likes for a but tweet.

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Speaker 4: Well, I will tell you, Jeff, you should know this

722
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 4: about your father because you mentioned his self deprecation. It

723
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 4: is unusual in this industry. Your father's general humility is

724
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 4: unusual in this business. I will say that most people

725
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 4: with your father's credentials, expertise, resume, experience, carry themselves with

726
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 4: a great deal more ego than your father does. It

727
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 4: is one of the lovely things that makes him rare

728
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 4: amongst the dinosaurs in our business, because he knows how

729
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 4: to do likable effortlessly, like it's just who he is.

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Speaker 4: It's not he's not doing anything, He's just being himself.

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Speaker 4: And so it's a it's a charming thing that your

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00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 4: father does not himself seriously. And furthermore, it tracks along

733
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Speaker 4: the lines of everything his identity has shown him to be.

734
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Speaker 4: He thinks it's the work that comes first, Baseball, the

735
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 4: game comes first. He is just a storyteller who is

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00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 4: there as an accent, and the fact that he happens

737
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 4: to be on television is nice, but it's not the point, Jeff.

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Speaker 6: Before we let Dan go, just tell him about the

739
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 6: time I went into your refrigerator in your garage and

740
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 6: picked out something. Just tell Dan that story, and then

741
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 6: he might have a different look at me.

742
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: So we love it because being podcasters and doing this

743
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: in my basement. When he drives down from ESPN, we

744
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: get a little more time together. He gets more time

745
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Speaker 1: with his granddaughter. Well, my wife and I were putting

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00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: our baby down, Emily and I upstairs with the baby,

747
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: and my dad helps himself to a seltzer, and he's

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00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 1: sitting on my back porch watching baseball on TV, goes

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00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: and gets another seltzer. By the time I get downstairs,

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00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: there's two empties on the table in the back porch,

751
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: and he's got a third one in his hand, and

752
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: he's two and a half white claws in the backyard.

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00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: I've been gone, Dan for twenty five minutes. The man

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00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: weighs one hundred and forty five pounds, soaking wet.

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Speaker 5: It's unbelievable, Dan.

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00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 6: I did not know at the time that a white

757
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 6: claw was alcoholic.

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00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 5: So I drank one and said, boy, this really tastes good.

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00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 5: Drank another one.

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Speaker 3: It was terrible tim How drunk did you get by accident?

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00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 4: Because because you've told us stories about you never drank,

762
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 4: you ended up in a bathtub one time. There was

763
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 4: one time you urinated in public that I don't think

764
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 4: had anything to do with drinking. Because this we haven't

765
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 4: talked baseball in this conversation, and when your dad comes on,

766
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 4: we don't talk enough baseball. But I do know that

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00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 4: he's peed on the side of the road at least

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00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 4: a couple of times. And I know he was drunk

769
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Speaker 4: one time, so drunk that he ended up in a bathtub.

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Speaker 5: That was in Chicago nineteen eighty eight.

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Speaker 6: Orioles are part of an O and twenty one start

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Speaker 6: And yes, I fell asleep in the bathtub. I'm a

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00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 6: terrible drinker. I have no I can't I can't hold anything.

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Speaker 5: I never have. So after two.

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Speaker 6: White cla clause, I was pretty buzzed and I kind

776
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 6: of said, Wow, that's the greatest shelter I've ever had.

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00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 5: So now I know the difference. It's not gonna happen again, Jeff.

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Speaker 4: I love that he was so compulsive about drinking that

779
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 4: there were two and a half gone because.

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Speaker 3: He was pounding them, pounding.

781
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 4: Just pounding like ooh, this is good and I like it.

782
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 4: I feel under my fanny, I feel.

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00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 3: A little I feel a little mudge there. I feel

784
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 3: something a little nice. My lips.

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00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 2: I feel my lips.

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00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm feeling like a dangerous bad ball.

787
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: All right, So Dan, before we let you go, we'd

788
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 1: be remiss if we didn't quickly. So this is this

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00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: episode coming out June the twenty fifth. So tonight we

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00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: are joining you on the Dan LeBatard YouTube account. We're

791
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 1: gonna do a live stream. We're gonna watch games together.

792
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: And I've been invited to join you dad for this

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00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: appearance with Dan Lebotard and all of the friends that

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00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: come along with that, which is a great cast of characters.

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00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 2: This is going to be.

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00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: We've got guests, we've got looks like it's going to

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00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: be a party.

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Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not going to be an appearance. We're going

800
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 4: to watch games with your dad. And what I would

801
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 4: tell you, as you guys build whatever it is, the

802
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 4: future of this is. And I will tell you again

803
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 4: that you have a very efficient model father and son

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00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 4: where the son does everything.

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00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 3: That's a good deal for the father.

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00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 4: I recommend that strongly for all the Tim Kirkshins in

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00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 4: my life. So Tim's job tonight is just to show

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00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 4: up and be himself and no baseball.

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00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 3: That's the easiest thing in the world. He's going to

810
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 3: leave the rest to us.

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Speaker 4: We're going to produce and watch a baseball game with

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00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 4: all the baseball games with Tim Kirkshon. It's a night

813
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 4: of baseball with your father, and everyone can join in,

814
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 4: everyone who listens to this podcast, and we will do

815
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 4: It's not an inning, it's not a couple of hours.

816
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 4: We're watching the games together until we get tired of

817
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 4: watching the games. All part of celebrating your father and

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00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 4: your podcasts. And I'm looking very much forward to surprising

819
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 4: your and the guests and the guests and the audience

820
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,959
Speaker 4: with an assortment of things that we do tonight. I've

821
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 4: been looking forward to this for a while, to do

822
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 4: this with your dad. I think that if I were

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00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 4: to give a charity auction watch a baseball game or

824
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 4: all the baseball games with your father, I could get

825
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 4: a lot of money for that. We're gonna do it

826
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 4: for free for everybody tonight on the internet.

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Speaker 5: Is Chris Cody going to be on it.

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Speaker 4: We'll get on whoever you want. You're in charge of

829
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 4: the night, but we'd like to surprise you. So if

830
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 4: you'd like Chris Cody on, we will get you Chris Cody.

831
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Speaker 4: But it sounds to me like that's the setup for

832
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 4: a Chris Cody looks like.

833
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 6: Two weeks ago, Chris Cody texted me with this question,

834
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 6: have you ever farted on an airplane?

835
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 5: That was the question.

836
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 3: Yes, that's a good question.

837
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 5: I've been on a good.

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00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 2: Question thousand airplanes in my life.

839
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Speaker 5: You don't think I ever farted on an airplane?

840
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 3: I don't know.

841
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 4: That's why we asked. We don't know the answer to

842
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 4: our questions. We just asked the questions and get the

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00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,280
Speaker 4: answer emphatic.

844
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Speaker 3: Yes, Oh, I love how emphatic you were about being

845
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 3: a public airplane.

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Speaker 1: Further, let me tell you one more poor popop that

847
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: is so Dan Levatard show, and I can't believe I'm

848
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: gonna embarrass him like this. So, yes, my wife Emily

849
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: works from home, so when I do my morning show

850
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, I get up in the morning. Dad is

851
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: sleeping because he got here late, late, late from driving

852
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: from Bristol, so they have time just the two of

853
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,439
Speaker 1: them and our baby McKinley, his granddaughter before I get

854
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: home to do the podcast in the basement, and they

855
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: always end up talking about life. Hey, Emily, what's your

856
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:32,720
Speaker 1: five year plan?

857
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,280
Speaker 2: What's going on? He jumps right into the big questions.

858
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Speaker 1: Well, my dad has been, you know, changing up his diet,

859
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:42,280
Speaker 1: changing up some things, and just looking out for his body.

860
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 1: And his doctor said, hey, Tim, I want you to

861
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: weigh yourself every single morning. That way he can track this,

862
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 1: make sure you're staying on track, keep healthy. Right, Well,

863
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: he tells my wife. He says, Emily, I have to

864
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Speaker 1: talk to you about something my doctor told me. I

865
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: have to weigh myself. But I have to weigh myself, Nate,

866
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: and so I need to use the scale in your

867
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Speaker 1: bathroom upstairs. But you cannot come upstairs for the next

868
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: six minutes until I am done running to your bathroom

869
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: weighing myself, putting my clothes back on, and going back

870
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Speaker 1: into my room and getting ready for the day.

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Speaker 2: That's the conversation head with his daughter in law.

872
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 4: Poor Papa, I have to explain to you that I

873
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 4: haven't heard anything you said since you put the visual

874
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 4: of your dad naked on a scale.

875
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,240
Speaker 3: In front of me. I have gone dreamy eyed with delight.

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00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 4: It's something I've thought about all my life, and never

877
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 4: until now have I envisioned it in the company of you,

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00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 4: two gentlemen. Thank you for ending this particular portion of

879
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 4: our adventure this way. We will continue it later and

880
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that the evening ends is punctuation a night

881
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Speaker 4: with Tim Kirchhin, with you naked on a scale at

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Speaker 4: the end, Tim Kirkchhin, because we need to get audience

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Speaker 4: to this thing, and I can think of no better

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Speaker 4: way to get audience than for you to butt dial

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Speaker 4: someone butt Johnny bench Well naked with.

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Speaker 2: Your actual but no thank you for me to lose weight.

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Speaker 5: I did this on my own. The goal was to

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Speaker 5: get to one forty. I made it so there and.

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Speaker 4: I thought, I thought you weighed the same I thought

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Speaker 4: you weighed the same thing every day for the last

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Speaker 4: thirty five years.

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Speaker 5: Pretty much true. But I put on a couple, and

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Speaker 5: I mean just a few. I had to get back

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Speaker 5: to one. I made it.

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Speaker 6: It was important that I did that for my own self,

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Speaker 6: being all right, this is so bad, so bad.

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Speaker 1: You have him on the show once a month. Imagine

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Speaker 1: doing this three days a week.

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Speaker 4: Dan Tonight on YouTube Lebtard and Friends watch Jeff and

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Speaker 4: Tim argue until Tim quits quits his family because his

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Speaker 4: son's clearly a disrespectful.

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Speaker 5: Get ahead of him now.

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Speaker 2: Please, thank you, thank you for joining me tonight.

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Speaker 3: To you tonight, gentlemen.

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Speaker 4: I am happy to see all your happiness together