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Speaker 2: And he loves the Mets, of course, and he has

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Speaker 2: two cats. One's name is Mookie and the other's name

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Speaker 2: also explain the greatest game ever played on July the fourth.

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Speaker 2: It was nineteen eighty five between the Mets and the Braves.

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Speaker 2: And also later in the show, on Team Tim, I

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Speaker 1: It's going to be amazing And for the history buffs

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Speaker 2: be clear, Jeff Emily, your wife is way smarter than you.

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Speaker 1: We go to the July fourth game back in twenty

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Speaker 1: And I had to kindly say, not just the fourth

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Speaker 2: He is twenty one years old. He is six foot seven.

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Speaker 2: He missed it. It was a good throw and a

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Speaker 2: catchable ball and the mascot missed it. But James Outman,

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Speaker 2: it'll be back in the big league soon. How about

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Speaker 2: Tom Browning, Oh, the late Tom Browning. Tom Browning was

433
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Speaker 2: a great left handed pitcher for the Reds, tremendous changeup

434
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Speaker 2: pitched a perfect game in the major leagues, but I'll

435
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Speaker 2: never forget the nineteen ninety World Series. His wife goes

436
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Speaker 2: into labor during the game, and he's a starting pitcher,

437
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Speaker 2: so he's probably not going to be needed that night.

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Speaker 2: But the game is running late, they're going to probably

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Speaker 2: go into extra innings, and they called down to the

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Speaker 2: bullpen to tell Tom Browning, you better get loose just

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Speaker 2: in case we're gonna need you tonight. Well, Tom Brownie

442
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Speaker 2: isn't there because he went straight to the hospital because

443
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Speaker 2: his wife was having a baby in Oakland, where the

444
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Speaker 2: World Series is being played. So the next day I

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Speaker 2: asked him. He said Tom, and he went in there

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Speaker 2: in full uniform. I said, I said, Tom, didn't anybody

447
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Speaker 2: say anything to you? And he goes no. I guess

448
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Speaker 2: they thought I was just a big fan of the team.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing, all right. Joe Musgrove of the Poject Joe

450
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Speaker 2: Musgrove is a really good picture. And my favorite Joe

451
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Speaker 2: Musgrove story is in twenty twenty one, seven days after

452
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Speaker 2: pitching the first no hitter in the history of the Padres,

453
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Speaker 2: they ran out of position players. They ran out of players.

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Speaker 2: They were getting clobbered. So they put Jake Kroniworth in

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Speaker 2: the second baseman into pitch, and they put Joe Musgrove

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Speaker 2: in left field. And here crona Worth throws to the

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Speaker 2: plate and David Price up pitcher, hits a fly ball

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Speaker 2: to the left fielder who's a pitcher, Joe Musgrove and

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Speaker 2: hits a sacrifice fly. So Joe says, this is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: He goes a second baseman is pitching to a pitcher

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Speaker 2: who hits a fly ball to a pitcher to score

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Speaker 2: a run. He says, I've always wanted to play in

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Speaker 2: the field during a game. I got out there. The

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Speaker 2: lights were so bright. I think what am I doing here?

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Speaker 2: But I was ready for that, he said. I would

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Speaker 2: have killed myself if I wasn't ready to catch that ball,

467
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Speaker 2: and he did it correctly. Dennis Tankersley, Oh boy, another throwback, Jeff,

468
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Speaker 2: this is why baseball is so great. Dennis Tankersly only

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Speaker 2: pitched a few years, maybe three. In his first major

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Speaker 2: league game in two thousand and two, he had a

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Speaker 2: home run and got the victory. In the rest of

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Speaker 2: his career, granted a short rest of his career, he

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Speaker 2: never won a game and he never hit a home run. Now,

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Speaker 2: first game he ever played homer and win and never

475
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Speaker 2: got either one of those for the rest of his career.

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Speaker 2: Now that's corkchin right there. Oh yeah, last, but not least.

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Speaker 2: Then we're done. Adam Done. Well, as you know, Jeff,

478
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Speaker 2: I'm fascinated by sacrifice flies, and he invented the my

479
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 2: fascination for sacrifice flies years ago. He had one thousand

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Speaker 2: and eighty four consecutive plate appearances without a sacrifice fly,

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Speaker 2: So he had sixty five opportunities with a runner on

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Speaker 2: third base and less than two outs without hitting a

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Speaker 2: scoring fly ball. Finally, he got his first sacrifice fly

484
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Speaker 2: in like two and a half years, and he told me,

485
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Speaker 2: I'm the only guy who's ever gotten a standing ovation

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Speaker 2: for a routine flyout to left field. So Adam John

487
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Speaker 2: Done is one of my favorites ever because he has

488
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 2: such a good sense of humor, so self deprecating. He

489
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Speaker 2: had one of the worst seasons in twenty eleven that

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Speaker 2: any player has ever had. He batted one fifty nine

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Speaker 2: with virtually no power. This is the guy who had

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Speaker 2: four hundred and sixty two homers. Adam Dunn was a

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Speaker 2: really good power hitter. But twenty eleven he couldn't do

494
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Speaker 2: anything right. So the next year, of course, he revives

495
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Speaker 2: his career. He's good again. So he said to him,

496
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 2: I said, Adam, did you get any interesting advice last

497
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 2: year from somebody on how to get out of that slump?

498
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Speaker 2: And he said, well, my wife, not a big baseball fan,

499
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Speaker 2: asked me, have you ever considered batting right hand? I

500
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Speaker 2: had to say, honey, though I'm a left editor, I'm

501
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 2: not gonna switch that, all right, So we go to

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Speaker 2: league in lids.

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Speaker 1: We've put every Major League Baseball team into our lids lid,

504
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Speaker 1: and each week we take a different one out. Let's

505
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Speaker 1: see what we got. Keep it in the Al East

506
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Speaker 1: this week with the Tampa Bay race.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now the Rays are starting to play better. Finally

508
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 2: they got their record up to five hundred. They're an

509
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 2: amazing franchise and that they don't draw very many fans.

510
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 2: They have very little money to deal with, and yet

511
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 2: consistently they win every year. They win something every year

512
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,400
Speaker 2: because they draft and developed so well. They've never won

513
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Speaker 2: the World Series. Someday they will, but it's an amazing

514
00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 2: franchise and I'm very proud of them, and it was

515
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Speaker 2: it was Joe Madden that essentially put them on the

516
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Speaker 2: map with the managing job that he did, and because

517
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 2: he was such a colorful guy, so Joe would always

518
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 2: do things to try to get you know, try to

519
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 2: calm his players down, get their minds off of baseball.

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00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 2: So one day Joe had someone from the zoo bring

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Speaker 2: in a twenty five foot Boa constrictor named Sadie. Twenty

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Speaker 2: five feet long. A snake comes in. Okay, So Joe,

523
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Speaker 2: being Joe smarter than the average bear, watched his team

524
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Speaker 2: react and like ten guys like left the clubhouse immediately,

525
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Speaker 2: like another ten kind of got near the snake, and

526
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Speaker 2: five got like right on top of the snake. One

527
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Speaker 2: got up near Sadie's head. And Joe actually thought, this

528
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Speaker 2: guy right here, he's a risk taker, he's not afraid.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I can trust him in the ninth inning tonight

530
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Speaker 2: because he's right up against that snake's head. That's how

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Speaker 2: Joe Madden used to think. But then he found out

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Speaker 2: that Sadie hadn't eaten in thirteen days. And when a

533
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 2: snake apparently hasn't eaten in thirteen days and starts to poop,

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Speaker 2: that's when the guy from the zoo said, we gotta

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Speaker 2: take her, So you gotta go before he eats a

536
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Speaker 2: short reliever before he goes. So that's the raise for you.

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Speaker 1: So, Dad, you were texting me and you have a

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Speaker 1: great idea for the Kirkshin quandary for this week.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now, Jeff, I saw another major league catcher get

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Speaker 2: hit with a pitch without it even hitting his glove. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's how hard guys throw today. That's how violent the

542
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 2: stuff is that we see. So my question is this.

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Speaker 2: You're thirty years old and you never caught on any level.

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Speaker 2: You certainly didn't catch in high school. So if this

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Speaker 2: is the question, if we put a thirty year old

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Speaker 2: guy who is never caught before, and we put him

547
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Speaker 2: behind home plate in a major league game, and the

548
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 2: first ten pitches that aren't swung at and put in play,

549
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 2: so ten pitches that actually get to the catcher, would

550
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Speaker 2: he catch any of the first ten before we had

551
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Speaker 2: to either take him off with an injury or he

552
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 2: would just be so terrified he would leave immediately, or

553
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Speaker 2: the umpire would be killed because the catcher couldn't catch

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Speaker 2: the ball. Do you think you could catch one pitch

555
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Speaker 2: now zero, do you think the average thirty year old

556
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Speaker 2: could catch one out of ten?

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Speaker 1: Zero?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, This isn't even a quandary to you.

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Speaker 1: This is obvious because what one catching is an art form.

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Speaker 1: At its core, catching is more. If you put a

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Speaker 1: good player behind the plate to catch, they would have

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Speaker 1: trouble catching a ninety five mile per hour fastball, right,

563
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Speaker 1: and I'm talking a major league level player, right, So.

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Speaker 4: If you're talking about thirty year old who's never caught ever,

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Speaker 4: there's no way he's catching anything.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna get hurt on the first pitch, and he's

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Speaker 2: out right. If he's not hurt on the first pitch,

568
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Speaker 2: he's terrified on the first pitch, and said, I'm leaving.

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Speaker 2: Let's say we put him in the bullpen and there's

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Speaker 2: no batter and there's no crowd screaming. It's just him

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Speaker 2: and the pitcher and he's got all the gear on

572
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Speaker 2: and Paul Sken's is throwing one hundred and two miles

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Speaker 2: an hour. Zero still zero. Did you see the video?

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Speaker 2: Oh with you, it's zero. Did you see the video

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Speaker 2: of one of the bullpen shots.

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Speaker 1: They were showing a picture that was warming up, but

577
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Speaker 1: then there was an intro of a pitcher coming on

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Speaker 1: where they shut all the lights off in the ballpark,

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Speaker 1: and right when the ball is about to release, the

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Speaker 1: bullpen lights go out. Lights come out, and everyone's saying,

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Speaker 1: all right, rip to the bullpen catcher, hopefully he's arrived.

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Speaker 1: But no, Dad, the answer is zero.

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Speaker 2: All right. So years ago Jeff Conine, one of the

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Speaker 2: greatest players in the history of the Marlins. He had

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Speaker 2: a buddy of his who was a golfer, not a

586
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Speaker 2: baseball player, and the golfer told him, I want to

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Speaker 2: catch rob Nn someday. Rob Nn at the time was

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00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 2: the premiere closer for the Giants. He threw upper nineties

589
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 2: with a sinker slider whatever that thing was called that

590
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 2: it just moved uncontrollably. So Jeff Conine goes, you couldn't

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Speaker 2: catch him. He would kill you. And the guy goes,

592
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Speaker 2: I think I could do it. So Conine says to

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Speaker 2: his buddy, are you come to the picnic with me

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Speaker 2: today and I'll throw to you at the picnic Conine

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Speaker 2: and he says, if you can catch me, maybe we

596
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 2: will get some gear on you and you can try

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Speaker 2: to catch rob Net. So Conine tells me the first bitch.

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Speaker 2: He throws to this guy, he said, I broke his watch.

599
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 2: He threw it and it hit him in the watch.

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Speaker 2: That's how much he missed the ball by. And he goes,

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Speaker 2: if I hadn't broken his watch, I would have broken

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Speaker 2: his wrist. That's how much he missed it by. At

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Speaker 2: seventy five miles an hour. Now we go up to

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Speaker 2: one hundred and two with Paul Skiings. Sorry, zero chance

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Speaker 2: for catching this.

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Speaker 1: This is our fourth of Jill Lie Show. So Dad,

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00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: I know you've prepared a best of all.

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Speaker 2: Tim. That's all about the Declaration of Independence signed right

609
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Speaker 2: here where we record our podcasts in Philadelphia. How many

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Speaker 2: people sign the Declaration of Independence.

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Speaker 1: I think it's like fifty six or fifty seven, something

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Speaker 1: like that.

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00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 2: Fifty six the Declaration of Independent Independence is not a

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Speaker 2: bargaining chip.

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Speaker 3: Not to me.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to steal the Declarations Independence. What national treasure? Independence?

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Speaker 2: I love it, all right, that's great, Okay. So I

618
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Speaker 2: looked at all fifty six guys who signed the Declaration

619
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Speaker 2: of Independence, and my history is terrible. So I don't

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Speaker 2: pretend to be any good at this. But just to

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Speaker 2: start with our pitching staff, because they have the most

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Speaker 2: important names. We have Ryan Franklin, love it. We have

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Speaker 2: Emerson Hancock, Johnny, you have Jack Morris. Now there are

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Speaker 2: a lot of these. I don't even know who the

625
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Speaker 2: guys are. Babe Adams of course, Gavin Stone, Charlie Morton,

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Speaker 2: and there was actually a guy who signed named matth

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Speaker 2: you Thornton. And there was a major league pitcher named

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Speaker 2: Matt Thornton. So we have first and last night. And

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Speaker 2: that's the closest one. I mean we have. It's the

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Speaker 2: same name rights And to start with our DH, it's

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Speaker 2: Reggie Jefferson. There's no Tom Jefferson, no John Hancock, no

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Speaker 2: Ben Franklin. Believe me. I checked, okay. Will Smith is

633
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Speaker 2: our catcher. Hal Chase is at first base, Josh Harrison

634
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Speaker 2: at second, Royce Lewis at shortstop, Bill Hall, I mean

635
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Speaker 2: Royce lewsid third, Bill Hall is our shortstop. Corbyn Carroll

636
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Speaker 2: twice in one day, yes, Carlos Lee, and my favorite

637
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Speaker 2: Mookie Wilson. Now, believe me, it's a Wilson. There wasn't

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Speaker 2: a Mookie that signed the declaration. How do you vote?

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Speaker 2: So that is that is our team, Tim, It's the

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Speaker 2: teammate out of all those that signed the Declaration of

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Speaker 2: Independent Now, before.

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Speaker 1: We get into our amazing interview with Brockmeier himself, Hanka's area.

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Speaker 1: There is one July fourth game that sticks out in

644
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Speaker 1: your mind that you want to share. And this is

645
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: a story that you know. I wasn't alive for this game,

646
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: and I really haven't heard much about it, but you

647
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: consider it the greatest Fourth of July game ever.

648
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's certainly one of the craziest games ever

649
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 2: on any date. So on July fourth, nineteen eighty five,

650
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:24,280
Speaker 2: the Mets beat the Braves sixteen to thirteen in nineteen innings. Okay, wow,

651
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 2: So the game was supposed to start at seven thirty,

652
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 2: but because of rain, it didn't start until nine, and

653
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,479
Speaker 2: then in the third inning there was a forty five

654
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 2: minute delay, so we have almost we have over two

655
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 2: hours worth of delays. The game took six hours and

656
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 2: ten minutes, and they since they had the fireworks, they

657
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 2: set the fireworks off when the game ended at three

658
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 2: point fifty five in the morning. Ron Darling, who was

659
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 2: on the Mets, was the last pitcher in that game.

660
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 2: And as he told me once, he said, when you

661
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 2: pay for all the fireworks, you're going to set them off,

662
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 2: come hell or high water. So they set off the

663
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 2: fireworks at four o'clock in the morning at Atlanta Fulton

664
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 2: County Stadium. But that's only half of the story, Jeb.

665
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 2: In the eighteenth inning, the Braves had run out of players,

666
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 2: and now they have to they have to let Rick Camp.

667
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 2: They don't have any were pinch hitters. Rick Camp, a pitcher,

668
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 2: bat in the eighteenth inning of the game, and it's

669
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 2: they're down eleven to ten the Braves. In the bottom

670
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 2: of the eighteenth he is an sixty lifetime hitter with

671
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 2: zero home runs. He goes to an O two count

672
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 2: and then hits a home run off of Tom Gorman

673
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 2: to tie the game at eleven to eleven in the

674
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 2: eighteenth inning. Oh so, as much as we talk about

675
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 2: the July fourth, eighty five game, most people know it

676
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 2: as the Rick Camp game because they didn't have any

677
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 2: other choice. They had to bat him in the game.

678
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 2: Keith Hernandez of the Mets hit for the cycle in

679
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 2: that game, which was completely lost by all the other

680
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 2: crazy stuff that happened. And Davy Johnson, the manager of

681
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 2: the Mets, got ejected early in the game, but he

682
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 2: was still calling the shots from the you know, from

683
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 2: his office, and they said, he said, I want Darling,

684
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 2: who's a starting pitcher, to come into the game in

685
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 2: the nineteenth innings to close it. He gives up two

686
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 2: hundred runs, but he gets the final out of the

687
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 2: game to win sixteen to thirteen, and the final out

688
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 2: was made by Rick Camp who struck out to end

689
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:31,919
Speaker 2: the game. That game happened on July fourth, nineteen eighty five.

690
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 2: I was covering the Texas Rangers at that time, so

691
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 2: I wasn't at that game, but I promised you anyone

692
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 2: who saw that game and stayed up and wrote it

693
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,919
Speaker 2: through three point fifty five in the morning will never

694
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 2: forget it.

695
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: Hank's Aria is joining us shortly, and Dad, I'm really

696
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: looking forward to talking to him and asking him about

697
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 1: your big television appearance on the show Brockmeyer.

698
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 2: You were on TV. You were on an HBO show. Yeah,

699
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 2: that was my first and I'm certain my last acting performance,

700
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 2: because I was horrendous. I was more Wooden than Pinocchio.

701
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 2: It was terrible. Now, Jeff, you've been an actor, You've

702
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 2: been on stage. You were star of all the school plays,

703
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 2: The Odd Couple, Nicely, Nicely Johnson you've done some amazing stuff.

704
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 2: The Wedding Singer. What was the guy's name in the

705
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 2: Wedding Singer? Oh, I played George, George, George Carrot. That's

706
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 2: your best character. So you could appreciate how difficult it

707
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 2: is that Hank is Area, who, by the way, was

708
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 2: fascinating that day. How he carried us through. There were

709
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 2: a bunch of baseball guys, and he taught us, not

710
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 2: necessarily how to act, but he made us feel so

711
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 2: at home. He was so gracious to us. He made

712
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 2: our jobs a lot easier, even though I still screwed

713
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 2: it up.

714
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: Well, you screwed it up, and you mentioned my acting days, right,

715
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: That happens. It happens during live theater all the time.

716
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: I played Henry Ford in a musical called Ragtime, Ragtime

717
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: talking about the turn of the century. And I played

718
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: Henry Ford and I sing this whole song about the

719
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 1: line of workers building a car and how impressive that is. Right,

720
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: And at the end of the scene, I pull out

721
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 1: a car gets driven in and it's this guy's car

722
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: who's buying it. The main character is buying a car

723
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: from the Henry Ford played by me. Then a set

724
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: change happens, and my job was to get into the

725
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: car and drive it away off the set. Well, I'm sixteen, right,

726
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 1: I just got my driver's license, and it's a pitch

727
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 1: black reverse into a spot, and I'm Henry Ford. And

728
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,760
Speaker 1: they stopped the show because I had hit the set

729
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,359
Speaker 1: and I couldn't get out and we had to pull

730
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: it forward, and I was like Austin Powers trying.

731
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:40,959
Speaker 2: To triple way.

732
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 4: Here I am saying, I'm Henry Ford, the greatest car

733
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 4: builder of all time, and he bark, what's wrong with you?

734
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 2: Something like that happens all the time.

735
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: So don't feel it's bad about your major flub on TV.

736
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 2: At least you didn't mistake Barbara Streiss and for a lagoon.

737
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 2: That's what I did. We'll explain it a minute. Hank

738
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 2: Azaria joins the show. Coming up next, we are joined

739
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 2: by Hank Area, one of the great comedians, one of

740
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 2: the great actors, one of the great comedic actors of

741
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 2: all time. Of course, he's the star of Brockmere. I've

742
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 2: gotten to know him a few times over the years.

743
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 2: I even appeared in a Brockmeire episode with him. Hank,

744
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 2: So thankful that you could join us. This is my

745
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 2: son Jeff.

746
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 3: Hello Tim Helo Jeff, and high from Jim Brockmere as well. Tim.

747
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,320
Speaker 3: I noticed you, Jim, I noticed she didn't. Your acting

748
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 3: career didn't exactly skyrocket after that, but that's all right.

749
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 3: Neither did my broadcasting career, even Hank.

750
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: I have to Okay, if you don't know this about me,

751
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: I was a theater kid, Okay.

752
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 2: I took my dad's love of storytelling. I became a

753
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 2: stage nerd a this feeing if you will.

754
00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: I was on the stage, I was performing, I was singing,

755
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: and then my dad calls me and says.

756
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 2: I'm going to be on this show. I'm going to

757
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 2: be on Brockmeyer. I have you heard of it? Of

758
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 2: course I've heard of it.

759
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:10,240
Speaker 1: And then he completely just bundled his first IMDb credit.

760
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 4: Here tell us about I can't even tell us about

761
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 4: how he couldn't remember his one line, Hank.

762
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 3: One line that was just you know, one moment of

763
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 3: one day. I mean, he did great, but you know

764
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 3: he had we threw him a line, and I'll tell you,

765
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 3: Jim Brockmeyer, he was supposed to say, I love yentle.

766
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 3: He was talking about Barbara Strassayan, and instead he proudly

767
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 3: announced I love lentil, and we said, well, now, Tim,

768
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 3: we didn't ask you what your favorite kind of soup is.

769
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 3: That would have been good had we teed you up

770
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 3: that way. But but it was great and I was

771
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 3: hoping we'd end up keeping it in the show, which

772
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 3: we didn't, but it was really fun. Who we have

773
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 3: that day? We had? Well, Joe buck was sort of.

774
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 2: That he was the star one.

775
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe Buckett is a great actor. No, no offense, Tim,

776
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 3: You were very good despite that line. But Joe could literally,

777
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 3: I mean this sincerely, he could absolutely have a career

778
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 3: as an actor, not just oh he's good for a broadcaster,

779
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 3: like he's a genuinely good actor. Who was we have

780
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,919
Speaker 3: that day? We had that day right?

781
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 2: And it was a beautiful premise, Jeff, because Hank brought

782
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:28,800
Speaker 2: in all his favorite baseball guys.

783
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 3: Show was a very alcohol soaked love letter to baseball,

784
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 3: and which really comes out of my heart. I not

785
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 3: only do I love baseball, which I know is very

786
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 3: on topic for today, but I love baseball announcers and

787
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 3: analysts because I found I was raised by the TV

788
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 3: and baseball came through the television. Unless I was fortunate

789
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 3: enough to go to the game, which was rare, and

790
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 3: so I came to love the mostly men who delivered

791
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 3: those games to me, not just in baseball, but every sport.

792
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 3: I came to feel I feel that they were like

793
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 3: my uncles in a way, guys who delivered that information

794
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 3: and those broadcasts. So it was deep in me too,

795
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 3: and that's why I started imitating them as a teenager.

796
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,399
Speaker 3: This kind of generic baseball announcer voice got me through

797
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,479
Speaker 3: a lot. I'm I'll tell you that about matter, and

798
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 3: it really did, it really did. It was like my

799
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 3: best friend was the nice man telling me about the ballgame.

800
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 3: And you know, it was an idea to be a

801
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 3: show since I was a teenager. I'm glad we finally

802
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 3: got to make it right.

803
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 2: And who were I know who they were, Hank, But

804
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 2: tell us who the broadcasters were that you kind of

805
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 2: used to make Brockmeyer.

806
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 3: Well, I grew up as a Mets fan stillam, so

807
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:56,240
Speaker 3: that trio of Bob Murphy, Ralph Kiner, and Lindsay Nelson

808
00:43:56,320 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 3: were indelibly in my mind. The jackets and the flashy

809
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 3: plaid was very Lindsay Nelson. He was always in some

810
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 3: silly coat that because he was like my uncle. I

811
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 3: just thought all broadcasters dressed like that, and I was saying, no,

812
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 3: they don't, that's just Lindsay. Bob Murphy was kind of

813
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 3: Brockmeier if he smoked four packs of cigarettes a dy.

814
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 3: Bob was kind of a nicknoty of basebottle announcers. Not

815
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 3: so Oh Hurricane Man, Hurrick Harry. It wasn't quite that

816
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 3: over the place, but Murphy was so he was sort

817
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 3: of an amalgam and Bob Constas was right when he

818
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 3: said he also appeared in broadmere. It was the generic

819
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:47,399
Speaker 3: baseball announcer vows for the seventies. For some reason, this

820
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 3: was the voice that was industry standard when I was

821
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 3: growing up.

822
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 2: You know, Hank, I.

823
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: Went to Syracuse University and I studied broadcasting. So, as

824
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: you might imagine, you've got on day one at the

825
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 1: New House School, You've got a whole bunch of eighteen

826
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 1: year olds, many of which are still going through puberty,

827
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:07,399
Speaker 1: which I was at the time as well. But they're

828
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 1: all trying to be the next Bob Cosses, Mike Rico,

829
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. So they're all in I'm here

830
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: and I'm at the school today, and then you go

831
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: out for a beer with him at a party and

832
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: you're like, you don't sound anything, what do you do?

833
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean Bob Costas is you know he really

834
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 3: sounds like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When he you have

835
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 3: lunch with him, it sounds like he's announcing your lunch,

836
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 3: you know. But uh, that's probably where the character came

837
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 3: from too. I wondered if these guys always sound like

838
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,919
Speaker 3: that or put that on, and in the end thought

839
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 3: it was funnier if they just always sounded like that,

840
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 3: including like you know, if they're dirty talking in bed

841
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 3: or something. Uh, they're still going to kind of give

842
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 3: it to you like this, you know, black man getting

843
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 3: in rhythm. Now finding him so getting a groove, straight

844
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 3: ahead missionary, nothing fancy is he swings? And this is

845
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 3: with the bricketn ball own law, you know that kind

846
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 3: of stuff.

847
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 2: So hey, going back to your early days met you

848
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 2: said you didn't go to a lot of games. But

849
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 2: who was your met growing up? The guy that you

850
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 2: looked at and said, that's my guy.

851
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 3: Well, this is a boring answer, but Tom Seaver, because

852
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 3: that was our hero. You know, you kind of couldn't

853
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 3: believe what he was doing even as a sixth I

854
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 3: came of age in nineteen seventy I was six. That's

855
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 3: the first year I can remember watching sports. I just

856
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 3: missed the Miracle Jets because that was but literally a

857
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 3: few months after that, my first sports memory was all

858
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 3: the men in my house, all the men in my

859
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 3: family were gathered around the television and I was like,

860
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,280
Speaker 3: what's going on? It was it was Willis Reid stepping

861
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 3: on the court. So I was like, you know, I

862
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 3: became a Knicks fan that night, and all you know,

863
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 3: my older relatives explaining to me what was amazing about

864
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 3: what I was looking at, And as you know, that

865
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 3: game did not disappoint. The rest was kind of history.

866
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 3: The Mets seventy three was a great year for them,

867
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 3: even though they didn't beat the A's, they made it

868
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 3: to the World Series. But that was my era. Sever

869
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:21,760
Speaker 3: Buddy Harrelson, that whole team. I loved that whole team,

870
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 3: Felix Meon, John Matt Lack. I love those guys in particular.

871
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 2: Did you ever meet Tom sever No?

872
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 3: I never did.

873
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 2: Did you ever meet any of those guys that you

874
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 2: grew up watching?

875
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 3: I met when Willie Mays became a met we ran

876
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 3: into him at a restaurant one night when I was eleven,

877
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 3: and he was very kind. My dad escorted me over

878
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 3: to him, and he was very sweet and chatted with

879
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 3: me for a couple of minutes.

880
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 2: Were you at all surprised by the pitch of his voice?

881
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 2: And gigantic, incredible player? But he had an interesting voice?

882
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 2: Do you remember that?

883
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 3: I do? And you know something I wasn't because I'm

884
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 3: such a I was such a television watcher and vocal freak.

885
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 3: By then, I had heard his voice a lot. He

886
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:17,320
Speaker 3: did like a little cartoon, like a little say Hey

887
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 3: kid cartoon or something that was very short lived.

888
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 2: Yes, I remember it.

889
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:24,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I had heard his voice.

890
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 2: He probably didn't put on a voice for that one.

891
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 3: I doubt it. He went with the say hey kids,

892
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 3: natural voices.

893
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 2: So Hey. By nineteen eighty six, the Mets won the

894
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 2: World Series. Where were you and what did that mean

895
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 2: to you? At that time?

896
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 3: It was the first I was twenty two years old.

897
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 3: I just moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting

898
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 3: career in television. I couldn't, I remember. I was alone.

899
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 3: My sister and brother in law were kind enough to

900
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 3: let me stay with them for a few months before

901
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 3: I got my place out there, so but they were

902
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 3: out and I was watching that Game six alone in

903
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 3: their house, flipping out, you know. And I remember, right

904
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,479
Speaker 3: before that ball rolled through Bill Buckner's legs, I'd made peace.

905
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 3: I was like, well, where the Socks haven't won in

906
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:21,399
Speaker 3: a long time. They deserve it. You know, It's great

907
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 3: that we got this far. What a great year. I

908
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:29,320
Speaker 3: was totally resigned to, you know, having lost the world periods,

909
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 3: and man, I literally was bouncing off the walls. I'm

910
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 3: pretty sure I cried. I mean, that was just Game six.

911
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 3: We hadn't won it yet, but it felt inevitable kind

912
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 3: of for that it was to this day, it's the

913
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 3: most exciting sports memory I have, including that Willis Reid

914
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 3: stepping on the court back in nineteen seventy.

915
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hank, I feel like a lot of Boston Red

916
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: Sox fans feel the same way about the inevitability of

917
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: Game seven.

918
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 2: They said, if we're not going to win, then we're

919
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 2: not going to win Game seven.

920
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: And now I want to ask you about your dogs,

921
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:05,720
Speaker 1: Mookie and Wilson.

922
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 3: My cats, actually your cats, Yes, all right, my daughter's

923
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 3: named Truman.

924
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 2: Truman, okay, yes, And the names Mookie and Wilson. Were

925
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 2: they just obvious that we're going there.

926
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 3: Those are pandemic cats. We got kittens in the pandemic

927
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 3: and we thought it would be, you know, a pick

928
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,760
Speaker 3: me up for all of us, like we're stuck here anyway,

929
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 3: let's and so we adopted these kiddies. And I just

930
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 3: really pushed for they were brothers. They're actual brothers in

931
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 3: the same letter. One's are orange, the other one's not blue.

932
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 3: But although I've thought about dying it blue, I really

933
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 3: have uh just like it's just it's got to be

934
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 3: Mookie and Wilson. It's just it's just got to be.

935
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:52,280
Speaker 3: And I just lobbied for that really hard, against my

936
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 3: my wife and sons wishes. And I got to meet Mooki,

937
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 3: the actual Mookie, not long ago, maybe a couple of

938
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 3: years ago, and I told him, like, I actually actually

939
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:05,360
Speaker 3: have this on video, So Mooky, our cats are named

940
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:09,320
Speaker 3: Mooki and Wilson. And he was like, one one's Mookie

941
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 3: and one's Wilson. I was like, it's like, what was

942
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,399
Speaker 3: just named one of them Mookie Wilson? You know, why

943
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 3: did you split my name up? He actually had a

944
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 3: problem with it. I was like Joki. What am I

945
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 3: gonna name the other Bill Buckner? Yeah, like, I'm sorry, Mokie.

946
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 3: I thought it was a loving tribute. He was very

947
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,319
Speaker 3: good natured about it. He's such a sweet guy, as

948
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 3: you probably know.

949
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,240
Speaker 2: Oh he's great. Yes, Now, Hank, did you meet anyone

950
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:38,280
Speaker 2: else from that eighty six team? Doc Strawberry, anybody else

951
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 2: that you watch? And then you said, oh my gosh,

952
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:42,280
Speaker 2: I'm actually talking to him now.

953
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 3: Well, I've met Keith and Ron many times because I've

954
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 3: interacted with them a lot, and I love those guys.

955
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 3: I met Darryl and Doc very briefly. I've met you know. Yes,

956
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,280
Speaker 3: I've seen a lot of those guys over the years.

957
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 3: I've been fortunate enough to get friendly with Steve and

958
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 3: Alex Cohen. So I'm in the owner's box a lot,

959
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 3: and so for event days and everything, I think I've

960
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 3: met almost all of them who still hang around. And

961
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 3: I'm like a kid in a candy store whenever that happens.

962
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 3: I'm just so I get everybody to sign whatever I

963
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 3: have with me that day, and I get photos of everybody,

964
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,959
Speaker 3: and I think partly why they keep having me back

965
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 3: is I'm so It's like I'm eleven years old in there,

966
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 3: like bouncing off the.

967
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 2: Wall, taking all the great work that you've done. Have

968
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 2: you ever just slipped a Mets reference, slipped a baseball

969
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 2: reference in, even though maybe the writers, maybe you're the

970
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 2: writer who said, yeah, we're gonna get this in here,

971
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,360
Speaker 2: it would be funny. Do you have the freedom to

972
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 2: do something like that in the work that you do it?

973
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,280
Speaker 3: Sometimes it depends. I mean, you know what. The funny

974
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 3: thing about that question, Tim, is that whenever you make

975
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 3: a Hollywood term is whenever you make a reference that's

976
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 3: too esoteric about anything, we call it is and that's

977
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 3: too inside baseball. That's the term. And so yeah, especially

978
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 3: things that are inside baseball can often get called us

979
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 3: like what prodically.

980
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: We say that on our podcast all the time, is that, well,

981
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 1: do inside baseball for the Baseball podcast exactly?

982
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 3: Oh, that goes for anything in Hollywood a joke that's

983
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 3: too specific. So and you know, it's so funny. I'm

984
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,359
Speaker 3: sure you can relate to this, Tim, stuff that you

985
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 3: and I consider just common knowledge or everyone knows that

986
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 3: you get to a certain age and everybody doesn't know

987
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 3: that it's kind of ancient history. You know. I'll give

988
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:41,280
Speaker 3: you the like acting equivalent. I'm sure like, for example,

989
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 3: Professor Frank on The Simpsons, he talks this way. Now, Tim,

990
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 3: I'm sure you recognize this is the original, not a

991
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 3: professor as poor tray by Jerry Lewis. That is a

992
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 3: completely ancient reference to say that Eddie Murphy was the

993
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:03,240
Speaker 3: native professor. An old reference to mention that Jerry lewis

994
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 3: doing it is you might as well be talking about

995
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 3: something from the year eleven ninety four.

996
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 2: It's so beautiful. I rubbed his eyes just like Jerry Lewis.

997
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 5: I honestly have to get anything times. You also have

998
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 5: to do this a lot with your map.

999
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 3: That's fine.

1000
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 5: Actually, I'm talking to two corrections, two carections now waiting.

1001
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 2: Miss Birdie exactly.

1002
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 3: So you and I know that as yours that was

1003
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:41,319
Speaker 3: our childhood, right, But people don't know what the heck

1004
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 3: that is at all anymore? Right, Hank?

1005
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 2: Do you find baseball funny? I know you love the broadcasters,

1006
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 2: but they're just things happen on a daily basis that you,

1007
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 2: as a comedian, just find hysterically funny and make something

1008
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:58,800
Speaker 2: out of it, whether it's a play or something else.

1009
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 3: You know what, Yes, No, because I'm so used to

1010
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 3: it all. But the thing is when having a song.

1011
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 3: My son's fourteen now, so I'm sure you relate to this.

1012
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 3: So introducing your child to baseball, you see it through

1013
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:16,320
Speaker 3: new eyes and you realize, well, there's a lot about

1014
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 3: this sport that is really ridiculous that we just take

1015
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 3: as normal. For example and terminology. Like I remember, I

1016
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 3: had my son at the ball game. He was little,

1017
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:29,280
Speaker 3: and he's asking me all kinds of questions, interesting questions

1018
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 3: like why do they call it a walk when they

1019
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 3: run down the first Like good question? Or question? Or dead?

1020
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 3: What's the difference between running home and a home run? Ah?

1021
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:45,720
Speaker 3: Good question? And then another point he asked me, very earnestly,

1022
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 3: what does what does spitting have to do with anything?

1023
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 3: You know? Like it's like they're just nothing. They just

1024
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 3: it's a habit they have.

1025
00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 2: Hey tell us about you're in a poker tournament, poker

1026
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 2: situation with Jeff McNeil, Do I have that right?

1027
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 3: We just did that on May nine. We raised a

1028
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 3: lot money. You know, I for years now I've run

1029
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 3: poker tournaments to raise money for various charities, and this

1030
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:19,839
Speaker 3: year we reached out to the Mets because the woman

1031
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,839
Speaker 3: who I work with at my foundation where I give

1032
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 3: the money out from. Actually she works with Peter A. Lonzo.

1033
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 3: So we reached out to the Mets and said do

1034
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 3: you want to do something together? And in the end

1035
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 3: it was Jeff McNeil who responded, and we threw this

1036
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 3: huge event at the Piazza Club over at the City

1037
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 3: Field and had about about three hundred people there. One

1038
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:49,240
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty players bought in for a certain amount,

1039
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 3: and all the proceeds went to our charities. It was

1040
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 3: a really, really fun night. It was great, and I've

1041
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 3: thrown events like that for a long time.

1042
00:56:57,680 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 2: Hey, if a young person came to you and said

1043
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 2: I want to get interested in baseball, how would you

1044
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:06,760
Speaker 2: advise them to understand and appreciate the game even more?

1045
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 2: How would you advise them to do that.

1046
00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:12,840
Speaker 3: I've been in the situation many times. I'd say, I

1047
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 3: think there's only one way that really works nowadays. You

1048
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:19,480
Speaker 3: have to go to a game or three with someone

1049
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 3: who knows a fair amount about the game and loves

1050
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 3: the team you're watching. You have to see the game

1051
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 3: through someone's eyes who love it at the game, and

1052
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 3: once you start, I know, for me, I became a

1053
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 3: next level baseball fan when I started caring about and

1054
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 3: being very interested in what a picture was going to

1055
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 3: throw in in a given moment and why, because all

1056
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 3: of a sudden, when you care about that, the game

1057
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 3: has a narrative on a moment to moment level that

1058
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 3: isn't for lack of better from boring, like, oh, how

1059
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 3: is he throwing today? What stuff does he have? What

1060
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 3: doesn't he have? What's he relying on? What isn't he

1061
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 3: And assuming that you know everything else about the game,

1062
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 3: and you're into what's going on, which, again, when you

1063
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 3: see it through a six year old tie, you realize

1064
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 3: this is not intuitive. You really have to learn a

1065
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 3: lot about what's going on here. But that would be

1066
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 3: my suggestion is go with someone who loves the game

1067
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 3: and have them talk to you about about him while

1068
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 3: you're there.

1069
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 1: Hank, do you ever run into any players in the

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Speaker 1: game that you know, maybe when you were doing press

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00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: for the show or anything like that, that say, hey,

1072
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: can you do this character that you did on The Simpsons,

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00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: or can.

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00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 2: You give me Brockmeier?

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00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 1: Or do you ever have those interactions with anybody in

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00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball?

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00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 3: I know that a lot of announcers like Jim Brockmeier

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00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 3: a lot. They really get a kick out of it,

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00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 3: you know, probably for obvious reasons. You know, who is

1080
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 3: the old and Matt who I really miss Wilmer Flores.

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00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 3: He was a huge Friends fan, so we talked talk

1082
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 3: a lot about that. He didn't want a voice, but

1083
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:08,600
Speaker 3: he wanted to talk about friends. No, not too much.

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00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 3: I think it was who's that guy Jerry Blevins who's

1085
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:14,280
Speaker 3: now a Mets announcer.

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00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 2: Hilarious guy.

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00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 3: Right, he's a really guy. We had a long talk

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00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 3: one day about voices and stuff. And I can always

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00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 3: tell the guys who might have a career in broadcasting

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00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 3: just by chatting with them for a couple of minutes,

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00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 3: because they seem like they're really not that they have

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00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 3: to know my work, but they seem like they're kind

1093
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 3: of clued into to pop culture and they just are

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00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 3: natural with chatting.

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Speaker 1: Hank, one last question for me, do you have did

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00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: you collect baseball cards as a kid?

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00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 3: Oh?

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00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, was there one that you would say you were

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00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: most proud of to have? Do you still have it

1100
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 1: or what was it?

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00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 2: Back then?

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00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 3: I wish I still had my baseball card collection. I

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00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 3: remember the day I got I found a Willing May's

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01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 3: card the first year he was a Met, And that

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01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 3: was that era in the seventies where they had that

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01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 3: kind of specific font like that very colorful. Those tops cards,

1107
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 3: you know, had a very specific look to them. I

1108
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 3: think it's really awesome and vintage. And you know, it

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01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 3: was all about getting your whole team, like I wanted

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01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 3: every met, which I'm pretty sure I did. I don't

1111
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 3: remember exactly which year in the seventies it was, but

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01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 3: I would make it my business to collect all the Mets.

1113
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 2: So when you ripped open the package and Willie May

1114
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,120
Speaker 2: is the greatest player any of us that's ever seen,

1115
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 2: was in there. What was it? Was that a celebration

1116
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 2: for you know, eleven year old Hanks area?

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01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean, you know, we would open them

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01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 3: in front of each other. Billy Crystal does a great

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01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:51,200
Speaker 3: routine about all that. So you chew the cardboard like

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01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 3: piece of gums. Never has any flavor. It was the

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01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 3: two seconds and then it becomes this, I don't know

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01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 3: what in your mouth. And you ever hear see Billy's

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01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 3: impression of a kid sorting through his his new packet

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01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 3: baseball cars he just bought.

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Speaker 2: I've seen it, but do it for us.

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01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 3: Need them, need them, got them, got them, need them,

1127
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:14,800
Speaker 3: got him, got him, need them, got them, need them,

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01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 3: got them, which is definitely what we did, no question

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01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 3: about it. And we'd flip them. You know, you play

1130
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 3: the game where you uh, you know, like pitching pennies

1131
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 3: sort of with the cards.

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01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 2: We called it touchies. You throw them out there and

1133
01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 2: if you touch another card you get to collect them.

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01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 3: All.

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01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 2: It was that's right. We played with our cards tank.

1136
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 2: We didn't just keep them in the top drawer somewhere.

1137
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 2: We say we were worth money someday we didn't.

1138
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 3: I know, we didn't have a freaking Xbox, so we

1139
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 3: you know, did what we We worked with what we had.

1140
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: Hank Azaria, thank you so much for joining our show.

1141
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: This is an interview that my dad has been greatly

1142
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: anticipating myself as well to get to talk to you.

1143
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 2: Thank you.

1144
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 1: Thank you for making us laugh, making a smile, and

1145
01:01:57,560 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: for your love of this game.

1146
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 3: It's it's incredible my pleasure. I hope I didn't disappoint y'all. No,

1147
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 3: I managed to stay sober. Although you don't know this,

1148
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 3: but I do not have pants on, so that's how

1149
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 3: I did this particular thing and fit on the breeze.

1150
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 2: And thank you so much for joining us. This is

1151
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 2: just as good as I thought it would be. Thanks

1152
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:22,919
Speaker 2: for making a smile and laugh.

1153
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks for having me.

1154
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:28,440
Speaker 2: On Tanka's area. Thank you. That was so much fun.

1155
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 1: He is so funny and such a fan of baseball broadcasters.

1156
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 2: That was a great time.

1157
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 1: And hope everybody has an enjoyable Fourth of July with

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01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: your families. I know that we are headed to Lake Burton, Georgia,

1159
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 1: because my aunt, your sister in law, has a lake

1160
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 1: house out there.

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01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,520
Speaker 2: We've been going there all the time. And I'm not

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01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 2: real good in the water, Jeff, as you know, I'm

1163
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 2: not real good on the land either. But you you

1164
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 2: really confuse me. You've been up in the blue Angels

1165
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:57,680
Speaker 2: like you threw up in your mask. You were going

1166
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:01,160
Speaker 2: so fast. Correct, you are not afraid of roller coasters.

1167
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:04,440
Speaker 2: I've seen you do a parasal one thousand feet up

1168
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 2: in the air. I'm so terrified at heights, it's unbelievable.

1169
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:10,720
Speaker 2: I'm not even comfortable being this tall. But you are

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01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:14,400
Speaker 2: maybe the worst adult swimmer I've ever seen. And you

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01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:17,040
Speaker 2: can do You're a good athlete. You can do so

1172
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 2: many things. You're not afraid of anything, but you're terrible

1173
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 2: in the water, is what happened. I was there, I

1174
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 2: raised you. But is there any chance you're going to

1175
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 2: get better in the water now? Zero percent chance. So

1176
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 2: it's like catching a pitch. You're never gonna get any better. Zero.

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01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:34,800
Speaker 2: I learned to swim when I was fifteen years old.

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Speaker 2: I'm thirty. I remember, well, now you've had ear issues, right, sure? Yeah?

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01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:41,320
Speaker 1: And I still anytime I don't put my head under

1180
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: the water. And it's not because my hair or my

1181
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 1: perm is going to get screwed up like so.

1182
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:46,439
Speaker 2: Many other people.

1183
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: You just don't want to get water in there because

1184
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: I'll automatically get an ear.

1185
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 2: And so I went swimming the other day. I got

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01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:53,120
Speaker 2: water all through my ears and I had to go

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01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 2: to the ear doctor. And I can't believe I'm going

1188
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:57,440
Speaker 2: to tell you this. I went to see the ear doctor. Yeah,

1189
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:00,040
Speaker 2: I hadn't been in three year place on Earth. I

1190
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 2: went to see the ear doctor. And he told me

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01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 2: this is now my new distinction. He said, you have

1192
01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 2: more hair in your ears than any person I've ever

1193
01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 2: seen in my life. He said, a common ear cleaning

1194
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 2: takes three minutes. I was there for thirty minutes and

1195
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 2: he said, I could have kept you here for five

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01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 2: hours to get all of that out. That's how bad

1197
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 2: my ears were. Yeah, so I guess you get it

1198
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 2: from me.

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01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for that trait that you.

1201
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 1: You taught me a lot of great things, but some

1202
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 1: things were just passed on by the jeans, and that's

1203
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:29,520
Speaker 1: that's one of them.

1204
01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:32,120
Speaker 2: Thanks. I'm a bad swimmer, but I'm better than you.

1205
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 2: Ain't that the truth? Thank you so much for listening.

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01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 1: We'll be back next week with our very special guest,

1207
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 1: Scott van Pelt. It's got to be joining us, so

1208
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 1: more laughs in store for that. Thank you for listening,

1209
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 1: and as always, thank you for being a part of

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01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 1: our family.