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That's BetterHelpHELP.com slash positive. I'm joined by Hall of Famer John Smoltz. Smoltz, tell me this. What's harder, winning a Cy Young or an Emmy Award? Oh man, winning a Cy Young takes a lot longer to happen. You know, it's funny when you mention something like that, I just go back to all those years of being predicted to win and just feeling like a failure.

But in 96, fortunately, I was able to at least get that off my back because that was starting to bother me. Download the Brett Boone Podcast, available on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, hey, dead center of the work week. Still a lot of shenanigans to come here on After Hours on CBS Sports Radio. Why? Why are we going to hear from Peyton Manning and Patrick Mahomes? Well, just because. What show could be better?

You want Showtime? Well, Patrick Mahomes is all about it. Shohei Ohtani, the star of the show in Seattle. Did you hear him say that he spent the last two off-seasons in Seattle? That'll put a charge in the Mariners fan base. And he also called Mookie Betts his favorite all-star or the guy that impressed him the most. So now Dodgers fans are salivating over the idea that he could choose the Dodgers as his next destination. He referenced something about Jose Ramirez.

I saw Cleveland fans freaking out a little bit. I wonder how calculated his comments. Or is he just speaking off the cuff with no no premeditated meaning to them?

No premeditated furor behind them. Maybe he's just toying with all of us. That could be the case.

He easily could. It's times like these that I wish I had a team that I rooted for because then I would be all about them wanting to recruit Shohei Ohtani. I gotta say it's stressful though. Yeah, it's one of the casualties of working in this business for as long as I have is there are sports where I used to cheer for a particular team and I just don't anymore because it's not the same. It's not as much fun to root when you have to cover the sport as much as you do.

And you just watch it and think about it, process it differently. But there are certainly individuals, there are certainly athletes that I root for, stories that I love. I can find those everywhere I look and that includes a 32-year-old first-time all-star who wins the MVP. I love it. Elias Diaz, first Venezuelan to win the all-star game MVP. And how neat is it that his mama was able to be there in Seattle to cheer him on? It was special for me, you know, to have her here. A lot of emotions with everything that we've been through, all the sacrifices that she made for me.

It was really special to have her here for me. That's neat. So congratulations to him. 32 years old. His translator, by the way. He had the eighth inning two-run home run that put the National League ahead and ultimately got them their first victory since 2012.

It's the first time in a decade. We are asking you a couple of things. Still have a half hour left to vote in our Shohei, will he stay or will he go poll.

If you're the Angels, do you trade him by the deadline? So 30 minutes left in that poll. That's on our show Twitter after our CBS. Same thing with our question for tonight. And I stumbled on this one honestly. I wasn't planning on asking a question about Shohei Ohtani on this show. But when I heard Ken Rosenthal on the Fox broadcast say Shohei is arguably the best player of all time, I nearly fell out of my chair.

I couldn't believe he said that. And this is not a knock on Ken. I'm a huge fan of Ken. I've worked with him personally.

And I believe that Shohei is appointment TV. I want to go see him in person. It's not a knock on him either. He's tall. He's big. He's talented.

He's humble. I really enjoy seeing him smile and laugh and cut up with the other players because so much of what he does, he's got to really be focused on his workouts as he told Ken on the Fox broadcast when he was done with his couple at bats. The workload that's on his plate forces him to be extremely efficient. And he sleeps a lot to be able to stay successful at both hitting and pitching. But arguably the greatest player of all time seemed a little much at this point.

What would make him one of the greats would be the fact that he is unique. That he does both things really well. So if you consider the sample size of how long he's managed both, it's two and a half years.

Essentially two and a half years. He did not pitch in 2019. He was limited in both 18 and 20. And those moves were obviously the right ones because here he is in the last two and a half years crushing it. An MVP, runner-up for another MVP only to Aaron Judge and now is the front runner. I understand the circus around him.

I really do. Especially because of what we saw in the World Baseball Classic when he was with Team Japan. The fans that he attracts to the ballparks and to TVs. Yeah, he's a magnet.

All of that is accurate. But in a sport that values numbers and history, it seems a little early to say he's arguably the greatest player of all time. If he never played again right now, I don't even believe he'd be a Hall of Famer. Now maybe they put him into the Hall of Fame because no one's ever done what he's done in these two and a half years. Not since Babe Ruth, which is a completely different animal. So maybe it's because his place in history is one of being a unicorn, but I don't even know if he'd make it into the Hall of Fame right now.

He's on that track. And I'm not saying he has to do it forever. We're not asking for 20 years. But maybe 10 to say you're the greatest player of all time?

Definitely generational. Definitely once in an era. Maybe once every 150 years. Well, once every 100 years, we'll go with that. Once a century player.

But of all time? The more I say it, the more ludicrous it sounds. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. We had the whole debate on the last show about treating him or keeping him. What kept coming out of Seattle is that there are a lot of people who think it's a foregone conclusion. He'll leave the Angels when the season is done. I didn't even hear one person with a microphone or a platform, say, or report or even guess that he would stay in Anaheim. Not one did I hear.

Maybe you did, but I did not. If that's the case, Artie Moreno has to make a movie. He has to. If he knows what a lot of other people are claiming that they know, then he better get something in return. He better get something in return. He can't be in denial. He can't hide your head in the sand.

Can't be an ostrich. If it really is true that he has no intention of resigning in Anaheim, that changes everything. But I don't know where that's come from, right? Because I haven't heard any sources cited. I haven't heard anyone report, hey, specifically, my sources tell me that's not what I've heard.

I've just heard people say. It's fairly obvious he's not resigning in Anaheim, so I don't know what that means. I would tell you if I'd heard it somewhere that actually was a source or there was a credit or some piece of intel we could point to, but that's not the case, at least on my end.

But it's seemingly what people are speculating. Producer J, have you heard anyone report specifically that he will not be resigning? No, I haven't heard that.

Like in paper official report, I have not seen that. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not sure where that's coming from. Speculation, right? If that is the case, though, and show Hayes camp would confirm it or someone would confirm it or report it.

Well, then, yeah, you're running a major risk if you are the Angels. But for tonight's purposes, we're talking about whether or not you'd put him in the top 10 of baseball players all time. It's after hours here on CBS Sports Radio. Still no movement on the Damian Lillard front. It's Chauncey Billups. He's the latest to weigh in on Dame's trade request on Sirius XM NBA radio. Still at Summer League in Las Vegas.

The head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers. Will Dame be on your roster next season? I don't know. I don't know. Who knows?

I don't know the answer to that, nor does anybody else right now, so we'll see. I feel more confident in saying that Damian Lillard's not going to be a part of the Blazers that I do in saying that Shohei Ohtani is not going to be part of the Angels. Chauncey has actually spoken to Damian Lillard. He says they're tight, but he won't reveal anything that Dame said.

He did. He did admit they have talked about the trade situation. Dame's request for a trade.

What happens next? But he's not giving any of that up. Essentially, we're on a need-to-know basis and Chauncey doesn't think we need to know. But he does recall as a player being on pins and needles when he was in Denver because Carmelo Anthony wanted out and the Nuggets were trying to figure out a destination for Carmelo where they wouldn't give up everything and get nothing in return. It was very difficult being a part of that, of the uncertainty.

If Melo was going to get traded, if he's going to be with us, we just didn't know. As a locker room, me as the leader of the team, I just tried to keep everybody focused on what we were trying to do because whatever was going to happen was going to happen. But for us, we had to still play the games. We had good leaders, you know, that was able to kind of keep us locked in. But it's difficult. It's a big distraction. You know, it just kind of happens.

It just is what it is until whatever happens happens. As I listen to Chauncey, you know what I think? Oh yeah, the Angels are in the same exact spot and they're actually in season. So he's talking about the Trail Blazers through the lens of what he went through in Denver when he was still active in the NBA. And Carmelo Anthony, and I'm sure many of you remember that whole business, it was talked about ad nauseam for months where Carmelo was going to get traded. Where's Carmelo going? Ultimately, the Knicks is where he ended up. But my goodness, it was talked about and speculated for months and months and months and months and four months at the time he was one of the best players in the NBA. So yeah, now the Blazers are in the middle of it as are the Angels and they're actually in season.

At least the Blazers players, while there have been a few of them in summer league and the young guys who are participating in the games, but at least they're not in season having to talk about trading dame because it would be a royal pain in the rear end to have to go through that every day. But that's what the Angels are going through right now. You don't think Mike Trout, when he's available to the media, answers questions ad nauseam about Shohei Ohtani? No doubt Phil Nevin is feeling questions all the time.

Feeling them weekly at the very least, if not daily. What did our Angels insider for, was it, who was he writing for? Orange County? No, SoCal news group, thank you, Jeff Fletcher, said that it comes up daily with reporters.

So if that's the case, well the players, the manager, they're hearing it all the time. Oi, I do not envy them in the least. Let's talk to Tim who's in Portland. Welcome to After Hours. Amy, how are you? It is such an honor to talk to you. I wanted to tell you and producer Jay something.

I am in Portland, Oregon right now and it is a nightly thing with my co-workers and I to listen to you. It's a huge, huge honor. Thank you. But unfortunately, I have to disagree with you for the first time in my life.

That's not unfortunate. I welcome disagreement. Bring it on. Let's go.

Unfortunate because it's the first time we get to talk. But I would say, I'm going to take it a little bit further than Ken. I would say it's inarguable. He is the best player of all time. Why?

And why? Because we've, or at least I'll parse it a little bit. What he's doing right now is unequaled. It's the best thing we've ever seen in baseball. So I almost feel like there's two different ways to come at this, which is kind of look at it like Bo Jackson's career or look at it like a regular historical career. But I just, I feel like what he's doing right now is just head and shoulders above anything we've seen.

Yes, right now in the moment, I would agree with you, but how can you take what we've seen, a relatively small sample size over two and a half years and say that he's already the greatest player of all time? Well, let me ask you this. Who would your number two be? Just out of curiosity, a handful of people, maybe. Oh, am I off the air already? No, no, no. I'm thinking about it.

Oh, okay. I actually, I had started to think about it and had started to scribble down a few names, but I hesitate to say them because I just haven't decided where I would put them. So what you're asking for is a handful of names.

Is that what you're saying? Or, I mean, the first couple of things that come to your name, Willie Mays. I would say Albert Pujols. Albert Pujols is one of the greatest players of all time. Yeah, I would put him in there as well. I mean, I know people will argue with this, but I would certainly say Barry Bonds. People, I know people hate him. He was a product of the era that he was in.

So I would say him. Right. I would, I would put, I mean, I didn't see Babe Ruth play or Hank Aaron play, but I'm not sure how you can leave those two out. Okay.

Can I, can I interject something right here? Of course. I am a huge appreciator of every accomplishment that's ever been achieved in baseball. But when we mentioned Ruth as compared to Shohei, that's when you go down the road of competition and who they played against. And whereas you cannot hold it against Babe Ruth directly, that he didn't play against the best of the best, but he didn't play against the best of the best.

And Shohei is not only playing against the best of the best, but he's playing against the best in the world. Agreed. I agree with you. And certainly the competition is much tougher now, and there's so much more talent that's dispersed around the league. However, it's still only been two and a half years. And Tim, I am confident that if he stopped playing baseball now, he wouldn't necessarily make it into the hall of fame.

He's not a lock. God, you know, I, I respectfully and underscore respectfully disagree. It's fine. I will, I will never call and disagree with you again. No, stop it. Stop it. You know, honestly, if, uh, I think when, okay, so when, when Bo Jackson was having his success in the moment, it's tough to actually gauge historically how it's going to, how it's going to pan out. Sure. It's just my instinct that if he retired tomorrow in a few years, we'd still want to put him in the hall of fame.

That's just me. But I also wanted to point out, I love, love, love your restraints on the subject and how you are gatekeeping. I think it's fantastic. All right. Can I also interest you in potentially a Nolan Ryan as, as one of the greatest of all time? Uh, absolutely not. He's not even one of the best pitchers of all time.

It's one of my favorite players of all time. So he's not one of the best starting pitchers of all time. All right. Well, I feel as though the novelty slash, uh, the novelty and the, the excitement around him is because he's doing both. Correct. If he was only doing one or the other, we wouldn't, we wouldn't be having this conversation. And so, so that's what I mean. I just need to see a little more of it before I, I say definitively or inarguably like how you turn that around, that he is the greatest of all time because yeah, and I'm not, I'm not negating anything that he's done, but it's been two and a half years in which he has succeeded to this point at both. So Tim, if you take the pitching away, he's not even the best hitter in the game and he's great. I'm not saying he isn't, but if you took away the pitching and or the hitting, he wouldn't be the best in baseball at either of those things. Correct.

Uh, I'm not sure he might be the best at both meaning because he would only focus on one. No, no. Yeah. Well he, he could, I mean, I, I wouldn't, I'm not sure I would agree with it, but I could listen to somebody make a point for him being the best hitter in baseball. Sure.

All right. Well right now he is leading the league in home runs and he's hitting 300. So this year has been very successful for him at the plate.

He did have the MVP season where he hit the 46 homers in the 100 RBI, but right now he's not a career 300 hitter. Not that that's a necessity. I'm just saying, I think that you could look around baseball and find better hitters across the board as well as better pitchers because they're only focused on one thing. So again, the fact that he's doing both is what makes him so incredibly unique. And, and, uh, as you point out, a once in a century, once, you know, once in a generation player, we may never see it again in our lifetimes.

All of that is true. Um, it's just the, the idea that it's a very small sample size. It really is.

I think that's pretty much, uh, when I think if you were skeptical about him and his place in history, that would be the, the hang up, the sample size. But listen, Amy, I am so again, I'm going to say honored to, to be talking to you. I'm going to get off the phone because I can only make an idiot out of myself.

No, stop it. Thank you, Amy. Appreciate you. And, uh, I will listen to you for the rest of time. Oh, I appreciate that, Tim. You absolutely made my night and it's okay to disagree with me.

World would be boring if we all agreed all the time. Thank you, Amy. I'll talk to you later. All right, bye Tim.

I feel like we need to re-rack that and just bring that back. The fact that, that Tim is going to listen for the rest of time, that until the end of time, he said it, who gives up first me or Tim? Who bites the dust first? Because if he's going to listen to the end of time, does that mean I need to keep doing this job until the end of time? Yes.

Oh, all right. That's a long time. Can I take, can I get more vacation if I continue to do this to the end of time? Can I have boomer size and vacation? I'm pretty sure boomer gets eight weeks off every year plus holidays. Could I have boomer like vacation until the end of time? Yeah. If I'm going to work to the end of time, could you imagine I'd have to be doing this job with no teeth or something?

In a wheelchair. That's all right. As long as the pipes work, who cares about anything else? We don't cross the bridge when we get there. Oh, we will. Can we move the show to Montana at least? Am I here to the end of time now too?

I mean, if I am, you are required to be, yes. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio. You are listening to the After Hours podcast. Kyrie, the rebound of the lane. Up the left side as Josh Green took a shot. Kyrie pulls up for three and he hits. Kyrie wasting no time getting rid of it. What a fourth quarter.

He has 16 of his 28 and a fourth. I think it's a great fit. You know, obviously people are going to say no. I mean, look at the results we're having, but you know, like I said, chemistry, relationships takes time and I wish he can still be here.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Luka Doncic with his validation of Kyrie Irving, even though the Dallas Mavericks actually regressed once Kyrie joined the roster. Hey, you can quibble with a lot of things. You could not quibble with that. Numbers don't lie, baby.

You are what your record says you are. The Mavericks did not make the play-in tournament, much less the main postseason bracket. After Kyrie Irving landed in town. Every time I've played with other great players, we've become better. Okay, maybe it's more of a long-term goal than a short-term reality.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. I was slightly surprised but not blown away that Kyrie Irving re-signed in Dallas for a couple of reasons. Number one, Dallas had already given up so much to get him that had they lost him, that would have been really a double whammy. But also because I'm not sure Kyrie had any other lucrative offers. I could be wrong, but there were no reports that Kyrie had major interest from around the NBA and that there was another team willing to offer him the same amount of money.

So it goes back to Dallas. In fact, there were even reports that the teams that were holding meetings with him couldn't afford him so it was really an exercise of utility. What are they even doing? Why are they bothering? And the speculation was that he was calling in favors with different buddies that played around the league so it could look like he had other traffic.

I'm just saying. Mark Cuban, you're the one who signs the checks. Why did the Mavericks re-sign Kyrie Irving?

We traded for him because we wanted to be a long-term piece. I think Kyrie's just misunderstood. Everybody sees all the noise and everything around him but when you actually talk to him, I like him. He's open, he's smart, he's always looking to learn things and to me, he's an interesting guy that's just misunderstood.

In what way exactly? In what way do we misunderstand him? Is that when he goes AWOL for a week at a time without telling anyone where he's going but we're misunderstanding the point? He's doing an Aaron Rodgers darkness retreat.

Oh dang it, why didn't I realize that? We just don't get it. We don't get it. He's misunderstood. That is priceless.

I mean priceless. On Sirius XM NBA radio. Well, let's try a different approach Mark Cuban, if you don't mind. How can you be so sure Kyrie won't sour on Dallas the way that he soured on Boston and then on Brooklyn?

How come it won't happen to you? I would watch Kyrie before he came to the Mavs. I didn't pay enough attention to his relationship with other players and then when he came to us after the trade, it was inevitable after every game there were multiple players walking up and hugging them. Not just giving them a high five but like a real honest to goodness, I like you hug and when you talk to players around them they would say the same thing and when you talk to our players after he got there, say the same thing. We love the guy and so it wasn't a question of his relationship with players and then when you get into it more, as he as he matured, he's had different relationships with different organizations which is why, you know, Jay Kidd and I made made the effort to really get to know him.

Huh. He's largely misunderstood. You should see Jay's face. Just let it all out producer Jay. As a fan who has been scorned by Kyrie Irving and will soon get some of that, ooh, whatever, he loves to troll Boston fans now. Boston hates you. He loves to kick it in the teeth of the Boston fan base. Pretty soon that's gonna be Brooklyn. You know it is.

Of course. So as a member of the Nets fan base, in fact sporting the hat right now, don't ask me why, what do you hear when Mark Cuban says he's largely misunderstood? I hear a man who's in for a rude awakening. I'm sorry Mark Cuban.

It's just this has been the same song and dance every single time. He went to Boston. Oh it's gonna work out here. Everyone loves him. What happened? Went to Brooklyn. No one on the on the Nets didn't like him.

I mean at least they wouldn't say it. It was always, oh Kyrie is great. Seth Curry. Well James Harden didn't really like him and he got out of town right because he didn't like him but you know Durant, they were friends, always friendly.

Seth Curry, Nick Claxton who was the young guy on the Nets with him, he would always say I love Kyrie. Playing with Kyrie is amazing. He's a great teammate.

He's a great leader. It's never been about the other guys on the team. It's Kyrie himself.

It's nothing to do with anybody else. It's always going to be Kyrie's going to do what Kyrie wants to do at the end of the day and at the end of the day it's never going to, it's always going to be the wrong thing or else it always has been the wrong thing. It's not basketball and it's always just going to rub people the wrong way. He does say that basketball is not the most important thing in the world to him. And he shows it too. So his actions speak louder than his words there.

I just don't see how Mark Cuban, everyone thinks it's different this time. It's like a bad relationship. Like oh I could fix him. You're not going to fix him.

It's just not going to happen. He... And it's already gone bad. He cheated on everybody else. He's not going to cheat on me. That's what we try to tell ourselves sometimes in relationships. He or she, I know they cheated in the past but it won't happen to me. All right.

That's literally what Mark Cuban is doing right now. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on... No, it's the other way around. Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, shame on me. Right. Uh-huh. All right. Well, don't say we didn't warn you Mark Cuban. He's seen it with his own two eyes.

They brought him in and they lost and they dropped out of playoff contention. I... Okay. On Twitter, After Hours, CBS on our Facebook page. Couple minutes left to send your questions for Ask Amy anything. You are listening to the After Hours Podcast.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Time to ask Amy anything. Sort of.

That's it. We're getting off the beaten path. Although we still are very intrigued by your responses to the question of whether or not Shohei Ohtani is a top 10 player.

Ken Rosenthal on the Fox broadcast Tuesday night said he's arguably the best player of all time. I nearly spit out my drink when I heard that. So we'll make it top 10. It's After Hours here on CBS Sports Radio. Time for Ask Amy anything.

Producer Jay is racked up ready to go. Let's do it. So just a couple breaks ago you mentioned to me that it's going to be 90 degrees in the northeast in our area today.

So I'm going to start here. David asks besides finding some place with AC what's your favorite method of dealing with the heat? The beach. The beach baby.

Let's go. Yeah I haven't actually had my first beach day yet. A couple of weeks ago I was supposed to go and it just wasn't the right weather. So instead my friends and I postponed to the 22nd of July.

So that is coming up. Yeah I went to the beach last Saturday evening. Have done a couple of kayaking trips. Really anything to do with the water. When I'm in Houston mom has the pool. Will be in the pool. So just give me some water somewhere. And no not a sprinkler in a backyard. I need more than that. So that covers the follow-up from David who asks do you ever go swimming in a pool?

Yes mom's got one. That's a very very good question David. Thank you. This one comes in from Glen. He wants to know do you like campfires and making s'mores? Do you like campfires and making s'mores? I do. I do love campfires and I do love s'mores.

Though don't at me. There are times when I don't have a campfire and I make s'mores in the microwave. I know. I know it's sacrilegious.

I'm a New Hampshire girl. How in the world could I make s'mores in a microwave? But they are tasty. The only thing that's missing is a little bit of the toastiness on the marshmallow.

But they are really good. Jay. Jay I made you a s'more for the microwave did I not? Yes you did.

It was delicious. Hey when you want to s'more it. You just got to have a s'more. You just got to make the s'more. That's right.

You just got to have a s'more. We'll keep it food here. Michael asks what's your favorite pasta dish?

Oh that's a good question. Oh man I love veal parm. I'm not sure if that counts as a pasta dish but I do love veal parm. I love shrimp scampi so that's another good one if you put it over pasta. I really do love the the de la sol so the you know the pasta with the seafood and fish are really just kind of it's a bunch of different seafood it's mixed and it's over a big bed of pasta and usually red sauce I prefer red sauce.

So those are a couple of the my faves. This one's interesting that Gary asks he wants to know have you have you ever drove through a severe weather situation? Yes actually and I covered severe weather when I lived in Oklahoma so absolutely in fact one of the first jobs that I had as the news and sports director at a radio station in a town called Woodward Oklahoma. I was so new to Oklahoma I didn't even know what severe weather was all about but very early in my tenure in Oklahoma I had to follow along behind a storm reporting about debris that's what I was doing my the owner of the radio station sent me out in the van that belonged to the station and said follow along report on the debris so I did I was I was following in the wake of a storm as best I possibly could and reporting on the destruction in the in the path of this storm. Can I be honest that's like a dream job of mine. Well it is until you realize that lives and homes and businesses are destroyed I mean some some of the destruction is it it blows your mind I've seen what f5 tornadoes can do in a place like Edmond Oklahoma it's not Edmond sorry what's the name of it something city oh my gosh it's gonna drive me crazy midwest city Oklahoma sorry and it's yeah it's heartbreaking it's heartbreaking yeah but I mean I guess the hope is that you can track it and learn better ways to prepare for it in the future yes the technology is incredible and there are people who get warnings in time to be able to take shelter but it doesn't mean that you can always protect your property people yes are more important but a lot of times people losing homes and losing everything they have yeah all right this next one comes in from scott he asks have you ever had a house guest from hell experience oh yes I've had more than one but one in particular stands out it was a younger friend of mine who came to visit and um two things did not shower more than once over a six day span stop no I swear it was the smell was it was it was I could smell it and she was staying in my spare bedroom so it was it was ripe um so that's one thing that made her the house guest from hell but the other thing is that she slept the majority of the time when we weren't out of the house so we went to do activities or you know whatever else touring New York doing a couple sightseeing ventures each day but the entire rest of the visit she was sleeping never hanging out to rehash the trip no no not helping me with dishes not even that she really ate I mean she would come down and she would eat I suppose and then she would take snacks up to her room she would get them on the train or was or at a restaurant something like that a who knows a convenience store like you and she would take them up to her room and so I would have to go in there and remove the old pizza boxes and whatever no I swear it was I've never seen anything like it in my life she was like a hibernating animal oh she was she had the door closed to my spare bedroom 90% of the time that she was actually in the house with snacks and probably bugs sleeping and not showering it was that is a horrendous combination of oh it was horrendous all right but it was horrendous to not even clean up like if you're gonna bring the snacks in there you're gonna hibernate you're not gonna shower at least like bring your trash out of the guest room that you're staying in and I didn't really give her the chance I wasn't leaving in there longer than an hour so yeah it was pretty it was pretty gross that is a good a bad one but a good one well speaking of New York City and and sightseeing Eileen says in honor of you soon climb to the crown of the Statue of Liberty yes that's coming up this weekend she wants to know what's your favorite New York City tourist attraction I suppose you could call it tourist attraction it's the intrepid the World War II aircraft carrier that's docked on the Hudson River it also has a space shuttle prototype on on the deck as well as a bunch of planes and helicopters from different eras including Tomcat from Top Gun anyway it's amazing you can climb all over the intrepid it fought in three different wars including World War II phenomenal stories and every now and then they'll have volunteers who are in fact World War II veterans who of course are aging but are wearing the the hats right and indicate that they're veterans it's yeah it's awesome I love military history I love aircraft carriers it's a combination of both and it's right in New York City on the Hudson River speaking of eras in history Roger asks if you could live in any other era in history what are a couple you might be interested in oh gosh that's so hard because I'm really interested in Victorian England but women had no rights in Victorian England you had to marry people that you didn't want to marry that essentially the second you got married they controlled you as women women couldn't vote then they were still working on the right to vote so yeah that's tough I would say probably going back to the roaring 20s and and women didn't have great rights in the war roaring 20s either but the roaring 20 seemed like a lot of fun except they were followed by the great depression so there's that but yeah Jesse asks do you have any races like like you know marathon half marathon actually I just signed up for one on Tuesday believe it or not did Jesse know this I signed up for my next half marathon it comes up in late September and it's along the New Jersey side of the Hudson River down by the Statue of Liberty so it's directly across from Lower Manhattan so as you're running you're seeing the Freedom Tower and you're seeing all the skyscrapers of the financial district but you're also running right along the water where the Statue of Liberty is in full view so it's called I think it's Liberty Park half marathon so the Liberty half marathon something like that it comes up in September nice I've heard that it's very popular because it's mostly flat it's a good view too it is a great view yes so I got to get my rear in gear which means again on Wednesday I'll be running in 90 degree weather let's go all right you lose more weight that way this one was weird rich asks have you ever played marbles oh of course when you're a kid absolutely and hungry hungry hippo with marbles oh I used to play that oh love hungry hungry hippo how do you play marbles like you flick them right there well there's games yeah it's a little bit like you have to get the marble closest to whatever whatever you know how it is there's a lot of games you can play with marbles did you ever play jacks I did I just had my jacks time yeah jacks something similar it's been a long I forgot all about similar idea all right we'll end here for some rapid fire stuffed animals or dolls oh I love stuffed animals I'm not a doll fan have a mega yacht or a jumbo jet a 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