Luke Decock joins Adam to talk Carolina Panthers and NC State football; plus we talk the Field of Dreams game last night, UFC Saturday, and the 40th birthday of ET with Victoria.

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Visit us at capitalfinancialusa.com. This is the Adam Gold Show. Victoria is here and she is responsible for today's listener poll. You decide what we should talk about. And we do this every day at one o'clock when Chip Patterson is not here, which is Wednesdays. And let's get right to it. Here's our poll and we'll go from the bottom up.

Rookie quarterbacks in the NFL. Yeah, nobody really cares. That's fine.

Good. We don't care about it either. We're just playing friendlies. A friend of ours on Twitter says, I like the fact that you're really leaning into friendlies. I mean, what are they? They don't matter. I like it.

I mean, we keep standings for some stupid reason in the preseason, but the outcomes do not matter. The Field of Dreams game. I caught a little bit of it.

Yeah, that's cool. You're a Cubs fan, so I know you watched some. I'll tell you later, I had two favorite parts of what I saw. One was great and one was cringe-worthy. Oh no, a cell phone didn't come out, did it?

No, that did not happen. But we'll talk about that a little bit later. One was awesome and it took me to a place and the other was completely unnecessary and it made me uncomfortable. The third one, what came in second, we might have to get to this in a second anyway, the end of summer to-do list. Now, again, this is Victoria's list, so this is her poll. Are we talking about stuff that you want to do, fun to do, or stuff that I have to do before summer ends?

Well, pretty much the second one. It's the things that you haven't been able to get to yet. It's summertime because it's almost over.

I hate to say that. I've got some fence repair. Okay, might want to get that done before it gets cold, but we have a while in North Carolina. I think I would rather do it when it gets cold. Anyway, so yeah, end of summer to-do list.

I don't even want to talk about that then because it's going to freak me out. So let's go to the top of the list and actually it was pretty close because people want to talk about the end of summer to-do list. Do you have any painting that needs to be done?

Outdoor painting. Anyway, Panthers quarterbacks. Alright, I'm going to talk about this with Luke Ticock.

Panthers play tomorrow afternoon in Landover, Maryland against the Commandos of Washington. And forget about the goofy little college ploy of your depth chart saying one guy or the other guy. And just forget about the fact that the outcome of this game doesn't matter. Winning or losing doesn't matter.

You're just trying to knock off the rust. You know, maybe you're trying to find out about some players. So the whole game of who was either Baker or Sam, one of them is going to start.

We're not going to tell you which one. Honestly, who cares? Who cares who you're starting?

But here's what I don't understand from that rule. Because there's one fewer preseason game. And we didn't really learn anything, at least they didn't, in training camp.

I would think you would take every opportunity to find out unless your decision is already made, which maybe it is. I would think you would take every opportunity to find out who your quarterback is going to be. Maybe in their mind, because we traded for Baker Mayfield, even though we didn't give up anything.

And the reason we traded for Baker Mayfield is because we know Sam Darnold isn't that good. Maybe in their mind, it's a foregone conclusion. But that's not the way they're publicly treating it. So giving each guy one series doesn't do anything.

It doesn't tell us a damn thing. So I'm not saying you have to play each guy a half or even each guy a quarter. But give each guy two series. Let's see what they do here.

And, oh, it didn't work out. Come to the sideline, look at pictures on the Microsoft Surface or whatever they do, scribble some things, and then go back out on the field, like will happen in a real game. Maybe we should simulate real games.

You would think. I don't understand why he keeps playing poker with the media. Like, whoa, which quarterback am I going to use? We know what you're going to do.

And here's well, I've been saying this since the beginning. If Baker Mayfield is I didn't the day after the trade, a good friend of mine is one of the producers at ESPN Radio. Actually, somebody who used to sit in that office right there where you are, Victoria, is now a producer at ESPN Radio now actually produces Keyshawn J.

Will and Max Fred. People will know Shannon Penn. And so Shannon got me on the show he was producing then to talk about Mayfield.

And they asked me, Harry Douglas and somebody else was hosting. They asked me, well, is is is Baker going to be the starter? And I'm like, well, I hope so. Like, if he can't beat out Sam Darnold, why did we get him then? I mean, that's a problem for Baker Mayfield and a bigger problem for the Panthers.

So my guess is that if it's close, Baker will be the starter. And look, I'm not not anti Baker Mayfield, not necessarily anti Sam Darnold. I think the biggest advantage that the Panthers have or that Mayfield has over Darnold is that he looks the part of a number one quarterback. He carries himself like a number one quarterback and Darnold doesn't. There is more of I mean, I hate the word swagger, but he he has a confidence that number one quarterbacks had. He has a confidence of a player who's much better than he actually is, which sometimes, you know, that old phrase fake it till you make it. Yeah, Mayfield fakes it really well.

Now, a couple years ago, he was very good and the Browns, I think, won the division and they beat the Steelers in the playoffs. But let's be honest. If we draw anything from a pandemic season, we're kidding ourselves in any sport. The pandemic year has to be thrown out. I'm not saying you put a put an asterisk on somebody winning a Super Bowl.

That's not the point. All I'm saying is what happened during that season is in in no way like any other season. So I'm just going to toss out and Mayfield was very good that year, but I'm going to toss that out because I just don't think it translates. Mayfield, I think, can be good. I don't think is great. I don't think he'll ever be great.

I don't think he's the answer. But for crying out loud and this is this goes back to Matt rule. I think the reason we're doing this is because our experience as a head coach is college. And this is where we play the stupid games.

Yes, this is where we mess with the media. This is where I mean, like Matt rule does not have the same problems that Urban Meyer had, right? Urban Meyer's problems as a college coach trying to be a pro coach was the fact that Urban Meyer as a college coach was so domineering over players that that's the way he was going to be as a pro. And the players have more power than the coach and Urban was never going to be able to get over that. And he was trying to prove something to professional people.

And that's what people need to understand. I forget the name of the NC State offensive lineman who ended up going to Seattle like in the fourth round of the draft. He played with Philip Rivers and I was talking to him about the pre draft process. And he said he brought a briefcase to every interview, wore a suit and tie and brought a briefcase to every interview he had with the team. He said because it is a business discussion for me. Yes. And these are professional people.

These are not kids walking around, not going to class or whatever. As you dealt with in college, Urban Meyer, Matt rule doesn't have that personality. He is not going to lord over players. But what Matt Rule doesn't really have is anything in his coaching background that tells players that he is going to get them better. And he also is treating the media like they're not pros. Like, come on, man, just do it.

Just be honest. And I, I think there's part of Matt Rule that is really good about these things. Adam Golden's studio with my man coach Pete DeRuta with the Capital Financial Advisory Group.

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Yeah, I would respect him more if he would just be honest. Just don't give me an oar. Like, I don't care who you start. Like, Sam's going to start, but it doesn't mean anything. He's going to start this week. Baker will start next week. That would be great. We don't need an oar. One of them is going to start unless both of them start.

And I am here for both of them starting because that would be galaxy brain. We've run out of time for things that I have to do before the summer ends. Because I think my wife is listening and I don't want to let anybody know what I have to do.

You don't want to add to the honey-do list? She's going to go, oh, that's right. Oh, yeah, you do. We got to paint fence. Thanks for reminding me. Damn right, Gold.

Get out of paintbrush. Speaking of winning, I win every Friday at 1.15 when we talk to columnist extraordinaire for the news and observer Luke Tkach, who joins us by the magic of video. If you're watching on TV, there's Luke. He's right there. Are you in a pantry? Where are you? I'm in a kitchen.

Well, there's a pantry and a lot of kitchens. All right, let's get to the one o'clock showdown between the Panthers and the Commandos in Landover. I have a question. When you saw this was at one o'clock on a Saturday, did you think that was cruel and unusual? I thought it was on Raycom. Oh, it'd be 1230.

It'd be 12, yeah, 12 or 1230. No, on RAZ. No, it was, oh, there's so much not to like about that. Oh, there's so much not to like about this game. But, you know, in the end, one, I think it's going to be it's going to be good for a couple reasons. One, I think we're going to see Matt Corral play a lot and he's going to look very raw, which is fine. And he's going to look like he's never seen NFL defenders before, which is fine. And we can kind of nip in the bud this idea of, you know, well, you know, maybe maybe they can get Matt Corral in some games. The best thing for Matt Corral this season is to not play, to learn from a couple of veteran quarterbacks, whether they're any good or not is kind of beside the point. They they prepare like pros. They prepare like like they're more talented peers and keep Matt Corral out of the fire. Because, you know, every year people talk themselves in the Panthers being like nine and eight, 10 and seven, eight or nine and seven.

And and obviously it never works out that way. I think there's some promising things about this team for the future, but I don't think this is the year you want to throw Matt Corral into the into the fire. If he if he is going to be an NFL quarterback, he's going to need time.

He's going to need an internship. So I think him get people getting a look at him on Saturday, whether it's good or bad or whatever. He's he's inevitably going to look like someone who needs some time. I mean, he's he's he was drafted where he was for a reason.

And this is all good. This is not a criticism of Matt Corral or the Panthers or anybody. But I think that would be good just to kind of dissuade the idea that this guy is sort of a turnkey starting NFL quarterback, which based on three video clips from camp, people start talking themselves into believing. Other than that, you know, Mayfield, Sam Darnold. We'll see a little bit of each of them.

I wouldn't draw any conclusions from that. But, you know, it's the first preseason game that's against Washington. You know, it's it is what it is. It's got to be played and you get done with it. And some guys get some reps and, you know, for the guys who are trying to make the depth chart or trying to make the taxi squad or any of these fringe guys, it's a great opportunity. It's not a great opportunity for fans, typically.

No, it never is. Even though Roger Goodell in years past has talked about fans want real preseason games. No, they don't.

They just don't want to play. Pay regular season prices for preseason games. Stop getting it wrong. All right.

Let me ask you this. This question about Matt rule with the Baker Mayfield or Sam Darnold, as though it matters who starts a game that doesn't count. And what do you make of just one series for each? If we're trying like don't play him at all. If you're just going to play him for one series each.

We're not really learning anything about them. So why not two series each? At least you get a second crack at it if things don't go well. I just it would make more sense to me if we're trying to figure out who you should start. Yeah, I guess it's easy to criticize Matt rule for a lot of things. I think this is kind of a no lose, no win for him. Whatever he chooses with these guys in game one, people like you and people like me are going to be able to argue the other side. I think I think I will defend his plan. I don't disagree with you by saying let each of these guys get a series under fire. It'll sharpen them for the next week of real competition, which is going to happen on the practice field.

And look, put real competition in quotes. If Sam Darnold starts the opener against the Cleveland Browns, then we know Matt rule has just been pulling a Brewster's millions all along. And the idea is to spend as much as David Tepper's money as he can before David Tepper goes bankrupt. You know, it's it's at this point, all the only other thing Matt rule can do is drag the one trophy.

The Panthers have around the parking lot behind his car or maybe be the naked guy. So what Baker may feel it's going to start against the Browns because we're not idiots. So does it matter whether they play one series or two series? You're sort of creating the pretense of this competition.

I don't think one series, two series, zero series. If neither guy played, I don't think it makes a huge difference in that. If Sam Darnold wins this job, it's because Baker Mayfield was borderline incompetent in training camp. And one or two series on Saturday is not going to make a difference in that regard. I don't disagree with that at all because I've been saying that Baker's going to start.

I think they're just really all this is window dressing. And by the way, Brewster's Millions, I love that movie. Richard Pryor insisted that he could get any team out for three innings. Right. And John Candy was the catcher in Brewster's Millions. And there's nothing wrong with that. Look, the cock is joining us here on the Adam Gold show. All right.

Pat 40 tweeted something out today that I guess he was. I did a story based on what Greg Sankey had to say about expanding the NCAA basketball tournament. I mean, I've always thought whether it's good or not, it doesn't matter. Everything gets bigger. We will. We probably won't stop in basketball until every team is in any way. So do you have a problem with expanding the tournament or is it inevitable? Or maybe maybe the answer to that is yes. Yeah, probably yes.

Is both all of the above. My contention is one of the things that makes the NCAA tournament great. This is not a particularly novel viewpoint. Is the idea that schools that don't normally get a chance to play each other and don't normally beat each other, play each other and beat each other. You know, the question is, is a St. Peter's beating Kentucky good or bad for CBS and Turner? And I think as good as it is for everybody else, I think CBS would probably rather have a final four of Kansas, North Carolina, Duke and Kentucky, then Wichita State showing up after going through Dayton.

So the problem is, and this has been my condition. They are going to gut this thing. It doesn't matter if that's what makes the tournament great.

The power five, the autonomy six, whatever you throw the Big East in there. They are going to strip this for parts the same way they stripped everything else for parts. The things we love about it are not a consideration to them. Their goal is to get 14 and 16 Clemson playing 13 and 17 Minnesota and St. Peter's doesn't get to go. That's the end game here. The end game is to keep it all for themselves.

And they will sell out sell out the magic of Mark Madness for one shiny nickel and do it without shrugging. Because college sports is not about college sports. It's not about college athletics. It's not about education.

It's about concentrating wealth in the hands of the people who run it and the people who benefit from it. And they will gladly and gleefully gut the NCAA tournament the way Alden looks at a newspaper that owns its own real estate and leave it sitting for parts on the side of the highway. I think that both things will be true. I think we'll still have the St. Peter's and the Loyola's and the Wichita's and the Butler's.

Although Butler is now part of the wealth. But I think we'll still have those schools in. I just think we'll have more schools in. I think the first four won't be a first four. It'll be a first four maybe in each bracket. And I think we'll have the creep maybe in smaller increments and maybe one day we'll have everybody in. And we can debate whether or not that's good or bad. We sort of have everybody in now anyway. Here's the thing, though. Yeah, well, you can win your way in by winning your conference tournament.

There's no reason to give anyone else a chance. If, you know, Iowa State at 15 and 15 wants to get in the NCAA tournament, it can win four games in Kansas City and go. So the idea that teams need more access to this, power conference teams need more access to this. What's going to happen is even if they don't eliminate automatic qualifiers for small conferences, it's going to be like the FA Cup. St. Peter's, just to get to the point where it plays Kentucky, is going to have to beat Southern Illinois and UMKC and Campbell and Florida Gulf Coast just for the right to play a 500 Boston College team. Like, God, I mean, hey, Boston College gets to 500, God bless them. What they want is their teams, the Power Five teams, playing each other because then they get all the money. And that's what we're going to get to. And if you're a Norfolk State or you're a Wichita State or you are a Valparaiso or these schools that have had success in the tournament, St. Peter's, and benefited from it, you are going to have a much longer road to get to square one than you do now, and you're never going to see those games anymore.

Maybe one slips through. But UMBC would have had to beat three teams just to get the right to play Virginia in the format we're going to end up at. And you know what? Turner's going to love it, and CBS is going to love it, and everyone's going to make a lot of money, and they're all going to go to big retreats where they tell each other what a great job they're doing. But it's the same thing as with football. People watch college sports. They watch college football for the rivalries. They watch college basketball for the upsets. If you get rid of those things, which is what the entire college sports industrial complex seems hell-bent on doing, you're just selling this vanilla product that's inferior to professional sports, and the only claim you have to people's allegiances is that they might have gone to your school or grew up in that area.

At a certain point, those bonds are not going to be as strong. Look, maybe I'm Cassandra here, prophesying the doom of college athletics as we know it, but I feel like just as NASCAR at the turn of the century lost touch with what made NASCAR great, chasing races in Phoenix and Kansas City and all these places at these speedways that all look the same, and you can't tell them apart, and now you barely hear it mentioned on ESPN because they don't have any part of the TV deal. College athletics, I think, is running that risk, and I think we've seen it with the ACC tournament. You and I both noticed the ACC tournament isn't what it was 15 years ago. It's not what it was when all nine fan bases or all eight fan bases, depending on your time frame, were in the building on Friday together at the same time. It was a convention as much as a tournament that brought everybody together, all the hate, all the common ground, all the rivalries, all the ABC stuff, all of that.

It brought everybody together, and it made you feel like you were part of something bigger. Now the ACC tournament feels like you're going to three or four separate games unless Carolina plays Duke, unless Duke plays Syracuse, unless there's a huge upset somewhere. So it's not what it used to be, and will it still have the same resonance in five years that it does now? I don't know.

I hope it does because I think it's a great event. But I'll tell you right now, the 2022 ACC tournament was not in the same league as some of the tournaments that preceded it because the atmosphere wasn't as good, it didn't feel like an ACC tournament, and I'll keep beating this drum, you walk out of the building in Brooklyn, you don't know that the ACC tournament's happening. And that's just not true in other places, Greensboro, Charlotte, Washington, obviously. It's just, I worry about college sports, especially if all these people who say in surveys, and I don't think this is true, but they tell people who take surveys this, that if the players get paid, they don't want to watch anymore.

Oh, that's garbage. Players are going to get paid. The players are going to get paid.

The players were already getting paid. Maybe you don't lose everybody, but you're going to lose some people who really do react negatively to that. Other people are still going to root for the laundry, excuse me, and wave the flag for the old alma mater.

And that's fine. I mean, that's what they're counting on. But, you know, if we get to a position where Carolina doesn't play state, are you telling me people are going to be as invested in that as they are now, or they were 20 years ago?

I find that very hard to believe. Let me move on to one more thing before we let Luke Dacock go. So I was at the Daryl Hall Show at Durham Performing Arts Center on Tuesday when the news broke that Max Pacioretti tore his Achilles. He's going to be out for six months, mid-February, about the same time when the trade deadline comes around. If I were the Hurricanes, I would go add another forward because there's a reason they brought Max Pacioretti in. We can deal with salary cap implications to that down the road. But how do you see this team, and it looks like according to Don Waddell, Jake Gardner, they are bringing him to training camp with the full intent of having him in their top six.

I don't know about full intent. They're giving him a shot to be in their top six. They've been watching him on video, skate with Brady Shea and Stephon Nason. No, they're watching him. And, you know, he's got more metal in his hips than Robocop now.

So if he can do the job, he can do the job. How many movies is that for you, by the way, in this conversation? I am not. It's eight movies you've referenced. We didn't even bring up the Field of Dreams game and play in that at the Durham Athletic Park in Boulder.

Anyway, no, I'm not particularly concerned. And for one reason only, which is this team did not struggle scoring goals during the regular season against bad teams. It did what good teams are supposed to do.

It beat up on the teams it was supposed to be. It struggled scoring goals against good teams, and it struggled scoring goals against good teams in the playoffs. You can get to the playoffs without Max Pacioretty. When you need Max Pacioretty is April and May. If you're going to convert some of these chances, you continue to finish. So I am willing to buy the spin that getting Max Pacioretty back in January or February or March, whenever does not hurt you in the big picture because it'll still have plenty of time to get up to speed.

And when you really need him, he should be OK. But that does put tremendous pressure on Martin Aches to finally play like the player he's supposed to be. It puts tremendous pressure on Andre Kaushay, who was a lottery ticket, and now really does kind of have to pan out and perform. That's gone from a complete freebie of a, you know, flyer on a guy who's got issues but has talent, to, hey, you know, he's actually going to have to contribute. So I think what it did is it removed a lot of sort of the safety net the Hurricanes had. It takes away some of their upside because if you have Pacioretty and Nate just plays well and Kaushay plays well, now you're in a position to move a guy.

You've got assets, you've got all kinds of things going on, and maybe you still end up in that position. But it's a lot less likely if you're going to miss Pacioretty until the trade deadline. And the Gardner thing, look, they were going to have to go out and add a veteran lefty at some point anyway. As we've talked about, those guys are a dime a dozen. It's not that big a deal. You can grab them on waivers, you can sign one.

It's a small thing. If Gardner fills that role and you're going to pay him this year anyway because you don't want that $1.3 million on your cap next year, then fine, fine, maybe Jake Gardner can chip in. If he's really rebuilt like Steve Austin, then let him have a hack at it. If he comes into training camp and he can't skate and he looks like he did at the end of the 2021 season, then fine, then you put him on LTIR and you sign a guy or you claim a guy on waivers or you pick up a guy for future considerations. I don't know, do they have any future considerations left? I think you always have future considerations left because it really is exactly zero.

Literally, literally nothing. You can pick up a guy. So if Jake Gardner pans out great, you're going to end up paying him anyway. If he doesn't, you've got a million backup options. I think it's fine.

If Pacioretty didn't get hurt, Gardner gets bought out. None of this is an issue. So it's sort of a weird twist of fate. Maybe it ends up working out for him. Maybe that ends up being the silver lining here.

I don't know. Look, it's on the list of things that they have to worry about. That's like 75th on the list. Now every time Jake Gardner touches the puck, he's going to be in slow motion. We're going to have that sound effect and everybody else is going to be standing still and he's going to be moving in slow motion like he is a blur. I cannot wait. Oh my gosh.

He's going to be so fast when we see him finally in September. Luke, you and I didn't even talk Liv. Next time. The streak is broken. Yes.

18 straight Friday appearances where we've compared the Liv tour with our own Globetrotters. You're the man. At Luke to cock on Twitter.

Talk to you later. Thank you very much. Oh my gosh. Like eight movie references and then we had a six million dollar man. I love it.

Fantastic work from Luke to cock and we have gotten a halftime. Your entertainment. All right.

Tell me stories. Oh, I'm so excited about this because I get to kick off the thing that I was talking about yesterday. I'm a huge MMA fan.

I love it. And tomorrow it's a big fight. UFC Saturday. It's going to be between Marlon Vera and Dominic Cruz. Now, this is not a pay-per-view so you can actually watch the whole fight and not just the prelims. If you don't want to spend 80 bucks, if everyone makes weight today, there's going to be 13 fights on this card. The main event.

I cannot wait. It's between two guys who are absolute scrappers. Now, Vera, his name is Cheeto. He goes by Cheeto is really making a name for himself lately. He's coming out with a three fight winning streak following a big win already in April. So he's already got some momentum going. Dominic Cruz, he's been fighting since 2005. He must be exhausted.

I would assume so. He's already torn his ACL twice, but come back each time with the same heart. I like Cruz as a fighter, but he takes a lot of hits.

I just see Cheeto winning this one. He can also take a lot of hits, but he's a lot faster and I don't think he's had quite as many surgeries and he's not quite as old. I hate to say old because we're probably the same age, but in this sport getting punched in the face, you really don't want to be older than like 30.

When was the last time you were punched in the face? Uh, nope. Okay. Yep.

Yeah, exactly. Me neither, by the way. No, I mean, if I were getting paid millions of dollars to do it, it might be different, but you know.

Nor have I ever punched anybody in the face. No, we're just not those kind of people, Adam. No, no, it doesn't happen. No, that's not us.

It just does not happen. So I'm very excited. The prelims start at 4 p.m. The main event is at seven, so I cannot wait and all two people that follow me on Twitter, I will be over 200 with your favorite, with your favorite, uh, handle too, by the way. Now I've got to come up with a new one after yesterday.

So well, well over 200 people following me, I have 269. Oh, there you go. So yesterday, the field of dreams game, big cubbies fan. They actually won. Yes.

Hopefully, maybe my theory of them having momentum worked for him. I don't know. Remember, I told you two things that I took from this game, although I love the uniforms, by the way, the red uniforms better than the Cubs. Although I think the Cubs uniform look clean. They were something that I think the Cubs could wear. I don't think the Reds are.

Reds definitely look like throwback uniforms. Yeah. But two things that left an impression on me, one really good and the other really bad. Okay.

I'll give you the really good first. Okay. I saw Ken Griffey Jr. and Ken Griffey Sr. coming out of the corn and having a catch. Oh, yeah. Two reasons. One, I saw all of Junior's career.

Yes. And obviously, Griffey was one of the best players ever, first Ballot Hall of Famer. But when I was a kid, so I grew up, my formative baseball years were in the 70s. When I was a kid, even as a Mets fan, my favorite player in baseball was Ken Griffey Sr., a left fielder for the Cincinnati Reds. Griffey could simply do everything. He was such an exciting ball player. So it was just cool.

Even though he dropped the first ball thrown to him by his son, I like that. Now for what I honestly wish they hadn't done. The Harry Carey hologram. And I thought you were going to mention that because I actually have a little bit of it. If you want to hear it. Let's hear it. All right. Let me hear you. All the way. See, I have no problem with this.

They could have played this and I have no problem with Harry Carey singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Uh huh. The hologram. A little creepy. Went too far.

Yeah. That was a bridge too far. Not to mention the hologram looked like I can't even explain what he looked like.

He clearly looked like Harry Carey, but it was it was like a dead Harry Carey. It was uncomfortable. So no good. Don't do that ever again. Just play it.

I thought playing it was really cool. Yeah. And look, as a kid or actually more so as a college student, when WGN was on every basic cable channel, we used to I mean, whether we had class or not, invariably be back in our apartment watching a baseball game at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Sure. At Wrigley Field. And, you know, we saw a lot of Harry Carey singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame. So I'm not anti Harry.

That we just didn't need to see him. Yeah. That was creepy. That may have been just geared towards the Cub fans.

But on to the next thing, though, that I thought this was funny. I don't know if you knew this. They had Joey Voto mic'd up throughout the game. Right.

And he was trolling people on the first base. I can't believe Voto is still playing for the Reds. I know. He's been there forever.

A long time. And they've I guess his contract, they can't trade it. But right.

I mean, if Joey Voto has deserved to be in a better on a better team for a long time. And this is just a snippet of what he sounded like with Wilson Contreras. I'll tell you something. Whenever Wilson's here, he is so grumpy, he is so grumpy, he won't talk to me.

And so I usually have to tell him how good of a swing it was, how much I like his game, how happy I am for him and his brother. There you go. Very nice. And Contreras just standing there laughing. Yes. That's tremendous.

What is going on? We need to mic up more players. I know. It's great television. Some people don't like it, but I really do. Who doesn't like it? I mean, other than the players might. Yes. Might not like it.

But those others. Awesome television. Awesome. Awesome television. I know. So maybe you don't you don't air it live.

Maybe you have to just listen to it and make sure it's OK. Suitable for for families, whatever. But I actually think it's really good during the All-Star game when they had like they had the battery, the pitcher and catcher for the Yankees, you know, for the American League. They're both Yankees. They had both guys miked up and it was incredible television.

Yes. It's insightful. They need more of that.

But I understand why players wouldn't want it. But they just it's great TV. It's too good.

So good. And this is the last one. This is quick. This is a PSA. OK, so yesterday was the last supermoon of twenty twenty two, which means yesterday was the last super. What does a supermoon mean? It's I don't know, it's some stage of the moon before it's a full moon. So today is a full moon. And if I've heard anything from nurses, teachers, law enforcement, people get a little crazy.

People are a little over the top. On full moons. Yeah. Because of the whole werewolf thing. Yeah, exactly.

Exactly. Werewolves everywhere. So just be careful out there today because it's Friday and it's a full moon. So it's a full moon Friday. Full moon. I don't know if that's like a it's not the 13th. That may be a triple thing. Yeah. So just just be careful if you have some, you know, five o'clock beverages. It's wild.

I don't have any of those mold. It's also I know I see you have it in the doc here, so I'll just mention it. It's the fortieth birthday of E.T. It is. So June 11th was the official one. But today at Marbles out in Raleigh, they're actually going to do like a special viewing of it.

So, yeah. Why didn't they do it on June 11th? That's a good question. The weather was fine. Was it closed on June 11th that we don't know about? It's not like it snowed on June 11th. Did they forget? Maybe. We've all forgotten the birthdays. Yes. Right. We've all forgotten a birthday at one point. So maybe that's the oh, my gosh.

We forgot E.T. 's birthday. No. All you do is get some Reesey Pieces. We're good. We're done. Gosh.

What a what a what a phenomenal movie. All right. So you like Vera over Cruise.

Is that what you said? I think he's going to win. Do you like Vera over cruise? I do. I don't think it's going to go to decision, though.

I think he's going to. Over the crossbar! And the Hurricanes have won the Stanley Cup. June 19th, 2006. But it all started May 6th, 1997, with the announcement that the Hartford Whalers were coming to North Carolina.

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