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Go Evening, everybody. Welcome into the Winkler first. I'm Bart Winkler. It is the 29th of March. This would be a Sunday evening, and this podcast is going to carry this show.
Through the week, as it is spring break here for the Winkler family, and we are venturing. to the west coast. Hate planes, terrified. I always will be. I always have been.
So knock on wood. Speaking of wood, this wood table that I use, whenever I get excited, it always like wobbles. I'm going to work on that when I get back. I'm going to try to hook up with something for a World Cup situation. Maybe some special broadcasts when I get back.
I'm going to work on merch. Everybody needs merch. I don't know. You guys can buy it if you want, but giveaways, that'd be good.
So, a lot to do when I get back. Uh later in The week. Until then, I thought, wow, there's a lot to talk about. I did a show on Friday. That was going to be it.
For spring break. But look, it's Saturday night. I still haven't packed yet.
So rather than doing that, why not jump on the internet and talk to myself and whoever else wants to. Come on into the Winklerverse on this Sunday night. Tony says bring back Bucky Channel t-shirts. I don't know how many people in the verse. Know about the channel?
Which I have tried to completely scrub. I was paying $10 a month for the URL. I got rid of it, but perhaps someday. Because when I did the sports bubbler too with the journal Sentinel, there's some things I wrote on there. And this is coming from me.
This is coming from me. Who seems to have no filter. There's some things I even wrote then. That I was like, holy shit. What the fuck have I done?
What the fuck have I said? Corey with a let's go, and baseman Dave with an F the White Sox.
So this Sunday, obviously a sports-filled Sunday. The Bucks played afternoon games Saturday and Sunday, lost them both. Of course, and they are eliminated from the playoffs. I suppose we should talk about that to get it out of the way. The Bucks, I mean, Jesus man.
Now, again, they did win a title. Bill Simmons had this thing a long time ago where it was once you win a title, you should have a five-year grace period. That five-year grace period is ending. But now the beginning of that. looks pretty shitty.
It is going to be rough. I'm assuming Giannis gets traded. I'm assuming he wants to be traded. I've talked about Giannis. plenty of times.
I think he both doesn't want to and wants to be traded. I think he. Wants to be approached to be traded. Uh best case scenario. I think he wants to be traded.
But he doesn't want to obviously force the trade.
So he wants the Bucs to trade him so he can still look like the good guy. He can go experience what it's like somewhere else. And then potentially he maybe comes back. I don't think if Yannis. leaves that that's going to be the last time Giannis is in a Bucs jersey.
LeBron came back to Cleveland. That's really the example I have for you, but I don't think he's entirely. Done. I don't think, though, my concern would be if I was trading for Giannis. Not the injury stuff, because I've been on record.
I don't think he was hurt. All the times that he was hurt this year. I think he's hurt now. The time he's hurt now is when he's like, I want to play. I don't know.
I don't know. His heart just has not seemed like it was in it. He is doing the podcast with Tanassus. He's bouncing around at the Super Bowl. He's got all these.
Endorsements popping out. He's got his gummies to, you know. The Hawk. Which at the 4:20 mark of this episode, what a perfect time to tell you that I also have gummies to hawk, and that's at happyplacehemp. Happyplacehemp.com.
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So, miserable. The starting lineup today, I saw somebody say this is going to be like, how loyal are you when you look back at this with Jang? Did Nance start today? Connor, not Connor. Cormack Ryan got some time.
He hit a three late. We were watching it at the end. My kid, for whatever reason. In his 2K franchise, that is on easy. He likes to shoot the ball with Gary Trent Jr.
He's become enamored with Gary Trent Jr. And Gary Trent Jr. scores about He averages in this franchise 80 points per game. He is just playing and passing it to Trent. And then when Trent comes out, he makes me call a timeout to substitute Trent back in.
Um And he just shoots with Trent. And you know, sometimes you you sometimes with kids, you're like, What are you doing? Um Why are you doing the same thing over and over? But repetition is fun. At some time.
So I don't know. It's weird. It's odd, but he has fun. And so, what the fuck? I don't care.
So, we turned it on, and Gary Trent was dropping threes, and we were having. You know, some fun with that. That we watched obviously after the Brewers, which I'll get into in a second, because we did not watch the game, oopsie whoopsie. We did watch the end of Duke. And UConn.
which I am demoralized about. Because he had Duke. And then they lost in a very... Matt LaFleur Way. If I may say.
One of my buddies said is John Shire. The college football version of Matt LaFleur. And yeah, if you've looked at Duke, their last four losses, they were up by 14 against Houston in the final four last year, by 17 against Texas Tech, by 13 against USC, and then today against UConn, they were up by 19. They lost all of those games.
So absolutely, yes. The NCAA equivalent equivalent of Matt LaFleur. is John Shire.
So I'm bummed about that because he actually could have won the bracket. We've got a special guest tonight. His name is Paul Emmig. You know him from America's Pregame with Mike Hill on Fox Sports One circa 2013. What's up, my friend?
Hi, this is different than usual. Yeah, well, you know, we can't do this week.
Well, we could, I could, I could, I could go into the parking lot and do it from the San Diego Zoo. Thanks for the America Pregame Mike Hill 2013. Shoutout. What do you think about my new s my new lid? I mean, it was obviously what I was going to comment on first if you didn't bring me in the way you did.
What do you mean, new? You bought it? Like online randomly? Fanatics had this sale, and I hate Fanatics, but. They had a sale where everything was like a bunch of shit was on special.
Like I almost bought a Micah Parsons Jersey Cowboys. For like eight bucks, I should have. Yeah. But then this hat was on there for $5. Yeah.
And I'll probably do a wrestling, a WrestleMania postgame both nights.
Okay. And so I'm going to wear this for that.
So I can write this off, I think. Oh Always scheming. I bought it. I bought it for the show. I bought it for you.
I like that. I mean, you're. It fits the bit, like that you would just, you know, your Thanasis lid.
Now you're hell in a cell lid. The stranger, the the stranger, the hat. The better the bit. WWE, by the way, I don't know how up to date you are on any of it. I don't care.
I guess I'm up to date on it. They're doing a Randy Cody feud, 19 years of history. Yep. But the centerpiece is jelly roll. Uh I'm not Super familiar with how they've brought Jelly Roll.
Isn't that how they brought Powerhouse Hobbs Royce Keys into it? Is like with Jelly Roll or some nonsense? No, they didn't even do that yet.
Okay. Oh, this still coming? Still something to look forward to? I don't know. Okay.
There was a rumor of that, and they haven't brought him in yet, but right now. Jellyroll was trying to be the. Mediator. Yeah, okay. Between those two guys.
I saw he kicked Matt Cardona in the balls. Yeah, and then he RKO'd Jellyroll on, uh On Friday. How did Jelly Roll take the move?
Well, Jelly Row also had a ma a singles match on Friday. Ooh. What? Against Kit Wilson? I don't think I know who Kit Wilson is.
He's, I don't know, he's kind of likable. Um, whatever.
So. What I wanted to say was two of the last three weeks WWE has made my kid like cry. Because when Randy turned on Cody. Yeah. Okay, and heartbroken.
Oh, no, and then uh, last Friday. For some reason. You know, Carmelo Hayes has had this U.S. title and they've been doing a good job with it. And Sammy won.
Sami Zayn beat him. And now the WrestleMania match is going to be Sammy vs. Trick Williams. My kids but my kids started crying. Why no Carmelo Hayes?
I don't know. TK Overlords just said, nah. Yeah, the booking is they have no fucking plan. It's very terrible. Mm-hmm.
I'm sure they'll change something again at the last minute but Uh it's very It's very bad anyway. Good to see you, Paul. Good segue. Yeah. You do have some mm-hmms for me?
I yeah. Didn't know until Today that We're off on Tuesday.
So I I did my homework. Um We'll do that. We'll do my... My two favorite ones. The ABS system fucking rules.
Mm-hmm, or mm-mm.
Now, what was that like? I mean, I saw it on Tuesday. I don't I don't, so here's, okay, the ABS system, they can challenge pitches. Yeah. They can challenge pitches.
And there was C.B. Buckner. Awesome. He got challenged twice on Eugenios Suarez with the bases loaded. He thought he rung him up twice, but he didn't either time.
Yeah. And so he's pissed. There was the case today where. Derek Shelton's the twins manager. Oh, I did see this.
Yeah. He thought he got booted. Mm-hmm. arguing with the robots. And I think that it has unlocked another moment of fun.
Yeah. If you're at the game. My issue with it Yeah.
So what was your question? ABS fucking rules, or which I'll just mm-hmm. This is amazing. It's amazing on so many levels that I'll get into, but you keep going. Maybe separately.
Okay. So I'm watching.
So baseball, okay. Baseball today, there's all this stuff about ABS. There's I was then I turned on my kids. Like, we got the package free for a week.
Okay. Um And we were watching the end of Mets Pirates for some reason today, also. Sweet. And it was in extra innings.
So there's a guy on second. And then I was like, I explained that to him 'cause he didn't know. If you look at baseball now from even three years ago, They are like not even playing the same sport. I'll stop. They really are not.
Every change has been better. Or even if you initially opposed it, every change that baseball has made has been a success for baseball. Or mm-mm. Mm-hmm. Right.
I mean the pitch clock. Best commissioner in sports.
Somehow. Don't know when that happened, but it did. But when I shared that picture the other day, it was. You know, you have nine spots for the innings on the line score, and then you have run, hits, airs. Left on base, mound visits remaining.
What's the other one now? ABS. Yeah, you're. It's too much, and I don't know. Uh, we were discussing, and I'll mention it.
Uh, he's Not here tonight. We don't require him to be, but Grant said, Is this really the case of a baseball problem, or does there's just a few umps need to be course corrected? Um Maybe. I just, I don't, I don't like, I, I, I don't. There's too much shit to keep track of.
That's how I feel with baseball. My same complaint. About baseball is my same complaint about. what Adam Silver is proposing with the draft lottery. It's like there's just too much.
We gotta, let's make things simple. You should have a ball. Three strikes, four balls.
Well, you you say that I mean, there's there's a lot of things I can say to all this. Sports have become More lawyered up. Like there's there's a lot of lawyering that has turned rules. that have existed into like new versions of rules. Um but like if it's not the same sport then like neither is You know, a catch in the NFL from us growing up.
Like the definition of a catch is, yeah, you know, a definition of pass interference has changed, the definition of hitting a quarterback has changed. Like, It's a different sport. Like, I know what you're saying, and I know you put it in air quotes with complaint. But There is a lot to keep track of. That's fine.
You probably saw on Tuesday, you can now see. Uh in right field. At a brewer's game, What the horizontal Break and the vertical break of every pitch is if you desire to look up into the Right field scoreboard. Like, that's interesting. Grant Anderson is on the mound for the Brewers on Sunday afternoon, and he's got a really Unique splitter pitch that dances, and it's you can.
Say like, oh, there was. This much If you want to keep track of it, you can. If you just want to know the hits and the runs and the airs, you can also do that.
So it's really your choice. Right. I mean, like, it's there if you want it, and you still can know who won if you don't care.
Well, you're my goodest of buddies, but Tony is my longest goodest of buddies. We actually won third-place best friends. in senior high or in you know high school.
Okay. Um I think Lenari and Lipsky, and was it Eddie and Yudi, Tony, that beat us? Fuckers.
Well, it lasts the test of time there. They could repoll that. We're there. Unless, did any kids get married from our class? Like.
Whatever. I mean, I know kids do, but. Tony knows what I'm saying. There is still human air. Or the human element.
Sure. But now They're not taking it away. But you can so For somebody like me, I've long argued we need to keep the human element in the game. And you are keeping the human element in the game. I've long argued against it.
We're a great, we agree on so much. We actually have like a couple nuances where we strongly oppose. Here's one of them. But They are doing both. They are doing both.
The human element is in the game. It's just you can Check them now if you want.
So it's two challenges, but if you get it right, you keep the challenge. You need to get both right. Do you need to go two for two, like in the early NFL review system where you don't think so? No, is it you gotta okay. We're still learning.
Yeah. You know what I mean? We're three games into the season. It's okay that we don't have everything. And last year, three games into the season, we thought torpedo bats were going to be all the rage.
Sure. They died by the fourth game of the season. This is not going to die. No. This is not going to die.
So, what do I like about ABS? What do I like? I like that. It can give the crowd another opportunity to cheer. Yeah, it's exciting and get engaged.
Yes. I like that because I think that. You know, baseball is a good sport to engage in. I'm somebody who likes to stand in key moments. Which I think that reel's posting later tonight.
Um We talked about like two months ago and I I scheduled a lot of reels for my vacation. Oh, I see.
So that I'm still like in your brain. Yeah. Okay, part part didn't go anywhere. No, no, no, I'm not going anywhere. Um, just San Diego.
So I like that. I don't I don't know. But don't I see I we disagree because I don't I don't need every call to be right. If every call would be right, Duke. Duke would have benefited from a technical foul because UConn, their bench came on the court at the end of the game.
So let me just chime in. Calls that are wrong that are subjective. Human error. Calls that are wrong that are objectively wrong. That's human error that can be corrected with modern technology.
So Well, he bumped him after six yards on the passenger. No, well, for defensive illegal contact. Oh, no, but it was five yards.
Well, it was kind of between the five and the six yards, so we let it go. There's All throughout sports, like block chars, you're never gonna be able to say that was objectively. a charge. That was objectively a block. There's things that are going to have human air.
The things that can be correct. like objective truth. Should be and now is. within reason so You're still going to have ump scorecard. On Twitter, that's going to show.
You know, C. B. Buckner had an 88%. rate, which is terrible. Yeah.
And by the time they got to, what was it, like the...
Well, they didn't finish the game with the ability to challenge. He kept Buckner's scorecard kept getting worse. Because both teams were eventually unable to challenge. And he kept getting things wrong. Like, I mean, so, and by the way, I saw this stat earlier.
I wish I had saved it. It's really early in the season, small sample size. But the umpires with more experience? Have a much worse Challenge overturn rate, meaning they're getting more overturned on them. The older umpires, the more seasoned veteran umpires.
are having more of their original calls. overturned, meaning their original call was incorrect. I think it's fewer than 10 years of MLB umpire experience. Are having a much more successful time with ABS. Their calls have been correct more often and thus the challenges have been Not overturned.
So small sample size so far, but that's interesting too. And Probably not surprising with. Buckner and others. Big thanks to our sponsor, BetterHelp, for partnering with us for this important conversation about mental health. This is Steve Smith here, former NFL wide receiver and host of the 89 Show on YouTube.
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I've talked about this with you. Which was always dumb. But now you can argue balls and strikes. You're not arguing, you're litigating.
So I think if we're going to do this. Then we should just do it for every pitch. Which is, I think, what you want. Hell yeah. If we're gonna do this.
Do it for every pitch. But the strike zone in and of itself. It's not arbitrary. There's a defined. Area where it is.
Correct. But it's different on every person. And they've all been measured. You've seen how the heights have been recalculated because they've been forced to. be measured.
In official ABS capacity. I just, I think it's just, it's too much for me. That's, that's, that's my complaint. Here's here's my follow and I think you'll agree with what I'm saying. You don't like adapting to new rules in sports.
your late adapter to liking them, your initial reaction to most new rules, Most new ideas. Every baseball rule. Which you've all, which you, I believe, have come around on literally all of them. Yeah. And I even didn't like that the games, like I like when the games are long, but I mean, you could go to a game now and.
It's the the kid part makes it different. Sure. When you go to a game and you're like Oh, geez, is he going to last three and a half hours? No. Right.
He's not. Is he gonna laugh is he gonna last 215? Yeah. Mm-hmm. He's going to last 215.
Yeah. And It's, you know. There's it's not the other thing is they didn't cut out anything. They didn't cut any strikes. They didn't cut any.
Outs, they just cut out. Dicking around. Yeah. But in the playoffs, I do like the drama of that. But do you need that for 162?
Well, you were talking about other things that have been added, you know, like some of them more inconsequential. Like you get five mound visits, right? Or like you have to have three batters before. you can remove a picture because again, these were things that We're making the game. How many times can you throw over to first base?
before you know per per runner. Like these are good things to speed things up and and add some levels of I don't know, like. Time deficiency, whatever you'd call it, like, but everything, everything that's happened. I think it has made, and this isn't. I mean, I am in the majority here.
Like the consensus. Of four days of ABS. Everyone loves it. And like you're seeing real moments. Like one of the things Grant brings up, let's bring him up again, seeing as he refuses to join us.
Just ignore it.
Okay. And it's a touchdown.
Well, let's check for the flags. You know, like he's talked about losing the drama of the moment. Within 15 seconds, you get a catcher, pitcher, or batter tapping the helmet. And the whole place starts to buzz. Motherfucker, you got this, you got, and then like it clips, you know, like 3% of the baseball clips the corner.
Whoa, or you get the extreme examples of, you know, Suarez and that situation, but like, even the small ones. Are exciting. And so, like, okay, well, it should be unlimited then. Let's have it all be right or all be wrong, and let's have it on every pitch. would remove what is the early return success of The moment.
The head tap moment where your team Like you're gonna. You're going to tune, you're going to tune in for it. You're going to focus on it. It's a moment. A fun moment.
What if that was every play? What if on the screen you saw where the ball went, and people could just look at the screen to know if it was a ball or strike? The entire game. When we first started talking about Robolumps. I think you thought.
That it would basically there be a, and I think they talked about, I don't think this was like a Bart thought only, but there was the idea that the. home plate um pire sits behind home plate to call if a guy slides into home plate you know, on a close play successfully or not, and really is just relaying what he hears in his ear to say, ball. Strike. That's not what's happening.
So I think there's for someone who really wants this, me, against someone who really didn't want it, maybe you will eventually, or maybe you already do want it, but didn't, and would prefer it wasn't there because you like the human error element. I think we're at like a nice little sweet spot, like a somewhat middle ground. But I don't think this is how it's going to be. I think it's just going to be going forward. I wouldn't mind if they expanded it.
you know beyond the minimum number that it is. Um But it does add strategic element to like Yes, the call was probably wrong. Batter, pitcher, catcher. But like. It's the first inning and it's a 1-1 count.
You know, like the White Sox challenged the first pitch in like the sixth inning. On sale, I think, today.
Okay. I don't recall. Brewers won, by the way. They won every game. And I did mean to, which I'm sure you guys know, but.
They swept the White Sox. Mr. I'm Still Dead says only Brewer fans would celebrate a sweep of the White Sox, which. First of all, I am not going to comment on that. I mean, this is the stupidest shit I've ever seen, but other than that, I'm not going to comment on it.
Also, Sox is spelled S-O-X. Just to be clear, I was. You don't even go S-O-X-S. That's Soxes. That's all I was going to comment on.
That's Sox's. And I celebrate. Like, yeah, they're three and oh, one of five teams in baseball, maybe. They got a sweep, always fun. It was a yellich clutch home run, which he has been over in a long time.
So, that in and of itself. is pretty shit. I mean like cool shit. Is the shit I meant. There you go.
Yeah. So that's the shit.
So do you think the umps like it or hate it? It removes pressure, but also puts Big Brother on them. W yeah, uh C. B. Buckner hates it.
And that's wonderful. I want, I like things that C.B. Buckner hates.
So that's a win. Um I really truly would have liked to have seen just for comedy value. Angel Hernandez or Joe West have to deal with this. I mean, it would have been fucking hilarious. Um But Paul, it's interesting because They have been the end-all-be-all for 150 years.
The umpire. Yeah, yeah, now they're being these guy Abner Doubleday invented baseball. And we did a great high school project on that, which. Hmm. Tell me if you have that, never show it.
Um And Now, like you saw in C. V. Buckner's face. Oh, he was pissed. He's never felt that before.
And he deserves it. Even when he knew he was wrong. Like, sometimes you make a call, you know, you're wrong. The coach yells at you, the manager, you can still kick his ass out. Like, don't show me up.
I'm the fucking ump. Yeah. So they have to hate it. They have to absolutely hate it. Power to the people.
Every single way. Yeah, man. It's great. No, it's g it might pressure them to Call it different. I don't know if it's going to end up pressuring them to call more strikes or balls or think about it.
Call it what it is. Yeah. The other thing about umpiring, which I always talk about. It is weird. I think, I don't think this is a thing that's talked about enough.
The umpire is calling a strike. The catcher's in front of him. His view is different than the guy that threw the pitch. You should almost have the second base call the strike. Have I shared this with you yet?
I don't think I did. And the whole stadium, too. Like, yeah, there's some people in the outfield, but you can't sit. In the You know, batter's eye. Most people.
Who actually has the view that the pitcher does? The second baseman and the center fielder and one umpire? Probably the center fielder is the best spot if he's lined up, you know. Straight up.
So here was my thing I... I'm not sure if I've shared. Um The reason I like This so much. is that batters are trained. At a very young age, I helped train young baseball players on this to like the strike zone, the preciseness of the strike zone.
You don't do that anymore? No, not since the kids were born. Mm. I totally forgot that about you. You were like a big time coach.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um The preciseness of the strike zone, there's Nothing more important. And I had to tell Grant earlier today, you know, just a rare L take, which was like.
Well, come on. Like, you're you're letting this pitch that's. you know of the An inch outside, and you're taking it for ball four on a full count. Like, you know, basically, I think the idea is like just swing the bat, even though it's a ball. Absolutely not.
So, my theory going into this was: batters are going to have a much higher success rate. on the head taps to overturn a call. Than a catcher is.
So, what I would what I'm curious to track is how much more successful batters are. In successfully overturning a call. than the catcher or the pitcher. Because batters Again, like You know, Luca. is obviously a great example of like He would be tapping his head.
for literally every play up and down the court offense and defense And he's annoying. And it's, I mean, I honestly believe no matter how good he is for basketball, how good he is at basketball, that Luca is bad for basketball. It's just bad branding. It's just. It's not enjoyable for anybody.
Um It's not a good experience to view it. Batters. when they actually in the past prior to ABS. When they give that look of like, They're right so often, even though you're talking about small small percentages of of how much that caught the plate or didn't catch the plate. Catches, I don't think, are as good at it, actually.
Like, that doesn't make logical sense because of where they're framed. but they're also selling pitches and have been selling pitches, right? To try to manipulate strike zones for so long that I think there's more. I don't know, like hard and fast long-term revision of balls and strikes because they're politicking on behalf of their pitcher, right? They're trying to reframe things.
They're lying, right? They've been lying by reframing pitches. Batters are just so precise. The best batters in the I mean, their eyes are so trained that they most of the time know.
So I'm curious to see how much more successful batters are over a long sample size than catchers and pitchers at overturning.
Well Is it a good thing? I think um Mm-hmm. The answer is going to be mm-hmm. I think the biggest reason is, and this is what I said about torpedo bats last year before that went away. Yeah.
It was nice to. Have A talking point at the beginning of the baseball season that was about baseball. Sure. And You know, we've been talking about lockouts and strikes, and there's going to be a lockout next year, and it's going to go a long time. I hope you're wrong.
I hope I'm wrong, but I see no implication that I am or indication.
So to have this, to get people talking about this. You know, anything that can take you to a baseball game and keep you off your phone. Sure. I think is a good thing.
So the answer is mm-hmm. It's awesome. And I d I don't not Like it. And I get involved and I get into everything. I don't I just I think there's just going to be a lot to keep track of in baseball.
Good. That's not good. It is for me. What Why? Because I think baseball is just a very...
Yeah. involved sport. But again, like you don't have to care. It's not It's not going to change if you watch the Brewers win a game or not. Right?
You can choose to not care. You can choose to care. You can choose to sit there and Follow every pitch while you're watching the game, but also watching the zone on your phone and looking at. Like I said, whether you're at the game or at home, like you can be tracking. spin rates and exit velocities and Pitch dynamics of how much movement they have.
Like, you can. You don't have to. That's why it's good. I'll acquiesce. I'll get along to get along.
No, you can I mean the Anyway, but I would say the most important thing about it, at least in the early stages. is like it has brought positive attention to Major League Baseball in its first week. You know what, another thing I saw indisputably. Another This fucking guy. Hold on.
Do you know the guy that said about the White Sox? You mean the White Soxes? Oh, I forgot. Did the Brewers hang their Burger Championship banner yet? You need to stop just arguing with.
Yeah, just I said this is horrible comedy. Horrible comedy, Bart is your horrible franchise. Winners celebrate championships. Loot lover losers celebrate pocket pancakes and burger win streaks, Bart. This is the same shit.
Like, you're obviously a Cubs fan. Don't make this your identity, dude. I just don't know why you'd watch you. Bull Cub says, You were my favorite show on Infinity Sports Network when it was still around. I appreciate that.
That that must be another Chicago person. Right. There's a lot of people that he says he's a Diamondbacks fan. Bull cubs? No.
So then what the fuck do you care? What rivalry is there here? I mean, we played in the playoffs twice, even. You want a World Series with the biggest douche in the world? Congrats.
Hey, Mr. I'm Still Dead. What do you think about George Gerv and the Iceman? Oh. Uh oh.
You don't have a question on that, do you? I don't. May I? Take the floor, sir. The George Gervin thing.
Catch people up. You've been arguing on Twitter. You're trying to get Elon Bucks. Yeah. He stiffed me for a month.
The George Gervin thing, because Caleb Williams. Has gone as the ice man. I've heard that before. I've heard it. And now he wants a trademark.
And George Girvin.
Now I guess Chuck Liddell was also the Iceman. Apparently. I don't know. There's an Ice Man in the X-Men comics. Yeah, that's that honestly.
Not even joking, that's my Iceman. Yeah. If If b if Bears fans want to say Look, Caleb Williams is the ice man. There can be a basketball ice man, and he's the ice man in football.
Okay. That's okay. Right. Who no one cares. Right.
That's fine. But they're not saying that. Correct. Because he wants to trade market. Right.
For monetary gain. Obviously to sell t-shirts and the like.
So two things. One, why didn't George Girvin trade market?
Well, he played at a time where I mean This is As I often say. late stage cannibalism. And We didn't think about trademarking nicknames back in the day. Right. Someone's like, oh, well, the Packers tweeted Air Jordan.
Yeah, it's a play on words, dude. Jordan Love is not trying to trademark Air Jordan. It's just a play on words. Caleb's trying to Take ice man, and if if he's gonna try to trademark it. George has the rightful claim.
Like, I've been using this forever. If you need more. Legalese on this, please watch She-Hulk. Where She-Hulk's enemy tried to trademark She-Hulk. Oh, that She-Hawk couldn't use it.
That's that is devious.
Okay. Um and that's why Daredevil had to come in and be the lawyer. Oh, cool. And then they fucked. Murdoch and yeah, Murdoch and And She-Hulk fucked.
I don't remember that in the comics. Yeah, I don't know. Um So that's the problem. The other problem is. These are youths.
That are saying, who the fuck is George Gervin? Youths. And then I say, learn your history. And then they say.
Well, it was 40 years ago. Who gives a shit? If you don't know it. That's fine. But if you're, if you don't know something, that's fine.
If you don't know something, that's fine. But if you're so like, oh, I don't want to know. Like, oh, history repeats itself. This situation seems like that situation. Uh no it doesn't.
Well, it does. Just look it up. Yeah, I don't want to. It's stupid. It was 30 years ago.
What still happened? And still having a lot of people. When I did the show with Freemes. He was always like Like all these guys behind me, Dan Plesak, Jim Gantner. I used to tell them all the time: oh, I love Teddy Haguera.
And he'd be like, you know Teddy Toguera? I'd be like, how the fuck do I not? He's like, oh, I thought it was before your time. And they'd be like, what do you think about, you know, some of these other. I was like, oh, I love Bart Starr.
You know, I love all the. And he's like, how do you know all this? I'm like, cause I fucking learned about it. Right. And it didn't click for me.
That he thought it was weird. that I would like no, but I see it now. Like, I get it. He doesn't You don't people don't. You know what I used to do?
I used to read. I had this like. Almanac of football. And I would just read it. I would just, it had every standings, it had all the box scores from like the 1920s.
I like liked football, so I wanted to learn about football. I like that stuff. By the way, George Gervin also played for the Bulls at one point.
So. Right. Yes. So very stupid, very dumb. I understand I was arguing with Chicago teenagers.
But the other thing is Just because Caleb's your guy... Doesn't mean you need to advocate on behalf of him for everything. That obviously Caleb wasn't even your guy because two years ago. He's crying in the stands or he's painting his fingernails and you're calling him names. To be clear, it's always Good.
To be able to say that someone or something you like. Is doing something you don't like. Like, that's okay. Your favorite band can make a bad song, your favorite director can make a bad movie. Your favorite team can make stupid decisions.
There will be a day, it hasn't happened yet, but there will be a day where I put out a subpar episode of this show. No. Don't don't even. Do that. It hasn't happened yet.
Like, I mean, this honestly, truly connects to like. The LeFleur stuff, which I won't go too deeply into, but the idea is. We both want. as those who didn't want LeFleur retained. The same thing that the Packers fans advocating for LaFleur to stay and be extended want.
We all want the same thing. We have different paths of getting there. It's not being a bad fan. To be like The team's kind of making some stupid Like. decisions right now.
How like what? No no no, I I'm saying that. Because whatever small Piece of influence me saying that might have, and might then someone else might hear it and say, and then embolden them to say, Oh, it's actually okay if I. Disagree with my favorite team and say that my favorite team doesn't, my favorite player, like I said, my favorite director, my favorite band, like. I agree with what you're saying, obviously.
And yes, it's. Perfectly fine if not everyone picks up the football almanac. like you did, and learns the history. But then you can't When told, like, oh no, actually, there was this thing. Don't then.
No, no, fuck you. Fuck him. You you come on like J then go read like but people love being defiantly Getting old, man. My fucking sucks. I tot I mean it makes Yeah.
Yeah. What's the phrase? Like. Youth is wasted on the young, or what is that? Yeah, it is.
Youth is wasted on the young. Yeah, I totally. resonate with it and understand with it. Ready for another topic? I was playing baseball outside.
That's why we missed the end of the. Brewers game because, like, we thought they were losing. We came back in and You know He probably updated the standing helmets 15 times a day. And he's like, Brewers won. I go, what?
He's like, yeah, they won. And I looked, and then we saw how it happened. And we were playing outside baseball. But I had to go in because like My knee hurt and I couldn't run. And I don't have a need.
I didn't do anything to it. It just hurt. And it's going to go away the same way I was two weeks ago, I was limping. And that magically went away four weeks ago. I couldn't move my hip.
That magically went away. I remember your plantar fasciitis situation. That magically went away, but that was bad. That was extended. And that was bad.
I had that for a while, too. I think it was bad. Yeah. Never again. Yeah, hopefully never again.
What's your next one? My next one is. The Bucks today. trotted out the following eight players. A.J.
Green, Gary Trent Jr., Usman Jang, Pete Nance, Jericho Sims, Torian Prince, Andre Jackson Jr., Cormac Ryan. Wait, Prince, that can't be right. Yeah, he's back. He is? He's been back for three weeks.
I haven't fucking watched. Honestly, I'm not going to subject myself to it. Um If you bought a ticket. To this game. Five months ago.
Three months ago. I don't even know what it would be, but like at some point, like prior to today. The NBA, the Bucks. You are entitled to a refund. You should be entitled to a refund.
I'd say if you pay more than $50 for any seat, yeah.
Well, and I I think I've given you this example like back in I don't know, like. Whatever. 2016 when 2017? When did you and I do a couple, a handful of the fan shows together? But I use the example of If there is an above the title star at a Broadway theater show, And said individual is unavailable.
You can ask for you can still go. And you can say, no, that's okay. I'm still going to enjoy the show. But you're allowed to say prior to, like, oh, okay, you know what? I'll actually come back.
Yeah. And the theater and the producers, like they eat some shit for that, right? Like, they're going to take a loss that people are going to, some are going to say, you know what, I'll come back.
Next week. But it It's It's bad business. Like, it's very short-sighted, I believe. Of a sport that is so star-dependent, and like the difference between a game in which Once you make the playoffs, everything in concession should be half off. Once you miss the playoffs.
Well think about this. First of all, the NBA doesn't let As of recently, They don't let star player, they're much more strict on star player sitting on a nationally televised game. Why? Because it's a major difference in how many people are going to watch.
So. And yet they're like, hey. You paid full price for this ticket thinking that you were going to see a late season. Giannis Bucksled thing, like tough shit. Like, you know, bad luck for you.
And when the price of an NBA ticket, especially being what it is, I just think it's short-sighted, like, no, we're definitely keeping that money and not giving it back, and not being like, well, hey. We can offer the following options to you so that you don't. If you want, you can still come. Great. Like, that's awesome.
But we'll give you a different option, too. If you want like Yeah. The NBA, someone should offer fans the opportunity, if they so desire it, to have a refund on a day like this. Or mm-mm. And again, it's not unprecedented.
It happens. I mean, I'm sure there are other industries, but Broadway and New York City does this. I think that would get exploited pretty easily by a sports. But wouldn't you? You would pick.
So, like, I think I told you this 10 years ago, but like, designate a star. Said player is above the title. He's the star of the movie, he's the star of the show, he's the star of the game. If the above the title player You know, and obviously today is an extreme example, right? With the lineup that was trotted out.
Oh, in the next two weeks, will be. Yeah, like but like so what are your options to resell it for 15% of what you paid. When you thought it was going to be a meaningful game And instead you're just stuck with the bill. Like that's a it's it's just a it's a bad consumer. You know what, though?
I think I'm wrong. I think I have to. We've talked for years about: oh, we like when our team's bad for a little bit, cheap tickets.
Okay. It ain't worth it, dude. This fucking sucks. This fucking sucks. Bad NBA teams.
But Like I mean, geez, 15 years ago. You could go to like meaningful games. No one's going to be going to these games. I fully expect Giannis to get traded. I fully expect Doc to still be the fucking coach.
I fully expect Doc to still be the coach. Uh That how much of that is honest and how much of that is just like nihilistic? Whatever happened to Nihilus Bucks? Is he still out there? First thing that came to my mind.
Is he out there? I have no idea. Where'd you go? He changed his handle to Nathan Marzian. I don't know.
Nathan Marzion just fucking hates Bobby Portis and lets everyone know. I can't. Where did this fucking guy go? Maybe thing maybe things got too positive like around 2021 and then Had to abandon ship. Uh Maybe it's Sith Lord.
Yeah, maybe it is Sith. Um refunds. Yeah, no, it's not gonna.
Well, Broadway's not like trying to make a next year's roster. The Bucks are still making money for the bottom line. Broadway seems more like, oh, we can afford this. We're not contending for You know what I mean? We're not.
We don't have to make payroll. We don't have to. Yes, you do. Yeah, people are still gonna fucking go. More money.
We don't have to go deep into like Broadway financials, which I could go length into detail with. No, it's a um it's a very, very, very, very, very difficult. Place to make your return back. Not even like, oh, I made money on this production. Like getting your money back is extremely rare.
There's one of the most prominent Broadway producers. Literally, I read an article this weekend where he's like, I'm done producing Broadway shows. It's just impossible to ever get my money back.
So. Yo, you're way off base on this. My apologies. You know what, I'll forgive you. You know, it's really pissing me off is WWE doesn't run house shows anymore.
It's made the product bad. I just saw it. TJ Wilson, you know, like right you know that is right. Natalia's husband. Naddy's husband, talking about that because he's a producer now, and like they're most.
Wrestled guy in last year. I want to say it was like LA Night or something with like 64 matches. And meanwhile, like, Guys on Elsewhere in independence and even like AEW wrestlers who also wrest and wrestle independently are in the one hundreds per year with with matches wrestled. And yeah, it's it's you're it's going to be worse. It just is.
House shows are the shit because the guys goof off more and then it's fun. And then s in once in a blue moon, there's a title change and then. On the show the next night, they're like, they have to weirdly explain what happened. Yeah. Like, well, it makes sense.
We'd never acknowledge these, but. You know, Gunther's beat Jey Uso for the title 75 times, but then last night he rolled him up. Yeah. Now we gotta fucking Acknowledge it. When you manage procurement for multiple facilities, every order matters.
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These uh apparent city connects. Whether they're real or not, they're disgusting. These are fucking Mets jerseys. These are not the kind of thing I have an opinion on. I just truly don't care.
What makes them bad? The color, the design, the logo, the font, the numbers, the. The Mets, the Mets about it, Mets Mets Jersey, to Mets Jersey. Just because, but the only orange there is the last name and then, like, I guess like the swoosh. I did see someone comment, I retweeted, or the oranges for the construction.
Which is, how's that around the ballpark? Brutal. It's brutal. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah.
All right. Were those your two? Those are the two. Hmm. What do you got on the dock at the night?
Going to sleep. You're not watching nothing? Like what? I'm going to watch Warriors Nuggets. No.
Yeah. Again, very excited for the NBA playoffs. Like, when that's, we're like two and a half weeks away. That's what I'm watching every night. I'm very excited for the playoffs.
Very. But honestly, and I mean this sincerely. If I was to watch Nuggets Warriors tonight, I would 1000%, no matter how good the game is. I would leave that less enthusiastic for the NBA playoffs because regular season basketball, especially this time of year, but really kind of all year long now. It's it's So, I'm an NBA.
I still follow it. I could tell you all the stuff about all the stuff. Because I know when the playoffs start, I'm going to be hooked. And it's really, really good. It's really, really good.
Madness, like But To watch Warriors Nuggets On a random Sunday late in the season. Good luck to you.
Well, there's no pennant races in the NB. No one's playing for anything. No, it's me. The only interesting thing that's happened is the Hawks have won like 10 out of 12 or some shit. And that's interesting, but that doesn't make like I'm going to watch tomorrow's Hawks game.
any more likely. Yeah. Again, NBA is like my thing, like traditionally, like throughout most years of my life. But man, this is not the time of year to Get geared up for two and a half weeks from now when it's gonna be fucking awesome. And I won't be able to watch as much because I'm going to need to watch.
Hockey playoffs for the first time in 12 years with my sabers. Oh, I see.
Okay, specifically because of the state. I was like, what's bringing you to the hockey playoffs now? I watch a little, you know, being on the national show, but. He left. Paul knew what I meant if you could edit that in post.
Tim. Tim. Tim Tim Tim. Uh, Tim, can you edit and post? I got you.
Tim, can you hear it in both? Yeah. Tim's always on standby. I just finally thought, yeah, I'll bring him in this time. Tim Shea, everybody.
And I can confirm 100% those jerseys that you had, those are not the brewers, the city connects.
So then what's the rumor about? I don't know where those jerseys came from. I don't know who posted them. I think it was someone just trying to get some clicks, and you baited it. You got baited.
You got a lot of people working against you. Just fantastic. Just fantastic. No, there's actually probably people rooting for me because those. There's practice.
Probably. Oh, I'm not on Wi-Fi. Hold on. Let's do this all over again. All right, figure it out.
Tim, Tim, can you edit yourself? Help me.
Okay, I real quick. The clip Before you clipped him chugging I g the the beer before your tailgate started. I clipped that for you. I don't know if that influenced you at all to clip it, or maybe you already knew. But if he comes back on with proper Wi-Fi, like, does he know the degree to which he was peer-pressured into that and that, like, Your turn to camera smirk laugh.
was like I can get this guy to do. whatever like it was so devilish it was so sinister Yeah. It was it was like oh my god to stop check it.
Well right now? When I'm gonna help right now Ten years does that finish the drink? I did, it's gone. Can you believe it? Oh, and then someone just poured you more into the cup.
That's fantastic. Tim Chugs like Rogers.
Sorry. I'm not ready to chug yet. Why the fuck did it stop? Wow. Talk about uh connection issues.
Oh no, that was okay. And then I had the Clipper Rogers and then.
So, Tim, do you do you realize the extent to which he Uh Influence here. Uh I I I am not a beer chugger. All my friends are. Oh my God, here, I'll do this. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay, when you're ready. Come back. Uh what was did I just ask you something just before that? I don't remember.
I don't know. Here's shithead. All right. Is this better for the better? I just had to totally reconnect.
I was still on the same one. Yeah. All right. What's up, buddy? Did you go to all three games?
No, I just went to two.
Okay, first of all, um. Even I had a couple of my friends are like, first of all, we know you're not a beer chugger.
So that had to be really tough. Yes, I know, I know. I put into Bart's head now anything he says, I'll probably do. Except actually edit and post. Yes, except never edit my podcast.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I'll get on that. it would probably help if he actually sent it to you and it wasn't uh correct Mm-hmm. That's a big sweep though, Timmy. Yeah, that was a nice little.
I gave up on the game today. Just. I did too. I went outside. Started doing other things.
So. Yeah. Penguins gave you five bucks for your internet. No, no, no. Yes.
Make sure you send that to me. I went to yesterday's game and the home opener, of course.
So Mm-hmm. You can't go to all 82 or 81 if you don't go to the first three. Exactly, exactly. I'll be there Tuesday night.
So Okay. They play tomorrow? Yep, they do play tomorrow. Tomorrow, Tuesday, and Wednesday against the Rays. I'll be there tomorrow.
Oh, nice. And by there, I mean Petco Park, baby. Who do they play? Giants Nice. Yeah.
We're even assuming, you know, assuming everything works, do you have your seat? Seats? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Why are you going to San Diego?
To go to this Padres Giants series, dude. I love baseball. Oh, okay. Going to all three games, then we're flying back. He wants to see how ABS works in other markets, too.
Wasn't that wasn't that great in Cincinnati? Fantastic. You know, if they connect to my internet, it may not work. You like the ABS? What's your ABS question, Paul?
What was that? It works. Maybe ABS is fucking great. Or 1000%. Especially to umpires like Laz Diaz.
Come on. I didn't even get the lads, all right? They're not or wait, CB Boxer.
Sorry, yeah, the lads, even like okay. Laz Diaz, is he related to Vaz DeFriends? Totally. I would have loved to seen like uh Rest in peace. Milwaukee guy new Bruce Friming.
They they held a moment of silence for him before. Um the home opener, but I would have loved to have seen him with ABS. Yeah, maybe they waited. I don't know what yeah what?
Sorry. Maybe they waited in his honor. Um, yeah, okay.
So you had a good time at the games? Yeah, had a good time three and all off to a good start here. I don't know, Tim, I don't know when you tuned in, but we're not allowed to celebrate being 3-0.
So don't even know.
Someone said we can't only Brewers fans would celebrate a sweep of the White Soxes. Oh, okay. Well, shame on them for sweeping them. Tim, how many S's? are in white socks.
Two. It just makes one. Why did I say two? Suck it. See?
Yeah. One, of course. White socks. White socks. Hey, one last one.
One last one. Seeing as we're not doing this for. You know, nine or ten days. That NFL Officiating Holdout situation. Oh, yeah, we won't be able to talk about the NFL winter meetings this week.
Dang. The NFL officiating holdout contract negotiation. Is an interesting story that will have implications for the season. Yeah. Well, yeah, they ain't gonna get shit done.
And I don't care. I'm not bothering my time with this. The other that my my Part B question would have been This story matters. Or you care about it. It absolutely matters, and I absolutely care.
But. But I'm not fucking following it. Not this early. It'll get finished when it gets finished. Yeah, week four.
They thought that in 20. But then they're going to be like, you know, I've already seen a lot of people say, well, this is why we should have full-time refs. I still don't understand what they would do if they were full time. Yeah. What does a full-time ref job look like?
You're going to work him 40 hours a week? It looks exactly what a part-time. But did you see the Goodell quote? I think it was Goodell, right? Where he basically said, like, Essentially, I slightly paraphrase him, something to the effect of like, there are too many mistakes and We need to get better.
Like, that wow, I know he's in the middle of a negotiation. And so.
Sometimes you take certain tactics in those situations, but I mean, literally, seven minutes ago, NFL is set to hire replacement officials and begin onboarding them in the coming weeks. This is as of seven minutes ago. Oh, Bart, let's do that. Let's go to onboarding for NFL officiating. All three of us.
I got time. It's gonna be a great bit for the show if I just become like a fucking NFL ref replacement. All right, this is how you turn your microphone on, holding number 45 defense. 15 years. I've got speaking skills in front of people.
I can be the main ump. Did you read like the Pelicero details on this? Or again, do you not even want to care or buy? You think I'd have to sell my stock? You would.
You would not be assigned to Packer games. I couldn't be assigned to any game. I couldn't be assigned to any. Oh, that's the other thing I wanted to bring up. I fucking hate Dan Hurley.
I hate him. I don't I I think you are in the significant majority to have that opinion. And I hate Dina White. Are there people who like Dan Hurley? Like, honestly, do they exist?
Kevin Holden right now. Mikes Dan Hurley? Oh, he got him in the practice. He does. It just saved him a trip.
It just saved him a week of because he's covering Duke. Yeah. He sent me a smiley face as soon as the game ended. Are you supposed to share that? I was going to say, Tim, Tim, that's that's Kevin's Rally Durham audience watch this show?
No, they haven't. Yes. Oh, yes, they do.
Sorry. It's Bard's second biggest market. He actually is kind of sad because I was going to see him. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, you're going to the final four.
I am. I'll send you reports all week. Wait, why? For what purpose? I just like to go.
What's in Hindi? It's in Indianapolis.
Next year, Detroit? Yeah, next year Detroit, Ford Field.
So you're going to that too? Sam, you genuinely like college basketball? Like, you know, yeah, I do. I'm a big college basketball. I like college basketball.
I got to put you on the fire then. Like, what the fuck is there to like about college raspberry? It's better than watching the Bucks. And prose, let's be real about that. This time of year.
Yeah, college, it does work where it's like, oh, the NBA sucks after the trade deadline.
Okay, let's get into these tournaments. And then when they end, then the NBA starts their playoffs.
So that that works out for the average basketball consumer. Mm-hmm. And I just don't like the NBA to begin with, so. Yeah, why is that, Tim? Yeah, Tim.
Just don't too lib for you. Yeah. Too woke. Damn! I mean, wait, that doesn't work in this situation.
Yeah. All right. Well, I'm going to watch Warrior's Nuggets. Anything else, Paul? Thanks for your time.
Yeah, this was fun. I'll miss you this week. What are you going what? Tomorrow through what? Yeah, it's just like till Thursday, except there's supposed to be a foot of snow now, according to the Apple apps, which don't trust them.
The weathermen are all weather people, the Mets are already in front of. You are Really looking forward to flying. And dealing with Airport stuff. Right now, given the circumstances. Or I hate flying so much anyway.
I'm so afraid. I'm mortified. I fucking hate flying. But I love airports. Yeah.
I love airports. I don't think I've met someone who likes airports. I love them. Why? I just like them.
I like the, I like the $18 beers. I like all the different weird shops. I like the Hudson News. I like um I like the the specific smell of You know, like when 20 people are taking a shit at the same time.
So you're kidding. No, I love airports. But not for any of like you just listed a bunch of reasons why they're awful. I just, I don't like cigarettes, but I love the smell of cigarette smoke. You've said that before, and that is just the smell.
I love it. I love it so much. When you're at Pottawatomy, how many times do you go into the smoking room then? As much as I can. Just to get a good whiff.
God, I love the smell of snow. Did your parents smoke around you as a kid? No. I think a lot of it has to do when I went to Germany. The whole country smelled like cigarette smoke.
And you have like a positive memory of that. Yeah, and it rained, like rainy cigarette, just like. Dreary fucking I love it.
Sounds great. Yeah. I love it. God, I love it. I'm gonna start making my kids smoke or my wife.
I want to smell it. I don't want to smoke. Shit's bad for you, dude. Yeah. Do they make candles that smell like cigarette smoke?
Honestly, if they don't, and there's truly a market of people like you. You might have just come up with your business idea. Candles smell like cigarettes. Of course, they do. Of course, but who wants that?
Like, what percent of people do you think have that take? It's not a take. It's what I sort of like this one. I have that opinion, like that thought. I don't know.
I don't know. 0.1%. At most.
Okay. Wait, did you? You ever go to restaurants and be like, smoking or non? And then you'd say non, and they'd sit you at one booth, and then. Oh my goodness.
Fuck are we doing? The smoking section is across the room, and it certainly won't travel seven feet. You should be able to smoke on planes. It's really crazy. You can't bring a bottle of water on a plane.
You can bring cigarettes. And just rip heaters. All right. Well, just just to be clear. I don't think this does.
I'm looking it up for you. Candle that smells like cigarettes. Uh I think I have one. I'm seeing cigarette smell candle on Etsy. Has anyone ever started smoking at the age of 41?
Should I be the first? You've never had one cigarette before, Bart. No, I've had cigarettes before. Oh, like just like a Like I smoke every day.
Well, no, I've told you guys this, haven't I? When we used to go back to La Crosse for college reunion trips. Yes. Um I would always buy a pack and destroy it in that sitting. Jeez.
I'd go through a whole pack. Once a year I would go through a whole pack. I didn't get addicted to the nicotine. I just smoke it. Smoke them if you got them.
Hey, that's where the phrase comes from. All right, do you guys wanna go wanna go? Ending with the best stuff. Thanks, Mark.
Okay. Tim, you got anything else pertinent to say? Tim, anything you want to plug? No, I got nothing. My I think golf outing.
Bart, how was Hopper's? Fucking intense, dude. I didn't want to tell you before, but yeah. That movie is intense. It's not, it's That's not a kids movie, dude.
Up was not a kids movie. Hoppers is Just barely. When they take the mayor's face off, and he's like the robot mayor guy, Jesus. Spoilers. And then you've got Dave Franco rocking the uh Yeah, I didn't realize that.
I didn't realize John Hamm was the mayor. I clocked Bobby Moynihan right away. Bobby Moynihan. Cherry Hotel. You went to Sherry O'Terry.
She's the next one that you had.
Well, me and my buddy always used to do. We always used to do that with our friends. Specifically Sherry O'Terry?
Well, we would do the S and L ones and then we'd be like Musical guest Tim Shade. With a special appearance from Paul Himig. Do they still have the soundalike guy doing intros? Yeah, Daryl Hammond just copies what that guy used to do.
Okay, so they do still do that. Mm-hmm. I don't watch it, it's not funny anymore. It's Sunday Night Live. With your host, Bart Winkler.
Tim, whatever happened to that girl you were flirting with? Which one? I don't know, and she lives in like Indiana or some shit. You can see her this morning. North Carolina.
Yeah. She was at Kelly's. Did you guys make out in the back? But I didn't let you come inside the bar. Oh shit.
Tim, what do you think of when I say North Carolina. Put your hands up. Let's do Radio has been like a helicopter. North Carolina Yeah. Canny.
Ah I just watched that match. Him and Swerve. That was a good match. It was. There's good wrestling out there.
We should probably stop now. Yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. Fuck you. I'm gonna go.
I'm leaving. I'm leaving. Thank you very much. All right. I'll be back after spring break.
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