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To be a scam artist. or a con man. Who knew the easiest line of work in the world was being a conman? Who knew that all you had to do? to get people to believe that you're an NFL player is by a helmet.
and just take it with you wherever you go. I mean, I cannot get over. This Dejaun Love aka fake Niner story. Even if I've seen it a million times before, for some reason, this time it's hitting a little differently. It's like the perfect Kooky conclusion to the kookiest niner offseason ever.
I think that's part of it. And you know, being fair, it's got nothing to do with the Niners. I can't put this on the Niners. This has nothing to do with the Niners except there is an attachment. There's collateral damage because it's a Niner bucket that he's carrying around with him wherever he goes.
I mean, we are talking about some kook who spent years acting like he was on the team, even though the simplest Google search would have exposed the entire scam. I mean, it really is a drag that people are so lonely. and so desperate and so greedy But it sucks even more. The people are so ignorant And so naïve. and so dumb Like I feel for anyone who Who got God?
By this kook, But also, how could anyone possibly get got? By this goog. I'll never understand it. This dude was running the least impressive routes on the beach of all time with his helmet on. He signed the fakest contract of all time.
And he tried to tell women there were three stages of clearing waivers in the NFL. Mental Physical And emotional. Absolutely none of this holds up to even the loosest definition of common sense. Look at the visor he's rocking even. with the helmet on the beach.
Bro, bro. Were you thinking that somebody was going to come over the middle on the beach and light you up? Why are you wearing a helmet? Who are you worried about on the beach? And I absolutely lost it this weekend when I saw the longer form vid of this dude bragging about all of his mansions.
And his luxury sleds and his jewelry, and even giving a tour of one of the alleged mansions, especially the way he shot it. Like, you can't even see anything but his face, so you have no idea what the house looks like. Like I just don't know who's more delusional. This dude. Or the people who somehow got swindled by this dude.
Check this. Um I own a fifteen million dollar Home in Malibu on the beach. I own a $20 million home in Beverly Hill that I just bought in March of last year, or this year, no, last year, we're in 2023. Um I also own a beach house in Southeast Miami, Florida, and I own a penthouse on Billionaires Row, downtown Manhattan in New York. This is my ZR1 Corvette.
That's $190,000. Here's my Hellcat charger Red Eye, that's $140,000. And then here's my AMG band, AMG 63S. That's about 200,000.
So these keys here is probably worth about A million dollars close to a million.
So this is my bed. This is about an $8,000 bed. Um Here's my T V. This T V is about eight thousand I love horror sh.
So these each doll's about two K. Um they give us these Um For football And these are about $2,000 each. And they just give us that for recovery. And then here is my bathroom here. That tub is Critical.
After like working it out. For sure. Dude, I don't know where you're squatting. But that does not have the trappings of a multi, multi, multi, multi, multi-million dollar California crib. That's a bathtub, bro.
Congratulations. You have a bathtub. You're rich. And he didn't exactly show us the crib. Look and and by the way, uh the the keychains?
I didn't see the whips. I saw the keys. Because that's what rich people do. They go through all of their belongings one by one. And they detail what everything costs to random people that they meet on the internet.
It's almost like an infomercial for Come Rob Me. I've got a mansion in Malibu. I've got this mansion. I have all these cars. I have all this bling.
He went, he itemized all his jewelry, too. Nobody's still in that bed, by the way. Or that T V or the Chuck E. Dolls. What are you doing with Chuck E.
dolls? Anyway, that makes sense. or at least as little sense as the rest of this, ladies, Did any of you and I know a couple did because he started to block the ones that asked any questions. And now they're suing. But did any of you who got caught?
at any point wonder why he needed your money If he had all of that. If he has mansions all over the country, and a million plus in luxury sleds and another million plus in jewelry Then why the hell would he be asking you for money? That's my biggest question. How did nobody wonder why this allegedly ridiculously rich NFL player? needed money from random women.
Well, maybe it's my second biggest question. My actual biggest question is, why would you wear a helmet on the beach to work out? Where is the logic there? Again, I wanna know who was coming over the middle to light this sucker up. Is there going to be a safety prowling the middle of the beach or something?
Is there a danger of head trauma by running routes on air in the sand? Obviously, the biggest question of all this is: how did anybody fall for this? Like, I really want to muster more sympathy because what's happening is obviously, you've got some really, really lonely people. and some really gullible people. I really, really feel badly if you're that lonely and that desperate.
And that goable. And you handed money over, then it's sad. Yeah, me really is sad. But If you just take a step back. and you use your brain, especially when it comes to giving money to somebody you do not know, somebody that you met off the Internet or a dating site.
It's just hard for me to sympathize. With anyone who doesn't use their brain or Google. It's one guy, the first guy who came forward. said she gave him eleven thousand dollars and that he bought her a Corvette. And You know, she's like, wow, he he really is rich.
He's giving me a Corvette. But then again. You gave him 11 grand and he gave you a Corvette. That that's not weird? Have none of you ever seen an episode of American Greed or Dateline or Catfish.
I'll never understand how anyone could fall for something like this and come to find out there's so many more of them. There's also a fake cowboy, too. Apparently, there's a whole industry of people doing horrendous impressions of pro athletes and somehow successfully scamming people. Look at this dude. Here's your fake cowboy.
Following in the footsteps of his idol, the fake Niner. Yeah. I just don't get it. I don't understand it, but I do know this. Jed Pork.
Loves this guy. This guy has been such a valuable distraction to Jed Pork. That Jed Pork should actually sign the guy. He should actually make him a real 49er when he gets out of prison. He should do that as a show of gratitude.
He should settle his lawsuits for him, get him the best representation that his money can buy, and actually put him on the 53-man roster for being such a diversion. and misdirection and getting people to look away from Jed Pork. This fake Niner is the best thing that ever happened to that real Niner owner. I own a $15 million home in Malibu on the beach. Doubt that.
Doubt that, bro. I also own a beach house in Southeast Mary, Florida, and I own a penthouse on Billionaires Row, downtown Manhattan in New York. A penthouse on Billionaires Row in Manhattan. And a place in South Beach, and a $15 million crib in Malibu, and this place here. It's like this is my place in Dublin.
Like, I don't you could tell I don't come here very often. Come on, Chad Brown. This car is $340,000. It's worth more than that now. Of course, dude.
Of course it appreciated because you are a great investor. Great eye for these things. This is my ZR1 Corvette. That's $190,000. Bro, why not just give your address so they can come over and steal everything?
Oh, that's right. You don't you don't have anything. You know, it'd be great. Like, if all your whips were right there and all the keys were on the same keychain, it'd be the easiest heist ever. And then here's my AMG band, AMG 63.
Look, I understand there are influencers online that like to let you know how successful they are, and they show you the life. Because that way then you come to them because you want that life. I understand all of that. And yes, he's probably not the only guy telling you how much things cost. This is my bed.
This is about an $8,000 bed. Who's telling you how much their bed costs? Here's my TV. This TV is about eight thousand. It didn't look like it, bro.
The price of those TVs have come down because of technology. That $8,000 TV looked like a very basic monitor that may be priced out. at eight hundred bucks. The fifty thousand Trojan fans that were at the Coliseum cannot believe that you're saying that that T V cost eight thousand dollars. That tub is critical after like working it out, for sure.
Is it? Is it? Because it looks like a basic. Run of the mill bathtub to me. Critical.
Critical for me. after my workouts on the beach with my 49er helmet on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Me being rich, my safety is everything. This is why I'm telling everybody exactly what I own and how much it costs and where my homes are.
But me being rich, my safety is everything. Anyway, Jet Pork. Oh, oh, you own a penthouse on Billionaires Row.
Okay, bro, how about you and me get on my G5 and we fly to your penthouse on Billionaires Row? You know, I keep surprised, Jet. My Dublin home, I just bought it so a lot of things are still getting sent over, and I'm not here a lot. Dude, you're probably never there because that's probably not your house. Ched Pork, show this guy.
Your appreciation By making his wildest dream come true. by making him an actual 49er. Because dude, he is taking a lot of heat off of you right now, Jed Pork. A lot of heat off of you. Look at this guy.
The grey oo Dude, wait to see that ball in.
Now he's pulling the sled with the ball in his hand. Who is running on the beach with a helmet on? All right, when we come back, Josh Donaldson joins us. I mean Okay. If they know of 26.
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Right now, though, we are joined by the 2015 American League Most Valuable Player. He was a three-time All-Star when he played. He won a Paris Silver Slugger Awards. He played 13 years in the Bigs. He is co-host of the Get It Done League.
It's a podcast along with Russell Martin. Of course, I'm talking about Josh Donaldson. Josh, great to have you on the show, dude. How are you doing? Jim, good to see you.
It's been a long time.
So it's nice to be back. Yeah, it's been a long time. It's great to see you, man.
So bring me up to date. In addition to doing the pod with Russell, what's keeping you busy these days? Yeah, I've been playing on this pro golf tour with that John Smoltz put together. It's called the Pro Tour. That's been keeping us busy.
This is the first year it's been going, and we've been having a lot of fun. We just finished up in Syracuse, New York. And I finished fourth place in that for the first round of the playoffs. Our next round of the playoffs is coming up in The end of September up in Connecticut, also.
So, yeah, it's been fun keeping me busy. And then I have two younger daughters. That keeps me busy as well. You know it does.
So I was going to ask you how you're hitting them, but it sounds like you're hitting them pretty well. Hey, let me ask you this: because I used to talk to those guys on the Braves staff when they played, and you know, they took their golf very, very seriously, and they talked about how important it was for them mentally over the course of a long, long season. How much did you play golf while you played in the major leagues? Yeah, I like to actually use golf in the offseason for me for the mental capacity as well, just because in golf you can hit a really good shot and kind of get screwed in some areas, whether it's wind or you hit a ball on a divot or. You know, you hit a putt that lips out and you know, you just kind of have to take it in stride.
And I felt like I would use that as my mental preparation going into the season for sure. It makes you a better player, right? Because, number one, it's a great equalizer. I don't care how good of an athlete you are, and you've got to think your way around the course, and it's not something you can ever master. Are these all reasons why you love that game?
Yeah, apparently I like. I must be a masochist or something because baseball, golf, like all these things. Oh, it's like self- Yeah, it's self-torture a lot of times while you're out there. But yeah, like you were saying, you got to think your way through it and. You know, you really got to keep your emotions in check.
And, you know, it's in both sports, they're very similar. We're talking to Josh Dawson.
So, Josh, recently, in fact, this past spring, you were honored by your alma mater, and you became just the fifth member of the Auburn Baseball Program to have your number retired as an Alabama native. What did that represent to you to one, compete for the Tigers? And then, when you look back on your time playing college baseball, what was that like? What do you remember most? Yeah, my what I've it's a good question.
I mean, first off, the names that we have on that list with Tim Hudson, Frank Thomas, Bo Jackson, Greg Olson, like just to be in that same breath as a lot of those guys is is huge because I know what kind of impact They had. I remember watching them when I was coming up, and I actually got to play against Tim Hudson.
So it's kind of going full circle being there. And whenever I was being honored, you know, Butch Thompson, the head coach, who's there, he was one of our coaches when I was at Auburn. And the head coach for the University of Georgia. Was my pitching coach when I was with the Minnesota Twins.
So it was kind of, it was kind of full circle bringing it all the way back that weekend.
So it was very special for myself and my family. But my time at Albert, my freshman year, we had some good runs. Uh but my sophomore year In junior year, I felt like I had to learn how to lose a little bit because we weren't as successful as I wanted to be. Um And that was really the first time in my career.
Sorry, my dog's barking. We have somebody coming through the door. But. Um Really, it was the first time in my life where I'd actually really lost. And to kind of have.
The wherewithal to kind of keep pushing and keep fighting through that was big for me as well. Josh Dawson joining us. That's so interesting, man. That class, you talk about the guys that you just mentioned. First of all, Huddy.
I haven't thought about Huddy in a minute, man. He was so tough, man. What a tough, tough dude, tough competitor he was. But, Josh, Bo Jackson to me has always been the most unbelievable athlete I've ever seen in my life. And I don't say that lightly.
If you just broke down the baseball aspect of Bo, like, would you think of Bo as a baseball player, just purely and simply as a baseball player? I mean The raw skills were off the charts, right? And I felt like it's one of those areas to where baseball is. Does it help to be an athlete? 100%.
But it's such a skill sport to wear. To where he didn't have really the time. to be able to put that Athleticism into a skill as much as most major leaguers do. And the guy was an all-star. Probably one of my.
Fondest memories of Bo. I remember when in the all-star game, he hit the homer, the dead center field. That was like 500 feet. Um, But the throw that he threw out, Harold, I think it was Harold Reynolds out at home plate. Um Or it might not have been Harold, it might have been when they were playing the Yankees, but absolutely through.
I would love to see what the scat stat cast would have been on it. It seemed to be like a 110-mile-an-hour throw to throw the runner out. Just to show you what kind of, we all know Bo can run. We all know that Bo had pop, but just the all-around athlete skill set that he had was incredible. I think it's a great point to make.
It's a great point. Nobody's saying that you don't need any athletic ability to be a great baseball player, but you're right. It's a skills-based game. You can make yourself a great, great, great baseball player without being a freakish athlete. Fair to say?
Yeah, I mean, I think you look at like a David Eckstein, like a perfect example, like smaller guy, Jose Altuve, like great athlete, but like smaller statured guy. Like, I mean, I was actually at this Pro Tour thing. We were having a big conversation because it's all the major sports there. And the NBA guys were sitting there telling me, like, Josh, who do you think the best athletes are? Because they know I'm kind of like you, Jim.
Like, we're cut from the same clock, but like, we kind of tell it how it is. And they're asking me, who's the best athlete, right? And I go, it's baseball by far. Like, we can do whatever it is. Like, we can go shoot threes, we can go catch a football, we can throw a football.
I don't know how well we could block. I'm sure we have some big pitchers or catchers, you know, some guys that might be able to stand in front of a couple of guys, but. I was talking to Tywan Walker when he was out on the golf course today. Like, I remember seeing videos of him. He was 360 dunking.
And, you know, back in the 90s, when they had Barry Sanders, Ken Griffey Jr., Ricky Henderson, these guys that were running sprints and doing the dunk competition. Like baseball, in my opinion, the athletes are way more well-rounded. And you get a football guy, you get a basketball guy on a baseball field. They're not touching a baseball. They're not able, most of them can't even throw a baseball.
So it's. I might be a little bit biased, but you know, I think baseball is definitely the more athletes for sure. I actually love that breakdown, Josh. For instance, we've seen how many people try to get up on the bump and just hit the catcher's glove from 60 feet six inches, and how badly it goes for them. Right, exactly.
I mean, it's not, you know, it's not rocket science and uh to sit there and be able to see with your own eyeballs that these guys can't do something. We're talking to Josh Dawson, he won the AL MVP.
So, speaking as somebody who won the MVP award, when you look at Pete Crow Armstrong, all right, five more home runs this weekend. Has he locked up that award already? I think he's close. I mean, I think Shohei is going to need a big push at the end coming in. It doesn't help that, you know.
You know, the Dodgers kind of like I feel like they're like. Half in, half out, like as far as being serious. You know, just because they're so good, they're going, Yeah, we'll just turn it on to the postseason.
So we'll see if Shohei decides to turn it on this last month of the season. I think that's his big push. But To be quite frank, I just think it's such a cool story. I remember hearing whispers of. You know, Pete at the beginning of the year, they were talking about sending him down.
To the minor leagues. Like, and counsel was like kind of defending. Oh, no, no, no, no, he's a great defensive player, right? And then he makes an adjustment at the plate, and now he's got. What 37, 38 home runs right now, and everybody's talking about him for the MVP.
So, what a great story I think his ride has been this year. And what's. Mm-hmm. I think really cool about him is he's not one-dimensional. He has the most.
Out above average for any center fielder. I think he's like. Times two of any outfielder right now.
So he's playing incredible defense. He's raking at the plate. He's playing in a great city in Chicago where their fan base is really behind him. And he's, he's a.
Okay. He's what I would call an electricity. He's electric. Like, he has that electricity about him. Like, he's going to bring.
That polarizing figure to the game right now, which I don't think that there's a ton of guys like that anymore. And he seems to be the one that really stands out to me. Didn't only that, like, you're right. He's unbelievable defensively, offensively, obviously. We see what he does.
But, Josh, when you see the ball come off his bat, does it come off differently? Does it make a different sound? Does it look different? I mean, when you talk about electric, every time I see that guy barrel something up, I'm like, damn, that just sounds and looks different. Yeah, and I mean, I think he has this, like, he's in this zone right now to where he's touching it and already releasing the bat right now.
So you could just tell, like, he's. He's dialed in, and he's seeing the ball as slow and as big as he's probably ever seen it in his entire life right now. And it's fun to watch, and I would say for his size. The ball definitely is jumping off the bat, really, probably differently. But, like, you know, in the major leagues, there's a lot of guys that can do that.
But at the rate that he's doing it for and the size that he's doing it at, it's pretty special. To that point, Josh, like the mental aspect, I'm so fascinated by what you just said. Like, when you have that mindset, right, when you go to the yard and you're in that zone and you just expect good things to happen, like you know, you know, something good is going to happen tonight, it's like slumps, right? Can you put yourself in that zone? Can you find a way into that zone?
Or do you just hope you get into the zone and ride it as long as you possibly can? Yeah, I like for me it's The more prepared you feel going into any situation, it allows the body and the mind to relax to where you don't have a thousand things coming through your brain all at one time. And to really be able to process and slow things down. And confidence is contagious. Like to me, there's two different types of confidence: you have fake confidence, whatever you're struggling and you're having to tell yourself that you're good right now, and then you have.
real confidence to where it's like Whenever I was with an MVP, whatever PCA is going through right now, Judge, like you know, when you show up to the yard that day, something good's going to happen. Whether it's going to be he's going to hit three home runs, or whether he's going to make a diving catch in the outfield to save the game, whether he hits three barrels, and or you know, for PCA's sake, like he could steal three bases in a game. Like, the guy can impact the game in a multitude of different ways. Those are the things I miss about playing the game. I don't miss playing the game anymore.
I miss the feeling that he's having right now because I've had that feeling to where everything's moving at a really fast pace. But to him right now, everything's moving really slow and it's special right now.
Well, that's really interesting.
So you don't miss the game, but you miss that feeling. Like, it's kind of like a drug, right? Like, you can't get that feeling.
Well, can you? Can you get in that zone in anything else you do? Can you get it on the golf course? Yeah, you definitely. I think that's the closest I can do as far as on the golf course.
I would say, per se, like I haven't ventured out too much to do any of their things, but golf is the closest thing where you can get in some zones where I have. Like, I've shot some 29s on a front or back before. You know, I've thrown up some lower numbers.
So, like, when you get into those zones and everything else is just going on, but you're not even paying attention to it, it's pretty special. And You know, I would say. From a baseball standpoint, like It's more of that feeling of feeling invincible. Like he feels invincible right now at the play and at the yard. Like he's in his, you know, happy Gilmore.
He's in his happy place right now. And you can see it. You can definitely. See it jump off the screen right now. Like, that guy can't get me out.
Nobody can get me out. Is that contagious? Does that start to work its way through a clubhouse at all? Yes. And here's what it does: it takes pressure off everyone else.
Like he's coming in, doing his job. He's putting forth.
Now everybody's like, okay, the pitching staff gets better because it's like, all right, let's throw Bazero.
So he gets up and he can, you know, get us a run via the home run ball, via a stolen base, save us a run in the outfield. And now everybody else in the lineup, it takes pressure off them to just kind of keep doing their job. And it takes pressure off of those guys around them for sure. And a lot of times, and they don't feel that pressure, now they can go perform to their highest level. Because you're not squeezing it so tight, right?
And turning the bat into sawdust. Josh, you touched on this. Let me just finish this talk because I've heard you use this phrase. It's really interesting.
So, when you're not going well, you used to trick yourself into believing that you were better than you were in that moment. Did it work? How did you do that? Yeah, I mean, sometimes it does. I mean, it's just, you know, baseball is such a.
Difficult sport because you're failing so much throughout the course of a year to where, like, you have to find, I say trick yourself because you know, the hard numbers, as far as like your batting average or this number, or this number might not be in your favor, but it's like. I want to trick myself into staying true to my process. What do I believe is actual success in a game? And ultimately, you want those factors to line up into winning baseball games, right? And when the main focus is winning, the other stuff kind of takes care of itself.
For me, I had to have. My own identity as a player, like, what did I see myself being? And I needed to stay true to that. All right, so one last thought, Josh Dawson joining us. You've got a show with Russell Martin, which I mentioned.
It's called Getting It Done.
So, number one, for those who don't understand that phrase, I do, explain why the show is called Getting It Done. And then, you know what I normally ask athletes like, so hey, so what's your approach to podcasting? Because everybody's got a freaking podcast.
Well, dude, I already know you're different. You're different because I can tell from this conversation and when we used to talk when you played, you were different. You're not afraid, and you've got a point of view.
So, that in and of itself makes it different. But, what about the title? Getting it done. Why getting it done? Yeah, so when I was in Toronto, I think it was 2015, and we were kind of going through like a little back and forth.
Like we were hovering around 500, and I think the Astro, we went to Houston and We lost two or three games in a row and the media was asking me like Josh, like, what do you see this team? Like, how do you do it? Like, what's going to get you back on track? I was like, look, I don't know. I go, but.
There's not a league higher than this. And this isn't the tri-league. Like my friend Johnny Gombs once told me, he said, This isn't the tri-league, this is the get it done league. If you don't get it done, then you're going to be out of here. And so ultimately that caught A lot of attention in this Toronto market at that time.
And that was a big quote that I had.
So we figured, and that's really what I'm about. It's about getting it done, whether it's baseball, whether it's life, whatever it is. Get the job done, and then because that's what people want, and that's what's expected. There's no trying There's only getting it done.
So that's why we named it the Get It Done league. I love it. Scoreboard. Dude, I'm so glad you mentioned Johnny Gomes. What is that Wild Man up to?
He's out in Arizona. I just talked to him today. We're probably going to have him on the podcast here pretty soon. You know, fantasy football is obviously in full force right now. I just had my first league draft last night.
We have another one coming up for my own league that developed.
So I think we might have some fantasy football guys on the next pod. And, you know, we want to have Johnny on because Johnny was a huge. Cog into me being successful when I was out in Oakland. Like he allowed me and taught me to be myself. And he was really that kind of sounding board for um to me to be able to talk to and relate to and Another quote that I would steal from Johnny Gomes is: he said, Who wants to drive the bus today?
And he goes, it doesn't matter who it is, but somebody needs to do it. And I, you know, for myself, I always like to drive the bus. I like to be in control.
So I took that to heart. But yeah, Johnny's doing well. He's got a bunch of kids now, and we hope to have him on the pod here pretty soon. I love these old school conversations so much. Let me with one last thought: who else have you guys had on the pod?
Yeah, we had Kershaw on, who obviously his career speaks for itself. We have to talk about that. Talk about the World Series last year a little bit, a lot of big moments in his career. We had Gibby, John Gibbons, who was our manager when we were running in Toronto, and he's such an amazing personality and another big figure in my career and Russ's career. We tell some stories because we had our own moments on there.
So, if you want to hear some good stories about that, that's on there. We had Um We just had Evan Longoria come on. Him and I, Russ is out.
So Longo and I had some battles throughout the years, and we were both third basemen, and he had a great career as well.
So it was cool to hear his perspective and talk about some things. Yeah, I mean, we're trying to get some guys that obviously have high IQ in baseball and have something to offer our fan base. And obviously, some entertainment value and some great, great stories. Josh Dawson joining us, dude, this was beautiful, man. What a great catch-up.
I appreciate you so much. And I want to encourage everybody watching this and listening right now to go find that show. It's a great show, the Get It Done League podcast with Josh Dawson and Russell Martin. Josh, appreciate you, dude. That was great.
Jim, thank you. I appreciate your time, buddy. That was great. That was so much fun. Josh Dawson, now that's real.
That's real talk right there. Yeah, my man was engaged and always a great player. And not afraid. Not afraid. I love that.
The get-it-done league. It's not a try league, it's a get-it-done league. His whole point being, look, if I'm doing everything I can, That I'm supposed to do, and the guy next to me is doing everything he can that he's supposed to do, and then that guy next to him is doing the same thing, then we're going to get it done. But nobody cares how hard we try. The Get It Done League.
Alright. Nice job, Alex Hardy. Good book. Good get. When we come back.
Ran long there.
Sorry about that, Alby, but it was good. How about some ATPs? How about an ATP or two or three or some reaction to wrap this thing? One final segment. Also, I want to remind you, this morning we pushed out the first reinvention project pod in a minute or so.
Talk about a great baseball player, Daryl Strawberry. I mentioned this without giving away too much of it. I mentioned it in the opening monologue. You may think you know straw. You don't know straw.
It's a great conversation. Great conversation with Daryl Scrawberry.
So look for that where you get your pods, especially if you've been somebody waiting on the publication of a reinvention project pod. We finally have one for you, with Daryl Strawberry.
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Did V drop last week? Is there a moment or moments that really stand out to you in the vids? Thanks. No. No.
No, no, and no. The only thing I can tell you about that, the only thing that sticks with me is incredible regret. No. It's not. You know what stayed with me from that, most of all that experience?
That I'm still here. I'm not even kidding you. I get a phone call from. One of our executives. It's a true story.
I got a phone call from one of You don't need to do that, Lorne. I'm putting that on you. And I got a phone call, and it was on Sunday from somebody high up the chain. who never will calls me. And that's the beauty of this.
They just, as long as I'm doing my job, and I learned this early on in my career, if I take care of this show, the show will take care of us and they will leave us alone. Yet I'm looking at my phone, I'm like, damn, that's weird. That's where that guy would never call me. And the first thing that popped in my mind, I kid you not. The V I have to answer to V.
Davenport because I did that. That's my only takeaway from that whole debacle. I get a phone call from an executive who has never called me. And I know he wants to talk to me about V. That was not why he called.
But that's my mindset.
So, no, there was nothing positive. I've had time to digest it. I wish it never happened. Romy, how did Stucknuts? Get started with the show.
Does he have a full-time job on the side? If so, have you interviewed him on your reinvention podcast, Will in Oregon City? What's there to reinvent, man? He's he doesn't need to reinvent. He's been doing the same thing at a super high level.
It's just a labor of love, man. He does have a job on the side. But loves the show. And Can I tell you, man, he's the best. Nuts.
Stuck nut? Stevo? Best guy ever. Of course, Rome, he does all that work for you, and you don't ask for anything. You don't pay him anything, right?
That's why he's the best guy ever. And he knows the show better than I do. Jim, I know you often joke about Alvin having a lot of kids. But how many does he really have? Thanks.
Alex and Windsor. I mean, all kidding aside, I'll be like like eight, right? Hey, Abby. No, I mean it's like eight, right? Hey Jim.
Hey Abby. You have no idea how disappointed people are when they ask me that. And it's like, that's it? What? Really?
No, it's like eight, right?
So it's three. What? Yeah, it's three. Only three. One time I went to a uh A friend's church And it was like this, this one of the important people, I think he was like a pastor, he came up to me.
He's like, oh, I heard you work on the Jim Rope show. You're Alvin, right? And I'm like, yeah. I'm like, yeah. That's me.
He's like, I just started giggling. I'm like, okay, this is. You're like, easy, easy, Pastor Beavis.
So he, uh,.
So I gotta know, how many kids do you have? No way. A man of faith, a man of cloth, said that to you? And then I'm like three. He's like, oh.
What? Three? He's like, oh, I have eight. Like, how does that even? Yeah, and that's the funnier thing.
I'm like, well, how many kids do you have? He's like, nine? Please! Easy, pastor butthead. Yeah.
Yeah. It's only three. And yeah, Yeah.
Now it's not dead. But that's it.
Okay, Avi, you can go now. Alvi's getting the the the cue that oh four seconds get out A pastor. Yay, I know you. You're Alvin from the Jim Rome Show. Hey, so tell me, how many kids do you really have?
Pastor, I'm just not comfortable.
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Now's a good time. Josh Donaldson's showing up huge. That was an absolute blast. Dave Wonsted, also. My thanks to everybody involved.
Have a great day. See you tomorrow, Rob. The Dan Bongino Show. Folks, it's not my job to sit here and like try to stir you up for clicks. I think I've been very level-headed.
I've had to tell people a lot of things they didn't want to hear.
So, let me tie together into a bullet point storyline: this information warfare against your mind is very real. Be careful where you're getting your information. Do not gaff this off telling you, like, this is why I've been so passionate. This stuff is real.
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