Alvin Reid is here to talk partying, and Dave Murray's forecast!- h3

0:00We're coming back, DGS on Game of Wags. Happy Friday, a few minutes past 3 p.m. Our buddy Alvin Reed is here from Donnie Brook. Alvin is a KU grad, goes back there often. I told him stay clear of Laurence and I because it's my daughter's 21st birthday shot party. I wouldn't go, I wouldn't go past Oberland. It might be, it might, when the, when the, I call it the English lady because she has an English accent in the, in the rage rover, like tells you when you're going to another state. She might warn me. Yes. Yeah. Stop here. Be where. Yeah. Be where. I didn't have anything like that. I mean, first of all, I was living with my parents and I was super religious when I was 21. I hadn't drank anything yet. But I don't remember the shot party thing. Where were you? Did you do anything? I don't remember. I

1:01don't, I doubt it. Okay, because I remember, but only because of the circumstance. We played Tulsa the first game of the year on what would have been Saturday, September the 5th. Yeah. So at midnight in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I turned 21. Yeah. And we went, we went out. And so my first legal drink was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, like 1202. Yeah. And what we walked in, I, you know, showed my driver's license and the guy, you know, looked at him, he said, like, he said, like, you just turned 20, you just turned 21. I mean, right. So then he'd, I'm just laughed, you know, and, but he had like a little like, you know, little, not walkie-talkie, but a little thing to a speaker. Yeah. And his light comes on. He said, everybody, this guy just turned 20. I mean, he just turned 21. So what do you want to drink? Yeah. I said, like, well, I'll take a bourbon, you know,

2:02on ice. And, you know, I, so that was my first legal drink was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, five minutes, you know, between midnight and about 12 or five in the morning. Yeah. Miami turning 21 just meant it was another Friday night. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I could just, I could imagine. Yeah. It's like, okay, join the club, but, you know, not that anybody in college drinks before they're 21. Absolutely. Well, that's why I told fees, especially around an athletic program. When we FaceTime done her actual birthday, Wednesday, and I said, I think here's what you're fine. It's not that you're not going to appreciate the fact that you can binge drink legally now. What you're going to appreciate is you can go to dinner and order a glass of wine or with your family. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. I think that's the bigger. I agree. It's more like you just get to be a grown-up. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And you don't have to, like, trip about going to the liquor store. Right. You're just going liquor store. You buy anything in there you want. Yeah. Show you ID. Right. Did you blow it out? I went to fast studies for my

3:07It was fun. I had I had one of their delicious hurricanes for the first time. Don't get hurricane around Andrew. Not to give up your age, but what about what? It's 2012. 2012. Okay. I was done with fast studies. It's 2012. This is 20. Yeah. I would have said, if you maybe up to 0 9 10, I still made that trip occasionally. And that was one where, like, you know, I said, like, dude, man, seriously, Alton is not like a short drive back to suburbia. Yeah. So what kind of state were you in? Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. God, that bridge is ready. It is. It's a beautiful drive. Yeah. I've told that story before. I didn't drink at all until halfway through law school. And then when I did, I did it with a vengeance, but I was bad at it. Like, I didn't know how many drinks a person had. So I would have three. I would drink screw drivers back then. Yeah. And I would feel so good. I'm like, what would

4:1110 feel like? You know, uh, end up throwing up and bogey south on a sidewalk somewhere. Oh, that's terrible feeling. I, um, I still, by definition, don't drink a lot. Yeah. I never liked. There was something. No, I have, like I said, I've blown chaff you a few times, but it's, it's just what I was like, I can tell or like, you know, dude, you're, you're done. Yeah. Okay. I ain't even at a younger age. But, you know, like I said, I've had my, yeah, people tell me it's like, and you always come, you, you'll come in and have one beer too. Play Kino wheels never been drunk. No, and I have been, I can tell you this, but I mean, really plastered. I would say less than, I know less than 10. It would be closer to five. Yeah. Right. It's good. That I mean, that's, I don't know if that's bragging or, or whatever. Yeah.

5:15Now, you know, if you, if you put up how many, if every American, you know, could walk into some place and it just registered how many drinks you had had in your life, it might register like, you know, for, you know, 65, you're on the, you know, you're on the scale. You are, you're, your percentile is at 60% or something like that. Yeah. And I went probably about five years. My, my roommate, Rick and I used to live in the West Dend. And we would go to this place on LeClead called Rosie's place. Great place. I was there within the last year. And we had a bartender there who loved us and, and we loved her. And we would have like 10 gin and tonics a night. So there were years of my life that if you would take a snapshot, you'd think this guy has a serious drinking problem. But thank God, because I have several sober people in my life. Thank God I don't have that. Because when I stopped, it wasn't hard. Really? I just, I just,

6:15I just changed your battery. I didn't stop. Like I've never been sober. Right. I just stopped doing that. Right. You stopped doing the whole bunch of drinks. Right. And I just never did in the first place. It's kind of like what I've said is for the, the, I never could smoke. So I never had to quit smoking. So I never could binge drink. So I never had to like, what can you smoke? I just couldn't, I'd take a drag off cigarette and start coughing and just get dizzy and the whole nine yards. You know, I've never had a puff of a cigarette. Not one. I could say that I have smoked in my life, probably two cigarettes. And maybe tried three other times. But that was and that was when I was way younger. Yeah. I just, I, I can't do it. Yeah. Now, if you want to see someone time, we were football managers. We said, like, okay, remember, school band, it's a little pouch. Sure. Headed to back. All right. So we all put one in there and said, like, who could last along? And I, there was some, you know, Wellington, Kansas, Bruce was for a while. West Kansas time from St. Louis. One kid was from Wichita. You know, we were kind of mixture of kind of

7:17out there and kind of match pilots. And I did not finish last. I was pretty good for you. Good for you. I long, I know. Right. I think I lasted about 25 minutes. I've never tried that either. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, you start to get kind of like you, you're thinking like, oh, man, this is just kind of gross. And then all of a sudden, it's like, God, I feel it kind of like seeping out my skin. I recently read that nicotine affects the brain faster than any other drug. Okay. And affects it more positively quicker. Well, I think whatever, I guess it's the nicotine itself, but whatever is in it is actually not bad for you. Correct. Okay. Right. However, you know, it's like anything else. Yeah. But it's not bad for you. Yeah. It's, it's, so people love the zins and all that stuff. You know, just nicotine pouches. Yeah. But I just, yeah. Yeah. Are you, we, as you never did

8:20Chau, you never know. Oh, God. All right. I don't know why I developed these rules in like, like, I don't want anything in my mouth that's on fire. Yeah. And I don't want anything that looks like crap, literal crap in my mouth. All right. I think no, I'm good. I had a couple guys that obviously a lot of guys on teammates did. Yeah. Because back, I know that that has been curtailed somewhat, especially over the last two decades. So, but really around baseball, that was, there was just a lot in baseball. Yeah. And it's like, you know, you know, no chance. No chance. No chance for me. Of course, as I got to any of that stuff was big league two. I chewed dintine when I played because I didn't. Bologna was like a little too much. So I would have two sticks of like dintine. And then I could like, well, even when I was playing, I could like pop gum while I was out there kind of just like, there's my own little thing. I just can kill a bag of sunflower seeds though. See, I never got into the sunflowers. Yeah. That was a big thing for us in college. I mean, it's everywhere in baseball, but yeah, I didn't drink coffee until I was professional journalist. I was like 23 years old. I really drank coffee. I never drink coffee. But I think coffee,

9:24I think Alvin Reed. And I'm gonna say it, but I did not, I said first 23 years of my life. I didn't drink coffee. So maybe that's why I could still drink a lot of it to this day. We never had coffee in the house. My mom and dad were tea drinkers. And when I was 16 years old, I wouldn't work Friday and Saturday night midnight at Mr. Donut 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. both nights 16. And you know, three in the morning, your legs go out and you see the smurfs. And the lady I was working with was like, you need some coffee. I'm like, oh, that looks so gross. So she doctored it. And it's still the way I drink it now, like very a lot of cream, a lot of sweetener. That's how I started. Guy named Jim Venus, who worked in the back. Sounds made up. He was. And Jim Venus believes in a professional wrestler. Yeah. So his real name and Jim Venus, like back in the like 40s and 50s was like young man with a horn. He's got pictures of Jim Venus, like at the sapphire lounge and whatnot. Anyway, he said, you won't be doing that long. I said, what, drinking coffee? So like, now you won't be putting cream sugar in it. And it took about a year.

10:26And so really since I've been 24, it's just been straight black coffee. Wow. Yeah, it's it's it's another never done it. Never you never drank coffee? No. All right. You want to something like a Mormon, except that I'll drink all the diet mountain to in the world. I didn't say I didn't drink caffeine. Yeah. I just don't drink coffee. But unfortunately, it's my late friend, but Kevin Jones, he never drank, he never drank coffee, but he drank diet, coke, like it would nobody been this. So like, right. So yeah. Did you need to have a story about that? Yeah. There was a there. This has been, you know, one of the there are a lot of negative things about social media, like bad information being spread around. And we've seen a lot of that. But there's also it's also nice to see medical professionals when they actually present the scientific evidence for the claims that people make, right? Like the idea that artificial sweeteners are poison. It's nonsense. They're not. They're just not. And I saw I saw a doctor explaining this and he said, look, the artificial sweeteners, basically, they're inert.

11:27They're not good for you, but they're not bad for you. Sugar can be very bad for you. Yeah. Depending on your health conditions and how much you're drinking of all those things. He's so he's going through. He's like, yeah, if you have to make the choice between those things, yeah. Diet's fine. He goes. And I think I mentioned this a few weeks ago, but there's the science of it is simple. It would take like 25 cans of coke in a day to even reach the threshold of what is safe for the artificial sweeteners. And that's still safe. There's my new limit. That's still safe. That's still safe. But we have this nonsense where people like influencers and you know, the people that want you to believe that all that stuff's poison. If it's not organic, if it's not this, it's poison. And it's not. And this doctor was just laying it out. The food science of these things are not what you think they are. People are spreading bad information. And largely the people spreading bad information, not necessarily the individual person believing it, but the people that start all that stuff. It's because they're selling an alternative to it.

12:29And they want you to buy their stuff instead of the stuff they already buy it. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Let's take a break here. We'll come back. We'll talk to Alvin about everything going on in the world. We have Tony Scott coming up at 4 p.m. One of our favorite guys in the world. Alvin reads here with us now. So last time I saw you, we weren't a war. Yeah. You know, woke up Saturday morning. I said this all so not to make light of what was going on. But Saturday morning, I had a, you know, day planned and just go to do this and walk the dog and do all this stuff. And you know, you wake up to that. And it's just kind of like, I don't know about the rest of maybe the world, but the rest of the United States, I'm just sick of this. I mean, every day it's something. Now, this is something major, obviously, but it's almost like you can't even get worked up over this of the, because of the way the last year has gone. You know, we all have our feelings on it, I guess, but I just once again said like I prayed that nobody gets killed. Naturally, people get killed in

13:33war. So it, I was kind of surprised, you know, this, I thought some, but could talk to him and say like, yeah, we really don't want to. It is, it's this, not good. You know, if it, if Israel wants to do it, we can back them, but we really don't need to be part of this, because I just ultimately, I don't see ultimately, I don't think around changes. So ultimately, what is this all about? Could be wrong. Could be wrong. Yeah, to me, and I don't take anything from me, but to me, it just seems that without real regime change, going back to the way it was for, because you remember when we were kids, Iran was a very Western country. Right. You know, and you know, the shot was repressive now. He wasn't like, he they were having like a ball every four years. Right. But it obviously, you know, as far as United States is concerned, you know, wish you still had something comparable to that. Yeah. Um, the Iran never was friendly with Israel. So I think younger

14:34people might think that ball regime change and they'll all get along over there in the Middle East. I was like, no, that's not going to happen. You know, it's like, well, you're talking about the last, you know, 47 years. I said, no, I'm talking about the last 547 years. Just, you know, it's just going to be there. It's always going to be there. So yeah, yeah. The thing that's like, I can, I don't like it. None of us are going to shed a tear for, you know, their leadership being taken out. They're bad people. They think murder their own people. Like you, you're not allowed to speak against them in that country. Right. So that's not the argument. The argument, the problem is, is more about how do we follow our process here? Do we have a clear exit strategy? Did we, did we try to bring allies along other than Israel? Did we try to go to the world and go to our, but see, we've been alienating ourselves from our other allies and they're not necessarily willing to back us on these things now. And plus they got their own things to worry about with the way Russia and Ukraine's going. So a lot of Europe's kind of like, hmm, I don't want to do anything there because we got these guys over here. And it's like, that's the problem. It's not

15:38that the, the main thing is a bad thing. Although, you know, you're always risking the lives of your own service members and civilian lives to. And there are a lot of people in Iran who do not want to be under that leadership. Right there. And we've seen all the protests and how many people were killed during this protest. That's why they came doing it. Just like in China, right? Yeah. They'll take about two weeks of that. And we know, right? We all know they've been the biggest backers of, of groups like Hezbollah. We know, I mean, everybody knows that it's been said out loud publicly for decades. So yeah, at some point, there's a price. All that's fine. I don't think any of us cry about that. But you do have a process. You do want to build consensus. You do want to build relationships and get your allies on board with you at the very least supporting you if not going with you. And we didn't do any of those. Go to sleep online says, in my opinion, it's not what was done. It's who did it and why it seems more political than necessary. And I've been meaning to make this point all week. And sometimes I just like to follow my swords the wrong metaphor here.

16:38But just be very open and honest. I don't trust Donald Trump. And it's just like if you have sort of a sketchy cousin who's always got a grifter a scam every now and then he may have a really good deal. But you don't trust it because of the his past history. And so when people say like, Dave, you just don't like Trump. You are correct. You are correct. But I have reason. I have I think anyone who doesn't trust Donald Trump has reason. The fact that you may love him. That's your paradigm. But just understand that my paradigm is different. It's like a Christian Earl while go put up a long text on stream about you guys are talking about humanity. But you need to talk about it in context of the Bible. Well, what if I told you that you needed to talk about it in context of the Quran? Right. You'd be like, no way or the book of the dead. Yeah. Everyone has

17:41their own paradigm. Yeah. Here's the thing for me is yes, I agree with you. By the way, you've got a president that sometimes acts rashly and does things because he wants to do them without following all of the the processes. But my problem with it all is we're not learning anything. We did this nonsense in Vietnam. And what did it get us? All it did was get us tens of thousands of dead Americans. And we didn't end up doing anything. What did it do in Somalia when it was the Clintons when we had the famous black hog down? What do we accomplish there? What happened because we didn't have a plan? We didn't have an exit plan. We didn't know what we're doing. What happened in Iraq? Like, I'm sick of that. I'm sick of us not learning from the past. Well, and that, I mean, and that's all it's all over the world. Kind of that. That's the one thing that nobody, everybody just seems like no one learns that to like, listen, this whole thing where we're going to do this piecemeal and expect this to happen. Until you said like, no, we're just literally going to go in and take, take it over. Then it's not going to happen. And the last

18:43war where that had to be done was World War II because Korea was the same way. What happened? You ended up with a North of the South Korea and you already had North South Korea. What happened in Vietnam? We weren't going five minutes and that place fell like dominoes. You know, and I said like, wow, really? What was, what was that all about? So I get the same feeling here, like, what's it all about? And then somebody and I'm not putting this like down Trump just what about say, but I'm going to say like, somebody else got to clean this mess up. Yeah, it won't be him. I never had a TG asum came away. Happy Friday. They married joins us from the Seliga heating and cooling weather desk. Hello, Dave. Hello there. Happy Friday is right. So I know you're going to cover this, but I'm going to jump in with my selfish forecast tomorrow at 1015. I get on a plane to Jupiter, Florida. And I hate storms. And I feel like I'm going to be going right

19:46along with this storm front that's going to hit us tonight. Yeah, I think you'll probably get out. Okay. I think most of the stuff is over by then give or take 30, 40 minutes or so. So I'm not concerned about that, but you will have to go through a line of storms somewhere on your way down to Florida. Now those pilots, the pilots don't want to be there any more than you do. So they'll find their way around it. They may have to change their route just a little bit and are, you know, kind of poke their way through them. So to speak, but you're going to be okay. Okay. So now, what are we looking at tonight? My folks used to live down to Jupiter. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's a nice place, man. It isn't nice. So it's a nice, really. It's a nice place. And the Cardinals being down there always made it. I was always great to take my mom and dad the Cardinal Preseason. Always nice. Yeah. I was made at a point. Very cool. Yeah. Okay. So we have a cold front on the way. It's not really a cold front. We're near 80 degrees right now. We'll be in the 60s

20:48tomorrow. So it's that kind of front. However, it's pulling up some moisture from the Gulf. It's pooling along the front. Right now, there's nothing around St. Louis. There's a little thunder shower up in northwest Lincoln County. That is about it in the area. I think we're fine this evening. I don't think there's any weather concerns other than being very mild, getting a little breezy. The front comes through almost towards morning. So all the action will be ahead and along the front. So let's think anytime after 11 p.m. midnight until about seven, eight o'clock in the morning is the prime time for rain and thunderstorms. I do think some of these storms could go strong to severe. I don't think it's a widespread severe weather outbreak, but everybody will see some very brief, but really heavy rain out of this thing as it comes through. So the windows will be rattling a little bit overnight tonight. If you get under a severe storm, quarter size hail, 60 mile per hour winds could be a couple of small spin up tornadoes, but they will be very hard

21:51to find. However, it's a nighttime event. So we have to obviously be a little concerned about it. Tomorrow the wet gets out of the picture by 11 a.m. or so it's windy and it's cooler. Warmest part of the day late morning, 65, but we'll be in the mid mid 50s by late in the afternoon. Let's call it cold Saturday night, 39. Sunday is a gorgeous day, sunny and 65. Time change with the spring ahead on Sunday, seven, oh, one Monday, sunny, 79, 80 degrees for the high. Another round of rain and thunderstorms come Tuesday and Wednesday. Next week, I still kind of like the idea of colder weather getting in here by like the end of next weekend, St. Patrick's Day kind of thing. Okay, headlines range. Yes, but first I want to let you know that Dave Murray's weather is sponsored by SNL coins and headlines is sponsored by Schnooks. Reward yourself daily with the Schnooks Rewards app. We have an update on the Britney

22:52Spears DUI arrest representative for Britney has come out and said it is completely inexcusable and Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in a long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney's life. And I also saw reports that she was very upset that she was going to be disappointing people in this whole thing. So we wish you're the best. We wish you're the best. The United States Postal Service says they're going to be out of cash in a year unless Congress lifts a cap and allows the agency to borrow more money. I do with my stamps. So why do we not just treat that as part of the government? Because it's it's still even now it's less necessary, but it's still a necessary thing. Right. If that goes away, think about your cost of sending anything anywhere it's going to quadruple easy. Yeah. The Postmaster General is pointing out like look we evolved the burdens of a government

23:57agency. We have to deliver mail six days a week to every address, but we don't get any of the benefits. We don't get an annual appropriation from the federal budget. So man, my experience has just been so bad lately. Obviously they need some help. Like some there's reform is needed. I'm sure an influx of cash would help with a lot of these things as far as like under staffing. And then you're looking at this issue that like yeah we're we're not even going to be able to pay people next year unless we get more money. Time for the people in charge to figure out what to do with the Postmaster. I mean are we are we anywhere are we at a place where we could not have the post office and it'd be fine. I mean I think we're probably close to that. I hate the mail. I hate getting the mail because it's voluminous and 95% is crap. I feel like you should have to pay me to market to me. If you're going to send me and this is what I hate. Oh

24:58believe me I'd be all for getting rid of any kind of marketing. Like the blank envelopes you have to open what if it's what if I'm being audited. Well you know and then it's just some stupid thing. The streams make me laugh. They're talking about Brittany and Brian M. says Brittany looks like she needs some help. Lots of dancing around with knives and her underwear floating around on social media. And then Mitch says hit me baby one more time. And Mitch whoops I did it again. You guys are two piece of the comedy partners Evan Castello here who's on first I don't know Britney Spears. Okay I got one you guys are being toxic. That's one of her songs. Okay beyond meat has dropped the meat from their name. It's moving on the struggling market for plant-based burgers sausages and chicken tenders. And they're expanding into new categories like protein drinks. So

26:01they're rebranding as beyond the plant protein company or simply beyond on its packaging. And they've introduced their first beverage which is a sparkling protein drink called Beyond Immers. That's a good move I think. Why do you're much more likely to get someone like me to drink those things than to buy like protein drink gross me out. I think because I pictured having like protein powder in it. No that's what I just had is just chocolate milk basically. Yeah Starbucks has these new protein lattes. I have not tried one yet. If you get the crappy powders they do get clumpy and weird. If you get the good stuff it mixes really easy. It's good. Or you the pre-mixed ones are good. Do you guys remember this asteroid we were talking about it was discovered at the end of 2024 and everybody was like oh no it could threaten the earth. Well the NASA NASA has issued a all clear. That asteroid 2024 why it was for will crash into the moon in 2032. So we're good everybody can breathe I know

27:07everyone was losing sleep over that. Yeah. Oh this is such a great story or you know it has a happy ending. There is a child who was abducted and these movers were at a convenience store picking up a snack on their way to like the nest house they were moving. They heard the convenience store clerk on the on the phone with policing like I think I recognize a little girl for this amber alert that was put out. So the movers went outside and used their moving truck to box in the kidnappers. And they were wrapped in it and the little girl got to go home. Very quick. Nice job fellas. Should have dropped the dresser on their heads. No kidding. And my final story here the Brady Bunch house is getting historic status in Los Angeles. It was designated as a historic cultural monument on Wednesday by the LA City Council and it was approved by a 130 vote by the LA Cultural Heritage Commission. It was used for scene setting exterior shots for the sitcom and the home

28:10also appeared in the the big screen. Yeah. The Brady Bunch movie and its sequel. I could 100% find my way around the Brady Bunch house. Well, but is the inside of that house? Is it is it two different house? This I'm saying. Yeah, because the outside of yeah, of course. So that's all you're buying is the exterior because the inside won't look like the Brady Bunch house right? That's my understanding. Okay. That's my understanding. Unless whoever owned it did it like that, which would be brilliant. Right. That would be brilliant. So Andrew Dordash is sending you off into unknown places. Yeah. I can't I can't get to break it. Send me all over the damn place. It's it's it's this will happen sometimes, but it always waits until right at the end of the night when you're when you can read your mind and when you're like, yeah, I think maybe maybe all about be done. It'll send me like all the way out to like Collinsville or something like 20 minutes. It's awful. Can you not say no? No, you can't say no. Really? Yeah. Well, you can, but it's just like it's not good for you. Lower your rating. Well, and you and you you you it doesn't tell you where

29:10you're going when you accept it. It'll show you kind of a map, but it's kind of hard to gauge exactly where you're going. And then you hit and then you hit. Yeah. Okay. I'll do that. And then it's like after some middle of nowhere place. Yeah. It's way too far out. You have seemed really drunk all week. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I know you're sick. That's right. That's what it is. But you're sick. Mimics drunkenness. It's called the Miriam. Yeah. It's it's trying to must wrap as much energy as I possibly can, which I think is manifesting in the form of buzzed. Thanks, Dave. Wow. Welcome back guys. DGS. Top of the hour. Tony Scott is going to come down the hallway and hang out

30:12this for a little bit. Wheels. I am probably more excited than I should be about the Cardinal season, not just because I'm excited that it's baseball season, but I'm excited about the team. I'm excited about certain players. I'm really excited about Dustin May. And yesterday he gave us reason to be excited. Man, he looked good. You know, so he's been looking really good. He's been pitching on the backfields kind of like slowly ramping up for game action. They're not trying to rush him because he's had a lot of physical and health problems, right? We know arm problems before last year. And just as he was getting healthy from that, he had the torn esophagus. He lost 40 pounds, lost all his strength, his fastball diminished. And on top of that, he was coming back from an injury. So he had the couple of those things working together and had a bad year last year. But his velocity yesterday was consistently 98.99, which is, you know, if you look at the average of it, it was what he was before he started having arm problems several years ago. So it's a big deal, not that he had a successful outing, right? Like a 0.0 ERA doesn't matter in spring training,

31:18but it's important because it shows you that right now his arm is healthy. If he's out there throwing 98.99, he is not physically compromised. It means his body's healthy, his arm's healthy. And if that's the case, there's a lot of upside there. Like he could legitimately be better than any starting picture you've had in the last three or four years. Because he's up. I mean, once the last time the Cardinals had a starter that was 97, 98 miles an hour regularly. Yeah. And he's got good secondary stuff too. So it was, it's important to understand because I got people on Twitter asking me this, well, you guys always say that spring's not important. Spring, spring statistics are not important. Don't look at whether a guy is three for 10 or two for 10. That tells you nothing. But you have to look at the quality of the hats. Are they taking pitches they're supposed to take? Are they hitting the ball hard that they should hit hard? And again, with a pitcher like me, it's about, okay, is he getting, is he healthy? Number one, and that's a jumping off point for a guy like that. So when you go out there and you're first great for the outing and it's that smooth and you're throwing that hard, it's a great sign.

32:24Does it mean he's going to be great? No, but it shows you that it's possible. And that's what's fun about a year like this. It's kind of like opening presents. Yeah, right? Like you got a, you got 26 presents that are going to be there on opening day. Some of them we kind of know what they are, right? We know what Mason win is. At least we know what he is at a minimum. We don't know what his maximum is because he's young and we haven't seen it yet. But that's the fun part is seeing where it goes. And I think they're going to play with a fun kind of energy because young guys tend to do that. And they're very hungry. These are mostly guys trying to earn their way. How many guys on this team don't have something to prove right now? I mean, maybe, maybe one guy Mason win is at a point where he doesn't have to prove anything, but he does need to improve. And then everybody else has something to prove. Herrera's got to prove that he can be a catcher, at least a part time catcher, right? Newt's got to prove that he can be on the field. Victor Scott and Jordan Walker have to prove they know how to hit. Like they're everybody's got something. So you're going to see energy for sure. What do you think the catcher's ring is going to shake out?

33:27Man, we were just talking about this last night. Matt Polly and I on Redbird rush hour. We both agree. We'd like to see Jimmy Crooks get a lot of the starts. You know, left-handed guy who's always hit in the minor leagues for some power to and he's got a reputation for being a real like strong defensive guy. He throws great. He controls the running game. The thing you never know about a guy is how well do you get on the same page as your pitching staff and the game planning is different in the majors than in the minors. As long as he comes along, and I have no doubt that he will. I know people who really know catching who have told me about him and they're like, he's a stud. He's a dude. So I would love to see him earn like at least half of the starts, but Pahace will be there, whether he's the regular guy or the true backup, one or the other, he'll be there. And we'll see her rare catch. It just depends on what they do with Crooks, right? If they think Crooks needs AAA time, then Posa will be here. But Crooks is look good, man. He's really had a good spring so far. So hopefully I was, I hate to even say

34:29this because I don't know nothing. And it was such a small sample size, but I was a little underwhelmed by Crooks last season. Yeah. I mean, look, I was underwhelmed by him and Nathan Church last year. Nathan Church was bad. I love Nathan Church. I'm really excited to see what he can be this year. He's a, he's an outstanding defensive player. And when you look at what he did at every level in the minors, he hit at every level. He can run. He gets on base. He doesn't strike out too much. He's got a little bit of pop. It's really hard to, to try to forget what you saw, because I think Jimmy Crooks went like six for 45 in the majors last year. It's hard to forget what you saw. But remember what Mason, when looked like as a rookie, he hit like a buck 50. And now we know that he's actually at least a decent hitter. And he's a great defender. Can't judge that That