Full Show 3-6-26

0:00Because I could show you now that I'm glad you won't deny Good afternoon, St. Louis DGES 101 FM Camel X, little white lion going out to my favorite little boy Kevin Wheeler from Michigan. There are no Pantera, but they'll do. There's sort of the Fanta orange of metal. I mean, yeah, well, that means look, they are they were perfect for their time in the sense that they were the ultimate glam rock air band. As far as like fitting in, they weren't that successful. They had that one record that was like where that song's on, but. Well, like here's my thing with white lion. I don't expect you to start the show.

1:03So we're going to break down white lion here on Camel X. They they're really good. Like the guys in the band are really. I'm sure they are. Yeah. As opposed to like poison. All those guys in poison are way better than me, but they're not like, you know, great musicians. Where his white lion those guys are really good. So many of those glam bands had really great musicians. Yeah, I think a lot of times extreme another great band. Extreme was great band saw them live. Did you? In Fort Lauderdale, a small club back in like in 1990, 1991. Nuno Bettincourt can really shred. He's great guitarist. He's stupid Gary Schroens. Okay. I just I have a bad taste on my mouth about him from the hailing thing. Everyone does. And it's not his fault. No, it's not his fault. He got an offer to sing for Van Halen and he took it. That's right. And anyone would have. Yeah. It's just they made a bad choice. Right. It's not the right fit. Yeah. He was the right fit for his band. Yeah. Right. What's your stance on white lion? You know, I think they could use a little little less white and a little more lion.

2:06Yeah. I think they should try to tell the truth. How about that? What they needed to do was have another guitarist. They needed to be a little bit heavier. Yeah. A little bit. Although they were very they were very radio friendly. Like for the time that was with the kind of stuff that was playing. Like that song was a big radio hit. Yeah. Yep. Everyone's excited that we're streaming. Yeah. We usually have no stream Fridays, but we've cheated you out of a couple. So why not? We did or did the technology did. Technology. Technology. I don't think we've cheated a amount of one like upon our own volition in a while. Yeah. Plus you got, you know, the time next week, you don't have to be on the stream. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. 10, 15 tomorrow, wheels up and down to Jupiter. Nice. Yeah. I'm excited. And then I was just telling these guys at lunch last night. At home, just chilling. And my phone goes off and I look and it's Ricky Horton.

3:07And I'm like, okay. Yeah. It's baseball season. My friends texted me. Okay. Here we go. I open it up and he's like, hey, Glove, I hear you're coming down for spring training. Can't wait to see you. I need one more guy for a for some to play golf on Monday morning. How you feel about it? And I'm like, I texted wheels and I texted Steve. And I'm like, it's the right answer. It's fun. It's I texted Steve, our boss who's in Florida with clients. And I said, Ricky Horton just asked me to play golf. I'm a terrible golfer, but it seems like, you know, a great opportunity. And he goes, he's literally sitting next to me. And I'm like, don't out me. Don't say anything. Don't out me. And so I came back and I'm like, hey, I'm not good. And that's not a fake, not good. That's a real not good. And he's like, I don't care. It's going to be fun. We'll have a great time. And I'm like, who else is playing? He goes, it's me and you and John Tudor.

4:08Oh, no pressure. And another guy who I don't know who it is, probably pools. And that's funny, man. Yeah. So I literally, I didn't tell any of you guys this because I was ashamed. I literally door dashed golf spikes, which I, they're still setting it in my house. I haven't picked them up yet. So I don't have any and I'm leaving tomorrow. And I want to show up and Ken sneakers. So, okay, we'll see how it goes. Okay. That should be fun. That should be a lot of fun. Who's clubs are using? Uh, I'm, I'm assuming they'll just have some that I can, yeah, that I can rent typically. It's a club. Yeah. Watch, watch, watch your playing at like Mar-a-Lago. We're playing it. Great. Would that be? I mean, seriously, would you be like, this is free? The world. I don't know if they would let Dave in. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? When you walk in there, I'm sure they have a blood test for TDS. Facial record. Also, this can be good just for like the health of our radio studio.

5:09The door just blew open. No one pushed that open. Yeah. That's Bob Highland walking in. Oh. That's not good. That's a good one. Now it's kind of closing on its own. Well, I mean, you know, wind has, has its ways. Yeah, with that door, it's like 50 pounds. Yeah, I don't think it was fully closed. Yeah, I don't think so either. Yeah. And then I also found out that we are going to, and I'm really excited about this, me and Michael Kelly and Ackerman, Wednesday nights and night before we come home, are going to Miami to see the Dominican play Venezuela and the WBC. Dude, welcome to Miami. You can't, I keep telling you this, and I'll just say it on the ear. You have no idea how cool that's going to be. Yeah, I'm super excited. It is going to be like a giant rave, but just, but baseball themed. I'm known for my music. Music, music. They're going to be chanting that that will be such a fired up crowd. Yeah. I guess I'll root for whoever is surrounding me. I mean, you just probably picked the Dominican because they're probably going to win.

6:11You're a roof of the winter. So yeah, that's going to be my week. That sounds pretty great. I'm a nervous flyer. Don't forget to bring your foot putter. Yeah. Oh, trust me. Look, that ball's on the fairway. What do you know? So I'm a nervous flyer. Everyone knows how to listen to the show. And then we have like this gigantic storm blowing through late tonight. And supposed to be out of here by 6 a.m. I fly at 1015, but I feel like I'm flying right into it. So nothing's annex can't take care of. Yeah, you'll be fine. You'll be fine. You can get safely down to South Florida and have a good time. And tonight is my daughter's 21st birthday shot night. All of her homies came from various schools to KU to be with her. Oh boy. And that cool. That is really cool. I guess they're all somewhat drivable. Like some Mizzou kids and things like that.

7:12Yeah, Mizzou, Missouri State. Okay. Isn't it great when your kids have great friends? Oh yeah. Right. Yeah. This makes you feel better about the world. Just know they got people. Yeah. Got to have people. Yeah, the girls really take care of each other. Yeah. Which is fantastic because unfortunately you have to. Yeah, whereas boys usually try to abuse their friends. For laughs, of course. Yeah, the only thing that's trying to set your buddies up for something to do something stupid. The only thing boys do like that is like, hey, what's your problem, man? Oh, if there's a fight, your boys got you. Won't you back off of my boy? If there's a fight, your boys got you. But other than that, they're the ones trying to get you. They're trying to get you in trouble. The school downstairs, it's their first day without door play. I don't know anything about running a daycare, but I would not want my three and four-year-old

8:17child out there just in the middle of, I guess you called a park. It's really just a city block with grass, and what do you want to call it, the drug place just moves almost weekly from this block to this block and that block, and it just makes me nervous. Also, my house is near a park and during the summer I hear the kids playing all the time, I don't remember screaming as a kid. Oh. Yeah. You're just screaming. Like, I remember screaming, I don't remember personally screaming. I don't think I was a screamer. Yeah. I feel like kids be screaming though, you know. How are you guys feeling today? I feel a little better, up and up. Still quite tired. Good good. You don't got anything you want to talk about on a Friday?

9:18Do they want anybody's mind? Do they want to talk more about white lion? No, not really. We can just play, we can just play glam rock all day. That's a good send off. Yeah. You know, party, like it's 1988. When I first started my show in 2000, of course I didn't know anything about anything, and I would end every show with a song. And then being me, you guys know how I like to sneak out early, I would play two songs. And I finally got to the point where I was playing 30 minutes of songs. And Jeff Allen, my first boss, who was trying to be very gentle with me, he was like, so, this is what we call a talk station and what we do is we talk. So I know you love your music, but maybe not play 30 minutes of tunes. That's like, oh. Okay. Speaking of songs, have you guys seen this trend on social media where people will like pretend that they wrote a classic song and play it for their friend or family member

10:18who doesn't know the song? Oh, that's funny. Yeah, it's really funny. And I saw it last night that was so cute and adorable. So this woman who is doing it, she's got to be a performer of some kind, because she has a great voice and she can play all these instruments. And she was pretending that she wrote the song Landslide by Fleetwood Mac, and she's playing it for her friend. They're like, oh my God. Her friend was crying. Oh, that's great. And at the end she goes, I can't believe you wrote that song about us. What a great song. Yeah. It was so cute. What a great song. Oh, man. Have you guys seen the movie? I think it's called yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. We're the guy. Something happened. And they switched timelines. And he's only one of three people in the world who remember the Beatles. And he's a fledgling musician. He just starts playing the whole Beatles catalog and people are just blown away. It's a move. I wouldn't say I'm not above it, you know, if I were in that situation, I'd be like, hmm, this one's called I want to hold your hand.

11:20Yeah, I always think that I've never stole the joke in my life, but I always think that when I see stand-up guys, and I'm like, oh, if I had that material, I could do that. You know what I mean? Like the material to me is so 80% of it. I could deliver it on stage, but just like Shane Gillis and those guys just kind of next level. I'm just like, damn, that's so good. And typically the best bits to me are the ones that they're right there, you know, it's like it's right there. Like all of the Richard Ginny stuff and Seinfeld stuff was pretty obvious, but they're the only ones to get to it. So yeah, it's also they, you know, the science of it, right? There's certain words are funnier than other words. And those guys all know that stuff. Yeah. And it by their buddies, like there's, it's a really cool community. I really, I love the collaboration that I hear from those guys, you know, about all the people they know and how they'll bounce things off each other. Yeah. You know, you get some feedback like, yeah, that's not going to work.

12:21Well, how about this? Try this and then you have to kind of put it all together. When I started doing stand-up, I'm not, if you've seen my stand-up, you know, I'm not much of a set up joke, set up joke kind of guy. It's more storytelling and just kind of riffing. But I did learn that you really do have to be bigger on stage than you think. Like I'm not a big personality on stage. In fact, I kind of shrink, I think. But if the punchline to the joke is, oh, that's my nose. I learned you have to go, well, that's my nose. You know what I mean? You have to, you have to let people know if your voice that this is supposed to be funny. You know what I mean? Beauty. Good time. That's a really, I mean, it's like most anything, you think about what you see on stage at a concert, you see what you see on stage from a comic, you see what you see at Bush Stadium on the field. But what you don't see is the hundreds or thousands of hours of work to get to that point.

13:22Yeah, yeah. To get to that point. Like, think about it, just as a baseball game, those guys probably spend four to six hours prepping for each game. Yeah. Play three hours. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, between lifting, stretching, BP throwing, throwing bullpens, doing drills with your coaches on the infield, outfield, whatever, watching video, getting scouting reports, coming up with a game plan, all that stuff, just to play one game. Well, it's like this show, you know, we do our drills. Tip of the icebergs, what you see is stretch for a good hour. Yeah, I don't stretch very much. I need to stretch more. You guys are trying to get me to that. I get it. I appreciate you as teammates. I love doing show prep, though. I don't know about you guys, it's pressure because sort of like being a closing pitcher, you know, that you have to have a short memory. If the show's not great yesterday, you just have to move on, you have to, you don't start it all over again. But I really do like when I get home and I get settled and pull out the notebook, pull

14:23out the iPad and just like, okay, here's what we're going to do tomorrow, which by the way, it's not a great day for us today. No. I didn't even fill one page. Oh, yeah. We'll be fine. It's a Friday. That's true. You are right. And it's a Friday before. So we got Bernie, we got Alvin, Tony Scott, and it's going to be a good day. Don't need anything else. It's going to be a good day for us today, and it's going to be a good day for us today. It's going to be a good day for us today. Like party every day. Mostly thinking just a keger on Monday, we've got the silence hour where we just sit in silence and just look at each other. I think we're going to do that probably every day.

15:25Is that the same hour as we missed Dave hour? No, that's the crying. Well, we also call that the crying hour. So that's, we'll probably do like 2 p.m. crying hour, 3 p.m. silence hour. Well, that's to recover. Right. Good point. 4 p.m. Replay crying hour. Yeah. memory. Yeah, that's what they should do. Someone write this down. If I die while you guys still know me, you should stop my funeral halfway through. That would be perfect. Right in the middle of the eulogy, just just drop a curse. They wanted to get out of here early. The first 10 minutes of the eulogy. With music. That's great. Oh, that's really funny. Unfortunately, I'm not sure enough people would get it. Right. There'd be people like, what is this rude? So we're flying southwest tomorrow and I have a Southwest

16:29story. Southwest is now only cleaning premium seats between flights. What the hell, man? Like, yeah, like, okay, it was a cheaper hotel. We're only going to clean the bathroom. The bedroom's all you. Right. Yeah. So they're not cleaning like the regular. No, no, I guess they clean them at the end of the day or something. But between flights, they only clean the premium seats. I know a lot of people listening to me, like, we don't need more regulations. I think we do on things like this because the airlines, you can't just go start up an airline. Right. Right. Who's got a fleet? Who's going to get the space of the airport and schedule? Like, it's like, these things have been in place. These companies have been in place for a long time. They are a very important part of life because it's the only way to travel long distances in a reasonable amount of time. We do need to be cracking down on them a little bit as far as like, here's the basics that you need to provide. You know, I mean, if you're going to be

17:33ripping people off and charging more money and charging for things that, why am I paying for a seat? What is my ticket? Like, what is my ticket for other than a seat on your plane? Right. And then you're going to charge me extra for the seat assignment. What are you doing? Well, it's just going to be interesting to see because it would appear Southwest has completely changed their brand. Yeah. Completely. Yeah. They went from like, hey, we're affordable. We're cool. And you get all these perks and you don't have to pay too much money. And that's kind of the only reason you would ever want to fly with Southwest to now. It's like, oh, well, we changed all of that. We're just like everyone else. Yeah. I mean, I just don't get it. Well, we'll see how it works out for them. But I mean, I'm sure the decision to only clean the premium seats is so that they can turn the plane over quicker and maximize profits. But if people are going to stop using your airline because you changed everything about yourself that made yourself special, I don't know what's going to happen. My guess would be is they're going to cut back on the workforce of people cleaning. So instead of two or three people cleaning it

18:36will be one. And they only have time to do that front little cabin. So everything else is just left. Well, if I'm if I'm flying through bad weather tomorrow morning, premium or not, I know once either they're going to have to clean up. I tried to give Michael Kelly a warning since we're flying together tomorrow. I'm like, hey, just so you know, and I'm being, you know, semi-series about it. I'm like, just so you know, I'm not a good flyer. I almost crashed one time. And he's like, yeah, and he just walks off. Michael Kelly. He flies pretty regularly. So yeah, I think so. I think so. Yeah. Here. I always think like this. This is very morbid. But tomorrow, it's me and Michael and Akerman all going down together in the same flight. I'm like, if that flight went down, you know what I mean? Or if I see a baby, I know that flights go down with babies. But somehow when I see a baby, I'm like, well, God, it's not going to kill the baby. So I'm probably okay. I mean, when was the last time a domestic US flight went down and killed anyone? Well, I mean, fairly recently. But I mean, in domestic United States, there was a plane crash

19:41that killed people. I mean, the one where they hit the chopper. Last year. Yeah. That was the military chopper's hold, right? Right. Yeah. I honestly, I'm saying like statistically, there are thousands of days. No, you're way more at risk on the highway for sure. Mathematically, I mean, especially highway 70. Yeah. That's like 77,000 times the chance of bad things happen. Even though I'm 61, and I've been flying since I was 21, I still am, I fall victim to the thing where when you're up there, you're like, this is so unnatural. I'm in a metal tube, 30,000 feet in the air, going 400 miles an hour. This is so unnatural. So that gets me to, like I said, I got into annex. So, it'll be okay. Tomorrow afternoon could be kind of bad once we get there.

20:57In like 2009, with an old bandstone dog diaries, don't remember the place, but you are fun and nice. That's very kind of you. Thank you. Which is more important to you. Fun or nice? Nice. Okay. Yes. Yes. That's always been very important to me. Yeah. I just, it's not virtue signaling because it's just basic human decency. Right. Right. But I've always hated, and I've never been a big enough celebrity to have to worry about this, but I've always hated people, hates a strong word. I don't respect people who treat people differently based on who they are. Amen. Totally agree. If I could impart one rule to my kids, it would be that. Yeah. Yeah. There's a rule written somewhere about that whole, like, you know, if you'd like to be treated nicely, maybe treat it nicely. I think that's from highlights magazine. I think that's a pretty good, that's a pretty good rule. Yeah. To me, it always impresses me when I meet someone

22:03like a big deal to me, and they're like a normal dude. Yeah. That's so cool. I always, I always interested me when you hear like, oh, I met this celeb and he was a jerk or whatever. Yeah. Because it's like, it's so easy to be nice, and then you get, and you get so much free PR out of it because then they tell everyone they know, oh, well, I met this person. They were so nice. What do you think, Rage? I mean, think of the people that come into this studio, and they see you working as a producer, me running the board, and we get treated differently than other, you know what I mean? I do, and I don't really understand that either. It's so disappointing. Like, the amount of times that will happen. You can say it, it's Ranji. No, it's just like, oh, so you're just like, I'm not in your eyes. You look at me, and you don't see an important person. So you're going to treat me much differently than you're treating the important people. Yeah, we are less than dirt to like the alvin reads of the particular world.

23:04That guy comes in, and it's just like, it's just less than straight. Tony's got actually stepped on my hand the other day. He said, he said laid out on the ground, so my shoes don't get wet, and he stepped on my hand. But I will say this, it's never been like an actual big deal person. No, right. It's always like, wait, so why are you being a jerk? I don't understand. No, for what it's worth, pretty much all of the like big deal people that we've had in here are very sweet. That's very gracious. That's been my experience. Like when I met some of my idols like the bands, I met Thin Lizzy in excess, and Night Ranger, Night Ranger invited me to go have some way see how much is with them. Typically, in my experience, the more famous someone is, the longer they've been famous, the cooler they are. Because they're probably, they probably went through their A whole stage. And then it just realized, but here's what I've always thought. When, so I've been doing this 25 years, when I was about two years into it, I kind of had a big ego and thought I was a big deal. And then one day, I forget if someone said something to me,

24:08if I just thought it, I thought, you know what? No one even knows your name in Chicago, right? And if I were the biggest deal in Chicago, no one in New York gives a rant as. It's also relative. And to kind of just like put a roof on that, I always think no matter who you are, or how cool you are, or how rich you are, famous you are, you're still just a human. You're just a dude. And it could all go away in a heartbeat. And then you're, you know what I mean? I just don't, there are people like, I'm playing golf with Ricky Horton and John Tudor on Monday. That's a big deal to me. I'm going to be nervous. Those guys are big deals. But I'm sure by the end of it, it's just like, oh yeah, they're just, they're dudes. They're just dudes. This guy, everyone's got problems. You never know what's going on behind someone's closed doors. I learned that in life. You know, just can't judge too much. Unless it's true. Well, I mean, it's not based on like one little interaction. It's

25:11based on what? 45 years of public life. Dave Hines says, but imagine having your entire personhood be based on a 30-second interaction. I'm sure that happens to famous people. What I'm referring to, these are, that's not what I'm saying. There are people who are legitimately like, if they don't think you're important, they're not even going to speak to you. And then an important person walks in and they light up and they're suddenly like a super nice person. And it's incredibly disappointing to see. I've never seen anyone do that. Not especially not someone. Because you're one of the people. They're nice. I was going to say, yeah, because you're one of the ones they're nice to. No, no, no. There's something like that. You got to understand like one of the last things that any generally speaking, any professional athlete wants to see is somebody holding a microphone. Yeah, they're not looking forward to seeing, you know, one of us walk up there. I mean, they get not everybody, but the people that are like that, the people that are cringey. Yeah. Yeah. My very first taste of that, probably 2002, I was invited to be a celebrity host or something

26:21at some sort of a fashion thing. And obviously, I'm not a fashion guy. And so I showed up to, I showed up to the event and I was at like table five. So I go walk it up to table five. There are all these beautiful people. I'll decked out and everything. And I said, oh, hey, I'm Dave. And they're like, they couldn't have been more dismissive. They said, this is a private table. And you know, we're expecting two more people. And they're just, they're just terrible. And then the person running it walked up and said, oh, this is Dave Glover. He's our celebrity blah, blah. And I just watched their faces change. And they're like, oh, oh my, come here, buddy. Oh my gosh. Please sit down. Blah, blah, blah. And I just like, okay. You just told on yourself. This is boys from South like Santa. Yeah, totally told on yourself. We're at dinner the other night. Nick does great impressions. And he was, and he does obscure impressions. And he was doing his Werner Herzog and I said, I'm so glad that I was born in the same era

27:28as Werner Herzog. Now, he's not a big deal to me, but just kind of a throwaway thing. But I thought that'd be a good topic for the show and for the people on the stream. Who are you glad? Like, I, I live the same lifetime as John Lennon and Johnny Carson and, you know, just, all these amazing people. Who are you glad that you got to be in the same era as? Probably the Rizzler. Yeah, kind of goes that. So I get to watch the Rizzler grow up. And I will outlive him too. Which is why I feel the confidence that it will be self-contained. That's terrible. See, the, let's see, the Rizzler, the world's youngest coach, the situation, the situation, baby grunk, baby grunk, of course. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. It's a privilege to bet around with all those. It's quite a lineup. Legends are around.

28:30You imagine getting to heaven. Chelsea, hot to a girl's friend who does the podcast. I'm the Costco dad in the Costco son. Thank God. Yes. AJ and big justice. Those people are. We just had the two-year anniversary of the Costco guys video. I've never seen a single second of me. I feel kind of bad for them because they like, they fall enough. Well, that was, that was not a sustainable thing. Yeah, that's not really like a long-term plan. Yeah. Unlike the Rizzler. He, I like the Rizzler. The Rizzlers. Yeah. We just got a comment from Joni Stanley, who I graduated from Roxana was. She said, you know, it would be super nice. If David come to his class reunion, I'll do anything that Joni Stanley tells me to do. Even though it's been, you know, 40 something years. And Joni, I don't know if you knew this. I've told this story before. But when we went to our 23 union, my 23 union, Maureen and I, and Joni, Joni Stanley, who had a giant crush on, got up and she's like, hey,

29:33I don't know if you guys know this, but we have a big celebrity in our class. Dave Glover is a very, a very famous stand-up comedian, which I was not. And she's like, maybe he'll come up here and do a few minutes for us. And I stand up and I look back at Maureen and her face looks like, it looks like the screen painting. Oh, no. But I went up there. I took that mic. I went up there and I did a solid 15 of just like, hey, remember when Julie Coates blah, blah, blah, blah. And everyone's laughing. I came back to the table and Marine goes, I don't even know you. What was that? Like that was Joni Stanley. That's what that is. Yeah. Joni, I'll beat the next one. Whatever it is. That's one of those deals though. Like when you're in that, even like, just as an example, if I was out of thing like that at a high school reunion like that, I don't know that Susan would want to go because you don't know the people. I want to get a lot of inside jokes and,

30:35you know, I mean, you're not going to understand the words that we're even speaking. You're a worse person for that ever. I probably because I'll snap right back into being 16. Yes. Yes. Not a big snap for you. It's not like a couple of years. And everything would be really inside. You're not wrong. It's tough though. Like in a, now in a normal environment, it's easy to mix friends. You're right. Like, you know, my wife's friends from high school are my friends. They're my friends. I mean, they're people I hang out with a lot. I talk to them all the time. And it would be that way with my friends if we lived near them, right? The only problem is there's that gap. But when you're talking about the large group, it's a little tougher. Yeah. Right. I mean, like in that, in that, you know, when you don't see people a lot. Yeah. Because what are you going to do when you see old friends? You're going to flash back to them when the last time you're all hanging out together. And then the other person is not a part of that. So by nature, it's just a little bit weird. Yep.

31:38When some boob news, what? Yes. Yeah. A study says that they figured out why human beings breasts are bigger than the rest of the animal kingdom. I guess I've never thought of that before. Like, you don't see a chimp with a big rack. Not often. Hey, let me go. I need to go go some stuff. Jim giant boobs. National geographic. It says that it's we evolved bigger boobs to keep our babies warm. Oh, that just sounds like a guess. Makes sense. Because we're hereless. Have giant boobs then. Who? Oh, everyone? Yeah. Good point. That's good point. It's like only some gals have them. And who is no one's keeping their baby there? No one's like putting their baby in between. In between. It's like when people touch their cash. Exactly. They just facing out and just stuck in between. Yeah, like a shot like a shopping cart. It's you're walking along.

32:42Man, that was always the grossest when a customer would hand me cash out of their bra. That happened. Radio check. That happened. Dude, did you ever come into my radio check? That's true. That is true. And it'd be all like damp from their boobs. Thank you. Yeah, they've been all walking and eating cookie factory all day. I thought that was just a movie thing. People do that. People do that. People do that. I thought it was just like, oh, they invented this for movies to make it look cool and hot. It's like, it is not cool. You think you're these stories and really people on people do that? Remember when I was kind of co-cattish and I would try to get a rise out of my mom. And I said, I don't know how old I was by 14. And I said, hey, did you breastfeed me? And my mom said, God, no. And I said, oh, were you not able to? And she just so frances clopper. She just straight up goes, no, I didn't want to lose my figure. Damn. That's cold, sister. You left me with a boob of fetish.

33:49I mean, I don't know. Sure, that's why Dave. Yeah, I think you're on that path. I think there were a lot of dudes that were breastfed that have the same thing you do. Well, either way. Yeah, I think that's just a normal fetish. I think that's a normal hang on. All my Google tabs are whale with big wrap and done. That's a good point. Manatee with big boobs. Oh, boy. Yeah. Look back. DGS on came wax. Hey, Dave. Yeah. Since you brought a word on. He did a film called Happy People that I think you would really like.

34:53I did like it. You watched it. Yeah. It's very cozy. Yeah. Yeah, we're talking about that. Yes, right. Sometimes this week I talked about Jeff, the bare man Watkins, who's afraid of bears. Grizzly man. Oh, no, no. Okay. Yeah. Now, remember, sorry. But Warner Herzog did that movie. Grizzly man. Yeah. About the guy who got bald. And with the tread of will. Yes. That movie was amazing. It was. Like just like, first of all, the whole time you think of this guy's nuts. Yeah. Do you remember the scene where he's, he's, it's either in the movie or he told the story in an interview where he gives that guy's wife or family or something. The tape. Yeah. So it's his ex-wife. His ex-wife. Yeah. And what he does is he listens to it and he tells her like, you should never listen to this and you should actually destroy it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. He likes to listen to it. And then he's like, and there's a tape and there's a tape out there that I've heard.

35:56The terrific, but I guess maybe it's not the tape. It's probably not. I'm guessing it is. I mean, you'd think it is the tape. You think the lady took the tape and was like, I'm putting this on the internet. Things have a way of getting onto the internet. I don't know why. I don't know how they get there. I don't know if she would have done it or whatever. Things just have a way of making their way out. I don't know. I mean, there are a lot of people that, well, I don't know, maybe not. Maybe Verna Herzog was the only one that had access to it, but who knows if a production person had it or the audio guy had it and then later on just had a copy. You called him Verna because you're fancy and you can speak French. That is a name. No, that he's German. I know, but you think you're fancy because you can speak another language and we can't. That's how he says his name because he's German. I know. And you're not. I know, but his name is German. I would like him to. American. I would like him to pronounce, you know, our names at least reasonably close to what they sound like. Yeah. That was good. We don't ever listen to the day.

37:03What's your life routine? Yep. Yep. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, what was that? They weren't even looking at each other. He's like, yep. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Rachel, I thought of you last night. I read an article on something called Paradoxical Insomnia. You should look it up. And it's basically the this concept that sleep doctors have that your brain tricks you into thinking that you're awake longer than you are. Like how many times we come in and say, I slept an hour last night. Yeah. And what they're saying is, no, you probably slept five. Yeah, because nobody told Kurt about this because I'll like be sleeping for like two hours and then I'll be like, I haven't slept. He's like, you were literally snoring. I filmed you snoring. Do you snore? Apparently. Oh, that's what he says, but I think he's lying. And you're really bad, right?

38:05Not not what I used to be. Like, we could actually sleep in the same room now for a while, no way. I have a mouth guard though. If I don't have a mouth guard. Well, I'm sure. Any other we, but no, the mouth guard makes a big difference. Okay. If we had to have a slumber party at the radio station, we all had sleeping bags and we all had to sleep in this studio. How do you think that night would go? Horrible. Terrible. Terrible. We have you guys. Horrible. Really, really, really bad. Bad for all of you. He needs snoring. He needs to sleep and snoring. You'd be farting. I'm not bad. I'm a bad snorer. He's just still getting for the motorcycle yesterday. I know. I should have never said it. War knows that Andrew and I would be the ones dropping bombs. I just snore a lot. I know that. I'm a snorer. I didn't know until I started sleeping next to people and they started saying, boy, you really snore incredibly loudly. Yeah. Have you ever, uh, obviously, haven't, but are you worried at all about, like, sleep apnea?

39:07Oh, yeah. It's because of giant problems in my life. It's probably where I feel so terrible all the time. So I'm getting like 1% as good sleep. I don't know how to do that. You don't have to go to the doctor. I don't know. Who was the doctor that you go to about that? You don't have a doctor? No. You don't have a, like, a general practitioner. I've been to the doctor in, like, 12 years. That's what you need to change. You know, like, you get your annual visit going. You'll find one in a hand. There's nothing that happens where I'm like, I better go to the doctor about this. You do a one year, like every year, they check you and make sure nothing's going wrong. Like, you don't have cancer and you don't have sleep apnea. Well, start with that. I'm just saying if you don't check, get checked, you don't know. I feel like you would know. No, you don't. How do you think you find out if you have, like, high A1C or high blood pressure or any of those things? It's a one C. It's the thing that can indicate whether you're pre-diabetic, diabetic, whatever. Like, how do you know if you don't get blood tests done if you're not getting checked? You're not going to just, like, feel it. Verner had a high AIC. Do you have a high A1C? A1. You had a really high AOC.

40:15I mean, it was really annoying. Yeah. That layliving feels like a hot Puerto Rican. That's really annoying and does contradictory things. Wow, I did add that on there. She does. He's taking no prisoners today. She's all about that. Like, we got to take care of the people, but I'm going to wear a $75,000 dress to a show. That was dumb. I will hold those things against you when you are doing things that are really not working together, you know? Mm-hmm. She's still like in government. I feel like we haven't heard anything from her in a lot of time. I think she's one of the names being tossed around for President next time. Oh boy. That's not going to work.

41:17We're back DGS having Friday, 204. I will be out next week at Spring Training. Guys will take good care of you. So the NHL trade deadline passed about four minutes ago. We know of one. Rutherford saying that you can maybe expect more because it might announce them after the trade deadline. I have the other strict Andy Strickland tweeted that part of it, but yeah. So there's Shen. Yeah. Braden Shen is going to the islanders. And I got to be honest that I would not have expected the return that they got. They got a first round pick, a third round pick, and a prospect. We don't know the prospect yet. At least I haven't seen it. I would imagine it's not an elite prospect. I mean, getting a first round pick for Braden Shen at this stage of his career is really good. And the one thing that sucks about that though is, like Shen is one of the few blues players that actually gets it that understands what it takes to compete and play and win. And so many of the other guys don't. And so far, and again,

42:17he's moving because of age and all that. They're going to get younger. They're going to end up eventually doing what the Cardinals have done and kind of reset this roster younger because they're not close to being good. And we got a tweet from a lot about nine minutes ago from Jeremy Rutherford saying that he doesn't think the blues are done. Possibility of moving fault to Detroit. And then he tweeted four minutes ago saying sounds like it's happening. So they may have another trade coming. And again, moving fault. I think if I mean, I'm assuming the price would be really strong for him. I would assume the price for him is better than what you got for Shen because he's playing great. Most playoff teams need a right shot defenseman who can play on the power play and all that. So we'll see. So I barely understand the inner workings and purposes of the Cardinals rebuild. I understand it a lot better now than I did six months ago. I don't understand it all when it comes to hockey teams. Yeah. So what over the past several seasons in your mind has been the problem. So the guys that they had had hoped would kind of take over as the centerpiece players.

43:24Thomas Kyru those players, Puchnevich with the contract that they gave him. He's not as young as the others. But those guys just haven't figured it out. They haven't figured out what it means to be high end competitive winning players that can lead a roster. They're very talented players. But they're not they're not 22 or 23 anymore. I mean, they're getting to 26, 27 where they should be more stable. You shouldn't be wondering what you're getting night in and night out or weekend and week out from players at that level. And when you're making the amount of money, those guys are, it's not just them. It's more than that. But you don't have a top level like the contending teams. And if you look at the Blues Cup team and all of those contending teams around it, they didn't have a, you know, a Sydney Crosby. They didn't have an Alex O'Vetchkin kind of player. But they had like nine, 10, 12 really good players, right? Like they were just really deep with players that were just below that level. So like an Alex Patrangelo is probably going to, he got a really good chance of being a Hall of Famer. And that's your guy that was kind of, he was your

44:26captain. He was your, I would say probably recognized as your best player. But Ryan O'Reilly was not a superstar, but he was awesome. And they just had so many guys like that. And right now they don't have the leadership skills. They don't have people that really understand, at least by appearances. And I do think that there's a, a good bit of players that were just, they're given bad contracts. So a lot of that is on the front office too. The Buchennavich contract was a terrible idea. And it's working out terribly. So I don't, I don't know exactly. It's not one thing. But they need the same idea as the Cardinals do is they just have to get past the mistakes that they've made. You've got to reset it by getting as many picks and prospects and young talented players as you can move on from players that are not going to be a part of your team when you're good again. So that means guys basically anything with two years or left, less left are guys you should probably moving in that's and fall fits that. Do you like Montgomery to bring the next team along? I do. I think Monty's great, man. I know issue with the, their problem is not the coach.

45:26That is not their problem. And it, and honestly, it probably hasn't been at all through the last few years. Perubi wasn't the problem. The roster's the problem. And it's very, very much like the Cardinals. I mean, it's, it's almost the exact same idea. Different reasons, different things about it. But similar idea that, you know, we can change coaches all we want. I ain't going to change a damn thing until you fix this roster. And by the way, it looks like the blues are getting a first round pick and a third round pick from Detroit for Justin Volk. Okay. Let's get in the way back machine. I saw a TikTok the other day of Gretzky and whole playing together. Why did we trade him so fast? Gretzky? Yeah. I don't think they traded him. He's a free agent. Oh. And I believe there was something I, unfortunately, I wasn't here at the time. But my understanding was there was a contract difference difference. And he went into free agency and got big money. Wow. Got a big Gretzky. I would think you would think you would think if you're trading for Gretzky, you would pay him to stay. Yeah. You know, his wife from St. Louis, you know, the whole,

46:28you know, you would think that, and you look at all the other great spread hall stayed for as long as he did. You know, it's not like they had a hard time keeping star players around. Everybody that's come here as a blues typically loved it and wanted to stay. Interesting. Yeah, I, it's certainly one of those things in that era that is a regret. Right. What's a pet phone? Okay. I saw this on, I think I might have seen it on the KMOX website. But basically it's this new invention where you can hook something up to your pet and it gives them an opportunity to call you and hear your voice. And then you'll be able to see your pet. So it's triggered by you are going to have to train your pet on this. So a dog would have to jump in place three times in a row in order to make the call. Oh my God. And a cat would have to leap onto something a couple of feet off the ground in order to make the call. But you know, they say there are studies that show that our pets can tell our voice and maybe if they were on the call us during the day, this is a way for them to get

47:31a hold of us. When I initially saw this, I was excited because I'm like, man, if there was a way where if I'm like a way on a trip or something and I could actually talk to Lucy and she would know it was me, that would be incredible. This is this is not that. This is a step above like having whoever was watching your pet call you on the phone and hear your hear each other's voices from there. But I mean, it's cool that they're developing things like this. This currently it does seem like a bit of a scam. But yeah, I'm glad that this technology is in the works and maybe someday it'll get a little bit better. I feel like pet should just call you over and over. No, that's what I'm saying. I'm going to be so pissed off if Gigi was collect calling dude, every 30 seconds at home. Part of this is where owner pet owners, you got to cut the cord when you're not there. No, I don't want to. I am not saying when you're not there, you don't need your pet calling you. Your pet's fine. I am the I am the biggest pet owner. Like I love my

48:34dogs. They're part of my family. They don't need a phone to call me. They're fine. They're sleeping. I know what they do when we're gone. They sleep. That's what they do because that's what they do when we're there. They're just sleeping all the time. You know, I and my experience too is that dogs don't always pick up what's on the phone. My dogs like especially the boy are two. He watches TV. He sees animals. He gets mad at the TV and charges it when people fight. Like he sees what's happening. But if you put him on the phone and he hears a voice, he doesn't recognize it. Yeah. Like he doesn't recognize my voice, my wife's voice, my kids' voice, and he, but if he sees, you know, if you say their name, he gets excited because he knows the name. Like I'm not sure every dog hears the voice the same way through that little box. It reminds me of the buttons that got really popular. The pet buttons. Like the pet, the dog says that he misses me and I'm his mommy and also he wants food and he wants to go to the park and it's like the dog is just mashing whatever buttons you put in front of him. Like he's not understanding

49:38English and then speaking English to you. They understand that when I push to this button, this time I went outside. And if you keep doing that, they will make that association. Like this button means outside. This button means a treat because when you, when I hit that one, you gave me a treat and then you do it again and again and they know what to expect. But you're right. They're not using language. They're communicating in the way that they do, but they do that even without buttons. Like your dog will come tell you when they want something. They'll buy you. They'll bark at you. They'll, you know, make other kinds of noises. They'll bring you a toy whatever they don't. They know how to communicate. Yeah. I'm trained in much the same way. And I mean, anytime. I'm just mashing the treat button over and over again. I was at a chimp with really just gave you a burger. Big boobs and cadets. Oh my gosh. Collect call from a day's already mashing. Yes, except except. Yeah. I'm not going to, I hate to disagree with the side dish, but that doesn't sound right.

50:39Oh, it's the old ball and chain calling me. We also want to talk about how dumb you are. Oh my god. I mean, there's been a few of these in the last few days. But, you know, normal thing. It's time for an oil change with one of our cars, taken into Greg Damon at Sparkstine Auto because Greg is my best friend and we're buddies and he's great. And they do great work. And also, I'd say, Greg, just check it out, man, the back hatch doesn't work anymore. It's just it's not doing anything. It doesn't matter for using the key fob, the button on the door, the button in the car doesn't work. And, you know, they're, they're doing all that yesterday. And he sends me a picture of the dash of my car where the button is to open the door. And next to it, there is a button that says the button says power door on off and it is switched to off. So for weeks, it's not been working. And I'm racking my brain trying to figure out why this damn thing's not working. And one of us just hit the button and turned it off accidentally.

51:42Instead of leaving it on. And that's it. That is that is that is how good I am with automobiles when it comes to understanding what's going on. Didn't even think to check that little button right next to the button where you push it to open the gate. It would be so cool to know anything about cars. God, right? Like I just I'm probably even worse than the, you know, on off switch and not understand. You know what I mean? Like I have no idea how anything works in a car. I was finishing my shifted Mr. Donut when I was probably 16. And I was driving Donka jealous. I was driving a black granada with gold wheels. Oh boy. Yeah. High living. Yeah. And so I open I turned it on and pressed the gas and it didn't move. It just like rock back and forth. So I don't know what the hell's going on. So I call my dad, who's of course extremely patient. And you know, so he

52:43drives from South Rock, Santa to the, you know, Eastgate, whatever it was. And he puts his head in there. And I just hear this long line of curses and how stupid I am. And I had somehow put on the emergency brake. And I didn't know about emergency brakes. So that was a bad one. Another time I was leaving and my dad said, you have guessed your car? Does it run on fumes? And one of the few times my life, I'm like, come on. You know, like a little pushback ran out of gas ran out of gas like an hour later. Man, that was one thing that made me feel better, though. And I was when Greg sent me that picture and I texted back, oh my God, I am an idiot. And he's like, well, he goes, I've had people had cars towed to us thinking the engine seized or broke and it just ran out of gas. Like, no. I mean, that only makes me feel slightly bit better because I just remember that a button was pushed wrong. I remember getting in my dad's face one time because he was on me about like getting my oil changed or whatever. I was like a thousand miles over. No, I changed 10,000

53:50miles, whatever. And I like, I just didn't want to admit I was wrong. So I was like, I think I would know father. And then like, I think the engine, hours later. Man, that was an extra one. Yeah, sorry about that. So guess what I had for dinner last night? Me too. Big arch. And I did not like it. No, I did not like it. It might be my new favorite burger. I didn't even finish it.

54:54Well, it's hard to finish. What did you not like about it? Was it too salty? Because I worried about that when you said you're again. Do you remember back when I was in my Lenny Kravitz age? And you told me, Dave, from now on, or you get dressed before you leave the house, take off one accessory. That's how I felt about the too much. The big arch. Yeah. Yeah. Just let going on. Lot going on. Yeah. Confused my palate. Really? Because that might be my new favorite of all the McDonald's burgers. It's like the perfect cross between a big Mac and a quarter pounder. My only knock on it. It is just it's too big. I had it for dinner last night and for lunch today. Man, was it a left over McDonald's burger? Yeah. Half of that. Which is basically the size of a quarter pounder. How did you prepare it today? I just microwave it today as lazy. It's just big dolls. There's only so much you can do with fast food reheating. I would think that would be I was really good on that one. It would be, but I just didn't feel like waiting. Okay.

55:56That's fair enough. I have a couple kind of dark topics. I was thinking last night, just watching the war and everything going on and watching people hate each other. And I thought if we're really honest with ourselves, not protecting ourselves, do you think that hate is one of if not the primary defining attributes of being human. Just looking all the way back as far as we have history, we have people hating each other, going to war, killing each other, violence. I don't know of any time in history where we had, where we didn't have that. And it just kind of made me sad, you know, like if if I were an alien and I've been watching this planet for 61 years and I was going to give my superiors a report, I think one of the first things I would say is this is a really brutal hateful species. Am I being too hard on us? I don't think you're being too hard on this, but I do think the hate thing

57:00comes from being in survival mode a lot of the time. Like, having mistrust of other people or even like, I mean, look at the animal kingdom. It's not like animals are all kumbaya all the time. Like, they're pretty suspicious of each other and hunting each other and killing each other. Yeah. I mean, hate is just a manifestation of fear. That's what it is. Can you say that as for the horizon? No, hate in French. I can't do that one. They're not off the top of my head. Wow, because I don't, I wouldn't know manifestation. We found a limitation. Yeah, it could be that, but I don't think it is. I'm not good at the big words anymore. I only do the little ones. Inter just called Wheeler a nerd for knowing another language. Yeah, I mean, he's not wrong. I mean, that's nerd. That's nerd stuff. So let's go on to the doctors, the nerd thing too. Yep. We have a new war.

58:02No, I really, I mean, honestly, God, fear is the biggest driver because fear is that survival instinct. Yeah. Right. So fear, it, it comes from fear, fear of something, right? You might hate a thing or a group of people. Maybe you don't directly fear the person, but you fear something about that group. It's something taking from you or something that you think you'll lose. And it's, it is a bit of a survival instinct to have fear. So I think to your question, yeah, I think it is a part of us. Here's my other one. And this is actually a trishism. Trish gazelle said this to me recently. You know how trish is. She's like, why can't we solve hunger? Like, don't we have enough food? Don't we have enough smart people? Now we have AI. Can't we just feed that into chat GPT and say, how can we just feed everyone? And it made sense to me like we've been doing this for thousands and thousands of years and we have a helicopter on Mars and we have so many things we can do and yet they're people hungry.

59:08Yeah. There's no money in it. If you could get rich feeding people that don't have food, people would be doing the left and right. But there's no money in it. There's no, and I mean, we've been not just the US. I mean, like just humans, we have been what's the right word? Rewarding those types of things. We don't reward generosity. We don't reward. You're not going to have a good savings plan because you fed a thousand people. It's all entirely about whether there's a return in it. And the truth, the harshest truth is a lot of us would like to do more, but you don't have the means and the people who have the means clearly don't care. I mean, if they did, why aren't you doing anything about it? Yeah. Well, you just said struck me. You don't get rewarded financially at least by being generous. I mean, people who work in that industry or spend their time doing for others are almost never rich. You're choosing to live a

1:00:13life where you know you're not going to make a lot of money. Yeah. And unfortunately, we push that choice too to be a teacher and a fireman and a police officer. And so I mean, like when you're doing meaning, we have established that the meaningfulness of the job that you're doing is not what you get rewarded for. So you really are making sacrifices to do those things. Now, again, who knows what everybody's earning upside is right? Every person's different. Some people are going to have a chance if they wanted to, they could choose instead of being a teacher to write books and maybe they make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year instead of what teachers make. And I think that's kind of the thing is where we do things is where there's profit and then where or when there's potential future profit. And where's the profit in that? I guess the time for us to soon. Welcome back, guys. DG Assum came away. It's happy Friday. Bernie

1:01:28McLeese joins us. Hello, Bern. Good afternoon. How's everybody? Not too bad. Can I tell you what I'm doing next week? Please. Tomorrow morning, me and Michael Kelly and Tom Ackerman fly down to Jupiter for my first spring training. And then I have been invited to be in a forceum for golf on Monday morning with Ricky Horton and John Tudor. I think you're a very fortunate son. That's outstanding stuff, man. Oh, and then Wins Day were taking the train down to Miami to watch the Dominican Republic versus Venezuela in the WBC. That's a nice bonus right there. You know, am I a terrible unpatriotic human being in the United States of America if I tell you that I'm much more interested in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and the World Baseball Classic than Team USA, just simply because Albert's managing one side, Yadi's managing the other

1:02:31side. And those, those, those teams from that area of the world, when they're in this tournament, man, it is one nonstop party. I mean, it's just what I hear. The fans, the players, it's just nothing but joy and energy and happiness. And it's everything, you know, we want to see in baseball and sometimes we don't. So that's awesome. Yeah. I hope we see more of that kind of stuff from the US too, down the road, Bernie, because, you know, that you're totally right. Just today, watching a game and you've got Aussie Albies playing second base and Ronald Acunio Jr. is on second base to their teammates. And they're just, they're playing around and Acunio's doing a little fake dance off the bag, trying to fool Albies and like they're having a good time. I just like that playing around, especially in this kind of event where it's a worldwide draw. Let's just me flow. If you got it, let it flow. You know, that people enjoy who love baseball and, you know, really, the enjoyment is enhanced by watching plus having a ball and basically showing

1:03:38that, hey, there's nothing in the world I'd rather be doing right now than playing baseball right in front of you good people. So let's have fun. I mean, you know, and that's, that's sort of something that gets lost in sports, I believe I really do. You know, it's possible to have fun, a lot of fun competing, but also be extremely intense in your competitiveness. Amen. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm super excited. I'm excited for the game tonight, the WC game. Yeah, you can watch that. I am. I would think it would be, I mean, again, you never know, but I would think this will be a pretty solid win for Team USA. Yeah. I think so. Yeah, and listen, I think those guys are real serious this year. I'll try to watch, but I'm probably not going to watch it as much as much as a lot of people. And it's just for a variety of reasons. No reason that has anything to do with this like of the WBC, but, you know, burn. Let's start out today with the blue since we've had a little bit of action. What do you make of the moves?

1:04:40I think Doug Armstrong did a heck of a job. And I'm talking about these two specific moves. You know, you trade Justin Falk and you get a first round and a third pick plus a a prospect. And you trade Brent and Braden Shen, who's getting up there in age, you get a forward, you get a gold tender prospect, you get a first rounder, third rounder, I believe, if I have that right. I mean, that's a really good haul. That's a really good haul for two older dudes who don't fit into your future. And I think both of those guys are class acts. So I'm happy for them. They're going to get the opportunity to, you know, get in there and compete for something. You know, you have a chance to make the playoffs. And Bernie, let me ask you the question I ask wheels, not understand the hockey's the major sport I understand the least. What do you think has been the overarching or core problem the last few seasons?

1:05:44Well, with the blue. Yes. Bad payroll investments. Too many, too many no trade contracts that limits the flexibility of the general manager to make trades. Colton Paraco being a great example. There have been others. They, they're sort of caught in between because their latest retool basically went flat. And they've only made a playoff so one time since they won this cup. They've only won one playoff round since they won the Stanley Cup. So this next core that was supposed to kind of sustain that success. It didn't happen. It went flat. Now they have the retool again. And they have another young nucleus that they're ready to roll out. And I guess they cross fingers and hope that this retool that's upcoming is going to work better than the last one. Bernie, I, it's not exact because they're different sports and everything. But it's not that far off of what happened

1:06:46to the Cardinals. As far as you're kind of stuck, you're a little old and you're not good enough, you don't have enough top level talent to be good enough. And it's just in, in the baseball sense, you can spend your way out of it, but it's really impractical and it can vary you even further. And in hockey, you just don't have that choice because you're going to, you're all ca, everybody's capped out. Yeah. And I, I did a video about this the other day, you know, and a lot, a lot of people watched it. And I just made the point. It's something I've actually said here on the Dave Glover show. I do, I am amused by the, the double standards in our town, though, you know, the Cardinals build the width, bought the thing in around Christmas in 1995. It's the first time they've ever had to rebuild. Right. Did they let some things slip? Of course, they did. All of us on KMOX have said that a million times. We acknowledge that. But it's the first time Cardinals fans have ever had to endure a rebuild, which is kind of rare, you know, 30 years. And this is the first time. The blues are retooling or redoing this or redoing that or you know, they, they, they do,

1:07:50this cycle repeats itself like every three or four years. Yeah. And yet, and yet part of my French, yet the Cardinals are the franchise that catches all the hell. I don't get it. Now I'm with you. It might just be the numbers, maybe because there are just that many more Cardinals fans, like that many more people that pay attention. But the reality is what you're talking about couldn't be more true. I mean, you know, going back to just the lockout, right? I mean, because obviously that was a different ownership group for the blues. But starting with the, with all of that, the old ownership group selling before the lockout and then the checkitz group and all those guys coming in and it's bad afterwards. You're right. It's, we've been through this probably four or five times just since 2006, 2007. And you have it. You, here I go again, and I apologize to people where I, that I kind of get on their nerves when I bring this up all the time. But I feel passionately about it. Even though he's made some mistakes here recently, you know, build a with junior in this stewardship of the franchise, they've been a top five franchise for 30 years, even with the bad stuff baked in. And you know, yet the reaction, now I'm exaggerating

1:08:56this, you know, maybe for effect, at least admitted, when you compare the two franchises, you know, Tom Stillman is a saint. He's a saint. Oh, don't you dare criticize him. You know, okay. I think Tom Stillman's great. But why, why, why is it kind of a hands-off thing here where when the other hand, people are shrieking for Bill DeWitt to sell the team when he, when he's given Saint Louis a top five major league franchise over 30 year period. I don't get it. I don't either. Burns, speaking of the Cardinals, I saw someone's TikTok last night. I think it was Derrick's, but I'm not, for sure, but it was a real guy who's down there who said that, uh, so thus far, JJ Weatherhold has been the best hitter in camp. Yeah, he's the best hitter in camp. And I think he's probably been, you know, I don't have all this stuff in front of me, but you know, some of the stuff I'm picking up down there and I do know some scouts. They think he's been the most impressive young player in, in Florida that they've seen simply because of his poise at the plate, his

1:09:59graded bats, uh, that smooth, glorious swing of his, uh, taken walks knowing how to work pictures, not chasing junk off the plate. Like he is so far advanced in terms of what you would say, man, that dude's a professional hitter. That dude's a pure hitter. There's some other guys that have more natural power and all that stuff. But in terms of all around hitting talent and just knowing how to play the game and can, and carrying himself like he's been doing this in the, in the majors already for four or five years, I think he really stands out among all the young guys down there in Florida. I don't care who they play for. Do you know, I know, I know Connor Griffin, the pits, the number one prospect in baseball, the pirates. Listen, he is, he is an enormous talent. Don't get me wrong. He's an enormous talent, but he's 19 years old. There's still going to be some things to, to, to prove. I'm, I'm all on board with the weather hole. Do you like JJ and lead off? Oh, absolutely. Um, I, I don't know why he wouldn't be the lead off hitter. I mean, I get

1:11:01along great with Ali Marmo, which is irrelevant, but, um, Mason win has got 560, over 500 played appearances in his major league career as a lead off man. His on base percentage is 280, which frankly is just terrible. Yeah. He, he also has the last two years, the worst stolen base success rate in the major leagues among guys that have stole, tried his steel 30. So you don't get stolen bases out of the hole there when he's, Mason's up there. You don't get the on base stuff. The, the number one obligation is to get on base. Large new park gets on base, but large new park ain't around. Victor Scott would be great, but he doesn't get on base. Yep. Not early enough. JJ weather hole has played, um, either summer league ball, like in the prestigious summer league teams, summer leagues, I should say. Uh, he's had parts of two seasons and minor league baseball. He had three seasons at West Virginia. He has never had an on base percentage lower than 409 in a season. And he's got a 418,

1:12:09on base percentage in five different levels of, of highly competitive ball. And the other thing, I love about this. If you look at West Virginia, what he did there and you look at what he's done in the minors, both places, same number of walks as strikeouts, the exact same number of walks as strikeouts, not at one place, but at West Virginia. Yeah. And in the cardinals minor league system. I mean, this stuff just doesn't happen, right? No, he, he's definitely the perfect example of he want. I mean, he's, he's a, to me, I know this is against early block. I'm not saying it's going to be right now in 2026, although it might be. He's a supercharged Brendan Donovan. Very similar in terms of the approach, the ability to put the barrel on the ball, but he's more, he's more athletic. He's more electric. He's got more pop. No, I agree with all that. And, um, he also knows his swing, like, like Brendan Donovan, I love him. By the way, I'm not, this, people will think that I'm like dog and I'm not at all, but Brendan Donovan also sort of

1:13:13got into a little bit of a conflict with himself a couple of these seasons in St. Louis, where even though he would think that he was a really good player, don't get me wrong. He decided that he wanted to hit for more power. And he kind of got caught in between, because he was, he was a great guy like taking walks, working pictures, getting on base a lot. Then it's like, well, listen, I think I can hit for more power and it kind of changes approach a little bit. He sort of got caught in the middle, which AJ Weatherhold, he ain't going to get caught in the middle, because it sounds weird, but he's a sophisticated hitter for a lot of reasons. But one of the reasons is because he keeps it simple, because it's like, well, people say I don't have enough power. Okay. If someone throws me a pitch inside, that I can pull down the line and get in the air and hit it out, I can hit your bunch of home runs. But it's got to be the right kind of pitch, or I'm not going to swing yet. And I'm not going to take, I'm not going to see a pitch coming to the outside corner, low and away, and try to pull it out of the ballpark, because that's just stupid. So incredibly mature as a

1:14:17hitter. I think Cardinal fans are going to love him. In fact, I don't think a lot of Cardinal fans realize how much they're going to look. Oh, he's going to be a immediate fan favorite. And honestly, Bern, I was texting about this with Matt Polly. I think this is not in any way a slide on Alec Burleson, who I think will have a really nice year offensively. He's going to be good. The only hitter on the team that's at JJ's level in my opinion is Herrera. Well, yeah, no doubt about it. There's no doubt about it. And he has that same type of plate discipline. And I tell you what about Herrera? I was doing some research this afternoon, because I was curious about something. You know that Herrera, I'll share my findings. You know that let's say the Albert Poole holes era, which began in 2001, okay? When we're talking about in a season where a dude has had about 120 played appearances, a right-handed hitter, right-handed hitter against a left-handed hitter, like 120 played appearances in a season. He's been the best right-handed hitter the Cardinals have had in a season against left-handed pitching since 2001. And it probably

1:15:19goes back deeper than that. Maybe Mark McGuire would top him. I mean, this guy's really, really special. He's really, really special. The bat in his hands. Only about 60 seconds left here, but how do you guys see the outfield shaping up? I know we're only halfway through spring training, but what do you think? Well, I mean, Scott and Walker are set in center and right. You know, I joke that left field is basically one of these open mic nights in a comedy club. I don't know who, I don't know who of the 5,000 people competing out there. I'm only kidding. Listen, Newt Bar is not there. For me, it's going to have a chance to win the job against maybe a left-handed pitching. I don't know, CJC's going to get a run at it. The last guy has hit a home run today. He may get a run at it still, but they can send him to the miners. Listen, there's no clear answer there. It's just, they're going to run everybody out there until they see something they really like, or they'll

1:16:20just settle into a platoon with who would the platoon be? I don't know. I mean, it could be something like church and for me, you know, I mean, like if and church is a guy, I'm a big fan of, like a lot of what you said about JJ Weatherhold and controlling counts. He did a lot of that in the minor leagues too. He, he stung class year, but it was very little playing time here. I would, and I know we're all just, this is all pending Newt's return because when newt returns, he'll be the left-fielder. But we don't know when that's going to be and it certainly isn't going to be opening day at this point, but I would love to see church like run with it. I don't want to give it to him, but I would love to see him finish the spring strong because he's look good and you want to talk about an elite outfield. If you've got church in left field and you got Scott in center field, there's not going to, they're not much going to fall. I know right fields a little open short blocker, but from the left field line to right center, you're good. Yeah, that's right. I think, look, I think there's a making, there's the makings of being able to get some offense out of there until Newt Bar returns and you hope for his sake and the Cardinals say what he returns, he's ready to go and he starts banging, man. But until then, I don't know,

1:17:25it's going to be fascinating to see what they decide out there, but it is going to be for a short term because Newt will be back. Yeah. Look at that. DG asked to 51 happy Friday. So I'm not someone who goes crazy when gas prices go up a little bit, but I was just reading on Drudge that we've set a record. We've gone up 35% in just a few days. And it's now $91 a barrel. I think it started out around 74, 75. The markets are freaking out. Start markets freaking out. Yeah. We get a brag about those still. Well, Trump said yesterday in his very trumpish way, you know, he's he doesn't get that he's like, hey, it's going to go up a little bit.

1:18:30It'll come back down when we finish the war. It's not what you're saying when another guy was president. That's a good point. Now, granted, there was no attack on Iran in that presidency, but big question. We only have a couple of three minutes, but with all the Epstein files stuff that we've talked about over the last few months, why do you think the Biden administration didn't release anything? I thought the files were like a lot. I'm using a lot. There were there were appeals and yeah. And again, the I can speak from myself here. I never really put much stock into the Epstein stuff. I didn't look into it much whenever he was arrested. And even when he allegedly killed himself, it was just not a story I was following closely. However, the president ran on I will release those files. And then whenever it's time for that to happen, and there's just excuse after excuse, I personally started to get very troubled and very

1:19:34suspicious that you ran on the fact that you were going to be completely transparent about this. And now you're telling us there's nothing to see. That's what peaked my interest in the entire thing was like, well, what are they hiding? The cover up was was bigger than my initial interest in the crime. Yeah. And I think a lot of people have that same feeling. Do you see that the 53 pages that we're missing are back about the allegation that the 13 year old girl made against the president? Yeah. Were they changed? It was the report say that they were changed anyway or anything redacted that wasn't before. Not that I saw. Okay. Not that I saw. I think there's still 37 pages missing about something. But yeah, the allegations from the teenager are horrific. And again, there are allegations, you know, not independently verifying. I will say like reading through those parts of the files. I will give some grace as far as hey, maybe they didn't want to release that right away. I wanted to go through that with as fine a tooth of comb as possible because the

1:20:35allegations that are being made. If someone were to find out who was making those allegations, that person would receive tons of threats in their life would 100% be in danger. So, you know, I mean, I give a little grace there to as far as like we do need to be very careful about protecting the victims and protecting the people making these reports and these files because it could be very, very bad for them. And this is someone who claims she has been threatened throughout her entire life. Yeah. The problem for me with all of it is that should have been done in advance before the law said it needed to be done. It should have been half-assed and then put out like, Oh, no, pull that back. Yeah. It should it. To me, this whole thing has been about outing people. Is this guy in it? Is this guy in it? It should have been an investigation by

1:21:36authorities into crimes. Yeah. Like there's so much smoke there. Yeah. And as far as I know, there is never a real investigation done. Into the other people. Into the other people. I mean, so yeah, I think that's the point that sometimes gets lost in the arguments is that these millions and millions and millions of files, they're all about the one investigation into one dude. Right. Where are the files on all these other people? Yes. Why aren't they being investigated? Because in the UK, you got two people including a former member of the royal family that have been arrested that are being charged. They are being prosecuted in part because of the information in these documents. And you're telling me we've got nothing to even investigate on other people. Yeah. Come on. There should be files in there saying we investigated this and this person was cleared. We investigated this and, you know, there's just nothing like that.

1:22:44Welcome back to TGS on Game of Wags. Happy Friday. If you're just past 3 p.m. our buddy Alvin Reed is here from Donnie Brook. Alvin is a KU grad. He goes back there often. I told him stay clear of Lawrence tonight because it's my daughter's 21st birthday shot party. I wouldn't go. I wouldn't go past Overland. It might be. It might. When the, when the, I call it the English lady because he has an English accent in the, in the range rover. Like tells you when you're going to another state, she might warn me. Yes. Yeah. Stop here. Beware. Beware. 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 don'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.

1:23:53And we went, we went out. And so my first legal drink was in Tulsa, Oklahoma at like 1202. Yeah. And what we walked in, I showed my driver's license. The guy, you know, looked at him and he said, like, he said, like, you just turned 20. You just turned 21. I mean, right. So then, you know, I'm just laughed, you know, and, you know, and, but he had like a little like, you know, little not wonky talking, but a little thing to his speaker. Yeah. And this light comes on. He said, everybody, it's guy just turned 21. I mean, he just turned 21. What do you want to drink? Yeah. I said, like, well, I'll take a bourbon, you know, on ice. And, you know, I, so that was my first legal drink was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, five years, you know, between midnight and about 1205 in the morning. Yeah. Yeah. Miami turning 21 just meant it was another Friday night. Yeah. Yeah. I can't just, I can't change anything. Yeah. It's like, okay, join the club, but, you know, not that anybody in college drinks before they're 20. Well,

1:24:57that's why I told fees, especially around 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, right, and order a glass of wine with your family. 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. Should you blow it out? I went to fast studies for me. Hey, so you blow it out. Hey, it was fun. I had I had one of their delicious hurricanes for the first time. Don't get hurricane around Andrew. No, not to give up your age, but what about what is 2012? 2012. Okay. I was done with fast studies. It's 12. This is 20. Yeah,

1:25:58I would have said of 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 pretty. It is. Beautiful drive. Yeah. I've told the 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 10 feel like? You know, end up throwing up at Bogey South on a sidewalk somewhere. Oh, that's terrible feeling. I I still, by definition, don't drink a lot. Yeah. I never like there was something. Now, like I said,

1:27:01I've blown chaff you a few times, but it's, it's just what I was like, I can tell. Like, you know, dude, you're, you're done. Yeah. Okay. I'm even at a younger age. But you know, like I said, I had my, yeah. People tell me it's like, and you always come, you, you'll come in and have one beer, two, play Kino wheels, never been drunk. No, and I have been, I can take 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. Now, I mean, that's, I don't know if that's bragging or whatever. Yeah. Now, you know, if you, if you put up how many, if every American, you know, could walk into someplace and it just registered how many drinks you had had in your life, it might register like, you know, for, dude, you know, 65, you're on the, you know, you're on the scale. You

1:28:06you'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 End. And we would go to this place on the clean 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, I just changed your pattern and 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 get in the first place. It's kind of like what I've said as far, the, the, I never could smoke. So I never had to quit smoking. Yeah. So I never could binge drink. So I never had to like, what could

1:29:08you 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 it. 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. She had to back on it. All right. So we all put one in there. It's like, who could last the long? And I, there was some, you know, Wellington Kansas, Bruce was for a while. West Kansas. I'm from St. Louis. One kid was from Wichita. You know, we were kind of mixture of kind of out there and kind of match the policy. I did not finish last. I was right. Good for you. Good for you. Long, long enough. Right. I think I lasted about 25 minutes. I've never tried that either. It, it, it, it's, it's, it's, it's, you start to get kind

1:30:12of 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. Uh, quicker. Well, I think whatever it, 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. Uh, um, you know, just nicotine pouches. Yeah. But I just, yeah. Yeah. Are you, wheels? You never did a child? You never know. Oh, God. All right. I don't know why I developed these rules in life. Like I don't want anything in my mouth that's on fire. Yeah. Uh, and I don't want anything that looks like crap, literal crap in my mouth. All right. I think no, I'm good. Uh, I had a couple guys that have 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.

1:31:16So, but really around baseball, that was, it was just a lot in baseball. Yeah. And it's like, you know, no chance. No chance. No chance for me. Of course, as I got to any of that stuff was big league, too. 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 while 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 sunflower. 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 a professional journalist. I was like 23 years old for a really dry coffee. I never drink coffee. But I think coffee, I think Alvin Reed. And I go say it, but I did not. I said, first 23 years of my life, I didn't drink coffee. So that maybe that's why I could still drink a lot of it to this. We never had coffee in the house. My mom and dad were tea drinkers. And when I was 16 years old, I would work Friday and Saturday night, midnight to Mr. Donut 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. both nights, 16. And, you know, three in the

1:32:20morning, your legs go out and you see and 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 like a professional wrestler. Yeah, it was 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 coffees are like, now you won't be putting cream and sugar in it. And it took about a year. And so really since I've been 24, it's just been straight black coffee. Well, it's it's another never done it. Never you never drank coffee. All right. You want something like a Mormon? Except that I'll drink all the diet mountain two 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.

1:33:25So like, right. So yeah, didn't you 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. Um, 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. They're not good for you, but they're not bad for you. Sugar can be very bad for you, 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. And he goes, and I think I mentioned this a few weeks ago, but there's the, the science of it is simple. It would take like 25 cans of coke in a day to even reach the threshold of what's safe for the artificial sweeteners.

1:34:27And 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. And 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

1:35:28said this 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 war. 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, 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

1:36:31this 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. You know, and you know, the shot was repressive now. He wasn't like, he they were having like a every four year. Right. 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 people might think that, well, regime change and they'll all get along over there in the Middle East. That's like, no, that's not going to happen. You know, it's like, well, you're talking about the last, uh, 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, and none of us are going to shed a tear for, you know,

1:37:32their 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. 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 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. Right. And it's like, that's the problem. It's not that 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 too. And there are a lot of people in Iran who do not want to be under that leadership. Right. And we've seen all the protests and how many people were killed during those protests. That's why they came to an end just like in China. They'll take about two weeks of that. And we know, right? We all know they've been the biggest backers of groups like Hezbollah.

1:38:37We 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, but 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 grift or a scam every now and then he may have a really good deal. But you don't trust it because of 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,

1:39:43I 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 Christian Earl while ago put up a long text on the 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, what? Or the book of the dead, right? Everyone has their 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 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 Hawk down? What do we accomplish there? What happened? Because we didn't have a plan. We didn't have an

1:40:46exit 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 ever, it 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 take take it over. Then it's not going to happen. And the last war 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.

1:41:50I never had a TGS and came away. Happy Friday. They've 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 along 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, you know, 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 our, you know, kind of poke their way through them, so to speak, but you're going to be okay. Okay. So what are we looking at tonight?

1:42:55My folks used to live down in 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. It was always great to take my mom and dad the Cardinal preseason. Always nice. Yeah. Always made it a point. Yeah. 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 tomorrow. 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.

1:43:56It's 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 to 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 7 oh one Monday sunny 79 80 degrees for the high. Another round of rain and thunderstorms come Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. I still kind of

1:45:01like 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 Spears DUI arrest. A 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 and along 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 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.

1:46:06I 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 agency. 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 understaffing. And then you're looking at this issue that like yeah we're we're not 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

1:47:11and it'd be fine. I mean I think we're probably close to that. I I 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 believe me I'd be all for getting rid of any kind of marketing man. Like the blank envelopes you have to open what if it's one of them being audited. Well you know and then it's just some stupid thing. The streams make me laugh. We're talking about Brittany and Brian him says Brittany looks like she needs some help. Lots of dancing around with knives in her underwear floating around on social media and then Mitch says hit me baby one more time. I did it again. You guys are two pieces of comedy partners Evan Castello here who's on first I don't know

1:48:13Britney Spears. Okay I got one you guys are being toxic. Okay beyond me 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 they'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 why does like protein drink gross me out. I think because I I pictured having like protein powder in it. No that's well and I just had is just chocolate milk basically. Yeah Starbucks has these new protein lattes. I have not tried one. Now 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 mix ones are good.

1:49:16Do 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 wireless power will crash into the moon in 2032. So we're good everybody can breathe. I know everyone was losing sleep over that. Yeah. 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 floor 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 happy with it and the little girl got to go home. Very good. Nice job fellas. Should have dropped the dresser on their heads. New kidding.

1:50:19And 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 also appeared in the the big screen. Yeah. The Brady Bunch movie and its sequel. I couldn't 100% find my way around the Brady Bunch House. Well, but is the inside of that house is it is it two different houses? 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 get to break it. It's sending me all over the day. This will happen sometimes, but it always waits until right

1:51:21at 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 he not say no? No, he can't say no. Really? Yeah. Well, you can, but it just like it's not good for you. It lowers your rating. Well, and you and you, you, you, it doesn't tell you where you'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, ah, that's a 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. Yeah. It's called the Miriam. Yeah. 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. Wow.

1:52:37Yeah. What about guys, DGS, uh, top of the hour, Tony Scott is going to come down the hallway and hang out with this for a little bit. Uh, wheels. I am, uh, 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. Uh, they're not trying to rush him because he's had a lot of physical and health problems, right? We know, uh, arm problems before last year. And just as he was getting healthy from that, he had the tornusophagus. 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

1:53:40arm 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, but 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 arms 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. Um, because he's up. I mean, when's 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 a, it's important to understand because I got people on Twitter asking me this, while 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 picture like may,

1:54:43it'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 in your first great food league outing, and it's that smooth and you're throwing that hard, it's a great sign. Does 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.

1:55:45Herrera'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 catchers ranks is going to shake out? Man, 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 hitting 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. Like I know people who really know catching who have 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

1:56:47Herrera catch. It just depends on what they do with Crooks, right? If they think Crooks need strip lay time, then Posa will be here. If Crooks, but Crooks is look good, man. He's really had a good spring so far. So hopefully I was. I hate to even say this 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 try to forget what you saw. Cause 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 win looked like as a rookie. Yeah. 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 first little take.

1:57:57Well, that guy is DG as son came waxed. He had his past 4 p.m. Everybody Tony Scott is with us from down the hall. Hey man. Can I embarrass you wheels and tell him what you said earlier today? Yeah. I think I embarrassed me at all. We were, we're just talking and wheels said, you know what? He said, one of the coolest parts of this job is I get to hang out with Tony Scott. Oh, okay. Cool. In the hallway, we get to talk all the time. Usually it's in the starting in the bedroom and then yeah. And then it moves out. It always starts in the room, right? But you don't look down. No, no, no, eyes are gonna look up. You know, if you look at the ceiling, it starts with talking and then at least in my experience, yeah, eyes up. And then every one of you got to leave the room in an appropriate amount of time. You ever had a looker next to you? Oh, a peeker. Like in a blues game or something. Yeah. I mean, I kind of give you this sneak thing like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See what's going on. Yeah, they're definitely there are peekers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a big fan of those. It's weird, isn't it? Because as guys

1:58:57were used to it, were used to, you know, going in urinals and stuff. But it's always, I can tell the ladies that when no matter where you're at, whether it's at Odyssey or it's at a blues game or Cardinals, at least for me, that 30, 60 seconds you're doing your business is always tense. Just a little bit. If someone's next to you and you don't know them, yes, if you don't know them, do not say a word. Yeah. You know, you know, somebody you can just look straight. It's not the time to make introductions. No, no, that's not the time to be like, oh, it's a nice day out there. And the guys will vouch for me, especially at a blues game. Anytime you're in the bathroom, there's this guy. Oh, damn it. What the hell's wrong? It's like screaming and talking to his little man. Yeah. Every time. Well, you know, every, every sporting event concert, you name it, there's always that guy. Yeah. One guy walked in. I forget where I was. I was at hockey game, probably a blues game. I was at a hockey game and I walked in there and I'm just, you know, normal, everybody's normal. There's, you know, people moving in and out and one guy walks in loud and he's like, oh my God, somebody in here never did jail time. I heard of a courtesy flash. And we're all

2:00:05like bros. One of the first games I took Nick to, the first game I took him to was when, um, McGuire hit the big home run. Um, and we were leaving early because it was chaos and there's satellite trucks everywhere and fireworks. The crowd's still going nuts and we're kind of walking down, you know, the road to our car. And Nick was three. And it looks at me and he goes, that is every game like this. Uh, yes, yes it is. But one of the, one of the next games I took him to was it Bush and it was the Cubs. And, um, we went to the bathroom and there was a guy laying there bleeding. Oh, no, because of a fight. Oh, no. And same kind of thing. Nick's like, are all bathrooms like this? Usually very little blood. I was at a, um, MC Hammer concert at the arena. And he came out. He was doing this thing. There was this little kid. He was so excited, man. I don't know if he was his first concert, but he was, he was dancing. He was doing the running man.

2:01:05He was doing the hammer thing. Everything, man. And so this older guy, he goes, stop. Yeah. Hammer time. This older guy like grabbed him and put him in the chair and says, don't get up from that chair. And he was, he wouldn't even with him, right? Wow. So one of my, one of my co-workers was sitting near me and he saw that. And he got up and he walked toward that guy. And I turned around because I didn't want to see it because I knew it was about to happen. The guy didn't see the rest of the concert. Wow. He went, he was sleepy time, right? I was like, now, well, you know, it's, uh, it happens. Yeah. So I was always taught when something pops off at school, you know, mall out in front of our building, you go the other way, right? And I was told my girls, told my girls all that all the time. I said, you'll find out what happened eventually. So just go the other way. Yeah. You know, you know, there's nothing there different you to see. So just go the other way. So, and they've always remembered that. So. Yeah. My, my daughter Phoebe, who just turned 23 on Wednesday, it's nice or shot party. Okay, you're 21, 21. And, uh, she, she hates two

2:02:11years since one month. She's five foot even, about 115 pounds. Yeah. And last year, a six foot, five guy touched her friend and Phoebe jumped up in the air and bloodied his nose. Wow. And I told her, I'm like, half of me is very proud. Half of you is going half of me is very scared. Yeah. That's a glove right there. And I told her, I'm like, not every six foot five guys going to take that and walk away. No. So not even close. It was the last time you got a fight. Where hands were thrown. Yeah. I probably had because, okay, growing up where I did how I did. And it wasn't like in the Bowery or something, but we fought all the time. Yeah. On recesses, all you did was you went in the field. It was just like a wrestle royal. So it was childhood. But, yeah, but like a real fight, uh, when I was in law school, I was walking up Lindel and I got jumped by two guys. Only time I left, I've ever been jumped. And I was wearing, I don't know if you

2:03:12know what speed bag gloves are, but they have a metal cylinder in them. And I was wearing those because it was cold. And, uh, one guy was holding my arms down and I was trying so hard to get my arms loose that he slipped. And my arm was like a catapult and hit him right in the nose. Contact. And they both took off. And I took off. Yeah. Uh, but I've probably been in three actual scraps in my life. Yeah. They're scary, man. They are, you know, and then as you get older, you realize you don't have to, you don't have the cat like reflexes you thought you had and you were younger because you didn't have them then you just did what they acknowledged. Now you acknowledge it's like, yeah, no, I'm alright. I'm good. No, like I famously two years ago challenged Phoebe's then boyfriend, 17 year old track guy to a race on the beach. Uh, and I'm not lying to you. I was so delusional that I would have bet $10,000. That'd beat him. Yeah. And he beat me by a

2:04:12couple steps. I think you took it easy on me, even at that. But I was crestfallen because I, for the very first time came to terms with my age. I really believed I was still that same guy. No, no, you're not. And then playing baseball last year. Yeah. Same thing. Yeah. Like I'm, I'm fit enough to play baseball, but I'm not fit enough to play it well. Well, you know, but to see you were built for radio though. Yeah. That's what it was. Like maybe so I'm like, you mentioned, I'm the phanta of radio personalities. I mentioned that earlier. I heard you talking about that. So it's like, yeah, okay. Were you an athlete when you're a kid? I was I played. I played. I love baseball. And I played a lot of baseball in the summertime. When school was out, I would be at the baseball fields from 830 until like seven o'clock at night. I mean, nose was bleeding from too much sun. And I was still out there and stuff like that. I played a little league baseball. I played one year. They called it pony league. That was for

2:05:1613 year, 13 year old. That's when you got to wear the steel cleats, right? Yeah. And I did that. But, but I had a. In the middle school, I had. Well, I had two eye injuries in my life. One, my cousin one time, we were little and he was hammering his sister's little 10 cup coffee cup that she had because they were mad. And I got too close for him. He reached back with a hammer and the clog got me in the eye. Damn, right? And then in the seventh grade, we were playing flag football. And I collided with Stacy Gonzalez, this guy. And they had to sew my eyelid back on. So so for a long time, light hurt my it eventually went away, but my visions never been the same. And when I turned 40, a couple years ago, my my vision changed. And I asked my doctor, he goes, yeah, he goes to around 40. Your vision starts to change. And now, man, I got these tri-focals. And when I'm in the studios, I'm trying to get the right levels. I'm just like, yeah, so you know,

2:06:18but yeah, it's that's a. But being an athlete, I mean, I love baseball. And I thought I was pretty good at it. I know when I was in a freshman in high school, they wanted me to try out for the varsity team. And I said, now I want to chase girls. So that's what I did. What else we into? Were you a musician? Well, it was not a musician. I was very shy. I stuttered some. And I was always amazed listening to the radio on how the DJs could paint pictures with words that always intrigued me. That's cool. But I was too shy to ever pursue anything. College was not really a reality. We were told growing up, if you finished high school, you got it made, man. You're going to be set for life. You're going to be set for life, man. You know, and come to find out that wasn't true. So I finally got up the nerve one time to call Columbia School of Broadcasting, not approved by veterans, you know, not approved for veterans. I don't feel the A with CBS. That's what they would say 629-1711. Still remember the number, right? And it was a year and a half program.

2:07:19I finished it in nine months. And I started my radio career in 1982. And here we are. Still still standing. That's great. You know, so joke in this world. Yeah. Oh my God. No. Yeah. Geez. Can you imagine? Yeah. So it's it's it's it's always something new every day. Like now they've made adjustments to my show. Trying to get more music in there. We play a lot of music. They want to get one more song and unlike fine. If I got paid by the word, yeah, we move some furniture up in here. But you know, but yeah, whatever you want to do, right? But I've always been intrigued about how these kinds of shows are done. These spoken word shows because, you know, if you ain't got it that day, you better figure it out because you ain't got no music to lean. See, I got music to lean on, right? Have you never done it? I've never I did talk radio when 1600 was was talk for a minute. They asked me to fill in one time and then when I got done, they said, any two hours you want you can have and you can sell your own time to keep the money. Well, I did it for the experience. I didn't sell anything because I'm not a salesperson in that sense.

2:08:22But I did it and I thought it was fun. And we didn't have any commercials. So I'd have to talk for like 59 minutes until the national news came on and we broke for news and stuff. But then it came right back and it was only a two hour show. So I had to do that twice. What are you talking about? Talked about a lot of political stuff, a lot of pop culture stuff. Talked about my dad a lot because my dad was having some health problems at the time. So talked about that and just, you know, whatever the news of the day was, we were taught in broadcasting when I was coming up, you don't talk about, you don't go one side or the other, right? That changed that change. That's it. It changed, right? And so now I, you know, everybody knows how I feel, like everybody knows how you feel and everything. And I tend to swing very hard when I do my breaks because they're short. They need to be impactful. So I tend to call that out as I see it. But my listeners have known me for so long. I had a guy today who says, man, I've been listening to you for

2:09:23like, you know, over 35 years, right? I said, so when you were listening to me, you didn't have the gray you have, you go, no, I couldn't even grow this, man. So I've been doing it like, you know, a long time and stuff, mostly in St. Louis. And, you know, it's been so much. But do talk stations so have groupies? They used to. I always say I got to be a star for about 10 or 15 years. Okay. And then none of us are, right? Everyone's watching their neighbors make waffles on TikTok. But yeah, for a while there. Yeah. Yeah. Does it like what you were just saying, to what extent have you realized and internalized how important you are to so many people that they have a relationship with you that you don't even know about. Yeah. But Tony is their pal. You know what? I never think about it because I think if I thought about it, I might feel a certain way about it because, you know, our business is 90% ego. And I don't think about it as much. But when people say

2:10:29that, I'm appreciative of it. But I try and stay grounded and I try to stay relatable and I tell people, you know, I've talked, I've talked about my depression. I've talked about my father dying. I've talked about my children being born. I've talked about my grandchildren being born. I've talked about me having COVID. I've talked about having really tough mental health days, stuff like that to be relatable to my listeners. So they know that I'm just like them. Yeah. You know? And there are some things that my wife says, can you not talk about this? I'm like, yeah. You know, I can, I can do that. And so I don't. I honor her because, you know, she's everything to me. And, and I will say that I wouldn't even have this career for one for her. You know, I'd, I'd come off the rails a long time ago because of my mental issues, right? It'd come off, I'd come off the rail, but she's always been my support. And she's always telling me, you can do this. And, and, you know, now they're looking at it now. And you're years away from where I am now. But for all intents and purposes, this is my last radio job, right? Because no one's

2:11:30going to hire anybody my age at a radio station anymore, right? It's just not going to happen. You know? So I try and take everything and stride. And I have a wonderful boss, Talis. I like Alice. Yeah. And, you know, but, but there were times, you know, when, when I worked in magic, you know, towards the end, it was a very hard place to work because it got to be so toxic. And they had people making decisions that didn't know what they were doing. And sometimes I would point it out and they get mad. And, you know, and I had one boss, he told me because I was telling him something that he was doing that was wrong. And he was telling me, you know, why do you think you can talk to me like this? I said, well, I can because I've been here a long time. And I have some equity here, right? But, too, is your mistaking my passion for anger? Right? You think I'm mad? I'm not mad. I said, this radio station has given me a life I never would have had. So I'm very protective of it, right? To what extent? Because you have

2:12:35objectively, empirically had beyond a Hall of Fame career. If you stop today, to what degree are you satisfied? You're never satisfied. You're always, I want you always looking for the perfect show, but you never get there. You'll never have a perfect show because it's no such thing. But you want to get as close as you can to it, right? And that's something that I strive for every day, right? And, and I'm hard on myself. And I hate hearing my voice. And I like to make fun of myself. And it's just, it's just, I like the point now was, you know, what I'm just going to enjoy the ride. And I'm more comfortable in my skin now than I've ever been in my life. And so I'm just going to say what I want to say without the station loose and sponsors or the license. If you had to put aside modesty and you had to answer the question, Tony Scott is really good at radio. I mean, what about radio? What is your gift in radio? Storytelling. Storytelling is always been,

2:13:40I want, when I went to interview for a job in Dallas after I got laid off from magic, we were at the palm in Dallas. The owner was there. And he was like, they told me that you're a great storyteller, Tony, you know. And so he was asking me some stuff. And I would answer the questions. And then after about 30 minutes, he goes, you know, they were right. You are a great storyteller. And when they hired me, they said they hired me because they wanted a different kind of show. They wanted someone who could do a lot of content, but still play 11 songs an hour, which is the standard, right? Radio 11 songs is gold. And they wanted somebody who could do that. And I could do that because I would use the intros of songs and the outtros of songs and be as brief as I had to be and fit within the parameters of what they wanted. And so I was able to do that. And was successful until I wasn't. And when they said we're going to have to lay off because, you know, we're down revenues down and, you know, last one in first one out. So that's how that turned out for me. So, yeah. But like I said, I've always been intrigued by what you guys do. You know,

2:14:47I listen every day coming to work at one o'clock. I leave at one o'clock on purpose so that I can I can listen on the way in for 30, 35 minutes and stuff. It's about the biggest compliment we've ever had. I'm happy, right? You know, I'm also makes me nervous and I don't know. He's listening. Thank you, buddy. We love you down here. I love you too, man. Thank you so much. Welcome back, guys. DGS literally one minute because we had the legend Tony Scott in and you want to milk as much time as you can. Who's got one minute worth of something interesting? I got flashback Friday. Hey, there we go. Um, 190 years ago in 1863, the Alamo fell after a 13-day siege by Mexican forces. I was kind of obsessed with the Alamos, a kid. Yeah. Yeah, just some about it. Yeah, there's something about that story. Yeah. I mean, remember watching in Peewee's Big Adventure to remember the Alamo. And this is cool. Did the Peewee laugh? I did.

2:15:48And 130 years ago in 1896, a guy named Charles Brady King drove the first car on the streets of Detroit. That must have been something. It'd be a heck of a thing, huh? Yeah, right? People were probably like, what are you doing? Yeah, exactly. Get this piece of junk out of the street. I'm trying to ride my horse, man.