Pet phones, and Bernie Miklasz on Spring Training!- h2

0:00I'll be out next week at Scream 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 him after the trade deadline. I have the other strict Andy Strickland tweeted that part of it, but yeah, there's Shen. Yeah, Bradenshen is going to the Islanders and I got to be honest with you, 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 any elite prospect, I mean, getting a first round pick for Bradenshen at this stage of his career is really good. The one thing that sucks about that though is like Shen is one of the few blues players

1:02that 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, he'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 folk 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 folk, 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 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.

2:04Yeah. 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. Thomas Kairu, those players, Puchenevich 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

3:06good 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 captain. 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 good bit of players that were just, they're given bad contracts. So a lot of that is on the front office too. The Boogin Abich contract was a terrible idea. And it's working out terribly. So I don't know exactly, it's not one thing, but they need the same ideas 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 less left are guys you should probably

4:09moving. And that's and fall fits that. Do you like Montgomery to bring the next team along? I do. I think Monty's great, man. No issue with it. Their problem is not the coach. That is not their problem. And it 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 much like the Cardinals. I mean, it's almost the exact same idea, different reasons, different things about it. But similar idea that we can change coaches all we want. And I'm going to change the 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.

5:10Wow. 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's from St. Louis, you know, the whole, you 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. And 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

6:14make the call. But you know, they say there are studies that show that our pets can tell our voice and maybe if they want to call us during the day, this is a way for them to get a hold of us. When I initially saw this, I was excited because I'm like, man, if there was a way there, 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's 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. It 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 and over and over. That's what I'm saying. I'm going to be so pissed off if Gigi was collecting to every 30 seconds at home. Part of this is where owner pet owners, you got to cut the cord when you're not there.

7:16No, I don't want you. I am not happening. 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 dogs. 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 the 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 kid's voice, and he, but if he sees, you know, if you say their name, he gets excited because he knows the name. 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.

8:17The pet button. It's 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 English and then speaking English to you. Right. They understand that. That is not happening. Then when I pushed 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 all their 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, no. Anytime. I know what he's saying. 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 that could text me. Oh, my gosh.

9:19Collect 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. Oh, it's the old ball and chain. Call me. We also want to talk about how dumb you are. Oh, my God. I mean, there, there've been a few of these in the last few days. But, you know, normal thing, you know, it's time for an oil change with one of our cars, taking into Greg Damon at Sparkstine Auto. Biggest Greg's my best friend and we're buddies and he's great and they do great work. And also, you know, I'd say Greg, just check it out, man, the back hatch doesn't work anymore. It's just, it's not doing anything. 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 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, um, here's what it says, the button says, power door on off and it is switched to off.

10:28So for weeks, it's not been working and I'm racking my brain trying to figure out why this day I'm things not working and one of us just hit the button and turned it off accidentally instead 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 understanding. You know what I mean? Like I have no idea how anything works in a car. I, uh, I was finishing my shifted Mr. Donut when I was probably 16 and, uh, I was driving, don't get jealous. I was driving a black granada with gold wheels. Oh boy. Yeah. High living. Yeah. And uh, so I open, I turn it on and press the gas and it didn't move. It just like rock back and forth.

11:28So I don't know what the hell is going on. So I call my dad, uh, who's of course extremely patient and, uh, you know, so he drives from South Roxana 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 gas in your car? Does it run on fumes? And one of the few times in 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 he just ran out of gas. Like, no, I mean, that only makes me feel slightly bit better.

12:31I guess 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 all changed or whatever. I was like a thousand miles over two over an all changed. 10,000 miles, whatever. And I like, I just didn't want it admit I was wrong. So I was like, I think I would know father and then like, I think the engine died. Like, I didn't know hours later. Man, that was an extra square. Yeah, sorry about that. In there, why don't you even care? We're back DGS on Kablewax, happy Friday. So guess what I had for dinner last night?

13:34Me too. Big arch. And I did not like it. You did. No, I did not like it. It might be my new favorite burger. I didn't even finish it. Well, it's hard to finish it. What did you not like about it? Was it too salty? Because I worried about that when you said you were 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. Yeah. That's how I felt about the too much. The big arch. Yeah. Yeah. Just a lot going on. A 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 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.

14:34How did you prepare it today? I just microwave it today as lazy. I don't know. It's just McDonald's. There's only so much you can do with fast food reheating. I would think that would be really good in the oven. It would be, but I just didn't feel like waiting. That'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. Like if I were an alien and I've been watching this planet for 61 years,

15:38and 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 comes from being in survival mode a lot of the time. 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. Okay, I can't do that one. Nerd. Not off the top of my head. Wow, because I don't, I wouldn't know manifestation. We found a limitation. Yeah. I mean, fist is strong. It could be that, but I don't think it is. I'm not good at the big words anymore.

16:39I can only do the little ones. Inter just called Wheeler a nerd for knowing another language. Yeah, I mean, he's not wrong. I am a nerd. That's nerd stuff. So let's go, yeah, go on to the doctors. The nerd thing too. Yep. We have a new war. No, I really, I mean, honestly, God, fear is the biggest driver. Biggest 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 into your question, yeah, I think it is a part of us. Here's my other one. And this is actually a, 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?

17:40Don'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 there are people hungry. Yeah, 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 and 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

18:41and 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 life where you know you're not going to make a lot of money. Yeah. And unfortunately, we pushed that choice too to be a teacher and a fireman and a police officer. And so I mean, when you're doing meaningful, we've 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, 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

19:43instead of what teachers make. And I think that's kind of the thing is where we do things is where there's profit or where there's potential future profit. And where's the profit in that? I guess the time was fine for us to see. Welcome back, guys. DG Assum came away. It's happy Friday. Bernie McLeese 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 for some for golf on Monday morning

20:46with 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 in the world baseball classic than Team USA, just simply because Albert's managing one side, Yachty's managing the other side, and those teams from that area of the world when they're in this tournament, man, it is one non-stop party. I mean, just 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.

21:48So 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, you're totally right. Like just today watching the game and you've got Ozzy Albe's 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 Albe's 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 that, 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 sort of something that gets lost in sports, I believe. I really do. You know, it's possible to have fun

22:48a 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. Yeah, I'll try to watch of it. 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 dislike of the WBC, but, you know, Bern, let's start out today with the blue since we've had a little bit of action. What do you make of the moves? I think Doug Armstrong did a heck of a job and I'm talking about these two specific moves. You know, you trade just in fall and you get a first round and a third pick plus a prospect.

23:51And you trade Brent, now, 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, let me ask the islanders and Detroit. 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? Well, with the blues. Yes, bad payroll investments. Too many, too many no trade contracts that limits the flexibility of the general manager to make trades.

24:52Colton Paraco being a great example. There have been others. 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, it's not exact because they're different sports and everything. But it's not that far off of what happened to 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 the baseball sense, you can spend your way out of it, but it's really impractical and it can bury you even further.

25:54And in hockey, just don't have that choice because you're going to be all ca- everybody's capped out. Yeah, and I, I did a video about this the other day, you know, and 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 double standards in our town, though. You know, the Cardinals built 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 re- you know, they, they do, this cycle repeats itself like every three or four years. Yeah. And yet, and yet part 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.

26:55Maybe 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, 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 check-its 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, 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, 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 this, you know, maybe for effect, at least admitted, when you compare the two franchises, you know, Tom Stillman is the same.

27:56He's the same. Don't you dare criticize him, you know, okay. I think Tom Stillman's great. But why, why is it kind of a hands-off thing here where, on the other hand, people are shrieking for Bill DeWitt to sell the team when he, when he's given St. Louis a top five major league franchise over a 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 Derek's, but I'm not, for sure, but it was a real guy who's down there, who said that, 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 Florida that they've seen simply because of his poise at the plate, his graded bats, that smooth, glorious swing of his,

28:58taken walks, knowing how to work pitchers, 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 than all that stuff, but in terms of all around hitting talent and just knowing how to play the game and carrying himself like he's been doing this 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. I know Connor Griffin, the pitch, the number one prospect in baseball for the Pirates. Listen, 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 prove. Do you, do you, I'm all on board with the weather hole. Do you like JJ and lead off? Oh, absolutely. I don't know why he wouldn't be the lead off hitter. I mean, I get along great with Ali Marmo, which is irrelevant, but Mason win has got 560,

30:03over 500 played appearances in his major league career as a lead off man. His on base percentage is 280, which frankly is just terrible. He also has the last two years, the worst stolen base success rate in the major leagues, among guys that have 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 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. Not early enough. JJ Weatherholt has played either summer league ball like in the prestigious summer league teams, or summer leagues, I should say. He's had parts of two seasons in 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 on base percentage in five different levels of highly competitive ball.

31:05And 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, and in the Cardinals minor league system. I mean, this stuff just doesn't happen, right? No, he's definitely the perfect example of he want. I mean, he's, 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 athletic, he's more electric, he's got more pop. No, I agree with all that. And he also knows his swing. Like Brendan Donovan, I love him. By the way, I'm not, people will think that I'm like dog and I'm not at all. But Brendan Donovan also sort of got into a little bit

32:07of a conflict with himself a couple of these seasons in St. Louis where even though 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 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 gonna 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 you a bunch of home runs. But it's gotta be the right kind of pitch or I'm not gonna swing it. And I'm not gonna take it. I'm not gonna see a pitch coming to the outside corner lo and away and try to pull it out of the ballpark, because that's just stupid.

33:07So incredibly mature as a hitter. I think Cardinal Svans are gonna love him. In fact, I don't think a lot of Cardinal Svans realize how much they're gonna look. Oh, he's gonna 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 gonna 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 Hole's era which began in 2001, okay? He has been, 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. It's 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

34:09since 2001. And it probably goes 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 a kid. Listen, Newt Bar's not there for means gonna have a chance to win the job against maybe a left-handed pitching, I don't know. So Jayce is gonna get a run at it. The last guy's hit a home run today. He may get a run at it still, but they can send him to the minors. Listen, there's no clear answer there. It's just they're gonna run everybody out there

35:10until they see something they really like. Or they'll just settle into a platoon with who would the platoon be? I don't know. I mean, it could be something like church and for mean, you know, I mean, like if, and church is a guy, I'm a big fan of. I am too. I don't know what you said about JJ Weatherhold and controlling counts. He did a lot of that in the minor leagues too. 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 gonna be and it certainly isn't gonna 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've got Scott and center field, there's not gonna, they're not much gonna fall. I know right feels a little open with short walker, 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 offence out of there until Newt Bar returns and you hope for his sake in the Cardinals.

36:11When he returns, he's ready to go and he starts banging, man. So, but until then, I don't know, it's gonna be fascinating to see what they decide out there, but it is gonna be for a short term because Newt will be back. Yeah. I want to hear about it, look at myself. I want to hear about it, look at myself. It's more like crazy. I want to hear about it. Look at that D&G S-251, happy Friday. So, I'm not someone who goes crazy when gas prices go up, you know, 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. And so the markets are freaking out. One of the markets freaking out. Wonder why. Yeah. We get a brag about those still?

37:12Well, Trump said yesterday is in his very Trumpish way, you know, he's, he doesn't get that, he's like, hey, it's gonna go up a little bit. It'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 bit. 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 it because there's a lot of technology. There were appeals and things, I mean, yeah. And again, the, I can speak for 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, I was, it was just not a story I was following closely.

38:14However, 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 suspicious that you, wait, 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 piqued my interest in the entire thing. Was like, well, what are they hiding? The cover up 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? Did 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, they're allegations, you know, not independently very fun.

39:14I 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 allegations that are being made, if someone were to find out who was making those allegations, that person would receive tons of threats and 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, to me this whole thing has been about outing people.

40:21Is this guy in it? Is this guy in it? It should have been an investigation by authorities into crimes. Like there's so much smoke there. And as far as I know, there was never a real investigation done. Into the other people. Into the other people. I mean, so that's, 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 and these documents. And you're telling me, we've got nothing to even investigate on other people? Yeah. Come on. There should be files and they're saying, we investigated this and this person was cleared.

41:22We investigated this and we just, nothing like that. Nothing like that. And just nothing like that. Yeah. Yeah.