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Dam Beaver Podcast
episode 65
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Hmm. Craving sushi now.
SPEAKER_05Yes. Love sushi.
SPEAKER_03It's the Damn Beaver Podcast. Hey everybody. We're all here. Yes.
SPEAKER_05We're back. Amy's here.
SPEAKER_04Again. For our audience of 17 now. Oh, we're up to 17? I don't think so. Okay.
SPEAKER_0217.1.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah. Shekels. Busy weeks for us, I tell you what. 25 years. Been married this week. Congratulations. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01Happy anniversary.
SPEAKER_04Thank you very much. Thank you. Why don't you sound sincere about it?
unknownI am.
SPEAKER_04Um, yeah, you missed the visual. First thing, anything new? We got a pool that I didn't want.
SPEAKER_01Uh I just took my pool down.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Did she, did you?
SPEAKER_01Hell yeah, it's too much work.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_05We're going to have a nice big fish. I had the worst opening of my pool ever in the last six years I've been doing it. It's been horrible.
SPEAKER_04But yeah, I knew all the work, but they they wanted a pool. They insisted on it. She said she was going to take care of it. Like she was going to take care of Buster, our dog.
SPEAKER_01Oh, Buster. He's still alive, though.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, he's still around. Yeah, they're doing well. But uh, you know, what are you gonna do? Nothing I can do.
SPEAKER_05I mean, on a hot 98-degree July day, isn't it gonna be worth it? And we're gonna we're gonna get more.
SPEAKER_01Not for all the work you gotta keep well to clean it and shock it and chlorine tabs and have fun with that.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'll come over and swim in it though.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah, you will. Yeah, you will. Yeah, I have a 20,000 gallon one you guys. Kelly will probably have people worse. Oh, I'm sure. Heck yeah, party.
SPEAKER_04We got a graduation coming up.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah. I'm bringing my swimsuit, sure. Yeah, you will.
SPEAKER_04Good stuff. Uh so yeah. What's happened? So yeah, work is going fine. Oh, I think. Yeah, so we were gonna go to Great America. I love Great America for the roller coasters. Amy's not, you're not a roller coaster person, right?
SPEAKER_01No, not huge. I will go to the park though and hang out.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I don't know when that happens when you when your body says no to roller coasters. Because I've always been happy to ride the roller coasters. But some people say, Yeah, we used to, and now I just can't handle it. Now I'm like, I don't know when that happens. I I've always been immature, I think.
SPEAKER_05So that's um, I think that has a lot to do with it, because I'm fairly immature as well. Yeah. I love roller coasters.
SPEAKER_04Maybe. Maybe that's why. Not sure, but yeah. But uh yeah, yeah, I I love the roller coaster character. We have uh cousins down there too, so Oh, that's nice too. What do you recommend? Anything happened with you? We went to school see Blue Man Group. I'm sorry. I'm gonna ask you a question and then continue. Okay. Uh yeah. So if you haven't seen Blue Man Group in Chicago, you guys gotta go see that. It's way better than that.
SPEAKER_01That would be fun. I've never seen them.
SPEAKER_04I haven't either. No, yeah, yeah. A play, a musical. I just everyone is going nuts over there. I'm like, you know what? They're great, but the plot sure does get shortened than that. And they could they could shorten up some of those, you know. The blue man thing? No, no. I'm talking about music. Well, I was gonna say, wow. Shorten it up musicals. Oh, music. Yeah. I mean, I like the one minute. I just I can't watch them that long much anymore. I just I can't like Hamilton could have been if they just stuck to the plot, it could have only been like 35 minutes long. I mean, but there's so much singing and so much mirror. Oh, but what? I can't understand what you're saying.
SPEAKER_05I just don't it was a hard watch for me at first, yeah, but I got used to it, I guess.
SPEAKER_04I know you are because you have a lot of people that listen to like musical, so you're trying to stand there. It's okay, Rick. I understand. You don't have to I liked Hamilton.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it was pretty much I did enjoy it.
SPEAKER_04I'll tell you what, I like sections of Hamilton, but man, the whole thing is pretty long.
SPEAKER_05I don't like rap music, but I think I like that show.
SPEAKER_04That was pretty much no, I uh I love uh music without the rapper, so that's I thought Into the Woods was too long. Yeah, it's another long one.
SPEAKER_05Loved being in it, yeah. Ryan shout out, yes, good job, buddy, but holy crap. Pretty long. That could have been cut. That's pretty long. Just saying. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Wrap it up. How about you, Amy? Right.
SPEAKER_05Three hours is a long time.
SPEAKER_01Um, I don't know. Just hanging out.
SPEAKER_05All right.
SPEAKER_01Chilling. Cut my my pool into pieces.
SPEAKER_05So you cut your pool down. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, took out the liner, cut the thing. Well, no. Now I'm making a nice cool deck with a big old fire pit so people can come over. We can have tailgate, they can drive their trucks down.
SPEAKER_05You can use it round year round. Yep. Uh-huh. Yeah. Drive it.
SPEAKER_01You don't have to clean a thing.
SPEAKER_05That's a lot of uh little boy stuff you got going on over there, isn't it? You're gonna love that pool, Dan. I think you're gonna love it. You're gonna learn to love it.
SPEAKER_04All right. I I'm not convinced. I I think it would have been cooler to have like maybe a hot tub or something for.
SPEAKER_01Hot tub would be nice.
SPEAKER_04But those were way more expensive. Oh, yeah. Way more expensive.
SPEAKER_01They really pay money in chlorine tabs and anti-algae pH.
SPEAKER_04Girls are gonna take care of it. They've been pro I will have nothing to do with the pool. I will not swim in it. They they won't take care of it. I'm just going to I just did my bit for King and Country. Did my husband duties, you know, to keep it all hooked up and keep out of trouble because wired. Yeah. Yeah. I went under the deck. Have you ever been under our deck? There's a lot going on down there. There's a uh there's a little possum family that walks by every night. They don't stay there. They s they use our uh the deck for walking by. It's a mama and two, three, four possums. They just walk under a little waist size. They are ugly, but they serve a very gross.
SPEAKER_01But they eat bugs and gross.
SPEAKER_04No ticks for you.
SPEAKER_01Yes, and ticks.
SPEAKER_04You yep, they do they do a good job. So I just let them go by. Uh I I should give them, I should I should call them the Winklemans. They're just I just gotta give them a name, so I don't know. Just can't say the possums.
SPEAKER_05I shouldn't tell you, but Monday I had to remove a possum from uh my apartment complex. Oh do you have to kill it or trap it anyway?
SPEAKER_01I don't think you can kill it.
SPEAKER_05It was already dead. Oh entrance to our torture driveway?
SPEAKER_01Don't what we're taking a turn down violent road here, don't people like to kill them because they're possums.
SPEAKER_05I don't know. You know what? Obviously, people didn't care because that thing was flat as could be. It kept people kept coming and going and they were right over the top of it. And I had to pick that up. Thank you.
SPEAKER_04Well, I think we can end the show now. That was pretty interesting.
SPEAKER_01Save the possums.
SPEAKER_04I mean, I fed nature though. I mean, you know. Speaking of musicals.
SPEAKER_01Oh. Oh, musicals.
SPEAKER_04Uh Amy doesn't hurt our my new background music.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that's right. No, I was brand new.
SPEAKER_04All right. We were invited, though, right? Yes. Here we go. Fun history facts. Here we go. Since there are so few musical notes, will there come a time when we run out of new combinations and are there no longer and are no longer able to create new tunes? All right, in Western music, there are 12 notes, A, B, C, D, E, F, and G plus sharps and flats. All right. Working in different combinations, these have been uh these have been giving us everything from Beethoven to Beyoncé. Uh, and if uh musical Diddy has a sequence of just 20 notes, then the number of possible combinations is already 35 billion times greater than the number of people who have ever lived. Wow. And that's a lot of creative. And that's to say nothing of note length, volume, tempo, instrument, and the fact that uh uh, and that's nothing to note uh uh the fact that all music uses this Western scale. Now, over the centuries, composers have found ways to be creative with the notes available and uh the surrealism movement and used all 12 notes to create musical phrases. While Millennium took uh short phrases, which were then repeated over and over, uh they they ended up doing songs in loose and directive like five minutes or choosing the next notes based on the roll of the dice. So some composers have done away with notes altogether, as in John Gate. Is this John Cage's silent four foot thirty-three inches? I don't know what that means. Whoa! In which performers don't play their instruments for the duration of the piece. Yeah, they just sit there. They just sit there. I never even heard of that. So the answer the answer sounds like no. Now, how loud can something be? What's the loudest something can be? So here's what they say. Krakatoa was the loudest. When the volcano, it says Krakatoa, erupted in 1883, it destroyed an island and threw debris 17 miles into the air at the speed of half a mile a second and killed 36,000 people. Wow. The noise it made was so loud that sailors 40 miles away suffered burst eardrums 40 miles away. 40 miles.
SPEAKER_01What about Pompeii?
SPEAKER_04Even 100 miles away, the volume was 170 decibels loud enough to do uh lasting damage to those that heard it. And it could still be heard 3,000 miles away. The equivalent of a sound made in Britain being audible in the U.S. at its source, the sound was so loud that it went beyond what we call sound.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_04It went beyond sound. Beyond the sound barrier. All noises are the result of uh molecules knocking against each other, making waves, and the chain stretching from the source uh sound in your eardrum. So when you snap your fingers, the air molecules surrounding them are disturbed. Yep. And then they bump into their neighbors, and those molecules then pass off with a ripple disturbance to their nearest neighbors, which passes the message to your brain. So while each molecule travels only a tiny distance, there's a big wave of energy, intense uh sound waves, if you will. All right. So because of the high pressure and with lots of molecules followed by low pressure areas, uh once you get into a certain level, 194 decibels to be precise, there comes a point where low pressure regions are completely empty and there are no molecules for the sound to travel. So the shock wave from uh Krakakota with Krakatoa? Krakatoa was so strong that it circled the earth four times.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_04Wowza. The noise heard round the world. Right. Sound of your own breathing is uh 10 decibels, except for uh this guy I know at work who breathes really 717. A whisper, except if you're also some people I know. Normal conversation is 60 decibels. Uh a noisy restaurant is 70. Uh Jill, okay. Jill Trake, a teaching assistant who recorded the loudest shout ever in the year 2000, is 129 decibels. Oh my god. So, but isn't that something? Oh my god, 40 miles away. That is one hell of a blow. That's something. Wow. I mean, what a hell of a blow, right? Hell of a blow.
SPEAKER_01Tell us about it.
SPEAKER_04Volcano. Amy.
SPEAKER_01You've been busy.
SPEAKER_04Do cats get goosebumps?
SPEAKER_01Probably.
SPEAKER_04They do. They do. They do. When animals such as cats, dogs, and chimpanzees get goosebumps, it's because their hairs stand on end, making them appear bigger and fluffier.
SPEAKER_03Fluffy! Sorry.
SPEAKER_04This is useful for a couple of reasons. One, uh, the straighter hairs trap a layer of insulating air against the skin, which helps them to stay warm when it's cold. Uh goosebumps haven't been much use to us ever since we lost most of our body hair. Of course, uh, we still experience them though, even when we get cold or frightened, or forget to uh do an errand for your wife.
SPEAKER_00So like clean the pool.
SPEAKER_04Like clean the will not be cleaning the pool.
SPEAKER_00Yes, you will.
SPEAKER_05I'm not gonna do it. I want them to call us when that starts happening.
SPEAKER_01I hear a bet coming on.
SPEAKER_04I I won't take the bet. People who died on the job. Oh, a lawyer who was right. It's turning bad now. Clement Vandel Vandelheim was an attorney and former U.S. Congressman in 1871. While defending a murder suspect in court, he argued that the alleged victim hadn't been murdered. He could have accidentally shot himself.
SPEAKER_01What? Well, you could accidentally shot yourself.
SPEAKER_04To prove this point, Vandelheim took out a gun, held it as it was held at the scene of the crime, and thinking it was unloaded, no, pulled the trigger.
SPEAKER_01Well, and back then you had to like put the plug to the phone. Well, here's the good news.
SPEAKER_04He proved his point, and his client was acquitted.
SPEAKER_01Boom.
SPEAKER_04Bad news, Vandelheim died from accidental gunshot wound to the head.
SPEAKER_01How do you not know? Because back then you literally had to clock, you know, you had to do the thing.
SPEAKER_04He must have loaded it and everything. Even the gun laws back then didn't protect people for crying out loud. No.
SPEAKER_01Man, people are dumb.
SPEAKER_04Crowd pleaser. On March 5th, 1923, a daredevil named Henry Young climbed uh the facade of New York City's uh Martinique Hotel. Good lord. It was a paid gig. The young uh Young received $100. A hundred dollars.
SPEAKER_01Nah.
SPEAKER_04To wear uh a play card advertising uh to a new silent movie as he climbed up the building without ropes, a harness, or a safety net. Frequently, of course, in order to give the crowd a little extra thrill, Young seemed purposely to uh let his foot slip. Let his foot slip. The New York Times reported when Young reached the 11th story, his foot did slip, this time for real. The crowd gasped as he plunged to the street below and he died on impact.
SPEAKER_01Nasty splat.
SPEAKER_04The name of the movie Young was promoting was called Safety Last. Well, did real well at the box office. All right.
SPEAKER_00Yeesh.
SPEAKER_04The longest kill shot in history. In 1893, Henry Ziegland of Texas jilted his fiance and she killed herself over it. Her brother swore revenge. He got his gun and confronted Ziegland, and he shot him in the face and then turned the gun on himself. But the bullet only grazed Zieglin and got uh lodged in a tree. Twenty years later, Zieglin was removing the same tree that had the bullet buried in it. He decided to use dynamite to make the job easier. The explosion blasted the bullet out of the tree, striking Zieglin in the head and killing him. Oh my god! Two decades after it left the barrel of the gun. Wow. That's a Matlock uh movie scene right there.
SPEAKER_05Talk about not being able to evade destiny.
SPEAKER_04In 1564 BC, Olympic Games, the Greek athlete, uh I'm gonna say Arakon of Philly Filigalia won the Pancrean. Oh fuck. Won the Pancrean.
SPEAKER_01Oh, check the box!
SPEAKER_04I gotta check the box now. Uh won the Pancrean event, a mix of boxing and wrestling. Okay, where virtually anything was permitted. So it's the octagon, basically. Oh yeah. After every after a very tough fight, his opponent conceded the bout as uh the uh man Archie lay on the ground. Unbeknownst to his rival, Archie had expired from the duel, becoming the only dead person to win an Olympic event.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god. What?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so he won. Though a very tough his opponent conceded the bout as uh Archie lay on the ground. Oh uh so he died. Never give up.
SPEAKER_05And he won. How do you like that? Well, I mean, he'd earned it, I guess.
SPEAKER_00Wow.
SPEAKER_04I can't believe there's a lot of stuff uh that uh uh That's good stuff.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. I mean bad, but you know. Uh The Great Gatsby, uh the only trailer that remains of the very first version uh of a classic novel, we'll never see that. There was a movie called uh 1926. They had the Great Gatsby out when the move when the book came out.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I thought that was interesting. That's it. So what you think of that, kids?
SPEAKER_00That's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_04I like that. I mean, I don't like it, but it was interesting. I understand. I understand. You don't have to be nice to be able to do that.
SPEAKER_01There's a TV show, like 100 Ways to Die or something like that. That used to be a show. Right. Yeah, crazy. Crazy.
SPEAKER_04There is a lot, and then they got turned away. Of course, Seth McFarlane's got that uh show out of 1,000 Ways to Die in the West or something like that. That was good. He's got oh, do you guys ever watch Orville? He's got Orville out.
SPEAKER_01I've seen a couple shows.
SPEAKER_05I've seen a couple of those too. That's really a good funny show. It's a funny, fun show.
SPEAKER_01Fifty Ways to Die in the West is hilarious.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_04That's the spaced one, right? Yes. Yeah, where they kind of poke fun at the next generation. But also they have their own plot lines, which is pretty good. I I like it and it's good. Came back on. I like those potatoes. Right.
SPEAKER_01Amy totally rocks. Oh. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Amy. You're next.
SPEAKER_01I'm back.
SPEAKER_04Amy's back uh from her Zoom, Zoom classes, right?
SPEAKER_01Zoomba! Zoomba. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Looking good, working. I didn't miss it though. It's been one week. Two weeks.
SPEAKER_04Oh, is it? Was it just a short period of time?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, it was from like September to the end of May.
SPEAKER_04Uh Rick, did you ever wear Zoom buzz? Remember Zoom Buzz? Those colorful pants? Like uh what did they call them? They were so comfortable. Very comfortable. I had many pairs.
SPEAKER_05Yes. I love those damn things.
SPEAKER_04I only had like two pairs but just a stretchy band and my my way of living.
SPEAKER_01A stretchy band.
SPEAKER_04They were pretty colorful though, you gotta admit.
SPEAKER_05They were I had underoos also, though.
SPEAKER_04I had one that was kind of.
SPEAKER_01What kind of underoos would animal an animal or a character?
SPEAKER_04I I had incredible hulk.
SPEAKER_01Dan, what did you have?
SPEAKER_04I didn't have any underoos.
SPEAKER_01What?
SPEAKER_04I didn't want them. I thought they were stupid. But they were so comfortable. Alright, I had Spider-Man. Yeah, but nobody ever wants to admit it, right?
SPEAKER_01Right?
SPEAKER_04I had Wonder Woman. Oh, of course you did.
SPEAKER_01Was there any other women? Wonder Woman.
SPEAKER_04That was it, right? That was the only superhero you had to choose from back then, I'll bet.
SPEAKER_01Kind of.
SPEAKER_04For women. And then She-Hulk.
SPEAKER_01That wasn't even a thing, really, back then. No. She-Rah? Nobody wants to be She-Hulk.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, She-Ra from uh Hercules. Masters of the Universe. Masters of the Universe, yeah.
SPEAKER_05She was pretty hot for uh cartoon.
SPEAKER_03Okay, Rick. That's okay. Want to dial it back there? Oh my goodness. Sorry. Just think it is She-Ra.
SPEAKER_01Nice. Do you need a moment? No. No, we're good. He's finished. It's been two seconds. So I found some interesting things. Um I know you guys did the whole Shakespeare thing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And so I found some interesting other facts, but this one came up in the list. Um, and it says, nobody actually knows how to spell Shakespeare's name.
SPEAKER_02I spelled it neon on the stage. Well, it's not like the last name Shakespeare.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it says, in fact, the Bard's name or Baird's name has over 80 different spelling variations. There are no records of him ever spelling his name as William Shakespeare as he is known today.
SPEAKER_05No kidding. Really?
SPEAKER_01That's what it's saying.
SPEAKER_05Like even so the manuscripts, whatever signed Shakespeare is not necessarily him signing that.
SPEAKER_01Right. Or he signed them different ways every time.
SPEAKER_05Wow.
SPEAKER_01Nobody really knows how he really spelled it.
SPEAKER_05That son of a gun.
SPEAKER_01Right?
SPEAKER_05Pretty talented individual. I think he'll be alright.
SPEAKER_01And then there's some other cool stuff. Um the space bun look for Princess Leia.
SPEAKER_05Yes.
SPEAKER_01The iconic hairstyle is actually inspired by women of the Mexican Revolution. Star Wars creator George Lucas said that he looked to Solidaris or Mexican women who joined the uprising as an inspiration since he wanted Leia to resemble a fighter and not a damsel in distress.
SPEAKER_04And I'm watching uh Obi-Wan on uh Disney.
SPEAKER_01Yep. Is that good?
SPEAKER_04I'm really good.
SPEAKER_01I started watching the Boba Fett thing, and I kinda like got a little I like Boba Fett, but it was a little mm-mm.
SPEAKER_04It's it's pretty good. But uh you have a young Princess Leia there that he's trying to say. That's why she refers to him in the movie. And she's pretty spunky. This Princess Leah's pretty spunky. I like her. Does a good job.
SPEAKER_01The next thing that I kind of found is just kind of weird. NASA Gemini 3 mission. Astronaut John Young snuck a corned beef sandwich aboard the spacecraft.
SPEAKER_05You know. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_01Right?
SPEAKER_05Get hungry. Get hungry.
SPEAKER_01He hid the sandwich in his pocket and shared it with the other crew members, and someone ratted him out for bringing a sandwich along, and NASA banned sandwiches from future missions.
SPEAKER_04They banned them?
SPEAKER_01Banned sandwiches. Can't have it.
SPEAKER_04Well, I suppose. I mean, if there's no gravity, and you take a bite into a sandwich and then it ruins the launching. Spray all over the place. Yeah. Because there's no gravity, if you take a bite out of a sandwich, crumbs fly out, you know, and it gets dirt in the air. It has to be directly, it's gotta be a suction. You gotta have it in a pouch.
SPEAKER_00What?
SPEAKER_04Yeah. And it got rid of tang, so that's true. I love that stuff. That used to be good stuff.
SPEAKER_01We should bring some we always had Kool-Aid. You guys must be old.
SPEAKER_05Um, Kool-Aid Kool-Aid for wealthy family. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04For the well to do it. Ten cents a packet. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And tap water.
SPEAKER_04Oh, back then, five, Amy. Five cents a packet.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you could get like five packs for like a quarter.
SPEAKER_04You gotta pay for it.
SPEAKER_01Well, that's true.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Back in the day before city parks became common, people used to picnic in cemeteries. Huh.
SPEAKER_05That sounds about right.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Cemetery craves began in the 19th century when cemeteries began planting gardens and incorporating flowers in their headstone designs.
SPEAKER_04There's some uh pretty nice cemeteries that I could serve uh have a sandwich on uh you know Moses' grave. Moses' Moses I don't know. Just whenever I think of old people, I always think of I say there's grandma and grandpa Moses over there. Oh, I see. I thought you bet the actual then then if you go to his grave, you can get some manna for the game. Can you go to Moses' grave?
SPEAKER_05Mana. I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_01Is it gonna give people manna because they bitched all the way walking through the freaking just shut up already? Here's some manna.
SPEAKER_04Is that a can you imagine though eating that? No wonder that it's so cranky. They ate that every day. I mean, it's oh yeah, that was a good thing. He could have had some chocolate or something drop, but you know.
SPEAKER_01Do you rather starve or do you rather be a slave? I don't know.
SPEAKER_04I mean he is god, so there's not much you can give you manna.
SPEAKER_01What more do you want? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Mana, it's fresh, fresh from heaven at the first baseball game. Okay. I love it. Yes.
SPEAKER_01Did you know China owns all of the pandas in the world?
SPEAKER_04Yes, I had heard about that.
SPEAKER_01I figured Dan would know.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, they own all the pandas in the world. Well, it's all on their land.
SPEAKER_01Even if you see a panda and a zoo, it's still owned by China. The program started 50 years ago during Richard Nixon's presidency.
SPEAKER_05So there's literally no pandas born anywhere else around the world.
SPEAKER_01You rent the pandas with an option to buy. And China is able to choose the location that they rent the pandas to. The rental contracts are between $500,000 and $1 million money going to panda conservation.
SPEAKER_04So they'll save pandas. This is what happens when you monopolize an entire mammal. No kidding. Yeah. They'll kill whales, but they don't care about it.
SPEAKER_01Well, that's because they make money off it. That's all.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Right.
SPEAKER_01Did you know Hello Kitty was actually created to sell shoes?
SPEAKER_04No. I always thought it was for like their knickknacks because my my sister used to have a lot of Hello Kitty stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that was like a whole thing. I just happened to know what that is, but I it says San Rio started as a silk company and soon switched to selling sandals. They found that sandals were cute with cute designs, sold better. So they hired cartoonists to design characters, and thus Hello Kitty was born. Huh, no kidding. And then that just must have been, yeah, then you got knit-nacks like little purses and little lip glosses and little all that kind of stuff. All kinds of fun little stuff. Yeah, yep. Um, what was the other one? Oh, this one I thought was kind of weird. So a guy named Rodney Alcala was a serial killer. Okay. And in the midst of a killing spree, he appeared on an episode of the dating game.
SPEAKER_05In the during? Yeah, during his killing spree. Yep. I'm gonna go on a dating game.
SPEAKER_01And he got on a dating game.
SPEAKER_05Yep. Is that how they caught him?
SPEAKER_01And now it's like causing that's what caused him to be known as the dating show killer. He first began his crimes in LA in 68. He lured an eight-year-old girl into his apartment. Oh, she was saved, but then he fled to New York, went under film school, under an alias. And guess who he studied under? Yeah. He studied under Roman Polanski.
SPEAKER_04Figures. All the dominoes of evil men.
SPEAKER_01There's actually a picture of him on the freaking dating show.
SPEAKER_04Wow.
SPEAKER_01And then he got caught after murdering a 12-year-old girl and dumping her in the woods. But let's go on a dating show.
SPEAKER_04Brought us down, Ames.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, man. We'll talk about it.
SPEAKER_04What else?
SPEAKER_01What else? Oh, this last one off this list. I'll take this one. So Milton Hershey, the inventor of Hershey Bar. Good code. Cheated death on the Titanic.
SPEAKER_05Really?
SPEAKER_01He had written a $300 check to reserve a room on the ship. Business in the chocolate world was booming in 1912. And so Hershey and his wife stopped dipped out of the trip due to work commitments. Likely, say likely saving their lives.
SPEAKER_04That one guy switched that ticket. That's how we got that movie.
SPEAKER_05Oh, that's right. That's what he had. He he put it up. Yeah. He gave that's how he got it. He gambled it away. Sure. Yeah. He gambled it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. He's got a big jewel. It's a true story. Yep.
SPEAKER_05They they called him Jack. It was just a nickname.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I want to go back. Well, one of the things uh Amy's graveyard thinks there's a graveyard in uh in Florida that you can go to where there's peacocks that just walk around.
SPEAKER_01Really? Really?
SPEAKER_04You would think that that would be cool. Except for peacocks are really, really loud. Like they're jungle loud. Oh god, they are. They screeze. Awful. And I had no idea because we went there and then they do that. Really and the people down there have had it, I guess. But it was a fun thing to go to. I mean, you wouldn't even go to see anybody in the graveyard. You would just go to see the peacocks. And they had these all these moss trees, you know, that looks like a forest gump, you know, and stuff like that. It was it was a fun, fun graveyard to go to. Best graveyard I've ever been to, Rick.
SPEAKER_05That's uh we should make a trip. I'm not a podcast. I'm very fond of peacocks because yeah, that screech that they make.
SPEAKER_01They make a huge I didn't know they made a screech until YouTube it.
SPEAKER_04Once you hear it, it's horrible. It's it sounds it's it sounds like the kook bearer. It's kook bearer bird.
SPEAKER_05Hearing it in a cemetery, that'll never leave you.
SPEAKER_04No, it'll haunt me.
SPEAKER_01You got the voodoo down there?
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Yeah, well, if it's a cemetery. Voodoo, you do. I tell you what, though, you won't be dying to go there, I can tell you that.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that's bad.
SPEAKER_04No, no, you get nothing for you.
SPEAKER_01You fell for it. I didn't fall for shit.
SPEAKER_04You fell for it. That was bad. It's pretty bad. Bless it.
SPEAKER_01Did you know bees love cannabis?
SPEAKER_04Uh-huh. No. So do a lot of people, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04No, is is I don't understand how cannabis. Is it a flower that you turn into something? Like, is it the buds of the flower?
SPEAKER_01It is the yeah, like the hemp part.
SPEAKER_04Like the pros, Amy.
SPEAKER_01I'm not a pro I'm not a pro.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Yeah. Come on, man.
SPEAKER_00Tell us about it, man.
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah. So of course there's a bunch of research in uh Colorado State University.
SPEAKER_05Wow. Okay. Kind of cool. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01They are highly attracted to cannabis, but the plant is also good for them because of its plentiful stores of pollen. So it also restores the bee population. So we should grow more cannabis.
SPEAKER_04All these positives about cannabis. I I'm seeing too many. I don't know why. I just I used to be, well, you know, like 20, but now it's the science is pretty solid on this. Other than the fact that it stinks to high hell. When we have someone coming in for a drug test.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_04And you can tell.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And they're like, it's a sweet.
SPEAKER_04I'm not like I'm not gonna fail, man.
SPEAKER_01You can, yeah.
SPEAKER_04There's gotta be a way. And I hear that the the edibles are like really potent. Like you can't, I've never heard of anyone's having an unpotent edible. Like really. They'll take like one gummy bear and they're like out. Oh my gosh. Jesus. Yeah. I don't know. So I don't know.
SPEAKER_01At least with fentanyl or what's going on?
SPEAKER_04These are all the things I mean. I'm just saying we gotta I'm for it. We just gotta find a way out of it. I'm for it. Yeah, just it's gotta be something.
SPEAKER_05You know, they do they have let me ask this question because I don't know a lot about cannabis and stuff like that. But is that can you smoke that in one of those electric e-cigarette things now? I don't think so.
SPEAKER_01Uh legally.
SPEAKER_05No, okay, not legally.
SPEAKER_01I'm sure there's like hemp oil and stuff. You can probably I don't know if you really smoke it in a vape.
SPEAKER_04You can test positive for that oil. So that's all GPD oils, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Because we went to the Eric Church concert in uh the Miller um American Family Field. Yeah. And all of a sudden, Tony Stadium? Yeah, Miller Park County Stadium field. Um and we all of a sudden this smell came wafting through the crowd, and I'm like, Yeah. What is that?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and your joint paint, your joint paint went away.
SPEAKER_04I didn't have any paint at all. I wanted a big, big Tupperware container full of Doritos.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I spent like 60 bucks on a cheeseburger. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But the also interesting tidbit about the bees and the cannabis is the bees are uninterested in the female hemp flowers, which are the ones that humans love to smoke. So the bees go to the male hemp flow. Yeah. The bees go to the male hemp flowers and the people smoke the female hemp flowers.
SPEAKER_05Huh.
SPEAKER_03Oh my lord.
SPEAKER_05Isn't that interesting? Why not? Why not, Rick? I you know, I don't even have a theory about that.
unknownI don't even have a theory.
SPEAKER_04It'd be nice to have it as an option. There's so many people. Right. Cancer. I'm just saying. Yeah, you're not wrong. Right? Yeah. Right, right. It's about time. It's about time.
SPEAKER_05I agree. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01There's some also some weird state laws around.
SPEAKER_05On hemp?
SPEAKER_01No, not all hemp. Oh, just laws. Just laws in general. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, well, we just got out of it. It's legal in Illinois. We just got out of Illinois.
SPEAKER_02Correct.
SPEAKER_04Correct. That's a bunch of stuff.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04Not just Colorado. Yeah. Which is weird because you would think Illinois would be, you know, because there's so many people that they would say no. But it's not.
SPEAKER_01Well, you'd think they'd give up the taxing or the um, you know, paying for the highways and just legalize your marijuana.
SPEAKER_04Like my tollways.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, toll ways are free, but here's buy some of our pot. But anyway, you would think in the state of Washington, it's illegal to kill Bigfoot. So really? Yeah. Bigfoot hunters beware. Skamania County, Washington passed a law in 1869 deeming the slaying of Bigfoot to be a felony. Huh. Punishable by five years in prison.
SPEAKER_04So catch it live. Dress up as a as a Bigfoot. Rob somebody and run away. You're getting yes.
SPEAKER_01And later.
SPEAKER_05Thank you.
SPEAKER_01Later, the the law was amended designating Bigfoot as an endangered species.
SPEAKER_05Huh. So they really believe in it that much. Yeah. A federal law.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_04You remember Harry and the Hendersons? Yeah. I do. Yeah. I love that show. Uh when we went to Universal Studios, just her and I, the first time before we had kids, we got a picture taken with Harry and the Henderson, and I forgot we got to put uh film in the camera.
SPEAKER_01No!
SPEAKER_04Film. Remember film?
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, well, you had to have it.
SPEAKER_04Kelly was she still talks about that to this day. That's one of her favorites. She got it, stood next to him, it was a cute picture. All I have it is in my brain. That's it. That's all I got. He hasn't been back since. He hasn't been back since.
SPEAKER_05No, you can still get the uh what is the the beef jerky thing now? That that one. Sure. You can get your picture with that one. Oh that's a less sweeter Sasquatch, though. That's the Sasquatch. Yeah, he's really ugly looking. Yeah. Yeah. Harry was friendly. Yeah.
unknownYes.
SPEAKER_01Well, they're an endangered species. Okay.
SPEAKER_05You can't kill them if you go to Washington. Okay. All right. Good. Well, I'm glad to hear that. Maybe they'll make a comeback now.
SPEAKER_01Uh in uh Vermont, it's illegal.
SPEAKER_05The Hoppins state of Vermont.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, right? Lots of shit going down there. Uh it's illegal to prohibit clotheslines. The law forbids regulations that prohibit clotheslines or any other energy device based on renewable resources.
SPEAKER_04So at that particular decibel buster was parking at 70. He did so good. He's a go boy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. This other one, I'll just do this one real quick, and then um uh in Tennessee, you cannot hold a public office if you've been in a duel.
SPEAKER_04Well at all?
SPEAKER_01According to the Tennessee Constitution, it's illegal to hold public office if a person does any of the following, fight a duel or knowingly be the bearer of a challenge to fight a duel or send an or accept a challenge for a duel.
SPEAKER_04They call that the Hamilton law.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. Can't hold a public office.
SPEAKER_04It's kind of shocking coming from Tennessee. Yeah. Tennessee. Yeah. Oh, Tennessee, the voice of reason.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_04Is that it?
SPEAKER_01The Tennessee Vols. Yeah. Volunteers. And then this one was kind of cool. Dan actually sent this one to me. There's a rare uh male tortoiseshell cat that was adopted from Las Vegas shelter. And yeah, apparently only one in three thousand tortoiseshell cats are male. So if you find a male tortoiseshell cat, it's like jackpot.
SPEAKER_05Tortoiseshell cat.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like calico colored, like the malt tri-color, multicolored.
SPEAKER_04So they don't have like a big puffy coat or anything. It's just that's the color of the color of their hard or what?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no.
SPEAKER_04Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01It's just I don't know if it's the color. I don't know. It really has nothing to do with the tricolor. No.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01Kitten.
SPEAKER_03Kitten.
SPEAKER_01Tortoiseshell cat.
SPEAKER_03Thanks for reading the research, Ames. That's that's cool.
SPEAKER_04That sounds extra.
SPEAKER_01He's the one that got mixed up. I didn't write it. I said cat.
SPEAKER_04Well, I know I know you said cat, but you said total. Tornal is interesting. I mean you got tortoiseshells.
SPEAKER_01That must be the shapes of his type of cat with bicolored coat. Females are really interesting. Yep.
SPEAKER_04All right.
SPEAKER_01So if you find a male, apparently they're very, you know, you can breed them and they're like super, yeah. They're people, people buy them for lots and lots of money because they're very rare. Interesting.
SPEAKER_04Aww.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Good kitty.
SPEAKER_01Kitty kitty kitty.
SPEAKER_04We can't sell Bell, though. Bell your dog.
SPEAKER_01No, I can't sell Bella.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_01And we can't sell Winky. I know I had to get some boop more boopy pictures.
unknownPoop poop.
SPEAKER_05What what what kind of pictures are we? Oh, boop.
SPEAKER_01When you boop their nose.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Oh, okay. I was like, whoa, what are we 'cause you got a big schnauw.
SPEAKER_04I've seen those pictures. Winky isn't feeling very good. Winky. Yeah, that's sad. But in any case, she'll get over there. Hopefully. Yeah. So here we go.
SPEAKER_03Rick Ramirez.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Sports. Golf really. Really. Really sucks. There you go, buddy.
SPEAKER_05I'm going golfing Sunday. Did I tell you guys?
SPEAKER_03No one cares. Okay, I didn't think so.
SPEAKER_05Nobody cares. Well, I was all excited tonight to talk about the Brewers being in first place until Amy told me they lost today.
SPEAKER_01They did.
SPEAKER_05To whom they lost to the Phillies 8-3. I didn't even know about it.
SPEAKER_01They have been on the Schneide since the first I heard of the Phillies in a while. Since St. Louis.
SPEAKER_05And and they're waiting, like uh all they need is one more game for Craig Council to like match Brewers' history for winning or something. Yeah. They can't get that one win. They can't do it. I guess Phillies. That one win and get it over with.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_05What are the Phillies even? What is their record?
SPEAKER_01They always tank before the All-Star game.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah. 28, 28, and 29. Yeah, they should have beat the Phillies. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's they kind of tank now. And then, I mean, you really want to have a good, a good record after the All-Star game.
SPEAKER_04Yes, you do. So you can't. Do you think we even need the All-Star game anymore? I mean, they look so bored out there when they're not.
SPEAKER_01Well, the problem is no one wants to get hurt.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Right. And they don't play. Look, I went to Hawaii and I witnessed um the Pro Bowl. Oh, yeah. When it was still in Hawaii. That'd be cool. Okay. It was very cool. Uh, very, very cool. Except, yeah, you want to you think you can see how lazy they play on TV. You watch them live. It's just as soon as the ball's hike, some of the guys don't even get down in their stance.
SPEAKER_01Oh, see, that's the thing.
SPEAKER_05They just stand up and they're like, so the linemen, it's their dream job. Yeah. Because they're getting paid all these bucko bucks to be there. Sure. Free trip to Hawaii, and all they have to do is get down in their knuckle and stand straight up. That's it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because yeah, they don't want to risk getting hurt. No.
SPEAKER_05And I don't blame that. Which I get it. Yeah, right. I mean, break your leg.
SPEAKER_04I don't think we should have it. I mean, we shouldn't have it anymore. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if it's bringing money in, if it's all about money, then it gets people know it.
SPEAKER_05They should bring, they should do that like the longest yard. They should bring convicts in and let them as they want to. Now, that would be a cool all-star game. That'd be a that'd be a good game. They could throw the like all the stars that were picked to go to the Pro Bowl and have them wear their jerseys. And it just watches people get beat up.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god, they get their ass.
SPEAKER_04If you want to see some real games, uh only the winner gets paid. How about that?
SPEAKER_01That would be they'd be playing like their life. Depending on how much money it was.
SPEAKER_05But that's like you said, Dan. Yeah. It's the no uh what is it? What did you call it? The NFL? It's the zero effort. Well they just no-profit league. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Oh, the non-profit. The not the nonprofit league. Yep. NFL. So they're doing that for nonprofits.
SPEAKER_05Speaking of which, uh the Denver Broncos, have you heard, have reached sale agreement. The Denver Broncos are being sold from uh the original family that uh owned it, which I can't remember the name of the group. Uh Penner. No, not Penner. I can't remember the uh the original owners, but they're selling the Denver Broncos after owning them for like 25, 28 years. What anybody want to guess how much uh this uh I'm gonna say I'm gonna say uh three billion, I'll say. It's a good guess.
SPEAKER_01But the Broncos are I mean, right now they are. Right? They were great when you know Elway.
SPEAKER_05John Ellway was there, but he's the he's the general manager, so he's you're getting a part of him in this purchase. Right. So how much his name going there now?
SPEAKER_01Wilson. Who's Wilson going to? Isn't he going to be a little bit of a big thing? Oh, Russell Wilson. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. They got they actually have some good players um right now, but we'll see how that works out.
SPEAKER_01It's got to be at least 150 mil.
SPEAKER_05I said three billion.
SPEAKER_01Three billion?
SPEAKER_05Two billion.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_01Elon Musk.
SPEAKER_05You would think, right? So let's use uh my favorite team, of course, the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah. Jerry Jones bought them back in 1989 for Jerry Jones. Rick, what's your favorite team again? I'm sorry. Dallas Cowboy.
SPEAKER_01We're gonna go to the game.
SPEAKER_05Yes, we are gonna go to the game. I will, I'm in. I am totally going. We're probably gonna get kicked out, but that's all right.
SPEAKER_01You will get kicked out.
SPEAKER_05Yes, I would probably. But they're actually pretty cool. So yeah, Jerry Jones bought the Cowboys for like 115 million, I think it was. That's because back in 1989. And they did. They they were not good in the 80s. Right now, they're worth over well, okay. This sale of the Broncos just pushed the Cowboys' worth even higher. So keep in mind, all right, Jerry Jones paid 115 million. The Denver Broncos reach a sale agreement with a price tag of 4.65 billion dollars.
SPEAKER_01How can anybody even buy that?
SPEAKER_054.65 billion dollars.
SPEAKER_04So can you do like a payment plan or something? You know, like 150 bucks a month.
SPEAKER_05Well, okay, here's here's the kicker. The the family now going to be owning the Broncos is none other than the Walton Penner group or the Walmart family.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_05The Waltons. So they're the new owners of the Denver Broncos, which now just pushed the Dallas Cowboys worth over ten billion dollars. Why the hell are they affording it?
SPEAKER_01Why?
SPEAKER_05Because the Cowboys were uh at six billion before this sale happened. Now they're figuring, okay, the Broncos went for four. Now the Cowboys are worth even more than that. They're still the top, somehow, Jerry Jones built the top uh what am I trying to say? They're the the most worth team in the world.
SPEAKER_01The most hated team in the world.
SPEAKER_05And the most hated and loved. How about the most valuable franchise? That's it. They're the most valuable franchise on planet. At over it's gonna be over eight billion dollars now. They say the fan base or whatever it is buys all the merchandise, which I have and I've burned some.
SPEAKER_04When was the last time they won a Super Bowl? I came in. Was it in the Lord? 1995?
SPEAKER_05Something like that. Was it in the 90s?
SPEAKER_0423 years.
SPEAKER_05Probably. 23 years. Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_04When was the last time we won a Super Bowl? I guess is the next question. I came. We've come close, right?
SPEAKER_05Well, Aaron Ramps. He's come, he's choked in the NFC division game now for three years in a row.
SPEAKER_04Spent a trillion dollars on six losses. It doesn't help that we can't run. Come on now.
SPEAKER_01We can't run the ball. Exactly. That's we need some linemen too that actually won it.
SPEAKER_04So we spent a billion on fire and a billion ones. They should go get some hockey players. Right. That's correct.
SPEAKER_01That is correct.
SPEAKER_04Got it. Yep. I don't know a lot about football, but I just know that it's a nonprofit organization.
SPEAKER_05Money's not an issue. No, no, no. They're not after money. This proves it right here. Yeah. Four point six five billion with a B for the Denver Broncos.
SPEAKER_04But yet wonder how much they make. I mean, obviously they don't make any money, but I mean, like, I wonder if you're not going to be able to do it. Not about money. I understand. Yes. I understand. Right. Right. I understand.
SPEAKER_01Now they're going to have like Walmart logos on their jerseys and stuff. Can you imagine that Spark is going to be all over that stadium?
SPEAKER_04Yes. I'm telling you, nobody does it like Packers do, where the whole town owns the team. They're not going nowhere. That's the thing. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's why people hate us because we're, you know, we're old school.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01We don't buy out to the shit like American Family. And I hope they don't ever. Yeah, no kidding.
SPEAKER_04And if we need more money.
SPEAKER_05They just raise the uh the uh season ticket holders for they come up with you know bogus uh right stock options. Well the weeds up. Which works great. We gotta weed the uh ter AstroTariff at uh just take uh take a tour in the winter, they'll let you walk out of the field, dig into the snow, and rip out some for you. The only way it would shuffle for free.
SPEAKER_04Uh Wisconsin would hate the Packers in some way, then that that that would go down. But I don't I don't think that happened. We're talking economics here. I'm just trying to try to make it work out.
SPEAKER_01When we had Rubly as a quarterback, people still didn't walk out.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, they still imagine Rubly.
SPEAKER_01What the balls.
SPEAKER_05It'd be easier to get a ticket, but still, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you could get tickets really cheap.
SPEAKER_05But they were still sold out. I mean season tickets. So, Brewers, talking about brewers.
SPEAKER_01And minicamp started, so that's exciting.
SPEAKER_05Minicamp is starting now.
SPEAKER_01Football.
SPEAKER_05Football. Oh. NFL starting to get cranked back up now. Yes, yes. But since baseball is starting. It is June. It is June already.
SPEAKER_01Hockey's still playing, though.
SPEAKER_05How are they doing? I have no idea.
SPEAKER_04Again, we gotta go see. We're in the finals. We gotta go see a uh like a triple-A game where they I'd like to see the Milwaukee Admirals? We gotta make a plan to see that.
SPEAKER_01There's a hockey team in Fond du Lac, too.
SPEAKER_05Semi-pro, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they're like semi-pro, like the Bears or something.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, Fond du Lac Bears, right? But I wouldn't mind.
SPEAKER_01Let's go to the Admirals game. Let's go.
SPEAKER_05They were in the playoffs. They love they went far in the playoffs, the Admirals this year, but they got knocked out. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So what league is this now? This is a trip. Is there such a thing as triple A hockey? What are they what kind of how does hockey?
SPEAKER_01I don't know how that's like semi-pro levels.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, they're like three levels of hockey, but I don't know the but sometimes admirals have cool bands at the af after the game. They I saw a foreigner at after a game there. Yeah, and my god, and though they let him fight. You can see red on the ice.
SPEAKER_00Amy, I could see you all over that glass. Got him, get him.
SPEAKER_04We gotta show Amy that scene again from Love it. Dan, that would be worth taking her there.
SPEAKER_01You guys watched Leonard Kenny or the new Shoresy? Oh my god. It's hilarious. Every episode.
SPEAKER_02Keso.
SPEAKER_01Kissel. Okay, Dan.
SPEAKER_02I cheat you so well. I cheat you so. Jesus, I cheat you so well.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I watched every that so Leonard Kenny and Shoresy. You guys gotta watch on Hulu.
SPEAKER_01We got ice cream.
SPEAKER_04Oh God. Funny stuff. That guy gotta start. He just started. He's got we'll tell it next episode. Oh, that guy. Jared Kelso, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So he's got a good story on.
SPEAKER_01He's got a nice ass.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Well. And he still has hair. And no waxing. What else do you need to do? Yeah. Oh. He still keeps all his hair. He's not an you know an idiot and does all his waxing.
SPEAKER_01Waxing. Manscaping.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Go ahead, Rick. We interrupt. So baseball. Um, since baseball is still going, I've I've been looking up, I've just been wondering, you know, if you've ever played sports, there's a lot of superstitions going on in sports, right?
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_05Well, I wanted to look up uh well, I've got this might take me a while, but I'll I'll only share some of this today. Uh-huh. So I've got 50 weirdest all-time superstitions of baseball players and managers. Yeah. Um and it's it runs from every gamut. I mean, it's from teams that get on a hot streak, they don't give up their superstitions. People that are in slumps, players that are in slumps are even worse. So we'll start off with Jason Giombi's slump buster. So whenever Jason Giombi slump buster. Who's he now? I don't know what it is. Well, he's played for the Yankees. He was known more for the baseball Yankees.
SPEAKER_01He's like a bigger dude.
SPEAKER_05Yes, Jason Giombi was a pretty big dude. Yeah. Whenever Jason Giombi was mired in a slump, he has an interesting superstition that he believes helps him break out of it without any doubt. He's like, this is what does it. Giombi puts on a gold thong whenever he is struck with it. And this is certainly one of the most interesting ways to break out of the slump.
SPEAKER_01Or is it like gold flexible?
SPEAKER_05Um, apparently, this is a gold flaked thong that he wears. So maybe it's the metal that gives him a little, you know.
SPEAKER_01Right? Like a copper thing.
SPEAKER_05Wahoo!
SPEAKER_04What the hell that would do, but and Bull Durham he wears those stocking holders. But stirrups. Yes. Stirrups, yes.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Yeah. We wore stirrups in softball. That his nightmare of standing on the mound with nothing but those on. Yeah. Or in his jock strap. Oh, that's a nightmare. Ah, let's reminisce. Yes.
SPEAKER_01You guys go ahead.
SPEAKER_05Moses, Moses Alu, another baseball player, does not wear batting gloves. Ooh. If, I'm sorry, if a player does not wear batting gloves, there is a chance that they will develop calluses on their hands. And they don't want that. Moses Alu was known for peeing on his hands.
SPEAKER_00Ew.
SPEAKER_05In an effort to make them tougher. So the strategy certainly worked for Alu as he put up a 303 career batting average.
SPEAKER_04So that was his number one trick for what was his number two reason for getting out of a slump?
SPEAKER_05Um that's taking a dump in your hands?
SPEAKER_04Like what that is, Jamie I was just referring to it. It wasn't a good one.
SPEAKER_05This wasn't even a slump. He just did this. And I think it was to keep people from using his bat as well. It stinks. Or his gloves.
SPEAKER_01Does he have to keep it in a special area? Because that would stink.
SPEAKER_05I sure would think so.
SPEAKER_01But does he just pee before he comes out of the dugout?
SPEAKER_05I mean, he did hit 332 home runs in his career. So he was pretty good. I think they let him just pee wherever. Not sure. Not sure. Yeah, there's some things they gotta give him just because they're them. Yeah. Right. Some of these are, you know, a little strange, but Mark Texira wears two different socks. I mean, and that one's kind of a lame one. Thanks for reading it. It happened. It happened when one of CeCe Sabathia, one of our former pitchers, son of a gun. One of CeCe Sabathia's socks accidentally ended up in Mark Texra's locker. Texera unknowingly put on one sock with the number 25 on it, his number, and another sock with the number 52 on it, Sabathia's number. He didn't notice until the game had already started, and Texira had one of the better games of his entire career. Following Texira's two home run game, six RBI performance, he decided that he was going to wear the two different socks forever. So that's what he does now. R.A. Dickey names his bats.
SPEAKER_04Uh inventor of the uh turtleneck. Really? No. Cargo pants? No hitters. You've heard of a Dickey, right? I have heard of Dicky. Yeah. Right. Amy, you ever have a Dickey around your neck?
SPEAKER_01Nope. No, but apparently you have.
SPEAKER_04They're turtlenecks, yeah. Oh, yeah. They're turtlenecks with they're turtlenecks without sleeves. Like they've just went straight with power.
SPEAKER_01Oh, right.
SPEAKER_04I'm trying to be serious, and Rick turns everything to fill.
SPEAKER_05You're you're uh not wrong on this one. I I apologize.
SPEAKER_01You're the one that keeps saying Dicky. So I like the name.
SPEAKER_05It's what it's called. I can't decide.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_05You ever have a Dickey or underneck?
SPEAKER_04Go ahead. Go ahead, Amy. Look up Dickey on your thing. Hitters.
SPEAKER_01Look up Dicky on my thing. Okay.
SPEAKER_05See what comes up. I'm curious. Should be a dick. Go ahead, Rick. See what comes up with. I just can't. All right. Hitters often like to get close to their bats, but occasionally pitchers get in on the fun as well. New York Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey takes his choice of bats very seriously. Dickey names each one of his bats.
SPEAKER_01I was gonna say.
SPEAKER_05And they all have very creative monikers. One of his bats is named Orchrist, the goblin cleaver. And he calls the another one Hurunting. Okay. So that's that's his thing. And he's got other names, but they didn't share more of those. Did you look up Dickey? What a turtle.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, I come up with the clothing line.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, there you go. And as you just see it's a turtleneck.
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah, I know what a Dicky is.
SPEAKER_04Also, I found this out. If your daughter is doing a report on uh beavers in the uh in the sixth grade, don't Google beaver on. Oh, really?
SPEAKER_01Don't just say like animal beaver.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you have to say animal beaver. Don't yeah, put that in.
SPEAKER_05Are you doing it? Are you looking it up? No. Okay. You totally lied. You lied. You lied. You got us all okay. Go ahead. Um, Jill Leyland's favorite boxers. It is not just uh players that have interesting superstitions, but also managers. Detroit Tigers manager, and the Tigers kind of suck. Um, Jim Leyland, though. Very cool logo. Wanted to make sure that his team kept on winning in 2011. They had a good streak going. When the team began a winning streak, Leyland wore the same pair of boxers to the ballpark the next day. He would not wash them, and he continued to wear them until the Tigers' winning streak ended. Now kind of gross.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because guys fart all the time and like come on.
SPEAKER_05There's a lot going on down there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01There's a lot of scratching going on.
SPEAKER_05Especially baseball players. I mean, baseball players are pretty joyless. I mean, have you ever seen them? Sweaty groins. They don't want to beat them.
SPEAKER_04The managers are sitting a lot. I mean, that's gross. Who's in the NBA finals, by the way? Do we know?
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Boston Celtics are playing um Golden State Warriors. Yes. Yeah. Where okay, so Bucks are out. Bucks, yeah. The Celtics beat the Bucs. So now if the if the Celtics win, okay, we lost to the world champion. Sure. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Go Golden State.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, no kidding. I like Steph Curry. Steph Curry's good. He's their big player. Right now, the Celtics are up 2-1 in the series. So stupid. I got one more here to share. Kevin Towers can't bear to watch Trevor Hoffman. Trevor Hoffman saved 552 games during his 16 years with San Diego Padres. And the team's general manager, Kevin Towers, saw none of them. Every time that Hoffman would come onto the mound in a save situation, Towers would walk away from his suite and wait for the game to finish. The strategy obviously worked well as Hoffman is ranked second in major league ball history with 601 career saves. Lordy.
SPEAKER_01That's crazy.
SPEAKER_05So just by walking out on your guy, sometimes it'll work. Right.
SPEAKER_01So do better if you don't watch.
SPEAKER_05Okay. And that's uh that's six of 50. So I'll share the rest next time.
SPEAKER_01Thanks for the warning. I won't be here next week. Get ready.
SPEAKER_05Get ready for that. Next time I'll I'll talk about golf's strange superstition. Ugh. Oh. Just kidding. I will not.
SPEAKER_04I will edit it out and replace it with.
SPEAKER_01We will cut here and start there. Dragons, you know.
SPEAKER_04Music playing for a half hour. We gotta get this good names for when we had that one they were doing, we wanted to look some of those up again. Some of those good names for places. Yeah, something like that. But there's a bunch. There's gotta be a bunch out there. What was there? I can't forget that. I can't remember the name of that one.
SPEAKER_01I thought you were gonna talk about that cheese rolling thing.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you had that on there. Well cheese rolling thing.
SPEAKER_01You see, there was a chance.
SPEAKER_05There was a recent one.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, from the United States. And a female one. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05She won it in the United States. Oh my god, did she get pounded? Oh my god. Did you see that? So the video was fantastic because she's flying down this hill. She did a face-neck plant. I think they call it the scorpion. When you get like your feet kick up and almost touch your ear.
SPEAKER_01Oh fucking Jesus.
SPEAKER_05And she got up, grabbed the ball of cheese, and she won. And man, were those English people pissed. They were mad. They're like, oh, Americans take our cheese. I don't know what they did.
SPEAKER_04So way to go, girl. Oh, that's right. The uh funniest minor league baseball team names. That's what I was trying to get the Burlington sock puppets. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh, the little league, yeah.
SPEAKER_04The miners, yeah. Uh the minor uh little league or minors.
SPEAKER_01That's a big difference.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, Marillo sod poodles.
SPEAKER_01Sod poodles? That doesn't even make sense.
SPEAKER_04The Rocket City trash pandas. Trash pandas. We can't, I gotta get me some of these shirts. You bet it. I gotta get the sock weapons. I got the milkmen. I don't even care.
SPEAKER_05I want a couple shirts from the milkmen, Wisconsin Milkmen.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_05What do they do? Play baseball. Are they still around? I'm not sure if they're still around, but I have shirts from them. Well, yeah. Yeah, that's right. That's right. All right. Well, kids. Okay, I'm gonna throw it in.
SPEAKER_01Thanks for ending it there, Rick.
SPEAKER_03Great.
SPEAKER_04Are we gonna end it there? Yeah, we're gonna end it there.
SPEAKER_01I guess so. The music is on. Everybody.
SPEAKER_04We gotta have meetings before the show. Goodbye, everybody.
SPEAKER_01Father's Day's next week.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, Father's Day.
SPEAKER_01Happy Father's Day next weekend.