Al Womack from the Alton Boys & Girls Club, and Dave Murray's forecast!- h3

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Dave Clever is on vacation this week though, but you've got me, Rachel Zimmerman, Kevin

Wheeler, Andrew Stolls, holding down the fort, and we have a guest on the line.

I want to tell you guys about this event.

It's uncorked for a cause, a wine and beer tasting events for the Boys and Girls Club

of Alton and their Meals for Kids programs going on this Friday, March 13th at Bluff City

Grill in downtown Alton.

And I am joined now by the executive director of the Boys and Girls Club of Alton, Al

Womack.

Al, thanks for joining the show.

Hey, thanks for having me.

So Al, tell us a little bit about the Boys and Girls Club to get started.

I feel like the Boys and Girls Club is something that you hear a lot about, like maybe you

see it in passing, but maybe some people don't realize what it is that the Boys and Girls Club

actually does.

Yeah.

So, so Boys and Girls Clubs is available for kids throughout the community, open throughout

the after school season as well as summer, and schools out clubs are in, so we're all

about you development and taking care of kids, they sort of have a safe place to learn

and grow.

So, that's kind of this overview of, and then once kids come through the door, they're

met with warm smiles, we have a nice meal ready for them, a lot of recreational activities,

followed by some learning and educational activities, team building, leadership development,

care to development, you name it, we're trying to develop the whole child.

That is awesome, especially, you know, in this day and age, there's

not a lot of third places out there, there's not a lot for kids to do, so I love that the

Boys and Girls Club, you know, provides this positive environment.

Al, from what I understand, you are quite a beloved figure in the Olden community.

I'm wondering, how did you get involved with the Boys and Girls Club of Olden and how

long have you been doing this?

Oh, I'm happy to be in the position that I'm in, honestly, this is my 29th year at the

position of being the CEO or Executive Director, it every day is a new day.

I couldn't think of anything else I'd rather be doing than walking through these doors

every day because I have an opportunity to make a difference in my life on the channel.

So, I love what we do here, it's going to my lap several, several years ago, I was working

on our local school district and I wasn't familiar with Boys and Girls Club, and someone

said, hey, you should check out the Boys and Girls Club, and, you know, after a month

or two of putting it off, I walked through the doors and I saw 50 kids running around

playing the screen and that reminded me of myself, it says a kid that needed some guidance

and direction.

But still wanting to have fun to be a kid, so it just brought back so many memories

when I walked through the door and I've been involved ever since.

I love that.

What's it been like for you to, you know, over the course of 29 years, I'm sure you get

to know these kids, you get to see them grow, you get to see them benefit from these programs,

what is that like to kind of, to watch that play out?

It's amazing, and again, you know, I'll go back and create a community and the people

that work for us, like, that's those are the different makers, I'm just in a position

that I'm in, but watching kids grow and develop, I've been fortunate enough to have a couple

of generations come through, so I'm seeing, I'm still fairly young, but I'm seeing some

grandkids of, you know, people that I've, that I've been able to work with, the bigger

blessing though is even able to put kids or young adults in position to go off to college

and receive a free education or to receive some scholarship to have offset the cost of

pursuing a higher education, so that's probably devils rewarding.

That is so cool to hear.

Now let's talk about this event uncorked for a cause at Bluff City Grill, Mount that

is such a great restaurant in downtown Alton.

Tell us about this wine and beer tasting event and what people can expect.

Yes, so, so we're in our ninth year hosting this event and it continues to grow, definitely

a popular event in our community.

The owner of Bluff City Grill, Kathy Gross, has been amazing for us, she offers her place

to us for this event.

We, you know, we generate quite a bit of money just based on the sponsorship and people

showing up.

It's a wine tasting, so there's a one-offs pour for, you know, the attendees.

We also have some beer opportunities for attendees that in our next year to be in the wine,

we are fortunate enough to get some area of restaurant to also offer a sampling of some

of their most popular dishes, so, you know, it's an opportunity to come and mingle, network,

sample some wines or beers and sample some food from area of restaurant.

Awesome.

And people can get tickets at bgcalton.org.

We will put up a link to that in our chat on our, on our Facebook stream that we're doing

right now, our Facebook and YouTube stream.

Al, before I let you go, how can people get involved with the Boys and Girls Club of

Alton in other ways?

Let's say they can't make it out to this event, what would you suggest people do if they

want to help out?

I would absolutely go to the website, bgcalton.org, and we have a volunteer application on

there, just even complete that application to inquire about, you know, ways to get involved.

There's a lot of opportunities listed, we'll follow up with a phone call or email, that's

probably the easiest way for if you have listeners that are wanting to grab their phones, 618-462-6249.

Give us a call, I'm happy to talk with anyone, or even just to support us, you know, and

go to that website and make a generous contribution to the Boys and Girls Club, make it different

than a life of a child.

That's Al Womack, he's the executive director of the Boys and Girls Club of Alton.

Al, thank you so much for joining us for telling us about the event, which is once again

uncorked for a cause.

And just for educating us on what the Boys and Girls Club is all about, we thank you

for your time.

Thanks for having me.

I appreciate it.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

Let me post the link to that event.

Yeah.

If you want to check that out, thank you.

That's very cool.

Yeah.

Let's see.

Boys and Girls clubs do such great work.

Yes.

Such great work.

We've done a lot of stuff in the over the years fundraising for various ones, including

one in St. Louis.

Very nice.

You know, people like that that donate, that donate that really kind of dedicate, that's

the word I was looking for, dedicate their lives to helping kids and kids that are not

their own.

Pretty great.

It's pretty great.

Totally agree.

So obviously a worthwhile cause, sounds like a fun event, hopefully they'll, I don't

know if there's a way to sell it out, but hopefully they pack it.

Yeah.

And like I said, Bluff City Grill is cool.

I know Andrew is eating there a bunch.

So it's, it's sure to be a good, should we have a field trip at some point?

I think we should.

I think we should cross the river.

Hmm.

That's kind of forbidden in the St. Louis region, right?

When you live someplace, you know to cross rivers unless it's for work or a cardinals

game.

All right.

Let's take a quick break.

We'll be right back.

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Dave out back next week.

And obviously the three of us, Rachel Andrew, and you haven't hanging out doing a thing.

So we got Dave Murray coming up in a few minutes.

See if we're going to get blown away by storms at some point later on.

Tom Akerman will join us at four o'clock for the latest from Jupiter.

And then we'll have Redbird rush hour in the five o'clock hour today.

My buddy, Derek Gould from the Postus batch will join me to start that off.

So a lot of good stuff coming your way as we move through the day today.

Um, Rachel, you have, I meant to ask you this during the break and I forgot to do you

have the audio from Neil deGrasse Tyson on the head picked up there from yesterday?

Yep.

We're going to play this a little bit.

I think this is a fascinating, um, I think it's a fascinating conversation that he's doing

a podcast.

I forget who's it is.

I'm sorry.

Um, but he's doing a podcast and they're talking about how much human life changed in terms

of our life expectancy until we get to like the mid 1800s until we get to the mid 19th

century.

For me, it's just a very interesting, um, overview of what changed about 160, 170 years

ago that hadn't really changed much in the hundreds of thousands of years that came before.

When we were all in the caves, half of everyone born was dead before the age of 30.

Jesus.

Fast forward to 1840.

Sure.

That number went up to 35.

Half of everyone born was dead by the time they were 35.

So in the tens of thousands of years between living in caves and the middle of the 19th

century, we got five years.

We got five years.

Jesus.

Okay.

Since then, yeah, with advances in medicine and by the way, everyone back then was eating

organic.

Just say it.

And the water was clear.

The air rampier, the game was free range.

Didn't make a damn bit of difference.

Science matters here.

Okay.

All right.

You can run around and eat all the organic you want.

Okay.

You'd be dead by the 30 unless some doctor came in and said, we can, we can increase your

life expectancy using science.

You, you're directing this at me as if I'm RFK, Jr.

I'm not.

I'm just telling you.

Hold me back.

All right.

When we were all in the caves, it's a fascinating point, right, that in, in tens of thousands,

if not hundreds of thousands of years, our life expectancy is human beings, at least

in that metric, right, like half of the population dead by that age.

We really only improved five years in tens of thousands of years.

And in the ensuing 150 to 170 years, we have pushed that number so far beyond the norm.

And he's, and I think it's interesting because when he says, it's because of science.

It's 100% that, but it's all kinds of sciences, right?

It's food science.

We know how to grow crops better and more efficiently.

It's transportation.

We can get the food and the medicines and the aid to people where, you know, 10,000 years

ago, it just wasn't happening.

Heck, it's 400 years ago, 200 years ago, it wasn't happening.

And certainly not happening is fast.

So you have the industrial revolution that's a part of that.

You have, you know, improvements in farming and livestock raising and the ability of storage,

electricity.

The big deal is electricity just to keeping us alive longer, making sure that we have heat

and cool when we need it, making sure our food doesn't spoil because we have refrigerators.

I think that's such an interesting point that once we started to break through scientifically

in all of these categories, yeah, it's, and it's medicine to, and sorry for some of

you, but it's vaccines too.

It's all of these discoveries, treatments for various things, right?

In the past, just as an, again, this is a loose example, right?

There's your sports example, you know, 100 years ago, if you hurt your elbow, you're done

playing sports.

You're done playing baseball now.

You just build a new elbow and you're fine.

And it's the same idea across the board.

So if we, this is where I wanted to get to the point with you guys.

So if we've come that far in a century and a half, essentially, maybe a little bit

more, right?

Let's, let's just call it a hundred and, what, let's call it a hundred fifty years.

If we've come that far in a hundred fifty years, where do we get in the next hundred

to hundred fifty years?

Post scientific breakthrough with AI, with supercomputing, with all of the things that

are coming now, because we always know that there is a negative to those things, right?

We talk about the negatives of AI and the way it's used to deceive people and all that.

But it can also be a benefit to medical research and maybe speeding some of those things

up to the point where who knows what else we can deliver.

And yet, we have all these people out there.

I love the joke about the organic and I don't want to pick too many fights, but on this,

but this idea that if you only ate it the way it originally was, you'd be healthier.

That everybody, everybody that studies food sciences, no, that's not true.

You might like it better.

Maybe you have reactions to certain chemicals that you may not have to others.

Everybody's got different allergies and things along those lines, but the fact of the

matter is like, I know organic apple is no better for you than a regular one in terms

of the health and the nutrition that you're going to get out of it.

But the point is that back then, none of those things existed.

Everybody, quote unquote, ate clean.

But yet half of people were dead by the age of 35.

And now we get nothing but you don't know, but people need to eat clean.

You don't need to eat all this stuff.

Yet we're living literally two to three, two times as long on average that as we used

to.

Imagine if we ate clean and took advantage of all of the scientific it would say eat

well, depending on how you mean clean, right?

Like I don't think you're going to eat just by eating, for example, eating organic

is not going to change anything if you're still eating foods that are going to make you

heavy and not are going to cause, you know, if you're eating sugar, right?

Sugar is real.

It's clean.

It's a normal thing.

But if you have too much of it, it's going to cause problems.

But I find it fascinating that until we had these breakthroughs, that impacted so many

things.

Again, you could think of it as well.

It's medicine.

Sure.

Yeah.

Medicine is a big part of it.

Of that, those two go together.

But again, it's transportation storage, the understanding of how to grow and what grows

and where to grow and how we can grow more of it.

And that includes sometimes, you know, chemical innovations and things along those lines

that in just a short amount of time, we have made up so much ground.

And I think it's really fascinating to figure out or think about where it goes in a hundred

years.

If it's been this much in 150 compared to the tens of thousands before, and we keep

our, we're keeping told that it's all accelerating, how old can we live in that way?

If we keep going, I mean, could we all be like, can you, can we get to the average of

being a hundred?

Perhaps.

Or the average, the life expectancy, I would say average, but the life expectancy being

a hundred.

What is it now, 80?

I think it's still like high seventies.

Is it mid-dia seventies?

Do you think we could ever get to that place, though?

In what way?

Like you get to a place where we are all, you know, where we have the life expectancy

up that high.

Well, it will never be all, but it's going to be, you know, the life expectancy of the

quote average person.

Bar and again, we know that the expectancy, those things are weighted by an average because

there are people that are going to die young and there are people that are going to live

to be a hundred and ten.

So all of it comes into play.

I mean, if we've gained this much ground in this short amount of time, when you're talking

about historic time, right, because history is so much bigger than these last hundred

fifty years.

But these last hundred fifty years have been a time of incredible growth of the human

population and incredible growth in life expectancies and just overall better health.

Think of all the things that just to kill would kill children in, you know, kill them

when they're three, four, five years old.

And those things are mostly gone.

I like whenever people say that a McDonald's sprite would kill a sickly Victorian child.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because it's funny, but it's also like, how would they have handled something like that?

Yeah.

Even just the fizz alone.

Yeah.

Just the carbon age.

They would have hated carbonation.

Mm hmm.

Yeah.

We got a question, Brian.

You can answer this.

Said humans were living 60, 70 years back in the New Testament times.

How is he figuring most people were dead by 30?

It's called scientific research, brother.

They can look at bones and they can look at rock and records and all of these things

and they can see.

It wasn't that the average one.

It was that half of all people on earth died by that age at those times.

Some died again.

Some died in worse.

Some died as children from various diseases.

I mean, but it's just the point that in that time that it's not that the average age

was 30.

It's that half of people were dead by that age.

So sure, if you if you avoided the big diseases, if you didn't end up going to war, you could

live to 60 or 70.

But now that 60 to 70 is 90 to 100.

You're talking about the high end of those times, not the averages.

I got to move to help me for people.

I was down up to nowhere, I stood down.

That's TGS.

I'm up to Dave Davies down in Jupiter.

Well, one Dave is down in Jupiter.

Dave Glover is down in Jupiter.

Dave Murray is joining us now, though.

What's up, Dave?

I should be down in Jupiter, too.

You could be your big shotter, man.

You just make the call, though.

I'll get you in.

That was the movie.

That photo could have gotten many more famous looking.

I mean, could you, we should do a Photoshop and put Dave Murray in there because I don't

if you saw the photo, did you see the photo on Facebook?

I did.

I did.

Yeah, it's just like a who's who of cool guys hanging out in Jupiter.

Just just Photoshop me in the back.

I'm just like, just like lingering over the top of everybody.

Maybe we just kind of like a suspicious look.

Are you sure you guys are okay with this?

Yeah.

I'm sure they can arrange it.

I'm sure they'd set you up, Dave.

Yeah, yeah, they always have taken great care of me, so I'm happy with that.

Are you ready?

We hit a record today.

Let's go.

86.

So it's a record where we are so far.

It is a record.

Yes.

85 from 1955.

Should we get T-shirts and say we were there on March 10th?

Yeah, absolutely.

It's cool.

It's great as I went back because there's also a big shift coming later in the weekend.

I went back to the spring forecast.

Okay.

We had possible record heat in the first 15 days, so we get to check that one off and

thought there would be a dramatic change in the weather from relatively warm to cold come

around the 15th of March.

And you know what?

We're going to check that one off, too, which I'll tell you about here in a second.

All right.

So we have a record day.

We've got accurate predictions being made.

So what do we got for the next few days?

Alrighty.

We have this cold front coming in.

There's nothing around the St. Louis area right now, all the active weather is way up

to our north.

That's where it's coming alive.

Though the front, yes, it's slow moving.

It's going to be bad timing if you're into severe weather.

You know, there are people who like severe weather, but but I think we will see rain and

thunderstorms primarily after midnight tonight.

It could be well after midnight tonight, 54 for the low evening will be quite mild and

dry.

Tomorrow, rain and thunderstorms up until about midday or so.

I don't see a lot of severe weather, but I see a lot of rain.

So really heavy downpours of rain could be some ponding on the roads in the morning.

So extra care on the morning, windy, 67 is the high tomorrow.

That is probably about 11 o'clock noon time.

We'll be at 48 degrees come sunset tomorrow.

Well, pretty good drop in temperature sunset right around seven o'clock, 33 degrees on

Wednesday night, windy and cold.

So it's going to feel colder Thursday, sunny and chilly, 56 Friday is quiet, partly Sunday,

63 looks quiet on Saturday, rain and thunderstorms returning on Sunday will be in the 60s during

the day.

However, Sunday night, we're going to take a nose dive.

Pretty good cold front is coming in and I'm going to go 22 for the overnight low Sunday

night into Monday morning and would not be surprised if just depending on how much

moisture is left over that we see some wet, sloppy hamster size snowflakes no late Sunday

night.

Monday is a sunny day, but it's only 36 for the high.

So real drastic sharp drop coming Sunday night, can I can I put in a request to change that

order at the end?

Sure.

I don't do requests.

Not kidding.

I'm kidding.

It's still on here anymore cold.

I know it's I know it's there.

It's marching.

I go.

It's like when you get these days and it's like 80 and you're like, all right, 86 is over.

But it's not over.

Right.

I know.

There's the logical part of the brain and then there's the irrational side that just wants

what it wants.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Well, is this the end the one on Monday?

Is that it?

No.

I still think the last two weeks of March will be on the on the chillies.

Okay.

The normal cold.

A little bit below, which is why we've been above average for the first two weeks.

We should be below average the last two weeks.

So the month comes out about average.

All right.

But what I am hearing from you is that because of all this rain and the fact that it's

still a little bit warm for a few days that we may be looking at mowing the lawn here

soon.

Yeah.

Some people have done that already and that that kind of growling noise was not rain.

That was Andrew.

Yeah.

That wasn't the storm.

That was Andrew's like, you want this?

That one of my dogs.

Yeah.

You sounded just like him though.

Yeah, you did.

You definitely had a little grumpy dogs out there.

Not great.

Not great.

All right.

Well, I guess we can enjoy the good and we have to mix in some of the crappy stuff to

go with it right?

Absolutely.

Yeah.

All right.

Rach, why don't you do some headlines?

Sure.

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There's a man who has 42 teeth who just earned a Guinness world record.

42 teeth is about 10 more than average and these teeth belong to a 33 year old engineer

from Malaysia.

It's really interesting.

I saw a picture of his teeth.

Yeah.

Situation.

And they just kind of like double line up.

You know what I mean?

It's like two rows.

Yeah.

Okay.

So they're all like really tiny now, no, no, Dave's thinking big face.

I'm thinking tiny teeth in the reality.

It's just two rows.

He says that the extra teeth don't cause him discomfort.

Good.

Yeah.

A lot more higher dentist bills, I would bet.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

Two cleaning ones.

Do not get cavities.

Take me a long time.

You get 10 more drillins in there.

Katie Curric is being criticized right now because she was interviewing California governor

Gavin Newsom in her podcast and she asked him, are you just as ridiculously good looking

as Vogue said?

No, seriously, what do you do about that?

And Newsom was kind of just like, I don't know.

I'm not sure.

Be like, thank you, ma'am, I have, I am married.

I think she's making a play on like the really, really ridiculously good looking line.

Is that from Anchorman?

I don't know, but it's a weird thing to do.

Yeah.

I mean, it's like, just don't try to be funny.

You're Katie Curric.

Why don't you just do a straightforward interview?

Well, I mean, just as an example, I know it's different, but if that was a male reporter

asking that of a woman that was elected or as a governor, like, say, governor Whitmer

in Michigan, who was, I think, was like a Miss Michigan something or other at some point.

I think that'd be pretty frowned upon.

Zoolander, or go to sleep points out of each other.

Oh, it's Zoolander.

Yeah.

I think you make a good point, wheels.

Let's not do that.

It's one of those double standard things that like the gals can get away with, but it

would be very, very creepy if a guy said that, I don't know.

Yeah.

And even if it wasn't creepy, like, I don't think what Katie did is creepy.

I just think it, it's just weird.

You're there to ask questions.

You're not there to be a fan, you know what I mean?

Megan Kelly wondered on Twitter if Katie Curric would have asked JD Vance the same thing.

Now we all know she wouldn't have his reasons.

Come on now.

And I don't.

Put your the obvious reasons.

Uh, he doesn't love this thing.

Let's get a lesson.

And I don't even do.

You mean the eyeliner doesn't do it?

I mean, I personally would not look at Gavin Newsom and be like, what a hot governor,

but I understand that maybe he's on another level than a lot of politics.

I don't know.

I see where people are coming from with it.

I don't think no offense to miss to the vice president.

I don't think that many people take a look at JD Vance and go like, now who is that?

Who is that tall drink?

David is Gavin Newsom viewed as the sexiest man alive in California?

You know, it's interesting is that he is very well liked in this state for some people.

You could say the majority, but that doesn't mean everybody, right?

Right.

It's just a fascinating thing, but I will say that it.

It is a part of politics that I find weird.

Like I think we're very weird about the whole tall thing or, you know, certain person

has like, I mean, to me, this is not a, this is not a shot at at Gavin or anybody else.

He just kind of looks like a game show host, yeah, which is not, I mean, usually the game

shows are there because they're pretty good looking guys, you know, they have a certain

personality.

That's fine.

Why does that even come into play in serious issues?

Like the last thing I care about is what somebody looks like when I'm going to cast my ballot.

It would be great though if he would do, okay, what's behind door number three?

Would you like that?

Oh, look, it's more taxes.

You can do that.

A little Bob Barker routine.

Yeah.

That'd be great.

Okay.

New poll, a majority of voters say the risks of artificial intelligence outweigh the benefits.

So the, sorry, say it again, 57% of registered voters say they believe the risks of artificial

intelligence outweigh its benefits based on what I mean, I would assume all of the bad

things that are happening because of AI or the bad press that AI gets.

And I haven't necessarily seen any leaps and bounds for positive things for, I'm not

saying like AI itself is evil.

I'm just saying, AI as it currently stands, I tend to agree with a majority here.

There seems to be more negative things coming from it than positive at the moment.

Why do we ask AI that same question?

Yeah.

Well, yeah, to me, it's not even fully AI at in most cases that we know of, right?

Being able to doctor up a picture is not the same as being intelligent.

You know, like, I mean, to me, the intelligence part is some version of self awareness and

some version of independent thinking as opposed to being programmed to just process all

that information.

I don't think we've gotten there yet, right?

We haven't gotten to the point where any, any AI is even close to being what we would

call sentient.

No, I mean, it's, it's a shorthand for sure.

Right.

Right.

And it's probably going to get there though.

I mean, people think it's there now because people are dumb.

I get on Twitter and there will be like, he's a really good example of what I'm talking

about.

There will be like a picture of an envelope.

And people will be in the comments like, at GROC, GROC is the Twitter AI.

They're like, what's in the envelope?

It doesn't know.

It's not an on.

Right.

What are you talking about?

Yeah.

You are so, you are not using your head.

Well, and GROC is really famous for not being able to say, I don't know.

And it just creates an answer that it can't possibly know.

Right.

Like that's a big, that's why I would not call any of these things, quote, intelligence

just yet.

I use chat GPT.

What I use it for is kind of like a much more detailed search engine than I could get

from just a plain old Google search because I can put in a very detailed question and

it will, it will bring together things, but I still, I still need to go check some

of it.

Right.

I still need to do some legwork and say, is that correct?

You know, I can't just go, well, chat GPT said, so it must be real.

Or people will be like, I don't know, someone's face will be blacked out.

It'll be like one of the Epstein files, it'll be censored and people are like, uncensor

the photo.

That's not how anything works.

Get a grip.

So unless you have the real photo, which it doesn't, because it's not all knowing, because

it's not out there.

Right.

Right.

Um, tinkerbell is going to get a live action remake, um, goodie, the calling it tink.

Okay.

It's a live action drama built around.

It's a drama.

I guess a lot of tears being shed for tinkerbell.

What are we doing?

I don't know.

People.

Where's the audience for that?

Yeah.

People, people watch them.

Some of them have been good.

Which ones?

They've been good.

I really liked the live action beauty in the beast.

I liked that one too.

That one was nice.

And then Dan Stevens.

I thought that was great.

Hmm.

All right.

Enjoy that.

Thanks, Dave.

All righty.

Cut out.

We're real.

Show me some of them.

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Downsell them.

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Well, Dave, so we know that he has surfaced.

Sounds like they're still having fun.

So looking forward to that.

And here I think they're going to be stories galore on Monday.

Oh, yes.

I mean, first of all, I don't know how many of the stories from those dinners can be

told on the air.

So we may have to get somewhat limited versions of those.

But yeah, it's such a and we'll talk more with Tom Ackerman, by the way.

We'll check in with Tom down on Jupiter here after the four o'clock news.

I keep trying to find a way to describe to you guys, Rach and Andrew.

just what the vibe is down there for someone that's really like hardcore baseball, like I'm trying

to think of like a way to tell people that haven't been there, like, and I'm just talking about

the working side, the working side's different. You know what, what Matt Polly does, what Tom

Akerman's doing, what I did when I was going down there is a lot different because it's long days,

you know, you're in the clubhouse at eight o'clock in the morning and you're there until mid afternoon

and then for those of us like like Matt and I when I was doing doing sports open line,

then you've got like a little break in the middle, then you come back and you've got to do your

show and you're doing afternoon drive things and hits on the on, you know, like a DGS or whatever,

a little different, but when you're down there in the in the way that Dave is, it's just so cool.

It's it's almost like just a new reality. When you get to just have these all these nice dinners

and you're at the ball game and you're hanging out with cool people all the time. I don't know,

I mean, maybe it's just I'm just describing the basic vacation.

I mean, is there a thing you guys travel for? I mean, not to travel, but is there a thing that puts

you in that place or a spot that puts you in that place where you're just like, this is maybe

the happiest place on earth. Talk about. Yeah, I mean, I haven't been to talk about a long time.

Red laughter, maybe. Really? Yeah. That's at the top of your list.

All garden longhorn. Yeah. Chili's pretty much any rest. You just name a restaurant. Yeah.

You have a Applebee's gift card in my purse right now. Oh boy. There's nothing better than

than I don't think there's much better than gift cards for restaurants. Because you know,

you're just going to go and eat. You know, have fun. You know, that's right there. That's 50 bucks,

75 bucks, 100 bucks of fun right there. I'm not lying. I was genuinely touched when I

received that as a gift. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, this person knows me. They get me. Yeah,

this is so nice. Yeah. That's really great. So what you're saying, Andrew, is you want to,

for birthdays and stuff, you want like Taco Bell cards? Yeah. Do they do cards at Taco Bell?

Yeah. Yeah. Do they? Yeah. Really? Just like every other establishment on earth. I know,

I've never seen one. I've never gotten one, I've never given one. I've never even seen one.

I don't think, I don't think people think a lot about giving like a Taco Bell gift. Right,

because it's like, you know, inexpensive. Well, that's a good point, right? Like the whole

point of those restaurants is that they're not expensive. No. Yeah.