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It's a crazy name. It's crazy. I've been talking to her mom all day and just like

how did this happen. Yeah, I was thinking about it because you texted us this morning, you know,

I mean, we would have eventually been like, oh, it's it's March 4th. It's Phoebe's birthday,

but like, that was one of my first texts this morning. I'm thinking like, I met Phoebe 10 years ago.

When I write when I got the job, she was visiting for some reason and you were like, this is my daughter,

Phoebe. She was 11. She was so cute. Like, she's just so cute, so sweet, so tiny, just like, oh my gosh,

what a great kid. And now to see her turn 21 years old and she's so gorgeous and so smart,

it's really cool. My work's done. Yeah, you go ahead and believe that. I can just, I can just

take it easy now. You go ahead and believe that. Now I have to say I've just moved this 30 year

old daughter. She'll turn 29 in a month and a half. No, I've said this before. I'm going to say it

again. I know the cliche that everyone thinks their kids are the best, but I happen to know some

people that have such SE kids that they can't stand them. So by kids, I've got so lucky.

Brian and I had some to do with it, but Nick and Phoebe are just the two coolest. They're the

two coolest people I know. They're smart and they're funny and they're cool. And what's great

is now I get to be friends with Phoebe as an adult. Yes. Yeah. It's a different thing,

but it's cool. Yeah. It's very cool. So it's, I don't know, I guess the interesting,

it doesn't just like happen, you know, like snap of the fingers, but it ends up you're like realizing

like, oh, wait a minute. This is different. Yeah. And this is easier because you're not,

you don't have to do everything. You don't have to, you know, I guess it's just more of like,

oh, this, this is a good person as opposed to a person I have to take care of. Well, it's less

about worrying about the mistakes you're making and helping them with theirs. That's a great way

to put it. So great way to put it. Happy birthday, my love. Happy birthday. And all of us that have

been in our 20s and 30s know the mistakes we made. Yeah. Cause you do. Yeah. I did a lot.

She's got a little too much David or two. Oh no. It's not gonna tell you that right now. Yeah,

but in a lot of ways, that could be good. Right? Yeah. She like we all like the family,

we're we're a tight family, but we have our little cabals, right? I mean, like Nick's my rider

die, but Phoebe and I like catch each other's eye and stuff. And we were both just go man.

You guys both get it. We both get it. Yeah.

So Nick 31 Phoebe 21. Man. Yeah. Dave 61. I like that. It's like that. It's easy to remember.

Yeah. For sure. Yeah. It was good planning by you. Thanks.

It was pretty much planned out. It was a C section. And we picked 0304 or five because it was such a

cool date. Thanks. Yeah. That's all I had for the show. All right. Well, I didn't plan that stuff.

Happy hump day. Let's go. Yeah. It was it was weird. It was like making an appointment to get

your hair done or something. It was like, Hey, how's 1 p.m. on March 4th? Like,

and I like it. Yeah. Great for me. Yeah. Yeah. I got another going on.

We didn't even get to we didn't even plan it. And it turned out that she was born on May 4th.

It has Star Wars nerds. Both of us. Right.

May the 4th. Right. Because she hates that so much. Yeah. The thought of having a child either

the natural way or through C section. Both are incredibly terrifying. So major props to all

of the moms out there. Well, having done it both ways now, it was fine for me either way.

So I got through it. Yes, rough, but I got through it. The first time I learned what a C section

actually is because you know, being a very stupid and naive young man, I was like, well, they just,

they cut right there and they just lift it out. And it's easy and to find out that you basically

have to rearrange. Oh, yeah. Well, I think the entirety of an internal digestive system. Well,

there was one time, again, when I like first started on the show, Dave was telling the story of

Marines C section and Dr. Tobler, like delivering Phoebe. And he was like, and Marines lungs are out.

And I was like, later I was like, so was everything okay when they had to put her lungs back?

He was like, that was a joke. I'm like, I'm sorry, I didn't know.

Hey, hanging the lungs up on a little hanger over here. It's okay. That sounds intense.

You know, the very coolest part of this that she's 21 now, she can finally find out would be her

taste like. Big day for her. Yeah, you know, I hear everybody in college waits. Yes.

Till they're 21. Yeah. Gotta get her a fast eddies t-shirt. Oh, man.

Yeah, the bars are really good at policing that I hear. Oh, yeah, in college towns. Yeah,

they're really strict. Yeah, the bars are super strict. Very close attention.

Oh, man. Yeah, I'm just, I'm just flooded with memories. You know,

so weird. Go to sleep says, Dave, don't take offense to this, but you're like a cool uncle to

a lot of us. That's nice. Yeah, I might be in a cool uncle. Yeah, better than, you know,

being creepy. Dave, don't take offense, but you're like a creepy grandfather to many of us.

Let's be honest. Like, if you're the cool anything, that's a good title. Absolutely. Yeah.

Did you have a cool uncle? Yeah. Yeah, I got a cool uncle. Yeah. Yeah. He's not, he's not, he's

not cool. And like the like Tritish, he's not like Joe cool. He's not like smoking cigarettes and

sunglasses and, you know, showed up on a motorcycle. Hey, kid, one go for red twirling is revolver

or whatever. I don't know what cool people do. They wear leather jackets and white t-shirts and they

punch the record box. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. He's not fonds at cool. Hey, kid, you want

to see a picture of a naked lady? I think wow, it's pretty cool. Yeah, I got lots of cool

uncles. I have lots of uncles. They're a big family. Yeah. Yeah, I, uh, all of mine were in

Benton, Illinois. I didn't get to know him very well. Um, but Richard was my favorite, my favorite

uncle. He was just laid back and cool and easy breezy. The cool uncles to me when you're, really,

it just starts when you're a kid. They're the ones that are fun. Yeah, right? You either, they

they take you fun places or you, you know, when you're when the families are together, they're the

jokesters, they're making everybody laugh that kind of thing. And then you realize later on, oh yeah,

they're just kind of cool people. Yeah. Not only are they my uncle, but that's just a cool guy.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good. See, we've settled, we've settled like multiple things already today.

Yeah. We're only like 10 minutes in anything else we could fix. I don't know if anything that

needs fixing in the world. That's good point. Everything's so smooth. Yeah. I guess we could all just

whistle. It's also National Suns Day Suns, Sephenic Suns, S O N S. So happy Suns Day to Nick.

They're a big day for both of them. Nick's just got a steel fee. Always. It's like when you

got to buy one kid a present. So they don't think it has feelings heard on the other kid's birthday.

That's another thing too. I'm really, really happy that Nick and Phoebe are good friends. And

this is going to sound kind of smolty and kind of dark, but I'm not going to be here forever now.

And just knowing that they're always going to be cool. Like they've never had any issues.

They're 10 years apart. So they didn't have like the sibling rivalries. They're always going to

be good. And that makes me happy. Yeah. So you don't know. You're not going to be here forever.

Forever saying, you don't, you don't know for sure. You could get uploaded into the cloud.

Davis. I'm going to talk to my Dave AI chatbot and immortal being. Yes. Like Dr. Manhattan

could be hanging out on Mars and his pull pranks on people walk around naked.

Really good pranks. I think my dad's listening. Hi, Dad.

What's it? He said we happy Suns Day. So I didn't know. I bet it could be an incredible coincidence.

Yeah. Hey, Holly says it's her son's 21st birthday today as well. Happy birthday to your son, Holly.

Birthday. Keep me away from Phoebe.

And that he goes to KU. And that's a warning. I mean, that's not like I'm like for your son's

own good, keeping away from me. That's not a Dave. No protective thing. That's like watch out.

That's like that's a do yourself a favor. She did say she's like you. Yeah. Yeah. You're just

to avoid the colors. They're fun to look at. Don't take them home. They don't take them home.

Don't make that mistake. Thank you, wheels for last week sending that link to the $29

dollar big Mac land. All you can eat tickets because I bought that about four games. That's

what a bargain. Dude, that's, I mean, you can't just go to a buffet without a ballgame and pay

much less than that. No, just to get endless, whatever food, right? Yeah. That's pretty good deal.

So realistically, reasonably, I'm going to have either two hot dogs and a sodium

beer or a hot dog and nachos. Yeah. Maybe a little sweet treat and a dog and a soda

in a beer. If you guys go all out, what would you get on an all you can eat night at ballpark?

The ballpark because like I'm at deal. It's like the chicken fingers and things like that. Yeah.

I don't know. I mean, probably going to pace it, right? Something before the game. Probably a

dog before the game. That's a good way to set the tone. Maybe some chicken fingers after that.

Certainly as many diet coaks as I can throw down my gullet. And then I think you're right.

Something. What were the sweet treats? Was it like, were they like? I don't remember.

You got a kettle chip. Well, that's not really sweet treat ice cream cups.

All right. There you go. Probably at least one of those.

So this is what you can choose from ice cold fountain Coca-Cola products hot dogs, chicken tenders,

bratwursts, nacho chips and cheese, french fries, popcorn peanuts, kettle chips,

and the ice cream cups. That's great. Yeah. That's real good.

And this is, you know, look, this is kind of the relationship between teams and fans that

goes on when you're cycling, right? So like when you're at a high cycle and you're a competitive

team, you don't have to do a lot of great deals because the team is a lot of demand. When you know

you're going to be in a rebuild when you're trying to get back to being great, you can see now that

there's going to be ways to go that are less expensive that are that are going to make it worth

your while because they want you to be there because they don't want you to leave. They want

you to keep in the habit of being a cardinal fan and going to games and there is it's still fun

to go. Even if the team's not going to win 95 games, it's still fun to watch baseball eat food,

hang with your friends. 100% 100% and you're not going to find much around town where you're going

to do all of that for four or five hours for 30 bucks. As you guys know, like last year, I really

went crazy on going to games and went with Maureen, went with buddies. I think my favorite thing

though was Sunday's alone. I would eat a gummy or two and I would uber down and I would

splurge on really good seats. Sit there by myself, watch lemonade innings. It was just fabulous.

Just great. Where's the last time you had a beer?

So I did a tasting at Schlafly maybe 10 years ago. That would have been it. I tasted about four

or five different ones and then I tasted their meat and that was good. I like that. I'd drink that

when it was so strong. You couldn't look more like a meat drinker. It's so tasty. It's like it's

almost like fruit juice. I mean, it's not fruity. But again, I mean, it goes down really easy and

then for a second, you're like, whoa, that's strong. Never had me. Yeah, it was good. I was shocked.

I had a little bit. They're bringing little shot glasses of everything and I tried a little bit

of everything. Yeah. Do you have that sound from Coward? Yes, I do. Let's play that here and then

I'm going to do a live. We're going to take a break and we're going to come back and Kevin's head

is going to explode. So we can all look forward to that. So I kind of set it up a little bit here,

Kev. Just Coward stuff. Yeah, just a little bit. Colin Coward for those that don't know and I've

found out on Twitter. Some people don't know that Colin is, but he's a host on FS1. He used to be

on ESPN and ESPN radio. He's a big national talking head kind of like a Stephen A Smith light.

Not quite as big, similar idea. And he was talking about Major League Baseball. He's making the case

that the Dodgers being a dynasty is actually making baseball fans in general happier. And he's

basing that on a poll done by the athletic. And the problem is that it's the poll of basically hardcore

baseball sports fans because it's the athletic subscriber base. But also in this, we don't know where

the subscribers are. Like we're half of those people from LA. Right. Because you're going to have

more subscribers in LA, New York, Chicago, Boston, Philly, then you're going to have in St. Louis

in Milwaukee and in Pittsburgh and places like that. I keep your pattern, Johnny. Yeah. Keep your

pattern. Yeah. So let's play what he said. So the Cubs and the Dodgers are winning a lot and

everybody is almost entirely happier three times more happy than three years ago.

So what's hurting baseball and what hurts any store, any industry is lousy. What hurts

baseball is the A's and the Marlins and the white socks and the cruddy cardinals and the pirates.

You put those products in the store. That hurts the store. Okay. The store is never. We'll talk

about that when we come. You are here in warm. The Bob Welles for you today. This album cover,

I'm going to tell you some personal stuff here. This album cover is very sexy. It's a beautiful

woman with a high cut skirt. And she's putting her tongue and Bob Welles' ear. And when I was about

12, we would go to Kmart every Friday night and I got to pick out an album. And I never bought that

one. But I always look at where it was. I always look at that one. And he appears to be eating like

a potato chip or something. He's eating something. Okay. So Colin Coward

says what he what we just played and wheels. I take it to be two issues. One, there's the issue of

is it's not the good teams like the Dodgers students killing baseball. It's the crappy teams

that are killing baseball. And then the second issue, of course, is that he lumped the cardinals

in with the white socks and the A's. Well, first of all, you have to understand a couple things.

One, Colin Coward is lazy. I don't understand how someone has survived at the level he's at

being as lazy as he is when it comes to details. So yeah, he's thinking of and he's probably

reading off a prompter teams that aren't supposed to be good now. And he's just thrown him out

there. Like if you look at the last 20 or 25 years, we all know the cardinals are like third or

fourth in baseball in total wins and in playoff wins. So like big picture, they've been one of the

big boys competitively for 20 years. They're not right now. We know that. But he's lazy.

He's not trying to hate on the cardinals. He's just lazy. And he's not very bright when it comes

to looking at the details of any particular story, which is why so many of his take suck. You'll

say the dumbest thing and act like it's the smartest thing. And like, dude, do you even read?

It's one thing I can't I can't stand that about guys that are about that are all about

the sexy take or the thing that'll get run without looking at whether or not it even makes any sense.

So the credit cardinals thing is just plain stupid because he doesn't follow baseball.

He never talks about baseball unless he's got some weird hot take like this to get into.

He doesn't know anything about the game. He doesn't understand the teams. He doesn't know.

He just he just lists names of teams. And that's what he did when he was talking about the good teams.

He's just listing teams like this shows you I know baseball. Well, you don't you can look at the

standings. That's it. That's what you're doing. You're looking at the standings and you're giving us

a hot take. So I didn't make much of the credit cardinals thing because I know he's stupid.

And I know he's lazy. And I don't know if he I don't know who he's a fan of. I have no idea.

So maybe it's also a fandom thing like he rooted. Maybe he's I don't maybe he's a cubs fan. I have no idea.

But either way, I don't think anything out of that. His broad point was that baseball fans are

happier now than they were four years ago. And that's because the Dodgers are great.

That's the basis of his entire video. That's what he starts with. That baseball fans are happier

than they were four years ago. And that is because the Dodgers have become a dynasty.

And the problem with his thinking is just there's so many problems. But the first one is this is

what we're hitting at before the break. He's looking at a poll of the athletic subscribers, right?

The athletic subscribers. Those are those people are me. They're diehards. You're paying money

for sports coverage specifically. You're not just a general fan. You're not just an

quote average fan. You're probably a P one kind of fan. You're very active. You're very

engaged. You pay a lot of attention. That's not a typical fan base of any sport or any team.

We're the P ones. That means we're the ones that are always there no matter what. So you're not

pulling general baseball fans and keeping in mind too that the athletic is a national outlet.

They have subscribers in New York, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Boston, New York, Toronto and all that.

Where do you think they have more subscribers? LA, New York, Chicago and Toronto or Pittsburgh,

Milwaukee and St. Louis. It's not a scientific poll. It's going to be weighted towards where they

have more subscribers. They obviously have more subscribers of the big markets. G.I.

wonder why fans of the Dodgers and Cubs and Mets and Tigers and all those teams are happier

now than they were four years ago. Probably because their teams are winning more than they were

four years ago. And he's acting like the sport is healthier because the big market fans are happy.

And it's just completely stupid.

Yeah, hey.

We're back guys. DGS 134. Damn, it's gloomy out there.

Some of a bitch. There's lightning. Oh, was it?

A few times. Not that I want anything to be damaged or someone get hit,

but at least it adds a little texture to that grayness, right?

I just want to go to sleep. I missed. I love a good stormy day. I missed it.

Poor Raid. She was trying to nap in our office. I was sitting in the chair with my jacket

like as a blanket. Oh, you know the hack you could have gone because the boss is out.

You could have gone back on those couches. That's what I told her. That's what Dave said,

but man, on the off chance that like a salesperson would have seen me playing on that couch.

It's just too humiliating to get. I get you. I would much rather nap in my chair and have like

the ugly chair nap face. You know what I'm talking about? It is also known as the airplane

nap face. Yeah, exactly. When I wake up, I can't open my face with facial recognition.

It's like, I don't know who you are. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I sleep hard, Kevin. I mean,

I do. It's a big rock, but I don't usually try to open the phone that fast. I need

I need moments to just collect myself. I'm the worst wakeer up in the world.

I need snooze three times. I need to take my time and wake up. I can't do it. Are you

gonna pop out of bed? Kind of person. I'm in between. I'm in between. What about you guys?

I lay there for a bit, but like I can't keep laying in bed for longer than five or ten minutes

because then I just want to keep sleeping. I get you. I make myself get up. I get you.

If anyone has something you can jump in, I'm just looking at my notes. I have tons of stuff

for today, but it's just like, okay, I feel like I'm dreaming. I feel like it's the middle of the

night on Saturday night. And for some reason, I'm at work and doing a show and it's Phoebe's 21st

birthday. And then I'm gonna wake up and I'll be 98 years old or something. Like who knows?

Satanists are now using AI and exorcists have to keep up. Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I didn't

realize the exorcists were being deployed because of the Satanists. Are the Satanists making people

get possessed? That's that's what the article suggested. Okay.

That they're now recruiting people through AI. And that's leading to more possessions,

which is leading the exorcist to more work. Interesting. So there's a growth industry. Yeah.

Are the exorcists using AI? It didn't say so. Are the exorcists like, can they be anybody?

Or is it? I mean, I know like, you know, the Catholic Church has their own

right. Exorcist wing. Like, can could, could you or I just become an exorcist? Yes. When I did the,

the deal where we watched the exorcist and we had a panel discussion, one of my fellow

panelists was a Baptist exorcist. Okay. So I mean, do you have to be a minister, priest,

pastor, or can you just be a dude? I don't think there's a certification for it. I think you can

just show up. You just got to know the stuff. Yeah. To say. Yeah. But the demons got to be like,

where are your credentials? I don't know. You just because like, is it like a vampire situation?

I have to be invited in. Yeah. But if you're disinvited from someone's body. I don't know. Okay.

I'll leave. I feel like their rules there are kind of flexible. Yeah. As to how that all works.

Well, though. Yeah. How do you decide they get into that career? Like, what makes you think,

you know what? You know what? I think I'd be good at castin and demons. Yeah.

Even so, I seem to fear me. Go to sleep says my retro themed game vape shop had our biggest day

every yesterday was a struggle to get through the fall and winter. Sweet. Not asking for a shout out.

Just sharing good news in this gloomy world. We're family here. We celebrate the good and we

get through the bad. So good for you. Glad you had a big day. That's awesome. Good for you.

Washington, Missouri. Washington, Mo loves vapes. I'll tell you that. I loved Washington when

we drove through for the so cool. There's a donut shop I want to go to. Wait too haunted.

I want to go to Washington. Washington. It's haunted. Bart Washington. We were in was haunted. Yeah.

Worshinken. Worshinken. Um, I have something here. Shoot. So Bill Billa checks girlfriend Jordan

Hudson. Yeah. I can't help you guys. It's weird calling your girlfriend, by the way. Because

she's like Bill Belgium's granddaughter. Yeah. Yeah. Is a little whatever is going on there.

I don't know. I kind of can't help it with this woman.

I got to give her some respect because she just she is so open about who she is. You know,

like she like she trademarked the word gold digger. I'm pretty sure. Right? Like,

she's she's not hiding what's going on. And I have to give her some respect for at least just like,

you know, I'm Jordan Hudson. And this is what I'm all about. Can I tell you something? What's up?

Before you go on. Yeah. I read on on her on the sheet. Raich has I can't help it. I'm fascinated

by Jordan Hudson. Got to respect it when someone just leads with exactly who they are.

I read that as Jennifer Hudson. So I also read that as she was like, I didn't realize she was

even doing stuff anymore. I had that exact same thought. I was like, oh, she's singing again. Okay.

She did such a great job playing Aritha Franklin. I'm just glad I gave her flowers.

Jordan Hudson, the 24 year old who is dating Bill Bella check. On Saturday, she posted an

Instagram photo of a yellow hair clip, which she had decorated with a pink bow and

beads spelling out the words be old. Huh? What does that mean? Anyway, she was talking about her

cheerleading competition. And she compared. Which is also it's like, you're talking about

you're doing a cheerleading competition. She was talking about social studies class.

She compared her participation in cheerleading to Tom Brady's historic career in the NFL.

So she said, for the record, a 24 year old flyer is the equivalent of a 42 year old quarterback.

Hashtag old dog new tricks. Hashtag geriatric cheerleader society.

What is going on? Do you think Bill says note anything? No. He's ever like, you know what, honey,

maybe not bring Tom Brady into it. I think he loves it. I just was googling this stuff.

Something with this Patriots things going on here. What do you mean? So, so Bill Bella check

is in his 70s dating a 24 year old. The owner Robert Kraft is like 85 and married to a 54 year old.

Tom Brady is apparently dating a 25 year old. I'm not certain this is a Patriots specific thing.

There. But it's like, this is like, this is the big three in the Patriots dynasty. And they're all

like, yeah, update people. My daughter's age. That's fine. I think it's more just about old men

with lots of money. Yeah. No, I agree. I agree. Danny Amindola, former Ram, former St. Louis Ram.

He's 40. He's dating a 21 year old. Where are you getting this info? It was on Twitter.

It's on a Twitter pit. It's on a tweet. It's on age gap relations. Yeah, it's

tweet. Yeah. I get all that stuff from the tweet. Jeff has got a Google alert alert for age gap

relationships. I googled Jordan Hudson. It was like the third thing that came up. Not googled

search down the tweet. Can you can you find your net worth? What's your net worth? I don't know.

Whatever Bill Bella checks is.

Rachel. Rachel's just talking her up. Look, I'm not saying like it's a it's

particularly exactly how I feel. I am fascinated by this person because of the fact that she's

just like, yeah, what are you going to do about it? Mitch says, why can a senior citizen

date a 24 year old, but a 19 year old dating a 16 year old is illegal. Mitch buddy. Mitch

gotta. He's asking the right. Mitch. Let's get to the bottom of this. We got lost. But I know

you're asking for a friend, buddy. He got lost. Mitchell.

Now hold on a second. We love you, Mitch.

I swear it's not me. I believe you, Mitch. I mean, I'm not even

going to be this far. Just keep it at the college, buddy. Just keep it at the college level.

It's like my roommate, though.

That was awesome. That was great.

Yeah, the photos of them, like kind of when they first burst onto the scene as a couple and

she was dressed as a mermaid and he was like catching her out of the ocean.

Oh, yeah. I didn't. I mean, she was 19 when they met, man. I was like, I have never seen

anything like this in my life. Do you think he cares?

No, he really does. He cares that it. I mean, because he has to know, right? Of course.

He has to know what's going. He's just like, I don't care. It wouldn't be happening.

That's a good point. Very good point. He doesn't. He has an option.

He's like, I'm fine being used. I can't get out of this right. He's strong-armed me.

That's a weird man. Yeah, there should be a rule. If you're over 50, don't go see your girlfriend

in a cheerleading competition. That's a great rule.

Unless you live in the villages, it's just a weird night. It's theme night.

Well, they do get wild in the villages. That's what I hear.

She was born in 2001. Oh my God. He was already winning Super Bowls.

Dude, like, it's like, I know the facts of the case, but when you see it laid out, it's like,

what the heck, man? It's so weird. You're like, yeah. Yeah, when she was born, yeah, you were 55.

She was a tiny little baby when you were 55. That is, come on, man. How does your,

how do you have nothing in your brain that goes? Yeah, this is just not right.

It's not crying. We know that. That's saying that just saying nobody's doing anything illegal.

It's super weird. It's what that looks like.

They're like a 16-year-old and the 19-year-old.

Mitch's don't put that stuff in writing.

The back DGS 149.

So, some of my earliest memories of music is listening to the Beatles when I was four or five

years old and I just remember the feeling in my body, right? When I heard a song I loved,

like the hair in the back of my neck would stand up. I'd get chills. I just saw a deal last night

where not everyone feels that. That sucks. I know. Do you guys get that? Do you guys get chills

when you hear music you like? Yes, every time. I just had new songs I found yesterday that did it.

I just like the sound of the music.

Yeah, I got it again. It gives me like a physical

Oh my god. Seriously, it gives me almost gives me a buzz. Isn't that interesting?

Because I assumed that all four of us would say yes just because it's so ego-centric,

I feel it. So, I'm sure Andrew feels it and I just never even imagined sort of like

half the people in the world don't have an internal monologue.

Right. I'm not happy with it.

You know what it is? I think my tolerance for music is at an all-time high meaning

I haven't found new music that excites me in quite a while now.

I don't know. Sometimes I'll be like, what should I listen to? And I just feel so like

humdrum about it. I'm like, I guess I'll put on the Green Day International SuperHeads album

because I always like that. You know, there's very few times where I'm like stoked to put

something on and I don't know if that's just being 34 or what. I think that's a lot of it.

Yeah. You're at the age where typically people stop like really seeking new music.

And the thing is is I would like to hear new music. I just the kind of alternative music

that I like. I don't feel like they're really making these days. Like when I hear

alternative, it's not what I consider to be alternative. So like the genre that I came up on,

it just feels like it doesn't really exist anymore. So like there are some hip-hop artists that

get pretty excited for their music, I guess. But I don't know. I'm pretty kind of interested

in some metal. Not really. We're wheels and I are different is that I know that there are rock bands

out there who I don't know who I would love. But I don't seek them out. And even like on TikTok

when it's like here's new favorite 70 style rock band. I'm like, I'm going to see what else I just

well. Okay. So a couple years ago on this band hers got really big on TikTok and people were

using the sound from a couple of other songs. And I'm like, man, I love this band. This band is

so cool. Look them up. Well, they died in a car accident. The entire band died in a car accident

in 20. Yes. That was like crushing. It's like I finally found this new, you know, quote,

unquote, new band. I'm excited about. And they're gone. Like I never going to hear new music from

them. I had a similar thing where I found a band. I was like, man, this is awesome. This is just

what I'm in the mode for. And I'm like, oh, what a the they don't seem to have very many songs.

What a prime. They're not dead. But they're they're, you know, not a band anymore. Yeah. And it's like,

ah, come on. Yeah. It does take a little like it doesn't take much, but a little bit of

effort. Like I'm on I mute. I would call it Apple music. And I'll be listening to something I

like when you scroll down and be like, oh, you might like these others. And a lot of times you're

like, and oh, and oh, oh, that one. All right. That one. And then that can lead to another one.

And it's pretty pretty cool. Yeah. But I kind of get what you're saying, Rachel, because the

kind of music that you listen to may not be the same like the genre and rock and metal's not

the same. But there's so many branches of it that there's enough similarity to the stuff that I

grew up on. You know, and it's just how heavy is it? How loud is it? Does the thumb pitch in the

chest? Yeah. Yeah. You're you're definitely like tapped into a genre that they're cranking so

much stuff all the time. And it's not to say it's different. Like a lot of the stuff you see now,

the metal core stuff now is not like Metallica stuff. It's it's a different style. But it's still

got enough of the original. You're okay with it. I'm really glad that I don't have an old man

syndrome like, oh, record my day. Like great. I love it. Like when I'm in the car with Phoebe

and she's playing music I've never heard of. And I'm glad that I'm a musician. Go to sleep. We'll

relate to this because there's no song that you can play me that I don't have an idea what they're

doing. You know, like I sure I'm I'm fluent in that language. Doesn't mean I could play it.

But I know what they're doing. So I can appreciate her music without like, oh,

I'm going to go download whatever it is. So I'm happy when people when generations have new stuff.

Yeah. How important would it be if they just had our stuff? Yeah. True.

This could be a big concert here for me in St. Louis. What's that? A lot of bands. Yeah.

A lot of new-ish bands playing smaller venues. This can be great. Like I hear the Dave Glover

bands playing Delmar Hall. That's the that's one. Right? The highest ticket in town. Yeah.

I'm going to be there. Better get those tickets. Delmar Hall, April 17th, Friday. My band

opening up with a 3040-minute set of the Beatles and then a Dooby Brothers tribute band and then

my buddy Dave Kalsey's Clapton band. So it's going to be a really fun night of music.

I'm playing now. Whoa. Yeah.

Welcome back guys. DGS on Camelax. Happy Gloomy Tuesday out there. This is my daughter's 21st birthday.

So everyone have a drink tonight. A little salute to feed. About a year ago now,

wheels took us to a place called All Star Performance in Kirkwood, an indoor baseball facility.

And we had a great time and we just so much fun. And I had such a good time that it led me back

to baseball. And I joined a 60 and over team, but light team. And it's just it's been a huge

addition to my life in so many different ways. I just I just absolutely love it. And that

wouldn't have happened if we didn't go to All Star. And we have Matt Whiteside who is the owner

of All Star former league, former major league reliever 11 MLB seasons from 92 to 2005. Matt,

very nice to meet you. Thanks for joining us today. Yeah, thanks for having me on guys.

So and and thanks for letting us go to your facility. Like I said, it is meaningless to you,

but it's a big deal to me because I hadn't played baseball in 30 years. I had just turned 60 years

old. And I just went I had so much fun fielding grounders and I could do it better than I thought I'd

be able to. And I googled it and found out that there's a forever baseball league in St. Louis

and now I'm on a team and having fun. Yeah, that's fantastic. Uh, the forever league they practice

some of those guys practice at All Star also in the middle of the day. Uh, interestingly enough.

Because they're so old they have nothing to do in the middle of the day.

Oh, they're retired. I didn't I didn't I didn't say that.

Matt, they don't have their own selection of music that a lot of

those guys call middle of the day dinner time. So three o'clock dinner. Yeah.

So Matt, first of all, I'm just fascinated by all things baseball and especially MLB and

you're the closest to a normal guy I've ever talked to who was a big leagueer. So just kind of

tell me your story, man. Yeah. Well, I was, uh, I say it was at the right spot. Uh, at the right time

a lot. I, um, I got drafted in the 25th round as a senior out of Arkansas State. And, um,

I was so highly thought of that the scout asked me to meet him at the Little Rock Airport.

He had a connection between flights. And, um, so I went over and met him and his name was Jim

Dreyer. He said, um, he said, we got a thousand dollars for you to sign. And I said, I said, um,

you think I could get my last, uh, semester of college paid for it. And he said, I'll be right back.

And this is so long ago that there has actually a telephone booth in the Little Rock Airport.

He went over and he, uh, he came back. He said, take it or leave it by sign, you know, sign

immediately as fast as I could. And, um, then week or two later jumped on a puddle jumper to

beaut Montana for rookie ball. And, um, I got, I moved along pretty fast. Uh, you know, you're,

when you get a thousand dollars of sign in your senior sign, then they're going to see if they

have something. If not, they've got another draft coming the next year. So I ended up in

A ball the next year, um, double A in 92. Well, double A triple A big leagues in 92, um, from

Tulsa, Oklahoma, City to, to the Rangers. And, um, fast forward a couple of years,

when interleague play came, uh, the same, the same agent for the same scout happened to be in

Texas. And he, he came through and I said, hey, Jim, how are we doing? He started talking. I said,

do you remember that, uh, meeting with head in, in Little Rock where you supposedly went to,

to make a phone call, he goes, I never dial the number.

That's awesome. I need nothing, I need nothing about the business side of baseball,

leading up to that, but I learned fast. Um, oh, yeah. Um, Matt, why do you think, why do you think

you progress so quickly? Well, I was getting to say, I, the manager I had in, uh, rookie ball with

name, bump, bump wheels. His dad was Mario. Yeah. Um, you know, I, 25th round draft pick and

there were about seven guys that were pictures drafted ahead of me. They're on that team.

I asked bump one day, I said, hey, do you think I'll get a chance to start? I was in the bullpen

in, uh, in Montana. And he said, he showed me the signing bonuses for each of the seven guys

ahead of me. That was his answer. He said, go down with the bull. He said, go down to the bullpen,

take the baseball every time I offer it to you. And, um, we'll see what happens. And so,

a couple of nights later, he said, hey, go get loose. You're going to hit the first hitter.

We were, we're just been destroyed by a team for Salt Lake. And so I sprinted to the bullpen.

And I said, boy, it's on. It took four pitches to hit the guy.

Biggest brawl, the biggest brawl. Then it's like, my only history happened. We leave

butte Montana that night and drive to Salt Lake. And he starts to be the next day against them.

Oh, wow. So you threw it in four times? I'm missing the first three.

When you're trying to, so, um, so, um, so bump got moved to

Gastoni North Carolina, the next year, which was low A. And, um, a pitching coach there.

Coach Strelitz was just a fantastic guy from me. Bump at me in the bullpen. I was like the

seventh inning guy. And there was a guy named Tim Wells out of Missouri State. That was a

ninth round tick that was the closer. He blew his elbow out. Uh, Jose Cordano was a Dominican kid.

He tore his pack muscle on a warm up pitch to hit the, the radio boost. Oh, jeez.

And so, bump said, hey, you're the closer. Do, you know, do the best you can with it. So I saved

29 games in a row that year in, uh, in low A. And in the off season, there was a talk about

me going to Florida State League, which would have been high A, but the, um, the pitching coach

in spring training, I say, fought. He, he argued with the minor league director, Marty Scott,

and goes, I'm taking Matt to double A with me. So he ended up winning. I skipped over the Florida

State League. I opened up as the closer there. I saved 21 games in Tulsa,

eight straight in Oklahoma City. And then I got called up, uh, August 5th, 1992.

And, and can you even explain that emotion getting called up?

Well, no, actually, I probably can't. I mean, I was, you know, on cloud nine,

I was doing well. I was getting pushed along, uh, being an older guy or at that time,

older for the, um, for the levels that I was at. And, um, I, I, I went into the office,

and he goes, uh, hey, you're getting, you're going up to Texas. And he said pack everything

you got. That's like, okay, I, I just really couldn't believe it. I had like two bags in my hand.

I get on a plane. I get off the plane, go to a stadium in Arlington, the old stadium.

And I walked in, not really knowing where I was going, but they directed me into, uh, the clubhouse

coordinator. And, um, he was like, hey, let me take you out to your locker. And I turned around

and no one rinds walking into his office. And so the first person I met, I'd never been to

big league camp. I didn't know a soul. So the first person I met was Nolan. And he said,

hey, Nolan, you know, Matt, I'm like, he doesn't know me. I know that.

So, uh, so I go out, you know, you go to your locker, then there's these clubhouse kids all over

the place that are wanting to, you know, set up your locker for you. Just all the things that

would happen in a big league clubhouse, like you're unaware of if you haven't been there.

We go out, go through batting practice, go down to the bullpen. And,

I sat in the farthest corner from everybody so that I could just like listen and be seen,

but not like, intercheck too much. And, um, in the sixth inning, they got me up to warm up, no,

in the fifth inning, got up to warm up, sat down, warmed up again in the sixth inning, sat down,

warmed up in the seventh. They said, you got the, you got the seventh inning. First 30 hitters are

McGuire and Seiko and Steinbach. Welcome to the big league, buddy. Wow.

I think it went pretty well. Yeah, so I get the ball back from Dean Palmer, the third basin,

and, you know, in the minor league, you can look up into the outfield and just kind of gather your

thoughts and, um, yeah, no, just kind of go through your routine while I look up in the outfield.

And there's Mark McGuire's face. He's got, he's in 289. He's got 24 homers and 89 RBI's and

just like August. All right. I'm like, I'll take change the plan. This isn't working.

So, okay, I got, I got two ground balls in a pop out, came off the field,

nowhere shook my hand. Good job, kid. And, um, kind of went from there. Man, that's fantastic.

That's just so cool. So cool. Um, and so did you go from baseball to all-star? Did you have something

between? You know, at the end of my career, I was asked a couple times if I wanted to be a part

of an organization and coach and, um, I, I said no because I didn't want to get back on a bus

again and work my way back, you know, riding a bus to minor leagues. So, um, yeah, I started

off all star performance in 2007. We were at smaller location, uh, over, uh, over at Kirkwood.

And then, um, yeah, so I started there. We moved in 2011 to the current location.

And we've been doing it ever since. Yeah, 2007. That's when I met Matt is, uh, I first got here.

And I think it was, it was January, right? Matt, because I forget who it was, but somebody sent

out like a general press release and said, hey, recently retired major leagueers got a baseball

school open for interviews. Would you like him? I'm like, that's, I was like, fun. And that's

it. I mean, that's, that's how you and I got to know each other. And then not long after that,

you were silly enough to let me coach with you guys. Yeah. I think it was Carol Noel. And I don't

remember how I got in touch with her, but, um, she, yeah, there was a, there was a little press release.

And, um, and then you and I started, uh, having interviews like I would literally drive from,

uh, I would drive from all star over to KMOX, uh, on Thursday night. It like, I'm going to clock

and then spray back. They would do this between pitching lessons. So he would finish a pitching

lesson, leave a little gap, drive downtown to KMOX, sit in studio with me for 15, 20 minutes,

and then turn around, get back for his next lesson. Very cool. Very cool. It was three average,

I was three average. Yeah. Two. And then we, uh, and then so in 2008, we started our gamers

baseball program and, uh, it, as it grew, um, we needed, you know, one and more good guys that

were baseball guys and coaches. And so we asked Kevin if he wanted to coach with us and he's been

doing ever since. You know, being an older guy now, I sound so crazy to say 61 on him, 61. Um,

I grew up in a little town in Illinois. I promised you I never had a baseball coach who wasn't

holding a beer. So when I see the kids working out now, I'm really impressed. And I'm really

jealous, uh, because at 61, I can tell you the instincts that I learned at 12, they're still there.

Like the muscle memory is still there. I can't do them all, but it's kind of amazing to me,

just like, Oh, this, I remember this. I remember a three hopper. And when I watch these kids, uh,

who are training now, I mean, they're better than I ever was. And they're like 11, 14 years old.

It really is impressive what you guys do. Thank you. It's changed. I mean, it's changed dramatically

in the last five years, but from the time we started this until now, you know, the technology,

the day is just, you guys are familiar with it. It's just crazy. Um, but I think about that all the time,

like, man, I was a three-fourth athlete and a one-stop-like town in Southeast Missouri. And, um,

the, who you were competing against, right, where whoever was in that small community and then the

other smaller communities around you. Yeah. But when you're in St. Louis, you're competing against

really good players at your age across the city. So the, uh, we were fortunate to be able to work

with a lot of good athletes, a lot of talented kids. And, um, you were, but you're right. I mean,

those habits that you learn as a, as a young eight, nine, 10, 11, 12-year-olds, if they're taught

correctly, then they can continue to build on those, uh, throughout their high school college and

hopefully professional careers. And Matt, can you hang on for one more segment through a break?

Yeah. For sure. For sure. Cool. Talking to Matt, uh, white side, buddy of wheels, former MLB

pitcher. He owns all-star performance out in Kirkwood. Um, big fan of that place. And we've come

back. We'll talk to Matt a little bit more about MLB and talk a little Cardinals baseball.

Welcome back guys. DG S on KMLX. Our guest is Matt white side, former MLB pitcher. He's the owner

of all-star performance where wheels does his coaching. Uh, it's in Kirkwood. If you have, uh, a

youngster who wants to play baseball, get him to all-star. And, uh, Matt, I wanted to ask you this. So,

I didn't play the MLB, but I've had a pretty cool 25-year career in radio and had, you know,

good success at it. But, you know, it's still a job sometimes. And like, oh, man,

I'd rather than lay in my couch or whatever. Is it ever like that in the MLB? Like, was it magic

until the year last day? Or is it like anything else? Like it's 162 games at some point? You're like,

damn, I wish I had a day off here. You're really good question. Uh, I tried to enjoy every moment. Uh,

on and off the field. And sometimes that got me in trouble. But, um, I would say it was a job

when I was in Philadelphia in 1998. That's the year I would like to forget. Um, but other than that,

now, I mean, you know, you kind of pinch yourself every once in a while. You're

realizing teammates that you're playing with, uh, the careers that they've had, the opponents that

you're pitching against, the travel, but it's just, uh, I didn't ever really think of it as a job.

I worked hard at it. Like it was a job, but I never felt like it was a job. Yeah. Um,

what struggles if any, did you have like, again, I'm a hacker, but I've always, um,

if I catch the first grounder, I'm not going to miss all day. I'll be doing backflips. If the first

one goes between my legs, I'm kind of useless. So I always felt a little weak mentally. Like,

was there anything throughout your career that you struggled with physically or mentally?

Well, you can look at the back of my baseball card and know I started a lot.

I can pinpoint it. Hey, but you have a baseball card.

I can, that's a really good question. And I talked to young guys about this all the time.

So in, uh, 1990, well, I got called up, right? In 1992, I faced the A's. Um, I had a really good two

months, uh, spent like the one 90 R a and I faced McGuire, Tansaco, Puckett, Griffey. I mean,

on and on. And when I got to the end of the, that season, I kind of reflected on, I was like,

gosh, I don't like the way I feel out there. Like, do I really belong kind of nervous and wondering

if you actually are supposed to be there to just have a stretch of good luck? So I got, I had

been reading a book called The Mental ABCs of Pitching and, um, written by Harvey Dorfman.

Somehow, I found a way to get on the phone with him. And he gave me a, he took my call. We talked

for 45 minutes. Um, and basically, he gave me a couple things to do to try to, you know,

go to confidence in yourself, how you talk to yourself internally. And uh, he had me right on

a three by five card. Three things was I'm really really picture. I controlled the running game

and I throw three pitches for strikes. You said, put that in places that you'll see frequently.

So put it in your car, put it in the locker by your glove, put it in the mirror in the bathroom,

and say when you see those, repeat those comments to yourself. And then,

taught me how to visualize. And so I'd go to the bathroom stall 30 minutes before every game,

close my eyes, the deep breathing routine, and see myself executing those pitches in the stadium

that we were at. And it was a way to put yourself in the moment that you're potentially going to

be in in the future. Um, it's exhausting to do that every day for a 17 year career. Like I

would be more tired at the end of the season mentally than I was physically by just going through

that routine. And do what I tell you guys is like, you can't use it as a crush. So when things are

going good and you got a two week scoreless street going and, you know, everything's working,

that's not the exact reason why. And when it goes bad and you can't get anybody out,

I mean, to get sit back to triple A, you still have to follow the middle routine because it's not

a crutch. It's just a, it's a tool to try to help you keep the highs from getting too high and the

lows from getting too low. So yes, uh, to answer your question, I, uh, in the 90s, it wasn't something

you really talked about. You don't want the general manager pitching coach or, yeah, you were nervous

and had a, you know, but, but they all had sports psychologist nowadays. I mean, high school teams

have them, college teams have them. They're got, you know, it's pretty prevalent. And the middle

game has talked about a lot. But at that point, it wasn't, uh, it definitely wasn't something you

wanted to admit. Yeah, different world, right? Different world. And now every team,

employees, people that do those things and it's just a common, like, understood thing. In fact,

it's so common, Matt, that we're teaching it to, you know, teenagers. It's, it's such a regular

thing. Hey, Rach, can we go to 30 here? Yeah, that's fine. Okay, Matt, uh, we only have a couple of

minutes left. But I always wanted to ask him when this, who trains kids. Um, if, if you can,

I know it's not like literally, uh, mathematics. But when you're watching young players, um, how often

do you just go that kids got it? Like how much is what God put in and how much is hard work?

So two-part answer. Uh, the kid named Matt Virling with the CBC, Notre Dame, uh,

is with the Tigers last year. I gave him a lesson when he was 11 years old. And I

told him I said, don't let anybody ever change the way you throw the baseball. It was one of the

first lessons I did in St. Louis in 2007. Uh, so that is the just athletic talent. God bless.

I have a thorough believer that baseball is a game where the, uh, your size and stature

doesn't really matter if you work hard at it. If you have a good skill set,

that you can have climbed the ladder and have success in the sport. I think it's, you know,

a game that you can continue to work on the skill set, continue to work on your body physically.

And that you can improve and make strides and games, uh, over a period of time,

where you can be competitive on the field.

Yeah, it's a great mix, right? I mean, you can think of all the years, Matt, where

whether it's the team USA stuff that that we did or, you know, just in general,

you'll see guys that aren't like you talked about with Matt Virling, like, okay,

this kid even at 11, you can see he's different. He moves a certain way. He's got this skill.

And you've seen the other ones too, though, they show up and maybe they're a little skinny,

they're a little small, uh, but then five years down the road with work in the weight room and all

that, they're where they want to be. It happens every year. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you can definitely

see the guys that, they, you know, they just, God put a, their finger on them with a lesson with

arm strength and foot speed and back speed. But the ones that are the most impressive to me are the

ones that they're, they hit puberty late. They've had to work really hard and compete their butt

off to keep up. And then, but they're really skilled, meaning they're hands are good. They turn

it all play good back to ball contact ratio, all that stuff. Then when their body catches up

with their skill, they become really good, really good baseball players. It's just a grind for a

lot of them to go through that as young kids that haven't hit puberty yet and grown.

So that's Matt Whiteside. He's the owner of All Star Performance. I can't suggest strongly

enough if you guys have a young baseball player. Check out All Star Performance. Man, I'd love

to have you on the show on a regular basis. Thank you so much. This was really fun.

I'd love it. I'd love it. Yeah. I love talking baseball. You guys are great. I'm, I'm available

all right, pal. Thanks. Take care, guys.

That was great. I could talk to Matt for four hours.

I'm mad at two people today for very different reasons. And I probably don't have

a good reason for either of them, but I'm going to share it. First is Kevin O'Leary.

Mr. Wonderful. Y'all know who he is, the rich guy that said if shark tank guy, a man doesn't

make $400,000 a year. He's worthless. Oh, man, there's a lot of worthless men out there.

Like 99% of them. Yeah. So he's just and he showed up at the recent award show wearing a big

giant necklace that had a Pokemon card in it that was worth $19 million or $20 million or

something. And I just hate him. I'm going to spring break this spring training this weekend for

a week. And I'll go to nice dinners. I could go to McDonald's and I could give that extra 50 or

70 bucks to homeless people. I do what I can. And now and then I splurge on myself. I think there's

a big difference between that and wearing a $20 million necklace when there are people out there

starving. Plus I hate him. And the second person for completely opposite reasons is Cameron

Burray. What's her from full house? Yeah. DJ. She's very, very religious. And I'm scrolling my

phone last night. And in my little Apple news, whatever it is, it says, uh, Candice Cameron Burray

uh, has one sexual pecadello that she really gives her trouble. I'm like, I've got to read this.

I've got to find out what her sex king is. And then I see that it's she feels embarrassed to have

sex in front of God. I don't like go outside and practice falling down. My God. Is there a bigger

virtue signalling than that? And then all the commenters are like, well, it's a beautiful gift

given to us by our Lord. I'm like, all of you shut up. All of you just shut your GD mouths up.

Go be better than me somewhere else. So embarrassed about doing this thing that I was made to do.

So that's who I'm at it. Yeah, that's that's rough. That's a hell of a signal right there.

Yeah, I think you're justified in both cases. I feel better if they reverse the reasons.

I get that God is omnipresent, but it is a little, um, maybe you have a little bit of hubris going on

if you think that like when you're getting it on with your husband guys, like, hey, hey, look, look,

look, look, that she's doing it. You got to do. Yeah, like I think he's probably doing other things.

You know, there's a lot of things happening in the world. Probably taking his focus more than that.

So I learned something really interesting during, uh, Pete Hegg says, uh, update on how the war in

Iran is going. And I see that we sunk their crown jewel battleship, a submarine sunk it with

a torpedo. And if this is true, what they said, that's the first time a sub has taken out his

ship since World War two. Yep. And I get it. I get it deterrence. I get it. But think of all the

hundreds of subs we've had and all the thousands and thousands of sailors, um, and when we never

sunk a ship. Yeah. Well, we haven't really had sea based warfare. No. I mean, the last thing that

might have been close and, you know, the, the details of it based on history are not always the

greatest, but they had the Gulf of Tonkin. But there, there are those that would say that was,

right, maybe not as real as you thought. Yeah. I thought that was really something though.

Uh, there is a retreat, scientific retreat set up, uh, for people to do DMT and communicate with

non human entities. There's a group of people out there, scientists, we like to get wide, who

who believe that there is a commonality and a predictability to when you do DMT and you

commune with these otherworldly beings. And they believe that they are truly communicating with

aliens or not, you know, multi dimensional beings or something like that. So they've set up this

place where they do it and they study it and they track it and they record it to learn. Are they,

are they just having a, uh, you know, uh, hallucination or are they really communicating with these

beings? I think that's fascinating. How would you prove it? Because it's all happening in your head.

Yeah. I mean, I, I'm not saying it's not real. That's not my point. It's just hot, hot, hot, how do you

prove? Yeah. Even if it was like, even if it was like, oh, you know, 200 people had the exact same

experience that doesn't necessarily prove that you're communicating with an interdimensional being,

it just proves that that what that's what our brain perceives. Yes. When it's exposed to these

kind of substances. So I mean, if they want to study it, fine. But, uh, I don't know, stuff like

that when people are like, bro, we're about to bust this whole thing wide open. I'm like, I don't,

well, we'll see. I mean, if they could, it would be fascinating. Right. Like, you know,

it's, it's not, you're not, what do I want to do? If you became convinced that you could take DMT

and communicate with a non-human being. Yeah. That sounds cool. How long does, how long are you on

DMT? Anywhere between 10 minutes and 30 minutes. But does it feel longer? Is it one of those

like, yeah, I think so your time, yeah, yeah, it distorts your perception of time. Yes. I guess

I would try it. I don't see why not. Man, I went down a rabbit hole the other night on

Salvia. Have you heard of that? Yes. And just these horror stories about how people experience

not just lifetimes, but like multiple lifetimes as like a wooden fence. They were a wooden fence

for 500 years, even though they were only under the influence for maybe 20 minutes.

I've never heard of anyone having a good experience with it. Like, the people I've met who have

tried it have all been like, I didn't have fun. What if it's, I wonder if it's just a different

country when it's controlled in a lab where people know what they're doing, you know, the right

dosage, whatever, the right purity. I have no idea, I have no idea what goes into that.

But I wonder if it would be different in terms of, because I know what you're talking about,

Rachel's like, people like freak out. They lose, they get create, you know, they get scared,

or whatever. And you get heart rate elevates. It's not, it can be a bad thing. I wonder if they're

able to control that in the lab setting. I definitely wouldn't want to just try it.

Speaking of the war in Iran, the son of the last Iatola that we killed is supposedly going

to be the next Iatola. And Israel and America both said, yeah, step on up. We'll kill you too.

Man, can you imagine just having that big a target on your back? That's not a job I would want.

It's not a long term job. Yeah. You're not going to retire in that position.

No, you're not getting, you're never going to see your pension. Also, I have a complaint about AI.

AI to my knowledge has brought me no happiness, but it's ruining a lot of things for me.

Like five years ago, if I saw, oh, there's big foot footage. I'm all over it. I'm watching it.

I'm analyzing it. Is this CGI? Do I think this is real? I get 50 of those a day now and

I don't watch any of them. It's obviously fake because if it were real, it would be news.

Do you think you're the only person that has this? If that was a real discovery, that would be

everywhere. You see that same thing. They say they show that there's always fake AI videos.

TikTok, Facebook, even Twitter, where it's like there's a bear. You saw the one with the

grandma and the bear, but like there's a not only saw it. I believed there's an animal attacking

someone and it's not real. It's clearly fake. I don't know if you guys saw this over the weekend,

but there was a photo circulating online and it was like through the window of the White House,

Donald Trump is yelling at Pete's head headset. Yeah, that's all right. And I was immediately like,

this looks like AI. First of all, how would a photographer get in this position? Why would they be

yelling right in front of the window? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But so many people were falling for it.

Well, it turns out it's it's not real. It's not real. It drove so much discourse of like, man,

headset messed up so bad. Even Trump's going after him. It's like, no, it's guys. Yeah, it's not

real. Yeah. I fell for it. Did you? Yeah, I didn't know it was real until just now when he said

that. Now I didn't really give put much stock in it. I wasn't like, wow, the White House is

melting down. So I just figure he's constantly screaming at everybody because

that's fair. Even the people who love who work for him and love him are like, yeah, he screams

at me all day. It's great. So I didn't really put that stock into it, but I did not know that

that was a fake photo until just now when you said that. That's funny. No, I remember I wrote

down on my show sheet. Should this shouldn't someone stop this old woman from feeding this bear?

Like I was going to bring that in on the show. And I brought it up to one of you and you're like,

yeah, that's it. I wouldn't stop this old woman from crossing this glass bridge. Yeah,

I see a lot of the videos. I see a lot of videos where they're like, it's like people

jumping off a cliff and falling like 500 feet into a like a net. Like it's on purpose. And

then they bounce back. I'm like, why are you even bothering with this? Everybody knows that's not

real. I feel bad. Why would you? Why would you? I feel bad for professional pranksters. Yeah.

Because you're on Facebook page. Yeah. April 17th Friday, my band day. Do we

brothers tribute and an Eric Clapton tribute and Denver Hall is a cool room. And all the guys

are going to be there. We're going to have a great time. I think I'm supposed to start at seven,

but I've decided that I'm not going to come out to late 15. I think the show starts at eight.

Damn it. There goes my whole plan. You'll see me at 9.45 then. Remember when actually you

used to do that all time. Yeah, you only get to do that though when you're the last band.

Yeah. People famously loved him for it. So I know there's the yeah, it's the worst dude. Like

people famously thought that I was really cool. And it's 30. He's not even out. No, I guarantee you

know what I liked it. That's one thing that's big. I've noticed anyway. It's a big difference

when I've been to shows lately versus 20, 30 years ago. They run more on time. It's sharp. And

the like, I don't know if it's the bands are more professional because you know, there's a little

bit more like they take better care of themselves. They eat better. The things like I don't

know if it's that or if it's just because everything is so modern and technology is easier.

Well, I'll tell you, stage setups are maybe better. If you're playing for an older crowd,

they're not going to wait for you. If it says eight, they're there at 640 and ready for you to start.

That's funny. Did the big riot at Riverport with guns and roses back in the 90s,

did that make an impact on you? Oh, it was a national story for sure. Yeah. We all and we all

were like, well, we know he's a jerk, but it's still great music. Like it's a great show.

When they first came back here, it was the one at the dome. That was the first time they'd

been back here since. And he made a few jokes about it. Hey, like apologies and also joking.

Yeah, we haven't been here in a while. I know the guy who we jumped on. Stumpy. Yeah, really? Yeah,

he used to do the show all the time. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah, that's not a great idea. I don't

know what those, I mean, obviously, you know, drugs and alcohol are powerful motivators. Like,

what exactly do you think you're going to do by jumping into the crowd? If I wanted that myself,

yeah, like, you know, there are a lot of people there. No, unless they're all just going to be like,

okay, go ahead, get that guy. I don't know. Would you guys ever crowd surf? Yes, have done that.

Was it fun? Not really. It's fun until you get dropped. Where people grab

any in places you wish they weren't thankfully. No, thankfully, no. I mean, they're going to,

you know, like, they're going to be a butt grab. I mean, that's a big a problem for guys. There

is going to be a butt grab like it's going to happen because of the position that you're in,

you know, it's, and it's also like the center of your grass, your mass, uh, center of your

mass is your ass. And we're on your back or your front? Uh, it's on the back. Yeah. I'm not

surfing on the front, man. I don't need any of that nonsense. I don't need any of that nonsense.

Is that a party foul if you surfed on your belly? I mean, I think most people would be like,

just let him fall. I'm fall. Yeah, it wasn't that fun. He did it twice.

Like, you're up there for a few seconds and then you fall really hard and hit your ass. It's

not that fun. And you're a big mosh pit guy, right? Yeah, like that. Back in the day. Like that.

Have you ever seen the walls of death? No. Oh, it's when they, they, they, it's a big thing. You

know, you separate everybody in the pit and you all got opposite sides. And then when the song drops

and the good stuff comes, you charge each other. It's so good. It's so horrible. Oh, it's so, it's so much fun.

After a few fun facts here, food one magazine says that bone broth cocktails are having a moment

because everyone wants protein in their drinks. Is it possible to be addicted to something

that's good for you? Yes. I'm not looking at Wheeler. I'm just, I'm just asking a question. It's

possible. So how much actually gets into the cocktail? Like, he's going to start drinking now.

So yeah, like, so a bone broth cocktail typically adds one to four grams of protein per drink.

So just this little bar that I got right here, that's 20 grams. Yeah, you're chicken. I got, I got

I got to have what six of those cocktails to get to this five of those cocktails to get a,

well, that's not a draw to that. You have it. The number you would have to drink to get to any

rel and that this, this is not even a full meal serving size. It's like a snack. If anybody's doing

it for that reason, it's stupid because it's not enough protein to matter. A couple of celebrities,

I think are doing it wrong. Nicole Kidman says that she knows how to perform an autopsy because she

studied with a real life medical examiner for her upcoming show, Scar Petta. She says that

I can remove all the organs. I can name them all and I can remove the lungs and the liver and

the gall bladder and the intestines. Oh, that's wonderful. I feel like a lot of us could if we just,

I don't know, like, was there? Oh, I could remove them. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I think we

all can take that. Yeah, we all can probably do that. Could we do it cleanly and, you know,

precisely? No, but I think we can all do that. It's important. I think to diversify your skills.

Yeah, especially as we move. You might need something to fall back on. Yeah, we know it's more

uncertainty than ever in certain industries. Yeah, diversifying your skills is good. Yeah.

The other one is Tom Brady. He called Logan Paul the B word ahead of flag football tournament.

Your Tom Brady, what are you doing? You're so rich and you're going to be even richer. Why are

you even messing with Logan Paul? They were doing a podcast together. They're just doing some flag

football thing. And I guess Paul thinks he's going to be good and Brady's like, here,

not going to be good. How long are we going to do this with these, these brothers? I don't know.

I don't know. Silly. I mean, if they would fight real fighters, we might get,

might get knocked out enough where they don't actually have to be around.

Half of the world's energy is used for heat, which includes keeping people warm transportation

and electricity account for the other half. Makes sense. Yeah, I guess I would have thought that.

The first movie to have an official website was Stargate in 1944, 1990.

Whoa, what? 99. I love the beginning of that movie and I hate everything after the beginning.

It's all right. It's, it's, yeah, I mean, it's just all right. It's like a C plus. It's just a C plus,

you know, you're right, though Dave. The beginning is fascinating. Larry King once got into a car

accident with JFK. JFK was a senator at the time. King crashed into his car and JFK told him it

was fine. He wouldn't report it so long as King voted for him when he ran for president. That's quite

a story. That dude, Larry King had all the stories, man. Didn't you interview him? Oh, he used to come

on sports open line all the time with us when a cardinals would play the Dodgers because he loves

he's a huge Dodgers fan. He was at all the games all the time, but he was also like a, his second,

one of his favorite teams was the Cardinals because he liked the history and he was actually

as a kid at the game where Stan got the nickname the man. Hmm. Apparently it happened in a game

against the Brooklyn Dodgers and Larry was there. How was Larry really old man? He loved to talk

baseball. You couldn't get him to stop. We used to have to record them in advance instead of

doing it live because he would go for 45 minutes and just not stop. He loved it. Very cool. Yeah.

Anyone got a DJ's happy hour topic? I do. Okay. So Tampa International Airport has come out and

said that they are banning pajamas. They've already successfully banned Crocs and now they're saying

you can't wear pajamas at the airport in the middle of the day. We know this decision could be

disruptive to someone in your life, but it's time to have the difficult conversation with them.

We believe in you. The movement starts now. I think I get to do the rage which he's done to

me so many times. Is it fake news? Yes. I read the article and then I saw more articles where now

you're not stupid for thinking it was real because everyone thought it was real and then Tampa

airport said we're just joshin. We're just bringing some levity to the situation. Why would that

be funny when we've already had this discussion? Right? The what's his face? The transportation

secretary said, yeah, stop wearing pajamas. Dress up. You know, be a man. So yeah, I go for it too.

I don't understand. They're like today's post about banning pajamas was another playful nod

to the day of travel fashion debates. We encourage you to travel comfortably. This sounds like

they wanted to ban the pajamas. And then they got caught. Yeah. And then too many people were like,

well, what if I have a layover? There's a problem. How could you? You can't control people coming

into your airport on an airplane. So if I can get on a plane in St. Louis wearing PJs,

you're going to tell me I got to change as soon as I get off the plane in your stupid airport.

Yeah. Like there's no way to police that. Well, it just seems like the kind of thing where they're

like we were joking actually. No, you're right. We've all been in that. You say something in

nobody laughs. You're like, I just kidding. I don't believe in that.

All right. Yeah. Wheels got something. Yeah. I got one for you guys. So I saw this video yesterday.

PGA tour player Cody Gribble is walking down the fairway. That's a real person. Yes, there's

a Cody Gribble is a real person. And there's like an alligator. It looks like a five footer,

six footer. They're not huge, but he's big good size. And Cody Gribble just walks up to him

and swats them on the butt. And he jumps into the water. The alligator jumped in the water.

I think. Yeah. Cody did not. So there was a video of another golfer. I didn't see who it was,

who like was starting to walk up and saw it and like jumped and ran back. And this guy just walks

up right behind him. You're a little smack on the butt. And then those alligator jumps in the water.

And he just keeps on walking like he's Joe cool. Hey, little Gribble. And my question to you guys is

what's the most dangerous wild animal that you would actually walk to and touch in an uncontrolled

environment. So not like with a zookeeper or whatever. Probably Andrew. That's like a black bear.

And they don't look scary. I'm not smack in a black bear. Like a little, let's smack. Come on.

No. No, no, no, no, no. No. A little one's come on. I ain't scared of that. I mean, like

when I saw that guy do, I might do that. Really? Yeah. I would. I'm not touching any wild animal.

No, no, I'm either. So they gave it to me. I won't even touch like a turtle.

Turtle exactly. Yeah. Turtles were. They can't reach around when I get you.

The kid, like my parents were terrified of turtles because they carried all these.

Not if you wash your hands. I mean, but yes, you probably should be smart about that if

you're picking up reptiles. Well, now you've added the glove or family. We never washed our hands.

Seriously, though, there's nothing like. There's a. I mean, you can name some animals.

I'll say yes. You know, no, I'm a child of the 90s. I was told that if I touched a bird's egg,

the bird, the mommy bird will never get all to the egg and all that stuff. So I mean,

I know it's a myth, but it's, it's embedded into my DNA. I can't. I saw a video of a deer fighting a

man. I wouldn't know part of that. All right. So what if it was like a little one, like a little

like a fondly, a little, you know, like three month old deer just in your backyard and it walks

up to you. Okay, Kim right in the face. You're gonna pet him. Dave's looking for his opportunity to

punch that guy. Are you gonna? You go pet that deer? Remember when we had the big kerfuffle because I

said I wanted to punch a baby deer in the face. Yeah, I bet you do that. Memory of that.

I don't know. I'm just curious. So you guys basically have, you just, if it's a wild animal,

you're not, you're not touching that. Oh, this is priced. You are. I just, I'm, yeah,

you're making me feel like a was here, but I didn't, I figured there would be a little one. I

don't want to go screw with beasts of the field. I get it for you. I mean, I get it for the

bitey things, right? Like I don't say you should such a snake if it's a bitey one. There are some that

are not bitey. But yeah, like the bitey ones probably good idea to bite. I figured like the

non bitey things would still be okay. You know what? I would touch a common lizard.

So like a salamet. Like when you go to Florida, Dave, you're gonna see those little guys everywhere.

Would you? Would you? Yeah. Okay. I mean, I wouldn't go out of my way to do it. Yeah. But if someone

said, if Michael Kelly, Dave's holding on and he goes, yeah, pet that little guy on the head and

you'd be like chirps. When my wife and I were on our honeymoon, we were on this weird in Florida.

And we were on this shuttle and we were going somewhere and there was this cute little lizard on a

rock that we pulled up right next to. And the lizard looks right at her and then it like inflated

its neck thing. But it was just turned into this giant wrecked ball and she shrieked because she

thought it was exploding. Mitch is back. He says, I have two geckos, Rachel. You can pet them.

Mitch. Meckos are nice. You've already done the 16 year old thing. She's 34.

Stay in your lane, bro. Get a, get a mizu co-ed. Why is it not okay for a 34 year old to date a

mizu stew? That's what I want to know. Geckos are cool. Richard, the geckos at mizu or are they?

Yeah. Did they make the, did they make the run to mizu? I guess that's a good question.

And Joe says, Mitch has got game.

It's just being nice. Yes. Geckos are cool, man.

Okay. So you can go to his, he says they're at his house in St. Louis. You're going to

his parents house. I was going to say, I wonder if they would, I didn't think they'd let you have

him in a dorm. And Mitch said I can see the lizards. Yeah. If you're in an apartment off campus,

he might, but if you're in a dorm, man, probably not. Hey, I'm friends with Mitch.

Mitch said we can pet the geckos. He says I can put hands on the beast.

Yeah. You got them salamanders or whatever. Yeah, miss them.

It's supposed to lay at the hand upon them. I was kind of, yeah. I would like to see both, both

Geckos. What are their names, Mitch? I bet it's something cute. You're playing right into his

hand, right? What if it's what if they get right into his hands? Geckos are named David Murray.

These are my Geckos Dave Murray and Dave Murray. David Janice. Now Janice has a little problem.

He's breaking the Geckos. One of the Geckos is Tireek for Tireek Hill. Okay. And the other one

is Buddy. Buddy. That's a good one. I love the name Buddy.

He had a gecko named Dave Murray. He fed it. Cricket's name.

Tireek Hill in incredibly strange name for a gecko.

Everybody leave Mitch alone. Yeah. No kidding, man. He named your geckos whatever you want.

Did you Google a dog named after a robot? Did you Google most evil NFL player in the name

of the gecko just after him? Is he evil? He's not the most, but he's definitely

he's not the most, but he's he's how he's in the top probably 15. Yeah, it's some issues.

Well, as I saw thing today, apropos of the NFL combine where the 40 is the big deal. Yeah. Yeah.

And people running forward to somethings and such. And the question was, if you had a year to train,

what time do you think you could hit in the 40 now? Not good. I don't know what it would be,

but it would be bad. It would be like offensive lineman slow. And I think for the average person,

that's basically the north of the right answer. Yeah. If you're not a trained athlete,

if you're not like good shape athlete, you're not in your prime, you're not a runner,

you're gonna run like an offensive lineman. That's how it's gonna be. I have no idea. I have no

idea what it would be, but it'd have to be around five, I would guess. I mean, maybe, maybe more.

Oh, five of a great. It gave you gave me how long a year. Yeah, it might maybe,

a little under maybe, but no, it's gonna look like an offensive lineman's time. That's what it's

gonna be. It's still not bad to be in your mid fifties, not a runner. And you can run as fast

as an NFL lineman. You can train in a year, though. Like that's a lot of training if you're

gonna be practicing and because you're gonna do that, you're gonna lose some weight, which is

half the reason why all of us slow down. I'd get down to 113 pounds.

I saw a big talk of a guy who obviously had some money who built an adult playground in his

backyard, but like a playground playground is like a big swing set and stuff made for people

or 200 pounds or whatever. Where would you guys draw the line? Like, could you go back and play

with your dolls or your action figures if no one was watching you or maybe if they were,

could you do a swing set? Could you have fun doing it more than a couple of swings?

Swing set, yes. I don't know if I would be like, I mean, I might go down the slide like one time.

I could play with my dolls and stuff. It'd be much more fun to play with my nieces.

Yeah, it's built in excuse. Yeah, well, it's not even that. It's just like having the interaction.

Yeah, the interaction. As far as like diving into that pretend world by myself, like I guess I

could, but it's not going to hit the same as when you're a kid. There's a reason we stop doing it.

Think about slides. I've been down a slide a thousand times. Of the thousand times I've been down

a slide, I bet four of them were good. Really? Yeah. They're too hot. They burn your butt.

Well, right. Would you go down the, the, no, have you seen the, the, the, the Boston cop slide?

No. You never seen the videos of that? No. We're like a Boston police officer goes down this slide

and all you can hear is him rattling around inside. It's one of those enclosed ones. Yeah, I know.

And it comes flying out in rolls and then everybody's, now it's a gag that when you go there,

you have to go down this slide and everybody comes flying out like they're injured.

One of the first times I knew I had claustrophobia long time ago went down a water slide that was a

tube and got stuck. We're on like a raft and our raft got stuck because I was on with a jackass

who stuck it and then people just kept hitting us. And that didn't scare me so much, but being

enclosed in that tube really did. And I knew like, Oh, great man. Add this to the list.

I think I guess you could do the playground thing for a bit, but I mean, it's not what it used to be.

I remember my dad straight up shaming me in Lake of the Ozarks. And maybe I had a coming,

but I was too afraid to go down the potato sex slide. What's that? You know, we slide down the potato.

Oh, you sit down. Yeah, I know. So that's the one that's kind of like wavy. Yeah, I got you.

Oh, those are the, those are the good ones. Those are the, some of those will kill you though.

There's some of them. See, some will kill you. No, there was one. There's one famous one.

I'll say it was on Bel Isle in Detroit. It's like a little tourist area. And I mean,

they had to shut it down because people were giving getting in the cell's concussions.

Like adults would go on it and you go flying and you just keep smacking your head too much, but

pain. Yeah, it's not great. Not great. Do we count things like water slides? Because I love

water slides. Those are fun. Like never. Not fun. Do this one. The ones that were you got like

at least a 20 or 30 foot freefall at the end down into the pool. Oh, yeah. Again,

there's the squeeze in. Where's the juice for me?

Wheels is the first time I ever heard played live. I was at a basement party, probably one of

two parties I went to in high school as kind of a dork. And uh, the drummer's name was Tim

Naseco. And he did that little riff and they're playing on like crappy big amps. But you know,

the first time I felt the bass in my chest and I was hooked. That was awesome. Pretty great.

They were you a high school, go to a party guy? No, not really. Come on. I'm a nerd.

Nerdiest of nerds. Come on. I'm with your brother. I was too.

I remember one time I was 15 because I was young for my grade. And some of the guys had gotten

their license. And I used to love going to McDonald's with my mom and dad. And so we went to

McDonald's one summer night and we're parked and we're having our cheeseburgers. And I look over

and there's all the popular guys in like a Camaro. And I just read. I'm like, oh, I see.

This is what you're supposed to be doing. And I literally like slunked down in the back of the

car so they wouldn't see me. No, you know what? I did. I did golf in high school all four years.

That's, you know, nobody cares. That'll get the chicks. Oh, yeah. And I was on the cross country

team, but I wasn't a runner. I laid the courses out. Oh, because I had map experience. Yeah,

that was a great job. It was a great job. I thought it would be fascinating to build a design

of golf course. Yeah, I've done a couple of nine holes in St. Louis. Really? Yeah, Tree Courts.

Tree Courts, one of them. It's one on the east side. But you had no idea. Yeah, took a couple

of course. I did a lot of of landscape design stuff like that horticulture in college.

And then I took a couple of courses in golf course design when I was more of an adult. Wow.

So Dave, you're clearly really into nature being a meteorologist and the horticulture stuff.

Are you, do you like to go camping? No. Really? I don't want to do it. Yeah, I don't want to do it.

Yeah, yeah, I'm not a big camping fan. As Jenna says, you know, Dave's idea of going camping is

the holiday in. Yeah. I'm with Dave. I'm kind of saying. I don't. I'm trying to say it's not my

thing. Mostly because I think I'd get bored. I'm not that worried about like sleeping in a tent

or whatever. That's fine. Just like, what do you do? You know how the kids make fun of me because I

would bring them home halfway through any activity. Like when I had Phoebe leave at the intermission

of Shrek at the Fox Theater and she only recently realized that it didn't just end weirdly.

I left halfway through and Nick and I went camping one time like in Castlewood or whatever it is.

One of the parks we have here set up the whole thing and went hiking and data blast and

built the fire and it got dark and I'm like, you know what? Wouldn't it be great to go to Uncle

Bills and have a little dinner and go home and sleep in our own bed and Nick being Nick. He's

the sweetest soul in the world. He's like, sure dad, that'd be great. And Maureen was having a

pampered chef party and we got there while people were still there. Like that's how early we left.

Oh, David, David Nick, they're having a father son camping trip. Hey, everybody.

Man, pampered chef. Hey, we're pretty. We're pretty tall cotton. No, I mean, I had some great

pampered chef items over the years. Yeah. Yeah. I would like to go to a party. You should have one.

Maybe I will. We'll all show up. Yeah, me and the boys. Yeah, I'll show you what you do that.

I'll show up too. All right. Sounds good. Well, you know, Mitch is going to say Mitch.

Oh, Mitch, it's great. Mitch. Mitch, you can only come if you bring the geckos.

You bring Tyrie can buddy. Yeah. Tyrie can buddy.

So Dave, the sun's out a little bit here. Yeah, we had a little break in the action.

It's all way south, especially east. The stuff that came through earlier today.

There's no severe weather at all in the St. Louis area. We have some heavy downpours,

thunder, lightning, stuff like that. But that has all kind of pushed away.

I do think that the evening is fine. We're not going to see any action, but there should be

some redevelopment later on tonight. Nothing strong, nothing severe.

Tomorrow is one of these mix of clouds and sunshine, probably being a little optimistic about that,

but I'm going to be. And there's still a chance with a couple of showers and thunderstorms.

But a lot of dry time, I don't see anything severe, 71. So quite a bit warmer than today,

though our temperatures are bouncing back right now with the rain being over.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms Thursday night, Friday, partly sunny.

It's warm, it's humid, 80 degrees, maybe a spot thunderstorm. I think a lot of the day on Friday

is dry. We have a cold front coming through on Friday night. So there will be a couple of

scattered showers and thunderstorms. I don't see any severe weather with the front because there's

not a lot of cold air behind it. 65 for the high Saturday and again on Sundays. That's not that's

not cold. That's not cold in March anyway. No, I'm still sticking to my guns with come the middle

of March. I think we will turn colder. And does that relate to snow? Hard to say, probably doesn't

link with the storm, but we could squeeze a little snow out of that. Winter is not over yet,

but we're getting closer, Dave. Our late spring snows. Have we ever had a big one?

Well, yeah, the record snow in St. Louis is the end of March when we had, I don't know,

like 30 inches of snow. That was the end of March. Yeah. Well, I didn't realize that.

Big time. Yeah, and they're usually heavy wet, you know, classic sloppy St. Louis stuff.

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So the Wall Street Journal sees that as a sign of rising financial stress. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

This is kind of a funny story. The Shamwau guy, you know how? Yeah, he's. Oh, yeah.

You know, running for office. Well, he wanted them to put the Shamwau guy on the ballot,

so people knew who he was. That's what he wanted to say. Well, it was going to be like his name,

and then like in parentheses, like, Shamwau. This is a Shamwau guy. But then at the last minute,

they're like, no, we can't put that on the ballot. So he ended up coming in a distance,

six place in the primary yesterday. And he is blaming this on the rhinos. He is not having it.

He is ticked off that they didn't let him put Shamwau. So we didn't clean up.

Did not clean up. I know. I'm sorry.

Okay, we have the official numbers for Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show. The only reason I bring this

up is because it was such a controversial halftime show. But now the NFL rock nation and Apple

music say that Bad Bunny's halftime show racked up 4.157 billion views in its first 24 hours

worldwide. 128.2 million people watched live during the game. But I'm sure the controversy

surrounding the halftime show contributed a lot to those four billion views. They came in that

first 24 hours. Commerce secretary Howard Lutnik is going to testify on his past ties to Jeffrey

Epstein. And he says he's ready to talk about it. But it's going to happen behind closed doors.

Lutnik says, I have done nothing wrong. And I want to set the record straight.

Then why did you lie? Right. Why would you just say that? I was there in 2014. Why did you lie?

Not that long ago and say, I only saw him that once and we swore we'd never seen him again.

Well, until our weekend trip there with our kids. Come on, dude. We lied for a reason.

The White House is standing by. Lutnik, a spokesman called him a critical asset.

President Trump has publicly defended him saying he is, quote, very innocent.

Very innocent. So Paramount Skydance is planning to merge Paramount Plus and the HBO Max platforms.

So yeah, Paramount Skydance is going to officially take over Warner Brothers Discovery.

They announced this on Monday that there's a long battle between them and Netflix who's going to

end up with Warner Brothers. Well, it is Paramount Skydance. And now the CEO, David Ellison,

said during an investor call that they do plan to put these two services together, Paramount Plus

and HBO Max, which gives them a little over 200 million direct to consumer subscribers.

I hope they don't raise the price. It's probably a foolish thing to say because we know that's

going to happen. But there's lots of times when I want to watch something on Paramount,

you know, it's like comes up and it's like with a Paramount Plus subscription. I'm like, well,

I'm not doing that. So I do have HBO though. So my big one is Disney Hulu. I don't have that.

And there's a bunch of stuff I want to watch. But I have every other thing. And I don't want to

get rid of any of those. So kind of stuck. Gail King has renewed her deal with CBS news.

There was lots of speculation about her exit. But she's staying put. She says CBS news is my

long time home. And I am committed to our mission. She has never said a word that made me interested

or amused. Not she's never done anything. And I used to I would try to watch that. And she was

just poison. And it's not like I dislike her. There's nothing to dislike. She's just like the most

fungible breath personality ever to me. But I just don't understand why she's a big deal.

Is it the people still care that she's Oprah's friend?

I don't I was being a little facetious. I don't know if that's why she gets those jobs.

It's just always the first thing I think of because her and Oprah are always hanging out.

Yeah, but the CBS morning news is still a dog. There you go, Dave. It's awful. It's been awful

for decades. They just did anybody know any of these friends of Oprah before?

Should they were Oprah's friends? Of course not. Did anybody know Dr. Feele? No. Or Dr. Oz who's

basically a weirdo. I will say Oprah does not get enough heat for bringing us those two.

And deal came for God's sake, man. And boys did these people upon us. Now these people are great.

For them for the rest of time. Yes, people are great. Me and my doctor feels like,

you know, you can't beat a jackrabbit when you got a jackhammer.

What's funny is we don't even have to deal with Oprah anymore. We still got the left

doors. We got the residue. Dig it in.

All right.

Welcome back to the PS351. Matt Polly joins us in the top of the hour. We're talking a little

sports, little cardinals. Suns kind of out downtown. So that's nice. We're just talking about the

McDonald's CEO taking the Squidward bite of the big arch. And Burger King now. He's like,

oh, little opera. And I just told the guys, if I were the CEO, Burger King, I would do a video

eating a big arch. And I'd be like, this is a great burger. I don't know why the CEO doesn't like it.

You know, just like do something that's so obvious. It's obvious you like your own

whopper, but do something clever. Speaking of big arches. Yes. Two for two. Two for two.

Well, first of all, let me say consider it like this. The guy from Burger King maybe

doesn't have an issue with the CEO of McDonald's personally, right? So I don't, eating the big arch

won't help him. Oh, I think it'd be very clever. It'd be like clever, but that's more of like,

I think he cares more about taking a dig at McDonald's as a whole versus like just the CEO.

I will say this as a burger eater and as a marketer, I don't think either of these things

really move the meter. Like I thought it was really a terrible thing that the CEO put that video

out. No one stopped him because he just looks so stupid. It's not going to keep me from eating a big

arch. Well, if anything, it's going to drive the sad part is it's going to drive more people

to try to talk about it. Yeah, because now people have heard of it who'd like don't follow

the fast food news. When did we do that on purpose? His whole plan. Yeah. I got that burger.

Thousand calories. Yeah. Really? 84% of your total fat for the day.

53 grams of protein though. Wow. I thought it was delicious. I mean, it looks good. I like

all of those things. It basically looks like a big Mac, but with quarter hour when he climbs

up on that horse and towers all over it. I'm not towering, dude. I'll eat the thing. It's just

man. It's a commitment. So day one, I was like, oh, this is a normal size burger. Day two,

last night, I was like, here God, this is this thing is massive. Absolutely massive. I don't know

what the hell I was thinking day one. It's that bun, man. The bun is huge. Bun is huge. The burger

is huge. The sauce is very good, but it's an intense sauce. It's not the big Mac sauce.

It's similar. Okay. So maybe spicier. Tangier, I would say. It's got a stronger flavor.

Gotcha. It looks good, man. It's good, but it's an experience. I don't think you would like it

wheels because there's a lot of onion going on. I just order it without the onion. And a lot of sauce.

Oh, that's fine. Sauce. Maybe the best thing about it is those crispy onions. I don't

need those. I don't like the regular ones, but I have the crispy. Isn't big Mac sauce too close

to mayo for you? No. It's what I'm weird about mayo. Like if it's like an egg salad, it's fine.

It's got to be mixed with things. I won't eat it by itself. Joel poses the question, how does it

compare to the bacon eater? I only eat sons of bacon eater. So I can't. I mean, I like it better

than a bacon eater. There you go. All right.

Oh, yes. I've been for show.

I seen your picture.

Your name is lots of loving. Welcome back, DGS. A few minutes past 4 p.m.

Everybody, Matt, Paulie joins us. Matt, I'm going to miss you by like a day, right?

We get down there on Saturday. And I guess you're leaving Saturday.

Are you coming to the game on Saturday? I don't know. I'm sort of like Michael Kelly,

you're flying it like 10, 30 in the morning. There's no way you're getting to the game.

Okay. Yeah. The game will be at what, 105 Eastern Matt. Yeah. So I'll be at the game. I'm

actually broadcasting the game on Saturday. Yeah. Yeah. And then as soon as it is done, I will

hop in the car and head to Fort Lauderdale and catch a flight out where you guys fly in two, Dave.

We're flying it right right there.

Okay. So there's a chance you could cross paths. Yeah. I think we get there at 1215.

Okay. So there's a chance. Yeah. If you go straight to the game, but if you'd say,

you know what, I'm going to go straight to the bar, then we probably want to get some lunch.

No. I mean, I'm fine with bars, but I'm there for the games. I want to see everything I can.

Get some lunch at Roger Dean Stadium. Well, if you get there, come up to the booth

because it's going to be Mike Claiborne and myself broadcasting the game on Saturday.

Nice. I'm hanging out for a little bit. Can you just walk up there? No.

I mean, I know, but we know we know we got a John hand. We got a John Hancock appearance

in the broadcast today. We know people. That's great. We could probably get you a pass.

Yeah. I can get you in. I'll take that pass. Matt knows people.

I was just, I love peg Steely Dan and I was jamming to it. And I was thinking how Wheeler loves

metal. And I love 90s power pop. But I have no idea what kind of music Matt Polly likes.

Huh. Okay. So like what I used to, I grew up on like 90s, like 105, 7, the point 90s music,

like alternative rock. And that's what I really liked. And then as I have grown older,

I've started to like country music a little bit more. And then in recent years,

it's really a lot of contemporary Christian music. You know, just having a family and always

wanting to make sure that we're in the car. We've got good positive stuff going on. I've moved

to that. So if you are in the car with me, it is, if it's not on KMLX, if music is on,

it is likely contemporary Christian music. You know, I toured with the Christian band, right, Matt?

I don't. What band? I was called Crimson Faith. It was 1982 through like 1985. We were local.

But we did a lot of gigs with like big personalities. We played the same show that Petro played. And

it, I was all about it. All about it. I was so into it. I'd go to a gope festival in Greenville

every year and super into it. Yeah. You look, the Christian music industry is,

it's in the shows they put on. I saw Toby Mac in her price center, maybe like a year ago or so.

And he was really, really good. And David Crowder was there as well. Not David Crowder. Yeah,

David Crowder. And he, he, he's a rocker. It's that at one point, my youngest daughter,

my oldest daughter had to like step out because she couldn't handle the impact of that music.

So, and you know, as, as I've, I'll listen to some of the new pop stuff and some of the,

you know, urban music, urban Christian music is kind of a newer type thing. I've gone into a

little bit here recently. So I, there's really not any music that I just do not like. When we're

doing rush hour and Wheeler's throwing his like metal stuff in there, I like it. So I,

I, you know, give me a good classical song. Sometimes I like it. If I'm at church, I'm good with

contemporary music. I'm good with old school hymns. Like I just, I love music. I love anything

that makes me feel. I think that's the number one thing. When I listen to music, I want it to

impact me emotionally. That's part of why I listen to music. It's a really big part of it.

And I think most music out there, if the musicians are good, most music can impact you in some

former fashion in an emotional way. Hey, man. It's funny. You say that. I didn't mean

me name in ironically. It's funny. You say that, Matt, because last night I came up with what I

think is one of the best sweet 16 topics we've ever had. I didn't even tell you this to wheels or

to Andrew. But you guys can do it without me Monday or you can wait till I come back from spring

training. But we've never done most emotional song. We've done saddest song. That would be a good

one to wait for. But whether it's happy or scared or angry or I don't know that one, right? But

I get the 16 most hype songs. Emotive songs. Yeah. You know, it's all right. So there's a

there's a Christian like big mega Christian church and they do like music. They're called Hillsong.

And there's been a lot of controversy around them. There's multiple documentaries out there

about some of the terrible stuff that's gone on inside of that church. And part of what they

and this makes me like really think inwardly because part of what they do with their music is

they're there's like scientifically there's certain tones you can hit in music that is going to

impact you emotionally. And I have felt that emotion. So then at times I've thought inwardly like

if I'm experiencing something in a worship setting, I do say to myself, okay, is this meat

connecting with God or is this the science of music impacting me in a certain way? And I think

it's healthy to have those thoughts like I don't I don't I'm not less of a believer in God because

maybe I'm being impacted by the scientific you know usage of music. But it is something that at

times I think it's so funny. You say that. God, what have probably been before I had my radio show

and Maureen and I were first dating and we went to a church service with our friends Rick and Debbie

and it was a mission thing and it was to help out kids in Africa and they wanted you to do the

classic like I'll do $38 a month and they showed this kid and they're playing this music and

I don't forget his name was Moffajot and I turned him over and I said we weren't even married yet

I said we should adopt Moffajot and right then she should have known to run the other way because I

was clearly too impulsive to be in a relationship but like if they'd have given me a document to sign

I would have adopted Moffajot that night and it is largely because of the music they were playing

got to me so much. Yeah, it's a thing. So there you go. Interesting. I don't want to steal your

thunder from one hour from now when wheels ask you this question but how is today? It was okay.

They played the the Nicaraguan WBC team like this gives you an idea of the way things went. Nicaragua

didn't have enough pitching so the Cardinals gave them some minor league pitchers to use so in the

final three innings team Nicaragua was using Cardinals minor league pitchers. You know, the only guy

who was in the lineup who's somebody who's for sure going to be in the opening day lineup was

Ivan Herrera and he was there because they wanted him to catch four innings today. It was that

was part of his plan. So it was it was a bunch of minor leagueers. It was fun to see Dusty Baker. He's

managing the the Nicaraguan team. I wish I would have taken video of it. I'm kicking myself because

the optics Nicaragua won the optics of them going through the handshake line and they're being

their team colors are blue. So everybody's wearing blue except there's like six Cardinals players in

there that were you know gifted to Nicaragua for the day. And so you know inner dispersed in the

handshake line there's random people wearing Cardinals road jerseys. It was just optically it was a very

weird sight to see but yeah I mean from a game standpoint now a lot now I do think today was

really impactful because what they did they took Victor Scott the second and like six or seven

other guys. I don't know who I was back there I would guess like probably Nolan Gorman and Jordan

Walker and some other guys they took them to the backfields today and they were doing some super

intensive work on some very very specific things like they were able to take one or two deficiencies

in those players swings and they went to the backfield and they went hard on trying to work

on those things because today was one of those days where bluntly it wasn't going to do any good

for Jordan Walker to be in the lineup against team Nicaragua. Hey before I throw into wheels

have you seen Herrera really let it off the chain and throw yet? Not really he had a back pick

in his last game and it was good it was I mean they were the throw had some zip to it it was over

the first it wasn't the second it was on target but in terms of him being in the crouch throwing

down to second to try to get a runner that has not yet happened. Well that's kind of one of the

big things we need to see obviously he had other things to work on you know because I think

wasn't it was I don't know if it was on gas house or just maybe in general what Ali was talking

about to like just you know pitch calling and you know working the game and being on the same

page with your pictures like that's something that a young catcher needs to do and he didn't catch

very much last year. He didn't and actually there was a conversation of topic today as well

because they put him through a very extensive curriculum when it comes to calling pitches and

things like that all while they were trying to reprogram his throwing motion and they were doing

that while it was coming back from injury to where you couldn't really throw that much so they

put a lot on his plate they feel really really good about where he's at but Ali also very readily

admitted today that this isn't something that they're really going to be able to truly evaluate

and spring now they're going to have to see him in the regular season do some things to start to

understand whether or not that offseason work was as impactful as they hope it is. Yeah you're going

to you're going to need to see what it looks like when it's when the it's like you're on the firing

line and it's in a game and teams are running on you. I know you guys aren't doctors

but the surgery that Herrera had is and I don't mean is it literally similar to Tommy John I just

mean no should he be fine now yeah yeah it was just some loose bodies in there that they had to go

grab out of it it was a it was a minor or spurs and things form sometimes over years and they

can just get caught and they cause pain but has he ever in his career been known for having a gun no

okay no his to me again as a catching instructor there's only so much velocity you're going to add

there's just only so much you're going to add he's got to be more accurate

and that's number one the ball's got to be on the bag because he has that problem too

his throws tend to sail they tend to ride arm side and you do want to miss on the on the first

base side of the bag I mean you want to be on the inside so it's an easy tag decent pop time no

no I mean again I mean it's but that's tied to velocity right I mean like there's three elements

that a catcher's got a balance to throw people out you got to throw it somewhat hard you've got to

throw it straight and you got to get rid of it fast and if I look if I remember looking at it Matt

I think his his exchange time was pretty decent it's okay like he's not slow getting rid of it

but when one of those three legs is struggling you're not going to throw anybody out because you

don't have that much wiggle room yeah I mean you're talking about a tenth of a second wiggle room at most

between safe and out in a lot of time to maybe me less than that one more question about base

stealing obviously we're talking about elite athletes and many of them are just fast as hell

how much what she think is more important as a pundit and as a coach and as for Matt too

when it comes to stealing the big leagues is it more raw speed or is it more like they're so good

at getting a jump it's it's both it's being savvy as a base runner in knowing how to read a

pitcher and I'm going to try and not answer your question but this is the big leagues you can't

everything that you do has to be done at a super high level so the speed helps but the other

stuff helps as well but like Paul Goldschmidt was a really really good base dealer he wasn't that

fast but he could pick and choose his spots and that's why even Albert Pouls was not he didn't

run a lot he was very slow late in his career but he knew the art of base running so I don't know

actually you know as I'm talking through this I'm mentioning some of these guys I almost feel like

understanding how to read a pitcher and when you should run and getting that jump there maybe

there is even more value to that than just a loss of it so like usually I like Mason win as an

example he's really fast not a great base dealer he's not I mean I don't know if I would call it

terrible but I think he's basically 67% success rate in his career something like that

something like that I think he's stolen 22 and he's been thrown out 11 so that's exactly

two thirds that's not great for a guy that can run it should be 80% or more for somebody that can

run so it's it's the speed and the speed can make up for a slower jump but it's mostly about

getting the timing down on what the pitcher does and a really good pitcher that changes the timing

of their delivery can really mess up even the best base runner because if one time they're going

on one beat and then the next time they're going on three beats and then the next time they're not

even taking a beat and then the next time it's five beats the more they're mixing that up and

messing with you the more you have to kind of get it only from when you see the fruit foot lift

as opposed to getting a timing mechanism and then you throw in the catcher side of it so if you

got a catcher you know is not that great you're going to be more apt to take chances because not

only can you be wrong on the timing but you can also be safe because the throws off the bag

or whatever so it's a balance of those things but the number one thing is what Matt was

sitting on there it's it's about anticipation and being able to get that first step if you can get

the first step and a good timing then you're probably going to have a good chance most of the time

bases are stolen on the pitcher most of the time yeah except for when you have a catcher has a hard

time throwing you know as ruffle time then you're starting to run on that catcher but most of the time

it's a pitcher may be getting caught too predictable where they become the same and if I see a guy

that's the same you can steal even even a regular even a slow person can steal when they're the same

every time because you can figure out exactly the timing right and you can count it down in your

head all right he goes on to one thousand one I'm gone. Hey Matt how have you been impressed either

way with May physically and just as a guy just interviewing him. So we haven't seen him much

tomorrow is going to be his first great fruit league start we've seen him on the back fields and

live bp's and then he threw a simulated game as well so it's hard to judge a guy off of that

as a guy I like him I think he's perfect for this team he's been through so much like there's

something yeah there's something to be said for dudes who've actually lived life and he he was

died like he almost died and that puts things in perspective and that allows I think that has value

in anything you do including being a baseball player. Anything else quills? No I think that's

that I mean obviously we got a lot a lot to do starting up in about 45 minutes. Yeah we'll

we'll start with one bit of blues news I don't know if you guys saw the blues have reportedly

traded Colton Parake go to Buffalo. Yeah I just saw that starting to come across yeah

I'll look into it more we'll talk about it next. All right thank you buddy.

Looking back DG as couple minutes in this segment wheels talking about Colton Parake go.

All right well so the latest and I give a hat tip tip of the cap to Jeremy Rutherford of the

athletic who had this about 12 minutes ago I think saying that the two teams the sabers and

the blues have agreed to a trade that would send Colton Parake go to Buffalo but that it's still

pending the players waving his no trade clause Darren Drager who's national or should say national

North American NHL insiders based in Canada he thinks it's going to happen basically sounds like

it's going to happen. So if it does then it's Colton Parake go to the Buffalo sabers and in return

the blues are getting a prospect. He's a young defenseman Rodin Maturka he or I think that's how

you say it's MRTK a Merca I haven't heard his name pronounced since the draft last year and it

was a year ago so I don't remember but he is a he was the number nine overall pick last year

and he's a six foot six 220 pound defenseman at only 18 years old so he's basically physically he's

Colton Parake go yeah same kind of physical dynamic we don't know what he's going to be as a player

but when you're a top 10 pick yeah you're a highly valued prospect apparently there's another

first round pick that's going to be involved and maybe some other pieces there as well so we're waiting

to sort that out but at last check we were still waiting for like an official announcement only 30

seconds here but what does that say about the blues paradigm the rebuild is on okay I mean it's

kind of heading towards cardinal territory and there may be some other guys I would I would bet at

least two or three other guys are moved this week this week this week this week this week this week