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#4506 Fantasize Mas
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Luke went into the lion’s den of Yankees stadium yesterday and had one heck of an adventure. And Andrew has questions about the folks who knocked on his front door during his lunch break yesterday.
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Luke Burbank
Yes, ma'.
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Andrew Walsh
Am.
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Luke Burbank
You know the movie we watched? Small Cop too.
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Tracy
Small who?
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Luke Burbank
Mall Cop. Mall Cop. Mall Cop. Mall Cop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two. Yeah, the second movie we watched. Now there's a third. No, there's not a third. There's a website that reviews movies. Oh. Do you know what mall cop two got out of a hundred? Oh, probably 99 or 100. I'm sure he got a hundred or something. Yeah. No, what do you get? He got six.
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Tracy
What? Get six.
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Luke Burbank
Six out of a hundred. What? Oh, come on. It was much better than that. It was hilarious. Who's doing it? Who's voting? The audience. The audience. And then movie critics, too. And movie critics? Yeah. What do they know?
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Unknown Coach
Tbtl.
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Tracy
Tracy, you are going to die.
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Andrew Walsh
What?
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Unknown Coach
No. When I tell you who I'm dating.
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Andrew Walsh
Squeaky Fromm.
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Unknown Coach
She is difficult.
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Andrew Walsh
Hey, you either get it or you don't. I don't, but I am so excited to be a part of it.
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Tracy
And it's romantic and it's full of these sort of situations, which is.
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Andrew Walsh
Turns out to be.
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Tracy
That's very interesting, very scary at times, but also a lot of romance and really well made. So I recommend good soundtrack. Good soundtrack.
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Unknown Coach
This is the craziest interview I've ever done in my life.
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Andrew Walsh
That's why they call me multi dimensional.
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Tracy
Well, all right. Hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Wednesday edition of TBT all the show that just might be too beautiful to live. Explaining how a show works means the show's already in trouble. My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host.
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Andrew Walsh
This song goes out to all the.
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Tracy
Coffee lovers of the world coming to you once again from New York City, where I am indoors right now. I am enjoying the air conditioning of this hotel, but I can see outside and I can see people on 7th Avenue, and I can see them melting in front of my very eyes.
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Andrew Walsh
I feel warm and I'm levitating because.
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Tracy
It is again one of those 90 degrees degrees and 90% humidity days that New York loves to deliver in the month of July. You know, we love to deliver episode 4506 in a collector series, Let the Fun Begin, which is the number that we have arrived at today on this Wednesday. I went up to the boogie down Bronx yesterday and saw the Seattle Mariners take on the New York Yankees.
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Luke Burbank
What a fun, sexy time for you.
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Tracy
It was not a fun, sexy time for the Mariners. Unfortunately, we lost by a lot, but it was an interesting experience. I had not been to the new Yankee Stadium, and energetically, I was actually kind of feeling it. Which I did not expect to say here on the show on this Wednesday. I do expect to talk to this guy, though. He is the longest running co Bro of the show. He may be best known for his depictions of the tall ships, capturing their grace and power. He is Andrew Walsh and he is joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.
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Andrew Walsh
It still has only six stars, Luke. Paul Blart, Mall Cop 2. Still only a rating of six on Rotten Tomatoes. I wanted to fact check our tape since we hadn't played that in a year. And I just want everybody to know that it's still only got a 6%. I shouldn't say 6 stars. 6% on Rotten Tomatoes has not budged in the 12 months since we last heard that review. Of the reviews.
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Tracy
I wondered if that would move the needle because that went pretty viral and if maybe that would cause some people to swoop in and try to, you know, sort of save the good reputation of Paul Blart, Mall Cop. Also, I wonder at some point if that's. That will be one of those movies that gets a sort of. I don't know, we. We go back and we reconsider it. Not that it's gonna get an Oscar, but, you know, sometimes when something is like sort of, you know, it's. It becomes known as one of the worst things that's ever happened. Then sometimes people embrace it ironically, and then eventually, eventually they embrace it unironically.
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Andrew Walsh
Guy Fieri being one great example. That's a great example.
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Tracy
That, my friend, is a perfect example. I think that he's really having. The mayor of Flavortown is really. I think he's having a moment.
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Andrew Walsh
By the way, are there term limits in Flavortown?
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Tracy
Oh, yes, absolutely. That's. It's actually, I have to be honest with you. It's. It's a model. It is an international model of good governance. Flavortown. It's a. You know, people come over to study it. Best practices. People come over from, like, the Netherlands. Just. It's, first of all, free health care for all in Flavortown.
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Andrew Walsh
Pre K. And you need it. They need it, by the way.
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Tracy
You definitely do because of all the fajita shooters that everybody eating all the time.
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Andrew Walsh
Not only is there free health care, when you walk into any restaurant, there are defibrillators at door for one for every customer, in fact. Yes, but my point, they will put.
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Tracy
You on an IV drip of buffalo ranch sauce, and that is not helpful.
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Andrew Walsh
But, like, how. How long has he been the mayor of Flavortown eventually? Like, has he run for reelection and One handily. At some point, is he not allowed to run anymore because of term limits? Or, like, how does this. I've never heard of anybody else being the mayor of Flavortown.
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Tracy
He is the mayor emeritus at this point. And in fact, they wanted to make him mayor for life. But like George Washington, he said no kings.
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Andrew Walsh
No, that's kind of. And I didn't want to turn this into a no kings thing because I want to pay respect to Guy Fieri. But, like, yes, I'm a little bit worried about his grip on power there. Like, it. You say that it's good governance and that it's sort of an international model, but the moment things go downward there, people are going to start to look around and say, hey, what is going on? How do we just have the same mayor for, like, 80 years?
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Tracy
So he sort of. He swept in as a strongman, kind of promising fajita shooters for all, and that he was going to fix everyone's problems. And he's generally popular, but if you look at what he's done to essentially cement that popularity, it gets. It gets pretty, pretty bad pretty quickly. Kind of a Duterte sort of situation.
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Andrew Walsh
It could. I'm just saying it could. I'm not saying it is, and I'm certainly. Good Lord, Luke. I'm not coming on this podcast accusing him of anything without having my ducks in a row. And so please do not. Do not let the headline be, you know, Andrew Walsh attacks the Integrity of the mayor.
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Tracy
Andrew Walsh calls Guy Fieri modern Day Duterte.
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Andrew Walsh
Modern day. I. Yeah, that's not the headline coming out of the show today, Please. And I want to be very, very clear about this. I know people are going to clip this. They're gonna take it out of context like they often do just to get on Mediaite or whatever.
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Tracy
Well, after. After our Big Mac video went viral like it did, a lot of people are trying to come in and repurpose our content to get their likes button smashed. That's when you know it's really working, is when people start to take your content, clip it, and then distribute it as their content, essentially because they know your content is so good. That's where we're at as a show.
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Andrew Walsh
Yeah, it's. They're leeches, Luke, and they're trying to leech off of our fame because the video entitled Portly Man Casually Eats a Big Mac is just raising up the charts. It is amazing. You are very right. Okay, listen, I really. Actually, I don't even want to talk about this. I'm Going to talk about your day yesterday at Yankee Stadium. But it is funny. It was your idea when we took. Well, it was your idea to do the Big Mac challenge in which we each ate a Big Mac. We tried to do it in under a minute. You succeeded. I came close, but I didn't have the sauce on mine. So it was a very different visual experience. And you. The idea, when we clipped it for social to, like, you know, post the video of it, to have us both do it at the same time, like, kind of cut out the audio commentary and make it look like we're both eating the burgers at the same time, which is not how it played out on the podcast, of course. I was honestly a little bit dubious of that because I liked your commentary on mine and I liked the fact that I was so out of my mind when you were eating yours that I was saying things that I didn't even know what I was saying, and then making you laugh and burger almost came out your nose. I do look like that in the.
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Tracy
Final version, the version that went on the Internet. I do look mildly insane, not just because of the sauce all over my face, but because I'm laughing hysterically at the thing that you said in the moment, but which nobody who's watching the video knows about.
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Andrew Walsh
Yes. And I'm not trying to smell my own farts here. Read my own press releases or whatever.
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Tracy
Although Veevs is out of town. So that's been a big part of this week for you.
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Andrew Walsh
Yes, I'm smelling for two.
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Tracy
Show title.
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Andrew Walsh
Yes. I'll try to remember that. But I will say that I was so nervous about, like, when it suddenly it was your turn to eat the burger, and I was like, oh, shoot, I got to keep the commentary going. I think I was a little nervous about that. And I literally did not know what I was saying. I was just saying things, and it didn't occur to me, oh, don't try to make Luke laugh. That's going to, like, interfere with the challenge. I mean, that could be a major cheating violation, and I could be locked up in Flavortown. But, yeah, so I. All of a sudden, I look up and you are red and laug trying to shove burger in your mouth. And I realized, oh, shoot, I said something funny. I don't know what it was. I don't even know. And then I went back and listened, and it was such a rude. I was just like, look at this man. He's become the monster he doesn't want to be.
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Tracy
Yes.
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Andrew Walsh
Or something.
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Tracy
The word monster Made me laugh so hard.
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Andrew Walsh
That was just like. I wasn't even thinking about what I was saying. But what a terrible thing to say while you're shoving a burger in your mouth. All of that is to say when we stripped, when we stripped away the commentary, and we end up with this video of us both eating at the same time with a music soundtrack. Shout out to John, of course, an employee numero uno for putting that together and putting it on Instagram. It is so funny to see you just smashing that burger with sauce all over your face and me just calmly taking bites of a burger that barely has any sauce on it. I really just look like. I look like Kermit the Frog sipping tea compared to you. You do.
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Tracy
You look so dignified. You. Like, I'll be honest, it's like it might be the most dignified you've ever looked. Like you're just. And the Kermit is another. Is another perfect analogy because you just look like you're. And that's the thing. Now we've sort of talked about this a whole bunch of different ways, and I've kind of said the same thing, but, like, I only beat you by, let's say, two to three seconds. Like, you had the entire Big Mac. You were chewing on the last bits of it. You just didn't quite swallow in time. But I will tell you, like, yeah, some. It was not worth it for me to do it three seconds faster, to look as completely, like, monstrous as I did. And you were just, like, just having a burger, just eating it. You'd look totally unstressed about the situation. Like, my eyes are watering. I'm, like, doing like. I'm doing the Joey chestnut, like, shake, like, shimmy. Trying to get the, like, unchewed food down my gullet. Like, I'm just. And for all of that, it only helped me do it about maybe two to three seconds faster than you did, and it was not worth it.
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Andrew Walsh
Well, we should move on. But I don't think the video would be good if you and I were both, like, demurely eating a burger at a somewhat rapid clip. I saw that our friend Rachel Bell swooped in on the comments. I didn't know that she follows our Instagram, but she was like, haha, full circle. She's like. Because I remember I made fun of you guys when you did a different kind of eating contest. And in the Cairo radio newsroom, like, what, over 10 years ago now, you and Rachel and I think Sean and.
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Tracy
Some other Sean was in on it. Yeah.
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Andrew Walsh
And it Was like, how many burgers could you eat? Right? Dick's Burgers. Yeah. And I think it was like. And so I think I made the comment like you were going. As usual, you went crazy on it, and you were, like, drinking whiskey and trying to eat as many burgers as possible. But I remember saying to Rachel, like, the rest of you just sort of look like you were kind of casually eating food at a somewhat quick clip or something like that. And she. And she commented underneath, like, those words are coming back to haunt you, basically. Because that's basically what I look like. Well, yeah. I mean, that fellow looks like he's slightly. That fellow looks like he skipped breakfast, but that's about it.
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Tracy
I'm. I can't believe that anybody was friends with me when I was in my let me have whiskey during everything phase. Because I don't know if I thought I was being badass. I don't know if I was running. If I was running for treasurer of Taste City. And I thought that would help me with my branding. But, like, what a nerd. Like, I'm gonna smash these burgers, and I'm gonna do a shot of whiskey. Like, I'm so mortified. It's not even about the drinking. It's just the, like, what did. I think that was Badassery? I don't even know. But I will tell you, I did eat more cheeseburgers than anybody else, which was like. I think it was like seven or something. It wasn't even that many, but was.
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Andrew Walsh
It even, like, many? I didn't even know it was that much. Honestly. I thought it was. I thought it was far fewer.
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Tracy
You know what I could be misremembering. It might. I think I was shocked. I was shocked at. It seemed like, like you said, this is what I tend to do in those situations. And again, it gets back to the whiskey. I've told you the story, and I've told this story on the show many times. I was part of this. I think it was like the Eugene Merman Comedy Festival or something. Came to Seattle and. But there was also, like, an Ira glass component of it, which. I don't remember how that all happened. There was sort of like a. This American. I think there was like, a this American life contingent. Am I totally misremembering this? What? I remember being on stage at the Crocodile, and I was part of this competition. It was like a. It was like a. Some kind of a truth or dare game on stage. And somehow it had been. Because, again, my brand at the time was Getting drunk all the time. There was a drinking contest basically. And this was set up sort of for me. And again, I don't. I don't know why it is that I feel like I have this memory of Ira Glass being there. Cause that's a strange fit for this whole thing. But I just remember it being the case that a bunch of whiskey was brought out like a bunch of little shot glasses. And it was me against. I forget, whoever on stage, these were not full size shot glasses. Like, if you were at a bar and you ordered a shot, but they were still, like, they were still. You know, a few of these would put most people down pretty quickly. And I just remember being on stage and just taking shot after shot after shot after shot until they just called it. Like, they just went like, okay, stop, stop, stop, like. And I just remember the moment where it was like, less funny and more kind of horrifying. I feel like I have this tendency in these contests. Like, I don't know if it's because I want to win badly or because I want to impress everyone, but then there's a point in which it's not really impressive. It's just kind of like unsettling. I think, like, I think I need to really. I need to re examine my behavior in these. I mean, thankfully, the Big Mac thing was mostly for fun, and I wasn't shooting whiskey in between every bite. But, like, I do have a pretty checkered past with competitive eating and drinking in public.
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Andrew Walsh
You know what? I think I figured out what was going on with you way back in March of 2012 with Eugene Merman. You want me to go through this? So when I typed in. Yeah, so. And I was. I don't have any actual memory of this myself. I don't. I don't know if I knew about it or even knew you at this point, but you had Eugene Merman on the show on March 28th. And here is the show description. Well, I'm going to summarize this. In fact, I'm not going to read the whole thing, but it says that Eugene is in town for the Eugene Merman Comedy Festival, which happens this weekend at the Crocodile. But what also was happening, it says. So you're interviewing him, but you're also interviewing Elna Baker. Now, Elna, we know from this American Life, so I'm wondering if that's where you were getting maybe the Ira Glassiness of all of this. She's in town staging a talent show. So it sounds like it was almost two different events. She was hosting a Talent show, which also featured Eugene Mirman. So in other words, Merman's in town for his comedy festival. Elna's throwing a talent show. He's a part of that. Kristen Schall is a part of that. Todd Berry is a part of that, and you're a part of that. Does that make sense?
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Tracy
Yes, I think the talent show was part of the. I think the talent show was part of the comedy festival.
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Andrew Walsh
Yeah, that would make sense.
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Tracy
And. And I think that my town. So it must have been Elna who set this up, because I know Elna pretty well, and I think my talent was terrifying people with the amount of whiskey that I was drinking on stage. Then I remember. I remember afterwards, it was so fun because there was bus. And I remember being now, of course, quite. Quite into my cups, many of which I'd consumed on stage. I remember, like, being on this party bus and looking around, and it's like Kristen Shaw, who I love, and Elna and Eugene Mirman and I think a few other, like, comedy luminaries who were part of this, and just being like, how did this all.
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Andrew Walsh
Todd Berry. Yeah, it says Todd Barry. I don't know if you recall that or not.
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Tracy
Yes, the very funny Todd Berry. The very droll Todd Berry.
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Andrew Walsh
Yeah.
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Tracy
But anyway. Yeah. So all that is to say our Big Mac video has now gone certifiably viral, by which I mean, it has a few more likes than our normal videos. And I think people are. People are trying to grift off of us. They're trying to draft behind our fame and fortune. Hey, can I just sort of inelegantly insert one quick thing into the conversation, which is we actually started doing the show, and I was about. I don't know, 30 seconds into my spiel, and I had to stop you stop things, because I said to you, Andrew, the phone is ringing in the background in this hotel room. And I got nervous for a moment because I'm doing one of those things where I've booked this hotel, I thought, for an extra day, essentially, so that I could be here recording TBTL with you, even though later on I'm gonna be going and getting on a plane to go to Manhattan, Kansas. And so I had this moment of panic thinking, did I do the reservation wrong? And are they trying to kick me out of the hotel room? Which would have been a whole situation. So I go over and I get the phone. I know I've been complaining about this incessantly between Las Vegas and yesterday on the show here, this thing that hotels are doing where they don't let you call the front desk. But I know the only person that would have called me would have been the front desk. No one's trying to call this hotel room. So I go get the phone. We stop the show. I go get the phone, and I go to try to call the front desk. And of course, it won't let me talk to the front desk. It sends me to that phone service. And I am now talking to a woman who I learned Andrew is in South Africa. South Africa.
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Andrew Walsh
You couldn't quite think of the accent.
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Tracy
Okay, Exactly. I have located it. It is South Africa. I asked her, I said, hey, I need to find out if the front desk was calling me for any reason. She goes, okay, I'd be very happy to call and ask them if they were calling you. And I said, does that seem like the most efficient way for this to go? You call the front desk to ask them if they called my room, and then they tell you. And then you call me back and you tell me what they said is that. And she kind of laughed. She goes, okay, I'll connect you. But it's like, I had to, like.
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Andrew Walsh
All right, that's.
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Tracy
I had to, like. I had to. I had to, like, use my. How. I had to use my Dale Carnegie on her. I had to how to influence people and make friends or whatever the hell that book is, like, just to get her to break protocol and connect me with the front desk of this flipping hotel. There was a period of time, there was a moment in time where the solution to me trying to find out who called me here in New York City was going to be to have somebody in South Africa intercede on my behalf with the front desk and then call me back and let me know if it was, in fact, the front desk.
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Andrew Walsh
What if you went down to the front desk and they wouldn't let you talk to anybody at the front desk? You had to use a phone to call South Africa. They hand you a telephone. It's a red telephone. It goes directly. It's a hotline to South Africa. I know this isn't the point of your story, but out of curiosity, why were they calling?
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Tracy
Well, I got the front desk finally, and I said, hey, somebody was calling this phone. I just want to make sure everything's okay with my reservation. They said, oh, yeah, probably was just a misdial.
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Andrew Walsh
Oh, there you go.
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Tracy
Everything's fine. And it was fixed. You know, I got the answer that I was looking for very quickly. Well, once I was talking to the front desk, also the front Desk of this hotel. I actually really like this hotel. I'm gonna be leaving, so I don't think there's any danger to my privacy. But it's the Park Central. It's right by Central Park. And everyone is very helpful downstairs. And I'm actually in kind of a. For New York City, a sort of spacious room. I have a little couch and stuff, which makes it a lot nicer. But one weird thing is they had a stack of newspapers at the front desk. And I thought, oh, cool, free New York Times. We love a good, you know, print copy of the New York Times. And I pick it up and it's the Epoch Times or Epoch. I'm not good at saying that word. It's E, P, O, C, H. That's like. That's like the Moonies or something. That's one of those, like, that is a. That's a religious newspaper. That newspaper is a complete front for some kind of religious movement. And I kind of wanted to say to the front desk person, I don't know if you know this, but there's a whole story with this newspaper that you're giving away. And I don't know if this is the greatest look for your hotel.
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Andrew Walsh
It's Falun Gong, by the way. I just looked it up. Okay, well, I am going. I am using the AI overview here. But yeah, you know, it looks like the Wikipedia backs that up as well. Remember back in the day? It's so funny. Back in the day you'd be like, well, I read it on Wikipedia. I don't know if I can trust that now. It's kind of like, well, no, don't worry. Wikipedia is my secondary source now for this AI slop.
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Tracy
Exactly.
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Andrew Walsh
But yeah, so bless the Lord.
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Tracy
Oh, my soul.
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Andrew Walsh
I always knew that Epoch Times was, you know, associated with some sort of movement or religion. I don't know if I knew it was Falun Gong or not, but that is strange. But I mean, my question for you is, you said you wonder if they realize the connection and maybe it's not a good look. That. I mean, that. That's not just like somebody went to the newspaper stand and grabbed a bundle of them, right? This is some sort of high level deal with whoever owns this hotel chain. Right? Like that is a deal that was worked out, I guess, between them and the publishers. Slash, the church.
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Tracy
Or it could have been less formalized than that. It could just be. Maybe this is one of the things that the Falun Gong people are doing now, the Epoch Times people is they just go around and they offer free newspapers. And it looks legit, by the way. If you haven't, like, if you haven't. If you're not reading. If you don't know the backstory and you're not reading, it just looks like a USA Today, or actually more like a New York Times. Maybe they're just saying, like, hey, we provide this newspaper for free if you want to give it away as a service to your guests. And nobody at this hotel level is read in on the whole, you know, Falun Gong. And by the way, Falun Gong is the people that do Shen Yun, the dance thing too. So I could just be that. I wonder if it's. If it's just a thing that they. The whatever we call these Falun Gong people. One of their things is they have people going around with bundles of newspaper going, hey, this is a free newspaper. If you want to give it away to your guests. Or this hotel is run by Falun Gong. And I have to say, they're doing an okay job. Other than that front desk thing where I got to call South Africa, they're doing a decent job.
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Andrew Walsh
I'm actually interested in looking. I'm not going to do it now on the fly because it'll be deadly radio, but I am interested in seeing who owns that hotel, you know, what conglomerate odins, that hotel you're staying at, what else they own. And like, what is their connection to Falun Gong? Because I don't think I kind of. Everything I'm reading here about them refers to that. I didn't realize that they're a far right movement. You know, obviously I'd heard of them and, you know, and that they are like anti communist, but I didn't realize that they're like the paper trumpets, far right politicians and movements in Europe and supports Trump and everything. I didn't realize that the Epoch Times, Falun Gong and what's the dance that you. Shen Yun is all wrapped up in the same thing. You know, that's what she. That's the lineage of Shen Young. Like, that's very strange.
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Tracy
Oh, yeah. I mean, it's drifted. Sorry about the New York City of the recording. I don't know if you probably can't hear this, Andrew, but there's like a. Like a squadron of NYPD cops bombing down 7th Avenue. The. Yeah, the story on. On Falun Gong and Shen Yun and the Epoch Times is that it was basically Falun Gong. Was this kind of religion started by this dude in China. I don't know the exact. I'm gonna say maybe the 80s or 90s or something. And the Chinese government cracked down. Once it started to get popular, the Chinese government cracked down on the religion. And this guy. The guy now lives, I think, in upstate New York. This is a. Headquartered, which, by the way, would also explain why there's a lot of Epoch Times around here, because we're in New York State. And what happened was there was actually some. There really was some government repression of the Falun Gong movement in China. That is a legitimate. Like that's a real thing that happened. But it became the animating force in the whole Falun Gong movement as the founder of it became more and more kind of unhinged. It went from being kind of like a personal betterment practice to being like, I am God. I'm magical. And if you do Falun Gong, right, you can become magical. So it's kind of. It's a little bit complicated. And then the whole. The whole deal with Shen Yun is it's this massive, massive moneymaker for Falun Gong. And the reason it's a huge moneymaker is because none of the dancers are paid. And because when it comes to a town near you, Falun Gong practitioners are responsible to basically put the show on and cover all of the expenses. And if it makes money, that money goes back to Falun Gong. And if it's not selling tickets, let's say you're a big. You're a Shen Yun board member in Seattle, Andrew. And Shen Yun is coming to Seattle. You might be responsible to sell 500 tickets. And if you can't get 500 of your friends to buy the tickets, you might just have to buy 500 tickets.
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Andrew Walsh
Oh, wow. And just eat it.
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Tracy
And so, and, and, and sometimes if the show makes money, then the people are paid back, but sometimes they're not paid back. So it's. And it's all tax free because this is a religion. So you basically have this crazy kind of moneymaking operation that is Shen Yun going around and generating millions and millions of dollars that's going back into the coffers of Falun Gong, which is then printing up Epoch Times, which is then dropping them off at the front desk of my hotel.
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Andrew Walsh
Yes. Do you know, by the way, what I think of when I think of Shen Yun, like my own personal journey with it, because I hear we are again talking about Falun Gong and my ignorance on this matter. And do you remember you mentioned Shen Yun, like kind of casually or maybe as a joke or a punchline or something on TBTL about all the posters, all over the place. Yeah, I remember. I remember which apartment I was in. This is probably like five years ago or so. And. And I was like, I don't know what Shen Yun is. I don't. I don't know what you're talking about. And you're like, just, like, look out your window. Like, just look at any passing bus. Look at any. Look at any telephone pole. You know, like, there's going to be an ad for this dance troupe. I'm like, I have no idea what you're talking about. I leave my house that day like a cartoon character in a comic strip, and all of a sudden, all I see everywhere, just on every. Anything that was physical, that could hold physical media was advertising this dance troupe to me. And, you know, and I'm going into, like, a lot of, like, kind of little cafes, like Thai restaurants or teriyaki places. They all have them. Like, it's the first thing you see when you walk in the door, and the last thing you see when you leave in their little lobby will be these signs. I'm like, how did I just. Never. I just walked around. It really makes me not trust my senses. Like, what else is all around me all the time that I'm not seeing?
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Tracy
Well, a lot of stuff for Jehovah's Witnesses. Do you ever notice those folks that are standing, like, in the airport as you're leaving the airport, and they've got, like, a little, you know, display, and it's usually two of them.
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Andrew Walsh
Yeah, those folks outside the light rails, light rail stations, too, have those folks around. I didn't know that they were J. Dubs, but I always.
- [29:04]
Tracy
I always want to spread a message of good news to those folks, which is my understanding of the, like, dogma of the Jehovah's Witnesses is that. Well, in the. Initially, the thing was you had to do a certain number of hours of proselytizing to get into heaven. I think was kind of like the. The. You know, the. What do you call it?
- [29:24]
Andrew Walsh
The. The.
- [29:26]
Tracy
The system that they followed. And then I read somewhere not that long ago that that was actually changed, that they decided maybe because they were having a hard time getting people to do it, they decided that it was kind of like, up to you. It was like your personal discretion as a Jehovah's Witness how much you witnessed. Like, you didn't have to put in your 10,000 hours. You didn't have to gladwell it. And every time I see someone just standing out in the rain or the cold or the whatever, I want to go up and go. Have you heard the good news that you don't have to do this?
- [29:55]
Andrew Walsh
It's okay to be a C student.
- [29:58]
Tracy
Yes. Let me spread my gospel of hope to you, which is, why don't you call it good enough? Why don't you say you gave this your best shot and you're going to still go to your version of heaven? I think you've done enough, my friend. Being out. You know, Prince famously was a Jehovah's Witness and would go around proselytizing in Minnesota and would just, like, show up, knocking on someone's door. Can you imagine opening the door and it's just Prince there to tell you about? Yeah. Like, you know, just sitting in your living room. Now, I wonder if you're allowed to. If it's like a Billy Bob Thornton situation when he was being interviewed. Like, I wonder if you're allowed to ask Prince questions about being Prince when he's on his J Dub duties, or if you just have to talk about Jehovah's Witness stuff.
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Andrew Walsh
I feel like if the goal is to get people to have conversations about the church like you, I would think it's fair game to kind of just say, you know, because, I mean, I would definitely show a little leg. That'd be the one person that I would let come in my house and tell me about religion. And I'd be like, you know what? I'll hear you out. I'll hear you out. Mr. Prince. By the way, this is. I don't know if it's interesting or not. It seems relatable or related to what we're talking about. You know, we live in this little neighborhood that I describe a lot, like, off of Aurora and off of, like, North Gateway, kind of like these two big, busy arterials. And as I've discussed on the show, there's a lot of people who, like, kind of struggle with poverty. There's homelessness around us. There's, like, kind of rampant, kind of outdoor drug use and all kinds of, like, you know, issues in the community. And one of the four. And then there are people like our outgoing city council person who has one approach to, quote, unquote, cleaning that up. And then, you know, other organizations that have taken care in this neighborhood in various ways, either help the situation or maybe hide the situation. All that is to say, one of the big. And I'm really struggling with how to describe this on the show, and I need to learn more about what the actual ties that bind here are, but there's this big church not far from me. Like a couple of blocks from me. And I know that that church is somehow related with kind of a bigger Christian sort of community all around where I live. And I think one of the houses, like, literally one of my neighbors, I think maybe connected to, like, both the church. But also there's this coffee shop that you and I discuss on the show from time to time. You actually got a cup of coffee there. It's over in the. What is it? The Aurora Village. Oak Tree Village. And it's a really nice little coffee shop, but it's like, clearly, you know, a Christian coffee shop. What is it called? Not passages.
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Tracy
It's called Pilgrim.
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Andrew Walsh
Pilgrim, yes. You know my neighborhood better than I. And yeah, there's just like. Oh, what? Oh, you said. What's the WI fi password there? Like, come with me or something like that?
- [32:45]
Tracy
No, like, it's like a place of rest or something.
- [32:48]
Andrew Walsh
A place to rest?
- [32:49]
Tracy
Yeah, yeah.
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Andrew Walsh
And so. And like. And there's this. And I know that the community. I know it's all connected in some way. Like, they had a big crafting fair or crafters fair in the parking lot. Like, that was both, like, tied into the church and the coffee shop. And it was in the parking lot next to the coffee shop. And like, in one. The reason I'm bringing all this up is just yesterday I was having some lunch up in the kitchen. A couple of, I would say, poor man's chicken tacos. You ever make little chicken tacos out of chicken that you haven't made specifically to be flavored, like, tacos? I just had some shredded chicken.
- [33:24]
Tracy
Basically.
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Andrew Walsh
I threw it on some tortillas and dumped a bunch of salsa on it, and I was horfing them down in the kitchen. I actually did sit down for this one, though. You'll be happy to know I wasn't standing over the sink. But then I almost choked on a taco when suddenly somebody knocked on my door. And I was like, what in the world? Who's knocking on my door randomly at like one o' clock on a. On a Tuesday? And so I'm first. My instinct on this is so weird. And I think, like a lot of Americans, I immediately looked to see if they would have seen me through the window. I don't even know who it is.
- [33:53]
Tracy
You immediately hit the floor.
- [33:55]
Andrew Walsh
My. I almost did. My immediate thing was to, like, move a little bit closer to the wall and wondering if somebody walking up my walk would have seen me sitting here. If I can just, like, hit the deck, like you said. But I'm like, what the. What the hell am I Just see who it is. So I get up and it is two people, like volunteers with the church. And this has happened a few times before and they're dropping off a little goodie bag now. They did this one time around the holidays and it was like just kind of candies and holiday greetings in there. And then they swung by and did the same thing when Genevieve answered the door like a month or two ago. And now they stopped by again today. And what was in the bag? There were some treats, like some chewy, like, I don't know, Welsh's chewy berry things or something and like a Capri Sun. But then also there was like toothbrushes and socks and some hand sanitizer, which is a little bit more like kind of. I don't know, is mutual aid the right word for that? I don't know. More like.
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Tracy
Yeah, exactly. Like, do they think that the people in the neighborhood who are living in those homes don't have toothbrushes?
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Andrew Walsh
Yeah. And it was kind of interesting. Now for me, it's great because I'm gonna take all this stuff and I put it right into the bag of stuff that I'm gonna donate to the organization I volunteer for. Like, I'm not in any way, I'm not in any way passing any judgment on this. They were very friendly. And I said, oh. I said, oh yeah, you know, I see that you guys have a food pantry. And one of the volunteers was like, yes, we get food from local grocery stores and we're open on these days. And I was like, oh, no, I meant like, you know, could I contribute? Not I'm gonna rely on it, but like. And he's like, oh yeah, you can call that number. And then like in this little bag of goodies is also like a card, like a discount at the coffee shop and also more information about the church. And so like, I know it's all. I'm just kind of curious. And I think it's all tied up in this group, this organization called NORA North Aurora, which again is like, kind of like if you, if you look them up, it's about like helping the, helping the area. I'm a little dubious about some of the tie ins there and what helping might look like to this organization. But I did think it was interesting. So if they're going around, then I looked out the window later and I saw like four of these people kind of huddling in the, in the road, kind of deciding what the next house they were going to visit. Is. And anyway, so I just found that. I just sort of found that interesting. And as they kind of are increasing their rounds in the neighborhood to drop this stuff off, I felt a little bit sheepish accepting the bag. I just said yes. I just said yes to be nice because I didn't want to close the door in their face. And they're like, oh, do you have kids? And I was like, no, no, no. If it's for kids, just keep it. I don't really need anything. And they're like, no, no, we just have different bags for kids or adults. I'm like, all right, whatever. So I take it and like, I'll donate it again and it'll go to a good. These things will go to a good use. But in hindsight, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to accept that bag or not as somebody who's not really in need of those things.
- [36:43]
Tracy
Also, the adult bag had Capri sun in it.
- [36:47]
Andrew Walsh
Yes. But also a giant marital aid, which I will not describe here. So it was. So it was, it was adult themed.
- [37:01]
Tracy
Oh, why is the word marital aid so funny?
- [37:05]
Andrew Walsh
It really is. It's the funniest description for that type of device.
- [37:11]
Tracy
Hey, let me tell you about going to the Yankee game. Speaking of aid.
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Andrew Walsh
Don't wait. Yeah, don't tell me about it yet because I want to officially. Luke, if you don't mind, make this a top story, please. Hello and welcome to Top Story. You have the floor.
- [37:29]
Tracy
Thank you. I felt like New York was really New Yorkin for me yesterday in a. In a good way. So as I talked about on the show yesterday, I had taken a red eye flight to get here to New York and I went interviewed Bridget Everett, which was really fun. I came back, I did the show with you, and then I was out and I was saying to you that I was going to go to bed after the show and I was hoping I didn't do that thing where I slept until like 8pm or something and then kind of woke up dazed and confused. I didn't sleep until 8pm but I will tell you that when I was sleeping and I think I woke up at maybe like 5, the I didn't just feel tired. I felt like there was an invisible person sitting on me. It was that kind of tired. It was that kind of almost jet lag. Weird when you're like circadian rhythm is just totally out the window and it's not just like, ooh, I'm sleepy, or like I'm groggy. I don't feel like, getting up, it's like I'm physically unable to get up right now. Like, that's the kind of weird tiredness I was feeling. And so I was like, I decided I'm not going to do this baseball game because it's five and I'm just still just, like, out of it. So I kind of go back to sleep, but I didn't sleep that long. I woke up at, like, 6. And I thought, you know, the game doesn't start until 7. 10. I bet you I could jump on a train. I bet you I can jump on, like, the D train and end up in the Bronx pretty quickly. Let me jump on StubHub and see what one ticket to the Yankees game will cost me. And. And if it's. If the price is dropping because we're now an hour from the game, right? And. And sure enough, I was able to get, like, what was supposed to be a hundred dollar ticket for like, 30 bucks. Single ticket in the second row in left field. So one, you know, just basically almost right there on the wall. And I was like, you know what? Let's do this. So I quickly buy the ticket and I jump up out of my days and I run downstairs. And also, where I'm staying is literally on 7th Avenue right across from the train station. So it was so fun, Andrew. I go from being dead asleep in my hotel room to being at Yankee stadium in, like, 35 minutes with a ticket on my phone. And I was just like, this is such a cool thing. There are very few cities where this could happen unless you were staying near the stadium or something. You know what I mean? Like, I just love the mass transit of it. Everybody on the train was in Yankees. I was just. I was trying to figure out which train to do, and then I just started following this, like, Dominican family that was like, there's seven of them, and they're all in Yankees gear. I'm like, I know where these people are going. Like, let me give.
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Andrew Walsh
Let me give a quick shout out to Seattle, though, because I will say that Seattle, even though completely, completely dwarfed by New York City in size and experience, I understand that, but that is one of the reasons I love Seattle. Because of the same exact thing. I think it was Friday of last week or Saturday or something. I was in a similar position. The price. The tickets for the. I'm sorry, the prices for the tickets I was looking at here for a Mariners game were kind of going up on StubHub. So I ended up kind of blowing it off. But, like, it was like, it was like two hours before game time and I'm still like trying to make up my mind should I buy a ticket to this game or not? Because I can just hop on the bus or the train and be there in like 45 minutes or something. And that is a huge difference from like la, which is obviously, again, a huge city that dwarfs Seattle. But it's so inaccessible there. You can't just, you can't just take it. You can take buses to the stadium there. And I have. But it's just not as easy to just do as it is in these places that have good transit that go right to a stadium that is accessible at street level.
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Tracy
Absolutely. Yeah. And you're right, that is a great thing about Seattle. That pre date or that post dates me. They didn't really have that when I was living there. So I don't think about it that way. But you're right, it's like that is such a cool feature of a city. And I was just like, I was just again, something about being on the train. And I'm listening to the Mariners pre game on my headphones as I'm surrounded by Yankees fans. And I'm like, you guys don't even know how many home runs Randy or Rosa Raina is going to hit on your asses tonight. That would be zero, Andrew. It turned out to be zero home runs from Randy or Rosarina. But so I get to the stadium and again, I've got my ticket on my phone. And the first, the first that I noticed something might be slightly amiss, not with my ticket, but with the weather, was when I got off the subway and looked up and the sky was black, like. And it was, it was, as I said at the beginning of today's show, it was one of those days. It was probably 87 degrees and 87% humidity. The air was essentially water and lightning waiting to happen. And I was like, I don't think they have a roof on this stadium. I don't think they're gonna be a roll out of roof. So I was like, we'll see how this goes. So I get into the park and I'm walking down and you know how it is when you haven't. If you haven't been to a particular stadium before, I feel like it's a little intimidating trying to figure out your seat. I don't know why that would be intimidating. It's just, it's, you know, it's right there on the ticket. But first of all, part of it is, which row am I Going to go down. Which aisle am I going to go down? So the fewest number of people have to get up to let me into my seat. You know what I mean? Like, because you'll have a seat that's in the middle of a row and like, it's just like, you just don't want to come from the wrong side of that so that like 30 people have to get up when you could only make four people get up. So I kind of start, I go down the wrong row and then I go back up and then I realize, no, that was the right row and I'm going all the way down and I'm getting closer and closer to. And also, I'm just bad with this kind of stuff for some reason. I don't know why. Like, seating charts and arrangements are difficult for my brain to calculate. I usually will just ask, like, if there's a person who's working that aisle, I'll just show them my ticket and go. Where do I go? There didn't happen to be a person working this area. So I go down and I get to row two. And I'm in seat seven, row two. And I look and it's just the entire row is packed with like 20 something Yankees fans. And I'm like, I think my seat's in there, but I really don't want to be like, hey, buddy, you're in my seat. And then I'm. I'm in the wrong section somehow, because that would be totally possible. That would be super duper possible. But I look and I'm looking at my phone and I'm. And I'm looking all the way in at seat seven. And I'm just looking and I make eye contact with this kid and I'm looking at my phone and he's kind of looking at me and I'm looking at my phone. And then he just. It's like a poker game. And he just goes, ah, shit. And he just stands up and he leaves this one seat. He was totally poaching my seat along with all his buddies. And I just was the one person who actually came to collect on my seat. But, like, I could have seen another world in which I just kind of like went and sat in a different empty seat because I did not want to, like, show. And I wasn't wearing Mariners gear, but I wasn't wearing Yankees gear either. I just was like, what a start. To this day for me, I have to basically evict somebody from my seat. And again, thank God he copped to it because if he didn't cop to it, I don't know what I would have done.
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Andrew Walsh
Actually, out of curiosity, you said that it was him, but he wasn't just a lone squatter. He was there with a bunch of people that were all squatting in these seats. So. So by you taking over your one seat, did they all end up having to move or did they just scooch over and stay there?
- [44:31]
Tracy
He moved one row behind us and his friends stayed in the squatted seats, which I kind of thought was interesting because like, there's no honor among thieves. Like, because there was a. There was an empty area behind us that they could have all gone back to, but they were just kind of like, sucks to be you, dude. You're. The guy in your seat showed up. But the guys in our seats didn't show up. So we're just going to. Well, you know, stay put.
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Andrew Walsh
I haven't really, I haven't really put words to this, but as I think about it, I think that, I think that I could make an argument for when you're booking or when you're buying baseball tickets. Like let's say there's six of you going. And of course it always defaults for you to get them six in a row. Like when you're buying them online, it's all going to be six next to each other. The experience is going to be so much better if it's going to be three in one row and three right behind you. Because you can have conversations so much better that way.
- [45:21]
Tracy
Yes, absolutely. I don't know where I did overhear one of the kids later say I paid for these tickets myself or I paid for my own ticket. So I don't know what the story was if like one of them had a ticket in that section or if, if all of them did but they were in different places or whatever. I don't know what the thing was. What was, what was funny, Andrew, was I became total bros with a total bro with these guys, with these Yankee fans who are like total, just like 20 something year old new York kids all wearing their Yankee gear, all loving Aaron Judge. Like the exact kind of person that I loathe in theory. I had such a fun time watching the game with these kids. It became this whole thing where we were trying to get Randy or Rosarina to throw us the ball after, after each warm up, you know, after each. Before the inning starts when he'll play catch. Weirdly he. Have you noticed he plays catch with Brian Wu?
- [46:14]
Andrew Walsh
Oh, I didn't know that he Plays catch with Brian Wu specifically. But I will say that if people don't know he is. I mean, his number one noticeable characteristic is probably the chain around his neck. But number two with a bullet, is the fact that anytime that man has his hands on a baseball, he wants to get it into the hands of a fan. He will, like, when he's on the. On deck, circle, like, he's grabbing ball. Like, he's grabbing missed balls and just, like, throwing them up into the stands. He loves giving fans balls, and I love it.
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Tracy
He would. He got an extra ball one one time, and he threw two balls into the stands after warmups, which makes no sense because you only need one to play catch with Brian Wu. But anyway, so, yeah, these kids were like. They were trying to, like, sort of chirp at Randy Rosarina. They would say stuff like. Like, so one of them that would just yell something out, like, your dog isn't excited when you come home. And then the rest of them would yell, ya bum. All throughout the game, just one of them would think of something to say. They would yell it, and then everyone would just yell, ya bum. It was so funny to me. Like, it was a weird experience because I was going into this thinking, I'm probably gonna get in a fight. Like, I'm probably. Something is gonna happen where a bad thing happens to the Mariners, and I'm really salty and I'm surrounded by Yankees fans, and I'm gonna say the wrong thing, and it's gonna get testy. Like, I thought that's what was gonna happen. Instead, I just ended up being kind of completely unfazed by the fact that the Mariners just got thumped, like, in a certain way.
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Andrew Walsh
Yeah. I almost wonder if. I wonder if a closer game would have been more painful with a. You know, if it ends up being a loss. Like, this was. This game got. Well, without getting in the details of the game there. I'm sure you're getting to this. There was a rain delay, which really screwed things up for the Mariners. And then immediately after that, the game just went off the rails there in the fifth. And then it just. It was never. It was never in hand. Once that started happening.
- [48:12]
Tracy
Yeah, exactly. Like, it was actually pretty. You know, our pitcher, Logan Gilbert, was pitching really well. Things were going. We're going great for us, except we weren't scoring any runs. And then this rain delay comes on. And then. Yeah, when we came back, it was just kind of like, you know, everything had shifted. And then the Mariners. And it was also kind of like, extra painful because it's like Aaron Judge, who's a player for the Yankees, is hitting a home run. Giancarlo Stanton is hitting home runs. It's sort of like these guys that. Not to get too into the baseball ness of it, but like. Well, not so much with Judge, but like John Carlos Stanton, he's one of those Yankees that bothers me because he was the best player on, I think it was the Marlins or something on some Florida team. He was their prize possession. And then of course, the Yankees just came in and paid him a billion dollars. Like, that's just what they do. They just go get the best player on a lot of smaller teams and then they become just like the seventh hitter in the Yankees batting order or something. You know, like, that's the kind of thing.
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Andrew Walsh
Jazz definitely came from Miami and he was like, I loved him when he was like such a fun little part of the Marlin's team. And then they signed him, but he. Then he started struggling a little bit and then they signed. Then, you know, the Yankees came in, swooped him up, and now he's a Yankee. And it's just amazing what pinstripes will do to make me hate you. Like, because I used to love that guy and now I'm just like, ugh, Jazz.
- [49:25]
Tracy
But then when we came back from the rain delay, it was also kind of fun because, like, basically all of the people who didn't care about the game had pretty much left. You know what I mean? Like, they didn't come back. So then it was just like, I don't know, it was like having class outside or something.
- [49:39]
Andrew Walsh
It was just.
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Tracy
Anyone could sit anywhere. These kids are yelling, ya bum. Like, I'm just kind of vibing, like, yeah, okay, we lost the game. But like, also, there was one kid in particular. He kind of reminded me of me in my 20s. Like, he was very interested in the stats of the game and he was like, I could just tell that, like, he and I were kind of just enjoying talking to each other, even though we're rooting for different teams. And I would kind of give him some grief about the Yankees and he'd give me some grief about the Mariners. But it was all very cordial.
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Andrew Walsh
Like, how did he just. How did he find a way to give you grief about the Mariners? Like, what could you say negative about that team?
- [50:17]
Tracy
There was like a maybe a thing or two that sort of some low hanging fruit. But, like, I just ended up, like I said, I ended up having. Considering that the Mariners lost and that I spent the whole Time surrounded by like, Yankee bros. I had such a great time, like a surprisingly good time. And I also wondered. I remember the last time that I went to a Yankees game. It was when I lived here and it was the old Yankee Stadium. And I remember it being really different. I don't know, I just remember it being like, the energy being way worse. And I think maybe I just happened to get with a bunch of guys that were just not. They were taking it seriously, but not. Not being overly cruel about it or something. Or maybe I'm just old now and I just have less testosterone. I mean, that's, that's provably the case. But, you know, it was. I feel like old Yankee Stadium was like a sinister place. And like, if you went there like I did, you were behind enemy lines. This didn't feel like that. That just kind of felt like. I know there was. I did not expect to be as untriggered as I was by the pinstripes everywhere. And I guess I just kind of had this weird moment of acceptance of like, yeah, if I moved to New York City from somewhere else and I didn't care about baseball in particular. Of course I'm getting an Aaron Judge jersey. If I'm one of the, like a bunch of people on that train who didn't like, seem particularly baseball ish, but had like a Yankees hat on and we're going to the game, you know, Like, I don't know what baseball ish means, but you know what I mean? I just kind of like looked around. I was like. And also, if I grew up in New York, of course I would be a Yankees fan. Except for I love one of the kids in this crew of guys was a Mets fan. So he and I were bonding. Was one of those enemy, enemies, enemies thing. So we were like just having a great time, me and that kid just like roasting the his Yankee buddies. But yeah, I just, it was. It was very cathartic for me. It just somehow it depersonalized this whole baseball thing for me in a weird way. Like, I just was like, these are just people that are rooting for their team. They are not. This does not make them Donald Trump supporters. And I know that that's not an allegation anyone's making, but somehow in my mind, it's like I connect everything that I don't like and I kind of put it all together in a one combination of things, of things that make me feel bad. And then I ascribe a lot of like, personal motive to the people that are Making me feel like. If you like Aaron Judge also. What was the. Well, first of all, anytime he did something, they would play the Law and Order, Dun dun. Which I have to say is actually pretty smart. And then there was another little. There was another audio cue they played for Aaron Judge that was actually legit, really good. And I can't remember it right now.
- [52:44]
Andrew Walsh
Was it the Night Court theme song? Was it the Night Court? Was it Dream Court?
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Tracy
God, I don't think so. But it was something like that. It was something where I was like, I gotta tip my cap to, you know, whoever's. Now I will tell you something that Yankee Stadium has way inferior to T Mobile park, which is, you know, we have those hydro races that they play on the screen. It's these computerized, you know, animations of hydro. Hydro boats that go really fast.
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Andrew Walsh
Yeah, it's three boats, but it's just a cartoon. The crowd goes nuts, and they all start rooting for red, green, or yellow. And they're all assigned a. They all represent some brand like Alberto Beef, the Team Store or EQC Casino. And the crowd just comes to life and they're screaming at this literal cartoon race that's happening on the jumbotron around the fifth or sixth inning here in Seattle. And it's like the only part of the game that is already. The outcome is already programmed in. Like, you don't need. It's the most ridiculous thing in the world. We also do have the fish races now, though, too, which are the salmon. The salmon run. I should say, not the fish races. Those are a lot of fun, where the mascots run.
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Tracy
I agree with you that the. I do not get that amped about the hydro race, but I'll tell you what I really don't get amped about is the subway car race they do at Yankee Stadium, because you can't make the subway cars do anything unsafe. So when the hydros are racing, they go off. They go off jumps. One of them flips always. There's always a whole thing.
- [54:09]
Andrew Walsh
Sure.
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Tracy
So this is clearly paid. It's clearly paid for by the mta, right. It's supposed to. It's supposed to promote taking the subway. But the problem is you can't have the subway cars go off a jump, like, so you are. You're constrained by the safety rules of the mta, which makes it the boringest race I've ever seen in my life.
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Andrew Walsh
That is so funny. It should be like, they show, like a businessperson trying to get from one part of the city to another, but they all have to take different lines. It's not even like three different trains racing. It's just like which one of. Which one of these Go Go business people can get to their meeting on time by taking the. I don't know what the lines in New York are.
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Tracy
Yes. It was so boring and dumb. And I was like, you guys did not think this through. It's just kind of like they're in different. Three different tunnels and they're like. And the, you know, the. The A is now in front of the F train. And now here comes the four Express. And now here they get to Yankee Stadium. And one of them was a little faster than the others, but safely so. And also, no one's surfing on top of them, even though that is also a thing that people do.
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Andrew Walsh
These seats are reserved for the elderly.
- [55:22]
Tracy
Yes. And we have a new elevator in the West 4th Station, and it is very clean and operational.
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Andrew Walsh
Like it's just for the next five minutes.
- [55:32]
Tracy
Yes, exactly. It was so underwhelming. But otherwise, I guess all of that is to say I don't really have a big power out, other than.
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Andrew Walsh
Well, no, I got a lot of questions, man. I've been. I mean, there are so many things you've said that I have questions about that I want to react to. So listen, so you're just getting started, baby. So a few things here I just want to say, like, regarding hearing your story, you know, it reminds me that I have never. I have been to other ballparks, but never, I think, when I cared about baseball at all, or certainly had a rooting interest in. In the Mariners. And so, like, as I was telling you, I. When I remember I saw a game up at the old Expo Stadium, which was very strange because it was so huge, is built for the Olympics. I was, you know, at Fenway park for a second. I couldn't think of the name of Fenway park that was going to be a bad one. But I was, you know, I used to go to Fenway park to see some Sox games that I lived in New Hampshire, but again, I didn't really care about baseball then. I just remember kind of enjoying the experience of being in an old park. And then, you know, then eventually, whatever, I'm not going to list. I don't have to list every park I've been to, but never did I go to those parks with any kind of rooting interest in mind other than like rooting to get a. Get a hot dog and a beer or something. And so now that I'm a Mariners fan. I imagine going into Yankee Stadium like you did, and I do think that my. I wouldn't be as techy as I am. This is maybe an obvious thing to say, but, like, all of my interaction when it gets a little bit itchy with other fans is when other fans come to our ballpark and take over our ballpark. And again, we've listed them on the show before. Yankees fans, Red Sox fans, L.A. fans now, and of course, the. The. The Blue Jays, because basically anybody in Canada comes down across the border to root for the Blue Jays. And so we're one of those border cities, and so they just take over, and it's so irritating. And those fan bases, I think, act differently. Like, I get really mad when the New York fans take over the park and cheer, but honestly, I don't even think they're the most obnoxious because it's kind of like. Like, it's. It's almost inevitable they're just going to come in. They're going to roll over us. I think that the Red Sox fans that, to my experience, try to stir up more shit. Try to get, like, more like, really make. I've been at games where the Red Sox fans definitely try to make us uncomfortable by literally, like, kind of surrounding us and chanting and cheering and stuff. And so, like, I don't really like that. But the thing is, it's like this inferiority complex I have. And again, I'm triggered all those feelings of being bullied, right? Like, they come here, they. They come into our house. What am I doing there? What am I doing this?
- [58:07]
Tracy
I don't know.
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Andrew Walsh
It's Pacino in a movie where he's a football coach. They come into our house. I don't do Pacino very well.
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Tracy
Is that any given Sunday?
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Andrew Walsh
Probably maybe any given Sunday. So my version in baseball would be any given day that ends in a way, I guess. But anyway, so, like, I'm triggered in that. But I don't know what the experience is like to go to another ballpark because it's like, yeah, I hate the Yankees, and I'm not a big fan of Yankees fans, but I don'. Month. But if I go there, especially not dressed up, like, in Mariners gear. You weren't wearing any Mariners gear. Certainly not wearing, like, Red Sox gear. I think your experience would have been a little bit different if you were wearing something that was outwardly marinery. Not that it was totally negative, but I think your experience, I think you would have felt more eyes on you differently at the very least. And I Think if you were a Red Sox fan wearing Red Sox gear, you would be made to feel very uncomfortable.
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Tracy
I think it helps that Yankees fans do not see Seattle as a rivalry team. Like, because I was telling. You know, I told those kids, they were like. I was like, I'm a Seattle fan. And it was like. It was like I was an unfrozen caveman lawyer or something. It was like I'd come down from. I was a hermit who had been living in the mountains for the last 50 years, and I had wandered down into town. It was more of an oddity to them. It was like. Like, is that even a thing as a.
- [59:29]
Andrew Walsh
Like, are you literally a Sasquatch from the Northwest?
- [59:32]
Tracy
Yes. Right. Precisely right. Or even just a gorilla who's preaching the word on TikTok, but who's listed as a Sasquatch? Sermon or Bigfoot? Sermon. But anyway, yeah, it was. I think it helps. I think it helps that I was not a Red Sox fan or wearing, like, I bet you it gets real testy when the Red Sox come to town between those fan bases. So, yes, that's definitely a thing. But like I said, you know, I just. I was really shocked at how kind of, I don't know, sanguine I was about it, as home runs are raining down upon my team, and these people are going crazy for their team. Like, I thought that was going to just be, you know, an absolute gut punch for me. And it just. I don't know, it just somehow didn't feel as bad as I thought it was gonna feel.
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Andrew Walsh
Well, you were in their house, as Pacino famously said, so it's kind of famously said. I do think that makes sense. Oh, I wanted to ask you some more questions. So we briefly mentioned the rain delay, but the rain delay was a significant rain delay. I was helping my buddy with a project. He was over here. So we just had, like, a laptop on the table, and I was kind of keeping half an eye on the game. And I think at some point, we had to turn the sound down, too, because we're working on an audio thing. And so I. You know, I wasn't deep in the game, but I had heard that there was a risk of the game being delayed. I don't think it was delayed. I think it started on time. But then, as we mentioned, in the fifth inning, all of a sudden I look up and I realize, jp JP Crawford is having an at bat. And all of a sudden I realize, whoa, that's rain coming down, and that is heavy rain coming down. And so they end up pausing his at bat, which, by the way, then he comes back, what, a half hour later. And of course, the first pitch, he.
- [61:09]
Tracy
Just like, first pitch swinging.
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Andrew Walsh
Right? Of course. Because can you imagine being in a 21 count? You're already, you already have the advantage there. But then suddenly everybody's like, okay, we're stopping play in the middle of your at bat. I know, happen. I'm not, I'm not actually accusing the Yankees of controlling the weather, although I did see some convincing arguments on blue ski. But anyway. But this, all of a sudden, it's like pouring rain. And I gotta say, from a visual aspect on tv, it was really something to see. It was like, you see all of those field. What do you call the people who maintain the field? The field maintenance guys, grounds, ground crew, they all come out and they all unroll that thing. They're all. It's like, it's a, it's like a fire drill, right? They're all moving so fast and the rain is just pouring. And then you send us a selfie, the text group, the sports text chain, using a selfie. And you've got a poncho. You're sitting in your seat in a big ass blue poncho. Now, Luke Cal, Raleigh just beat Junior's record of home runs before the All Star break, but that isn't anywhere near as surprising as the fact that you came with a poncho. No offense, but you're not exactly a belt and suspenders kind of guy. That's my role in this podcast relationship. Where did you get that poncho? You certainly aren't flying with it. It.
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Tracy
I bought the poncho from the stand that sells Yankees hats. It is a Yankees poncho, Andrew, that I turned inside out so you couldn't see that it said Yankees on the outside of it.
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Andrew Walsh
Did you spray paint? You did what? Did you, as you say, rattle can and a Mariner's S on it?
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Tracy
I did. I did. I. I rattle canned, seawalled on the back of the poncho. No, it's. So here's. I was like, you know, as it was starting to rain, first of all, at the beginning, it actually felt really good because it was so hot and humid. So it was, you know, it was raining basically from the beginning of the game, but it wasn't raining super duper hard. Then it started raining a little bit more hard. And then I was kind of like, okay, what am I going to do about this? Because I'm really enjoying being at this game. I don't want to get totally soaking wet, like to the bone, because I've got to go and get on the subway, coming home and all this. So I noticed a couple people had ponchos which they had purchased outside of the stadium. And I was like, this is going to be my move. I'm going to find a poncho and then I'm going to be the guy that stays at this game, even if they don't start playing until one in the morning. And maybe I'm even going to be the guy sitting by himself in his seat getting rained on, but he's wearing a poncho when everyone else has, like, during the rain delay. I'm going to be the person who's just. It's me against the elements because I just wanted to stay at the game. And I knew that the chances of me sticking around till the bitter end were going to be improved by me not having tons and tons of water collecting in my butt crack. So I went up and I asked the woman at the, like, you know, what do you call that souvenir stand? Do you sell ponchos? And she said, yes. And it was in a bag and I bought it. It was like $12. And then I take it out.
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Andrew Walsh
Seriously, that's so cheap. And that's in the park.
- [64:11]
Tracy
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And. But then I take it out of the bag and it's all Yankees. It's covered in Yankees logos. And I'm like, the. I will, I will. I will let the rain do its. Do its worst to me before. I will. Listen, I know I was having a nice time at the stadium, but there is a line that I will not cross, and that involves wearing something that is outwardly Yankees at a Yankee game. At that point, I have absolutely lost my way as a, As a man, as a father, as a podcaster, and as a. As a Mariner fan. So I was like, quick thinking. I turned it inside out. So that's why I'm wearing that blue poncho, because I didn't want people to think I was there rooting for the Yankees.
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Andrew Walsh
Yes. That's very smart. So you did get it. You did get it there. It wasn't.
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Tracy
Yes.
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Andrew Walsh
I was like. For a moment, I'm just like, did he think I might go to this game and it might rain? I'm gonna. And then I was like, no. I thought maybe you just stopped in a bodega or something on the way there, but you actually, you know, there.
- [65:07]
Tracy
I didn't even think about the weather implications that might have Been part of why the of my ticket dropped by 70% because somebody was like, I'm not going to that game. You know, that's going to rain. Like if I one look at the weather forecast as I sat down in my seat and started to look up at the sky and really take it all in. I then and I sent you guys this on the text chain. I looked at the weather app on my phone and it said 100% chance of rain. Nothing can be 100% if you think.
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Andrew Walsh
Unless it's already raining.
- [65:35]
Tracy
Yeah, there are no certainties in this life. But it was 100% chance of raid. I was like, oh, shit. I didn't think this through.
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Andrew Walsh
If I said something to you, this is a. This is going to go a little bit into baseball talk. But luckily I don't know too much about this other than what I heard on another podcast. So I don't think you can go too deep. But do you know of something that is apparently, according to Wikipedia, referred to as the Rick Camp game?
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Tracy
No, I do not know anything about this.
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Andrew Walsh
This I of course heard on Is this a great game or what? The Tim Kirkshen podcast. Tim and Jeff Kirkjin podcast. I talk about too much. I'm actually behind on that show. I should catch up. But they were interviewing somebody named Ron Darling and I will say I don't. Usually I'm listening to sports content. I'm least interested in interviews. I like to hear the banter of the hosts or whatever, talk about whatever their sports theories are or whatever. I always think interviews are usually awkward, but not on this show. They just because Tim Kirkjen's been in that world for so long and everybody loves him, that they just get the best guests who just come on and just kick it. And the interviews are so personal and fun and funny. I just. It was really great. So you had Ron Darling on who? I don't think I'd ever even heard of Ron Darling before, but he played for the Mets. And apparently though all of this, and I didn't know that it was specifically called the Rick Camp game. I don't know why it's called that yet, but this was a game that was played on July 4, 1985, between the Mets and the Braves. And I don't remember what they said, I think the Braves were. That's not a great year for the Braves, I think the mid-80s or whatever. But they end up playing this game that started, I believe, with a rain delay of a few hours, then had an interruption for a rain delay. In the middle of it. And I think it ended up being the longest game. It also went 19 innings. And so it was a 4th of July game that ended I think at like maybe three in the morning. Then they did fireworks and basically everybody pitched like, I think starters were pitching out of the bullpen. I think, I think that's where Ron Darling comes in. I think that he's a starting pitcher who came in out of the bullpen. And let's see here. I, I'm going to read to you the first graph of this off of Wikipedia. In 7-4-85, Mets beat Atlanta Braves 16 to 13 in a 19 inning MLB contest that featured Keith Hernandez hitting for the cycle, Mets manager Davey Johnson being ejected, and the Braves coming back to tie the game twice in extra innings, most notably in the bottom of the 18th. So if you look at the box score here, it's not that outrageous of a score until you start getting into the, into the extra innings.
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Tracy
I'm trying to mean the fact that The Mets had 28 hits.
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Andrew Walsh
Yeah, you're looking at it now too, right now. The game was especially highlighted by relief pitcher Rick Camp, a career, oh, six. Oh, I don't know how you say that when it's under 160 hitter at the time with no home runs batting only because the Braves had no position players left shockingly hitting a solo home run in the top of the 18th off of Tom Gorman to retire the game at 11:11 and that. So this game where a million things happened over the course of hours and hours and hours and inning after inning after inning is known as the Rick Camp game because he hit this home run.
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Tracy
That's amazing. I have to say, and I'm sorry that we've descended into baseball talk, but it's the end of the show and you know, hopefully people that are not interested have gone on with their lives. But like one of the things I was talking about with these kids last night at the game was because somehow the pitch clock came. Oh, you know why? Because one of the Yankees pitchers, the pitch clock had clearly gone to zero and he was still in his wind up. And me and this other kid I was kind of bonding with were like, well, that should have been a pitch clock violation.
- [69:32]
Andrew Walsh
Right?
- [69:33]
Tracy
I don't know what the rule is if, if you have to have the ball out of your hand by the time it's zero or if you can be in your wind up. I don't know what the thing is, but we started talking about speeding the games up and I was like, I Go. I actually kind of like it when the game takes a long time. Like I'm not one of those people who wants the game to be shorter. I'm good with a four hour game. And in fact, being a little kid, I used to love those 20 inning, those 18 inning, 20 inning games because I don't know, they just got so weird. They just like again, you just had like guys like Rick Camp hitting home runs and you had just like weird shit going on that was just, you know, aberrant and not normal. And I just remember being a kid and watching like, like as these games go on and on, the announcers would become loopy because it's now one in the morning. Everyone's just losing their minds. There's like one die hard fan who's still in the stands and the announcers become obsessed with him because like, well, I guess that guy's not going to work tomorrow. You know, just like, I just love that shit.
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Andrew Walsh
Yeah. You know, there was one game, the only kind of. Well, there I guess there was the, the, the Mariners playoff game against the Astros that went like 18 innings, I believe. So that, that was, was absolutely bananas, especially because everything was on the line for Seattle. I don't remember how that game ended up playing out. I imagine the Mariners won. It's hard to say, but I do remember being in Cleveland about, I don't know, like seven years ago or something. And I'm not even a Guardians fan. They weren't the Guardians at the time, I guess, but I'm not a huge Cleveland fan. But I was just like interested in baseball. I remember going out with my sister, going to some little dive bar that she likes to go to and the game's kind of on and so I'm kind of dialed in on that. I'm kind of meeting her friends, but I'm also sort of keeping an eye on this game and I think they're playing Boston and then it goes into the extra innings. And it was a weird experience for me because I'm in the eastern time zone and I've been on the west coast for so long that I kind of forget like that the east coast people kind of complain. Like a West coast game starts at 10pm Their time, you know, and that's like. For me it's like, oh, seven, seven, ten game. I don't even think twice about it. But it was weird to be on the east coast watching this game between. It wasn't a West coast team. I'm pretty sure it was Cleveland versus Boston, but it was one of these things. I guess I could look it up but I won't rat hole here. But it went on. I swear. I'm at the bar with my sister. We're talking. The game is just going on and on. We end up leaving. I go home to my parents house. It's like 2 in the morning. The game is still going on. I come down into the little room I sleep in at my parents house. I dial the game up on my phone. It's still going on and it's like so late. I don't know how badly I'm exaggerating that but these were two teams I didn't even have a rooting interest in. But it really, by the time I get home and I'm still dialed into this game, it felt like a very intimate experience. Like how many people are, how many people are experiencing this with me right now as this game just won't end?
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Tracy
Yes, I love that. And again we don't get that very much anymore because of the zombie runner and all the things that they've done to like to speed the game which I, you know, it seems like it's, I guess it's sort of working. People seem to like it, I think. But I also realized in watching the game live and you probably have this thought, Andrew, how reliant I am on like looking at that little pretend strike zone box on TV and, and the context from the announcers and just like there's just same thing with football. There's so much information that's being transmitted to my brain when I watch sports on TV that's not at the ready when I watch sports in real life. And it's just like I can't tell if that was a strike or not because I don't have a superimposed box to tell me if I'm mad at the umpire or not.
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Andrew Walsh
Yeah, yeah, I know. And of course I came into baseball when that was already kind of standard too. So I don't think I really lived through any significant period of time where I wasn't watching that imaginary but. Or that, you know, that kind of illustrated box on the screen. But I'm glad you did that. I told you at the end of yesterday's show that I was hoping that you would try to make it to the, to the Yankees game, that we should talk about it either way. But I don't know. Yeah, it does make me want to. I often wonder like one of these days I'm going to go see a Mariners game in a different city probably and I always wonder, kind of like, how I will act in that situation, because I do think that, like, I get real shirty. I mean, I don't start shit with people, but I don't like the feeling of, you know, and sometimes this trollish behavior of other teams coming in and taking over our stadium. I really hate that. And it's very personal and I. And I feel trampled upon sort of. Of. But, like, if I'm going to watch a Seattle Mariners game in New York or Boston or any other place that you know, or the opposite of that, or Kansas City or a place that has a reputation for not having aggressive fans and a welcoming atmosphere or whatever, I assume Casey would fit that. I don't really know. But, like, I just wonder to what degree I would. Mariners out. You know what I mean? Like, would I. If we're. If we're winning by a great margin, am I kind of, like, really cheering loudly? I'm guessing not. Like, unless somebody has, like, irritated. I'm guessing that I'm going to be pretty demure. You didn't have that experience, though. I also just wonder how your experience would have been if the game wasn't like, such a blowout against the Mariners.
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Tracy
There was nothing for me to be. Other than Logan Gilbert pitching pretty well. There was nothing for me to be celebratory about. So I didn't have to test that theory of if I would handle it with, you know, with dignity. I think we all know the answer is probably not. I rarely handle things with dignity.
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Andrew Walsh
But, I mean. But what did happen? So I know the game was out of hand at this time, but Cal Raleigh did get a historic home run. Were you there for that? And kind of like, what. How. Yeah, but it wasn't like you. The. The Mariners were, I think, down 10 to 1 when he got that home run or something like that. So it's not. And it was late in the game, so it wasn't like, I'm assuming you weren't celebrating like, two loudly. Because it's not. You're already just trampled by this team. But that is a significant home run, especially when you have Judge and him in the same game and they're both going for the home run record.
- [75:34]
Tracy
Yes. And what I. The only thing I could lord over these guys was that Cal Raleigh has more home runs than Aaron Judge. So when he came up, meanwhile, Aaron Judge. I'm. Again, I'm sorry to people who don't care about baseball, but I don't think I realize that Aaron Judge is also hitting like 360.
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Andrew Walsh
Like, oh, that's insane argument for him. Yeah, that's the thing. Cal doesn't hit for average as much.
- [75:55]
Tracy
Yeah, it's like insanity that that guy is hitting so many home runs and for such a high average. But anyway, you know, it was. Yeah, it was an. It was a weird way for that home run to go down because the Mariners were already out of it. So it kind of felt like it was cool to see Cal get that. I was hoping, because I was sitting in left field, I was hoping that they would bring in a left handed pitcher so then Cal would turn around and hit from the right side and then hit a home run right to me. Right into my heart.
- [76:19]
Andrew Walsh
Right.
- [76:19]
Tracy
Literally my heart. Because that could be.
- [76:21]
Andrew Walsh
No, that could actually. Yeah, right in there. Just like what a way to go.
- [76:25]
Tracy
That.
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Andrew Walsh
Yeah, right.
- [76:27]
Tracy
Honestly, he. He died as he lived with a moonshot from Cal Raleigh boring a hole in his chest and somehow it dislodged.
- [76:36]
Andrew Walsh
The doctors are like, this seems to have dislodged some unchewed Big Mac for some reason.
- [76:40]
Tracy
Yeah.
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Andrew Walsh
Put that in the autopsy report.
- [76:45]
Tracy
I. Yeah, I was fantasizing about either Rosarina or Cal because Rosarina has been hot of late. Or Cal Raleigh hitting homer into left field. I didn't of course have a mitt, but I was like, what if they hit a home run and I catch it and then it's on SportsCenter and then the guys see it, the criminals see it. Wouldn't that be dope?
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Andrew Walsh
I love it.
- [77:04]
Tracy
It did not happen that way.
- [77:07]
Andrew Walsh
You're fantasy. You know what? Fantasize Moss, I guess because my fantasies.
- [77:13]
Tracy
Now that really show title. I thought it was. I thought it was gonna be smelling for two. But Fantasize Moss, I think but like.
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Andrew Walsh
My fantasy is I'll find my seat without disrupting anybody. And you're kind of like, maybe I'll end up on SportsCenter tonight.
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Tracy
It's like maybe someone will loan me their baby and I'll be holding a baby in one arm and a beer in the other and I'll somehow catch the ball without dropping either. And I will become a modern day folklore character. And my friends, the fun loving criminals will see it on tv. And then, and then I will be.
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Andrew Walsh
Enough on the way to the game. I will meet someone, we will fall in love, she will become pregnant, we will have a baby, we will go to the game. I will hold a beer, I will hold the baby, I will catch the ball in the beer, give it to the baby and then they will all pick me up like C3PO and march me all the way back to Seattle.
- [78:09]
Tracy
Yubnub.
- [78:10]
Andrew Walsh
Yubn.
- [78:12]
Tracy
Yub. Nub. Indeed. All right, that seems like a pretty good power out to me.
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Andrew Walsh
It does seem like a pretty good power out. I do want to. I was going to do it next. We already got deep into baseball talk, but I guess we're going kind of long here. At some point, we got to share with everybody. Listener Larry's and our pal Larry's email that was a very baseball related. He wanted to let us know. I think we've said this on the show now, that the Philadelphia had two teams at the same time, which is why. Whatever. Just to clarify why the Phillies became the Athletics, but also the Phillies are still the Phillies, but then in the great Kirkchin tradition, Larry put together a full baseball fantasy team based on names that evoke food. I believe I will share. I know I'm setting it up like I'm going to read it now. I'm not going to. We're going to save this for a rainy day. I'm going to fold this up, put it in my wallet Ross Reynolds style. And we need some content. We'll share it then. Hopefully it's not football.
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Tracy
Absolutely. Yeah. Right. So, yeah. All right, well, let's do that in the near future. Although maybe we'll give everyone a little. A little pause on the baseball talk. You and I just need to start a separate podcast about baseball and get all of our baseball Yayas out. Well, that's.
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Andrew Walsh
That's the problem with me. I'm not good enough to have a baseball podcast. I don't know enough about baseball to help have a baseball podcast. But I like talking about baseball. So I think we're doing. I think we're doing exactly. I think we're exactly where we need to be. Okay, good.
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Tracy
All right, well, listen. Thank you for listening, everybody, whoever is still sticking around to hear this. We are going to be back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio for you. So please, if you can join us for that. In the meantime, have a great Wednesday, everybody. Stay safe. Go Mariners. And please remember, no mountain too tall.
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Andrew Walsh
And good luck to all.
- [80:03]
Unknown Coach
Come on, listen up. We just lost two goddamn quarterbacks in one half a football because our line couldn't pick up a backside bandit on max protection. All week long, we work on the call. Over, over, over again. You are not focused. McKenna, what are you doing? You gotta keep your head on a swivel, man. You gotta slide out there, pick up that robber. I mean, roll up those outside Linebackers beaming. Know your sight adjustments. Understand? Sanderson and Fox will break off their routes, but you gotta be there. You're gonna deliver it. 2 goddamn turnover is in one half. Okay, defense, this is what we got to do here. I don't know. You gotta do something. You gotta do something out there. You gotta make it happen. I don't know what you're doing. You gotta stop flying around the ball. Do something. Tackle somebody. Don't let these guys chew up the goddamn clock on us. Look, when we put eight in the box, you gotta jam those receivers. I don't care. You can make mistakes, make them big. I don't give a. I'm not gonna eat your lunch for that. All right, here we got PJ Mac, Beast Man, Horny, Shark. 12 yards less each time, they're gonna be looking at second and eight instead of second and six. We're only down by three. We can win this month. We got three losses in a row. I'm sick and tired of this. Are you? Because if you're not, raise your hand. Come on. If you're gonna act like a loser, raise your hand. If you're gonna act like, raise your hand. What the hell are you doing, Jake?
- [81:55]
Tracy
I didn't want you to be the.
- [81:56]
Andrew Walsh
Only with his hand raised, coach, so I figured I'd help you out.
- [82:03]
Unknown Coach
Okay, gentlemen, this is where we live. We're not gonna let him with us in our own house, are we? Okay, let's go out there and kick some.
- [82:21]
Andrew Walsh
Power out.