Brendan Patrick Hughes (29:37)
I think my. One of my great core memories is I think one, just being a kid and being able to go outside and us rollerblading or riding bikes in our cul de sac, playing 500, you know, the football, like 200 surprise box. You ever play that? Yeah, like those kind of things. And just playing in our cul de sac and being kids and all those memories, like collected into one core memory. Another one which kind of led me into, I think was the inception of me being interested in being behind a microphone was when I was. I think I may have told the story here, but I don't know is my brother, he played baseball and I played baseball, but I didn't pursue it nearly as long as he did. Like, I stopped, I think after like first or second grade, I'm like, no, I like basketball. I don't really care about this. My brother, though, he played. And there's four of us. And my grandfather was into it and he would take us all there to watch my brother practice or play basketball or, sorry, play baseball at the games, and we'd all be there. And in the middle of this place, this was Central Winds park in Winter Springs, Florida, if anyone is listening, I was like, oh, I know where that's at. It's in Orlando. And they had like four baseball fields. And in the middle was this like massive looking silo tower looking thing. And it had windows all around it and up there. No one ever went up there. But they had a scoreboard. Every field had scoreboards and it had a PA system. It was fully hooked up to be almost like a real game with everything going. It was really nice fields. They were brand new. Ish. And I remember seeing that silo and I was like. I was like, man, no one's ever up there, but no one ever. No one ever keeps score. And it just bothered me that we never knew what the score was or how many balls or strikes or outs or what ending it was. It always irked me. And I'm like, God, there's got to be some way to get to this, to connect to it. I wonder where it is. And I think this is just. My personality always is like, just ask questions later and figure it out yourself kind of thing. And don't act like you don't know what's going. I just, just, just go until someone tells you you can't go So I noticed at the bottom of the silo is a concession stand, and then around the backside, there's a door that I've never seen open. I've never tried it. So I always walked up to it, and I pulled on it, and it opened, and I was like, oh. And I see stairs, and I'm like, oh, I bet those stairs go up to the top where everything's at. So I go up the stairs, walk up to the top, and as a kid, this is. It feels scary and eerie and creepy, and you're like, oh, my God, I'm supposed to be here. But as an adult, you're like. You just go up there to do your thing, but no one ever went up there. No one ever did anything. So I go up the stairs, I walk up there, and I look around, I'm like, oh, my gosh. It's all of the booths for each of the games. And in each one of those things, it has a little microphone where you push a button on it. You can, like, talk into it. Like, you know, now batting. And then there's a little thing next to it with all the little buttons to change the scoreboard. And so I walked up there one day, and I was like, oh, my God. Well, there's my brother's field, and the game had just started. So I was like, ah, screw it. And so my brother was batting first because he was, like, one of the best. So they would usually start with him. And I just. I didn't know if it worked because I had. I have no idea. So I pushed the button. I go, now batting. And I said his name and his number. And then all of a sudden, people were, like, looking around. And then I put the score. I put the score up, and I followed his balls and strikes. And this was, like, midway through the season. And then I came down to the end of the game because then I did the whole thing. I did the. I did everyone's walkout. I kept the score and everything. And. And I felt the energy of the game change because now parents can see the score. Parents can see how many balls and strikes and what ending it is. And there's interaction. There's somebody talking and saying something. And all the other games are super quiet. And then it's one of those things where you don't like radio. You do the show, you walk out. Like, did anyone hear that? Did that even happen?
