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Asher Roth’s Giants checkup · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: The league catches up with you.
• 0:01
  Speaker 2: You try to adjust, and I think the same thing
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: happens in musical careers as well. You want to push
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: the envelope a little bit, you want to try try
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  Speaker 2: new things.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we're excited about this when Asher Roth music
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  Speaker 3: artists joining us right now on foul Territory. Of course
• 0:20
  Speaker 3: you know him probably for years like me. When I
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: was in college and the famous Isle of College song
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: comes out, it was a big deal. But running now
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: on tour coming up soon. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 3: a moment. But Asher, we don't have many music artists
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  Speaker 3: and celebs on this show, not because we don't get asks,
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  Speaker 3: but we actually turned many down because they're not baseball
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  Speaker 3: fans and we're like, no, Asher Roth knows ball. So
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  Speaker 3: how you doing and give us the lowdown on your
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  Speaker 3: love for the game, dude.
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  Speaker 1: Respect. Good to see jents.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, Todd Frasier bro, like you were. You
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  Speaker 2: were the gamer for growing up in my little league.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: We came third place in the States that year, and
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  Speaker 2: Todd went on to be the man. He's Tom's River.
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  Speaker 1: I'm more so Pennsylvania. I got a lot of love
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  Speaker 1: for that.
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  Speaker 2: But those boys got so big by the time I
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  Speaker 2: got sixteen seventeen, and I just leaned into music. But
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  Speaker 2: just I've always looked. I agree with what AJ's saying.
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  Speaker 2: We still need rivalries, we still need that competition, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of level on the field. But you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's still a beautiful game.
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  Speaker 3: I love it all right, So give us your fandom
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  Speaker 3: right now. So you're a Giants fan, right, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like what you're seeing right now?
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I mean coming off of the Gabe Kapler stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so I'm I'm Pennsylvania, So I actually raised
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  Speaker 2: around Philadelphia fans. My dad, Navy Bratt, grew up out
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  Speaker 2: west and so he actually raised me a San Francisco
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: Giants fan. He basically was like, look, Willie Mays, that's
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: the guy, right, And so I grew up and obviously
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: got Barry Bonds, Jeff Kent, AJ, you know, we had
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: AJ for a little bit. But yeah, so that Philadelphia
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: fandom also gets into you. So I've taken it to
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  Speaker 2: that level. But also you get to see the coaching
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: stuff too. So Gabe as a as a Phillies coach
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: when he when he was hired as the Giants as
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: the Giants coach. I wasn't thrilled about it then that
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a two thousand and one season,
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: we had one hundred and seven wins or something. Everyone's like,
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: oh okay, and that kind of fell apart. But Buster
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: Posey obviously being the guy for our run and what
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: would be kind of quote unquote dynasty. Seeing him step
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: into the baseball operations role and seeing this early success
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: has been a lot of fun. Some of the signings,
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: Jung Hu Lee obviously having a hot start. It's just
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: fun to watch, and it's clean Chris baseball, good pitching,
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  Speaker 2: good defense. It's fun to watch, whereas for a few
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  Speaker 2: years there wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: Heyah, sure I got her up. I gotta ask you this.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned me playing for the Giants. Did you used
• 2:39
  Speaker 4: to throw darts at this as a kid? A little bet?
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  Speaker 4: Bet they didn't love me too much, you know, so
• 2:44
  Speaker 4: my little you know, they did retire my number. But
• 2:46
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying Giants fans didn't love me as too much.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know if you like through darks at
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  Speaker 4: it you got the dart board behind you or what,
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  Speaker 4: But listen, I love my time in San Francisco. I
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  Speaker 4: got to play with the greatest player of all time.
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  Speaker 4: How happy are you that Bus, one of the all
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  Speaker 4: time great giants also is now in charge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: I mean like a lot gets placed on experience, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: especially when you get into leadership positions, you want people
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: or people feel more comfortable when someone's done it before.
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  Speaker 2: But I think especially with such a rise in like
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: data and analytics and coming out of the far far
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  Speaker 2: heid regime, it's nice to get buster posy and just
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  Speaker 2: guys who know ball and like the instinct.
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  Speaker 1: You see it a lot with managers too.
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  Speaker 2: They seem to be ex catchers, like people who just
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  Speaker 2: kind of see the field and and have that experience.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously brutes boshey, now we have Bob Melvin. So it's
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  Speaker 2: like it's really just nice to you what you perceive
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  Speaker 2: to be from the distance that I'm watching the game,
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  Speaker 2: is that, like it's vibes, man, These guys are having
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  Speaker 2: fun playing the game. And you look at all the
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: money pouring into sports, and you look at the contracts.
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: Some of you guys were talking earlier about about some
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: of the deals that some of these guys can get
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  Speaker 2: with with the the globalization of the sport, but it's
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  Speaker 2: nice to just kind of watch a baseball team that
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  Speaker 2: seems that they're enjoying each other and enjoying the game.
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  Speaker 2: I think Matt Chapman's been really great for that team.
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  Speaker 2: He sees teams and feels like a giant. Sometimes these
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: guys come to become part of a franchise and they
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: don't really necessarily feel the part. Matt Chapman fits the
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  Speaker 2: role pretty well. I think the Adamas signing has been
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  Speaker 2: really great for them as well. Again, just from like
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  Speaker 2: a vibe leadership standpoint, and it's nice to see it
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  Speaker 2: pay off in the early going.
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  Speaker 5: Let me ask you this question as a monster baseball fan.
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  Speaker 5: I know you're a Giants fan. Is there something as
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  Speaker 5: a fan that you've thought about over the years that
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  Speaker 5: something in baseball you'd like to see change. I know
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  Speaker 5: we made a lot of changes with you know, some rules,
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  Speaker 5: you know, picking up the pace, you know, with the pickoffs,
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  Speaker 5: you know, no running over catchers, no sliding in. Is
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  Speaker 5: there anything as a fan that you know you've seen
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  Speaker 5: and like, man, I wish they could change that or
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  Speaker 5: you'd like to see this happening in baseball?
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  Speaker 2: Dude, great question. Honestly, I think I've been pretty happy
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  Speaker 2: about the rule changes, getting people running again and all that,
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: a little safety with with the with the slides. But
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  Speaker 2: my biggest contention really is what we did change, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure how you guys feel about it, but
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: just the universal d H. I think it took a
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: lot of strategy out of the game. And then they're
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: talking about balls and strikes. I'm sure you've talked about
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: this a lot aj with you and just like taking
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: away the the art of catching as well with the
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: automated strike zone. So I'm I'm kind of a purist
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: in a lot of ways of just like leave the
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: game alone. I know the torpedo bats have been a
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: hot topic. They've been in the game for a few
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: years now, and so like that's a fun little adjustment.
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: Everybody loves offense. But I'm you know, I'm I'm of
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: the of the ilk of Hey, a one nothing game
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  Speaker 2: is actually a pretty a pretty damn good baseball game.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm actually I'm I'm pumping the brakes a little
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  Speaker 2: bit on the changes. I'm happy with some of the
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: stuff that that they've made just to get people running.
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: I think that's fun. Put a little bit more pressure
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: on on defenses. But yeah, I would be interested to
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: see here how how you guys feel about the universal
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: DH and taking the strategy away from the NL. I
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: thought it was kind of fun to see what you
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: would have to do around the six or seven and
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: a pitcher pitching.
• 5:58
  Speaker 4: Well, I love it because you know why, it was
• 6:00
  Speaker 4: faster games. It was faster games you had to think
• 6:02
  Speaker 4: way more of than American League. Now baseball is my
• 6:04
  Speaker 4: best nine against your best nine, and we'll see what happens.
• 6:06
  Speaker 4: But it was great when you had to, oh, the
• 6:08
  Speaker 4: eight whole hitters up? Is he gonna bun? Or what
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  Speaker 4: are we gonna do? Are they gonna pinch hit for?
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  Speaker 4: There was so much more strategy. I thought it was
• 6:13
  Speaker 4: a better game. But plus it was like an hour
• 6:15
  Speaker 4: faster game. So I'm all for the pitch clock and
• 6:17
  Speaker 4: making the games faster and faster and faster. I just
• 6:20
  Speaker 4: gotta know, though, where are you right now? Because like
• 6:24
  Speaker 4: you're about to go on tour, can we at least
• 6:25
  Speaker 4: get like ceiling toiles. I'm in Florida. We don't have
• 6:27
  Speaker 4: a basement, but like, what what is happening with wherever
• 6:31
  Speaker 4: you are?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 4: Did someone did mom lock you in the basement for
• 6:34
  Speaker 4: this time.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, the wife did.
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: Man. Honestly, it's funny because when when you're rapping, and
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: you know, we were talking about I've been wrapping now
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  Speaker 2: for uh what seventeen years, came out eight and you know,
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: you get banished to the basement often.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: We just gave breath to our two year old too.
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: It's like, well, not obviously it's been two years now,
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: but so she gets president over over a lot of
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: the rooms, and so I've had to move all of
• 6:56
  Speaker 2: the recording equipment and stuff to the basement. I appreciated
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: the acknowledgment though, but yeah, this is actually kind of
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  Speaker 2: like it down here.
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  Speaker 3: your first purchase get after an ft FAM. Also, I
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  Speaker 3: mean Asher, you became, you know, super famous years back
• 8:08
  Speaker 3: for the I Love College song. I mean we were
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: texting in our chat as we're talking to you, like
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: we can picture solo cubs everywhere on the floor around
• 8:16
  Speaker 3: you right now, Like looks like a classic frat party
• 8:19
  Speaker 3: basement right there, So we'll take it. And I wanted
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: to actually ask you about that and how crazy it
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: was back then when you burst onto the scene because
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: also you have Rutgers University of Miami. It was big
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: there when I was there. A j didn't go to college,
• 8:33
  Speaker 3: So if you want to give them a little more
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: detail on how big of a deal it was.
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, it's I'm honestly pretty fortunate that I
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: came up when we did because all the social media
• 8:44
  Speaker 2: and stuff that's just capturing everything all the time, and
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: so I think we came up at a perfect era
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: where you could kind of still have fun, live your
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: life and not worry about recording it. And so in
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: ist of college, you know, the line is, I wish
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: we taped it, And I think people can't even fathom
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: that idea that it wasn't taped this day and age.
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: But fortunate, man, we've been able to run around the
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: country and even and even get overseas, even though they
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: call it university over there. But it's just been it's
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: been fun, and I think that's been something I'm really
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: trying to, like, uh, keep in my life. And I
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: think as you go through specifically from an artistic standpoint,
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: and I know obviously it lends itself to sports as well,
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: you'll you'll tinker with things and as as the league
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: catches up with you, you try to adjust. And I
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: think the same thing happens in musical careers as well.
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: You want to push the envelope a little bit, you
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: want to try try new things. Heurist in a lot
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: of ways of just like leave the game alone. I
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: know the torpedo bats have been a hot topic. They've
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: been in the game for a few years now, and
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: so like that's a fun little adjustment.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: Everybody loves offense.
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: But I'm you know, I'm I'm of the of the
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: ilk of Hey, a one nothing game is actually a
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: pretty a pretty damn good baseball game. So I'm actually
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm pumping the brakes a little bit on the changes.
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: I'm happy with some of the stuff that that they've
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: made just to get people running. I think that's fun,
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: put a little bit more pressure on on defenses. But yeah,
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: I would be interested to see here how you guys
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: feel about the universal DH and taking the strategy away
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: from the NL. I thought it was kind of fun
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: to see what you'd have to do around the six
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: or seven and a pitcher pitching.
• 10:13
  Speaker 4: Well, I loved it because you know why, it was
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: faster games. It was faster games. You had to think
• 10:18
  Speaker 4: way more than American League. Now baseball is my best
• 10:20
  Speaker 4: nine against your best nine, and we'll see what happens.
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: But it was great when you had to, oh the
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: eight whole hitters up? Is he gonna bun? Or what
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: are we gonna do? Are they gonna pinch hit for?
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: There was so much more strategy. I thought it was
• 10:29
  Speaker 4: a better game. But plus it was like an hour
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: faster game. So I'm all for the pitch clock and
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: making the games faster and faster and faster. I just
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: gotta know, though, where are you right now, because like
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: you're about to go on tour, can we at least
• 10:41
  Speaker 4: get like ceiling tiles? I'm in Florida. We don't know basement,
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: but like, what what is happening with wherever you are?
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: Did someone did mom lock you in the basement for
• 10:49
  Speaker 4: this time?
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah? No, the wife did. Man.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: Honestly, it's funny because when when you're rapping and you know,
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: we were talking about I've been wrapping now for what
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: seventeen years? Came out o way, and you know, you
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: get banished to the basement.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: Often.
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: We just gave birth to our two year old too,
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: it's like, well not obviously it's been two years now,
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: but so she gets president over a lot of the
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: rooms and so I've had to move all of the
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: recording equipment and stuff to the basement. I appreciate you
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: the acknowledgment though, but yeah, this is actually kind of
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: like it down here.
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: You also, I mean, Asher, you became you know, super
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: famous years back for the I Love College song. I mean,
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: we were texting in our chat as we're talking to you, like,
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: we can picture solo cubs everywhere on the floor around
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: you right now, Like looks like a classic frat party
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: basement right there. So we'll take it. And I wanted
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: to actually ask you about that and how crazy it
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: was back then when you burst onto the scene, because
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: also you have Ruckers University of Miami. It was big
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: there when I was there. A j didn't go to college,
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: so if you want to give them a little more
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: detail on how big of a deal it.
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: Was, No, I mean, it's I'm honestly pretty fortunate that
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: I came up when we did because all the social
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: media and stuff that's just capturing every thing all the time,
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: and so I think we came a at a perfect
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: era where you could kind of still have fun, live
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: your life and not worry about recording it. And so
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: in out of college, you know, the line is I
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: wish we taped it, and I think people can't even
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: fathom that idea that it wasn't taped this day and age.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: But fortunate man, we've been able to run around the
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: country and even get overseas, even though they call it
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: university over there. But it's just been it's been fun,
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: and I think that's been something I'm really trying to
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: like keep in my life. And I think as you
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: go through, specifically from an artistic standpoint, and I know
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: obviously it lends itself to sports as well, you'll tinker
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: with things and as the league catches up with you, you
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: try to adjust. And I think the same thing happens
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: in musical careers as well. You want to push the
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: envelope a little bit, you want to try new things.
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: And so obviously coming out having that college record being
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: extremely relatable going through my career and getting to a
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: point where just trying to reintroduce myself to an audience
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: as you grow, and then getting to a point late thirties,
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: you know, trying to bring that fun back. And I
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: think that there's an element to growing up, specifically of
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: getting older without losing that little kid in you. And
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: I think that's why I'm so attracted to the game
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: of baseball as well is because you know, you are
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: playing a really a fun, beautiful sport that you know,
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: little league. We're two blocks three blocks away from the
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: little league field that I still go down to really
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: special moment in my life as far as camaraderie, social intelligence,
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: and all those things. And so there's so many parallels
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: between just a growing up music career and as you
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: have an elongated career in baseball as well. It's just adjustments, adaptation,
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: and just not taking yourself or the game too seriously.
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: All right, speaking of not taking yourself too seriously, your
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: cassio is amazing and holding your microphone wires. So that's
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: pretty sweet. I gotta give you credit for that. I
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: gotta ask you this. Have you seen that you talked
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: about social media and the things that's going on. Have
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: you seen the white Rapper Mount Rushmore that's flying around
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: social media right now? Have you seen that whole thing?
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: I have, dude?
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: Have I mean, what do you think? Give me some thoughts?
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, Eminem's got to be on there. What about
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: I mean the one guy I don't I had to
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: figure out who these were, but the one guy next
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: to Eminem looks like Jameson tay On. I don't know
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: if you know who he is to be pitched for
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: the Cubs. He looks just like this picture.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's tough, right because you want you
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: kind of want to take it like, you know, oh,
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: this is a genuine discussion, but it's for social media.
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: You want people to get outraged about it. You want
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: people to comment on it and say no doubt. But
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: you know, I think, without a without a doubt in
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: my mind, I'm on the mount rushmore of just rappers
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: in general, you know. But uh that's just how that's
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: just how I feel white rappers are not. But i'd
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: probably be on the far far right.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure. I'm not sure who's up there.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Probably closer to the bag, but uh, now, I think
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: for the most part, that's just to get people chatting
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: everybody you know that's up there. I think I think
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: what you're talking about is russ I forget who else
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: is up who they put up there. But yeah, I
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: think that's just to get people chatting and saying, that's
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: that's not my that's not my white rapper.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: And you know, I disagree with that. I disagree with that.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: Mount Rushmore, Okay, that's fair. I like the confidence though,
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: I love the like. I feel like I should be
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: on the Mount Rushmore San Francisco Giants fans. Unfortunately I made.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know why.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know why.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: I've been at least Catchers, Buster what, Benito Santiago, Benji
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Molina and you.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Let's just go with that off time. I mean, I
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: like Kurt Man wearing, but like, you know.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm no. I'm no Kurt Man wearing.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: Brian Johnson. What do you want me to start? Right? Hey?
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: Do you when do you? Oh? I was gonna say
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: when do you go on tour? Because you got a
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: big tour coming up.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're we're going out in May, hitting major cities
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: up and down, so Philly, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Pittsburgh.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: We always try to catch a game when we're Pittsburgh.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: PNC is such a beautiful park, and yeah, Boston as well.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: So we'll be out I think the fourth of May
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: in New York and then we'll run till the twentieth,
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: and I think we'll probably try to catch a game
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: in Cleveland to end.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: It nice there you go. Wait in New York. When
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: you're in New York? Is their a game? Are you
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: hitting a game that you know?
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: I didn't.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: I didn't even check because we actually have some space
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: in between. We're just kind of getting started. It's funny
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: because like this, this tour is chronological. I mean, again,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: so many people know me just from the isle of
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: college stuff that they've missed a big chunk of my career,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: and it's because I've kind of unplugged from the major
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: major label stuff.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Consciously.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: I just thought that what was pushing and how they
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: were going about their business left a lot to be desired, right,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: And so I went on an independent route and been
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: releasing music on my own for a really long time.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: And so there's a core audience there, but I think
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: the general public and casual fans are kind of like,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard of this guy or where he's been
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: been for a while. And so the show is kind
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: of like theater in a lot of ways. I'll be
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: talking and telling the story about why songs came, about
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: why certain moves made, and give really insight into into
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: my career as a whole over the last fifteen years.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: So it new York. We don't really get an opportunity
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: like a comedian would to like get up or just
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: like going somewhere unannounced. Because we play with a live band.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of production to it, so you New
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: York were kind of using as like a dress rehearsal
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: to say, Hey, make sure I'm not being too too
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: chatty when I'm trying to get my point across. But
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I'm excited about it. I think we'll be hitting our
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: stride by the time we get to Atlanta on the twelve.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Now will you will you be hitting up a Yankee game.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: I think they got a little homestand when you're coming
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: to New.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: York, well, look we got I'm as a Giants fan,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: we got we got.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Phillies uh this this week, so I'll be there as
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: far as New York, we'll see. I like the series
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: that we're just coming out of though. That felt good,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: especially in the cold. Do we know who they're playing
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: that week of May?
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I can tell you. So they've got on the fourth,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: they're finishing up a series because that's a Sunday with
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: the Rays, that's a day game, and then the fifth
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: they start a series against the Padres All night games.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, I might need to go there to scout, you know,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: and see what's going on. Padres playing well, yeah.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Too, Sinkle de Mayo, Sinco de Mayo.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Wait, one more for you, Yeah, I got some fashion tips.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Last one for me the City connect jerseys for the Giants. Man,
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: what'd you think of those jerseys? Have you seen them yet?
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: And what do you think?
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: It's funny because I was. I was watching the game
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: when they debuted, and.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Kruka and Kype were like, oh, these are good. They're
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: into them. I really like the orange ones. I was
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: actually trying to find an old like late late Night
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: lamont uh orange because I thought that would just age well.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: These new ones there, I don't know, man, the City
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Connects don't really speak to me. Again, I think it's
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: just like I'm a little bit more of a traditionalist
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: with it. I like what they're going for though, like
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: the Bill Graham Hay and Ashbery music and fillmore vibe,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: and like I know that they were mentioning that like
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the wave forms of the music.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I think the idea is there. I love the new color.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I like the purple involved, but as a whole I
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: would still cast my vote for like the just the
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: white and the orange fog.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I thought they were they were fun.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought they were boring. You should go for
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: the orioles. Well, you should go for the orioles all orange.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: You'd love those then. But I think we were winning.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I think we won a bunch of games with those
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: orange So they just had good they had good juju.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Good true true. All right, So who's the biggest Giants
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: fan and musicians? It's you? And then when we won
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: in two thousand and five, we use Steve Perry and
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Journey their song Don't Stop Believing, And then the Giants
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: stole it from us because Steve Perry was from the
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Bay Area. Now, I'm not sure Steve Perry knows as
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: much about the Giants as you do. So who's a
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: bigger Giants fan? You or Journey?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Oh it's got to be me.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I'm on the Mount Rushmore for right, white rappers and
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: musicians Giant fans.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: That's one of one, right there, That is one of one.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: For sure? Yeah, for sure? If you got em and M. Wait,
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: if the Giants played the Tigers, would you and M
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: and M have like a bet on who would who's
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: winning this? Or what? Like it wasn't twenty twelve the
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Tigers played the Giants, did you guys have a bet
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: on who was gonna win? The Giants whooped them.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I'll tell you a story though.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: It's funny because I actually really love how the Detroit
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Tigers are building their squads. I'm a Scott Harris fan
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: as well, like how gms put their stuff together.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: And so.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: When I played a show in New York actually just
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: told this story online. I was wearing a Detroit Tigers
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: hoodie and I had the worst show of my life.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I absolutely bombed. I was just like nobody was connecting it.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: So I've sworn off all in any other any gear,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: specifically Detroit Tigers. So there's a real rivalry there for me,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: just for me specifically. I would love to see them again,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: hopefully hopefully this year. But we've got our work cutout
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: for us against those Dodgers and pod.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Here you go, yeah and Potre all right? Hey, Ashley,
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: this was awesome man. You know, ball a lot of
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: respect from people in the chat. Good luck on the
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: tour too. Thanks for open by man. We appreciate it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Hey, Jent, appreciate you guys. Man be well