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Fake Frank Deford and Dusty Rhodes (w/ Stugotz & Hochman) · Stugotz and Company

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: With Stu Gotts and Hawkman. I mean there is something
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: exciting about seeing Stu Gotts in a radio studio.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, not just any radio studio. I'm in the studios
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: of Big one oh six. I am in Paul Castronovo's
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: studio right now.
• 0:18
  Speaker 3: How about that?
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Does he know that you're using his studio?
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: No, he has no idea and neither this's doc Reno.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: But who's the most famous radio person to live in
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Boca Ratone? Is it me? You or Paul Castronova? Wow?
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm new to Boca. I'm gonna say, wow, So
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: you are Paul. That is a great, great question. I'm
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna say you. I'm going to say you
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: you are the most famous radio personality living in Boca,
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: only because I think Paul doesn't really live in Boca.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: I think he spends like half his time in Maine.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, that is true. I would actually say
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: we'd have to go off the board on that. The
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: most famous radio personality living in Boca is Al Lombardo.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, of course, samous for Sam Sneave. My god, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't thought of it. When I give you the
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  Speaker 1: original list of choices.
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  Speaker 3: Stupid question.
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  Speaker 1: Now arm with hindsight, I appreciate the vote of confidence,
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  Speaker 1: though I thought I was falling a deep third behind
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  Speaker 1: you and Paul.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you live in Boca, you commit to Boca.
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  Speaker 2: And Paul is not fully committed to Boca. He is,
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  Speaker 2: you know right, he's fifty percent committed to Boca, fifty
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  Speaker 2: percent committed to Maine. And I feel like when he's
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: in Boca, he wishes he was in Maine, you know about.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: That's so right, That's such a great call. Nobody loves
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: Boca like I love Boca. I love Boca.
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: I have seen you walking around the streets of Boca,
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: and you are right. No one loves Boca and is
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  Speaker 2: more well known in Boca Ratone than you.
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  Speaker 3: How about that.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: Place just makes me happy? Everything about Boca, right, It's
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  Speaker 1: like yes, avocado, toast, oh, yes, coffee.
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Yes, they have all of those things in Maine.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: Terrible humidity. The last episode of with Stebotson Hawkman, I
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  Speaker 1: was just looking at some of the comments on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: It was all about fake Howard, and then I went
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: and I had lunch with fake Howard that afternoon, and
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  Speaker 1: the YouTube comments are just excellent. People are, in fact Buddha,
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  Speaker 1: who had sponsored this podcast for a while with Decady
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: four and Burton Max's Buddha, sent me a text this
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  Speaker 1: morning he had just listened to the episode. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you what Buddha said. All right, can't tell you the
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: last time I heard Fake Howard. Don't know if it's
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: just because I know you all or just it's that
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  Speaker 1: fucking funny. That was the best thirty minutes I've had
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  Speaker 1: in a while. That might be your best episode, if
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: not certainly on the Mount Rushmore. Yeah, it was a
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: good funny episode. But that's all because Fake Howard is
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  Speaker 1: very clever at what he does.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so how is your launch with Fake Howard?
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  Speaker 2: Is Fake Howard soaking up all the positive comments about
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  Speaker 2: his episode?
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  Speaker 3: I'm certain he is.
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  Speaker 1: I know him, I mean so, I sent him the
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  Speaker 1: link to the YouTube episode this morning, and he watched
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  Speaker 1: it and he doesn't even remember half that stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: his only comment was, how the hell did I not
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: get paid for all my work on this? Of course,
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: I said, we'll get in line, buddy, because I'm still
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: waiting on a fifty million dollar. I might cut a
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  Speaker 1: fifty million dollars you.
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  Speaker 3: And me both.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Fake Howard, who is my freshman year roommate from UM,
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: and Dan would always say his attorney. He's an attorney.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: He's a traffic ticket attorney and has a big business
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: down here, the ticket Wizard. Fake Howard had a couple
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: other impressions on the show that we're recurring impressions. One
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  Speaker 1: of them was a little more niche than the other,
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to play it first. I had referenced
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: it in the last episode because I told you that
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: we were doing the I'm a Violent Sneezer T shirts.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: I'm a Violent Sneezer was Fake Dusty Rhodes, But before
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: Fake Dusty Rhodes, we had this very niche impersonation. And
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: again we talked about it in the last episode or two.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: But Frank to Ford was a legendary sports writer and
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: when we started the show in two thousand and four,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Dan was all about sports writers. He loved
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  Speaker 1: sports writers. And again it's kind of a dying breed
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  Speaker 1: the way that you know a lot of print media is.
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  Speaker 1: But Frank to Ford, like he was Sports Illustrated, carried
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  Speaker 1: the weight of the world, right, I mean, that was
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  Speaker 1: the go to journalistic outlet for sports media.
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  Speaker 2: No, no doubt about it. And you're right, Dan was well.
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  Speaker 2: Dan was still writing for The Herald when we first
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: started doing the show, and so you know, print media
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  Speaker 2: is still meant a lot to him. Guys like Frank
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  Speaker 2: to Ford meant a lot to Lebtard. Frank to Ford
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  Speaker 2: is a legend. He's like a writer's writer, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like he is the guy that was Yes, he was, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: may rest in peace, My apologies. He was a writer's writer.
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  Speaker 2: All the writers looked up. They wanted to be Frank
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  Speaker 2: to Ford, you know, yep, yep.
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  Speaker 1: He had a way with words. So then Frank to
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  Speaker 1: Ford makes this jump from died in twenty seventeen by
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  Speaker 1: the way, Oh wow, not surprised Frank to Ford make that.
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: Made the jump to Real Sports with Brian Gumbel. Yeah, now,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Gumble Real Sports on HBO. That was like an
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  Speaker 1: epiphany almost because there was no It was almost sixty
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  Speaker 1: minutes style but specifically geared towards sports.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Gumbele would feature real journalists doing real sports journalism. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the cast members of Real Sports was Frank
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  Speaker 1: to Ford. It's the only reason that people knew what
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  Speaker 1: he looked like and what he sounded like.
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  Speaker 2: That is correct because if you recall on that show,
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  Speaker 2: so Gumble would take you through the story. They would
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  Speaker 2: show the story and then afterwards there was always a
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  Speaker 2: little sit down with the person who generated said story.
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  Speaker 2: So he would sit down with Frank de Ford for
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  Speaker 2: five to six minutes after the episode of air to
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  Speaker 2: kind of recap what it is that we just saw,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: They would come back from the video package. Brian Cumble
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  Speaker 1: would take off his glasses. Yes he had notes. He
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  Speaker 1: had like a sharpie and a pad like I do.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but not in his mouth, right, not in his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Big mistake by him. It's why I'm more popular in Boca.
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  Speaker 1: And he would kind of talk about the segment with
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  Speaker 1: the writer and Frank to Ford, whether he was writing
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  Speaker 1: or talking, was always waxing poetic. But he had a
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  Speaker 1: wispy mustache. He remind me a little of Arthur Blank,
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: the owner of the Falcon.
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  Speaker 3: That is so good perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, physically they look almost exactly alike.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it kind of carries himself in a very
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  Speaker 1: erudite fashion, but it was so fake. Howard had this
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  Speaker 1: brilliant impersonation of Frank de Ford again, very niche because
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't like Frank de Ford was as popular a character.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly Howard Schnellenberger in South Florida everybody knew, and Dusty Rhodes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean everybody knew world wide. Frank the Ford was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more niche. But here's a sample of it.
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  Speaker 1: Here is you and Dan bringing on fake Frank the Ford,
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  Speaker 1: the wax poetic about baseball.
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  Speaker 4: The ostentatious, polysyllabic, breathy Frank the Ford of HBO Real
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  Speaker 4: Sports and Sports Illustrated joins us on seven ninety the ticket.
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  Speaker 1: What do you've got?
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  Speaker 5: First of all, levat hard, how dare you say nobody
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  Speaker 5: knows who I am or what I sound like. I'm
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  Speaker 5: a legend in this business.
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  Speaker 3: Dammit, you're wearing.
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  Speaker 4: Your lapels, you got your kerchief, and and what are
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  Speaker 4: you bringing for us? You got your what are your
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  Speaker 4: waxing poetic on a.
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  Speaker 5: Little something about sport? I love baseball?
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  Speaker 1: Ah, baseball?
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  Speaker 5: All right, it's that time of year again. Oh I'm
• 8:40
  Speaker 5: not talking about my annual dude runs through the Arizona
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  Speaker 5: Desert watch out for those cacti. Of course, I'm talking
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  Speaker 5: about baseball's spring training when the crack of the bat
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  Speaker 5: brings me back to a simpler time when a man
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  Speaker 5: could wear a thedora, a wide purple lapel, and pencil
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  Speaker 5: thin mustache without people thinking he's on his way to
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  Speaker 5: a gone with the Win costume party. Yes, this time
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  Speaker 5: of year, hope springs eternal. You dust off that old
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  Speaker 5: leathery mit with that great musty smell, and toss the
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  Speaker 5: hardball around, reliving the great moment from the past. Suddenly
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  Speaker 5: your back at Yankee Stadium or Evittsfield and a running
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  Speaker 5: like Jackie Robinson.
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  Speaker 1: What was that first word there?
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  Speaker 5: Suddenly your back at Yankee Stadium or Evitt's Field and
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  Speaker 5: a running like Jackie Robinson, or making that over the
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  Speaker 5: shoulder catch like Willie Mays. You see, baseball used to
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  Speaker 5: be a simple game played by simple men, men who
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  Speaker 5: were happy to have a candy bar named after them.
• 9:40
  Speaker 5: As a former Red Sox fan, I still can't eat
• 9:42
  Speaker 5: a Baby Ruth bar. Of course, that might have something
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  Speaker 5: to do with that Caddyshack movie. Oh that Ted Knight
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  Speaker 5: could really make me chuckle. Yes, a simple game for
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  Speaker 5: simple times, But today everyone's in such a hurry. Pitchers
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  Speaker 5: come in for one out, runners come in for one
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  Speaker 5: base and backers for one swing. Oh, if they'd only
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  Speaker 5: let me get in for one at bat, the stories
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  Speaker 5: I'd be able to tell the next time I go
• 10:07
  Speaker 5: down to the old Floradito and sit in hemingwish hair.
• 10:11
  Speaker 5: Speaking of Cuba. Isn't it ironic that a game that
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  Speaker 5: was in North America is being perfected in South America
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  Speaker 5: and the Far East. I often wonder what the legends
• 10:21
  Speaker 5: of the past would think of roommates on a key
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  Speaker 5: shop or arrest days. I wonder if tomorrow's stars will
• 10:29
  Speaker 5: have names like bin Laden or Mohammed, or if we'll
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  Speaker 5: all just stop playing baseball together in favor of the
• 10:36
  Speaker 5: most glorious of all sports, soccer. We to thank you
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  Speaker 5: for having me on the program.
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  Speaker 1: So good man, and it's so Taylor made for Barry too,
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  Speaker 1: Like if you know Barriers, Like how much enjoyment did
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  Speaker 1: Barry get writing those soliloquies about baseball through the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of someone that is that poetic like Frank the Ford.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine there was a more enjoyable thing for
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  Speaker 2: Barry to do. Then the put back together the CACTI
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  Speaker 2: made me laugh out loud.
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  Speaker 1: So perfectly said it and if you knew Frank the Ford, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it is. I just spot on his Barry's
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: fake Howard, fake Frank the Ford, and you'll hear fake
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  Speaker 1: Dusty Rhodes in a minute. They are so spot on.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know which one I would consider to
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  Speaker 1: be the best impersonation.
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: That Ted Night makes me chuckle hucked.
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  Speaker 6: It's almost like a Chicken or the egg situation. But
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  Speaker 6: when you have an impression like this, do you think
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  Speaker 6: the impression is more important or the writing? Because the
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  Speaker 6: writing is phenomenal and kind of takes it over the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. So the writing because it's Frank the Ford, phenomenal,
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  Speaker 1: the fake Howard in the fake Dusty Rhads. It's easy
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: to fall back on the stuff that they would talk about.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Write the Waggle play and Beverly and with Dusty Rhodes,
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  Speaker 1: the Omni in Atlanta, right Frank to Ford. You had
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  Speaker 1: to get the writing correct. But it's like Kelly Endo.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: You know Kelly Endo. A lot of times what he's
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: saying through the impersonations not particularly funny, but the impersonation
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  Speaker 1: is so good that you're just captivated by what he's doing. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I just think that the Frank to Ford. It's got both.
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  Speaker 1: He really sounds like him and he is really writing
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  Speaker 1: like him. A little over the top, Barry, a little
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  Speaker 1: over the top, but that's what makes any impersonation funny.
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: It has to be over the top.
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  Speaker 2: And we set it up for the people who didn't
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: know who Frank to Ford was, what he sounded like.
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: We set it up as imagine, this is a writer's writer,
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  Speaker 2: this is the journalist, journalist, you know, this is the guy.
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  Speaker 2: And so Barry really had to write that one well,
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: and he did. Did he ever run those by you
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: or wondering did he ever like run the script by this?
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think Barry ran much by us because it
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: was always a home run with him, and even when
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: it wasn't a home run, like there were a couple
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: of failures, those were funny because they were such outliers,
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: you know, like all he wanted. All Barry would ever
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: ask is give me a heads up, because you know
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: what happened a lot of times with our show. We
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: would get on a topic and Dan would say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to hear what fake Howard has to say
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  Speaker 1: about that. Get him on the phone, and I call Barry. Well,
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: he's an attorney, he's running a business, right, And I'd go, Bear,
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: can you hop on for two minutes? What are you
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: guys talking about? We're talking about I don't know, you
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: know whatever, gambling in sports. And he's like, well, is
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  Speaker 1: that like I needed an hour to write? Like I
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  Speaker 1: want to make it funny. And that would be the
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: most annoying thing to Barry about is he did want
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: to make sure that when he was coming on, it
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: was going to be funny and it was going to
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: be well thought out, and it wasn't just Dan, but
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times we would just put him on
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  Speaker 1: the spot. But sometimes that would turn out to be
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  Speaker 1: funny because he didn't have much. In fact, listen to
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  Speaker 1: this next phone call with Frank the Ford. Uh, Frank
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  Speaker 1: the Ford calls in to wax poetic about the ELF
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  Speaker 1: hotel and baseball and all that stuff, and then there's
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: this point it sounds like he's saying shitting. He meant
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: to say sitting. It sounds like shitting, yes, And you
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: guys are like, wait a second, what was that? But
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: Barry like it didn't didn't register with him. What was
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: the pause there? And he's like, hey, just end this
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: if you guys are done with this like this is
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: a funny phone call. Play play that one.
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: In the midst of Old Havanah. A couple of blocks
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: away from the El Flodadita where the Dackery was introduced
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: to a thirsty world, is parka Central. It's not like
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: New York Central Park or just a plaza, but mostly
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: Park Central is distinguished by a group of noisy and
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  Speaker 5: animated men doing nothing but sitting there and arguing about baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, what are they doing there?
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: Are sitting there and arguing?
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: Sound they were sitting there, It sounded like they were
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: doing something else there with your lisp.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not certain what you're talking about. Feel free to
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  Speaker 5: cut this off at any time. God, keep going such passion.
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  Speaker 5: Why you've never even seen the like civit in Fenway
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  Speaker 5: Park or Wrigley Field. Oh, I would love to be
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: in Park Central this March when them sixteen most prominent
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: nations of the Diamond play in the first World Baseball Classic.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: It'll be glorious.
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  Speaker 3: All right, that's enough out of you. Thank Frank de Ford,
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: thank you for the appearance.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for having me on the program.
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  Speaker 2: He absolutely said, shitting.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: He is so caught out for that character.
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  Speaker 3: So good is it?
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Taylor? Is it funny to you? Because obviously I don't
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: think you know Barry, and I don't think you know
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Frank the Ford. Does the character work in that instance.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it does, just because I'm imagining the baseball writers
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: of today, like a Loop or somebody like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: And the writing is so over the top that it's
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  Speaker 6: still resonating.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: The guys, the throwback writer the Loop, because Peter Gammon's right,
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  Speaker 1: the ones who you know when you when you wrote,
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  Speaker 1: you painted a picture like a van Go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just like, I just love that character.
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  Speaker 2: The key to that character is, oh, I would love
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  Speaker 2: to be.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on the program. And then
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: the other character that Barry did so well is Dusty Rhodes.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure young people know Cody Rhods. Of course,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: are you familiar with Dusty Rhodes, Taylor gold Dust? Yeah?
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: But in yes, yeah, so there was gold Dust. There's
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Cody Rhoads. Was there a third two or no?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: The original Dusty Roads was the American Dream. In fact,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: he came and saw us in the studio once Stugott's
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  Speaker 1: You and I.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, there's a picture of us with a great Dusty Roads. Yes,
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: I have to scroll back and look for it, and
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: I will. It's a great picture. I think it was
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: aiding McDonald's at the time.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I think. I think it's when we were doing mornings.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was. It came in in the morning,
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  Speaker 3: I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so it was just us. Dan wasn't there,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: and Dan loved Dusty Rhoads. Yes, but I remember who
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: doesn't I remember having him on the morning show with us.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: But anyway, one of Barry's best impersonations was Dusty Rhodes,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: the American Dream. He would always call in it's the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: exact Dusty Roads stand ups that he would do in wrestling.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Back then. He would always be promoting an event at
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the Omni in Atlanta. Wrestling was so regionalized back when
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: we were growing up. So it was Dusty Rhodes. He
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: was going to be wrestling wrestling at the Omni in Atlanta,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: and he'd be talking with Gordon so Lee, who was
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: one of the best wrestling announcers in that era. If
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: you've never heard it before, here it is. This is
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Barry doing fake Dusty Rhoades from the OMNI in Atlanta.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Let's bring on fake Dusty Rhoads. Where are you calling from?
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: It from the OMNI where we're gonna get nat, We're
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: gonna get sunk. We gonna bring it on many night
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: without omnia and Atlanta. Thank You program.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Became his calling card for every person person for me
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: on the program.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, and it worked. I can't find the picture of me,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: you and Dusty.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, I'm gonna I'm gonna find it. Well,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: we'll play the violince sneezer segment the second the the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: set the someone I mentioned I'm a violent sneezer. It
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: was either the last episode of the previous one, and
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I didn't know where it came from. Someone dm me
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: on Instagram that a football player ended up on IR
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: because they had sneezed. There it is. There's the picture
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  Speaker 1: of me inst's Dusty Road.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Yes, a very young me and you a very young
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Dusty Roads.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Yes. Crazy. So someone dm me that I'm a violent
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: sneezer came from somebody ending up on the UH injured
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: list because of a sneeze, and I googled it NFL
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: players sneeze and I came up only with a baseball
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: player who ended up So maybe it was that.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I do believe we were talking about Dan and I
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: were laughing over the fact that a baseball pitcher, I believe,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: sneeze during yes, sneeze during his warm ups. He didn't
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: get hurt during warm ups. He actually sneezed after his
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: warm up and then threw out his back, and we're like,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: that's impossible, there's no way, like that's and then we
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: just started making fun of it, and then you know,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: that's where it came from.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Well here, maybe it was two thousand and four. I'm
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: looking at famous bizarre baseball injuries. Sammy Sosa in two
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: thousand and four sidelined for nearly a month from violent sneezing.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, maybe that was Yes, maybe that was it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe that was it, right, Matt Lattos, Hmmm, that may
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: be who you're thinking of. That was twenty ten, strained
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: a muscle trying to suppress a sneeze in the dugout.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's ridiculous.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: But anyway, we had fake Dusty Rhodes on talking about it.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know why, but he came up with this gem.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: This is just the quick line. This was the line
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: that all of a sudden we fell in love with
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: this was Dusty Rose just saying I'm a violent sneezer.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I'm a violent sneezer, the great line, it's catchy, fantastic.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: And that T shirt I believe is up right now
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: at horsemuffins dot com. That was the most requested T
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: shirt on my son's website that was not yet available
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: for sale was the I'm a Violent Sneezer T shirt,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: And in fact he made two versions. One of them
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: is a nose with some sneeze action, some boggers and
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I'm a violent sneezer and colorful letters the other shirt.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: The other version is like the same snead my God shirt,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: which is just a quote and then it's attributed to
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: fake Dusty Rhodes on the Lebotard Show. So that's at
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Horsemuffins dot com.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Hawk we could do this on another episode, but I
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: do believe I'm a violent sneezer. I think most listeners,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: if we were to make a mount rushmore of Lebtard
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Show phrases, I'm a violent sneezer would be on most listeners.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Mount rushmore like quick.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Phrases from the show from however long it's been going.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I think you're right, I'd have to give it some thought, right,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: because I think we've established that is probably up there,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: a quick line that everybody knows it's from the show.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Me first, Me first, that's probably up there.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: There's some good ones we could do this. We should
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: get the listeners involved. Yes, yes, but anyway, I'm a
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: violent sneezer.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: So we would come back from commercial break, I would
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: play a song and sometimes I would fire off some
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: sound clips during the song, just for fun, just for
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: shits and giggles, to try to entertain you. And Dan, yes,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and I came back with House of Pain, and I
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: was mixing in I'm a Violent sneezer, and Dan was delighted.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: He couldn't get enough. And now it was like, let's
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: do this for the entire segment, right, But as he
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: is wont to do sometimes it's like, well, do it again,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: but make it funnier, but.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: There's no you know what I mean.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: So it's like, okay, well, now I got to try
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: to make it funnier, maybe putting in sergeant Slaughter saying attention,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: like just and then it's like, okay, let me give
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: you a couple seconds, but make it really funny this time.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: But I'm like, well, I don't have like I thought
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: it was fun the first time, but now you're putting
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: too much pressure on.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a curse to coming up with a
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: good bit because if Dan really.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Liked it, it meant you had to do more and
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: it had to be better, you know.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I mean I just blurted out, Yes, I just blurted
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: out one time. I had them on my notes, my
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: weekend observations, and all of a sudden, I had to
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: do them every Monday, and they had to be like
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: nine pages long.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: So here it is. This is me coming back from
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: commercial break and House of Pain is playing. I throw
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: in a couple of fake dusty roads. I'm a violent sneezers,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and this is what happens.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Hey Taylor here A quick producer note. This segment contained
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: copyrighted music that we definitely do not have permission to play,
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: so it's not going to be included in the podcast,
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: but it will be on.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: The YouTube version. All right.
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: Back to Stu gotten Hawk.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: So good.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: We knew we had it the first time, the first
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: one you did, you and I knew it. But of
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: course Dan pushed, Yes, that's why.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: The whole thing is funny to me, because he's like,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: he's like, you didn't understand the assignment, and I'm like, well,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: there was no assignment. I just fired off a couple
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: of a violent sneezers over House of Pain. It just
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: turned it into like the most important thing that I
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: have to do all day. But I wasn't prepared for it.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, I understand the assignment. I just wasn't expecting it
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: to be an assignments. Jesus, we nailed it the first
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: time around, right, He's.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Like, make it sound like you're a club DJ. And
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: then he's like, you don't understand the assignment. It's not
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: something that you'd hear in the clubs, the assignment.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: This is how long we've been doing this, man. He
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: referenced Kimbo's slice walking into the club. How about that all.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Those segments you get such little I mean, just listen
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: to the songs that are being played there, like you
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: get such a great snapshot as to what was going on.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I thought the one right before Journey, I can't remember
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the name of the song that was as close to
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the original as you could possibly get.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: The one that you did in that Uh yeah, that
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: beer commercial done? Hold bag. Yeah, I can't think of the.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I can't remember.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I just what I do remember about that visually with
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: you was looking across the glass and you did you
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: had one of your you know, you had your headphones on, Yes,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: but it was you pushing that button. I'm a violent
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: sneezer pushing the button and then backing away from the
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: board every single time. Yeah right, yes, such the light
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: and hitting that thing.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Man anyway, props to Barry the ticket Wizard because his impersonations.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Is there a favorite of yours. You've got fake Howard,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Fake Frank to Ford, and fake Dusty Roads, which would
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: be if you had to rank them one through three.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's Fake Howard's number one for a lot of
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: different reasons. I'm gonna say we got so much out
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: of Dusty Rhoads. I'm gonna say Dusty Roads too. Frank
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: to Ford three, how about you?
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably like the Frank to Ford speaks to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: me because it is so niche that I like that stuff.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I like humor where ten percent of the people get it,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: ninety percent don't, but the ten percent who do get
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: it are just like, can't believe how good it is.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: But I'd say for the purposes of the show, fake
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Howard was number one by a mile, and then fake
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Dusty Roads probably would dig at more traction. But fake
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Frank the Ford for a little minute in time was
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a great go to impersonation for.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: A moment in time.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, it was great.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: There you go. If you want to hear something on
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: this podcast, dm me on Instagram. It's Radio Mark Hackman.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: If you want the Ama Violent Sneezer T shirt, go
• 26:47
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• 26:51
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• 26:54
  Speaker 1: We would appreciate that as well. And as we get
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: out of here. You always have to do three athlete nicknames,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: all right, we know that of course. Uh Dusty Rhodes
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: was the American Dream. Yes, so I will give you
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Hakeem Elijah.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: On the Dream.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: There you go, Hakeem the Dream.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Let me right there?
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: How about uh God, I don't know, I don't know
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: this nickname, but it makes all the sense in the world.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Tom Googliata Googs? Did you know that?
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Did you just get Yes? If you said Googs, who's
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: the real person?
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I would have told you Tom Googliata, you should try
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: it that way, Tom Googliata, I mean.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: What else are you going if you want, if you
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: want to give him a nickname, ese what you call
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: him Googs?
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Right right? If he's not Goog, something's going wrong somewhere.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: And how about I'll stick with basketball? How about uh h,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I should make it tough for.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: John Sally sal Spider.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: No, yes, we're gonna give it to you.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: I got it before you corrected me.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that was great. That was a fun episode.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: We are not worthy of you, Barry legendary, absolutely legendary.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: All right, enjoy Paul Castronovo studio.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: There, I thank you.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I need to get out of here because Doc Reno
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: is going to be here any minute. I mean A
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: ship starts in four hours
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: With Stu Gotts and Hawkman