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Mariners Magic, Vegas Vibes & Michele Almost Dies · Rik and that Michele Chick

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  Welcome to Rick and That Michelle Chick, the weekly
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  podcast where your hosts, Rick and Michelle, confidently dive
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  into topics they know absolutely nothing about and somehow make
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  it sound legit. They're not experts.
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  They're not qualified. Honestly, they barely googled
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  it. So grab a drink, lower your
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  expectations, and let's pretend this counts as content.
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  So buckle up. Facts are optional, but the
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  bullshit? That's premium grade.
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  This is Rick and that Michelle chick.
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  Well, we were off last week as I was gallivanting in Vegas, so
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  there are a lot of things to catch up on.
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  But before I dive into Vegas, I did want to tell this story.
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  So it was Friday, October third. It was before I went to Vegas.
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  We left on Sunday the 5th. Sorry, I like no concept of what
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  day it is or anything at this point in my life.
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  But so I'm like sitting having my coffee that morning and I get
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  a text message from Todd Lyons, which you and I both have worked
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  with Todd Lyons. I have known him since I was 16,
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  longer than I've known you, which is crazy.
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  Todd knows that I am a die hard Mariners fan and so is my dad,
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  which my dad has been gone it's eight years now this year.
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  And so he texts me on Friday and he's like, hey, is this still
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  your number? And I'm thinking, yeah.
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  And in my mind, I'm thinking, oh, gosh, like somebody that we
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  know in radio has died. Like that's the only reason now
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  that we all like. It's true like.
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  Reach out right like something. 'S happened, Yes, it's true.
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  Yes, we're all at that age now that something's happened.
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  And I'm like, I'm like, yeah, this is still my number.
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  And and then he texts me. Well, can I call you then?
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  No, Like no alarm bells are really going.
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  On he's like, oh. My God, who has died?
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  Who? Has died and so he calls me and
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  he says like, hey, I'm going to the playoff game.
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  So the Mariners are this is the Mariners and the Tigers playoff.
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  He's like I'm going to the playoff game on Saturday and
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  Sunday. And then he was also going to
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  the Seahawks game. The Seahawks played and then the
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  Mariners played on Sunday, which is like the the perfect thing
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  for us fans to to align. Yeah.
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  And so he's like, and I might start crying when I tell the
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  story. And he says, I know how much,
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  like your dad loved the Mariners and how much they meant to him.
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  And he's like, I'm offering to people that I will take
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  something of theirs to the game with me.
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  And so he's like, I'm going to start crying.
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  He's like, I wanted to like call you and see if there was
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  something of your dad's that you wanted me to take to the game.
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  And I was like, Oh my God, Todd, like that is like the sweetest.
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  I love it. Like these.
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  Like who thinks? Who thinks?
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  Todd does. Todd does.
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  Exactly. Like who thinks of other people
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  who love the Mariners just as much as he does?
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  So yeah. So that was before I even went
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  to Vegas. Wow.
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  Yeah. So which thank God the Mariners
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  won. It was a clincher which I was on
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  an airplane trying to get home with this game happening going
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  15 innings. But thank God we won.
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  The Mariners beat the Tigers. Well, we are in the ALCS play
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  offs and as of we record this podcast, which today is my dad's
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  birthday. Happy.
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  Birthday. Yes, and they played my
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  birthday, they played tonight and they won 222 out of the
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  seven game series. So let's hope that night.
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  They keep on, They keep on. Yes, like I don't want this to
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  be close, but you know, the odds of them winning are are are
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  pretty good. On any given day, I always look
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  at it like on any given day, they the, the worst team can
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  beat the best team and the best team can lose to the worst team.
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  I mean, it just depends. I mean, and that's, and that's
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  the excitement of that's why we enjoy the the game.
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  It's like you don't, you don't know, but I know everybody's
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  rooting for the, the, the Mariners and it's been a pretty
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  good run for Seattle sports because you got the Seahawks on
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  a roll, you got the Kraken on a roll and you got the Mariners on
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  a roll. So if you are a, a APNW Seattle
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  fan of all those teams, you're loving it right now.
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  I'm I'm loving the memes right now with ice, the ice cube
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  that's in his car and he's like, today was a good day and he's
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  got but he's got triple hats on. Well, I mean, again, the
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  Mariners are the only team only, only team that have never made
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  it to the World Series. So for us this is just like
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  extra, extra. Of course.
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  Oh, absolutely. So what?
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  What did you pick to send of your dad's?
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  Well, I didn't like send anything with him because I was
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  I had so much going on that we couldn't align and beat.
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  Up. It was just.
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  It was just the thought, it was just him having.
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  That's wonderful. Thought for all the people that
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  he knows loves the Mariners and and offer to like take shit with
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  you, that's other people's stuff.
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  And it could be something important that somebody sends
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  with you. So that's like a big
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  responsibility. We're all just, we're all in
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  this weird place as Mariners fans where you want to hope, but
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  yet you don't want to get ahead of yourself.
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  Well, the good news, they're halfway there already because
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  you just need four of the seven, you know, So they're, they're
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  halfway there. So, you know, I'm, you know,
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  again, again, I'm, you know, I'm, I'm just happy for Todd.
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  So whenever, whenever I see Todd post, I'm not a big baseball
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  guy, but I mean, I, I enjoy the game for what it is.
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  So, but when I see, I know how much it means to, to Todd.
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  So I like when I watch his, his, you know, his views and all
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  that. I love it when he's on Facebook
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  and he's, you know, chiming in on it.
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  So. Again.
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  And my dad was like the hopeful Mariners man every year, OK, the
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  start of baseball season, he would, yeah, he would come over
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  and be like living only our year.
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  And in my mind, I just be like, OK, dad, like we have up what,
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  100? And some like, let's just get
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  through. Let's just get halfway through
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  this season. And it always starts good for
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  the Mariners too. I, from what I know, you know,
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  not that I'm a Mariner expert, always starts great.
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  And then we did a couple like couple weeks.
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  We were like, ah, JOG, you know? Sometimes usually or like the
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  first few weeks are good that we do really bad and then we like
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  pull it out in the end somehow anyway and no matter and no
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  matter how sucky they got, like he always found something
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  positive about them. I don't.
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  It would be. Some random, if we had some
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  random little morsel, that'd be like really Dad?
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  Like this is what? This is what we're positive
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  about. But OK, OK.
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  Well, I mean that that that's being a die hard.
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  That's not being a bandwagon fan.
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  I'm not. I've never been a big Hey, if
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  you're gonna, I don't care if it's the crappiest team in the
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  league, if that's your team, right, man.
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  I mean, yeah, exactly. So yeah, I don't.
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  I've never I like who I like. We've talked about this on the
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  podcast once. I make a decision what I like.
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  I don't care how much crap I get from somebody.
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  If I like something, that's it, plain and simple.
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  And I'm not going to. I don't change for anybody.
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  So I I admire Todd, I admire your dad.
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  I admire you like you didn't, just like, oh, Ozgo, root for,
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  you know, the Yankees or something.
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  The Yankees? Yeah.
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  Yeah. No, thank you.
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  But I love that story, it made my day.
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  Hate Room? Like all the Yankees.
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  Fans now only Cheryl. Only our old boss, Cheryl, Yeah,
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  she's only, you know, you know, and her and Todd used to go
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  around around with different bets and different things like
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  that. I see.
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  That's what they remember. That I remember that.
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  Bet they mean didn't he have to wear like a Yankees jersey.
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  Yeah, I think so, yeah. He had to wear a Yankees jersey
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  or whatever. So you know, one thing, one
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  thing I don't do, and I know NASCAR's part of that or
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  baseball or football is I don't, I don't talk trash, man, because
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  like I said, on any given day your team could lose.
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  So, so I am never, I have never been a betting man.
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  So I'm like, oh, you know, your team's going to go against, you
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  know, the worst team in the league.
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  I'm still, I'm still not betting on that day because it should be
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  a Gimme. And it never is a Gimme.
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  It never is. It never is a Gimme.
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  Especially if you are the if you are talking smack.
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  Like, yeah. Oh, usually.
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  Once you do that, you just jinxed it completely.
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  So that's how I look at it. That's that's why it work when
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  we talk sports and I don't I or even any NASCAR, whatever, I
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  don't talk crap about anything because the minute you do, your
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  team's losing, your team loses. I believe, I believe that I also
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  have a little, I'm a little superstitious is when my team's
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  losing, I will actually leave. I will actually drive, go to the
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  store, do something else and hope that but and right and hope
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  when I get back that some miracle happened.
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  Right. Because I'm because I'm
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  superstitious that way. Like, well, maybe if I just go
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  shopping or. You watching the game is the bad
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  mojo, yes. Yes, I do believe that.
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  I'm like, oh, I'm the guy. I'm the guy doing it.
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  Yep, I'm the guy. These guys are sucking today.
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  It's my fault. Yeah, yeah.
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  All right. Yeah.
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  Well, great. We talked.
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  I think we talked enough baseball for now, I mean.
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  Yeah, they win. Yeah, they win.
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  Yeah, this is you're going to have to deal with this for the
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  next couple weeks. That's all right.
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  They win. But yeah.
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  And then my trip to Vegas was super fun.
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  We saw the Wizard of Oz at the sphere.
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  Very cool. How was that?
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  It was good. I did not catch a foam apple.
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  I was. Very upset.
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  They fell right in front of us and right behind us, the lock of
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  the draw. It was really good.
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  And now everybody's, because it's done so well, it's sold out
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  for this fear. And so speculation is, what's
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  the next movie going to be? Is it going?
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  To be Harry Potter. Or is it Titanic?
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  Titanic. Titanic.
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  That ship goes down, bitches. But how would they do the water?
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  OK, so here. People with buckets.
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  People with buckets flashing you.
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  What are you talking about? I got this whole thing played
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  out for you. Come on, Squirt.
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  So you got a good gigantic? Yeah.
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  Or like Star Wars, it's like Harry Potter or Star Wars.
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  These are what everybody is speculating now because during
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  the Wizard of Oz, the tornado scene, which is really cool, I
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  mean the wind effect and they have little paper leaves that
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  blow around and the house almost like lands on you.
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  So it gives that dynamic to it, the apples falling, the wizard,
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  the like fire pyrotechnics. Oh yeah.
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  And you feel the heat from those.
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  So just those elements and the seats vibrate and, you know,
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  kind of like a Floyd. Theater, if you did, yeah, yeah,
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  I think, yeah, I think you just brought it up.
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  If you didn't realize that, what was it back in the what, 30s or
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  40s or 50s where there's a, there's a movie called Matinee
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  where they they, where they talk about it.
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  That movie theaters used to be interact.
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  Some movie theaters were interactive like that, like the
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  seats that that, yeah, there there's a whole, there's a yeah,
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  it's, it's a 1990s movie with John Goodman.
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  And the movie is called Matinee. And they talk about that
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  immersive experience. And this is back in the 50s and
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  the how theaters were trying to innovate back then and do this
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  kind of these kind of things. So what about?
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  I was thinking Avatar would be one that, you know, because it's
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  got the offworldly look and the colors and all those different
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  things like that. Yeah, it was a little because
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  again, the screen for the sphere would be different than just
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  even an iMac screen. And so I did notice they have to
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  put stuff on the sides that. Or.
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  To it and so like the oh shoot, the sorry, I'm like my brain is
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  glitching. Not the Oompa Loopas, that's
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  Willy Wonka, but the little the Muchkins.
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  Sorry. Oh.
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  Muchkins right? Yeah.
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  So they have like some that are just like standing but I'm
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  guessing they just like recreated or RE.
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  Oh, got a? Movie, but they just look you
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  could just tell it's different and a little bit off and also
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  like some of their like teeth in some of the scenes I noticed
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  looked different. I don't know if it's just again
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  how the screen is in the sphere compared to a regular screen,
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  but just those little things. But but it was great.
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  I mean. That Well, I know that what Gwen
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  Stefani just announced, no doubts going to the.
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  Sphere While we were there, I saw that because we had this
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  sphere view from our hotel room. Usually I opt for the strip view
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  so I can just sit and have my coffee and people watch on the
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  strip, but we opted for the sphere view so we had the sphere
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  was like right? There, right outside our room.
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  Yeah, yeah, with all its advertisements for Cardi,
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  whatever was happening, and yeah, that got announced while
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  we were there. So I saw that was like, Oh my
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  God, that's that's amazing. Now were you, were you there a
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  week or. Yeah, almost a week, like Sunday
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  through Friday, so. That's the last.
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  Time for Vegas, yeah. And we also, yeah, we also saw
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  Shin Lim, which Jay likes him. I knew nothing about him other
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  than he was on America's Got Talent and.
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  Yeah, So how was it? I mean, did you, did you want
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  to? So for me, I'm a big Shin Lim
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  fan too. Fan too.
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  I felt like there just was not enough tricks though, like there
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  was a lot of talk. Seemed right yes, compared to
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  traditional magicians and we've. Seen David Copperfield.
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  Right. Like we've seen Penn and Teller,
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  Lance Burton, David Copperfield unit, we've seen most all of the
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  traditional magicians. And so, yeah, it did seem a
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  little bit like there wasn't a lot of those tricks or there was
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  a lot of in between, like Segway type things.
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  Or yeah, yeah, I would. I when we went to Vegas and
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  Megan, that was the one thing Megan said, because we went, we
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  want to take in a movie show, I mean a magic show.
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  And we did Shin Lim and and that was certain.
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  She don't. And like you, she knew nothing
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  about it because she goes, Oh yeah, it was good.
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  But I would have liked to see more tricks.
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  And I think that's one of the things that happened to Criss
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  Angel a few years back was he did this huge thing, right?
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  But it was a lot of talking. And so there was like, there was
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  not, not as many tricks. And so that got a bad like more
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  tricks. Well, I think 'cause we did see,
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  we've seen Criss Angel too, which we were huge fans of the
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  show and I think for me, we were in the 2nd row for Criss Angel.
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  And I think for me it was the he just wasn't as edgy or Chris
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  Angely as you might expect like in.
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  The TV show. Yeah, I enjoyed the TV show.
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  Right. I mean, there were a lot of
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  tricks, especially compared to like Shen Lim.
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  But so like during which this is probably like 10 years ago that
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  we saw Chris Angel. But he did the word you he rode
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  out on the big saw that, you know, cuts the girl in half and
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  the blood kind of just like ran down cute little area on the
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  table. And in my mind, I'm like, this
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  is Criss Angel like. Splattering blood, Yes.
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  On the audience, I mean, if you go see the Blue Man Group, if
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  you're sitting in the first six rows exactly, you're getting
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  shit on you. Like that's what I wanted.
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  And I think that's what the majority of most people were
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  expecting was to get that like Criss Angel craziness.
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  And it just wasn't. So that that was my opinion.
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  I mean, he's still a good magician and.
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  Of course. Oh, no, no.
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  Great. They're all great at what they
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  do. You.
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  Figure that thousands of hours they have to practice this stuff
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  to make it look real and look good.
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  So yeah, Dad. No, no, that, no, that's, that's
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  the, the it's the entertainment value and, and and different
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  things like that. So so you you so you that so you
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  did Wizard of Oz. I mean, what else in your week
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  are you I know you had a lot of. Things like, I mean, we went to
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  a lot of dinners and those, you know, fancy dinners take up most
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  of the evening. They're like 3-4 hours.
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  We did eat at Halasan, which is like the Israeli inspired
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  restaurant, which was like so good.
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  We ate at MOT 32 which is the Chinese inspired 1 and Mateo's
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  which is Italian and and again this is when I get food that I
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  don't normally get to eat because my husband is allergic
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  to shellfish and so I can. It's mainly family style and so.
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  You can load up on all the. Stuff.
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  Yeah, I get to try whatever. Like, I got to try the tuna
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  ceviche at Halasan, which was so good that I, that if Jay and I
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  were there paying for this dinner ourselves, we would not
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  buy this. For one, he couldn't eat it.
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  And two, like, I'm not, I don't know if I'm gonna like this.
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  So I'm not gonna spend like $30 on tuna ceviche that I might not
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  like. So, so it's just fun to like get
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  to try those kind of things and and just, yeah, get spoiled by
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  these. People.
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  Yeah, that's the best part of a work trip.
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  Well, I mean, plus, yeah, plus a lot of these gaming industry
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  people are really our friends, and so it's nice to sit down at
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  dinner and talk to them. And of course like I was showing
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  off pictures of my grandbaby like.
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  Yes, of course, of course. And but then it made me miss her
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  more. But yeah.
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  Aw, so. So yeah, you were.
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  You were glad. Right.
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  Yep, Yep, Yep. And then I almost died.
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  Yeah, tell me about the story about almost dying.
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  Well, Shaylee says I'm exaggerating, but so I have to
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  get steroid injections in my back for my sciatic nerve and
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  I've been getting them for a couple years now and I go to the
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  clinic in Kirkland because I'm not going anywhere in Yakima.
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  My normal doctor, he is gone and he's on like extended leave.
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  Like they don't say what happened or anything, but the
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  other doctors in the clinic have to pick up all his patients.
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  And so with my normal doctor, they know that I get sedation.
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  Now when I say sedation, like I'm not like asleep asleep.
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  You get the little IV and they put the medicine in it, but it's
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  not hooked up to any fluids or anything.
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  You're not intubated. Like you're awake during this
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  whole procedure when you're sedated and they're usually
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  talking to you, but you feel nothing.
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  I I love the sedation, so I just.
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  Okay, you love being knocked out.
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  I got it. But I but you're not knocked out
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  like you're awake, like talking. That's creepy.
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  You just don't feel anything, right?
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  That's creepy. Like you're having a full on, I
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  don't know, conversation with them Like you're awake.
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  I don't trust anybody. Yeah, this, this is like in
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  Night Shalaman stuff to. Me so so for some reason for I
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  just think I just thought that OK, it's the same clinic.
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  They know that I get sedation. Like I didn't even think about
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  when I scheduled the appointment to ask like, do you have me down
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  for sedation? I just assume that my other
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  doctor, they know and the people that schedule for him know that
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  and I usually don't have to ask, right?
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  And so we get to my appointment and they come to take me back.
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  And normally I would have my IV in right already.
• 19:44
  And the nurse is like, hey, we're ready to take you.
• 19:46
  I'm like, aren't I getting sedation?
• 19:49
  And she's like, oh, well, no, we don't have you down for
• 19:51
  sedation. Oh, no.
• 19:53
  And yeah. And she goes, well, have you
• 19:56
  eaten or drank anything in the last six hours?
• 19:59
  Now, here's where I should have lied.
• 20:01
  I said I said yes because I had eaten and drank something and I
• 20:05
  should have lied. Said no, because again, you're
• 20:08
  not intubated. So like, if you're going to puke
• 20:11
  is right, you're not going to die.
• 20:13
  Plus you're laying on your stomach.
• 20:15
  So if you're going to puke, you're if you're going to vomit,
• 20:17
  you're not going to choke on. I should have lied.
• 20:19
  Should have lied. Yes, I lie all the time.
• 20:21
  That's how you Yeah, no matter what they say, lie.
• 20:24
  Should have lied so. So she goes, well, she's she
• 20:28
  goes, well, yeah, you can't have sedation since you've eaten and
• 20:32
  drank something. And then she says, then she
• 20:34
  says, but a lot of patients that do sedation and then try it
• 20:38
  without find out that it's not really that bad.
• 20:42
  And I'm thinking, OK, lady, whatever.
• 20:44
  Like like let's just let's do this.
• 20:46
  And I'm telling myself because I know that I hold my breath.
• 20:51
  So when I get blood drawn or anything like that, I hold my
• 20:54
  breath and that's usually why I pass out.
• 20:57
  So we're walking back to the room and I'm telling myself, OK,
• 21:01
  like you, you're going to have to force yourself to breathe.
• 21:04
  I'm just trying to like focus and prepare myself mentally that
• 21:07
  I'm going to have to remind myself that I have to breathe.
• 21:11
  I can't hold my breath. So you lay on your stomach.
• 21:14
  I like my hands up here. They have a little oxygen thing
• 21:17
  on my finger. You're hooked up heart.
• 21:19
  They have to monitor you. And the doctor, he's super nice
• 21:24
  and he's saying everything. Is that what he's going to do
• 21:28
  this, that, blah, blah, blah. And at some point I start to
• 21:31
  feel again like I'm laying down and I start to feel not great.
• 21:36
  Like I'm either going to puke, like something's going to
• 21:39
  happen. And I tell them like, I don't
• 21:42
  feel so well. Can I move my arms down?
• 21:45
  Because you can't really move because they have like a needle
• 21:47
  in your spine. You can't just randomly move on
• 21:50
  them. And they're like, yeah, yeah.
• 21:53
  And so, like, I, like, move my arms.
• 21:56
  And I just feel like that I can't really control them.
• 22:01
  Like, after that, like, they just kind of go limp.
• 22:04
  Like, I'm still awake and I hear them.
• 22:08
  Like I hear the doctor tell the nurses, like get an IV thing
• 22:15
  ready. I'm not sure what it's whatever
• 22:17
  it's called. And I hear like the sound of the
• 22:19
  package. That's really.
• 22:20
  Open like the sterile package. I know what that sound is
• 22:24
  because I've had plenty of Ivs, like right, right, right, and
• 22:27
  like, and I came here to them. Like a crash card, they're
• 22:31
  getting ready to get it. Going yeah, yeah, pretty much,
• 22:34
  yes. Which if I would have had an IV
• 22:35
  in for sedation, they would have already had the line, right.
• 22:40
  But so, yeah, I hear them and then like, I feel like they put
• 22:44
  like an ice pack on my neck and the nurses kind of like tossing
• 22:47
  me, not like shaking me, shaking me, but but shaking me.
• 22:51
  And I'm awake. Like I can hear the like them
• 22:53
  all talking. So I'm not passed out like I
• 22:55
  normally would when I get blood drawn normally, like I, I'm just
• 22:59
  like out and I wake up to like the smelly salt stuff.
• 23:02
  But this is different. Like I, I'm awake and I can hear
• 23:04
  them, right. And then then they stick like,
• 23:08
  ice packs under my armpits. And finally, like, I kind of
• 23:14
  start to like, I don't know, perk up.
• 23:17
  I don't know what you would call it.
• 23:19
  But normally with sedation, I would just like, walk out on my
• 23:23
  own. Yeah, I'd be like a little high,
• 23:24
  but I'd be fine. No, they like, wheel in a
• 23:27
  stretcher to come get me, and they have to move me onto the
• 23:32
  stretcher. And then they wheel me like,
• 23:34
  into recovery. And they're telling me the nurse
• 23:38
  that's like Wheeling me, he's like, oh, girl, you gave us all
• 23:41
  a scare. Like, he's like.
• 23:44
  And then he tells me that that's when, like, my heart rate
• 23:47
  dropped to 40 and my blood pressure went down to 60.
• 23:51
  And I'm just like, what? And he's like, yeah, He's like,
• 23:54
  good thing that most of us are like, former ER nurses.
• 23:56
  So we were like ready to like jump in and I'm thinking, Oh my
• 24:01
  gosh, like I, I told you people I needed sedation so.
• 24:06
  Yes. Yeah, So yeah, I almost died,
• 24:10
  which Shaylee says I'm being dramatic that it was just my
• 24:13
  body going into shock and that when your body goes into shock,
• 24:16
  it starts to like, shut things down to protect itself.
• 24:19
  And I'm thinking, well, isn't that the same thing as dying?
• 24:22
  Like, like, isn't it? Like, I don't know.
• 24:25
  But yeah, that was my so now I cannot.
• 24:29
  The doctor comes in, He was super nice to check on me and
• 24:33
  they made me stay there so that they can monitor me and make
• 24:36
  sure I was. OK with that.
• 24:37
  That's good, yeah. They weren't just gonna send me
• 24:40
  home. He comes in to talk to me and he
• 24:43
  says, yeah, from now on, you have to have sedation.
• 24:47
  Like, you can't do this without it.
• 24:49
  And I was like. Yeah, yeah, that's why, yeah.
• 24:52
  Now you learn, you learn one lesson you learn is you lie your
• 24:54
  ass off First off, right, You know, no matter what so that you
• 24:58
  get a physiation, no matter if you've had a cookie or not, is
• 25:01
  like I'm gonna you know. I mean, it would be different if
• 25:06
  you were like a really intubated sedation, but this is not that
• 25:10
  type of sedation. This is just a light.
• 25:12
  Like again, you're oh wait, like you're fully conscious.
• 25:16
  Like, it just makes it so you don't feel any pain.
• 25:19
  So. So yeah, learn, learn something
• 25:23
  new. Gave everybody a nice little
• 25:25
  scare, but so, so yeah. But I just had like normally low
• 25:31
  blood pressure but not like 60. Well, I'm glad you're.
• 25:35
  I'm glad you're still with us. Thanks.
• 25:37
  Thanks. I just had like a horrible
• 25:39
  headache the next day and was not feeling like super great.
• 25:41
  So, so yeah, that was that was that was my adventure.
• 25:47
  That that's, you know, like I said, almost like an episode of
• 25:49
  ER. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:52
  Like hearing them, like. Oh yeah.
• 25:54
  I mean. I've never, I've never had that
• 25:56
  situation. I've never in my have you ever
• 25:58
  in your lifetime ever? I've never.
• 26:00
  Never. I mean, like I've, you know,
• 26:01
  given birth four times in that. OK, well, it's a little.
• 26:04
  Bit but but nothing like shit wasn't going sideways during the
• 26:09
  during any of those births. I mean, Shaylee was early, but
• 26:13
  you know, we knew she was going to be delivered like there
• 26:16
  wasn't anything that could be done at that point.
• 26:18
  So it wasn't, it wasn't anything like this where it's like, oh
• 26:22
  gosh, you know, like. Did you get that?
• 26:25
  Did you get that feeling like, like I'm dying, I'm going, this
• 26:28
  is it, this is it felt. Really weird, which which again,
• 26:31
  when I was telling Shaylee like it like is that kind of what
• 26:35
  it's like to like start to die? Because if my heart rate was at
• 26:38
  40 and you lose consciousness when your heart rate goes to 30
• 26:42
  normal most people. So I mean that's like 10 away.
• 26:47
  So it's like, is that kind of like the how it would feel as
• 26:52
  you went from like 40 to 30? Basically in my mind, I'm kind
• 26:56
  of like like because again, like I was awake and I could hear
• 27:02
  them. That's.
• 27:02
  Weird, yeah, but. Once my arms like kind of felt
• 27:05
  heavy. It's like I couldn't, like I
• 27:09
  couldn't do any, like I couldn't move anything.
• 27:13
  It was weird. Yeah, for, for me, that just,
• 27:16
  that just seems like movie stuff to me.
• 27:18
  Like what we just like you describe that, like, you know, I
• 27:22
  can't move and they're taking out my liver or my pancreas or,
• 27:24
  you know, I mean, that's the creepiness.
• 27:26
  That's the It's got to be a creepy feeling.
• 27:29
  Yeah, it was. Yeah.
• 27:30
  It was trippy. I mean, at that time I didn't
• 27:33
  know that like my heart was like 40 or my blood pressure was 60.
• 27:37
  I just thought, I just thought like again, like it was like
• 27:41
  when I hold my breath and pass out when I give blood, that
• 27:45
  that's what was happening. I didn't realize like it was a
• 27:48
  different thing that was happening.
• 27:50
  So, so well, I mean, I guess that's kind of like how it feels
• 27:55
  when you start to die. I don't.
• 27:56
  I don't. Know and I don't even know what
• 27:58
  that feels like there's a ball under the couch.
• 28:01
  It's amazing. There's a ball, so hey.
• 28:03
  Are you? Are you going to get the ball?
• 28:06
  Which dot is that? Barkley that wants the ball.
• 28:08
  That's Barkley, but I got to hang on.
• 28:10
  We're going to toss it out the door, so.
• 28:11
  OK. The grand The grand experiment
• 28:22
  of being in the living room, I just.
• 28:24
  Oh yeah, we did. We Yeah, we need to talk about
• 28:26
  why you're in a different area for your pocket.
• 28:29
  Because because we took all the furniture out of the guest room,
• 28:32
  all the furniture and carpeting out of the man cave, because
• 28:35
  we're going to be redoing contractors going to be doing
• 28:39
  the work on it after that little flood we had.
• 28:41
  And so they were supposed to do it last week and they couldn't
• 28:44
  do it. And then they haven't showed up
• 28:46
  this week either. So I you know, I guess it's the
• 28:48
  what I guess it's what they call contractor time, right?
• 28:52
  So, so in so in my little Home Office, there is like a love
• 28:55
  seat in there. There's the, the small screen
• 28:59
  TVA bunch of, I mean, it's just all stacked up on the desk.
• 29:03
  And so it was easier for me to move everything to the well, I
• 29:06
  was going to do it over there on the kitchen island.
• 29:09
  And so, but, but then I thought, well, maybe I'll just sit down
• 29:12
  with the power, the power strips right here at Megan.
• 29:14
  This is usually where Megan's working.
• 29:17
  So, so my, my and, and you cut out earlier and, and Kyron was
• 29:21
  running the microwave. So my gut says, oh, the
• 29:23
  microwave interferes with the Internet basically is what I was
• 29:26
  what I was just thinking about that too.
• 29:28
  So yeah, you know, I mean, this is like you said, it's I will
• 29:32
  bring up something interesting. Well, so here's and we won't
• 29:39
  spend too much time on it. So in radio and we part of this
• 29:42
  podcast has to do with radio sometimes.
• 29:44
  So Joel Denver, who's who used to run allaccess.com, which is
• 29:49
  very famous for like 30 plus years, a very famous website
• 29:53
  where you got all your music, you got your information, you
• 29:55
  got your job opening all of that.
• 29:57
  Joel Yeah. Joel also used to be a
• 30:00
  syndicated personality that did a show called Future Hits.
• 30:03
  So very cool, right? Anyway, about a year ago or so,
• 30:08
  he that that kind of went under or just the change of the of the
• 30:12
  business. So that model went away.
• 30:14
  And then today they did a big, huge announcement about an AI
• 30:17
  company that he's helped, that he helped start or as a part of
• 30:21
  or at least supplying music to. And so they've got like 4
• 30:25
  different formats. They've got country, they've got
• 30:27
  classic hits, they've got, my gosh, an alternative type
• 30:32
  station and something else. And so the craziness is so that
• 30:37
  the company's called Futuri, there's another.
• 30:39
  So there his company teamed up with the other guy, Futuri, and
• 30:43
  it's AI. It's all, it's like it's all AI.
• 30:47
  So, so all the music, so it's like AI radio.
• 30:50
  So it'd be like all the music is AI.
• 30:52
  The like radio DJs with the AI, the imaging is AI.
• 30:57
  So you're saying like everything is AI for this?
• 31:00
  Everything is AI now because now because AI has gotten so
• 31:04
  advanced is so how it was pitched to me is like if I'm the
• 31:09
  program director of the radio station and there is a car wash
• 31:13
  coming up Saturday for the YMCA, you can type in in the little
• 31:18
  box that says the YMCA car wash. And then when the AI air talent
• 31:23
  is on the air, it literally will go, hey, it's Rick.
• 31:27
  Hey, it's Rick. There's a car wash coming up now
• 31:30
  listening to the demo. AI for me still has a ways to go
• 31:36
  because what's interesting is, yeah.
• 31:37
  Does it deliver? I was listening to Zach, he was
• 31:41
  on classic rock. I was listening to Robin.
• 31:43
  She's on like the the classic hit station or whatever, the pop
• 31:46
  station. And there's still a monotone.
• 31:50
  There's still monotone with AI. I mean, they, they, they're not
• 31:53
  over that hump yet. Right, they don't have like the
• 31:57
  the emotion. The warmth I don't.
• 31:58
  Know where to where to insert it to well.
• 32:02
  So they deliver it. So they deliver it.
• 32:05
  I mean, I mean, so if you're asking for, if you're a gymnast
• 32:08
  and you're scoring on a scale of 1 to 1010 being exceptional,
• 32:13
  you're still going to the average listener probably isn't
• 32:16
  going to pick up on the intricacies.
• 32:18
  But for me, I'm like, but for me, I'm like, Oh my gosh,
• 32:20
  there's like, there's no, there's no emotion.
• 32:23
  Yeah, they read, they read, they read about the car wash or
• 32:26
  different things like that. But there's nothing that make
• 32:29
  and it's and it's local and it's local.
• 32:31
  It's a local car wash. Yeah.
• 32:32
  You know, Yakima car wash. I get it, but there's that that
• 32:36
  I don't know the inflections and the and the warmth and what
• 32:40
  makes you truly a personality. Great.
• 32:43
  And they took real. They took real radio people.
• 32:46
  They did. They took real radio people.
• 32:48
  And they and they, you know, emulated these voices.
• 32:52
  The problem is you still can't match it yet.
• 32:56
  Right. So well and us as a radio
• 32:59
  people, so you know, you talking about, you input the stuff about
• 33:03
  the car wash. Well, yeah, you might have that
• 33:05
  information. It might be a couple sentences,
• 33:07
  but you as the radio DJ, you spin that in your own personal
• 33:14
  way for you, like how you are, how you would talk, how you
• 33:18
  would say it or add whatever to it.
• 33:20
  And an AI is not going to do that.
• 33:23
  They're just going to read it word for word.
• 33:25
  So you make a Yeah. So it so.
• 33:27
  Yeah. So you make a great point about
• 33:28
  a dog park is opening up here in Kennewick on Saturday.
• 33:31
  So if I'm on the air, and I know this might get a little too deep
• 33:34
  for people who don't know much about radio or or or announcing,
• 33:37
  but when I come up to that break, you know, I'll come out
• 33:39
  of a song. But let's say it's Kenny Loggins
• 33:41
  Footloose and I'll go, hey, Kenny Loggins footloose, Rick
• 33:44
  with you. And then I'll talk about the dog
• 33:46
  park. But I'll but I'll talk about
• 33:47
  Barkley, my dog. I'll talk about Bodie, my dog,
• 33:49
  or Roxy, how much they're going to like.
• 33:51
  It. Yeah, we personalize it.
• 33:53
  And so it's not just reading. Hey, the dog park is opening up.
• 33:57
  It's going to be open Saturday at 11 with a lot of giveaways.
• 34:00
  There's there's different ways that we as humans, you know,
• 34:04
  deliver that information. Now do I'm curious.
• 34:07
  I'll have to ask your own kids, you know, do they even care
• 34:10
  anymore? Like we care about it because
• 34:11
  we're we're we're generation X or boomers or even some
• 34:15
  millennials. We care about it because we grew
• 34:17
  up on on radio. But but I'm curious if your kids
• 34:22
  like if it's if it's just delivered locally, like, you
• 34:26
  know, you know, it's Zach on classic rock one O 2.
• 34:29
  And here's the here's the story about the dog park.
• 34:33
  Will the average listener even care?
• 34:36
  Like for me, it's monotone. I'm like, well, this doesn't
• 34:37
  even sound like, I mean it, it sounds very robotic.
• 34:41
  It's better, it's better, it's better than it was.
• 34:43
  It's better than it was. But it's like, and it was
• 34:46
  interesting listening to the demo was the, the, the imaging,
• 34:51
  like the big voice people, we call them big voice, the big VO
• 34:53
  people. I'm like, well, that's real.
• 34:55
  That's not, that's not, that's not AI because you can tell
• 35:00
  there's AI. Guess there's just a warmth or
• 35:03
  there's something missing and but, but I guess with the with
• 35:08
  the people listening coming up 98, I just want you to know
• 35:10
  really quick, 98 million people still listen to radio.
• 35:13
  It's 98 million. I mean, that's surprising.
• 35:16
  It is that impresses me, honestly.
• 35:18
  Well, and, and so I, I see, I, I guess I can say I see a place
• 35:25
  like if I'm in the Dallas OR, or Moses Lake and I'm, and I and I
• 35:29
  own 1 little radio station or maybe this is the way, you know,
• 35:32
  I mean, I get it. Staffing people is expensive.
• 35:34
  I'm not defending, I'm not defending that.
• 35:37
  But but it's interesting that for me, it's like, I just don't
• 35:41
  hear what makes that unique. And but, but again, maybe the
• 35:48
  audience doesn't care anymore. They just want the information
• 35:51
  well. At the same time, it's still
• 35:52
  local. It's still local because they're
• 35:55
  still talking about like. Local, right, two sentences
• 35:59
  about a car wash, but right, they're not but there's no I
• 36:03
  mean, that's how we connect with people though is through
• 36:05
  emotions usually. And so if that's not there, then
• 36:10
  they're not really connecting with people because I feel like
• 36:13
  when we did mornings, more people really connected with us
• 36:19
  because we really talked about our real lives and our kids and
• 36:24
  and they connected based on that.
• 36:27
  And so you're you don't have that with AIAI is just minds.
• 36:32
  As a, as an on air personality I've had, I've never had anybody
• 36:35
  ever come and see me at a live broadcast or any event.
• 36:38
  And if they do mention something about the show, it's never
• 36:42
  Hollywood news. It's not the it's not the bits.
• 36:45
  They never, they never say nothing about the even though,
• 36:48
  even though we've been, oh, you've got to have bits.
• 36:49
  No, it's, it's when you say, oh, I heard you got in a fight with
• 36:52
  your wife or I heard the dog. I heard the dog puked on the
• 36:55
  floor. Right.
• 36:56
  Or how, how is your kid in college doing?
• 36:58
  Or, you know, I listen. Right.
• 37:00
  Yeah, right. So AI can't, I mean, AI just
• 37:03
  can't replicate that. That's I was listening to these
• 37:06
  demos. I'm like, I mean, and I and I
• 37:08
  and I of course, I like Joel. I think Joel Denver is fantastic
• 37:11
  and I wish him the best of luck. And I'm like, I'm trying to
• 37:13
  think about where does that? I guess where does that, you
• 37:16
  know, are they going to be able to scale that?
• 37:18
  And now, now I heart ton a ton of layoffs right now.
• 37:24
  So there's another sweep of layoffs going through our
• 37:26
  industry. It's it's absolutely crazy right
• 37:28
  now. And then I was talking to Andy.
• 37:30
  Remember Andy, he used to program cats.
• 37:32
  He's in Modesto, Stockton. He works for Cumulus and we were
• 37:35
  talking about that. He we're talking about they
• 37:37
  don't have a receptionist there. They don't have a traffic
• 37:40
  department. I mean, all these components
• 37:43
  that in our industry have gone away because of technology.
• 37:47
  Now I am not, I am, I am not one of those old fuddy duddies, as
• 37:52
  you already know. I've always felt that everything
• 37:55
  changes. So I'm not one of those people.
• 37:57
  I don't I'm not one of those on air people that goes, well,
• 38:00
  there should be there should be somebody on the radio.
• 38:02
  Midnight to six. No, I understand that the
• 38:04
  economics of it all and I don't have much change since when we
• 38:07
  got started in the in the business, you know, almost 40
• 38:10
  years ago. But it's like, yeah, but that's
• 38:13
  like, but I can, but I can hear it.
• 38:16
  I'm just curious if your kids will be able to go.
• 38:18
  Oh, yeah. Or, or they might.
• 38:20
  They might not even bond. Like, yeah, Zach is on the radio
• 38:23
  doing classic rock, but no one's ever going to want to meet Zach.
• 38:28
  No, of course not. He.
• 38:29
  Delivers. He delivers what he's supposed
• 38:31
  to, but it but there's nothing more.
• 38:33
  There's nothing. There's nothing more with it, if
• 38:35
  that makes sense. I'll have to ask them and
• 38:37
  especially Shaylee because she is dubbing.
• 38:40
  This is what she's doing for a job.
• 38:42
  She is dubbing movies that are in Korean and then they are
• 38:49
  being translated through AI from the Korean into English.
• 38:54
  And so she has to make sure that the English is correct.
• 38:57
  And then she also has to make sure that that the like size and
• 39:02
  laughs and that kind of thing are put in because the AI can't
• 39:06
  put that stuff in just like we were just talking about they,
• 39:09
  you know, AI doesn't have that capacity to have like that
• 39:12
  emotion. And so she has to make sure that
• 39:15
  the laughs or sigh, all those extra things are correct and in
• 39:20
  there. And so I'll ask her and see what
• 39:23
  she has to say. I'm curious to see what she
• 39:25
  thinks are. They yeah, I mean, again, I
• 39:28
  mean, normally when we do these, when we do these radio surveys
• 39:31
  or when research projects come back, they always say one and
• 39:36
  two is I listen to the radio for music and the personalities like
• 39:40
  that is that without a doubt. And it's free.
• 39:43
  It's free. They don't have to pay for
• 39:44
  Spotify. They don't pay for XM or Sirius,
• 39:46
  any of those. So I mean, there are still huge
• 39:50
  advantages to terrestrial radio. They're real.
• 39:52
  They're there really still is. But I'm curious, as we take more
• 39:56
  pieces away from what we remember from radio or what we
• 40:00
  love about it, I'm curious if the audience.
• 40:04
  If it will affect to the audience.
• 40:06
  I, I, I mean, are, are, are they, are, are they fooled by
• 40:10
  that? So we've, we've talked a lot
• 40:11
  about interesting. We got an e-mail a couple days
• 40:14
  ago from Brooke and a listener for Brooke and Jeffrey.
• 40:18
  And they do their, and they do their prank call or whatever.
• 40:21
  And the gal and the gal emailed me and goes, Oh my God, listen
• 40:24
  to this morning's prank call with Brooke and Jeffrey.
• 40:26
  Oh, I loved it so much. I'd love to prank my husband.
• 40:29
  Da da, da, da da. Well, you and I both know.
• 40:31
  If you talked about this on a past podcast.
• 40:34
  It's staged. It's staged.
• 40:35
  I don't want to hurt anybody's, you know, I mean, right.
• 40:38
  It is there for the entertainment value.
• 40:40
  Yes. You know, even even me being a
• 40:42
  radio person, listen to Brooke and Jeffrey.
• 40:44
  I will hear a very it's it's entertaining.
• 40:46
  Yeah. So I know I even I know that
• 40:49
  that it's it's actors right, doing doing the thing.
• 40:53
  So I know it full well, but I enjoy it for the entertainment
• 40:56
  value and and don't put any stock you do, but there are
• 40:57
  still people who actually believe that, that they're prank
• 41:01
  calling or that the second date updates or any of that stuff is,
• 41:05
  is, is real. So I'm curious as we get more
• 41:10
  into the AI and it was funny. They did a they did a big
• 41:12
  experiment. I don't know if we talked about
• 41:14
  it in the past podcast, but AI Ashley was in Portland on live
• 41:18
  one O 5. Now she did a show.
• 41:20
  She's from like North Carolina, South Carolina.
• 41:23
  So she just provided the voice for the show in Portland e-mail.
• 41:26
  So she voice tracks the show in Portland.
• 41:28
  Portland, OR. OK, so.
• 41:30
  Then they this Futura took her voice and made AI Ashley.
• 41:34
  And so it was interesting to hear AI Ashley can call the
• 41:39
  listener and give them tickets. So you hear that do do, do do.
• 41:42
  And it called this No, it called this gal and goes, hi, is this
• 41:46
  Mary? And she goes, yeah, it's Mary.
• 41:48
  And she goes, she goes, hey, it's AI Ashley and you've won
• 41:50
  tickets to Taylor Swift and the and Mary goes absolutely ape
• 41:54
  shit. Like who?
• 41:56
  Cares if it's AI Ashley, I wouldn't care.
• 42:01
  During the phone call, AI Ashley, there's no emotion.
• 42:05
  I mean, she delivers. Right.
• 42:07
  She's just like hey Mary this is AI Ashley and won tickets too
• 42:11
  and I wouldn't consider. Fat AI, but it delivered it
• 42:15
  delivered exactly what you would expect.
• 42:18
  Now the the audience member she got Taylor Swift and she don't
• 42:21
  care, but for me listening back and hearing how monotone or
• 42:26
  because normally usually tickets you're with them you're.
• 42:29
  Yes, you're excited for. You're like, yeah.
• 42:32
  You're like, yeah. And so, so AI Ashley didn't do
• 42:36
  any of that. She's just like, well, hey,
• 42:37
  Congrats, Mary, and you're gonna take some of the station.
• 42:39
  I mean, it really is. It's very.
• 42:41
  Yeah, it's very. That's very it's very detached,
• 42:44
  you know, so and interesting enough, after six months, I
• 42:47
  think live one O live one O 5. Don't they don't use AI Ashley
• 42:51
  anymore in Portland OR like the the grand experiments?
• 42:56
  That Ashley got fired. Failure by any means, but you
• 42:59
  know it. I'm sure the ratings came out.
• 43:02
  I'm sure the ratings came out and said that that that that's
• 43:06
  not the direction the station wanted to go with.
• 43:08
  And remember everything we talked about.
• 43:09
  Let's be truthful and honest. Everything's about money.
• 43:11
  That's that's it, plain and. Simple dollars and cents.
• 43:14
  It's all yeah, if they do not do not fool yourself.
• 43:17
  And that's the same as, you know, going the school district
• 43:20
  and working at a lab and working at PNL and working at the the
• 43:23
  mill. At the end of the day, it is, it
• 43:26
  is how to get money for the stockholders basically, you
• 43:29
  know, and, and do it on the cheapest humanly possible.
• 43:32
  So, but I thought it was just interesting.
• 43:34
  And I'm curious. Yeah.
• 43:35
  When you get a chance to talk to your kids.
• 43:37
  I even even I broke down and I have Spotify now.
• 43:40
  So it took me, I felt like I was betraying radio by getting
• 43:44
  Spotify. But I realized the songs I want
• 43:46
  to hear and how I want to hear them is yeah.
• 43:49
  I mean, I don't, they don't, I don't have a station that
• 43:52
  delivers exactly what I what I want to hear.
• 43:54
  So I have Spotify and I'll even use the AIDJ.
• 43:58
  I haven't used the AI DJ but I have like my I have my own
• 44:01
  little like playlist created for like certain movies and stuff I
• 44:05
  want to listen to and. Yeah, So the AI is DJ.
• 44:09
  His name is DJX. And so he goes so, so he sounds
• 44:12
  like AI. He's like, hey, he goes hey,
• 44:14
  it's your it's your guy DJX. And I'm going to show you.
• 44:18
  These are the stuff you've been listening to, Rick.
• 44:19
  Here is Rick Springfield. And then he'll mispronounce an
• 44:22
  artist because he's AI, you know, because.
• 44:24
  You. Know he's AI so I mean and so he
• 44:27
  will mix the songs and so it's kind of cool.
• 44:29
  You still get that blended like like when you listen to Spotify,
• 44:33
  you get the dead air. I mean for radio people, we
• 44:35
  don't like the dead air, but what the DJ in the Spotify it
• 44:39
  segways for you, so you hear it. So he's I mean, he's DJ ING it
• 44:43
  even DJ is over the intros. Yeah, but but I mean, but he's
• 44:48
  not he's not like without personality, but he really
• 44:50
  doesn't have I mean he really doesn't have personality, but
• 44:53
  the but but he's playing my favorite songs.
• 44:57
  So so so. I don't dislike DJ X because,
• 45:01
  well, he's playing Mr. Mr. and no one else plays Mr. Mr. So.
• 45:05
  No, no one else does. So yeah, well, actually, my, my
• 45:09
  station 98 points through the key does we do play Broken Wing
• 45:12
  still makes it believe it, believe it or not, Mr. Mr.
• 45:15
  Broken Wing still makes it still an active rotation even at a
• 45:19
  national level. Still an active rotation.
• 45:21
  It's true, true. And then and then we do the 80s
• 45:24
  weekends. Curiae always is in there too,
• 45:26
  the two big number ones. But anyways, you need.
• 45:29
  That's more information than you needed, but.
• 45:31
  No, no, it's fine. But no, it's like ask your kids
• 45:34
  about the AI. I'm just curious if.
• 45:36
  Yeah, because I'll. Be curious, especially if it ask
• 45:41
  them if they're OK with it, if it's a format they like, because
• 45:43
  what's interesting about this company that launched is there's
• 45:46
  formats that you normally can't get, which was kind of cool.
• 45:50
  So there was like an alternative adult alternative type thing.
• 45:53
  It was kind of cool. So I thought, well, you know,
• 45:56
  you know, if there's country, you get country, all that, I
• 45:57
  mean in these small markets. Is there AK pop because you know
• 46:00
  Shay would be down for that. Well, that's what I'm saying.
• 46:02
  So yeah. So let's say it was K pop K pop
• 46:04
  but it was an AIDJI. Think she'd be OK with it her
• 46:07
  and. She wouldn't care.
• 46:09
  She probably would prefer that there's no DJ.
• 46:11
  Right. I think her generation is like,
• 46:13
  yeah, that's you know, but but it's interesting when you hear
• 46:16
  the so when you hear the AI, they were doing the the classic
• 46:20
  hits. So it's not just doing the AI,
• 46:23
  it's how it talks. So they so they so they would
• 46:26
  come out of a song on the AI and go well, that was multi multi
• 46:30
  platinum artist Morgan Wallen multi platinum.
• 46:34
  So it's like the audience doesn't know like what's multi
• 46:36
  platinum? I know what multi platinum is,
• 46:38
  but the audience doesn't. So and when and so when So when
• 46:41
  the the AI gives a fact about something it was given facts
• 46:44
  about Whitesnake the video here I go again, but it's but it's
• 46:48
  still it's not how Casey Kasem. Right, it's not what?
• 46:53
  Deliver on the. Story I like you could say that
• 46:55
  about Morgan Wallen, but not be so clinically weird about it.
• 47:00
  Right, I guess I yes, I would never come out of a break and go
• 47:03
  then. Well, there's multi platinum
• 47:04
  artist Morgan Wallen, you know, and his new song and then.
• 47:08
  Morgan Wallen, you know, went in a butt load of war.
• 47:12
  It's, you know, like some of the fun like that.
• 47:14
  You don't have to make it like, yeah, weird.
• 47:18
  Yeah, it is weird because the AI doesn't talk like and when it
• 47:22
  comes to artist information, it's not talked like another
• 47:24
  person like we've always been taught in radio.
• 47:28
  If you're talking to your best friend, you wouldn't say that,
• 47:32
  hey, you're going to go to the Morgan Wallin concert.
• 47:33
  You wouldn't go, you wouldn't go.
• 47:35
  Are you going to go to the multi, multi platinum Morgan
• 47:37
  Wallin concert where he's got 555 new albums out or what?
• 47:42
  He just wouldn't talk like that. No, I'd be like, girl, what are
• 47:45
  you wearing to the Morgan Wall concert so we can.
• 47:47
  Coordinate so that that would be interesting, so that what are.
• 47:50
  We What are we wearing? So, so from that perspective, I
• 47:54
  think that would be interesting. So different, just different,
• 47:56
  just different things like that even OK, I'm even going to blow
• 47:59
  the so we have this program at work where you can do AI phone
• 48:04
  calls. So you know me, you know me.
• 48:08
  I like to. You know me.
• 48:09
  I like to experiment well. Yeah.
• 48:11
  Yeah, I cannot get the AI and it's a program that we have.
• 48:16
  I cannot get it to sound like, I mean, it passes by like I can
• 48:23
  make it do a request like, hey, hey, can you play some Sheryl
• 48:25
  Crow, OK. Which is fine because you don't
• 48:28
  really need a motion or to sound great in that like.
• 48:31
  But it does for me. And oh, oh, so this pro.
• 48:35
  So no. Here's the program, Michelle, so
• 48:38
  I can talk into this program and go, hey, can you play Sheryl
• 48:42
  Crow? All I want to do, it changes me.
• 48:45
  I could pick my voice. I could pick my ethnicity and
• 48:49
  like me, right? So I can I can change myself to
• 48:52
  a female. So if I'm a male doing and I
• 48:55
  want a female request, I can I can voice into this thing and
• 48:59
  but yet for me, it's still it's still not believable.
• 49:02
  I can use it and I have. But you also know that it isn't
• 49:07
  real. But would people who didn't know
• 49:12
  be able to tell? I think.
• 49:13
  When it has a weird accent, yeah.
• 49:17
  OK, OK. Here's up.
• 49:19
  Listen. Here's what you need to do.
• 49:21
  Record like a little snippet of it so that we have it.
• 49:24
  Oh yeah, I'll do it. I'll.
• 49:25
  And then we can put it on our Facebook.
• 49:27
  Yeah. And let people, like, hear what
• 49:29
  what you're talking about, Right.
• 49:31
  I'll do. That I'll do a mock, I'll do a
• 49:33
  mock break with the AI. Let's do it now.
• 49:36
  I think it would work better if like I had if I had Megan go
• 49:39
  down and cut this stuff female to female rather than trying to
• 49:42
  be a male to female type conversion on this thing.
• 49:46
  So yeah, but I mean, now it does sound like there's phoners,
• 49:49
  sounds like there's people. I mean, the list goes in on.
• 49:52
  But I have fun. Myself, I would love it.
• 49:54
  I'd be using it like crazy then. Oh, I, I.
• 49:56
  But what I what I use more often now is old phone calls that I've
• 50:00
  had from a billion years. Canned ones.
• 50:02
  Canned one I still have AI have a crap load from my days at one
• 50:05
  O 7 and the bull and all that. So I use those because those are
• 50:08
  still real people. Right.
• 50:10
  Yeah. So, yeah, so anyway, just
• 50:13
  throwing that out there about the AI quite, quite the well,
• 50:16
  we've got massive layoffs going right now across the board.
• 50:19
  You don't have. NBC.
• 50:21
  Traffic, I mean, everything is also everything is hubs.
• 50:26
  So if you're in, so if you're in tri-cities, you don't just see
• 50:30
  oversee tri-cities, you oversee Yakima and whatnot.
• 50:32
  I mean it the more, the more markets you're working, the the
• 50:37
  the better. I mean, so you're not yeah,
• 50:39
  you're you're overseeing multiple, multiple products.
• 50:42
  So and does and again, does the audience even like does the
• 50:45
  audience care? They still listen.
• 50:48
  They, I mean, Michelle, I do my morning show every day and it's
• 50:51
  live and people, people still call in.
• 50:54
  You got real people. Really not absolutely not AI No,
• 50:59
  no, no, I I honestly can say I I am.
• 51:01
  I am always I love it. I love it.
• 51:03
  I mean, you know. Here's so here's another thing,
• 51:07
  because we're you're asking about like our kids generation,
• 51:10
  we're Gen. Xers.
• 51:11
  So we're used to making phone calls, which again, Gen.
• 51:15
  Z does not like to make phone calls at all.
• 51:19
  So yeah, they are like those phoneers are going to go away
• 51:23
  once, like all. Of this Gen.
• 51:25
  Xers die off. So you are going to laugh is we?
• 51:29
  We're giving away Corn Mates tickets right now.
• 51:33
  Now kids on the school bus, guess what they do call in for?
• 51:35
  Oh, they do. Yes, corn mates.
• 51:37
  Tickets, Yeah. The last couple, yeah, we're
• 51:39
  doing. Making real phone calls.
• 51:42
  Yeah, the last couple days have been young men, but on on the
• 51:46
  bus calling in for the corn maze tickets because of something
• 51:49
  they want. But that's the first real radio.
• 51:52
  Give them something they want, you know?
• 51:54
  You, yeah, you can get anything out of them if it's something.
• 51:56
  They want no matter what, yeah, people, people will do like like
• 52:01
  like Taylor Swift tickets or right now we're giving away
• 52:03
  $10,000. And so people will respond to
• 52:07
  that no matter what. There are things there.
• 52:09
  There's, there's a given. Now if I'm down at now if I'm
• 52:11
  down at the furniture store with a pack of 6 pack of Pepsi.
• 52:14
  They can care about no. One's going to come across town
• 52:17
  for a 6 pack of Pepsi. They're just not going to do it.
• 52:19
  But if I had torn gas. Yeah, right.
• 52:22
  That's the truth. So at the end of the day, I
• 52:24
  guess it, I guess we kind of answer the question.
• 52:26
  It's like you give them what they want and they're going to
• 52:28
  make the decision whether they like whether they like it or
• 52:31
  not. Yep, Yep, I did read your book
• 52:34
  on the airplane. Oh.
• 52:35
  My gosh. Except for I had to like stop at
• 52:39
  the chapter where I knew Joe was going to die, which I might
• 52:43
  start crying, start crying thinking about and Russell's
• 52:46
  funeral because I knew like just reading like the headline, I was
• 52:50
  like, oh God, and I'm on an airplane and I'm starting to get
• 52:53
  teary eyed already. I'm not, I haven't even read any
• 52:56
  of those parts. And I'm like, Oh my God.
• 52:58
  So I had to like just close it and put it away until I got home
• 53:02
  and then it, but I was able to. Finish it all the way through.
• 53:05
  Yeah, Yeah, it did. Yeah.
• 53:06
  So what? You know, I don't want to, I
• 53:08
  don't want to spend too much time, but what do?
• 53:10
  You think I love? You've heard the stories.
• 53:13
  Yeah, I've heard a lot of them, except for I don't think I've
• 53:15
  heard the story about you reconnecting with Pearl and her
• 53:21
  getting to meet Logan, which that which that was like happy
• 53:26
  almost a little bit of tears on the airplane, but I was like,
• 53:29
  you can't cry. You're on a fucking airplane.
• 53:32
  So that part that was, I didn't know about that.
• 53:36
  And I was very glad that that happened for.
• 53:38
  You that was that was really so we won't take too much time on
• 53:42
  it, but I will say that these wonderful people gave me so much
• 53:48
  and so and I I talk about in the book is when I was a so so the
• 53:53
  Wallaces. I mean, I talk a lot about the
• 53:54
  Wallaces where I couldn't take a shower and all these different
• 53:57
  things. So mom Mom made it so I could
• 54:02
  stop at her place to take a shower when I was when I was,
• 54:05
  when I discovered girls basically so.
• 54:09
  The important thing There was no Axe body spray back then.
• 54:12
  No. There was none.
• 54:13
  Yeah. So, so, so, yeah.
• 54:15
  So for my so through my, through my junior year, I was allowed to
• 54:18
  go to her house, take a shower every morning.
• 54:19
  So I would leave the Wallaces, leave the wall.
• 54:21
  It says early, go to her house, take a shower, clean set of
• 54:24
  clothes. And so a lot of people said,
• 54:27
  wow, you really changed in high school.
• 54:28
  You literally went from this to this.
• 54:30
  Well, you and I both know it's all environments.
• 54:32
  Right. Yeah, so, so and then So what
• 54:35
  happened was at the end of that year, she said she goes, hey,
• 54:40
  I'm going to go traveling. I know when I read that and I
• 54:43
  was like, oh, but then I was like, why couldn't he still keep
• 54:46
  coming? Well, because she wasn't going
• 54:49
  to be there. I mean, she just wasn't.
• 54:50
  But still she could have given you like in my mind, I'm like,
• 54:53
  look, if this be my kid, my like whatever, like like you could
• 54:58
  still come whether I'm home not. Home.
• 55:01
  But, but, but and then and then because of the damage done by
• 55:04
  the Wallaces, I just took that as rejection, right?
• 55:07
  I did. And then no, then no.
• 55:09
  I would have too if I was you totally.
• 55:11
  And and then the horrible part about it is passes and then you
• 55:15
  become ashamed and then you become, you know, you feel
• 55:18
  guilty, all these different things.
• 55:20
  And so when I saw her years later in the store, I just
• 55:25
  turned the went the other way to me, to that, to me to this day
• 55:29
  is the worst, probably one of the worst things I've ever done
• 55:32
  in my mind, because there she is.
• 55:34
  She's looking at, she's at, you know, she's at Albertsons.
• 55:36
  I see her and I'm, I'm probably, I'm probably 2122 and I turn the
• 55:41
  other way. Now.
• 55:42
  This is someone I cannot express like how it well, the book does
• 55:48
  right. I was going to say you love.
• 55:50
  Her more than anything but like you also say in the book like
• 55:54
  trauma fucks you up like you and I both know like trauma that we
• 55:59
  have experienced as kids, like messes you up so much you see it
• 56:05
  Yes, yeah, yeah, you. You see that and you see.
• 56:08
  The damage done by. Missus Wallace, She, she you
• 56:13
  know, we, you know, it's like you you took my confidence.
• 56:15
  She so they gave me everything. Love, confidence.
• 56:19
  I would, I think I would have been a totally different person
• 56:22
  if I, oh, if you, yeah, if you would have stayed with them.
• 56:25
  Totally, definitely. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 56:27
  So. So what happened was yeah.
• 56:29
  So I, I and I, and I think you got the gist of the book.
• 56:31
  I really wanted to show the contrast, yeah, between, between
• 56:36
  good foster homes. And Bad Foster.
• 56:38
  Homes yes and and that and that not everybody who's in a foster
• 56:42
  home oh, you know they're trying to say you know all that yes, I
• 56:45
  really wanted to drive that home I mean I I hope I did Oh
• 56:51
  definitely oh, you know and totally and.
• 56:53
  Then and then, yeah. So, and then the crazy thing, as
• 56:58
  I discussed is because of the trauma, even after my mom's
• 57:01
  funeral, then I go another 15 years, like I disconnect again,
• 57:07
  right? Like who does that?
• 57:09
  And and. Then and then people.
• 57:10
  Would have been traumatized and haven't.
• 57:12
  Don't like it or don't. Process it or don't understand
• 57:15
  it or don't. But like I said in the book,
• 57:17
  like like I said in the book, then the.
• 57:19
  Last eight years I reconnected through Melanie Bots, which was
• 57:22
  hilarious. Melanie, you know Melanie bots.
• 57:25
  Anyway, then they all piled back on and and guess what?
• 57:29
  They never mentioned to me? They never go where Where were
• 57:34
  you? Why?
• 57:35
  What happened? Why did you do that?
• 57:36
  What? No.
• 57:37
  Not, not, not an iota. They don't.
• 57:41
  That is love. I was going to say.
• 57:43
  People like that don't care like.
• 57:45
  They love you regardless. Good, bad, ugly.
• 57:48
  Isn't that a? But isn't that a?
• 57:49
  Yeah, isn't that amazing now? Now that now that I have that
• 57:52
  after all, now these eight years, you know what I'm saying?
• 57:55
  I realize the value of that and now I won't let it go right in
• 57:59
  your like now, now now it's like no.
• 58:01
  I mean you now you know. That now that I reconnect with
• 58:04
  them, I'm at a point in my life where I I won't let that go.
• 58:07
  And so it's if if one of them passes away or anything, I'll be
• 58:10
  there. I was.
• 58:10
  I had to go to Riggins ID because the one of the sister in
• 58:14
  law's passed away. You know, so it's like I, I've
• 58:17
  made it a point in my life for that family to be there no
• 58:22
  matter what to to kind of make up for that, to make up for that
• 58:26
  time that I should have been there.
• 58:28
  I guess that you missed out on. I missed out.
• 58:31
  On. But they don't think of it like
• 58:32
  that. That is the that's.
• 58:33
  That's love. But you do.
• 58:35
  You're the one that has that. Guilt and shame about that, but
• 58:38
  that comes from the Wallaces, that guilt and shame and caring
• 58:43
  that comes from them. Well, I hope it was a good read.
• 58:47
  Yeah. No, it was great.
• 58:48
  I loved it and and Joe. Come on, cool.
• 58:53
  The one ribbon. The one ribbon, Yeah, Which
• 58:56
  you've told I. You've told that story before,
• 58:59
  but I was just happy that when you got reunited with your real
• 59:03
  dad that Joe went with you because at first when I started
• 59:07
  to read that, which you have not mentioned that oh, Joe was we
• 59:10
  was talking right, which you've never ever.
• 59:13
  You've talked about Joe and the blue ribbon.
• 59:15
  But then that's kind of where Joe ended like in the whole in
• 59:20
  like our entire friendship, Like you've never mentioned that he
• 59:23
  got to go with you to your real backed when you went back to
• 59:27
  your real dad. So I was just happy that he.
• 59:29
  Got to go with you because I. Was like, if he has to lead this
• 59:33
  dog. No, no, no, Joe.
• 59:35
  Joe was. Joe was with me.
• 59:36
  Joe. Was with me to the end and and
• 59:38
  Joe passed away. They luckily before we went to
• 59:41
  the Wallaces. So it was right in that that and
• 59:44
  I've and I've often talked about my dad didn't abuse me.
• 59:49
  Like, right. No, I didn't like, I mean, yeah,
• 59:51
  I mean, they're messed up. On alcohol.
• 59:53
  And all those different things, but I never that you never
• 59:56
  physically or mentally ever. I mean, just the abandonment
• 59:59
  issue is the biggest issue that they just weren't there.
• 1:00:01
  You know, that's the that it's the abandonment.
• 1:00:03
  Not not that my dad ever said I wasn't smart or a piece of crap
• 1:00:07
  or. Right.
• 1:00:08
  Any of those, any, any of those things.
• 1:00:10
  I mean, I know they thought even as a little kid, they thought I
• 1:00:12
  was pretty arrogant. But even my, even my, even my
• 1:00:15
  parents, my, but I but that's that confidence.
• 1:00:18
  I was given that, that wonderful confidence.
• 1:00:20
  And yeah, so and then I also wrote in the book that my dad
• 1:00:25
  made me get on the bus when Joe passed away the morning, the
• 1:00:29
  morning of. Yeah.
• 1:00:30
  And I should have stayed home from school.
• 1:00:31
  And so here I'm on the bus. I'm in 6th.
• 1:00:33
  Grade, 7th grade crying. If you're like, yeah, look at
• 1:00:35
  look at Fargo's eyes. Got you baby.
• 1:00:38
  You know, I was like and so that was that was losing Joe was the
• 1:00:41
  most one of the most traumatic to this day.
• 1:00:45
  Like I didn't want a dog for 20 years.
• 1:00:47
  I talked about it. I didn't want a dog.
• 1:00:48
  I didn't want I didn't want any you know, and now and now I mean
• 1:00:52
  now it's like I have now going forward, I told Megan I I got to
• 1:00:55
  have a border collie. I can't not have a border
• 1:00:57
  collie. So and then, and then what the
• 1:01:00
  most amazing thing is I had no pic because it was, you know,
• 1:01:02
  back when you didn't have a lot of pictures.
• 1:01:04
  So there was that one picture that my sister, my foster
• 1:01:08
  sister, Kathy, sent where I'm with Joe leaning down as a
• 1:01:10
  little boy, you remember, you know, and then and then what I
• 1:01:13
  tried to do in the book was correlate some of my mom's
• 1:01:16
  journal entries. Yeah, you know which I loved
• 1:01:20
  seeing like her. Handwriting.
• 1:01:21
  And right. Right, so it correlated to the
• 1:01:23
  story, so she didn't. Expand upon the story like she
• 1:01:26
  goes, oh, she goes, oh, Virgil was elated that Joe won a blue
• 1:01:29
  ribbon, but I had the story, right.
• 1:01:32
  Well, I mean, it's like you're seeing like her.
• 1:01:35
  Point of view of the story and then you're like living in like
• 1:01:39
  living the story for you whatever like truly really meant
• 1:01:43
  for you as the child like in that story.
• 1:01:46
  So, so and and so I am thinking about.
• 1:01:49
  So there was some stuff that I that like, like Logan, when he
• 1:01:52
  critiqued it, my son critiqued it.
• 1:01:55
  He sounds like my kid. Yeah, he critiqued it, but he
• 1:01:57
  goes. Well, you know, you could have
• 1:01:58
  expanded and. I thought, you know what, maybe
• 1:02:00
  down the road I'll do a, a second version of it because
• 1:02:02
  there are some more journal entries that my mom made that I
• 1:02:05
  didn't include. And I, I, I, that's all
• 1:02:08
  handmade. That was all handmade.
• 1:02:09
  So, so as well, like, I'm not an expert.
• 1:02:11
  And so I was going to say, you're not a professional
• 1:02:14
  writer. No, no, no.
• 1:02:16
  But I really. But I.
• 1:02:17
  Wanted the the number one reason why I did it was to get that
• 1:02:20
  that to get that to the foster family.
• 1:02:24
  So I, so I, so I gave so I bought 50 copies of that mailed
• 1:02:28
  it to each of the you know, no, I did it wasn't about me.
• 1:02:32
  I was. Like because I.
• 1:02:33
  And, and when, and they've, they've come to me and I said, I
• 1:02:35
  said that was what I should have said when my dad passed away,
• 1:02:39
  when my mom passed away, I, it was not, it wasn't even really
• 1:02:43
  about the Wallaces at the end. It really was their, I wanted to
• 1:02:48
  tell their story. I'm pretty proud of that.
• 1:02:52
  So I I mean, I mean, did you learn?
• 1:02:54
  I mean, it's so funny. Like when when Pokey read it and
• 1:02:56
  Megan read it, they went well. I've heard these stories before.
• 1:03:00
  I mean, I've heard a lot of them.
• 1:03:01
  But like I said, I. Didn't hear whatever happened to
• 1:03:05
  Joe. Like, I didn't know that he went
• 1:03:07
  with you when your real dad came back and got you.
• 1:03:09
  So there's like bits and pieces and there's stories I haven't
• 1:03:12
  heard. So.
• 1:03:12
  Oh, so yeah. So.
• 1:03:14
  So that was fifth grade. What pissed?
• 1:03:16
  Me off is so my dad had a dog named Joe.
• 1:03:19
  He had a he had a Saint Bernard. So my dad had a dog named Joe
• 1:03:22
  and then I had my dog Joe and my siblings would call him old Joe
• 1:03:27
  and I would lose my I was fifth grade man.
• 1:03:30
  I would go on the war. I'm like, he's not old.
• 1:03:32
  He's not old. And I'm like, oh, old Joe.
• 1:03:34
  I'm like, I you want to see Rick Rats in its beginnings, like
• 1:03:39
  like Mother Humper. My dog.
• 1:03:42
  I'd Speaking of Joe, I didn't I? You have never told.
• 1:03:45
  The story about him getting the tick poisoning because I thought
• 1:03:47
  he was going to die. Then like when I started reading
• 1:03:50
  that chapter and I was like. Oh my God, the dog's going.
• 1:03:53
  To die like I can't. That was the, that was the and
• 1:03:56
  and Logan. It was interesting, Logan took.
• 1:04:00
  Logan was upset with the story, he says.
• 1:04:03
  Why did your foster mom make you pay for stuff?
• 1:04:06
  Oh, he was like he was. Different generations because we
• 1:04:09
  never. Made our kids pay for.
• 1:04:11
  Stuff and they don't understand no, but but he was no, but he
• 1:04:15
  was like, he's like. You know why did, But there's
• 1:04:18
  that. He was sick.
• 1:04:20
  No, but. You do understand the medicine
• 1:04:22
  cost more than. Any money that I gave, great.
• 1:04:25
  So yeah, it's not like you were. Completely paying, right?
• 1:04:29
  The entire thing like that was that.
• 1:04:31
  Was the you know why? Why am I finan?
• 1:04:33
  Why am I financially responsible today?
• 1:04:37
  Because of Pearl like. You know those lessons well, you
• 1:04:41
  know exactly. It was like those, you know, you
• 1:04:43
  know me well enough to know I am I am fiscally like, Oh yeah,
• 1:04:47
  yeah. I mean so so those.
• 1:04:49
  Lessons. It wasn't the lessons, wasn't
• 1:04:51
  how she could take my Oh, the the big difference even in the
• 1:04:54
  book was when I was 12 or 13, she gave me all that money.
• 1:04:59
  Yeah, yeah, which you. So it was like 200 bucks and the
• 1:05:02
  1st. Thing I did was run out.
• 1:05:03
  Like a drunken sailor and spent it at 12 years old.
• 1:05:06
  But she said. But she goes.
• 1:05:09
  Hey, Virgil, by the way, all those.
• 1:05:11
  Quarters that we saved, here it is, here they are.
• 1:05:15
  Here they are. And then meanwhile, Karen
• 1:05:18
  Wallace is like, oh. You mowed the lawn today.
• 1:05:19
  Good. Give me your money.
• 1:05:21
  Give me it and no, she did and she never she never gave a she
• 1:05:25
  never gave a she knew she took our money she took our money so
• 1:05:29
  so those were the lessons. I mean, those were the that's
• 1:05:31
  what I was trying to get a convey was the the the massive
• 1:05:35
  difference, yes and and and being loved like and that is
• 1:05:42
  something that my. That my brothers and.
• 1:05:44
  Sisters didn't have We are so diametrically different and that
• 1:05:50
  is and that book or those those people are the reason, right?
• 1:05:54
  Oh, totally. Yeah.
• 1:05:55
  Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I wanna, I wanna.
• 1:05:58
  Take I wanna take Joe's story, make it I wanna take the Blue
• 1:06:01
  Ribbon story and make it into a a kids book.
• 1:06:04
  That'd be great. So yeah, if you would like to
• 1:06:06
  buy. Rick's book, if you follow us on
• 1:06:09
  Instagram, it's up in a little highlight the link to be able to
• 1:06:13
  buy it. Also you can tell people where
• 1:06:15
  they can buy it on Amazon. They get it everywhere.
• 1:06:18
  So Barnes and Noble's got. It Amazon's got it.
• 1:06:21
  You name it, it's got it. There's an audio book on Spotify
• 1:06:25
  so narrated by myself. I was gonna say that you voice.
• 1:06:28
  I voiced it because I don't want to spend. 600 bucks on some
• 1:06:31
  other guy. And now why would you?
• 1:06:32
  Why? Why wouldn't you voice your own?
• 1:06:34
  Book Well, now I look, but I because because we pick apart, I
• 1:06:37
  pick. It apart, I hear it like this.
• 1:06:39
  I'm like, but I've had people say, hey, here I she goes.
• 1:06:42
  I listen to your book on audio and I'm like, oh, you know, so
• 1:06:45
  I'm like, I'm very grateful and thankful, but I'm, I'm like,
• 1:06:47
  man, you sound like shit. I mean, because we're so hard on
• 1:06:49
  ourselves. What do you think I say as I'm
• 1:06:52
  listening? Back to our podcast editing us
• 1:06:55
  like Oh yeah, shut up that year. Usually I'm yelling at my oh,
• 1:07:00
  what I hear myself on when I hear myself on the radio, I'm
• 1:07:03
  like, shut the F up, shut up, shut the F up.
• 1:07:06
  You are worthless. So there you go.
• 1:07:09
  Thanks, thanks for hanging out with all of our trauma and the
• 1:07:13
  reality, the real world is you, you, you know, you, you think
• 1:07:17
  that that what we do is like, oh, it's the greatest thing.
• 1:07:20
  It is the greatest thing, but we are so self-conscious about it
• 1:07:23
  too. Oh, we are.
• 1:07:24
  Oh yes, totally. We.
• 1:07:26
  Are we're better than AI? Well, right.
• 1:07:29
  Now better than. AI right now we are so.
• 1:07:33
  So I'll leave you with. This one thought Michelle
• 1:07:35
  before. We go OK, yeah, because we are
• 1:07:37
  like, yeah, we're. Like I know we're way over, but
• 1:07:39
  I will tell you this and I. And I, I want to leave this with
• 1:07:42
  a, a good note is you cannot replicate individuality.
• 1:07:48
  I don't care what you do, what makes you who are listening,
• 1:07:52
  anybody listening to this, You are special and you can't
• 1:07:56
  replicate that. You are your own personality,
• 1:07:58
  you are your own person. You are unique and we all have
• 1:08:02
  our own stories. And that's what connects us all,
• 1:08:07
  is telling those and those emotions and AI, yeah, like,
• 1:08:11
  sure, it can read a story, but it doesn't have that emotional
• 1:08:15
  component to it. So absolutely so, at least right
• 1:08:19
  now. For now.
• 1:08:20
  For now, I don't know. About five years from.
• 1:08:22
  Now there might be a or even a year from now.
• 1:08:26
  It's moving at the speed of light.
• 1:08:27
  So who knows? I, you know, it's one of those
• 1:08:29
  things where you and I have talked a lot.
• 1:08:32
  A lot about this I for I just have a unique voice.
• 1:08:37
  I do know. I do understand.
• 1:08:38
  Yeah. And so I get picked out even in
• 1:08:40
  tri-cities. Oh, my gosh, I'll be.
• 1:08:42
  I was looking for a protein bar at Albertson's last week and I
• 1:08:47
  was like, oh, and it was a protein bar.
• 1:08:48
  And the guy was stocking shelves.
• 1:08:50
  And I said, oh, you're out. Can you He goes, hey, can I help
• 1:08:52
  you? I said, yeah, this protein bar's
• 1:08:54
  out. And he's like, well, hang on a
• 1:08:56
  second. And then he and then he goes,
• 1:08:57
  sorry, we're out, Sir. And I said, oh, no problem.
• 1:09:00
  And then he goes, you're on the radio.
• 1:09:02
  Because the minute I, you know, talked to him, he was like,
• 1:09:04
  you're Rick. So anyway, you're not going to
• 1:09:07
  be able to do that for. A Just throwing it out there.
• 1:09:10
  Nope, no. Oh, kitties need fed.
• 1:09:12
  I will. Hear you want.
• 1:09:13
  To quick, quick, there's there's dogs in my lap, There's,
• 1:09:19
  there's, there's rocks there everywhere, They're everywhere.
• 1:09:22
  There's Roxy. Here's where Roxy's at.
• 1:09:25
  There's Bodie. Oh, there's Boat, there's Bodie,
• 1:09:28
  there's Barkley. As you can see Barkley down
• 1:09:30
  there. Oh my gosh, Barkley's.
• 1:09:33
  Looking so old. Yes, Barkley's going to be 13.
• 1:09:37
  That's crazy. So.
• 1:09:38
  So. Yeah, so.
• 1:09:39
  But I. Told Megan.
• 1:09:41
  And when I lose him, he's my best bud.
• 1:09:43
  Yeah, it was it was hard losing Phoebe.
• 1:09:45
  And when they lose the border collie, that's just going to be
• 1:09:49
  that's going to that's a double whammy because of Joe.
• 1:09:52
  You know what I'm saying? Right?
• 1:09:53
  Definitely. But the best thing you can?
• 1:09:55
  Do is adopt that's. Right.
• 1:09:57
  Adopt A dog or a cat. I have two cats, if anybody
• 1:10:01
  would. That's right, they're available
• 1:10:03
  to you. Just message me, Message me.
• 1:10:11
  That's it for today's episode of Rick and That.
• 1:10:13
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• 1:10:16
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• 1:10:38
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