Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

9am Hour - The Reindl Report + More With Sam Levitt!

Ben & Paul kick off the 9am hour with Sam Levitt still in-studio co-hosting for the morning, and we get to The Reindl Report and Paulie's top stories from over the weekend. Then we learn a bit more about our Padres pre and postgame show host, including his new love for pickleball before we wrap up the morning with some final thoughts on this Padres off-day! Listen here!

Duration:: 46m
Broadcast on:: 05 Aug 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Sammy, do you remember when you came out? You didn't. You drove out, though, so I did drive out. But three hours isn't much, though. That'll be fine. I bet he was ready to come back this morning, but he's stuck on an island. What do you think he's going to say about his vacation? Because he's on Kauai, right? I've never been to Hawaii, he's on Kauai, which is beautiful. That's, like, one of the remote islands, furthest out toward the west. Now, he did have the full family with him to two small children. He's ready to come back to work. Okay. You've heard that. We've heard rumors. Okay. The room that Jeff Parsons reporting. I think he is ready. He loves his vacation, but he's ready to come back to work. I think with the small children, there's an aspect of, at times, it's a trip, not a vacation. Right. And then there's times where it's a vacation. He also has his in-laws are there, so it's not a hundred percent that they have to watch them every second, which helps it be a vacation, I think. Right. But he may have been calling today, he said he was thinking about it. Just quickly before the round of the report, so we heard about Joe's travel difficulties in his southwest flight that was supposed to go to San Antonio that got canceled. Now, why would it have got canceled? I did not dive into this. I didn't either. I mean, I don't, I, you know, well, he, he took a late flight because he was at the game, which I, I get, which is, is totally fine. I don't, why would it have mechanical issues, staffing issues? There's many reasons ask Delta Airlines why flights may be canceled, crowd strike issues. I don't know, but apparently got word that, oh, that's the last flight to San Antonio and it's not going to San Antonio anymore, so they had to pivot, send him to Fresno instead. And I assume they found a puddle jumper to Fresno. I doubt he drove there, but I don't actually know that you did the minor league circuit. Hey, you got a six hour drive to present. I can't imagine he drove. I mean, he might have. I think, I think he flew. It's possible, but it's not like it's that much easier to get to Fresno from San Diego. I could see Joe Musgrove saying, you know what? I'll just get in the car. Drove Joe, perhaps somebody drove. I'm not sure whether he flew a helicopter. By the way, just baseball wise, we talked about like when he might come back. I, you know, they said earlier this week that one of the reasons he was going to go to San Antonio was to face a higher level of hitters. I, I do wonder if they'd want him to do that still before he gets on a major league mount. I don't know possible possible. Now they got four hits off of them, but he was just lighting up the strike zone. So they knew that and that's fine. Now you did the minor league circuit. I mean, you got as high as double a, double a travel is, is it still mostly buses? It is all buses. It's all buses. There was no flying at all. I mean, there had to be some longer trips though. Oh yeah, Texas lead when we would go in that huge, the funniest part. And there's seats that are not even in Texas and the Texas. Oh yeah, you've got Wichita, Kansas. Now you've got Tulsa, Oklahoma, Springdale, Arkansas. You have to go from San Antonio to Wichita. Little Rock, Arkansas. Look on a map where Little Rock, Arkansas is compared to like Midland, Texas. I mean, these are not like same parts of the country and they would be in the same league. San Antonio to Little Rock, Arkansas. Springfield was a nine hour drive, nine hours. I guess I assume that there was one or two that you just had to fly to. No. No. Like to go from Corpus Christi to Springfield, I think was the longest trip I ever took. And that was like 11, 12 hours. They should remember too. There's limits on the bus drivers. So like they can't drive 15 hours with brakes. So you have to stop at some point. There's a transition period where they switch out the driver. Remember, you also get out and people got to go to the bathroom, you eat. Oh yeah, there were trips that took you 12, 13, 14 hours and sometimes those were overnight. And that I also, these aren't sleeper buses. These are just no, they're pretty nice coach buses, but not sleeper buses. In fact, though, our, my first season in Amarillo 2019, we did have a sleeper bus. We had one regular coach bus and one sleeper bus on some trips. I never went in the sleeper bus. The sleeper bus, the players liked it because they could lay down and stretch out, which I totally got. It was weird though, because you were laying the whole time and it was like bunks like three here, three across three. The players really liked it. I never went to sleep work and laptop or something like that. No sleeper buses. And also, and also, we always had two buses. So you always got like your own row for the most part. So we had plenty of room. Did you get experience with both like didn't the minor leagues, they had more of a major league type of schedule or a couple series a week and they switched to correct. You play one team like six games in a row in a week and then you're off on Monday, right? So they switched that I think. Postcards. I mean, I can't remember if it was 19 or 21 when they did all the restructuring, but it used to be where like you would play. You did way more traveling because you would play. You're right. Three, four games, then go to the next city, right? And go back to places multiple times. And then they made it where it was the Tuesday to Sunday off day Monday. And it's like that the whole way. You play a six game series. So the point of that was to to reduce the travel and and yes, but I will say like from the baseball perspective, I know a lot of guys don't love it because like for a starting pitcher, your pitcher on Tuesday, then we'll face the same team. His next star in the last game. Yeah. And you see those same relievers a lot from a baseball perspective. I know there's a group of people that don't love it, but from a travel perspective and a logistic perspective, it's there are major benefits. Enrique in the YouTube chances Ben and Woods tier one bus for events sounds pretty cool. Woods would be that dad that's like, don't make me turn this bus around. LOL. Would woods be driving the bus? Ah, you probably drive the ball to be honest. He drove us back from spring training as we both fell asleep. In fact, so I know we got to do the wrong the work. But I actually are bus driver. My first year in Amarillo, 2019, he was at a pod race game a few weeks ago. I went into the upper to find him. Yes, he was with his kids. He's still keeping touch with bus drivers from 2019. I went to the upper deck. I sat with him for a few winnings in the upper deck and it was great. It was awesome. So Sammy and the bus driver. Yeah, shout out to man. Let's get to the Randall report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Rindle report now tuned into the month. Greatest. Welcome to the Rindle report with Paul Rindle. Hi Paul. All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in major league baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing beyond? It's the Rindle report. Hey Paul, how you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97-3 the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help please. That was good. Can I get a hole here? Oh yeah. All right. All right. All right. All right. Good. Good morning gentlemen. He does that well. He does. We'll replace it. All right. Let's pay off the T's van. Yeah, you know, we've been talking about winning teams like the Padres most of the morning, but the opposite of that would be the Chicago White Sox. They have they are on the verge of making history here. We said it. We had Jordan on Friday, Jordan Schusterman, and we were trying to remember what the all-time record was. I think it was the 1961 Phillies had lost 23 games in a row and the White Sox just lost their 20th. They are one shy of the American League record, which was crazy because that record I remember that. That was the Orioles. I want to say in 1988 to start the season. They started 0 and 20. Can you imagine? You want a fan base to start panicking? I mean, 0 and 21. It's not as well. I mean, wow, that's a quick start. Well, wait till next season because you're not coming back from 0 and 21 longest losing streak in 36 years. Their last win, I believe was July 8th. I think there's been what about seven teams all the time that have ever lost at least 20 in a row and then 21 and 23 are in a league of their own. So now the White Sox play the eight starting tonight. So if they are going to somebody has to wait if they're going to see the Dodgers trouble this weekend, hey, I'm not give Mark Katsay has kept that team from what could have been a disaster from giving up. They've done. I mean, their record's not good, but it's certainly not any more embarrassing than most usual bad teams record this. If you're one of the 14 remaining White Sox. Once you hit, I mean, I don't know what the number is, but they're against 20 right now. Oh, I'm cheering for it. You kind of you are. Oh, yeah. Is there a White Sox fan? I was like, you know what? They deserve it. Just keep losing. Yeah, no, I think for sure. I think you kind of have to. Yeah. No, I would bet if you would pull White Sox fans, I would not be shocked if there was a majority of White Sox fans that said we want them to set the record. If you're going to lose, you might as well do it. We want rock bottom. Yes. What's the record is like within sight. You're just like, you know what? You don't want to just be the terrible team that lost 22 in a row. You might as well just I mean, but we're still talking about the Orioles and the Phillies. You know who I feel bad? I don't know that I want to be that team that's talked about forever is the longest losing streak in history. I feel bad for Steven Wilson. Yes. How come they didn't trade him at the deadline? Has he heard or something? I like you guys a lot. Good guy. And I think he's had a pretty good year based on what I saw a couple of days ago. But is what it is. It is what they're casting the movie for the Moneyball was the 20 wins in a row. Do we get a 20 loss in a row? White Sox the worst movie of all time. All right. Move on stuck in the middle. I mean, who's the little girl gets to sing the song about the losing streak? Just not as long. You can write the script. Who'd you get to star in that one? Who we got? Brad Pitt is Jerry Ryan's star. No, I don't think so. All right. We talked about Blake Snell earlier. He threw the no hitter on Friday night. His first career no hitter was first career complete game. First time ever pitching in the ninth inning. There were a couple of moments though after the game that we hadn't gotten to. Wanted to bring some light to that. First of all, I don't know if he had to go through concussion protocol or if the Giants just haven't had a lot of practice with the Gatorade dumps this year. Yeah, this was bad. They like came up from behind him. He had just put the headset on to talk to the broadcasters and they just level him with the with the cooler wasn't the Gatorade cooler, which the top just comes off and now you just dump it on top of them. This was one of those like like you take to the beach. Yes, like an igloo. It's like an igloo cooler with one of the attached lids that swings open and closed and they totally just biffed it and nailed him in the head and doused with cold cold ice cold water, but then they just bash him right in the back of the head feeling. It's cold. I gotta collect my breath. Please do. Get a replay of that. That's how you not you don't do it. They hit me in the head with the dang lid. That's the biggest fail of a Gatorade ice dump that I've ever seen. No kidding. You really could have had a concussion from that thing. Those are heavy lids. That did not be he laughed it off. I guarantee you that did not feel good at all. One of my favorite parts about the Gatorade dump is that there are clearly players that really don't enjoy it or like it or want it there. Most don't care I think, but there's a there's a group of guys who are totally not about it. I love the I don't know that Blake Snell loved that. I loved the clip last week of Manny and was a Tyler Wade carrying the bucket over and you hear Manny he's on camera. Look out Bob. Watch out Bob. Then they just get him. And then after the game Blake Snell was in front of his locker and was asked about, you know, not historically pitching much past the seventh inning at all in his career and he had a message for everyone. How would you describe how you were feeling. I mean, this is the first time you pitched into the ninth inning and it didn't know that they can't say it anymore. You know, complete game, shut out, no header, leave me alone. It doesn't go to night. Don't go late. Yeah, good. That feels just dead. Leave me alone. Leave me alone. Yeah, just because in your first 201 career starts you didn't pitch deep into the game. We did. We did come up with a bit of a narrative about you Blake Snell that you weren't that efficient with your pitches and you probably weren't going to go, you know, eight or nine innings most time. I'm sorry that we just invented that out of thin air because you didn't do it in your first 201 starts. How dare I I really that would have been so cool if they would have found a way to bring him here at the deadline. Now that just for the the story line and to get him back in the quotes and having a better with the Padres in his first start instead of a week after C. I mean, he's opting out right. Oh yeah. Now I think he's on track a couple months ago. It wasn't looking good. A Boris guy. He's going to opt out because to me he could get the same money for next year. Is he still a Boris guy? I think he's done. No, no, no, no, he didn't fire. Did he fire him fired him fired him? Would you trust Boris again to go through this? I mean, I mean, if I'm Blake, I want to sign early. I guess you got to go with the track record. But yeah, you got to be he would be I'd be so nervous. I'll be like Nick Martinez. I am signing like November 7 or whatever the first day is. I want to know where I'm going. I would think he's got to opt out and try to get because you're right. He'll get the 30 or whatever. He was going to sign the same deal. He signed this year with whomever again, but you got to try again, right to get to get the money to do it. Right. Right. Right. Y'all if I'm a team, I wouldn't want to wait till then because if I want Blake to know, I'd make aggressive but somewhat team-friendly offer on November like eighth. Say, if you want this now, you can have it now or you can play the game and wait until spring training and try to see if you can get more than this. But you want this now. Right. We're offering it to you right now. Right. And I wonder if what happened this past off season would influence him in saying, okay, hey, here's here's the deal. Here's the deal. I just don't know what to take it. I don't know the Boris would advise him to do that. I think he would be very interested in something like that. All right. And then finally got a story here. Ford is trying to patent a system that would have a camera on your car that automatically can report speeding to the police. Well, I don't want that. I mean, I don't speed obviously, but if I did, I wouldn't want my car telling the police that I was speeding. Yeah, that's that's big brother. That's not good. That's bad. That's major big. That's bad. That sounds like it might steer you away from buying right said never going to buy a Ford. Why who would buy that? Well, there's a second part of the story here. It's not going to actually monitor your Ford vehicle. It's going to use onboard cameras to snitch on others around you. Nark cam. So if you're cruising down the freeway at a responsible legal 65 miles per hour and some guy comes flying past you at 90, your camera could theoretically pick up that speed and report it to the police for the other guy, not for you. I got an laugh out loud in the chat from I Need Money. You said the key is snitch. The Ford Nark. So essentially, you don't know where the speed traps are. They could be any driver next to you could be a speed trap. I really got to get to where I'm going. Oh crap. It's a Ford you're looking at. All right. There's no one on the freeway. There's no cops. Obviously, that's not a cop car. That's just a Ford Fusion driving. I'm just driving the only other car in this road is a Ford Fusion. So if I need to go 85 to get to work, I can do that safely. But that Ford Fusion may now be reporting you to the cops. Yeah. Oh, I don't know about that. I would consider a technology that prevented texting or use certain usage of the phone while driving. That I could get on board with. And I'm almost shocked that we don't have that yet. I mean, phone just can't tell that you're traveling at a certain time. Yeah. You can't open up messages if your phone is traveling. Well, I'm not driving. I'm in the back seat. That's true. I mean, you can prevent speeding if you want. Anyone been in a golf cart in the last 40 years, the governor and it won't let you go any faster than what's 20 or whatever it is. What is governor? The governor on a golf cart limits how fast the car can go. The most you can do is like, oh, the 20, the governor of the state. No, the governor, it's called the governor. It's it's something that throttles back the engine. And I think the guys who work at the golf course, the cart shop, they can turn it off if they want the cart to have a little extra juice and they can go faster. But when they give it to you, a player, I definitely don't know how to do it. And it keeps the golf cart from going as fast as you would really like it to go. And they could do that with cars, they need to go on the course. I mean, you know, fast, but it gets your ball fast. You actually had it 10 miles an hour. How fast do they actually go? I mean, it's fresh, you know, and sometimes they'll make it even slower. Like when you're around the clubhouse area, it'll come down to a crawl and you just like, there's no one here. I just want to go faster than three miles an hour or three. So the beef in the chat said, what if you need the speed to get away from something? That's a good point. Yeah, like the car. Yeah, I'm chasing you right now. Ford is just trying to secure the patent for this. They're not installing these cameras. I would assume many times soon. And I'm sure there would be quite a legal debate. That's a big battle. Yes, Nikia snitch that slayed me. Good job out there. All right. Good job on the rental report, Polly. We got Sammy in studio. 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Follow and listen to Reception Perception on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Sammy Levitt's in studio and nice enough to come in on what otherwise would be a rare off day, although they've been less rare lately. I've had so many off days. They've in fact, I just noticed for the first time this season, there's actually some teams that have played as many games as the San Diego Padres in Major League Baseball. There's a point there where the Padres have played at least four more games than every team and like seven or eight more of the Rockies who are right there this weekend. They would like it 11112. Yeah. So there are teams that have now caught up thanks to the Padres recent string of off days. Now those are going to come to an end. After today, I believe, Padres go on a stretch. Look at your little your calendar behind you. They're probably might be like 18 or 19 or something. So I think valuable off day for you Sammy here because you get a long stretch of work coming up. So they play tomorrow. They are off next Thursday the 15th. And that's the only one. And then their next off day is not until Tuesday, September 3rd. So that's a weird week where they play at home at Petco against the Tigers on Monday, Labor Day off Tuesday. And then they finished the rest of that three game series Wednesday Thursday. Huh. So why are they off? My guess would be that the Tigers well or the Padres you can only play 20 games in a row according to the collective bargaining agreement. So occasionally you have to split up a series because if like it was the 18 or 19 20 of games, you can't play all three of them in a row. So that would be my guess. One of those two teams is is hitting their maximum. If they didn't have that day off, it would be 19 in a row. So maybe it's the Tigers. I don't I don't know. But so you're saying there's only one off day between tomorrow, August 6th and September 3rd. Just one off them. Sammy, you've got a long stretch coming. Yeah. I will say this, though. You have like one, two, three, four, five, six in September. The difference between when they're home and on the road for me is significant. The road games are they're easier. They're harder content wise, but they're easier schedule wise. You just come into the studio. The home games I am I am I get ready in the morning because I don't have any time to do any notes when I get there and then it's clubhouse and manager everywhere. Yes. And you're running all over the place and setting up the equipment home games are quite literally an all day morning to like 11 p.m. affair road games. It's it's easier. I can get here a few hours before and really get going. So now that you know, this is extremely valuable and rare off day. How are you going to make it special? I've toyed with the idea of driving up towards Carl's bad in Sanitas, maybe finding a nice coffee shop, get some stuff done. We have like 42 of them in in Sanitas. Yeah. It's crazy. Maybe that I may stick around here, place and pickleball. I think pickleball will be in my future today. Pick pickleball guy. Do you have regular opponents? How do you just show and show up? I start up pickleball. I started playing shortly. I take that back. I wasn't playing before spring training. I started playing during the season this a few months ago. I either go to to open play in the morning or the afternoon depending on where I am. I actually when I was an Encinitas during the all-star break, I played for the first time at Bobby Riggs. Tennis center and that was nice. Pickleball. Yes. They have like 30 courts and it was packed. So I just go to the open plays. Now, here's the interesting thing. When I play, you know, it's like a Wednesday morning, Wednesday afternoon. Typically, the people I play with are older than me, but that does not mean I beat them because pickleball, it's not like how well you know, you can move or your athleticism or youth. You play singles or doubles? Yeah, doubles doubles. Double. Pickleball and told is more fun with doubles. More doubles. Yes. I don't think I've ever seen people playing singles in open play. So you may just get a random partner and then two random. Yeah. You line up your paddles and whoever your paddles next to you play with. That's bold. Yeah. So it's fun, but I mean, sometimes I play well. Sometimes, you know, people that are twice my age are cooking me. Interesting. I absolutely cook. Jeff, when I heard, he heard that Sammy was taking questions, called right in. So let's get to him here before the bottom of the hour. Hi, Jeff. No, I don't think so. This is Jeff from our YouTube, Jeff. Hi, Sammy. Yes. I have a question for you. Yeah, go ahead. Because of your background with the sod poodles. Okay. So you've been around minor league baseball. You've seen your share of weird and fun jerseys. Now with Nike being the oligarchy of Jersey design and distribution, if it was up to you, and you could have the Padres wear a weird, fun or creative jersey for a game or a home stand, what would the design be? That's a great question. The Padres in particular, I feel like actually with Craig sitting outside, I feel like we actually tackled this topic during the winter at some point when I filled in. Well, you've seen like minor leaguers. Yeah. So so is Jedi. Right. So they're really two categories of this. There are like theme games or theme weekends where maybe they'll wear Star Wars, theme jerseys or whatever, something crazy, like, or it could be something about the community, like in Corpus Christi, they were the blue ghosts because the the World War II ship sits the Lexington, USS Lexington sits in Corpus. So they were the blue ghosts for the weekend or the snow cones, the Raspas was the word. So they have stuff like that. I tell you, it does the choncloths flip flops. Right. Exactly. Yeah. And minor league baseball has initiatives to do this stuff. But then there's just like weird ones, like in Amarillo, this was after I was done there already, they are the Amarillo calf fries. And a calf fry is it's a deep fried, I don't know if I can say the word the radio. It's a deep fried. And it always works. Yes. Yes. It's a it's a rock. Yeah. Okay. So you can't say it. I don't know. It's a Rocky Mountain Oyster, but I guess another name for them. Deep fried is the calf rice. So they are the Amarillo calf fries. By the way, I was an Amarillo for three years. I never had a calf run. You weren't touching it. No. But well, you know, for the Padres, like, like I think we talked about this with Craig. They're city connects already. Yeah. So it's like, hey, the San Diego, California burritos, and they'd have a big burrito on the on the front of the jersey. Like they do, you know, there's the theme. Does anyone remember turn ahead the clock weekend and major league baseball? I feel like this was maybe in the this was like mercury Mets or 90s. And they tried to imagine what uniforms of the future would look like with like futuristic fonts and instead of the player names going across left to right, they had them going like up and down because somehow for some reason in the future, we like to read things up to down as opposed to left to right. I'm not sure that they totally nailed. They had like cut off tops. They'd have no sleeves in the future because, you know, in the future, you're not going to need sleeves anymore. I don't know that they really nailed it though because for the most part, baseball uniforms, and this is, I assume because this was like the 80s or early 90s, they're thinking, okay, what is 2024? What are uniforms going to look like deep into the future? They look pretty much like they did in 1988. Uniforms haven't changed that much in that amount of time. Technology, they're probably a little lighter and more comfortable for the players, but in terms of visuals, a lot of teams like the Yankees, the Cardinals, they haven't changed them one bit right in all those years. Padres, of course, have changed their colors, but their uniforms are still uniforms just like they always were. Mrs. Rindles watching, she says, what is Sammy watching on TV these days? I don't watch a lot of TV. I started watching that Giants hard knocks. The off season hard. It's really good. I watched the first episode of that. That was good. I don't watch a lot of TV. It was like one of the best hard knocks they've had in the year. Oh, well, hold on. Megan below deck. That's what I watch on Bravo. I'm all in. I want to be a deckhand. That's my, it's my next chapter. You know our friend, man, Janela, he's a husband on the new Real Housewives of Orange County. I saw him tweet that. Yeah, his wife's on the one. So maybe he has connections. You might be able to get you on on below deck. Forget baseball too. Yeah. Sammy's new life. Do you want to work on the ship? You want to be one of the crew members? I want to be on the TV show working on the whole show is about working on the ship. No, but they also have the guests who can want to work. I want to work. I want to drop in Sandy. Make room for Sammy. There we go. Yes. Below deck. I'm in. We need to make that connection. Last segment coming up. Annie and Elston standing by Craig out here early to day. I think he's chomping at the bit for his show at 10 o'clock. A little more with Sam Levitt next year on 97 through the fan. Listen to Sam Levitt's podcast inside San Diego baseball where Sam covers everything going on with the potter is just find it at 97 through the fan SD dot com the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. So like right now, if I wanted to hear Sam Levitt's voice, I can go to my Odyssey app. I could look up the inside San Diego baseball podcast. I could play whatever I wanted. And right now I could hear Sam's voice. It would sound something like Padres beat the Nationals. Rockies 10 to 2 tonight beat the Nationals. Yes, they did. That's a that's actually live. Sam Levitt. He's been in studio with us since eight o'clock this morning. Appreciated Sammy having you in. It's been nice and fun chatting with you. Very good. I will say though, I'm so unaccustomed to driving here at like 730 on a weekday that I'm not used to 15 here getting so backed up a little traffic. Little traffic very rarely. We come in well before there's traffic. So I don't really know what it looks like it other than looking at the window. Not crazy from like seven to nine forty five. Well, do you ever so sometimes when I'm in here when the teams on the road during a long road trip and you sit in this room, I don't know if you ever get this feeling. And I think to myself and especially like when it's like, you know, 10 30 at night on a Wednesday. Is anybody listening? Now the numbers say they are. But what I will do is I'll look behind where you're sitting, Ben, and I'll look at the highway or I'll look there during rush hour and I'll say there's got to be some of those cars that have us on right now. Captive audience. Yes, it reminds you there are people in their cars driving relying on us for their entertainment. We were talking about it last week. Ben, when when Ben started out at the mighty six 90. How late was live programming? Oh, two AM. We went, I think five AM or six AM to two AM live and local programming all day long. So yeah, I mean, yeah, that's a lot of people in Southern California, a lot of people in San Diego. And I feel blessed. I mean, it used to be the only place you really listened was in your car. But now with the YouTube stream and the Odyssey app and podcasting, I think we have more people than ever who actually will listen at home, people who will, you know, getting ready for work in the morning or school and people that grew up on YouTube and move away or something. Yeah. And out of towners, it's, it's fantastic. It's, I, people have been saying for many years that radio is dying. I think radio is better than it has ever been in some ways. I think whether it's radio or just audio in general, I think listening to audio is as big as it's ever been. And whatever form that is, if it's podcast, if it's live, if it's YouTube, if it's whatever, I mean, think everybody and their brother has a podcast. Right. We're not. Yeah. When I say radio, yeah, I don't necessarily mean the right dialing out 97.3 on a transistor or in your car. I just mean listening to the audio, this station produces in its many forms. And I would give Adam credit, too, because he was pushing, I know you guys and me and I think all of us on to YouTube kind of well before we actually did it. Paul was on it. I mean, Paul, he was big and our YouTube birth, you're right. And that he wanted to do it, but we wanted to make sure we were able to do it right. Yes. And then we, it was kind of our idea to do the Christmas and holiday extravaganza on YouTube that one year, which Adam then came in and doc killed the feed. Now remember that first time we ever did YouTube, I was sitting out there. I was sitting out there directing, right? Because I was and I was I was doing it on a laptop out there, switching the cameras. I just wanted to add this big red button that says, and streamed. And then what is the button that says, are you sure? So we did that to wrap up the year that would have been in 2022. And then in 2023, we started building it early in the year and we wanted to launch it for spring training or spring training trip. We're like, Hey, yep, let's show you the sites that we're trying to describe on the radio. Let's kind of bring a camera and show you guys and then we stuck with it and it worked out. It's been a fun evolution to a Mac Daddy in the chances when I hear Ben say the word traffic, my brain is conditioned for them to cut away for report. I don't know why you'd think that. See all those people stuck in Kelly's traffic. That's right. There potential listeners right now. It's it's been in Sammy. And if you are listening tomorrow on the program last day before Woods returns, but we got another special pot raise guest joining us just found out. CEO Eric Grouppner is going to be with eight o'clock tomorrow morning. It's been a while since we've caught up with Grouppner. So, you know, things going well, they've been, I think they sold out every game of the home of this homestead, right? It is up to how many sellouts 30, high, seven, I want to say it's 37. I actually write it down next to the to the attendance every night. So it is the two game series, the two game series against the Dodgers, Sammy, mid week, Tuesday, Wednesday, and they were setting attendance records, right? Yes, 47 was Tuesday. It was 47,559. That was a new record. And then Wednesday was 46,997. Now it used to be for the the remodel of Gallagher. That's almost 50. They didn't feel like they could get as many people in. But now they're they're getting a few more thousand in there. You notice it, right? When you're up in the the law, oh, Gallagher Square or just in general, I mean, they got to go somewhere. I mean, these are the I think there's how many seats they say about 40 around 40,000 seats. So when you have 47,000, that's 7,000 people without a seat, which means they're either out in Gallagher Square or they're up with you in the law. I mean, you know, just wandering around the concourses, which means there's just going to be less less room to walk around some of those places. But it's great atmosphere. Tuesday and Wednesday in the loft were really busy. Like it it varies up there because I could have a day game like yesterday, we're naturally, it's only like noon and it's a, you know, a day game. So it's, you know, not super crowded up there, which admittedly at times is kind of nice because it's not as loud. But yeah, Tuesday and Wednesday, I mean, it's crazy. And as someone who's been a Padre fan my whole life and went to games at the queue and at the Murph with 9,000 people and there was plenty of parking. It was so easy to get in and out. And you go to the concession stand, there's four people waiting and nobody in any of the lines and you just go right up. And I know there's a temptation to have a little nostalgia for the convenience of going to a game with no one there. But I promise you, it's so much better. Yeah, it's great. It's so much better to actually have people cheering at the games. And if that means, yes, you have to wait in line for 15 minutes sometimes to get your, you know, your board and Bruce sandwich or your granola barbecue. So be it. They got TVs all over the place. You can hear Jesse and Don and mud making their calls. It's way better to have people cheering your team on than show up with 7,000 people. And it's empty. And you just come in and you come out. There's no excitement there. Right. You're going for the excitement. The crowd in the atmosphere is such a big part of it. It is a tremendous crowd and atmosphere. And I really, and I know you guys agree, I don't say that because we're sitting in San Diego on the flagship. Like, it is so good every night, whether it's Dodgers or Phillies or Diamond Dash. Yeah, it is unbelievable what it has become. And look, I'm very lucky. I know nothing different. Okay. And my three seasons here. But it's, it's unbelievable. The amount of people there every night and the environment. It is. By the way, was it yesterday? Brian hoeing on. Yes. And he talked about, he almost felt bad. Yeah. Well, lo and depo park. You don't want to dig it. I mean, when you say, well, nothing against lo and depo park, we know what you know what you really know. He handled it very well. He did. But we know what we were saying that this is way cooler and to have, you know, packed crowds is just better for a baseball player. And he actually kind of the inside of it was it also, I mean, you get more spike of adrenaline when you're going out there and like, if you use that and fuels you when you're out there and you just don't get it when there's, you know, seven thousand people. I think for a reliever, I could see where it would make a significant difference late in a game when you come in in that kind of environment. By the way, Borden Brew had the Baja beef at the ballpark yesterday for the first time. I had only had the Turcato ever had the Baja beef. I split a sandwich with my guy Pedro Gutierrez and, uh, outstanding. Outstand the sauce though. Yes. And with the same sauce that I that I use the, uh, Turcato. Wow. Borden Brew at the ballpark. It's always a good choice. Good stuff sold out crowds in the sandwiches. But, um, yeah, and then he had the other part of it was when you're on the road and you've got to go against a team that has a giant crowd, you can get rattled pretty quickly when things aren't going well. So it makes a big difference. All right, Sammy, go enjoy pickleball or whatever your last off day. Thank you. Thank you for having me in on everybody has in store. Annie and Elston are coming up next. 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