PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Elon Musk wants Twitter to charge for blue checkmarks, which wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for baseball

Episode Date: November 1, 2022

Game Three of the World Series has been delayed to inclement weather, and we were denied the opportunity to see drunk Phillies fans dressing up small children in Jose Altuve costumes. In other news, Twitter is going to start charging to have a blue checkmark, so we take a look back at how baseball helped create the process in the first place.BUY D-BACKS TICKETS HERE: https://gametime.hnyj8s.net/c/3442941/1410622/10874 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/phnx_youtubeALL THINGS PHNX: http://linktr.ee/phnxsports DraftKings: Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app now (https://bit.ly/3Jl1dMX), use promo code PHNX and make your first deposit of FIVE DOLLARS and get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in FREE BETS INSTANTLY! For every leg you add you can boost your winnings up to ONE HUNDRED percent!If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisiscounseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/MI/NJ/PA/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 1-877-770-STOP (7867) (LA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visitOPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA).21+ (18+ WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/LA/MI/NJ/NY/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. Min. $5 deposit required. Eligibility restrictions apply. See http://draftkings.com/sportsbook for details.OGeez!: Enter the “Flavoring Life” sweepstakes. One winner will receive 3 bags of OGeez, an OGeez! Hat, a PHNX shirt of your choice, and a PHNX annual membership. Sign up at gophnx.com or visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfIplqDYsxYeiotn5Zc6hRahaX0a5qG99eHVzkhOlGZDRdgUA/viewform. Must be 21 years or older to purchase.Four Peaks: We are teaming up with Four Peaks to host all US and Mexico World Cup matches at their 8th Street Pub. Enjoy beer specials, giveaways, guest appearances, and more while watching on their 22’ jumbo screen. Click here to register for free: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/phnx-2022-world-cup-watch-parties-1329339Enter to win the “Toast of the Month” sweepstakes to win a $50 Four Peaks gift card, a PHNX shirt of your choice, and a PHNX annual membership. Go to goPHNX.Com or visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOabxo8KQxOWwn9wTilMBuTMAJdrL0CaH9lzfuJqgKN9vfSg/viewform Must be 21 or older. Enjoy responsibly. Bad Birdie: use code “PHNXSPORTS” to take 15% off your next Bad Birdie order! https://glnk.io/7qnq/phnx-sportsMor Furniture: Sit in the same seats we do! Check out https://morfurniture.comUnderdog Fantasy: Sign up for Underdog Fantasy today! Go to the link https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-phnx and use promo code “PHNX” to receive a deposit match up to $100Liquid Death: Get free shipping on all water and merch at https://LiquidDeath.com/PHNX FOCO: FOCO has you covered with the best Arizona Merchandise. Head on over to foco.com. For all non pre-sale items use the promo code “PHNX” for 10% offWhen you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rain delays suck. Am I right? He knows it. Thank you guys for joining us. Of course, this is the PHNX Debaks podcast right here on PHNX. My name is Derek Montia, occasionally known as the macho man, Randy Savage. Occasionally known as Piazza. Yeah, where's the costume today, Derek? It is November 1st, Jesse.

And we are requiring everybody else to show up in costumes, but not us. Of course, this is the thunder stick, my vice mayor, the one and only, Jesse Friedman. I went back and watched YouTube videos of Macho Man Randy Savage last night. And I was, it was incredible. Not only did you impersonate his voice, but you were like quoting him like word for word. Yeah. This interview that I, like you was literally exactly what you said. Well, I know.

That's the way, that's the way things like that work, Jesse. I mean, I've seen those interviews a trillion times. I guess that's fair. I don't even get me started on it. But I do have more to offer than President Jack Tunney thinks that I got. Of course, this show is brought to you by the fine folks at the Drafking Sportsbook app. Download it, use it, make some money. And use our code of PHNX when you do so.

Welcome in guys, of course. We are sad because the entire world was robbed of a game three at Citizens Bank Park on Halloween, filled with raucous Phillies fans in costume giving the Astros the business. You know? I mean, I really feel like we were robbed of that. I feel like, I mean, so now you sort of face a question if you're a Phillies fan, right? Like, do you go with that costume to the game tonight if you're going tonight? You have to go in the costume.

I think you probably have to. Yeah. inclement weather be damned. I'm showing up as, you know, whatever the case may be. We saw some great costumes, by the way. Not only did we see great baseball-related costumes, but we also saw specifically great Phillies-related costumes. There were some tacks on Astros.

It's old jokes, but you got to realize for Phillies fans, it's new to them. They're just now realizing how short Jose Al-Tuva is, and they're having ball with it. Let me tell you. But, no, seriously, in all seriousness, I feel like it really does take the steam out of something that could have been a very special night. You know, like, it just, I feel like historically in sports, you don't get a lot of games of this importance on Halloween. You know, we know of one.

We were, we were involved in one, right? But it was, that was way more serious. I don't remember a lot of Yankees fans showing up in costumes and all of this stuff that we would have seen in Philadelphia. But the Philly fans are great. And I mean, there has been a lot of talk. about how quiet the Houston Astros crowd was in Houston. So I think that that was only going to add to how crazy things would have gotten last night and still are going to get tonight in game three.

Yeah, I mean, maybe the weight just makes Phillies fans that much more, that much louder, that much more obnoxious tonight. I'm sure we'll see multiple people dressed up as trash cans and fully, fully counting on that. If there is not one Phillies fan dressed as Oscar the Grouch in a trash can, As an Astros player, you guys really haven't done your due diligence there. But I'm with Jesse. I really feel like we should have fans and costumes tonight. But since we probably won't get that, since most people are fairly reasonable,

we did find some great costumes from Twitter that were baseball related and more specifically World Series related. Well, Leah, let's take a look at a couple of those that we found. We have this one. That is incredible. For those of you listening, it is the tweet comes from Josh Bram. It says, my buddy Brian and his son dressed up as Aaron Judge and Jose Altuve for Halloween. Obviously, the Aaron Judge being the grown man adult.

How old is this kid? I'm going to say, I'm going to say, yeah, I'd say two, one and a half to two. I'm so bad at identifying the ages of like small children. So he's walking and he looks pretty sturdy. I would say fairly. I would say one and a half. Yeah, yeah. So he's very, it looks fairly new to walking here.

Okay. Okay. Unlike Jose Al-Tubei, who walks all the time. He's very plate disciplined. But, of course, this is fantastic. Like, this was one of my favorites that we saw, especially the size comparison. What else do we have, Leah? We have this gem right here.

This is from a local guy, Jeff Gahn, I think is how you say his name. His son Jackson wanted to be his favorite debat, Corbyn Carroll, for Halloween. So we already have a Corbyn Carroll siding during Halloween. You got to love it. You got to love it. Corbyn Carol responded to this tweet. by the way, and said, like, you love to see it or, like, looking forward to meeting you at the ballpark or something like that. So it was cool to see Corbyn respond like that.

Got to make sure, like, you should maybe have like a little blur behind you if you're Corby Carroll. Yeah. Flash or something like that. That would be good to see. All right. Lee, what else we got? This kid that came as a Ken Griffey Jr. Chrome baseball card. Wow. That is fantastic for all the right reasons. I don't think they sell those online. No, they do not. That is a custom. That's a homemade costume. Yep, that's a box.

The kid is in a box for those of you that can't see it. He's got all the details of the tops chrome Ken Griffey Jr. baseball card, the highly coveted card. And it's just a great overall look. Kids got the hat on backwards. He looks like Ken Griffey Jr. It's perfect. Brettly Johnson, I assume, came as a Justin Martinez baseball card probably. He did.

Actually, he came as a rainbow, which is what the set was that he's trying to collect of the Martinez cards. What else we got, Lee? I love a good Rockford Peach, a league of their own costume. There were a lot of these. These are popular, especially for little girls. They never don't look adorable. They're always adorable in this costume. It's always a hit with me.

I saw lots of these. But the dad is Jimmy Dugan in this picture, really. Drinking the beer back there. Just looking surly is just absolutely perfect in regards to the entire look here. Are these triplets? They look like triplets. Those are three children that are very close in age. They look very much alike.

And God bless them. Give me two and a half three. All right. I don't know why I'm invested. I don't know why I'm so invested in that. It's so hard. Like the difference between a seven-year-old and a four-year-old is so subtle. I swear.

It's absolutely not. No. Like give me like a tangible distinction between a seven-year-old and a four-year-old. A seven-year-old is in school and a four-year-old. vocabulary. There's so many things that are different. I was a pretty smart four-year-old. All right, Derek.

That's what I was shocking. You were feeding kids in ping pong at four. I was not. I was not. I did not have that kind of coordination when I was four. And it's frankly a miracle I have that kind of coordination now. I really can't believe it. As someone who played pickleball with Jesse,

I have a hard time. I also have a hard time believing. Good thing. Great point. There's a big difference between table tenants and like actual life. size tenants. Not really though. Not when it comes to pickleball. There's about the same amount of movement. There is a lot

more movement in pickleball than there is in ping pong. You are not playing ping pong the way. You move like one or two steps to your left and right every once in a while, but it is by and large a stationary game. We have any more Halloween costumes earlier? Oh yeah. So this is

what is this? What's going on here? This is a demon in the Philadelphia Phillies dugout. This was before yesterday's game. And my understanding is this is the Philadelphia Phillies manager Topper. I cannot confirm or deny if it is him or not. But I'll tell you this much, nothing would be more endearing when it comes to Rob Thompson and his managing of this team than for this to actually be him in this costume. You think that's, you think that's Rob Thompson?

Can you imagine if he managed the fucking game in this costume? Could you imagine just all night? Can you imagine Ken Rosenthal going to interviews in the dugout and asking him his thoughts on that in that costume? I mean, there's so much potential too for, you know, like arguing with the umpire and like ripping his mask off and throwing it on the ground or something and revealing his true face underneath. Yeah, you're right. You're absolutely right. Like just having enough, you know, maybe he gets too close into his face. Hit some with a little rubber nose and he's like, I'm at it.

I've had it. But anyway, what else we got? We got more. We got some pretty good Phillies costumes. This one, incredible. This one is legendary. This is a small child and a waste management truck wearing a Phillies jersey, taking out the Astros trash. Oh, you don't get any better than that.

Kudos to whoever put that entire thing together. You deserve all that. You don't think it was that kid? He might have had to. Leah, how old is this kid? Yeah, how old is that kid, Leah? Age that kid, Leah. Ooh.

Yeah, he's sitting. It's hard. Give me. No, he walks. Yeah, he's old enough to make a fist. I have a number. I have a number in my head. I really want, no, I want to hear you.

No, let's go, Jesse. How old do you think he's three? I was going to say four or five. Okay. All right. See, I'm at least in the ballpark there. I was going to go five. Jesse's like, he looks 11.

Yeah, he's either three or 13. I'm not really sure, but it's one of the two. Can't quite figure. By the way, yesterday we got, I think that's all of the ones that we have, yeah, Leah, for customers. Well, we have the video. Oh, we have a fantastic video. Jordan Walker in the Arizona Fall League.

Yes, Jesse set this up. He is in a sloth. He is a sloth. He is in a sloth onesie. He is in a sloth onezy taking batting practice. And of course, he's making it look effortless. If you saw there at the end of the video, you could see his ankles. That costume was too small for him because, of course it is.

He is a gigantic man. And I was doubtful that they actually made a sloth costume that was big enough to fit his person. They ran out of like double XL sloth costumes. Yeah. I mean, trust me. The team that I wear is not big enough for me. I want to tell you guys, that's a secret that you're going to have. Jordan Walker also was wearing crocs if you look closely.

Yeah. Yeah. He went full on with his costume. He also had a home run in yesterday's Halloween game for the Salt River Rafter. So shout up to Jordan Walker for making the Arizona Fall League exciting. Yesterday, we had a great question in our Discord for our mailbag Monday that we actually missed out on. And we didn't get a chance to address it. So we had a question that was basically this one right here from Night Raider. He asked if you had to pick a Halloween candy that represents the two World Series teams,

which one would you pick? It's so good. It's such a good question. It's such a good question. Because, I mean, what are you going to do here? What are you going to do as far as major name brand candies? I feel like there's a lot of different ways you could go. I know this is probably petty of me, but I'd pick a payday for the Phillies.

Ah. Right? Okay. Because we're always forgetting. how much their payroll is. Yeah. You know what I mean? So yeah, along those lines, my thought for the Phillies was like, and especially now that

we're kind of getting into the holiday season here, every one of you watching this show or listening to the show is going to receive a little box of chocolates at some point, right? It's just inevitable in the next two months. And I think the Phillies resemble that box of chocolates. Like, it's really expensive. It's very expensive, right? You pay way more for that box of chocolates than what, those chocolates are probably actually worth.

Nor are you going to get as much as you would if you just bought like a small pack of like candy bars or. Yeah, exactly. There's not that many of them inside, right? It's Bryce Harper. It's J.T. Romuto. It's Zach Wheeler. But there's not, there's not that many chocolates inside of the box.

But the box is still very, very, very expensive. And probably not quite as good as it should be given how much you pay for it, which the Phillies, they won 87 games. Makes sense. Wow. I rest my case. That's pretty good. I have no idea for the Astros. You have no idea for the Astros?

No idea. Oh, man. Okay. Well, the Astros, I could go a couple of different directions here. Okay. Have you ever had that dehydrated, like, space, like ice cream that they make? Like, that comes to me as, like, a fun one because it's Space City and Houston and all that. Right.

If I was being honest, the candy bar that makes me think of the Houston Astros is an almond joy. Do you know why? Why? Because it's a fucking trash candy bar. So is anything with coconut in it. That might be the one food take that you and Craig Morgan agree on. Oh man, good, good. Because there are some things that are just universally known,

and that is that an almond joy is trash. I've never had an almond joy. I know you were going to. Can't answer that. Oh, come on. Why? Why are you like this? I'm reviewing a movie for you later in this show.

I mean, I think we all know it. point that pop culture references are lost on this but like I know it's candy it's coconut with a little almond in it I mean you're not making it sound like something I have to try right it's because it's a trash candy bar but I want it just as a point of reference for you to know what okay this is I don't think I've had one but I think but that's by choice I've seen them they've been in my Halloween bag I think that was the candy I always like gave to my dad you know here you go I don't want we have we have multiple people oh yeah

Park hasn't had a water. What? Charles, you haven't had an orange. I do. I just Googled what an almond joy looks like. And I recognize it. But yeah,

I've definitely never had enough. I'm not a big, to be frank, I'm not a big almond person in general. So if you put almond in the name of a candy bar, I very likely are not going to. I get it. There's ways to make me avoid foods too by,

yeah, right, I get it. But still, it's an almond joy. I would just think a thought out of curiosity that you guys had tried it. Pugs and Hugs is allergic to what?

almonds or coconut? or chocolate. I want to see what's the sad. Probably almond. Almond? Yeah. Almond would make sense. All right. Whatever. Jesse, he's not known for his candy takes, but he's definitely known for his ability to write about baseball. So make sure if you haven't done this already, sign up over at go phtonx.com. For an annual membership, you'll get yourself a free t-shirt of your

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And also make sure you're subscribed there on your favorite audio podcasting app. Leave us a review. if you'd be so kind. Jesse, I'm sad. Why are you sad? It's time for me to say goodbye to that blue check mark. You're not going to fork over the, what is it? Is it $8 a month now?

Maybe. Yeah, there is. Originally, remember it as being 20, maybe it's eight. I don't know. There's some new information coming out from Elon Musk who is looking to sync my favorite social media platform right into the ocean. But Twitter is going to start charging people for verified people to have a blue check mark, whether you are a new person looking to have a blue check mark,

whether you are a person that currently has had a blue check mark for years. If you're like Leah, who's had your blue check mark for like one month and you're already getting it taken away from you, I would just like this opportunity to say goodbye to my blue check mark. We've had some good times together. You got me some free stuff. Does that mean Roosevelt isn't going to give you any shirts anymore?

Probably not. I better hit up my guy and get one more last shipment sent out to me. But yeah, you know, I mean, there's obviously a lot of controversy, a lot of discussion about it. It remains seen if it actually happens. How did Musk refer to it today? You said as a prince and pauper situation. Lords and Peasants system. Yeah, yeah.

Elon Musk just tweeted before we went live. Twitter's current Lords and Peasant system for who has or doesn't have a blue check mark is BS. Power to the people blue for $8 a month. He said bullshit, but Jesse doesn't curse on this show. $8 a month. See, it's funny. So it's been changed from 20 down to 8 now. And I still am doubtful of if it's going to happen.

But I also kind of laugh at the idea that it's a lords and peasant system currently. Yeah, I mean. It's about to be about who can pay at least when it was $20, $240 a year to have it. Right. Yeah. Now you're sort of making it maybe not lords and peasants, but the people who want to pay $8 a month and the people who don't. Lords of peasants. Sort of.

Yeah. I don't understand. how that's less lords and presidency than what happens now. I don't even know if peasantcy is a word. It's a way for them to continue to try to make money off of a social media platform that they overvalued and paid too much.

Yeah, he wrote a whole thread. He said, this will also give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators. Yeah, right. Yeah, apparently it is interesting. It says in like the list, so you wouldn't just get the blue checkmark. You would get some other stuff too.

he says you will get priority in replies, mentions, and search, which is essential to defeat spam slash scam, ability to post long video and audio, half as many ads, and paywall bypass for publishers willing to work with us. So if you pay this amount of money, maybe you can get behind the paywall of certain media companies.

I don't really know exactly how that would work. But the problem, Derek, is that we're completely missing the point of what the Twitter verified idea was from the very beginning. Exactly. And actually, as we kind of described and talked about in the past a little bit, it has a direct connection to baseball. It's wild. It is wild because the reason why Twitter ended up with the verification process in the first place is Major League Baseball Manager and legend, if you want to use that term, Tony Larusa, who sued Twitter over basically someone making a fake account claiming to be Tony Larusa.

Now, this was a fake account that in all transparency did the things that most fake accounts do. They had wild outlandish statements, but they also put in their bio that they were a parody account that wasn't really Tony LaRusa. But this was in the early days of Twitter when there was a lot of discussion. There was a lot of questions about who was or wasn't their actual selves because there was no verification process at this time. And you also had people not on Twitter being represented as being on Twitter, which was kind of more of the problem. If a celebrity or a famous person wasn't already on Twitter, it was easy for someone. to make a bio and pretend. I mean, to be fair, it was sort of the golden era of Twitter where, like, you could go

and try to steal usernames before people could get to them. Oh, yeah. Because this was 2009. And like, if you look at a lot of major league Twitter accounts, a lot of them were created around 2009. Like, at D-BACs, we'd have to maybe check real quick. I want to say it was like 2010, 2011, maybe 2009. Maybe it was a little bit earlier than that.

But, but yeah, this was the time where if you were trying to kind of mess with people and mess with companies. You could just go and claim their usernames before they could get to them. And someone basically claimed Tony LaRouca's username and tried to impersonate him and caused a little bit of trouble in the process. Yeah, the tweets that specifically he kind of sued over were

some pretty obviously insensitive tweets. There were a series of Cardinals pitchers that passed away from 2002 to 2007. Daryl Kyle dying of a heart condition. Reliever Josh Hancock dying in an auto accident. And there was just some

obviously some jokes being made that were very, like I said, insensitive. That's what kind of sent Tony Larissa to a point of suing Twitter. These were the tweets that he specifically brought up. And essentially, Twitter settled out of court with Tony Larusa under a few conditions. They agreed to pay for Tony Larissa's legal fees for suing them. They opted, they agreed to make a donation to his foundation. And they agreed to take steps to stop phony accounts, which is how we ended up with the blue checkmark.

Not long after. It took like a couple weeks maybe or something like that. And Twitter was the first, the first like big social media platform to do this. They're the, I guess all platforms at this point have a blue checkmark equivalent. But Twitter was the first one. As a matter of fact, most of them are a blue checkmark. Yeah. Yeah, they literally just kind of said, hey, that's a good idea.

We're just going to copy what you did. The specific tweet, I think, that caused the most problem was from April 19th of 2009. I presume this would have been. It said, lost two out of three, but we made it out of Chicago without one drunk driving incident or dead pitcher. So just obviously something that Tony Laruso would never have said. And so he sued Twitter over it, which is sort of a, I mean, kind of an odd thing, right? Like, he's suing Twitter. He's not, like, there's no mention in here of the actual individual who did this.

Like somebody was behind this, right? And created this account and put out this tweet. But the idea there is that the platform itself gave him. gave him that platform in order for him to actually be able to do Twitter. Twitter realized that it was very flawed in just making it that easy for someone to go out there and impersonate someone in the way that they did Tony Larusa. And yeah, reporters asked him about it. And he was like, I did not tweet that.

Like, this is not okay that that information is out there. So, yeah, it all goes back to Tony Larissa, the blue check mark. And now the blue check mark is changing in not a great way from what we can. can tell. It's just like I think Charles Woodall Pike said, if anything more, it's more lords and peasants to charge for it, which is exactly the point.

Because as it stands right now, this guy right here, I didn't ask for it. I didn't want it. I didn't ask for this responsibility. Don't say you didn't want it, Derek. Everyone wants the blue check mark. I mean,

you know, the one issue is it's kind of, and I've seen this before, right, where people think that because you have a blue check mark, somehow your words have more weight than anybody else. I've seen these ridiculous tweets about like, people with blue check marks need to watch what they say. And it's like, what?

I'm, you guys know me. I'm a jackass. Like, are you kidding me? Don't even give me a blue check mark that if I now have to watch what I say because it carries more weight. I'm just a dude.

And I'm like, I don't understand how, you know, that blue check mark makes, you know, people different. I don't understand. Again,

you're talking about Lord and peasant system. Now you have to tweet a different way or be more responsible with your words. No, I still want to viciously attack companies that do me wrong on Twitter. I'm not going to take the high road when it comes to that. I mean, just like what's the point? Like what's the point of just like someone casually using Twitter? You know, they have like 100 or 200 followers or whatever like the average Twitter account has and being verified. Like there's no reason for that account to be verified.

The point of being verified is to make sure that people don't impersonate you because you have at least enough influence where somebody could try to pretend to be you and it would cause damage. It's funny you say that because I actually won a contest, not a contest, but like a giveaway. Nike was doing like a giveaway where they were just randomly giving away shoes

to people that replied to a tweet. And I was one of the people that won some shoes. Interesting. And a guy completely impersonated my account just to try to steal the shoes from me. Like made my, their bio look the same. It was like instead of California, K-Man was like underscore underscore

game man or something. Oh, wow. Right. So. Cap underscore caveman with a C instead of a K. Oh, that's crazy. No, no. They would never do that. Anyway, again, I want to take some time right now to say goodbye to my blue check mark. I miss you. I thank you for all the Super Bowl parties. I wrote in a blimp because of you.

So thank you for that. What do we, okay, so Michael brings up a great point here. He says, OMG, imagine all the fake Jeff pass-in free agent signing tweets that will happen. Oh, it's going to be a fucking nightmare. Because those fake accounts could be verified now. And so you have a nightmare where, I mean, I guess you can still tell the difference by looking at the username.

Sure. But, I mean, you've been able to do that all along and people still get fooled by those things left and right. They do because they don't actually look at the Twitter username, right? It's just whatever. Yeah, they just look at the name on the account. Yeah. And again, like you say, I could actually do it with a blue check mark and have a fun time

doing it but like just the idea of all that work you have to do to your bio to make it look like Jeff Passon's like that's exhausting to me alone let alone is it really you literally just copy and paste his bio but then you have to change your profile picture you have to change I mean you could you can easily get that profile picture off of Google images I'm sure you can and the the W.WE uh sign that he has is his letter right so Jeff Passon is here. Great anyway uh make sure you guys are checking out all of our sponsors. We shout out to our friends, especially. We got some breaking

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I'll do whatever I need to do. Please, God. I'll do whatever I need to say something. So this graphic of you're watching on YouTube, this is the day Derek lost his key. That's the day that Shane Deepenbach stole my keys. I am changing the narrative on how that day is discussed. that is the day Shane openly pulled this magic trick on me

where he opened his bag he was the only person Jesse he was the only person I made open his bag and empty it and it was still Wouldn't it be funny if your keys were in this photo Like a little special like you know Easter egg there in the background

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And again, shout out to all of our partners for being here, for making this PHNX thing fun. Jesse is making things fun for me. Of course, I'm going to make them try an almond joy after this show. But more importantly... I'm getting so much more cultured today. I know. I'm trying to, right?

But more importantly, we gave you a movie assignment a long time ago. You know, about two months turnaround time, give a sake. We got to make sure that we get this homework back faster. But the fans selected and they picked one of the greatest movies in cinematic film history, the Shawshank Redemption for you to watch. And I am ready to hear your thoughts on it. It was outstanding, frankly. I mean, like the Breakfast Club, the one that I watched last time.

Like, that's kind of a quirky movie that you can, you know, kind of have some fun with. But Shawshank Redemption was just outstanding, frankly. It was just very, very good. There were a few moments that really devastated me. I'm still sad about Brooks. I'm never going to recover. Spoiler alert. Yeah, I mean, at this point, like...

I've never seen it. It's literally I know it's like It's supposed to be one of the best movies ever It's I mean that's a weird thing I don't know if I would say it was one of like I don't know if I would say it's in like the elite tier of movies I've ever seen necessarily Why do you say that? I mean

Like it was really good it was really good I don't know if there was anything Like I'm not by default going to go in and put a movie into that category You know like like a movie But critics do critics have On IMDB it's the number one ranked movie. It's the number one ranked movie. Yeah, critics, usually it's like the godfather is up there, Shawshank Redemption. The Dark Night. The Dark Night. Yes, mostly because of the Dijk Night. The

Ledger's performance and that has been critically received, right? So, like, but it is. It's interesting sometimes, especially with a movie like The Dark Night, where like the movie kind of came in your lifetime and you watched it and it's hard to think of it as being like one of the all-time great movies ever made. Typically when you look at that list though, it's a bunch of old shit that honestly gets over kind of over credited, right? Because again, today's modern day of movie making, like, we should be able to make movies now that are way better than anything we made 30, 40 years ago. The problem is that we think just like the advances in technology and yeah, and I feel like people are just lazy and it's hard to like think of an original idea when so many stories have

been made, right? You know, like, there's a lot of that that kind of come into play. Sure. But, I mean, that's one of the things about those classic movies and Shawshank Redemption is one of those, where the story itself is so good. It's been copied before. You've seen it parody probably thousands of times, you know, I'm sure everybody has seen a poster. Get busy living, get busy dying. Yeah. That's iconic. Right. Not only that, but the, uh, the poster being torn off the wall and the hole in the wall scene like, yeah, these are things that people are right. You're right. Like, the more I think about it, it's like, okay, it is sort of a masterpiece. Like, it is a

really, really good movie. And I think the credit that gets given to movies like that is that they do it without the special effects, right? Like, it's such a well-told story and it's just done. I mean, I don't know what kind of special effects you need. No, I'm not saying. Like, if they made Shawshankeringeringen now, I mean, what are you going to add?

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, they green screen them being on campus at like the school, right? They could have gone to any fucking college and shot in the quad of the school, but instead they just decided to green screen at the background. So look, I'm just saying you never know what people are going to see GI or anything more these days. Right.

But no, the warden had me so, I'm a nice guy, but I could punch that man in the face. Like, I wanted to over and over and over again. Yeah, I think maybe the only thing that I could see with that movie that would maybe take it out of the elite category, although I'm not super convinced to this, is just that there's sort of a pretty, predictability component to like, you know, being, I don't want to give too much away for Leah here, but. Being in prison and breaking out of prison. Yeah. Like, you can tell us the direction that it's going to tell.

And you could kind of tell that Andy Dufrein was like the type of guy who was definitely going to pull that off. Yeah. You know. So, but also like they did it really well. There are going to be spoilers here. So you should probably late now if you haven't seen this movie. I mean, you all have had like two months to watch this like I had. So.

Come on. Get your shit together. Andy Dufrain, Z. Wantonaheho. I have been to Zawantanero. Jesse, I looked for his money. I did not find it. So when are we doing a live broadcast? Oh, we got to go.

We got to go. It's actually where I got engaged, believe it or not. Wow. Okay. Yeah, my father was the GM of a resort hotel in Zwananahoe and my wife. He was the GM of a hotel like everywhere. He was. That's kind of what he did as a career, you know, believe it or not.

You kind of stay on that same path once you get to that elite two. of managing or whatever you want to call it. But yeah, it was beautiful. The beautiful part about it was my dad was like, I'll take care of it. And then I heard nothing else about the plans, right? And like typically when you are the one asking the other person to marry you, you're in on the plans. So as beautiful as it was for my wife to come down and follow this hostess who was leading

us to our table who walked into the restaurant that we thought we were dining into and then out of it and followed a rose petals path out to the beach. Oh my gosh. Where there was a single table set up on the beach with candles and lights and a band. A band. A band. Oh, my gosh. A three-feas band.

Oh, my gosh. We sat in front of the ocean and ate dinner. And yes, I couldn't eat a single thing until I got the words out. But we had ourselves a lovely time and see what today. Ben, Ben says, I don't know if I agree with that. Jesse. I think the film makes you think he's going to be exonerated.

I see where you're coming from. I mean, like it is... Or even leans in the direction that he's going to like possibly commit suicide or something like that too, right? Yeah, you're right. I mean, like, as far as predictability goes, I've seen much, much worse. Like there are movies where you just know what's going to happen. Here's the thing. But like the pickaxe, like...

I've seen this about stuff. I don't know. I've seen this about stuff when it comes to things that are predictable, right? Sometimes good stories are predictable. And sometimes you know where they're going. it has a certain sense of satisfaction that it actually goes there. And it's like they're not really trying to like surprise you with everything. Yeah.

Yeah, right. That tends to be the case. But again, I want to give a shout out to Zwananahu for being a magical place and for being where I engage. I have to go there now, I guess. I will have to take you there. It doesn't thrill me to do this. But I also have to say something that a week ago, my father, who I lovingly was just talking about passed away. And I just wanted to take a moment to say how special he was to me.

My dad, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my dad. I wouldn't be doing any of the stuff. My dad, my dad introduced me to celebrities at an age where I was too young to even understand who these celebrities were or how important they were. I got to sit in like Mario Andretti's car before I even knew what Formula One racing was, you know? Like there was a lot of things that my dad got, took me. My dad introduced me to Paula Abdul. and Jessica Hahn before the age of 10. Now, most of you don't know who Jessica Hahn is, so you can go Google that shit, and I will wait,

but you'll see how inappropriate it was that I met her under the age of 10. But, you know, I wouldn't, like I said, I wouldn't be here. My dad, I traveled the world because my dad, I did a lot of beautiful things. I'm going to miss him so much, but my friend Megarrain, he has a song called Infinite Lives, and a big part of that song is talking about we don't live forever, Right. But it's about what you lead behind. And that's how you can have an infinite life, right? My dad was, excuse me, I knew it was going to be hard to get through.

My dad was. You really asked for it, Darren. I really did. When you decided to do this? Yeah. Well, I started to talk about this on Twitter and stuff. He was a big part of why the Make a Wish Foundation exists. He was the first national president of the Make a Wish Foundation. started several other charitable organizations, and he always wanted to leave that behind. So, you know, I just want to give a shout out to him. I'm going to miss him. And everybody should try their best to do something

where you leave something positive behind, right? That's what it's all about. So thank you guys so much for your support. I know it's been a difficult week for me. This guy held it down for me last week, and I didn't get a chance to tell you, thank you so much for doing that. meant the world to me.

And you guys mean the world to me. And yeah, someone said Jessica Hahn, dang, we are old. Yeah, no shit. Don't even get me started on that. I just love the more that I hear about your dad, the more I'm like, wow, Derek's personality makes sense. Yeah, it really does. Like he's meeting celebrities when he's four years old. Like, yeah, it tracks.

It was crazy, like the stuff I got to do. But, yeah, no, I mean, my basic, my favorite thing about my dad was that he was a GM of hotels. So I got to kind of be the brady kid of the boss of the hotel. I'm sure you wore that very well. Which I just meant I got all the room service I wanted for free and all sorts of stuff. I missed those days. I did not appreciate them as much as I should have at the time. Let me tell you.

But again, we thank you guys so much. I thank you guys so much. Thank you for, again, your support during this. It means the world to me. And I'm happy I can share this stuff about my dad. It's not always easy for me because it's still pretty fresh and new for me. But, you know, I'm going to continue. You're going to hear these stories multiple times.

I'm telling you that right now. I preface that to my friends. Like, you're not going to just hear this story one time. So, but anyway, yeah, Michael said his asking what the fuck up was Jay Crowder. That was one of the first words that came out of my dad's mouth when I found out he was in hospice. Why the fuck are they training Jay Crowder? Yeah. I still don't have a good answer to that question.

I did not either, you know. But it's great. Like, again, my love of sports. is a big part because of him. Took me to Yankee Stadium when I was way too young. It took me to that Dodgers Expos game when the Dodgers disappointed us and the Expos came through and signed all of our stuff.

And yeah, these are all memories I'll never forget. But, yeah, again, these are what makes us us, right? This is why I'm here. And of course, like you said, it makes more sense the more you hear about it. It really does. Again, we want to give a shout out to all of our partners, all of our sponsors.

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I'm ready to move on. I'm ready to... We've got some more discussion maybe tomorrow about the Oakland A's, no longer being the Oakland A's. We'll see what happens as that continues to develop. Hopefully we have a World Series game to talk about. That's the most important part.

We need a World Series game to be played tonight, and mostly we need all the Phillies fans to show up in costumes still. That's our hope. But in the meantime... You have a prediction you want to throw out there? McCullors and Rangers Juarez. I have a hard... That's great pitching matchup.

It's going to be a great pitching matchup. I have a hard time going against McCullors with the way he's pitching in the playoffs right now. Yeah. Right? Yeah. He's pitched really well in the postseason. Ranger Suarez has kind of been like a get me by sort of a guy for the Phillies. And he's performed pretty well.

I mean, he has a 1.86 ERA in the playoffs, which is, which is insane. Yeah. Pitching, you know, against the Astros is going to be a new challenge for him. But I have a feeling the Phillies are going to come out with this one tonight. You're right. that on paper McCullors is probably the better the better picture. But also we should mention that the gold glove winners will be announced here within a couple of hours. Shortly after our show ends, of course.

Yeah. But yeah, once we have that information, all of the big things happen about one hour after our show ends. That's right. But we're looking forward to Christian Walker winning that gold glove. We know that's about as certain as we can be. Should be. We'll see what happens with that. But of course, in the meantime, you can stay follow us along.

We'll have some information as that breaks. We'll be talking about it tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm at Cap underscore Caveman on Twitter until Twitter doesn't exist anymore. Even if I don't have a fucking blue checkmark. This guy over here is at Jesse N. Friedman. Our show is at PHNX underscore D-Backs. But of course, all roads lead to at PHNX underscore Sports on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. We thank you guys again for taking some time and joining us today.

I hope you guys were in costume. I can't see any of you, but I'll take your word for it. And remember, kids, baseball is fun, but it's so much more. fun when you play it in Philadelphia.