Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Danny Parkins talks Cubs For A Cure, what matters most for Bears in 2026 (Hour 2)

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

In the second hour, Leila Rahimi and Mark Grote were joined by FS1 host Danny Parkins to preview the Cubs For A Cure Radiothon and to discuss the Bears' outlook in 2026. After that, Rahimi and Grote discussed a key to Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong's hitting. Later, they held the Halftime segment.

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We wanted to talk to Danny today. And now, and we're going to do that. He is at Danny Parkins on X. You can check him out on the newly expanded. First thing's first OT from 4 to 5 on Foxwood. It's one. And we have the Cubsburg Cure Radiothon coming up in just over two weeks. Danny Parkins joining us on our hotline and on Twitch, twitch.tv.tv slash the score Chicago. Danny, how are you?

I'm great. And technically, just under two weeks. Oh, yeah. This is Thursday. Yeah. Yeah, two weeks from an hour ago. It'll begin. So I have some news for you. Yeah, we had one of our texters to our text line. email he sent us a message saying how can I sponsor part of the Radiothon so I gave him the email account 1043 Radiothon at Gmail.com if you guys are interested so even the text line coming through for the big Radiothon great I hope I haven't I got to check the email address this morning I haven't checked it today so I hope that

that comes through listen we've got what the hell is going on Jesus get yourself together man This is a 50,000 watt radio station, pal. I don't know what you think you're doing. I think it's even more watts now with the FM. We're 100,000 watt radio station parking. Get this guy a handkerchief or something. You're a lot of watts, grody. I don't know what's happening.

Somebody spray him down over there. I thought you had people. Homes them down. Yeah, Robbie is slacking on his duties as producer. It's an excellent point. Did you just wake up? Look at you, man. Your eyes are half shut.

You're wearing a sloppy tuesday. teacher. You look like me for crying out loud. You have no make. That's it. You look tired because you don't have makeup on. Dude, I look tired because the NBA playoffs are brutal. Oh, is that what it is? No, they are awesome, Leila. That is true. But my God, these NBA games end at one in the morning every single day on the East Coast. It's crazy. And then I wake up with the kids every day.

You know, it's very hard being me. So I am tired. I have no idea what just happened with my throat. I got to get that figured out because I'm about to broadcast for 24 hours with you guys. Yeah, yeah. Triano! Take care of this guy. You know what?

Put Triano on. Enough of this hit. Enough of. Yeah, I get it. I get it. But honestly, maybe I'm not going to have to start waking up anymore because of Matthew Boyd. Maybe I'm not going to have to play with my kids anymore. Wow.

You know what I mean? I can just send that story to Steph and be like, listen, honey, these takes, they're paying the bills. I got to get a break from playing with these kids. It's dangerous out here. It could cause you to miss work. That's real. That's, you know, maybe it'll get me out of Little League on Sunday. Are you saying?

Can tear your meniscus. Are you not buying, are you not buying that, Danny? Is that what you're saying? No, no, I'm buying it. I'm just saying it's like a whole new excuse for parents everywhere. It's good. Yeah, I'd be like, I don't know. It's dangerous.

Grody has, he has no children. He has a furry cat, and he's out here trying to belittle the, physical nature of playing with kids. No, and I'll honestly like... It's exhausting. Deannie, when I heard it yesterday, it was the one time that I believed a player that he got hurt doing something odd like playing with your kids. Usually I'm like, okay, you're making this up. It's too ridiculous.

But I believed it with Matthew Boy. But I did wake up today and say it was weird how the Cubs handled the whole Kyle Tucker thing last year and how they weren't transparent and they didn't communicate particularly well. So I just needed to go through it with myself a little bit to make sure I wasn't being naive. I believe Matthew Boyd, but I think that we have to do our due diligence just to give it a little bit more airtime, I suppose. Sure, you guys are Big J. journalists. No, I would say it's pretty obvious that that is what happened.

And, you know, I feel terrible for him. The team is snake bit, but they keep winning. Is the consensus now that counsel can manage? You guys are there on the ground. What's happening? Oh, yeah. He's great again? Okay, great.

I think, I mean, you know, it's a day-by-day basis. Sometimes you agree with people's disqual. decisions and sometimes you don't. And I feel like that's not just Craig counsel, but I have liked how he has there have been some effective mound visits. He's done what he can with the bullpen. Trent Thornton basically came in off the street yesterday and got the

saves. So you can't, you can't hate on it too much. I was going to say, it's like, what is it? Eight different guys with saves this year? Yeah, Trent Thorne got the win. Yeah. And then we found out Corbyn Martin, according to reports, has been DFAed. The point is he's doing what he can with. the guys he has, so there's that.

He's doing amazing. They're doing amazing. What it was 18 of 21. Yes. Another crazy long winning streak with, I think it's 10 guys who started, you know, 10 injuries to pitchers or they were in AAA at one point. This year have made appearances of the big club.

It's, uh, it, it feels unsustainable, but like, who cares? It is such a crazy ride and so many teams are flawed always and they're going to make significant reinforcements at the line, which is still a ways away, but like a belief that you will always figure out a way to win, that is a really, really valuable team or thing in a team. So yeah, they are playing unbelievable

baseball and overcoming a crazy amount of adversity. Like I think we talked about it before the year, right? Like biggest strengths of the team were probably defense and organizational depth, and organizational depth has been like the biggest story of the year so far for the Cups. It's been crazy. No, I think you're right. The fact that they have been able to to withstand this. And we were talking the other day, Danny, about how we've all witnessed games where if a team is up two to nothing, given how inconsistent a lineup can be, or you're watching worse teams, you're going, oh, I don't know that they can come back from that.

And I feel like this is taking on Bears' comebacks at this point with how they're winning, especially in the last few games. Bears. Yeah, Bears. Yeah, maybe Caleb Williams can pitch. I bet he could, actually. Yeah, he's got a great, though I really, that's, that's, that's, That's one that I would never forgive counsel for.

Could you imagine? Oh, yeah. If they're like, you know, we need another arm. We're going to sign Caleb. And then he got hurt. Like, it's bad. The Cubs pitching injuries is bad. But we have to protect the most important arm in Chicago.

And that is very much Caleb Williams. Most important arm, I feel like, is a good title for Caleb. What is it? Most important arm. Yeah, he can also be most important person, but most important arm as well. Arm person. He is. all of the above.

He's pretty, what he is guys is he's precious. And you know, Danny, there is a, there is a rookie minicamp going on this weekend on Friday and Saturday. You've been hearing about all that? I don't know if that made it's your show that we're going to see Dylan Thineman and Logan Jones and Sam Rosh and Zavion Thomas all doing their thing out there. And Ben Johnson, part two. How good, by the way, do you feel?

because I haven't talked to you in a little while about the Bears, as usual. You're pretty happy with this rookie class that the Bears have put together here as far as the draft picks are concerned? Yeah, I think it's okay. I think, you know, Thineman made sense for value. And if you can get a day one starter at the 25th pick in the draft, that is obviously significant because a lot of teams are not going to be able to get a plug-in-play starter at the end of the first round. it's not a premium position. I think everybody would have preferred edge or front seven just based on positional value.

But you have to trust that they stayed true to their board. And, you know, listen, it's not a very exciting offseason. Like, that's the truth. The Bears were back to back to back offseason champs. They had a three-peat for the off-season. And, you know, you got to give up the banner. But that's actually what's supposed to happen when you are a good team. So, you know, they tried to trade for Max Crosby reportedly, missed out.

They're not a perfect roster. But the key, I think, to this upcoming year is very simple. We'll talk about it 100 times between now and then is how big of a step forward does Caleb Williams take? Like, is it incremental? Then I think some of the problems and flaws with the roster will be there. But if he takes the leap that we've seen truly great quarterback prospects and talents take when they've been in the second year of great offensive systems, and he's an MVP candidate this year, then I don't think it's going to really matter much.

And the Bears can be a top five offense in the game, and that'll overcome a lot of problems that may or may not exist on their defense. Well, Danny, I feel like the first round magically somehow of the draft worked out for most GMs. The teams that wanted to take the big risks, like the Rams and the Vikings did so, and then teams that needed exactly who they may have wanted even at 25, like the Bears did, got who they got. but the second round may be a good indication of a challenge now that's new for this team in this front office. Once you have the later picks, you may not get your guys.

We see the run on defensive linemen. We see the run on edge rushers right before practically two picks. Accus goes to New England. So that may be the new challenge. You know, that second round and just how you manage your board becomes very crucial in the years where your team is better. Well, listen, yeah, it's a high class problem. You'd rather be picking. It would be great for us if draft season was not as interesting.

Right? Like, that would be great. Yes. It would make it harder to do sports radio in Chicago in March and April because those polls position segments had a lot of juice to them. Your who's your guy would have a lot of juice to them when they were picking one, when they were picking nine, you know, that's that sort of thing. But when you're picking 25 or later,

It's just, it's not, it's not going to be as fun. You're like, well, we could take the number one safety or the number seven edge rusher. Like it's just not as, but that's good. Like that's one of them good problems. So, yeah, hopefully that's the new reality for the Bears. And, you know, hopefully they don't pick in the top 10 again for a very, very long time. Talking to our guy, Danny Parkins, the former scorer host, the host now of First things first. And Danny, yesterday it happened again.

A new basketball boss was introduced in Chicago. Bryson Graham is here. Thoughts? Listen, I think that I'm glad it wasn't the person that everybody said it was going to be because at least that represents some sort of outside of the box thinking. I think that's good. But no matter who it was going to be, because the Bulls were not going to have a,

unlimited budget. They weren't going to give Bob Myers $20 million a year to run the front office because Sam Presti's not leaving Oklahoma City. It was going to be someone who's getting his first chance at the big job. It's very similar to Arturis, Carnitivis and Mark Eversley. When Arturis and Eversley were hired, they came from successful organizations and a bunch of people sung their praises. That's. exactly what this is. We don't know until he's in the big seat, how he's going to do. And if the Bulls have some lottery luck on Sunday, he's probably going to get off to a great start. And if they don't have lottery luck, they're probably going to be a pretty bad team. No, they'll probably be a

bad team regardless. But it's, I think it's hard to have a huge, strong opinion on a guy that we're just, we're taking everyone else's word for it, autumn. Seems smart. Thought he came across well in the press conference, glowing endorsements from people who had worked with them, but that's exactly what the last group of guys were. Maybe not as much with the press conference thing, but that was a little bit more of a language barrier, frankly, for our tourists. So, you know, unless the Bulls were going to really swing for the fences, I think it's tough to get too excited or too down on this one way or the other.

Other than, like I said, I was glad that it wasn't just conventional wisdom, and it was a little bit more outside the box. Yeah, Danny, I think that that's important. because people forget that AK and Eversley were a complete, complete departure from what we knew to be the case. And John Paxson had stepped away. I don't know how much he was involved in that choice versus getting Bryson Graham. And I thought the same thing you did. I thought Matt Lloyd made a lot of sense because he was one of the only candidates.

I thought who would be okay with Billy Donovan still being the head coach, just having worked with the Bulls for so long. But this is different. And we've seen them go different before, but how far off the conventional path, it seems like this isn't the case. You know, Bryson Graham is really credited with acquiring players of talent in different ways. So maybe that helps them get there a little bit. Two-way contracts, they say are big, you know, feather in his cap, Jose Alvarado, of course. So there's others there.

Yeah, but I mean, but again, but Mark Eversley had big ones in Toronto and Arturis had guys that he claimed success for in Denver. So, like, that just, that stuff, you know, like when the Bears hired Matt Nagy, it was like, any cold plays for Andy Reid? And it's like, no, he didn't. It was just like something that was set at the time when he was hired, you know? So, like, he's going to sink or swim based on his merits of what he does here. Like, Jose Alvarado is not going to save them. It's going to be what he does here.

And unfortunately, we were just talking draft for the Bears. Like, you know, unfortunately, Sunday's a big day for the Bulls. Like, like, Sundays are a really big. day for the Bulls because this is a historic draft. You could get the fourth pick and still get an all-star. There's a ton of talent here. And so you need some ping pong ball help. And that will have him off to a great start. And if it doesn't go the Bulls way, you know, maybe they can still find a great player, right? Yannis wasn't the number one pick. Steph Curry wasn't the number one pick. Obviously it happens. But, you know, given how big of a draft this is, Sunday is probably the biggest day

for the Bulls franchise for the last couple of years going backwards and the last couple of years going forward because you get an AJ DeBansta or a Darren Peterson or Caleb Wilson. Like those types of guys have ceilings that can be franchise changing players. And so, you know, I really do think Sunday is the biggest day for the Bulls in a couple of years. Absolutely. And we want you to save the date. We mentioned it earlier. The Cubs 4A Cure 24-hour Radiothon.

It takes place from May 21st to May 22nd. right here on 1043 The Score. Learn more and donate now at cubs.com forward slash cubs for a cure. If you want to get involved with the Cubs for a Cure Radiothon, email 1043 Radiothon at gmail.com. And I know you have some updates for us, Danny. Yeah, so I got some donation incentives. I'll tell you guys about in a second. But I just want to say a thank you to Arbor Investments.

They're great Cubs fans, friends of the score, close friends of the Ricketts family and Crane, Kenny, Greg Purcell, founder and chairman, they're on board again this year. We have Fox Sports on board. John Gavin, Doug and Stacey Meyer, Jeffrey Lamort Salons, Russ Armstrong, the Chicago window guy, on and on. Mr. Duck Cleaning. So many. We got over a dozen sponsors already on board. Donation incentives.

How about a house in Sedona for a week that can sleep up to 12 people? We've got... Score house. Sweet tickets every Bears game this year in the Skyline Club. It's the premier suite at Soldier Field. My guy, Colquomet, came through and donated some signs memorabilia and his personal Bears tickets to a game this year. We got 1914 club tickets.

We got Wrigley Field experiences. We got Cubs memorabilia. The Friday after the Radiothon, Cubs Cardinals, in St. Louis, row won their version of the 1914 club. So you can be in enemy territory. There's a Jordan Davis concert after the game. So go to a Friday Cubs Cardinals game in St. Louis, rep the Cubs gear, then watch a concert after the fact. Speaking of concerts, we got tickets to some Wrigley Field concerts. We got tickets to John Mullaney at Wrigley Field. The incentives are going to be absolutely insane this year. So all of it goes to charity, all of it goes to cancer

research 100% there's no overhead with the event DME get involved if you've got a prize that you want to donate you got tickets you want to donate you got a restaurant experience you want to donate get on board with the the biggest broadcast charity event in chicago we did 750k last year unbelievable gonna try to top it this year danny and i want to thank you for going on c hgO i heard your hilarious hits with carm and the boys and revealing or reminding us of the rest of the revelation that occurred with Lesser's special addiction, I will just say. The Grobber's special addiction, which was revealed on the overnights. I just want people to know that you never know what's going to be revealed during a Danny Parkins 24-hour Radiothon, especially when

I'm on with him from 6 to midnight. Listen, I mean, that's right. We had a middle of the night Jason Gough appearance last year. I think I've set up another former score host to appear during the middle of the night. Ooh. We don't have local overnights anymore, except for the Radiothons. So it's after some late Bears games. So we got local programming. You know, Benetti calls in late usually, and he'll donate Tigers Cubs tickets and a meet

and greet with him. Adam Amin's been known to call him late. Oh, I haven't even asked him yet, but I'm sure he will. Jeff Passon breaks his ESPN rule and comes on every year for the Radiothon, so we'll get Passon on. We're going to have Rizzen. on. We're going to have Tyone on. We're going to have Eddie O's going to be back on. Some other big sports surprises that I'll save for the day of. Huge names are going to be on this year that have

never been on before. Been working on it for months, guys. It's going to be a big broadcast. Well, we're excited for it, and we will see you in just under two weeks. Again, the email address 1043 Radiothon at gmail.com. Danny, thanks again. Reach out. DMs are open as well. Thanks, Bye, Danny. Bears. Bye, Mark. Bye, Layla. Aw. He's just a baby. He is. Yeah.

That is Danny Parkins. Young dad, Danny Parkins, out here. Save your meniscuses, people. Coming up next year on Rahimi Harrison Grotie as we get you ready for Cubs baseball. Peekra Armstrong is going through a streak right now again. And the way he described it is in a way that only he can't. So we will examine what he's doing at the plate.

And hopefully, how far can it go? Next. Rahimi Harris and Grody. We are family here. We are family. Midday's 10 to 2 on 104 3, the score. He made the all-star team a year ago. Trying to get a hold of him on the pitch.

Slinging a drive, left center field, pretty deep back toward the wall. That ball is gone. That ball is gone. It's a tie game. Can you? believe it. Pink Roe Armstrong, an opposite alley home run.

This ballgame is back to even. Tide at six. It's almost like a dream. Yeah, you can say that for sure because it was. Once again, the Cubs come back. Thanks in large part, as we mentioned, 7 to 6th the final. That is Pat Hughes on the Northwestern Medicine Cubs Radio Network,

7 to 6 the final in 10 innings. And a big reason why partially is thanks to 1 PCA. The Homer, his fourth of the season. He was absolutely thrilled when he hit it. You could tell everybody wanted to know, would it tie the ball game? And at 6, yes, it did. Apo for PCA. And I love Pat Hughes's description right there.

He calls it a dream. Last year at about the same time, he called it like being in a movie watching Pete Crowe Armstrong. So he emits those sort of platitudes and responses, as has this entire Cubs team with all the walk-offs. Three straight and what up to six on the season altogether, I believe? Yeah, it's incredible. Like what way are they going to walk it off today? Walk off balk?

Sweet. What's next? Yeah. So since April 21st, 15 games stretch, PCA is batting 375. That's six for 16 with one home run and four RBI against left-handed pitchers, too. So that's notable. His chase rate, as we know, is something he will have to manage. Last year, his chase rate was 41% on strikes outside of the zone.

This year, that's up to 43. That part of it I don't love. And I wondered how that was going to be managed. What were the adjustments that he was going to make? Or have we just reached the point of his career where there might be some self-acceptance going on? I was going to say there is, I mean, maybe not this early, but there is a he is what he is factor that maybe we're seeing, but there's still plenty, plenty of room for him to expand out of that. Expand's a bad word, though. It is.

In this case, it really is. The phrase shooter shoot comes to mind with PCA. Yeah. Like if he's, if PCA's in the NBA, he's attempting like 40 shots a game. Well, Lail, he's also gotten away with it for his entire career, including, the torrid pace of the first half of last year, where you can go back and look at those at bats and see how many bad balls he swung out and hit the ball out of the park on.

Yeah, you know, it's great to be a bad ball hitter, but the problem is you end up expanding your strike zone, as we discussed, and your chase rate is ridiculous. But here's what Craig Counsel had to say about what he's doing right now. I told Flash before the at bat, like you just don't know what's going to happen when Pete comes up, you know. It's just, you know, it's not supposed to happen, but then it happens and that's kind of Pete, you know.

So, you know, I can't explain a lot of his at-bats personally. That's great. That's the most human. That's what we're looking for from Craig. Just a human, actual involuntary reaction to a question that is being asked of him. And he's like all of us. Like some of it, you just can't get that deeply into. It's like, I don't know how this guy just did that.

I don't know. Your shrug is everything. in this in this demonstration. Yeah, I think you're, are you still thinking about the afternoon show interviews with Craig? Is that what you're thinking about when you said that? I think so. Yeah. Like a response like that would be perfect.

That's it. We're going to commandeer Craig for Rahimi Harris and Rodee just one day out of the season. And we're going to just pepper him with ridiculous stuff and see if we crack him. Yeah. Or do we crack? I mean, it's like, how can you not present? I mean, that's probably the response from most managers. When it comes to PCA, yeah, there's stuff that will frustrate the hell out of you.

But then he'll get up there and do what. He looked bad and part of that at bat too. He's swung and missed at one where it's like, oh, boy, I'm not sure. The timing is really bad when he's off. Yeah, like it's like, you know what he's swinging for. And that's okay. I could accept that he was swinging for a home run and he was. And then somehow, some way he hits the ball out of the park going opposite to field.

And it's just a beautiful, sometimes inexplicable thing when it comes to PCA. I just don't want all of it to be touch and feel. I want some of it to have a basis and an approach. I agree. Some of it. I'm not asking for all of it. I just need some of it too. Like, what are you hunting for besides vibes?

Yeah. Yeah, well, and I said it at, I don't remember what I said, probably the off season this year. With, what are you, 34 home runs last year, 31, 34, somewhere between 31 and 34 home runs last year. once you know you can do that, you're going to be wanting to swing to hit the ball out of the park. And I'm not so sure that PCA has stopped doing that. We've seen him shorten up and bunt a little bit more this year. And it is being confirmed to me now through my source,

Laila Rahimi, that he hit 31 home runs last year. If I'm reading you're right. I just double-checked online, yes. But no, you're right. Bush at 34. But I feel like he does bunt, though. That was something that he did last year, too. Yeah, and successfully some this year, too.

I don't know if he has been doing it as much recently, but he was successful early this year. I just don't want him to think that that's the only way he's getting on first base if he's not hitting a home run. I'm okay, though. That's what I don't want. I think it's okay for any badder, but we'll just use PCA,

when you feel like you're just overmatched at the plate. Or you're trying to get on base somehow. Or you're just trying to get on base to set the team. But you see that with players. Like if they just know that a pitcher has their number and they're just like, screw it. I am overmatched here. I'm going to lay down a bar.

Bunt and see what happens. Yeah, unfortunately, there's bunting is a lost art in the league, as we know. It is. Now, he talks a lot to, PCA talked a lot to Pat McAfee about how he manages that aggression in the plate discipline. That's always been the hardest thing for me, really. I mean, I love to swing the bat.

I love to try and make stuff happen with the bat. So, you know, I think the plate discipline is actually a little bit better, like I would say a little over a week ago, but, and before that. But, you know, when I start feeling sex year and I do start putting more balls in play, more balls in the air to the pull side, like I do end up swinging more. So I'm inevitably going to chase more. And that's just, I think that just, that's something I got to accept about myself. But I'm just, I'm not going to walk that much, man.

But when the bat's feeling good, then then I got to let it rip sometimes. Vives. Yeah, man. When I start feeling sex year. Now there are, that is a thing. You will have batters feel sexy at the plate. Frank Thomas always talked about that on White Sox pre and post game. I believe that used to come up with Joe Madden and the 2016 Cubs and Javier Baez and whatnot.

Yeah, you got to feel good, got to feel sexy. You can't escape the Javier Baez comps with PCA. Can't. Yeah, it's, it's a fair comp. I mean, Javier Baez had that, that unbelievable season where he was runner up. To Christian Yellet, 2018. Oh, Yelly. Oh, Yelly got him that year.

And I don't think he was ever as good then. But, man, like, what an entertaining, terrific ballplayer, Javier Bayez was with the Cubs. And the snagging tag, he too, also just fantastic defensively. Yeah, absolutely terrific at it. But, yeah, I do love, as frustrating as PCA can be sometimes in some of his at-bats, still, every single time he comes up to the plate, I'm like, what's going to happen here? You know what I mean? You just, like, no other player on the Cubs, the options are just lengthy when it comes to what might happen with PC.

Even if he walks. I remember getting hit by a pitch earlier. Then he was pissed. And he was like, you knew he was going to steal on the first pitch just because he was angry. And he did. He did. Every ad bat is a movie. Every ad bad is a movie with PCA.

Wait, wasn't that the Pat Hughes call? We always play. It's a movie starring Pete Brown. He said in this call coming into the thing that it's a dream. Last year it was a movie, but the possibilities, he's still the guy. No matter what has gone on this year with some terrific Cubs hitting and Nico Horner, everybody in that lineup, it's still PCA that I am most glued to when he's in that batters box. Because you also love chaos.

Like you love it. You're junkie. You like all the different outcomes. I do. I do. And he presents that. He presents every single possible outcome, including stealing every base when he gets on. And I'm out here just appreciating old Matt Boyd, the dad who stood up.

And here he is just playing with his kids. Should we send him some flowers or something? Faringold, get on the phone. Let's get some flowers out to Matthew Boyd immediately. He'll probably just dedicate him to his wife because Mother Day is on Sunday. Oh, my God, you're right. He'll put him in a nice vase. Man, this guy.

I know. Oh, Matt, boy. I hope, you know what? I hope when it's all said and done, Matthew Boyd stays with the Cubs organization in some way, shape, or form. Or is he too nice to stay with the Cubs organization? Wait, what? Because you've got to have, you got to be a little.

This is a hot take. Because you got to be real with guys. Like, he would be too nice to everybody. If he was, like, in a position of authority, you know, is Matt Boyd too nice for the Cubs? Light him off. 3-1-2-44-64, 67. I don't think he'd get critical enough with guys.

So you're saying he's the manager who, like, if he fired him. you wouldn't necessarily know you were fired. Yeah, you'd feel worse for him for having to do it than you would feel for yourself. I'd be like, man, hey, I'm sorry about this. Yeah, I can't. I can't imagine. I can't imagine Matt Boyd firing somebody, no. Yeah, so that's not going to work.

Ambassador, though. It could be like Anthony Rizzo's assistant. Yeah, basically he's like Jim Tomey, you know. Yeah, that's a good comment. Like everybody loves Jim Tomey. Yeah. Nice guy, Jim. Nice guy Matt.

Yes, indeed. And in the meantime, people. PCA, vibes. Vives. I don't know what it ends. Let's just keep riding the wave until it crashes. I don't think it ever ends with PCA. Like, his entire career will be vibes with the Cubs.

And the words of Robert Earl Key, and the road goes on forever and the party never ends. I like that. Coming up next at his halftime, and I said I had a radio story for you all, except there's no radio. What? Next.

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It's halftime. This is Rahimi Harrison Brody, and this is halftime. We begin our show. It is Mark and Lila today. talking about how once again, no lead is safe with the Cubs. And it's starting to feel very bears, not just because Marcus here. Fares. But because they're coming back in ways that are unbelievable.

Then we talked about shrimp, the walk-off walk. Then we got into a bit of the historical context because a lot of 2016 comparisons have come up. We talked about the White Sox. Danny Parkins was on. Don't forget the Radiothon. Cubsburg Here Radiothon is on the 21st. You can get involved. 1043 Radiothon at gmail.com.

And PCA says he's feeling sexy on Pat McAfee. Let it rip. So I told you, Mark, that I had a radio story, except it's not about an actual radio. Hmm. So a woman thought she was hearing faint voices in her kitchen. Women are crazy. Oh, it's just your head.

That's what I was thinking. Maybe it's your time of the month. Maybe all the time's your time of the month. No. It was coming from her dishwasher. And when she opened it up, things only got more weird. A Tennessee woman went viral after she documented hearing voices coming from her dishwasher.

Well, in science frequency hell, I didn't know this was a thing. She said that she passed through the kitchen and she heard a talk radio station very clearly coming out of her dishwasher. How you doing, everybody? What talk radio, I wonder. I'm up here with the glasses or the plates. What's going out, everybody? Be careful, make sure you point those knives straight down. She said she tore apart her kitchen thinking there was a radio somewhere

and even checked to see if someone was living in her crawl space. What radio station would somebody be listening to living in your crawl space? That sounds like a UFO podcast. Art Bell, anyone? Art Bell, yes. Hell yeah. Even I had to run the overnight board for Art Bell. Really?

Yeah. Where did he broadcast from a camper in a desert in Vegas? guess. In your heart. In your heart. Yeah. R.P. Art Bell was, I think he was a bit before his time, was he not? Like, what would Art Bell say about all the UFOs finally being acknowledged? Oh, it wouldn't be hours and hours and hours.

And you all thought our bell was crazy, just like you thought this woman thought she was crazy with the voices coming from her dishwasher. No. Apparently, she found out the dishwasher was picking up a radio station. Wow. So somebody message her on TikTok, engineer here. If the power cord or internal wiring length is equal to the harmonic of the radio frequency, it will act as an antenna. Oh my goodness. So that's a Hertz, right?

So that you're talking. And harmonic would be like dividing a string in half. So then therefore the string would have to be the half the length of the harmonic of the Hertz. That? Yes. So they said most dishwashers these days have a small. speaker to ding or chime when complete, which is probably what is broadcasting the radio. Ding, ding.

A little dink. I just like what show was it? I'm so curious. Was it Delilah overnight? Oh, yeah. Could have been Delilah saying nice, nice, nice things to people. What if it's just like one of the random radio stations when you're driving across the country, like you're going to hell radio?

Don't you act like you don't know what I'm talking about? Say more. Say a little more. Okay, maybe it's just... Oh, Christian Radio is what you're saying. Yeah, the wages of sin is death radio essentially. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, when you flip through, like, you get like deep into Indiana,

it's like every other station is Christian or country. That's it. Yeah. Sometimes Disney, I feel like, comes up as well. Disney AM Radio. Yeah. The comments are added, you might try having someone make sure the dishwasher is properly grounded and install a small fair eye choke on the power cord.

This is where I lose it because I don't know what those things are. Seems like a YouTube video. This would most likely block the frequency. You probably live close to the radio station, which is why the signal is so strong. It's a good clean signal. Get it? Warsher.

Now here's Mark Grody, live from the dishwasher. Yeah, 312644, 67, if you do your dishes and you hear 104, or 670 the score, text in. PCA. I don't know what. What a sound from a dishwasher. Sorry. I was trying.

I don't know what it would sound like we were broadcasting from inside a dishwasher. I'd need some water sound effects. Now we're getting a bunch of suggestions as to what the show would be. And people are talking about making Pluto a planet again. Thank you, 312. That's good to know. Pluto's not a planet. I don't care what anybody says.

KMA. Grotty tries to talk and then the microphone. falls down. Are you going to fix this for me during the break? Okay. I have somebody. I have basic some, I have some basic physical engineering understanding. I'm not even going to say knowledge. And I don't know why. I'm handy. But yeah, so I want to kind of figure this out now. I want to see if there's a way to do it. I love it. To get your, I wonder if you could tune in the score. So it had to be 104.3. So then you have to know that I think we can do this. Just how powerful is our FM signal? That's really. Yes, we can find out. If you really love us,

You'll make your dishwasher listen to the score. I'm going to tell you something about the dishwashers, though. There is no better, for me anyway, for napping, white noise dishwasher sound. Oh, really? Yeah. I thought you were going to say just listening to our show puts people to sleep. No, not at all. No, I am at attention.

On the days that I'm not here and listening to you and Marshall, I'm at attention. But if I lay down on that couch and I got the dishwasher going, that is exquisite sleep right there. Okay, so there's more to this. British writer and science communicator Zion Lights, who runs the YouTube channel Science with Zai, looks like I need to look into this, took to the platform to explain what happened in an April 7th short. She explained objects such as appliances

can occasionally pick up radio frequencies, especially strong AM signals. Yay! We got one of those. The phenomenon known as radio frequency interference is caused by ungrounded or loosely grounded wires or metal, or a breakdown of internal shielding or filtering in a machine's components. And then the parts will act like antennas and receive signals and then generate sound waves audible to humans.

I want to try this now. I do too. Not with my dishwasher because I rent. The power, Layla, I don't care what anybody says. I also refuse to use my dishwasher. I hand rush everything. What's up with that? So you have a dishwasher and you don't use it.

It's not as good as me. Really? No. I mean, it's like it runs for an hour with blazing hot water. and detergent. How could that not be better? Because friction with soap is what gets stuff off. Not necessarily... Like hot water, yes, but it doesn't have to be blazing hot.

You using soap and water yourself and then friction rubs off dirt and oil and grime better than some dishwasher. I want life to be easier for you. The machines are not better than me. You're living in 84 degrees temperatures. I don't want you having to wash stuff during that in hot water. You need to put that

in the dishwasher, young lady. No, that'll just make my apartment more hot. Oh, man. Shout out to 630 on the text line. My dishwasher keeps referring to someone named Bob. What are here? And another 630 picked up on Mark's Silence of the Lamb's reference. Oh, wait.

What did they say? Ah. That's my new Parkinson's impersonation. I'm not doing it. I'm not saying it. Not right now. You're lying. Oh, wait.

Knowing your personnel. is a real strength in the business. She's a great big fat person. In the meantime, I will try to fix Mark Grotty's microphone. Five on it is next. You ever find that guy? Freeze!