The Nateland Podcast - #80 Baseball, Sonny Gray & Intern Cole

Episode Date: January 5, 2022

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Hello folks, welcome to Nate Land. What's up everybody? Welcome, like we said, to the Nate Land podcast. We are sitting here with Brian Bates. Aaron Weber has COVID. You didn't say hello, folks. I said it. I read the, I did the ads already. So Bates is here, obviously. Aaron has COVID. So we had Sonny Gray sit in, sitting in for later. And right now we have Cole. A lot

of people don't know this, Cole, but we have, you've been interning. You're a first intern. Yeah. As like, you you know you're going to go to college and you have to write this down as your you write it down on your college i did yeah you did what did you what did you put put intern for the nateland podcast and they're gonna be like what does that mean yeah it means what it means it's something to put on it yeah just something well it sounds good do you think they'll call me and ask me oh would they they might right yeah do they do that i don't i don't put your contact on it oh i don't even know if they could you care brian calls them he would like to call

if they did you ever do references like at a job you know i feel like they're i feel like they never call. Well, probably the jobs you were doing. The jobs I was doing, I don't think they called. That's like you put your buddy on there. Yeah. Like then you get, I guess, a real job. So Channel 5, y'all hired someone.

Y'all really, you'd call all their references? Yeah, some resumes would say references upon request. And sometimes if you're on the fence about them, you're like, well, you're out because. You didn't get me. Yeah. Would you sometimes not call the references because you didn't care? You're like, ah, this seems like a good person. Um, I mean, I'm sure it happened, but usually you want to check the reference. Usually that's the most important thing to find out if.

And so you call them and you're like, hey, yeah, we're about to, we're looking at hiring, you know, Cole Meyer. Like he seems like a good guy. And you're like, yeah, he's a good guy. Do they ever go like, eh, you know. Well, sometimes people, you need to tell your references that, hey, you may be getting a call. Yeah. That's the proper thing. Sometimes people wouldn't know that they were listed as a reference and they'd be caught off guard.

And then they're like, no, he stole from us. What we would try to do is find references that they didn't list. Yeah. Because you know they're going to list three people and say good thing. We try to find someone who just worked with them. Oh, wow. And that's when you get the truth. Yeah.

And would you ever not hire someone because of that? Yeah. Oh. Would you call them? Yeah. When I was a manager, I would. Yeah. So there's someone who could be listening to this.

They might know who they are. They didn't get the job because you called a reference. And what they were like, ah, it just doesn't show up on time or it's something like that yeah or just difficult to work with or yeah something like that yeah yeah and then you're like all right we'll move on yeah the biggest thing was just people who if people would complain about their old job in an interview you're like well there's just a it's just a matter of time before you're complaining about this job yeah yeah yeah this is all good stuff to learn cool you're like, well, it's just a matter of time before you're complaining about this job. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is all good stuff to learn.

Cole, you're a senior in high school, Ravenwood. Ravenwood High School, right? Yep. And you don't know the college you're going to go to yet. You're figuring that out. I need to soon. You need to soon. It's coming up.

We want him to announce it. We want him to announce it on the podcast with three hats. Are you narrowed down to like three? I think so, like two or three. Ball State. I could get it down by the time. Yeah, MTSU. It's Notre Dame.

Notre Dame, MTSU. MTSU or Donald's Christian Academy. Go back to high school. One of the choices. Do you have an arrow down i think the deadline's like may oh he's final final deadline yeah yeah so did you do a safety school and stuff i think most of them i applied to our safeties so i i did do you want

me to tell you no no don't we don't want don't don't say it because you're we want it to be a good reveal. But like, so is a safety school, what was your MTSU? Is that your? Yeah, I don't even think, I mean. That was your school. It's not that hard to get in MTSU. So it's your safety school is like, you're just like, all right, I'll go here. Worst case. And then I'm going to try for like Harvard and, you know, all that kind of stuff.

Right. You're super smart. And he's like real smart. Yeah. Yeah.'m i work i know yeah smart he's the smartest person on the show smarter than aaron and uh aaron's going down yeah you know he's he was he was smart at one point and now he's definitely hit the declining you know and he got, so he's probably even dropped a few more spots. Yeah. There – but it's – yeah, it's like I remember kids talking about safety schools, but I never – every school was my – just a school, getting in a school. Safety school was not going to school was my safety school,

was not going to get a regular job. That's what I put down for my safety school. Yeah, I really wasn't thinking. I mean, I think I applied just to MTSU and got in. And that was the Bates family way. The Bates way. Did everybody go to MTSU? Yeah.

Yeah. You just drive up there and go, we'd like to go here. The middle Tennessee state. It's just a good, like. It's a good college. Good college. 30 minutes from Lebanon. That's a good.

Yeah. I remember thinking, man. It's far enough. I have moved out of town from Lebanon. That's a good. I remember thinking, man. It's far enough. I have moved out of town. Living it up. Yeah. You've ever been to Lebanon, Tennessee? I haven't.

Yeah. I actually have a buddy that's going to go there. MTSU? Yeah. All right. Tell him to put Bates down as a reference. Yeah. He had to go back in the archives.

And they go, when he graduated here? Oh, black and white picture. Let's read some of you guys' comments. This is from the Universe Part 2 episode. Steven J. Orlando, hearing Nate ask whether it would hurt if someone punched you in outer space because there's no sound and suddenly making a brilliant analogy between the center of the universe and the center of the ocean.

It's why so many people love this show. What a roller coaster. Keep it up. That made sense, right? Yeah. Yeah. People were praising you for just pulling that out and how brilliant that was. Brilliant.

I'm brilliant. I should be teaching. He's like Rain Man. He can't do basic stuff. There's pockets. There's pockets. Stuff jumps in there. You got pockets. There's, you know. Is it? Stuff jumps in there.

You got your moments. I got your moments. Do y'all talk about the universe? When did you start talking about the universe in school? Is it a very broad? Like, I don't think we've covered it since, like, middle school. Oh, y'all get away from it that quick. Yeah.

Just don't touch on it, really. Yeah. No one ever brings it up and just says, let's talk about clouds today. You don't have a class of biology? What is it? It's not biology. You take science again? Science over?

You're done with science? Today we're going to dissect the cloud. Yeah. I'm taking environmental sciences. Oh. So like kind of talking about clouds. Yeah. Oh, a little bit.

A little bit. Yeah. All right. Cole does great research for the podcast. I mean, for people who don't know. Yes. That's what he does. Yes.

The research for podcasts is very organized and he finds stuff that I hadn't found and sends it to me. He does a great job. Thank you. Yeah. Here we are. Yeah. We're going to tell you you're fired shortly.

Cole, I don't know how to say this to your face, but you are fired. Read this from a comment. I'll pack it in the bag. It's your mom. Your mom wants you home now. I'm just reading off the top. You got to go. Misty Watkins.

Einstein said, if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand what you do. You don't understand what you do. I love that quote and shows that Nate shares that same philosophy for the entire podcast, taking complex topics and simplifying them into comedy is pure gold. Good job, guys. This is off the bat, too. Pretty solid comments. They love you.

I'll tell you that. These two people that get me, Stephen and Misty, they get me. And Stephen Jay Orlando, he owns Orlando. How about that? You know a guy who owned that? All right. Phillip Wolf. Carl Sagan was one of the weirdest dudes ever. I almost read like Carl was the commenter. Phillip Wolf wrote this. Carl Sagan was one of the weirdest dudes ever. I was an electrician at Cornell where he was a professor. I worked at his house and had to have a conversation

with him. He said he used to have aliens over for dinner. I said, can I meet them? And he said they would only talk to him and his family. I never did any work there again. Yeah. Don't ask those, you know. I'd imagine you can't, if you're having dinner with aliens and it's like, you're like, can I meet them? You're like, dude, I can't just bring another person in, you know. Yeah, I'm on Carl's side on this. Look how long we took to introduce Cole to this audience yeah so imagine if we were having daily uh dinner with aliens we can't just pop you over here no you know we'd have to ease you in y'all talk about aliens in school no man why not you ever raise your hand just bring it up

i think just try to keep it too serious in school. They don't want to be fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Can you study aliens as a major? I don't think so. No, not yet. That'd be fun.

That'd be fun. Will you go to undergrad? Will you be undergrad and then you'll be done? Or do you think you'll go to the overgrad? It's like I have a doctorate in alienology. You want to go for a doctorate? Yeah. How far do you want to go to school? I don't know.

I think just master's, actually. Yeah. Doctorate's too much work. Yeah, he could be a doctor. He's far enough. Did you say doctorate? No, doctorate. No, doctorate.

Okay. So you just get a master's and you're B. You don't really know what you want to do yet, though, because you're a senior in high school. No, just some kind of business. Yeah you yeah that's good it's very broad uh you know go to college i'd like to do business stuff all right we'll take you do you have to pick you don't have to pick now um it's not like set in stone yeah like you have to like choose a major when you apply but you can change it always.

So I always wanted to do like something with zoos, like work with animals. That's what I always thought. Zoology. Yeah, zoology. That's like a, that's a dumb person. That's a person that's not going to school says that usually. Is that true? It's probably true.

I think because it was like when you don't know and you're like, well, I like. I like animals. I like penguins. I like penguins so I can go study them. I like sports. That's all we know how to do. I like sports. I can do that.

Have you watched Seinfeld? I haven't. No. I should. You should. I've heard it's great. Your family's from New Jersey. That's your world.

That's where you come from. It's your heritage. That's how you grew up. You probably got an aunt that was on the show. Maybe. Curtis Watkins. The number of possible

chess positions is more than all the stars in the universe. There's a fun dinner fact for you. I guess because who would say that at dinner? The Weber family. Number of possible chess positions is more than all the stars in the universe.

I don't even, but how? That means we have an exact number. Do they have an exact number of stars? No, but it's in the trillions, I think. Yeah, yeah, of different ways you can play. Do you play chess, Cole? I know how to, but. Yeah, don't play it.

Is it like a smart thing? Yeah, it's a smart thing. I guess you wouldn't know. I play checkers. Okay. Then we just do. I play checkers. That's the dumb version.

That's the dumb version. I let them come back in. So once you jump one, you're allowed to bring one back in. So that's even the dumber down version. And we do a triple where you get this triple one. He can go off the board a little bit. If you jump the thing and get three, he can leave the board and come back on your side.

It gets real dicey. There's between 10 to the 111 and 10 to the 123 positions. Oh, they're close, though. That's good. That means they know the number, including illegal moves. Oh moves oh okay if you rule out illegal moves uh why would you even that's what that says this is the shannon number so shannon did this and shannon shannon typical shannon uh over here doing she comes over doing cancer stuff and shannon goes i got a chest thing and she represents all the possible move variations in the game of chess.

It is estimated there are between 10 and 1-1-1. I don't even know. What do you say? Cole, can you explain that? You know. How do you say that? I think it's 10 to the 1-11, right? 10 to the 1-11.

I think I learned that in college. Yeah, it's not there yet. You're not there yet. I'm not there yet. That's a good answer. Good answer, Cole. Good answer. Yeah. 10's not there yet. You're not there yet. I'm not there yet. That's a good answer. Good answer. Go. Good answer.

10 to the 112th power into 123 power. And then you go, all right, that's cool. Thanks, Shannon. Yeah. It's a lot. Jennifer Weiss, what was the deal with the star meter on IMDB? Aaron was at like 9 million. What was that being measured by?

I was on the road, so I may have missed the explanation. I don't know why. Why was she on the road? That's it. She's like, I don't know. I was in and out. I was driving on the road. That's such a funny.

She's like, you guys might have said it. I went in eight. And then when I got back, I missed the whole thing. She let it roll. She let it roll she let it roll she got i left my car running and i went inside and i got caught up in there for a while what were you guys i didn't think i wasn't gonna go back i was listening to it live uh i think i want to hit rewind i was on the road so i may have missed the explanation

it's uh the star meter on imdbb is uh it's it just ranks you like where you would be as a celebrity basically like a star and so if you're doing a lot of stuff you're not doing any errands nine like nine million he's a guy you know he's a comedian out with covid i mean he's probably at 15 million now he dropped big time baits raised up and so cole you're probably higher than you're you'd be an in IMDB now as a celebrity. Wow. And I don't know who – what they base it on or who makes the decisions. Same.

Shannon. Probably Shannon. Shannon does it. Shannon probably does all the star meter stuff too. She got into that. I'm further down on IMDB than there are chess moves. Yeah. Yours is – you're like 10.

You're like, that's good. Now that 111 up there and you're like, oh man. It's such a big number that they have to start. They have to put the other number up at the top. Yeah. That's how, is it 10 to the 123rd power? I think so. Yeah.

And so what is that? I think it would just be a bunch of. It just keeps going. Like that's when they, they don't even care. No one's writing that down in a real situation. No. So they just got like, it's so many numbers that you're like, just start putting them next to it.

Like someone said that one time. They go, just put it next. Just put it on the top. They go, that's where I had the numbers put. Now just start recounting. Put it up at the top right. Yeah. Like a postage stamp.

The Office episode. Paul Shepard. Nate is absolutely Michael Scott, and Breakfast is most definitely Toby. The relationship on this podcast usually plays out much like on The Office. I'd like to talk about a trial I was on with a scrattin' strangler. How excited would you be to be in a jury? I'd be great. You really like it?

I love it. No, I just got called first ever time I left a jury oh that'd be great you would you really like it i love it no i i uh i finally i just got called first ever time i left a jury duty but i got out of it because of covid i was on the road oh you're on the road yeah that's what you said you and jennifer jennifer's i don't know what she did she stopped at a stuckies but i was like doing shows yeah buckies or stuckies buckies is the big guy station we talk no is that what you mean you of Stucky's, but I was doing shows. Yeah. Bucky's or Stucky's? Bucky's is the big gas station. Is that what you meant, or you meant Stucky's?

No, I meant Stucky's. So, yeah. Well, I was supposed to do it, and I got out because of COVID. Because they were like, they didn't have it. It kind of worked out. I don't think I would mind it, but I don't know how much. I think I want it more than I think I would. Like, Laura wants it.

Laura would love it. They should just let people be like, who wants to do it? Because there's a lot of people that really want to do it. Would you want to do jury duty? No, I wouldn't. You don't think you'd do that? It just doesn't sound that fun. To judge a man and possibly put him in life in prison or maybe death row.

I can judge people all the time. Yeah. You judge people for free. I'm doing it. Yeah. Exactly. Go on the internet. Go on the internet and judge away.

Why would I go have to be locked in a room? Exactly. Exactly. If you didn't make people go, there's no way they'd have enough jurors. Yeah. Yeah. That is true. You got to make them go because you're going to have to go.

And this is just the same, like 12 people that got everyone that they love it. He didn't do it. Next, bring it on. I definitely did it. Rachel Poe for clarification on the fitness orb popping by accident. The office ladies podcast explains that the orb was supposed to gradually

deflate and Dwight would slowly sink to the ground. The prop master told him that the only way it would pop would be if John Krasinski hit it right on the seam. That was nearly impossible to do. They had 14 orbs and the first 13 takes went as planned. But on the final take, John hit it right on the seam and it popped. They ended up loving the accidental pop more than slowly the fading orb so they put that in the uh episode instead uh there you go do you watch the office i have i've seen it all oh yeah yeah now we're talking what's your favorite episode i really like like the older ones like the first few seasons at Diversity Day.

Yeah, the racist ones. Yeah. That's the one that got removed. You can't really show that now, but. No, I'm sure. You can probably mark a few of those colleges you wanted to go to off now. They're like listening to this and be like, ah, no, there goes your scholarship. Of course you like that one.

So long, Harvard. I'll tell you what, my volunteer estate's looking pretty good. Pride Rock 92, unpopular opinion, but Michael Scott was always my least favorite part of the show. The Jim Dwight back and forth is what grabbed me from the jump, and the last two seasons are probably my favorite. It sounds like the Pride Rock 92's version of Rote the last two seasons. I enjoyed watching both Jim and Dwight grow, and the characters that came from their reconfiguration are some of my favorites,

like Robert, California, and Nate. Already anticipating no one having my back on this one. I mean, yeah, if you like it, dude, I get it. Look, I said I liked the – what's that movie? Fantastic Four that everybody hated. Watched it alone on a cruise ship. Thought it was great. I was just talking about this weekend.

I thought it was the, it was the number one. Because you're alone on this boat. And I think I get off the boat like ready to talk to people like, huh? How great was that Fantastic Four? And everybody was furious about this movie. And I was like, I thought it was great. So, yeah, you like what you like. So, yeah, it is funny it's funny that you're like you were this i mean you were wanted michael scott to get you were like

finally yeah scott get him out of here everybody's crying when he's leaving and you're just standing up applauding your first episode was the first episode after he left. I like it. Angie, Nate Land's version of Scott's Todd is Nate saying he'll play golf with us folks when invited. That could be true. That's very true. We'll get there. It's going to come back to me and I'm going to play 450 rounds. What's that?

That's very funny. Yeah, that's a good example. I will. Yeah, I want to. I did play, I played But I'm just not playing I can't, it's winter You just start, yeah, I just got through Wait, no, I haven't been playing

I haven't, I play when I get home And I would like to play on the road I do not have the time It's just not, it's just so hard That's it, that's the only reason. Jesse Moppen. Steve Carell had already been in Bruce Almighty, Anchorman, and the 40-Year-Old Virgin before he played Michael Scott on The Office.

He was already an A-list actor. Really? He was in Bruce Almighty and Anchorman before The Office. I think 40-Year-Old Virgin came out between seasons one and two of The Office. Yeah. But 40-Year-Old Virgin is the first movie he starred in. Yeah. I mean, Bruce Almighty and Anchorman, he was a side character.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I wouldn't call him an A-list actor when The Office started. Well, Bruce Almighty, he was not the main person? No, that's Jim Carrey. Oh. Oh, yeah. He was the news anchor that yeah yeah 40 old virgin he was the main person yeah but that came out i think after the office

i think that was between seasons one and two yeah with no reason to look it up so uh what's what we they said last week i think i did look it up. James Stogdiel. Stogdiel. Since you guys talk about the proposal scene so much, I had to share. I planned to take my wife on a trip and stop at the Fairview gas station to propose. When I found out it was a fake set, I thought nothing would be more accurate than building it myself. So here's the photo of when i proposed to my wife i made sure we watched that episode probably five times the month leading up to the proposal for information she said fyi she said yes

here's the photo yeah there's wow that's what he built yeah how do you even that's what it looks like compared to yeah and he i mean look at it he it. Yeah. How do you even build that? You just got a spot for that? I guess so. That's it. So in the office it says, please stop engine, and he put please say yes on that sign beside it. Oh, please say yes.

Please stop the engine. Oh, yeah, that's awesome. I mean, that guy's probably from the south. There's not – Southern people are the only people that got something, that guy's probably from the South. There's not, Southern people are the only people that got something like that and they can do that too. Like, you know,

I feel like they're, they're like Lebanon, you got, he's like, where are you going to do it? He's like, you know, I'll do it out back. You're like, you know,

I could build a gas station out back. Like, I don't know. He built a room. That's a whole room. Yeah. I mean, if he built it, maybe he did build that or maybe he had the room. I mean, that's crazy, dude. Even if he built that whole room yeah i mean if he built maybe he did build that or maybe he had the room i mean

that's crazy dude did he even if he built that whole room i don't know if he yeah that's that's i mean that's impressive i'm glad she said yes yeah she said no and he's just turned all down all right you just hear a tractor turn on and just comes through the back window just smashes it and then they go yeah yeah that's gonna help you kept it up you know that looks awesome yeah you should let other people but now now that they're in their marriage and she's like are you gonna take that down that was you know that's like her thing we could use it for a baby room. That'd be nice. Well, I have the baby sleeping there with the gas. Uh, Leanne Morgan episode.

Uh, uh, Dan Buell. Dana, I think. Dana. Uh, Dana Buell.

That's a good name. This was the best episode to date. First, you guys are so genuine and sincere and want to make the best show for your fans, and it shows. I think that is why you are all such fan favorites. I agree. You know, it's funny to say that, and then Aaron's not even here. So now you see who wants to make it. Even Cole cares more than Aaron.

Cole has COVID too. Tales from the Crypto. All right. Leanne Morgan is great. I'm from Canada, and after listening to her on the show for two hours, I was saying y'all and telling people in my work that they were from heaven. I think I called my boss a darling precious angel at one point. Yeah, she's the best, man.

I mean, it's just the sweetest. And that's how she talks. A lot of people were commenting in her tone, and it is very contagious. I find myself after hanging out with her a while, you start talking like her. It's very nice. I think I should go vacuum their car. That's what the, you know, I mean, it's just very sweet. Funny comment.

I'm with Leanne this weekend. Can I promote that show? Oh, yeah. I'm with her in Norfolk, Virginia. I hope I'm saying that right. Norfolk. Norfolk? I mean, I think it's close enough.

I don't think that's one that you're like, I think, you know, a different name would be, Wichita might be like, you know, YGT. I hope I'm saying it right. You were close. Close enough. That's on Friday, Tyson's Corner,

Virginia on Saturday and Reading, Pennsylvania on Sunday. There you go. Cole, you got class this week? Yeah, school starts on Wednesday.

So where are you going to be? When's your first class? Just tell everybody where you're going to be. You're going to be guitar? Yeah. What time is that? It's at like 745.

745. If you want to see Cole, go to Guitar, 745. Ravenwood High School. Ravenwood High School. Ravenwood, Tennessee. What's the next class? 37027. Yeah.

What's the next? I got accounting. Accounting. Accounting one. So pick what you want to go to. What if people don't want to get up that early and they want to come in later in the day? Come in later. What's the last't want to get up that early and they want to come in later in the day? Come in later. What's the last one?

I got AP Environmental Sciences. Oh, there it is. That might be a good one. Two o'clock. Where y'all just look out, cut the grass or something? Pretty much. Take pictures of trees. Yeah, stuff like that.

Yeah. That's cool. 745, you're playing guitar? Yeah. Is that good, though, that you ease into the day with that yeah I love having it as my first class

yeah and I already know how to play guitar and it's a beginner's class so it's like why'd you take it just because I needed art credit

because it's 745 in the morning yeah 745 there's a meet and greet afterwards do you have to bring the guitar to school

or does it just stay there yeah well you can leave it there but I'd take it home on the weekends and stuff yeah and play at home well not really no so you could play like a year so you're just in this beginner's class shouldn't be in it yeah you should what's another art that you could take what did you almost take like regular art like painting and oh yeah drawing and stuff that's not

cool yeah so i'll do guitar Is it like a electric guitar? Is it? No, it's acoustic, but you can bring, like if you have an electric, you can bring it. So I haven't brought it yet,

but. Y'all just do like Dave Matthews band all day long? Yeah. No. Are you better than the teacher? No, he's way better. He's good.

And then, so you're going to be, so in college, you'll be, you get to sit there and, you know, someone's going to be like, oh, like, you know. You're the guy at the party. You're the guy at the party. You're like, Cole, play guitar. And you're going to be, so in college, you get to sit there and, you know, someone's going to be like, oh, like, you know. You're the guy at the parties.

You're the guy at the party. You're like, Cole, play guitar. And you're like, I don't know. All right, I'll try a little bit. And then you just pull it out. Just pull it out. Yeah. And you tell them I took guitar beginner's class.

Yeah. Senior year. There you go. We locked up with the ladies, Cole. Tell you what. Liza Martiniu or Liza Martiniu, or Liza Martiniu, Liza.

That's probably Liza. I recently started listening to the Nate Land podcast from the beginning and just finished the 38 Alabama episode where Nate was quitting soda. I am pre-diabetic

on the verge of becoming full-blown diabetic. I was feeling overwhelmed because of how I would have to change my lifestyle drastically with no end in sight. We all talked about giving up things and holding each other accountable. And I thought to myself, if Nate can do it, I can do it. So here I go, starting my gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free, soda-free, joy-free life. Also, I'm more than a year behind on the podcast so i guess i'll find out if nate succeeded in giving up soda liza bless your heart you're a precious angel and

i mean look it still worked because by the time she gets up to current yeah she's already done it she's already done it so you're already here and you're looking at me going i'm i'm now i was pre-diabetic. Now I'm on the verge of becoming full. I might be full blown by the time you get to this point. Well, I was going to say you helped her, but I guess two episodes after that, you were off it. So she'll find out pretty quick. Well, she's at 38.

What episode is this? We're at 80. Oh my goodness. Or 79. So Liza, if you're, I'm looking at this, If you're watching this right now, and it's probably a year, 50. It'll be a year from now. She said she was a year behind. So a year from now, if you're watching this and you're just getting to this naturally at your own pace, I let you down.

And I hope you stuck to it, Liza. I'm sure you did. That would make me, nothing would make me happier than Liza. Do it. I got to go do it, Liza, because I think I've got to start now because I think I'm going to be, I've got big, big problems. I got big, big sugar problems. And I'll, so going forward, I will be talking about what I'm having to do.

Starting now? Starting now. I think I'm going to have to. I think I'm going to, you know. Yeah. So that's such an uplifting. She's going to do it. Liza, I'm talking to you from the future, and you did it.

Congratulations. And hopefully by the time you caught up to this, I've already got mine. So now we're actually still, me and Liza are on, we're on the same page more than she even realizes. That we, you know, she's going, that's great. Cole, when are you going to lose weight? I don't know. I need to gain weight.

I don't lose. You run. You're in cross country, right? Not anymore. Not anymore. Wow. Done with it? The season ended in like late October.

So what, I was talking to your dad. How many miles did you run this year? Wait, could you guess how many miles you think he would have ran this year? I don't know much about how long you run in cross country. Just miles. Well, how long is a cross country race? It's a 5K. 5K.

5,000 miles. Go ahead. So this year. It's not 5,000 miles. 3.1 miles. 3.1 miles. Yeah, that's right. And this is for just this year?

Yeah. But outside of the racing, what do you have to do? Like practicing and stuff. Practicing and everything. I'll say 300 miles. That's not it. What is it? I ran about 1,300 miles this year.

1,300 miles. And that was from January to the end of October. Yeah, then he stopped running. Yeah. 1,300 miles. How far would that be across the U.S.? A half. 3,000 miles is total.

That's what the U.S. is? Yeah. So he's ran half the country. Wow. Yeah. Does it feel bad that you've ran that much and you're still here? It does feel bad, actually. That feels, yeah.

You should be somewhere else. Yeah. Yeah, I get that. That's why I don't run. It kind of feels pointless. Yeah. Yeah, he would leave and go run. I'd see him, you know.

I mean, if he ran it in the afternoon, I'd see him. I'd never see you in the morning. I think I've seen you in the morning. Like, if I i'd go in earlier but for some reason i had to get up i'd see you walk out there and be like all right there you go did you you go do cross country in college are you done no i'm done you don't we think you're run forever i'm your dad ran your brother runs like y'all you're a running family kind of you know would you you you run, you think you'd just be casually running or you're? Probably. Yeah.

Like what's the, do you run marathons? I've done a half marathon, but. Yeah. You could do a whole one. I probably could, but you're not like supposed to. Like when you're younger, it's like bad for you. Yeah. So maybe when I'm older, I'll try one.

Who decided that? Don't listen to these people but what could you run a half what would you do a 5k in my like my fastest yeah so my fastest is 17

minutes and 16 seconds I don't know if I could drive that I think if you told me if you live three miles away so you can get over here in 15 minutes I'd be like I don't know and you would do better running yeah yeah wow do you need to gain some weight how you gonna gain weight you're gonna

just eat more get after it yeah you gotta eat put some weight on you uh bill o sullivan male nurse here there's an easy blood test to see if nate type 2 diabetes. The test is called A1C, and it measures what your average blood sugar has been over the last three months. If your test results is less than or equal to 5.6, it's normal. 5.7 is 6.4 is prediabetes. Over 6.5 is full-blown diabetes. Given that Nate is the greatest average American, my bet is that he has full-blown diabetes. Let's go, folks, to get our blood test. So you can just go buy that at the store. I guess. Yeah, I'd go buy one tonight. I was supposed to go to physical tomorrow, but I couldn't because I'm going to, I'll be at the Tonight Show. Everybody, if you're watching

this, it comes out Wednesday. I will be on the night's show that night. And I, so I want to go do this to see if I have it. I could, why don't you call it full-blown diabetes? Like, does that feel aggressive? Don't mess around.

I don't know. Yeah, but you should be like, that sounds, you know, not as, like pre-diabetes. Feels like you could still go either way,

pre-diabetes. Yeah, yeah, that's true. But then it's like, now you got it full-blown. You're like, well, didn'tabetes. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. But then it's like, now you got it full blown. You're like, well,

didn't, what are you supposed to just kill yourself now? Like it's just, you know, like you're pointless. There's no reason to even live. You're full blown diabetes. Can you get rid of it?

No. I'm going to guess you're double digits. I'm above six points. Yeah, I'm thinking you're about a 12. Yeah. Yeah, it could be,

man. It was, I, we, you know, I just can't. It's bad. I think I'm going to talk about it on the tonight show. It's just, I can't, like, it's just too much. I'm full blown addicted. I got to be addicted to sugar.

And it's bad. So, me and Liza, I got to get off sugar. I want to see if I can do it. It's so good. Get into sugar, you know? Gain some weight on you. You're young. Not bad to get into it right now.

All you got to do is stop it when you're like 45, 42, something like that. I'm 42. So you just have to quit it then. You have a good run at it. What are you? It's 18, 17? 18. 18. Yeah.

Get after it, man. You're skinny. You're pregnant. You're probably going to be fine. Yeah. You like candy? Yeah. 18. Yeah. Get after it, man. You're skinny. You're pregnant. You're probably going to be fine. Yeah. You like candy? Yeah. What kind?

You a chocolate guy? Not really. Sour Patch guy? I do love Sour Patch. Yeah. Of course. You're good. Aaron J., can we get an update on Brian's health?

Because I've been concerned since the awesome baby news combined with the I might be having a stroke followed by we still don't know what the diagnosis is praying all is well uh thanks uh well thank you Aaron for asking because these guys have not no way to go Cole um still trying to figure it out I've been to numerous doctors they my doctor thought I had uh figured out i've been to numerous doctors they my doctor thought i had uh multiple sclerosis oh really which i was like doc nate is not gonna be able to pronounce that so just say ms oh they thought you had he thought you had ms they did wow yeah yeah but now the neurologist doesn't think that's the case oh boy i think i'm having a stroke yeah oh y'all saw that too yeah the light went out okay i was like man it's happening right now yeah yeah you got what's that everything's normal uh neurologist

does not think it's that it's not really sure what it is i go tomorrow for ml mri tomorrow that's not good i'm also having a stroke yeah lights are Lights are going out. I can't talk. Yeah. But I go tomorrow for an MRI. Hopefully we'll find something from that. But. And the MS sounds like the guy, like, didn't even really do a test. He just like had it. You walked in. You said this.

He goes, sounds like MS. Didn't even look at you. And you go, what? He goes, ah, I shouldn't be saying that out loud. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't think it's that. I mean, neurologists really couldn't find anything.

So if the MRI shows nothing, then – It could be diet. Yeah, that was the first thing they looked at was my diet and did blood work, thought it could be a vitamin deficiency or something. But that all came back good. It could just be I'm getting old. Yeah. I'm about to hit the Wolford Brimley cocoon line.

You know what that is? No. In the movie Cocoon, which was about old people that found the fountain of youth, Wilford Brimley was 50 years old and like nine months in that movie. So now that's a whole thing where anytime an actor hits that, like Tom Cruise is way past that now. Wilford Brimley, you thought he was an old guy then. So now that's a whole thing, the Wilford Brimley, you thought he was an old guy then, like, you know, but so now that's a whole thing, the Wilford Brimley cocoon line.

So like it right now, you'd have to be born. Uh, April 11th, 1971. Yeah. April 11th, 1971.

So I'm going to hit that here in a few months. If you were born today, you don't hit it till 2072, but that's like a whole thing now when actors or anyone hits the Wolfer Brimley cocoon line. Wow. And what did they just say that? Yeah, because it's usually now like –

Tom Cruise I feel like was the first one really people pointed out. Because he's still starring in all these Mission Impossibles. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Wolfer Brimley was playing a really old man and was now younger than him. And now it's just kind of kept going. Well, you got to think of the health of it all is just, I mean, look at, people are just in shape now. And then now, like, they, you know, they have to look at these athletes.

Look at Tom Brady. Like, they just, people stay in shape now. It's not like the old, like, you know, everybody's learning more about stuff. Everybody, I think, eats. You know, people that end up being more conscious about their health, so they just end up not being. Yeah. The old, same old is not the old.

But he was much older. He was like 20 years younger than all the other actors then. He just looked old. Yeah. He just died a few years ago. Yeah. And that movie came out in the mid-80s. Yeah.

So that's what's up with me. Baby doing good. Due April 8th, but the doctor said she'll probably come mid-march oh yeah um march 25th maybe maybe that would be great if she's they if it waited that long but um but they always throw something crazy at you to scare you to death and then they'll say but it's fine yeah i mean we'll go in one way and they were like well we found a hole in her heart yeah that's i mean it's mean, we'll go in one week and they were like, well, we found a hole in her heart. Yeah.

I mean, it's a real thing. We freaked out about it. And then they're like, it's nothing to worry about. It happens all the time. Yeah. It usually heals itself. The next week we went in, they said, it's not there anymore. Yeah.

Wow. This past week, they were like, so if she doesn't have a nasal bone, we'll blah, blah, blah. And we were like, wait, what? And they're like, yeah. And we're like, she doesn't have a nasal bone? They're like, well, we're not sure. We can't see it on ultrasound.

But they said, that's not a problem. She said, a lot of people do not have nasal bones. Oh, wow. And they don't even know it because most of your bone is just skin tissue. And she said it'll affect her none if that's the case. I mean, I hope she has one. Yeah. But they always scare us to death.

Yeah. So you're like, why would you tell me that, I guess? Or at least tell me up front, this is nothing to worry about. Yeah. But this. They tell you that, and then they tell you nothing to worry about. Yeah. You don't know a nasal bone sounds like it's important.

It does sound like it's important. I'm still kind of holding out hope that she has one. Yeah, yeah. She's measuring very, very small in the one percentile right now, but they think she's going to be all right. There's a lot of people that end up being in that percentile. They end up being in it? They go back to it.

Cole's in it right now. Yeah. How does it feel, one percentile? It doesn't feel good. No, she'll be all right. A lot of people are born, and they all come up great and big. Yep. Didn't Tintito?

He was, you know. Was he? I don't know. But something, probably. I think she'll be Tintivo. Yeah. I'm sure. Same body type?

Same body type, yeah. No nasal bone. Jimmy Dorsey. What if she doesn't have a nasal dome? No one ever would have known, except you talked about it on this podcast. And now she's 18. She's like. It's ruined her life.

Yeah, she's like, well, no one. The nasal bone thing, I didn't even know I didn't have one. Now the whole school knows. Jimmy Dorsey. I bought my wife tickets for the Austin show. Luckily she's just as big of a big a fan as i am christmas morning arrives and the time comes for presents before she opens any of hers she wants me to open one of mine two tickets to see neighbor gets in austin in february after i got over my initial confusion all i could do is just smile and hand my wife her next gift we now have four tickets to your Austin show. Not even different shows. We both went for the 930. So long story short,

she and I was seeing Nate from orchestra row C and somewhere back in row X will be two of my wife's friends who apparently have never heard of them. All right. That's pretty great. Yeah, it's a good griff. I wonder who bought the better tickets. I bet she did. Yeah. Yeah. You think? Well. I think I would be the one that buys the better tickets than my wife. Two of the wife's friends are an ex, so probably that's the one the wife bought.

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. The C is great. Yeah. He's like, ex. Are you kidding me? Are we even going?

There you go. Andy Burns. Having four young kids, my wife Michelle and I agreed not to spend much on each other for Christmas this year. An agreement we would make annually and then predictably break. This year, we mutually violated a no-spend contract by unknowingly both purchasing each other a pair of tickets to Nate's upcoming show. I'm really looking forward to seeing the show with my best friend. Plus, it'll be cool knowing Michelle is there somewhere to see you

in Pensacola. He's going to just go and split them up. I mean, that's a good thing. I think marriage, just go with your buddy. Cole, you think about getting married someday yeah not not soon but uh before you get out of

high school you want to lock it down no i don't want to be one of those people yeah i've been with my wife since i was high school but i get it uh he got he got married in high school. No, I've been with him since I was 21. But yeah, my parents were seventh grade. You've really offended a lot of people. I'm sorry. Yeah. No, you're too cool. Now you're young.

You guys are going to wait forever. That's the new thing. Now it seems crazy to get married in your 20s, I think, right? Yeah. Yeah. You going to do what I did? i did i don't know you're gonna wait that long we'll see yeah yeah i got more important things to focus on right now you might be retired though he's just getting started yeah uh jacob shipley on christmas morning i'm opening up presents in front of my wife and my in-laws inside a small bag for my wife as a note that says we're going to Nate's show in Kansas City in January. We have two kids under two, so two nights out are few and far between.

I'm so excited. I say to my wife, you're kidding, right? No way. Are you serious right now? My mother-in-law starts crying. Based on my reaction, she was convinced it must be a pregnancy announcement. She was heartbroken that it was tickets to see some dumb comedian had to take christmas had to take a christmas

intermission for her to get a kleenex and calm down she may be bummed that she's not getting another grandkid and i'm pretty stoked about the tickets that's uh awesome you gotta go explain that i mean she was like it's happening know, and then just going to this show. I get it. I'll be your grandchild. You want me to come over? Just eat out of the refrigerator, you know? Just come and get me.

You got Sunny D in here. What do you got in here? Sunny D? You ever drink Sunny D? I have. Yeah. It's good. Yeah.

Yeah. They still have it. Yeah. Yeah. We did. I do want to talk we're gonna talk about this and then uh we're have sunny on uh i ended up watching you ever watch hallmark channel cole you even know what it is it's usually i know it yeah it's an older lady channel uh it's is it i don't know i think more women watch it yeah you really yes i really trash it well they got me all right it's an old lady nate channel uh it was on our tv all weekend and or this past

over christmas i've watched a few of them because it's like you can start them and it's hard it's just these movies that are uh the actors are always really good in them they're and then the story's just it's very pleasant and there's enough that you're like, well, I want to see what's going to happen. And you end up just going and kind of keep going and seeing what's going to happen. I get it. I think I get it.

I get how you could watch them. They're just very comforting. It's, you know, it's easy to watch. So I was watching this one. And this blew me away about making TV uh when they make tv shows or movies so just play it and you'd have to see this if you're where you know if you go to youtube and check it out so drives up right yep middle of the road she's going to meet this guy you're hoping they get together okay you can pause it there so she just what do you notice about that scene park the car in the road she just left the car in the

road she walks oh he's standing in a parking spot if you go back to it she turns down a road that's a regular road turns down the road gets out like, hey, good to see you. And she just goes, what are you doing? And then leaves the car in the middle of the road and walks to the parking spot. Not even, they sit down. They're not even, there's no fear. There's no worry of like, let me move the car real fast. I feel awkward.

It's in the middle of the road. And people, she's just like, how you doing? She gets out of the car and yeah, the truck is even parked. You could move the truck out of the scene and I would probably be okay with it. But the fact that you have a truck parked, now the whole road is blocked in this magical town. I always think when they make these, does someone there not go, hey, she just got out of the car and left they should this is why this is back to my you got to have normal people at things and you you should have a normal person at every set that just goes but why did she leave her car in the middle of the

road and they go you know what that's why you're here to help us because we're we're just actors and we don't we don't drive cars that's what you see all that doesn't like acting you see like them shoot basketball and then you'll be like they don't even it looks like they've never seen a basketball before you're like if you did you have a childhood that's like sometimes these actors like did you i always thought if i had played a movie if i had to play basketball in a movie i would look like i knew how to play basketball john kris john krasinski was very good very good at basketball they they all look like they knew how to play like michael scott did it and that was the whole point right but it's like the other one's all kind of new and you can tell yeah when someone they get the ball and you're

like i mean i don't think did they have like what did they do as a kid you know could you play basketball as a kid yeah but like if you were acting in a show you could probably do enough or we did look yeah no it looked good it looked good yeah that's what i mean would you leave a car out on the road like that as an actor would you go i'm uncomfortable just walking away from this car would you feel that yeah yeah right wouldn't you yeah once you go should i pull it over to the side i guess they're saying maybe there's no way for her to have got out of the car. You know? I think they're implying that she did pull over to the side.

There's some snow on each side. No. The end of it. So, look, she gets here. Yeah. She just leaves it. I mean, at least park it over on that side like you park it on a two-lane road but she leaves it but i i kept watching this she then when she leaves she goes

back to the car that's in the road and then you see a car behind her come okay so the car is on the road and that one's there like i get maybe she should have come in the back way or she they want to show her back in stuff like that that. But just re, you know. I think sometimes they could be making this and they're like, well, you want to fix it? And they're like, I mean, like one guy will care and it'll be me. And then they're like, that guy doesn't need to be on this channel anyway. And this is how they get me off the channel. That's like, yeah.

You're the only person. I'm the only person. I walk in, I go to one book club with my wife's friends, and then I get kicked out because I'm like George Costanza when he goes to that book club. I was thinking about when in the office, when they had the book club and Jim wanted to join, and he just made fun of them. Yeah, yeah, and they made him leave.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Cars in the road. I mean, they're possibly going to date. They're going to maybe get married. How could you marry a woman? I would never. I would be 10 years into that marriage and I'd go,

why did you leave that car in the road? There's other people. It's a busy town. Why would you not move it? Could you get past that? You don't think you could. Would it stick with you or would you move on i think it would stick with me i think it bothered me like yeah it bothered you wouldn't it you think you'd be fine with it you park right behind her like i think you'd go you'd pull in you're such george costanza now when susan talk about the

yeah the stalls he's trying to convince Jerry, you wouldn't move, but she wanted to move on. Well, I don't even know how. How does he not even, as he's holding the coffee, he's like, I got your coffee, and she does it, and he goes, hey, here, hold this coffee. I'm going to go ahead and move your car out of the road for you because that's insane. She just gets out and strolls like nothing.

As that guy, he sits down with her, and he doesn't think, you know nothing i would as that guy you just he doesn't he sits down with her and he doesn't think you know what maybe they're meant for each other because they don't realize they just their whole relationship is just they just get out of cars and just anywhere they should have more movies they're in the middle of a highway and they're just interstate they just go get out they gotta run away you know and they're like where's the car they left it in the middle of the road it's crazy you should watch every hallmark movie and just analyze it just find one thing i looked up who's been in the most it's uh the girl from full house yeah candace cameron

burr they say yeah she's been in 29 of them wow yeah she was in uh another one that i watched yeah they're great i mean they're just very pleasant. They're nice. Yeah, I don't mind them. I get it. The car thing I didn't care for, but it was, you know, she couldn't get past that. But besides that, because the lady's a nice lady,

and it's like then she now is not a nice lady to me because she left her car in the middle of the road. He turns the whole character. I couldn't believe it. Like why would anybody want to date her? You know? And why would anybody want to date that guy? Because that guy just lets that happen.

How does he not? The next scene should be him going, hey dude, did you see her come? Like they should have someone behind her honking. And then she goes, oh, sorry. I left the, there's a parking spot right there. I just left it out. I saw you. I got, you know, I was excited to see you.

I mean, if she parks there, gets out, grabs a coffee, thinks of the coffee, and gets back in the car, I'm fine with it. At least even do a little, at least just a little jerk to the left. Like she, I mean, I think she just stays exactly straight. Like she doesn't, there's not even a little, like just a little nod to the left of being like, you know, I gave it a shot. Did you watch this with Laura? No, I watched them all alone.

I just, it's so funny. It's supposed to be the true spirit of Christmas, I gave it a shot. Did you watch his Allure? No, I watched them all alone. It's so funny. It's supposed to be the true spirit of Christmas, and you're just furious at this lady. I think I'm in the true spirit. I don't think she is. She's the one leaving the car, and that's the Grinch right there. He doesn't care.

He just leaves it in the... All right. Cole, thanks for... People wanted to see you. No one knew you existed until now. But now they know. And they know you're there. You can go check them out at Ravenwood. How long will you keep interning with us?

You know, until I go to college probably. Until enough's enough. Can you keep going? Like if you're at Harvard, could I email you? Cole, could you look up why spiders? Pennsylvania. Yeah. You might have started giving me. That was his first one.

Oh, yeah. Why are school buses yellow that's one we looked up you looked that up? I didn't can you tell me? is it a lot? no it's pretty simple it's just the most eye catching color

is school bus yellow that's like a real color it's not yellow and it's not orange. It's a combination of the two. Yeah. It's called school bus yellow. Some guy did some research.

Most people think red's the most eye-catching color. I think it blended in with trees. Stoplights and stuff, but they said yellow catches your eye even more. Yeah, I could see that. It really works well with the black lettering. During the fall, New York, upstate, got a red school bus, drive right through it. If you looked in the trees, you'd think it blends in.

Wouldn't make sense. If she had a red, I mean, that'd stick out there. I mean, her, that's a green. She drove a green something. Yeah, that car kind of stuck out more ways than one. The car stuck out. Her attitude sticks out. You know, his attitude sticks out. The know his attitude sticks out the whole you know the whole

the whole the whole thing's a major problem this town probably wants them to be gone thrilled for them to be uh candace cameron she wouldn't do candace cameron wouldn't do that she wouldn't do something like that no she would have called it she said i can't just leave the car out in the middle she's like what if i just why don't they just have him walk up? Why don't she park, just have her be parked on the side down the street and she gets out of her car and walks up.

Move that red truck and have her park there and she gets out and walks around. Just show her like, go up, back in, and then they did it.

I don't know. Aaron's okay, by the way. He's being very just nice and cautious not to come in. I thought he died. No, he's fine. He's just on the tail end of the incubation period or whatever it is it's called.

Not incubation. I don't know. Whatever it is, he's fine. Okay. He'll be back next week. All right. He'll be back. All right.

Yeah. Well, here's Sonny Gray. Cole, thanks for all your help. Let us know when you go choose colleges. We're going to lay you down. I will. We're going to do hats. Yeah.

Might do seven hats. It'll be fun. It'll be fun it'll be fun all right what's up everybody uh so we have uh you know baits obviously here and then here is uh sunny gray filling in for aaron weber you think anyone would have noticed what do they think aaron's lost this much weight and they're like man aaron is doing great so you're being nice because i'm in aaron's spot right now this is a spot yeah okay so you're him you're the third co-host of this podcast yeah you're the first time we've ever done this where we've had one person out here and we have just right and we mark norman oh yeah yes that's true we We're trying to get Aaron out of the podcast. So we're just trying different people.

I've missed one. Yeah, Bates has missed one. I've missed none. Well. Yeah. Makes sense. I would like to. I'd like to see what y'all just talk about. Well, we're glad you're here. Sonny Gray, everybody knows, pitcher for the Reds, Cincinnati Reds,

played at Vanderbilt and local from Smyrna. Smyrna. Smyrna. S-town. Old school Smyrna. They have like a sign with your name at Smyrna. You have like when you drive in, it's like home with Sonny Gray. Everybody always said that.

Everybody always said that there was one, but no, it's just they do have two high school state football championship signs, both entrances, the entrance in and the entrance out. Are they one of yours? They're the two that we won when we were there. That you have. Smurf. That we. As a team.

As a team. But, yeah. What position did you play football? Quarterback. So you were just a star quarterback too. Because you went and played quarterback in college? If I wasn't 5'10", maybe. Maybe.

Drew Brees 5'10". Is he just that much better than you? He's so much better than me. Probably, yeah. How far can you throw a football? How far can you throw it? Oh, yeah. About 10 yards right now.

How far could you? In high school, a high school football, probably 65 yards. Yeah, that's good. 65 yards. High school football smaller? It's a little smaller. It's skinnier than a college ball, and it's just overall smaller than an NFL ball. What about a women's ball?

I don't know if it's that small. I don't know. I don't know. What about a child's ball? How far do you think you could throw? One of those little balls, those little Nerf balls that have the Nerf and then it has the thing in the back. With the arrow?

Yeah, with the things. You could throw that 100 yards. You could throw that end zone to end zone. Could you throw from the warning track to home? In the air? Yeah. Right now? With a running start and a crow hop?

I don't know if I could get it all the way there right now. A hop. Yeah, one hop. Probably. Probably. We never tested like that being pitchers. We would always throw from foul pole to foul pole. Yeah.

So we would throw across the outfield. But you could get it foul pole to foul pole back in college when we long tossed all the time and then right after. What's the point of long toss? You always see people warm up. I see when you go warm up. When I've been to watch you and y'all get real far away from it, is it just good for you to do that?

If you believe it, it's good for you but i mean it's different it's like everyone's it's a philosophy that i i like because we would always go out real far and then come back in and we would it would be long toss and then compress compress your throats and take the energy that you had from 300 feet and and condensing down to 60 feet and do the same thing that you were doing at 300 at 60 and just continue to i don't know and then the ball should jump out it's kind of like a throwing a weighted ball or something yeah it's like it was like the old school weighted ball okay now it's now it's all weighted ball throw weighted balls and do this and then throw a baseball. There was a pitcher who got pulled a year or two ago, and he got manned through the ball from the mound into the stands.

Out of center field? Yeah, and I was impressed he could do that. I played with him, actually. Who was it? Trevor. Trevor Bauer. Oh, yeah. He played for the Reds.

He played for the Reds. That happened recently. It happened this last year with the Indians. It happened when he was with the Indians, and then he played for the Reds. He played for the Reds. That happened recently. It happened this last year with the Indians. It happened when he was with the Indians. And then he played for the Reds after that. But we played high school summers together and then came full circle. We were drafted in the same draft class, so we always kind of knew each other. And then he came up in Cleveland.

I came up in Oakland. And then we crossed paths there in the middle, and then we came to the Reds in the middle. So, yeah, he was there for like a year and a half. Everyone always gives him crap for that. They always like – so tell me about that time you threw the ball over center field. Is it just like they're – It's impressive.

Yeah, is it – you're just in that moment, you're just mad, you don't care? I guess. I guess. I don't know. Well, it's like they're it's impressive yeah is it you're just in that moment you're just mad you don't care i guess yeah i guess yeah i don't know well it's like your moment here sunny gray rubs his behind great rub his butt on the mound here's some unintended effects of the mlb barnes what was that for so He was at bat the previous inning, and he clearly has something on his butt. Yeah, so I was hitting in the umpire. The Reds wanted to make sure everything was cool, so they had Lance Barrett go in the dugout to check him out. Of course, I'm hoping it's Pinecar. The solution they came up with to cure this sticky situation

was to have him rub his butt on the ground. That's like you did it so quick. So I'll tell you what happened. Then they show a dog doing it. That's like you did it so quick. So I'll tell you what happened. That's funny. Then they show a dog doing it. It's just like Sonny is going and rubbing it. Sonny, dude, put it in mute. So I was hitting, and then I came back to the dugout,

and I kind of ripped my hand, and I had pine tar. Oh, I mean, with the new sticky stuff. Can't have any sticky stuff, or you get kicked out for 10 games. So I kind of like, oh, no. What are we going to do? So I told the manager, I told Dave, and I was like, hey, I got pine tar. And the umpire came over and he did this. And he's like, you got to change your pants.

I was like, change my pants? Like, I got to go out and pitch right now. Yeah. So you want me to just say, hey, time out? Like the pitcher had to go change my pants? Like, I got to go out and pitch right now. Yeah. So you want me to just say, hey, time out? Like, the pitcher had to go change his pants? Yeah. So I was like, so then I just kind of like laughed at him, and I picked up some dirt, and I just rubbed it on there, and they were still talking.

I just ran to the mound. I was like, I'm out. Like, I'm not changing my pants. That's not happening. Yeah. I'm out. So I run to the dirt, and I say, hey, hey, hey. And the umpire looked at me, and I sat down down on the mound and I rubbed dirt all over it.

I said, is this good? Is this good? And that's kind of like where he was at. He started laughing. It was like thumbs up. But he told me, he said, he was like, I'm cool if you keep it there as long as you don't go to it. I said, I promise you I won't go to it unless stuff hits the fan, then I'm going to be all over it. I'm going to be all over it because I'm going to need it.

But I don't know, man. I go blank. You know you came to me with a Vandy that one time. You just go blank and you just do stuff like this. So you can have pine tar on for a bat, but the pitcher can't have it. So if you grab a bat, so your bat can't have pine tar on it. I mean, it can if you wear batting gloves and stuff. so pine tar that's so crazy that you can't use it but it's that much in the locker it's everywhere it's everywhere it's everywhere is it just sticky in a dugout

is it just sticky just very sticky everywhere you go you're like you just feel like just it's just yeah dirt you go home with like papers on your hand and you're like smelling like a pine tree. Yeah. I'd always lay down in bed and my wife would be like, you smell like a pine tree. And I'm like, I'm sorry. Roll over. And you've had games though where you completely changed like got naked. I have. So that's not unforeseen.

It's not weird with me. I do a lot of weird things, especially playing baseball. You'll just strip down completely naked. I'll just start over sometimes. In the middle of a game. Yeah, in the middle of a game. I try to find a way to reset.

It's like my, I don't know. I try to find a way to reset, and sometimes I'm just like, there's so many things that go through your head or go through my head, and I just like, so after an inning, I was like real hot, and I was real hot, and I just needed to cool off. I was like, I just need to, to so I just twice I've done it I've run in the dug I run into the locker room real quick and I just start taking my jersey off because I'm sweating I'm just like and then I take my shoes off and I'm like and then I just then I just keep going I got I'm gonna just change

real quick so then I sit there and I'm sitting in my locker mid-game and then I'm just and then I'm like all right put some more put some more sliding shorts or underwear on and some pants and socks and cleats jersey belt hat and I'm like feels like a new day and then you just go out how much time do you got you know you got time sometimes I'm like one one time in Miami I'm like trying to button my pants and tuck my shirt in as I'm walking through the dugout to go back to the mound. Do you have the game on in there? Yeah.

So you're just kind of watching. Are you just kind of like, man, it'd be great if we could get a long inning? I would need a long inning, but it never happens. It never happens, yeah. It's like three outs in three minutes, and you're just like, whoop, whoop. Yep, got to get back out there. Yeah, sometimes you pray for long innings. How close is the dugout to the locker room?

Is it just right down the hall? In my, well, in Cincinnati, it's, you go down the stairs and you go kind of, you go through this little thing where there's windows and people are eating dinner. Yeah. So you kind of always just like wave to the people and then you go up these stairs, up these stairs. It's probably a hundred feet. Yeah. So nothing crazy. Yeah. So you can make a move like that you can make a move yeah you can make a move up

to the clubhouse and yeah and change real quick but that's what we've talked about like i so when you were going to warm up for last season i went and uh pitched or i stood in the box and it was uh uh stallings uh yeah jacob jacob stallings who's kevin's coach john's kid he plays for the pirates still want to go club this year yeah yeah yeah look at that and i was there at the beginning of that you know i helped him do that uh but he so he's catching it and then uh so sonny's pitching and he's like well i just want to feel someone like in the batter's box and sonny just goes so just get in there and i'm like, well, I just want to feel someone like in the batter's box. And Sonny just goes, so just get in there. And I'm like, I looked at Sonny, I go, how do you, do you feel amazing, dude? Like I wanted you, like, I don't want you to be like, I don't know, dude, I feel a little foggy today.

Because it's so, you throw it so hard and you're just there. Was that scary? Mike Yastrzemski once, I told him, I said, I could go hit, I should go, who plays the Giants, Vandy guys. So we all hang out. And I go, Sonny said I could – he'd bat for me. Or I could bat for him. He'd pitch, and Mike goes, I don't – he goes, I don't know if I'd do Sonny. He goes to me, he goes, somebody goes, Sonny could get wild on you.

I could, especially if I throw – I could. He could throw something that gets wild. No doubt. No doubt. I'm the king of the dirt ball. You love it. I love it. What was the one stat

that you said oh you led the majors in wild pitches yeah sounds right in 2020 no audience so no crowd

you're just throwing wild to be wild just out there just throwing the ball as hard as you can that makes it worse right because like everybody just hears it go thud

everybody just turns around and looks no I mean it was mostly it's mostly in the I will say my wild pitches are mostly in the dirt, so I'm probably a catcher's nightmare.

Everything I throw is like a sinker going into the dirt or a curveball. I also throw a ton of breaking balls, so breaking balls. They go in the dirt. They go in the dirt. But you want them to go in the dirt. Yeah, yeah. You want them to go in. I mean, you want them to – breaking balls, you kind of want them to be down.

You don't want them to spin at the top. But, yeah, I can throw the ball all over the place. You ever look at the stats and like, that was a pass ball. I didn't even know that. I didn't even know that. No, I don't say that. No one's going to tell you that except us, except the comedy podcast. Yeah, most people don't bring it up.

It's not something they lead with. Yeah. I love it. Hey. I think that's – You got to lead something. You something they lead with. Yeah. I love it. Hey. I think that's. You got to lead something. You got to lead something. You got to lead.

You got to lead something. I think that's a great stat to lead in. I mean, talk about, you could tell a batter right before he goes up. You're like, by the way, he led the league last year in wild pitches. All right, man. Have a good at bat. You don't know where this is going to go. You don't know where this is going to go.

He doesn't know. You don't know. Step in lightly. Yeah. Step in. And then they took sticky stuff away from us. Yeah. Yeah. There they go. And he was, you, this is the guy you. He doesn't know. You don't know. Step in lightly. Yeah. Step in. And then they took sticky stuff away from us. Yeah. Yeah.

There they go. And he was, you, this is the guy you want pine tar. They should have a rule. Sonny Gray can have pine tar. The rest. No.

When do you start honing it in? Like as a, like when you're playing little league and then you move up, when does it like, you start getting like real good? Is it like high school or like college where you're like, you're not really going to hit anybody accidentally. That's a problem. I mean, I know you're going to hit somebody accidentally but in the pros 2022 where you're kind of like okay like now you're pitching

well like yeah when i stood there to bat like you obviously yeah you're not going to hit me no i'm not going to and so i'm not going to you you're everybody if you make it to the pros you're obviously good enough to go yeah yeah you know i'm not going to hit you right is there college pitchers though that might hit you? Or like, is it where they would be like, I don't know, dude, don't stand there. Or you would probably, if you had a high program, you're probably still pretty good. The guys that would hit you would be like a lanky thing. And it would be a lefty thrown to a righty.

Yeah. So if you were left-handed, I would have a better chance of hitting you than if you were left-handed i would have a better chance of hitting you than if you're right-handed yeah for me what so if like a big lefty or the only two things that would hit you is like if a big lefty or a big righty they throw and they just like arm doesn't catch up and the ball just goes yeah and that's coming up high that's the one you don't or a lefty or a yank that would probably hit you in the knee. That probably wouldn't – a knee or ankle or foot. That would be a yanked foot. What do you think it would do to him?

He just turned 50. Oh, man. He's had two strokes, we think, recently. I mean, would it break? Would it shatter his knee? No. You think you would be able to – I don't know if I would be able to handle it. Was it scary, though, when he was pitching?

You were standing there? It's so fast. It just comes – It's just probably different. You don't know if I'd be able to handle it. Was it scary, though, when he was pitching? You were standing there? It's so fast. It just comes. It's probably different. You don't know. Yeah. It's something that leads your hand. It's just instant.

And that's straight. You don't even have time to react. It's just you just. I think I wouldn't wind up. You just got to go for it. Hitting a. I was just. I didn't have a bat.

I just. You didn't have a bat. I mean, that sounds even scarier. It would be. I feel like it would be scarier with the bat. Yeah. With the bat, because then you're like, I want to try. Yeah. I don't know, though.

I don't know. I remember in Little League, some guys had hit puberty in some hat, and the Little League is so close that they're halfway to the mound when they release. That's terrifying for a kid who's four foot two 50 pounds or something you remember that i mean yeah these are such different sizes that age we had a kid uh jeremy lyons that went to my high school dca and he would he looked like a it was someone's dad was out there when we were 12 he just like it honestly just looked like yeah he's like bigger than most dads

and he'd be out there and you're like he shouldn't be be – we're 12. You're like, I'm tiny. I mean, I was good until 13, and then when I was 13 I liked it because they went to the bigger mound. So the pitches were pretty easy. 12 was getting like, you're close. And you're like, man, they're throwing some heat. But then 13, they're far and it's not as fast, and you're like, well, that's my favorite. That was my favorite lead because they're not strong enough to throw it. So it's not as fast and you're like well that's like my favorite right that was my favorite lead because it was because they get they're not strong enough to throw it so it's a

lot of ball there's kind of just yeah 12 12 is 12 is big if people feel you start using the big barrels and then i guess 13 is when you start you go back you do go back and lead off some people can do it when they're like 10 11 and 12 you 12. You were only 13? That's the only age? Yeah, it was just 13-year-olds. Mine was 13 through 15. One league. That was what? Babe Ruth.

When he was playing. He played with Babe Ruth. Did you ever play Lebanon? No, we didn't play Lebanon. We played Lebanon in football, in high school football, but we didn't play Lebanon in baseball. What in football, in high school football, but we didn't play Lebanon in baseball. What county, Smyrna? Rutherford. Yeah.

Rutherford. He knows every county in Tennessee. Whoa. Well, did you stay up just looking for all the counties that give you, like, reports or something when they come out? Yeah, you just get an age and you start knowing them. We play. They stick with you more than the normal.

I do think there's a – I do think you do get an age where you're – as you get older, just stuff sticks with you different than the normal they go i do think there's it i do think uh you do get an age where you're as you get older just stuff sticks with you different than you would ever dream yeah i don't know if it's counties i don't know if i have counties yet i'm starting to lose stuff like i uh i'm like would set my phone down like and then now it's like i'll be like where did i set and i'm having that happen a lot more than normal. I used to know where everything was at. You used to be a good phone player. I used to be. I would not set my phone down.

I'll forget what I was going to do. I'll go do something, get distracted, and then come back and then forget. That's my every day. Yeah. I mean, I think that just might be like a. Every day thing. Like a tension thing. A tension thing.

What is that called? ADD thing. Yeah, ADD. Maybe you're just getting ADD when you get get older like talking to myself over here attention i guess it is attention just uh something adhd adhd yeah no one had that stuff when you know what i always think no one because they didn't test for any of that stuff we just didn't have it well i'm not saying they didn't have it but it matters what you basically didn't have it if you didn't test for it. Didn't know. Like no one asked.

So you could be loaded with just, I mean, I would be in a special school if I went to school right now. But back then you were just thrown into public school like a horse, just jammed in and it didn't, you know, who cares? He got the yips at second base. I got the yips in church league softball. He couldn't get it. Running?

No, no, throwing. I had it from shortstop everywhere. Shortstop, I played short a second, and I couldn't throw it to the first baseman. I would launch it over his head, and it'd go in because the softball dugouts were open, so it'd always go in and land. Church league.

At church league, and I just couldn't time it out. I was like a nightmare. The ball came. It would have been better for me just to walk it back to the pitcher and just hold it up and call time. I'll stop the runner if it comes to me, but don't ask me to throw this ball. I just – I mean, dude, it was so embarrassing. And just there's nothing left.

It's just – Their church split over it. That's how bad it was. They weren't allowed. They weren't allowed in. Oh, God. They went – I mean, it was just, they're Catholic now because of it. It was, they, yeah, it was, it's embarrassing.

You don't, you got to talk to these people and like, you're like, I don't know what to tell you guys. And they're like, ah, it's all right, man. And you know, I'm getting basic outs I can't get. It's, I mean. And everybody's looking at you. Yeah. Everybody's just staring at you.

I mean, just launching. You launch it and they're like, damn, there goes, there goes staring at you. I mean, just launching. You're launching. There goes a name again. Here he goes. Yeah. Yips are a big thing in baseball. Do you even talk about it? We don't.

You probably don't talk about it. I don't care. I don't care. But it is a thing. It is a real thing. And some people believe that talking about them or I think I'm. You're kind of nasty. I mean, I already lead the league in wild pitches.

I don't know. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of affecting. You probably should talk, I already lead the league in wild pitches. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of affecting his mind. We should talk about it. It probably might help me here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a therapy. It's been a great game.

A Hall of Famer once he got the yips for 10 years. Best pitch we've ever seen. Once he came on Nate Land. Yeah. I figured out, oh, I just got the yips. That's what it is. Yeah, I think if you know what they're caused by, then you want to have them

yeah and so it's like you can figure out but people haven't golf all the time yeah i had it with chipping for a while and it's just a tough spot yeah but once you know why you're doing it and now i now if i hit it like a yep i know i'm holding it and i'm not releasing so then you're like i don't you're not worried about it because you're like oh i know i know the i know what i did yeah once you find the fix then you're kind of just like another thing to about it because you're like, oh, I know what I did. Yeah, once you find the fix, then you're kind of just like, another thing to blame it on. You still do it. It's not your fault.

If it wasn't me, dude, I got these shoes on. They're different. Right. So we want to talk about New Year's resolutions too. Are you a big resolution guy? You've always been in shape. That's a big one, right? That's the main one.

I don't know what you would do. shape that's a big one right that's the main one i don't know what you would say you're the yeah so what would an athlete resolution be is less wild pitches maybe exactly could that be this year's resolution we started now haven't thought of one i haven't thought of one have you ever done one not that i can yeah because the main one's got to be getting in shape but like you don't have any goals in baseball yeah i think not leading the league in wild pitches yeah maybe doing it two years in a row yeah has anybody ever done that well maybe i have my biggest things i just want to be i don't know i love my family that's a big thing for me oh boy i hope you can do that i hope you can do that so last year you're saying you didn't love yeah and this. And this year you would like to.

I would like to love my family more. I would like to. No, I'm saying so just stay close to family. Take care of your family. Yeah. Do that. I mean, baseball is do well in baseball. Play, enjoy it, have fun.

Pass it down to your kids. Let them enjoy it while you can. I don't know. That's kind of it for me a little different than nate's yeah yeah that's the biggest things for me though i mean that's i don't know yeah i'm not yours is sour patch kids sour patch kids well i think i get off of them we think we i think i have type 2 diabetes okay uh someone said that on the podcast so i probably have it. I still got to agree. I'm supposed to get tested tomorrow, and I can't because I'm going to fail.

For diabetes? Yeah. Well, then everybody in my family, I think, has diabetes. It's not good. And then so I've been trying to get off sugar. I have a big sugar problem. I think I'm really addicted to it. He's going for type 3.

I've been drinking soda i went and got a soda uh a diet coke but uh and i just drank it the other day when i was filling up i mean it's like filling a bucket up yeah like you're at the store or i was at like uh firehouse subs and i'm like pressing the thing and it's a bucket it's a bucket of diet it doesn't stop and it's almost embarrassing how long the person's behind like you're behind you're like i'm sorry and then i gotta take a sip of it and i'm like just i'm gonna top it off you know i'm gonna get a little bit more take a sip fill it up more that's it's just and it's a it just it makes it sounds like a fountain's on yeah and you're like

it's just and you can order us well i will say this. We went to, we drove to Cincinnati recently for New Year's. Yeah. And then we drove back on Sunday. Big place to go celebrate. I mean, it was. Cincinnati. It was gorgeous. Top spot.

It was gorgeous. It was 40 degrees and raining and snowing. I think that all day. It didn't do the sun for three straight days. It was awesome. Big vacation spot. Yeah. Go.

So what we stopped by, we stopped a fast food place. We stopped fast food on the way up and we stopped fast food on the way down. On the way up, we stopped McDonald's, got the new spicy chicken sandwich. And on the way down, we stopped a KFC Taco Bell like combination. So, I mean, you had an option to do either one. You could do both. We did do both. Yeah.

So, but I had that thought with the coke because i like a coke and i always i mean i love having coke it's my that is my one that's a nut like a small but i try to get the small yeah like the cans like the smaller regular coke regular coke coca-cola classic yeah and but the you know the makes your hands feel bigger you know little guys yeah yeah and what i But I like having those. But I was looking in the window, and they were filling up a small Coke, it felt like, or whatever it was. They do Pepsi. Pepsi.

I know everything that everybody's like, Taco Bell's Pepsi. And I was looking at it, and I actually had that thought. I was like, that's a lot of, I think I said it to Jessica. I was like, that's a lot of, I think I call it to Jessica. I was like, that's a lot of, I think I was call everything Coke. Yeah. You call everything Coke. I started saying soda just cause people, cause I'm talking to so many different audiences.

So I'm trying to like, just kind of cut it. But in the South you call everything Coke. You're like, I'll take a Coke. And then you go, what kind? What kind of Coke?

Like you're there, but you say you want a Coke and that's how you, and then you tell them what kind you want. It's weird, right? That makes sense. South. But I did, I had that thought how you, and then you tell them what kind you want. It's weird, right? That makes sense. South. But I did,

I had that thought, but I did enjoy it. And I also really do enjoy like a nice Coke. Yeah, that's what they do. They're good. They're delicious. Yeah. They're deadly.

So you drink them? I will drink them. Yeah. I like to drink them. Jay Cutler, the opposite. Won't drink them? He won't. I said,

because I told him I liked soda. And he goes, yeah, I do too. I go, do you drink some? He goes, no. I go, but they're so good. He goes, yeah, that's why. Yeah, they are good. And he's a diabetic.

And he's a diabetic. He's type 1. He was born of that, I think. So he has to have sugar. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, he has to. Some. A little bit?

Like you need a piece of chocolate when your blood sugar's low? Yeah. That's what he'd be eating. That's why he's always frown-faced at the side of us. He needed some chocolate. He had a sour ball. He needed a Coke. He just needed a little.

He's bringing over a little small Coke, and he goes back in. What New Year's resolutions do you have? Yeah, I don't know. You know what? I don't ever think. It's about to lose. I need to get off sugar, I think. I think that's going to be.

But how much weight would you like to lose? I don't know. I don't even know if I have a number. I mean, I always think I want to get in the 160s. How much do you weigh? 190. Oh. But you're like built.

How much do you weigh? I think 180 something, 183, 5. I'm always right in there. Never weighed over 200. I've been close. 183, 5. I'm always right in there. Never weighed over 200. I've been close. That's a win. And then I think I would like to get to 160s, in the 60s. What kind of 160s?

I don't know. Let's just get there, then I'll go from there. I don't think I'm at the point. Let's just say this. So I weigh about 185, and I like to get in the 160s. So let's challenge each other. Who can get to the 160s? Yeah.

I think I'll get there a lot quicker than you. Well, okay. That'll challenge each other. Who can get to the 160s? Yeah. I think I'll get there a lot quicker than you. Okay. That'll be the challenge. Who can get to the 160s? What would the bet be though? Just pride, I guess. Yeah. I don't know.

We could do a weigh-in on this podcast. Oh, yeah. We're weigh-in. 160. So we're both in the 160. Like 165. How about that? I think if you touch the 160s.

Any of the 160s. First one to touch the 160s. First one to touch the 160s. First one to touch the 160s. That would be a good. 169.5. Round up. So maybe you got to be 0.4. You got to be under.

You can't be rounding up to 70. You can't be rounding up to 70. You got to be fully in the 60s. 169.4? Yeah. So you got to be able to say with the, know and be like hey i'm in the 160s that's a lot that's like 15 something pounds if i get off sugar then i'll be it'll be a breeze i mean that's a big one sugar it's like the main thing it's the main thing dude i was like

yeah i'm already reading a book on it uh when we were watching the the fight over here the other night i remember you hand me a patch you hand me some Sour Patch Kids. I remember that. You ate them. I did eat them. I was like, well, man. We got them over there. A boxer, Kevin said this once, says Grammy on it.

Grammy Nate. But yeah, you eat them. I think I eat more. I might talk about this on Fallon. I got to think about what I want to talk about. Because I'm doing panel on Fallon Wednesday. Do you talk about this on Fallon. I got to think about what I want to talk about because I'm doing panel on Fallon Wednesday. Do you know what that is? Nope.

Doing the tonight show. If you're watching this, this comes out Wednesday. I'm doing the tonight show tonight. Y'all have always done stand-up. You've seen when I go out and do stand-up on the tonight show. The panel is you go straight to the couch and i've done it once but what we would call a guest i guess yes yeah it's

a guest for a stand-up it's a big deal oh so like the thing like this and then the couch is right there so then you just go like you know when they've been interviewed like yeah yeah yeah they always have that's cool yeah that's nice so it's for a comic it's a big deal to not have to go do stand-up and you get to go just sit on the couch. Yeah, that's cool. Like the main thing. Yeah. Oh, no pressure.

You got that. Well, it's Kate Blanchett. It's her and then me. I'm second. But second to – That's good. Usually I'm third. I'm at the end.

I come out. That's all I've ever done. Everybody's already asleep. Yeah, everybody's asleep. Everybody check out. Well, being a comic on it, I still like doing comedy on it. But the good thing about sitting on the couch is I can kind of do i think i can do comedy i'm actually going to ask uh i want to talk to gaffigan about it like but it's like i think i can do some of my

act but i can do it in conversation not a lot of my act but you know i got a little chunk about losing weight or something about in eating better and like I think I can mix that in a little bit. Cause it doesn't count. Like it's not, you know, if you're doing it like that on the couch, it's just a little taste of your new app. Right. Right. And so it's not all of it.

It won't, I mean, it's a little tiny piece of it. So I'm trying to figure out what to talk about. That'd be cool. Yeah. When you, when you leave for that? So tomorrow. All right. Today's Monday.

I leave Tuesday and then we'll tape Wednesday. I'll watch old Johnny Carson reruns. And now, obviously, all the talk shows have a formula. It's the A-list celebrity, B-list celebrity, and then the entertainment, the comic or the music. I'm just trying to be to a list. Before, I was like, you're the clown act. But on Johnny Carson, they would have like, the first act would be like a guy juggling swords or something. And then they'd have like Tom Selleck.

I mean, there's no order on that show. It would have the craziest thing ever first. And then the biggest star in the world would be on at the end sometimes. Yeah, that's funny. And that's like a Fallon show? Same type of thing? Tonight show with Johnny Carson. Okay.

Have you heard of Johnny Carson? I mean, how old are you? yeah i'm sorry uh it's all right you know the tonight show i know the tonight show yeah you know jay leno you've heard of jay leno jay leno with yes yes so before him was uh johnny carson oh i definitely don't know johnny carson because johnny carson was but that's awesome but so is tonight's show with johnny carson's tonight's show with jay leno yeah tonight's show with jimmy fallon okay so it goes in order like that so it's going into the middle but like so the tonight's show with johnny carson's what it was the biggest show on air i think it was when did it stop airing uh i don't early 90s yeah i mean i don't really remember watching it you were so you had to be born in 89 so you would never seen it uh but i mean i don't think i saw it

he i saw it but then i watched reruns on yeah that's cool yeah that's i bet it's he's a big tv land guy and uh you watch tv land no yeah which is old shows that like it's andy griffith i like i do watch a lot of 80s sitcoms. Yeah. I Dream of Jeannie. I Dream of Jeannie. I don't watch those, but yeah. I like it.

He's not too far off. I like it. I love it. You've been pointing out how your favorite shows, most of them are from the 90s, and someone commented that almost everyone's favorite shows are from when they were in their 20s. Yeah.

Those are kind of the ones that we stick with.'s probably true yeah they your music too we laura and we were talking about last night like laura said like everybody kind of likes the music that there was like in high school and right out of high school and you kind of like that you just kind of stick in that era and then you go i've gone a little bit even older sometimes now if i've gotten your listen to you know i could listen to like 70s and 80s and then I can catch myself like I'm not moving forward I'm not going

I'm not as good as going forward with music I'm kind of like alright that's a you know there's a stop

and then you're like I'm not I'm done searching I'm with you yeah I feel that yeah 100% can feel that

what was like music was in when you were in high school when did you graduate 2007 2008 2008 it was a lot like the Wiz Khalifa Juicy J stayed with me What was like music was in when you were in high school? When did you graduate? 2007? 2008. 2008. It was like the Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J stayed with me a lot.

Yeah. I guess, I mean, I love them. Yeah. Is that what you still listen to? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, a lot of times. You listen to it before you play?

I listen to Lil Wayne before I play. Big Lil Wayne before I play. Big Lil Wayne. Like the Lil Wayne, Eminem era. With Khalifa, Juicy J. That was kind of like college. And then I've never been huge into music. When I was younger, I wasn't into music, really. Yeah, I hear it. I get it.

I wasn't either. I was just kind of like go. I just was going and doing stuff. But we didn't have access to music, I guess, like people do now. Yeah. We just come. I mean, people, I don't know. Well, Smyrna's a third world country. Yeah, we did.

This is the 2000s you're talking about. I mean, to what it is now, you could pull up anything in first seconds. I think Napster was around. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he listened to the radio instead of watching TV. Yeah. I mean, he listened to the radio instead of watching TV. Yeah. I mean. I agree.

I was never a big music person. I wasn't allowed. I think I wasn't allowed to listen to anything, so then I just listened to, like, it was either Christian music or I just didn't care. Like, it was like we weren't listening to the radio. Yeah. And then I couldn't watch anything. But, yeah, you couldn't get any music.

And then I remember 2001, like Napster, you could download stuff and all that kind of stuff. But you'd have to be into it. It's either like, it's a lot of stuff now. I even feel as we go farther, it's a lot of like, either you know how to do it or you don't. And eventually, like, you know, my daughter's going to grow, your kids are going to grow up. They're just going to know how to do it or you don't and eventually like you know my daughter's gonna grow your kids are gonna grow up they're just gonna know how to use a phone they're never not gonna know like that's just ingrained in them yeah uh where we didn't have that as you know smirner by the time y'all got cell phone tires yeah i mean when was it 2015 yeah still working on it still working on it yeah yeah y'all can text but you can't do calls

it's true yeah it's just a big dead zone when you go through yeah you just go through and i got They're still working on it. Still working on it. Y'all can do text, but you can't do calls. It's true. Yeah. It's just a big dead zone when you go through. Yeah, yeah. You just go through and you're like, I'll call you back in 10 minutes. Yeah. You know, at Zany's, when comics come through, they often like just to make fun of a local town.

And for whatever reason, Smyrna's become the town. Really? That people tell them to make fun of. It's just a good name. It's just a good name. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with Smyrna, but it's just a good name that sounds funny. It's a funny name to say Smyrna, but it's just a good name that sounds funny. It's a funny name to say Smyrna.

Because you can say it however you, you can just. Smyrna. Smyrna. Smyrna. Sounds pretty Tennessee. Smyrna. Like Smyrna. And it's spelled S-M-Y-R-N-A.

S-S-S-M-Y-R-R-R-N-A. S-M-Y-R-N-A. That's y'all's cheer? Yeah. Y'all just spelled your town? They were pressed. Did they go? That was how we rolled. That's what'all's cheer? Yeah. Y'all just spelled your town? They were pressed. That was how we rolled. That's what we did there.

I played at Lebanon. We played Smyrna. And you guys had a catcher, Mudcat Brewer. Yeah. I know the name. Yeah, Mudcat. I mean, I hope so. I know the name.

He was legendary. There should be a sign about him. Mudcat Brewer. Mudcat Brewer. Mudcat Brewer. Yeah. Was he like 50? Well, he is now because they were the same age. I know that name.

I know that name. I remember coming up in Smyrna and hearing Mudcat Brewer. Yeah. Such a good name. It's a great name. Yeah. Where's he? Did he just a big-time pitcher?

He was a catcher. He was a catcher. Yeah, and he was just really, really good. So he was kind of legendary there. Yeah, that name. And then he went to MTSU. I don't think he played there. Maybe he did play there, but we had some classes together,

and I would call my friends from high school. I was like, you ain't going to believe who I have a class with. Mudcat Brewer. Because they knew Mudcat Brewer. Yeah. Smyrna. It's a good town. I enjoyed. So I moved to Smyrna. It's a good town. I enjoyed.

So I moved to Smyrna, seventh grade, and I liked it. Where were you at before then? In the Woodbine area. Yeah. Like a little south of Nashville. You've been basically Nashville your whole life. Yeah. I've lived in Woodbine.

This little. Yeah. We used to go to that Boys and girls club right by Woodbine we lived we kind of moved around a lot when I was little we just kind of like but in that

in that particular area yeah which was and then we moved to Smyrna because we were you know we were we were going to the nice it was big time

it was a big step it up it was a big move yeah and went there in 7th grade and lived there until 2000 then well then went to college and then moved back to well then moved it lived in nashville moved back to smyrna and then i got to join nate and actually there you go took my rollerblades over here today did you know i

wanted to though yeah i wanted i stopped at home and i was I'm just going to rollerblade over there and make it four. Do you think the coaches in Woodbine are like, oh, my. If you'd have just stayed, we could have had Sonny Gray on our team in our school. Maybe. I was going to go to Glencliff High School. Yeah. Yeah, my cousin, Chris Bargetts, he went to Glencliff. I watched a football game at Glencliff.

Yeah, I watched numerous football games at Glencliff. Yeah. My first apartment was Gazebo Apartments right there. Really? In Woodbine, yeah. Yeah. Maybe I'll talk about this later. We're just getting off on.

Sonny. Let's talk about this after. Oh, yeah. He's getting real local. So Mudcat. Yeah. So how's he doing? How's his family doing?

Mudcat's family. I know his mom had something with her. Is she doing all right? So what were the resolutions? Yeah what do you have one this year um to beat you in this weight oh yeah challenge now that we have a weight loss 169.4 that's gotta be the yeah it's the first one to get there yeah that's what you want to do instead of just like maybe should we do 165 is it going to be easy to get

20 I mean you think you're about 185 we can weigh in before to see yeah and then yeah

see first one yeah and instead of like just say by a certain date it's a lot 20 pounds it's a lot

yeah instead of a date you want to do like a speed first one there first one there yeah so how do you start

starting now yeah starting now just yeah you get going just do it yeah maybe that you know he just ate mcdonald's so i'm off to a good start i mean oh you did yeah on the way here you can see yeah so it's still in there yeah it's still i mean it's still in his face yeah yeah i got it out of the way, though. Yeah, he got it out of the way. I'm going to get it tonight, so we're going to go. The top New Year's resolutions. Number one, exercise more. Two, lose weight. I mean, those are kind of the same thing.

Get organized. Learn a new skill or hobby. Live life to the fullest. That's Sonny's. That's mine. Just save money. Quit smoking. Spend more time with family and friends.

Yeah. Travel more. You probably got that down. And read more. Oh, God. Read. That should be number one for you. Yeah.

Read more. I am reading a book on quitting sugar. I'm reading it right now. Really? Yeah. Trying to get off of it. That's cheating. I didn't know that when we agreed to this.

I just, I haven't, I've made it. I'm on like chapter one. I'm still eating sugar. But it's. It hasn't gotten you off yet. It hasn't gotten me off yet, but it's the point of it. It's supposed to get you off of it. How long do you think resolutions last for?

Like a normal resolution? I think it's February. I think most people don't. I think I have that here. Yeah. January and then you're just like. They're done. I mean, they do it.

It's, you know, I think gym membership spike. Yeah. So big. And then people just stop going. It's Planet Fitness. Aaron, he got rid of it. People have memberships there for years because it's $10 a month, so they kind of forget about it. They sign up New Year's.

It's like free to sign up, whatever, New Year's Day. And then they know you're so lazy as a person. You're too lazy to even come because you've got to go to the free to sign up whatever new year's day and then they just you're they know you're so lazy as a person you're too lazy to even come because you got to go to the store to sign out and they know they just go yeah just come in and tell us to our face that you don't want to be here anymore and people just that that's what they do that's what they do did you see this mcdonald's where in china that's not coming up the oh i I think I saw it. The bicycle? Yeah. What's the point of it? People think it's to help you lose weight while you

eat terrible food. Yeah. Which I guess it would do that. But it's to for energy. Like they use it to power up their phones and stuff.

Oh. So they're making you they make you do that. You don't have to do it. But if you sit there it it's a way to eat. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I don't know.

If you're eating it, I'd rather just sit there. I don't know. I'd rather sit at one of the regular tables. I think it's energy saving thing. Yeah. I don't know if it really helps. Would you get – do athletes come back and they're like big like you're like oh you got after it like sometimes yeah sometimes yeah

everybody still work out like off like golf no like in your off schedule you're like still you worked out today yeah i think so i think i think probably people will try and have like a I think so. I think probably people will try and have like a – have a much off period of time, just do whatever, and then kind of like go back into it and do their thing. But I don't know. I guess everyone's really different. Everyone shows up to spring training at different points.

Yeah. And that's – spring training is so long anyway, so everyone shows up different and just kind of goes from there and does their thing. But you could have a gauge, but it doesn't really mean anything. What's the hardest position you think to play? Catcher. Yeah. Catcher, no doubt.

And why is that? Your knees? You just get beat up. Yeah. I mean, they're the toughest ones to me. Every play. Think about all the plays. Every one, every game.

Every game. And you got to put that stuff on in between innings every time. You got to show up with the pitchers. You're basically on both. You're on the pitchers and the position players. So it's kind of like you go to double meetings. You go to double. You do double. You do everything the pitchers do the position players. So it's kind of like you go to double meetings, you go to double – you do double.

You do everything the pitchers do, and then you do everything – and then you do everything the hitters do, but then you just kind of do what catchers do too. Do you buy – like in football, you know, the quarterbacks like buy all the offensive linemen like presents. You have to do that with – and you only have a catcher. I was thinking about it right now give him a 20 or something

hey great year you got change you go to dinner you do things like that you do things you you

I've always had great relationships with the catchers and guys what's the craziest thing you've ever seen in a game like just something like that you've ever seen in a game?

Like, just something like that would never happen again in a million years. Good question. That, that fight we had with

Pittsburgh. I mean, I'd been to some. I think we have it. Good answer. Good answer. We have it. We were trying to lead you

into that. You did. We were hoping this is what you'd say. This is. How tall is that guy? It's so to me it's like six six seven and he just what it what it was what's getting this fight going well you're losing 11 to three here it was it was a long thing if like so the series yeah i mean he just goes and fights the whole team and you know you know i've been and i've been in a lot of brawls over the last couple years.

There I go, running in there, sliding. Where were you at the time? I'm right there sliding. Pause it real quick. You're just at the bottom now? I know you come up. I've seen this video. You come up later pretty prevalent.

See, I'm straight up with your finger. One more. Left. Oh, right in the back. Down. Right there. That's you right there. And you're trying to get them apart, or are you just trying to hit them?

I'm trying to get them apart. So you think everybody's trying to break it up more right here? I don't know. This was a fight. This was different. Why was he fighting? So Derek Dietrich, number 22, when we played in Pittsburgh, like the series before, it was like an ongoing thing.

He hit a homer, and he stood at home plate for about 10 seconds. Yeah. And he just stood there. Yeah. I was like, whew, a little aggressive there. And then he ran around, popped his chains out. Yeah. All like five of them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ran around, did his thing, hit home, and then they start yelling. They start yelling. You're like, this isn't good. So then they hit one of our guys. We hit one of them. They kept throwing. And then you kind of get into a little argument, get into a little scuffle.

And then they come to Cincinnati, the next series, and you remember like, oh, still OU won, or guys hold grudges or whatever. And he came in the game, and they were yelling at him, and it was kind of been a lot of yelling going back and forth. There you are. Yeah. You'll be a peacemaker right there in the middle. I'm in the back.

Right there. Right there. So right in that moment, you're being very level-headed. Look at that. You're the one that's kind of trying to talk him into it. Like, come on, guys. Are you like, hey, man? Are you patting him?

Can I call you? Like, do you? Yeah. What are you saying right there? Do you even remember? I mean, it's probably a blur. You're just going. I just knew that there was, it was kind of over,

and now it's kind of like, it was now it's gone like whose fault is it yeah like you get a lobbyist yeah but it's not over yeah but it's not yeah you're thinking like and then it goes you were talking to the wrong person like that person was calm and you should have went and talked to the other no no i stay away from that yeah i, Puig is gigantic. That other guy was gigantic. It's just... This one was just a crazy one. Like it just didn't stop. Saying, let me go. Would y'all fight, like, do you ever,

does anybody ever try to fight after the game? Meet me in the parking lot thing? Yeah. Is it all like... Not that I... Would that not be the most realest thing if a dude was like – showed up at the guy's house and said, I would like to keep –

would it be too far? House? What if it's car? It's house. House? Son, we got your address right now. House is a little much. Yeah.

Didn't Jalen Ramsey do something like that? Did he? Like him and Golden Tate, I think there was like – They had a real thing, wait for me after the game. Yeah. Yeah, they – I mean, do they even buy Tim? Are you kind of just over it?

You're like, I don't know. I think one of them was dating one of them's sister or something. Oh, well, that could be going. Oh, that's – yeah. Or maybe two or something. That might be driving to someone's house. It probably did go to people's – Yeah.

So, yeah, that one just kept going. But I don't know of anything meet me after. Yeah. People just – There's no like storial baseball stories of, like, you mean? No, not that I, not of meet me. No, I think it's kind of like, that's why sometimes, I don't know. I think it's kind of like if you want to do something, you do it out here. And then once you go, you go.

Smyrna, though. Meet me at the Mapco. Yeah, meet me there. Yeah, I mean, is it different because you're from Smyrna and y'all fight more? Is it, you love it. Yeah, I was into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah me there. Yeah, I mean, is it different because you're from Smyrna and you all fight more? Is it – you love it. Yeah, I was into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was into it.

So you're on the bench and you're just like – so when you do this, when you know that you've – this team, he did the – are you mad at him for doing the home run thing? Are you like – sometimes is it like, man, we're going to have to fight these dudes next time? You know you're going to have to fight them or you know something's going down.

Yeah. Are you worried that you're going to get hit? I'm a pitcher, so I'm not necessarily worried about it. You're like, for him, you're like, dude, you're going to get hit. Or something's going to happen. Yeah. And worst case is you do it and somebody else on your team gets hit. They got to take the punishment of that.

I thought I muted that. So this is the Yankees and Tigers. And you're titled in it, Brett Gardner and Sonny Gray. So this is between y'all two. Y'all get started. You come in very late on this. No, I was in. I just joined the Yankees.

I was there. This is August 2027. I was there maybe two weeks, three weeks. So this is your initiation. Yeah, I had to go do something. You yeah i had it i had it i had to go do something you had to show off yeah you had to go like no i love this team yeah like here we go like you're my voice i will die for this so yeah this was this was an interest so something happened with is that you there on the ground that's me right there yeah on the on the right

yeah and that's yeah that's now you're holding him down current teammate nick castellanos oh that's him that's castellanos and i played with him for the last two years so you're on top of him and are you and him fighting or you're just trying to keep him away well he was he was being peacemaker in this is what i've what i've sent what i've learned playing with him tyler austin was being the he was being like i I'm going to get you. And Tyler Austin's a really big guy. Yeah. So I saw Tyler Austin during this brawl with one other guy.

And I was like, I'm going to join his team because, you know, he's got me. Yeah, yeah. He's got me. Yeah. So I get on the ground with him and I'm just like, I'll hold him down while you just do your thing. So I was just, I was kind of just body weighting this one and holding and making sure yeah nick couldn't move and tyler was just doing whatever he was doing under so it was kind of like you know that and then me and then and then he both of you end up on the Reds. Yeah. Yeah, like this is 2017, 2018, 2019.

Yeah. And I mean, so neither one of you forgot about this. Oh, no, because it hasn't been – I didn't know him at all. It's just kind of – Have you ever caused a brawl just because they thought you were going on, but it was really just another wild pitch? You go, no, no, no, no. I lead the league. Yeah, this is what I do.'d leave the league and yeah this is what i do

this is what i do that's how you should calm everybody down no no this is what i do this is it's not it's not my fault i promise but is it so when you when you go in there and you know he gets you were on the reds first and then they then they then he came on and you're like they just you hear the name and is it just like a pit in your stomach? You're like, oh, man. It's not like saying you're going to fight, but just like the pure awkwardness of you and this dude have fought. And now you have to get along. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, it's not what we led with, but it was shortly thereafter. How long do you take before you say what's up man are you saying it like quickly are you yeah right away right away what's up you gotta see where you stand you gotta see you fill them out yeah like hey hey man how you doing welcome welcome welcome it's like a fight with your wife yeah kind of like you're trying to go i saw that some of this weekend someone was calling their wife well you know when you call your wife and you're just trying to hear her tone to see how mad like is she mad or if you can you kind of talk make some

jokes go what's going on god where was that i was just there this did that today yes my buddy kenny just did it yeah i was gonna say was your poker night yeah they we went over to kenny's and like he's on the phone and uh someone's uh his wife's gonna to hear this. Someone smoked a cigar near the entrance. And so they could smell it in the house. And so his wife's like, dude. And he's like, no, I'm fine. He's down there with us. He goes, no one's smoking down here at all.

And then he's like, what are you doing? She's like upstairs. Like we're in the basement. She's up. She's trying to sleep. And you smell it. And you smell it. And he's like, no, nothing.

We're doing nothing, man. We're just going, what's going on? He's like making a couple of jokes. You're just trying to get that, and he's like, no, nothing's going on. Nothing, man. We're just going, what's going on? He's making a couple jokes. You're just trying to get that tone switched back to like, she goes, you know, so she's like, well, you are being stupid. All right. And then you're like, all right, she's cool now. But if it stays mad, you're like, well, I got to go fix it.

I phone called it and do it. I got to go do something. I got to do something. Yeah. I think that's the, like, because I don't know if women don't do that. I don't think they do it that way. But we are like, I got to, just let me fix this. Because we don't want to fix ourself.

Right. But I can fix this. And so I can just get her, you know. I can do something else. I mean, you can be on the phone and you're like, no, do you smoke this? What is she? It doesn't matter. She can't tell me what to do.

I'm not going to tell you. Or her start barking like Tim Allen. And you're like, hey, just let me, two seconds. No one's even down here smoking cigar. You go, I don't even me what to do. I'm not going to tell you. Or start barking like Tim Allen. You're like, hey, just let me, two seconds. No one's even down here smoking cigar. You go, I don't even know what that is. I've never seen one. Yeah, yeah, you do that, though. Sprinklers are going off.

You call and try and get the tone. A tone is everything. It is. A tone is everything. It is. And that's what's missing with text messages. Because you don't know the tone. And a tone is how you operate life.

You've got to fill that tone out to be like, what kind of tone is this? What kind of, you know. You ever started a text and you're like, the tone, it could be misread. I'm very sensitive to it. So you'll call them? Yeah. I'll call them or I'm very sensitive. That's where your ha-ha's get thrown in.

Exclamation points. Yeah, just to be like, you know, because you're not taking it. You're trying to make sure that you're like, I don't care. If you put a period, does that mean it's over? If you don't, is it open? I don't enjoy texting. Yeah. I do not enjoy it.

I'd rather. I like a phone call. I like a phone call. I like a phone call. You a big social media guy? Don't have one Or No

Not I used to I used to do it And do it for You know Cause you could make money And you could do this And

Make money? Yeah I'm doing it wrong Well you do like Well yeah like Send out tweets for X amount of money You talk

You send out tweets You gotta send out Whatever X 10 tweets Yeah Go to Shoney's Or whatever Use hashtag tweets for X amount of money you send out tweets you gotta send out whatever 10 tweets yeah go to Shoney's or whatever use hashtag

breakfast baits and get $5 off yeah I'm gonna try that yeah yours might be Shoney's you should be a sponsor for Shoney's

yeah you should you should wear exactly what you're wearing you should drive there right now yeah I was actually gonna go

after the podcast so get the all you can eat buffet did y'all go to Shoney's a lot growing up? it was very popular it was a nice place

Shoney's was like big news when you were going to Shoney's we talked about something the other day when we were playing cards over at Kenny someone said that something go so it's something about then they said longhorn and then uh god what was it i forget you know it was like

something like something saying something about it not applebee's but there's something and they said longhorn they go oh longhorn's like a nice one longhorn's where you went and you're like it is birthdays yeah longhorn that's what's so funny is like, if you go other places, no one, Longhorn's sick house was like, that's like, yeah,

that's like you go for like prom, a birthday. It's like a fancy, you're like, whoa, we're going to Longhorn. You get dressed up. You get dressed up

to go to Longhorn. In Lebanon, we'd go to Western Sizzlin'. Sizzler? Sizzlin'. Sizzlin'. Is it not Sizzler? Oh,

is it Sizzler? I don't know. Y'all have your own? We might. What if y'all built y'all's own? Or, is it Sizzler? I don't know. Y'all have your own? We might. What if y'all built y'all's own? Or Ponderosa. Oh, yeah. I remember Ponderosa.

I remember there was one. Yeah, I love all that stuff. This is the sugar thing, you know? Yeah, it's where it started. It's where it started. Western Sizzler. I thought people said Sizzler. Sizzler might be a separate thing.

Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, this is where the sugar started. But it's okay. it's all right but it's it's you're i think in the i think in the south you have a tougher time i think in the south and when you don't have any when you come up it's just a different time now uh back then i think it was hard to avoid like it was you could no one ate healthy back they didn't sell it it wasn't a thing and you didn't have money. It's a lot harder to eat healthy without money. After you're athletes, you have your meals.

You have to make your meals. You eat the same thing every day, basically. At the field. So you can eat a lot of your meals at the field, and they have just— Y'all go to concession stands? Yeah, and get the chili dogs and the corn dogs. Every now and then. Before the gates open, they go, all right, everybody go eat.

Y'all just have to go walk around to the different sessions, and that's how y'all eat. Just everything you wanted. Toledo Mud Hens pitching coach Doug Bockler is a fan of the podcast. He told us to do an episode on baseball in the wintertime, so we're kind of honoring his request. Yeah. But when he pitched for the Padres, we showed that video, he would sneak from the bullpen and steal people's beers from the stands

like they put it down and he would grab it nothing wrong with that nothing yeah they would never know it you've done it you don't say it but no I haven't I haven't done it I mean there's but I would there's stories of pitches getting drunk though like and yeah it's fair fair yeah yeah fair stories yeah well I mean if you're a pitcher, you're starting. You know you're not playing. If you're starting, you come up with a lot of different things. People set up – pitchers set up golf nets in a room somewhere. Somewhere in the – the locker rooms are so big, there's just different areas.

Yeah. Set up a little golf net and just go in there and hit golf balls during the game. Do you ever feel – you all play so many games. Do you feel some of them you're like, these don't matter? You know, like there has to be. If you're being honest with me, whatever. Well, there has to be.

Yeah. There's a lot of games. When you play 182? 162 games in 180 days. Yeah. That's a lot. So that's so crazy. So, yeah, there has to be games.

But you know, like, hey, we got to, you know, you could be like, all right, we've had some fun. We've had some losses. And then there's a point where you're like, yo, dude. Yeah. We're going to be. Yeah, I think if you can just, I think 500, you can't get too far below 500.

Ever. It'd be nice to not. Yeah. It'd be nice. But, you know, so as long as you're around 500, you're always within, like, strike and distance, like a 10 game winning streak or just do something but if it's like august 1st and you're way out of it those last two months gotta be hard i thankfully haven't i've been on maybe two two team one team two teams two years of my career that's done that's been like that yeah most most

of them luckily have been we've been on a good team and we've been pushing first that so but the years that we have but you're out of it and you got two months left it's kind of like what are we doing yeah you know what are you doing here i watch that's when that's when stuff goes in all different directions that's when like well yeah you're like the starting pitcher is drunk and he's pitching yeah like well yeah david wells uh it's i remember watching the white socks game when i lived in chicago and like it was the game it just didn't matter and no fans are there and no one's uh and you can just tell you're like but i mean is there motivation still to play like you're still trying not to be as an athlete do you want to win that game yeah you want

to win yeah i mean you want to win it always feels better to win than lose is it nice to if you can't like is the motivation so if you say y'all are out of it but you know you can knock these people out of the playoffs too is Is there motivation that you're like, yeah, that's fun. That's fun knowing that you can ruin someone else's chance. Do y'all take the, what is it called?

Poster board material? It's not poster board, but is that... Bulletin board. I don't even know what a poster board is. You talking about bulletin board material? Well, you always hear that, bulletin, like, you just gave this team bulletin board material. Is that a real, like-

Which is a very old school- It's an old school saying. You'd have to now print it out. It's a meme material. Hang it out. You gave them a meme. But, yeah, yeah. But it's still, I mean-

Yeah, but I feel like if the media wants to do that, they can just. They can just do it. They can just do it. And they can either say, you can either take it for how you take it, or you're just like, some of you are like, I don't care. Some of you are like, I hate this team, dude. There's just some teams you don't like just for whatever reason. Have you ever been the guy who's had to retaliate and hit someone?

Retaliate. I always say re-haliate. Have you ever re-haliated? Either way. Not that I know of. But retaliate? Like someone else hit someone and you're like, hey, dude, you got to hit this guy now. I did it.

I've done it a couple of times. Two times that I can remember of currently currently one at vandy when we were playing tennessee it's the situation you just you just don't like it's tennessee you just don't you just don't like them so something happened and yeah me and coach corbin got thrown out of that game for and we got thrown out of friday night at tennessee so we had to miss three games yeah and that was we had to yeah we had to miss three games yeah and that was we had to yeah we had to miss three games and that was the rule so because we had already got warned or something like that so we got thrown out for the Saturday game and the Sunday game and then I had one more game and

he had one more game to get thrown out for and it was this is a long time ago, so I think it's fine to even say. I don't think it's illegal. I guess we're going to find out. Yeah, we're going to say. And then the next game was Friday, and I was supposed to pitch, but we were suspended for the game. We weren't going to be able to fund the game. So next thing you know, we show up on Monday, and we have a game on Wednesday at Austin Peay.

So somehow, some way within the span of 24 hours, we got a new game, and we were traveling to Austin Peay on Wednesday to play this game, and that was our last game of the suspension. So then now we both could play and pitch again on Friday. Against Tennessee. Well, Tennessee was the weekend before that next week. SEC game? SEC weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

So then on Friday, he could coach and I could pitch. So a mysterious Austin Peay game. Just showed up on the schedule. Just kind of just showed up. Here you go. We went to Austin Peay, played that game. We were suspended for that, and then we were back. Back like we never left.

Yeah. But that's just Coach Corbin, you know. know yeah what's a smart way to do it i mean i think everybody does everything that's so funny to be able to add that in uh god what was i gonna ask i was gonna ask you something i was gonna ask you if you uh ever stole first base what does that mean like picked it up out of the ground and he no bait stole for oh i i've heard you say this before yeah yeah yeah i like it i like it see yeah yeah i like it you you you were playing and you go with i remember laughing at it i stole second base in the league it was such an easy play i thought they must have fouled the ball off because i got down there so easy so i turned

around and just started running back to first. And about halfway down, the first baseman was like, he's coming back. There you go. There you go. You can have it. And they zipped it down, and I had to dive head first into first base. You can have it. It was a bang-bang play.

And you're excited. You get up, and you're just. It's still just. Even here in a second, it's just so wonderful. I mean. He gets up and just doesn't know what happened. Like he's just. He's just athletic.

Everybody. He's athletic. How old were you? I was little league. So I was like somewhere like 11 or 12. Yeah. I mean, that's when you know about baseball too. Yeah.

You've been playing for a while. Too old to be still in first base. Yeah. Yeah. I was hoping you'd say like four or five. Have you had someone still home? Like as you pitch it, you see that they're going? Bryce Harper did it to me this last year, I think.

Wow. I think I got him out. I'm pretty sure I got him out. Yeah. But it's new now because you – now this with sorry i'll stay closer when they shift everyone yeah and there's a runner on third and there's two outs there's no one even close so they run around third he could just he go to halfway just go like do whatever you want because the third baseman's playing shortstop and he's like well there's nobody over here yeah and then

if the pitcher's in the windup, especially, you know, then they start – so they're starting to do that more. And I remember I was always told that if someone tries to do that to you, then just hit the batter because dead ball, everybody – just throw the ball at the batter. Yeah. Hit him, dead ball. Runner goes back to third. Batter goes to first.

But at least, you know, it didn't steal home on you. So I remember him trying to do that this year, and I don't think it was super. I don't know if this is it or not. No, but see, he's the guy that does it. He'll steal home. Yeah, yeah. I mean, a lot of guys will do it now, but, yeah,

he'll do it when he's probably just mad. Yeah. Yeah. All right. He's just kind of. Guys will do it,, but yeah, he'll do it when he's probably just mad. Yeah. Yeah. All right. But – He's just kind of – Guys will do it, so that is a thing. That is a thing.

And does the coach tell you to do it, or you just are like, I don't care? I don't know. I want to try it. I never stole in a bag. That'd be something – Yeah. I don't know if I'll be able to hit. That's a New Year resolution.

Yeah, go steal a base. Yeah. I don't know if hitters will be – pitchers will be hitting this year or not. Oh, at all. Maybe not. I don't know. It could be be hitting this year or not. Oh, at all. Maybe not. I don't know. It could be over completely. It could be completely over.

Because of COVID. Everything. Yeah, COVID, they just go. That's the reason I'm sitting here. Pitchers can't hit anymore. And you're like, what does that do? You're like, I don't know. Oh, they're putting the DH in the NL?

They're talking about it. Wow. They've been talking about it, and it's been because they did it because of COVID. Yeah. And then last year. Why did they did it because of COVID. Yeah. And then last year. Why did they do it because of COVID? Because of COVID. Because of one less person?

Because the season was shorter. Oh. And like. Oh, I thought it was like they were like, well, it's one less person touching the bat. And that's, you know, that's one less person. I thought it was too. They did it in 2020 because the season was short and whatever. And then 2021, they talked about it.

And pitchers hit last year. So then this year, who knows what's going to happen? I mean, because we're locked out now. So we're not even, I don't know. We're not even allowed to talk to anyone. It's just, it's a weird time right now, like with the lockout. You can't talk to your agents. You can talk to agents, but like associated with the team.

And there's no like baseball things going on and normally this is like a time where it kind of like starts doing its thing again so that's just being locked out itself is weird i don't think it's happened in 30 a long time 30 years maybe we remember our uh the last one i was probably 12 there wasn't no world series yeah yeah yeah so like that they went on strike is this the same thing so the strike lockout was the first thing to happen and then the strike couldn't happen unless there was a lockout so now that there was a lockout if they if there is some type of agreement or there's not or whatever then the players can just so if the owners say they want to have a league like okay we're going to have a season with these rules or whatever,

the players can say no, and then those players would go on strike from there. So that's still a possibility. So you are locked out right now. Now is a lockout, and it's interesting. So if they locked you out, could you go to Iowa to that Field of Dreams? We're supposed to go to that next year, the Reds and the Cubs. Because there's no locks there. There no locks it's just corn smyrna we just we just we just we just this is what the podcast would be if i didn't show up this is why i gotta show up we just jump

the fence you know yeah sunny you're about to say about smyrna go ahead yeah um so i don't know it's it's it is a weird it's a weird feeling it's a weird spot to be. Have you ever played in that field? The Field of Dreams? No. No. Cool field, though. That's a better question than you could go there because they don't have locks. I think it was a good point.

You made a lockout joke. Yeah. Does it mean, yeah. Could you go to the stadium anytime you want to? Stadium? You would be able to. If it wasn't a lockout. If it wasn't a lockout.

You could go and be like, do you have a key? You have a thing you have you go to cincinnati and there's always i mean it's just like you think of it but if there's people that work there year round yeah so it's not like you have a number you call and you say hey i'm yeah and i want to and you just and then they just open the stuff and you open and you go and there's probably there's probably people there yeah they let you practice whenever people because people work out in the off-season in Cincinnati. People work out at their stadiums in the off-season. They live there. Some people live in their home city.

So then they just work out there. Or a lot of people live in the spring training. Like a lot of people live in Arizona or Florida or one of these places. So they would go work out at the spring training facility and all that. That's the biggest thing. The main stadium is being locked out. I mean, like not having access to that, like no big deal because that's a small. But working out at the minor league spots, there's a lot of people that use that stuff

because there's a lot of people that live in those areas. Yeah. So that's different. Do you go to the sound stadium? I don't think so. I don't know. That's a good question. that live in those areas. Yeah. So that's different. Could you go to the Sound Stadium? I don't think so. I don't know. That's a good question. Did you play for the Sounds?

I played one game for the Sounds. Yeah. One game. I was on rehab with Oakland. It was an old Sound Stadium. No, did I go to the new one? I don't know. Think about it.

It meant a lot to you. Yeah, I think I went to the new one too. Do you have the uniform still? I don't know. Think about it. It meant a lot to you. Yeah. I think I went to the new one, too. Do you have the uniform still? I have the hat. Yeah. I kept the hat. They have a good – I always like the Sounds logo and stuff. And they – but we were Oakland, right?

For a while, yeah. For a while, we were Oakland. We were Oakland for a while. Where did you go? Did you go minor league? Triple A? I was drafted in 2011 by the A's, and then I went to Midland. So then I went to AA the next year.

Went to Midland, Texas. Lived a summer in Midland, Texas. I've been there. I mean, I had a host family, so they put you up and you live with the – in Midland, at least, you live with just a host family. Just like people could come live with you and Laura. just like people could come live with yeah with you and laura yeah just players come live you play with the sounds these are people who volunteer to volunteer to host players so you go and live there and then you play so i was there for in

midland for three months in the middle of the summer it was very interesting it was very cool looking back on it because you just got hay bales rolling everywhere. They got those oil pump, oil rigs in the parking lot. Like, that's real. We was right next to Permium, Odessa Permium. So I always think of that movie, Friday Night Lights. Like, we went down to that high school. But there's nothing there. I mean, there's just nothing there.

I haven't played golf there. I did. It's so windy. Was it windy? It's the windiest. It was a rich town i've ever talked about this on the podcast like it's midland was a place where they would say if like all if it's if it's like pumping good or like whatever it's a town that's either like the

wealthiest town or they're the brokest yes yes and everybody does that like red roof ends at that point when i went there were three hundred dollars a night because it was money, they would go to McDonald's and offer people $100. They'd be like, we'll give you $100,000 to walk away right now and go work at an oil pump. And then, but, because it was like some people, it'd be a town to two. There were some people, they'd get so wealthy, and they wouldn't know how to, you know, like, they were just the brokest people ever. And then they're the wealthiest, and they, like, go buy a helicopter. And, like, so it's like one day, like someone's doesn't have anything.

Next day they have a four Lamborghini. Like they don't know how to, you know, it's like just these people get in. Then they lose it all. It's like winning the lottery. Yeah. It's like, you just constantly kind of go back and forth to be like, I mean, this is,

I have no idea if this is true, but it seems like a lot of people could be like, you know, everybody's kind of like, oh, I was a millionaire at one point and then I lost it all you know but it's like that's just what it is yeah yeah i mean i remember family trying to come into town and you could not get a hotel room anywhere and there's just hotels but and then they're three four four hundred dollars a night for yeah for nothing for not a nothing not a four seasons, just any hotel. Like you said, Red Roof Inn. Yeah.

And then after that, I went to Sacramento. Was in Sacramento in 2013 for the first half, played there. And then 2013, went to Oakland, lived in Oakland for five years. When I say lived there, like lived there. But I always came back to Tennessee and then lived in the for the season we live in oakland or san francisco we lived in san francisco for one year well it went before gunner we let me and my wife we lived in san francisco that that was 2014 and uh like 60th floor of a building and it's just wild it was apartment was probably this size of this this room yeah this right here yeah and beautiful plate but i mean just crazy we would always go for walks or we would try and go we lived on top of this hill wondering con and we'd walk down and every time we'd walk to this

coffee place or whatever and you just got people behind cars, just pooping in the street. And like, you just like that. It was just, it was freezing, freezing cold. Yeah. Freezing cold.

San Francisco is always a little chilly. And then, but fun to do. Yeah. And then we, and then we lived. Beautiful town. I mean, there it is. And then we went to Walnut Creek. You got to look past some stuff. Yeah. And then we lived in Walnut Creek. Beautiful town. I mean, there it is.

And then we went to Walnut Creek. You got to look past some stuff. Yeah. It's a beautiful town. You can have the spots. And then we went to Walnut Creek and lived there for a while. And then it was gone. And here we are.

And here we are. And now we're here. And now we're here. Yeah. I think when you were co-hosting the nation. Do you think you were going to retire or stay in Middle Tennessee? I think so i mean i got a gunner is in uh first grade doing his thing and then declan's not far behind him so we get kids in school doing their thing and i've always liked middle tennessee so yeah we're

from here and they're blowing up we're from now we're blowing up. What do you think you want to do? Do you have any idea what you'd want to do when you retire, or you don't even think about that yet? No, I haven't really thought about it yet. It's like asking the high school kid what they want to do, I guess. I don't know. Yeah. It doesn't really matter.

It's like you do it, and then you'll be like, all right. It'll be weird, though. Your whole life has been baseball. Whole life, since I was four. Yeah. It doesn't really matter. It's like you do it and then you'll be like, all right. It'll be weird though. Like your whole life has been baseball. Whole life since I was four. Yeah. It will be weird. I don't think I'm close to it yet. I still got some.

Yeah. Some baseball in front of me. But it is. You talk about it. I mean, I went and worked out at one o'clock today and I normally, I normally like work up at workout at nine or 10, but I'm. Yeah. Why are y'all doing it in the afternoon?

I'm trying to do this. I'm trying to just do this new, there's a new sleep. I'm trying, everything is in baseball is going to sleep, like sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep is the most important. So it's, it's big from, and I would wake up early and have a fast morning and then, and then go. And, but some people are some people were going back later. Like on spring training last year, everything was pushed back.

Everything was pushed back from showing up at 6 a.m. to showing up at 11. And then you do that. So you have a slow morning, come up and have the bulk of your day, like the most important part in the middle of your day, and then going and doing it that way. I like that. Yeah. You stay up later and do but i i've i liked it i've i did so i did it today at one o'clock and that was the first time and i liked it i'm

normally i think i would like it i was you know you always heard about like uh and i imagine for late games for you guys uh but the basketball like they would take a nap because they have to be in their prime at 9 10 p.m and so you know for comedians we have to be super awake and if you play a night game is your adrenaline is always just going or do you ever you're like god i'm tired like you know you can get tired but if you if you pitch or if you're one of those late inning people if you pitch the if you're like the closers for instance yeah they go i mean they just think about it they just go and go and go and then they just spike at like 10 o'clock 10 p.m they just go and then how long you gonna come down how long you come down for that yeah it's gotta take them a while to fall asleep it's so that's that's the big that's the big thing if i

when you go to pitch to people do you go in the league to be a closer? Are you like you work to be a closer? Most of the time closers are throw hard, but they're probably like starters that move to closer. A little bit older, yeah. Failed starters that, I don't even have to say it, but that's the truth. Closing is very important. I don't know if he ever started.

Yeah. It's like know if he ever started. Yeah. It's like that could be your specialty. Yeah. You just become like. But you, every five days you pitch, but then the other day you can kind of relax and take it easy. They have to be on call. Yeah, every day.

Every day. And they don't get in every time? And they don't get in every time. Because if it's a blowout, then you're good. Yeah, they're not going to pitch. They're not going to pitch, what do I say? Yeah, or you're losing. What if it's a blowout and then they get it back into play? Yeah, you just got to be.

It's just kind of all over. And that's the thing. And then the starters, you have so many different spots in baseball. You've got starters and you've got everyday players, bench players, bullpen guys, late inning. And, like, everyone is on a different program. Yeah. Like, starters, you pitch once a week, so you've got to fill your bench players, bullpen guys, late inning. And, like, everyone is on a different program. Yeah. Like, starters, you pitch once a week,

so you've got to fill your time with the other four days. But that one day you do pitch, you empty everything. So you're working your week up like this, and then you go, and then you crash real hard, and then you're kind of just trying to build yourself back up until that day you pitch. Whereas a bullpen guy, you're kind of just – you're always a little bit more, but it's just – it's a different game, and then you've got to do it every day.

What's the best pitching job? Starter, closer, relief? A lot of people say starter. Oh, really? A lot of people say starter. Because you get the time off. Yeah, yeah, you get the time off. Yeah, and traditionally starters get paid the most.

And you could pitch. There's no rules that you could pitch every day if they wanted you to. There's not a rule that says you have to rest so many days. A starter? Yeah. No, not a rule. But it's just like they need you to. You got to rest through your arms.

Yeah, you got to. And they're transitioning out of it too. I mean, that's another why baseball is kind of where it's at right now is because they're transitioning a lot of things. But another thing is they're taking everything and they're trying to combine it to starters would make more. So now they're trying to put six starters in a rotation. What that will do is that will give starters less starts, less innings,

less money. Bullpen guys use bullpen guys more because they get paid less. And it's different. Yeah. Bullpen guys use bullpen guys more because they get paid less, and it's different. Yeah. So baseball is in a weird spot for sure. For sure. Technology. Yeah, technology is getting crazy.

I always think that with quarterbacks. I feel like eventually in the NFL, it's still big to have a quarterback, but you have some guys that can run, and you're like, I mean, you just could get a bunch of them. Like just a bunch of running quarterbacks. Quarterback just becomes a pretty running kind of position and it's like you just kind of like they maybe they're like running backs where they have a good two three two to five years and then you just kind of move on like it's you know it's like because it's so

it's a threat for having a running quarterback yeah it is it is are the ones that can throw that's a that's yeah they do both and if you can do both are the relief pitchers who come in i think they're only when you're behind there's different parts of a bullpen yeah like different guys that throw in different spots you kind of know what role or whatever you have yeah i mean no hitters if you don't none none none no hitters ever in the no i want to that could be a new. None? None no-hitters. Ever in the – No. I want to.

That could be a New Year's resolution. Yeah, a no-hitter. Throw a no-hitter. Let's throw a no-hitter. That'd be fun. That'd be a good New Year's resolution. I threw one when I was 12. A couple complete games.

I already have one. So I'm the only one right here that has a no-hitter. Yeah, you're the only one. You want me to talk to you about it? Just the pressure of it? They won 9-8. It's hard. I walked a lot of people.

The other team still won, but no one hit. There were no hits allowed. No hits, though. That's all that matters. I walked a ton of people, but no hits allowed. Hit a few guys. Yeah. When it's a no-hitter, is it that everybody kind of does the same thing?

Oh, it's the same thing. Because we were part of one this year with Wade. He threw one, and it was just kind of like first four innings everybody's feeling out the game five inning comes around you're like okay six inning everybody's like trying not to mess it up seventh inning eighth and eighth seventh eighth you're kind of just like you know stay out of this what did i do do the same thing do the same thing Do the same thing. And then it's fun to be a part of. Yeah, because the team is involved. I mean, if you drop a –

Yeah. I mean, every ground ball, it's like you can make one play. Yeah. It's fun. Yeah. All right. I think we're good, right? We did good.

You filled in. First co-host. First co-host. Mark Norman. Second co-host. First non-comedian co-host. First co-host. Well, besides Mark Norman. Second co-host. First non-comedian co-host. Yeah. Be the last, too.

You called. You texted me this morning. I texted you this morning. I was like, hey. And I was like, it's a snow day. Like, I've been up since I got woken up by two boys at 6 a.m. this morning. This was like you were for sure supposed to be off today, and you weren't. Yeah.

You got a call. This is what a starter pitcher does. just show up just show up you're ready you're always ready to show up today yeah today was like a relief yeah it wasn't a relief but then we needed you the whole game and then you're like i'm supposed to be like two innings right this is in the middle of nap time yeah you're like no no we're and you're on your weird schedule now i know like yeah we messed y'all up I love it. You know I always come up here. I know. I love you, buddy.

And I'm glad you came on. And my bats, all I got are all from Sonny. Yeah, saw that. So thank you for doing this. It's awesome. Sonny Gray. No social media. No.

When you throw a no-hitter, will you thank us in the post-game? Yes. The day when we say hello. All you got to say is hello, folks. Okay. The day I came up with this resolution. Hello, folks. The day when we say hello, folks.

The day when we say hello, folks. No, I won't say Nate. If you're going to say that, I'll drop it. But worst case, you just say, you know. Oh, man. I had my Nate Bargetzi, the green. You know that green Nate Bargetzi iced coffee whip shirt that I bought in Arizona? Yeah.

I made him buy it. Yeah. I had it, and I meant to wear it. You wore it when you pitched. I did. You wore it. I did. I love that shirt.

Yeah, it's a good shirt. So it does good for him, so it makes you a major league pitcher, everybody. All right, everybody. Thank you, guys. Happy New Year. Talk to you next week. Don't forget tonight's show. I'll be on tonight. All right, bye. Happy new year. Uh, talk to you, uh, next week. We'll see. Don't forget, uh, tonight show I'll be on tonight.

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