Full Show 4-10-26

to New State Louis DGS. Happy Friday to everybody a few minutes after 1 p.m. We had a little technical difficulties there with the news. And by technical difficulties, I mean Maria Keena walked in and she said, you know what? I'm done with this place. I don't feel like doing the news. We said, but Maria, it's your job. You have to do the news. She's like, you know what? Kiss my ass. And that's what happened. And I am sorry. I feel like I didn't understand what was happening and I did something wrong. So I am sorry, Maria. What you're doing wrong is keeping big giant Dave up on that big giant box. It's not streaming yet. I haven't had a job. Oh, thank God. That's right. No, let's just do the show. We'll set it up later. Let's do it live. We'll do it live. We'll do it live. That's how you do it. You yell at someone and then just go. Yep. That's the name of O'Reilly's podcast. Oh, yeah? Yeah. I mean, to me, that's one of the greatest blowups. Oh. I just think it's fantastically hilarious. God. I mean, we've all had a moment where you either did it or wanted to do it. Not really. I've never felt like that. I've never felt like that and I actually kind of pity the people that he works with. Well, I mean, you can't. Like, it depends on the circumstance. True monster. If this is a person that is constantly screwing up, that's one thing. If it's a person that never screws up and they do it once, you should not react that way. I also think that it is never excusable to react like that to something. I know, it's also not excusable to do your job well, like, over and over and over again. Do you have absolutely no idea? Well, no, I just said, I don't know. I'm saying there are times where that kind of reaction is going to be justified. Nope. Yeah, okay. Not at all. Mr. Perfect over there, I don't lose my temper. I stay cool. Yep. Except when we argue about water, then you yell like crazy man. Yeah, that's fine. That's entertainment for a show. Well, I know anger. Nobody's allowed to be angry. Don't do that. That's bad. This is actually an interesting conversation. I tend to be on Team Andrew. It's like there's a sliding scale, you know. Like if someone barks at you like, hey, come on, get your head in the game. I'm okay with that. Yeah, that's fine. But if someone did a meltdown like O'Reilly did when it was clearly O'Reilly's fault. Yeah, that's a different thing. That's a jerk. That's not okay. That's an idiot. Thanks. Oh, my gosh. What if we all quit? Dude. It's all right. Everything is okay. Gotta be fine. Everything is fine. We were just saying, I said to Rach, this feels like a weird day. And she said, it does feel like a weird day. And then I walked in here and I saw Maria and I'm like, it feels like a weird day. She's like, it totally feels like a weird day. Like everyone thinks it feels like a weird day. You know why it feels weird to me? I got a little vertigo.

Really? That's not good. Yeah, it's not good. Do you remember when I had it before? We were together. I do. And it was terrible. I thought I had a brain tumor because I was down south at these people's property, and I was laying down next to a pool, and I sat up and the world spun. Like, I'd never experienced that before in my life. And for about a week, mostly when I would lay down at night, I would feel myself, if you just picture a little stick man, Dave, like going my feet back over my head, flipping backwards in space. It was terrible. And then every now and then, when it was like total daylight and I'm just walking around the house, I would just run into a wall. And it turned out it's this thing, there's like a paramasmal, sympathetic, blah, blah, whatever it is. When your little crystals in your inner ear that control your balance, get out. And you got to like do these movements and exercises. Yes. It was crazy. It was crazy. Yep. But this one's a little different. Like I'm feeling, oh, I feel like I'm drunk. Like the last two days. Last night, every time I'd get up to go to the bathroom, which was a few because I had a couple sodies. It was just like I was on a ship. So. And the home opener for the Bud Light Men's League is Sunday. Oh, baby. You can't be out there with Vertigo. Playing the, is it the Pirates? These are Pirates, the Patriots. One of those P teams. Yeah. It don't matter. They're all going to lose. They're the best in the league. Who's that? I think it's the Patriots. The opponent? Yes. That don't matter. They're all going to lose. It doesn't matter what their name is. They're going down. Now that they know that their star second baseman has vertigo. That's an advantage. They're going to know right where to hit it. Yeah, they're going to be aiming at you. Glover's leg's not still hurt. No, he's back to 100%. He's fully healthy. Got all the reports. We've been listening. We know he's healthy. Watch it. He's going to steal. Jedi says my cat had it one time, and it was so bad she couldn't walk. Jeez. Yeah, Murphy, our very old golden retriever, had it. Oof. And I remember the vet said, hold his head still. And you see his eyes dart back and forth. And we did it and he did it. I don't remember what they did for him. I wonder they did the head thing. Ready goes no fun. No. No good. No good. Yeah, you went to like real doctors about that when you had it last time. Yeah, I ended up going to Kenoyer, my E&T, Dr. Matt, and that's the one where I told him I thought it was because I ate a dusty grape off the floor. Right. All right.

Wraking your brain for all possible causes. How many times? I mean, it's got to be just a hilarious. I wonder if a doctor's ever written a book about things like that. It has to happen every day, right? Yeah. Doctors and mechanics. Yeah. They both have to be like every day going, oh no. You know, you're still right. Greg Damon is my actual friend. It's Sparks Auto. Yeah. I don't have to pretend for him. Yet I have this terrible beta male thing that I do because I'm definitely beta when it comes to some stuff like that. where I feel like I need to tell him like, I think it's this. And it's like, what they... I could ask the trash can what it is and you have a better opinion than you. It's kind of making this sound. It might be the timing belt. I don't know what a timing belt is. I might make Greg's book if you ever wrote that book. Yeah. We took the car in not long ago for an oil change and the back gate wasn't working. And I thought, ah, something's gone. You know, the motor's going or whatever. And there's a little button right there on the dashboard that turns it on and off. That's pretty funny. We had accidentally turned it off. That's pretty good. Yeah. That's probably similar level to the grapes question. Same idea. Yeah. Same level. We'd be in the same reading group. We're in the same chapter of these books. Definitely. Like, Wheeler, you're going to go in Glover. Maybe together you can figure out the buttons. Pretty pleased with myself, though. Andrew, remember when I said, I just bought an iPad. strictly to put an app on it so that I can have the lyrics for when my band plays. And I can attach it to your mic, Dan, kind of out of the way. And so I went and I bought the iPad and I asked Andrew, can you program it for me to put these songs in? But then I realized, even though this is just an old iPad, I signed it up through me. And so all of my dirty photos are on it. And I knew you'd look through them because I'd look through yours. And so I did it myself. I found how to do it. And I found the lyrics and I plugged them in. Nice. They'll probably all disappear next Friday night at Dillmore Hall. You'll be out there on the stage. We'll do it live. We'll do it live. I'll just make them up. That's when I would have that meltdown. Rachel, okay. Not really. I know. The studios. It was a stressful. Well, it's just not fun when, like, I don't know. It just, it's not a fun position to be in. When things are supposed to work and they don't. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And especially when more than one thing happens at the same time. And, like, I am truly trying my best and I still screw it up. That sucks. It's a terrible feeling. Off your shoulders. For what it's worth. Yeah. For what it's worth. She didn't do anything. It's not about, like, me taking fault. It's, I care about the product. And when it's impossible to do a.

I don't know. I get you. It's probably not the time and place to talk about it. Sorry. It would be okay. Literally just happened. It's fine. My best advice is care less about the product. I mean, you're not kidding. That's what I started doing in about 2007. And it all fell into place. I just cared too much. Ronji said an interesting thing today. Ronji's an interesting guy. You know, he's very crumudgeonly, and he has this bit that he plays. But this felt like a true story. Amy's doing a marathon tomorrow. And Chris said at one point he had a girlfriend who ran marathons. And she said to him, this is the most raunchy thing ever. She said, I would really love for you to be there tomorrow. And he said, why? And she said, you know, for support. And he said, what would I do? She said, you know, you stand along the way. And when I run by, we wave. And he goes, so I'm going to go to this thing and stand there the whole time just to see you for five seconds. And she said, yeah. And he said, I'm not going to do that. And so Hancock and Kelly, they were like weighing in like, oh, that's reasonable, that's jerky, that's this, that's that. But I was just like, that's so raunchy. It's completely logical. It's completely logical. But it's also the wrong movie. Yes. If you plan to ever see this woman after the marathon. You better go wave at it. At least for part of it, right? Like at least pick the part where you can do the wave and maybe then go somewhere or maybe pick a spot near the finish line. You don't have to be there at the beginning. You can be there for the last hour or 40. See, strategy. This is a thinking man's way out of it. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. There's always a solution. Race, how does that hit you? I'm wondering among the two. Hancock and Kelly, which one said it was reasonable and which one said he should do it. I'm going to bet. It's one of those in a decades-long marriage. I was thinking Kelly is fine with him not doing it. No, no. I sort of, I just threw that out there. Okay. They both sort of disapproved. Okay. Good. Good. Basically what we're asking is John about to get in trouble. Well, I was surprised when you said one of them agreed with Chris because I was like, they're both very smart. Man. Yeah. I was like really surprised. I was like, who one of them took that? Terrible swing. They were like throwing out possibilities. They're trying to make it make sense. Yeah, like you could this or you could that. Compromises. And Michael Kelly goes, like, it seems like you picked the worst one and you just poked her in the eye.

Yeah, that's pretty much. That was like a Stooges move. You're like, you know, that's such a relationship thing, though, right? Yeah. Part of relationships are doing things for the other person that make no sense. Or that you don't really have that much passionate about. I mean, that's a two-way street. For sure. Because, yeah, you and I have done that, and so have our partners. Of course. They've done the same thing where they're like, I don't really care about, excuse me, I don't really care that much about baseball. But yeah, we'll go to the game because you like baseball. That kind of stuff. That's what you do. And you, for her, stay in the basement. Yeah. I just stay out of the way. Well, I kind of wrecked stuff, too. It's a long argument that I've had, because my wife is kind of like, I cannot believe I'm saying this out loud. My wife's a little bit like Kevin in some ways. And that she's a very practical person. She's a very logical person. Oh, I get you. Yeah. So there are things that I'm like, hey, can you just do this like this or whatever? And she's like, all right, it doesn't matter. And I'm like, well, because I'm asking you. And I'm asking you nicely, and I'm your partner. So, like, you should do the nice thing for you. You should do the nice thing for you. You should do the nice thing for me just because I'm asking you. And she's like, but it makes no sense. She and Ronji was great. Can you give us an example of the nice thing? No, well, it's not like a nice. It's more like it would be nice if you did this. Like, I can't think of any specific examples, but let's say she, you know. hangs the towel in a weird way or whatever and I'm like I hate that can you not do it and she's like what doesn't matter if the towel's here or if it's over there it doesn't matter and I'm like yeah but I prefer it over there and you don't care either way so can you so can you do the like just because I'm asking you and it's like a nice thing to do for me does she sometimes say yes She usually relents and gives in, but she relents. Relents to the onslaught. She's never going to let it go. She gives up when I bring it up for the fifth consecutive year. Get this, I have an update. What's up? Amy Mark's scores just texting me. Michael is coming out to cheer me on in Forest Park. Aw. What a guy. I'm literally running by Ranji's house and he said he absolutely will not open the window and say hi. See, that is also, yeah, that is very... That's running the bit is what that is. That's also very important context is that this marathon would be going directly by his... It's not like he has to, like, drive out to Farmington to watch Amy in a race. He could just, like, walk out his front door. That is incredibly sweet of Michael. Yeah. It's really nice. He won't even open his window.

Guys, DGS on Camelax. Okay, now we're pissed. Everything's not working in the studio. Now we're into it. We're going to give you the best GD show you've ever had. Yeah, I'm ready. I'm sorry I was upset. Now I feel a little better. Those were angry tears. We're angry. I'm mad as heck, and I'm not going to take it for that much longer. Yeah, maybe a couple days. Probably the summer. But by fall, we're done. I am mad as hell, and I'm only going to take it for 45 more times. 35 more years. We're going to put in a ticket to have this thing fixed. And in three months, we're going to check back and see why it hasn't been done. And then we'll put in another ticket. Yes. Oh, they're going to see that ticket. They're going to know I was mad. I only said please one time. They're going to see that trouble ticket. They're going to go, whoa. I heard kind of a smart thing today. A whole lot of colleges, I don't know how many, but a good number of them, beginning this year and more of them are doing it next year, they are changing their bachelor programs to a three-year program. So they're like lessening the credits, because you could do it in three years, like if you just wanted to take a bunch of hours. But yeah, a bachelor's degree will no longer be a four-year program, it'll be three. So it'll save you time and save you like 25% of your money. Yeah. And of course you can do it in three years. You can't get the full college experience like Phoebe is of living with your friends and turning 21 and shot parties. But you could do undergrad in two years. You could fit that knowledge into two years. You could fit law school into one year. Yeah, I really think there's a lot. to the, I mean, I just go, and I know I haven't been in college in a long time, but I'm sure it's not that much different to a whole bunch of classes that I would have never needed to take. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, the whole elective thing is it's like, I think this is just a way for you guys to make money. 100%. Well, and then you know that some classes are only offered in some semesters. You know, that kind of hosed me. I could have finished a semester early, but I couldn't get the class I needed. Didn't exist on that semester. That's why I never graduated. They just didn't have the glasses. I think the first two years of college, the kind of stuff you take, should be your last two years of high school. High school should be more difficult. And that should be what you learn, your first two years of college, all the soft stuff and, you know, Maslow's hierarchy of needs and things like that. You should know that by the time you graduate high school. And then college, in my opinion, should be more focused. I want to be a broadcaster. I want to be an engineer. I want to be this. I want to be a that. I'm solving problems. Yeah. I mean, it's, I just can think of all the things that, you know, like you're, I had to have, I sometimes I had to take electives just to stay a full-time student because you have to have. I enjoyed them. Yeah. I had, I had fun in speech class. Sure. I loved the evolution of rock and roll. Right. Didn't need it. Yeah. But it was fun. One was great. Yeah. I had to take geology. The hell am I ever going to need geology for.

But I had to take a science class, and it was one that didn't involve math. Yeah. And I didn't want to do the math because it's not my thing. Yeah. I took an elementary math modeling elective in college, and it was just like math puzzles, basically. I thought that was extremely fun. Yeah. Interesting. But I know what igneous rock is now. What is it? I don't know. It's semi-volcanic, something like that. Maybe I'm sure. I knew it for the test when I needed to know what it was. It has not been relevant to me in 30 years. On a train one time, I sat next to a kid that was studying like ecological surveying and the soil levels and stuff like that. And it was so interesting looking. And I felt like it felt like a sliding doors moment. It felt like I had like missed out on something I might have enjoyed. I, uh... I typically did pretty well in school when I tried. And one time, I'll never forget this, in a psychology class, I didn't study for the exam the way I should have. And I got a D on the exam. And I went in to talk to the professor, which I never did. I wasn't that guy. And I said, Professor, I just don't understand me getting a D. I really felt like I knew the material. And I really felt like I did well on this test. And he sits back and he sort of adjust his glasses and he looks at the grades again. And he goes, well, Mr. Glover, the empirical evidence is against your assertion. And I was just like, what am I going to say to that? Dang it. He called my BS. And you said, what the hell did any of those words me? My 19-year-old not perfected yet BS. Yeah. I also legit forgot a class. Yeah. Like forgot it. You had it entirely? For the semester. For the semester. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. I still have bad dreams that I've like forgotten a class and it's the end of the semester. There's no way I'm going to be able to get my grade up. Ironically, it was memory studies. In those dreams, do you always realize that you're, wait a minute. I'm not in college. Yeah, it's like as soon as I wake up, I'm like, oh, thank God. I have a lot of them where I'm in the dream and I'm like, wait a minute, I'm 50. This ain't my problem.

S on CamoX 133. So how are the masters being dumb? So they have these, it's not new. This is not a new thing. It's happened before, but it's just every time it happens, it makes me think about how stupid the masters can be. It's not stupid as an event. Millions of people love it. That's not what I'm saying. But there are things about it like this. So Scottish golfer named Robert McIntyre. It had a terrible round history. He's awful. And he like quadruple bogied a hole. And after he hit a shot, out of frustration, he just like flipped the bird to the green, to the grass. at like, did it for about half a second at most. You know, he didn't hold it up there, didn't make a big show of it, just like, man, I'm having a bad day. And now he's being disciplined for that. And I had to look, I looked it up because I know it happened before. It actually happened to Tiger Woods. He got mad and he kicked a club and swore really loud and you could hear it over the microphones and he got reprimanded as well. And sometimes I just wonder, though, is he. Not all that really necessary. Yeah. I mean, these are highly competitive professional athletes. And I always hear this like, respect this, the course or the... It's Tiger Woods. These are PGA Tour professionals, the best in the world. Do you think that they really don't respect the course, the game, the rules, the sport, the etiquette? You just lose it for a second. And I know there's no real punishment. It's just one of those funny things that in any other sport, could you imagine getting a reprimand because you flip the bird to a patch of grass? I got one of my buddies. I got one of my buddies reprimanded at a country club. Really? See, now, to me, it's different if you're disrupting. Like if you're a guest and you disrupt the, wait, that's a whole different ballgame. Yeah. This is like, this is a professional event. They're all there. It's only the pros. There's nobody else. I mean, fans, but like nobody else is playing. You're not disrupting each other or anything like that. What you did? What you did. So I went to my buddies very fancy country club, very fancy. And it was me and Bulger, you know, the wives and the, you know, that is like a date and I kind of thing. and we're having this fancy dinner and blah, blah, blah, blah. And we're drinking a little bit. And I had to keep going to the bathroom for some reason, number one. Just had a tinkle. And so what you had to do is you had to go downstairs, and then you went through a cup for the men. You went through a couple of rooms, right? You go through like the locker room. Then you go through something else room. And then you go through the card room, fairly small room with, you know, poker tables. And then there's the bathroom. So I had done this like four times, right? So later in the evening, once I had broken the seal.

and I was a little, you know, little buzzed. And I know how this goes. And there's no one down there. And so I go through the first room, go through the second room, get ready to go through the card room. And you know how, like, you have to pee so bad, you almost start peeing. So I didn't want to pee in my pants at a country club. So I just undid them and got ready, so to speak, right? Everyone was on deck. And you primed it. I primed it. And I walked into the card room and it's full of guys playing cards. Yeah. So I just walked through because there's nothing to do at that point. No. And my buddy, I bet he still has it, got a strongly worded letter. from the country club like a board and like the next time you invite someone you just make sure they don't show their penis in the card room you know well you know i might be on the country club side i'm not saying it's unreasonable i'm just saying i know how this stuff works has uh has anyone in the room ever been on a golf cart that flipped No. Yeah, it's not great. I wasn't driving it. My dumb-ass cousin was driving. And now I'm much younger. My cousin's like 12, 13, 14 years older than me. And this was when I was in my mid-20s, just after college. And we're going, he's just screwing around. It's like all the family out for a scramble or something. It's like 12 of us or whatever. And he's just being screwy and he's not paying attention to the fact there's an incline. And he hits the incline way too fast. And as soon as I saw we were going to hit it, I flew. I jumped. Like in mid-speed, I just like jumped and rolled because I knew this thing was going over. And it did golf clubs everywhere. Phoebe did that to me. Really? Yeah. When she was 10, we belong out at Whitmore, the country club for people who don't like country clubs. And she was about 10. And I was trying to push her into being a golfer. And she wanted to drive the cart. I'm like, okay, you can drive the cart. And we came around a corner and there is a big, pretty significant incline. and like I was in the passenger seat and it was going down to my left. Right, right. And she was driving. And as soon as it started to get Harry, she jumped out and took off running. And I'm just in the passenger seat as this thing's about to flip. And you're just like, well, and she clearly thought, she had done the math. She clearly thought I was going to die. She's going to save herself. Exactly. And when I grabbed the steering wheel and was able to land it, she was like, oh, hey, I didn't know you would, didn't know you'd make it. He got strong survival skills. Oh, father. What a wonderful surprise. Oh, we both made it. But it's just amazing. There's that moment where you can see this is definitely going to go bad.

Oh, yeah. And you just make a call. Oh, yeah. Because I feel like she did. I was the passenger, but still, as soon as I saw it, I'm like, nope, boom. Dude, one time, one of my long-term girlfriends, they had a cabin on the Mississippi. And when I say cabin, I mean, like, this is the kind of place you hole up after you grab the bank. All right. It's not fancy. And college, we're college age. And they had a... a speedboat like a normal speedboat whatever those are 19 feet something and her cousin who is like 16 was driving the boat and he got up behind a barge on purpose because it makes waves but i don't think he realized how big the waves were I didn't realize how big the waves were. I'll tell you that for free. And it started swamping us. And it really felt like we were going to go under the barge. And that was one of those like, I'm about to meet my maker here. Oh, my Lord. Like, I'm about to be in the paper. Not great. Yeah. That one scared me. Scary. I can see why. Yep. I want to go under a barge. I don't want that. Scientists studying python blood stumbled onto a clue that could lead to a new type of weight loss drug. They found a molecule called PTOS that spikes after pythons eat and tells the brain to stop feeling hungry. And when humans take it, they stop feeling hungry. Yeah. California firefighters are testing out a device that uses sound waves to put out flames. It was developed by NASA engineers and it works in milliseconds. Isn't that crazy? That makes sense, though, if you're going to be in space, fire is one of your biggest enemies. Yeah. Right? I mean, I wonder if it's just for space. If it works here? Well, if we're looking at it for fires here, it must work, right? Yeah, because so. Do you guys have fire extinguishers in your homes? I do. Yep. But I don't know how to use it. Yeah, I don't know if I have one. Mine's by the front door, which is probably a bad place for it to be. Yeah, intruders, that kind of thing. Just spray them. Spray them, yeah. It's all right. Come a little bonk on the brain. Kids are playing real-life Frogger in Florida. Oh, man. Oh, no. Dodging cars. Oh, I thought at first I thought you were saying leapfrog and I'm like, oh, it sounds fun. No, don't dart between cars. Literally playing in traffic. Yes. Yes, yes. Smart. Oh, yeah. Kids these days. It's kind of interesting. The Matrix came out in 1999 and when Neo shows his passport, the expiration date is September 11, 2001. What? That's crazy. That weird. That is weird. What do you guys make of The Simpsons thing? I don't know. I love The Simpsons. I watched the first 10 years, but I'm out after that. The way they predict things, predicted Donald Trump, predicted this, predicted that. I don't think they're magic, but are they just making that up? I think that's really only happened one time. And it was with, like, the President Trump thing as like a one-off joke in an episode where they go to the future.

Because I see them all the time on TikTok. Most of those are not real. And also, like, think about how many shows there are, how many things they did like that that never happened. Yeah. True. Yeah. And then there's like South Park had like a whole thing. Like the Simpsons did it. There's just been so many episodes of The Simpsons. Right. Yeah. That's true. That was covered a lot of ground. Like eventually something was bound to come through. That's good point. Exactly. If you say one million things, one of them is going right eventually. There's a new food mashup going viral. People have been combining chocolate and pringles by melting down entire chocolate bars and then pouring it into the pringles can until the whole stack of chips is covered. Then they chill it and then you dump it out of the container and it's all one piece of potato chips covered. And then you slice it. Oh, you slice it. So it softens up, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever had chocolate-covered potato chips? I've had them in the Reese's. Big cup, but that's it. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah. I swear there used to be chocolate-covered pringles that you could get. Really? I feel like there was. That just rang a bell in my head. Laze potato chip company, at least occasionally makes them. I don't know if they always do. Man. Mm-hmm. It does sound good, though, doesn't it? I need to ask Brad Young's coming up at 2 p.m. I need to ask him about this. Diddy's new defense, he was making constitutionally protected amateur porn. Sure, buddy. Well, I mean, technically, yes, but you have to get people's consent, like full consent in order to do that. I mean, that's the whole point, right? If you're doing that, right, you should be paying those people. They should be signing a release form saying, I am consenting to do this. Yeah. They should be of age. This next story, if there's anything out there you guys in the audience, like a bucket list thing you really want to do. Do it this weekend because the world's clearly ending based on my next story. Of course. I'm sure this is in the Bible somewhere. Hunter Biden has challenged Eric and Donald Trump to a cage match. Is that real? It's real. He's going to take on both of them at the same time. I don't know if it's two for one. You know, I don't know exactly. I'm sorry, my money is on Hunter. Oh, he's got so much rage built up. Yeah. That guy looks like he can fight. He does. Oh, he's fought. In all of those meth pictures? I was going to say, does he have to? If he's high, well, then he's got like, you know. Eric and Donald Trump Jr. have only fought each other. Maybe maids. Oh, life is bigger.

Welcome back, guys, DGS. We have Attorney Brad Young coming up at the top of the hour. He will talk about the DOJ going after the NFL. He'll talk about the battle going on right now between Mayor Spencer and the police board. We have Bernie Michaelis at 2.30. Alvin Reed, who's also fired up, says Rage on Donnybrook last night, about the fight going on between the mayor and the board. And then George Mayhe will end it at 4. That sounded dark. Oh, man. George. Let's make sure we have fun between now and that. Tune in for that. Rach, what's going on with Rainbowfish? Okay, so are you guys familiar with the Rainbow Fish? Quite. The children's book? Yeah. I believe it was published in 1992. I remember reading it for the first time in kindergarten when I went to Grafton Elementary School, and I was so just like... Blown away. Yes, because the rainbow fish is so beautiful. And it's like, I'm reading a book and there are beautiful, shiny colors in it. Like, say no more, this is my favorite. But I kind of forgot the moral of the story, I guess. And then a few months ago, I was with my nieces and we watched like a YouTube video of someone. It was like an animation of the book. And I was able to familiarize with myself with the storyline yet again. I kind of hate the rainbowfish story, actually. Oh, is that where I thought you're going? For those unfamiliar, the rainbow fish has these beautiful, shiny scales, and yes, he's kind of full of himself. He knows he's a beautiful fish. And he swims around, and people are like, hey, can I get some of those scales? And he's like, no, they're mine. So everyone turns on him, and they're not mean to him, but they don't want to play with him. So what he does is he starts giving his scales away. to all of the other fish friends, and then they want to include him and be his friend. I don't understand why the rainbow fish has to give away his scales. I think if he would have just become less self-absorbed, that's a better story than, hey, if you have something going on that someone else doesn't have going on, you have to... give that part of yourself away or like lessen yourself. Yeah. In order to get along. And that's the lesson? That's the lesson from what I understand. So like the happy ending is, look, now everyone has an equal amount of shiny scales. Basically. And there was a like a creator on TikTok who posted a video basically summing up my exact sentiments that just went viral recently and made me think of it again. I wanted to bring that up to you guys. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. There's, there are two. different ways people look at it. One is you want to have friends more than you want to have stuff. Yeah. Right. Like friendship is more important than having cool things or whatever or being pretty or whatever. But yeah, to me, what it's weird now that I think about, because we had it, Shannon, we read that to our daughter endlessly. She loved that book. And I never really thought of it at the time because I'm in my 20s. What did I care? It's just a book about a fish. But then when you think about, all right, but why do you have to give away something of yourself? It's not a possession. That's who you are. Yeah. Right? Yeah.

And you're saying, okay, I'm going to take away from myself to give to someone else because they're jealous. And now I think the better message is rage point, I would be like, okay, yeah, just don't be arrogant about things. And there could have been a different way to do it. I see why there's the criticism. I don't think it's that deep, though. Sure, sure. But, I mean, I understand it. It makes some sense. Like, why you're born that way? Why should you have to give that away? I don't know. I may disagree with you about it being that deep because. It wouldn't be that deep if you were reading Rainbow Fish to me, but if you're reading Rainbow Fish to a four-year-old and everything that they hear is new to their brain, you know, and if they're smart enough to get the moral of that story, I think that'd be kind of damaging. I remember one time being Rainbow Fish. I had a girlfriend, and we were to party, and I was doing my thing, and we got in the car, and she goes, can I ask you a favor? I said, sure. She goes, the next time we're like with people, could you just be, and here's the quote, could you just be a little less Dave? And you know what I did? I tried to be a little less Dave. I didn't say like, um, uh, no, I'm me and I think that this relationship should in. Nope, I tried to comply with her wishes and figure out how I could be less me. Yeah. So Rainbow Fish would have just like confirmed that for me. Yeah. I'm doing the right thing. I'm doing the right thing. I shouldn't say different. What causes the conversation is that it's not being, he's not being asked. He. I think it's a boy. The fish. Is not being asked to change behavior. He's being asked to give something of his away. That's a different thing. And maybe it's not that, again, maybe it's not that deep. Maybe there's a better way to do that where you're trying to say, hey, listen, don't be, don't be that way to other people. Yeah, had he collected a bunch of fishing lures. Right. Mm-hmm. Then, yeah. Share your toys. Share your books. But even that, like Dave Hind said, Rainbow Fish's Communist Manifesto. That's a bit much. Yeah. Would even sharing the lures that you collected. Is that a good message? I mean, if you want to include your friends, right? Let's say, how come it's, I mean, think about it at school. If you bring candy or you bring gum, what does the teacher always say? Did you bring enough? Share it up for everybody. Like, let's, that's a different thing than, you know, here's something that's really important. you know something physical about you and let's take that away from you because and again it's some of it the focus should be on his behavior fish's behavior and not on just the appearance or the

physical manifestation. Yeah, and I think it's different, too, if it's like, oh, I want to give you my scales. Like, I want us to all have pretty scales, but instead it's like, I better give them my skills or else I'm not going to have any friends anymore. Right. But you know what, Dave? Thank God that you're not less Dave. Because if you would have been less Dave, like would be sitting here right now. Oh, no. No, no, no. This is less Dave. Well, I say, I changed that in 1994. You wouldn't have liked old Dave. All of us are more or less of ourselves depending on the environment. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's normal. That's called just having common sense and understanding the room. Yeah. You know, you don't walk into a place where you're the new person and try to own the place. Yeah. And if you're just with your buddies that you've known for 30 years, well, you don't have to hold back anything. You just be whatever. Yeah. No, I mean, you guys are my best friends. If we were out somewhere, you know how I am. No one's going to walk up and go, I bet that guy is an entertainer. Yeah, quite quiet. Based on being super quiet and kind of awkward, you know. Today is going to be the day that they're going to throw it back to you. By now you should have somehow realized what you gotta do. I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now. Backbeat, the word is on the street that the fire in your hat is out. DGS on KMAWX. Happy Friday. Looks like the sun's coming out. Should be a nice evening. Brad Young joins us. Hello, Brad. Hey, Dave. Okay. Let's start with what's going on in the city with this battle between the mayor, Mayor Spencer, and the recently minted police board. Chris Saracino is the president of that board. He's a good friend of mine. I saw him yesterday at the restaurant. We're kind of talking about stuff. Brad, do me a favor. I don't understand this the way a lot of people do. I have not looked into it. I've not researched it. Can you kind of just set the table for us what this is all about? Sure. Here's essentially the issue is in two specific areas. Let's simplify it that way. Issue number one, money. Most issues are about money. And here, if the police board, which is indicated that they would want to increase the city's police budget by up to 40%. The question arises we have in Missouri something called a Hancock Amendment, meaning the state cannot force municipalities, cities, counties to spend money unless the state funds it. So Mayor Spencer's point is, is you're going to tell us to spend 40% more on police. You didn't give us the money. That's a violation of the Hancock Amendment. However, there is a carve out.

that went into the law because Missouri voters added a specific carve out to the General Assembly, as long as a police board orders a city, unless there's only two cities that are governed by these police boards, St. Louis and Kansas City, if these police boards. for cities to increase spending before December 31, 2026, then that does not violate the Hancock Amendment. So that's the money issue. The other issue is there are provisions in this law that indicate, when I say the law, meaning the one that mandates the St. Louis Police Board, if you look in there, there are several issues regarding free speech because there were... positions or provisions within this law that specify that if officials, if city officials or the St. Louis Board of Alderman interfere with the police board, they can either A, be fined or B, they could be technically removed from office. So what's happened is Kara Spencer filed a lawsuit. The city of St. Louis filed a lawsuit against the police board, against the state of Missouri, stating that this Law is unconstitutional, mainly for the reasons I just outlined. Brad, what does that mean interfere with the police board? Is there any sort of example? You could give us what an older person could do? There are some very specific things within this law, Rachel, particularly preventing the police board from implementing changes, voting as a city to block what the police board is trying to do. There's nothing in there. It was kind of portrayed at a press conference this morning as speaking out would be a violation of this. I don't think it really would. In fact, speech is not listed in there when it defines what does interference mean. But if the city, like, voted to say, we're not going to implement this price increase for the or increased spending for the police. That would constitute interference. I don't think that speech could be, although Mayor Spencer portrayed it like that, I know. think it could be the only issue that i came up with listen i got an a for creative lawyering and i i think if i was the city if i was the attorney for the city i would argue that under supreme court precedent money equals speech right if i give money to a candidate that's the supreme court has said that's the same as speech so my argument if i were the city i'm not advocating for this right i'm just giving neutral political analysis here or legal analysis i would say that the the funding levels that the city determines for the police is a political decision And if it's a political decision, it could amount to free speech. So money equals speech. I would make that argument. I don't think it's got a high degree of success of winning, but I would certainly make that argument if I were representing the city. I'm sorry if I'm like dragging us into the weeds here. But what you just described, this is all based on.

What I'm trying to say is, is this separate from the fact that the mayor says, hey, if we put our budget at where you say it needs to be, you being the police board, it's going to cripple the streets department and other departments in the city? Would you say this is, okay, this is separate from that? Well, this is all in that same lawsuit. And that's what falls under the unfunded mandate argument, that if I'm the city. And I'm Kara Spencer. My argument is, look, you're going to make us spend 40% more for police. That means we've got to get that money somewhere, and we're going to have to take it away from trash. We're going to have to take it away from personnel. We're going to have to take it away from other departments of the city. So therefore, this is an unfunded mandate. And under the Hancock Amendment, you cannot make us do that. That's the argument. Now, I don't think that argument's going to win the day, but that's the argument the city's making. So, Brad, the Hancock Amendment, as I understand there's a loophole, which seems relevant here, that if a police board says you've got to do it, you've got to do it. But surely there are limits. I mean, where do the limits come in? Are they codified in the statute? Is that for a jury? Because if the police board, 40% is already a pretty big nut, if they said, you have to increase it by 200%, and the city says, we literally don't take in that much money. Like, how do you do that? Well, this would all have to be worked out by a judge. All right. So the argument would be, for example, using your example, 200% increase. We don't have that money. We don't even take in that kind of money. And so if we physically cannot do what you're telling us to do, the law is never going to make an entity do something they physically can't do. A 40% increase. Boy, that becomes a good argument because the police board and a judge is going to say, yes, you can increase the police budget by 40%. You just have to make tough choices. politically. And so that becomes up to a judge to try to sort out what can be done under the law and what cannot be done under the law. Secondly, even though this carve-out position exists out there, there's been no court decisions saying that this carve-out provision overrides the Hancock Amendment or vice versa. So this is also something that a judge is going to have to decide on. So, Brad, it doesn't seem like the parties are working very well together. It doesn't seem like there's a lot of negotiation going on, to say the least. Listen, the kindergarten report card would definitely say is not working and playing well with others. Yeah. So who, which side would you bet on if it goes to court? I would bet, and if I were going to go on to the prediction markets and make a point here, I think that the takeover board structure survives. I think courts will generally treat the municipal structure as a legislative question, which Missouri statutes and the Missouri legislature can control.

But what I do see a judge doing is perhaps narrowing the construction as it applies to what constitutes interference would qualify. Speaking out doesn't qualify as interference. So there's no First Amendment issue. And I could even see a judge stating that that 40% might cripple the city and therefore it would be shocked the conscience of the court. Remember, that was some of my favorite phrases from law school. Because that can mean anything a judge wants it to me. So I could see a judge saying 40% shocks the conscience of the court, and maybe that should be 30%. So really, at the end of the day, to ballpark it, I see the state winning this argument, but I see a judge trimming some things to give a little bit of give back to the city. Yeah, Brad, in my illustrious 10-year legal career, I rarely saw judges have their conscience shocked. I've never seen it, but you know, I always thought that phrase was great because literally anything the judge wants to, if they just don't like something, they could say it shocks the conscience of the court because there's no definition as to what that means. Yeah. Justice Department opens investigation into the NFL. What's that about? Well, this is about, and we've talked about this before, Dave. The NFL is one of those areas that everybody knows it's a monopoly. The law even assumes it's a monopoly, but there are limits to what they can do. And so the DOJ has opened an investigation into anti-competitive conduct. And really, here's the whole basis of the thing. I'm cutting out all the legalese. Here's the bottom line. Bottom line is the DOJ says that prices are too high. that if you go to a football game, the hot dogs cost too much, the parking costs too much, the tickets cost too much, and that there's collusion between the NFL owners to raise the prices. And by doing that, it makes it harder for people to go to see games. And therefore, it's anti-competitive activity. It violates the Sherman Act, violates the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961. Now, in response to that, the owners are going to say, wait, wait, wait, how can you do that. Our games are free. You can watch our games free on television. How does that anti-competitive conduct when we're literally giving our product away for free as long as you watch some bud-like commercials? So that's going to be their argument in response. But listen, I think the DOJ is looking out here and saying, It's outrageous to go to a game these days. It costs a fortune. And if there's any collusion between the owners to raise these prices, I think the NFL has some exposure. I thought this was about TV. I thought it was about like, you know, exclusive games on Netflix and Amazon and things along those lines. I didn't think that's had anything to do. That is part of it. It is part of it. Now, it is also not, it's not restricted. When I looked into this today, it's not restricted to.

uh the streaming services uh but it is part of this issue because if these games are televised on streaming venues then at that point people don't get access to this for free uh it is if there's collusion among the football owners about how they can bid and price Apple TV versus Netflix versus Prime and it's going to cost people more money. That's absolutely wheels part of this lawsuit or at least part of this investigation as well. Brad, can I ask another question about the police board lawsuit? And this is just kind of a general question. I apologize if the answer to this is obvious. But when the mayor decides to sue someone on behalf of the city, who does she go to? Is there like a mayor or a lawyer for the city in particular? Yeah, there's a city counselor's office that handles litigation for the city. They both defend the city and they also sue on behalf of the city. And so they've got a quite robust legal department in the city. Is that like their main function? Well, the main function, because frankly, most of the time they're dealing with lawsuits, they're not instigating them. People suing the city. Correct, for whatever reason. Slipping falls. My trash shoe isn't picked up on time. I'm going to sue you. I've got damages. Those types of lawsuits are mostly handled from the city councilor's office. I know a couple of guys in there that I went to law school with that still work for the city counselor's office. And that takes up most of their day. Interesting. Brad, I have another win for you right now, just happened a few minutes ago. Kamala Harris says she is strongly thinking about running for president again in 2008, and then she did evidently the worst Trump impression anyone's ever done, and that's gone viral. I saw this live this morning. Tell us about it. It was, it wasn't a good impression. That's what I heard. She should refrain. As someone who likes to do a bad Trump impression themselves, I should refrain as well. You know, like we just, unless it's a good thing, you shouldn't do that. You're not trying to be present. That's true. She also, I think on the same panel, she was being asked about like the social media ban for teens in Australia. And sometimes the way she answers a question, it's almost as if. She has someone in her ear going like, we think this crowd is positive. Wait, negative. Because the way she'll leave it very vague and then begin to like create the argument. It's very interesting to witness. Brad, as a conservative who will probably be voting Republican in 2028, would you welcome Kamala Harris? Oh, as a conservative. Oh, absolutely. Because listen, you know, there's the there's the. the great story in missouri where we elected a dead senator uh carnahan to washington dc i mean i think a corpse could probably beat Kamala Harris uh politically now here's the thing that that really i come back to with with harris

Think about in the times in the past, go back 20 years or so. After somebody runs for office for president, Republican Democrat doesn't matter. They show up on Johnny Carson. They show up on Leno. They show up with Fallon. And you think, where was this person? This person is great. I wish he or she would have been like this running for office. I would have voted for that person. And Kamala Harris has never exhibited that transformation. I mean, even today, I mean, she's not run for office and you look at it and you cringe, right? So if she is going to run for office and if she wants to have a viable shot in a primary, she's going to have to fix her word salad reputation and she's going to have to learn to speak more coherently and in sound bites instead of just trying to please whatever crowd she happens to be talking to. Yeah, Brad, remember Bob Dole. Oh, yeah, Bob Doe was like the worst candidate in the history of elections. And then when he was on afterwards, he was fantastic. Yeah. And I thought, you know, this really shows you what handlers do. When someone's running for office and the handlers say, oh, you have to suppress your personality and do this or do that. And I always thought I could have voted for this person if that's the way they would have been on the campaign trail. Yeah, right? But Kamala Harris, every time I've seen her since the election, it reminds me why I didn't vote for her. And I've never had that kind of revelatory epiphany after the election. Yeah, Kamala Harris's one of those candidates who she should just stay serious. Yes. You know, there's some people who have both. They are great statesmen, and they're also very charming. And some are not. There are broadcasters I'm thinking of right now who are really good at the serious stuff. But when they try to go goofy, it falls on its face. And Kamala Harris probably just, you know. She's just cringy. Damn it, I'm right here. I know. I know. I tried to shade that one towards Rachel, but everyone knew who I was talking about. I think basically this is going to come down to a three-person race for the Democrats in 2028. Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, and J.B. Pritzker from Illinois. I think those are going to be, I'm not using this term to be pejorative, but those are going to be the heavyweight candidates. Thank you, Brad. Have a great weekend. My pleasure. Welcome back, DGS. Happy Friday, 225. Bernie Michaelis joins us after the bottom of the hour break. You know what I don't like what's lost on me? True crime. Like, I've watched enough Dateline NBC's that I know how they're produced and they suck you in and I get it. I get why people love those. What I'm talking about is more stuff going on today. Like, if I'm watching CNN and they're like, oh, now we go to, you know, this reporter to talk about the case where the couple were on their honeymoon in Hawaii and the man killed the woman in the pool. Like, I don't care.

I just don't care. I feel bad for those humans who I will never meet, but it does nothing for me. No, I'm with you. I think we oversensationalize certain things because they seem exciting. I'll go you one. Because there are incidents like this literally every day, thousands of them all across the country. Why does one matter more than any other? Well, I'll go to you one further. Every night on the news, every night on the news, there are a couple of murders. especially on the weekends. Last night, North City, at the intersection of Goodfellow and blah, blah. For 61 years, I've seen that on the news. And I've never understood, like, it's news to those people. It's news to their families. And if there's something that's special about it, that we all need to know, like, hey, there's a serial killer or there's a serial rapist. But... I don't know why we need to know all those every day. I don't know. You just know as well as I do that the news axiom for 100 years is if it bleeds, it leads, because people are intrigued by that kind of thing. Like, literally it draws ratings. People watch it. I'm the opposite. But I'm with you. I understand you. Because, like, it's different if it's actually a unique story. And there's a lot going on and somebody does a documentary on it. Because then you're choosing to go seek that out, as opposed to it just being like, this is the news. Yeah.

S on KMOX 234. That's Bernie Michael's time. Byrne. Great to talk to you. How you doing? Doing good. Busy Friday. Looking forward to the weekend. Watching a lot of sports. Yeah. What are you looking forward to over the weekend the most? I'm going to watch a lot of baseball. But I do love the Masters. Although having said that, I just haven't had time to really watch it yesterday or today. Saturday and Sunday, you have plenty of time to do that. And what are you looking for from the Red Sox series? I just want to see the Cardinals keep it up. I want to see him win another series. You know, the Cardinals have won three of their first four series. You know, there's only four teams that did that, including, well, the Cardinals, the Yankees, and the Dodgers, and the Reds did it too. I mean, so. That's a heck of a start for a team that is rebuilding and kind of relegated in everyone's mind to being, you know, kind of a non-factor this year. I mean, you come out of the gate and you grind away, you find a way to win. You have all these comebacks. You win through your first four series. that's a terrific start for the Cardinals. And I just want to see him keep it up. Because as you and I have talked about many times, I just really, really, really like this team. I like watching them play. Yeah, they bring a little different, you know, and we keep talking about energy, vibe, whatever. And it makes sense. You know, when you're when you're a player that is highly paid, you've been a superstar, you've been great, and you're now declining. You're going to be more frustrated than energetic, right? I mean, like, that's a human being that's going to be in a spot where they're frustrated. and the team's not good enough and you've got all these older players. It's a different vibe. Now it's like the door has been opened in front of all of these guys and they're just rolling with it. Yeah. And I think to your point, I think they're more resilient that way. I don't think they flinch when something goes wrong or they fall behind on the scoreboard. I think they love the idea of just having this attacking mentality. They also, because of Ali Marmal, they're also doing an exceptional job of playing. small ball and finding ways to grind out runs. I've done a, I did a lot on this the last couple days in my various, various outlets for work. And I don't know that people understand just how good they've become at manufacturing, runs and playing what you call small ball. It's been really, really impressive. Yeah, yeah. So I saw your piece that you posted last night. It's still up for people at Estill Sports Central, but it's like 20 things that you've been surprised by. Some of it's good. Some of it's not so good. I figured we could start with Dustin May since he's pitching tonight. I'm with you in sharing the surprise at how bad it's been considering. that he's clearly healthy with the Velo numbers, but it seems, it just seems really clear right now, Byrne, when you look at kind of where his pitches are getting hit, there's a lot of pitches in the middle of the zone. Yeah, he's missing. Yeah. It's interesting that, you know, I subscribe to some data services and one of them, you know, will give you just a bottom line number on a guy's, the quality of his quote, stuff, which has become a, you know, a stuff plus, right? A familiar baseball term for pitching.

And Dustin May, two starts, his stuff plus rating was 98. Average is 100. Right, right. So the, so the dude has talent and his pitches are moving and they're coming in fast, but he's just not locating him. They're kind of drifting on them. And I'm not going to say it's an easy fix, but it's not a fix where you look at it and say, oh, there's just no way they can turn this around. When a guy has his health and he has his health for the first time in years, when he's got his full strength, he's got it for the first time of years. And he's that close to like basically being able to command the strike zone. And once he starts doing that, he'll be formidable. But he's just got to get to the point where he command the strike zone better. Sorry. Yeah, no, 100%. If you guys, anybody that wants to look it up, I mean, you know, go to baseball savant page. You can just look. There's a chart of each pitch. And you can see how much it's sprayed, right? Blue is as bad. Red is the ball that's getting hit. And when you see that all of the red is basically right down the middle on the foreseamer, on the cutter, on the change-up, it's not a difficult puzzle. And you're right. Conceptually, it's easy to fix. Sometimes command can be really difficult and it takes time to do it. You know, I think that obviously he's going to be working at that primarily because everything else seems to be doing what is supposed to. It looks like the movement's good. It's just not starting where it needs to so that it ends where it needs to. And wheels, these aren't just fastballs that are hitting the meat of the plate. No, no, everything does. I mean, the fastballs are probably the most notable, but even a lot of the sweepers are in the zone, right? There's not too much that he's getting swings on out of the zone on that. But, yeah, and the curveball he hasn't thrown really all that much, but it's not been located very well when he does throw it. I wish it was as easy to do as it is to understand. You know, because you can see it. You can watch it and see it on TV. You can look at the charts and see where the ball goes. That's a question. Fixing it's a little different thing. So the good batters, the good hitters, when they hit a slider or a curveball, most of the time is it because they're really good at, okay, I think he's going to throw a slider and guessing, or do they literally see spin on the ball? on its way and go, that's a slider. Oh, you want me to go first? Sure. Well, it's all of it, right? Sometimes, there are guys who tunnel the pitches very well where you're not going to have time to read it because the change that you'll see won't be late enough. So you can see on certain pitchers, when they throw a breaking ball, there's a little hump. So when the ball comes out of the hand, it looks like it's going up a little bit. That can be an easy cue to stay back and wait for the breaking ball. But mostly it's you're hunting something specific based on the circumstance. So that would be to your strengths and to the scouting report that you have on that pitcher. So you'll have a report that says, hey, on a 2-1 count, he loves his fastball. On a 0-2 count, he loves his sweeper in the dirt. And you're kind of operating with that as the idea. And if you're totally winging it, depending on how you feel, you can also just say, okay, I'm giving him everything away. I'm only going to be looking on the inner half. And I can handle reading the spin if I'm only looking at one location. But primarily, it's an educated guest that combines your strengths with what the scouting report says about that guy. So if you're a good fastball hitter, you're probably going to hunt fastball when you can. But there are times you have to hit the hanging breaking ball. And usually the hangers are easy, right? Byrne, I mean, like even the hitters will tell you, when it's hanging up there, that's the one that just screams, hit me. Even if you don't recognize spin right away, it's just not doing anything.

Yeah, that's when their eyes get big. Yeah, right? They get the big, like the Bugs Bunny eyes popping out of the size of their head. Yeah, absolutely. And thank God, Jim Jordan Walker has had a bunch of those, and he's taken advantage. Like the slider that he hit for a home run in D.C. the other day. That was a pitch that, you know, you should do that with, right? And in the past he didn't. And now he is, and that's what's such a great encouraging sign is that mistakes are going over the fence. And the really good pitches are getting a pass for the most part. You're just kind of letting them go. Yeah, I'm curious about Walker, like what we can expect coming up because I'm working on something now and it's kind of interesting, at least to me, you know, I think what he's doing is remarkable. It's exciting. It's fantastic. It inspires hope. But there's also he's basically over the last eight games, and that's, you know, he's had four home runs in the last five games, but over an eight game stretch. He's been really, really aggressive in terms of swinging at pitches, especially swinging at strikes. He's really, really aggressive. He's not being as selective. Now, there's a trade-off. The trade-off is that he's hit four home runs, and he's done a lot of damage. The other part of it is during the last eight games, he's got about a 40, 40. He's got about a 39% strikeout rate, and he's got a real big, huge swing and miss rate. And so the reward is that when he does make contact, the ball flies over the last eight games. When he makes contact, any kind of contact, 22% of time it goes over the fence. So that's mad power. And, you know, in the first four games of the season, he was, he walked, he walked, you know, he walked a few times. He didn't strike out at hardly at all. He was very selective, but one home run. Right. Because he wasn't in that attack mode. So what do you do? Can you find a happy medium? That's what fascinates me about it. Absolutely. Because I, I got to say, man. And believe me, I'm not being Mr. pessimist at all, but this baseball is a tough game. And it's interesting to me because I really believe, I would say this about any hitter. You know, Walker has had this cluster, he's this cluster bomb of home runs lately. But, you know, if you're looking at like this massive swing and miss rate and a massive strikeout rate, eventually, eventually. that's going to get him. Yes. You know, and I don't want to see that. None of us want to see him go back to what was, right? Yeah, I just hope it doesn't slide that far back, right, where you can kind of like win it, because it's going to slide. You're totally right. He's not going to be a thousand OPS. That's Albert Pujols. Like, thinking that's going to last is, I mean, it'd be great. Like, you know, it'd be the story of the year for the Cardinals, but it's not likely. If he can just be like your typical middle of the order guy, if he hits 250. 30 home runs and an 830, 850 OPS. That's a hell of a year. Sure. And that's a guy you can now count on moving into the future. I have one more question for both of you. You ready? Do you ever get tired of sports? Real question. Nope. Do you ever just go, you know what? I'm, oh, I'm not watching anything today. Yeah, sometimes. Yeah. Interesting.

It's hard, though, because it's our, it's our job and we got to stay on top of stuff. Yeah. But there are times I'm like every, I don't know if I'm saying everybody else, but I think a lot of people I get burned out on it sometime and it's not because I don't love sports, but, you know, we have a beautiful, we have a wonderful home. Me or my wife love just hanging out together. You know, we have a nice, quiet, peaceful home, and it's hard to explain. It's like, because it doesn't sound exciting to a lot of people, but we really love the quiet time. We love, you know, sitting downstairs, you know, she may be reading a book. I might be reading a book. We like to watch a lot of different things on streaming, and that's our time. And I love it. I just absolutely treasure it. So there are times that it's like, you know, I really don't, I don't, I'll watch the ball game later, you know, it's already over, but I'll watch it. And then I'm like, I don't know. Yeah, so breaks are good. You know, it's not like it's not nonstop. And, you know, like in the winter on a given day, if there's no hockey or basketball game that gets me too excited, well, yeah, I mean, I'm just going to take that day off and do other things. But, boy, once baseball starts, I'm kind of. I'm going to find a way to get it in there somewhere, even if it's like you said, I do a lot of what you're talking about, is later in the night, you know, watching a game and maybe maybe speeding through commercials or using the cut version or whatever. You know, with the kind of work I do now, and I'm grateful for it, and I absolutely love it, absolutely love it. And I've always been kind of a workaholic to the point of being excessive. But. What I do now doing all this great stuff in terms of just having the opportunity to do stuff for KMOX. It's great. It's a privilege. I love it. But also writing and doing video for, you know, STL Sports Central. I'm getting up at 4.30 in the morning, you know, and sometimes it's five. And. I go pretty hard all day long. They're long days. And I don't, by the way, I don't want sympathy. I'm not looking for a pat on the head. I'm just saying that's, I'm explaining my routine. So there are there a lot of times unlike years past where it's like, you know, I actually want some time, downtime for me and also to be with my wonderful wife. And sometimes it's like, no, I, I really. I need a detox from sports because I've been sitting upstairs like for 12 hours, nothing but sports, right? Yeah. Does that make sense, clever? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't want anyone to think I don't love sports. I do.

251, happy Friday. Fast food news. Yeah, let's start with a weird one. It's not technically fast food, but it is kind of junk food news, so it applies. Snack Pack and Dr. Pepper are collaborating to create a new Dr. Pepper-flavored gelatin snack. Boo. Yeah, I'm going to agree. I like the taste of Dr. Pepper to an extent. I don't really want to have like a jello, soda of any kind. That sounds kind of. Yeah. Jello should be illegal. I like jello, but let's keep it to the appropriate flavors, please. There's something new at Domino's. They're calling it slice sauce. It's just a sauce. It's good. Wait, what? Oh, you've had it? Yeah, I had it the other day when we got Domino's. Oh, okay. It's creamy and zesty with a hint of Parmesan. You can get it for about $1.09 at your local Domino's. I don't know. I mean, good for them for, like, coming up with a dumb name for it. That'll help me remember it exists, I guess. It is definitely just sauce. Like, is there anything, could you compare it to another sauce? I... I felt stupid as soon as I piped up because I can, but I don't remember. Okay. That's okay. Am I being a weirdo by thinking $1.9 is stupid for a little cup of sauce? It's way too much. It's too much. I mean, like, it feels like it was yesterday that that was 30 cents everywhere. If I recall correctly, they were... Or free, right. They used to give them to you at the Papa, but not anymore. If I recall correctly, they were doing like a promotion where if you ordered a pizza, they gave you it for free. But if you buy it a la carte, it is way too much, yeah. Slice sauce. Taco Bell is introducing some new steak and guac nacho fries. Pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It's made with a bunch of stuff Taco Bell has all the time, so they could have been making it. Now they've just decided to put it out now. And Burger King is welcoming a new peppercorn BLT Whopper. I got to tell you guys. I was out on Burger King for a long time. Then they came out with like the new and improved Whopper. I had two of those in a week. I thought they were so delicious. I had one. I was like, I gotta go again. And they were wonderful both times. Okay, Dairy Queen is rolling out. I was waiting for Andrew to jump in with the Whopper Love. I didn't feel like I wanted to step on his toes. I didn't want to step on hers. So I was like... No, no, no, I know. Andrew was preaching to me about how great the Whopper was. I was like, I don't know, man. I was waiting for Andrew to finish with a flourish on the Whopper. I didn't want to come in and be like, oh, I actually never stopped liking Brick. I didn't want to come in. Yeah, I didn't want to, like, be superior of all things about Burger. Like, here I am letting Andrew play through. Well, Andrew was also telling you about all these Burger King deals. I can't find them on the app, though. They're hard to find. It's by where, like, the rewards. I'll show you. Okay. Yeah, show me after the show. Because it is, it is hard to find. Dairy Queen is rolling out a countdown to summer blizzard menu. They're bringing back the Smoors Blizzard and the Cotton Candy Blizzard, but they have a new blizzard for us to enjoy. It's the Strawberry Angel Food Cake Blizzard. That sounds kind of awesome. All right. Mm-hmm.

Chipotle is launching a new cilantro lime sauce. That's exactly what it sounds like, folks. Papa Johns. Now, you guys brought up Papa John's just a little while ago. I will say I feel like we've all kind of just forgotten about Papa Johns ever since they opened that dominoes down the street here. But they are serving up some new oven toasted sandwiches. Here are the different flavors you can get. Philly cheese steak. chicken, bacon, ranch, and steak and mushroom. Suggested price of $7.99, but you can also bundle them for $6.99 each when you do the, like, two or more thing that a lot of the pizza places do. Did they already do sandwiches? I don't think they ever did. And this article is saying they're new toasted sandwiches. They used to do those things called Papadillas, which was just pizza crust folded like a sandwich. Yes. So it would be like barbecue chicken or whatever. It's basically just a folded pizza. But. It was sandwich-like in the way that you could eat it with your hands. And here's one more for you guys before we take a break. New at Shake Shack, they have a clubhouse pimento cheese burger and chicken sandwich. Yeah, it's basically a burger and a chicken sandwich with a pimento cheese. It sounds like a lot. I'm confused. It's a master's thing. Pimento cheese sandwiches are a big deal at Augusta National. I think they're just trying to play off of that. All right. I got you.

Welcome back, guys, D and Chias and KMOX, few minutes past 3 p.m. Happy Friday to everybody. Fridays are Alvin Reed Days from Donnybrook and Rach is excited about the Big Bash coming up next week. Oh, yeah, I can't wait. Less than a week from, six days from today, right? Less than a week. I was going to remind you, but you're on top of it. Oh, it's in my count. I keep telling Dave, I'm like, I have such a busy week next week. And one of those things is Donny Bash. There you go. Big time Thursday night. We're all looking forward to it. Rachel, a lot of your friends and acquaintances will be there. That's what I hear is when Chris is going to be attending. Who's that? My boyfriend's older brother. Oh, Chris. The older brother. Gotcha. They're younger. Right. Yeah. So, no, it's now I've heard that today was the last day. But if you give Channel 9 to call, maybe, you know, a little plug here. Say, like, hey, I just heard this was my last, last chance to go to Donny Bash. Just go to the website or call channel line or we'll get something going for you. Good, good. Rate said you got ramped up last night on the show. A bit. Yeah. Lebed. Yeah. Right. You know, it was kind of one, you know, the mayor has decided to finally sue, you know, and people were suing back in June of last year and into the summer. And, you know, those were scoffed at and, you know, blah, blah. And, well, okay, here we are at this point in time. And I think personally, I think she felt like I'm tired of getting it shoved in my face by this lady and the gentleman on this board. And I think politics can be personal, not in a hurting kind of way, but at the same time, maybe, you know, you get shown the light by the fact that you are really, not only you're not listening to me, you're like kind of laughing at me. And I think that maybe led to some of the action. And then I guess the other was ice showing up at the... elementary school you know yeah let's take the thing with the mayor and the police board um what is your understanding of where they've been so far in negotiations well i think that as far as negotiation is concerned you know you put some big gigantic number out there and you're trying to winnow it down i think what led uh mayor spencer to her action is they really aren't talking about winnowing it down they're driving home the point that this money is owed us. And she's basically saying like, no, you're putting like part of the Rams money and part of this money tornado. Oh. It's part of, like, you're looking at, oh, that's all part of the city budget. So we, out of that city budget, for the percentage we think we should be getting is coming out of that, okay? And there's a, not the true budget. Not that, no, no, the budget is this. Never mind that money. That money is aside. You know, that's like the checking account and the Sammy's account. So I think that's... So it would just, just, I'm really trying to understand that because I haven't paid much attention. It would be kind of analogous to if you and I were business partners.

And we had a million dollars a year coming in and I sue you, but I know that you just inherited a hundred million. And so I want part of that. I want part of that. Right. And I would say that, no, that doesn't go into the, you know, how we kept the lights on, how we paid the employees, how we kept our business running, had nothing to do with that money. So you cannot. Put that in that pot. And if you know, what was the board's answer to that? Well, I think as the lawsuit, which the point I'm making is, I know there meant she, the explanation is it's different. I didn't sue because I was finally presented with a budget that would just bust the city. Okay. So I have to take some action to stop that. But the lawsuit calls for the disintegration of the board under constitutional limits, which is the same as Megan Green's lawsuit and which, you know, at least my estimation, is the same as arch city defenders that filed on behalf of two city residents. And so they're basically, all the lawsuits call for the... And that it was that the House bill law that was passed that led to the state taking over the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department was unconstitutional, which is the only reason that I'm saying that I think the mayor should have been on board with this a little bit earlier. But I think by sitting through those meetings and whatnot, there is no compromise. There is no working with this. They're just going to do whatever they want to do on behalf of the police, even if it breaks the city budget. Yeah. Wheels, any thoughts? Not really because I don't understand how you move forward until you can actually sit down and agree. I mean, we need to fix. the downtown presence. I mean, right? I mean, we've been talking about this forever. So we know this needs to happen, or at least most of us who work downtown or live in the city, understand we do need to keep police officers. We do need more of them. You're way under where your levels used to be. Other cities that came back from a difficult spot partly did it by increasing police force and making safety a bigger priority in key spots, especially. And revenue generating spots is probably the best way to play. Yes. And I don't know where the solution is because I don't hear anybody offering a solution to that. Well, I think they just need to come down off that $333 million. Yeah, it's just, that number is just so large. I mean, the mayor is very supportive of the police and she wants to give them a raise. It's just, can we do that without crippling other city services? You can't give all of the help to the police and what everything else felt by the wayside. There was a negotiated raise, 7% or something like that. That is on the book. is them getting. This is just an extension of what was on the books for them as far as a raise was concerned. And I've heard some scuttlebut about some of what the board is asking for they don't think is even like exists. Some sort of building money and money for this. Yes. And I don't know where, you know, that was not necessary. From what I've read of the lawsuit, I didn't read a page for page, but that's not included in it.

I understand that they're saying, like, well, they took them to some dungeon at the bottom of a police precinct that said, like, see, this is where we need the money. Well, that, you know, I could take you anywhere of the properties that I might own, show you the worst one. And so, like, you know, you should give me a loan. I said, like, well, how many of your offices are, like, really nice, man. Right. You know, like, yeah. So, yeah, I don't know how much of that played it, but that is part of it. Yes. Yeah. that they want money for infrastructure and for staffing and for this and for that. And I'm like, staffing, what? I mean, I don't, you know, I'm not being facetious. Somebody sitting at a desk doing some job that has nothing to do technically with actually enforcing the law. needs to get like a mega raise at this time. And I'm talking about I'll have to lay off sanitation workers, people that work at City Hall, because I won't have the money to pay them for staffing for the police department. Yeah. Push came to shove. And I don't know how you withdraw a lawsuit after. Oh. We can find a settlement, but does it have to come to a hearing yet? I'm asking you, Mr. Attorney here. Or can you just say, like, my bad. I talked to him on the phone last night. We got it together. I'm throwing a lot of them. Yeah, no, you can dismiss your own lawsuit at any time without prejudice, which means I can file this tomorrow if I want to. Oh, all right. I was going to say, like, am I taking all my rights off the table? Yeah, no. If you dismiss something with prejudice, it means I can't come back, but no one does that, you know. dismissing without prejudice i can come back tomorrow let's work it out i mean these guys need to hire a really good mediator and have several mediation sessions. I thought that mediation could have been a possible thing. I think if the board had been around longer, but I think part of it is that the board is saying, like, we were put here to, and I say this with the air quote marks, to take care of the police department. This is how we best see fit to take care of the police department. Our job is not to worry about anything else in this city except the police department. So it's kind of like, I guess like your agent, you know, like, look. You said, man, Alvin, your agent is just a jerk. I said, like, well, my agent's job is to get every possible dime I can. And then it's up to me whether, you know, I want to go play for, you know, the Yankees or Pedico Junction. But Petico Junction is paying me more money. Part of the reason I'm looking at it the way that I am, I don't know who's quote unquote right legally or practically. But I can look at what the police budget in St. Louis was 20 years ago. And it would be the equivalent of almost $240 million now. So isn't that how we should be adjusting these things so that it stays with the times? Makes sense. Because if the budget 20 years ago was $140-something million, which it was, in $226, that's $235, $240 million.

So that sounds like the middle ground between what the two sides are throwing out there. Whatever the budget was with the raises, okay, that's 7%. That could be one point and then the other, and we've got to meet someplace even so that might bring you a little less. Because the one presentation is 220. Yeah. And then 250 is what the board is asking for. So it seems like a pretty, I don't know that, again, maybe the money's not there because 20 years ago was a different story. So, I mean, I think we can acknowledge that. But, well. But if we're talking about maintaining and improving the police department, that's not going to go if you're going backward in terms of budget relative to the economy at the time. One of the things is even though you had more police officers, I guarantee you insurance, benefits, things like that have skyrocketed. And that's part of it. Even though, as a, how could that be? You had fewer police. I mean, you had more police officers back then. Yeah. And they're like, well, the cost per police officer is probably much higher now. than it was. Because all those things are more expensive. Yeah, and just like all the rest of our lives. I think there could be compromise. I just don't know. I'm not sure exactly what happened that led to the lawsuit. I know the numbers we just thrown out there. But there had to be something where like I just feel like maybe the mayor decided like, okay, this is never going to stop. Yeah. It's always going to be. Does it seem personal? Is it getting into that point? I think this is just an Alvin guess here. Okay. I don't know the mayor that well, but I know her. Okay. And yeah, I think so. I think, no, wait a minute. Because Sonia Jenkins, Gray, let's take her out. She is a non-factor. I can spend an hour on why she shouldn't be on the board. She's just... You know, like, I just don't even know what to say about her. Yeah. Okay. And this is not about race. This is just about incompetency in my own eyes, okay? The others, I think she's looking at them and saying, like, so you are on this board. people I know who have supported me and you are so entrenched on whatever it is you're supposed to be doing, you're dismissing me and I will not be dismissed. And I think that, yes, I is like, wait, you know, I'm good. I will smile, I will laugh till you talk down to me. And that's one of those things he sets me off. Like, I don't think you really tried to do that, but I don't care. Right. Don't do that. And I think she was kind of the same way like, hey, wait a minute, I'm being dismissed. Nice little mayor. We're going to help your nice little city. And I think she said, no, I'm the mayor. And I know the numbers and I'm not being paid attention to and I'm being dismissed. And I think that's what I think that had part to do with it. I absolutely do. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. Oh, anytime, man.

Dave Murray comes up at the bottom of the hour. George Mayhe at the top. Happy Friday. Rachel got something? Yeah. Would you rather talk about some drama concerning America 250? Or would you rather talk about why sometimes modern times are not so fun? Let's do the 250 thing. Okay. So. Have you heard that for USA's 250 event, they want to do a ball drop in Times Square in New York City on the like midnight July 3rd into July 4th as a way to celebrate? I heard that. Yeah, I mean, it seemed. Whatever. Like, I've never been someone who wanted to go to the ball drop for New Year's Eve or anything, but I guess it seems like a fun way to commemorate America turning 250 years old. But as of right now, the mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, has an emergency order that bans public celebrations during the same time as the FIFA World Cup in New York City. And these two events will be overlapping. And the reason is they don't want their police force to be stretched too thin. So they're not accepting any new permits right now for public events because that's going on during the World Cup. However, America 2.50 is still saying like, yeah, it's a July 3rd ball drop. We're confirmed. It's going to be at one time square. We're going to do a live broadcast. We're going to do a celebration. But they're saying as of right now, they're not having a public event. in the Times Square plazas. They're still working with, like, their partners at the city and trying to get things worked out. But, I mean, they're kind of odd, right? If you had the ball drop but no one in the crowd to, like, cheer? Yeah. That might be a little awkward at that point. Why are we doing a ball drop? It's kind of happy horse crap. Like, why do we need to do the same jackass thing we do every year? Yeah. Why can't we come up with, we're the United States of America celebrating our two better? We can't come up with some better idea. Yeah. that's better than just the same damn thing you see every year. Dick Clark and Ryan C. Chris just standing there in the colds. Why do we want to do that in the heat now? Who gives a crap? That'd be creepy to see Dick Clark. He's been dead a long time. I'm just saying, like, I've seen this. They could start dropping Dick Clark. I've seen that stupid thing drop a million times. I don't care if I see it again. I agree. It's like, all right, man, it's just lame. But it'll be for America's birthday. Hey, I'm all about celebrating the birthday. Let's be creative. Let's do something different. I agree. I think it's lame. Yeah. Don't do the same tired-ass thing you do every year when you're turning a quarter of a millennium old. Yeah. Do something cooler. Yes. Yeah. Where's your imagination? Like, let's get rid of Iowa or something. You know, just like, hey, they're just gone. Happy 250. Are you guys excited for America 250? I haven't been thinking much about it. I'll be honest. I think it's cool. I think it's cool. I think it's cool, too. But I also think it's... wildly informative when you just think about the scale, right? Because 250, such a long time. And it's like...

tiny compared to most of the world. To me, it's a cool perspective thing. It's like an 80-year-old going to a kid's 10th birthday. They're like, oh, that's cute. That's great. But, I mean, we got to see the bicentennial. I thought that was cool. I mean, I was a little kid, but it was a fun. Everybody was celebrating it. You know, people had a good summer. They were talking about it a lot. And I hope that it goes that way. But unfortunately, nobody can be normal. whether it's regular people or politicians, so we're going to make everything political about it instead of just like, hey, it's our birthday. You know, 250 years we've done pretty well after kicking the Brits out. Yeah. The America 250 is striving for 350 by 250. So the goal is to engage all 350 million Americans by the 250th anniversary. What does that mean? They just want everyone to get involved and celebrate America's birthday. I hate stuff like that. Yeah. I'm making it worse and worse for Dave. There's so many, I can just smell the marketers, right? I mean, like, stuff like that, like, hey, let me run this up the flagpole. See who salutes. 350. In 250, then Mel's like, I love it. Let's go get a drink. There's got to be something cool or like a great little, like a cool drone show or something that would be significant. Like it's new. It's representing year 250, not what we did 60 years ago on New Year's Eve. I'm glad you brought up drones because I actually, during the course of this segment, looked up what Celebrate St. Louis would be doing for the 250 year anniversary. They booked my band? Maybe we could reach out. We could ask. But one of the things they're doing wheels is they're having a 1,500 drone aerial spectacle. Cool. And that's in addition to the fireworks. It's not taking over for the fireworks. Those things weird me out. The drones? They shouldn't be possible. Oh, that's so cool. Oh, I think they're cool. Yeah. They just shouldn't be possible.

Welcome back, DGS 333. Dave Murray time, brought to you by the Selega Heating and Cooling Weather Desk, Hello there. What's happening? I just had, oh, a couple hours at the vet for my pup's annual physical. Everything good? So that was the morning. It appears everything is just fine. We did some blood work. Won't know those results for a while. But, yeah, it's the same thing with Rain. Rain is my older lab, folks who aren't following, 15.3 years. Wow. Old. That's great. And the vet is like. She seems to be as healthy as a horse. Man, that's great. We still don't know why she's here. I say that's like 100 years old for a person. Yeah. Yeah, like 105, you know, something like that. Our dog Murphy, I think, was 16. He was a golden retriever. That's a lot for big dogs. Yeah, that was just like, man, it's crazy. I know. I've mentioned this before, but, you know, Snowflake is like eight and a half. And when you have a dog who lives, to be 15 plus, you think, well, the other one's going to live that long. Right. Probably not. What is the, what's normal for retrievers and Golden's is it like 12? 12. I use 10 to 12. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Because I have little dorks and they're old, but like little guys live forever. Yeah, they do. They really do. Yeah. Ironically, it is National Hug Your Dog Day. Yeah. That's every day. I go. I do that every day. You don't need a day for that. Do that every day. That's it. Didn't realize that would get so much anger. No, it's not anger. It's pride. You're hearing pride from Dave and I. How are we looking for the weekend, Dave? Yeah, well, let's cover right now. Nothing's around St. Louis. There's a couple of very light showers, spotty showers between Farmington and Mount Vernon. Not really a concern. There's some thunder showers between Poplar Bluff and, let's say, Cape Gerardo and Carbondale. They're hanging well to our south. So a lot of clouds around this evening and overnight. Couple of scattered showers, maybe a thunder shower, late night tonight. Very limited. I don't see much for us overnight. 53. Bit of a changeable sky on Saturday. A mix of clouds and sunshine. Spotty showers, maybe a thunder shower. Nothing strong, nothing severe. And spots the key word. A lot of dry time. 76 degrees. Same story Saturday night. Sunday, partly to mostly cloudy, a little windy on Sunday. couple of spotty showers, thunder showers around 79. A lot of dry time. Monday, a lot of dry time. Partly sunny, nothing more than a spot thunderstorm. But it's warm and humid on Monday with temperatures in the mid-80s. An increase in shower and thunderstorm activity Tuesday, Wednesday, and into Thursday. Still like the focus of the possibility of some severe weather, Tuesday night, and into Wednesday. Long way off. We'll fine-tune that next week. But a lot of dry time over the weekend. Okay.

Nice. Headlines, right? Yeah, according to a new survey, America says that tipping culture has finally reached a breaking point. We obviously talk about this on the show all the time, but nearly 80% of consumers now describe modern tipping practices as ridiculous. And 44% say they are tipping less than they were this time last year. So I think to me the biggest complaint is tipping where tipping shouldn't be necessary. I don't think that normal tipping procedures have gotten weird, have they? Like when you go out to eat at a restaurant, like I don't think that's changed very much. But like, you guys always talk about it, you know, the people like, here, I literally just took your order. Yeah. Yeah. That drives people crazy. It just puts a lot of undue pressure on. I'll just speak for myself. Sometimes I feel like. I don't want to do this in front of you. I'm not even going to tip you a different amount than I would if you weren't here. I just feel awkward. Totally. And I would think at times maybe the server or the cashier might feel a little awkward too. Like, hey, are you going to give me extra money? If that were me, that would be hard for me to do. I won't name the business. Actually, a couple of them, but I won't name them because I don't know what their protocols are. But I've had a couple who they start to turn it around and they just cancel that out. They just like. Oh. Like, you're not tipping me for this. Like, they just, the screen, they'll start to flip and they'll go, oh, wait here. And then they just bypass that part. Yeah. They're probably not supposed to do that, but I appreciate that they did because they know that that thing is not really a tip thing. Well, let's use an example. And I won't use the name, but there's a restaurant that we go to downtown. You guys will know what I mean. Where you get in line and you go, I want rice and I want this and I want that and they make it and then you pay and get your soda. And they always turn the iPad around, you know, 20, 25, 30 percent. Well, what do you think? Should those people be... Tipped or no? I think it's up to the individual if you want to. Ever since the pandemic, I have felt like, okay, I do want to, I want to tip someone in that situation. Like, I never thought about tipping on takeout prior to the pandemic. And then, I don't know, COVID just really changed the way I thought about those things. However, when it starts at 20%, that feels a little crazy. Especially for counter anything. Yes. Like, tipping is for service. So if you have to do something special for me, then I'm okay with tipping you. You've got on a carryout. Somebody has to bag that up. Somebody has to get it ready. I'm not going to tip what I would if I'm sitting at a table, but I'm still going to give a little something because somebody has to do something beyond what they're already doing. And when you're sitting at the table, they're filling your drinks. They're giving you advice on what's good on the menu. They're hopefully making your evening more fun, you know, people that have the right kind of calming personality or even a fun personality. That's where the real tips come in. But if you're just taking my order and somebody's spinning together a coffee or getting me a sandwich, I don't think that's, I don't think that's for a tip.

Dang. It's like, oh, I wonder who she's talking about. It's by Brett Kavanaugh. How do we know it's Brett Kavanaugh? Is he the only one that fits the description? Yes, he was the one who wrote in the case. Like, these are temporary stops. We don't even have to worry about this. And she's basically just saying, like, yeah, if you work an hourly job and you are detained from work for four hours, you're not getting that money. And that makes a huge difference in someone's lives. You could get fired, too. Yeah, but she's basically saying, but he doesn't know anyone who's in that position. I saw a thing yesterday. It was just a throwaway TikTok. But it was someone saying Donald Trump has never had a callus. He's never this. He's never worked for an hourly wage. He's never got overtime. It's just, you know, like normal guy stuff that we've all done. Do we make a mistake? I know that you don't have to be a blue blood to get into politics. But other than Truman. and Biden a little bit, they've all been pretty rich. Yeah, because it takes a lot of money to run and become a politics. How many of them were rich before they were president? Like, I'm asking, I literally don't know. Were the Clinton's rich before they were president? I don't think so. I mean, they were powerful, but. Right. I mean, they were the governor of Arkansas. I mean, he has my way. They knew enough people to fund. Right, right, right. They were running in circles with rich people who could find what are doing. I mean, they came up, though. old school do you want a president who's had calluses do you want a president who's worked overtime like how important to you is that to me it's a big deal i want somebody that's experienced a lot more of the world than wealthy people have. I'm not just picking on Trump. No, no. I don't know. I feel the same way about anything before. Trump has no conception of people who have to have a budget, of people who go to the store and buy milk. He has no conception of that. He's never bought milk in his life. But to me, so I would level the same criticism against Joe Biden, even if he came up a long time ago because he'd been in D.C. for too long. When you've been separated from the real world for 50 years, you don't understand people. You are not connected to people. You can try. You can have the right intentions. But you have been so privileged for so long, you don't know. And it's like my greater beef is with why I don't want people there for 40 years. Because if you're there that long, you have not been a normal person for four decades. How do you understand what normal people are dealing with right now? Yeah. Thank you, Dave. Appreciate it. All right. Have a great weekend. You too. Glenn points out that Joe Biden is Catholic. Yeah. I forgot about that. I forgot about him. I should remember that because, like, I don't think Francis was very happy with him because Joe was very pro-choice. Oh, yeah, he's done. That's always good. You're going to get some heat for that. Should we tell that story? I don't care.

Everybody watching the stream, like, what are they laughing about during the break? Even Andrew doesn't know. No, he does not know. The Cardinal Report is sponsored by Rawlings. Visit the Rawlings Experience at Westport. First, let's talk about how angry you get at umpires. Yeah, so... There are a couple things. So earlier in the week, I think we brought up, I think it was with Ricky Horton when you brought up the story about the umpires not loving the ABS and some of them are sensitive to criticism, which, hey, shut up, nobody cares. Seriously, I mean this, I mean this like insincerity. Zero people watching the game care about your feelings. True. You're there to do the job. And if it embarrasses you a little bit to have some things go, then just do it better. Can I say one more thing? But I also agree with Ricky that ABS is showing how good they are. Yes, I agree. Yeah. And... I heard a couple of the umpires who were kind of basically bitching about the fact that like, well, who else has something empirically test every decision? Everybody. Every player. Well, every worker. Yeah. Like, there are very few people out there whose boss couldn't walk up to them and go like, hey, I checked the time cards. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. I mean, like, and literally within your own business, every person surrounding you. Yeah. is doing everything on camera, and they have the pressure of doing really highly, like on a percentage basis, highly difficult things. Harder to, easier to call a fastball than hit it. Yes, exactly, exactly, especially since most pitches are easy calls. They're not all close. You know, probably 75, 80% are either obvious ball or obvious strike. Maybe more than that. I haven't even looked at the number. But as a catcher, most of them are pretty clear which it is. And then there's the borderline ones. Well, okay, that's where we want to get it right. Because we hear this a lot, like, well, they're 94% right. Okay. But what are they on the close calls? That's what matters. And that's what we're seeing in the replay. And we're seeing it's basically 50-50 on the ABS challenges. So, okay, so that's why we're doing that. We're not questioning, hey, fastball down the middle. Well, okay, you're going to get that one. I could get that one too. Yeah. But then today there's a, I don't even care about the teams. And it still makes me mad. I don't care about the pirates and the Cubs playing. But there's a replay. There's a play today where a stolen base is happening. Second baseman has to catch the ball. He starts with his foot kind of in front of the base, which is where you mostly start when you're a middle infielder. But he takes the foot off the base, moves forward a little bit to reach to catch the ball. And then comes back and makes the tag. And in making the tag, his body moves in front of home plate. Sorry, in front of second base. And the umpire called the runner safe because of obstruction. Well, there's no obstruction when you have the ball. If you have the ball, I can throw my whole body in front of you, and you either have to retreat or accept being out. Those are the rules. If you don't have the ball, you can't block the base. What else can you do as a runner? To what degree can you battle? I mean, you can slide straight into them. That's what you can do.

And is that bad form? Is that a bench clearing thing? No, not necessarily as long as you don't do it, spikes high. But in this case, the runner was O'Neill Cruz, was sliding head first. So you definitely don't want to go head first into another person. That's how you break fingers and, you know, jam a shoulder or whatever. But it just drives me crazy when some basic things, they get mad and sensitive when you criticize them. Well, then don't screw up the basic simple things. So what are you looking for with the Red Sox series? What's interesting to you? Most important thing is what we brought up with Bernie. To me, the most important thing is tonight with Dustin May. Really want to see something more encouraging from Dustin May. It doesn't have to be great, but he's been truly, truly bad. And I agree with Burns right. Like the underlying numbers are better than the surface numbers, but they're still not good. And that to me would be the number one thing. And then number two, they've got to get more guys in the lineup going. Like Walker is, this is not meant to be negative. It's just an observation of reality. Jim Jordan Walker has been so good. that it's made up for Mason Wynn not hitting, Victor Scott not hitting, Ivan Herrera not hitting, Pedro Paheis not hitting, Nathan Church not hitting, Thomas and Jacey not really hitting. You've got a lot of guys that are not hitting, but it's being made up for in part because Walker's so good. He's not going to stay that way. Most likely. I mean, I'm not saying he's going back to last year, but what he's doing now is like Aaron Judge Albert Pujols, and I think it'd be a bit much to expect that moving forward. So. I really want to see more of the lineup start to contribute on a regular basis because that will need to happen. Burlinson's been mostly fine. He had a long, cold stretch, but he's out of that now. Weatherholt's been on base every game, by the way. Every game to start his career so far, he's been on base at least once. So he's doing all right. He could hit better, but I mean, on base, he's doing his job as a leadoff, man. He's on 36, 37% of the time, which is good. That's what Donovan was. So even right now, he's doing what Donovan was, and he's a rookie.

S on KMOX one week from today I will be in the dressing room at Del Mar Hall pooping water because I'm nervous about singing in front of all my friends. Yeah, really excited. Next Friday, the 17th, my band is going to play at Del Mar Hall, which is right next door to the pageant. The doors are at 7 p.m. We go up at 8. All the guys from the show are going to be there. A bunch of KMEX people are going to be there. It's going to be a lot of fun. We're doing a Beatles set to kick things off, followed by a... Doobie Brothers tribute and then a Clapton tribute, and it's going to be a really fun night. Go to Delmarhall.com to buy your tickets. George, are you going to come out and see my band play? When is it? You might even make a guest list. Oh, my Lord. It's the week from today. Does that mean the accomplice? That's right. Okay. No, I have a guest list where you pay. It's double for you. It's actually a premium cost. George, it looks like it's $100 for you. I don't know why. Special deal for you. So what's new? How are you? Good. Good, good, good. Couldn't get in the parking lot. That's why I've rolled in here a little late. There's a lot of that. Good old parking lot. There's a lot of that going on. The Odyssey parking lot is my favorite one in town. Everything just works. So, yeah. Is you scudering today? No, I didn't, but I sure could have. It's a lovely day out there. It's nice. So are we talking today? So we can talk a, you know, I love to do, and the readers love these micro rants when I do, you know, one rant every week in the newsletter, just get down on something, something that's bothering people. And I flipped the script today, and I did a micro rave. I talked about something nice. And I just thought this was really fun. Mark Hinkle, who has... you know, all those restaurants, Olive and Oak and Ono Pizza and Perennial and different restaurants. He said, I was talking to him about Easter. I said, how was Easter? How'd you guys do? He goes, oh, we're closed on Easter. All the restaurants are closed on Easter, which is giving up a lot of money. That's a huge day. One of the busiest days of the year. I go, What do you do that for? He goes, well, he goes, when I was younger, he goes, my mother would badmouth my bosses because they made me work on Easter Sunday and she would give them what for for, you know, making me work on Easter. And he goes, I didn't want to be that guy to my staff, mom and dad. So I close for all the big holidays and I let them go. That's very human. Isn't that just a cool thing? So I just thought that was really fun. And, you know, it shouldn't anybody that knows marking. it shouldn't surprise you because he's just the world's nicest guy. He's...

They've got the, have you ever been to his event, the Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation event? Not to the event. No. But you know what I'm talking about? Very familiar. Yeah. His son, Jen and Mark's son, died at a young age of congenital heart failure defects. And they decided, you know, 13 years ago to start this foundation to help similar parents in need and similar, you know, patients in need. This, I didn't realize. In 13 years, they've raised. $10 million, the two of them, with this foundation. Think about it. Think about, I said, wow, this is, that's a staggering amount of money. So their big event, their big fundraising event is Sunday at Olive and Oak, and it's, you know, it's pricey. It's $250 ahead, but it's it's absolutely the best wine and food that you will ever find at any local event. Every restaurant guy in town. Every dude and dudeette restaurant person in town is there. There's 20 of them. And he said, you know, I'm just lucky because they always show up and nobody's ever told me no. And I'm a blessed guy. And so they've got the restaurants on the periphery and kind of in the infield there, they've got 20 wine distributors and they are bringing out the big dogs. You name the fancy winery and it's probably going to be represented there. And it's just a really, really good event. And again, this 13. 18th annual, 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, I'm going to try to go. It's just, it's just a great thing. And they're, you know, I can't rave enough about the Hinkles and that foundation. But when I heard that they broke the $10 million mark, that was last year, so Lord knows what it is this year. That's great. So. Yeah, Mark's a great guy. So that's kind of fun.

So another thing, maybe you can help me with this one. This is more along the micro rant department. I had a woman call me and she said this is happening in our restaurant. I want to take the pulse and see if this is becoming a common occurrence. Let me set the table. So the customer comes in, orders the food. The food comes out and they didn't care for the dish. They called somebody over. And I don't like this. Okay. Is there something, what don't you like about it? Is there first question? Is it too salty? Is it too spicy? Did we misrepresent the spice level? We can take care of that. But what exactly? I just don't like it. And I'd like, you know, something else. You know, I'd like you to cook something else. And they said this has happened a lot and is happening a lot more than it ever has. And George, is this a common occurrence? And I go. I'm going to have to find out because I don't really know. But basically the restaurant stance on it is, hey, if this is made according to the spec, if it's properly made, if it tastes like we want it to taste, then it's on you. You know, you should pay for this. And I think the restaurant stance is, you know, all we can do is, yes, we can get you something else, but we've got to at least charge you half. And apparently they did that, and this person went. and thought, how dare you, this is crazy? You know, how, you know, and I said, you know, I don't, I don't understand. Was it heading to them a lot? Ten times in a month. That's a lot. So did they seem to think, or was your perception that it was some sort of fraud or just people are more choosy these days? I, I, that's a good question. Or people trying to scam restaurants out of free food more? Good question. Or is it just? Is it just the entitled generation has just become a little bit more entitled here? I don't really know. Have you guys heard of any of that? You were talking to a guy who has literally never sent something back in his life. Yeah. I order a steak, medium rare, you bring it well done, I'm probably going to eat it. Yeah. Well, and I think most people are like that. That's why I, you know, and I'm kind of the same way. It's like, especially of hate. I order something a lot, and it's like, well, you know, I wish I would have ordered something else. But I'll eat it or I'll take it home, or maybe I won't. But I'm not going to send it back because I didn't like it. So I didn't know if you guys had any experience with that. But I think that's, you know, it all goes to the, okay, what's really going on here is the customer really always right 100% of the time? The restaurant owners now are having to draw that. You know, five years ago, whatever you want. It's fine. We'll take care of it. Just where, you know, smiley, smile, please don't write a bad review. And now they can't afford to keep doing that because it's costing them too much. And they don't, they don't have the wiggle room anymore. So it's there, they're squirming in their, in their seats right now. I have a question. To what degree, if you know, do influencers try to get? quote unquote, free food from restaurants. Like, oh, I'm not sure you know me, but my name's Bob and I have a million followers and just like, if you comp this, I'll put up some pictures. Let's say all the time. Really? Yeah.

Pretty much. I don't know of any that say, you know, I'm going to come in and pay for $100 worth of food and give you a free, you know, and give you some free publicity. The least they want is comped food. And now a lot of them are asking for some, you know, they're big and. gutsy enough and powerful enough really that they can say, you know, we'd like to be paid for this as well. And a lot of them are doing that. It's kind of a pay-for-play kind of thing. How do you like that as a restaurant guy? I don't even get me started. It drives me crazy. I don't like it at all. And I think it's disingenuous. And I think it reflects poor on the restaurant. And a lot of these influencers, they don't care about the restaurant. They're just, they're building their following. They want, you know, they want, you know, a thousand more followers at the end of the period or whatever. Rach, how does that hit you? I'm sorry, I was reading something. I'm just going up to it. I hate the videos of seeing that stuff. George is saying when he eats pudding, he likes to rub it on his but it's fine. You go read. I hate when I see videos about that stuff. I know. I'm not sure how you miss that, Rachel. I thought that would catch your ear somehow. His favorite is Nanner. But yeah, the videos tend to look alike. You know, there's just, you know, they pan left, pan right, zoom in, zoom out, flip it over. It doesn't really, you know, from, again, a professional food guy standpoint, I don't think it represents the restaurant very well. But it does satisfy the need to create. you know, some message in 15, 10 or 15 seconds. And I know that appeals to you, Mr. TikTok. Yeah. And, you know, and sometimes that's all people want. And, you know, consequently, uh, We are doing these type of reels now more as well. And so we'll go either review a place or do an informational article on a place and the photographer instead of being instructed, shoot this dish and shoot that and shoot the atmosphere and shoot the outside. Now they're all taking video and we're creating reels to appeal to that 10 second audience out there. And it's, you know, hey, I'm... It's fine. We just try to do again a little bit better job or say, here's this. And for more, go to our story and read a lot more about it and get the backstory and learn about the chef and some of this other cool stuff that's going on here. I'm affected by it when I see people, TikTokers, who that's what they do. Hey, it's Melanie and I'm at Tucker Carlson Steakhouse and blah, blah, blah. If they do it well.

It makes an impact on me. I might actually go to Tucker Carlson's because now you've got me salibating. I think there's... Go ahead, George. No, I would say that's the question. How many do it well? I think not very many. And I appreciate the good ones, too. There's several food influencers out there in St. Louis that are good at what they do. But most are just in it for the free food and the notoriety. Well, and you can tell George because it's like, wow, this person likes... Everything. I've never seen them come across the dish that tasted bad to them or they've never had a bad experience. But I think the reason why video has taken off so much as opposed to just like simply posting a photo, I think it's much easier for an amateur to make a social media video look good. rather than a still. And I don't know if it's just the way our phones cameras are. But if you keep it moving, it's like, all right, everything's looking good. But if it's static, maybe you like notice the flaws a little bit more, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah. It's, it's... I'm like that when I do my nudies. You don't like the pictures. You want to keep it moving? Yeah, keep moving. Keep them guessing. Zoom in, Dave. You need to zoom in sometimes on those certain parts. Well, that was over there. Now it's over here. Something else happened this week that I don't think's ever happened. I've never seen it happen in the restaurant business. You know Chris LaRocca, don't you? Very well. The crushed red guy and, you know, Crazy Fish and all these great restaurants. He's one of the most well-respected guys in town. Good friend knows his stuff. So he, a couple weeks ago, he's, oh, I've got this great idea. I can't wait to tell you about it. I'll tell you about it, but you can't write about it. We're going to put out a new product that I really think is going to be a game changer, and he calls it a... a chopped pocket and they're taking their pizza dough and they're converting it changing it into kind of a sandwich roll and they're taking this pizza crust sandwich roll and stuffing it with any one of their salads so like I said you've got a one-handed salad that you can walk around and eat you know healthy uh whatever you want they serve it with a little side of whatever dressing you put on it so you can dip it in there and they serve it with a bag of chips and it's 10 bucks you know, the price point is there. He said, I just think, you know, it's all about creating new items that are. And he said, this is, you know, we're going to make this a permanent item. This is a permanent. This is really going to be a big deal. He launched it on Monday of this week. And I saw the launch. I go, oh, that's great. I'm going to write about that in the newsletter. The newsletter came out today. Two days later, Wednesday of this week, Panera Bread announces practically the same product. You know, two days later, and I went, I called them up. I go, how mad are you right now? You know, and how did that? And he goes, you know, I just have to smile and shake my head. And he goes, first I thought, you know, we got a mole. There's a security leak in crushed red. Who's talking to the Panera people? And he said, but the more I thought about it, think about this. Panera doesn't launch something just, you know, on a whim because they saw a crystal ride. This has been in development for six years. He goes. there's creative heads on both sides of this. And that's just, I understand that. And he said, you know, but we're competitors and competitors sometimes are thinking the same thing. And we just happen to be thinking the exact same thing at the exact same time. And it came out within two days of each other. Wow, that's really strange. It is really strange. And Panera's, you know, is going to be a limited time. I said, at least there's going to go away. You got that. So I just thought that was funny. And I thought, you know, wouldn't fan.

do like to like to handicap those odds right i have uh i have no beef with panera however that's the restaurant to me in the last few years that his the stock has fallen the most because the prices have to me really gone up and the quality has gone down a little yeah And they're just moving in the wrong directions. There's been a lot of similar discussion, and they're trying to get that back for whatever, however they screwed up. And they did. They lost some market share, and they did change things, and they decided to make things really healthy and all that. And some of that, well, that's great. But if it doesn't taste good, then nobody cares. You know, you can make it as healthy as you want, but you've got to make it healthy and good. So I think they're trying to. to, you know, to bring it back a little bit. But their product is called salad. Stuffers, a bread bowl for your salad. So, you know, I just think it's, you know, how, I just, the coincidence is crazy. There was also, speaking of coincidence, two Mexican restaurants opened this week. Both of them. Uh, one's name Wohaka, and the other one serves Wauakan cuisine. So two Wauakan restaurants opening up on, actually, they were both open today in different parts of town. I said, speaking of coincidences, there's another thing that Fandle could handicap. Whereabouts? I like, uh, yeah, Wohawkan. One of them is called Wohaka, and it's, uh, it's out in the, in Chesterfield Valley. And one of them's called Huatalko, Huitalko. Watanko is a city in Oaxaca. And it's where a hangar used to be at McKnight in Manchester. They're right on that kind of very prominent corner. So check that out. Both of those are, you know, open. Again, the Mexican food craze just keeps going and going and going. We can talk about that some other time. Cool. Welcome back, guys, DG.S, quick little segment here. Let's do some flashback Friday. Yeah, April 10th back in the day. Let's go all the way back 177 years ago in 1849. A man named Walter Hunt patented the safety pen. He sold the rights for 400 bucks. I feel like he probably could have gotten some more money. 114 years ago in 1912, the unsinkable Titanic set sail from Southampton, England on its maiden voyage. It hit an iceberg and sank five days later. The end. Plummer. That was. I shouldn't say that. People died. Even as a kid, that was a fascinating story to me. Just the whole, I don't know, just like this was the biggest, baddest thing on the planet at the time. Yeah. And it just was like, you're going down. I can think of nothing worse than going down to the Titanic and it's submersible. Uh, I, yeah. Yeah. The only thing would be worse, I guess, would be being on the Titanic. Well, both have similar outcomes, seemingly. Well, if you had a good one, don't go on that cheese-ass one. That's, that's cheese-ass. Like, if the Army was like, or the Navy was like, hey, if the Navy was like, hey, you want to go on one of our super subs down there? I'd be like, yes, hell on. That's cool. Is it a cheese-ass?