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He's jenkins Aus. Today we have their new first time Henry. Hello.
How are you doing? Henry? You know, nervous. There's no need
to be nervous. It's not like you know what had screwed up before.
If it gets screwed up blaming on one of us, people expect that by
now, no one's gonna know it exactly. That's is called Monday or Tuesday
or Wednesday exactly. So thanks Wednesday. No, but every other day though
these kids aren't here, it's the other day. Hey, welcome, good
to be back again. Can't wait to be gone again. How was the
game last night? I didn't see who won? It was Cincinnati came back
in one and later innings there. I went to kind of see Della cruize
cruise right. I don't know anybody but his roster. I didn't know.
I think I saw he's out of the lineup today for the first time.
He didn't have a good game. Gave him the Jiggins always kiss of death.
He did have a good game, so he so he But does he
I mean he looks the part. Oh yeah, he doesn't look like a
shortstop. He looks like a center fielder. Yeah, you know, Gazelle
kind of run for free for for days. Has an arm obviously very good
six he's got to be six fourish six fuss taller maybe, which is not
a size for a short stop. But he's fantastically gifted obviously. Yeah.
I just went to go see just get away with the with the t J
looks like, yeah, just see what he looks like. And it was.
It was good, good, a nice night, the perfect night,
one hundred degrees only only that's probably the last time you'll see. I'm assuming
roof closed was closed. Yeah, it was already a hundred degrees up there.
Yeah, but it didn't You know, I could do if that was
it for the summer, right, he'd be fantastic. But that balmy,
right now, that's spring time. Yeah, that's balmy compared to what you'll
get right right, right, So it was good. It was good.
Good. I haven't been up there in a while. Yeah. I hate
the traffic. The traffic such a big baby. Oh what would you go
up there? When do you go up I've got up there like four or
five times the last two months. I think I would not want to live
here anymore. I mean I wouldn't. I was up there during the Final
four Okay, yeah, one time in four years. You never go you
never go up there. That's that's not quite true. But he traveled at
midnight when there was nobody on. You know, that is true. Henry
here from New York's traffic. What the hell's that? I know? That's
right, exactly, the traffic. Well, good to be back. A
lot of things going on. I'm kind of today was difficult day, tough
day, and we're just saying the struggle getting guests for the show. Jason
Barr, you know, kind of a last minute guest, and he's agreed
to come on the show, and which is great. It's great. We
appreciate Jason for doing that. He'll be on at about four fifteen, four
twenty. Everybody's out of pocket because of the time. It's going to be
summer soon, you know, and we ran through, you know, all
our baseball and softball guests. You know, we talked to Kensie Follery yesterday
about softball. We talked to Brian Jeffries about baseball. You know. So
we've just been running through guests and so we yeah, I mean, you
know to you know, those two teams are in there, you know,
the whin the softball teams in the postseason starting starting Friday. The baseball team's
got its big series with Oregon State starting tomorrow night. I think I might
go tomorrow night. Now we're definitely, We're definitely going tomorrow. Yeah.
It was funny because you know, I like going on Friday nights, but
it's Friday Night's usually the first game of the series. And so I said
to him and said, well, are we going to go to the game
on Friday night? And my daughter goes, no, We're going Thursday night
because I want to be there if they if they clinched back twelve, South
is off to do his one win one game. She goes, if they
clinch it on Friday, I mean, they clinch it on Thursday, and
what the hell do we want to go for on Friday? And I hate
to say that but you know, so we'll see. So we were to
go tomorrow night and O catch it should be a lot of fun. Uh.
It's a great atmosphere out there, great setting. I've talked about it
all week that going in airsona baseball game is really cool these days. Yeah,
okay, yeah, I'll probably be going with a with a friend or
two tomorrow just because I haven't done it yet there too. Yeah, it's
my yearly bucket list. We talked about it enough, right, Yeah tomorrow,
I uh, I got tomorrow. We're good with guests. I'll say
more than no tomorrow, I don't get up to date on everybody's recruiting situation
football and basketball. And then i'll I got. I was able to get
to Tom Candiotti and he's gonna call three seventeen right and we'll have him.
He's the father of Clark. Candyaty will be the Friday starter this week.
He's been he's been a stud all all season long. Tom Candyatty, former
Dodger, currently a former Dodger, former Cleveland Indians, former Dodger, former
Dodger. I'm gonna go to the Indians because that's how I remember. Well,
we're gonna talk about it. Was she good with the Dodgers? It
must have been later in his career. Yeah, yeah, yeah, last
stop in his career. I don't know if it was the last stop,
but it was towards you know, one are the last stops. Look,
I'll do that with him tomorrow. Yeah, but uh, you know,
it must be cool to see his kid playing, you know, playing so
well, yeah, it's funny. We call a few calls from people are
calling some people and everybody was busy today. They said, how about tomorrow,
Well, cat tomorrow, we got a good guess, And how about
Friday. Well, I think we're good there too, Uh, with with
our preaking and stuff. Did you well, we'll talk about Bafford situation for
your breaking news. You probably don't have. You have Bafford stuff. Well,
we'll talk about that. I'll give you that and what else. So
yesterday it was a good day without me. What did you ask Kenzie about
that softball team because she doesn't cover the team. Yeah, you know,
just but but you know she sees she asked. I said, have you
seen them enough? And she said, it's it's it's as it always is,
Steve. It's about the pitching and you know, she she pointed out,
they don't have you know, an ace, right, they don't have
a Jennie Fincher, Tarn Maud and Nancy Evans. You know who's the nation
is gonna throw you know there, it's a it's a it's a pitching by
committee. And she said that that that's hard. That makes it hard.
Uh she you know, and and their their new pitching coach and I already
forgot his name, but you know he's had to manage you know, they
they used their pictures by situations. I mean there have been times that they've
taken a picture out and put that picture back in right, So, uh,
you know, they they they they managed it by committee based on the
situation, based on the batters. And so she said, if they can
manage that, you said they you know they can, they can get to
the College World Series, probably not a national championship team. She likes the
region they're in, Uh, she she likes the Arkansas region they've played.
They split two games with Arkansas earlier this year, so she thinks that they
can, you know, they certainly can go in there and win that regional
and then they would likely get to likely play Oklahoma State in a subury,
in a super regional. She said, they can get there the but you
know, things have to happen for them. Yeah, so okay, and
you know, and then normal. I mean that's that's pretty much the synopsis,
right uh, from you know, until they get an until they get
an ace that you can count on for, you know, you know,
game in and game out to go out there and throw the Indians. I
mean remember, I mean Jenny Finch was like, you know what was she
like undefeated forty two and four something, some crazy record when you're her senior,
you know, her senior year. You know, some it's some incredible
number. You know, it's like Arizona hasn't had that picture in years,
right, well, and then it comes in and does her magic in the
tournament. Right now, we'll see what happens. You never know what you
can catch fire, like we always say, i'd like the Arizona men's basketball
team, you just never know, and then the baseball team obviously this weekend.
Yeah okay, so so you know, well, you again, it's
just one of those things that you're gonna take it game by game and uh
and uh, you know, see see what happens, and if you know
you have you know, you win a game and you go on to the
next one, and that's all you can do. You can't you can't sit
there and try and you know, say, okay, we got this picture,
who's going to carry us through the thing that that's not who they are?
Okay. So that Tommy Lloyd was on Jim Rome Show today, I
didn't have a chance to listen to it. I was a little bit surprised
that he was on the show, given the time of the situation and waiting
for his team to kind of finish and materialize. We got about another week
or so. I thought something would happen this week. Yeah, you know,
certainly, nobody's in a hurry. I mean, you keep seeing the
little things that you feel like that's an indication of what's what's happening, But
you know, you don't know. I was looking at Jenny Fincher's righter.
She was thirty two and oh her last year and in her last two years
combined, she was this is where I got. She was sixty one and
two in two thousand and two thousand and one. That's extra right, I
mean, that's you don't have too many. There haven't been any other Jenny
Fincher's around it, you know, but they've had stud pictures, you know,
Alsa uh, Alicia Hallowell was one. Uh, you know, Kenzie
Fowler was one. You know. But and that, you know, the
grinder and the person goes out there and pitches all three games. They don't
have that. Yeah, And that's been the the not the demise, but
in the last fifteen years, that's been the trademark of not giving back as
often as they had been. I haven't had the pitching together. And Kendres
spoiled the hell out of them. He did for all those years, right,
all those championships you did? You did? You're fan saying what the
hell? Yeah? Yeah, So anyway, so we'll see, you know.
They they just take them one game at a time. I know I
sounded like a coach when I say that, but that's what they gotta do.
Go beat Villanova, use whatever pictures you have to use, win that
game, and then go do it again the next day and the next day.
Yeah. So Henry, you know when you how long you're here for
the summer? Right, yeah, because you want to be Are you going
to school? I'm taking Yeah, The reason I ask is the reason just
does all the information is because have you driven by you? You can get
around you. There's no one's there. Yeah, you can go down speed
Away and sixth Street. Now get past the right right, It's it's a
walking around campus. I'm surprised because it better as there were. I'm sure
you like to see people kind of walk by a little bit of you know,
cute girls here and there, but but now it's like there's nobody here,
and we've seen it a number of times. I like the buzz,
you know. Yeah, you know, I'm the guy that likes to go
to the mall on Christmas Eve, right and go do my shopping because I
love all them all you a mall shopping, you know, because I love
the buzz of Christmas eaves and stuff like that. Sure, because you're you
were like many of the other people, and there a lot of men in
there trying to figure out what they're going to buy their wives in the final
moments. But I do it on purpose, not because because I love I
love the atmosphere, and part of that goes you know, I worked at
I worked in the mall when I was in college. Worked in the mall
at Spencer's and uh, it was what kind of guess was that? Christmas?
Christmas? That wasn't hell of a guest Christmas time. It was a
great time. You know. The day the Friday after Thanksgiving, it just
all On Wednesday the mall would be empty. And on Thursday on Friday it
was full. It was jammed. And I love that, and I you
know, doing that for a couple of years, I really come to I
love going to the mall when it's busy, you know. I just after
lunch last week, I went to Tucson Mall and there were like eight people
to the mall, you know, a weekday afternoon. Yeah, there's nobody
there. I went to Dick Sporting Goods and that I'll go out in the
mall see what's going going on there, and there were like six people.
You know. I don't like that. That's not fun, right, Okay,
Well, you know what, We're going to depend on some callers today
because we didn't have no guest here in the first hour. So if you
want to call five two o four one six seven four zero, Henry is
ready to take your call. Would like to hear from you. What are
you guys? Thinking this week softball, baseball, basketball? Yeah, I
mean the NBA playoffs are you know, Cruise Long. It's how the Celtics
finish it up last night and some more, you know three the other three
series are all still going and so I know, if you've saved any of
that for your breakiness, we'll get to that eventually. But you know,
this is kind of where the playoffs get interesting to me. You know,
once we get get past the first round, the first round, and now
you're looking at who's going to be in the conference finals and all that kind
of stuff. I don't know what's wrong with my voice. It wasn't like
this when I got here. You're you're maturing changing Either that or I'm dying
and my voice is good going away. It's just just gonna end at some
point. Yeah. Okay, Well, don't die on us, because I'm
not going to rescitate you. I don't want you to. No resuscitution here.
I have, I have the you're in charge. I don't want your
lips on my what's that song? You d? Okay? What else gets
the NBA? We got the calls coming in? Sure? Should I mentioned
men's golf? Talk about? Okay? Uh? Arizona men's golf. It's
qualified for the National Championship tournament. They finished fourth at the at the Purdue
Region I'm looking at for here, it says Bert boiler Maker Golf Complex,
and so Purdue was the host. Uh, they finished fourth, and so
they will now take on uh well head to one one of thirty teams that
qualifies. The tournament starts next Friday or they after Yeah, a week from
Friday. They're in Carlsbad, California at the La Costa Resort, which is
a place that I happened to play one time. It was really cool.
Uh and uh it's a long tournament because you have this you're you're playing uh
pool play, and then you get into a bracket for the last the last
few few days. And so it's Friday through Wednesday. Next Friday through Wednesday
at La Costa. So they're Jim Anderson taking his team to the nationals.
Good for them. Did I guess the NFL schedule came out? This comes
out at five five? Yeah, that's why I was saying, So you
might have a story there too. Who knows, because I've seen the leaks
kind of start. I thought it was five pm. Our time or or
Eastern. Okay, I was just saying if there was anything big going.
Yeah, well we've heard some stuff I saw. I saw Mike Greenberg,
Mike Greenberg, Greenie on on on ESPN losing his mind because he's very unhappy
that the Jets have not only a Monday night opener, it's a Monday night
opener at the forty nine ers. He just he just hates that. He
just like because he's a Jets fan. Jets poor guy. Why would anybody
be a jetsman? Oh you're not a judge, poor guy. I hope
your dad's listening. Why, that's just what his dad was. Oh okay,
that makes sense growing up in the But he was too young to remember
when they won. Yeah right, that's why I was sixty nine. He
was probably he was five. Yeah, he was five and sixties my age.
Yeah, well it can be his father. No, I couldn't.
It was a virgin until forty. You know what, we're out of time.
We've got to go to break right now. On that note, Okay,
let's take our first break. We're to come back. The phones will
be open five two zero four one six seventy four forty as we don't have
a guest for this segment. Jason Barr coming on in the second hour.
We'll talk to some stuff and we'll get into I think with Jason we get
into the whole grading the U of a sports season. Yes, that's been
a fun conversation. If he's going through the things we're going through, Like,
what are you talking about? Exactly? Is when it starts to happen,
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Fox Sports fourteenth fifty. Hey, welcome back to I the Ball Hero Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay. They have Henry with US
Ethics Control Board. We have thirteen minutes if you guys want to call.
We'd appreciate it big time. Yep. We'd love to love to hear from
you. Get us through the day here, first hour yep. So okay,
so you went to the game and I made fun of you yesterday.
I'll have to go back and listen tell you you know, you're just reminded
me. I never did both yesterday's podcast. No, you have the album
do it tonight. Well, I made fun of the fact that you keep
telling us that you're not a fan. You're not a fan, you're not
a fan, you're not a fan, and then you go see the Reds
game because you grew up a Reds fan. There's a there's a circumstances for
all things. This is a circumstance. TJ, who's a Cincy Sandi Red
fan, said you you want to go to the game? I said okay.
I said okay, And he was hard up for a date or something.
You know, who's he gonna go with. But I had some interest
in since CINC a long time ago. I said, okay, cool,
I have a connection there. And Sammy starts today too, there today,
and I said, yeah, maybe I can get a ticket or too.
And I got a couple of tickets. Then we went up there and had
dinner and then went to the game. So I like my story more way
better you can you could? You like Chris You're in Belli Bellish whatever.
But no, that's the only reason. In fact, I turned to t
J and I says, do you even know who the manager of the Reds
is? And he didn't know and I don't neither, exactly, uh exactly,
And I the only guy I know when the roster was Dela Cruize because
of all the hoopla. And it was good. You know, you go
to a game, me watch a game, and I didn't care who won.
They did win, but just stay for the whole thing. Yes,
well, top of nine, okay, they were up by two runs.
Yeah, it was two hours and fifteen minutes at that time. Yeah,
and you're thinking I can get out of here. Awesome. I really,
you know, both both at the college and baseball level. I love the
clock, you know, I mean, you know, Brian Jefferson and I
were talking about it yesterday that you know, the old days of going to
those college baseball games three and a half four hours every game, every game
would be that, right, And now you go and you can you know
the I think two of the three games that I went to one went extra
inning, so I know it was a little longer. But I think two
of the three games that I've been to this year were all like two and
a half two forty five college basement. Have you been to some baseball games?
Logan, Yeah, it's say it sounds cool because, well, you
go to baseball games, you spend X amount of money and you watch a
game. If it's zero zero or three to three and the eleventh and it's
good game, I think you mind the time, you know, you mind
the time. But if it's a it's a long game and it's not a
good game. And when inning can last a half an hour or stuff like
that. Right, well, what any last night lasted its nine minutes?
It was like nothing. Did you see that? There was one? There
was one yesterday. It lest fifty two seconds, ninety two seconds, it
was yeah, like ninety Andy gave up a hit. Yeah like it wentety
or eighties, eight seventy three pitches pitches where you eat side just three pitches?
No, well half any so, first pitch guy gets a base hit,
Second pitch guy lines out to short stop. Third pitch guy hits into
a double play. That's what it seems like ninety two seconds or something like
that, some crazy number. And it was what the nightties in the half?
Any half? Any it's anyone, like five minutes, maybe not nine.
It was quick. I looked my watch this Holy crap. Yeah,
we'll be out here and get on the road. No, but you still
can't say it. You can't say that this game is going fast. No,
no use. Yeah. I mean there was a I think one of
the Arizona games I went to. It was top of the fifth, uh,
and and they it was it was an hour old. We're halfway through
the game, and it was it was an hour old. So I like
it. I know there's been some controversy over that, and you've seen that
recently, been some controversy over pictures, and I think it was a specific
yes, specific picture came out and talked about it. I can't remember.
It was saying that the picture is not gaining enough time between pitches, is
causing injuries, that's causing sore arms and and injured arms. So but the
thing about it is, uh, there's still on a pitch count. Yeah,
correct, So they're throwing the same amount of pitches, but just quicker,
quicker exactly. So that's that's that's that's the thing that that's yeah,
yeah, but that that it's a thing that you know, less time for
the whoever extra seconds of recovery time that you would get between pitches, that
it builds up over the course of a game and you're in and there's more
wear and tear in your arm because you're throwing as many pitches but in a
shorter period of time. Okay, So do you believe that I because it
was a picture who said this, So I have no you know, I
have no reason to not believe it. But you know I don't hear everybody
complaining about it. Okay. So so I've been to a couple things.
I went to Vegas to watch an event and they give you these and you've
heard it before, these strobe light things may cause problems with the pearls or
whatever. I don't care. So last night they said the same thing,
the flashing lights, maybe be be careful, blah blah blah. When you
were young, when you were young, ten years old, twenty years old,
did you ever hear about this? No, did you hear about stuff
that they hear about now, well, no, okay, we were talking
about this. You know what I'm talking about. Okay, all of a
sudden you pitch too fast. You did do this? Okay, doastic bags
are no good. I know somebody out there is gonna be really highly feeling
growing up. Did you know anybody with a peanut head? I was gonna
go there. I didn't know how to go there, but you know exactly
it is how many people died because of peanut energy. It didn't know they
had one. We were just hat we're honestly, we were having the conversation
about about allergies just at the dinner table a couple of nights ago, because
I made this for Mother's Day breakfast. It was the breakfast. I made
this a fruit salad, you know, with watermelon and cantalope and strawberries.
And my daughter Alana is allergic to melon. And now I'm like, well,
how the hell are you allergic to melon? And nobody nobody, and
you're just finding this out. Well, no, I knew it, but
I had forgotten about it. And then so but then we had the conversation.
I'm like, how are you allergic to watermelon or melon as a whole?
When none of us, the rest of us, are allergic to anything.
We're not allergic to anything. Nobody in our house has an allergy,
a food allergy of any sort. And she does. She'll eat she loves
melon, and well, she'll eat it, and she'll get swords around her,
around her lips. To your point, to your point, that's and
I was gonna bring up the peanuts. How come all these things happen?
Now when they didn't happen. Maybe they did happen and no paid attention,
yeah or care? Well, you know, and going through it with my
grandson, we found, you know, one of the things that they did
as a baby, okay, they gave him peanut butter so that he could
get used to eating it, so that he wouldn't develop a peanut allergy.
So do you just just wake up one day and you have analogy? I
don't know. I don't know, Steve. So here's a kid. What
if he dies from the peanuts from the plug? You do you have something
ready in case, you know, in case something happened. Kids didn't created
a lot of problems. Wait, do you have anything? I don't know.
Okay, but you don't even know that yet until later on when you're
older, you're thinking, how the hell did I survive? Come on,
you're what what kid? Are you? Fifth? Sixth? I'm the fourth.
By the time you're the fourth kid, the parents say he's eating rocks,
Let him do it. It doesn't really matter because you're the fourth dude,
right, Okay, I will say this and I remember this wholeheartedly.
Actually, on a football road trip nineteen eighty four football season, we were
we were in went to Sea Arizona play USC. We stayed in San Diego.
We went to Anthony's the seafood restaurant. Okay, I mean, if
you've been there, Great Seafood Grotto they call it. It's it's sort of
a casual but huge, kind of a red lobster. But but you know,
for it was just in San Diego, was all over the place.
We talked about red lobster. In a minute, and I had crab for
the first time, and I had a reaction. But you had crab for
the first time, Yeah, and I had a reaction. My my throat
closed up. I didn't. I mean, I almost went to the emergency,
but I thought I'll be fine, just leave me alone and just went
sat on and it went away. It didn't. Let's take this, but
it didn't stop. Someone's going to get Yeah, let's get this. Yeah,
just hit the button. Hi, you're on the air and behind the
ball. Hey, guys, what's up? You got any food allergies?
Vic or you're just allergic to us? No, but I gotta tell you.
Don't go swimming in a half hour after you eat, exactly, exactly
exactly Back in the day, that was our biggest worry, right right half,
You're right, if you ate, you had to wait a half an
hour to jump in the pool, which makes no sense. I just wanted
to change courses real quick and then kind of expand the bonds pansy yesterday.
I go to a lot of high school softball games and baseball games here have
been ever since my kids hung up the cleats. I had a kind of
attached something and see myself busy and young, but high school softball, you
guys, is something something Here is Tucson at big time. And I went
to the Tucson High both Touson High Sunnyside games, and you guys, if
you guys had been there an instant classics, yea, the tous On High
one at Cherry fields drew. You can ask Tavier, this thing drew a
thousand people. Why is it happening? Vic? Is it just better coaching?
Tucson High is always obviously the weather. It has a there's a lot
of people that just care about the game. From No Gallas on up.
But I'll tell you that Touson High. There was two outs in the seventh
sunny sides up two runs and Tucson High hits back to back jack and they
tie it up the singles eleven innings and twothon Hi at the home run to
walk it off. It was amazing. It was amazing that South Point Studio
game. The whole stands were full except the outfield, I mean jam jam
packed, and it was eleven to one h Mercy and everybody stayed to the
end. Nobody left Point. Why is softball getting so good in this town?
And I think Pima's benefiting from it right, Oh, definitely. And
the one thing they do not have here, Steve Jay is a is a
big time travel team that competes. So all the girls break up. The
two girls from Stdeo are playing on the team out of Phoenix, the girls
from South Points out of team in PHOENIXUS on High girls all go play on
different teams in Phoenix because they go and compete in California and Texas. They
need a big time travel team. And ever since Todd Judge left, Uh,
they don't have one interesting interesting okay, all right, yeah right,
but ever I mean from the opening uh tournament at studio at Linkin Park to
the end at South Point Studio. Uh, some amazing games. You guys
got to get out there next year. I'm gonnavite you to cherry Field for
that on Sunnyside and it's going to be the same Sunnyside is coming back loaded
it on High, coming back the okay, all right, Vick, Hey,
thanks a bunch man thanking. Okay, a great one. Just don't
get into the pool thirty seconds into after eating exactly. That's funny, that's
what. And I also don't sit too close to the color TV. Really
yeah, supposedly you got just supposely some the radiation was coming off the TV
or something like that. My mom until she kicked She blamed my bad eyes
on the TV, and I said, Mom, look at our family.
Hey, we all wear glasses. Every one of us wear glasses. Don't
tell me it was because I sat too close to the TV and say,
this was your fault and my dad's fault. That's why we have or grandfather
And yeah, that's funny. I never heard that one. Yeah, but
when the first color TVs came in, they told you that, No,
you I figured it used to be the remote control without TV while I was
and I didn't want to have to keep going back and forth like I'm gonna
stay right here for when you need me to change the channel. Right,
you didn't have no idea what we're talking about. Back in the day,
we didn't have a remote control, so we'd have to have a dial,
go get change the channel thirteen and we only have three three channels. It's
lucky for I guess when pvs before and then well then casey channel eleven came
along. Well that was where you could see you could see the local wrestling.
That was awesome. Okay, hey, thanks for calling, But that's
funny. I would just saying, what did all these things come from?
I don't know they started somewhere. Did they start something? But they didn't
have him back in the day, right, I don't know what to tell
you, Steve. I'm with you. I don't. I don't understand.
Doctor, who's listening? You could tell us where did the allergies come from?
They come from just as you know, not allergies, but things that
happened like the show lights. And they didn't have strow blights back in the
day. Well well no, but but strow blights I knew about because it's
for it's problem for people with epilepsy. Okay, okay, man, my
dad had what did you back in the back in those days? Didn't they
have strou blights back in the day, Well, they would just stay away
from like my dad, But he didn't know this, did he know?
He knew, he knew, and my dad knew, he knew that,
but they didn't have warnings. Yeah, you just had to know like we
Like he would if we were driving to California or whatever, we would not
drive at night because because the lights, oh you know, who would they
do the blinking? My mom would drive No, no, but they would
make him. You could have seizure. Really, it could trigger the seizure.
Wow, you don't know until you know, right, You don't know
until you know. I'm gonna bubble wrap me, baby, have some stuff
I don't even know about all right, let's take our break word to come
back. Phones will still be up in five two zero four one six seventy
four forty. I guess we threw some more stuff out there that you want.
You can talk about if you want to. What are you allergic to?
I think Arizona's allergic to rose balls because they've never done That's that's true.
Well, I want to talk about something like that too. Okay,
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here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay. I'm good.
Henry in the house fifteen minutes. If you got a call, be
like, give us a quick call live two oh four one six seven four
zero. If you have any allergies or aladies or I mean, I can't
think of anything that I'm allergic to, Like at one time, had it
sneezy out here, I'm dead well, yeah, but I mean that's that's
I feel like, that's the yellow flowers. Yeah. There are days when
my head gets all stuffed up and everything like that, but that's that's my
Yeah, you know, I get a sinus headache or whatever, but it's
not like you know, it's not like every day or whatever. Right,
Yeah, I mean there's that, but to me, that's that's just a
part of living in a place that's got all kinds of cool stuff in the
air. No, no, yeah, I don't care. Like today,
we moved our offices and we have a big pallaberty tree. Yell those yellow
flower Oh man, I'm I have to make sure I take my pills because
it's gonna crush one. I think that's an age things. No, no,
I'm doing this. When I was a kid. I was a kid.
I couldn't bathe the head to the hospit I will say that things like
that, you know, the sinus out, those types of allergies that you
get, you know, the water you guys. I didn't have that at
all until until I started wearning contact lenses. I started wearing contact lenses,
and all of a sudden, you know, I would get that stuff,
and then you know, I'll get the occasional sinus headache and I'll just take
a you know, an advil tail and all sinus cocktail and and and fix
it. All up there now you guys know everything. No, I'm sure
we'll find more more years just very yeah, but uh you know yeah,
but the whole the whole food allergy thing again going back to that is just
again I was telling you, you know, off area when my kids in
in their their private school, which kind of up at these schools, I'll
just say both of them were you know, we we had to deal with
that. You know, if you wanted to take a a little snack to
class, if you wanted to have a birthday cake or cupcakes for your kid,
you had to find out. You know, does anybody in the in
the you know you you have kids who are lactose intolerant all that kind of
stuff. Well, exactly back in the day when I was a kid and
you were a kid, they just made the cupcakes and they here. Yeah.
I mean I was intolerant of lactose only in the fence respect that I
hated milk. I still it didn't hurt you. But just a glass of
milk. I will not drink a glass of milk. Drink I will have
I'll have a small cup of milk with like some oreoles or cookies or whatever.
And you know, once I'm done dipping my cookies, and my cookies
are going, I'll chug the milk just so I'll throw it away. But
I don't like it. Yeah, I have never been. I've never been
a milk drinker. If that's gonna you know, when I when I blow
out my hip or whatever, if i'm they're gonna say, you never drink
milk as a kid, did you? Well, but your shoulder and my
shoulder and by both my knees said, and every time I stand up,
they pop. Yes, that's what. That's what the man of Bob was
telling you. See, you drink your milk. Yeah, I don't know
anything else else. I just told that. To be strange, this says
all these years, how do we not know this? I mean, guess
we knew this, but now we have to tell people about it, just
like people like the McDonald's thing, the lawsuit. Be careful because the coffee
might be hot. Yeah, yeah, we didn't know this. You didn't
know you were supposed to spill it on your lap. I know we're talking
about stupid, but it just kind of says what, No, I know,
I know it's and I don't know how all that happened, but it
has, it has all right, Well, here's a topic conversation. Someone
just sent this to me and I hadn't I hadn't seen this. But the
Kansas City chiefs kicker, Did you hear about this? He was a commandcement
speaker at Benedictine College, basically saying women should be wives and homemakers. Did
he any Was he serious? Yes, there's I think I just saw there's
a petition to get them to them really yeah. Wow, people are pissed.
Wow. And he said that, he said that in a commencement speech,
said that, uh that it was just I'm sorry because I'm not right
with this situation, even though I went to school, was the School of
Kathols was ben Addicting College? Yeah, okay, what would be what would
be behind that? I don't know? And why why you know? Why
would you you do that? And then then he went into the l g
B, l g B t Q stuff, calling calling it a deadly sin,
just all all all the things that you probably don't want to say any
commencement speech. He said, sure, sure they're spreading. Did you think
he had kept the audience with all this stuff? It makes no sense.
You must have, you know, And then then funny is is it?
Somebody made the point that in one of the ironies, the whole thing is
part of his speech to support what he was saying was a quote from a
Taylor Swift song. Who has a career, right, she has a career.
She's not at home? Okay, you know, she's not stood home
raising kids. She's got this massive career. And he's using what she you
know, one of her lyrics to support his his comments that you know,
women should be homemakers and wives, and that he was speaking for his wife
saying that she you knows, she doesn't regret and all this stuff. I
see a dateline coming up. And you know, anytime you know a dead
NFL kicker whose wife got sick of being you know, stuck in the house
and not being able to you know, be her own person or whatever.
So anyways, that was just me. The petitions up to twenty nine thousand
signatures, yeah, you know, and all the you know, all the
h social agencies or whatever, you know, glad and and all those that
come out and said and even the even the was it I think the uh
uh, it says justin Justice Horne, a former Kansas City Commissioner uh said
that h Harrison, Butker doesn't. Butker doesn't represent Kansas City, nor has
he ever. Kansas City has always been a place to welcome to the firms
that embraces our LGBTQ community members. Just what are you doing? Let me
shoot me now, if I ever quote Taylor Swift, and I promise you
I'll never ever ever quote Taylor Swift, go ahead, he shake it up
exactly back in the day. But the philosopher Taylor Swift, see, I
know, I know you're seeing shake it up to yourself in the shower.
You do, ye, I don't know, but he will wash it off.
Well, he's banned from my fantasy football team. I've had him a
number of times on my fantasy football did he he didn't come back and apologize.
He just know something And again, yeah, there's been no comments.
You don't need to apologize for something stupid that you say. I mean,
because that's what he believes. Yeah, obviously he wouldn't be saying this.
Yeah, been aedicting is a is a Catholic liber oral arts college, and
he was invoking his Catholic faith in all of this. He ripped Joe Biden
for supporting the boat abortion when Joe Biden's a Catholic stuff like that. So,
yeah, he thought he had kept a body, but it wasn't as
captive as he thought. Exactly, No, exactly said how many ten commandments?
Other? How many ten? Right? There's ten? And you people
kind of pick and choose which ones? Yeah? Yeah, I mean you
know, yeah, that's not killed. I haven't broken that one. You
one for ye, I've got nine of them. I'm good on the other
night, So you know what I'm saying. Just wow, that was kind
of I saw that. I would didn't pay attention to what he said,
but he was quoting Taylor Scoop for this tho I haven't covered in my neighbor's
wife. Let me say that for the record right now. That's too got.
I gotta go look up the rest of them. It's like when you
get those things on on social media, it's like a list of thirty things.
How many of these? I love those? You love? Scoring high
on those? Have you ever eaten peanut butter and nut ket alerge? Yeah
exactly? You know, have you ever been handcuffed? I love that one?
Legally? Igal you you I don't want to ask, I've been handcuffed
by the police. Yeah, what'd you do that you could say is a
public force? Well, we were messing with a friend's car. How old
were in high school? And your dad didn't find out, no, because
you'd be It was one of the you know, a friend his car broke
down on the side of the road, so we went to play a prank
on it. And we were we were messing with the car, you know,
we were, you know, just doing stuff, and a cop came
by and we took off running. So then he immediately flipped, you know,
did a U turn, came back at us, lights and siren in
the whole bit, and you know, there were three of us and they
caught us and they put us on the ground and they cuffed us. But
then they got up and you know, we said, look, he's a
friend of ours. You can call him. We gave him a phone number
whatever, and he said, okay, not not a big dealer. We
just didn't know if you were vandalizing the or was this what part ten east
side over on Speedway and called okay, yeah, there's that there. You're
a little delinquenth. Just listen to me, Henry whatever moving forward. He's
the dope part of this set, the dupe part. Wow, but that
was the only time I've been handcuffed. Okay, there's that, but that's
that's one that always shows up on those things that I get to say yes
and get a point for it. Proud moment, Henry, Please say that
you did not. You have not even though you were very young. You
know, we haven't talked sports link Like a half an hour we did with
Harrison Bucker here we did. Yeah, the kind of yes, Yes,
Henry's going, what the hell am I doing here? What am I doing
talking sports? Yeah? Exactly exactly. You can tell we don't have a
guest for the show, but no, no, and it's gonna be the
summer. I mean, come on last year at this time. In fact,
you've been trying to reach out to him Francona. I think we had
Frank to Day a couple of years ago. Yeah, and then during the
pandemic he talked to us whatever, because he did, Yeah, anywhere everybody
to talk to say. I've reached out to Steve Kerr because I told him
I said, hey, I attended your hooding ceremony that I called him doctor
Kurry I refer to as doctor Kerr. I said, I attended your hooting
ceremony on Friday night. Therefore, I think you owe us an appearance on
the show Someway as a responies. I was going to say this too,
Do you think, Henry, I mean, do you think life is fair?
Sometimes it's not? Okay, Sometimes, Henry, it's never fair.
Don't even use it ever, use that word. Whether your dad believes it
or not. That's not him. He believes in the jets. So I'm
not sure about that. Ronnie is in the combine, right, is he?
Should he be long in the combine? Well? Should find about with
him being in the combine. But if he gets into the NBA, I'll
go Is life fair? No? No? Is he better than I'm just
using caller blow than an example. Is he better than Caleb Blo No,
average fourteen less points than if he was Caleb. If he was better than
Caleb Love, he would have been packed off Player of the Year exactly.
Yeah. Right, So I just wanted to say that because life isn't fair,
and this is part of the unfairness, yeah, or an example of
it. Yeah, I mean sometimes it isn't. Sometimes it isn't. Sometimes
you go, okay that that I had that one coming, right, Yeah,
they're just good boy. But you know other times you just say,
no, it's not fair and why does he get that? And I don't
or something like that, right, And it's it's who you know, I
mean, Henry. The one of the things you need to do is network
your butt off before you leave, because that's only going to help you.
Whether you're brilliant at this. You could be brilliant at this and not have
a job. But if you know somebody who can get you to do this,
you got a job. Right. No, you know a lot of
that so often, I mean, without question. Yeah, no, my
daughter's going through that right now. You're just trying to find a job.
He still hasn't found a job, and we're trying to Now, okay,
who do you make? Who do we know that I could help her?
Get? Sure? Sure, that's what it's all about. I mean,
that's how you know. That's how I've gotten all my jobs. You know,
my job at a TEP I got that because a friend of mine,
a close friend of mine, got offered the position and didn't want it,
and they said, you got any you got anybody might fit this job,
and he said, I got a perfect guy for you, And I got
a phone call, and two weeks later I was in that job. Yeah,
you know, and most jobs are already predetermined. Yeah. And the
same thing, the same thing happened with my job at the city. You
know, they were looking for a communication director. I got let go at
at TP and you look at you, you let it on your feet.
One of the city one of the city manager's assistant city manager of that said,
hey, you want to come and work over here, would love to
have you. And was it? What were the circumstances did you you laid
off a TP? How many days later? Like two weeks later? Okay,
so I didn't even get a break. I mean I was just like
you, kind of falling forward, like me calling you the night you get
let go of the sugar got yeah, exactly what do you do? Nothing?
Why what do you want to? What do you want? What do
you know? So? Yeah, no, it is you know, I
mean, uh, it is Henry. I mean everybody, if you know
people and you're good with people and friendly with people, and you're kind of
good at what you do, you're good, you know. And then prior
to the service calls thing. I did apply it. You know, I
was looking for a job because things weren't going so great with my businesses.
And you know, I applied for jobs and didn't really have any contacts there,
and they didn't get any of those jobs you need. And that's yeah,
we need to know somebody very often, you know. So that's the
way. That's just the way it works. It works. Okay, that
was we got to that first were and I'm bad. Huh. Right man,
we're back on schedule. We've got a guest coming up. We got
breaking news coming up with with Henry. He's gonna dig out some stuff,
uh as Steve says, a lot, a lot of things going on.
And then we'll have a Jason Barr from KGUN we'll join us. We'll chat
chat him up a little bit about uh, you know, things going on
around here. He covers a lot of the same stuff we did, probably
in a different way. So stick around for all o that and we'll be back