Ain't no sunshine when she's go. It's not warm when she the wie.
So it happens when the sun disappears. We are at Solar Palooza when she's
done and she's Skycoasters are playing it. So we're recording this at about two
twenty five pm. The totality hits here at about three eighteen I think,
and last three minutes. And you can actually somebody told me that they went
to an eclipse and it got windy, you know, and here we could
feel the breeze picking up. The temperature is dropping. You can feel that.
Somebody said it drops dropped like ten degrees. Oh I think we did
that last sunning in the podcast. Yeh yes, and then uh. And
it's getting a lot of national attention. Now. I have a buddy who
I went to Saint John Fisher with Duke. I used to always sing Duke
of Rule when I would get drunk and just driving crazy. But Duke is
part of the Rochester Welcome Committee. I don't know, it's not welcome committee,
but it's it's like a sea. It's the head of tourism for Rochester.
Really And I said, is it like overplayed because everybody's on social media
go, yeah, there's no traffic. They're screwing us again, they're lying
to us. And I thought, well, I don't know that that's true.
I think people were just sort of behaving themselves, planning. And then
Deputy Hurley told us last night they've been planning for this for a year.
In change right, somebody said that there was there were some places that for
seven years they've known this was coming, and so they really planned it.
I think there's probably four or five thousand people here now, oh yeah.
And he said to me that every Airbnb in the area was come on over,
have a seat, have a seat, you can have a seat.
I'm well, doctor Mayer, Oh yeah, Dennis to the red Wings here.
You can see if we can kind of set them up there. The
uh. But he told me that every within the path of total, every
Airbnb or ninety nine percent of airbnbs are sold out. The hotels are sold
out locally, and he said, just you know, traffic and stuff.
I think most people were kind of staying in one area. But so far,
so good, and they think there's another five thousand over at the Rochester
Museum and Science Center and some other things. Have you been excited about this?
Are you where? Are you gonna watch it here? Get right on
that mic there? Yeah? Are you gonna stay here? Okay? I
didn't know if you were heading out? No, I got a buddy who's
coming. He didn't. Oh, I get in here. I'm sorry.
Okay the cliff, Yes, doctor Mayer when and now I know people who
go to him. It's all sports memorabilia when you go in there, and
a whole lot. I saw you up in the Bills when we were up
at the Bill's Mafia House. Yeah and so and did all the players come
to you? Yeah? If there's ever emergency dental stuff? Yeah. Yeah.
You know, this is my nineteenth season that we can step this nineteenth
season is the wing stends? Wow? Well very good. So you know
people say my office is like a sports bar. Yes, it is,
without without the alcoholic. Yeah. Now, I mean you got the novcame,
we got the novacase. Get you there. That'll get you there.
Well, nice to see. I don't want to hold you up if you
were heading somewhere, Tyler. I want to know something in school. Was
this a big deal or not a big deal? The eclipse? And I
know you've been off for last week, right, Yeah, and so was
it a big deal? Yah? Yeah, big deal, not big deal,
not really a big deal because apparently I guess everyone got off, so
yeah, But I mean in terms of like, were there any any talk
about it in science classes or anything or nothing? Nothing? Why? That's
why I was surprised to say kids had in school off today, because I
figured it'd be a great day to have the kids in school learning about the
eclipse and then going out or going home. And why would you make sense?
I think that they were worried about the traffic stuff and then kids not
getting home too late parents or parents being stuck at traffic and not getting home.
So that way, if they don't have the kids, not their responsibility.
The kids say you get home late and I get an extra twenty minutes.
Silence, ooh darn, I don't know. I think that was part
of it. Now, this is getting national attention and some regional stuff.
So NBC News out of New York, Channel four in New York City,
if you're in the New York metropolitan area is here. And the weather guy
used to be the CBS National Weather Guy. He was when CBS Sunday Morning
Show, so he had my dad as a teacher, and years ago they
put him on every sitcom on CBS to promote the morning show, and he
did some radio hits and he and I talked, so I just walked over
to him and he said, he'll be live on NBC the Network with Lester
Holt at three to twenty from Rochester at three twenty, so hopefully before then
he'll come down. And I wanted to try to call my dad and see
if I you know what, I'm gonna do something my dad will totally hate.
I'm going to try to call him right now on the podcast and just
see and let him know that David Price who he taught. And right away,
David Price immediately knew my fond who remembers sixth grade, nobody remembers funny.
He goes man, he was so funny. He was great. So
my dad had called a little while ago, and I thought, let me
see if I can try to get him. Uh, and it would be
fun with David. And David asked me how old he is now, and
Uh, it was just thrilled. It was very very cool. It's kind
of nice because you know, as anybody who's a parent, you know that
sometimes your kids think you're a big pain in the ash. But it's nice
to hear somebody else say something nice. Milli yelling. He's not there.
That's all right. We'll see if we can get him. My mother is
here, she's been down on the on the field. We walked around on
the warning track. We got the the skycoasters have people dancing. We did
go and get the roar Bock. Uh. Total eclipse, that's what it's
called. It's a very dark beer, but it's very good. You're you
enjoying. You can get right in the microphone there, and it's very exciting
here. The vibe is wonderful, and we're getting closer to the time now,
and you can feel a change in the atmosope. Well yeah, and
Kevin said, I mean, Kevin pointed out how quiet it's getting. Just
and you were telling me mom on the way here that the animals get very
quiet. The animal is supposed to get quiet, and you're supposed to use
all your senses to fill the animals think it's nighttime. Right. Oh,
there's mace in the uniform. He got it on. Oh he must have
had some time. We needed that. Uh, it's a whole lot of
mine. They've really done a nice job down here today and we will see
I think at what are we about an hour away? The countdown clock for
Rochesters forty minutes from right now? Oh boy, thirty seven minutes? Do
we need to start heading down now? You think it might be traffic all
the way to the field, and maybe traffic all the way to the field.
People were very kidding here. It is starting to get darker and darker,
which would be what happens. There's a lot of great celestial shirts here
and people dressed in their star finery and nothing says Rochester though, like once
in a lifetime, and it's cloudy. Kevin sent me a picture and it
said nothing. That's the eclipse in Buffalo, no goal wide right and cloudy
eclipse. Well, what are you gonna do? It's the path of totality,
that's what's gonna happen. All right. We'll take them moment where we
are at Innovative Field for the Solar Palooza. Hopefully you're enjoying it wherever you
are. And if you don't get to see this one, the next one
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engaged. I also got mugged at the same time. So how did you
guys feel about everything today. I thought it was good. What's your name?
My name is Brian, by the way, and I work in the
kitchen here here at the Red Wings Stadium. All right, what's your favorite
thing to make? I'm actually a fish guy. Okay, I'm actually a
wait. Did I hear they have a catfish sandwich here? Yes, we're
gonna have got fish pretty soon. Called. I heard I heard talk of
that. Yeah, it just it just hasn't came up. Yeah, but
we're just waiting on the chef to make it happen. Okay. And so
when you go home, do you cook? Yes? I do? Or
you're sick of cooking? When by the time again, Nah, I actually
love to cook. I've been in it. I've been been in the cooking
industry for about like ten years now. I'm thirty four years old. All
right, Yeah, it's awesome. I just love everything about it. I
love, you know, tasting different foods, experiencing a different you know,
experience of it all, you know, love seeing that happy smiles and everything
open. Yes is when it Yeah, who are you? So? Did
you get down on the field for the total eclipse? Yes? We did
did Yeah, And that was that was pretty amazing, wasn't it. Yeah,
it definitely was pretty amazing. Uh to see it happen, you know,
within this decade, you know what I mean, it's it's amazing.
I think the next time it's gonna be what twenty years from now? Twenty
five years? Is that what we're saying? Twenty forty five, twenty forty
five, forty five, So in twenty forty five you'll see it again.
Yeah, guys? Will they Guys? I'm still here and able to see
it. Yeah, well, of course you're gonna be. What do you
do for fun? Well, I I'm a clothes designer. I make clothes
and I love and I love to Uh what kind of clothes you make?
It? I do hoddies? This is actually good a mother all right.
It's called street art, So I pretty much take anything from the streets and
make it into my own art work, like you do, see like silk
screen. Yeah, yeah, so you take people's graffiti and you put it
on. But now hang out, I get right back in there. Would
that be considered stealing somebody else's art? No? I actually I actually uh
because I use my name so and I uh, I just basically uh,
I basically pat in there, Yes, I got you. They're tags and
everything like that. So I give whoever it was ta get some money.
Yeah, you know, I give them recognition of everything that comes off of
whatever I do. Okay, so you know, or I just or I'll
just make or I just come up with my own street art because I'm also
an artist and a pain on myself. Really, yes, sir, Now
where would I go? Do you do street art? Yes? I do?
Where can I go see it? Actually? The underground subway there,
Yes, I have. I have a few down in the under the subway,
and I have there's some great art down there, to be honest,
Like I remember going down to being very impressed because that stuff takes some time,
and I'm thinking, why would it almost feels like now this is just
an old man thinking. But I feel like in a way it's a waste
because who sees it. It's hidden and it's great art, it really is.
I mean because a lot of the times, the you know, the
cops and everything, they kind of us for that. So of course that's
what I'm saying, Like too bad he couldn't do would like on a piece
of canvas and sell it somewhere, right, right, and that that would
be amazing. So like, uh, I'm actually I actually want to work
on something like that for the community where we can get uh the area where
we can just go. They have a skate park park, they need a
tag park right where you can tag stuff where we can just go show our
you know, how people come down there and enjoy what we do. My
uh, my youngest son was very into graffiti stuff, like into the art
and he had his own tag and everything, and then he got busted at
school because he put a tag on a sink and they knew, what's him?
You can't, you know, you gotta be a little more like Banksy.
I think that they think they found the real Banksy. He was painting
a mural in New York City. Yeah, they think they caught him.
So so uh besides this, what do you guys do it? So you
guys, I said, talk ship all day long? Podcast whatever? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, you want to listen to it. It's called Billified
and anywhere anywhere you anywhere you get podcasts. Where do you get your podcasts?
Spotify? Apple? Yeah, yeah, there you go. That's it.
Now he can tang you under the under the subway bridge that's right.
Where do you uh so, do you live in the city. Yes,
I live off of Monroe. All right, talk to me about the city.
What do you think what's happening in the city these days? Honestly,
I've been more into myself lately. That's a good thing, to get more
in tune with myself. And what do you do to get in tune your
with yourself? I listen to music and I sit down and I critique myself
on my on my craft that I do and all my artwork and stuff like
that. You ever meditate or anything? I do? A lot of that.
I have. I have before. I have, like you know,
three or four times before, you know, But that actually helps to that
actually knows well it helps you get in tune with yourself. Yeah, a
little bit. Well that's good. And and how many games do you have
to work? Are you at all? Seventy five throughout the season for the
most part, Yeah, for the most part. Yeah, that's a lot.
Yeah, that's good. It's a nice way to spend the summer long.
Yeah, it definitely is. Now, what do you do when they're
during the off season? Well, this is my first year here, okay,
so you know, I just want to get the experience to everything here,
working in the stadium and meeting new people, because I'm all about meeting
new people and everything. So I'm very excited to start here. But you
know, on the off seasons, I you know, I float around between
like two or three different restaurants. Gotcha like that? All right? Well,
very good. Well it's nice to meet you man. Thank you.
I'm going to be looking for those Can I buy them online or something?
Yes? I will be having my actual my actual page. It's going to
drop actually on my mom's death date. It's January ninth. It's going to
be a year since my mom passed away, and basically I'm gonna be dedicating
everything to her going off, you know, January ninth, January nine,
twenty twenty five. No this she died when in twenty twenty four, twenty
three. I mean January July July? Gotcha? All right? That was
it? So July ninth, and you're gonna drop your page on that day.
That's a special day. We'll good. That's good. How you doing
with that? It's tough. Obviously I'm doing better than I expected. Yeah,
I thought I was gonna fall off the rows and being a whole different
place. But honestly, I kept, I don't know, I just I
stay. I stayed, just believing in myself and knowing where my mom would
want me and to keep pushing, and I just, you know, I
just stayed in the zone, and I just gave it my all, you
know, And I'm keeping I'm gonna keep giving it my off, and I'm
not gonna stop, you know. It's It's all gonna be for her,
you know pretty much. I'm I'm doing it for her and my awesome,
my twin brother, because I lost the twenty brother took so jeez, okay,
all right, twin brother. How old was he? We were eighteen
at the time. Eighteen at the time. What happened, Well, he
got uh uh, he got in an incident with some people. I wasn't.
I wasn't in New York at the time. I was. Uh was
it here, Yes, it was in Rochester. Was shot, Yes,
he was shot in someone's house or something. Something came up. I was,
honestly, I was. I was dancing at this time because I still
teach hip hop dancing too, so I was. Uh. I was actually
into a dancing group back then, and and I was in uh what was
it? I was in California and I was there for a battle with the
team, and I got a call and then I had to leave the battle
and everything because I'm really sorry to hear that. It's just the violence in
the city sometimes it ruins a lot of great things out this. Why can't
people just learn to work stuff out? Right? That's where I'm at right
now, Like if we if we're all just you know, willing to work
it out without you know, fighting, well, you know, shooting or
anything like that, shooting stuff. Even if you just you know, you
know, throw throw it out with your hands, duke it out with your
hands, you know it, I think will the city will be a lot
better, you know. But like right now, I love my city.
I love this city we have. We have a great place here. You
know, we have a lot of great things about Rochester. If only if
only people gave it a chance to come here to really experience it. Yeah,
I know, I agree with you. I've lived here for a long
time. You know, I'm not exactly born from here. I'm born from
Little Rock, Arkansas, but I was raised here most of my life.
Yeah, so I basically, you know, I don't been through a lot
of things in the city. So I love everything about the city. Man,
there's no great place. It's just that that that the problem is,
Like you just wish that people there's a lot of emotional issues, right,
and a lot of stress, and I think that if people could learn to
handle that stuff a little bit better. But man, we get so angry
and we're quick with that trigger. And that's the stuff that's really scary and
very very sad and gives cities a bad reputation, as you're saying, and
it's usually a small percentage of people, but it makes the whole community scared
and stuff. And I'm sorry that you've had to live through that. That's
some tough business in your mom and everybody. That's something. Well. I
appreciate you sitting down. You're an interesting dude. Appreciate it. What's your
name online? If I go look for that website that's gonna drop July ninth,
right, yes, sir, Oh, my name is Brian. Right,
my name is Brian Walters, and it's gonna be under aks the street
art Imperial. Okay, street Art Imperial. I'll look for that. I'll
remember street Art Imperial, all right, well, I appreciate it. Man.
Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you guys. So, Thosevelt
Murray is a security guard here at Innovative Field. How long were they preparing
for this right in there? Really? What do they say to you?
Did they do training and things? Yeah, they're getting there. They're preparing
us for the possibilities of anything different change clearly clips. Yeah. Did you
get down on the field and they were able to see it? No,
No, I was up. I was up to the front looking at the
guy. Well, it got very dark and it got cold, and it
was I thought it was kind of a cool thing to experience. Yeah,
Roosevelt, you're here for every games of most of the games. I'm working
a school. What school? School guards school, the arts? Arts?
Okay? And and how does that go? Kids behave themselves these days.
They they have their moments, all right. Well, Roosevelt, we don't
want to take up too much your time. I know you've got to get
over and uh see, make sure everybody's leaving in an orderly fashion. Make
sure the kids aren't bugging spikes and MITSI yeah, bucking spikes, that's the
other protect MITSI. Yeah, Roosevelt, did you play football? By the
way, I played football, not for the schools. I wrestled for the
schools. Okay, it was actually the football team they were they had,
they had their favorites. Oh, I see, did you and you wrestled?
Did you wrestle? Did you what weight class? I wrestled? Yeah?
There you go, all right, you win? Yes, look at
that, alright. I haven't I get him in the Guards match against Doug.
I think Roosevelt takes Doug down. Yeah, Doug wants to get back
into it. Doug Woods went at Greece Olympia. He went to Wagner on
a scholarship. I'm awesome marine. So that means you yeah, never mind
any message, you win, you win, Roosevelt. All right, nice
talking to you. Thank you guys, appreciate you. Zayiza, what do
you do here? Okay, right in there, right in there. I'm
a concession worker for what concessions? All of them? I know all of
them. Okay, everything, all right. Now, I've not seen the
double nose piercings like it. Yeah, I do, and it's got the
things. But I will be afraid now get right in there now, don't
get upset with me. But if I sneezed, I'd be afraid something to
be hanging off the star. You know what I'm saying. Right, If
I sneezed, I get sinus issues and stuff. No, I know,
Well you're very lovely. So when did you get that done? When I
was in high school? What are you not in high school? Now?
You look very young. I'm not in high school no more. Okay.
We're graduated last year, last year okay? And so and you're working here?
Yeah, I've been working here. This is my second year, your
second year. You love it? Yes? Okay? And what else do
you do for fun? Oh? Nothing really? Ill just be home and
work, home and work. That's it. Yeah, because I had two
other jobs. What else do you do? And McDonald? And I'm a
home healthcare and home healthcare? So wait a second, Hang on a second.
I heard young people don't like to work. Oh, so what I've
I've been told that? Aren't we told that young people don't want to work?
I said the same thing. I said, I don't believe it because
you just graduate high school? So what are you eighteen or nineteen? Okay?
So I have sons who are twenty two and twenty three and they work
all the time, and I go, what is this garbage? And then
I meet you Zayisha, and she's working three gigs Frontier, Field, McDonald's
and home healthcare. Yeah yeah, your mother must your parents must be very
proud. Yes, your mother, your mother must be very proud. That's
a very good thing. And you knew this was a podcast, but it's
a podcast you probably never listen to. No, it's called Billified. You
can fight today where you get your podcasts? All right, well, it's
nice talking to you, all right. Roscoe the clown. I was watching
you make call the balloon animals. Now, my brother went to clown college
for a minute. Where did he go in Florida? Ah, he went
to that famous one down in Florida, down in the Orlando area because he
was working in Disney as an economic forecaster. But he always did like clowns.
But you learn to do the makeup, makeup and all that kind of
stuff. Yeah, how long does it take to do your makeup? And
now I got it down to less than twenty five minutes? Okay, And
then you come out and you do the balloon animals and things. But are
people there are people who have a clown phobia. Since Steven came out with
the that was our first going downhill a little bit with the kids being afraid
of clowns. And those kids now are they were afraid of clowns, are
now parents that are passing down to their kids? Yeah? You know,
because you used to do birthday parties and things I've done. I done birthday
parties for almost thirty five years and I've been in the circus for eighteen years.
What circus? I did the Shrine Circus okay, you know the one
that was at the Blue Cross area. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And
then with being a Shriner, I went to different cities like Aubany, Pittsford,
Syracuse, Buffalo, helping out other Shriners to do So. Now as
a clown, what do you have to do in the shrine circus? Did
you have to? Can you ride a unicycle? I can do the unicycle,
I can juggle. What we would do is put on developed skits that
we would do actually during part of the show. Yeah, okay, so
you developed skits and everything. Did you have to write them? I mean
you have to write what people are gonna do, the actions and all we
had, Well, then we had the sources that we can get pre made
up skits, okay, we like to do the ones that we can develop
our own ourself. Yeah. So how how much time goes into practicing for
something like that? If we were do the circus we start four months before
okay four months before and do you is it how many hours a day?
We only do that by three if we first start out, but one day
a week okay working out their routine. But when he gets close to circus
time, we're doing it about four times a week. Yeah. Do you
have to almost get like in shape for that? You know what I'm saying
on the tour? Well? Yeah, like honestly you're going on to or
You've got to be able to juggle and keep your rhythm and do you can
you? Do you still or could you ever ride the unicycle and juggle at
the same time? Uh? Not no, not not now no, But
I mean it's you could. Yes. To me, that's amazing because the
balance they always had in boxing. Guys ride unicycles sometimes too for balance.
It was great balance. We've had a unicycle sitting in our studio for nine
months and somebody claims they can ride and then yea has still sitting there.
They haven't. It needs to be these a little works to be tightened up
and stuff. But yes, I always I have been able to ride a
unicycle in the past past. Yes, it takes a lot of work,
it does, but once you do it, I mean, it's like juggling.
I could juggle now. My brother juggles fire. He juggles all that
stuff, and he really enjoys the clown stuff. But it was more of
a I think who was the clown mom that he went to somebody's house and
they were having a sale, and she she He mentioned that he went to
clown college and the clown had passed away the man who performing as a clown,
and his wife said, we'll come here and let me sell you some
of the good stuff. Oh yeah, yeah, the different tricks and things.
I mean, is there is somewhat of a fraternity among clowns. That
sounds silly to say, but you know people who really sort of appreciate the
art of clowning. Oh definitely, And we've all there's many different associations and
all, like we have the Shrine Clowns, which is an international group.
Used to be before the circuses started going downhill. We used to being almost
one hundred and twenty two cities. Okay, so when we get together and
we became friends and all that kind of stuff, and someone was going to
retire, he would say, Okay, I got this stuff, I want
you to I want to sell and all that or a lot of time they
say, ok just take it. Yeah. And there's rules too, right,
No two clowns can have the same name. It's all registered and stuff.
Yes, my name is registered. You know. So how did you
get Roscoe? Basically if he gave you he gave me a look like,
that's so much question you can answer me. But I don't know. I
just didn't even know. Like if they give you like a list and you
picked it, like back in the Magician, how it does to make thumb
disappear? Does everybody remember when you had like a different if you took a
language class in high school, pick a friend. I had to pick a
name, like I picked Guillermo in Spanish because it was William and my name
is Bill William. But I didn't know what. I don't know how they
do it with the clouds. I'm gonna okay, spell Roscoe backwards, Roscoe
backwards? R Oscar is it Oscar? Oscar. Okay, Oh, excuse
your name is sheick Roscoe? Look at that? Yeah, that's great because
I thought Roscoe of the Clown. I go, yeah, I don't know
if I've ever heard of a Roscoe of the clown. But it works all
to work too. Oscar the Clown would have worked as well, that is
true. Yeah, but you have to Oscar the Grouch. So you don't
want to you know what I mean? I think people make infringement. What
do we get gimmic infringement? I think that it's what just word association,
name association. You want to be the grouch? When I when I give
people my real name, I say I'm Oscar to Grouch, you know,
and they remember my name as they said I'm Oscar to Grouch. I used
to use say I'm Oscar from the Couples. Okay, now did you remember
that? Did you ever do like pratt falls and all that stuff? Yeah,
like ever get hurt injured? Oh? When I was younger. Now
I bounce back, but no, I would never do it now. No,
now I don't bounce because I used to do for twenty six years.
I used to do uh for raids. Okay, on roller skates on roller
skates. Yeah, on uneven pavement, not knowing whatever's in the street,
people throwing their candy back at you, the potholes exactly. I always when
they paved a new road. Okay, yes it's smooth. Yeah, but
you always come up with something that the kids are gonna remember you buy.
Okay, it's okay. He's the one that rolled us roller skates. Orr.
He did this in the circus. He did that in the circus.
But like here, the kids I would know that. I'm uh red wings
clowns. Yeah, it's fair like because I've been with the rent Face for
twenty nine years, So twenty nine years of doing that. Thirty five is
a clown? Did you say? Yeah? And it's just a pat What
got you into it? What made you go? You know what? That's
a damn good idea. I gotta be careful what I say. There's a
woman, there was a woman. She loved clowns. But uh, dory,
I'm gonna fray. I play a very important holiday character. You play
a very important holiday character. Yeah, would be Screwge from Christmas, the
jelly red guy. Oh oh, Santa, Yes, okay, I did
that. I've been doing that since nineteen seventy eight. Okay, okay,
and one year I was working the malls and I basically what we call the
longest holiday season new is when you get early Thanksgiving. Yeah, and then
they go to Christmas like we just got done. We went this year,
it's five weeks, five weekends before Christmas. I did. Even though I
had a full time job. I worked at the malls the whole time.
And you really got to the point where you know, I'm not psychoed,
but you walk around and say, hey, I am Santa Claus. And
then the true good Santa Claus are the one that come across. I am
Santa Claus. Yea, they've really come across. Fuss. You know.
My biggest thing is always helping. I don't just say are you been good?
And I will go If I know there were two, three or four
kids, I would say which one caused a fight in the car or which
one didn't eat your veget role? Yeah, you know, because they always
hut it out there and you get that look like okay, I got a
deer look in my face. Yeah, yeah, you know. But after
that long season, I went to a local establishment serve the Doubt Beverages and
I was talking to the bartender and she said, I said, I was
basically going through Sanders went wrong, you know, because you walk around everybody
wants you to talk to you and all that kind of stuff. And after
you get done with the season. No, I didn't want to talk to
you. So, uh, the bartender said, why don't you become a
clown? I said, no, no, I can't do that. And
Wie Pine at the time, was a bartender. She went out to the
heroine costume, got me a costume. Look at this so there was a
woman, yea, and she got me no stuff. And then I took
Coln College. Yeah, a local community, Yeah, let's go, and
fell in love with it. And I've been doing it ever since. There
you go, it's Roscoe and you can see him. Are you here for
almost every home game, all weekends, all weekends, all weekend home games.
Did you ever Easter Bunny? Did you ever Easter Bunny? The answer
to that is yes, he once was the Easter Bundy. I could tell
I do not have the proper physique. Okay, well, at any point,
you know, I'd be with a belly. He hate all the candy.
He really likes his karts never down. Well, Roscoe, it was
really nice talking to you, and I think that people when you come here
to the home games on weekends and even some double headers right Saturday Sundays doubleheaders,
and as we get closer to the fall, I'll come to a special
weekday promotion. Okay stuff. Yeah, I've been. Like I said,
I know the management here very well. They take really good care of me.
And they went like this thing here is they asked me to come in
and entertain. Yeah that's great. Well, uh, don't be afraid of
clowns. Kids. Roscoe is a friendly guy and he makes balloon animals and
he's very nice and he has a nice smile, and you're gonna be all
all fine, No one needs to worry about it. But he's come to
the game. Come to the games. We are an innovative field. We
aren't gonna wrap it up. It was solar pool. I don't know about
anybody else, but I'm already tired. Did you did you get to see
the eclipse? Roscoe? Oh? I felt the cold weather? Yeah,
lost like fifteen degrees, yes it did, and a mother in nature.
But you got the effect of it. Yeah you did, Yeah, you
did. Get the effect of it. And it was actually kind of cool
with the clouds because you got to see some of the you know, from
the sun coming around the moon. Well we would have saw the ring.
You saw the patches in the clouds a little bit. That was that was
pretty amazing. Well, nice talking to you. Thank you Kevin for coming
out, my mom for making the trip, David Price for not coming on,
Tyler for coming out. I'm I'm Bill Moran will see you tomorrow.
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