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And you're back with another edition of
the Federalist Radio Hour. Emily Dashinsky,

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culture editor here at the Federalist.
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Today, I'm very excited to be
joined by Corey and Ganilmoort. He

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is a producer over at wma L. He produces the wonderful Vince Coolonaise and

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Vince Colona's show over there, but
he's also a weekend host of his own

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news show on wma L here in
the DC area. Corey, Welcome to

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Federalist Radio Hour. Emily. I'm
so glad to be here. Thank you

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for having me. Yes, of
course, first let's start just tell us

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where you people can listen to your
show, how they can listen to your

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show, When they can listen to
your show. Sure. So, my

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new show, the Corey and Ganimort
Show, very original name I came up

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with. It airs on Saturdays live
on wm AL one O five point nine

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about every other week We're still deciding
exactly how often this is going to be

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on Saturdays, but you can hear
me this upcoming Saturday tomorrow, three to

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six, the Great WMAO. And
people can listen online too, right,

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yep, they can stream online WML
dot com. There's a listen live feature

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right there, and I hope that
you do. We have we have lots

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to talk about tomorrow. We have
a guest coming on. He's a doctor

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who thinks it's wrong with the transgender
industry pharmaceutical complex is doing. Right now,

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I challenge him a little bit about
how the transgender community not only are

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they trying trying to mutilate our kids, trying to indoctrinate our children, they're

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also trying to delete gay people from
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think about it, let's say there's
a young boy named Billy, and he

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is showing signs that maybe someday he
might turn out to be gay. Maybe

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he skips in the hallways on his
way to school, maybe he listens to

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Kesha on the weekends. I don't
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turn out to be gay. Well, that's okay in my mind, Like

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an adult gay man I hope you
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However, the trans community will say, no, Billy needs to be

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a strong, adult, blue haired, probably septim piercing woman in order to

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live his true full self. So
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trying to delete gay people from its
existence entirely. It's a homophobic cause in

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my mind, Oh actually just outright
labeling it a homophobic cause. I'm going

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there, I'm going there, and
so many people like this this LGBT.

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Let's take the letter is an individual
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what the hell that means, and
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knows what most of them mean.
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first three letters. That has to
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attracted to? A guy being attracted
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attracted to a girl. So what
great the trans community is a guy who

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thinks he's a girl or a girl
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really need to separate the two issues. That's one of my big cases.

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You know, I happen to be
gay. I don't know if you knew

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that or not, but great,
good go for me. The trans community

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is trying to group the groups together
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I think most of America is okay
for gay marriage, like that's fine.

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However, most people, rightfully so, are not okay with adult men calling

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themselves women and then changing among teenagers
in a locker room. So it's kind

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of like a shield that the community
puts together. Let's group ourselves in with

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the gay community. Therefore, if
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You know, the Nashville shooter a
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story. Everyone's quick to jump to
blame the LGBT community. And my view

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is like, hold on a second. My sexuality has nothing to do with

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this woman or man, I forget
what he even was, who is suffering

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from a mental disorder and goes up
to shoot a school. It has nothing

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to do with someone's sexual preference.
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how I feel it's actually dangerous.
It's one point on that is you when

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you said it's a shield. That's
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about whether homosexuality is a mental illness, like after culturally, we sort of

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reckoned with that. You put people
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gender dysphoria, which is a diagnosed
men mental illness, you tack it on.

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And then you know, if you
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suffering from a mental illness, you're
criticizing every Like it's the perfect crime,

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exactly crime tacking it onto that it
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You know, the Left and I
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when when you know, you take
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you pray the best you can that
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can turn out to be straight,
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really appropriate course of action. I
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I didn't choose it. Trust me, it'd be a lot harder if I

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did choose. I wouldn't wish it
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life, even though we do have
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of a Target department store. The
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from a man to a woman or
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support that, like, yes,
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of this identity of who you actually
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it, in other cases they allow
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of your sexual identity, they actually
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to take your kids away and they
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them down this road. And if
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parent. So it's kind of a
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conversion is okay, but the other
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You're from the DC area originally,
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But I've been down here for fifteen
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myself a swamp creature. Yea,
at this point it counts. I'm curious

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about a local like I've actually always
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I've like, I love WML.
I've had just so many good experiences with

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WML hosting a show in all of
the conservative offerings that you guys have at

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WML, from Larry to Vince to
you in the DC area, but yet

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having so many fans and so many
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it's so strange. It's like this
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are good, obviously, I don't
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just it's like people find it's cathartic. I don't know. I was curious

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for especially on the production end too, When you're sort of thinking about these

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things and paying attention to what people
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basis, that's kind interesting to me. I think. I agree. What's

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great about producing for the Vince Colony
Show is obviously, like he's so great

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at what he does. He's one
of the smartest people I know. But

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we have so many listeners that include
lawmakers. Anytime I want to try to

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book a congressman or a senator,
and you probably have this experience at the

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federalists as well. It's that they
are local and they're listening to us on

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their ride back from home, the
ride to work, so we have access

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to lawmakers all the time. If
someone a radio show host in I don't

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know, Oklahoma or Nashville or Minnesota
was trying to book these congressmen, they

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probably would be a whole lot less
successful. So I think Vince has so

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much more influence than any other radio
show host that really exists. I mean,

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obviously, if you get people who
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we have a few of those.
Chris Plant obviously as Dan Bongino,

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both air on WML as well.
That's what makes my job so cool because

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I can reach out to all these
important people and they know Vince already,

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like I listen to them all the
time, So come on join the show,

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and that's where we can really break
news. Vince asks the right questions,

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he really pulls information out of that. The other thing is our listeners

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are all well, a lot of
federal employees, a lot of people who

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used to work in the intelligence industry. So we'll have callers all the time

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who want to chime in on the
two tier justice system and they'll say they'll

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give me a fake name. They're
like, well, I work in the

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intelligence industry. I can't really let
people know who I am, so they

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give me a fake name. We
put them through and they have some real

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detailed information that they go through and
it's really neat. We only have that

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access here in Washington, d C. And so I love that With all

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of Vince's guests, Emily, as
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is a frequent guest, Vince's absolute
favorite. Whenever there's a topic where I

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don't know who to book, per
se. I mean, Emily, you

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obviously are an expert in the intelligence
Facebook censorship industry, but whenever there's an

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all encompassing topic, Emily, I
gotta text Simley and she is the first

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one responds in five seconds. It
makes my job as a producer so great,

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and you're just so awesome. Put
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I am an expert in absolutely everything. Yes, I didn't mean to insult

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you by saying that, but whatever, I know that it's not just social

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media, Corey. What I am
an expert in. It basically knows no

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bounds, and that's thanks to Wikipedia
and also fashion and pop culture. And

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I see you have musical instruments behind
you. I'm sure you're a great musician

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all of that. So yes,
you are the expert. But also that's

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the point about what you guys are
doing in the DC area. But also,

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I mean, I don't know,
I just I think It's all interesting,

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and it's also interesting to me that
you did not. Oh this is

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what I was going to say,
I was. I lost my train of

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thought, Corey, because you had
overwhelmed me with flattery. I went on

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a rants called but no, I
thought that you were from d C.

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Because you are. I mean,
listen, if I was not from a

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city, would I be so excited
to dress up like that city's mascots?

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Probably not. Listen. I'm from
Milwaukee area. So would I, you

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know, wear a costume? Yeah? Or Bernie Brewers out Bango? Yeah?

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Would I be Bango? Or would
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day, laughing and smiling? If
I weren't from Milwaukee, well, first

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of all, I wouldn't do it. But second of all, I sure

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as hell wouldn't do it if I
was not from Milwaukee. And yet here

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you are. Corey has this entire
and I just I wanted to do a

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podcast to dig into all of this, like what it's like to be a

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mascot, but a series of mascots? Really is what You've played it?

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Do you call it played or do
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how did you get into the DC
mascot game. Sure, well,

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I was a mascot at the University
of Delaware. I randomly became friends with

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a team of mascots. There are
five people on the mascot team, and

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I randomly became friends with them through
social gatherings. Mark Kevin Bart, we

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just like started hanging out and they
were all sound like Kavanaugh. Just then

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I did actually Mark Kevin Bart,
I like beer. So I just became

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friends with them. And then it
was actually a very secretive thing as a

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mascot, you're not really supposed to
talk about it. It took me about

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six months to realize, you know, these were actually the mascot performers.

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UD University Delaware's mascot name was u
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I finally figured it out. They
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like, what are you doing?
As I see this mascot van that's parked

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out of their house a lot of
times, figured it out, became very

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interested, as I want to do
this too. It just seems fun and

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I want to hang out with my
buddies. I had no intention of being

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a mascot. When I went to
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I got cut. I was like, okay, great, that's awesome.

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The tryouts are pretty intense. They
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they all nonverbally, Like Corey showed
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ten, act out sophisticated out of
three, and I didn't know what the

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hell to do. I was like
scratching my chin, walking around pretending I

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was drinking a glass of wine.
That kind of stuff. But it's all

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nonverbal. It's very awkward. You
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moves and how you act out certain
situations. Anyway, I got cut mostly

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because I was a senior at the
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it turns out later that year,
my friend Kevin graduated earlier, the

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semester early, and he became the
Washington Capital's mascot, so they needed somebody

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to fill in the place. I
got asked on, but mostly as a

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helper. Eventually they put me in
costume, but we I kind of snuck

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it because the coach didn't want me
in costume because I wasn't trained enough and

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that whole that kind of stuff.
So anyway, I finished out the ethnical

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ability that. You know, I
thought it was just where a costume and

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act like an idiot, but you
know, that is most of the job.

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But there are certain ways you're supposed
to do it. There's you know,

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certain boundaries. Certain there's a style
of walk you're supposed to at least

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that University of Delaware adopt, so
that way, all the five performers look

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the same. So you're never really
supposed to know who's in costume. So

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I finished out that year. The
Washington Nationals needed a performer, and little

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did I know before becoming a mascot
Delaware, Delaware is actually known for their

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mascoting. There are actually a bunch
of professional mascots that were formerly udi from

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University of Delaware. That includes the
Houston Rockets, Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens,

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Washington Capitals. He just moved on
recently Washington well Nationals. The current

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Nationals mass guy is also University of
Delaware performer, and a whole bunch of

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minor league people who are full time. So there's a reputation reputation that employers

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are looking for Delaware mascots. So
I applied for this MAT's job. I

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was referred through a few friends who
were already performers. I got the job,

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and so here he was fresh out
of high school. I'm sorry,

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college, twenty two years old,
and I'm a professional mascot. I had

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only done it for about three or
four months at Delaware. There are guys

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still my age who are working out
in the minor leagues trying to make their

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professional debut. Believe it or not, I would have given up so long

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ago. That's how lucky I am. Prodigy, That's how lucky I am.

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But thank you for that. So
I became a Screech, the mascot

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for the Washington Nationals. I did
it for thirteen years. I have some

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of the best experiences of my life
doing this. How did I root for

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the Nationals? I grew up a
Mets fan. Well, it's real easy

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too, because if you win a
World Series, you get a World Series

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ring, and that was always my
goal. We started off my first year,

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I think we were the worst team
in baseball. We lost one hundred

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and two games. But by my
eleventh year, we won a World Series.

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I have a beautiful World Series ring
in my room right now. I

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wear it when I want attention,
which is most of the time. But

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it's cool, and we talked about
this previously. I've met Barack Obama doing

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this. I've met Joe Biden doing
this. I've met nine Supreme Court justices

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doing this. I've skydove out of
airplanes doing this. I've been to Taiwan,

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I've been to Japan. There's so
many cool experience is that I've done

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doing this. You went skydiving as
Screeched the Eagle. Oh yeah, just

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YouTube Screeched the Eagle skydiving. It
was really dangerous. Oh it was.

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I was granted it was tandem and
I had someone doing all the work,

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but it was actually terrifying. And
I had skid of once prior to doing

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this. But you wear the costume
and I knew it would be a problem

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with the wind that's going to push
my head up. So I had to

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really tie like a duct tape,
tie this helmet to my face. There's

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a chin strap and everything involved,
but I really tied it tight around my

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face. So the second we jump
out of a plane, the whole mask

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is lifting up and it's basically choking
because what's gravity. I forgot one hundred

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and sixty miles per hour or something
like that. The whole mask is lifting

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up on my face and it's actually
choking me as it's going down. So

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it was about fifty seconds of pure
terror. I couldn't wait for it to

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be over, but we got through
it and it was. It turned out

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to make a great video. We
aired it on the big screen. I

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think it was Steven Strasburg's debut game. So it was a sold out crowd

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and it was awesome. What is
this all about? Crowd at NAT's Park

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in thirty about thirty five thirty six
thousand people. Well, if you're a

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regular listener to this program, you
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I feel like are in my knowledge
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was that good to begin with.
Time and technology have changed a lot of

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things, but they have not changed
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a few months out of college,
or you're right out of college and you

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had been doing mascoting for a few
months. You step out into baseball games

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with tens of thousands of screaming fans
and you have a few months basically of

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mascoting experience, and you're in the
big leagues. You're dressed to screech the

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eagle. That has to be super
overwhelming, Yes it is. But joining

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the joining you, Emily Jashinski The
Federalist Radio Hour is even more intimate because

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I'm trying to hold my own with
the greatness and smartness behind the mask.

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There's there's nothing to worry about,
and what's funny about being a mascot is

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that if you screw up, it's
funny, like like it doesn't really matter.

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You can't really say anything dumb.
You can't if you trip and fall.

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Oh my god, look that mascot
just tripped and fell. It's it's

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funny. So there is a lot
less pressure in that regard. It's just

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I consider my job being a professional
idiot. You need to know the boundaries,

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what you're supposed to do, what
you're not supposed to do. But

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it's kind of hard to screw up
when you don't have to talk. You

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can be fairly entertaining. And you
actually practiced a little I practiced a little

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bit before I started getting in costume, like in front of a mirror,

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what moves well? What looks great
in the costume? So I developed like

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a walk that I thought looked good. It's a hell of an image practice.

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Oh yeah, just I say it. And you got to see what

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works well for the costume because the
costume is a bit different. Some have

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big bellies, some have hair that
move, So you got to work it

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out and see what looks best.
But was it a bit nerve wracking?

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Sure, just only because I wasn't
sure where I was allowed to be and

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who I can approach. But eventually
you figure that all out and you have

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and doing it as long as I
did. You start having relationships with a

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lot of players on the NAT side. We used to travel to hospital visits

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together. We used to do you
know, parades together, community service visits

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together. So you can develop a
relationship with all of the players, and

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then even the opposing team you see
them enough times, especially the teams in

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the analy East, you start developing
relationships with them. And you know they

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always say don't talk in costume,
and these some of these mascots take it

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way too seriously. I talked to
the players all the time. I talked

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to military service members who were throwing
out first pitch, any kind of celebrities.

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I didn't care. I broke I
broke the rules quite a it.

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So it was important to get that
bad boy of the mid Atlantic mascot game

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falked in costume. Actually, the
last NAT's game, I went to the

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current performer. I referred him to
get the job, and I saw him

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at a game on the concourse and
I said, Hey, what's up,

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screech And he walks up to me, and he starts like whistling, and

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that's what I did in costume as
to talk. I was like, screech,

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you better not be big league me
right now, you can talk to

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me. It's me and Corey Hi, and he goes. I was like,

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don't you dare big league me right
now? And so he eventually said,

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Hey, Corey, how's it going. I took a picture and I

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said I said his name, which
I won't repeat on here. I said,

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don't you ever do that again.
Don't you dare big league me?

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And then I sent him a mean
text later that night. So that's so

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funny. This is another question I
have is how, and I have so

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many questions, but do people treat
you kind of weird? I'm just thinking

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of how if you're at disney World
or something, and you know you're interacting

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with a mascot, listen, you
know you're an eagle. So in a

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way, it's sort of a psychological
leap to say, like, oh,

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this is a human being behind this
mask that I must treat like a human

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being. Like did people come up
and just like slug you or anything like

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that? It's really weird. Only
Phillies fans would do that they were literally

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and maybe once or twice a Boston
Red Sox fan. But it's it's actually

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incredible when you think about it.
For me, an adult six foot three,

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fairly big guy, all I gotta
do is slip on a fur jacket,

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a masking gloves, and all of
a sudden people go crazy. It's

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actually unbelievable, like, oh,
just grow you. They'll start yelling at

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me, and I'm just like,
I mean, really, I act like

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an adult. I don't debatable whether
I'm acting as an adult wearing a fur

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costume and gloves and a mask,
but it's actually unbelievable. How stressing up

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in one costume, walking outside of
the concourse, how everyone can just gravitate

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towards looking at you. It always
invokes some sort of emotional reaction, whether

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they love you or hate you.
I've been I've been hit before, very

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rarely, but again they've only been
Phillies fans. I've been kicked, I've

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had my neck pulled. But for
the most part, the only thing that

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really bothered me was when I was
verbally assaulted. The many times you know,

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F you screech f and this,
this that, and I was like,

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I'm hugging a six year old,
like, can you relax? Like

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I just I just hated that the
most, Like that really bothered me.

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But for the most part, my
experiences have been great, and it's always

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it was always an adrenaline rush when
you know you're on the field. We

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performed a bunch of skits. It
was always up to me. You know,

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I hate Corey. You have sixty
seconds, do whatever you want in

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the field will fill me the whole
time, and it was kind of up

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to me to come up with dance
skits or magic skits. And it was

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always an adrenaline rush because when there's
always be a payoff at the end and

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you hear the whole crowd go,
oh, that's awesome. So had a

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good run. I mean, it's
say, a lot of work. You

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did it for thirteen years. It's
much more work than I actually anticipated going

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into this conversation. Well, it's
sure it was a lot of work,

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but what was exhausting was the physical
part of it. I can honestly say

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for thirteen years, I didn't have
a single day of stress. And that's

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a few people can say that.
I had to show up somewhere, whether

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it be a game, or you
know, a public event. We did

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birthday parties, weddings, parades,
hospital visits, all that kind of stuff.

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I just had to show up and
wear this costume and perform the best

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of my ability, and I always
did. I snapped into character immediately and

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we performed. So it was physically
exhausting. Yes, Mentally it wasn't that.

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I can't say I ever had much
stress in that job. Tell us

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about the World Series, that had
to have been wild and kind of surreal.

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It was awesome. So it was
my eleventh year doing this. It

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was a dream that I always had. And if you're a Nats fan,

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you know we had three I think
three maybe four disastrous playoff exits before then.

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They always ended in such heartbreak.
The first one was in twenty twelve

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when Drew Storen blew a three run
lead in the ninth inning and we were

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one pitch away from winning seven different
times. So it was heartbreak after heartbreak

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after heartbreak. So to finally break
through in twenty nineteen, it was surreal.

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The wild Card game, we were
losing. In the eighth inning,

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Wan Soto hit an incredible hit and
it just like all of the emotions,

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like, oh my God, we
finally broke through. Is this happening?

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And look, I got goosebumps talking
about it right now because it's like we're

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going to advance, so we get
to the World Series. It's funny.

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When we were on the road,
I organized all of these viewing parties,

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so I had really I had well
unofficial viewing parties of just among friends.

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So I always had this section of
the bars reserved. We'd have forty to

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fifty people show up and it would
be an absolute crazy, crazy time.

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And those are some actually my best
memories, at least in the first half

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of those games, that's what I
remember mostly, So those were always fun.

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But the World Series, just the
fanfare one of the greatest memories I

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have doing this job. It was
Game four. There was a veteran who

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threw out a first pitch, and
there were two first pitches that day.

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The players weren't ready to catch a
first pitch because they were still in the

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dugout getting ready for the game,
so the first first pitch happened earlier in

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the pregame ceremonies, and so my
boss was like, Corey, we need

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you. You're gonna have to catch
the first pitch. And I've done this

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before, but very terribly. I
usually miss it, like the vision is

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terrible and if it's not a strike, like, I'm having a hard time

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catching this thing. So I was
had to move too. It is it's

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heavy. I'm wearing basically clown shoes, and it's it's it's not good.

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The fingers are large, they farely
fit into a glove anyway. Game three

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or four of the World Series,
this veteran gets this huge, large introduction

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and the game is obviously sold out, and every everone arrives early for this,

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so it's like a minute introduction.
As he's walking to the first the

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pitcher's mound and at this point,
everybody, the entire crowd is standing.

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They're all in applause, cheering for
this guy. And I am sweating bullets

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behind home plate. I'm like,
I need to catch this. I need

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to catch this. I need to
catch this. He throws the pitch,

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it's a strike. I do catch
it. It was the biggest relief of

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my life, and the crowd goes
nuts, ran out to the mound,

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gave the guy a hug, and
that was just like a really really cool,

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surreal moment, Like here I am
the World Series behind home plate.

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My catch, well, mostly his
first pitch, but the standing ovation happened

407
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,880
when I caught it, and this
was like that was like a really really

408
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,440
cool moment in my life at that
point. We went on to lose that

409
00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:15,759
game. We went on to lose
the next game, Game five. We

410
00:30:15,759 --> 00:30:19,200
were down in whatever ending. It
was fourth or fifth inning. That was

411
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:26,680
the game that President Trump came to
and there was a whole strange debate over

412
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,000
whether he would throw out the first
pitch. Obviously, our owners group were

413
00:30:30,559 --> 00:30:33,000
liberal, and they were worried about
our fan base and like, well we

414
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:38,039
should we should we not have President
Trump throughout the first pitch. They ended

415
00:30:38,079 --> 00:30:44,599
up not inviting him. They decided
to have chef Jose Andres throw the first

416
00:30:44,599 --> 00:30:48,119
pitch instead, and so he does
a lot of great work. He's also

417
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,359
a flaming liberal. It the ownership
group thought that was a great compromise.

418
00:30:52,759 --> 00:30:59,920
I was was not so thrilled.
But anyway, what happened that day President

419
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,599
Trump arrived I think it was in
the second or third inning, and he

420
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:07,160
went near he went to this box. It was called the Washington Suite number

421
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,279
one or whatever it was, but
it was right above the Diamond Club,

422
00:31:10,359 --> 00:31:12,799
very close to the field, and
I decided to make my way over to

423
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:17,880
him, and I knew I couldn't
get too close because Secret Service would stop

424
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:22,279
me. And actually real quick,
when President Obama threw out the first pitch

425
00:31:22,319 --> 00:31:26,279
in two thousand and nine, I
was on the field and Secret Service scolded

426
00:31:26,319 --> 00:31:29,079
me. He's like, you do
not cross this line. You cannot get

427
00:31:29,079 --> 00:31:30,000
clear and closer to the president.
I was like, okay, I don't

428
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,240
plan too that's fine. And what's
funny is that I was actually behind home

429
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:34,960
plate when he told me that,
So I was like, I guess I'll

430
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,160
stand here. MLB's told me specifically
not to get in the shot when Barack

431
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,759
Obama threw out the first pitch,
so I was like, okay, I'm

432
00:31:41,759 --> 00:31:44,119
my hind home plate. I guess
I have no other choice. So he

433
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,119
throws out this first pitch, you
remember, you lobbed it. It was

434
00:31:47,279 --> 00:31:51,200
the worst pitch ever. And I'm
stuck in all the camera shots and like,

435
00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:52,519
I guess I got to call this
a ball. So I called it

436
00:31:52,559 --> 00:31:56,680
a ball, and I got so
much to watch the YouTube video screech President

437
00:31:56,759 --> 00:32:00,759
Obama first pitch. I called it
a ball, and I got in so

438
00:32:00,839 --> 00:32:05,279
much trouble after that game. Oh
my gosh, the Secret Service didn't let

439
00:32:05,319 --> 00:32:09,400
me move. So anyway, that
was another fun presidential experience. But I

440
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:14,200
make my way over to President Trump's
box and I was ten feet away and

441
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,759
I was just waving to him,
and finally it was Matt Gates and Steve

442
00:32:17,799 --> 00:32:22,559
Scalise. They elbowed him and he
looked at me and I pointed to him.

443
00:32:22,599 --> 00:32:27,920
He pointed me back, and this, in hindsight, this was so

444
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,880
stupid. But I blew him a
kiss, and I was like, who

445
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,119
did I do that? Like I
wanted to let him know that I like,

446
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,359
I love you, man, like
thank you, and I blew him

447
00:32:37,359 --> 00:32:38,680
a kiss. I'm like, that
was weird. I probably shouldn't have done

448
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,440
that. But he he pounded his
chest and pointed in the back to me.

449
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,039
I was like, okay, well
that was that was fun. You're

450
00:32:45,079 --> 00:32:47,759
grown man, Corey. Yeah,
I know, I know. I was.

451
00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:51,559
In hindsight, I was like,
that was a weird decision. But

452
00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:55,240
that was one of the highlights of
the World Series. We ended up losing

453
00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:00,000
all three games at home. It
was the first time this has ever happened

454
00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:06,039
in World Series history. The series
went seven games, every home team lost,

455
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:07,720
so we end up winning the World
Series on the road in Houston.

456
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:13,519
That was just awesome. I got
my World Series ring about six months later,

457
00:33:13,839 --> 00:33:17,680
and boy, it was just the
party has never stopped since. It's

458
00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:22,599
just it was an incredible, amazing
experience. It was very lucky to have

459
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:28,559
who is speaking of President Trump,
who is? And President Obama. Of

460
00:33:28,599 --> 00:33:31,440
all of the VIPs, you've met
a lot of them, do you have

461
00:33:32,359 --> 00:33:37,440
a most interesting experience or a best
and worst experience? Highlights and low lights?

462
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:43,480
Well, so I'll tell you that. Actually I'll tell you both stories.

463
00:33:43,519 --> 00:33:47,880
When I met Barack Obama once,
he was at some National Press Club

464
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:52,359
event. I forget what it was, but Teddy Roosevelt, our racing president

465
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:57,880
costume, was asked to perform in
some kind of comedy sketch beforehand, and

466
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,279
Barack Obama was in the audience and
I didn't know he was even going to

467
00:34:01,319 --> 00:34:06,200
be there. But Teddy gets on
stage. I wasn't him at the time,

468
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,000
but he does his little dance whatever
it was, and then on suits.

469
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:14,320
And so we're there at this event
and Barack Obama is sitting thirty feet

470
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,440
in front of us. It's like
there was it was intermission at the times,

471
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,079
I screw it, let's go say
hi. So I actually walked right

472
00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:22,519
up to him. There was one
person in front of me, and I

473
00:34:22,599 --> 00:34:24,920
shook his hand. I said,
hello, prisoner Obama. My name's Corey

474
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,320
and Gannimore. It's nice to meet
you. He's like, oh, let's

475
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,559
go to meet you too. So
what do you do? And I was

476
00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:35,159
like, well, I don't know
if you remember this, but last year

477
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,400
you threw out a first pitch at
NAT's Park. There was a mascot behind

478
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,639
home plate who called it a ball. That was me. He's like,

479
00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:44,199
oh, so you're the mascot and
I said yes. He's like, do

480
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,000
you think got hot in there?
That's what the first thing he's asked me.

481
00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:50,760
I was like, well no,
duh, yet it does what I

482
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,320
said. I was like, well, actually, yes, it's it's not

483
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,960
not hot. That's what I told
him because that made the most sense to

484
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,119
me at the time. A kiss, yeah, so yeah, I was

485
00:35:00,159 --> 00:35:04,159
never going to blow him at so
anyway, I took my picture. I

486
00:35:04,159 --> 00:35:07,519
thought that was like a fun,
weird interaction, but it was cool that

487
00:35:07,559 --> 00:35:12,119
I got to meet him. Fast
forward, I guess it was two years

488
00:35:12,119 --> 00:35:15,599
ago. Now, my last year
working for the NETS, I always produced

489
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:20,760
the Congressional baseball game, and that
spark. I was never in costume.

490
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,000
What I was I was in the
Republican dugout for I guess ten years in

491
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,079
a row. I was on headset, basically calling up to the score box,

492
00:35:27,599 --> 00:35:30,440
who's up to bat, who's on
deck, because the people upstairs they

493
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,280
don't they can't tell who's who,
and the names aren't on the back of

494
00:35:34,639 --> 00:35:37,960
their jerseys. So it was always
my yeah, So it was actually really

495
00:35:38,039 --> 00:35:40,840
fun. I was always field produced
it, so I had set up the

496
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:45,679
lineups of the Republicans and the Democrats
and it was a lot of fun.

497
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:52,840
So two years ago, Joe Biden
showed up halfway through the game, and

498
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,679
you know when that happens, he
walks in the field, everyone goes crazy.

499
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:59,239
The right booze and the left cheers, and he makes his way to

500
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,480
the Democrat dug out. And I
didn't think he would actually make his way

501
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:06,079
to the Republican dugout where I was, but eventually he did, and he

502
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:09,760
was talking inside through all the members
of Congress, and I was standing next

503
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:15,360
to him, like literally right next
to him for a good ten minutes or

504
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,320
so, and I kept tossing and
turning. It's like, should I take

505
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,840
my picture? Should I take my
picture? Should I not? So this

506
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:25,599
is completely unprofessional, but screw it. This is once in a lifetime opportunity.

507
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,440
So I hand my phone to my
friend. I said, President,

508
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,519
do you mind if I get a
picture with you? And he looked confused,

509
00:36:32,559 --> 00:36:37,280
he turned around. I don't even
think he said yes, but he

510
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,480
just stood next to me to take
a picture. And what's funny is that

511
00:36:39,559 --> 00:36:43,920
the entire press pool was in front
of us as well, snapping pictures.

512
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,119
There's probably like ten people. And
in my mind, I'm like, Okay,

513
00:36:46,159 --> 00:36:50,719
I'll take the picture, but I
want history to know that I think

514
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,119
he's an awful human being, awful
present. So in my mind is like,

515
00:36:54,159 --> 00:36:58,400
I'll take the picture, but I'm
not going to smile. So I'm

516
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,159
standing next to him. Have you
seen this picture, Emily? I got

517
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,920
to send it to you. I
don't know, I probably have. I'm

518
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,679
going to send it to you after
this. I take a picture next film

519
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:12,880
and I'm just mean mugging. I'm
not but there's not a bit of smile

520
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,599
in my face, and he's smiling
next to me. And the whole camera

521
00:37:15,639 --> 00:37:21,360
crew is like, and I just
thought it was so hilarious. I made

522
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,760
it my Christmas card last year.
It was the two of us and it

523
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,760
said we wish you a mery Easter
and happy you know, you know the

524
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:32,280
thing, and that was that was
one of my favorite pictures that I've ever

525
00:37:32,599 --> 00:37:35,800
ever taken. And I'm going to
show it to you right now. Can

526
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,239
you can you see that? Oh? Yeah, that's really good. Okay,

527
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:43,599
that's really good. Wow, well
done, Corey. So one other

528
00:37:43,639 --> 00:37:49,039
cool experience I'd love to tell you
about is I met nine Supreme Court justices

529
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,000
and one in one setting. It
was it was the most incredible, maybe

530
00:37:52,039 --> 00:37:55,079
even more incredible than, meaning,
you know, the last three presidents,

531
00:37:55,079 --> 00:37:59,920
which I've had the fortune of doing. I showed up to this event.

532
00:38:00,199 --> 00:38:04,039
I knew it was at the Supreme
Court. I used to organize some of

533
00:38:04,079 --> 00:38:06,000
it, but this one was just
sent to me. He's like, Hey,

534
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,679
you got to show up to the
Supreme Court wear business casual and call

535
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:14,679
I forget her name, Eileen at
this number when you arrive. So it

536
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:21,079
was me and two other coworkers.
I was set to dress as George Washington,

537
00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:24,000
our racing president, performer, and
we show up to the Supreme Court

538
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,360
and our contact brings us inside and
she says, so, do you know

539
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,800
what you're here for. I was
like, no, nothing of this has

540
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,159
been explained to us. It's like, oh, well, you're here for

541
00:38:34,519 --> 00:38:37,440
Neil Gorsich's welcome party for Brett Kavanaugh. I was like hell. I was

542
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,840
like really, so they're going to
be here. She's like yes, all

543
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:44,400
nine Supreme Court justices and their spouses. I was like, you got to

544
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,519
be killing me. Because Kavanaugh is
a big he's a local, so he's

545
00:38:46,559 --> 00:38:51,760
a big Nats fan exactly, So
he's a big Nats fan, and Neil

546
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,519
Gorsis thought this would be a fun
surprise for him. So we show up

547
00:38:55,599 --> 00:38:59,639
and I'm like, this is this
is going to be unbelievable. The plan

548
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:01,320
was they were eating dinner and then
they were going to work, walk to

549
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,320
a different room for dessert, and
we were going to surprise them on their

550
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,599
way. So that's exactly what happened. I addresses George Washington, my colleague

551
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:14,079
is Thomas Jefferson, and you hear
them walking through the hallway, and you

552
00:39:14,119 --> 00:39:17,639
hear their footsteps, and the first
thing you hear is Clarence Thomas loud belly

553
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:21,519
laugh. Just hear them like laughing, and I'm like, oh god,

554
00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:24,679
they're on their way. They turned
the corner and all of them are just

555
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:29,280
like super surprised. They're very excited. And I wasn't sure if they thought

556
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:34,880
it'd be silly or fun, but
they definitely thought it was fun. And

557
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,320
they were all very very excited and
taking pictures, pictures, pictures, pictures.

558
00:39:38,599 --> 00:39:43,280
It was so great, and Justice
Gorsich came up to me because he

559
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,559
knew that I was organizing it while
I was in costume. He said,

560
00:39:45,599 --> 00:39:50,320
thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much. I said,

561
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,519
well, oh, it's my great
honor. And I broke all of

562
00:39:52,559 --> 00:39:57,880
the rules of mascoting again because that's
has been a theme, that's what I

563
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,840
usually do. I said, well, Justice Gorsicch, do you mind if

564
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:06,480
I ensued, I would like to
meet you out of costume and introduce myself.

565
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,079
And he's like, yeah, of
course, no problem, I said.

566
00:40:08,599 --> 00:40:12,519
He said, we're going to dessert
now, but like, feel free

567
00:40:12,519 --> 00:40:15,000
to let yourself in the room.
What That's what he said to us.

568
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:19,960
So it's like, so I unsued, I tell our contact that and She's

569
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,039
like, well, let me check
on that. Let me check on that.

570
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,719
Just wait here for a moment.
So she went and got and checked

571
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:29,079
on it, came back and she
said, well, the justices would love

572
00:40:29,119 --> 00:40:31,039
to meet you. They're going to
finish up dessert and then come say hi.

573
00:40:32,079 --> 00:40:35,760
I was like, awesome. So
she led us to this different room

574
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,719
where they were going to come meet
us. We waited for about thirty minutes

575
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:43,320
and then out of nowhere. I
still have this image in my mind the

576
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:49,719
double doors open and I see all
of the justices walking towards me. Just

577
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,039
what was the wildest thing I've ever
seen? And like I just go down

578
00:40:52,119 --> 00:40:54,960
the line. I'm like, hello
Justice, course we Justice Thomas Well,

579
00:40:55,159 --> 00:40:59,079
Justice Capinall Justice Alito, I Loo
Justice so to my or a lo Justice

580
00:40:59,119 --> 00:41:02,199
cake and I'm just going down the
line. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sick at

581
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:08,280
the time, but Justice Kennedy was
there, so there was nine and it

582
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:13,719
was just like the coolest thing ever. We talked about baseball and most of

583
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,159
them thought it was the most interesting
thing ever. And here I am like

584
00:41:16,559 --> 00:41:20,840
holding court no pun intended. I
was just like, wow, this is

585
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,559
this is wild. The whole thing
was a surreal experience. It is honestly

586
00:41:23,679 --> 00:41:29,400
very interesting. I'm not surprised that
they were as intrigued because it is a

587
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:34,039
very interesting There's just so many you
never hear the behind the scenes stories from

588
00:41:34,039 --> 00:41:38,480
the mascots, and the mascots are
absolutely everywhere. Yeah, it's a niche

589
00:41:38,559 --> 00:41:44,239
job. That's why I'm kind of
I'll talk about it as much as I

590
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,760
can to whomever would love to talk
about it, because it's rare that you

591
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:51,480
meet. I mean, in baseball, there's only twenty eight professional mascots.

592
00:41:51,679 --> 00:41:53,320
There are two teams that don't have
mascots, the Angels and the Yankees.

593
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:57,360
But other than that, you know, it's rare to meet one. And

594
00:41:57,639 --> 00:42:00,679
there's just so many questions like how
did you get into this? What's it

595
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:05,519
like? So I enjoy talking about
it. What makes a good mascot?

596
00:42:05,599 --> 00:42:09,320
And the second part of that question
is when you go to games, now,

597
00:42:09,559 --> 00:42:13,760
not Nats games or anything like that, but just you know, you're

598
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,440
traveling, you're at a baseball game
or basketball game or whatever it is,

599
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,400
are you ever like, man,
this mascot really needs to change their technique.

600
00:42:21,519 --> 00:42:24,400
They want to all the time tell
us about that. Well, most

601
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:29,119
of the time, I barely notice
that there's a game going on. I'm

602
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,440
like, it's like me, lazard
it on the mascot. It's like me

603
00:42:31,559 --> 00:42:35,880
and every five year old that's in
the stadium. I'm just watching the mascot

604
00:42:36,119 --> 00:42:38,679
and I'm getting angry he doesn't do
certain things and was like, oh,

605
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:40,960
that was a good move. Sometimes
I'm like, oh, that was good.

606
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:44,039
I'm glad you thought of that.
But most of the time I'm just

607
00:42:44,079 --> 00:42:47,840
like annoyed. What makes a good
mascot? I used to judge tryouts all

608
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:52,920
the time for the racing Presidents.
I did it actually freelance for the Rutgers

609
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:59,480
one time. George Washington University in
University Delaware used to judge mascot tryouts and

610
00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:02,280
run them. And one of the
things, like in the interviews, I

611
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,920
would ask what makes a good mascot? And there are three things that you

612
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,960
should always be cognizant of wild in
costume. One, never stop moving.

613
00:43:10,159 --> 00:43:14,320
When you do stop moving, you
just look like a person wearing a costume.

614
00:43:14,599 --> 00:43:17,199
You don't yeah, it's like,
okay, well that person's miserable.

615
00:43:17,199 --> 00:43:22,639
And even if it's just like a
little little something, you just got to

616
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:28,239
always be moving otherwise you look like
your miserable person wearing a costume, and

617
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:32,039
it's likely what you are at that
time to exaggerate every single movement. You

618
00:43:32,039 --> 00:43:36,239
know, as a human, you
would just normally wave like normal, But

619
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,719
when you have a costume on,
your head is a lot bigger, your

620
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,079
arms are a lot bigger, your
pants are a lot bigger. So to

621
00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:45,559
do that same motion, it's kind
of just drowned out. So when you

622
00:43:45,639 --> 00:43:47,039
wave, you make a big,
long wave. When you walk, you

623
00:43:47,119 --> 00:43:52,119
swing your arms as big as you
can and you just cover as much ground

624
00:43:52,159 --> 00:43:58,880
as possible. Thirdly, the last
thing I always tell people is to learn

625
00:43:59,119 --> 00:44:04,000
what your character personality is, or
create a character for it, or i'm

626
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,079
sorry, a personality for that character, and stick with it all the time.

627
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:12,960
So I an eagle that loves baseball
who acts like an eighteen year old

628
00:44:13,039 --> 00:44:19,199
skateboarding kid, always getting himself in
mischievous trouble. And if you you adapt

629
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:24,639
certain uh traits and characteristics that in
every single situation, you want to replicate

630
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:29,840
that all the time. So if
you're if you're you know, if you

631
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,840
hate the Philadelphia Ahilies, you should
hate the Philadelpha affilies every single time.

632
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,800
You can't forget like, oh,
it depends who's wearing the costume or not.

633
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,199
You know, I have a backup. You adapt the tendencies that I

634
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:46,840
gave Screech into your repertoire. If
Screech's favorite food is gummy worms, so

635
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:52,480
if someone offers you gummy worms or
popcorn, always choose the gummy worms,

636
00:44:52,519 --> 00:44:57,079
and so like, there's certain characteristics
you need to always adapt in every single

637
00:44:57,079 --> 00:45:00,800
situation. And those are just two
lame examples. People try to give you

638
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:05,760
things all the time. Yeah,
it was fun. Mostly kids, they

639
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,559
and their little silly artwork and stuff
like that. But I saved all those

640
00:45:08,599 --> 00:45:14,639
like it was great. You got
fan mail all the time. Kids gave

641
00:45:14,679 --> 00:45:19,599
you their drawings, yep, all
the time. I have them somewhere.

642
00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:25,719
The tops always made mascot baseball cards, so I got a bunch of those

643
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:29,400
baseball cards lining around. I used
to get them mail to me all the

644
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:35,000
time with a return on the load
to sign and send it back, which

645
00:45:35,079 --> 00:45:39,719
is kind of funny. The autograph
Screech whatever. When I was a racing

646
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:44,800
president or when I helped out the
racing presidents. You know, their signatures

647
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:51,760
are big dumb block letters Tom number
three or Abe number sixteen. I'd always

648
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:57,039
feel so guilty, Like you'd have
a kid who hands you their authentic three

649
00:45:57,159 --> 00:46:01,400
hundred and fifty dollars Nationals jersey signed
by Steven Strasburg and they're here, Thomas

650
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:05,320
Jefferson, can you can you sign
this? And I would always say no,

651
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:12,039
break their heart and say no.
But I've seen other people that just

652
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:17,239
sign like big block letters, totally
destroying any value that this jersey. You

653
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:22,239
were trying to help them invest in
their future, and some people just don't

654
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,760
have that same level of concer.
Yeah, I'd always feel so awkward and

655
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:29,119
weird about that when they'd hand me
some some of those kind of stuff.

656
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:36,840
Wow, that's crazy. I just
this is there's so much to mascoting and

657
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:42,519
I'm wondering also, like about weird
fan interactions. So so kid handing your

658
00:46:42,599 --> 00:46:52,559
drawing is cute? Yeah, forget
uncomfortable. Yes, quite often. Screech

659
00:46:52,599 --> 00:46:57,440
had a stalker, a couple of
stalkers actually back in the day. Oh,

660
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:01,199
I hate to use the term because
it's so whenever, but he thinks

661
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:05,679
of mascot the first thing like,
oh, are you a furry? You

662
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,280
know, the word furry comes up. Well, I've had a few furry

663
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:15,480
stalker people who would show up to
events that I've had and they, you

664
00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:20,000
know, we'd advertise that Screech is
going to be here at so and so

665
00:47:20,119 --> 00:47:23,960
time, and I've literally remember this
one kid like would not leave me alone.

666
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:27,599
And he actually did this for the
Washington Capitol's mascot too. He ended

667
00:47:27,639 --> 00:47:30,960
up getting some kind of restraining order
against this kid. He'd show up with

668
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:36,840
his own homemade costume, he'd put
it on and he'd start quote unquote performing

669
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:37,719
next to me, and I'm like, okay, you need to leave.

670
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:44,679
I'd have always had a helper handler
at each event, and this guy was

671
00:47:44,679 --> 00:47:50,239
a weirdo and he'd show up a
bunch of times. We'd have strange interactions

672
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:58,679
all the time some people. One
thing that always frustrated me is when adults

673
00:47:59,519 --> 00:48:01,800
were scared of mascots, Like if
I get it, if you're a young

674
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:06,039
kid in this big giant eagle or
a big giant human as a racing president

675
00:48:06,079 --> 00:48:08,719
is walking towards you. I was
always really creeped out by adults that were

676
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:13,360
scared of a mascot. And I'd
make my way through a certain section and

677
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,599
I remember one really stands out to
me. This woman. She's like crying,

678
00:48:16,679 --> 00:48:20,559
literally crying no, no, no, and I'm like ten or twenty

679
00:48:20,599 --> 00:48:24,639
feet away, and her relatives or
friends who remember she was there with was

680
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:30,000
putting a jacket over her head so
she wouldn't see me. And of course

681
00:48:30,039 --> 00:48:32,559
I just take this as an invitation
to get closer, and I'm like,

682
00:48:32,599 --> 00:48:36,599
wait, what's going on over here? And I'm like, is she crazy?

683
00:48:37,159 --> 00:48:40,239
And the closer I got, the
more frantic she became, And so

684
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:45,679
I was always creeped out by those. There was always a lot of instances

685
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:51,280
of adults being scared. I guess
they had some childhood traumatic experience of a

686
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,079
mascot scaring them. I don't really
understand it, to be honest. You

687
00:48:54,119 --> 00:49:00,360
also played other mascots, right,
Yeah, so let's see here. When

688
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:05,760
I was at the University of Della, I was UD. I also part

689
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:07,840
time did Rocky blue Winkle the Wilmington
Blue Rocks. I just did that for

690
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:13,480
sidecash while I was in college.
After that, I interned for a team

691
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,480
in New Jersey, the Sussex Skyhawks. I wore that costume a few times

692
00:49:16,519 --> 00:49:21,480
and that was kind of weird and
miserable for me. I didn't the minor

693
00:49:21,559 --> 00:49:28,159
league stuff. It's too I don't
mean to sound like you know, I

694
00:49:28,639 --> 00:49:31,199
got this MLB job, but I
would never do the minor league stuff for

695
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,960
a long term if it took me
that long to get to the major leagues,

696
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,679
because there are actually some glamour involved
in in the MLB side and the

697
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:45,480
minor league side. You're changing in
janitor closets and putting on a smelly costume

698
00:49:45,519 --> 00:49:47,599
that you don't have access to a
washing machine or stuff like that. So

699
00:49:50,119 --> 00:49:52,840
I did some minor league stuff.
I was in New Jersey Devils backup for

700
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:59,000
about a summer. When I was
down here, I was the Washington Capital's

701
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,719
back up, so him and I
were good friends from college. So whenever

702
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:07,599
Screech needed a back up, he
suited it up, and whenever the Capitals

703
00:50:07,599 --> 00:50:13,559
needed one, I suited up.
I worked two games as a Capitol's mascot.

704
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:19,199
One of them was very memorable because
during the pregame Slapshot is the mascot's

705
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,920
name comes out on an ATV and
he does a big, long three sixty

706
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:24,840
across the ice. The lights are
on and the announced like, hey here

707
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:29,199
come slap Shot, and the music's
going. It's a lot of fun.

708
00:50:29,599 --> 00:50:31,039
So I practiced this a few times. When it was time to do it

709
00:50:31,079 --> 00:50:36,199
live, I crushed it on the
way out, like here comes slapshot.

710
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,239
I did a three sixty across the
ice and I'm getting the crowd going,

711
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:42,079
and then you're supposed to do it
on the way back. So I start

712
00:50:42,159 --> 00:50:44,519
doing this three sixty on the way
back and I'm like, oh boy,

713
00:50:45,199 --> 00:50:47,000
I started this three sixty way too
late. I was supposed to do it

714
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:52,119
a little bit before I got to
center ice. I started like two thirds

715
00:50:52,159 --> 00:50:53,639
of the way through. I was
like, I started this too late.

716
00:50:53,679 --> 00:50:57,079
I'm going to crash. I'm going
to miss his ice. I can't stop.

717
00:50:57,079 --> 00:50:59,039
I was like, I'm going to
crash him and crash him and crash,

718
00:50:59,079 --> 00:51:02,559
and I did. I crashed the
ATV right into the boards and I'm

719
00:51:02,559 --> 00:51:08,000
just I'm just thinking, I'm like, oh, this is funny, Like

720
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,159
like I'm just the backup, so
what are they gonna do? Fire me?

721
00:51:10,199 --> 00:51:14,480
This is just like actually hilarious.
I took inventory of my life right

722
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:19,039
now. I have a spotlight on
my on my face and I'm into the

723
00:51:19,079 --> 00:51:22,280
boards. Now. I hear all
these people cheering, laughing, oohing,

724
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,159
and I had to put the damn
thing in reverse to get out of there,

725
00:51:25,639 --> 00:51:29,679
and I'm just laughing at myself and
then I take it off off the

726
00:51:29,679 --> 00:51:32,800
ice. The ice maintenance guy,
I don't even know what they call him.

727
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:37,800
He was not happy. I took
a little bit of a lashing backstage,

728
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,960
but I thought it was hilarious.
That was the last time I ever

729
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:46,039
did slap shot. Oh my gosh, we're also I think you also did

730
00:51:46,599 --> 00:51:51,760
my alma MATERI were George Washington.
I did that a little bit. Yeah,

731
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:57,280
actually I actually forgot about that.
I well, well, then mascot

732
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,920
doesn't exist anymore, Emily, We're
not the utionaries. Do they even have

733
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:05,719
a mascot now or did they make
a hippo one or I don't know.

734
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,000
I mean, like, you're George
Washington University, and we used to be

735
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:13,400
the colonials, so you would have
George out there, but you can't even

736
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,199
do that at George Washington University now, none of that. Yeah, so

737
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:22,440
you were you were a racist slave
owner, but in cartoon form, he

738
00:52:22,519 --> 00:52:23,960
had a smile on his face,
so he did it very happily, so

739
00:52:24,519 --> 00:52:30,280
it wasn't mean spirited. Wow.
Wow, And here's my last question,

740
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:31,400
Coury, what did you do in
the off season. It sounds like you

741
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:36,199
actually still had to do stuff.
Yeah. I did have to do stuff.

742
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:42,719
Events, events, events, events, and costume maintenance. Believe it

743
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,440
or not. It took a lot
of time though. We spent probably six

744
00:52:45,559 --> 00:52:49,440
or seven thousand dollars a year in
costume maintenance at the end of the year,

745
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:52,800
so I had to oversee a lot
of that. The racing presidents of

746
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:57,719
their skin taken off put back on. It's a big long process. Those

747
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,119
things were disgusting, and the clips
and the harnesses. I wore screech every

748
00:53:01,119 --> 00:53:05,320
game, So what was great about
that is that I got to clean it

749
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:08,239
myself, and when it got thirty
I watched it in the washing machine on

750
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:13,280
every two three games. It never
smelt. But the President's costumes they were

751
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,079
made out of steel backpacks, so
you couldn't really throw them in the washing

752
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:19,880
life saw them. And you're wearing
other people's sweat because there was a staff

753
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,119
of I don't know, twenty people
or so that rotated the costumes. So

754
00:53:22,159 --> 00:53:25,079
at least for my costume, I
was screeched every game. Nobody else wore

755
00:53:25,119 --> 00:53:30,079
it. It was my own sweat
and I cleaned it. But the President's

756
00:53:30,159 --> 00:53:35,079
not so much. But anyway,
I digressed lots of events. We've done

757
00:53:35,119 --> 00:53:40,599
some crazy events, like I said
previously, weddings, birthday parties, school

758
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:47,079
assemblies, anything that you could ever
imagine you could book a mascot for,

759
00:53:49,679 --> 00:53:52,480
they booked us. So I had
two great off seasons where I was actually

760
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:59,280
able to travel to Taiwan and Japan
on another trip which was just an incredible

761
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:04,719
experience. Be brought me out there
in an MLB All Star tour. So

762
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,840
the trip to Taiwan was really neat. It was a charter flight of me

763
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:12,199
and all the baseball players WHOA,
it was really neat. I was sitting

764
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:15,880
behind Robinson Cano and in front of
Michael Morris and it was like, I

765
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:20,639
forget, like a fourteen hour flight
from LA to Taiwan, but I was

766
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:22,920
not ready for that to even end. It was so awesome. They were

767
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:28,400
serving I kid you, not lobster
as an appetizer, steak as a dinner,

768
00:54:29,039 --> 00:54:31,199
all the domperione you could ever imagine, and it was just the party

769
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:36,119
on this flight with all the baseball
players. So that was really cool.

770
00:54:36,159 --> 00:54:39,880
And we get there and it's actually
really funny. Everyone there, all the

771
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:44,719
Taiwanese people thought that I was a
player because I'm a I'm six foot three,

772
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:50,239
I'm a tall white guy who really
sticks out like a sore thumb in

773
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,679
the hotel where all the players are
staying. So every time I walked down

774
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:58,840
to the lobby, there'd be a
line of people wanting my own gap and

775
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:00,400
you know, for me, it's
a huge adrenaline rush. None of them

776
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:02,840
spoke English, none of them knew
who I was, so even if they

777
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:07,000
read it, they didn't care.
So I would say, who needs an

778
00:55:07,039 --> 00:55:08,719
autograph? So there'd be a big
line, a line of people, and

779
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:14,920
I'm signing autographs. A lot of
them handed me pictures of a Nats player

780
00:55:15,039 --> 00:55:17,800
named Ross Dettwiler, who was actually
I became very close friends with after this

781
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:21,960
trip, who was on that trip, and I told him I was like,

782
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:23,719
Ross, I signed a bunch of
autograph cards of yours. You don't

783
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,000
care, do you? He's like, no, I have fun because we

784
00:55:27,159 --> 00:55:30,440
kind of looked a little bit similar. I don't know, so that's true.

785
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:35,159
That not a joke. Jim is
not a joke. Not a joke.

786
00:55:36,519 --> 00:55:38,599
Another trip, I went to Japan
in the off season. The food

787
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:43,480
was just incredible. That was a
whole lot of fun. So it was.

788
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:47,159
It was, it was wild,
it was it was a good long

789
00:55:47,199 --> 00:55:52,159
trip. We had a lot of
fun. One other fun quick story I

790
00:55:52,199 --> 00:55:57,119
wanted to tell you while we're running
out of time here. Back in two

791
00:55:57,159 --> 00:56:01,039
thy twenty one. The yeah,
I guess it was only two years ago.

792
00:56:01,199 --> 00:56:05,039
The Atlanta Braves were supposed to host
the All Star Game. Obviously,

793
00:56:05,039 --> 00:56:10,519
I know you covered this extensively,
but MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred was pushed by

794
00:56:10,519 --> 00:56:15,880
the left and everybody pressured into taking
this All Star Game out of Atlanta because

795
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:21,679
of their quote unquote racist voting laws
which required people to show ID to vote.

796
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:24,320
So they took it to Colorado.
And I was already committed to going

797
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:29,000
to the Atlanta All Star Game because
MLB brings all the mascots out to every

798
00:56:29,039 --> 00:56:30,719
All Star Game. We work a
bunch of events leading up to the event,

799
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:35,519
and then they give us tickets to
watch the games as fans. So

800
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,280
I was all scheduled to go to
Atlanta, and then MLB tells my boss,

801
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:44,280
let's reschedule, We're going to Colorado
instead, And all of the other

802
00:56:44,599 --> 00:56:46,679
mascots were like, okay, sure, no problem. There were twenty seven

803
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:51,800
other of them there was one mascot
who said, Nope, I'm not going

804
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:57,960
to go. I refused to go
to Colorado and bow to the left outrage

805
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,320
cancel culture mob. I will go
to Atlanta if they have it, but

806
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:04,559
I'm not going to go to Colorado. So I was actually pretty proud I

807
00:57:04,599 --> 00:57:07,760
turned that invitation down. I turned
down a decent amount of money. I

808
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:12,280
said no, I'd rather stay at
home than support your BS campaign to destroy

809
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:15,199
voting laws. So amazing. Yeah, I was pretty proud of that.

810
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:20,920
And you see a bunch of MLB
pictures from that week. There were twenty

811
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:23,360
seven mascots there and they take a
picture on the field every year, and

812
00:57:23,519 --> 00:57:28,880
well there was one mascot missing.
It was funny because I controlled the Screech

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Twitter account and there were a bunch
of fans that were out there like where

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are you, Screech. We're looking
for you, We're looking for you,

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We're looking for you. I couldn't
respond. I couldn't say this publicly because

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they I wasn't allowed to speak to
any media, but I wanted to let

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that people let people know, like, no, I purposely boycotted this,

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And now I'm like, I'm proud
that I did because screw those people and

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MLB in general. Did you have
any big ESPN moments? Well, I

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was in two ESPN commercials as George
from George Washington. I was making coffee

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among a bunch of other mascots.
I forget the whole premise, but they

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gave me the leading role. Everyone
else was other collegiate mascots, but I

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was the professional in the room performing
as a collegiate mascot. I also was

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a Teddy Roosevelt as Teddy Roosevelt in
an ESPN commercial. As far as other

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moments, yeah, just just random
highlights, always crashing an ATV. Did

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that make it? Mayhem? A
lot of times? They just throw in

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super throwing clips. Actually, the
racing presidence they made the made ESPN a

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whole bunch of times. And I'm
at the finish line waving the checkered flag

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every single every single race. So
I did see myself quite a few times

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on ESPN. That's always fun.
Colin Obama's pitch a ball? Did that

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make it? They probably selectively edited
me out. They somehow brought in their

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experts as they you know, Barack
Obama is everything according to ESPN, so

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it probably did make it. But
I can't recall specifically, I could keep

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going with this, Corey, this
has been an absolute pleasure. We have

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to do it again. Tell people
one more time where they can listen to

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your show with wm AL. Sure, well, thank you Emily for having

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me. This is an absolute blest
for me as well. So I produced

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the Vince colin a show. First
of all, you should definitely listen to

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that three to six Monday through Friday
on wm AL one O five point nine.

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We upload that podcast every night too, if you if you don't catch

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anything anywhere, you can find a
podcast. And then as far as my

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show, the next one is going
to be tomorrow three to six again one

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O five point nine w m a
L. Listen to it live. You

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can stream it live WML dot com. We're going to cover all sorts of

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things and I just hope we can
have as much as fun on that show

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as we did today with you.
Emily. This has been an absolute blast.

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You certainly will, Corey and Ganimore. Thank you for joining Federalist Radio

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Hour. Thank you all right,
you've been listening to another edition of the

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Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Dashinsky, culture editor here at the federalist.

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We will be back soon with form. Until then be the lovers of freedom

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and anxious for the friend. I
earn the fame voice a reason, and

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then it faded away.