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Speaker 1: So you want to go to spring training. Camel Back
Speaker 1: Ranch is right around the corner, and it's a great
Speaker 1: place to watch a baseball game. We don't have to
Speaker 1: regale you with the tales of what we did in
Speaker 1: the past there. But it was fun. And by the way,
Speaker 1: camel Back Ranch has the best plan.
Speaker 2: You want to You don't want to go back to
Speaker 2: the trip we took. No, you don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: No, you mean the best trip they've ever had, the
Speaker 1: best one. Is that what you're talking about. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. You're talking about the one where
Speaker 1: you grabbed the microphone on the plane and started making announcements. Yes,
Speaker 1: I did, and they loved it that trip. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: where we went out to stay with everybody. Yes, we
Speaker 1: went out to dinner with everyone. The plane ride.
Speaker 2: They wished that plane ride was like six hours as
Speaker 2: opposed to an hour to Phoenix because we were having
Speaker 2: so much fun on the plane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they wanted it to keep going and keep circling. Right.
Speaker 1: So the trip where they had the best trip ever.
Speaker 1: And the next year we said, boy, we're so excited. Uh,
Speaker 1: when's the trip And we never went again, never went
Speaker 1: to spring training again. But that's what we learned. And
Speaker 1: if you go to Camelback Ranch you probably will experience this.
Speaker 1: That is the best grass you'll ever feel. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't care where you go, what grass you walk on.
Speaker 1: If you like grass, go to camel Back Ranch, yes,
Speaker 1: because that'll be dawn.
Speaker 2: There, and take a nap and you will be floating
Speaker 2: in the clouds.
Speaker 1: If you could. If you could, and you can't, don't
Speaker 1: do it. You'll be arrested. If you could just take
Speaker 1: off all your clothes and roll around in that grass. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you would be the happiest person. You would. It's that good.
Speaker 1: The grass is that good. I'm serious. It's very nurturing,
Speaker 1: it's very warm, it's good grass. It's great grass.
Speaker 2: It's great Grass's great grass, and it just echoes the fact.
Speaker 2: I mean you grew up there, Fred, Well, you know,
Speaker 2: grew up in Detroit but didn't move to Zona, so
Speaker 2: you spend a lot of time there. I grew up
Speaker 2: in Arizona and know how the grass can be very,
Speaker 2: very good. I remember I remember being at USC And
Speaker 2: you know one thing you do is you rate the
Speaker 2: stadiums and the fields that you play on when you
Speaker 2: go play them, especially teams that you play every single year,
Speaker 2: like at that time when there was a pack ten
Speaker 2: conference and back twelve conference. But when there was a conference.
Speaker 2: You knew those teams and those places that you played
Speaker 2: every single year, and every single year we looked forward well,
Speaker 2: I guess it was every other year because you didn't
Speaker 2: play them every year there. Every other year you look
Speaker 2: forward to playing at ASU, Arizona State University, and Arizona,
Speaker 2: you know, the U of A and Tucson because you
Speaker 2: knew the grass was going to be unbelievable and it
Speaker 2: was a fast track. You always used to say that
Speaker 2: that's a fast track. Oh, that's a fast track. Arizona
Speaker 2: State and and and Arizona was always that was a
Speaker 2: fast track. We love playing on that grass because it
Speaker 2: gave you everything. It was like carpet and it was
Speaker 2: so manicured so well, and the same thing with camelback ran.
Speaker 2: It just took that to a whole different level because
Speaker 2: you did you feel like you want to just lay
Speaker 2: down there and take a nap.
Speaker 3: So just a little bit better than the silver dome there,
Speaker 3: Rudney a little bit, just like.
Speaker 1: A little bit Kevin a little bit better.
Speaker 3: Basically, just painted the concrete, I believe.
Speaker 1: That's all they did. They painted the concrete.
Speaker 2: You know, it'd be a concert the night before and
Speaker 2: you know they rolled that that that half an inch
Speaker 2: turf that they would roll down on top of that concrete.
Speaker 2: Sometimes there would be beer bottles underneath the concrete, I
Speaker 2: mean underneath.
Speaker 1: The turf that they rolled down.
Speaker 2: They forgot to take the beer bottles out and the
Speaker 2: bottle caps that were underneath that turf that they rolled out.
Speaker 1: If you got hit at the Silver Dome on that
Speaker 1: concrete turf, yeah, and you went down, did you realize,
Speaker 1: Oh you felt it.
Speaker 2: You felt it like you know, like Vic used to
Speaker 2: talk about playing football in the street.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was that. It was that.
Speaker 2: It was that hard, like there was it was no
Speaker 2: cushion whatsoever falling on that turf.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 2: Then on top of that, it was the worst turf
Speaker 2: because it would burn you if you fell down on
Speaker 2: it too, So it was like synthetic so plastic basically.
Speaker 2: And then and once you fell down on it, it
Speaker 2: would slide in would burn your skin, so you would
Speaker 2: have all kinds of rug burns on your skin after
Speaker 2: every single game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not good. Standards were very low back then, all right,
Speaker 1: But you brought something up a second ago, and I
Speaker 1: just want to say this, we don't have to elaborate
Speaker 1: on it, but I'd like to get it out there. Okay, Oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know you talked about Arizona State and Arizona in
Speaker 1: the grass in both fields. Please do not bring up
Speaker 1: the dirty tea again. Please don't do that. Why I
Speaker 1: love the dirty tea. The dirty tea is something special,
Speaker 1: The dirty tea, dirty tea is something special. No, when
Speaker 1: you grew up in Phoenix, you you didn't like the
Speaker 1: dirty tea, the dirt.
Speaker 2: No, it was the dirty tea until I heard it
Speaker 2: from Alex Verdugo when he came to become a Dodger
Speaker 2: and he talked about the dirty tea. Or actually Justin
Speaker 2: Turner told me, Yeah, Erdugo tells me from the same
Speaker 2: hometown as you, the dirty tea. I was like, what
Speaker 2: are you talking about the dirty Justin what are you
Speaker 2: talking about dirty tea? Yeah, Verdugo says, it's the dirty
Speaker 2: tea Tucson. It's called the dirty tea. Like, oh okay,
Speaker 2: But then I got it. I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: guess it is the dirty Yeah, right, exactly, dirty.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It doesn't take a lot of thought to understand
Speaker 1: what the dirty tea is. Yes, when it way back
Speaker 1: to Kendleback Ranch and the grass. Dodger spring training right
Speaker 1: around the corner. Can you it's seriously right around the corner.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. So if the Dodgers win the World Series,
Speaker 1: and what does that mean, it means it's gonna cost
Speaker 1: you little more now to go to spring training. So
Speaker 1: the deal is this, if you can't afford to go
Speaker 1: to Dodger Stadium, spring training is a fun alternative. And also,
Speaker 1: if you get a chance, if you if you care
Speaker 1: and you get a chance, not a bad idea to
Speaker 1: spend a couple of days in Phoenix and go to
Speaker 1: multiple games because that really is fun. Now, granted, you're
Speaker 1: really not gonna see anybody. You only see a bunch
Speaker 1: of lot You'll see a lot of guys trying to
Speaker 1: make the team. The starters will play a little bit,
Speaker 1: but it's you're really close to the players and it's
Speaker 1: a good time. I used to love it when I
Speaker 1: lived there. I went to spring training every day. I
Speaker 1: thought it was the best. So here's what it's gonna
Speaker 1: cost you this year. Four games. If you want to
Speaker 1: set on the grass, and that's fun to set on
Speaker 1: the outfield grass, it really is. It's gonna cost you
Speaker 1: between twenty nine and eighty one dollars twenty nine and
Speaker 1: eighty one dollars per game if you sit on the
Speaker 1: outfield grass. H Okay, my mistake. That's what seats are
Speaker 1: going to cost you. That was my bad seats. If
Speaker 1: you don't want to set on the grass, between twenty
Speaker 1: nine and eighty one dollars seat, and really for spring training,
Speaker 1: there's no bad seat in the house, right if you
Speaker 1: want to sit on the grass. It's forty to fifty
Speaker 1: three dollars on weekends, twenty five to forty two dollars
Speaker 1: on week days. That's what it's going to cost. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know they share the facility with the Chicago White Sox. Yes,
Speaker 1: so the days the Dodgers don't play at Camel Back Ranch,
Speaker 1: the White Sox will. And it says you can get
Speaker 1: a seat right behind home plate for a nickel, So
Speaker 1: you know that might be a pretty good I.
Speaker 3: Don't believe that's true, Fred, Maybe you just made that
Speaker 3: one up.
Speaker 1: Nickel. Yes, I made that up, but I made it
Speaker 1: up to.
Speaker 3: The joke the White Sox will pay you to come
Speaker 3: to the game. Is that what it is?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What are you trying to say right there it is. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: given how awful they work, and see Miguel Vargas in
Speaker 1: the dugout and bring training off the crime.
Speaker 3: Oh he has to see the Dodger players all around
Speaker 3: town all day every day.
Speaker 1: God, you know.
Speaker 2: So so the days walking out to the facility where
Speaker 2: they're working out, you know, they each got their own
Speaker 2: locker room, and you know, you come into the main
Speaker 2: you know, main door, and Dodgers go right and then
Speaker 2: White Sox go left, and you know, Miguel comes in
Speaker 2: and he's pulling up and he's like watching the Dodger
Speaker 2: guys go to the right and he's got to go
Speaker 2: to the left.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then when the workout's over, you know they're
Speaker 1: all because the end of the workouts at about the
Speaker 1: same time, they're all congregating, you know, they're they're leaving now,
Speaker 1: you know. And Freddie Freeman says to uh, Miggi Rojas,
Speaker 1: hey man, you want to get a bite to eat.
Speaker 1: And at that moment, Miguel Vargas is coming out of
Speaker 1: the White Sox clubhouse, right mm hmmm. So Freddie says, hey, Miggi,
Speaker 1: you want to get a bite to eat, and Vargus
Speaker 1: go sure, Freddy goes No.
Speaker 2: Not you mag Rojas, God you wrong, Miggy wrong, Miggy
Speaker 2: cold blooded, Fred cold blooded.
Speaker 1: But it was funny. No, yes, it was. Okay. So
Speaker 1: when we come back, really interesting news involving Charles Barkley
Speaker 1: and the TNT guys. It's really interesting. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk about it. Oh, yes, come on on a Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Yes, we have taken a few liberties and tangents on
Speaker 2: the road to get in here. Today. I'm looking at
Speaker 2: Fred Rogan and his catcher's outfit. I call it an
Speaker 2: outfit because it's not a uniform. It's an outfit the.
Speaker 1: Way I'm gonna try to find No, I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: to find a picture, please, because I know. I know.
Speaker 1: It's the oversized.
Speaker 2: Chest protector and the oversized shin guards and the oversized
Speaker 2: helmet with the mask.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this.
Speaker 2: Did you have the helmet connected to the face mask
Speaker 2: or did you have a hat backwards with a face
Speaker 2: mask over it.
Speaker 1: I had a helmet backwards.
Speaker 2: You had a helmet, Okay, so you had the helmet.
Speaker 2: It was it was like the plastic helmet that you
Speaker 2: turned backwards. It wasn't connected. No, okay, I was old school,
Speaker 2: old school. Okay, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Didn't do the Yogi he didn't do the Yogi bear,
Speaker 1: just like cloth hat. No, no, no, no, no. I
Speaker 1: had the helmet.
Speaker 2: Okay, you had the helmet, but not a not a
Speaker 2: connected helmet. Let's they started doing back in that day.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't come on. What do you think I am.
Speaker 1: I was out there gutting it out, man. I wasn't
Speaker 1: wearing that kind of stuff. I was going real yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, So I think this is pretty interesting if
Speaker 1: you haven't heard about it. You know, with the NBA
Speaker 1: switching partners after this season, tn T was out. It's Amazon,
Speaker 1: NBC and ESPN, ABC. So tn T was out. What
Speaker 1: did that mean? That was the end of the best
Speaker 1: studio show in sports television by far the end. Everybody
Speaker 1: tries to copy it. Nobody can because you can't create chemistry.
Speaker 1: People have it or they don't, and that group does.
Speaker 1: And it centered around Charles Barkley. But I would tell
Speaker 1: you Ernie Johnson's role as is as important as Charles Barkley.
Speaker 1: Ernie Ernie Johnson as good as it gets in the business. Okay,
Speaker 1: So anyway, when TNT lost the NBA, that was it.
Speaker 1: For them. I thought, oh my god, they're gonna put
Speaker 1: him on the hockey pregame show because they have hockey
Speaker 1: or they have Nascar. I mean, what are they gonna
Speaker 1: do with them? As they ended up doing. Never heard
Speaker 1: of it before. ESPN has agreed to license inside the
Speaker 1: NBA the Turner Show beginning next season, so before ESPN
Speaker 1: games you're going to see the Turner guys on TV. Now,
Speaker 1: the Turner guys are still going to do it from Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and they're still going to produce their show, so it
Speaker 1: won't even be produced by ESPN. They're simply going to
Speaker 1: take the show and move it and let the Turner
Speaker 1: guys do their thing, which I think is brilliant, brilliant.
Speaker 1: With all due respect to the people that work on
Speaker 1: the ESPN pregame shows, they're not even close to those guys.
Speaker 1: Actually nobody is. But they're the gold standard of basketball
Speaker 1: and the gold standard of studio shows. The only thing
Speaker 1: close to that truly are the Fox shows.
Speaker 2: For football NFL Sunday Fox Yeah, Yeah, because they get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and even the show before that were Carrissa hosts.
Speaker 1: That's where they're grooming the guys to move up to
Speaker 1: the other show that's pretty good too. They just get it,
Speaker 1: they understand it, and Turner wrote the book on it.
Speaker 1: So that show is going to move and it's going
Speaker 1: to be licensed by ESPN from Turner. So really, in
Speaker 1: the big picture, what does that mean. That means Channel
Speaker 1: four would license Rob Fukazaki sportscast to run on Channel four.
Speaker 1: That's what it means. They are licensing it from another company.
Speaker 1: So what happens to the current ESPN people, Well, the
Speaker 1: Turner guys are going to do big events. You know,
Speaker 1: they'll do the finals opening Sunday, and I think they'll
Speaker 1: do all the games after the first of the year
Speaker 1: on Saturdays when ABC has Game, the ESPN people will
Speaker 1: do the other games, their pregame show, their studio show.
Speaker 1: So what will happen is they'll come on and do
Speaker 1: whatever they're gonna do, and then the Turner guys will
Speaker 1: come on and really do it. Now the ESPN people,
Speaker 1: this is gonna change things a little bit for them
Speaker 1: because the way ESPN works it's so commercial driven that
Speaker 1: when you would see the crew that did it last
Speaker 1: year do it at halftime of the NBA Finals, they'd
Speaker 1: be on for like three minutes because they were all commercials.
Speaker 1: They can't do that with the tn T guys. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have let them go and be them. I think
Speaker 1: it's fascinating. It's never been done before, but it shows
Speaker 1: how things have changed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it almost kind of you know, reminds me
Speaker 2: a little bit. I don't know if you remember when
Speaker 2: and there was that big shakeup where Fox was coming
Speaker 2: on board, right, Fox was they had the money and
Speaker 2: Murdoch took over and he's like, we're going to spend
Speaker 2: the money and where we where where do we spend
Speaker 2: the money? We gotta we gotta capture sports. And they
Speaker 2: went after the NFL and they went hard and they
Speaker 2: got them and they stole it from I don't want
Speaker 2: to they stole it, but CBS. They took the NFC
Speaker 2: from CBS, right, remember that, And they also took the
Speaker 2: CBS talent to Fox. James Brown, Brown, Bradshaw, they took
Speaker 2: they took Madden in summer role, who were the CBS
Speaker 2: number one crew, and they brought him to Fox became
Speaker 2: the Fox number one crew.
Speaker 1: You remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it was you know, kind of reminds me
Speaker 2: of that where they saw the talent where CBS had
Speaker 2: the talent in terms of their on air personalities, and
Speaker 2: we're going to take them as we take over the NFL,
Speaker 2: and we're going to bring these guys on board.
Speaker 1: And and they brought them on board.
Speaker 2: And and and obviously they took it to a different
Speaker 2: level because when Madden and Summer all, you know, became
Speaker 2: the number one guys at Fox, they were they took
Speaker 2: it to a different level.
Speaker 1: Than they had it at CBS.
Speaker 2: Same thing with with JB and there in the pregame
Speaker 2: show JB.
Speaker 1: They went to Fox, they gave them, I guess they
Speaker 1: gave more leeway.
Speaker 2: And it was more, it was more, it was younger,
Speaker 2: it was hipper, it was all of those things. And
Speaker 2: they brought that talent over there and it just off
Speaker 2: to the races, which they did. It feels like the
Speaker 2: same thing that they're doing right here is that they
Speaker 2: understand that the talent level at T and T is
Speaker 2: we don't want to break that up and and they.
Speaker 1: Do have the best. So the question is what happens
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 2: That rival crew that worked at ESPN that is now
Speaker 2: taking a back seat to Charles Kenny and and and
Speaker 2: Ernie and and Uh and Shaq and those guys what
Speaker 2: happens to those guys and how do they feel about it?
Speaker 1: Well, they feel terrible. I can promise you they feel awful.
Speaker 1: They're still gonna be on. I think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: on before these guys.
Speaker 2: So they're doing the they're doing the pre pre show
Speaker 2: and then when they do, they do the off off
Speaker 2: games off nights.
Speaker 1: They'll do that. And I wonder how much the NBA.
Speaker 2: And all those you know that that crew, right, And
Speaker 2: so they're they're gonna they're taking a back seat to
Speaker 2: the other guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna be interesting. Yeah, well they're they're getting paid,
Speaker 1: and they're paid to do what they tell them to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, paid is one thing again, but it's it's all
Speaker 2: about quality and you're doing your job and being the
Speaker 2: best and being at the top of your game, and
Speaker 2: now you've got to take a back seat to somebody
Speaker 2: coming over taking your spot. Yep, that's not an easy thing.
Speaker 2: I don't care how much you getting paid. That's not
Speaker 2: that's not an easy thing to kind of just do
Speaker 2: or take.
Speaker 1: No, it's awful. Of course, the alternative is they take
Speaker 1: your spot, you don't get paid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean everything, Fred, But to say, oh, they're
Speaker 2: getting paid, so they should be okay with it.
Speaker 1: No they're not. Well, no, I promise you they're not.
Speaker 1: But I wonder if the NBA had anything to do
Speaker 1: with this, because if you remember, Warner Brothers shut the
Speaker 1: NBA after they lost the contract, and as part of
Speaker 1: a settlement with the league this happened. So the league
Speaker 1: settled with Warner Brothers. I think they gave digital rights
Speaker 1: for the next ten years the only people that could
Speaker 1: have those, and some other perks. They still had some
Speaker 1: international territories where they provide games. They still run NBA
Speaker 1: TV and NBA dot Com for the next five years.
Speaker 1: So I think maybe this TNT tow ESPN might have
Speaker 1: been part of this giant set that the NBA figured out.
Speaker 2: Oh, I guarantee you the NBA was involved in that.
Speaker 2: They don't want to lose that talent. They they had
Speaker 2: a footprint around the world with those guys, those four guys,
Speaker 2: like you mentioned, T and T guys, they were the
Speaker 2: best in the business of all sports. And to to
Speaker 2: lose that or not to be able to kind of
Speaker 2: continue that, they realized that they're not you know, they're
Speaker 2: not so you know brand, you know, dominant and feel
Speaker 2: like they got to keep their own people in their
Speaker 2: own brand. Understand that there the other guys might have
Speaker 2: a better show than we had, and why not, let's
Speaker 2: let's keep those guys going and bring them over here.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a big move.
Speaker 2: It's not easy to put your ego aside and say, look,
Speaker 2: those guys got a better show than we do, let's
Speaker 2: bring them all over. So I'm sure it hurt from
Speaker 2: the talent pool, the Steven A. Smith and and who
Speaker 2: else was on that show, Malik Andrews and and and
Speaker 2: Kendrick and my man my man from partnering interruption, Wilburn, Wilburd, Wilbon, Mike,
Speaker 2: Mike Wilburon. Yeah, so I'm sure you know, it bothers
Speaker 2: them a little bit, but it also I'm sure bothers
Speaker 2: the producers of the show all of that. It's like,
Speaker 2: you know, we we thought we did a pretty good job.
Speaker 2: But the unfortunate thing that they were second behind those guys,
Speaker 2: and and and a distance second at that. And so
Speaker 2: the big brass that he has man said, we're not
Speaker 2: going to why are we losing that? Because you remember
Speaker 2: Charles was ready to retire Charles, he was done it's like,
Speaker 2: I'm out, I'm not gonna We're not doing this show anymore.
Speaker 2: And he made a big deal about it and was
Speaker 2: signing off, and they brought it, you know, they brought
Speaker 2: him back.
Speaker 1: Who knows what that number is to bring them all
Speaker 1: back over there? Who wants to go see the Chargers
Speaker 1: and Ravens Monday night at SOFI Stadium? Who eight six
Speaker 1: six nine, it's like six ninety seven two five seventy.
Speaker 1: Rodney would call her number seven seven, All right, caller seven.
Speaker 1: And when we come back, let's see if you can
Speaker 1: bear it.
Speaker 2: Come out, Oh stre Rodney, pet bread Rogan winding down
Speaker 2: a Tuesday afternoon for us. Now, come on, Freddy, bring it.
Speaker 2: Ever had an encounter with a bear?
Speaker 1: I have not? Actually, okay, I haven't either, have not
Speaker 1: face you haven't.
Speaker 2: No, well, no, you know in many animals, if you've
Speaker 2: had encounters with land or sea or there, I'm surprised
Speaker 2: that you've never had any encounter with a bear.
Speaker 1: Ever. Tell you about the time that, oh lord, here
Speaker 1: we go. No, I'm just saying this real quick, because
Speaker 1: you brought it up. The giant the giant bird basically
Speaker 1: defecated on me in Kando park. It can'to in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. I was sitting there eating a burrita at
Speaker 1: this park. I know the park very well, right. I
Speaker 1: was eating a burrito and a bird crapped on me.
Speaker 1: Then a duck tried to attack me. I wanted part
Speaker 1: of my burrito, and I gave the duck part of
Speaker 1: the burrito, and it ran into the water real fast
Speaker 1: and started yapping its jaws because the burrito was hot.
Speaker 1: He wanted the burrito and he wasn't going to leave
Speaker 1: me alone. Yeah, so the bird crapped on me, and
Speaker 1: then the duck tried to attack me. I've never told
Speaker 1: that anyway. Oh my god, So here's the bear that's
Speaker 1: wrong with you? I don't know. I was just minding
Speaker 1: my own business. Seriously, what is wrong with you? I
Speaker 1: had a pink shirt on. I'll never forget. I was
Speaker 1: working at kpn X and Phoenix having a little burrito
Speaker 1: from the stand on fifteenth and Grand where the greatest
Speaker 1: burritos in the world. And then it was like a
Speaker 1: little shack. And then the woman that ran it died
Speaker 1: and it went out of business. And that was a
Speaker 1: really sad day for her family and for me because
Speaker 1: I love those burritos. So here's the deal with the
Speaker 1: Bo's wrong with you and animals? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. One day a dog bit me.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Belie, all right, So here's the thing
Speaker 1: with the bear.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: If you've come in contact with the real bear, you
Speaker 1: know that that's bad news. But there seem to be
Speaker 1: this uh series of bears getting into cars and scratching
Speaker 1: them up and stealing things. You know, a bear can
Speaker 1: open the door and walk into your house. We've seen
Speaker 1: that because bears have thumbs. Okay, so the bears have
Speaker 1: thumb primates like monkeys and chips, all right, so they
Speaker 1: can do that.
Speaker 2: And it was just enough. They have thumbs, I'd just
Speaker 2: say that. And the claws they can grab, they can
Speaker 2: grab things. Yeah, they have claws and claw your head off.
Speaker 2: So anyway, they were getting into these cars and clawing
Speaker 2: them up and stealing things. And then the people that
Speaker 2: owned the cars, and they were expensive cars like a
Speaker 2: Rolls Royce and a Mercedes, they were filing insurance claims
Speaker 2: and they were being paid off.
Speaker 1: Well. The insurance company, of course, looked at things very carefully,
Speaker 1: very careful, and I said wait a minute, we don't
Speaker 1: think bears could do this. And it turns out the
Speaker 1: bears didn't do it. What the bears were caught on
Speaker 1: camera there were people dressed as bears. A people put
Speaker 1: on bear costumes and tried to act like bears and
Speaker 1: go into cars, steal stuff, steal stuff out of cars
Speaker 1: as bears. Yeah yeah, I mean they showed the bear
Speaker 1: inside a couple of Mercedes. Oh my god. So anyway,
Speaker 1: they had an expert look at this, and the expert said,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, those aren't real bears, they're people dressed
Speaker 1: as bears. So then the police are investigating this. Somehow,
Speaker 1: they get a lead on somebody, They go with a
Speaker 1: search warrant to their house. There are bear costumes in there.
Speaker 1: There are bear costumes in there. People are getting dressed
Speaker 1: as bears people's cars.
Speaker 2: So they could get caught because they said, oh, it's this,
Speaker 2: there's a bear outrage in the city. Bears are breaking
Speaker 2: into people's cars and stealing items out of the cars.
Speaker 1: It's the bear's fault, so we won't get caught. Ah. Man,
Speaker 1: Now that's to just have to say listen, and you know,
Speaker 1: consider this any way you want. We just told you
Speaker 1: the story. There are people dressed in bears costumes doing things.
Speaker 1: That's not to suggest if you come upon a bear
Speaker 1: you immediately believe it's someone inside in a costume. Please
Speaker 1: assume it's a real bear. Do not try to reason
Speaker 1: with the person. Do not start speaking to the bear
Speaker 1: and expecting them to respond, because it's probably a real bear.
Speaker 1: These people were caught, these people are done. Just don't
Speaker 1: make the mistake because, as you would say, Rodney, the
Speaker 1: bear will go bear, the bear will go bear. Always,
Speaker 1: don't trust the animal the animal.
Speaker 2: The animal is the animal, and revert back to being
Speaker 2: the animal, whether it's a bear, a dog, an alligator,
Speaker 2: a tiger, a lion, whatever it may be, elephant, something
Speaker 2: that you think is nice.
Speaker 1: Oh, and a nice hippo. No, the hippo will go hippo, right,
Speaker 1: and once.
Speaker 3: You give them a catalytic converter, then I'll walk off
Speaker 3: nicely with it.
Speaker 1: All right. That was better than my life, Ronnie, thank
Speaker 1: you appreciate it. Kevin, great job. And Rodney, we get
Speaker 1: him again tomorrow. Let's do it.