Emery recaps his journey to Spain

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Very very happy to be back. You know what today is, Matt,
what's today International Translation Day?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Sure? Yeah. One thing I wish I would have had
a better understanding and grasp of the Spanish language. I
tell you what, I was in Spain. There's a lot
of stuff there that I'm just kind of like, oh, yeah,
I have no idea what that says. Most of the
stuff is in English. Some of this stuff, you know,
you're kind of left to your own devices to try
to figure out best to get some practicing. Other than that,

(00:27):
it was really easy, man. The only other bad thing
is my suitcase with all my stuff is still in Madrid.
Really yep, that's not good. Yeah wow, Well I was
on standby for that flight to come back. Anybody's gone
to Spain or Portugal. There's an airline called Iberia, which
is literally like a giant plane that will take you

(00:47):
from to in from Spain. Basically that's their thing. So
with that, there's you know, some unknowns I didn't know
I should have. I've checked in for my flight a
couple hours before I actually went down to the airport.
Didn't give myself enough time. They said, hey, if everybody

(01:09):
who's already checked in shows up you're not gonna make
this plane. That's a disconcerting feelings like, okay, well I
might be here for another day. Why they find me
a spot on a plane? Right? Which sucks?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
They overbooked these planes. Well, eventually they figured, you know,
and I asked about my luggage and they said, yeah,
we'll put that on standby as well. So if you know,
you guys don't go, it won't go without you, and
vice versa. That was the plane at least. Well, you
know what ends up happening. They last minute find enough
space for me and my wife to get on this flight.
So we get on this flight, and you know what

(01:39):
ends up happening. They forgot your luggage. My luggage didn't
make the plane. Well, it's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
You didn't have any like super needed stuff in there
that you couldn't go without.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, I mean except eighty percent of the clothes that
I wear and all but like two pairs of shoes
that I wear, and all the stuff that I bought
in Spain, and it really I suitcase. So you're saying,
I need to get used to that baseball shirt you're wearing. Literally,
I have like three wearable shirts right now in my closet. Okay,
I might start wearing sweatshirts just because I have no choice.

(02:10):
Tomorrow's going to be sweatshirt weather, so yeah, I might might.
Just I might come to I might come to work
a no shirt on. Who knows, you know what I mean?
It's radio, so who cares? Yeah, that's right anyway. Yeah,
we'll get to the news here in a second. I
just figured, you know, for the last two weeks, you know,
that's something that we got going on, And you got

(02:31):
any questions, Is there anything anything you were curious about
Spain and andorra any any questions?

Speaker 4 (02:39):
He got to be completely honest, My first question is
going to come out of left field. Oh boy, do
you know Paris Hilton, Like just personally, I guess Paris Hilton. Yeah,
the socialite, the bombshell blonde that did nothing but was
born to the right father and sang some songs. No, no, I.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Mean there are many people people who don't need to
listen to that.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Well, a whole lot of people listening to you are
gonna listen to that for just a couple of seconds,
because every when I was making some things for you
and for your return, I stumbled upon upon a Paris
Hilton song that she released this last Friday, and it's
called Welcome Back, and it's about you. She's wondering where

(03:23):
you've been, So do you want to tell her where
you went?

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Paris? If you're listening, I went to Madrid, Barcelona, and
and Dora. Okay, the country of Andorra, which is geographically
the size of Omaha. Oh really yeah, it's very small,
so it's but it's a whole country. But it's the
size of Olma.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
That's yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, it's got like it's got well, I think it's
seven little villages in there. It's beautiful. You got to
go on a social media find it posted a bunch
of I'll post some more stuff as the week goes on.
You know, I needed to take a break, so I
was posting so much letting people know what I was
up to. That you have like a favorite place, Andra, Okay,
I just I want to go back to Andorra. It's

(04:05):
hard to get there and it's not overrun with people.
There's no crime. Are dogs everywhere, like people take their
dogs to them all. People take their dogs grocery shopping,
people take their dogs literally everywhere in Andora. Maybe we
need more dogs. Maybe that's what's helping with the crime.
I don't know. I don't, dude, I'm telling you like
from like I was there, I was like, man, I

(04:28):
wish I had my dog, like one of my dogs,
and just like you can walk around with your dog everywhere.
It was a great place. It's just beautiful, unspeakable beauty.
The mountains and you're staring at them like it's just tucked.
All the little villages are tucked inside these Pyrenees mountains.
It's just fantastic. But yeah, that's where I went. It
was a good time. If you have questions about what

(04:49):
it looked like, I just would point to my social
media to find me a memory songer. What did I miss? Like?
What was going on here? Just a whole lot of
guest hosting. Yeah, nine days were thanks to everybody who
guests hosted. I'll be honest, didn't listen much. I was
a little busy when this show was on the air.
I was about to go to sleep most days. So

(05:11):
there's a seven hour difference, right yeah, yeah, yeah, And
I mean like let's let's just let's cut to the
chase here real quick. Not every day you get to
go to Europe. It was. It was a great experience.
There's some stuff that you know didn't go perfectly that
you know, it happens on vacation. You just kind of
have to adjust, adjust to, right, you know. My wife

(05:33):
lost her phone the first night we were there, which
was great. Got lucky enough that the taxi driver was
a nice enough guy to bring it back to the
hotel when he realized that my wife's phone was in
the back seat of his taxi. Well, that's a cool move.
That's a nice event, what a nice guy.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
I gave him some extra money for sure, for for
the effort that he put in for me. That I
gotta tell you, that was such a clutch move by him.
We would have been in such deep sludge.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
I can't imagine being in a foreign country on vacation
and losing your phone.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, it was. It was not great. I was panicking
because I did my simcard thing wrong, so my phone
wasn't even operational at that point. So without her phone,
we were totally screwed. Anyway, we got it back. It
was great. It was all good. There are a lot
of different things that happened and we enjoyed, but yeah,
it's good time. My biggest question is if, as anybody

(06:22):
lost the luggage out there, do I need to be
like sweating about this because I kind of am. I
got back on Friday night, and I get daily updates
because we put the baggage claim in with American Airlines,
which is who we flew with, which is a partner
of that Iberia, and Iberia tells you whatever flight partner
you have, you need to talk to them about your
baggage thing because they're technically responsible and they'll work with

(06:46):
you on that. I get to Chicago, where our layover was,
and the guy said, yeah, you're on the list. Your
bag didn't make it on the plane, so you got
to put a baggage claim in. So we did. We
understood that it was partially our fault. Well, it's mostly
our fault. If we would have just checked in two
hours earlier, like we probably should have done, like good kids,
we would have been on the plane, no questions asking

(07:08):
our baggage would have been there too. Well, every day
so far, it's saying that it's still looking for my bag.
It can't just disappear, right, Like, how long does this take?
Do they know where it is? And there's waiting for
a room on a plane to get it on and
send it to me. But wouldn't they tell me they
have found it? I don't know. If you have any

(07:28):
experience with lost luggage domestic or international travel, please feel
free to call me and hit me up with some ideas.
I've never had this issue before. I've traveled a lot,
never once had this issue. Please call in four two
five five eight eleven ten. I remember the number four
two five five eight to eleven ten. That's the one. Yeah,
and call in and I'd love to get pick your
brain on that, but we got some bills to pay ourselves.

(07:51):
When we come back. We'll take your calls and talk
about plenty more stuff, all sorts of stuff that we're
going to get to today here on news Radio eleven
ten and KFAB Pam's on the line. Pacome to the show.
What you got for me?

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Well, we got our luggage lost about fifteen years ago.
Never got it back. Oh No, I have one word
for you, no matter where you go, carry on.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Yeah, I'm kind of I'm thinking about that anyone.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Well, and that's the thing. Ever was it a was
it an international flight?

Speaker 5 (08:21):
No?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, they lost it in the United States. Yes, that's
that's terrible. I don't want to. I don't want to,
you know, rub salt in the wound. But did they
reimburse you for anything? Did they like give you money?

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Not really, it's a big castle, it's a big fight.
It's not worth it. Things might have changed since then.
I'm hoping for your sake.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, I guess my my thing, like I okay, So
here's the thing, Pam, I am. I am pretty stressed
out about it. I'm trying to kind of play at
koy here, but I am pretty stressed out about it.
I did look it up, like something like seven percent
of all bags are never recovered. Now that's a lot
more than I would like to hear, but that's a
big enough a small enough number where I'm kind of

(09:05):
hopeful that I'm going to get it back. They said
you have to wait three weeks twenty one days for
them to locate it before you can get to the
next step of the process. And apparently there are like
ways that you can recover up to like thirty eight
hundred dollars or something. I hope it doesn't come to that,
but you know, I'm sweating bullets here now that you
say that it's actually happened to you, Pam.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
Yeah, I wish you all the luck. It's not a
good experience. I've never checked luggage since then, never will.
I don't care if I went to the.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Moon right right. Well, my wife was able to pack
all her stuff into one and she had some of
her stuff in my bigger suitcase. But yeah, I feel
like I'm gonna I think I'm going to follow your
lead there, Pam, because that's one thing I don't have
to worry about if I just, you know, do it
that way. I appreciate the story. I'm sorry you lost
that luggage, but I'm glad that you called in, Pam.
Thanks for listening to us.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Okay, thank you very much. Bye.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Bill's on our phone line W two ten Bill. What
you got for me today?

Speaker 6 (10:03):
Well, I'll tell you what this happened to our kids.
And they flew international also and they lost their luggage.
But they had put Apple air tags in all their luggage.
You've heard of.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Those, Yeah, I was smart.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:16):
Well, here's what happened is they told him they lost it,
they can't find it, and they started looking on their
phones and it's in it. Looks like it's in a
warehouse to the north of the airport. And so our
daughter in law was on the line for a long
time and the laces, I'm sorry, ma'am, it can't be there,
and da da da da dada. So finally, our son
actually works for the government, had to get a government
official go over there and look at their names, and

(10:39):
sure enough it was there. And there's a bunch of
other luggies sitting in there too.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
What country was this, if you don't mind me asking,
This was in the USA, This was in America, but
they yeah, so they was it like a connector Europe?

Speaker 6 (10:52):
Yeah, yeah, they flew yeah, connecting fight they're over in
Europe and they kind of live over in the Middle East.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
But yeah, yeah, so okay, this was the thing. Bill
started to interrupt. I was there and this is a
giant plane that goes from Madrid back to the United States,
like huge, and there's like hundreds of people on this plane.
And there was a connector from Myorca, which is not
far from I mean, there were people that flew from

(11:20):
Myorca to connect in Madrid, and that flight apparently was
running late. And the Madrid airport is kind of Chicago
esque in how large it is and how much of
a nightmare it is to navigate. So there were a
ton of people that barely themselves their bodies made it
as they were like finishing up boarding for that flight.

(11:40):
And I was watching them as I was on standby
get there at the very last second. And I guarantee
all of those people they were in the same line
I was when we landed in Chicago to see if
their luggage had landed, and none of them did because
that didn't have enough time from the MAJORCA plane to
get it on the United States plane. And I don't know, Bill, Like,
what's the odds that all of probably the twenty to

(12:02):
thirty people I'm referencing here that I saw it on
this plane before me that had the same problem I did, Like,
there's no way all of us are going to lose our.

Speaker 6 (12:10):
Luggage, right right, But now, do you have a thing
that you can see where your luggage is? Some people
they have that on their ticket. They can actually look
at that and find the physical place where it's at. Yeah,
I know they talked about it.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, And that's when I got landed on the ground
and I talked to the American Airlines rap, they basically
said straight up, like they gave us a baggage number.
They have an online thing that kind of helps you
track where it is now. It doesn't give you like
eyeballs on it, but it tells you like, hey, we're
either looking for it, or we found it, or we
are sending it in transit. We're gonna be in the

(12:46):
process of delivery. So I think that's as close as
American can give me to it. The problem is American
Airlines doesn't have a port like they work with Iberia.
It's Iberia who actually has my bag as far as
I'm like, I know in Spain. So I think I
might have to usurp and they wanted me to deal
with American. I might have to jump over American here
to talk to Iberia and see if they can help

(13:09):
me figure out my But again, like I said, Bill,
there's no doubt there were at least thirty other people
that probably had this. That was a long list of
people that didn't have their bags on that flight. And
there's no way they misplaced all of our bags, you
know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (13:21):
Well, right, but here, like here's the thing, Like she
was so frustrated talking on the phone with this agent
and said, no, no, it can't be there, can't be there,
And says, I am physically looking on my phone and
I see it in this building, you know. And she's
so frust to said so finally our son had to
get somebody in the government involved, which is not everybody.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Can do that, right.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
They had clearance to go in there and get that
that piece of luggage, and and there's a whole bunch
of other ones there too, and they said, oh, what's
all this luggy's doing in here?

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Well, that's the AirPod thing? Is that. That's a great
idea too. I mean that's something.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
Well, I do what's everything. I even do it our vehicle.
I do it vehicles, so I don't get stole.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
It's a great idea. Bill. Hey, thanks for the call,
Thanks for the information on that. That's good stuff.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Take care you too. Mark's on our phone line at
four two five eight eleven ten. Mark, what's on your
mind about this?

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (14:17):
First off, I've flown Madrid to actually New York and
I've lost bags internationally, I've lost bags domestically, I've lost
bags I carried on and I've lost bags that I
physically put on the airplane myself.

Speaker 5 (14:31):
Right.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
I can tell you the first thing you should do,
hopefully you charge your airline to get to either an
amex or to a card that says platinum, call them immediately,
because if you wait three weeks, they're gonna say, oh,
you had to report that within fourteen days.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, yeah, all your credit.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Card company, right, and fill out the paperwork just in
case your bag doesn't show up. Chances are it'll show up.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, And that's what I'm seeing online is that you know,
sometimes you have to wait a few days because there's
a chance they know where it is and they're just
waiting for a plane coming to the United States to
put it on kind of thing. But still, you know,
like you're trying to think about, like what do you
do if that doesn't happen? Right?

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, first off, don't have a black bag. Have like
a different color bag. Yeah, it's green, some yellow ribbon
on it. And then literally once they have control, like
I lost a bag that I carried on on one
on an American air Airline flight and never got it
back and never got any money. Oh, the only money

(15:36):
I got was from MX. Oh so, and that's because
and that's partly because it had my wife's fifteen hundred
dollars person there, right, and I'm sure somebody went, well,
you know, and they supposedly take them all to some
big auction place for American in Phoenix and auction off

(15:56):
all the bags. That's what they do. That's exact exactly.
I had an airline flight attendant who told me she
left a bag on a flight as a carry on
and she never got it back and she was a
flight attendant.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Well, this doesn't make me feel all that much better, Mark,
I gotta be honest, but no.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
I can give you that. I give you the CEO hotline.
It'll do you no good.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, No, I hear you, I hear you, Mark.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
No.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
This is good though that you mentioned this, because I'm
glad that I'm not the only one that had this
happened to myself.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
So the same thing. If you have a rental car,
rent it with a Platinum car or an Amex. I've
broken seven windshields and rental cars and the easiest thing
in the world is if you have an Amex.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
What are you doing? Mark?

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Like, I'll give you.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
One other tidbit is I ran into a guy on
an American Airlines flight in after the earthquake in Haiti,
and he was there, dust covered, food, everything, and he said, yeah,
he called the MX line. They sent a jet. It
picked him up in Haiti and flew him back to Miami.
He had no know nothing, and he said, AMEX picked

(17:03):
him right up.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, that's so I do have an AX, right, No,
I do have one. It's one of the few cards
that I do kind of utilize. And that's one of
the few cards that I had that actually works in Spain.
So we we used that a lot for the trip.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
So also, I've never had credit card fraud on an AMEX,
but I've had a lot of it on. Right, don't
ever use a debit card if you ever watched that
averag Nathy guy, Yeah, yeah, you never. You should own
a debit card.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, I'm with I only have it in my wallet
so I can pull money out of my ATM if
I need cash. But Mark, this was good stuff. Thanks
for calling in man, Thank you so much for listening.
Yeah you too. Uh, Well, there you go. How about
that for some information? Gee is all right? Well, when
we come back, we'll get to some news here. And
got some emails telling me about Blosst luggage as well.

(17:52):
Feel free to call us if you have any story
about the lost luggage thing, or any questions about my
trip or anything. Feel free I'll answer those intermittently throughout
the rest of the show. Thank you so much for listening.
Emory songer with you on news Radio eleven ten kfab
eh Marie's song you Won't go to College on news
Radio eleven ten kfab. They just need to figure out

(18:14):
a way to get it back to the United States
and then get it from the United States, you know,
from one of the major airports they service to here
to Omaha, and then American Airlines is going to do
the rest, and I'm hopeful if that happens. Have a
couple of different sides of this, Thomas says, I hope
you had trip insurance. I don't know if that would

(18:35):
help me. Maybe I'm wrong. I have flight insurance. I
didn't need to use it because we made our flights
and everything. But I got to tell you the uh,
my biggest issue with this whole thing is I don't
want to have to take that step of hey, how
you reimbursing me for losing my bag kind of thing.
I get it like there's nobody to be mad at

(18:57):
except myself for not checking in early enough to know
I had to seat on this plane. They called my
name and my wife's name right as they were finished,
like they're about to shut the door. They're like, we
have a couple of seats left. We're going to put
you on this plane. It didn't. They didn't have enough
time to relay that information, apparently down to the people
who were doing the bags, and the bag never made
it to the plane. They say, you have three weeks

(19:18):
basically before you can like start making taking the next
steps to try to get either reimbursed or you know,
I just love to have my stuff. That's kind of
like my first thing. However, soon emails in and says
our luggage was not on our plane either when we
came back from Portugal. It was eventually returned to us.
Just be patient. I totally understand your anxiety, but try
not to worry. It will make it back to you

(19:40):
and it will end up on your front porch eventually,
I promise. That makes me feel good.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Trip insurance without context sounds like something the mafia makes
you get. Hey, you better get some trip insurance. Never
know when I'll come by and trip you. That was
kind of stupid. Anyways, proceed.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
So I am a US Cellular customer, so as far
as US Cellular is concerned, I actually had a quite
enjoyable experience when I figured my sim card out. I
had service basically everywhere in Andorra and in Spain except
for a few different places that I think you know,
I was just inside too far, but had good reception
and paid only like three dollars a day. I know

(20:22):
that phone carriers can be a little bit more controversial
these days in the way that things happen. However, I
have a couple other things on my mind about this.
When we got to Omaha, I wasn't sure how US
Cellular kind of stood up to some of the others.
You are a customer of Verizon. Now I read this,

(20:44):
and I saw this today of an outage that Verizon
is having in a lot of parts of the country.
It's not just affected by Hurricane Helen, which I promise
we are going to get to at the top of
the next hour. But there's no doubt to me that
when a cell phone carrier goes down, that creates a
little bit of an issue for not just communication perspective,

(21:05):
But a lot of people are questioning, you know, they
feel kind of in jeopardy if you will, Like things
are happening, they're not going to have the immediate news
to unless they're connected to a Wi Fi.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Now.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
I don't know exactly what the issue is with this outage.
I'm not a scientist. I've tried to read up on
maybe some of the things besides the hurricane that could
have caused something like this. This isn't the first time.
Was it T Mobile? I think last year or earlier
this year that had a huge outage nationwide? Yeah? Remember that,
I mean just put people in chaos. Yeah, I don't know.

(21:38):
There's what have you had a problem?

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Well, I'll put it to you this way. Poor Matt
is so unpopular. He didn't even know his cell phone
was in an outage. I didn't miss anything. That doesn't
mean that if there wasn't anything to miss. Yeah, but
did you notice you had an outage? Like you could
you not next to the kon like to a computer

(22:02):
or anything?

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (22:03):
I gotcha? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Like, yeah, I guess I probably was pretty solidly connected
to things throughout I don't think I experienced any outage. Yeah,
I think I'm pretty clear on that because this was
this more Lincoln based.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
It's like, I look at the map and I don't know,
there's I have a lot of questions about how something
like this happens, But it looks like the map that
I'm looking at it a lot of the Midwest. Like
I don't know if it's every single customer from like Indiana,
in a couple of states around Indiana, including people in Omaha.

(22:37):
But I did have an emailer Dawn, say, can you
talk about the major of horizon outage to day? Hundreds
of thousands of customers without access in many of them
are here in Omaha, and it's not just areas affected
by the hurricane. I've had no access to caller textans
about eight thirty this morning, and I can't receive anything either. Yeah,
I mean that's that'd be a frustrating thing for me, right,
Like I just I guess I don't know what what

(23:02):
would cause that or how that gets fixed. Yeah, I'll
keep I'll keep trying to figure that out, and I'm
working on reading as much as I can about this now.
The FCC has said in the last twenty minutes or
so that they are investigating this outage and trying to
figure out why this happens. So you know, I suppose

(23:24):
like over sixty six thousand people reported it by eleven
thirty hour time, and Minneapolis, Phoenix, Arizona, Denver, and Omaha
among the areas that were most highly reported. So again,
I don't know if that's everybody who's on Verizon or
just you know, certain areas or certain customers for some reason.

(23:46):
But the FCC said in the last twenty minutes that
they are investigating how this happened and what's going on
with it. But we'll let you know as much as
we can. It is two forty six. We'll keep you
updated on that. We'll keep you updated. I got to
talk about this baseball thing that's going on because a
great game is happening right now in Atlanta as the
Mets and the Braves are in the middle of kind

(24:06):
of it's not a winner take all, but the winner
of this game is automatically in the playoffs, and the
loser of this game has to win the second game
of this schedule double header. It's just one of the
weirdest situations in all baseball history. I'll try to explain
it and tell you why. I just love stuff like
this happening in the middle of the afternoon when we
come back here on news radio eleven ten kfa B.
There is like the example of there are two people

(24:27):
in the same area that one's phone is working the
other is not. So like you, how does it even happen? Right? Like,
how does that even kind of happen? Colleen says, I
was researching one my phone has had SOS for the
last four hours based in Beatrice, in a Hoverizon customer,
So yeah, I mean that would kind of fall into

(24:49):
the Omaha network, I suppose, and Jason's I have two
Verizon phones, one for work and one for my personal cell.
One's working fine and the other is in SOS mode
and they've been together the entire time. Like how huh
isn't that weird? I don't know, that's weird. We'll let

(25:09):
you know. The FCC is looking out for it. I
wanted to talk about this briefly, and we'll talk about
Hurricane Helene. I have a good friend whose family is
from upstate South Carolina, and I talked with her earlier today,
and I'll play that at the top of the hour.
If you're sticking around for that. But this baseball situation.
Do you see this? Do you understand what's happening today,
this weird doubleheader that the Mets and the Braves have

(25:32):
to play.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
I'm seeing this. I'm slowly learning about it. Seems like
it's a part of the season, but it's also a
postseason filled I mean the implications, but it's not the postseason,
but it's at the end of the season. Yeah, So
they were supposed to play. Helene actually is to blame
for this. They were supposed to play earlier, like this
past week got rained out because of the inclement weather,

(25:55):
and they said if they have to play these two games,
they will play both of these games today because the
playoffs start tomorrow. This is a day that was reserved for,
Like this is a day reserved for like game one
sixty three, Right, like a tiebreaker if two teams are
tied for a division lead or something like that, they
play a tiebreaker game. After one hundred and sixty two games,

(26:16):
it wasn't enough, they have to play another one, right, Well,
this is actually game one sixty one, in Game one
sixty two for these two teams, they just happen to
both be tied with the exact same record. And on
top of that, right there's a third team that's sitting
at home, the Arizona Diamondbacks, who were in the World
Series last year, and they need they're watching this with

(26:37):
baited breadth as well. The Diamondbacks need these two teams,
whoever wins this first game to win the second game,
the other team to lose both of them. And that's
the only way the Diamondbacks get in. These two teams
that are playing, if they split the two games, they
both are going to get in. So is there some
weird thing? Like I was listening to the broadcast because

(26:57):
they started it just after noon the first game, and
they said the winner of the first game likely to
treat the second game as like a spring training game.
None of the big guys, none of the big names,
trying to stay healthy and just get themselves right for
tomorrow because they'll have a playoff game tomorrow. They don't
even get a day off.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Right. Well, we're watching this game and spoiler alert. Game
one is going to the top of the ninth. The
Braves were leading the entire game. They're up three to nothing.
The Mets scored six in the top of the eighth
inning to take a six to three lead. Just an
insane comeback by a team whose entire history was basically
based in getting your teeth ripped out, right, like just

(27:34):
gut wrenching losses. They take a six to three lead
and immediately blow it in the bottom of the eighth,
and now we're trailing seven to six. Ozzy Albi's the
star second basement for the Braves has five RBIs, so
he had a three run double to give Atlanta the
lead there in the bottom of the eighth. So top

(27:55):
of the ninth inning, one out, and it's pretty crazy stuff.
Just I enjoy stuff like that. I love it when
it's happening in the middle of the day like this,
because it just adds a little bit of just like
excitement intention to what's going on here. I love it
when we have like actual major sporting events happening to
kind of give us a change of pace during the
middle of the day. Right.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Yeah, I'm just worried about all this stress for Grimace
out there. You know, he can't have the best cholesterol situation.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, And for those who do not know, Grimace kind
of became a quasi mascot for the New York Mets
this year when he threw out the first pitch along
with the Hamburglar and the hamburg and the Mets immediately
won that game in like the next six games or
something like that. And so for Mets fans, Grimace, the

(28:43):
purple guy from McDonald's, ended up being like a mascot.
There's guys dressed up as Grimace at this game in
Atlanta and then game. Like I said, there's gonna be
another game that's going to start shortly after this game finishes,
and the team that loses this game knows they have
to under no circumstance, they need to win the second game.
But it'll be weird to see how the team that

(29:03):
wins this game, how they approached the second they want
to keep their divisional rivals out of there or what.
I don't know. Real quick, let's get to Richard. Richard,
you got something on Verizon for me?

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (29:16):
I was just kind of sorry my stuff for that.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
It's okay. What's up?

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Oh? I was see we're all talking about the verython.
I had tea Motivle and I've been on the phone
with him because my phone wasn't working right. It's about twelve.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Thirty Okay, so you're having a problem with T Mobile
right now?

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yes, sir, I just got it fixed. But I was
on the phone for like two hours.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Interesting. I'll look into that as well. I know there
was a verson outage, but I didn't know if it
was maybe a little bit bigger than that. Thanks for
the call, Richard Skaream.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Eleven ten am all day long, and yeah, I just
all of a sudden couldn't get nothing.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
I appreciate you calling in, Richard. Thanks so much for
listening to us. Yeah, that's an interest seeing thing that
will keep an eye on as well, so be sure
to stay a stick around. We'll talk Hurricane Helen coming
up here on news radio eleven ten kfa B