November 14, 2025 • 50 mins
The boys catch up to discuss Dave and Amy's wedding and the Dodgers' incredible World Series win.
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Stop that.
I'm very, very uncomfortable.
to the latest episode of the Wretched Hive podcast for Friday, November 14th, our catch upepisode.
I love how it says that the audio recording is higher quality.
allegedly.
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that'll be a first for this show.
It's immediately assuming our show is of quality.
Now it does say when the recording is done, you may need to stick around a little toupload your high quality recording.
Yes.
Well, welcome to the show guys.
It's, I think it's been about a month and a half since we talked to one another, at leastin this way.
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It's actually been less than a week since we talked to each other.
Yeah.
last we spoke, no one was anticipating that the Dodgers would be World Series champions.
Is that a fair statement?
Uh, no, well, it's a little bit unfair because I, I think I was anticipating it, but, um,would you believe it after that, after that amazing given seven, given same seven game
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series and, uh was anyone anticipating that you would be a married man at this point?
I'm not gonna lie, I figured we would have recorded at least one episode in the lead up toit, but the playoff cardiac run of the Dodgers just completely interfered with that.
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They had a game every Wednesday night for a solid month.
Yeah.
I love that the, the brewer's manager who won manager of the year last night, the picturethey posted of him as a, as a sweatshirt.
it says, uh, we own the fall.
And I'm like, uh, really?
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You, you own that maybe early fall.
You know, of all the series, as we talk about it now, um the one that I think I wasworried about the most was the Brewers series, because the Brewers handled the Dodgers so
really roughly during the regular season.
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Just dominated them in every facet of the game during the regular season.
But uh I think, well, outside of the Cincinnati series, I think that was probably theeasiest of all the series there.
I would say even including the Cincinnati series, yeah.
That's why they call it the post season.
It's like another season.
It's so strange how that happens.
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were very clearly the courtesy invitation to the party, to the postseason party.
And Dodgers dispatched that with ease.
My lovely wife will say that the Phillies series really, really worried her and she wasnot anticipating that the Dodgers would get out of the Phillies series.
I never in a million years would have thought that the Dodgers would sweep the Brewers.
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If you told me the Dodgers beat the Brewers in the National League Championship,
I could understand that because I think the Dodgers have experience.
Maybe the Brewers have talent, but the Dodgers have experience.
Experience usually wins out.
I never in a million years would have bet on a sweep though.
That is crazy to me.
I completely slept on the Blue Jays all season too.
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They were good team.
In seven games, know, they looked really good.
They looked really good against the Yankees.
They looked good against the, against, uh was it Detroit was their second-round opponent?
I think it was Detroit.
um They looked okay against Seattle.
Also in seven games against Seattle.
uh played the Dodgers really tough.
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I was rooting for Seattle.
I like that city.
I like that team.
They've got the big dumper, which is one of the, I love that nickname.
It's a terrible name.
It's terrible nickname.
If you're gonna reference somebody's body part, you begin and end with the big unit andthen there's nobody else can have a body part reference.
I'm sorry.
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The big unit's pretty strong.
We need to talk baseball, but I'm going to venture to guess a lot of people tuning intothis episode are here to learn from us and listen to us regale about the event that
happened just a week ago where David got a Mrs.
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Potter.
I don't want to get too far down baseball before we skip over this wedding because
That was pretty epic last week.
Do not call her Jenny Weasley.
No, because she doesn't read the Harry Potter books, so she probably won't get thereference, but yes.
never read the Harry Potter books.
offended.
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No, no, she's not a magical mystery tour person.
She's never read the Lord of the Rings.
uh Any of that stuff, not really her thing.
She's seen the movies, don't get me wrong.
She saw the Harry Potter movies, but she never read the books.
was gonna say, so when you guys went to go see the Cursed Child at the Pantheon Theatre inHollywood, she's like, who's this hairy person and why is he so special?
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she enjoyed it.
She's familiar with the stuff.
I'm just saying she's never read the books, which is fine.
It's fine.
Everybody has their thing.
You gotta know it and not try to force it.
Dave, it's okay.
We all know she can't read.
It's fine.
It's fine.
And he's really not that hairy, actually.
Just for the record, for whatever reason, this new thing that Steve is making us use isnot recognizing the headset that I'm using, which is really, really weird since it's using
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the microphone on the headset.
So Amy's in the room and she can hear everything that you're saying, just for the record.
Nico, I can't believe you would say something like that, Nico.
just, all right.
So, so Dave, uh, it's been, it's been a week.
First of all, congratulations.
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You're a married man.
what, what are the, give me the top one or two, uh, memories that you have from, from yourwedding that we all attended last week.
We all assume we know what number one is, so skip right to number two.
The cake, of course, getting to eat cake.
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That's a euphemism, I think.
uh If we're talking about the actual wedding event and nothing outside of the weddingevent itself, I will say that the first look is something that I will treasure and I will
always, always remember.
And the other moment, and the other, I guess, big moment that I will probably hang on tois our first dance.
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because that was a lot of work that we put into doing it and I think it was well receivedby everybody that was in attendance even though it did not go flawlessly.
There are things there that we're both like, we should have done this or we should havedone that or we practice this or we practice that but I don't think anybody noticed it and
even looking at the video I don't think it was very visible the things that we know weshould have done differently or done better.
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Did anybody else post a video but me?
Was there anybody else with the video up there?
There's a couple other videos.
I don't know that everybody really got it truly from the beginning of the whole thing,like with the whole fake music intro.
Yeah, I think I did.
I think I did.
I'm not sure.
I have to go back and look at it.
There are coming down my face.
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So many tears coming down my face.
uh It was adorable.
You guys were adorable.
um I loved every second of it.
I cherished it for my wife.
I cherished it for you guys.
um I thought it was very, very neat and very special that you guys did that.
It was wonderful.
Very touching, too, the song you guys chose.
Tears to my eyes.
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I didn't realize you were that big a fan of Night Fever by the Bee Gees.
Ha
about bye bye bye.
Yeah.
bye.
That was hilarious.
I fully embraced, loved, and appreciated the way that you started it all out.
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That was kind of a late add to the whole thing, because I felt like we should try to dosomething funny, but I couldn't think of a way to do it.
I also, the way the song kind of starts off, it just kind of starts with us standing thereawkwardly waiting for the music to start.
And then we do this slow walk towards the audience.
And I was like, if we could find something different to help fill that, it would bebetter.
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And it just...
It came together like a couple of weeks before the ceremony.
Like, I think I'd like to do this if everybody's willing to do it and we can make it work.
Which is a series of the wrong song starting in kind of fake dance stuff happening forthose of who are listening on the podcast.
did a Night Fever by the Bee Gees, Bye Bye Bye by the Backstreet Boys.
And then we Rick rolled the audience with Never Gonna, N'Sync, excuse me, I'm sorry.
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N'Sync and then we Rick rolled the audience with Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley.
Before we jumped into the actual
first dance song, was an arrangement of To Feel My Love performed by Adele.
That was great.
It was great.
each in between each one day would turn around and go, no, no, no, no, no, don't playthat.
Don't play that.
And then the next song would start and he would do the dance and then stop and, you know,play the next.
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It was good.
It was, I was surprised that that was thrown in last minute.
You guys, you pulled that off, Dave.
Well done.
Thank you.
That was more of a performance than a choreo, but.
Yeah.
Well, it was good.
lift worked well.
We were like, the lift is done.
We were like, you can't see us, but we were both just kind of like, whew.
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We nailed that.
And then everything else is gravy after that.
We showed it to Jasper when we got home um on my phone, which is always the best way toview a big spectacle like that is on a video on somebody's phone.
But Jasper was like, ooh, ooh.
And then you got to the lift.
They go, ooh, and they did a lift.
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Jasper was impressed.
So congratulations.
You pleased the millennial crowd.
Or actually, the Gen Z crowd.
Excuse me.
That, millennials were also impressed.
I was going to say I learned that lifts are not actually that hard to do, but they arealso not that hard to screw up and do wrongly.
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things can, you can do some damage very, very easily if you just are off a little, littlebit on the timing for those things.
They're not that hard to do.
Like I'm pretty sure I could have taught somebody in the audience like, oh, here's how wedo this lift is you do this and you do, you know, you're doing this and I'm doing this.
And now, now we're lifted and we're good.
but you get off by just a little bit and bad things can happen really easily.
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Now, Dave, I also have to let you know, I did post ah the video of the first look on yourvideo feed.
did a little edit and I put it up there.
So you have that there as well.
Definitely want to give a shout out to your mom that we got to meet last week, Mary.
ah And of course, Amy's uh side of the family, Gail and Larry.
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were there and it was really nice to hang out with them.
uh
your father, Gail's her stepmother.
Yep.
Thank you.
then, um, I had such a blast hanging out with, was it, is it, uh, Amy's nieces andnephews, Dalton, Rowan and Sloan?
Is that correct?
they're both of our nieces and nephews now.
Yes.
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Yeah.
So that was, that was great.
they're from Amy's side of the family, the nieces and nephews.
Gotcha.
And Courtney and Zach, of course, their mom and dad.
And it was just really wonderful to get to know them and to hang out for a few days.
The boys in particular had a blast with you, the twin boys.
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They absolutely adored you.
I don't know if you saw, but Lisa made a comment that you guys are missing the twins.
And I was like, I'm pretty sure Courtney would lend them to you for a weekend if youasked.
And for the record, Courtney liked that remark within five minutes of my posting it onsocial media.
Uh, honestly, if she wants to come and hang out in Long Beach and have a, uh, Long Beachweekend with Zach and drop the kids off, I'm sure Lisa and I could, could play, uh, could
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pretend to be grandma and grandpa for, for a few days.
That was a lot of fun.
Um, all right.
Hello, Mr.
Avansky.
Hello.
Hello?
he is.
I'm on some janky ass new fucking technology you guys, what's going on with this?
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I hope you catch a look at my handle on the thing here because I felt the same way as you,sir.
Fucking shite.
What is this, man?
Gotta have Safari or Chrome?
God.
Yeah.
is old school.
Zoom is just, you know, yesterday's tech.
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No, no, but if I say it enough, it might become true.
Just like the Dodgers winning.
World Series in
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Yeah, it's pretty spectacular.
We talked a little bit about it before you came on Scott, but uh Dave, any last thoughtsbefore we move away from the wedding and your beautiful bride?
Who's going to be on the show eventually, but any final thoughts?
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we're both still very much recovering.
I think I drank and consumed my body weight in wine over the entire time up there.
If it's possible to be hung over for more than two mornings in a row, I think I achievedthat.
I don't know how you felt, Steve, because I know you were dragging about as much as I was.
Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, that hotel bar certainly I think is going to be in business for a little whilelonger because of us and a couple of late nights down there.
um yeah, I think I told you over over text, I did not gain any weight this week, which isa miracle.
But I certainly came home feeling bloated and and needing a rest.
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So I took a couple of days off from the old um bottle and um
But yeah, was a great time and everybody just, I think just we really connected.
It's just a bunch, a lot of good people that were really happy for you too.
And uh it was just a really nice week.
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It was really great.
I'll amend my answer earlier.
will just say the camaraderie, the friendship, the love that was in that room and was justbeing reflected and focused on us just because we were the bride and the groom.
That feeling and that energy, I've been in front of a lot of crowds.
I'm a public speaker.
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I've been a public performer.
I've been in a lot of crowds.
I've never had that kind of energy or tone or volume.
directed at me before.
That was absolutely amazing.
That is something that will also always stay with.
Very good, very good.
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All right, so we.
just thought I'd say congratulations, Dave.
I'm so sorry I couldn't be there, but it sounds like you guys had an amazing time and youguys are just absolutely beautiful together.
So sorry I couldn't be there, my friend.
We were sorry you couldn't be there too, Scott.
We understand you got sick.
You made the right decision not coming up and turning our event into a super spreader.
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So we appreciate that.
I I actually watched uh Outbreak while I was sick, so I just want to let you know, that'show I felt.
I felt that way, so I'm glad nobody...
like Jude Law and one of them like full on hazmat suits with the giant rubber, you knowplastic mask over you.
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contagion yes well outbreak you would have had to been dressed up like a monkey.
I'm sorry my bad.
Spacey and Dustin Hoffman, sir.
Show some respect for the art.
you
have done that either way.
Suit or monkey outfit, I'm cool.
If you could have shown up as a monkey with the plastic cellophane helmet, that would havebeen ideal.
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my god.
All right, well, I didn't mean to interrupt.
just wanted to say thanks.
I appreciated the invite.
I'm happy you guys are...
I mean, I'm sorry that it happened that way.
I'm just super stoked and I can't wait to see all the photos and the videos.
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Well, were, Scott, we were trying to take a group photo of the four of us and we weretrying to find the name card for your seat so we could just hold that in the photo.
And we were unsuccessful because somebody cleaned that up before we had an opportunity tograb it.
But that would have been one for the ages, I think.
I think so too.
Option number two is that we've all got t-shirts with your face on the inside of themsomewhere.
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And if we would have known.
Yeah, that's.
right here, it has Nikos for some reason.
You're welcome.
Yes!
ah
There are some great pictures uh of Sloan and either Dalton or Rowan with your holding upyour faces so they look like mini me.
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It's pretty good.
Hey, that's like life size.
Dave's holding up a picture of himself, uh his face on a stick in front of his own face.
A little bit meta there.
All right, so the Dodgers, world champions, two times in a row.
I think we've covered some of the early playoff stuff, but we really need to talk aboutgame seven of the World Series really quick.
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Can we talk about the World Series just for five minutes?
Just for historical perspective here so we remember.
I know, sorry, Nico, you can tune out.
You can mute yourself if you want during this segment.
a shirt on dude seriously.
You're blinding us, man.
You're blinding us.
Woo!
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Sexy motherfucker.
Wow.
neck neck.
I don't see any nipples.
This is audio.
preface this by saying I was only able to watch the MLB recap on YouTube.
That is like 40 minutes long.
It's an excellent 40 minute video.
But I was on a mountain with Nico, my wife and his wife were along for the ride as well,and had zero cell service to speak of.
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So I didn't find out until the next day when I could come home and catch it.
You got down the bottom of the hill and got like 500 text messages and notifications fromMLB, didn't you?
from Lasorda's Lounge specifically.
Yes.
Lasordas Lounge, our baseball thread.
Yes.
So my experience for Game 7, or should say Amy's and my experience for Game 7, we hadtheater tickets that night.
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So we were watching Moulin Rouge and the game was underway and that theater is reallymilitant about you can't get on your phone while the show is going on.
Like they will literally throw you out if they catch you on your phone.
We went to a Belinda Carlisle uh concert.
at that place once and they wouldn't let you like take pictures or video tape peopleduring a rock concert.
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They're insane.
But I'm just wading through the whole thing and we get to intermission and that's whensome texts start coming through that I see on my watch that I'm assuming were when the
tying home run was hit in the ninth and then when the play at the plate was made at thebottom of the ninth to keep it tied.
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both made it out to the lobby to check and see what was going on, that the game was now inextra innings.
And that theater was packed with a lot of couples.
And I gotta say, virtually all of the husbands were there because their wives had gottenthese tickets months in advance and no one knew that it was gonna be game seven.
So there became this instant underground community of people who were watching it on theircell phone or getting data on their cell phone and passing it around the rest of the
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balcony where we were sitting.
And literally,
Right before Act 2 starts, can see, like in a stadium, this little area in the orchestraterrace where people start reacting and jumping up and clapping, and then the news is
getting passed and the reaction is breaking its way around the auditorium to us wherewe're sitting.
And someone literally says to us, the Dodgers just hit a home run, it's the top of the11th, they have a one run lead.
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And as they're saying this, the lights are going down and the second act of the show isstarting.
And now people are just very surreptitiously checking their watches and trying to signalpeople around them and behind them as to what's happening with the game.
And how I found out was the text from our mutual friend, Chris Evans, that said,congratulations Dodger fans.
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And I saw that on my watch.
Amy didn't get it on hers yet because for some inexplicable reason I get service and shedoesn't.
We're literally on the same plan through the same provider.
But I got that and I leaned over to her and I whispered, the Dodgers won.
And she looks at me and whispers back, are you serious?
And I'm like, yeah, I'm serious, the Dodgers won.
Yeah.
Yeah.
we couldn't jump around because like Moulin Rouge is going on in front of us and we're notwe're not allowed to react to anything but that.
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Well, you could have said you were reacting to all the naked burlesque chicks on stage.
You could have said that.
I'm just saying.
I know that place.
oh
Yeah.
was surreal and stressful and wonderful and memorable.
I don't know if it would have been any better, if it could have been any better if we wereactually watching it live, just to be getting it that secondhand that way the whole time,
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near real time.
It was the greatest Game 7, it was the greatest World Series I've seen in a long time, andthe Game 7 was un-fucking-believable.
It was the most dramatic thing I've seen, it's better than every soap opera out there.
was shocked at how- MIGI ROE.
MIGI ROE hits a tying run in the top of the 9th.
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What?
And, and-
throws the play out, was that at the 9th when he throws the play out at the plate?
Jesus Christ, and throws it out to Will Smith who ends up hitting the home run in thefucking 11th!
This is so crazy.
God that-
it is absolutely fungus.
Roberts when the tying home run was hit is one of the most honest expressions you will seefrom anybody in sports ever.
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Because he just had this look on his face like, my god, I can't believe that justhappened.
I can't, I know.
When he had his hands in his head and just doing this, I'm like, holy shit.
He looked like all of us.
remember that was on the tail of game six where the Blue Jays missed winning the worldseries by an inch in that game because the ball got lodged in the base of the wall.
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And that has never happened in that stadium before.
It happens all the time in baseball.
And it happens at Wrigley field a few times a year because the Ivy, the ball gets lodgedand stuck in the
call it a double.
just, gets, the ball gets lodged every now and but it's never happened in Toronto, notonce in the history of that ballpark.
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And it happened in the, in the game six of the world series to allow the Dodgers topreserve the lead and win that game.
And then in game seven, that sequence of events between the Miguel Rojas Homer with oneout, we're all looking towards Shohei coming up next.
And so you kind of forget.
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Rojas and he hits it out.
And then the play at the plate.
And then the Dodgers also loaded the bases in the 10th inning, but didn't score.
ah And then the Will Smith-Homer and then Yamamoto coming in after having pitched the daybefore.
I mean, it was just, and then the Pajas catch where he basically tackled Hernandez andleft.
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The whole thing, it's really like the best baseball game.
You'll ever see it just happened to be game seven of the world series.
It incredible.
in that game.
Now the ball being stuck, that was game six, right?
The ball being stuck in game six.
But like that play, uh the bottom of the, or the, me, the bottom of the ninth of game six,all the things that happened throughout the bottom of ninth in game seven and into the
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extra innings, serious clinching moments that were thwarted for one reason or another.
Like
Five separate times, Toronto was looking to walk it off and something completely crazyhappened in two straight games.
Yes, yeah.
I mean, even when the ball gets stuck in that in the fence.
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That was the one of the new guys, right?
That was Dean.
Is that his name?
Yes, I was going to say they allowed him to ride the bus and then promptly cut him as soonas he got off the
He's a good, he's a good young player, but he wasn't going to play next year.
he can't hit at all apparently,
and we can't forget the guy they pull in and pitches like four innings.
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Ah, Klein, Klein, holy crap.
That was so insane.
God, this best series ever, best series ever, even if it wasn't the Dodgers.
mean, but it happened to be the Dodgers against the Blue Jays.
my God, so good.
a baseball fan, this was heaven for you.
mean, what a great series.
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Yeah.
about where Kike got just run over, I've said this to Amy a couple of times.
like, if there is one person in baseball who would just probably say out loud any time,like, yeah, man, you need to make the play.
Just fucking truck me if you need to make the play.
It's all good.
It's Kike Hernandez.
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If you haven't seen his interview on, think it's Jimmy Kimmel, the night after, it's likesix of them right from the team are on that.
His retelling of that story is phenomenal.
Like he thought we lost.
And I just love how he tells that story.
It's so great.
Cause he's on the ground.
Then you see Pa has come back to check on him to see if he's okay.
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And he's like, did you catch the ball?
It's like, yeah, I got the ball, man.
Because he thought we lost.
Yeah.
And you see it.
uh
to ask, and I think I can only direct this to Scott and Steve, because Greg, you and Ididn't see this game seven live.
have only seen the aftermath of it.
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So I am admittedly not the huge baseball guy on here.
I have been drawn into this through my darling wife and her lifelong love for the Dodgers.
I watched the 1991 World Series, the Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves World Series, and Ihave long said that is the best World Series I will ever see in my lifetime.
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And particular the game six and the game seven, both of which were extra in games.
And that game seven was a classic Jack Morris wire to wire, no hitter for a win.
Excuse me, no runs, shutout, excuse me, not a no hitter, a shutout for a win.
I have always said that game seven is probably the best thing I will ever see.
If you've watched that series and if you remember that game, is it possible for you tocompare them yet?
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Are you still too close to this one?
Or is this better or not quite as good as that particular one?
I'm gonna just go with this.
This series blows that away and here's why.
You're probably never gonna see what we saw in this entire series.
Not just game six and seven, this entire series.
Yamamoto's uh complete game, second in a row, right?
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Yamamoto comes back, pitches how many innings?
Seven?
Was it seven innings?
Was it four?
In relief, in game seven, I think it was four.
Then he comes back in game 7 and pitches again, which even Dave Roberts said no.
Now let's just throw in the fact that Shohei pitches 10 strikeouts and has 3 home runs ina single game.
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It's one of the longest games in history and hits it out of Dodger Stadium, the thirdlongest hit that goes over the Pavilion.
mean even if you rewatch that sequence and you see the reaction from the dugout.
Freddie Freeman's reaction to that is like, Jesus Christ, what am I watching right now?
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It's like, holy shit!
But yeah, that whole series was insane.
And this is not to discredit the Blue Jays.
The Blue Jays were absolutely phenomenal.
God, that first game won?
I thought we were toast.
Those guys came off like fucking fire, man.
And I'm like, this is be way better than the Yankees series.
But yeah, against, I'm sorry, was it 91?
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Yeah, yeah, I think this one blows that away.
I really do.
There's just so much that happened.
So much that happened.
That's phenomenal.
I would say they're both great for different reasons.
mean, if you want to just look at a pure pitching performance, Jack Morris pitching 10innings in that game seven against a young John Smoltz, who I think probably, I think he
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pitched nine innings.
I mean, it was just backed and I think it was a one nothing game or maybe two to one atthe end.
uh That's the best pitch game I've ever seen.
mean, those two were just uh incredible.
I think in terms of just pure spectacle.
this, the 2025 world series has it beat.
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mean, you're right, Scott, like that, the Shohei's game with the three homers and, and sixinnings.
mean, that probably will never be done again.
Maybe not even by Shohei.
I mean, you know, he set the bar so high that it's, you know, he goes two for four andyou're like, he kind of had a bad game tonight.
I mean, it's, it's just ridiculous now how the expectations, how high they are for him.
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And he's going to win his.
is another MVP, his fourth MVP, will be one tomorrow night as we record the show.
And this World Series, from my books, as long as I've been a fan, paying attention enoughto the game to know, it's the best World Series I've seen.
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But you're right, that 91 World Series, that Game 7 was, you had this Jack Morris kind ofat the tail end of his great career and a young John Smoltz matching him.
Ending for ending that was, that was something to behold.
That was a great series.
and I know you're still leaning towards the 25 World Series, Steve, but I'm gonna throwthis in.
I think Greg was mentioning this earlier.
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Let's throw other odd moments.
We talked about Pajez.
He just got replaced.
He just took over center field when that play happens right after that moment.
Where the hell did that come from?
Like seriously, Pajez replaces, God, who was in?
Tommy Edmond who does not make that play.
Right, right.
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that, I mean, talk about those weird, miraculous moments on Dave Roberts' part.
again, Miggy Rojas, that's crazy to me.
then to look back again, I'm gonna go back to Yamamoto for a second.
We can talk Shohei, who is MVP by all means, just based on that one performance.
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But Yamamoto comes in, not once, not twice, but three times in this series.
He should not have made that appearance.
in game seven and he comes in and you have to be sitting there for one second thinking ifI'm in the Blue Jays dugout and this is the guy that dominated me two games already and
they're bringing him out it's like bringing out a bazooka to a guy that has you know abullwhip on the side pocket you know I mean it's just ridiculous they're toast they gotta
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be looking at this like this guy has annihilated us
It's COFAX level stuff, I COFAX won three games in 62 World Series.
It's very, very rare for a pitcher to win three games in a World Series.
Another great moment, it's Kofax saying that to Klein when he came up to him and he gavehim that nod of approval.
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I mean, there's just so many glorious moments in this World Series.
Just shockingly good, shockingly good.
Well that game three went on so long, I'm pretty sure Kofax was warming up in the bullpenat one point.
I'm positive he was.
They were calling him up,
That guy, I'm just saying that guy probably has one pitch in him.
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I'm not saying he can do anything else.
I'm saying he's got one pitch in him.
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
mean, you also have you also have Hersheiser up in the booth.
I'm like, bring an oral.
He could probably throw a few strikes.
Let's take it a step further.
I bet Kofax was ready to arm wrestle with Kiki Hernandez to see if he was going to closeout that night.
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Seriously, at that point, I'm like, Kiki's going to show up and just be like, hey.
So on Kimball, Roberts did confirm that it was either going to be Kike or Rojas cominginto the game while Yamamoto was warming up.
I mean, was just, yeah, it's just, it's a crazy, it was a crazy World Series.
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Scott, to your point though about some of the decisions that Roberts made, just, andagain, I'm not the baseball guy, so you guys should tell me if I'm off base on this, but I
feel like in this era of analytics, Roberts is still demonstrating that gut, feel, andinstinct is absolutely a commodity worth more than its weight in gold still.
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When I look at what he did last year,
as the manager for the Dodgers, particularly that bullpen game against the Padres, what hedid in this series, I can't tell you how many times there were where it was just, I got a,
the line from Major League where the manager was like, you know, I just got a hunch he'sdue.
He just did that five or six times throughout the series and he was right every singledamn time.
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And if he'd been wrong on any one of them, the Blue Jays would be the world championstonight.
Well, and two big ones, putting Rojas in center as a defensive replacement.
And then he pulls off that catch in left center.
um Pajas, sorry, not Rojas, Pajas.
then playing Rojas, who hadn't played in three weeks and his last hit was October 1st.
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His last hit before the homer was October 1st.
Mm-hmm.
Hit!
That's it!
Nothing!
just, it's wild.
yeah, you're, you're, right.
mean, you play the numbers, you play the odds, you know how they match up, um, with, witheach pitcher that's coming in and it's likely to play that night and you play your gut and
Roberts has been on a roll.
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So I feel like, I feel like we have the best manager in the game.
Yeah, 100%.
I've been one of the people, and I'm sure you guys might feel this way, but we probablydiscussed it in a very serious tone, but I have always been a Roberts defender no matter
what.
I've had so many people that will just instantly want to fire the manager because theythink they're not doing good.
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And I'm like, this is a team that has been to the playoffs, have won their division, what,13 out of 14 is it?
Is it 13 out of 14?
13 and.
It's no, no, cause the Giants won one in like 2013 or something.
Scott's right.
They've either won 12 of 13 or 13 of 14.
I forget which it is.
So anytime people start criticizing them, I'm like, this is a team that's consistentlygetting to the October, getting to October.
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And here's my point about that is it's there are other players that are other factorsinvolved.
This guy comes in and he, okay, he's no Tommy Lasorda, but I have a soft spot for Lasordabecause of his just attitude.
He was the craziest guy I've seen out on the field.
You anyone that can punch out a mascot, fantastic in my eyes.
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But I had one moment where I almost felt that he went into La Sorda territory.
Granted, it was so minor, but when he made that comment about, he's screaming in the micwhen they got to, I think they won the championship series.
And the guy asks him about, you know, what do you think about everyone saying the Dodgersare ruining baseball?
And he's like, if we're ruining baseball, yeah, because he says,
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then let's give them four more and let's really show them how to ruin baseball orwhatever.
I'm like that, that to me just had a moment of like, yeah, they're not ruining baseball.
They're doing it right.
They're doing things right.
And to come back with a little zinger like that just made me feel really good that thisguy constantly has a positive outlook on his players, brings everyone together.
And then he just like, without being fed up and angry about it, has a fun little comebackfor that.
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I just thought it it felt a little disorder like to me.
Because Lesorda would come across like he's gonna have some nice comeback and then he goesactually off the deep end.
ah I think there was a good example of that with him and that guy from the Padres wherehe's like...
Yeah, that was some insane shit.
He's gone.
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You know, I, I feel like Roberts has gotten better.
feel like the first few years of this streak that we're on, there were quite a few gamesthat we won despite Roberts.
mean, and I think he'll tell you that I think he's, I think he's gotten better over thelast.
So, I mean, you know, I really think he's the best manager in the game.
Now.
I think he's gotten a lot better over the last decade and a half, and I'm sure he wouldprobably say the same.
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Um,
But yeah, you're right.
He is a player's manager.
He's very media savvy.
He's always got the right thing to say.
He always is prepared.
He never catch him on his heels.
mean, he backs up his guys and he's always got the game plan and he executes it.
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And the Dodgers now have like ridiculous, uh we're in uncharted territory in terms ofbudget and players.
And that combined with his savvy on the field and pulling the right, uh you know, theright moves at the right time, it's a deadly combination.
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Well, let me throw something else in there too really quick.
I think credit also has to be given, a lot of credit to the Dodgers front office in termsof the players that they put together on the field because there's a ton of high priced
players and high priced talent and super talented guys who are in Major League Baseball.
But the group that's on the Dodgers in my estimation, they're all great locker room guys.
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There's not...
There's the ego that comes with being at the top of your game, but there's not so much egothat interferes with your ability to be a good teammate and just watching how they gel
with each other and they truly support each other and lift each other up and want to seeeach other succeed.
It is a great example for all of sports.
I I don't know that I love sports in general.
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I'm not a big baseball guy.
I love sports in general.
I am hard pressed to think of another team that organization that I've seen produce such acohesive team.
over a five or six year period.
It's just astounding to watch.
Hey, to your point, Dave, uh there was a great moment that could stand out for that.
So you got what?
Easily four like Hall of Famers on this team right now, right?
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Easily, probably more.
uh But you have a moment where uh Mookie Betts was not playing up to and he even wastalking about this in press releases and stuff, how he wasn't stepping up to the plate
basically.
so to speak.
And Roberts put him in there and said, you got to let all of that go.
You just got to get up there, get that out of your head and get us a hit.
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And he goes up and he gets that single, which I believe went over, was it between firstand second base?
I can't remember.
There's so much happened, but he got a single off of that.
That speech, he's like, just get up there, get it out of your head and play like Mookiedoes.
And he gets up and he does it.
It's amazing to see that here's a guy who's down on his luck who's not having the bestpostseason and comes up in his clutch hit in a moment that we needed it because he knows
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that the rest of the team and how they work together all comes together in that moment andMookie steps up for a second.
He wasn't, I mean, we're not talking about all the stuff Mookie Betts did, but he had amoment when he was not doing good during this series.
And I just, that's what I love about Roberts and
And what you just said, Dave, is like, here's a team of guys that let that ego kind of goand work together.
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mean, look at, mean, again, the sunflower seeds, every time someone gets a home run whenthey come running in, it's usually Teo who's throwing the seeds at everybody, unless he's
the one hitting the home run.
Then I think Pa has steps up, but it's like a fun little thing, the little weird dancesthat they do, they all come together.
know, Miggy's a guy that's not making a ton of money compared to, you know, Shohei, butthey all...
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come together as this incredible like brotherhood out there.
That's what I love seeing about this team.
It's amazing.
And yeah, we got a hell of a payroll, but a lot of it's deferred.
A lot of it.
to double down on the front up.
So GM Brandon Gomes has done a great job in bringing in guys that are humble that likeeverybody hates the Dodgers, but nobody hates any of the players on the Dodgers.
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Right.
You hate, you hate us because we're spending all this money, but Freddie Freeman, Shohei,Mookie, Will Smith, all these guys are nice guys.
They're great players and they're good guys.
And you
Brendan Gomes uh has the responsibility of building a team of stars and role players.
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um And that's what the Dodgers have done.
They've got guys that step in and know their roles, and they've got the best manager ofthe game to manage all of that.
And again, it's a very deadly combination when you have somebody like Mookie Betts who iswilling to change positions because the Dodgers need him to play shortstop.
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turned himself into a gold glove caliber shortstop this year.
He only hit 245 or whatever he ended up hitting 260 or something like that.
um But he focused on his defense and he's willing to do that for the team.
And that's how you win championships.
You gotta be good.
um Well, it's a little bit of a different point, but you gotta be good.
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And you also have to be a little bit lucky to win.
You cannot buy a championship in baseball.
You just can't.
Nah.
can't buy it.
You have to always be a little bit lucky.
There's so many teams that have had the best players, but that didn't win it because theydidn't have that little luck factor.
And I think sometimes you make your own luck.
that's why Dave Roberts is in our dugout because he makes that luck for us.
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I do want to add one thing about the movie best thing I should point out he is one of thereasons why that that.
We ended where we did in game seven he had that great double play.
He's the one that ran picked up that broken bat hit from Kirk stepped on second through itover to first in time and that's easy to say cuz Kirk can't run where shit but that's
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okay.
That's not an easy play to make, particularly in those circumstances.
I think he was, I saw an interview where he said, I just kept telling myself, I gotta benasty.
I gotta be nasty on this next hit.
If the ball comes to me, I gotta be absolutely filthy.
that, making that play in that moment to win the World Series next to innings, very nasty,very filthy, very, very difficult.
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All right, guys.
Well, this was a great episode of Dodger Talk.
I like this.
We might have to do this again next week.
can I double back to my favorite topic, me really quick?
Because you asked me some questions about the wedding quick.
So I'm gonna, I wanna ask the folks that attended really quick.
What was your standout memory?
What will be your standout memory on?
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Cause y'all saw it very differently from how I saw it.
I mentioned this to Kara, my beautiful bride on the way home, is that you go away fordestination weddings and when I say destination, I mean most everybody traveled to
Monterey, California.
And you run into people maybe at the hotel, maybe around town, maybe see them.
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And it's a quick hello, how are you?
And you see everybody at the wedding and it's fine, but you really don't interact.
It was really nice.
to meet and hang out with your family, Dave, and with Amy's family.
And it was a whole weekend of like, we all sat down to breakfast and chatted every morningtogether.
We all hung out at the hotel bar at night afterwards and hung out together.
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It was really nice.
It was like a whole weekend of just like hanging out with these people and not just seeingthem at the wedding and...
giving them a courtesy nod as you see them on the way out the door later on.
So that was my standout for the weekend.
It was just the whole weekend of just awesome people and awesome things.
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Awesome.
Thank you, sir.
What?
Millennial Falcon.
I've been doing a lot of talking.
Yeah, no, and the irony is that I think my standout memory, apart from the pictures that Itook and already shared in our chat of the two of you under the neon sign kissing Mr.
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and Mrs.
Potter, I think it was really nice to see how you, Steve, stepped up at the wedding.
and were really involved there.
That was really nice and your speech was beautiful and amazing.
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yeah, the irony being that, yeah, you talking um was really nice to see somebody do that.
Cause at my own wedding, I had nobody do that for me.
So it was nice to see that for another friend of mine.
Ah, it was the first time that I actually talked that Nico appreciated what I said.
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that, that feels good.
That feels good.
I love those pictures of Amy and me under the neon sign.
They're actually some of my favorites from the wedding that I've seen so far.
I don't remember for the life of me posing for that.
Neither of us remembers like when were we standing under that sign for pictures to betaken?
posing.
It was right before everybody lined up with the lightsabers against the wall.
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And the two of you were just standing there and you just looked really cute.
And then you were right under that sign from my point of view.
So I just pulled out the camera and started taking a bunch of pictures.
um And those are my two favorite from that little...
candid moment that was absolutely not a pose at all.
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were standing there waiting for people to show up and you happened to just look at eachother and kiss each other and I had my camera out.
Fantastic man.
was amazing.
I literally looked at him like, did he Photoshop this?
Because I don't remember this happening at all.
Nope, you did that and then we all lined up against the wall and helped the lightsabersout.
Okay, very cool.
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I will throw in the quiet moments for me with Rowan and Dalton and Sloan too, who's justuh a beautiful young woman.
um
children were never quiet.
Yeah, what are you talking about?
well, I will say so building the world's largest straw at dinner, for example, with Daltonwhen we put five or six straws together and he drank out of other people's water.
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You know, it's just little things like that.
That was fun.
Just being with you at the first viewing or what'd you call it, Dave?
The first.
First look.
Yeah, that was fun.
turned my camera on and asked you how you were feeling and you shared your thoughts inthat moment.
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You know, just those quiet little conversational moments.
I also have to, I failed to mention your brother Doug, who I got to know a little bit upthere and that was nice to spend some time with him.
So yeah, it was, I I agreed with what Greg and Nico said.
It was a really good vibe.
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Like the whole week just had a really nice, um, nice vibe to it.
I just, that's the only words that, that come to mind right now.
It's just a good feeling all around.
Everyone came in very excited and like looking forward to the event and then the eventhappened and then we still had time to decompress after and hang out together.
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And, and, all of that kind of strung together some really good days.
Um.
So I was really glad to be able to spend it with you and your family and your new family.
That was really cool.
to all of you who were able to be there.
Scott, I include you in that because I know you had a last minute thing, but I will beforever grateful for all of you that were a part of this with us over the past week.
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Yeah.
right.
And with that, we are going to wrap up this episode.
So thanks guys.
My, uh, I know we're a little bit early, but my, my headphones are dying.
So I may not be able to hear you by the end of this, by the end of this, uh, close.
So, uh, appreciate you guys.
Thanks for the, all the time.
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Yeah.
Thanks for all the time for the Dodger talk.
We had to get that out of our system.
I'm sure we'll talk more about the, two time.
world champion, now actually three time in the last five years, world champion Los AngelesDodgers and the wedding champion, Dave and Amy Potter.
Until next time, have a great, great rest of November.
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and happy Thanksgiving if we don't talk to before then.
And may the force be with us all.
Wonderful.
Alright.
what's with the new platform?
I'm curious.
Stop that.
I'm very, very uncomfortable.
to the latest episode of the Wretched Hive podcast for Friday, November 14th, our catch upepisode.
I love how it says that the audio recording is higher quality.
allegedly.
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that'll be a first for this show.
It's immediately assuming our show is of quality.
Now it does say when the recording is done, you may need to stick around a little toupload your high quality recording.
Yes.
Well, welcome to the show guys.
It's, I think it's been about a month and a half since we talked to one another, at leastin this way.
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It's actually been less than a week since we talked to each other.
Yeah.
last we spoke, no one was anticipating that the Dodgers would be World Series champions.
Is that a fair statement?
Uh, no, well, it's a little bit unfair because I, I think I was anticipating it, but, um,would you believe it after that, after that amazing given seven, given same seven game
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series and, uh was anyone anticipating that you would be a married man at this point?
I'm not gonna lie, I figured we would have recorded at least one episode in the lead up toit, but the playoff cardiac run of the Dodgers just completely interfered with that.
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They had a game every Wednesday night for a solid month.
Yeah.
I love that the, the brewer's manager who won manager of the year last night, the picturethey posted of him as a, as a sweatshirt.
it says, uh, we own the fall.
And I'm like, uh, really?
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You, you own that maybe early fall.
You know, of all the series, as we talk about it now, um the one that I think I wasworried about the most was the Brewers series, because the Brewers handled the Dodgers so
really roughly during the regular season.
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Just dominated them in every facet of the game during the regular season.
But uh I think, well, outside of the Cincinnati series, I think that was probably theeasiest of all the series there.
I would say even including the Cincinnati series, yeah.
That's why they call it the post season.
It's like another season.
It's so strange how that happens.
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were very clearly the courtesy invitation to the party, to the postseason party.
And Dodgers dispatched that with ease.
My lovely wife will say that the Phillies series really, really worried her and she wasnot anticipating that the Dodgers would get out of the Phillies series.
I never in a million years would have thought that the Dodgers would sweep the Brewers.
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If you told me the Dodgers beat the Brewers in the National League Championship,
I could understand that because I think the Dodgers have experience.
Maybe the Brewers have talent, but the Dodgers have experience.
Experience usually wins out.
I never in a million years would have bet on a sweep though.
That is crazy to me.
I completely slept on the Blue Jays all season too.
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They were good team.
In seven games, know, they looked really good.
They looked really good against the Yankees.
They looked good against the, against, uh was it Detroit was their second-round opponent?
I think it was Detroit.
um They looked okay against Seattle.
Also in seven games against Seattle.
uh played the Dodgers really tough.
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I was rooting for Seattle.
I like that city.
I like that team.
They've got the big dumper, which is one of the, I love that nickname.
It's a terrible name.
It's terrible nickname.
If you're gonna reference somebody's body part, you begin and end with the big unit andthen there's nobody else can have a body part reference.
I'm sorry.
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The big unit's pretty strong.
We need to talk baseball, but I'm going to venture to guess a lot of people tuning intothis episode are here to learn from us and listen to us regale about the event that
happened just a week ago where David got a Mrs.
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Potter.
I don't want to get too far down baseball before we skip over this wedding because
That was pretty epic last week.
Do not call her Jenny Weasley.
No, because she doesn't read the Harry Potter books, so she probably won't get thereference, but yes.
never read the Harry Potter books.
offended.
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No, no, she's not a magical mystery tour person.
She's never read the Lord of the Rings.
uh Any of that stuff, not really her thing.
She's seen the movies, don't get me wrong.
She saw the Harry Potter movies, but she never read the books.
was gonna say, so when you guys went to go see the Cursed Child at the Pantheon Theatre inHollywood, she's like, who's this hairy person and why is he so special?
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she enjoyed it.
She's familiar with the stuff.
I'm just saying she's never read the books, which is fine.
It's fine.
Everybody has their thing.
You gotta know it and not try to force it.
Dave, it's okay.
We all know she can't read.
It's fine.
It's fine.
And he's really not that hairy, actually.
Just for the record, for whatever reason, this new thing that Steve is making us use isnot recognizing the headset that I'm using, which is really, really weird since it's using
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the microphone on the headset.
So Amy's in the room and she can hear everything that you're saying, just for the record.
Nico, I can't believe you would say something like that, Nico.
just, all right.
So, so Dave, uh, it's been, it's been a week.
First of all, congratulations.
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You're a married man.
what, what are the, give me the top one or two, uh, memories that you have from, from yourwedding that we all attended last week.
We all assume we know what number one is, so skip right to number two.
The cake, of course, getting to eat cake.
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That's a euphemism, I think.
uh If we're talking about the actual wedding event and nothing outside of the weddingevent itself, I will say that the first look is something that I will treasure and I will
always, always remember.
And the other moment, and the other, I guess, big moment that I will probably hang on tois our first dance.
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because that was a lot of work that we put into doing it and I think it was well receivedby everybody that was in attendance even though it did not go flawlessly.
There are things there that we're both like, we should have done this or we should havedone that or we practice this or we practice that but I don't think anybody noticed it and
even looking at the video I don't think it was very visible the things that we know weshould have done differently or done better.
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Did anybody else post a video but me?
Was there anybody else with the video up there?
There's a couple other videos.
I don't know that everybody really got it truly from the beginning of the whole thing,like with the whole fake music intro.
Yeah, I think I did.
I think I did.
I'm not sure.
I have to go back and look at it.
There are coming down my face.
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So many tears coming down my face.
uh It was adorable.
You guys were adorable.
um I loved every second of it.
I cherished it for my wife.
I cherished it for you guys.
um I thought it was very, very neat and very special that you guys did that.
It was wonderful.
Very touching, too, the song you guys chose.
Tears to my eyes.
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I didn't realize you were that big a fan of Night Fever by the Bee Gees.
Ha
about bye bye bye.
Yeah.
bye.
That was hilarious.
I fully embraced, loved, and appreciated the way that you started it all out.
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That was kind of a late add to the whole thing, because I felt like we should try to dosomething funny, but I couldn't think of a way to do it.
I also, the way the song kind of starts off, it just kind of starts with us standing thereawkwardly waiting for the music to start.
And then we do this slow walk towards the audience.
And I was like, if we could find something different to help fill that, it would bebetter.
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And it just...
It came together like a couple of weeks before the ceremony.
Like, I think I'd like to do this if everybody's willing to do it and we can make it work.
Which is a series of the wrong song starting in kind of fake dance stuff happening forthose of who are listening on the podcast.
did a Night Fever by the Bee Gees, Bye Bye Bye by the Backstreet Boys.
And then we Rick rolled the audience with Never Gonna, N'Sync, excuse me, I'm sorry.
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N'Sync and then we Rick rolled the audience with Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley.
Before we jumped into the actual
first dance song, was an arrangement of To Feel My Love performed by Adele.
That was great.
It was great.
each in between each one day would turn around and go, no, no, no, no, no, don't playthat.
Don't play that.
And then the next song would start and he would do the dance and then stop and, you know,play the next.
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It was good.
It was, I was surprised that that was thrown in last minute.
You guys, you pulled that off, Dave.
Well done.
Thank you.
That was more of a performance than a choreo, but.
Yeah.
Well, it was good.
lift worked well.
We were like, the lift is done.
We were like, you can't see us, but we were both just kind of like, whew.
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We nailed that.
And then everything else is gravy after that.
We showed it to Jasper when we got home um on my phone, which is always the best way toview a big spectacle like that is on a video on somebody's phone.
But Jasper was like, ooh, ooh.
And then you got to the lift.
They go, ooh, and they did a lift.
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Jasper was impressed.
So congratulations.
You pleased the millennial crowd.
Or actually, the Gen Z crowd.
Excuse me.
That, millennials were also impressed.
I was going to say I learned that lifts are not actually that hard to do, but they arealso not that hard to screw up and do wrongly.
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things can, you can do some damage very, very easily if you just are off a little, littlebit on the timing for those things.
They're not that hard to do.
Like I'm pretty sure I could have taught somebody in the audience like, oh, here's how wedo this lift is you do this and you do, you know, you're doing this and I'm doing this.
And now, now we're lifted and we're good.
but you get off by just a little bit and bad things can happen really easily.
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Now, Dave, I also have to let you know, I did post ah the video of the first look on yourvideo feed.
did a little edit and I put it up there.
So you have that there as well.
Definitely want to give a shout out to your mom that we got to meet last week, Mary.
ah And of course, Amy's uh side of the family, Gail and Larry.
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were there and it was really nice to hang out with them.
uh
your father, Gail's her stepmother.
Yep.
Thank you.
then, um, I had such a blast hanging out with, was it, is it, uh, Amy's nieces andnephews, Dalton, Rowan and Sloan?
Is that correct?
they're both of our nieces and nephews now.
Yes.
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Yeah.
So that was, that was great.
they're from Amy's side of the family, the nieces and nephews.
Gotcha.
And Courtney and Zach, of course, their mom and dad.
And it was just really wonderful to get to know them and to hang out for a few days.
The boys in particular had a blast with you, the twin boys.
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They absolutely adored you.
I don't know if you saw, but Lisa made a comment that you guys are missing the twins.
And I was like, I'm pretty sure Courtney would lend them to you for a weekend if youasked.
And for the record, Courtney liked that remark within five minutes of my posting it onsocial media.
Uh, honestly, if she wants to come and hang out in Long Beach and have a, uh, Long Beachweekend with Zach and drop the kids off, I'm sure Lisa and I could, could play, uh, could
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pretend to be grandma and grandpa for, for a few days.
That was a lot of fun.
Um, all right.
Hello, Mr.
Avansky.
Hello.
Hello?
he is.
I'm on some janky ass new fucking technology you guys, what's going on with this?
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I hope you catch a look at my handle on the thing here because I felt the same way as you,sir.
Fucking shite.
What is this, man?
Gotta have Safari or Chrome?
God.
Yeah.
is old school.
Zoom is just, you know, yesterday's tech.
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No, no, but if I say it enough, it might become true.
Just like the Dodgers winning.
World Series in
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Yeah, it's pretty spectacular.
We talked a little bit about it before you came on Scott, but uh Dave, any last thoughtsbefore we move away from the wedding and your beautiful bride?
Who's going to be on the show eventually, but any final thoughts?
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we're both still very much recovering.
I think I drank and consumed my body weight in wine over the entire time up there.
If it's possible to be hung over for more than two mornings in a row, I think I achievedthat.
I don't know how you felt, Steve, because I know you were dragging about as much as I was.
Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, that hotel bar certainly I think is going to be in business for a little whilelonger because of us and a couple of late nights down there.
um yeah, I think I told you over over text, I did not gain any weight this week, which isa miracle.
But I certainly came home feeling bloated and and needing a rest.
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So I took a couple of days off from the old um bottle and um
But yeah, was a great time and everybody just, I think just we really connected.
It's just a bunch, a lot of good people that were really happy for you too.
And uh it was just a really nice week.
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It was really great.
I'll amend my answer earlier.
will just say the camaraderie, the friendship, the love that was in that room and was justbeing reflected and focused on us just because we were the bride and the groom.
That feeling and that energy, I've been in front of a lot of crowds.
I'm a public speaker.
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I've been a public performer.
I've been in a lot of crowds.
I've never had that kind of energy or tone or volume.
directed at me before.
That was absolutely amazing.
That is something that will also always stay with.
Very good, very good.
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All right, so we.
just thought I'd say congratulations, Dave.
I'm so sorry I couldn't be there, but it sounds like you guys had an amazing time and youguys are just absolutely beautiful together.
So sorry I couldn't be there, my friend.
We were sorry you couldn't be there too, Scott.
We understand you got sick.
You made the right decision not coming up and turning our event into a super spreader.
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So we appreciate that.
I I actually watched uh Outbreak while I was sick, so I just want to let you know, that'show I felt.
I felt that way, so I'm glad nobody...
like Jude Law and one of them like full on hazmat suits with the giant rubber, you knowplastic mask over you.
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contagion yes well outbreak you would have had to been dressed up like a monkey.
I'm sorry my bad.
Spacey and Dustin Hoffman, sir.
Show some respect for the art.
you
have done that either way.
Suit or monkey outfit, I'm cool.
If you could have shown up as a monkey with the plastic cellophane helmet, that would havebeen ideal.
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my god.
All right, well, I didn't mean to interrupt.
just wanted to say thanks.
I appreciated the invite.
I'm happy you guys are...
I mean, I'm sorry that it happened that way.
I'm just super stoked and I can't wait to see all the photos and the videos.
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Well, were, Scott, we were trying to take a group photo of the four of us and we weretrying to find the name card for your seat so we could just hold that in the photo.
And we were unsuccessful because somebody cleaned that up before we had an opportunity tograb it.
But that would have been one for the ages, I think.
I think so too.
Option number two is that we've all got t-shirts with your face on the inside of themsomewhere.
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And if we would have known.
Yeah, that's.
right here, it has Nikos for some reason.
You're welcome.
Yes!
ah
There are some great pictures uh of Sloan and either Dalton or Rowan with your holding upyour faces so they look like mini me.
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It's pretty good.
Hey, that's like life size.
Dave's holding up a picture of himself, uh his face on a stick in front of his own face.
A little bit meta there.
All right, so the Dodgers, world champions, two times in a row.
I think we've covered some of the early playoff stuff, but we really need to talk aboutgame seven of the World Series really quick.
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Can we talk about the World Series just for five minutes?
Just for historical perspective here so we remember.
I know, sorry, Nico, you can tune out.
You can mute yourself if you want during this segment.
a shirt on dude seriously.
You're blinding us, man.
You're blinding us.
Woo!
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Sexy motherfucker.
Wow.
neck neck.
I don't see any nipples.
This is audio.
preface this by saying I was only able to watch the MLB recap on YouTube.
That is like 40 minutes long.
It's an excellent 40 minute video.
But I was on a mountain with Nico, my wife and his wife were along for the ride as well,and had zero cell service to speak of.
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So I didn't find out until the next day when I could come home and catch it.
You got down the bottom of the hill and got like 500 text messages and notifications fromMLB, didn't you?
from Lasorda's Lounge specifically.
Yes.
Lasordas Lounge, our baseball thread.
Yes.
So my experience for Game 7, or should say Amy's and my experience for Game 7, we hadtheater tickets that night.
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So we were watching Moulin Rouge and the game was underway and that theater is reallymilitant about you can't get on your phone while the show is going on.
Like they will literally throw you out if they catch you on your phone.
We went to a Belinda Carlisle uh concert.
at that place once and they wouldn't let you like take pictures or video tape peopleduring a rock concert.
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They're insane.
But I'm just wading through the whole thing and we get to intermission and that's whensome texts start coming through that I see on my watch that I'm assuming were when the
tying home run was hit in the ninth and then when the play at the plate was made at thebottom of the ninth to keep it tied.
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both made it out to the lobby to check and see what was going on, that the game was now inextra innings.
And that theater was packed with a lot of couples.
And I gotta say, virtually all of the husbands were there because their wives had gottenthese tickets months in advance and no one knew that it was gonna be game seven.
So there became this instant underground community of people who were watching it on theircell phone or getting data on their cell phone and passing it around the rest of the
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balcony where we were sitting.
And literally,
Right before Act 2 starts, can see, like in a stadium, this little area in the orchestraterrace where people start reacting and jumping up and clapping, and then the news is
getting passed and the reaction is breaking its way around the auditorium to us wherewe're sitting.
And someone literally says to us, the Dodgers just hit a home run, it's the top of the11th, they have a one run lead.
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And as they're saying this, the lights are going down and the second act of the show isstarting.
And now people are just very surreptitiously checking their watches and trying to signalpeople around them and behind them as to what's happening with the game.
And how I found out was the text from our mutual friend, Chris Evans, that said,congratulations Dodger fans.
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And I saw that on my watch.
Amy didn't get it on hers yet because for some inexplicable reason I get service and shedoesn't.
We're literally on the same plan through the same provider.
But I got that and I leaned over to her and I whispered, the Dodgers won.
And she looks at me and whispers back, are you serious?
And I'm like, yeah, I'm serious, the Dodgers won.
Yeah.
Yeah.
we couldn't jump around because like Moulin Rouge is going on in front of us and we're notwe're not allowed to react to anything but that.
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Well, you could have said you were reacting to all the naked burlesque chicks on stage.
You could have said that.
I'm just saying.
I know that place.
oh
Yeah.
was surreal and stressful and wonderful and memorable.
I don't know if it would have been any better, if it could have been any better if we wereactually watching it live, just to be getting it that secondhand that way the whole time,
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near real time.
It was the greatest Game 7, it was the greatest World Series I've seen in a long time, andthe Game 7 was un-fucking-believable.
It was the most dramatic thing I've seen, it's better than every soap opera out there.
was shocked at how- MIGI ROE.
MIGI ROE hits a tying run in the top of the 9th.
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What?
And, and-
throws the play out, was that at the 9th when he throws the play out at the plate?
Jesus Christ, and throws it out to Will Smith who ends up hitting the home run in thefucking 11th!
This is so crazy.
God that-
it is absolutely fungus.
Roberts when the tying home run was hit is one of the most honest expressions you will seefrom anybody in sports ever.
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Because he just had this look on his face like, my god, I can't believe that justhappened.
I can't, I know.
When he had his hands in his head and just doing this, I'm like, holy shit.
He looked like all of us.
remember that was on the tail of game six where the Blue Jays missed winning the worldseries by an inch in that game because the ball got lodged in the base of the wall.
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And that has never happened in that stadium before.
It happens all the time in baseball.
And it happens at Wrigley field a few times a year because the Ivy, the ball gets lodgedand stuck in the
call it a double.
just, gets, the ball gets lodged every now and but it's never happened in Toronto, notonce in the history of that ballpark.
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And it happened in the, in the game six of the world series to allow the Dodgers topreserve the lead and win that game.
And then in game seven, that sequence of events between the Miguel Rojas Homer with oneout, we're all looking towards Shohei coming up next.
And so you kind of forget.
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Rojas and he hits it out.
And then the play at the plate.
And then the Dodgers also loaded the bases in the 10th inning, but didn't score.
ah And then the Will Smith-Homer and then Yamamoto coming in after having pitched the daybefore.
I mean, it was just, and then the Pajas catch where he basically tackled Hernandez andleft.
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The whole thing, it's really like the best baseball game.
You'll ever see it just happened to be game seven of the world series.
It incredible.
in that game.
Now the ball being stuck, that was game six, right?
The ball being stuck in game six.
But like that play, uh the bottom of the, or the, me, the bottom of the ninth of game six,all the things that happened throughout the bottom of ninth in game seven and into the
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extra innings, serious clinching moments that were thwarted for one reason or another.
Like
Five separate times, Toronto was looking to walk it off and something completely crazyhappened in two straight games.
Yes, yeah.
I mean, even when the ball gets stuck in that in the fence.
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That was the one of the new guys, right?
That was Dean.
Is that his name?
Yes, I was going to say they allowed him to ride the bus and then promptly cut him as soonas he got off the
He's a good, he's a good young player, but he wasn't going to play next year.
he can't hit at all apparently,
and we can't forget the guy they pull in and pitches like four innings.
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Ah, Klein, Klein, holy crap.
That was so insane.
God, this best series ever, best series ever, even if it wasn't the Dodgers.
mean, but it happened to be the Dodgers against the Blue Jays.
my God, so good.
a baseball fan, this was heaven for you.
mean, what a great series.
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Yeah.
about where Kike got just run over, I've said this to Amy a couple of times.
like, if there is one person in baseball who would just probably say out loud any time,like, yeah, man, you need to make the play.
Just fucking truck me if you need to make the play.
It's all good.
It's Kike Hernandez.
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If you haven't seen his interview on, think it's Jimmy Kimmel, the night after, it's likesix of them right from the team are on that.
His retelling of that story is phenomenal.
Like he thought we lost.
And I just love how he tells that story.
It's so great.
Cause he's on the ground.
Then you see Pa has come back to check on him to see if he's okay.
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And he's like, did you catch the ball?
It's like, yeah, I got the ball, man.
Because he thought we lost.
Yeah.
And you see it.
uh
to ask, and I think I can only direct this to Scott and Steve, because Greg, you and Ididn't see this game seven live.
have only seen the aftermath of it.
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So I am admittedly not the huge baseball guy on here.
I have been drawn into this through my darling wife and her lifelong love for the Dodgers.
I watched the 1991 World Series, the Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves World Series, and Ihave long said that is the best World Series I will ever see in my lifetime.
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And particular the game six and the game seven, both of which were extra in games.
And that game seven was a classic Jack Morris wire to wire, no hitter for a win.
Excuse me, no runs, shutout, excuse me, not a no hitter, a shutout for a win.
I have always said that game seven is probably the best thing I will ever see.
If you've watched that series and if you remember that game, is it possible for you tocompare them yet?
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Are you still too close to this one?
Or is this better or not quite as good as that particular one?
I'm gonna just go with this.
This series blows that away and here's why.
You're probably never gonna see what we saw in this entire series.
Not just game six and seven, this entire series.
Yamamoto's uh complete game, second in a row, right?
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Yamamoto comes back, pitches how many innings?
Seven?
Was it seven innings?
Was it four?
In relief, in game seven, I think it was four.
Then he comes back in game 7 and pitches again, which even Dave Roberts said no.
Now let's just throw in the fact that Shohei pitches 10 strikeouts and has 3 home runs ina single game.
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It's one of the longest games in history and hits it out of Dodger Stadium, the thirdlongest hit that goes over the Pavilion.
mean even if you rewatch that sequence and you see the reaction from the dugout.
Freddie Freeman's reaction to that is like, Jesus Christ, what am I watching right now?
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It's like, holy shit!
But yeah, that whole series was insane.
And this is not to discredit the Blue Jays.
The Blue Jays were absolutely phenomenal.
God, that first game won?
I thought we were toast.
Those guys came off like fucking fire, man.
And I'm like, this is be way better than the Yankees series.
But yeah, against, I'm sorry, was it 91?
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Yeah, yeah, I think this one blows that away.
I really do.
There's just so much that happened.
So much that happened.
That's phenomenal.
I would say they're both great for different reasons.
mean, if you want to just look at a pure pitching performance, Jack Morris pitching 10innings in that game seven against a young John Smoltz, who I think probably, I think he
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pitched nine innings.
I mean, it was just backed and I think it was a one nothing game or maybe two to one atthe end.
uh That's the best pitch game I've ever seen.
mean, those two were just uh incredible.
I think in terms of just pure spectacle.
this, the 2025 world series has it beat.
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mean, you're right, Scott, like that, the Shohei's game with the three homers and, and sixinnings.
mean, that probably will never be done again.
Maybe not even by Shohei.
I mean, you know, he set the bar so high that it's, you know, he goes two for four andyou're like, he kind of had a bad game tonight.
I mean, it's, it's just ridiculous now how the expectations, how high they are for him.
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And he's going to win his.
is another MVP, his fourth MVP, will be one tomorrow night as we record the show.
And this World Series, from my books, as long as I've been a fan, paying attention enoughto the game to know, it's the best World Series I've seen.
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But you're right, that 91 World Series, that Game 7 was, you had this Jack Morris kind ofat the tail end of his great career and a young John Smoltz matching him.
Ending for ending that was, that was something to behold.
That was a great series.
and I know you're still leaning towards the 25 World Series, Steve, but I'm gonna throwthis in.
I think Greg was mentioning this earlier.
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Let's throw other odd moments.
We talked about Pajez.
He just got replaced.
He just took over center field when that play happens right after that moment.
Where the hell did that come from?
Like seriously, Pajez replaces, God, who was in?
Tommy Edmond who does not make that play.
Right, right.
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that, I mean, talk about those weird, miraculous moments on Dave Roberts' part.
again, Miggy Rojas, that's crazy to me.
then to look back again, I'm gonna go back to Yamamoto for a second.
We can talk Shohei, who is MVP by all means, just based on that one performance.
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But Yamamoto comes in, not once, not twice, but three times in this series.
He should not have made that appearance.
in game seven and he comes in and you have to be sitting there for one second thinking ifI'm in the Blue Jays dugout and this is the guy that dominated me two games already and
they're bringing him out it's like bringing out a bazooka to a guy that has you know abullwhip on the side pocket you know I mean it's just ridiculous they're toast they gotta
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be looking at this like this guy has annihilated us
It's COFAX level stuff, I COFAX won three games in 62 World Series.
It's very, very rare for a pitcher to win three games in a World Series.
Another great moment, it's Kofax saying that to Klein when he came up to him and he gavehim that nod of approval.
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I mean, there's just so many glorious moments in this World Series.
Just shockingly good, shockingly good.
Well that game three went on so long, I'm pretty sure Kofax was warming up in the bullpenat one point.
I'm positive he was.
They were calling him up,
That guy, I'm just saying that guy probably has one pitch in him.
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I'm not saying he can do anything else.
I'm saying he's got one pitch in him.
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
mean, you also have you also have Hersheiser up in the booth.
I'm like, bring an oral.
He could probably throw a few strikes.
Let's take it a step further.
I bet Kofax was ready to arm wrestle with Kiki Hernandez to see if he was going to closeout that night.
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Seriously, at that point, I'm like, Kiki's going to show up and just be like, hey.
So on Kimball, Roberts did confirm that it was either going to be Kike or Rojas cominginto the game while Yamamoto was warming up.
I mean, was just, yeah, it's just, it's a crazy, it was a crazy World Series.
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Scott, to your point though about some of the decisions that Roberts made, just, andagain, I'm not the baseball guy, so you guys should tell me if I'm off base on this, but I
feel like in this era of analytics, Roberts is still demonstrating that gut, feel, andinstinct is absolutely a commodity worth more than its weight in gold still.
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When I look at what he did last year,
as the manager for the Dodgers, particularly that bullpen game against the Padres, what hedid in this series, I can't tell you how many times there were where it was just, I got a,
the line from Major League where the manager was like, you know, I just got a hunch he'sdue.
He just did that five or six times throughout the series and he was right every singledamn time.
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And if he'd been wrong on any one of them, the Blue Jays would be the world championstonight.
Well, and two big ones, putting Rojas in center as a defensive replacement.
And then he pulls off that catch in left center.
um Pajas, sorry, not Rojas, Pajas.
then playing Rojas, who hadn't played in three weeks and his last hit was October 1st.
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His last hit before the homer was October 1st.
Mm-hmm.
Hit!
That's it!
Nothing!
just, it's wild.
yeah, you're, you're, right.
mean, you play the numbers, you play the odds, you know how they match up, um, with, witheach pitcher that's coming in and it's likely to play that night and you play your gut and
Roberts has been on a roll.
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So I feel like, I feel like we have the best manager in the game.
Yeah, 100%.
I've been one of the people, and I'm sure you guys might feel this way, but we probablydiscussed it in a very serious tone, but I have always been a Roberts defender no matter
what.
I've had so many people that will just instantly want to fire the manager because theythink they're not doing good.
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And I'm like, this is a team that has been to the playoffs, have won their division, what,13 out of 14 is it?
Is it 13 out of 14?
13 and.
It's no, no, cause the Giants won one in like 2013 or something.
Scott's right.
They've either won 12 of 13 or 13 of 14.
I forget which it is.
So anytime people start criticizing them, I'm like, this is a team that's consistentlygetting to the October, getting to October.
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And here's my point about that is it's there are other players that are other factorsinvolved.
This guy comes in and he, okay, he's no Tommy Lasorda, but I have a soft spot for Lasordabecause of his just attitude.
He was the craziest guy I've seen out on the field.
You anyone that can punch out a mascot, fantastic in my eyes.
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But I had one moment where I almost felt that he went into La Sorda territory.
Granted, it was so minor, but when he made that comment about, he's screaming in the micwhen they got to, I think they won the championship series.
And the guy asks him about, you know, what do you think about everyone saying the Dodgersare ruining baseball?
And he's like, if we're ruining baseball, yeah, because he says,
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then let's give them four more and let's really show them how to ruin baseball orwhatever.
I'm like that, that to me just had a moment of like, yeah, they're not ruining baseball.
They're doing it right.
They're doing things right.
And to come back with a little zinger like that just made me feel really good that thisguy constantly has a positive outlook on his players, brings everyone together.
And then he just like, without being fed up and angry about it, has a fun little comebackfor that.
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I just thought it it felt a little disorder like to me.
Because Lesorda would come across like he's gonna have some nice comeback and then he goesactually off the deep end.
ah I think there was a good example of that with him and that guy from the Padres wherehe's like...
Yeah, that was some insane shit.
He's gone.
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You know, I, I feel like Roberts has gotten better.
feel like the first few years of this streak that we're on, there were quite a few gamesthat we won despite Roberts.
mean, and I think he'll tell you that I think he's, I think he's gotten better over thelast.
So, I mean, you know, I really think he's the best manager in the game.
Now.
I think he's gotten a lot better over the last decade and a half, and I'm sure he wouldprobably say the same.
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Um,
But yeah, you're right.
He is a player's manager.
He's very media savvy.
He's always got the right thing to say.
He always is prepared.
He never catch him on his heels.
mean, he backs up his guys and he's always got the game plan and he executes it.
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And the Dodgers now have like ridiculous, uh we're in uncharted territory in terms ofbudget and players.
And that combined with his savvy on the field and pulling the right, uh you know, theright moves at the right time, it's a deadly combination.
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Well, let me throw something else in there too really quick.
I think credit also has to be given, a lot of credit to the Dodgers front office in termsof the players that they put together on the field because there's a ton of high priced
players and high priced talent and super talented guys who are in Major League Baseball.
But the group that's on the Dodgers in my estimation, they're all great locker room guys.
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There's not...
There's the ego that comes with being at the top of your game, but there's not so much egothat interferes with your ability to be a good teammate and just watching how they gel
with each other and they truly support each other and lift each other up and want to seeeach other succeed.
It is a great example for all of sports.
I I don't know that I love sports in general.
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I'm not a big baseball guy.
I love sports in general.
I am hard pressed to think of another team that organization that I've seen produce such acohesive team.
over a five or six year period.
It's just astounding to watch.
Hey, to your point, Dave, uh there was a great moment that could stand out for that.
So you got what?
Easily four like Hall of Famers on this team right now, right?
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Easily, probably more.
uh But you have a moment where uh Mookie Betts was not playing up to and he even wastalking about this in press releases and stuff, how he wasn't stepping up to the plate
basically.
so to speak.
And Roberts put him in there and said, you got to let all of that go.
You just got to get up there, get that out of your head and get us a hit.
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And he goes up and he gets that single, which I believe went over, was it between firstand second base?
I can't remember.
There's so much happened, but he got a single off of that.
That speech, he's like, just get up there, get it out of your head and play like Mookiedoes.
And he gets up and he does it.
It's amazing to see that here's a guy who's down on his luck who's not having the bestpostseason and comes up in his clutch hit in a moment that we needed it because he knows
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that the rest of the team and how they work together all comes together in that moment andMookie steps up for a second.
He wasn't, I mean, we're not talking about all the stuff Mookie Betts did, but he had amoment when he was not doing good during this series.
And I just, that's what I love about Roberts and
And what you just said, Dave, is like, here's a team of guys that let that ego kind of goand work together.
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mean, look at, mean, again, the sunflower seeds, every time someone gets a home run whenthey come running in, it's usually Teo who's throwing the seeds at everybody, unless he's
the one hitting the home run.
Then I think Pa has steps up, but it's like a fun little thing, the little weird dancesthat they do, they all come together.
know, Miggy's a guy that's not making a ton of money compared to, you know, Shohei, butthey all...
(41:57):
come together as this incredible like brotherhood out there.
That's what I love seeing about this team.
It's amazing.
And yeah, we got a hell of a payroll, but a lot of it's deferred.
A lot of it.
to double down on the front up.
So GM Brandon Gomes has done a great job in bringing in guys that are humble that likeeverybody hates the Dodgers, but nobody hates any of the players on the Dodgers.
(42:24):
Right.
You hate, you hate us because we're spending all this money, but Freddie Freeman, Shohei,Mookie, Will Smith, all these guys are nice guys.
They're great players and they're good guys.
And you
Brendan Gomes uh has the responsibility of building a team of stars and role players.
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um And that's what the Dodgers have done.
They've got guys that step in and know their roles, and they've got the best manager ofthe game to manage all of that.
And again, it's a very deadly combination when you have somebody like Mookie Betts who iswilling to change positions because the Dodgers need him to play shortstop.
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turned himself into a gold glove caliber shortstop this year.
He only hit 245 or whatever he ended up hitting 260 or something like that.
um But he focused on his defense and he's willing to do that for the team.
And that's how you win championships.
You gotta be good.
um Well, it's a little bit of a different point, but you gotta be good.
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And you also have to be a little bit lucky to win.
You cannot buy a championship in baseball.
You just can't.
Nah.
can't buy it.
You have to always be a little bit lucky.
There's so many teams that have had the best players, but that didn't win it because theydidn't have that little luck factor.
And I think sometimes you make your own luck.
that's why Dave Roberts is in our dugout because he makes that luck for us.
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I do want to add one thing about the movie best thing I should point out he is one of thereasons why that that.
We ended where we did in game seven he had that great double play.
He's the one that ran picked up that broken bat hit from Kirk stepped on second through itover to first in time and that's easy to say cuz Kirk can't run where shit but that's
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okay.
That's not an easy play to make, particularly in those circumstances.
I think he was, I saw an interview where he said, I just kept telling myself, I gotta benasty.
I gotta be nasty on this next hit.
If the ball comes to me, I gotta be absolutely filthy.
that, making that play in that moment to win the World Series next to innings, very nasty,very filthy, very, very difficult.
(44:42):
All right, guys.
Well, this was a great episode of Dodger Talk.
I like this.
We might have to do this again next week.
can I double back to my favorite topic, me really quick?
Because you asked me some questions about the wedding quick.
So I'm gonna, I wanna ask the folks that attended really quick.
What was your standout memory?
What will be your standout memory on?
(45:03):
Cause y'all saw it very differently from how I saw it.
I mentioned this to Kara, my beautiful bride on the way home, is that you go away fordestination weddings and when I say destination, I mean most everybody traveled to
Monterey, California.
And you run into people maybe at the hotel, maybe around town, maybe see them.
(45:27):
And it's a quick hello, how are you?
And you see everybody at the wedding and it's fine, but you really don't interact.
It was really nice.
to meet and hang out with your family, Dave, and with Amy's family.
And it was a whole weekend of like, we all sat down to breakfast and chatted every morningtogether.
We all hung out at the hotel bar at night afterwards and hung out together.
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It was really nice.
It was like a whole weekend of just like hanging out with these people and not just seeingthem at the wedding and...
giving them a courtesy nod as you see them on the way out the door later on.
So that was my standout for the weekend.
It was just the whole weekend of just awesome people and awesome things.
(46:10):
Awesome.
Thank you, sir.
What?
Millennial Falcon.
I've been doing a lot of talking.
Yeah, no, and the irony is that I think my standout memory, apart from the pictures that Itook and already shared in our chat of the two of you under the neon sign kissing Mr.
(46:32):
and Mrs.
Potter, I think it was really nice to see how you, Steve, stepped up at the wedding.
and were really involved there.
That was really nice and your speech was beautiful and amazing.
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yeah, the irony being that, yeah, you talking um was really nice to see somebody do that.
Cause at my own wedding, I had nobody do that for me.
So it was nice to see that for another friend of mine.
Ah, it was the first time that I actually talked that Nico appreciated what I said.
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that, that feels good.
That feels good.
I love those pictures of Amy and me under the neon sign.
They're actually some of my favorites from the wedding that I've seen so far.
I don't remember for the life of me posing for that.
Neither of us remembers like when were we standing under that sign for pictures to betaken?
posing.
It was right before everybody lined up with the lightsabers against the wall.
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And the two of you were just standing there and you just looked really cute.
And then you were right under that sign from my point of view.
So I just pulled out the camera and started taking a bunch of pictures.
um And those are my two favorite from that little...
candid moment that was absolutely not a pose at all.
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were standing there waiting for people to show up and you happened to just look at eachother and kiss each other and I had my camera out.
Fantastic man.
was amazing.
I literally looked at him like, did he Photoshop this?
Because I don't remember this happening at all.
Nope, you did that and then we all lined up against the wall and helped the lightsabersout.
Okay, very cool.
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I will throw in the quiet moments for me with Rowan and Dalton and Sloan too, who's justuh a beautiful young woman.
um
children were never quiet.
Yeah, what are you talking about?
well, I will say so building the world's largest straw at dinner, for example, with Daltonwhen we put five or six straws together and he drank out of other people's water.
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You know, it's just little things like that.
That was fun.
Just being with you at the first viewing or what'd you call it, Dave?
The first.
First look.
Yeah, that was fun.
turned my camera on and asked you how you were feeling and you shared your thoughts inthat moment.
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You know, just those quiet little conversational moments.
I also have to, I failed to mention your brother Doug, who I got to know a little bit upthere and that was nice to spend some time with him.
So yeah, it was, I I agreed with what Greg and Nico said.
It was a really good vibe.
(49:37):
Like the whole week just had a really nice, um, nice vibe to it.
I just, that's the only words that, that come to mind right now.
It's just a good feeling all around.
Everyone came in very excited and like looking forward to the event and then the eventhappened and then we still had time to decompress after and hang out together.
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And, and, all of that kind of strung together some really good days.
Um.
So I was really glad to be able to spend it with you and your family and your new family.
That was really cool.
to all of you who were able to be there.
Scott, I include you in that because I know you had a last minute thing, but I will beforever grateful for all of you that were a part of this with us over the past week.
(50:29):
Yeah.
right.
And with that, we are going to wrap up this episode.
So thanks guys.
My, uh, I know we're a little bit early, but my, my headphones are dying.
So I may not be able to hear you by the end of this, by the end of this, uh, close.
So, uh, appreciate you guys.
Thanks for the, all the time.
(50:50):
Yeah.
Thanks for all the time for the Dodger talk.
We had to get that out of our system.
I'm sure we'll talk more about the, two time.
world champion, now actually three time in the last five years, world champion Los AngelesDodgers and the wedding champion, Dave and Amy Potter.
Until next time, have a great, great rest of November.
(51:16):
and happy Thanksgiving if we don't talk to before then.
And may the force be with us all.
Wonderful.
Alright.
what's with the new platform?
I'm curious.
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