August 25, 2025 • 25 mins
Maryland Man to be deported again? Trump to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago? Mistakes we make as adults that we should have learned as children. Mayor Brandon Johnson is having a fit because President Trump says he’ll deploy the National Guard to Chicago to save it like he did DC. Weird "flexes" by people.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Tony gats the Morning News ninety three WIBC.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in for the day.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Thrilled to be here. Tony is back tomorrow. Lots of
things out there. Producer Carl was just telling me that
a Brego Garcia will report to ICE and then maybe
be deported again.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Who knows. That saga has gone on for a very
long time.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And the thing about it that matters most is that
Abrego could always have he could have always been deported
to anywhere other than his home country, even though that's
where we sent him the first time. He went in
jail for a little bit, came back a bunch of things.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
All that stuff has happened.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Anyway, Brego Garcia should be kicked out of this country.
I think in the near future we'll see he will
report to ICE.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Again soon and then who knows.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
They're calling it a check in, but I don't know
what that actually is going to be. And I do
love the fact that so many people have said the
Maryland man got back home, because if you remember the
sanitized version of the way they speak in media and
especially on the left, you change everything. And actually I
did that exercise in another show, so I might as
well do it here with the large audience that WIBC has. Like,
(01:18):
what other things do you think we should sanitize in society?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
The versions?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I mean, you and I don't think this, But if
we wanted to make fun of the idea, what should
we do? I thought about an unregistered pharmacist as a
drug dealer, or like an undocumented pharmacist. That's a pretty
good one for how left would call, Hey, he's not
a drug dealer. He just forgot to go to pharmaceutical
school to get all those things. And then also he
(01:44):
does a legal terrible stuff. You come up with another
version and let us know. Tell us on our social
media pages if you want, go wherever Radio Craig C
is mine. You can find Tony, you can find WIBC.
But I've had a lot of fun with that, even
just off the air. I think I'm annoying some of
my liberal friends by any time they say something that
(02:05):
I think could be sanitized by mainstream media, I go
ahead and do it, and I just I add the
different variables to it. Right now, in the world of baseball,
the New York Yankees have a shortstop that's playing terrible
Anthony Volpi, and so to me, he's just a shortstop
that is struggling. He's not actually someone who's lacking talent.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
We'll see, We'll see what happens there, because if I
want to sanitize his version of description, I just do
everything the Yankees do when they claim that he's good
at stuff and he's terrible. My other favorite story that's
out there, and we'll definitely talk about it more in
a little bit, is the National Guard being deployed in Chicago.
I know there's a few things about it that matter,
(02:48):
and you should know this first and foremost. When Brandon Johnson,
the mayor there, says that like they're not welcome, we're
going to throw them out. The National Guard has people
that live in Chicago. So the individuals that would be
activated don't have to say, come from Washington, d c.
Show up in Chicago and start behaving like National guardsmen.
(03:10):
They live there. So the first thing that matters is
that these would be Chicagoans, So Brandon Johnson can't kick
them out.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
No one can. And the other thing.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That's crazy to me, and the Left keeps calling this,
you know, occupation of our cities, by our military, and
that language the exact reverse of what I'm joking about
a second ago, the lack of sanitization, the over dramatic
version of language they use to make something sound different
than it is. It's abundantly anti military for our country,
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because the last thing our military would ever do, in
my opinion, anyone who'd be asked to serve in some
capacity here in the United States, is harm innocent people.
And that's the idea in any place where you think
that something is you know, going above and beyond to
where it becomes dictatorship and they're they're forcing people into
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their homes or doing all kinds of crazy things and
using the military to win that that's not at all
what would occur here. And the men and women who
serve our country that we're supposed to celebrate and many
of us do celebrate on a daily basis, would never
do that. They'd never harm us, but they would protect
us against criminals. And it seems that that might be
(04:24):
the thing that will actually happen. And I just I
can't get over the fact that they sanitize, you know,
the undocumented immigrant, but then they refuse to even remotely
come close to explaining in correct detail what it would
mean for people living in Chicago to be allowed to
help protect that city from the rampant amount of crime
(04:44):
that exists there.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
All right, Well, take a break, a lot to do,
a lot of fun to have on a Monday.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
This is Craig Collins filling in Tony Kats, The Morning News,
ninety three WIBC.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's pretty funny. That's this, well done, Carl.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
This is Tony Kats, The Morning News, ninety three WIBC.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
My name is Craig Collins filling in. You got Matt.
You have Carl hanging out as they do every single morning.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And Abrego Garcia will be returned to well, not a sender,
but someone in the near vicinity, so we'll see exactly
what happens there.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
All right, let's talk about some sillier stuff. First.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I wanted to mention something and I usually take an
earlier segment in the show.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I think as we get older, we're supposed to avoid
the stupidity of our youth, Like that's supposed to be
the thing that comes with age is you do things
differently than you were young and dumb. Am I correct
in that in saying that that that's the expectation to
get older, Craig, all Right, it doesn't always work out,
and I'm going to admit a version of me not
(05:46):
having it work out. Recently, my wife and I went
to a beach in Texas, which I still sort of
joke about, and I shouldn't because I know it's the
ocean much more than like Chicago's lake. Even if it's
a very big lake, it's still the ocean. I know
that this is the same, but it's still the Gulf.
It's not whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So I went to the beach with.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Her, and we're in the car and I told the misses,
I'm not putting on any sunscreen.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'll be fine. It's one day on the beach. I'll
be fine. And she looked at me. She's like, it's
a very stupid decision.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And I'm like, when I was a little kid, I
did this all the time and it only backfired most
of the time.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And I am so sunburnt, guys. And it's mostly over now.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So if you're watching on zoom, you're seeing the end
results of a peeling.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Horrible situation over the last week.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
But all it's been Matt is her bringing up like
you should have put on this sunscreen, and me keep
thinking that, Yeah, I learned.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That as a kid, and I still can't fix that problem.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So I'm outing myself for something I'm still not doing
right as an adult that I failed to do right
as a kid.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I mean, she has this for the rest of your lives.
She's gonna be able to bring this up, and maybe
she should. I mean, do you have a lot of
subtan experience so far here? Like in August? I mean
for this summer, do you have like a base or
col to you? But are you dark skin naturally so
we don't have any of that? Were you wearing a
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long sleeve shirt?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
You know? Okay? I mean I go, I.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Go into the water.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The other thing that's funny about me is it doesn't
matter what type of body of water I'm in front of,
I'm going to go in it. I don't know why
people go to the beach and don't go into the
body of water.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So like that's a runoff. Yeah whatever, I'm going in
that runoff. Baby, I'm having some fun in that runoff. No,
I don't get it. Why do you go to the
beach or the lake or whatever you're going to and
not going in the water. Isn't that the point? Why
are we there?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I'm totally with it. You got to go in the water.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I mean, especially if you're guys like us who didn't
grow up around saltwater or a beach. I mean, I
see a beach and I'm like, oh kidding, you know,
I've run right in. I mean, it's just it's there's
something about as Midwesterners. Whenever we do get around, you know,
a golf or an ocean, we have to be in it.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
It could be littered with sharks. We have to be
in it, and we're.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Going to go in because I mean, we don't get
too very often. We don't know what our next chance
to do, what is going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I like that I grew up in Jersey across the
street from the ocean. But I love what you just
said there about the Midwest.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I'm trying to make the excuses right now.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
That would have been great, dude. And I lived in
Indiana for a while, so I did. I did lose
the ocean for a bit. I don't know what it
is about me, man. I'll go into any body of water.
There's no good reason for it. I just don't like
sitting in a place where I think the attraction is
the giant thing in front of us, and nobody does it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well, my dad always said, you know, red tide. If
you're scared of red tide, you're a woozie.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
He would actually take me by my britches and throw
me into an ocean full of red tide and be like,
now you're a man.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, okay, I love I love the fact that you
mentioned that because it reminded me of something else too.
There had just been a storm in the area I
was in in Texas, so the waves were amazing in
the Gulf, but there was a giant sign as we
walked onto the beach that said do not go in
the water, and I just ignored that completely. So I'm
not sure. I'm not sure what Yeah right, I'm not
(09:04):
sure what happened to that situation either, but it is
what it is. My arm fell off when I got
out of the water, So never felt worse in my life.
Is there is there anything that you've done recently that
is a lesson you were supposed to learn as a
child and you didn't.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Oh wow, like every day five of them.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Still in radio exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I think the big thing would be like and I'm
so much better about this, you know, because I mean
I'm in my mid forties. I better be better at it.
But just with impulsive spending, you know, I still struggle
with that, like with Amazon Marketplace, actually buying things on Amazon.
Because of Amazon dot Com. I have like twelve things
of protein at home. I've always have to be ahead
(09:52):
of that restock date. And it comes down to impulsive
spending because I'll get the one thing.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I'll be like, oh man, you don't have enough hopemeal.
Oh man, you don't have enough of this.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So you know, I started all this stuff online and
it's just kind of indicative of that childhood behavior. Oh wow,
you know this video game's here. You know I have
my allowance, Bundy, I'm gonna go get this. But it
does remind me of when I was a kid and
maybe have some work to do there, you don't.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You know. That's a great answer.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And actually, anyone that is watching our livestream on YouTube, Twitter,
all the places it is, I'm going to hold up
my frost Buddy, which is a New York Yankee Frost Buddy.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Do you know what a frost Buddy is or.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
No, no, no, I've never heard of one.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
So it's a thing that you put a drink in
that keeps it colder. It's called frost butter Us and
so it's just a giant metal thing that you put
a can inside of. And my wife and I had
the largest fight about the value of this item that
I'm holding up in front of the computer right now.
She thinks it's absolutely the stupidest thing that anyone could
ever purchase. Amazon made me buy it because they put
(10:51):
it on sale, and I love it. I think it's
the best thing I've ever owned.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Matt, what's that? How much, Carl? How much is it
supposed to be? Is the right question?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Right, It's supposed to be like fifty bucks, which makes
no sense because it's not even actually I know it's
not even horrible money. But it was twenty bucks, so
that's a that's a I know, that's a sixty percent
savings on the on the old frost Buddy.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
So I had to buy it, guys, it had to
be purchased.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
No, And I totally get that.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I do want to caution you, you're spending money against
your wife's will, and you're not taking advice about your
health from your wife.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
So listen, I've never been married in my life.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I have no kids, so I'm not going to give
you married all advice, but you may want to temper
some of that.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Look, yeah, just kind of wrong.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
I got.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I'm hearing what you're saying. You know what, you know?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
What do I know? I know nothing? I know nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
But you're not the only friend that's given me that advice. Reasonly,
it's been like, you know what, it really sounds like
there's a lot of mistakes being made and the missus
might just strangle you in your sleep at some point here.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Oh well, we'll say so, all right, what a way
to go?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It would be a way to go. Oh, you're right,
you know, you know. It's also funny about that.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I know.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
We got like one minute, there's these videos.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
My wife is from Mexico, she's Latina of Latin women
throwing shoes, chanklas or it's just like a flip flop
at guys heads and hitting a cup on top of
it and not hitting their head. I told my wife
we should try this, and then I immediately realized it's
a terrible idea right now because all.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
She's going to do is hit me in the head.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think, if it's a TikTok challenge, this is the
only TikTok challenge worthy. I think, yeah, yeah, next to
the challenge that was worthy, but this is, you know,
I think this is a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Well, it's amazing how accurate the women have been on
the thing, because they say that they're born with this
ability to throw a flip flop with precision, and yet
she'll do it on purpose to hit me in the face.
All right, we'll take a break. A lot to talk
about today, a lot to get to kill. Mar Garcia
going somewhere Tony Kats The Morning News, ninety three WIBC.
(12:53):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be
with you. Lots of stuff out there to talk about.
Chicago is in the news a lot right now, just
a stone's throw from Indianapolis. The biggest conversation. Well, a
hard throw with a stone, I guess I should say,
very hard. But a few things that are in the
news then involve the reaction to the idea that Trump
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may send. And this is actually another great example of
how language changes to make it sound different than the
reality of something, because he's not actually going to send
troops from DC. The state of Illinois has its own
National Guard and President Trump is in charge of it.
And by the way, there is a code in the
US Constitution that outlines when the president is allowed to
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do certain things. He referenced it himself when he sent
and again he didn't actually send them. I should stop
using that word, but he activated troops in California. It's
Title ten of the US Code, Section one two four
zero six.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
If you want to put that on your BINGO card.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It allows the president to activate the National Guard to
repel an invasion, to suppress a rebellion, or to allow
the president And this is important to execute the law.
And in places like Chicago, I think some would argue
the law is not really being executed at all, that
there's a whole lot of things they're doing that definitely
skirt and ignore which should be the law, like that
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crime is illegal and you should fight it out of.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The best of your ability.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So this seems like the type of fight that Brandon
Johnson will lose, just like anyone Gavin Newsom lost before him.
But that doesn't seem to be stopping Johnson. He's out
there yelling and screaming about how terrible this is, about
how awful things would be if essentially the city were
less dangerous and violent, which, by the way, is an
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amazing thing.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That is becoming a.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Left versus right talking point discussion, and it's just it's
crazy to me that it's becoming that where the left
is saying they want crime, because it seems fairly easy
for the right to be like, hey, we don't like crime,
we think crime is bad, and that will be a
winning conversation with most of America. It's just insane that
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the left wants to be on the other side of that.
But here's a little bit of audio of Brandon Johnson,
who popped up on MSNBC.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I'm going to play something else, President Trump said on Friday,
with regard to your city.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Chicago's a mess.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
You have an incompetent mayor. It's purely incompetent. Oh, that's true,
and we'll.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Straighten that one out probably next that'll be our next
one after this, and it won't even be tough.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I love the fact that they played that for Brandon Johnson,
by the way, before asking the question, because he is
grossly incompetent, and it won't be hard if you let
people do the job the way they want to do it.
There's cops, there's members of our military all throughout the
country that know what it takes to clean a place
like Chicago. I've actually talked to Chicago cops about this
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when I was in media in that city, and they
would say that they know what steps they would take
if they wanted the South Side to be my safer.
But they also know that the politicians wouldn't have their back,
that media would attack them for the way in which
they might go about it, and then anything they did
that was entirely legal would be shaped as illegal and
cause headaches throughout the police department. So they can't behave
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the way they want to because they're not allowed to.
Here's how Johnson responded to this.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
By the way, yes ah, your reaction to yeah yeah, Well, listen,
you know the president of the nice.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Little I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I loved the first version when he was confused, because
if he had just said yes and then moved on,
it would have been the.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Best America has repeated this, you know, petulant presentation since
he has assumed office and you know, if the reporting
is actually true, what he is proposing at this point
would be the most flagrant violation of our constitution in
the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
No, by the way, he did send or activate troops
in California, even though Gavin Newsom said no and said
that it was constitutionally not allowed, and nothing happened, by
the way, So Brandon, that's not going to be the
winning argument, just an fyi. But he doesn't even care
about that, because the funny thing is that Brandon Johnson
would love to have the city cleaned up, as he
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protested against it vocally, because he somehow thinks it's winning
him votes. And even in a place like Chicago, the
narrative will only last so long because if the streets
got safer, if people were capable of, say, you know,
doing more later at night in certain neighborhoods, they would
be a supporter of the end result of this, which
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would be the whole thing that I think Republicans are
trying to do. If you don't think our words make sense,
use your own eyes, your own experience to tell you
which side you like, which side you agree with. And
it seems as though the idea would be to demonstrate
how easy this actually is.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
All Right, we'll take a break. A lot coming up.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It's Craig Collins filling in Tony Katz, The Morning News
ninety three WIBC. Tony Kats The Morning News, ninety three WIBC.
Name is Craig Collins filling in for the day, You
got Matt. You have Carl hanging out as they do
every single morning on this show. What's a weird flex
that you've heard someone share with you? This is a
story that went viral. I think it was BuzzFeed and
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then Reddit who both put versions of this up there.
But people were sharing weird things that other people bragged
about to them. One of those was a manager who
bragged they hadn't listened to music in fifteen years because
they didn't have the time. They're so busy they couldn't
turn on a song, which seems like a weird thing
to be proud of. Another guy, who is in his
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sixties bragged about not eating fruits or vegetables for his
entire life, and that he's still alive. This is something
that apparently makes him and children laugh, but annoys his son,
who would wish Grandpa would shut up.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
About that.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And then finally one last one that I like as
an example of this before we share some of ours.
A boss that said that everybody's handwriting was terrible in
the workplace and that she had won had writing award
in third grade that she apparently was still proud of
even though it had been about sixty years. Anybody have
a weird flex they want to share on the show.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I would say, it's has anything to do with like,
you know, and this was more my more my youth
or anything.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We're just talking about how but you could drink, you know. Yeah,
that was always a strange flex to me, and I
was the one only one really doing it. It's still
I guess it is, you know how much the quality
you know, like anytime you're spending money for people too,
Like there was always the guy who was buying rounds.
I was buying rounds a patrol for everybody at the bar,
and it was like, okay, and now as we're older
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in our back of our head, it was like, man,
I really hope everybody made it home safely.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Also, I also wish I hadn't bought a few of
those rounds. I wish I had some of that money still.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
When it's patron baby, whoo, there goes your rent.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I have one that's very similar to the handwriting one.
I brag about the fact that in fourth grade, not
third grade so much more recently, I made it to
the all star team for the baseball Little League in
New Jersey and we were like two steps away from
going to the Little League World Series thing, not not
the final game, but getting into the tournament in the
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first place.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
But we didn't. And I still brag about that today.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I went out on top of the world of baseball
in about fourth grade.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
You were that close to making the New York Yankees.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I really was.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
It was between me and jore Pizzada to be their
next catcher, and unfortunately I lost.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
But yeah, no, that's a brag for me, Carl. Do
you have one.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I get to work with you guys.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Wow? Nice? I like that.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I like that you consider that like a weird flex
like you you don't you.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Know what's you know?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
What's funny about that too, is actually I remember this.
You guys know who Skip Bayless is right now?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
He's a professional sports commentator with he is.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yes, I did an interview with him when I was at.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
A station in Indiana in South Bend, Indiana ESPN there,
and I remember he just made fun of the producer,
your job in small market radio. Now granted Indianapolis is
not small market, but all he did for like five
minutes on air is like, oh, Craig has no real job.
His job's a joke. This guy, look at him. He
shows up every day to work and does so little.
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And I was like, what is happening, Skip bay Listen?
He thought it was funny, and so did my boss
who was on the air with me. And I did
not find any part of that amusing. That was a
thing that happened, which maybe would be a weird flex
now to say that Skip Bayless ripped in my profession
years ago.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah, it was like hardy harharr. Look at this guy,
you know, I mean he doesn't make as much money
as me. I mean he's a low hanging fruit or
I'm gonna punch down now, how this is that guy?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yeah, it's just the attitude to begin with.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It's just the idea that for some reason you are
on a pedestal and then you can kind of sit,
you know, a top of your self righteous ivory tower
and be like, oh, this guy's never gonna you know,
that kind of stuff absolutelytize have been crazy. I've experienced it.
I've seen it done to other people, and I never
like it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, no, how dare you goulish?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
By the way, I worked really hard at ESPN in
South Bend, Indiana.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It was a very difficult job.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I had to go and talk to the Notre Dame
football players all the time because that was the only
story in South Indiana.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
There's the other thing is it could be the middle
of you know, the winter, and they're like, we're not
really doing football right now.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
But Craig, go check on the Notre Dame football team.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
You didn't do anything with the Silverhawks.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I actually was their announcer.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Oh cool, so cool, I was.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I was the PA announcer for the South Bend so
who are now the South Bend Cubs, but when they
when they were the Silverhawks, and several different players that
are now famous athletes, Justin Upton one of the best
among them. I played for that team while I was there,
and actually I hit one of the guys with my car,
which is another story for.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Another what I have to talk about it now.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He was in a.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Car too, so I didn't hit him, you know, outside,
but no. Will Crouch is the name of a former
catcher for the South Bend Silverhawks, so I don't think
ever made it to Major League Baseball. Well, you hit
him with your car, I did. I ruined his and
on the fourth and July I rear ended him. And
I was in a rental, I think, which made it
even worse. I don't know why I was in a rental.
(23:05):
Something must have been going on with my car. And he
was in a rental and he had a gorgeous woman
in the passenger side seat with him and they popped out,
and I'm like, this woman can't be from South Bend.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
He wasn't born here but now.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
And then the cop came by and he was being
real nice to Will Crouch because I guess he recognized him.
And then like, I kept trying to talk so that
they'd notice my voice, and no one did because I
was a PA announcer. And then eventually I'm like, you know,
I work with you, and he goes, you're on my
team and I'm like, I'm not. You would know that
I'm upstairs in the booth, and so he just let
me go.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
We never gotten any sort of fight.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I mean, you know, you run into the guy because
you're jealous of his hot wife and for some reason,
and I don't understand this, in South Bend, you don't
get street credit for being the silver Hawks PA announcer,
and I think that's garbage.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
You know I did.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I did with thank you. You're you're defending a lot
of the things that I've done early.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
On South Bank to be well.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And honestly, it's funny that you asked that because the
South Bend Silverhawks gig got me the ESPN gig because
I was there. The guy from ESPN was in the
stadium one day and like, hey, I need a producer.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Can you do that? I'm like, yeah, I can do that,
And now I'm in radio because of that.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Actually, if that series of events hadn't and you know
what's really funny, this is no one cares. But I'm
going to tell this really quickly. I wasn't hired to
be the announcer. I was hired to be the video
board operator. And the second day the dude who was
supposed to announce did not show up.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
He was done after one game.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
He was like, I don't want to do this, and
so I got to announce the second game of the
season and then took it from there and then got
hired into radio and never looked back.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
That's a real version of events for my start in radio.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
You're saying, all these terrible things that happened to you
were the reason you got into radio.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, and they led me to write here getting to
talk to you and Carl on the radio, which apparently
is good.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I'm saying that I've led myself to a good place.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's kind of like me saying if I hadn't take
my brother's car and went nose dived into a ditch
in high school, that I would have been a star
football player.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I it's like the same thing. Car walk.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
The cow walked up and he said, you know, you're
lucky to be alive, and I'm like, man, I got
it just ruin my career.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And I wonder if Will Crouch does blame me for
not making the MLB. He's like, you know, the announcer
rear ended me and then my career went in a tank.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
He's got a Craig Shrine shrine in his basement to
look up where he is.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I want to know where that guy is. He was
the least fun name to say, by the way of
the entire team.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So many other names were way more fun than Will
Krouch went out, all right, we'll take a break.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well, just wasn't your gig, you know, it just wasn't
your gig.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, although now I was just mean to the guy
that I rear ended, so really I'm just making it worse.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
All right, A quick break, A lot coming up. This
is
Tony gats the Morning News ninety three WIBC.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in for the day.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Thrilled to be here. Tony is back tomorrow. Lots of
things out there. Producer Carl was just telling me that
a Brego Garcia will report to ICE and then maybe
be deported again.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Who knows. That saga has gone on for a very
long time.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
And the thing about it that matters most is that
Abrego could always have he could have always been deported
to anywhere other than his home country, even though that's
where we sent him the first time. He went in
jail for a little bit, came back a bunch of things.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
All that stuff has happened.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Anyway, Brego Garcia should be kicked out of this country.
I think in the near future we'll see he will
report to ICE.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Again soon and then who knows.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
They're calling it a check in, but I don't know
what that actually is going to be. And I do
love the fact that so many people have said the
Maryland man got back home, because if you remember the
sanitized version of the way they speak in media and
especially on the left, you change everything. And actually I
did that exercise in another show, so I might as
well do it here with the large audience that WIBC has. Like,
(01:18):
what other things do you think we should sanitize in society?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
The versions?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I mean, you and I don't think this, But if
we wanted to make fun of the idea, what should
we do? I thought about an unregistered pharmacist as a
drug dealer, or like an undocumented pharmacist. That's a pretty
good one for how left would call, Hey, he's not
a drug dealer. He just forgot to go to pharmaceutical
school to get all those things. And then also he
(01:44):
does a legal terrible stuff. You come up with another
version and let us know. Tell us on our social
media pages if you want, go wherever Radio Craig C
is mine. You can find Tony, you can find WIBC.
But I've had a lot of fun with that, even
just off the air. I think I'm annoying some of
my liberal friends by any time they say something that
(02:05):
I think could be sanitized by mainstream media, I go
ahead and do it, and I just I add the
different variables to it. Right now, in the world of baseball,
the New York Yankees have a shortstop that's playing terrible
Anthony Volpi, and so to me, he's just a shortstop
that is struggling. He's not actually someone who's lacking talent.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
We'll see, We'll see what happens there, because if I
want to sanitize his version of description, I just do
everything the Yankees do when they claim that he's good
at stuff and he's terrible. My other favorite story that's
out there, and we'll definitely talk about it more in
a little bit, is the National Guard being deployed in Chicago.
I know there's a few things about it that matter,
(02:48):
and you should know this first and foremost. When Brandon Johnson,
the mayor there, says that like they're not welcome, we're
going to throw them out. The National Guard has people
that live in Chicago. So the individuals that would be
activated don't have to say, come from Washington, d c.
Show up in Chicago and start behaving like National guardsmen.
(03:10):
They live there. So the first thing that matters is
that these would be Chicagoans, So Brandon Johnson can't kick
them out.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
No one can. And the other thing.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That's crazy to me, and the Left keeps calling this,
you know, occupation of our cities, by our military, and
that language the exact reverse of what I'm joking about
a second ago, the lack of sanitization, the over dramatic
version of language they use to make something sound different
than it is. It's abundantly anti military for our country,
(03:41):
because the last thing our military would ever do, in
my opinion, anyone who'd be asked to serve in some
capacity here in the United States, is harm innocent people.
And that's the idea in any place where you think
that something is you know, going above and beyond to
where it becomes dictatorship and they're they're forcing people into
(04:03):
their homes or doing all kinds of crazy things and
using the military to win that that's not at all
what would occur here. And the men and women who
serve our country that we're supposed to celebrate and many
of us do celebrate on a daily basis, would never
do that. They'd never harm us, but they would protect
us against criminals. And it seems that that might be
(04:24):
the thing that will actually happen. And I just I
can't get over the fact that they sanitize, you know,
the undocumented immigrant, but then they refuse to even remotely
come close to explaining in correct detail what it would
mean for people living in Chicago to be allowed to
help protect that city from the rampant amount of crime
(04:44):
that exists there.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
All right, Well, take a break, a lot to do,
a lot of fun to have on a Monday.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
This is Craig Collins filling in Tony Kats, The Morning News,
ninety three WIBC.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That's pretty funny. That's this, well done, Carl.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
This is Tony Kats, The Morning News, ninety three WIBC.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
My name is Craig Collins filling in. You got Matt.
You have Carl hanging out as they do every single morning.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And Abrego Garcia will be returned to well, not a sender,
but someone in the near vicinity, so we'll see exactly
what happens there.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
All right, let's talk about some sillier stuff. First.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I wanted to mention something and I usually take an
earlier segment in the show.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I think as we get older, we're supposed to avoid
the stupidity of our youth, Like that's supposed to be
the thing that comes with age is you do things
differently than you were young and dumb. Am I correct
in that in saying that that that's the expectation to
get older, Craig, all Right, it doesn't always work out,
and I'm going to admit a version of me not
(05:46):
having it work out. Recently, my wife and I went
to a beach in Texas, which I still sort of
joke about, and I shouldn't because I know it's the
ocean much more than like Chicago's lake. Even if it's
a very big lake, it's still the ocean. I know
that this is the same, but it's still the Gulf.
It's not whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So I went to the beach with.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Her, and we're in the car and I told the misses,
I'm not putting on any sunscreen.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'll be fine. It's one day on the beach. I'll
be fine. And she looked at me. She's like, it's
a very stupid decision.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And I'm like, when I was a little kid, I
did this all the time and it only backfired most
of the time.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And I am so sunburnt, guys. And it's mostly over now.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So if you're watching on zoom, you're seeing the end
results of a peeling.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Horrible situation over the last week.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
But all it's been Matt is her bringing up like
you should have put on this sunscreen, and me keep
thinking that, Yeah, I learned.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That as a kid, and I still can't fix that problem.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So I'm outing myself for something I'm still not doing
right as an adult that I failed to do right
as a kid.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I mean, she has this for the rest of your lives.
She's gonna be able to bring this up, and maybe
she should. I mean, do you have a lot of
subtan experience so far here? Like in August? I mean
for this summer, do you have like a base or
col to you? But are you dark skin naturally so
we don't have any of that? Were you wearing a
(07:06):
long sleeve shirt?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
You know? Okay? I mean I go, I.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Go into the water.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The other thing that's funny about me is it doesn't
matter what type of body of water I'm in front of,
I'm going to go in it. I don't know why
people go to the beach and don't go into the
body of water.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So like that's a runoff. Yeah whatever, I'm going in
that runoff. Baby, I'm having some fun in that runoff. No,
I don't get it. Why do you go to the
beach or the lake or whatever you're going to and
not going in the water. Isn't that the point? Why
are we there?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I'm totally with it. You got to go in the water.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I mean, especially if you're guys like us who didn't
grow up around saltwater or a beach. I mean, I
see a beach and I'm like, oh kidding, you know,
I've run right in. I mean, it's just it's there's
something about as Midwesterners. Whenever we do get around, you know,
a golf or an ocean, we have to be in it.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
It could be littered with sharks. We have to be
in it, and we're.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Going to go in because I mean, we don't get
too very often. We don't know what our next chance
to do, what is going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I like that I grew up in Jersey across the
street from the ocean. But I love what you just
said there about the Midwest.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I'm trying to make the excuses right now.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
That would have been great, dude. And I lived in
Indiana for a while, so I did. I did lose
the ocean for a bit. I don't know what it
is about me, man. I'll go into any body of water.
There's no good reason for it. I just don't like
sitting in a place where I think the attraction is
the giant thing in front of us, and nobody does it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well, my dad always said, you know, red tide. If
you're scared of red tide, you're a woozie.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
He would actually take me by my britches and throw
me into an ocean full of red tide and be like,
now you're a man.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, okay, I love I love the fact that you
mentioned that because it reminded me of something else too.
There had just been a storm in the area I
was in in Texas, so the waves were amazing in
the Gulf, but there was a giant sign as we
walked onto the beach that said do not go in
the water, and I just ignored that completely. So I'm
not sure. I'm not sure what Yeah right, I'm not
(09:04):
sure what happened to that situation either, but it is
what it is. My arm fell off when I got
out of the water, So never felt worse in my life.
Is there is there anything that you've done recently that
is a lesson you were supposed to learn as a
child and you didn't.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Oh wow, like every day five of them.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Still in radio exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I think the big thing would be like and I'm
so much better about this, you know, because I mean
I'm in my mid forties. I better be better at it.
But just with impulsive spending, you know, I still struggle
with that, like with Amazon Marketplace, actually buying things on Amazon.
Because of Amazon dot Com. I have like twelve things
of protein at home. I've always have to be ahead
(09:52):
of that restock date. And it comes down to impulsive
spending because I'll get the one thing.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I'll be like, oh man, you don't have enough hopemeal.
Oh man, you don't have enough of this.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So you know, I started all this stuff online and
it's just kind of indicative of that childhood behavior. Oh wow,
you know this video game's here. You know I have
my allowance, Bundy, I'm gonna go get this. But it
does remind me of when I was a kid and
maybe have some work to do there, you don't.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You know. That's a great answer.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And actually, anyone that is watching our livestream on YouTube, Twitter,
all the places it is, I'm going to hold up
my frost Buddy, which is a New York Yankee Frost Buddy.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Do you know what a frost Buddy is or.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
No, no, no, I've never heard of one.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
So it's a thing that you put a drink in
that keeps it colder. It's called frost butter Us and
so it's just a giant metal thing that you put
a can inside of. And my wife and I had
the largest fight about the value of this item that
I'm holding up in front of the computer right now.
She thinks it's absolutely the stupidest thing that anyone could
ever purchase. Amazon made me buy it because they put
(10:51):
it on sale, and I love it. I think it's
the best thing I've ever owned.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Matt, what's that? How much, Carl? How much is it
supposed to be? Is the right question?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Right, It's supposed to be like fifty bucks, which makes
no sense because it's not even actually I know it's
not even horrible money. But it was twenty bucks, so
that's a that's a I know, that's a sixty percent
savings on the on the old frost Buddy.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
So I had to buy it, guys, it had to
be purchased.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
No, And I totally get that.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I do want to caution you, you're spending money against
your wife's will, and you're not taking advice about your
health from your wife.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
So listen, I've never been married in my life.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I have no kids, so I'm not going to give
you married all advice, but you may want to temper
some of that.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Look, yeah, just kind of wrong.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
I got.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I'm hearing what you're saying. You know what, you know?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
What do I know? I know nothing? I know nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
But you're not the only friend that's given me that advice. Reasonly,
it's been like, you know what, it really sounds like
there's a lot of mistakes being made and the missus
might just strangle you in your sleep at some point here.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Oh well, we'll say so, all right, what a way
to go?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
It would be a way to go. Oh, you're right,
you know, you know. It's also funny about that.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I know.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
We got like one minute, there's these videos.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
My wife is from Mexico, she's Latina of Latin women
throwing shoes, chanklas or it's just like a flip flop
at guys heads and hitting a cup on top of
it and not hitting their head. I told my wife
we should try this, and then I immediately realized it's
a terrible idea right now because all.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
She's going to do is hit me in the head.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think, if it's a TikTok challenge, this is the
only TikTok challenge worthy. I think, yeah, yeah, next to
the challenge that was worthy, but this is, you know,
I think this is a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Well, it's amazing how accurate the women have been on
the thing, because they say that they're born with this
ability to throw a flip flop with precision, and yet
she'll do it on purpose to hit me in the face.
All right, we'll take a break. A lot to talk
about today, a lot to get to kill. Mar Garcia
going somewhere Tony Kats The Morning News, ninety three WIBC.
(12:53):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be
with you. Lots of stuff out there to talk about.
Chicago is in the news a lot right now, just
a stone's throw from Indianapolis. The biggest conversation. Well, a
hard throw with a stone, I guess I should say,
very hard. But a few things that are in the
news then involve the reaction to the idea that Trump
(13:15):
may send. And this is actually another great example of
how language changes to make it sound different than the
reality of something, because he's not actually going to send
troops from DC. The state of Illinois has its own
National Guard and President Trump is in charge of it.
And by the way, there is a code in the
US Constitution that outlines when the president is allowed to
(13:37):
do certain things. He referenced it himself when he sent
and again he didn't actually send them. I should stop
using that word, but he activated troops in California. It's
Title ten of the US Code, Section one two four
zero six.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
If you want to put that on your BINGO card.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It allows the president to activate the National Guard to
repel an invasion, to suppress a rebellion, or to allow
the president And this is important to execute the law.
And in places like Chicago, I think some would argue
the law is not really being executed at all, that
there's a whole lot of things they're doing that definitely
skirt and ignore which should be the law, like that
(14:15):
crime is illegal and you should fight it out of.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The best of your ability.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
So this seems like the type of fight that Brandon
Johnson will lose, just like anyone Gavin Newsom lost before him.
But that doesn't seem to be stopping Johnson. He's out
there yelling and screaming about how terrible this is, about
how awful things would be if essentially the city were
less dangerous and violent, which, by the way, is an
(14:39):
amazing thing.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That is becoming a.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Left versus right talking point discussion, and it's just it's
crazy to me that it's becoming that where the left
is saying they want crime, because it seems fairly easy
for the right to be like, hey, we don't like crime,
we think crime is bad, and that will be a
winning conversation with most of America. It's just insane that
(15:04):
the left wants to be on the other side of that.
But here's a little bit of audio of Brandon Johnson,
who popped up on MSNBC.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I'm going to play something else, President Trump said on Friday,
with regard to your city.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Chicago's a mess.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
You have an incompetent mayor. It's purely incompetent. Oh, that's true,
and we'll.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Straighten that one out probably next that'll be our next
one after this, and it won't even be tough.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I love the fact that they played that for Brandon Johnson,
by the way, before asking the question, because he is
grossly incompetent, and it won't be hard if you let
people do the job the way they want to do it.
There's cops, there's members of our military all throughout the
country that know what it takes to clean a place
like Chicago. I've actually talked to Chicago cops about this
(15:52):
when I was in media in that city, and they
would say that they know what steps they would take
if they wanted the South Side to be my safer.
But they also know that the politicians wouldn't have their back,
that media would attack them for the way in which
they might go about it, and then anything they did
that was entirely legal would be shaped as illegal and
cause headaches throughout the police department. So they can't behave
(16:14):
the way they want to because they're not allowed to.
Here's how Johnson responded to this.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
By the way, yes ah, your reaction to yeah yeah, Well, listen,
you know the president of the nice.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Little I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I loved the first version when he was confused, because
if he had just said yes and then moved on,
it would have been the.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Best America has repeated this, you know, petulant presentation since
he has assumed office and you know, if the reporting
is actually true, what he is proposing at this point
would be the most flagrant violation of our constitution in
the twenty first century.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
No, by the way, he did send or activate troops
in California, even though Gavin Newsom said no and said
that it was constitutionally not allowed, and nothing happened, by
the way, So Brandon, that's not going to be the
winning argument, just an fyi. But he doesn't even care
about that, because the funny thing is that Brandon Johnson
would love to have the city cleaned up, as he
(17:13):
protested against it vocally, because he somehow thinks it's winning
him votes. And even in a place like Chicago, the
narrative will only last so long because if the streets
got safer, if people were capable of, say, you know,
doing more later at night in certain neighborhoods, they would
be a supporter of the end result of this, which
(17:33):
would be the whole thing that I think Republicans are
trying to do. If you don't think our words make sense,
use your own eyes, your own experience to tell you
which side you like, which side you agree with. And
it seems as though the idea would be to demonstrate
how easy this actually is.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
All Right, we'll take a break. A lot coming up.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It's Craig Collins filling in Tony Katz, The Morning News
ninety three WIBC. Tony Kats The Morning News, ninety three WIBC.
Name is Craig Collins filling in for the day, You
got Matt. You have Carl hanging out as they do
every single morning on this show. What's a weird flex
that you've heard someone share with you? This is a
story that went viral. I think it was BuzzFeed and
(18:13):
then Reddit who both put versions of this up there.
But people were sharing weird things that other people bragged
about to them. One of those was a manager who
bragged they hadn't listened to music in fifteen years because
they didn't have the time. They're so busy they couldn't
turn on a song, which seems like a weird thing
to be proud of. Another guy, who is in his
(18:34):
sixties bragged about not eating fruits or vegetables for his
entire life, and that he's still alive. This is something
that apparently makes him and children laugh, but annoys his son,
who would wish Grandpa would shut up.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
About that.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And then finally one last one that I like as
an example of this before we share some of ours.
A boss that said that everybody's handwriting was terrible in
the workplace and that she had won had writing award
in third grade that she apparently was still proud of
even though it had been about sixty years. Anybody have
a weird flex they want to share on the show.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I would say, it's has anything to do with like,
you know, and this was more my more my youth
or anything.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We're just talking about how but you could drink, you know. Yeah,
that was always a strange flex to me, and I
was the one only one really doing it. It's still
I guess it is, you know how much the quality
you know, like anytime you're spending money for people too,
Like there was always the guy who was buying rounds.
I was buying rounds a patrol for everybody at the bar,
and it was like, okay, and now as we're older
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in our back of our head, it was like, man,
I really hope everybody made it home safely.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Also, I also wish I hadn't bought a few of
those rounds. I wish I had some of that money still.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
When it's patron baby, whoo, there goes your rent.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I have one that's very similar to the handwriting one.
I brag about the fact that in fourth grade, not
third grade so much more recently, I made it to
the all star team for the baseball Little League in
New Jersey and we were like two steps away from
going to the Little League World Series thing, not not
the final game, but getting into the tournament in the
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first place.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
But we didn't. And I still brag about that today.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I went out on top of the world of baseball
in about fourth grade.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
You were that close to making the New York Yankees.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I really was.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
It was between me and jore Pizzada to be their
next catcher, and unfortunately I lost.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
But yeah, no, that's a brag for me, Carl. Do
you have one.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I get to work with you guys.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Wow? Nice? I like that.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I like that you consider that like a weird flex
like you you don't you.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Know what's you know?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
What's funny about that too, is actually I remember this.
You guys know who Skip Bayless is right now?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
He's a professional sports commentator with he is.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yes, I did an interview with him when I was at.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
A station in Indiana in South Bend, Indiana ESPN there,
and I remember he just made fun of the producer,
your job in small market radio. Now granted Indianapolis is
not small market, but all he did for like five
minutes on air is like, oh, Craig has no real job.
His job's a joke. This guy, look at him. He
shows up every day to work and does so little.
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And I was like, what is happening, Skip bay Listen?
He thought it was funny, and so did my boss
who was on the air with me. And I did
not find any part of that amusing. That was a
thing that happened, which maybe would be a weird flex
now to say that Skip Bayless ripped in my profession
years ago.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah, it was like hardy harharr. Look at this guy,
you know, I mean he doesn't make as much money
as me. I mean he's a low hanging fruit or
I'm gonna punch down now, how this is that guy?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yeah, it's just the attitude to begin with.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It's just the idea that for some reason you are
on a pedestal and then you can kind of sit,
you know, a top of your self righteous ivory tower
and be like, oh, this guy's never gonna you know,
that kind of stuff absolutelytize have been crazy. I've experienced it.
I've seen it done to other people, and I never
like it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, no, how dare you goulish?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
By the way, I worked really hard at ESPN in
South Bend, Indiana.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It was a very difficult job.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I had to go and talk to the Notre Dame
football players all the time because that was the only
story in South Indiana.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
There's the other thing is it could be the middle
of you know, the winter, and they're like, we're not
really doing football right now.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
But Craig, go check on the Notre Dame football team.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
You didn't do anything with the Silverhawks.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I actually was their announcer.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Oh cool, so cool, I was.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I was the PA announcer for the South Bend so
who are now the South Bend Cubs, but when they
when they were the Silverhawks, and several different players that
are now famous athletes, Justin Upton one of the best
among them. I played for that team while I was there,
and actually I hit one of the guys with my car,
which is another story for.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Another what I have to talk about it now.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He was in a.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Car too, so I didn't hit him, you know, outside,
but no. Will Crouch is the name of a former
catcher for the South Bend Silverhawks, so I don't think
ever made it to Major League Baseball. Well, you hit
him with your car, I did. I ruined his and
on the fourth and July I rear ended him. And
I was in a rental, I think, which made it
even worse. I don't know why I was in a rental.
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Something must have been going on with my car. And he
was in a rental and he had a gorgeous woman
in the passenger side seat with him and they popped out,
and I'm like, this woman can't be from South Bend.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
He wasn't born here but now.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
And then the cop came by and he was being
real nice to Will Crouch because I guess he recognized him.
And then like, I kept trying to talk so that
they'd notice my voice, and no one did because I
was a PA announcer. And then eventually I'm like, you know,
I work with you, and he goes, you're on my
team and I'm like, I'm not. You would know that
I'm upstairs in the booth, and so he just let
me go.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
We never gotten any sort of fight.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I mean, you know, you run into the guy because
you're jealous of his hot wife and for some reason,
and I don't understand this, in South Bend, you don't
get street credit for being the silver Hawks PA announcer,
and I think that's garbage.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
You know I did.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I did with thank you. You're you're defending a lot
of the things that I've done early.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
On South Bank to be well.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And honestly, it's funny that you asked that because the
South Bend Silverhawks gig got me the ESPN gig because
I was there. The guy from ESPN was in the
stadium one day and like, hey, I need a producer.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Can you do that? I'm like, yeah, I can do that,
And now I'm in radio because of that.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Actually, if that series of events hadn't and you know
what's really funny, this is no one cares. But I'm
going to tell this really quickly. I wasn't hired to
be the announcer. I was hired to be the video
board operator. And the second day the dude who was
supposed to announce did not show up.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
He was done after one game.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
He was like, I don't want to do this, and
so I got to announce the second game of the
season and then took it from there and then got
hired into radio and never looked back.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
That's a real version of events for my start in radio.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
You're saying, all these terrible things that happened to you
were the reason you got into radio.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, and they led me to write here getting to
talk to you and Carl on the radio, which apparently
is good.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I'm saying that I've led myself to a good place.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's kind of like me saying if I hadn't take
my brother's car and went nose dived into a ditch
in high school, that I would have been a star
football player.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I it's like the same thing. Car walk.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
The cow walked up and he said, you know, you're
lucky to be alive, and I'm like, man, I got
it just ruin my career.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And I wonder if Will Crouch does blame me for
not making the MLB. He's like, you know, the announcer
rear ended me and then my career went in a tank.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
He's got a Craig Shrine shrine in his basement to
look up where he is.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I want to know where that guy is. He was
the least fun name to say, by the way of
the entire team.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So many other names were way more fun than Will
Krouch went out, all right, we'll take a break.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well, just wasn't your gig, you know, it just wasn't
your gig.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, although now I was just mean to the guy
that I rear ended, so really I'm just making it worse.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
All right, A quick break, A lot coming up. This
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