July 11, 2025 • 20 mins
The guys talk their favorite 4th of July traditions, fireworks, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, let's do some leftovers from the Fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You got your fingers, Nick fingers, everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I don't play with fireworks, man, I've already told you
my horror story.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
No fireworks. You you lit no wick?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I lit no wick.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Nick. Roman candles.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
We got some Roman candles out there and some bottle rockets.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
My friends, where you holding candle or you just yeah, yeah,
you're old.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Now one just one Roman candleids you go, two Roman candles?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Solo job this time.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Did either of you see the video of these two
Jabbronis that had this giant canister full of Roman candles.
Oh gosh too, like guys with flame throwers lit it
on fire and they held it and it was just
like shooting them off. It was I mean, guys, will
this is why women live longer than guys. But I honestly,
(00:59):
I'm like, that's pretty ingenious how you did that. I
was impressed. I'm not gonna do that stupid stuff, but
I will watch other people try to kill themselves.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I did not see or get into any of the
homemade action this year, but there's people in my family
that love putting a thousand bottle rockets together in one
pale and then they all light off at the same time.
That is some stupid, dangerous stuff. But even like in Indiana,
I think we have a law that is a little
looser than Michigan and Ohio, and a lot of people
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come to our state to get the good stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And there were some things.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Man, I don't think you can buy them here, but
I think you can light them off.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Now, your guys, rules are nothing in the air, right
Like your guys don't know state law. I do believe
everything has to stay on the ground. Don't look at
me like you've been doing illegal stuff. Nick, You've been
doing illegal stuff for a long time. He just didn't
know about it. But I think I could be wrong
about that. And you never know, man, and.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You get something that looks like it's going to stand
the law, Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
In Connecticut, most fireworks are illegal for non licensed users
with sparklers and fountains. I don't even know what a fountains.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Like the cone and just praised up.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
The only exceptions.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's it. That's all you get.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Bottle rockets, illegal roman candles, anything.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
That bends right, anything that flies or explodes like firecrackers.
Bottle rockets are prohibited violations can lead to fines, criminal charges,
and severe cases felity.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, what on Connecticut? What we are so anal the hell?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Can't even leave the ground?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Imprisonment for ninety days for what? Sitting off?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Like, rob We better get off the air and start running.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
They're coming. Hey. I didn't light off anything, man, I
just watched. I had a big.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Observer, so I learned and knew. Well it was an oldie,
but a goodie. But these ones are the worst, man,
And I I only did one because it scared the
Bejesus out of me. A zinger. A zinger is like
it's like shaped like an M eighty. It's just a
little cylinder canister about a half an inch big. It's
got one wick and you're just supposed to sit it down. Now,
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what a zinger does is it spins around on its
back as fast as possible and shoots off tatter space
and you have no clue like how it's going to
go up in the air. When it's going to go
up in the air. They are the most dangerous things
I've ever seen. You can get like a pack of
twenty of them for fifteen cents in Indiana, like they're
just passing these things out like candy. Another cool one
(03:37):
that I saw this year that I got into actual
and they were safer than what I thought they were
going to be. Honestly, was kind of just pointing that
they weren't more dangerous sparkler swords. They're literal sparklers in
the shape of a sword for you, me and Nick
to have a sword fight with flames.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Definitely not flying in connections.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
He shoots forward like it's it's a Roman candle fountain
sword sparkler.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Okay, I think the statute of limitations has run out
on this. But when we were young and we used
to wear eye protection, but we would shoot bottle rockets
at each other. Of course, candles was but when we
were you're supposed to keep it below the waist. Yes,
you shoot it at somebody, but you might skip up
or something, but never know. Yeah, my neighborhood was a
little bit tougher. We also had one pump BB gun
fights too.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, that's another no eye friend of.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Mine still has one embedded in his back.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, it's one pump though. I bet you that was
in a one pump shot. No, of course, there's cheaters,
you know, you have the dibbles.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And I do.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
They like to win.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I did not have any eye protection, but I should
have because I was there was a I did put
on a display.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And by the way, we don't condone any of this nonsense.
This is stupiditious. I knew it as safe as possible
to this. You said in Indiana, like they're all over
the place.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, oh gosh, it was, so you have is.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Legal to buy them in Indiana. Yeah, I don't even know.
You can't buy them in Connecticut, can you know?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I don't think they're legal to sell them like most
of the like your guys probably went to Massachusetts buy
just any fireworks.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I'm pretty sure because I get the Phantom Fireworks magazine.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Oh that's true.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I do get a little fantas and ones in our
state that I'm sure you can't buy, like you have
to cross state lines to like Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
But the Phantom Fireworks catalog, it has to be legal.
They want to be issuing it out to residence.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It's a good point.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I mean, I don't know unless they're issuing it out
to Connecticut residents.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Come see us in Massachusetts and then we'll get.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You because got a gray area, a lot of gray area.
Let's let's dig into it. But anyway, listen, you gotta
be safe. I went to the one at Quasi. I
was fantastic, fantastic, lot of a lot of moaning and
growing in from the people. We had to walk from
a friend's house to get to it because a lot
of it around the lake is closed off and stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But it was great.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Where we are our vantage point was fantastic. But again,
ours are only fifteen minutes long? Are only you said
were you were? They're a half hour long?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
If it's a half hour, they got to be spending
like fifty to one hundred grand on those.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
A lot of money thrown around in my neck of
the woods. And it's like that wasn't the only one,
so the main town one that I went to, and
I was telling you this, I was bugged out at
six o'clock. I'm like looking at people.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So we had a.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Parade on Friday, classic hometown parade. Man, that was awesome.
That was really cool. And people that went to the
parade or before the parade, I don't know if you
guys are used to this, they'd put their lawn chairs
out the night before.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
So that's their spot on.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The street, right right, they do that in the local towns.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Parade's over at twelve to two o'clock lateus. Let's say
I'm taking them lawn chairs and now I'm moving them
to my spot for the fireworks in town and I'm
not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I got a cooler.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I've got a tailgate, youilgate.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
They were tailgates for hours before our fireworks display, as
if like cooking, is it a cookout too?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
No, I didn't see some cooking flares.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
But there was also like many fireworks displays going on
within the parking lots of the fireworks display, so you
would have like a grand finale from the parking lot
going on when the regular fireworks were going on. So
if you were an onlooker, you're seeing like five different fireworks. Now,
that was the main day. That was fourth of July Saturdays,
(07:25):
the weekend. I'm surrounded by little townships and lakes. It
was like a war zone, man, Like we didn't know
where they were coming from. You could just you could
feel just the vibration in the boom of everything. And
like James, like James had fireworks, Pokagon had fireworks. Buck
Lake Ranch had fireworks, Pleasant Lake had fireworks, Hamilton Lake.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Now what are what's the population of some of the towns.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Rw Jangole, Indian. My hometown is ten thousand on a
regular base.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That's a big town.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
According to that area.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's one of the bigger towns until you get to
Fort Wayne or Detroit or one of those cities. But
we're a Laker town, so it blows up times five.
It gets to about fifty thousand on Fourth of July
weekend for more than anything.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So heavily populated is my mom says, I don't even.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Go in town during Fourth and July because of the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It is a she doesn't like the tour the Lakers
or the tourists, right.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, Like we have bumper stickers.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
So the townies don't like the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Money nail on the head dips. Townies don't like the Lakers,
even though it's bringing in money to the businesses. Well,
we have a bumper sticker that says you've seen our lakes,
now leave.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's so it is, But it was.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
You could write movies about Indiana.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Driving out with pitchforks and torches. A little bit. Yeah
that we do have pitchforks and torches.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That's true, but you were saying that some people go
in the middle of a field and start having a
tailgate and watch the fireworks.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yeah, and it just be an all day thing, man,
and it's it's the biggest thing of the year.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But I think it should be that's it used to be.
What baseball apple Pie and Chevrolet? No baseball b no
hot hot dogs?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
What was it? Baseball hot dogs?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Apple Pie and Chevrolet used to be thinking, that's the
way it should be, man, everybody should be chilling on
the weekend. I was embarrassed by Major League Baseball. They
had the ugliest blue hats. They the fourth fourth of July,
and it's like, is that Prostate Awareness month? I was
baby blue because here's when I work with the Nationals.
(09:38):
The one thing I loved about them how patriotic. They
always had the different uniforms. Their best uniform top was
a blue top with the W had a flag inside.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And I'm like looking at them playing.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I think it was the Red Sox over the weekend
and I'm like, neither team had a cool uniform on
It's the fourth of July. In DC and you have
these horrible blue hats on who came up with that crap?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Can't we be a little bit more patriot?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I would like to see somebody like a whole like
instead of a camo shirt, maybe like a flag shirt
or something. I mean, I know somebody you used to
do some Some people get offended by flag clothing. Do
you get offended by flag clothes?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
No? No, I don't know anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Flag pants, flag shorts, something like You're not supposed to
do that with the flag.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I mean that's how Uncle Sam dress. That's right.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Uncle Sam was like decked out, flighting blue flags like
you're I find.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
It strange that people can get offended by that, because
we get offended by everything disrespecting it. You're trying to
embrace its independence days.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You're showing your independence and your love for the flag.
What do we do for the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
We were talking about the birth two over how like
if you thought this year was.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Crazy, just wait until next year because it's fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Because I do remember the Bison ten in seventy six.
I think it's a little before both of your times,
but it was crazy everybody. But see, seventies were long
haired freaks, a lot of hippies, a lot of drugs.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You know what, psychedelic.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It was crazy, man, it was crazy. I was twelve
years old at red, White and Blue Glove.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I mean, oh.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Dude, one thing you guys would appreciate. I love this
little touch in our parade. The last float in our
parade is a big target and it has a tarp
around it and it's for you to throw all your
trash at the target, like to clean up the town
at the here to Go.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Wasn't that cool?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I just saw a picture Cony Island after this weekend
and it was it was awful. People, Please clean up
your trash. Let's let's be better to the environment.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I don't know if this is legal or not, but
for some reason, my hometown was selling jello shots at
the parade for twenty nally.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Listen what I was an idiot this weekend with jello shots.
I'll admit that I drink.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I didn't drink any wine, no anything. I didn't really
want beer. Did you know what you were getting handed?
When JOHNA was handing you the.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
First first one? I had a friend's house. They had
jello that was mixed with rum and pudding.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It was rough.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I'm not those were hardcore. Went to my sister in
law's house and my nieces made Tito's and jello. I
couldn't get enough of those.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Those are fantastic because it was just one type of jello.
There's either blue jello or the cherry jello, so those
are fantastic.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
White. How much were they twenty five cents.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I think it should all go to charity too.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I don't know what we were raising money for, but
it was great. I thought that was wonderful.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Man, a lot of Little League baseball, dude, I was
in your world for a little while. I was thinking
about you a lot. That was like, so this is
why Rob's frustrated. I don't get frustrated for me.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I get frustrated for Oh yeah, listen, my time's coming
gone thirty years in my rearview mirror, and it's like,
but I'm trying to get through the new generation. It's
to know they don't realize how good they have it.
The equipment, the game, the jerseys with jerseys. But here's
the thing too, the game changer. So the game changer,
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like these cameras they have now we have so you
can see the whole game on video. Oh and then
the computerized version is. You know, there's parents on both
sides that have the lineups and they're punching in pitch
by pitch. This is how I am able to keep
counting the.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Pitch my mom the same way with my cousin playing.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
But electronically a voice will be like Ben Darnell single
the left field runner on first and it tells you
the whole game. It's like it's only play by play.
I mean, this is the future. You're not even gonna
need really play by play people or color.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
People taking book like that's gonna be You're not.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It's not gonna be a thing anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So you're watching the video which is at home play,
and I'm sure eventually you're gonna be able to have
more in the field, maybe on the helmets and stuff
like that, and people who aren't at the game can
watch it, you know, because there's so many different parents
that have different kids and different tournaments. We had parents
that were actually down in the Jersey Shore. There was
a whole tournament going on down there, so you know
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those parents were watching the game Changer. Listen, you have
all that, you have, the best equipment, you have, you know,
the best facilities. Like you said, all of you. All
your fields are turf. Now most of the fields we
play in tournaments are all turf. I mean, we used
to play on the most raggedy, you know what fields ever,
and you didn't know the difference. You thought those were pristine,
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you know. So it's like kids today. Man, you got
no idea how good you got it? Pretty sweet, pretty sweet.
Your parents are being really good to you.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I know what's coming on the two though.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You know, I've seen a lot of that for the
first time in my life in the major leagues.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
These guys, I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
The first third situation killing me.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
But I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I I don't know if it's tipping pitches or these
guys are just that good because you're not brushing them
off the plate. So I don't care if you're throwing
a ninety mile in oar breaking ball or a hundred
mile in our fastball.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
There's no fear. They all have these giant elbow pads.
They all have.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
If you watch show, Hey, this guy is the biggest
I'm not gonna say cheater, but he's the most well
protected athlete I've ever seen. He's got a shin guard
from knee to foot on his right leg.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I watched it last night.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
He's got it's a it's a catcher's gear shin guard
underneath his uniform pant, so you don't even know it's there.
Then he's got the elbow pad. Then he's got the
new balance gear on his hand. They got to outlaw
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
These guys are so they're they're like they're like Knights
of the Round Table. Man, they're in armor. They're they're
literally in armor up there at the plate. There's no
fear anymore. So I think, you know, people are all
these tipping these pitches. I'm like, no, they're just standing
there like you can't hurt me. And I'm you got
this full face guard now, I mean basically you're going
(16:09):
up there like like a hockey goalie.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Well, I was trying to bring the fear back this
week because I threw some BP and I was nowhere
near the striker.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Right at the kids, how old were they?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Eleven? Eleven, twelve? Horrible pick.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You're just getting them ready for the inevitable pitching at
that levels erratic.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
From what I heard.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
From what I heard, there's a lot of hbps, a
lot of hit by pitch is gonna go on.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
So it's all good.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
But I'm totally impressed. You know, baseball is alive and well,
softball is alive and well. I honestly think the women
are there in another level now of But they play
so much.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
He's going to say, I'm sure my cousin played twenty
games this weekend up in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
My best friend's daughter who's going to college to play softball,
I mean, up up in talland at that bubble we've
gone to.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh yeah, they.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Will play softball round the clock. They'll start those twenty
We're seven at midnight, two o'clock, four o'clock.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
And the fact that your parents put up with that.
You need to thank your parents. I tell my teammate,
my sixteen you team all the time, thank your parents.
They sit and watch this stuff, They drive you to
all these tournaments.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Maybe thanks stuff you gang for all two bats.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
You got multiple things to use, like stuff you really
don't need.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You got your your oven, mit, your Betty Crocker oven. Mit,
that's got an ice cream cone and blazoned on.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I want a.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Kid to be like so old school and like farm boy,
but still like do the new school stuff, Like I
literally want a kid to put on an oven mit.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Oh it's been done so I know there's the leaguers
that are doing that now. They're literally putting on potholder mits.
Love it and instead I think the ones that cost
a couple of hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I know it sports.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
How about a sport we have like instead of the
slap competition like day in a white House slaps, we
put on the oven mits and slap each other slaps
of admit slap fights.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I don't know, man, I did watch some slaps over
the weekend, and that sports still the most brutals.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I think we're turning into like lobsters out there. Now
you've got guys. I Elie de la Cruz has one
on each hand. I'm like, are you a serious, dude?
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I did see a game that I want to play.
What do you want to say next?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Now? I was just going to say, at this point,
what's the next innovation in on field equipment? We're going
to see custom printed bat tape?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Like listen, already there the police were cameras, and now
a lot of other people weren't. I think the players
should have cameras and you could watch like a kid
at second base, or you can watch your center fielder
from there from their vantage point.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
The thing that I love and we're going to see
in the Little League World Series is the umpcam.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I love the UMP cam. I but we've had that.
But I like race car driving. Now you get to
be inside the cop you watch and you know you're
inside the cars and stuff like that. And I know
when I used to work for XM, they had you
could go to each like crew chief, the conversations that
they have and stuff like that. You know, maybe we
can you know, I don't know. I think it'd be cheating. Yeah, yeah,
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we can't.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Tell that, but they'll find a way to exploit it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I think there should be uniform cams. I really do that.
That should be the next step. Now you can see
all the players all over the field, and you could
sit at home if you have the MLB package, and
you can be like, I want to watch Aaron Judge
right now. I want to see his vantage I love that. Yes,
and on demand player that's I want to see that.
(19:38):
I want to see.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I don't know who's the hardest thrower in the big leagues.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I want to see show Hey pitch, I want to
see his uniform cam standing on the mound, uh facing
Tatis Junior and and you could just punch it up.
I think, I think you're totally capable of doing it.
All right, will take a quick break, we'll come back.
Kevin Kernin joined us earlier. He's got a lot to
say about Major League baseball. Kevin Curnin from ball nine
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Speaker 3 (20:06):
There goes a great ride on Route nine northbound.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
There's an accident,
All right, let's do some leftovers from the Fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
You got your fingers, Nick fingers, everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I don't play with fireworks, man, I've already told you
my horror story.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
No fireworks. You you lit no wick?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I lit no wick.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Nick. Roman candles.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
We got some Roman candles out there and some bottle rockets.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
My friends, where you holding candle or you just yeah, yeah,
you're old.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Now one just one Roman candleids you go, two Roman candles?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Solo job this time.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Did either of you see the video of these two
Jabbronis that had this giant canister full of Roman candles.
Oh gosh too, like guys with flame throwers lit it
on fire and they held it and it was just
like shooting them off. It was I mean, guys, will
this is why women live longer than guys. But I honestly,
(00:59):
I'm like, that's pretty ingenious how you did that. I
was impressed. I'm not gonna do that stupid stuff, but
I will watch other people try to kill themselves.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
I did not see or get into any of the
homemade action this year, but there's people in my family
that love putting a thousand bottle rockets together in one
pale and then they all light off at the same time.
That is some stupid, dangerous stuff. But even like in Indiana,
I think we have a law that is a little
looser than Michigan and Ohio, and a lot of people
(01:31):
come to our state to get the good stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And there were some things.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Man, I don't think you can buy them here, but
I think you can light them off.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Now, your guys, rules are nothing in the air, right
Like your guys don't know state law. I do believe
everything has to stay on the ground. Don't look at
me like you've been doing illegal stuff. Nick, You've been
doing illegal stuff for a long time. He just didn't
know about it. But I think I could be wrong
about that. And you never know, man, and.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You get something that looks like it's going to stand
the law, Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
In Connecticut, most fireworks are illegal for non licensed users
with sparklers and fountains. I don't even know what a fountains.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Like the cone and just praised up.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
The only exceptions.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's it. That's all you get.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Bottle rockets, illegal roman candles, anything.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
That bends right, anything that flies or explodes like firecrackers.
Bottle rockets are prohibited violations can lead to fines, criminal charges,
and severe cases felity.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, what on Connecticut? What we are so anal the hell?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Can't even leave the ground?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Imprisonment for ninety days for what? Sitting off?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Like, rob We better get off the air and start running.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
They're coming. Hey. I didn't light off anything, man, I
just watched. I had a big.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Observer, so I learned and knew. Well it was an oldie,
but a goodie. But these ones are the worst, man,
And I I only did one because it scared the
Bejesus out of me. A zinger. A zinger is like
it's like shaped like an M eighty. It's just a
little cylinder canister about a half an inch big. It's
got one wick and you're just supposed to sit it down. Now,
(03:14):
what a zinger does is it spins around on its
back as fast as possible and shoots off tatter space
and you have no clue like how it's going to
go up in the air. When it's going to go
up in the air. They are the most dangerous things
I've ever seen. You can get like a pack of
twenty of them for fifteen cents in Indiana, like they're
just passing these things out like candy. Another cool one
(03:37):
that I saw this year that I got into actual
and they were safer than what I thought they were
going to be. Honestly, was kind of just pointing that
they weren't more dangerous sparkler swords. They're literal sparklers in
the shape of a sword for you, me and Nick
to have a sword fight with flames.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Definitely not flying in connections.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
He shoots forward like it's it's a Roman candle fountain
sword sparkler.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Okay, I think the statute of limitations has run out
on this. But when we were young and we used
to wear eye protection, but we would shoot bottle rockets
at each other. Of course, candles was but when we
were you're supposed to keep it below the waist. Yes,
you shoot it at somebody, but you might skip up
or something, but never know. Yeah, my neighborhood was a
little bit tougher. We also had one pump BB gun
fights too.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, that's another no eye friend of.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Mine still has one embedded in his back.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, it's one pump though. I bet you that was
in a one pump shot. No, of course, there's cheaters,
you know, you have the dibbles.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And I do.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
They like to win.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I did not have any eye protection, but I should
have because I was there was a I did put
on a display.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And by the way, we don't condone any of this nonsense.
This is stupiditious. I knew it as safe as possible
to this. You said in Indiana, like they're all over
the place.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, oh gosh, it was, so you have is.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Legal to buy them in Indiana. Yeah, I don't even know.
You can't buy them in Connecticut, can you know?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I don't think they're legal to sell them like most
of the like your guys probably went to Massachusetts buy
just any fireworks.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I'm pretty sure because I get the Phantom Fireworks magazine.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Oh that's true.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I do get a little fantas and ones in our
state that I'm sure you can't buy, like you have
to cross state lines to like Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
But the Phantom Fireworks catalog, it has to be legal.
They want to be issuing it out to residence.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It's a good point.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I mean, I don't know unless they're issuing it out
to Connecticut residents.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Come see us in Massachusetts and then we'll get.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You because got a gray area, a lot of gray area.
Let's let's dig into it. But anyway, listen, you gotta
be safe. I went to the one at Quasi. I
was fantastic, fantastic, lot of a lot of moaning and
growing in from the people. We had to walk from
a friend's house to get to it because a lot
of it around the lake is closed off and stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But it was great.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Where we are our vantage point was fantastic. But again,
ours are only fifteen minutes long? Are only you said
were you were? They're a half hour long?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
If it's a half hour, they got to be spending
like fifty to one hundred grand on those.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
A lot of money thrown around in my neck of
the woods. And it's like that wasn't the only one,
so the main town one that I went to, and
I was telling you this, I was bugged out at
six o'clock. I'm like looking at people.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So we had a.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Parade on Friday, classic hometown parade. Man, that was awesome.
That was really cool. And people that went to the
parade or before the parade, I don't know if you
guys are used to this, they'd put their lawn chairs
out the night before.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
So that's their spot on.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The street, right right, they do that in the local towns.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Parade's over at twelve to two o'clock lateus. Let's say
I'm taking them lawn chairs and now I'm moving them
to my spot for the fireworks in town and I'm
not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I got a cooler.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I've got a tailgate, youilgate.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
They were tailgates for hours before our fireworks display, as
if like cooking, is it a cookout too?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
No, I didn't see some cooking flares.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
But there was also like many fireworks displays going on
within the parking lots of the fireworks display, so you
would have like a grand finale from the parking lot
going on when the regular fireworks were going on. So
if you were an onlooker, you're seeing like five different fireworks. Now,
that was the main day. That was fourth of July Saturdays,
(07:25):
the weekend. I'm surrounded by little townships and lakes. It
was like a war zone, man, Like we didn't know
where they were coming from. You could just you could
feel just the vibration in the boom of everything. And
like James, like James had fireworks, Pokagon had fireworks. Buck
Lake Ranch had fireworks, Pleasant Lake had fireworks, Hamilton Lake.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Now what are what's the population of some of the towns.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Rw Jangole, Indian. My hometown is ten thousand on a
regular base.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That's a big town.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
According to that area.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's one of the bigger towns until you get to
Fort Wayne or Detroit or one of those cities. But
we're a Laker town, so it blows up times five.
It gets to about fifty thousand on Fourth of July
weekend for more than anything.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So heavily populated is my mom says, I don't even.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Go in town during Fourth and July because of the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
But it is.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It is a she doesn't like the tour the Lakers
or the tourists, right.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, Like we have bumper stickers.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
So the townies don't like the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Money nail on the head dips. Townies don't like the Lakers,
even though it's bringing in money to the businesses. Well,
we have a bumper sticker that says you've seen our lakes,
now leave.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's so it is, But it was.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
You could write movies about Indiana.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Driving out with pitchforks and torches. A little bit. Yeah
that we do have pitchforks and torches.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That's true, but you were saying that some people go
in the middle of a field and start having a
tailgate and watch the fireworks.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yeah, and it just be an all day thing, man,
and it's it's the biggest thing of the year.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But I think it should be that's it used to be.
What baseball apple Pie and Chevrolet? No baseball b no
hot hot dogs?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
What was it? Baseball hot dogs?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Apple Pie and Chevrolet used to be thinking, that's the
way it should be, man, everybody should be chilling on
the weekend. I was embarrassed by Major League Baseball. They
had the ugliest blue hats. They the fourth fourth of July,
and it's like, is that Prostate Awareness month? I was
baby blue because here's when I work with the Nationals.
(09:38):
The one thing I loved about them how patriotic. They
always had the different uniforms. Their best uniform top was
a blue top with the W had a flag inside.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And I'm like looking at them playing.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I think it was the Red Sox over the weekend
and I'm like, neither team had a cool uniform on
It's the fourth of July. In DC and you have
these horrible blue hats on who came up with that crap?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Can't we be a little bit more patriot?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I would like to see somebody like a whole like
instead of a camo shirt, maybe like a flag shirt
or something. I mean, I know somebody you used to
do some Some people get offended by flag clothing. Do
you get offended by flag clothes?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
No? No, I don't know anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Flag pants, flag shorts, something like You're not supposed to
do that with the flag.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I mean that's how Uncle Sam dress. That's right.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Uncle Sam was like decked out, flighting blue flags like
you're I find.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
It strange that people can get offended by that, because
we get offended by everything disrespecting it. You're trying to
embrace its independence days.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You're showing your independence and your love for the flag.
What do we do for the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
We were talking about the birth two over how like
if you thought this year was.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Crazy, just wait until next year because it's fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Because I do remember the Bison ten in seventy six.
I think it's a little before both of your times,
but it was crazy everybody. But see, seventies were long
haired freaks, a lot of hippies, a lot of drugs.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You know what, psychedelic.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It was crazy, man, it was crazy. I was twelve
years old at red, White and Blue Glove.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I mean, oh.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Dude, one thing you guys would appreciate. I love this
little touch in our parade. The last float in our
parade is a big target and it has a tarp
around it and it's for you to throw all your
trash at the target, like to clean up the town
at the here to Go.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Wasn't that cool?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I just saw a picture Cony Island after this weekend
and it was it was awful. People, Please clean up
your trash. Let's let's be better to the environment.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I don't know if this is legal or not, but
for some reason, my hometown was selling jello shots at
the parade for twenty nally.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Listen what I was an idiot this weekend with jello shots.
I'll admit that I drink.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I didn't drink any wine, no anything. I didn't really
want beer. Did you know what you were getting handed?
When JOHNA was handing you the.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
First first one? I had a friend's house. They had
jello that was mixed with rum and pudding.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It was rough.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I'm not those were hardcore. Went to my sister in
law's house and my nieces made Tito's and jello. I
couldn't get enough of those.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Those are fantastic because it was just one type of jello.
There's either blue jello or the cherry jello, so those
are fantastic.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
White. How much were they twenty five cents.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I think it should all go to charity too.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I don't know what we were raising money for, but
it was great. I thought that was wonderful.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Man, a lot of Little League baseball, dude, I was
in your world for a little while. I was thinking
about you a lot. That was like, so this is
why Rob's frustrated. I don't get frustrated for me.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I get frustrated for Oh yeah, listen, my time's coming
gone thirty years in my rearview mirror, and it's like,
but I'm trying to get through the new generation. It's
to know they don't realize how good they have it.
The equipment, the game, the jerseys with jerseys. But here's
the thing too, the game changer. So the game changer,
(13:22):
like these cameras they have now we have so you
can see the whole game on video. Oh and then
the computerized version is. You know, there's parents on both
sides that have the lineups and they're punching in pitch
by pitch. This is how I am able to keep
counting the.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Pitch my mom the same way with my cousin playing.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
But electronically a voice will be like Ben Darnell single
the left field runner on first and it tells you
the whole game. It's like it's only play by play.
I mean, this is the future. You're not even gonna
need really play by play people or color.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
People taking book like that's gonna be You're not.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It's not gonna be a thing anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So you're watching the video which is at home play,
and I'm sure eventually you're gonna be able to have
more in the field, maybe on the helmets and stuff
like that, and people who aren't at the game can
watch it, you know, because there's so many different parents
that have different kids and different tournaments. We had parents
that were actually down in the Jersey Shore. There was
a whole tournament going on down there, so you know
(14:18):
those parents were watching the game Changer. Listen, you have
all that, you have, the best equipment, you have, you know,
the best facilities. Like you said, all of you. All
your fields are turf. Now most of the fields we
play in tournaments are all turf. I mean, we used
to play on the most raggedy, you know what fields ever,
and you didn't know the difference. You thought those were pristine,
(14:40):
you know. So it's like kids today. Man, you got
no idea how good you got it? Pretty sweet, pretty sweet.
Your parents are being really good to you.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I know what's coming on the two though.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You know, I've seen a lot of that for the
first time in my life in the major leagues.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
These guys, I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
The first third situation killing me.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
But I don't.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I I don't know if it's tipping pitches or these
guys are just that good because you're not brushing them
off the plate. So I don't care if you're throwing
a ninety mile in oar breaking ball or a hundred
mile in our fastball.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
There's no fear. They all have these giant elbow pads.
They all have.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
If you watch show, Hey, this guy is the biggest
I'm not gonna say cheater, but he's the most well
protected athlete I've ever seen. He's got a shin guard
from knee to foot on his right leg.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I watched it last night.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
He's got it's a it's a catcher's gear shin guard
underneath his uniform pant, so you don't even know it's there.
Then he's got the elbow pad. Then he's got the
new balance gear on his hand. They got to outlaw
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
These guys are so they're they're like they're like Knights
of the Round Table. Man, they're in armor. They're they're
literally in armor up there at the plate. There's no
fear anymore. So I think, you know, people are all
these tipping these pitches. I'm like, no, they're just standing
there like you can't hurt me. And I'm you got
this full face guard now, I mean basically you're going
(16:09):
up there like like a hockey goalie.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Well, I was trying to bring the fear back this
week because I threw some BP and I was nowhere
near the striker.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Right at the kids, how old were they?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Eleven? Eleven, twelve? Horrible pick.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You're just getting them ready for the inevitable pitching at
that levels erratic.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
From what I heard.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
From what I heard, there's a lot of hbps, a
lot of hit by pitch is gonna go on.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
So it's all good.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
But I'm totally impressed. You know, baseball is alive and well,
softball is alive and well. I honestly think the women
are there in another level now of But they play
so much.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
He's going to say, I'm sure my cousin played twenty
games this weekend up in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
My best friend's daughter who's going to college to play softball,
I mean, up up in talland at that bubble we've
gone to.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh yeah, they.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Will play softball round the clock. They'll start those twenty
We're seven at midnight, two o'clock, four o'clock.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
And the fact that your parents put up with that.
You need to thank your parents. I tell my teammate,
my sixteen you team all the time, thank your parents.
They sit and watch this stuff, They drive you to
all these tournaments.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Maybe thanks stuff you gang for all two bats.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
You got multiple things to use, like stuff you really
don't need.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You got your your oven, mit, your Betty Crocker oven. Mit,
that's got an ice cream cone and blazoned on.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I want a.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Kid to be like so old school and like farm boy,
but still like do the new school stuff, Like I
literally want a kid to put on an oven mit.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Oh it's been done so I know there's the leaguers
that are doing that now. They're literally putting on potholder mits.
Love it and instead I think the ones that cost
a couple of hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I know it sports.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
How about a sport we have like instead of the
slap competition like day in a white House slaps, we
put on the oven mits and slap each other slaps
of admit slap fights.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I don't know, man, I did watch some slaps over
the weekend, and that sports still the most brutals.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I think we're turning into like lobsters out there. Now
you've got guys. I Elie de la Cruz has one
on each hand. I'm like, are you a serious, dude?
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I did see a game that I want to play.
What do you want to say next?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Now? I was just going to say, at this point,
what's the next innovation in on field equipment? We're going
to see custom printed bat tape?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Like listen, already there the police were cameras, and now
a lot of other people weren't. I think the players
should have cameras and you could watch like a kid
at second base, or you can watch your center fielder
from there from their vantage point.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
The thing that I love and we're going to see
in the Little League World Series is the umpcam.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I love the UMP cam. I but we've had that.
But I like race car driving. Now you get to
be inside the cop you watch and you know you're
inside the cars and stuff like that. And I know
when I used to work for XM, they had you
could go to each like crew chief, the conversations that
they have and stuff like that. You know, maybe we
can you know, I don't know. I think it'd be cheating. Yeah, yeah,
(19:13):
we can't.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Tell that, but they'll find a way to exploit it.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I think there should be uniform cams. I really do that.
That should be the next step. Now you can see
all the players all over the field, and you could
sit at home if you have the MLB package, and
you can be like, I want to watch Aaron Judge
right now. I want to see his vantage I love that. Yes,
and on demand player that's I want to see that.
(19:38):
I want to see.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
I don't know who's the hardest thrower in the big leagues.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
I want to see show Hey pitch, I want to
see his uniform cam standing on the mound, uh facing
Tatis Junior and and you could just punch it up.
I think, I think you're totally capable of doing it.
All right, will take a quick break, we'll come back.
Kevin Kernin joined us earlier. He's got a lot to
say about Major League baseball. Kevin Curnin from ball nine
(20:04):
dot com joins us next.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
There goes a great ride on Route nine northbound.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
There's an accident,
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