SPEAKER_03 0:26

Welcome to episode 40 of Hooked Fun Fun, Victor Fun Ryan, Southside Green BC. We got our friend today, a great guest. Just announced him uh last week, Dan E. Howitt, the bad boy of the Now Canadian Baseball League. We'll get on to that a little bit in a few minutes. It's warm weather today. This is actually taking we're taking place this episode on a Wednesday. Happy hump day. It is a beautiful day outside. It's gonna get up to 11 degrees, which means baseball is soon. I still wear my winter jacket.

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Yeah. I think it's like fake spring, though. Every year, I feel like we get up to like 10, 11, 12 degrees for like a week, and then like five days later, it's like ice rain. And everyone's miserable.

SPEAKER_03 1:05

But this Saturday is supposed to be like 16 degrees, and then next week's supposed to be up there too. It will go back down to minus something. Yeah, exactly. It's gonna go back down. It's gonna free. It's fake something. I think knock on where's the where's the wooden pony horse thing? We are um not gonna see a foot of snow again.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

No, probably not. It's just gonna everyone's just gonna be miserable because it's gonna go back down to minus.

SPEAKER_03 1:26

When does spring actually start?

SPEAKER_01 1:30

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:32

Summer starts way later than I thought it did. I thought summer started in like May.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

The summer's like no, it's June 21st, that's like the summer souls. It's like the longest. I mean your summer starts in May. Yeah, the summer starts, that's true. It's like summer finishes at summer souls, it's like the longest day of the year.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Well, yeah, because I've always based it off of like when does baseball start?

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So this is true.

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Yeah.

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Um, I mean, a warm weather must uh play a factor because tickets are flying. McKay has been a busy dog dealing with the uh fans coming in the office, uh groups and uh single game purchases and all that fun shit. So a lot of fans come see you, big dog, very close all season long. The home opener is already 50% sold out. Oh my god. Um, yeah, this far away. And um Father's Day Star. Father's Day, Daddy's Day game is flying too. So if you haven't heard about that one, uh we are giving away um jackfish barbecue aprons at the door. So it's gonna have a big thing on the front that says this dad is smoking uh with our logo. So it's actually I just designed it yesterday, so it's pretty sick. I actually just got the renderings back for the uh hats, the the straw hats for Beach Party night presented by uh MP Paradise Cools and Sponsor.

SPEAKER_01 2:40

How's that look?

SPEAKER_03 2:41

Holy fuck. Yeah, I'll be owning one of those quick. Um beers. Oh yeah!

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We're getting new cans.

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We're getting new slippery fish. Uh shout out to the guys over at Quite All Right. We are getting brand new slippery fish and palm water cans. Um, the palm water one is gonna be somewhat similar, um, but uh all new graphics on that one. It's gonna actually, I think the slippery fish looks unreal. Yeah, it's so sick. I'll show you after. It's un it is pretty sick. Um what did you how'd your sister get in on this episode? No, how'd she get in on this episode? Oh, CJ one episode.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

I I forgot to tell you your heroes, your hero's her boss.

SPEAKER_03 3:27

So well, his family is my hero, but I guess Night Train uh Vec is uh that is his actual name, Night Train. His name is Night Train, yeah. His government name is Night Train. Um I haven't met him yet. Um, I want to, but uh you tell the story there, uh CJ.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

Yeah, my sister uh wants to be just like me. So she's getting into sport, even though she is banned from the ballpark here.

SPEAKER_03 3:49

So that's pretty funny because she was probably the one that said, isn't she the one that uh started telling you to use your degree? Yeah, and now she's gonna follow in your footsteps. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

Well, she wants well, not totally. She wants to go in for communication.

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So she said So she's not putting on a green skirt.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

No, she won't fucking sell out. She's going to work for the uh Juliet Slimers of the Frontier League. Oh, cool. Yeah, so she's gonna be one of the pro editors. Um Yeah, and you know, I told her then Nitrain is her boss, and Ryan got very excited. And she meant in her interview, she mentioned in Nitrain that uh she uh I worked for the Jackfish. She goes, Oh, Jackfish, I know, they just won their championship. I didn't mean to go up there for a game. That's pretty sweet.

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We're well known.

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Yeah, so yeah. We are really well known. I think so. It's very cool.

SPEAKER_01 4:35

If Nitrain back comes to the game, I think Ryan's just gonna knock his ear off and just sit by.

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If Night Train, you'll never watch this. Actually, maybe you will because CJ's sister will make you watch this. Please come to Jackfish Game. Um, we will take care of you. With a name like Night Train, I feel like you can make him like his own shirt. Honestly, Night Train at the Jackfish, yeah, it'd be electric. Uh um, yeah, I'd love to pick his brain on a million things because he's been part of baseball forever.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

Yeah, the whole family, too.

SPEAKER_03 5:01

The whole family, yeah. If you want to bring Bill Murray with you, I mean no one's gonna be sick. He owns the part of the team.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

I really I'm a really big fan of Carrie Chad.

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It is a good movie. Great movie. Um we uh we have our own Ultra Ego, as everybody knows, the Niagara Longcox. There's been a million that have come out lately um from uh minor league baseball and uh all over uh just baseball in the States, really. We've got some really ridiculous ones. Uh we're looking at right here. We got the Utah Dirty Sodas. That one's pretty sweet. What else we got here?

SPEAKER_01 5:34

Utah, they're from Utah?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Not the Storm and Mormons.

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Uh we've got the Jersey Shore pork rollers. Awesome. The Akron Cream Stick Donuts. Okay, these are getting rid of Twinkies? These are just getting ridiculous.

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I was gonna say these on the U. That is literally a Twinkie. This is a bit ridiculous now.

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Like Redding ice coffee. The reading ice coffees for their morning game.

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Um, Reapers.

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I like that one a lot. The the Carolina Reaper pepper, you never heard of that?

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The hottest pepper. Yeah, this is the world's hottest pepper. The Fort Wayne puffer bellies, a train. Oh. And uh the Wooster Kelly Squares. What is a Kelly Square? Does anyone know? Something something to do with it. Oh yeah, it's not a circle.

SPEAKER_02 6:22

Anyway, is it like a roundabout ball?

SPEAKER_01 6:25

Yeah, a roundabout.

SPEAKER_03 6:26

I love ultimate identities, but these are getting so ridiculous. I think we're just running out of ideas now. Yeah, yeah. We still gotta do the chub suckers at some point.

SPEAKER_01 6:35

Yeah, chub suckers.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

Shout out to uh copper bellies is a cool one out of any of those, but then you get some like the Twinkie and it's like it's kind of cream still like that is a Twinkie. Yeah, there's probably some copper belly.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

I'm sorry, I don't see a Twinkie, I see a penis. It literally looks like a penis.

SPEAKER_03 6:50

I think this is more like one of those like cream-filled donors. I'm going to Dr.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

Like a Long John.

SPEAKER_03 6:56

Like a long john, yeah. This is this should be the Akron Long Johns. Holy shit. That would be so much better. That would be really good. See?

SPEAKER_01 7:02

Yeah. What did we talk about for the guys who make their own hot dogs and making a Luther Long John?

SPEAKER_03 7:09

Uh we talked about doing that, yeah. Um well, I should just go back. Like we've had another, oh we did the Rose City Timber Tigers, which was uh crowd pleaser, uh ran its course. So now we have the long cocks. So who knows? Maybe next year we'll have another ridiculous uh name that we can come up with.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

Rose City Chupsuckers.

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Rose City Chupsuckers, which is an actual chupsucker is an actual fish.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

Yep. Shout out uh Lady of P C.

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La D of PNC, who's now our HR director. Uh who's supposed to break me a uh supposed to bring me a drink yesterday, but got shingles at 36 years old. That happens is beyond me. Medical history's not 42. He said he was 55.

SPEAKER_02 7:55

Anyway. His age is unknown. Oh, it's 36.

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I don't think he's gonna watch this anyway. Uh uh big news we put out uh today, whether this will air later on, but uh we have an alumni in the World Baseball Classic. Uh 2023 uh IBL champion, uh starting catcher, and actual uh season saver, Carlos Martinez, is playing for Team Columbia. That's pretty sweet. Yeah, so he's number 72 for them. Um they have three catchers, so we'll hopefully get to see him play for him and get some clips and all that stuff. He did uh uh accept our collaboration on Instagram, so he still loves us.

SPEAKER_01 8:34

What group are they in, do you know?

SPEAKER_03 8:36

I have no idea.

SPEAKER_01 8:38

Are they in the same group as like uh Little Dominican and Venezuela?

SPEAKER_03 8:43

I'd love to go see a game, but I'm not also going anywhere down that way.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Well, it's also all their games are in Miami, Houston, San Juan, Puerto Rico. That would have been cool to go to Puerto Rico. We should just charter the Jack. Yeah, just go still. All of us have good Jack. Hey, let's let's go crazy. Let's go to Tokyo and watch watch Japan.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

They're in the big Canada pool. Oh, they're in Mexico, US, don't get him, Colombia.

SPEAKER_03 9:10

That's my favorite team right now, just because Carlos is on it. Over Canada? Carl, I gotta tell you, for the for the year that Carlos, or like not even a year, like half for a half year that Carlos played for us, that was one of the hardest individuals to read that man. Uh last year. I didn't know if he was happy or mad or anything. And he was uh chose when he used his Spanish and when he knew English.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

So like a lot of our Latin guys.

SPEAKER_03 9:36

Like a lot of our Latin players. Yeah, they all speak okay. So Teo maybe not the greatest. Pedro, maybe not the greatest. Everybody else, perfect English.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

Well, I every time I go up to Mullen, I'm like, I'm like, hey Robert, he goes, Kate uh K sopa poppy or K okay poppy. And I go, K okay, poppy to Mullen. And he goes, What's up, what's good, CJ? I'm like, you gotta be fucking kidding me.

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Buddy, Robert was Robert was the interpreter for Pedro last year. Whenever I had to talk to Pedro about something, Rob interpreted. Okay? So anyway, enough of that. We are now gonna talk about current player right beside me, the one, the only big sexy, also known as the bad boy of the IBL. One time. He is blushing. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me. I know you listen to this every week. Thank you. Um now you're on the show, finally.

SPEAKER_02 10:28

Yeah, I'm excited.

SPEAKER_03 10:29

Uh I think you're the fourth player. Third, fourth player. Yeah, something like that. Anyway, it's pretty sweet. Um, you know, uh, for anybody that's watching this that maybe doesn't know you besides the baseball player, tell us uh a bit about yourself outside of baseball.

SPEAKER_02 10:42

So outside of baseball, I work in um HVAC, specifically sheet metal. A lot of a lot of the time when I say sheet metal, people have no idea what it is, so it's kind of the ductwork. I'm gonna need your help when I redo my basement. Yeah, oh yeah. Well, that's something that can be done pretty quick. I work in ICI, which is industrial, commercial, and institutional, so it tends to be bigger stuff. I do that year round, and um yeah, so that's kind of what I do for work. And besides that, I love baseball, obviously. You know, my my fiance Peyton's always coming out to the game. She loves to make like the I got her a cricket for Christmas, kind of like the whole setup. So now she's even making like custom like jackfish stuff, and so yeah, no, it's copyrighted Peyton. She will be getting served for uh creating that stuff, but uh yeah, I I do that for work. Um, I love spending time with my friends and my fiance, obviously. And I really like country music.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

I know that, yeah, yes.

SPEAKER_02 11:41

We love a blue collar music.

SPEAKER_03 11:43

Which is funny, which is funny because your walk-up song is super not country.

SPEAKER_02 11:47

Yeah, yeah. So I well, I was just talking to CJ about that. So generally, I don't really listen to rap for the most part, but in 2024, when Dawson Tweet was here, he had Back of My Bullshit, I think, by Big X playing. And I remember looking it up because I like the song. I was like, oh, who's this big X guy? And then I clicked on the song, the largest, I hear it, and I go to Peyton and I'm like, okay, so I have to use this, right? You know, big fat lefty on the mound. Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, it's gonna line up big bone lefty on the mound. It's power, it's power. Mass equals gas lefty going on the mouth. Except there's not a lot of gas, there's more mass, but you know, it'll kind of equal signing.

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Uh your stat line was uh nothing to uh nothing to uh you know be mad about. So yeah, no, that was alright last year. I'm hoping to build a little more. Yeah, why not? I think we're gonna probably get more opportunity to there's more games. Super excitement. Yeah, this this season's gonna be electric, I think. Um from the guys that we've and everybody that's watching, we have signed our entire roster now. We haven't announced everybody, but we signed our entire roster. You gotta keep the people waiting. Well, you know what? Some of these other teams asleep, they just throw it all at once and then it's over.

SPEAKER_02 13:02

And that's kind of like well, guess what? You know, it's like drink, appetizer, meal, dessert, and then maybe post-dessert coffee, right? You know, so this guy's gonna so so you don't just bring everything out at one time, right? For sure.

SPEAKER_03 13:15

Now you came, you you haven't played for us, uh the only team we're not the only team you played for us in this league.

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Um tell us about your journey to to us, uh, how that uh kind of Yeah, so so I grew up in Brantford, and I so I've known a lot of people in the Red Sox kind of growing up. And I was at Brock University, and in between the summer, I started playing for the Brantford Junior Red Sox, and that same summer the senior Red Sox needed some help, so I started getting called up a lot. I actually made my my IBL now CBL career debut in Well. Oh so I debuted here and uh I think I gave up like three runs in an inning, like I got smacked. Oh wow, and but but um so I debuted here and then the next season I played the whole season with the Brantford team through lots of innings that year, and then the next year uh I was living in St. Catharines like all the time, so came here and honestly the rest is history. I've really enjoyed it since coming here. It's been fantastic.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

Glad to hear. We'd love to have you, obviously, when having a podcast. Otherwise, uh not everybody gets to be on a podcast.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

So there's an ERA cutoff for not being on the podcast. Well, maybe not. If the Kass If the K to based on ball ratio is not there, you're not coming on the podcast.

SPEAKER_03 14:39

Yeah, well, we're not that big of a disno we love to have you. We're glad uh we're glad we could uh not so much steal you from Brantford, but uh obtain your rights from the Brantford Red Sox. Yeah, it's been uh no, I think I think I can probably say that you'll you'll be a uh jackfish for as long as you play your as long as my arm stays attached to my body, I'll keep playing for Jackfish.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

Beautiful. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

Going back to Peyton, I forgot to add this in the sheet. Um, our social media manager said, excited for Danny Howell to be back, but more excited for Peyton Hanley to be back. So, how do you feel that your fiance is more popular among the staff?

SPEAKER_02 15:17

I actually texted her about that story saying, like, honestly, that's kind of fair because like I think Peyton uh has something lined up for where like she might make her something cool with that cricket. Like, she's already made me a shirt or two. I think next up she got little coasters. Yeah, exactly. So so I'm probably gonna get served with the papers before I leave here. Do not make your own stuff before we sell it. Yep, sold here. If you have a cricket, we'll find it, we'll burn it. But otherwise than that, but otherwise than that, yeah. So I think so she's made her some kind of stuff, but every time I uh I think even when I showed up to the Christmas party, um, Glory just went, Oh my god, Peyton's fiance's here, and Peyton, that's awesome. So can't really blame her. She's on that, you know, well, you're Peyton's a pretty cool girl.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

She's nice, pretty fair. One of the nicest human beings I've ever met. So yeah, we love her here. Actually, well, we last episode we had uh Kim on as his wife, uh, also one of the nicest human beings I've ever met. Um we tried to get, I don't know what it's gonna be at the time we released this, but we're trying to get her YouTube numbers up above Brian's, give her some street cred, but it's uh it's been a slow burn. So we'll we'll see how it goes. But it'll catch. All the wags of this team uh are amazing. I've never met one that had uh a lot of nice people. A lot of nice people. Well we only bring in nice, we only bring in nice players, right? Right. So they kind of attract to each other, I guess. And that kind of thing. What now you know us over the years, we are not normal by any stretch of the imagination. We do crazy shit. Yep. And promos like that. We asked Brian the same question. Um, what is one of your favorite promos that we do or things that we do? And what is one of the things you're like, please never do that again?

SPEAKER_02 17:01

I really enjoy anything jersey nights we do for like 2x. So actually last year I had XL stuff at first, and I made sure to text everyone involved this year. Unless you want to see more of my outline than you ever want to see in your life, you will find me 2x. It doesn't matter. XL was a long time ago. You you know, I've always been, I think when I was younger, it was called Youth Husky was the size they would use for like the big kids' size. Yeah, it's always been like that. So 2x. But uh I I really liked the country night jerseys from two years ago. And the Grimace ones were cool because I think we went on like our 13, 12 or 13 game heater after that. Yeah, and for ones that I don't, I mean, honestly, I I really like all of them. I know that in past podcasts people have just talked about like the time of it, but honestly, like I can't really name one where I'm like, oh, this one pisses me off. Right.

SPEAKER_03 17:58

Would you maybe say we don't smash a car out front ever again? I mean, that that went so much.

SPEAKER_02 18:04

I mean, I'm not the one who has to clean it up.

SPEAKER_03 18:06

So it's not that we went on an absolute home losing tear after that. Oh, okay, yeah. So we can't do that. We can't do that ever again. Yeah, um, it seems like when we do stuff that are fully targeted at an opposing team, we end up getting sh shit rocked. Um so we won't be doing that anymore, for sure. For sure.

SPEAKER_02 18:24

No, I would say overall. I I I love the bubble smash.

SPEAKER_03 18:27

Everybody likes that one. Yeah, well, yeah, because it's fun because I mean well the last two that did it, the Window Runner Confessions. We don't know if they're having that bad. We'll see. Insurance says no. I think I think anybody says no to that one. But maybe they'll wear helmets and like neck braces. That would be good. That would be good. Yeah, that would line up pretty well.

SPEAKER_02 18:45

Is there a dude like you always catch yourself like chatting with every game day or like overall like you may someone who I I'm always like I chat with Ben Abram a lot because for because for a while we were actually working on the same job site together, so so we could talk to each each other about that. He's one of the only people I know who knows what sheet metal is, so we can chat about that. I talk to Ryan Patras a lot. Okay, you know, I always love playing catch with the softball with him, and he doesn't get angry at me if I airmail it over him. Oh yeah, makes sense. Um I always chat with Robert whenever I get here. Molly? Oh yeah, all the time. Is it about whiskey choices or once or twice? Yeah, I mean he's a big crown guy, right? And crown is crown is pretty good. Yeah, well, crown is pretty crown is crown's like up there, it's not like my number one. What's your number one? I would have to say Gibson's deluxe. Oh, that is nice. So that one's probably my favorite. Cosmo for him? I figured he was gonna pull something like crazy. No, I would say Gibson's, JP Weiser's, and then Crown. So like I don't know a ton about different boozes, but if I'm gonna have a drink, it'll be either Cours Late or I'll have a little whiskey. So those are the two things I know about. You're not the Forty Creek guy? Forty Creek is okay. And that's how I would describe it, you know.

SPEAKER_03 20:12

If you could pick between the pawn water and the slippery fish, which one did you go with? I know what I would do. I would go with slippery fish. Me too. Slippery fish is my favorite. I'm surprised I just I actually am surprised. I think people I just haven't actually tried slippery fish because they just go for the pond water because it's like that kind of can and our first one. But man, that slippery fish is like dealing good. I think they're changing it up a little bit too to make it more even lighter. So we'll see what we're gonna do. I think it's just whatever comes out of the tank. The label says something.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

It all has the same effect in the end of the day.

SPEAKER_03 20:45

That's fair. For sure.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

It's still crisp. It is still crisp when you crack it open.

SPEAKER_03 20:51

Still gonna get people to participate in games where actually I guess you know, I guess one figure I was gonna pressure. If you were here before we did the Rena's to now, um, all right, our locker room is like night and day different. It's yeah, it went from Slum Lord to uh oh he hasn't even seen the heating. Yeah, well, you have something to see, there's just two panels on the wall.

SPEAKER_02 21:12

But we actually had I will enjoy it because it's kind of part of what I do for work, so I can appreciate it that way.

SPEAKER_03 21:17

Well, you can fix it when it breaks down. Um we actually had the guys from Quite alright in yesterday, Monday, to uh look at adding some uh pieces to the locker room just like it's not all white walls. So that might look pretty cool when that's done. Um yeah, um like we invested a lot into doing that. I mean it looks thinking the guys enjoy it.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

I love the lift-up storage that is nice where like the seat is that's such a big part of it's that way guys aren't like playing all their stuff.

SPEAKER_03 21:42

Well, we are actually looking at adding a cold tub in there uh in the sh in the showering area.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

Like in a matrix.

SPEAKER_03 21:50

Oh my god, like matrix. Oh, I never said it was gonna be fancy. It was gonna be like a trough and you're just gonna jump in. A farmer's gonna go outside and wonder where his trough went. Well, I was this close to getting. A like a sauna hot and cold, but it wouldn't fit in the space. Oh that would have been sweet. That would have been unreal. I would have been in it every week.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

Well, last summer there was the uh giant cruise ship off the highway in Florida 6. You could have snagged that and then settled it with that.

SPEAKER_03 22:15

Yeah, not always. That's the problem. This stadium is amazing. It's like far on maybe the the best in the league. Uh up for debate from you people in the uh western side of this uh great southern Ontario. Yeah, people have a lot of space. We're just missing, we don't have space. I would say you guys utilize it pretty well, though. Especially with the seat hands. I really like it.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

But it helps out a lot.

SPEAKER_03 22:39

I like those. But yeah, if we can ever add stuff to the locker room, we always try to, but yeah, it's been it always makes the players happy. Oh well, I hope so. Jesus. Um anyway.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

There's one thing you could add to a jackfish game, eh? What would it be?

SPEAKER_03 22:57

Promos, food drinks, decorations, you know, anything. Anything you can think of. And no, not a giant Danny, how a head over in there.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

The giant bobblehead?

SPEAKER_02 23:06

Oh god. Um I'm trying to think. You guys do it pretty well. I mean if I had to think of one thing at that time.

SPEAKER_04 23:16

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 23:18

You know, like the things that throw out the flames, like the flame shooters. So your Davies running in, you can have a lot of things.

SPEAKER_03 23:23

I'm actually going to be adding for our pre-game intro the cold spark that shoots out when you come out. Right. So I'll add that in with the CO2 cannons and our new lights. Well, the lights we won't be able to see for the intros because there's no light outside.

SPEAKER_02 23:35

I'm really excited for the light intros.

SPEAKER_03 23:37

Well, you're gonna get because you come in in relief, it'll probably be dark enough that it'll be going while you're out there.

SPEAKER_02 23:43

Starter has to make it to the seventh inning, and then we're good to go. Eighth inning guy, bang.

SPEAKER_03 23:48

I did have a lot of baseball question. I know this is weird for anybody watching this. I usually don't ask these quick questions. We are actually getting pitch clocks for this league. What are your thoughts on pitch clocks as a pitcher?

SPEAKER_01 23:58

You are the first pitcher we had on, so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

That's true. Yeah, so I don't really mind it just because I mean, I know sometimes in the past, like games have kind of like lasted a while. And and I mean, at first everyone was opposed to it and like the MLB, but then we kind of saw more people started watching, more people showed up, especially when you have like families coming out to watch and like they have that like seven, eight-year-old kid on like a Thursday night. They don't want to see super that.

SPEAKER_03 24:22

That's why on Thursdays I've moved to 705 because we want to get as early as possible, right? It's late.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

So I would say it's a good thing. Actually, in my training now, I've started doing little stopwatches when I'm throwing my bullpen to make sure I I'm staying within it. But I mean, as a pitcher, I'm not really old. You move pretty fast anyway, though, right? Well, I was gonna say, like, I've actually always had to slow myself down. Okay, so I'm not really too worried about the pitch clock because when I, especially when I was younger, it would be like, hey, stop, take a breath, you know, come set. So I'm not really too worried about it, but I think it's gonna be good for the game because sometimes there are games that tend to like, you know, three hours, 45 minutes, four hours, and then you know, those games are gonna happen sometimes, but like the you know, keeping it compact and action filled. So I'm uh I'm a pretty big fan. Well it's gonna be and plus everywhere else. I have no idea. I don't know any of the rules, I just know I see.

SPEAKER_03 25:10

Yeah, with images of a pitch clock and how much they're gonna cost me and where they have to go.

SPEAKER_02 25:15

So and I mean, like, what they're we we would be the only pro league that like didn't have a pitch clock if we just move, right? So yeah, they're kind of just what everyone else is. Well, even NCAA has it, so yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:29

Uh, I want to ask you one more non-baseball question. Yeah, you got some new ink. Yes, I did. Tell us a bit about that.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

So I so I got this. This is called like Western tooling, yeah, I like it. Instead of like a foliage and flower type thing. So I did a couple of things that mean something to me. This is the first tattoo I ever got. Yeah, so I do want to make this eventually like a whole forearm sleeve and then work all the way up, but that's gonna be a little while because you know they're not always super cheap, right? And they're never cheap, they are never uh actually cheap. If you can find a cheap tattoo, you probably don't want that tattoo. You don't want it, it is going to be bad, and it's on you forever.

SPEAKER_01 26:01

Save the show like you should want right now, and and you'll probably have tetanus.

SPEAKER_02 26:06

Yeah, who knows? You know, you need to come back with you know test positive for a while tattoo, you don't put a bumper sticker on a Porsche. Yeah, well, people always say that, and they're like, Oh, well, why do you have tattoos? I wouldn't put uh a bumper sticker on a Porsche, and I'm like, let's be real. This isn't a Porsche, this is like a 1995 Ford F-150. You can put bumper stickers on that for me.

SPEAKER_03 26:29

This will get you from A to B forever.

SPEAKER_02 26:32

Yep, it is gonna run forever, and that's about it. So, like, I'm not a Porsche. I mean, let's be real here. Well, you know, like I'm not Brendan Luther running like a 6660. Yeah, exactly. So like raise you that ODR stuff, exactly, right? Shut up. So so so for me, I have some things that really mean a lot to me, and some things that I feel like just kind of tell me about the the cards. So the cards, this was one where the tattooers just kind of incorporated that. It's kind of like I guess like western themed type of thing, the playing cards, the cactus, that's also kind of western-y. I have Peyton's initials right there. Nice. I've got the jackpot machine, that's another westerny thing. Uh the cowboy boot means means a fair amount to me. I have a couple of pairs that I really enjoy, so I wanted that incorporated. This is a sheet metal specific hammer, actually. So a lot of people have never seen him before. I got that. That that one's for Peyton as well, kind of like the cowboy with the lip heels right on. And then the dice is kind of like a westerny thing. So it's kind of like a mix because because you don't want like all super personal objects that don't really go with the theme, like you don't want one or the other. But eventually, hopefully before the season starts, I want to finish the forearm part, get that all done, and then as the years go on, that's gonna work.

SPEAKER_03 27:44

I wish that my tattoos were all fought through like this because all of mine are super awful. This looks good. The one the one here for the the jackfish, I like. Well, that's pretty sweet. Um, I have a beer can in the back of my uh ankle that I think I've seen that one. It looks more like a uh hairspray can. Um, I have country tattooed on my back, which I got when I was 18 in Soble Beach. That tattoo studio no longer exists. Like the word country? Or like the Canada? That's all you need to know.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

You also got the uh I got the hockey sticks, I do like that one.

SPEAKER_03 28:16

I don't remember that.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

Okay, yeah, I have seen that one, the two hockey sticks.

SPEAKER_03 28:19

I wish because my calves were bigger, that's what it is. But same.

SPEAKER_01 28:22

Go to crunch. Jason's been asking about where you've been.

SPEAKER_03 28:25

I I'm sorry, Jason. I will um come see you, I promise. I actually worked it this morning at home. Um go me. Uh go to crunch. Go to crunch, and I can do a better workout. Um now moving on to our last part. We always have fun with this. The CJ movie reviews. What do you got, CJ?

SPEAKER_01 28:43

I watched Lord of the Rings, the first one.

SPEAKER_03 28:45

Oh. I've never watched any of those.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

You gotta watch, man. There's they're three hours long.

SPEAKER_03 28:49

I started watching the sex one you you put on here, Narcos. I've seen neither of these.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

It's a TV show. It's a TV show. It's about Pablo Escobar.

SPEAKER_03 28:59

Yeah, like I've seen commercials about it. I've never watched it.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

It's sick. Pedro Pascal said it.

SPEAKER_03 29:03

Oh, yeah, yeah. Any um any movies on uh your watch list the other day?

SPEAKER_02 29:07

I watched Call of the Wild recently. It's about like a guy and his dog, and they're in like the Alaskan Gold Rush, and they like live in like the woods. I thought that one was pretty cool. I really got in it. There's like a four-day period where every time I went to Peyton, like, hey, there's this movie, it's about like these this dog sled team in Alaska in the 1900s, and they survive in the woods. Can we watch it? And for like four days, we watch like 15 hours worth of movies like that. And dog sled movies, yeah, pretty much. So I don't know. I got really into that, but yeah, and that I say Call of the Wild is one of my favorite movies now. I really like that one.

SPEAKER_03 29:42

Uh what are you gonna say about the Lord of the Rings? Oh, it's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 29:45

It's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 29:46

I I gotta do uh I did the entire series. Ready?

SPEAKER_01 29:49

Ready?

SPEAKER_03 29:50

Ooh. Oh there you go, summed up. I just did the whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 29:57

I've seen some Hobbit movies. I don't know how close that is. That's like the prequel. Oh, okay. It's the prequel. Because I saw the Hobbit like Battle of the Seven Armies like six years ago, and I thought that was a pretty good movie. Yeah, it's that's about that's about Bilbo Baggins, Frodo and uh yeah, no, that was really in terms of that realm, that's really about it.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

I'm more of a Star Wars guy myself, so I'll I've also only seen one of those.

SPEAKER_03 30:20

I have two legs. We'll never do a Star Wars night because I did a Star Wars night when we were in Burlington and we got shelled 27-nothing. That'll never happen again. We wore jerseys, it was terrible. Oh god. Two backup jerseys? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:30

We can get to our fader jerseys.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

Did you have like fur on the jerseys? That was bad. I can show you a picture of that. Oh, that's god off. I'm excited. No, the jerseys were amazing. The night was shit.

SPEAKER_03 30:39

It was the it wasn't even a night, it was like one o'clock game. Anyway, I digress. Danny, last thing uh to the fanatics. Is there anything you want to say to the fanatics for this upcoming season?

SPEAKER_02 30:48

Um, I would say I'm super excited for our season. I think our fans have really good reason to be excited for the season. But I also want to say like thanks to the fans because people will come up to me and they'll chat with me about my life. They'll they'll go and chat with Peyton and make her feel really at home. The community we have here is just unparalleled. And I think that's why our numbers, the things we do in this league are not matched because the community we have here is so fantastic and so tightly knit. And it's been absolutely fantastic, not only for me to be a part of it, but for like the people I love to be a part of it. So I want to say thank you to the people who showed it.

SPEAKER_03 31:26

That's awesome. I do appreciate the fanatics. They are, I don't even not even in this league. Um, they are the best fans anywhere. Anywhere. Um, for the stuff they do for our guys and us and and everything. So we do appreciate you. We thank you so much. And uh, Danny, thank you for coming on. Yeah, for sure. Uh, we'll probably uh maybe get you to come on again later in the season. But uh this is episode 40 of hooked on fun. We'll see you next time with yes, Scotty Joeste. Let's go episode 41.