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This is the Weekly Scramble. A place

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where we chat about life over a

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cold one or two. Damned a belly

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up to the pod and with Mike,

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Fredonia and your host Chris Reeve area

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Yes sir, it's time to the Weekly

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Scramble. My name is Chris Rivers by

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my side, His name is Mike Fredell

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only with Fred alone. He's harbor and

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garden stores. How low? Michael? I don't

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reverse. I am good and I have

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so many topics that I need to

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discuss with you and I think. I

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think we should start here because

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I feel so bad why Indigo

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acting last week to mention. The.

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Fret Pack on the for up and I

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didn't even bring it up last week which

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I and I want to give you credit

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again, it's a brilliant idea! I love the

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interaction and all the cool photos we are

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seeing and the Frat Pack facebook page remind

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me of the initial quest of said Fred

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path. or so my quest was easy. I

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wanted to have Five Thousand France right? right?

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I have some good buddies but I wanted

0:59

to be able to go anywhere in town

1:02

here and meet somebody and have I knew

1:04

if the listen to this show off a

1:06

listen to jail garage logic that we were

1:08

like minded. Right? So I'm I'm already

1:10

over a major hurdle, right? I'm going to

1:12

like this person and they're probably going to

1:14

like me. And so I said, hey, let's

1:16

start this for about five thousand. I wanted

1:19

five thousand people to become friends on Facebook

1:21

with me. Subsequently, I've opened up a frat

1:23

pack, five thousand and group where everybody's interacting

1:25

with each other, people are making real friendships

1:27

Imo. roommate is super cool, but we're getting

1:29

close to two thousand. And fact, if you're

1:32

listening to this and aren't a member of

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the Frat Peggy at we will get to

1:36

two thousand people here really quickly. so I'm

1:38

very excited. To see what we get when

1:40

we hit two thousand who two thousand is will

1:42

probably have him on the show Riot. at least

1:45

Adam call and now began to him or her.

1:47

it's guys or girls. doesn't matter but we're very

1:49

excited. So go to Michael Fritillary friend me on

1:51

Facebook. I'll invite you into the face, book the

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Fredell Only frat pack five thousand group and then

1:56

talk to people and find out where they are

1:58

and if you're from wins document. Minnesota, there's gonna

2:00

be another frat packer there, I promise. That's cool.

2:03

It's really cool, Reversal. Um, can I tell you the

2:05

difference between you and me? Yeah, yeah. Um, in

2:07

that regard, one

2:09

time when I was on vacation, I saw a

2:11

guy wearing a garage logic shirt and

2:14

my wife said, oh look, and I said, we're

2:16

gonna go there. Turn the other way. I'm totally joking. No,

2:18

in fact, it's funny, one of our frat packers is the

2:20

guy that we were at the fair walking by and he

2:23

looked at you and said, are you Chris Revers? Oh!

2:26

Remember that guy? Yes! And

2:28

his wife was a big fan and he was a big fan.

2:30

Yeah, it was in fact, wasn't it his birthday? I think it

2:32

was, maybe at the fair, yeah, it is. And it was really,

2:35

really cool and he's a frat packer. Honest

2:37

to God, Revers, I'm spending, this is

2:40

a caveat, right? I

2:42

do this in my free time. This frat pack stuff.

2:44

Sure. Well, you're a busy guy. So,

2:46

I am a busy person. Yeah. Please

2:48

be patient with me because I made the mistake where I'm the

2:50

only person who has their number. So,

2:52

right now I have like 1,900 people asking

2:54

for their frat pack number and it takes

2:56

a moment to get through. Right? So,

2:59

I don't always catch everybody's DMs. I'll get to

3:01

it eventually but bear with me and I'm going

3:03

to start posting more because I've just been too

3:05

busy to do it, right? Yeah. So,

3:07

and I'm not, I'm kind of only want to post things when I'm

3:10

doing something fun. Not like, here's another day at work. You

3:12

know, that's not as much fun. Off to the

3:14

grind. Yeah, but I will do that and I

3:16

will if I owe you a message, I'm going

3:18

to pay you back a message because it's, I

3:20

want this community to really start growing. I'm thinking

3:22

ahead for the state fair and I'm just super

3:24

excited to have hopefully some frat packers show up.

3:26

That's cool. That's a lot of fun. That's

3:29

cool. And we'll do other events before that. We don't

3:31

have to wait until the fair. Alright, so do

3:33

you want to bring up your story? I have a story for you.

3:35

Okay, you go ahead. Remember when I said I did? I always feel

3:37

like a hijack. A couple of shows ago I said I was really

3:39

good at fat math and then I proceeded to, um,

3:42

say some fat math that wasn't terribly good. I wasn't very good

3:45

at the fat math. In fact, I went back and did it

3:47

in my head and I was like, wait, so I had to

3:49

actually do it on the piece of paper. So, here's what I

3:51

have. I have an interesting thing and I just want you to

3:54

help me understand what's going on. And this is like,

3:56

I really want to get your opinion on this.

3:58

Okay. It's a bore. After

4:00

patrol, Story Writers

4:02

and so border Patrol. We have

4:04

issues and we have issues. Leave

4:07

Arrested. Chinese. Nationalists

4:09

who have crossed the border illegally

4:11

and I think walk in on

4:13

China's communist country and I get

4:15

that people coming from China may

4:18

have like skip the communist country

4:20

and made it here to search

4:22

for the American dream right? But

4:25

I can see that some people could

4:27

have done that. So in Fiscal Year

4:29

Twenty Twenty One, the government's fiscal years

4:31

off. It's not January to December, but

4:33

it's a little asks. Fiscal Year Twenty

4:35

Twenty One: Three Hundred and Forty Two

4:37

Chinese individuals me of like skipped communism

4:39

and made it all the way to

4:41

America right if and then got arrested

4:44

trying to cross the border. That's not

4:46

the people who got him, those are

4:48

just the people who are arrested. Heard

4:50

cries soccer Thousand And Twenty Twenty One

4:52

The height of Calvin rights. In Twenty

4:54

Twenty Two, That number skyrocketed. To

4:56

Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Seven. So

4:58

that's now now. That seems like

5:01

more than just people who would

5:03

somehow snuck out of China, right?

5:05

Insists School Year Twenty Twenty Three

5:07

for your reverse And Twenty Twenty

5:10

Three Thirty Four Thousand, One Hundred

5:12

and Twenty five arrests were made.

5:14

As in Chinese Nationalists, Rivers, that

5:17

is half of the twin. See

5:19

him. I mean that is a

5:21

huge amount of Chinese trying to

5:24

get into America. Why Okay Siskel,

5:26

twenty Twenty Four, right? So I don't

5:28

know exactly when the fiscal government year

5:30

and is by it's it's It's been

5:32

a couple of months or a little

5:34

bit more. And so far in fiscal

5:36

Twenty Twenty Fourth, twenty Two thousand, Two

5:38

Hundred Thirty Three At about halfway through

5:41

the fiscal year, so that will be

5:43

almost forty five thousand Rs from the

5:45

border patrols. Not gonna waste. Not people

5:47

who just snuck through a weeding cats,

5:49

but people that we stopped and arrest.

5:51

And so it could it be as

5:53

many as forty five thousand. Communist

5:55

Chinese. I don't even know if I sit.

5:58

The Communist Chinese. Chinese. people

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coming to America, are they

6:03

all here to live the American dream? So

6:05

here's my fat math question, Ravers. Since

6:09

2021, what percentage increases that

6:11

since 2021 where it was 342 all the

6:13

way up to

6:16

22,233? Well, it's, Jesus, it's... It's

6:18

a very tough, fat, bad question.

6:21

Hold on, hold on. I'm trying to

6:23

do it because you do the

6:25

inverse of the decimal point and then what you

6:27

do, it's got to be like

6:30

10,000%. Very close,

6:32

6,300%. So

6:35

it's been an increase of 6,300%. I'm

6:39

going to tell you, that's Bitcoin type increases.

6:41

Those are increases that are not natural. That

6:44

is not just someone in China saying,

6:46

I watched an American movie, I

6:48

need to get out of this hellhole

6:50

China communist dictator BS and make it

6:52

to America. Those were maybe the guys in

6:54

2021, the 342 of them. If

6:59

this 45,000 expected arrests

7:02

coming through the border seems really

7:04

odd to me. Like what is going on?

7:06

What is going on? What is going on?

7:08

That, what I wanted to do is start

7:10

this show on the lowest possible note we

7:13

could. Built up as we go. And then

7:15

if we tell stories about hemorrhoids or

7:17

child prostitution, anything will be uplifting

7:19

from the story of the Chinese communist

7:22

coming to take over America. All

7:24

right. Well, the thing I

7:26

wanted to ask you because it did absolutely nothing

7:28

for me and I'll explain why in a minute,

7:31

but everyone lost their minds yesterday

7:33

over the eclipse. The eclipse. Yeah.

7:36

Now in your home, you have a home full of women. We

7:38

did. And what was that?

7:40

Was it captivated in your home? I mean, was this

7:43

a, we got to get the girls out of

7:45

school kind of a thing. How did it work? Nope.

7:48

Nope. I did. I set

7:50

an alarm so I could go outside of my office to

7:52

watch it. And I went outside and went, well, this kind

7:54

of seems not nearly as good as I thought it

7:56

was going to be. And You walked right back.

7:58

And I Walked right back in. The mean.

8:00

I. Did you feel that I was

8:03

in here cause it was between when

8:05

we would do Garage Logic and Monday

8:07

Night Sports Talk and so of course

8:09

in that transition what happens is I

8:11

gotta do all my post production stuff

8:14

but then I get a list and

8:16

are worth C N at an have

8:18

you heard yesterday sure his appearance on

8:20

Drugs Logic on Fridays T I'm in

8:22

fact the use I'm assuming you have

8:25

I may have to get remain Oshima

8:27

he he had passed Joe for a

8:29

favor. oh. I was at at on

8:31

well he had of. Are

8:33

safe for is a t Had to. There's

8:37

a new ways to screen for certain colon

8:39

cancers. Oh yes and so she had asked

8:41

Joe if he would be interested in holding

8:43

the bottom of the bucket man a little

8:45

a bucket that yeah not so easy know

8:47

how to be interest. So I was getting

8:49

the off air version of that story from

8:52

Patrick which is filled with profanity. Oh yeah

8:54

so I didn't have time but Joe dead

8:56

or he went to go use the restroom

8:58

and then that door that you always come

9:00

it or he poked his head on said

9:02

ah Stark out. The Omega. it

9:04

was just dark out standard li us

9:07

today. there's no noticeable difference when and

9:09

I was been a lot of blood

9:11

and I and I'd said this earlier

9:14

and gl that I think a big

9:16

part of why this really captivated the

9:18

nation to certain extent is strictly because

9:21

of social media. Or yeah, this is

9:23

one hundred percent. Kids. Want

9:25

to put this on the tick tock and

9:27

say look at where I was It's look

9:30

at, look at what I was able to

9:32

witness and you see me seeing this thing

9:34

that's basically what I derive of them at

9:36

a woman named Sunny Hostin is that her

9:38

name she has on and see did she's

9:41

on the heels Season of you Did you

9:43

can play her Club Joe would not allow

9:45

me because he hates that Show was such

9:47

a bloody passive but he did read a

9:49

portion of the transcript. I mean, if I'm

9:52

not mistaken, she blamed. This

9:54

on global warming if. The.

9:56

cicadas on so she seen all

9:58

of these things are happening right

10:00

now, the cicadas, global warming,

10:03

and this of course celestial

10:05

event, this solar eclipse

10:07

and she thinks it's the end of times is what

10:09

it sounded like. But you know what today is, April

10:11

9th by the way? It is

10:14

the anniversary of the picture of

10:17

Pat Royce's shirtless in Hammond Stadium.

10:20

No, is it really? It really is. Wouldn't it have

10:22

been during spring training? I don't know.

10:24

Someone posted that picture on April 9th because I was

10:26

going to make a t-shirt of it. Oh, okay. Because

10:28

I thought that would be really cool, but then I

10:30

got my census camera. What happened is I was going

10:32

to make a teacher for everybody, right? All the GL

10:35

staff. And then so I got that picture and I

10:37

got it on a shirt and then I hit the

10:39

button to see how much it was. It was like

10:41

$110 and I said, yeah, I ain't doing that. That

10:44

was a really great idea. It was a great idea. But

10:46

I don't know who's going to take the picture. I don't

10:48

know. I don't see Joe wearing a shirt

10:51

of shirtless Pat

10:53

Royce. Maybe. Well, I 100% would have.

10:56

But I'm not spending $110 on a t-shirt. No,

10:58

it really came to like, I don't know. I

11:01

have better things to spend my money on. Right.

11:03

Maybe next year. Maybe next year will be the

11:05

10th anniversary or something. Speaking of Royce. Mm-hmm. And

11:07

speaking of the twin... Well, before I get to

11:09

that, I should mention I'm wearing the team colors

11:12

today. Our friends at Harmony Spirits are back with

11:14

us here on the weekly scramble. We're

11:16

going to be chatting with them in just a few

11:18

minutes off of the show. And

11:20

I'm glad that they're back. It's a great product.

11:23

In fact, I don't know

11:25

if this is a really good endorsement or not. I

11:28

used Harmony Spirits, not for consumption. I

11:31

used it to help start a fire. What? On

11:34

Saturday. No. Yeah,

11:36

like a little campfire. How dare you pour. Just

11:40

a couple of drops. Really? Just to get the thing

11:42

going. Yeah, that is not what you say. I'm going to

11:44

drink. That's blasphemous. I know. I probably shouldn't have said

11:46

that. It's a great product

11:48

made right here in the great state of Minnesota.

11:50

In Fact, Harmony, Minnesota. I'm due for a road

11:52

trip to go down there to go hang out

11:54

with those guys. I Love that part of the

11:57

state. It's absolutely gorgeous. And Again, they make a

11:59

quality product. I'm a huge fan of

12:01

the bourbons that they make but they've got

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also that the the gin. The Rom is

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really really good as well And if you're

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in the area, stop and see how the

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fellows on always have a great a rotating

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tasting room and Harmony Minnesota. But here's the

12:15

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help them grow their brand or but there

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for wonderful guys and our so happy to

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have them back here on the weekly Scramble

12:39

before I get to my other story on.

12:42

The sort of and Friday evening because

12:44

she said to me my wife said

12:46

hey this weekend I'd like to take

12:49

the tarp off of the trampoline so

12:51

we can set up we have the

12:53

the netting that goes around the trampoline

12:55

sucks because it's kind of in our

12:57

we have a little bit of a

12:59

like a pond and and and a

13:02

wooded area at the back and of

13:04

our of our our our yard cm

13:06

and so used to want one of

13:08

the neighbor kids fallen off finance and

13:10

it's it's problematic to correct so we

13:12

just put that other than that way

13:15

to than they can throw the ball

13:17

each other and one's soul. Friday night

13:19

I'm i was tasked with ah. Getting.

13:21

Rid of the Christmas tree because we took the Christmas

13:24

tree out. You know, the beginning of January? Just put

13:26

it back in that little would zero. Nothing was figured

13:28

up. You know what? the so be a good night.

13:30

To. Burn the tree I am so that

13:33

we i have a little fire and then

13:35

it was a little breezy set. So it

13:37

it it I did it and basically at

13:39

sunset and so was getting dark arts. I

13:41

was kind of keeping an eye on it

13:43

and I was watching the will. I was

13:46

watching the twins game. wasn't much of the

13:48

to this was watching something on my phone

13:50

and the backyard. evidence of perfect. early

13:52

spring evening in medicine right

13:54

ah yes or no mosquitos

13:56

yet it's it's absolute perfect

14:00

Well Saturday morning

14:02

rolls around and I went

14:04

out to go get the tarp off and started

14:06

getting stuff ready and I went huh the

14:12

Side of where you know the the the mat

14:14

is that goes around well I

14:16

had singed about a three foot long stretch

14:18

got a little hot with that Christmas tree

14:20

Yeah, and I thought well that's gonna be

14:22

a little bit of an issue and I

14:25

just thought well What are you

14:27

gonna do what you do is you turn it to

14:29

the Sun and say oh my gosh That Sun is

14:31

hot after that eclipse Yeah, I basically kind of tried

14:33

to turn that but it's it's what do you call

14:35

it? It's like bolted down Yeah, it's really secured. Okay

14:37

to the ground so it doesn't oh Anyway,

14:39

that was a mistake those when you light a Christmas

14:42

tree, right? Okay picture this reverse

14:44

Yeah a hundred years ago didn't have

14:46

electricity So you put a Christmas tree in your house and

14:48

you had a little candles and you'd like

14:50

on your Christmas tree I mean

14:52

when a Christmas tree lights up on fire There

14:54

is no stopping. No, it's it is going horrible

14:56

Yeah, and I had a couple and I did

14:58

him in my fire pit in my backyard and

15:00

I was like, oh, oh I'm

15:02

like, this is not good. Right? I mean, this was in the middle

15:05

of winter There was still a little bit of snow on the ground

15:07

and I thought I'm gonna be in trouble Right

15:09

because it was such a big fire I can't fathom if

15:11

that was in my house what that would have done to

15:13

my oh, it would it's yeah house would have been Gone.

15:16

I do have a question for you.

15:18

Okay, so, um, Joe Sartre calls his

15:20

wife the DA Yes, and

15:22

and and that stands for no,

15:24

that's Patrick Patrick's is the DA

15:26

domestic associate and and Joe's is

15:28

the CP CP which is chief

15:30

procure, right? So she's the buyer.

15:33

I want to come up something with for our

15:35

wife Oh, and I'm I'm thinking about

15:37

calling mine the pick Right.

15:40

So like she's my pick PIC and that

15:42

would stand for person in charge I

15:46

like right so she's gonna be my pick So I'm

15:48

gonna when I call so way and then you have

15:50

to come up with one for Jess your wife Sure,

15:53

because it feels more on it to see my wife,

15:55

you know, that's goofy So I'm gonna call her I

15:57

see why Joe did that and I see why Pat

15:59

did that like So we have to come up

16:01

with yours. Um, I'll leave it, you

16:03

know what? I'll even leave it up

16:05

to the listener. Cause oftentimes some of the best ideas

16:07

come straight from the audience. Yeah. And

16:10

her name is Jess. So if you wanted to work some Jess in there, you can

16:12

start it with a J. Sure. Yeah, I

16:14

could see that. Yeah. You know

16:16

what? I will start thinking about that. I like

16:18

this idea a lot and I will also gladly

16:21

take submissions. Sure. Be

16:23

nice. No, like it's respectful. Well,

16:25

actually, the dirtier the better. Well.

16:28

I mean, you might not use them, but

16:30

we'll read them all. I, well, I only

16:32

say that because I recently posted a family

16:34

photo of us in Arizona to Facebook and

16:36

I had to block somebody. Oh really? It

16:38

got on. No, it got a

16:40

little like, okay, bud. Did he do the old,

16:42

uh, oh my God, what a handsome looking kids.

16:44

Who's the dad? No,

16:46

it got a little bit more worse than

16:48

that. Okay. You got a little, but

16:51

I like mine. I like the pick, right? Person in charge.

16:53

That's what mine says. I like that. She's

16:55

my pick. Yeah. I see

16:58

it has a couple of them. Yeah. Plus

17:00

she's my pick. I like that. I

17:02

get it. I like that a lot. I'm going to use

17:04

that one. family. Yes.

17:07

You know, but it's just like, okay, I, we don't need to be

17:09

doing that. Yeah, I don't want to, I don't want to necessarily hear

17:12

all of that. So one of

17:14

the things, speaking of, of, of

17:16

my beloved, one of the things

17:18

I wanted to bring up on the show today is

17:20

I need your advice. You know, we, we used to

17:22

on occasion come up with ask Mike

17:24

anything, you know, which I think we should come.

17:27

One of the things I said is I think we should

17:29

come up with a little bit on our show called fix

17:33

it with frat. Oh, that's good. So

17:35

you know, yours is going to be marriage advice and I'm

17:37

so good at this. I

17:39

couldn't even say that with a straight

17:42

face. Well, the reason I say that

17:44

is, you know, the hardware store guy

17:46

angle, the, cause you're kind

17:48

of the, my go to guy was like, okay,

17:50

when, when should I put this stuff down? Yeah,

17:52

right. Right. So you're really good at

17:54

that kind of thing. But it could be anything. It could be

17:57

absolutely anything. So I like it. I like fix it with frat.

18:00

Okay, so I'll kick things off then

18:02

so I need to know if I

18:06

aired oh because you've

18:08

been You've been a

18:10

father longer than I have So I

18:13

come to you with them or come to you for wisdom

18:15

And so I'm wondering if I if I screwed up,

18:17

so I need to set this up properly

18:22

so Sunday technically kicked

18:24

off the baseball season

18:26

in Jordan, Minnesota Okay, both of

18:28

my sons play travel baseball and

18:31

we've been doing you know involuntary or

18:33

voluntary practice You know leading up to

18:35

that which we always go to an

18:37

involuntary for your kids, but volunteer And

18:40

so Sunday was like the big parent meetings. We

18:42

talked, you know, we had to answer some Q&A

18:44

and easy things like that No big deal, but

18:47

and I thought to myself Oh God So

18:50

my youngest has practice on Monday and Wednesday My

18:53

older has practice on Tuesdays and Thursday

18:55

nice and then it's basically every other

18:57

weekend We're going to a tournament here

19:00

there and everywhere. Okay, so whatever so

19:02

we're now in your beginning stages of

19:04

oh my god It's gonna be Labor Day before I

19:06

before I realize what just hit me. Okay, so

19:10

Yesterday I get the email from the other

19:12

coach that I that I'm with who's also

19:14

the the president of our association saying hey

19:17

I'm gonna call off practice. That's the fields are still a

19:19

mess I don't know when it's gonna stop raining and we

19:21

don't need to be tearing up the fields. It's certainly near

19:23

So we'll just we'll meet up

19:25

on Wednesday. I'm like, okay, perfect doing a

19:27

practice So when I was

19:29

driving home yesterday, I thought Wait

19:33

a minute The Dodgers

19:35

are in town Are

19:37

you kidding me? I could take the

19:39

boys to go watch the Dodgers and here's

19:41

why okay Well, that's the Dodgers only

19:43

come to town Every

19:46

whatever it is every four to eight years depending

19:48

upon the schedule because they're it's interleague And then

19:50

they like the next time they play each other

19:52

and schedule the twins will go to LA And

19:56

so I thought well Oh Tommy

19:58

now the biggest name in baseball,

20:01

of course, but sports. I mean, what

20:04

other opportunity am I going to have

20:06

to have my kids come watch, you

20:08

know, this big two-way, well, although he's not pitching

20:11

this year, this two-way superstar. Or

20:13

as we call him in our house, Shawiah Wattnay,

20:16

because when I was driving him to school one

20:18

day, we were listening to an FM station not

20:20

owned by Harvard Broadcasting, in which the DJ called

20:22

him that. So that's why we

20:24

call him Shawiah Wattnay from now on. And I

20:26

would argue he's the biggest name in baseball, but

20:28

not big his name in sports. Probably not, yeah,

20:30

but he's a huge name. Huge name, yeah. People

20:32

that don't even know baseball know who Shawiah Wattnay

20:34

is. Okay. I'd argue that. Okay,

20:37

well, anyway. Yeah. So I

20:40

get home around, I can't remember, it was

20:42

6, 15, 6,

20:44

12, I saw some around there. Game

20:47

starts, what, 7? Well, and I thought it started at

20:49

7 o'clock, but it actually started at 6.40. That

20:51

took him whatever. So I say to Mrs.

20:55

Revers, I say, hey, I

20:57

got tickets, and again, weather was

20:59

kind of iffy, so ticket, and it's a Monday,

21:02

I got three tickets for

21:04

nothing. I mean, literally nothing. Like five bucks

21:06

a piece or something. Not even. Oh,

21:08

you kidding? Literally nothing. Oh,

21:10

okay. Just awesome. Yes.

21:13

Which I don't care. I don't want to see

21:15

her. I roll anyway. You

21:17

know, she said, what? I

21:19

said, it's the Dodgers. I said, it's

21:21

the Dodgers. It's the

21:23

Stars Aligned for which we could just

21:25

randomly just pick. And I go, we won't

21:28

be out late. In fact, the game

21:30

was over. It was a two hour

21:32

and 15 minute game. We were home before 9 o'clock, and

21:34

of course we stayed up late to watch the basketball game.

21:37

But anyway, and I thought, well, you know,

21:40

it can't be bad. She did not want you to go? Well,

21:42

it was, but here's the thing, and

21:44

I get, it's school night, right? It's a school night,

21:47

and my oldest has that, what's that testing that

21:49

they have when they're in sixth grade, whatever that

21:51

statewide crap is. You

21:53

want them to do kind of poor, so school's easier for them.

21:56

Right. And you've got baseball to worry about. Yeah, we don't worry about

21:58

that. Yeah, um that's

22:00

what I thought did I did I screw up

22:03

with that like kind of setting all this? Hey,

22:05

you know I feel no no the guilt inside

22:07

of me. Yeah, it's like well, God, maybe I

22:09

did Thank

22:11

you for asking fix it with frat. Yeah,

22:13

I can tell you So

22:17

I we went through that thing where you only

22:19

have so much time with your children, right? Stop.

22:22

Yes, I Know you're

22:24

gonna think I'm kidding. Do you realize that

22:27

is exactly what I thought of bone when I said,

22:29

you know what? I will regret

22:31

not Zipping

22:33

down there just going for an in fact

22:35

we were at Target Field for maybe an hour and

22:37

15 minutes When

22:39

you brought that or you brought that up a

22:41

couple weeks ago. Yeah, that's the I did think

22:44

about that So I'm sorry to interrupt but I

22:46

think it's very important to do things kids will

22:48

remember that the whole summer that they went And

22:50

did that yeah, they won't remember the TV or

22:52

the video games or even the basketball They would

22:54

have played out and kids don't have to be

22:56

doing something every day. No, right? I totally agree

22:58

that we don't have to schedule our kids for everything

23:00

and baseball is gonna they're gonna have enough baseball

23:03

That you might not even have time to get

23:06

twins games Well, that's why I thought we

23:08

should probably do this tonight because I don't know when

23:10

I'm gonna get the chance and especially because it's the

23:12

Freaking Dodgers. Yeah, if they're playing the white Sox, I

23:14

wouldn't have given a crap. Yeah, you would have no

23:17

I really wouldn't have seriously it could have been a

23:20

triple-a team Play

23:22

in somebody could have been the banana ball and you

23:24

would have gone well and I can say this I

23:26

have no idea How they got the game in because

23:28

it rained all the way to Target

23:30

Field Yeah, it rained all the way home

23:32

from Target Field and for some reason it

23:35

is barely it barely missed it

23:37

on us anyway, but There's

23:40

a right thing to do. Okay, I really do and

23:42

I think if you're if your wife mrs. Revers thinks

23:44

it out a little bit She'll say you know what?

23:46

It wasn't that big a deal. Maybe I had plenty

23:49

did she have plans for them or something? Was she

23:51

wanting to make like a great dinner and said

23:54

oh, I know it's right They were already done

23:56

eating by the time. Oh, okay. You know, there

23:58

wasn't there wasn't bad that she had And I made

24:00

sure, because I'm like, you eat at home, I ain't

24:02

spending 16 bucks on a hot dog. I get to

24:04

work a deal. Yeah, you can put some snacks in

24:06

your pockets if you want something. Well, I think that

24:08

was a very cool thing to do as a father.

24:10

I'm gonna tell you the truth. Oh, cool, thank you.

24:12

Not everybody wants to jump. You must be very comfortable

24:14

getting in and out of downtown. You must have a

24:16

great parking spot. Oh, yeah. Because it's not that easy,

24:18

and a lot of people just don't wanna go because

24:21

it's not easy. I will say this too. So where

24:23

we come to, I mean, technically, where I

24:25

guess we're in Minneapolis and St. Paul, because

24:27

we're on the border. But

24:30

I never really, like, I've been to downtown,

24:33

I guess what, three times now in the

24:35

last couple of weeks. Sure. Two

24:38

free, I went to the opener with some friends, and

24:40

then last night, and then I took my, went

24:43

to the basketball tournament with my dad and did

24:45

a couple of those. I will

24:47

say this, and I know it was a Monday night, and

24:50

it was crappy outside. Outside

24:52

of people that were, I don't

24:54

even know what they announced for attendance, but I can't imagine there was

24:56

15,000 people at the game last

24:59

night. Oh, yeah, it was ugly though. That's

25:01

just it, it was completely weather-related. And so that's why

25:03

I thought, well, tickets are, I got them basically for

25:05

nothing. That's so weird. So you go into, like, a

25:07

stub hub, or what do you do? I got a

25:10

guy. Oh, you got a guy. I got a guy.

25:12

Anyway, but it was, it was weird. It

25:16

was almost as if, I don't

25:19

know how to describe it, but you know, you

25:21

walk from, you make the

25:23

two block walk, and you're thinking, there's no

25:25

hustle, there's no bustle. It's just

25:27

weird. And I get it, it was

25:29

mostly weather-related. Was the game already commenced when you

25:31

got there? So we pulled up, we were listening

25:33

to a little bit of the pregame on the

25:36

radio, and then, because it was a 640 first

25:38

pitch. And so we

25:40

did end up missing, of course, his first at bat.

25:42

But whatever was already in there anyway. Right, but it

25:44

was, here's what's so cool, and I don't know if

25:46

you saw this on Twitter or not, but

25:49

I was just taking little videos here and there

25:51

and pictures of my kids, because I get

25:53

a little sentimental. Anyway, and

25:55

so I told my oldest buddy, watch,

25:57

he's gonna hit home run. Oh, Tommy.

26:00

If I started recording. Know.

26:03

And we're standing were that new pound

26:05

tude is okay we're standing just to

26:07

the left of that right by the

26:10

right field. Follow Paul I'm diggin of

26:12

he launches was come islam in this

26:14

way up and so I submit a

26:17

cat because you're not gonna he's it

26:19

is absurd his give me green and

26:21

I makin I started recording Thirty seconds

26:24

later see hits and Absolute Missile. To

26:26

less center feel for Home Run I'm sick and oh

26:28

my die I just called I just randomly started recording

26:31

and it happened to be on that but on us

26:33

can afford it up they can it's. What?

26:35

They're gonna have like those kinds of things

26:37

and out I'm going to get the and

26:39

those kinds of things to a kid. I

26:42

still remember the first time my dad took me

26:44

a the Metrodome make those are the kinds of

26:47

things where you can't put a price tag on

26:49

the I know like this guy is gonna be.

26:51

he'll go down as one of the best players

26:53

to ever play the game and they got to

26:55

watch him hit a freaking home running and you

26:57

know why three dad or old it and I

27:00

call Dabic that's kind of stuff is is freaking

27:02

cool. It is really cool. So along that thing

27:04

that I had thought about where you know you

27:06

have your kids for nineteen years eighteen what was

27:08

that or against know every year your kids liberty

27:11

for eighteen years and then. For the rest of

27:13

their entire life you roughly see them one more

27:15

year worth. So you only see your kids for

27:17

nineteen years now. and then I read another stab

27:20

the other day and eight the gentleman said hey

27:22

if your if your pants or seven years old

27:24

and you don't live in the same town you

27:26

will only see your parents ten more events for

27:29

the rest of your life because most people only

27:31

see their parents always a per year. And.

27:33

So they said don't think of

27:35

it as bomb, you know. I

27:38

I'm gonna have my peers ten more years.

27:40

Think of that, I'm going and my peers

27:42

ten more years. But I'm only going to

27:45

see them twice a year so only have

27:47

twenty more interactions with them as I will.

27:49

That's weird to think because I remember reading

27:51

something I'm years ago. You know, when you're

27:53

it's your first time, damn your last. I

27:55

got going to read every book not gonna

27:57

get all the information sir. And it's basic.

27:59

like all. Basically comes down to the.

28:01

You know who you are as a person

28:03

at Where Enemies but I remember really. I

28:06

don't know if this is factually correct, but

28:08

a made a lot of sense that ninety

28:10

percent of the time you will spend. With.

28:13

Your kid is in the first thirteen

28:15

years. They're lighter. And. I just

28:17

thought. That. Is. The

28:19

app the average early access when I got.

28:22

Oh. My God. our that's. That's.

28:24

Crazy all vanishes from Iran and then it

28:26

makes me ill. hello darkness my own sprints

28:29

I don't get a nice call though. My

28:31

daughter today was biceps called me to must

28:33

have an edible a break in school or

28:35

answers calls me and says and that cause

28:38

me during school it's okay right? I'm not

28:40

freaking out at this once before i like

28:42

was gone out issues response yeah cause me

28:44

and says hey dad to me favorite we

28:47

make a t time for me has effort

28:49

for four o'clock another way to what is

28:51

wrong with my life that I'll be working

28:53

on Saturday. Spray and I'm the person who has

28:56

to put in her t times for her and

28:58

Saturday is this the same one is I was

29:00

sure and story that our i of the whole

29:02

unwanted and an almost murder because I would get

29:04

older and one totally teller decide thought about that

29:06

more seizes is so nonchalant she wanted even band

29:08

that excited. right? And I would

29:10

have, but she would have been excited. She would

29:12

have known that next time she's on a ladder

29:14

I'm disconnected from another our does not. I had

29:17

a friend or my body Greg. He runs. Competing

29:20

radio conglomerate in the Twin Cities are

29:22

also super nice guy here right? Super

29:24

nice guy and he did something that

29:26

I wanted to talk to you about

29:29

because I signed it. Very interesting to

29:31

see if in people in in baseball

29:33

do this but he was always a

29:35

right handed golfer when he was left

29:37

handed doing everything else. So this year

29:39

he switched from being a right handed

29:41

golfer to elect him and golfer we're

29:43

so now he's in of I know

29:46

in baseball you can do that right

29:48

you can me a can play both.

29:50

Ways right. I get that and I could

29:52

kind of do that. Decide take a normal

29:54

baseball swings though. The golf swing. It's very

29:56

new as very few people ever go from

29:58

righty lefty Do. If you were a

30:01

prominent right eat that you could just. Teach.

30:03

Yourself hot about left handed. Or.

30:06

What is what? It feels so weird if

30:08

you think you diverse but but it's all

30:10

about. To get deep

30:12

into it it's is all about muscle memory

30:14

her n n n repetition because one of

30:16

the things I'm going through now with these

30:19

two is a sex he can't just show

30:21

up at practice matter how you get better

30:23

me up You get better by doing the

30:25

stuff away from the schedule practice times and

30:28

away from when you're playing a game that

30:30

that that battles great but if you don't

30:32

do anything more than that you're not can

30:34

improve during the know what that is right

30:37

was at called the Mile in a son

30:39

of a neurons so in your brain. You

30:42

have these connectors. Oh and there's this

30:44

white suburb substance called Mile and a

30:46

son that wraps around your neurons and

30:48

the more you do your swing over

30:50

and over and over in make that

30:52

neuron did superfast sat with this white

30:54

dupe and then you you'd that becomes

30:56

when someone throws about you with your

30:58

hands, jumps out and gets it because

31:00

that neuron is read while right and

31:02

it's a It's a Super people who

31:04

are really really great a sports. They

31:06

can measure the strength of their neuron

31:08

network in their brain and you do

31:10

that from holy repetitive actions. Over

31:12

that's why they tell you when you go play

31:14

golf, know when you go to a driving range.

31:17

don't just go hit on or balls as as

31:19

you can you want to hit the hunter balls

31:21

the exact same way perfectly not may be perfect

31:23

results but exacting swings singer my is so you

31:26

mile and a your neurons interested in a cool

31:28

that's very very i met. That's what you've done

31:30

with your baseball pitch. certain your baseball swing for

31:32

your entire life. And when you think how many

31:35

times have you swing a bat oh my god

31:37

was a nurse up there. Any noises on crazy

31:39

crazy amount our and your brain just you'll you'll

31:41

and fifty years you'll be able to swing the

31:44

bat. with the same or large

31:46

are still as nickel ah noom keep that i'd

31:48

enjoy life i do i look at our exit

31:50

frat whatever mile and a son and her we've

31:52

got ourselves that i read a book once right

31:55

oh no i've got a couple of emails that

31:57

i'd like to have throw your way the first

31:59

comes to us from Todd, subject

32:01

line frat and reavers.

32:04

Raves, if Mike says, you're the cat's meow,

32:06

I think I did. I was worried

32:08

that that was a racist term. No, that's what it

32:11

was. That's exactly what it was. Okay, so he says,

32:13

Reavers, if Mike says you're the cat's meow, you

32:15

tell him that he's the lump in your

32:17

mashed potatoes. Oh, nice. Now, I'm trying to

32:20

think. Todd, please tell me that's not a

32:22

horrible thing. Todd, a wealth of useless facts

32:24

and boring information. There you go. That's what

32:26

his tagline is. I love that. Thank

32:28

you, Todd. That comes to us from Bert. You

32:34

have expressed a distaste for calling what was

32:36

Twitter the name X, and I share your

32:38

distaste. How about calling it Twix?

32:41

Might cause trouble with big candy, but you

32:43

could see the Spanish X pronunciation and say

32:46

Twith or Twizz. Just a

32:48

pointless thought. It reminds me of

32:50

Latinx and how they're trying to make it like, oh,

32:52

you're not Latina or Latino. You're Latinx.

32:55

Okay. Now it's going to be

32:57

just Twix. That's the one thing I don't... I think Elon

32:59

Musk is a marketing genius and just a genius

33:01

all around. When

33:03

people said, and you said this a million times, I'm going to tweet

33:05

this, you can't say I'm going to X

33:07

that. That doesn't make sense. No, and I

33:09

refuse. That's why Donald Trump

33:11

sued. Truth Social doesn't work

33:14

as well, although he just sold it for 300 million

33:16

bucks. It just doesn't work as well because you don't

33:18

say, oh, I'm going to Truth Social that. It

33:20

was so simple with tweet. I

33:23

think we should just say, I'm going

33:25

to tweet on X. That's not bad.

33:27

That sounds like I'm... Something

33:30

about it is weird. I don't know why that... But

33:32

he wants just to control the letter X. Oh, speaking

33:34

of that, I started

33:36

to notice there's ads now

33:40

basically showing... I'm

33:43

trying to be sensitive because I get why

33:45

they have this viewpoint. But

33:48

there are now ads. I don't know

33:50

who's behind it. I would assume it's

33:52

the platform itself. There's

33:55

different types of people. I know there was one that

33:57

featured a cowboy rancher, and there was one that was

33:59

a big owner or whatever about

34:02

the government wanting to ban tech talk. Have you seen

34:04

these ads? Oh yeah, yeah. And I'm thinking,

34:07

okay, I get it. You use

34:09

that to enhance your business so

34:11

I can understand why that would

34:14

have a direct impact on you.

34:16

Yep. And I'm

34:18

thinking to myself, well, that's

34:20

fine that you want to create

34:22

this ad or you want to... But

34:24

do you really think that's going to

34:26

help change anybody's opinion about that? That

34:28

matters? Yeah, advertising works, especially when

34:31

you advertise on the weekly scramble. True. No,

34:34

no, no. I'm not saying about the consumer themselves. I'm talking

34:36

about the people in

34:38

the positions of power. Yeah, no, I

34:40

think it does. In fact, it's really

34:42

funny that you mentioned that because I've

34:44

heard that certain companies will advertise in

34:46

D.C. where the

34:49

politicians are. They'll run huge ad

34:51

campaigns for certain things like banning

34:53

tech. And

34:56

I'm going to give you my two cents

34:58

on tech tech. My kids are TikTok. They're

35:02

literally Chinese nationalists

35:04

now. Their brains

35:06

are gone, right? They're great kids and

35:08

they're going to be fine probably. But

35:11

they're really into TikTok. They're going to

35:13

be fine probably. But one thing

35:15

that I think of is that why

35:17

do we allow that to

35:20

propagate through the United States? We

35:22

shouldn't sense the problem. We should. And why

35:24

can't we just say to China, 100% you can have TikTok here.

35:28

When we can have our social networks

35:30

there. You can 100% buy

35:33

farmland here in America when we can buy

35:35

farmland in China. And just say, hey,

35:37

it's tit for tat. God, please tell

35:39

me that tit for tat's not a racist thing. I don't

35:41

think it is. Okay, thank God. Do you want me to

35:43

look it up? Please, just in case. Okay. But

35:46

why won't that be the right answer? We're

35:49

not trying to impede you from grabbing some

35:51

of the global market as long as we

35:53

can sell our cars in your market. I

35:56

just don't get it. I don't know why our

35:58

argument is until you let us do. this,

36:00

you can't do this here. Tip

36:02

for Tat is an English saying

36:04

that means equivalent retaliation. It

36:07

developed from tip for tap, first

36:09

recorded in 1558 is also a

36:12

highly effective strategy in game theory.

36:14

An agent using the strategy will

36:16

first cooperate, then subsequently replicate

36:19

an opponent's previous action. So

36:22

I don't think that is a racial implication.

36:24

There's not a racial implication there. That makes

36:26

me feel good, right? Yes. That

36:28

might be another segment we could have in the show. Does Mike accidentally

36:30

say something racist? You know what I learned as

36:32

long as we're going down this road, I

36:35

don't like using this word when

36:37

I communicate on said shows, but

36:40

I learned over the weekend, um,

36:42

what I'm so like looking for the dump

36:44

button. No, but I learned what piss poor

36:47

were originated from. Do you know

36:49

that term where that term origin is? Or

36:51

no. So way

36:53

long, 250 years ago. No,

36:56

a long, long time ago when

36:58

people had no money, they

37:00

used to use urine

37:03

to tan hides. And

37:06

so if you were a

37:08

family that essentially had to

37:11

collect it, much like what Roycey has sushi to do,

37:13

if you had to collect it, um, you

37:16

were of a certain social

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demographic, and

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that meant that that's how poor

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your family was. I did not know that

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there was an actual meaning behind

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it. All of these, these idioms come from

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something good. Yeah. Well, not

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good. Something interesting, right? They're not all

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good things per se. And I

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hope I conveyed that message correctly. I

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think you did. And you'll be

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happy to know that this was discussed at my

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father's birthday gathering where my mother told me this

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story. And I looked at her and I said,

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why are you telling me this? And

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she said, well, you'll probably use it on the show. Oh,

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I thought she was going to say, well, we're not

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getting you any Christmas gifts if you're a kid because

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we're piss poor. Right. Right. getting

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us. Okay, Revers, you're the

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best. Thank you, Michael. You are too. Please do

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us a favor and rate and review the show

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wherever you happen to be listening to the weekly

38:08

scramble. It helps others find the show and we

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would really appreciate it. His name is Mike Fradiloni.

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My name is Chris Revers. We will talk to

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you again next week. Until then, cheers.