Without The Twang

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Sa. [00:00:22] Speaker B: Welcome to what you think, friend. I'm Cody Lindeberry. With me as always, Ed or l. Whoa. It's been a minute since we've done this. [00:00:31] Speaker A: It has. It's been, you know, a little over a month. We try to do one every month, but it's been weird. [00:00:37] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's been weird. It's been busy. Somewhere in the intro, I adapted a Creole accent that has now gone away. [00:00:48] Speaker A: Well, that's all right. Yeah. [00:00:51] Speaker B: So what's good, my brother? [00:00:52] Speaker A: What's good? Not much. I mean, basically I've been looking at all these concerts that are coming to Montana and only one has stuck out that I'm going to. So which one is that? 311 bad flower and Sitting on Saturn. [00:01:10] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't even know that was. Where's that at? [00:01:12] Speaker A: That's here. That's here in Great Falls. [00:01:15] Speaker B: What? [00:01:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:17] Speaker B: Nice. [00:01:18] Speaker A: And. And then we have. In Great Falls in May, we have Drowning Pool and Saliva for literally, like the 999th time. [00:01:28] Speaker B: I was going to say they're becoming a house band now. [00:01:30] Speaker A: They. They are a house band. House group. Yes. It's just. Although, like I was. I was telling Becky earlier this morning, I'm almost tempted to go see Drowning pool for the fifth time. [00:01:46] Speaker B: Twelfth? [00:01:46] Speaker A: Yeah, something like that. Yeah. 5, 12, 24. Whatever it's been. [00:01:51] Speaker B: I mean, it's illusion. [00:01:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Because the lead singer I liked after Dave Williams passed away is with the band again. It's the former lead singer of Soil. [00:02:04] Speaker B: Oh, dope. [00:02:05] Speaker A: He's back with the band again. So literally between the time of the Newbery book looking Drowning Pool in Saliva and in May when the concert is, they've got gone through two lead singers. That's just like. They just trade lead singers like baseball cards. This day and age. [00:02:27] Speaker B: That's fair. Well, we got. Let's see, got comedian Tom Segura coming to town next week, so that'll go. Got tickets for that. So that's going to be fun. [00:02:38] Speaker A: Uhhuh. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Man, I'm. I'm on the struggle bus of trying to think of what other bands we got coming. [00:02:45] Speaker A: There's been concerts, but I've seen it all and I. And I hate to say that I love supporting the local venue and that, but I don't want to see some of these bands for the second, third, fourth time. [00:03:01] Speaker B: 20Th. [00:03:02] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, 20th. Yeah, that checks out. Although our fair is interesting. We. We are. I would never pay what it costs to see them by themselves, but the fair here in Great Falls is getting smash mouth. [00:03:22] Speaker B: Get out of here. [00:03:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:25] Speaker B: I'm like, jesus. [00:03:27] Speaker A: I'm like, it's a. It's a summer of pop punk in Great Falls. [00:03:32] Speaker B: So I'm. I'm having to think back here, because I want to get my math right. I want to say that they played. [00:03:38] Speaker A: Great Falls over 25 years ago. [00:03:42] Speaker B: No, it had to be about 25. [00:03:44] Speaker A: Yeah, well, because it was in. No, I guess it would have been about 22 years ago because it was either in 2002 or 2003 for the fair. [00:03:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:03:53] Speaker A: It was 03 because they came back. Because in 20 or an 01. Was it 01 or 02? Steve, the lead singer, his son had passed away. [00:04:05] Speaker B: Yes. [00:04:06] Speaker A: And he. They came back a year or two later. I can't remember the exact time frame, but it was in that rough. Roughly that time frame. [00:04:13] Speaker B: Yeah. And it was a great show, too. I just saw that. I actually just thought about that the other day. Given the fact that I was like, oh, man. When you are like Ed and myself or you've seen good amount of bands, sometimes you forget that you've seen. [00:04:29] Speaker A: Right. [00:04:30] Speaker B: Band or two. [00:04:30] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, gotcha. [00:04:31] Speaker B: And you're like, oh, man, they saw them when they were not even in the infancy of. Of some bands. [00:04:39] Speaker A: Right. [00:04:39] Speaker B: Just like, oh, what? How the hell I'd land that one? [00:04:42] Speaker A: Right. Yeah, it was. I mean, that would have been in their heyday, the early 2000s. [00:04:48] Speaker B: Yep. [00:04:49] Speaker A: Although you and I are both fans of their first album, which came out in like 96.7ish. [00:04:56] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah. [00:04:58] Speaker A: That's by far their best album. [00:05:01] Speaker B: But where some. Some in a goddamn record store tried to convince me that it was 98 degrees. [00:05:11] Speaker A: Wow. Yeah. [00:05:12] Speaker B: Because I was trying to find that CD, I was like, it's this song. The song is on the overhead right now. It was like a Canadian Sam Goody. [00:05:22] Speaker A: Oh, it was probably FYE or Suncoast or something like that. [00:05:27] Speaker B: Yeah. FYE themselves to hell and back. That's what they can do. [00:05:35] Speaker A: In Canada. It could have been either. Well, Suncoast was the Sam Goody branch of their movie stores, so it's probably an FYE up in Canada. [00:05:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:47] Speaker A: If it was something like that. Yeah. But either way. [00:05:49] Speaker B: Yeah. All the same, like when you have a song that's playing on the overhead and you're like this. I want that song. No. Shazam. At the time. [00:05:58] Speaker A: Right. [00:05:59] Speaker B: Tells you where technology has led us. [00:06:02] Speaker A: Yes. [00:06:03] Speaker B: Into the. [00:06:05] Speaker A: You don't have to. You don't have to guess for weeks and months on end now trying to remember the song that you heard the one time on the radio, but just right before the commercial way hit this. [00:06:17] Speaker B: This is truly the day and age of music. Not even musicians. It's for the fans. Kind of. [00:06:25] Speaker A: Kind of. [00:06:25] Speaker B: This is. This is. Well, this is a give and take. [00:06:28] Speaker A: Right. [00:06:29] Speaker B: You can almost access any song at any time versus taking a gamble because you think you've heard one song off of a CD and. And you never, you know. [00:06:41] Speaker A: Right. [00:06:41] Speaker B: Never quite sure. [00:06:43] Speaker A: Right. [00:06:44] Speaker B: And the crux of that is now that you can't go to a show without a cell phone in your face or. [00:06:52] Speaker A: Right. [00:06:53] Speaker B: Tickets price just being just astronomical. [00:06:57] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's. I. Yeah. I would agree with you that it's kind of a damned if you do. You got to take the good with the bad. [00:07:09] Speaker B: Yes. [00:07:10] Speaker A: Oh, and like, I look at it as granted, Apple owns Shazam now, so it's not as bad as it could have been. But there's other services like Soundhound and Music IQ and things like that that will identify songs for you. But literally, they. If it's all tied together, much like, you know, advertisers like Google, Facebook, X, all that are. All their advertising is all tied into one mecca, basically. One empire and one empire. Yeah. The. They could legitimately take all the songs you Shazammed or listened to, feed it into some algorithm with Live Nation, Ticketmaster, StubHub, all those and AXS, whatever you want to call it. And then they're like, this had 12 million Shazams in the last, you know, six months. So we're going to triple the price of the ticket in this area. [00:08:10] Speaker B: You know, it's funny that you say that, because I'm going through the pub station just to remind myself what. [00:08:17] Speaker A: What you're missing shows. [00:08:18] Speaker B: Well, what. What shows are coming. So you got like Memphis May Fire, Angel Maker. [00:08:24] Speaker A: You have Seether and Nonpoint coming. Yep. [00:08:28] Speaker B: I think that one's already sold out. [00:08:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:30] Speaker B: But another one that sold out I got tickets for is Stefan Wilson Jr. [00:08:35] Speaker A: Okay. [00:08:36] Speaker B: I don't know if you've ever heard of. Of his music. [00:08:41] Speaker A: No. [00:08:43] Speaker B: He is about as Americana as you can get. He just has an old soul voice that is haunting really. And it. Yeah. If you're. If you're feeling any sort of emotion, this will. He has the voice that'll break you down. And we'll tell you. Tell you what for. Yeah. So because he does an iteration of Stand By Me. [00:09:16] Speaker A: Okay. [00:09:17] Speaker B: That is just it. It's a hard cut on you, bud. [00:09:24] Speaker A: I'll have to look it up. [00:09:26] Speaker B: Well, it was. It's funny because you have this. But like we. I bought the tickets like the second that I could, and already the ticket went up to. From. Now let's do the math here. We had. Ticket price is 29.50. Ticket fee of $8 and 50 cents. We're local. We can. Yeah, we'll get by on that one. [00:09:50] Speaker A: Right. [00:09:50] Speaker B: Not like these 50 to 100 surcharges. [00:09:55] Speaker A: Right. [00:09:56] Speaker B: So overall, for two tickets, I spent 78.28 sets. [00:10:00] Speaker A: Right? Sure. [00:10:01] Speaker B: On their website now, it is 75 to 104.50. And it's already sold out, so it doesn't matter. But it was more of a. [00:10:10] Speaker A: And then you go to your secondhand ticket sites like Stub Hub and things like that. They're probably 2, 300 bucks. [00:10:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And this is like homegrown show versus in comparison to. [00:10:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that's crazy. [00:10:24] Speaker B: We're getting. We're getting Dinosaur Jr. That's hilarious. [00:10:29] Speaker A: Dinosaur Jr hasn't been relevant for years, unfortunately. But that is funny. [00:10:35] Speaker B: Well, I mean, it is great though, because the man Montana will get some weird acts. Like, I believe Bozeman and Missoula will have Cannibal Corpse. [00:10:49] Speaker A: Right? [00:10:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:50] Speaker A: And neither one of those, to me, screams like heavy metal towns. Especially Bozeman. [00:10:58] Speaker B: Last year we've had Living Color. [00:11:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:01] Speaker B: And that was a great show. [00:11:03] Speaker A: And Extreme. Don't forget Extreme. [00:11:06] Speaker B: Can Extreme. [00:11:09] Speaker A: Yeah, they played here in Great Falls too. [00:11:11] Speaker B: Yeah, that was. That was a great show. [00:11:14] Speaker A: I just couldn't. I couldn't bring myself to go to the concert and listen to two songs. [00:11:19] Speaker B: That I know, you know, I had to be dragged to that. [00:11:25] Speaker A: But now you don't regret it? Well, no, you don't regret it. You can look back on it and say, ah, it was all right. [00:11:33] Speaker B: Yes. My go in with low expectations and then you're never disappointed. [00:11:39] Speaker A: I always go into concerts with low expectations because you just never know this day and age. [00:11:43] Speaker B: Yeah. And most of the time you're just like, what's. What's it gonna be like this time? It's not like, what was it when Ministry was here and the opening act had so much smoke screen that it set off the fire alarm. [00:12:01] Speaker A: Oh, nice. [00:12:02] Speaker B: But nobody could tell the difference. [00:12:06] Speaker A: Well, yeah, there is that. [00:12:08] Speaker B: I was like, oh, man, that's a good sign. And nobody gave a. Anyway, so I was like, all right, yeah, well, whatever. Yeah. So they. There's a couple. Couple shows in there, but we'll see how all of them pan out. [00:12:24] Speaker A: But nothing compares to the summer. The like Summer of 99 tour. [00:12:33] Speaker B: Talk to me, bud. Let's, let's lay out the details. [00:12:36] Speaker A: I, I, you not. We were just joking about this. And then they come out with this damn announcement a couple months ago for this year's tour for 2025. Yes, they just announced 2026 is coming back. Yeah. [00:12:52] Speaker B: Now I'm gonna have to. [00:12:53] Speaker A: Yeah, I look, this the only, the only one that I, only one I've seen because the band I follow on Facebook, Smile, Empty Soul, posted that they'll be on the Summer of 99 tour. [00:13:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:07] Speaker A: And I'm like, well, that fits, I guess because their first album was right in that time frame for singles were about 99. So I, I just, that baffles me that that's like literally like one of the biggest rock festivals right now and it's headlined by Nickelback and Creed. Literally two of the most hated bands for no real reason. [00:13:34] Speaker B: Ed, would you like me to break this down a little bit more? [00:13:38] Speaker A: Yes, please. [00:13:40] Speaker B: Because it's the summer of 99 and beyond. [00:13:43] Speaker A: And beyond. Oh, yeah, I forgot the end. [00:13:45] Speaker B: Beyond and beyond for 2026. April 17 through 21. It is the summer of 99 and beyond. Cruise. [00:13:55] Speaker A: Oh, it's the cruise. That's right. It was a cruise this year too. It was a cruise this year too. [00:14:01] Speaker B: I don't, No, I don't think it was. [00:14:03] Speaker A: Was it not a cruise this year? [00:14:04] Speaker B: No, cruise. [00:14:05] Speaker A: Oh, God. That sounds even because, because it was. [00:14:08] Speaker B: A two day festival. Oh, right, that one. One day it was Creed headlining and the Nickelback was headline the other. [00:14:15] Speaker A: That's right. This summer of 99 and more. Cruise. That sounds even worse. [00:14:22] Speaker B: And beyond. [00:14:23] Speaker A: Cruise and beyond. Cruise. [00:14:24] Speaker B: I mean, there's more to be announced because you have the head. Well, should we break it down? [00:14:29] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, go for it. [00:14:30] Speaker B: You want, you want me to go from least to top? [00:14:33] Speaker A: Yes. [00:14:34] Speaker B: All right. Hosted by Eddie Trunk. The Power Hour. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Oh, God. Eddie Trunk. That guy's an idiot. [00:14:45] Speaker B: Okay, and then you have Smile and Be Soul. Tim Montana. [00:14:50] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:14:52] Speaker B: Twelve Stones. Ooh, Oleander. [00:14:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:57] Speaker B: Blackstone. Jerry. [00:14:59] Speaker A: They're all right. I hear they put on a decent show. [00:15:02] Speaker B: Talking about him again. Living Color. [00:15:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:07] Speaker B: Filter Collective Soul. [00:15:12] Speaker A: They put on a good show. [00:15:13] Speaker B: Yes, yes, they do. Three doors down. [00:15:16] Speaker A: And of course, Creed is Nickelback in that mix again. Oh, is it just a. It must just be Creed's thing then. [00:15:25] Speaker B: It is the Creed crews. [00:15:26] Speaker A: The Creed crews. Yikes. I see those, those groups that have just been announced. There's a lot of highs and lows in there for me. A lot of peaks. And valleys. Yes, there is. I was just like, ooh. Oh, well. Lots some twists and turns in there too. [00:15:48] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. [00:15:50] Speaker A: It's like the roller coaster of cruises. [00:15:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. And whoever did the Photoshop on this job is bad. [00:15:58] Speaker A: Well, they probably, you know, you got to stick with the theme. 1999. [00:16:04] Speaker B: Brother. I was playing with Photoshop back then, and it wasn't. That's. This bad. Good Lord. [00:16:09] Speaker A: Yikes. [00:16:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Just. Yeah. [00:16:14] Speaker A: Does that make you cringe every time you see a Photoshop job for a band that you're like, they paid money for this. [00:16:21] Speaker B: Okay, I have two thoughts. I have two schools of thought. Okay. I really do. And it's kind of two sides of the same quarter, because one, somebody got paid to do this job, right? And you're thinking, not, it should have been me. It's more you got, I could have done that better. You should have done better. [00:16:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:16:47] Speaker B: But the other part of me is it could be some young buck that's getting their. Their first crack at, you know, something. [00:16:57] Speaker A: Right. But then you're also, at the same time, you're like, you should have done better. [00:17:03] Speaker B: Well. [00:17:05] Speaker A: Because there is. [00:17:06] Speaker B: Right now, it's like a ship, but it's in the night. But they highlighted one area, so that's basically a hard cut of the line. [00:17:15] Speaker A: Oh, they should have blended it more. [00:17:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And then you have some tribal ass ass graphic that doesn't necessarily mirror itself. It's just bad. It's a bad look. [00:17:32] Speaker A: Try. The tribal designs were played out, and by the late 90s, they should have just stopped. [00:17:39] Speaker B: Yeah. But even then, some of the tribal stuff had symmetry to it. [00:17:43] Speaker A: Well, yeah, well, that was the whole thing with. With that type of design is the symmetry. [00:17:48] Speaker B: Yeah. This had none. Well, it's kind of. [00:17:51] Speaker A: But it's kind of, but not really. [00:17:53] Speaker B: Well, yeah, when you have, like, bits and pieces that are hanging off one area and then not on the other. [00:17:58] Speaker A: Oh, sure, man. [00:17:59] Speaker B: Come on. [00:18:00] Speaker A: Come on. Oh, man. [00:18:03] Speaker B: And I have another case of people need to be better. [00:18:08] Speaker A: Oh, all right. People need to be better. [00:18:11] Speaker B: And that would be my experience with ace. Now give you a little backstory. Key fob, battery runs out, runs out juice. As they do, they are used proper, and thus it runs out of energy. [00:18:29] Speaker A: Right. [00:18:30] Speaker B: Go to your local ACE hardware. In this case, don't go to your local hardware. [00:18:37] Speaker A: They are not the ACE with the helpful hardware folks. [00:18:41] Speaker B: I mean, normally they are, but I go to the kid at the counter, you say, hey, need. Need batteries. And he opens up the fob and blow black Pieces fall out. [00:18:52] Speaker A: Oh, lovely. [00:18:53] Speaker B: Yeah. And then he has a hard time getting the batteries out because he's a kid and you know, tools have eluded him in this case, Employee number two has now stepped up to the plate and has a screwdriver. So we're already getting a little further into the mix. [00:19:13] Speaker A: Get the bigger tools. Okay. [00:19:14] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they replaced the battery, but then they discovered that Humpty Dumpty don't go back together again because all those little. [00:19:24] Speaker A: Black pieces were pieces of the key fob, weren't they? [00:19:26] Speaker B: Correct. So as he is trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, three more employees have surrounded, waiting in the wings on the deck circle to try and figure this shit out. In the meantime, employee number one, the kid who is a young, a young man is probably one of his first jobs. [00:19:52] Speaker A: Sure. [00:19:54] Speaker B: Has since collected the black bits, put them in the trash, and employee number four has taken out the trash. So by the time the evidence, so by the time that they just go, well, we just can't put, put it back together. [00:20:11] Speaker A: Just doesn't work. [00:20:14] Speaker B: It has gone through five different people black tape in order to keep the sides of it alive. And now the damn thing don't work. And their solution is no solution until the active manager who is on the phone tells me, perhaps you get, you shouldn't give the 16 year old your key fob to swap out the batteries. Wow. I'm mad at her. I'm not mad at anybody else in the store, but this has attained my ire. While she's barking out, take down his information, take a picture of the key fob and like will call you on Tuesday. Get a new one or something. I don't know. I thought it was three weeks ago. I have yet to get. [00:21:04] Speaker A: Well, they had those key fobs have to be programmed by the dealer. [00:21:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's an aftermarket one because it was for a auto start. [00:21:15] Speaker A: Oh, sure. Yeah. [00:21:18] Speaker B: So I'm hard on this one. Truly. [00:21:23] Speaker A: I say give me my $80 for whatever these costs and we'll call it good. [00:21:30] Speaker B: I mean, even for the nine bucks of the batteries, you should have just eaten that price. But whatever. [00:21:35] Speaker A: Now that they've straight up broken it. [00:21:38] Speaker B: Yeah. So now it's on a matter of principle. I'm just so mad at that lady. I'm like, God damn it. [00:21:47] Speaker A: And then she, she has the nerve to blame you for her hiring a 16 year old to do the job. [00:21:54] Speaker B: And well, the kid had already like he was looking it up. He's like the the pat, he was ready to buy a new one, but the pat, it does not match because it's an aftermarket one. [00:22:05] Speaker A: Right. [00:22:07] Speaker B: Whatever. The. That's not the important part. The important part of this is that then I have to go and be like, kid, if this is the worst thing that happens today, we're gonna just take it as a. As a w. Okay? This. It's not. It's not that deep. [00:22:21] Speaker A: Not your fault. [00:22:22] Speaker B: I'm not. I. I'm not mad at you. [00:22:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:25] Speaker B: Not mad at anybody here. Well, maybe that, but, you know, it's not correct. And then, you know, he sulks off. Dude. Number two, I have to tell him. It's like, tell the kid, you know, that I'm not mad at him. Don't take it too seriously, you know, because it's. It's rough being young at a job, right? [00:22:48] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:22:49] Speaker B: I don't. I don't care if it's slinging burgers, pizzas. [00:22:54] Speaker A: Anytime you work a customer service job, there's rough points. [00:23:00] Speaker B: For sure. [00:23:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:02] Speaker B: And kid probably done it a hundred thousand times. [00:23:04] Speaker A: It worked just fine. [00:23:05] Speaker B: And then this worked just fine. Yeah. This just one fucking time. Because his whole ass key fob. But still on the principality of it all, it was just more of a. Like, I'm just mad because it's. As somebody who has a manager title in the, you know, business card, right? I. I have to be the guy that has to be like, you never do that in front of a customer, right? Never talk down to your employees or, you know, co workers, right? [00:23:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:23:42] Speaker B: And especially in front of a customer, Right. If you want to pull them aside and say, hey, Ed, you up, didn't you? But you know, in a. In a cheeky manner, then that's. That's gonna be. That's ribbing, right? The. This was. [00:23:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I got. [00:23:59] Speaker B: I. I'm still mad about it, apparently. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Hence the mini rant. [00:24:04] Speaker B: It's been three weeks. Well, I figured that you would enjoy that. It was not the helpful, friendly place. [00:24:09] Speaker A: It was not the helpful place or the place with the helpful hardware folks. [00:24:13] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, they were. They were helpful. There's seven people on deck by the. Well. [00:24:18] Speaker A: Yeah. You gotta give them that 45 minutes. [00:24:20] Speaker B: On a Saturday, dude. What, is there nothing else to do? [00:24:23] Speaker A: They were all hands on deck to fix your teeth. Good Lord. Probably talking to one another on their little earpieces, standing right next to each other. [00:24:33] Speaker B: Yes. How'd you know That's. [00:24:37] Speaker A: That's the only part that Humpty Dumpty's. [00:24:39] Speaker B: Still not working over. You know, it's like, God damn it. The hell? [00:24:44] Speaker A: That's the only part that creeps me out about Aces. They're that you. You walk in there, and maybe this is just me, but I feel like they treat everybody like they're criminals because they're talking back and forth with one another throughout the store. Like, tracking you the whole way. It feels like I just got. [00:25:04] Speaker B: You got. Homeboy talking to Bob. Bob is 5cm away from his face. Come on, man. [00:25:12] Speaker A: I just. I. I don't know. They're. I mean, Ace truly is one of those stores that has everything, but I. [00:25:21] Speaker B: I will admit that I. A weekend. I will look like I'm pretty low rent. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Right? [00:25:26] Speaker B: All right. Still wearing shirts that I've worn from high school. Yeah. [00:25:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:32] Speaker B: I. I'm coming up on 40. I know what I am. [00:25:36] Speaker A: You're like, you're still. [00:25:38] Speaker B: Hold. [00:25:38] Speaker A: You're still stuck in the past. No, I'm not. I'm just cheap. [00:25:42] Speaker B: Hey, I'm. I'm. I'm still with the modern stuff. I'll watch more WrestleMania. Oh. Start at WrestleMania 9. What's it now? 41. [00:25:54] Speaker A: God damn. I. I don't even know. I don't watch wrestling. I've never seen. [00:25:59] Speaker B: No, I'm telling you because I watched it last night. [00:26:02] Speaker A: Oh, good Lord. Yeah. [00:26:06] Speaker B: Absolutely. You're gonna watch it. [00:26:07] Speaker A: Oh, man, I don't know. [00:26:09] Speaker B: Don't you oh, man me. [00:26:10] Speaker A: Oh, man. I don't know. I don't. [00:26:12] Speaker B: Fantastic. [00:26:13] Speaker A: It. Pro professional wrestling is like a male soap opera. [00:26:19] Speaker B: No, absolutely. 100. Don't lie to yourself. [00:26:23] Speaker A: I'm not. That's the way I view it. [00:26:27] Speaker B: Except I'm almost like I was about half a shade away from saying, like, when they do Days of our Lives. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Or crossover episode WrestleMania with Days of. [00:26:40] Speaker B: Our Lives, Blondes vs Brunettes or whatever the it's called. [00:26:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:26:44] Speaker B: When they put some pepper behind the slap, like, that's some wwe, right? Right. [00:26:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. They need to do a crossover episode. [00:26:52] Speaker B: Well, I mean, like, if you watch some of the WrestleMania just because they get those chops and see how red the chests get, I was like, yeah, get it. It's about it. [00:27:05] Speaker A: Crazy. Yeah. [00:27:08] Speaker B: So anything else new in the. The life of Edward? [00:27:12] Speaker A: Not much new over here. Pretty. I honestly, I live a pretty boring life, dude. [00:27:20] Speaker B: Sometimes no snow, no fire is a. Okay. [00:27:23] Speaker A: Right, Right. [00:27:24] Speaker B: It. It seems like if you were following news, it seems like one hellish thing after. [00:27:33] Speaker A: I have not looked at any normal news media in probably about three weeks, and it's Been pleasant. [00:27:41] Speaker B: Oh, that's a great idea. [00:27:43] Speaker A: I just, I go on my social media and if I see something that's, you know, news adjacent, I just skip right on by it. I don't even, don't even bother with it right now because you know, there's been other things going on and I'm just like, you know what? I don't got time for it. [00:28:01] Speaker B: I. I'm already in the land of misery. I don't need any help. Thanks. It is like. It is like the anti dopamine of like turning on the news. It's just like it's sadness. [00:28:15] Speaker A: Every news is so much look at this point. So we can just, we can distract you with this thing so you don't see what's going on over here. It's like a. Like a super lame magic show. [00:28:27] Speaker B: It is the, the depression Muppets of. [00:28:31] Speaker A: Look over here. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's. I just, I gave up about three weeks ago and it's been kind of nice not knowing 100% of what's going on. [00:28:43] Speaker B: Man. I got to subscribe to your newsletter. [00:28:49] Speaker A: Things are going on. [00:28:50] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I actually, I'm glad that I thought about this. Ed. You like baseball? [00:28:59] Speaker A: I do like baseball from time to time. [00:29:01] Speaker B: From time. Not this season, but from time to time. You like baseball? [00:29:07] Speaker A: Yes. [00:29:08] Speaker B: What in the fiery is going on that there's like these games that are putting up like 21 scores in a game? Because there's been. [00:29:19] Speaker A: There's been lots of them this year. It's weird. [00:29:21] Speaker B: Goodness. I am looking. I've me who is keen to. To gambling. I enjoy gambling. [00:29:31] Speaker A: Sure. [00:29:32] Speaker B: But looking at the over unders for baseball games, the average is anywhere from seven and a half. That's line at. Or up to ten and a half for the lines because they. You're never quite sure if they're going to score two. [00:29:54] Speaker A: I mean score two runs or 20. [00:29:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:59] Speaker A: And baseball's got a real problem right now because there's so many teams that are just so jacked. Like they just. I don't know. I, I just. [00:30:11] Speaker B: Super teams. Yeah, super teams. [00:30:13] Speaker A: And then there's your other teams that are just. Would have been considered a good team 15 years ago but now are basically a minor league team now. [00:30:22] Speaker B: I. I have this question for you. Given the fact of the matter that you are a fan. Yeah. Actually it's two bits that I want. [00:30:30] Speaker A: Sure. [00:30:30] Speaker B: One, what team do you hate the most. [00:30:37] Speaker A: That changes from time to time. Right. Now see if you would have asked me this in the 90s, it would have been the Yankees hands down. [00:30:48] Speaker B: Evil empire. Yeah. [00:30:49] Speaker A: Evil empire. But now the LA Dodgers are the evil empire. [00:30:55] Speaker B: That's. That is true. It's because they've bought damn near everybody. [00:30:59] Speaker A: They. They've got some ridiculous amount of money. But I'm sitting here thinking as a fan, I'm like in 10 years all that money is going to kick them right in the giblets that they owe. [00:31:10] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:31:11] Speaker A: They're going to be writing checks their ass can't cash in 10 years. [00:31:15] Speaker B: I would laugh if they became the new A's. [00:31:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:31:18] Speaker B: I don't know where they're located, but you know, it's the A's. [00:31:22] Speaker A: There's somewhere in California right now. Yeah, they will. They will be Vegas at some point. [00:31:32] Speaker B: Yes. [00:31:33] Speaker A: In fact, their stadium is going where the Tropicana was on this. [00:31:37] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, this is the great part about it is that. What was it? Mark Davis, Al Davis's son to who. Whom brought NFL the Raiders from Oakland to Las Vegas. [00:31:53] Speaker A: Uhhuh. [00:31:53] Speaker B: He specifically said do not get in bed with the owner of the Athletics. He's a dumb. And he's gonna. [00:32:01] Speaker A: He's gonna somehow. [00:32:03] Speaker B: Yes. What happened? [00:32:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:06] Speaker B: Boom. [00:32:07] Speaker A: Well, and luckily, because they were trying. [00:32:11] Speaker B: To follow suit and just go into like Allegiant Stadium and they're like no, no, no, no, no, no. This my mecca. Go your stuff. [00:32:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Well luckily the A's owner is basically out of the picture now. But yeah, but yeah, he did yank him around for a while. [00:32:27] Speaker B: Oh my God. Yeah. [00:32:30] Speaker A: Although I did find it interesting that as soon as the Oakland A's decided they were moving to Vegas, there's now an Oakland Ballers baseball team. They're a. They're actually a Pioneer League baseball team. So they play the Montana teams. [00:32:48] Speaker B: Oh, dope. [00:32:49] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. And they're part owned by Billy Armstrong or Billy Joe Armstrong. No, no. Yeah, you. Apparently you can buy stocks in the company. Huh. [00:33:02] Speaker B: Wild. [00:33:03] Speaker A: They also had the last season they had the first female start. I can't remember if she was starting pitcher or what position she played, but she was the first female to start a game in the Pioneer League history. And Pioneer League history goes back to the beginning of time. Okay, maybe not quite that far, but It's. It's early 1900s for the pioneer League. It's been around for a long, long time. So it's. It's just interesting that last year was the first time a female athlete had started on a team. [00:33:45] Speaker B: Damn. [00:33:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember what position. If it Was either pitched a starting pitcher or a corner outfielder if I remember right. But I don't remember. I'm not remembering which one right off the top of my head for some reason. But yeah, it was. The ballers should be coming to Montana this year because all of the Montana teams went down to Oakland last year. [00:34:13] Speaker B: Hell yeah. [00:34:14] Speaker A: So they should be coming up here for a, a few games. [00:34:19] Speaker B: Nice. [00:34:20] Speaker A: So yeah, it was weird. It was just one of those odd things that. [00:34:25] Speaker B: Now, speaking still on the topic of baseball, they are thinking of implementing a salary cap. [00:34:34] Speaker A: Yes. [00:34:35] Speaker B: Do you think that is good for baseball? [00:34:38] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:34:39] Speaker B: I agree. [00:34:40] Speaker A: But I also think what they need to do is a salary cap, but they also need to do a salary floor. They need to have a ceiling and a floor because if you just put a ceiling there then you're not preventing the cheap ass owners like the former owner of the Athletics or the current owner of the Marlins or the Rays from actually spending money. So you need to actually protect both sides. And then, then you'll have more, more teams that are. Well, you'll have fewer awful teams in the league because there's some that just are terrible. They don't spend any money, but they get all this money from the top tiered teams because of. What do they call it? It's not a salary cap, but it's. [00:35:35] Speaker B: A. [00:35:37] Speaker A: There'S, there's compensation for it. The top teams that spend all the money, I don't remember, remember what they call it in baseball, but it, it's basically the, the, the lesser smaller market teams get money from the big teams to try to be. To. Oh, oh, the luxury tax. [00:35:52] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:35:53] Speaker A: The competitive luxury tax. [00:35:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I know this. So I did a bunch of good on you. [00:36:01] Speaker A: Yeah. So I, I just, I don't know. I think a salary cap is a. [00:36:07] Speaker B: Good idea because I'm not, I'm not against it. But guess you know what would be even more fun? Relegation. [00:36:17] Speaker A: All right. [00:36:18] Speaker B: You take your worst teams and you knock them back down to the Pioneer League. [00:36:26] Speaker A: That would actually be awesome. [00:36:27] Speaker B: Well, I mean if you already got the Athletics playing out of Sacramento, you might as well have Sacramento team and just take up to the rain. [00:36:34] Speaker A: There you go. That, I, I mean that actually would be all right because then all of a sudden the big team is like we sucked. Now our minor league team is our major league team. [00:36:44] Speaker B: So all of a sudden the Atlanta Braves are sweating out the Bull and D the Durham Bulls for coming up in the league and he base it off of like the Nat. Like base it off of where they are located in terms of, like, Central League. Wesley. [00:37:04] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, no, I. I'm not. I'm not completely against that. [00:37:11] Speaker B: Do that for football. [00:37:12] Speaker A: Yes, they should absolutely. Football be a little easier to manage that, I think. [00:37:18] Speaker B: Well, I mean, soccer doesn't all. All across the pond. [00:37:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:22] Speaker B: And it's fantastic because you will be invested until the very last week. Who survives. [00:37:30] Speaker A: I just learned about that, weirdly enough, watching Ted Lasso. [00:37:35] Speaker B: Even though I've been talking to you for years about. [00:37:40] Speaker A: Just finally clicked. Oh, I'm. I'm. I'm a little slow sometimes. [00:37:47] Speaker B: I am slow a lot, actually. You. You and I have both said this on a prior podcast. Not even the prior last one, as in the last podcast that we did with a different name. [00:38:00] Speaker A: Right. [00:38:00] Speaker B: That. It's like, shoot, boy, I'm dumb as hell. [00:38:05] Speaker A: Yeah. I. Soccer rules just all of a sudden clicked. Watching Ted Lasso, I suppose you have to put it in some sort of a comedic form for me to understand. [00:38:15] Speaker B: It, and somehow we escaped it without having a laugh track. And I love every bit of it. [00:38:20] Speaker A: Right. [00:38:23] Speaker B: No, I know. Oh, man. Well, I think that's a good break point for today's podcast. What do you think? [00:38:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [00:38:34] Speaker B: All right. Well, you know, we didn't even break into our catchphrase of what you thinking, friend? [00:38:42] Speaker A: Yeah, well. [00:38:43] Speaker B: Oh, well. [00:38:44] Speaker A: Oh, well, I'm think. [00:38:46] Speaker B: I'm thinking that this podcast is officially good. But I'm Cody Linderbury. Thank you guys for listening. Outro yourself. [00:38:55] Speaker A: And. And I'm Edwar. You can find the podcast on both Blue sky and on Mastodon and Facebook. Just look up what you're thinking, what you think. Blue Sky. Yeah. [00:39:09] Speaker B: It's a promise. [00:39:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, we're on. We're on the new ones, trying to. Trying to get things going, but those are a little harder to gain traction. [00:39:16] Speaker B: We're indie. [00:39:17] Speaker A: We're indy. Yeah. [00:39:19] Speaker B: We're. We're Montana. Folksy without the twang. [00:39:23] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:39:25] Speaker B: Hell, yeah. Well, thank you all for listening. Have a great day. Click. Ooh. Click. [00:39:41] Speaker A: Come on. Stop recording.