We Argue About Ticket Prices Before Recapping Brockmire

We play a listener voicemail, catch up on our weekend sports stories, and argue about the moment ticket prices cross the line from memorable to ridiculous. Then we dig into Brockmire Season 1 Episode 5 and how the show turns viral outrage, podcast culture, and “authentic” fandom into a weird kind of salvation for a struggling team. 
• reacting to a listener voicemail and the “Smitty and Two Legs” joke 
• weekend recap with minor league baseball wins, rainouts, and theme nights 
• Negro Leagues celebration and why Josh Gibson still matters 
• sticker shock on Stanley Cup ticket prices and what we would pay for 
• building a home watch party with a projector instead of buying seats 
• Brockmire S1E5 highlights from the Heart To Heart parody to the viral clips 
• the ASMR rant and how fast internet trends age out 
• the podcast and NPR angle with This American Life style fans 
• the fracking company threat and how popularity shifts leverage 
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Transcript

Welcome And Listener Voicemail

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Okay, let's go. All right, all right. Well, welcome everybody to the Dead High Chronicles podcast. Yes, it's a podcast. All right, so chill out. Listen, so here's what happened, and Donnie doesn't know any of this. So uh we're gonna go over everything, okay? Just like the breakfast takes is just in podcast mode. And I need to start by l making you listen to a voicemail that a listener left us. Okay. Okay. A listener left us a uh a voicemail. And I need to the only way that I could do it, I've been trying to get it over, that's why we're like I'm a little late to our own podcast, but whatever. Uh so here it is. Let's listen to this. This recording is uh my contribution, please, to uh the Brockmeyer episode for recap. First of all, there are very few uh baseball television shows. And so I'm very glad to see that this baseball uh this show is as a baseball television show. I think that that's really important. Uh Brockmeyer's character uh is one that I think we can all relate to because who hasn't uh lost a job after flipping out of federation after finding their spouse in bed with all of the members. So uh you know it's a it's a relatable show. I'm very glad that uh you all are are retarding it here on the on the live show uh with Bonnie. Um you know, so um I just want to uh make a note that uh was completely dead in a brother uh at one point uh having that conversation with and uh these are people smitty and all two lakes. That's my favorite one for also late. I want you guys to know that you two you and Donnie and you and Donnie. You're my Smitty and all two legs, you're my favorites. So which one of us is gonna be Smitty? I don't know, and who's gonna be two legs? I don't know. I mean, is Smitty the old guy? Okay, I I don't know. I'd have to look back and see which one's which. I mean dude, how hilarious does kind of fit me, yeah. It kind of does. I I could take Smitty and your two legs because you're working out all the time. You're working on those two legs. Dude, I was uh dying when he uh he sent me this voicemail, and I've been holding on to that voicemail for a while, and I needed to listen, I needed you to listen to it because this was you know, this was episode four that we recap about what two weeks ago? Yep, yep. And live while we were live in in uh Tampa, Florida during our show. So I figured, you know, well, we're here, you and me, together, uh, doing this episode of this podcast. We go over a tale as old as time, losing your job because of a fit of rage because you killed your wife in bed with the neighbors. I mean, come on now, how good is that? Well, I figured for tonight's episode, this isn't real, but uh I figure if we're gonna talk Brockmeier, I've gotta have you know the the the rock's glass, oh yeah, just some unsweet peach tea, but it looks like bourbon, so you know I gotta have a if you're gonna talk Brockmeyer, you gotta have a drink in your hand, too. Listen, and we're gonna go over the episode, okay, guys. We're gonna go over the episode again, guys. My name is Edward Vero, so known as the that hand with me, I got my good friend, the mayor himself, Mr. Donnie

Weekend Baseball And Rainout Pain

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Wise. Donnie, I want to start, anyways, by by talking about what we did over the weekend, right? Like, I mean, this is what we always do when we're you and me are together. Uh, we talk about what we did over the weekend and everything. And so, how was your weekend, my friend? Weekend's been really good, except for the rain out that I had uh on a game yesterday. Talk to me kind of rain outs just ruined my plans, my weekends, like everything you had said. I know how you feel. I know how you feel. Um, Friday night was a great game. It was Margaritaville night at the Fireflies. Uh, real good heck of a game. I mean, it it just it was a nice, steady-paced game and lots of hits, lots of runs, um, lots of movement. It wasn't just one of these boring old games. Yeah. Um, Fireflies ended up winning it in in a nice fashion late. Um, and they had five dollar cheeseburgers and margaritas. So it started out like that. Saturday, Rhonda and I went and got in the pool with her aunt uh for a while at her house and swam and floated and got ready to go up to uh Clinton to see uh the flying monkeys and the Joanna Hornets first game. You did tell me that, yeah. We we drove all the way there, we pull into the campus at Presbyterian College, and I'm like, there's nobody here. We pull around to the field, there's one truck, one guy standing on top of the dugout, and I'm like, Did they cancel this game already? I looked, and 30 minutes before we got there, and it was a one-hour drive. So while we were on the interstate, they posted stuff about the game being canceled, but I wasn't looking at my phone, Rhonda wasn't checking it. You guys were just hanging out, yeah. So we just uh we went home, stopped and got something to eat, uh, placed close to the house. And then again, today we had uh Fireflies game again.

Negro Leagues And Josh Gibson

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It was their celebration of the Negro Leagues, so that was really, really good. Got to meet up with uh Sean Gibson again. Uh he's Josh Gibson's great-grandson, and he brings the uh Josh Gibson Foundation traveling museum to this ballpark. And uh so him and then there's another guy that was there today uh from here in South Carolina that uh basically has a similar type thing, but just on a scale of South Carolinian players that played in the Bigger Leagues. Interesting. Yeah, that's amazing. Do you know how old Josh Gibson was when he passed away? Like 40. No, he was in his 30s, wasn't he? Yeah, he was he wasn't yeah, he was in his 30s, his life got cut short. Uh, I think it was brain cancer, which could have been operable if it was today. That's how sad it is, yeah. To to know that he could have been saved, right? If he would have been playing, um, and then he just sadly passed away. Yeah, that's it is crazy. I mean, uh it's good that these guys are keeping everything alive. They they did a lot of um uh stuff for a lot of different players that that were sure mentioned today, and um so it's not just about Josh Gibson, although he he's probably the greatest uh player that nobody knows about because of he was in the Negro Leagues, one of the best catchers of all time, exactly. Yeah. I I just like to, you know, when you said it that, like, hey, you know, I'm gonna go see Josh Gibson, and you saw I saw pictures of Josh Gibson. It's like he's been one of my favorite uh Negro Leagues player of all time, right next to um Satchel Page, right? Uh because Sachel Page was just a such an entertainer, and it was like he was good, but like there was something about Josh Gibson, like the dude was such a good dominant catcher, right? Yeah, uh, and it's sad that like he could have he he would have been one of the best. Actually, he would have been a hall of fame catcher in Major League Baseball and Negro Leagues, obviously, but you know what I mean? That's just like yeah, so sad that his life got cut short like that. And and since integration, um, there hasn't been very many like very good catchers, uh Negro catchers. I mean, they just there hasn't been. I mean, I I remember Charles Johnson with the Marlins in the 90s, and I was like, you just don't see black catchers very much. Yeah, he was 35. Yeah, and so um for him to to not only be um a great hitter, but to be a catcher. I mean, because all the other players that you hear about that are you know, like the Larry Dobies and Jackie Robinsons and and and so on, you know, Sagil Pate, they're they're positioned players, they're you know, like out in the in the field, they're not catchers, they're either pitchers or they're they're uh second base or whatever, outfielders, you know. Uh Clemente was an outfielder. Still to this day, I don't know why they haven't retired his number in all of these. I don't think so. I don't get that. And um, I did ask uh Sean about um what's on display currently at uh Cooperstown since I'm gonna be going up there in September and anxious to see uh you know just the whole gamut of things, but I was just wondering what specifically of uh Josh was was was on display. He said, right now the only thing they have on loan from the foundation is his 1942 MVP trophy that he won in Puerto Rico. Really? That's it. Yeah, yeah. It's in it's in a uh uh apparently there's an exhibit about uh black baseball, yeah. And so it's one of the items in there specifically. I wonder if a lot of his stuff it's at the Negro League Baseball Museum in uh in Kansas City. It could be, could be because I know they had a lot of stuff from from a lot of the players there when I went before it's such a I went to the old museum because I know they're building a new one, yeah. You know what I mean? I cannot wait to go back. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome, dude. That you're able to that able to see that and do that. So uh, so for me, this weekend was actually pretty good. Uh

Stanley Cup Ticket Price Outrage

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we were Saturday night, we're supposed to go to um like a local bar to go watch the uh hockey game, like the you know what would end up being the clinching uh game for the Carolina Hurricanes, right? So we came home and we were staying home and and everything, so we had food here and and just hung out. And then we're like right there on that spot. I was like, all right, we should like if we if they make it, like Darla and I were having this conversation. If they make it to the Stanley Cup, should we buy tickets? Right? And we had this conversation, you and me early today over the phone, right? As I was walking, and um and and I said, Well, yeah, I mean she's like, we should, we definitely should. I'm like, absolutely, let's try it, right? So as soon as the game ended, obviously there was no tickets because the tickets were going to be available the next day. Uh at three o'clock, it was gonna start. Like season ticket holders were gonna get try to get tickets first, and then the um the the air sort of public after that, right? So season ticket holders, they get the first dib at tickets, which I can understand that, right? You you've played, you paid a full season or half season or whatever, you bought a package, you get dibs. Okay, cool. So three o'clock rolls around, Darla's already to go. I'm at I'm at practice baseball um for the open for the sandlock, and I get a text message from my buddy. He goes, dude, tickets are going for $1,500 a pop. And right there on the spot, I was like, Fuck that. Right. Literally five minutes later, Darla's like, they're 1300, 1400, 1500, and I'm like, we're not going. Yeah, that's it. Where you know what I mean? If it was, I'll be honest with you, it's like, I don't know what the limit would be, right? And I know that our good friend uh Patrick is gonna say, Well, you guys got you know, private pool money, right? Uh, so I'm gonna I'm gonna get that argument right out of the way. I was like, I'm not willing to pay that. Yeah, there's no like you said on the phone, it's like there's a number that you're willing to consider it, and it's one of those like I really don't want to spend that kind of money, but if if it if like if you just saw it there, you'd probably like impulsively do go over it, yeah. Just you know, be like, you know what? Fine, it's $700, I'll do it. Just because you don't want to miss it, right? But if you sit there and say, Do we really want to spend $700 a ticket? You're probably like, no, not really, because we're probably not gonna find it. But then if you found it, you'd be like, buy it, buy it, buy it. Okay, exactly, exactly. But $1,500, just not a chance in hell. I was gonna say, buy it, buy it, buy it. I was gonna be like, fuck it, fuck it, fuck it. I can't think of anything, any event, anything I would go to, uh, that I would drop that kind of money for at all. Listen, I'm a Browns fan, and in my lifetime, I've never seen the Browns go to the Super Bowl. Sure. Okay, I'm not paying $1,500. Not a chance in hell. Now I've been to a World Series for for when the Cleveland Indians were went to the World Series in 2016. I went to a World Series game. I would do that. Yeah, like I would I would pay four or five hundred bucks, right? Because it's a little bit bigger, there's more people and all that, right? There's only like 20,000 people uh that uh can go inside the arena for the hurricanes, yeah. But that's not a not a chance in hell, not a chance in hell, absolutely. You know what I mean? So right away we said no. So we were like, you know, like my guy friends here, or like other all the like dads and everything, we're like hanging out. Like, she's just hosting. We're like, we should do a like uh uh you know, tailgate. I'm like, oh hell yeah, let's do it. So me, what I what do I do? I went online, I went on Amazon, okay, and using the money that we weren't gonna use for the tickets, I bought an inflatable projector screen and a projector, and still had money left over from what one ticket would have been. Not no brother. Listen, my the that uh screen was less than a hundred dollars, right? That's what I mean. You you the both of those things combined were way less than one ticket for a way less than like not even half of that 1500. You know what I'm saying? So I was like, this is money because I can put my I can either do a Bluetooth or I can do the um the the uh fire stick, right? I can I can plug in the fire stick. So I was like, you know what? Screw it, let's do that. So we're gonna go hang out. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna party and watch the game here, like you know, game one. It's been since 2006 that they've never they haven't been to the Stanley Cup championship, the Carolina Hurricans, right? Obviously, I'm a fan of the team and everything, so I was like, Yeah, why not? Let's do it, let's just have a party. So Tuesday, Thursdays were like splitting off and everything, and so that's gonna happen. I'm excited for that, you know what I mean? Yeah, I just got I just got angry though. Like $1,500. Yeah, that's that's like uh that's a bit much, yeah. What's and and I and then obviously this isn't a podcast stuff, and then you know, also in a video on YouTube, but make sure that you hit the follow button, guys. Everybody, okay. We're trying to get to a thousand followers on our YouTube channel, so make sure you go there um and hit the the this the follow button, hit it and give me five stars. Now, my question to everybody is and then we're about to get into the Brockmire

What Event Is Worth Paying For

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stuff and everything. Don't worry, we'll get there. What's that one event that you would be like I'm gonna pay that because there has to be one, right? Like, I mean, we all say it's like I'm not gonna do it. Like, we can sit here, you and me, we can sit here and say, I'm not doing I'm not going $1,500, but there has to be that one. Like, honestly, I for me, football would not be it just because I know that I would enjoy football better watching it. I think uh football has become more of a spectator on TV sport than anything else. Am I wrong on that? No, you're you're actually very right on that. Um I I'm not I I've never been like wanting to go to the Super Bowl, just because I think when you get there, it's just it doesn't it doesn't play well in the stadium, I don't think. I mean, it's just one of those things where I guess the fact that you were there, I just never thought I'm gonna spend a boatload of money to go to a Super Bowl. The Super Bowl to me is so much more enjoyable because of the other stuff beyond the game that you see on TV, the broadcast, the halftime show, all that. I mean, I guess if I I mean I can see where people that have grown up their entire life following an NFL team, and that's and they go to see you know season after season, I could see that. I mean, I follow the Panthers, but I don't follow the Panthers like that. No, there's nobody I've been a fan of my entire life so much that I would pay that kind of money to go see, to be honest with you, outside of and I'll say this the the only time I would have probably considered that was for Clemson national championship game. And I got lucky that I didn't have to pay that because um I was gonna pay when uh when they went to Arizona the year before they won it with Deshaun, and I couldn't go to Arizona, but I was willing to pay a few hundred dollars. I don't think I'd have paid fifteen hundred dollars. The next year in Tampa, I just got lucky that uh there was an Ipte member that was selling his tickets for face value. I mean, it didn't cost me but you know 75 bucks for a ticket to go see that national championship game. Dude, this national championship? Yeah, or maybe it was 170. It might have been 175. Still, that's it was still in the 1930s. It was way, way low uh compared to my friend Scott, who drove all the way to uh Tampa with him and his son, drove down there without a ticket at all to try and find a scalper with one. And he got some great seats now, but he bought two tickets right before the game for $2,400. Jesus fuck. But he was right down there in the end zone where Hunter caught the the uh the pass to end the game, and he was sitting next to Mike Golick, so that was pretty cool too. But I was no way I'm gonna go without a ticket and buy something for $2,400. Like, what's your plan B after that? Like, would you just gonna go to like a bar and or tailgate with people? Like, I I don't get that. He was actually gonna go just hang out at a tailgate. He found found a couple of tailgates where people had some uh RVs out there and um people he knew that knew people he knew or something. He was gonna do that if he had to, but you know, he was he was willing to do it. No, I I wasn't gonna pay that. So I've so I've seen Clemson win a national championship game and I didn't pay that much for it. I've been to a Yankees World Series game in Atlanta, and those were free tickets from my uncle in '96. Um now I'd love to go to see a game at Yankee Stadium. Look, when you went to the World Series to go see the Yankees, did they win? They did win that game, yeah, because they lost the first two in New York and they came to Atlanta and they won three in a row and went back to New York and won it. Yeah. Um, so they won four in a row against Atlanta that year. But um, I mean, I'd love to go to see a game at Yankee Stadium. I don't know what those would cost. I do know the game we're going to in September is a little pricey, but it's not fifteen hundred dollar pricey because I would have not paid that, but it's a couple hundred bucks. But it's special. Yeah, right. Well, it's nine-even. It's nine-eleven, it's the 25th anniversary of 9-11. It's at Yankee Stadium, it's against the Mets. So still for a few hundred bucks, that's not bad either. No, not not bad at all. No, I just like it. That's the the whole thing to me, though. Like, like, I gotta be like, man, I really want like to see this this team, right? Like, uh, it has to be like once in a lifetime kind of deal. Yeah. I mean, even for again, there's just no sporting event I can think of that I would pay that for. No. Um, there could possibly, I mean, I don't even know that there's even any bands left because people are dead now, but there's there, you know, potentially if there was a band that I could meet and hang out with, you know, for 15 minutes before a show or something like that, and have front row seats, you know, somebody that was just legendary, possibly. But I the I can't think of anybody that's alive right now that that I dropped that kind of money to go see either. I'm good. Like the Guardians, right? Like, I would love to see the Guardians again at the World Series. And I've said it's like, you know, last year I said it was like, hey, listen, they make it because it was playing your team, right? We I remember it's like you we both said it's like, all right, we're going out there, you know what I mean. I or like when we could no, it was last year when it was like when we were trying to meet against the it was Yankees and and Guardians, like when they were trying to meet last year, like you know, but obviously the the Guardians got eliminated by Detroit, so that would if they had if they had played each other, we were gonna try to do that. Yeah, we're gonna try to go. Um, so that's yeah, I'll I'll but I would not be paying, you know what I mean? There's not a chance in hell that I would be paying uh over a thousand dollars for a ticket. It's not gonna happen, it's just not gonna happen. Like, I mean, congratulations to you if you can do it. I you know what, more than happy to you know, say congratulations, good for you. I'll be watching it out of the comfort of my own home, going in my own bathroom, right? I is that is that old age? No, I don't I I think it's it's not wanting to spend it on stupid money, that's what it is. Holy shit. I mean, it's one of those things you the the you have to you have to be able to waste that kind of money, you have to be able to have enough money to waste that kind of money, and I don't right, despite what Patrick thinks, I don't have that kind of money. But uh by far is gonna tell you otherwise. I know he seems to think I do, but no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So, anyways, listen. Um, so that was you know, that was my whole like weekend just trying to figure out whether what what we were gonna do. Obviously, we didn't do that, okay, guys. I bought a screen protector, which by the way, I am much better happy to have that because what you know what I can do now? Um you know, my my daughter, we were she goes like daddy, we gotta try it out. It's like, well, the projector's not here yet, it comes on Monday. So once once I get it, we'll set it up and we'll watch a cartoon movie on this projector screen. Oh, yeah, to to test it out. We gotta test it out, kiddo. Yeah, and she's like, Yeah, daddy, we do. I was like, You got it. So is that worth it? Absolutely. Oh, yeah, because this is one of those things that I mean any big sporting event comes up. You you want to watch a World Cup game, you want to watch some uh you know, World Series or playoff baseball or something, or right? Yeah, we're super at the end of the month. We're here at the end of the month, right? Yeah, uh, and we're about to have start, you know, soccer here, like the the the the FIFA World Cup is about to start. Yeah, you know what I mean? So get some USA games, some Spain games, obviously, because I'm rooting for Spain as well. So I was like, you know, I get to I get to see that. Like we can't say, hey guys, let's go. And it's portable enough that we can just move it wherever we want, which is the best part about it. So so that's that was the weekend, man. Uh, I'm excited for that. So uh all right, Donnie. Season

Brockmire Episode Five Recap Begins

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one, episode five. Brockmeyer. This one hits a little home, though. I'm gonna be honest with you. This one, so this one started out, and I've I'm I'm I've got it running on the screen. So do I get it on my phone right now? I just started it because I'm gonna let it run to kind of keep refresh, and I'll pause it when I need to, but just to kind of refresh me. But the thing I loved about this one, and you you and I've talked about the fact that Ron and I watch old TV all the time. Yeah, this one floored me because I didn't remember it the first time. But when I started watching this for the this review, and it starts out with him doing an Asian version of Heart to Heart. Pusa A Pusa. Pusa Aposa. I I lost it because Ron and I we used to put heart heart to heart on at night. Like it was one of those that came on at like 10 o'clock at night or nine nine something at night on one of the channels. Of course you would. And we would just come up here, lay down, and we'd put it on, and we every night, like on week every weeknight, it would be like what we'd go to sleep watching. And we saw, and it was one of those things where they would run it in sequential order, yeah, and it would keep. I mean, for like months, we watched the same show over. I mean, we never missed an episode. We saw every episode multiple times, so that fact that it started off with him playing an Asian Jonathan Hart was hilarious, and then it became a viral thing. They had to cancel it because of like they got sued, right? Like, I mean that's that Robert Wagner had a uh good lawyer or something like that, yeah. Like, yeah. And he was like, Well, did the wife not have just like any other word? And it was like it was more of a you know a joke going on, right? Like it was like it was they didn't need to, yeah. It was a catchy phrase. Yeah, it was. Yeah. Like this kid is like the the most typical, like kid that just does not care about traditional, like you know, uh uh shows or or or any of this, right? Like, he don't think he still hasn't even gotten to rules of baseball up to this point. We're on episode five, and he still doesn't know what baseball really is, right? Exactly. And how he taught he tries to explain to him about something at some point in this episode, and he talks about well, think about Mr. Baseball Hall of Famer thingy versus whatever. And he's just like, I want to kill you. It's gonna be the next, you know, so uh I wasn't uh shortstop. Short he was like, I'm gonna require that you learn some baseball, you know. Which is true. Like, listen, guys, you guys don't need to learn span. I mean Spanish, don't need to learn baseball, but at least know some of the rules, right? Absolutely. If you're gonna be working in baseball, you kind of have to, yeah. You would think eventually you would just sort of pick some things up, but so far he's sort of ignored a lot of that. I think it by he's so focused on the the the video production of of Brottmeyer and everything, but yeah, it's hilarious too, because then it goes into all the people that want to see him lose it because they're all about him losing his crap, right? Because that's what he's known for, right? Like exactly, you know, he is known for that being that that that play-by-play guy who lost his shit while on while you know calling a game, Kansas City, yeah. Um, because he found his wife with other men and women, you know, in their bedroom. So, which was like, no, I'm sorry, living room. Yeah, uh, and so there's that. So, like then Charles asked, and and I I love this part, like asked, like, you know, Joe's like, Are you trying to take full advantage of this whole situation? Yeah, right. She's like, No, yeah, yeah, exactly. Like, admitted it's like, absolutely, you know, and what's funny is he like he he blows up and curses at that 14 12-year-old kid or 14-year-old kid, yeah. And by the time he doesn't even make it all the way to the press box, Charles is showing him the video, and he's like, What? He's like, That kid has 14 million viewers, it's like already gone viral, right? Like within 30 seconds. I I love that this part that because she goes, like, you know, I can't really let my relationship interfere with this plan, right? Right, because he's like, he's like, I can I can geotag the the uh the ballpark to to the video, you know, make sure, and then she's like, make sure put the the the home schedule so that way they can come and see it and all that. So it's like all of this, right? Right, to make sure that they know, and then the very next day, what does he do when he comes to the ballpark? He is trying uh to like just get in, and people are trying to piss him off so he can lose his shit, right? Yep, yep. Wasn't the big black dude who like dumps you know a drink in front of him? He was like, Yeah, lose it. It's like they're trying to, yeah, it's like you're trying to get a monkey to do something, you know. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, come on, do something, like, come on, monkey, do this, do that. Yeah, like you know, he's at the circus and he's uh like you know, he's the the the attraction, right? Yeah, and so um and and so the the the Brock Meyer is like, no, no, I'm not doing this, I'm not doing this. He of course he goes and cusses out the um the kid with the 14 million views, right? Like he was so like didn't even know it, and then what not even a minute later, yeah, he's like has over 14 million views. This kid. Well, it's funny when you're watching this because of the time period that it actually came out in to begin with. Yeah, some of the references are so outdated already from the social media standpoint because he talks about that kid has 14 million followers on Vine, like nobody uses Vine anymore. No one uses it. But that was that was the thing then was Vine. I used to watch Vine all the time, like there were funny videos, exactly. And it's just funny now how fast that went away. How quickly we're in 2026, right? Like, I mean, well, let's be honest, internet hasn't really been that uh you know out that long either. It's like we're you where obviously you and me are you know having a conversation, you know, we're about to stream this on YouTube and everything, and but like it hasn't been that long. No, I mean I mean it's been 10 years. This is that that that's another thing. It's hard to believe this is 10 years ago that this first season came out, and it's still so good, it's still so good, absolutely. Now, there's one part that really hit home to me that I really enjoyed. There's a couple of uh moments, but this one, like you know, right after he cusses the kid out, they go in that catwalk, yeah, right, into the booth, which was awesome. Oh, I know, and that stadium, I've got to make it to that. I gotta find some way to go to a Macin Bacon game this year. I need to look at the schedule and see when when the blowfish are playing in Macon if it's on a weekend that I don't have anything going on and tell Rhonda, look, we're gonna do a Saturday run down to Macon or something. And I just want to go see that stadium in person. I have yeah, I have to. Yeah, I want to see the castle. That's like a pilgrimage I need to make at this point now, and I should have already made it, but I haven't thought about it until we've started revisiting this, and so it's like, okay, I definitely have got to go down there and check it out. At this point, you have to, right? Like, it's it's it's one of those things it's like, okay, you know, Field of Dreams, it's part of like you know, the pilgrimage for our baseball fans, right? Cooper Stone, like that's part of it, yeah. You know, for us as fan of baseball, like it's specifically minor league baseball, right? The life of of baseball, like you know, what they go through and all that. Like, I think this has to be added into one of those. Listen, it that this ballpark, it's still there, yeah. There there's baseball being played in this ballpark, so you have to go. Yeah, and it is the Macon uh bacon, yeah, which is another great name for a baseball team. I mean the thing is, I've already two of the three two of the three we've just mentioned in this just now, I'm already scheduled to go to. Scheduled to go to the field of dreams, yep. Scheduled to go to Cooperstown. So the trifecta is I've got to get to Macon and see the field where they film Brockmire. If I get all three of those this summer, that's that's like a a bucket list year right there. I'm glad that you said that, you know, field of dreams, right? We

Field Of Dreams Trip Plans

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are gonna be there, okay, guys. Really quick. You know what? I'm glad I'm gonna use this as a you know uh an announcement, right? We already we know this already, but uh the curvebird media media is gonna take place uh the weekend of August 28th, okay? We are going to Iowa, we're gonna go and watch a couple of games, and we're also gonna go to the field of dreams. We would love to have you guys there, okay. Um, we are doing the um I the colonels. On Friday night. Correct. That's gonna be it's also, I think it's uh fireworks night, if I'm not mistaken, uh there, and then the the the Quad City River Bandits, yeah, which I know that one is uh Fireworks Night. Yeah, that's on Saturday, and then Saturday during the day will be at the movie site for the Field of Dreams, correct, which also happens to be the future home of a uh Northwoods League baseball team, right? So, which is gonna be great. So we're gonna have that. The the movie set is gonna be there. We're gonna play catch, we're gonna look at the some of the merchandise, maybe hit up uh one of the breweries for lunch and things like that, and then make our way to um to the uh the the game that night. So uh if you are interested, uh let us know. Uh make sure you contact one of us so that way um we can set up some tickets aside, right? Because so that way we can all try to sit together and and then we'll let you know, hey, this is how much it is to sit here with us and everything if you want to. Uh, you're not obligated to sit with us. Uh, I think it'll be cool to meet people, hang out, talk about baseball uh all weekend. And that's what you know. My daughter's looking forward to this. Did you know that? Yeah, dude. She's loving, she's like, Oh, daddy, when are we going? I was like, kid, we got it, we got a whole summer. Look real, she's all in on this one. Yeah, so I'm okay. I'm happy with that. I'm happy that she's gonna be uh able to come to to this one. Yeah, absolutely. All right, now that we got that out of the way, back to our scheduled content here. Uh, and so um uh jewels and charles, right? They orchestrate all of this so that he loses his shit. Yeah, he turns the tables on them though, because he starts talking about in the most boring way about baseball bats, yeah, about the kind of the kind of tree that's yeah, birch and and ash, and all of this, and it's like hilarious because like nope, and not only that, he starts drinking water. She's like, That better be vodka in there. Is that water? And he's like, he's like, God, what is this? This is a bros 70% of the world drinks this garbage. That's amazing. Oh, yeah, that's funny. And then it rolls the thing is it rolls from that to him in the bar doing what he does best, which is his inner monologue out loud. Which at this point, Jules is like, let just just it'll be over soon. Just let he's just working it out. The funny thing though is Jimmy the Hat comes in, yeah, and does it too, and he's like, uh Jimmy the hat. That that's my thing. Yeah, that's my thing. You can't because Jimmy the Hat's like, Yeah, uh you know, I I got this hat from my kids. Uh one of the last things they gave me on Father's Day probably was in the seat cushions from one of the old ladies, other guys, and just hilarious hearing his story in the Brockmeyer style. And Brockmeyer's like, bro, let's not like, hey, hey, that's my thing. Okay, don't do that. Stop. Do your thing, which is working for you. He's like, but I don't like that my thing, right? So uh so that with because I think that's the Jules was able to get uh a an interview for Brockmeier to fly to New York so that he can uh interview and tell his story and all that, and so he doesn't want to do it, right? But she talks him into it, which is amazing, yeah, first of all. And so they're trying to figure out the next thing, they're trying to figure out ways of like get him to be more personable, yeah.

ASMR Hate And Media Nostalgia

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You know what I mean? The ASMR part was hard. Oh my gosh. So that I mean that this is like again, this goes back to when like podcasts didn't exist back then. This was like a new thing with them, but like doing these podcasts. He's like, What is that? And it's like you know, everybody knows what a podcast is now, but this was like the early makings of podcasting, too. This is the early the early times, right? Like the early years ASMR stuff was like where a lot of that started, it was just you know, it wasn't what it is now, which is interview type stuff. Bro, ASMR, I'm not gonna lie to you, it annoys the shit out of me. Absolutely annoys the shit out of me. Yeah, it's one of those things where um I mean, I don't like watch specifically for anything, but when I see certain things, I mean Val does it sometimes when she clicks her fingernails on stuff, and I know that's kind of a little thing, but um, yeah, I don't see how people could just sit there and listen to certain things on that and then the uh the the the talking really low. Yeah, oh my god, like on Spotify, they do that all the time, and it annoys the shit out of me. Although we could both sit down. Oh dude, I can't, I cannot, I cannot. Every time I hear something like that, though, it takes me back to the Saturday Night Live skits for the Christmas thing with the MPR ladies, the one with Alec Baldwin when they're talking about the sweaty balls and stuff. It's like, oh my gosh, that is so hilarious. I can't, I just can't, yeah. Like everybody's doing it, and it annoys me. Like, you know, clicking, click click, click click, click. I can't, I can't, right? God, that just sounded so old. Yeah, very, very old. You're you're getting you're getting old like me, grumpy old man. Oh my god, I'm trying not to, but like there's certain things that I just cannot accept, and that's one of them. Yeah, I cannot accept that. There's not a chance in God's green earth that I will ever accept ASMR. Yeah, it annoys me because they they do that, right? And obviously, I we make a joke out of it on our show, right? Yeah, you know, when I open up the the beer and all that, you know. Obviously, we make a joke, but like the the clicking on the on the boxes and all this other like open the fucking box if you want to do it, just just open the box, exactly. I'm sorry, guys. I'm sorry, I just went on a tangent there. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. Anyways, continue, Donnie. Continue. Well, I mean, it and like you said, he got set up for the interview. The the the funny part about the the the next segment of this that that I I found interesting was when he's packing and she's cleaned his jacket. Oh, talking about the jacket, and and he's like, you know, you're you're taking the jacket, he's of course taking the jacket. That's that's how I smuggle my drugs. And then she's like, What? He's like, all these years of of odor and smell, which shears out keeps the drug dog sniffing dogs off of it and stuff. He's got pockets in there, hidden compartments and stuff. That's hilarious. And he's like, he's smoking a doobie. He goes, like, you want to you wanna he's like, What? No, and okay, yeah, yeah, okay, sure. Sure, sure, sure, yeah, yeah, let's do that. Which was you know, and of course, he gets to the interview, right? He's in New York, right? And he has a bottle of vodka and a bottle of water, right? And he's filling it up, and everybody in the room is like looking at him like, What are you doing? Yep, you know, and he's doing what everybody that wants to uh take vodka on a cruise or go on a beach is put it in a water bottle and it looks like water. It looks like water. There is that it's just like water, no one's gonna say anything. It's gonna we're just gonna have a similar normal conversation. Yep, like I'm drinking a bottle right now. Is this vodka? I don't know, maybe probably not. I mean, you could tell us every time we do a show that it's it's just you're drinking water and just pounding some vodka shots, you know. I'm more like a rum guy, so clear rum. Yeah, you know. I I'm with you there. I've never drank vodka straight. I can't. It just I can't, you know what I mean? So all right, I haven't tried flavored vodkas. I've got so many flavored vodkas. I haven't tried like a flavored vodka straight on the rocks. No, still don't. Not uh not I've never been a vodka person. I mean, I'll do rum, like a flavored rum on the rocks. Bro, I got a passion fruit rum sitting at in my uh in my uh pantry right now. You kidding me? Some some uh passion fruit rum with with some sprite, right? Bro, that's I'm telling you right now, that's yeah, some Don Q rum. So there it is. There you go. Hey Don Q, what's up? Shout out. Um, anyways, listen, so the interview's over. He they get back, so they're having a watch party, right? This is like this is hilarious because we just talk, we started our podcast talking about a watch party, and he's having one on the show, exactly. And it's everybody's like hoping they're gonna get mentioned, or he's oh, he's gonna mention me, or he's gonna talk about me, or whatever, and they're all sitting there ready. Yeah, he's and Charles is the one that's most excited about what they get bumped for. So I love the him and the bartender, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So um, they're talking about uh God, what was it? You know, the the guy with uh jean shorts, and uh what he says in there, uh, and I'm trying to get that to uh when he said it, it was like shut up, everybody, shut up, everybody. Uh give me a second, I want to read it because it's so hilarious when he said that. Oh no, they didn't, I I went too far. Anyways, it's like you know, one of he was like, Oh, I just want to be mentioned so I can make feel better about myself, right? Exactly. Like famous people, and then of course, what happens? Um, the which it would never happen in this in this reality, right? But they made it into that reality where Taylor Swift and Drake have a sex tape, exactly, which goes back to an earlier episode where Charles was talking about that possibly happening. They're storyline, yeah, they're dating or whatever, yeah. And it's like, okay, so they've kind of tied this little storyline in the background to another episode here. So, like, yeah, they're the emergency like, oh, you know, we were gonna release the the uh episode of Brockmire, but we're gonna dedicate this whole episode to um their privacy of the sex tape of Drake in and uh and Taylor Ship, which was hilarious, yeah. You know, so everybody gets mad. They're all mad, everybody's mad except for Charles, because Charles obviously does not care one bit about baseball, does not care, does not care, yeah, right? Which I find hilarious, right? Like he is such an integral part of this whole show, and could give zero fucks about this uh this uh sport. Yeah, all right, so they're about to leave, right? Jules and Bruckmeier, they're going home, she's grabbing the bottle, you know what I mean? They're going back to their apartment and everything because it's like super late, and Charles is like passed out, drunk, and everything, and that's when he has like an epiphany. Like, here we go. This is it, this is what you need to do. Yeah, like which by the way, I'm surprised it took them this long to this episode to figure out that's that what he needed to do. Exactly. Right? Just do what you do best and just talk, which is what we do best, which is what we talk, and we're on a podcast, right? And we're talking, and then they're gonna create their own podcast in which he is telling stories, yeah, and talking about who Brock Meyer. Yeah, which is again which by the way, in real life, there was a Brock Meyer podcast. Did you know that? No, uh it is It's a real life. It's you know Hankazaria as Brock Meyer. There was, I think it's only one season, uh, and it was absolute gold. Okay. Yeah, you should listen to it because obviously it never it never materializes something more, right? Um and so man, I wish they would have kept going with it because it was so good. So, but look it up. It's a it's a it's an actual podcast. Okay, I'll have to check that out. Anyways, um, so they they're doing their podcast and everything, and I find something very hilarious the next day. Did you catch that? Um, well, the thing that got me was when he knocks on the door and Brockmeier goes like he's gonna climb out the window or something. He just freaks out for a second because he doesn't that's it. Yeah, he just doesn't that's it, he doesn't know where he's at. It's like takes him back to his times in Asia when it's like somebody's coming, you know, to knock on the door and he doesn't want to get beat up. He's gonna climb out the window and go somewhere. Yes, exactly. He's like, Oh my god, I'm so sorry, that's an old habit right there. So and of course they go in, you know, like a squirrel just like going everywhere. Because they just pan at him, right? He's sleeping peacefully and everything, and all of a sudden Charles being the the kid that he is, is like has no no sense of his uh of his uh surroundings or people or anything like that. He goes in and just starts pounding the door, and that's when Brockmark wakes up and just like boom, like he just shoots up and it gets trying to get out. Where are you going? Right, you know what I'm saying? Like, what are you doing? Yeah, and so he goes to Charlie's telling, hey, like this was it, uh this this life on uh NPR, yeah.

NPR Fame And Fracking Threat

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Uh this American life, this American life, yeah, yeah. Not gonna lie. I listen to this American life. Oh wow, okay. It's actually pretty good. Okay, yeah, it's by NPR. Shout out to NPR, love you guys. Um, and so there he was like, you know, they're mentioning like you know that you should w listen to this podcast about Brockmeyer talking about Brockmeyer and stories, like crazy stories about what's going on. Yeah, and Brockmeyer could give two shits, right? Two shits what that can do for him because he doesn't understand any of that stuff until the next day, until the next day, when he's at the ballpark with Charles, and what happens, yeah. All these NPR people, it's like it's it's it's like um it's like the earlier one where they tried to go to him into to blowing up. Yeah, all these people want to meet him, they all want to take pictures with him, but they're all civilized because they're they're like, oh, you know, they're they're like your typical, you know, coffee house, uh yuppie-ish MPR fans, and they're just like so like cool about everything. This is the favorite part. What's going on here, right? Because he goes, like, you got his fans, like you know, the the NPR fans, like rich white people who feel about being rich, right? And I and as soon as he said that, you know what I thought about what Patrick. Oh, of course, yes, right. I thought about Patrick, you know, and what he would because he this is the kind of thing that he would say, right? That sounds like a Patrick Line, it would be a Patrick line. Love you, Patrick. You know, shout out to you, my friend, and Moby had history. You guys follow that uh that that uh series on absolutely it's really good. Um, anyways, so he is like sitting there, and then he goes, you know, you got this his fans, like the NPR fans, is like what rich white people being if they're feeling bad about being rich, right? Yeah, uh, who want an authentic experience that doesn't scare them. Exactly. That's the best part. Oh my god, and and and that's what like Patrick would say that line to you, you know, because that's his that's what Patrick says about you. It's like, you know, like you know, Donnie, he's the rich white guy, you know. And and I want to go, I want to go to a stripers game and and watch a ball game with Patrick because that doesn't scare me. That that's that's that's a thing that won't scare me. It's like I can go to some other places and be like, I don't know about these people, but no, this is one that uh you know I can handle going to see a game with Patrick. That that that doesn't scare me. Man, the whole Ira Glass though for MPR, this American life, that was great. Like I really enjoy that that whole thing about um about uh Brock Meyer being like you know having fans now because of Iraglass, which is hilarious. Absolutely. And the guy from the fracking company shows up and he's like, What the heck's going on here? And just trying to uh trying to he's trying to understand why his plan's not working, right? Because then he goes to the ballpark. He goes to the ballpark to see what's going on here because he he sees the thing on the news in the in the conference room, yeah. He's listening to right by Brotmeier saving the small town, and he's like, I gotta go see what's going on. Yeah, I gotta start, I gotta figure out a way to sabotage this, right? Because then now the team is becoming popular, right? And they're you know, obviously, Jules is still trying to save this ball, this team, the ballpark, and the whole you know, town, while the fracking company is like, Man, we don't care. We we want you to, you know, your payments to balloons so that way we can take over, you know, pennies on the dollar. Absolutely. And so, like, she just nutsaps them, and it's hilarious. That was hilarious. Yeah, he just said this like I'm just gonna sit here. Yep. By the way, irreglass right now, he is 67 years old. Dang hot dog, anyways. So, what else have we missed about Brockmeyer? Um, I can't about this episode at least. Oh, I think we've covered this episode. I mean, like I said, it just went off uh as we were talking, so we've kind of followed along this whole episode. You did a good job. Look at us, yeah. Look at us. This is this is what we need to do. We need to have it on so we're sort of fresh and we're watching it, make sure we don't miss anything. Because I think before we were kind of missing a few things because we watch it the night before. Yep. Um, yep, yep, yep, but try to make a few notes and stuff. But this is what people need to do. This is what you guys you know that listen to this podcast. This is what you guys need to do. You guys need to follow along, put it the the show on, okay, watch it by yourself at first, and then come back and listen to it and put the uh the show at the same time, but listen to us, yeah. Just listen to what we're talking about as the show's going, and you'll be like, Oh, yeah, okay, there it goes. There it goes. Absolutely. This is great stuff, dude. This is crazy. We've we made it. We we we beat the system, we made it past this. Is episode five, we made it past four. Wait, hold on a second. We're did we have any doubters? Oh, there were doubters. There were doubters, those sons of bitches. Yes, suckers. We are here, we are still here, yeah. Okay, all right. We're we're Donnie and I, we're not going anywhere. We're gonna go through each and every single episode, each and every single week. We're gonna talk about whatever we want, but we're gonna talk about Brockmeyer, guys. We're gonna talk about it, okay. All the way to Thanksgiving, all the way, all the way. We ain't stopping. Okay, right. And then when we get done with Brockmeyer, we're gonna find something else. We'll find some other Facebook show. The one thing we didn't mention that I thought was hilarious was when he was talking about he once owned a horse with Al Michaels and and O.J. Simpson. Oh, that's right. I forgot about that because he's like, Al Michaels is the one that I would have thought would have been the one caught for murder. Right, exactly. Because he pushed the the uh pushed the dwarf down. I mean, just those kind of lines. Oh my gosh, those things are gold. Let me

Does The Comedy Still Work

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ask you this. And as we're you know, we're we're we're closing down this episode here. Um does this work now? Does this show work now? I I I think it works for guys of a certain age, our age, yeah. Uh okay, got it. Thanks. I mean, I don't think a 20-something-year-old is gonna watch this and get the references at this point. I mean, these are 10-year-old references that also had references that were even older to that at the time, or even you know, I'm gonna be completely honest, and I and I'm I'm just making a general generalization here, guys. I think a lot of them were will be kind of offended by this show. There's some of it, yeah. I mean, again, there's some things you probably couldn't get away with even now. Uh not something, but I mean I hope they I hope it something like this comes back out because you know, the with with this show, they were equally insulting and just everybody. There was no one that was like that was immune uh from this. Yeah, no one. Yeah. Well, that's like I saw um well, there's a lot of stuff, you know, that you we talk about you just you couldn't make some of these movies and stuff from the 70s and 80s anymore because of the references and stuff. And Bulldog is my favorite baseball movie. There's a couple of guys that that I watch uh videos from their retro guys that talk about stuff from the 80s, these two guys that sit in this like game room area, and they were talking the other day about a scene from Revenge of the Nerds. Um yeah, with the uh uh Takiashi on the uh on the tricycle in the race with the you know the fraternity race, yeah. And how the music in the background that's playing is like some Asian video game music, and um, I mean, it's today with people be like, that's racist. No, it's not really racist. I mean, I you can think it is these days, but back then it certainly wasn't. I mean, it was it was just it is what it is, it it fit a stereotype, yes, 100%. But yeah, it's like things like that. You just people wouldn't do it today. No, because of they would be like, Oh, we're gonna offend somebody, you know. Not only that, but like you're gonna get sued because you said something, you know what I mean? That because listen, listen, there's been people have sued McDonald's because the coffee was too hot. Let's just let's just put that into context about this world that we're in right now. And here we go, guys. I I saw us I and I don't know if it's real. I mean, uh, this is very like recent, but like the the the people that got stuck on that roller coaster yesterday or day before, um, for hours got rescued by these firefighters. It took them like three or four hours to get a crane up there and all that. And and this story, again, I don't know if this is true. It could be you you never know what to believe anymore. True story, but this thing's like saying that one of the one of the the females is like gonna sue the firefighters because he was she was inappropriately touched, and there's a video showing where he's trying to hold like he's trying to grab her by the arms, and he maybe like touched her up here, yeah, you know, more on her chest, but not like he wasn't doing like that. But like if that's real, like like the dude just came and saved you from sitting in a roller coaster for four hours, he's just trying to make sure you don't fall. It's not like he's trying to grope you. Like, what are you doing? Like, dude, chill, yeah, come on, go get a light. Just things like that these days drive me insane. I know, I'm with you,

Wrap Up And Where To Follow

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my friend. But listen, guys, we just got done doing episode five, season one, episode five of Brock Meyer here in the That High Chronicles podcast. Now, what I would love for you guys to do before you guys go, and as you guys are closing down, go ahead and follow the mayor. Go ahead and follow me. Uh, we're on the socials, including TikTok. That's right. Uh, make sure you go to YouTube, watch this because we are we are also here recording this, and hit the subscribe button on YouTube. We are trying to get to a thousand followers on our YouTube channel. Um, and every single you know, follow does does uh wonders, right? Because obviously, the more we follow, the more people watch, is the more that they keep suggesting uh to other fans. So let's go ahead and and uh and get to that to that point. Um, and I would also let you know that on Monday nights we have the uh break-even sports where they talk about soccer. Now that we're getting into um the world cup, world cup and rolling, getting it rolling exactly. So let's let's do that. Uh, and then Tuesday, Thursdays, we're gonna be doing uh our usual you know DHC sports show where we talk about anything and everything in the world of sports, specifically baseball. Uh, that's what we do. It and and we have a fun, fun time doing that. So um I don't know if I'm gonna make it uh Tuesday or Thursday. Uh I'm iffy right now. Um, there might be some things that go in the way. Yeah, well, you're gonna have a a viewing party to to to uh host. So I do have it, I am hosting, that is true. So, but we'll keep you guys and then guys, until then, uh support the mind leagues. We'll see you guys on the next one.