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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody. We got a very special episode today. We have the creators of the Yankees inspired cartoon Bronx Buds here on the show Live Plus. We'll talk about their new project established in the nineties that I'm working with them on, and we'll throw down the nineties gauntlet, and then i'll take your voicemails on the Yankees' recent struggles. Coming up next, this is Pinstripe Territory, whom to pull fiftball. Welcome back, everybody, Welcome back. So we just found out. I was talking with Justin and Tom, the creators of the Bronx Buds, before the show, and we found out we are quantumly entangled. We were all at the same Aaron Judge game where he hit three home runs and that happened to be the inception of Bronx Buds. So, first of all, welcome guys, thanks for joining.
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Speaker 2: So great being here.
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Speaker 3: Ah and I got to throw our little herald to get this started.
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Speaker 1: Hey Derek, it's all from you know. What I know you from is Life with Louis. I watched every episode of that. I love that show. I missed Louis Anderson dearly. But yeah, I mean that's so cool that we were all at the same place and now years later we're here talking. You guys just created a hit show that just won a hashtag Sports Award. So justin, why don't you start off with telling me about the inception, how this all began, and how it's come to be that you're gonna have season two here coming up in just a few weeks.
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Speaker 3: Super cool, Absolutely, so we are pumped to be on the show. First of all, thanks for having us on.
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Speaker 2: This is a blast.
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Speaker 3: And Tom and I are huge sports fans and we wanted to create a sports cartoon because we thought what an amazing opportunity to connect with kids and the next generation of fans. We come from traditional studio world, working for Disney and Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and Pixar. Tom comes from SpongeBob and Infinity Train and all these amazing shows that he's worked on. I come from Hay Arnold, Life with Louie Lloyd in Space Recess and a plethora of other cartoons.
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Speaker 2: But when we.
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Speaker 3: Joined and we formed our studio together several years ago, our goal was to really create sports animated IP that nobody else is doing, and we were shocked because we want to connect with kids. Kids are the future of professional sports, and we were conceptionalizing how amazing would it be to create a cartoon and work with the Yankees, the number one franchise in the world, the best baseball team ever. Obviously we're tremendous fans, and I had this opportunity where I was at Yankee Stadium at the same game you were, Derek, where Judge hit three homers. It's actually August twenty third, twenty twenty three, and through some mutual friends, happened to meet the president of the team, and through that we pitched the idea of Bronx Buds. They loved it, and over the course of several months we put together just an incredible, fun, creative package of the characters of Riv Bash and Oscar, who are our three main characters, Papa Sardine who runs Papa Sardine's Pizzeria on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx and the Bronx Buds came to light.
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Speaker 2: Season one was a huge hit.
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Speaker 3: It was on the YES Network and the Yes app at the time, which has now become the Gotham Sports App, and season two launches August ninth, and we could not be more excited.
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Speaker 1: I'm very excited. I checked it out. I love it. It's great, it's very cute. It reminds me of the type of stuff that I would watch growing up, which I've learned you guys are probably a part of all of that stuff. Tom, I'm so impressed by the animation, and I'll tell you why, because I've tried to do it myself. A few years ago. I was working for a poker company and we had to give a little intro as pirate themed for this like poker tournament, and I had to do an animated pirate. I was working with a graphic designer and he made like ten or twelve iterations of this pirate with different mouth shapes, and I had to animate it together with a voiceover of me talking like a pirate. And I got to say, to do this thirty second animation took me like two weeks. So how do you guys put together this long show with all these animations? How long does it take start to finish? How do you come up with characters and looks and designs and all that stuff?
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Speaker 4: Man, it takes a while. We work a little faster than like normal studio stuff. So usually studios take years to kind of get everything together to like a final animation, and you know, it's we're considerably faster, but it takes a while. It's a lot of drawing ideation, a lot of really bad ideas to start with, like some really horrible character designs that you're just like, you think they look good at the time, and then you're like, no, this actually this looks awful, you know, so putting it through, just redesigning and drawing it over and over and over again until you finally get characters that look great, and then you know, making them ready for animation is a whole separate thing. Then we have a great animation team that builds out the rigs and really brings the characters to life. There's a lot of learning how to the characters move, and a lot of kind of drawing poses and teaching people along the way. You know, we're an episode I mean where we've done six full episodes. We're you know, halfway through season two, so the learning curve is getting smaller. Where we have you know, animation now where people look at it and they're like, okay, the animators understand kind of the process, but you know, the first episode was a lot of headaches and a lot of frustration and stress, and you know a lot of work to get through that process.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because the animator are just they're figuring out the characters as we are as well. One thing I also wanted throwing Derek for the fans out there is that Tom and I grew up with Saturday morning cartoons, and I suspect some of the fans out there watching your show grew up with Saturday morning cartoons as well, where you grab a bowl of cereal, sit on the couch, turn on your favorite cartoons, just hang out with your siblings, you know, by yourself, your parents, and that nostalgia we just love.
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Speaker 2: So we wanted to bring a lot of that Bronx Buds.
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Speaker 3: So each new episode launches Saturday morning, and it's just such a great way for kids to connect with.
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Speaker 2: Their parents turn on Bronx Buds.
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Speaker 3: Parents are obviously Yankees fans already, and the kids are going to be Yankees fans if they're not already, and it's such a great way to introduce them to the Yankees in a wonderful way. Saturday Morning Cartoons bring that nostalgia back and We have great, you know, lessons in our episodes about teamwork and perseverance and overcoming obstacles, all the fun, great stuff that kids, you know should be learning, and also great stuff that's tied to baseball.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Justin and I wrote every script, so we really took the stories from like when we were kids, and a lot of the cartoon inspiration and brought that into these episodes.
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Speaker 5: A lot of fun.
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Speaker 4: Adventures mixed with morals, something that the whole family can watch and enjoy.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm looking forward to my cameo at some point once we get the season three maybe and we can we can we can have have the Bronx Buds start a podcast or appeer on a podcast, and that's how I.
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Speaker 4: Think this podcast.
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Speaker 2: That's right, that would be fun.
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Speaker 1: That would be fun. So, okay, I got to ask animating baseball, it has got to be very difficult to capture baseball movements that look realistic because baseball is kind of an unnatural thing. I mean, we talked about that justin with your guy Chauncey LEOPARDI when we were talking with Squints on Established in the nineties, which would go to in a minute that they needed actors who kind of looked like they could play baseball, right. How hard is it to teach people to animate actual baseball movement.
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Speaker 4: It's pretty difficult. It's such a It's one of those things like you know when it's right and you know when it's wrong, and there's really no middle ground. So it's either the characters look extremely athletic or they, you know, the emotion looks unnatural. So yeah, there's a lot of redrawing and a lot of process that went into making those characters move properly in the show.
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Speaker 1: We got a super sat here. Brian Bashman wants you to do an episode where Aaron Boone gets locked in a bathroom and Paul O'Neill has to come down from the booth to manage and save the team. That does sound like a fun little That does sound like a fun little.
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Speaker 6: Lash.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Brian, did you see when last season? In season one? Danny and I.
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Speaker 3: Danny's the CEO of Hexclad who they're the sponsors of the show. They're an amazing sponsor, incredible cookwear brand. We were on with Michael km Paul O'Neil during the third inning of a New York Yankees Boston Red Sox game talking about Bronx buds. And let me tell you, Paul O'Neil has a mit for a hand.
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Speaker 5: He is.
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Speaker 2: Enormous.
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Speaker 3: He is a big dude, really big, great guy, but a massive dude.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. These athletes, they have enormous hands. I've met a lot of athletes over the years. Eric Kratz, who I worked with on Foul Territory, I met him one time. He's just this gigantic wall of a human being. I met a football player one time. His name was Ted Hendricks and he used to play for the Raiders and I was at a card show with him and he was shaking the hand of my dad's friend who is a Redskins fan, and he holds his hand up underneath the guy's face, showing him a Super Bowl ring and he says, I got this from the red Skins. And it was just this massive, massive hand then this massive ring. Man. These athletes just gigantic people. But okay, yeah, back.
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Speaker 4: In Chicago, I met Jose Contreras and I just remember seeing the oh yeah ring on his finger and it was it looked it was just out of this world how big that thing was.
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Speaker 1: So so for the baseball fans out there who might not remember Jose Contreras. He threw a pitch called a forkball. And what a forkball is is you put both fingers on the side of the ball and it gives it kind of a tumbling action. But those pitchers who do that, they will walk around all day with a ball stuff between their fingers, and the bigger your hands are, the easier it is to throw that pitch. And I had a roommate in college who was a He threw the forkball and he would come up and he would put his two fingers around put him right in your ears, like just put tear fans. All right, So I want to talk about your next project. This is one that resonates with me because I've been working with you guys on it and I absolutely love this. Tell us about your next project established in the nineties.
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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, we got to give you a shout out, Derek, because you are our brilliant editor for the show coming up with these just sensational edits, So shout out to you. The show looks incredible. Tom and I started doing this back in my loft. I guess it was you know last year we thought we're huge nostalgia nineties fans. You know, I worked on Hay Arnold as a kid. We just missed those wonderful days Saturday morning cartoons, you know, Melrose plays Beverly Hills nine zero two to zero, Avatar, I mean Titanic. There's there's just you know, there was the best decade ever. Like it was just peaceful and fun. We were biking around, we're playing video games, none of the craziness that we deal with.
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Speaker 2: In today's society.
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Speaker 3: So we thought, Tom and I thought like, how fun would it be to do you know it established in the nineties nostalgia podcast and we had a few guests on that were friends, and it did quite well, and we thought, thank you, thank you, Fanta, we appreciate the love.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. We thought, you know, this is going well and it's fun.
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Speaker 3: And we were in production on season one for Bronx Buds, which obviously production is an enormous amount of time and commitment and you're just fully invested in it. And then we were friends with the wonderful folks adapt Sports who run the company from Matt and Andrew and Susan, all the great folks over here, and we thought wouldn't be great to partner with them, and that way we can really build this together and expand the audience and bring in sports as a big element, which already ties into Bronx Buds well with our Yankees cartoon, and just really tap into the nineties and Establis in a bigger way.
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Speaker 2: And that's how it kind of came about.
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Speaker 3: And our first episode launched Saturday with Chauncey Lea pardi Ak Squints from the Sandlot. It's an amazing episode. It's all the behind the scenes stuff of the creation of Sandlot, the kids working on the show, the interview process, working on production. Yes, best Generation, Zachary Bass, Nineties Kids Rule.
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Speaker 2: So you know, it's that's how the show came about.
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Speaker 3: And we are loving it. We're having so much fun. Can I give away some of who our guests.
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Speaker 1: Are, Derek, Oh yeah, go for it. Go for it is your show.
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Speaker 2: So we just had Chauncey, who squints from the Sandlot.
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Speaker 3: Then we've got We've got Walter Walter Jones, the original, the original Black Power Ranger, an amazing actor and he tells some incredible stories of working on the Power Rangers. We have Debbie darry Berry who's the voice of Jimmy Neutron, along with many voices of some of our favorite nineties cartoons Aliens from Toy Story, Aliens from Toy Story.
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Speaker 1: And it's her family and it's her family. That's what I knew it from.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, her family. Yeah, Tom's buddy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Wes Archer, who is he was the first person to ever animate Bark Simpson.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's also he was the director of the famous Homer Coming out of the Bush meme.
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Speaker 1: That's great, that's.
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Speaker 2: Greatah, the voice of Spider Man.
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Speaker 3: And actually we've got we've got we can say it now, We've got no yeah, all right, all right, We've got a huge guest coming on. Uh Dante Bosco, who is you know from Hook Rufio is coming off Joe. So we've got some incredible guests diving into the nineties, you know, all nostalgia plus talking about Thank you Laurie. We love the sand Loot too, great great episode and Derek's got this incredible QR code up, so just scan that and that takes you right to the show.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's great and one of the things you guys do on the show, and it's a quote Michael Scott, Oh the turntables. I'm gonna turn the tables on you guys, and we are gonna do the nineties Gauntlet. So here are the Here are the rules. Okay, I'm gonna give you guys two options, and you get to pick one to keep to exist and the other one gets snapped out of existence by Thanos. It gets out of out of existence. So justin, I'm gonna start with you.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 1: One thing we had a lot of in the nineties was great movies, and we had movies that would kind of copy one another, And I remember Armageddon and Deep Impact came out at the same time, two of my favorites of all time. This question hurt me physically to write which one are you keeping?
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Speaker 2: This is a tough one, Derek.
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Speaker 3: These are both phenomenal movies growing up as a kid, I love them.
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Speaker 2: But I gotta go Armageddon.
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Speaker 1: What about you, Tom? Do you agree? You concur you know I would.
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Speaker 2: Go Deep Impact?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I mean to be controned, but also like I like the movie a little bit better. I mean, the soundtrack for Armageddon was amazing, but Deep Impact just you know, he actually saw the asteroid hit Earth in that one.
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Speaker 2: But liv Tyler and Armageddon, Well, have you guys.
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Speaker 1: Ever noticed how white the teeth are on Ben Affleck in Armageddon? There's They're ridiculous. Hang on, let me let me see if I can share this. I can't. I can't share it. It's insane. Google it. His teeth are insanely white. I guess I'm the tie breaking vote. I guess we're keeping Armageddon because because I I love Armageddon. I think Bruce Willis was amazing. Although it will to see the Morgan Freeman presidency disappear hurts me because I imagine him giving a State of the Union address with that wonderful voice, and I mean that we'd only be so lucky. All right, Tom, So you're next Lion King or Toy Story? Which one are you keeping?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Man, I'm gonna go with Toy Story from sort of just an animation perspective, because it was one of the first real CG animated films. So I felt like that, you know, led the way for many many great Pixar movies, and it launched a huge uh launched Pixar basically, So I have to go with I have to go with Toy Story just because of the legacy and what it led to. And yeah, and they haven't they haven't done a live action toy story yet, so I think the live action is a little weird.
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Speaker 2: That's good, you know what, It's tough.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go. I love toy story too, but I gotta go Lion King. Lion King, that's part of my childhood. And Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who plays Simba. I did a couple episodes of Home Improvement with them.
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Speaker 4: Behind Justin's chair. That's actually a little picture of Jonathan Taylor Tom.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta throw JTT some love. He was great.
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Speaker 3: And then of course, gosh, who's the voice of the the the villain in in in the Lion King Scar is uh, who's is the voice? That wonderful actor, That wonderful actor. He's so brilliant, he's so good as that character. He's so good. So Lion King.
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Speaker 1: Jeremy Irons, Jeremy Irons, Oh my gosh, he's insane, so good.
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Speaker 3: I mean toy stories. I mean, it's very tough, but I'm going Lion King. So you're the tie breaker.
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Speaker 2: Where are you going?
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Speaker 1: I'm keeping I'm keeping toy story because of our friend Debbie darry Berry because I enjoy her role as the Aliens. The Aliens and Pizza Planet. Yeah, I want to go to Pizza Planet. Okay, Tupac versus Biggie, Justin, who are you keeping?
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Speaker 2: These are brutal?
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Speaker 3: Man?
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Speaker 1: These are I know? That's how you know they're good questions?
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Speaker 2: I gotta go Tupac.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I loved Biggie's phenomenal too, but uh, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I just I go back to middle.
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Speaker 3: School and Tupac listening to Tupac all the time. I was wearing my silver tab jeans, my big bag, my long white T shirts, and just rocking out some Tupac. But yeah, I go Tupac.
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Speaker 4: You have the bandana walking around?
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Speaker 2: Hell yeah according set, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Wearing blue and red at the same time. Yeah, what's the big deal? Guys?
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Speaker 4: Just in case?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, just Tom, do you have a Are you gonna weig in on this one? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I'm a West Coast hip hop fan, so I'm gonna go with Tupac for sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think I would keep Tupac. Also, as much as I love Biggie, you know, I can't get through a workout without Tupac. All right, So tom n sixty four versus PlayStation. I know you're a big gamer. I was in the nineties as well. I can't tell you how many hours I spent on GoldenEye. But PlayStation also has you know, it spawned so many great games.
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Speaker 4: You just answered it right there, it's uh, it's sixty four absolutely.
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Speaker 1: GoldenEye, Goldennye. Yeah, well yeah, I.
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Speaker 4: Mean even the Madden ninety six was great. I mean that's I played Madden ninety six for all the time. Star Fox is a big fan of star Fox sixty four too.
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Speaker 1: Oh, great game with the rumble pack. I think that was one of the first ones with the rumble pack.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, yeah, with the rumble pack, and then they came out with that cool like clear green and yeah, it was still pretty awesome.
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Speaker 3: By the way, I'm loving all the Biggie Tupac love in the comments.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you bringing the rivalry back. Yeah, let's bring it back.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna. Actually, he spawned another West Coast East Coast rap War Consequences rap War spawned by the Bronx Buds cartoon creed.
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Speaker 3: All right, I don't know, I go in sixty four too. I mean, you know, those are tough. Those are both amazing, amazing. I mean I played some the games back in the day. But yeah, I'm going in sixty four.
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Speaker 2: Where are you going?
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 1: I think I would probably go. I would probably go with PlayStation. Honestly, I played so many hours of the Die Hard Trilogy game on PlayStation, which they didn't have on I'm sure you remember that, tom It was one of the coolest games ever. You had like three separate games within one and you could run over people and you'd get like blood on the windshield. That was crazy back.
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Speaker 4: But the Nintendo games were always easier for me. It's like, I wasn't like PlayStation just got too are like middle Gear solid and stuff.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't evil games terrified me. Yeah, Tomoro, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right, So justin we got we got two more and I'm gonna lead off with you pulp fiction, pulp fiction versus Reservoir Dogs, and we just lost mattson which that crushed me. So pulp fiction versus Dogs.
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Speaker 2: I mean reservoir Dogs.
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Speaker 3: That walking scene is so in I referenced that all the time all the time. I mean, it's a amazing movie. You know, Tarantino in the early days, But I gotta go. I gotta go pulp fiction. I mean, it's just one of the greatest films ever made by far and I absolutely love it, So I'm going. I'm going pulp fiction. In fact, we just were talking about the dance scene just recently. We were just talking about, you know, the dance scene and with Uma Thurman, and it's just it's that film is amazing.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's where I'm going. Pulp fiction.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree to That's that's easy. I've seen pulp fiction so many times, so it's you know, Rooser Doc's.
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Speaker 3: Great, though.
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Speaker 1: I have a season passed to the Alamo Draft House near my house, and every time they show pulp fiction I've seen a hundred times. I'll still go, no matter what, just an all time great movie. And Tom last nineties question here go out Let the Matrix versus fight Club.
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Speaker 4: Oh man, I gotta go fight Club just because I feel like I was at that age where everyone just kind of aspired to look like Brad Pitt and beat people up.
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Speaker 2: So what it looks like, good good point.
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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I love Matrix. Matrix is awesome. I mean, gosh, that was and I just an unbelievable film. When it came out such a game changer.
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Speaker 4: Kind of holding it back just because of like the other Matrix movies I was. I'm a huge fan of this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the first one was amazing.
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Speaker 3: But I also I agree with Tom I gotta go fight Club number one rule fight Club.
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Speaker 2: You don't talk about Fight Club. And I obviously had abs just like Brad Pitt, very clearly not but yeah, it's one of the I mean, they're both amazing films, but he was one of the coolest characters. He was super cool.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, But I mean it's like, that's the thing about the nineties. There were so many great movies done that. Yeah, so many great movies.
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Speaker 1: Well, since this is a baseball podcast, we got to finish with one baseball question, The Sandlot versus every other baseball movie. You can keep the Sandlot, but you gotta snap out of existing little Big League angels in the outfield, Major League two. All of these great nineties baseball movies. There were so many the Scout, There were so many great baseball movies in the nineties, but there's nothing quite like The Sandlot. And that's one of the reasons I was so thrilled that you guys had Chauncey on so which way you're gonna go?
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Speaker 3: Justin Sandlot all the way. Sandlot's the best. I mean, I absolutely love Sandlot. But as you said, there's so many great films. You got Major League, you have Field of Dreams, right, so many good baseball films, but the Sandlot will always hold up. It's an iconic film. It's amazing. Chauncey, who played Squints in it, l seven weiny.
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Speaker 2: But you gotta watch.
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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously you help make the podcast incredible, but for everybody out there, please go check out the episode. We just dropped it Saturday with Chauncey, who plays Squints. He gives us all sorts of phenomenal behind the scenes of the making of the Sandlot, all the kids on set what they were up to. Plus you've worked on Freaks and Geeks, which is another great show, but no Sandlot to me is number one.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't get better.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm going to stand for the fourth of July.
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Speaker 2: Scene's time.
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Speaker 1: Well, ladies and gentlemen. I thank these guys so much for their time there. There are very few certainties in life I have come to learn, but one of those certainties is that this show is going to be an absolute hit because I've been watching all of the behind the scenes stuff that you guys haven't gotten to see yet, and this is absolutely amazing. And for anybody who loves the nineties, this is gonna be It's gonna be their favorite podcast. I can pretty much guarantee it. So tune in. The link is in my description. You can rewind a little bit and get the QR code and go right to the latest video. Thanks guys, I'm gonna get to a quick ad sponsor and they'll be back to take your voicemails on the Yankees, because after all, this is a baseball podcast. Thanks Tom, Thanks Justin. We'll see on the got the map.
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Speaker 2: Thanks dere Bye bye everybody.
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Speaker 5: Hey, Eric, what's going on?
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Speaker 7: I personally think that the Yankees, and this isn't just being like a you know, fur the moment thing. I think they should sell at the deadline for a few reasons that I'd like to list. I know that's chack religious to say as a Yankee fan, but I mean it's just this smart thing to do. Two of your storters, including your age Tommy John and aren't going to be back this year. You have Billinger and Bulshmid has been great, but their one year rentals and they're not enough to win a chip. I don't see a deadline move that could really push that. Di Mingas and Rice look like they could be the future, but because of guys like Grisham, we're going to be gone next year. These guys are getting benched sporadically. They're playing like three to four games a week. They can't get into good grooves and then their numbers they'll look great because of it, and everyone thinks that they're not doing as well as they are.
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Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate the call. So here's what I would say to that one. I agree with you that both the Mingas and Rice need to get more regular at bats. They just need to get in the game more. In baseball, hitting and getting into a rhythm is vital to success, and right now, because of the roster construction, they're not able to do it.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 1: That doesn't necessarily mean that the Yankees need to sell everybody the trade deadline, but I could see them maximizing the value that they'll get out of Trent Grisham, who's having a phenomenal year, and moving in because not only is he a good defender, but he's got a little pop, he's having a career year offensively. I could see the Yankees getting some for him. I don't think that they're gonna move Boulenger. I don't think that they're gonna move gould Schmidt. I certainly don't think that they're gonna move Domingez. I do think that they might want to make room for Domingez to play every day, but again, this is the Yankees, and they've never shown uh hesitance to screw up somebody's career by miss misplaying them. So let's move on to DJ.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is Kayden from Tennessee. I'll tell you what I'm getting tired of watching DJ able Mathew at Oswald Praza may be the worst fitter I've ever seen in the Major I don't know, it's close. And then the pitcher that's starting to get really finn.
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Speaker 1: Especially in the road station, appreciate the call. Yeah, Parazza is he's having a tough time.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 1: It's like Michael kay says, if this guy could just hit a little bit, he would be so valuable because he can pick it at second, he can pick it at short, he can pick it at third. I'm sure if you want to play him in the outfield, if you wanted to play him a catcher, I'm sure he could figure it out. Some guys just have naturally gifted fielding ability. They also work very hard at it. Problem is his swing path. His swing path is over the ball. That's why he hits so many ground balls, so many choppers, and until he fixes that, he's not gonna have success at the major league level. And he's shown the ability to be overpowered by good major league stuff. Brian Bashman says we can trade Devin Williams and Stanton and still have a playoff team. Number One, I don't think that Stanton is tradeable. One he's got a no trade clause, and two, nobody's gonna want him. He's not that productive of a hitter anymore. I guess if you want to, you know, take a chance at lightning in the bottle for the playoffs, because he always seems to hit in the playoffs. But I don't think there's anybody out there that needs Stanton that he would also accept a trade to Devin Williams. I could see them moving him at one point, but the bullpen has gotten so thin that they kind of need him and they need him to step up. But I agree that the Yankees can unload some guys and still be pretty good. Gotta call here, Marcus Stroman, Hey.
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Speaker 6: Derek, big fan, Hope you doing well, Hope your family's doing well. So Marcus Stroman has an innings limit of based on his contract. If he pitches over cer innings, they have to pay him more money. Why not have him be a four inning pitcher at the back end of the games.
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Speaker 1: So what you're saying basically is a mop up role. Well, right now they need him in the rotation they've had so many injuries. But maybe when Louis Heal comes back, he does become a long reliever. I don't think the Yankees are in any any danger of him hitting that innings number, because he'd have to throw like complete games every other day for the rest of the season. It's one hundred and forty innings and he's nowhere near that and he's not going to frankly have enough starts left to reach that because of his injury. So I don't think the Yankees are concerned with that at all. Right now, their best sitch best scenario would be for Marcus Stroman to pitch.
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Speaker 6: Well.
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Speaker 1: Got to call here about Boby Well.
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Speaker 6: I wanted to talk about Faulty because look, it is not looking different.
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Speaker 5: Sure he had a home run the other day, that's nice and all, but still he should not be getting that best.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely not should not be getting at best.
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Speaker 8: His entire overall as a player has sank. He's his fielding has gotten worse, it's hitting its significantly dropped. You're slugging in a baseball sunders don't go down fifty and one hundred points in a month or two.
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Speaker 5: That's not good.
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Speaker 8: I don't know out of nowhere, that's not good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think Aiden put it best when he was on the show about a week ago. He's never hit the ball very hard, and so what he's doing is he's having to swing as hard as he can to generate extra exit velocity. And it's still not that good. And as you can see, it's driven his average down to two nineteen on the air, and on base percentage is in there at two ninety six. It's been steadily below three hundred since he came to the major leagues. And he was advertised as being a guy who's gonna get on base a lot, steal a lot of bases. But because he just doesn't get on base enough, he really can't use his legs, which is a big part of his game. I think that if he doesn't turn it around quick, I think he should probably be on the lookout for Lombard next spring, because Lombard is shooting up the prospect ranking season now the Yankees' number one prospect, and there's quite frankly nobody else outside the organization that the Yankees could go out and get Britzy. Boyce says, are there any good shortstops for sale? There are not, There are not. So the Yankees basically need Volpi to play better or else they're gonna have to develop from within. And then what happens to Volpi? Does he move to second base? Does he get traded? You know who knows? But his value right now is sinking. So we'll be back tomorrow. Yankees will take on the Seattle Mariners, and in this series, we're gonna get the major league debut the yankees new number two prospect Cam Schlittler, who has a big fastball, big kid six foot six, just looked outstanding in spring training and I've been really looking forward to seeing what he could bring to this team. So we'll get a shot to see him this week against the Mariners, who have been playing really well and pitching really well. They head back to back shutouts, I believe, so watch out for them, and this could be a make or break week for the Yankees as they head into the All Star break next week. So we'll catch you next time. Thanks for watching.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody. We got a very special episode today. We have the creators of the Yankees inspired cartoon Bronx Buds here on the show Live Plus. We'll talk about their new project established in the nineties that I'm working with them on, and we'll throw down the nineties gauntlet, and then i'll take your voicemails on the Yankees' recent struggles. Coming up next, this is Pinstripe Territory, whom to pull fiftball. Welcome back, everybody, Welcome back. So we just found out. I was talking with Justin and Tom, the creators of the Bronx Buds, before the show, and we found out we are quantumly entangled. We were all at the same Aaron Judge game where he hit three home runs and that happened to be the inception of Bronx Buds. So, first of all, welcome guys, thanks for joining.
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Speaker 2: So great being here.
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Speaker 3: Ah and I got to throw our little herald to get this started.
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Speaker 1: Hey Derek, it's all from you know. What I know you from is Life with Louis. I watched every episode of that. I love that show. I missed Louis Anderson dearly. But yeah, I mean that's so cool that we were all at the same place and now years later we're here talking. You guys just created a hit show that just won a hashtag Sports Award. So justin, why don't you start off with telling me about the inception, how this all began, and how it's come to be that you're gonna have season two here coming up in just a few weeks.
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Speaker 3: Super cool, Absolutely, so we are pumped to be on the show. First of all, thanks for having us on.
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Speaker 2: This is a blast.
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Speaker 3: And Tom and I are huge sports fans and we wanted to create a sports cartoon because we thought what an amazing opportunity to connect with kids and the next generation of fans. We come from traditional studio world, working for Disney and Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and Pixar. Tom comes from SpongeBob and Infinity Train and all these amazing shows that he's worked on. I come from Hay Arnold, Life with Louie Lloyd in Space Recess and a plethora of other cartoons.
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Speaker 2: But when we.
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Speaker 3: Joined and we formed our studio together several years ago, our goal was to really create sports animated IP that nobody else is doing, and we were shocked because we want to connect with kids. Kids are the future of professional sports, and we were conceptionalizing how amazing would it be to create a cartoon and work with the Yankees, the number one franchise in the world, the best baseball team ever. Obviously we're tremendous fans, and I had this opportunity where I was at Yankee Stadium at the same game you were, Derek, where Judge hit three homers. It's actually August twenty third, twenty twenty three, and through some mutual friends, happened to meet the president of the team, and through that we pitched the idea of Bronx Buds. They loved it, and over the course of several months we put together just an incredible, fun, creative package of the characters of Riv Bash and Oscar, who are our three main characters, Papa Sardine who runs Papa Sardine's Pizzeria on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx and the Bronx Buds came to light.
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Speaker 2: Season one was a huge hit.
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Speaker 3: It was on the YES Network and the Yes app at the time, which has now become the Gotham Sports App, and season two launches August ninth, and we could not be more excited.
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Speaker 1: I'm very excited. I checked it out. I love it. It's great, it's very cute. It reminds me of the type of stuff that I would watch growing up, which I've learned you guys are probably a part of all of that stuff. Tom, I'm so impressed by the animation, and I'll tell you why, because I've tried to do it myself. A few years ago. I was working for a poker company and we had to give a little intro as pirate themed for this like poker tournament, and I had to do an animated pirate. I was working with a graphic designer and he made like ten or twelve iterations of this pirate with different mouth shapes, and I had to animate it together with a voiceover of me talking like a pirate. And I got to say, to do this thirty second animation took me like two weeks. So how do you guys put together this long show with all these animations? How long does it take start to finish? How do you come up with characters and looks and designs and all that stuff?
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Speaker 4: Man, it takes a while. We work a little faster than like normal studio stuff. So usually studios take years to kind of get everything together to like a final animation, and you know, it's we're considerably faster, but it takes a while. It's a lot of drawing ideation, a lot of really bad ideas to start with, like some really horrible character designs that you're just like, you think they look good at the time, and then you're like, no, this actually this looks awful, you know, so putting it through, just redesigning and drawing it over and over and over again until you finally get characters that look great, and then you know, making them ready for animation is a whole separate thing. Then we have a great animation team that builds out the rigs and really brings the characters to life. There's a lot of learning how to the characters move, and a lot of kind of drawing poses and teaching people along the way. You know, we're an episode I mean where we've done six full episodes. We're you know, halfway through season two, so the learning curve is getting smaller. Where we have you know, animation now where people look at it and they're like, okay, the animators understand kind of the process, but you know, the first episode was a lot of headaches and a lot of frustration and stress, and you know a lot of work to get through that process.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because the animator are just they're figuring out the characters as we are as well. One thing I also wanted throwing Derek for the fans out there is that Tom and I grew up with Saturday morning cartoons, and I suspect some of the fans out there watching your show grew up with Saturday morning cartoons as well, where you grab a bowl of cereal, sit on the couch, turn on your favorite cartoons, just hang out with your siblings, you know, by yourself, your parents, and that nostalgia we just love.
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Speaker 2: So we wanted to bring a lot of that Bronx Buds.
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Speaker 3: So each new episode launches Saturday morning, and it's just such a great way for kids to connect with.
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Speaker 2: Their parents turn on Bronx Buds.
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Speaker 3: Parents are obviously Yankees fans already, and the kids are going to be Yankees fans if they're not already, and it's such a great way to introduce them to the Yankees in a wonderful way. Saturday Morning Cartoons bring that nostalgia back and We have great, you know, lessons in our episodes about teamwork and perseverance and overcoming obstacles, all the fun, great stuff that kids, you know should be learning, and also great stuff that's tied to baseball.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Justin and I wrote every script, so we really took the stories from like when we were kids, and a lot of the cartoon inspiration and brought that into these episodes.
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Speaker 5: A lot of fun.
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Speaker 4: Adventures mixed with morals, something that the whole family can watch and enjoy.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm looking forward to my cameo at some point once we get the season three maybe and we can we can we can have have the Bronx Buds start a podcast or appeer on a podcast, and that's how I.
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Speaker 4: Think this podcast.
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Speaker 2: That's right, that would be fun.
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Speaker 1: That would be fun. So, okay, I got to ask animating baseball, it has got to be very difficult to capture baseball movements that look realistic because baseball is kind of an unnatural thing. I mean, we talked about that justin with your guy Chauncey LEOPARDI when we were talking with Squints on Established in the nineties, which would go to in a minute that they needed actors who kind of looked like they could play baseball, right. How hard is it to teach people to animate actual baseball movement.
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Speaker 4: It's pretty difficult. It's such a It's one of those things like you know when it's right and you know when it's wrong, and there's really no middle ground. So it's either the characters look extremely athletic or they, you know, the emotion looks unnatural. So yeah, there's a lot of redrawing and a lot of process that went into making those characters move properly in the show.
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Speaker 1: We got a super sat here. Brian Bashman wants you to do an episode where Aaron Boone gets locked in a bathroom and Paul O'Neill has to come down from the booth to manage and save the team. That does sound like a fun little That does sound like a fun little.
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Speaker 6: Lash.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Brian, did you see when last season? In season one? Danny and I.
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Speaker 3: Danny's the CEO of Hexclad who they're the sponsors of the show. They're an amazing sponsor, incredible cookwear brand. We were on with Michael km Paul O'Neil during the third inning of a New York Yankees Boston Red Sox game talking about Bronx buds. And let me tell you, Paul O'Neil has a mit for a hand.
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Speaker 5: He is.
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Speaker 2: Enormous.
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Speaker 3: He is a big dude, really big, great guy, but a massive dude.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. These athletes, they have enormous hands. I've met a lot of athletes over the years. Eric Kratz, who I worked with on Foul Territory, I met him one time. He's just this gigantic wall of a human being. I met a football player one time. His name was Ted Hendricks and he used to play for the Raiders and I was at a card show with him and he was shaking the hand of my dad's friend who is a Redskins fan, and he holds his hand up underneath the guy's face, showing him a Super Bowl ring and he says, I got this from the red Skins. And it was just this massive, massive hand then this massive ring. Man. These athletes just gigantic people. But okay, yeah, back.
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Speaker 4: In Chicago, I met Jose Contreras and I just remember seeing the oh yeah ring on his finger and it was it looked it was just out of this world how big that thing was.
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Speaker 1: So so for the baseball fans out there who might not remember Jose Contreras. He threw a pitch called a forkball. And what a forkball is is you put both fingers on the side of the ball and it gives it kind of a tumbling action. But those pitchers who do that, they will walk around all day with a ball stuff between their fingers, and the bigger your hands are, the easier it is to throw that pitch. And I had a roommate in college who was a He threw the forkball and he would come up and he would put his two fingers around put him right in your ears, like just put tear fans. All right, So I want to talk about your next project. This is one that resonates with me because I've been working with you guys on it and I absolutely love this. Tell us about your next project established in the nineties.
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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, we got to give you a shout out, Derek, because you are our brilliant editor for the show coming up with these just sensational edits, So shout out to you. The show looks incredible. Tom and I started doing this back in my loft. I guess it was you know last year we thought we're huge nostalgia nineties fans. You know, I worked on Hay Arnold as a kid. We just missed those wonderful days Saturday morning cartoons, you know, Melrose plays Beverly Hills nine zero two to zero, Avatar, I mean Titanic. There's there's just you know, there was the best decade ever. Like it was just peaceful and fun. We were biking around, we're playing video games, none of the craziness that we deal with.
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Speaker 2: In today's society.
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Speaker 3: So we thought, Tom and I thought like, how fun would it be to do you know it established in the nineties nostalgia podcast and we had a few guests on that were friends, and it did quite well, and we thought, thank you, thank you, Fanta, we appreciate the love.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. We thought, you know, this is going well and it's fun.
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Speaker 3: And we were in production on season one for Bronx Buds, which obviously production is an enormous amount of time and commitment and you're just fully invested in it. And then we were friends with the wonderful folks adapt Sports who run the company from Matt and Andrew and Susan, all the great folks over here, and we thought wouldn't be great to partner with them, and that way we can really build this together and expand the audience and bring in sports as a big element, which already ties into Bronx Buds well with our Yankees cartoon, and just really tap into the nineties and Establis in a bigger way.
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Speaker 2: And that's how it kind of came about.
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Speaker 3: And our first episode launched Saturday with Chauncey Lea pardi Ak Squints from the Sandlot. It's an amazing episode. It's all the behind the scenes stuff of the creation of Sandlot, the kids working on the show, the interview process, working on production. Yes, best Generation, Zachary Bass, Nineties Kids Rule.
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Speaker 2: So you know, it's that's how the show came about.
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Speaker 3: And we are loving it. We're having so much fun. Can I give away some of who our guests.
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Speaker 1: Are, Derek, Oh yeah, go for it. Go for it is your show.
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Speaker 2: So we just had Chauncey, who squints from the Sandlot.
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Speaker 3: Then we've got We've got Walter Walter Jones, the original, the original Black Power Ranger, an amazing actor and he tells some incredible stories of working on the Power Rangers. We have Debbie darry Berry who's the voice of Jimmy Neutron, along with many voices of some of our favorite nineties cartoons Aliens from Toy Story, Aliens from Toy Story.
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Speaker 1: And it's her family and it's her family. That's what I knew it from.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, her family. Yeah, Tom's buddy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Wes Archer, who is he was the first person to ever animate Bark Simpson.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's also he was the director of the famous Homer Coming out of the Bush meme.
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Speaker 1: That's great, that's.
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Speaker 2: Greatah, the voice of Spider Man.
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Speaker 3: And actually we've got we've got we can say it now, We've got no yeah, all right, all right, We've got a huge guest coming on. Uh Dante Bosco, who is you know from Hook Rufio is coming off Joe. So we've got some incredible guests diving into the nineties, you know, all nostalgia plus talking about Thank you Laurie. We love the sand Loot too, great great episode and Derek's got this incredible QR code up, so just scan that and that takes you right to the show.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's great and one of the things you guys do on the show, and it's a quote Michael Scott, Oh the turntables. I'm gonna turn the tables on you guys, and we are gonna do the nineties Gauntlet. So here are the Here are the rules. Okay, I'm gonna give you guys two options, and you get to pick one to keep to exist and the other one gets snapped out of existence by Thanos. It gets out of out of existence. So justin, I'm gonna start with you.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 1: One thing we had a lot of in the nineties was great movies, and we had movies that would kind of copy one another, And I remember Armageddon and Deep Impact came out at the same time, two of my favorites of all time. This question hurt me physically to write which one are you keeping?
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Speaker 2: This is a tough one, Derek.
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Speaker 3: These are both phenomenal movies growing up as a kid, I love them.
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Speaker 2: But I gotta go Armageddon.
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Speaker 1: What about you, Tom? Do you agree? You concur you know I would.
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Speaker 2: Go Deep Impact?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I mean to be controned, but also like I like the movie a little bit better. I mean, the soundtrack for Armageddon was amazing, but Deep Impact just you know, he actually saw the asteroid hit Earth in that one.
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Speaker 2: But liv Tyler and Armageddon, Well, have you guys.
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Speaker 1: Ever noticed how white the teeth are on Ben Affleck in Armageddon? There's They're ridiculous. Hang on, let me let me see if I can share this. I can't. I can't share it. It's insane. Google it. His teeth are insanely white. I guess I'm the tie breaking vote. I guess we're keeping Armageddon because because I I love Armageddon. I think Bruce Willis was amazing. Although it will to see the Morgan Freeman presidency disappear hurts me because I imagine him giving a State of the Union address with that wonderful voice, and I mean that we'd only be so lucky. All right, Tom, So you're next Lion King or Toy Story? Which one are you keeping?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Man, I'm gonna go with Toy Story from sort of just an animation perspective, because it was one of the first real CG animated films. So I felt like that, you know, led the way for many many great Pixar movies, and it launched a huge uh launched Pixar basically, So I have to go with I have to go with Toy Story just because of the legacy and what it led to. And yeah, and they haven't they haven't done a live action toy story yet, so I think the live action is a little weird.
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Speaker 2: That's good, you know what, It's tough.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go. I love toy story too, but I gotta go Lion King. Lion King, that's part of my childhood. And Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who plays Simba. I did a couple episodes of Home Improvement with them.
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Speaker 4: Behind Justin's chair. That's actually a little picture of Jonathan Taylor Tom.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta throw JTT some love. He was great.
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Speaker 3: And then of course, gosh, who's the voice of the the the villain in in in the Lion King Scar is uh, who's is the voice? That wonderful actor, That wonderful actor. He's so brilliant, he's so good as that character. He's so good. So Lion King.
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Speaker 1: Jeremy Irons, Jeremy Irons, Oh my gosh, he's insane, so good.
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Speaker 3: I mean toy stories. I mean, it's very tough, but I'm going Lion King. So you're the tie breaker.
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Speaker 2: Where are you going?
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Speaker 1: I'm keeping I'm keeping toy story because of our friend Debbie darry Berry because I enjoy her role as the Aliens. The Aliens and Pizza Planet. Yeah, I want to go to Pizza Planet. Okay, Tupac versus Biggie, Justin, who are you keeping?
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Speaker 2: These are brutal?
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Speaker 3: Man?
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Speaker 1: These are I know? That's how you know they're good questions?
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Speaker 2: I gotta go Tupac.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I loved Biggie's phenomenal too, but uh, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I just I go back to middle.
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Speaker 3: School and Tupac listening to Tupac all the time. I was wearing my silver tab jeans, my big bag, my long white T shirts, and just rocking out some Tupac. But yeah, I go Tupac.
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Speaker 4: You have the bandana walking around?
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Speaker 2: Hell yeah according set, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Wearing blue and red at the same time. Yeah, what's the big deal? Guys?
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Speaker 4: Just in case?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, just Tom, do you have a Are you gonna weig in on this one? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I'm a West Coast hip hop fan, so I'm gonna go with Tupac for sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think I would keep Tupac. Also, as much as I love Biggie, you know, I can't get through a workout without Tupac. All right, So tom n sixty four versus PlayStation. I know you're a big gamer. I was in the nineties as well. I can't tell you how many hours I spent on GoldenEye. But PlayStation also has you know, it spawned so many great games.
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Speaker 4: You just answered it right there, it's uh, it's sixty four absolutely.
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Speaker 1: GoldenEye, Goldennye. Yeah, well yeah, I.
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Speaker 4: Mean even the Madden ninety six was great. I mean that's I played Madden ninety six for all the time. Star Fox is a big fan of star Fox sixty four too.
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Speaker 1: Oh, great game with the rumble pack. I think that was one of the first ones with the rumble pack.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, yeah, with the rumble pack, and then they came out with that cool like clear green and yeah, it was still pretty awesome.
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Speaker 3: By the way, I'm loving all the Biggie Tupac love in the comments.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you bringing the rivalry back. Yeah, let's bring it back.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna. Actually, he spawned another West Coast East Coast rap War Consequences rap War spawned by the Bronx Buds cartoon creed.
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Speaker 3: All right, I don't know, I go in sixty four too. I mean, you know, those are tough. Those are both amazing, amazing. I mean I played some the games back in the day. But yeah, I'm going in sixty four.
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Speaker 2: Where are you going?
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 1: I think I would probably go. I would probably go with PlayStation. Honestly, I played so many hours of the Die Hard Trilogy game on PlayStation, which they didn't have on I'm sure you remember that, tom It was one of the coolest games ever. You had like three separate games within one and you could run over people and you'd get like blood on the windshield. That was crazy back.
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Speaker 4: But the Nintendo games were always easier for me. It's like, I wasn't like PlayStation just got too are like middle Gear solid and stuff.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't evil games terrified me. Yeah, Tomoro, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right, So justin we got we got two more and I'm gonna lead off with you pulp fiction, pulp fiction versus Reservoir Dogs, and we just lost mattson which that crushed me. So pulp fiction versus Dogs.
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Speaker 2: I mean reservoir Dogs.
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Speaker 3: That walking scene is so in I referenced that all the time all the time. I mean, it's a amazing movie. You know, Tarantino in the early days, But I gotta go. I gotta go pulp fiction. I mean, it's just one of the greatest films ever made by far and I absolutely love it, So I'm going. I'm going pulp fiction. In fact, we just were talking about the dance scene just recently. We were just talking about, you know, the dance scene and with Uma Thurman, and it's just it's that film is amazing.
00:21:26
Speaker 2: I mean, that's where I'm going. Pulp fiction.
00:21:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree to That's that's easy. I've seen pulp fiction so many times, so it's you know, Rooser Doc's.
00:21:36
Speaker 3: Great, though.
00:21:36
Speaker 1: I have a season passed to the Alamo Draft House near my house, and every time they show pulp fiction I've seen a hundred times. I'll still go, no matter what, just an all time great movie. And Tom last nineties question here go out Let the Matrix versus fight Club.
00:21:54
Speaker 4: Oh man, I gotta go fight Club just because I feel like I was at that age where everyone just kind of aspired to look like Brad Pitt and beat people up.
00:22:03
Speaker 2: So what it looks like, good good point.
00:22:09
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I love Matrix. Matrix is awesome. I mean, gosh, that was and I just an unbelievable film. When it came out such a game changer.
00:22:17
Speaker 4: Kind of holding it back just because of like the other Matrix movies I was. I'm a huge fan of this.
00:22:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, the first one was amazing.
00:22:22
Speaker 3: But I also I agree with Tom I gotta go fight Club number one rule fight Club.
00:22:28
Speaker 2: You don't talk about Fight Club. And I obviously had abs just like Brad Pitt, very clearly not but yeah, it's one of the I mean, they're both amazing films, but he was one of the coolest characters. He was super cool.
00:22:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, But I mean it's like, that's the thing about the nineties. There were so many great movies done that. Yeah, so many great movies.
00:22:50
Speaker 1: Well, since this is a baseball podcast, we got to finish with one baseball question, The Sandlot versus every other baseball movie. You can keep the Sandlot, but you gotta snap out of existing little Big League angels in the outfield, Major League two. All of these great nineties baseball movies. There were so many the Scout, There were so many great baseball movies in the nineties, but there's nothing quite like The Sandlot. And that's one of the reasons I was so thrilled that you guys had Chauncey on so which way you're gonna go?
00:23:18
Speaker 3: Justin Sandlot all the way. Sandlot's the best. I mean, I absolutely love Sandlot. But as you said, there's so many great films. You got Major League, you have Field of Dreams, right, so many good baseball films, but the Sandlot will always hold up. It's an iconic film. It's amazing. Chauncey, who played Squints in it, l seven weiny.
00:23:42
Speaker 2: But you gotta watch.
00:23:49
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously you help make the podcast incredible, but for everybody out there, please go check out the episode. We just dropped it Saturday with Chauncey, who plays Squints. He gives us all sorts of phenomenal behind the scenes of the making of the Sandlot, all the kids on set what they were up to. Plus you've worked on Freaks and Geeks, which is another great show, but no Sandlot to me is number one.
00:24:12
Speaker 2: Doesn't get better.
00:24:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm going to stand for the fourth of July.
00:24:16
Speaker 2: Scene's time.
00:24:19
Speaker 1: Well, ladies and gentlemen. I thank these guys so much for their time there. There are very few certainties in life I have come to learn, but one of those certainties is that this show is going to be an absolute hit because I've been watching all of the behind the scenes stuff that you guys haven't gotten to see yet, and this is absolutely amazing. And for anybody who loves the nineties, this is gonna be It's gonna be their favorite podcast. I can pretty much guarantee it. So tune in. The link is in my description. You can rewind a little bit and get the QR code and go right to the latest video. Thanks guys, I'm gonna get to a quick ad sponsor and they'll be back to take your voicemails on the Yankees, because after all, this is a baseball podcast. Thanks Tom, Thanks Justin. We'll see on the got the map.
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Speaker 2: Thanks dere Bye bye everybody.
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00:26:40
Speaker 5: Hey, Eric, what's going on?
00:26:42
Speaker 7: I personally think that the Yankees, and this isn't just being like a you know, fur the moment thing. I think they should sell at the deadline for a few reasons that I'd like to list. I know that's chack religious to say as a Yankee fan, but I mean it's just this smart thing to do. Two of your storters, including your age Tommy John and aren't going to be back this year. You have Billinger and Bulshmid has been great, but their one year rentals and they're not enough to win a chip. I don't see a deadline move that could really push that. Di Mingas and Rice look like they could be the future, but because of guys like Grisham, we're going to be gone next year. These guys are getting benched sporadically. They're playing like three to four games a week. They can't get into good grooves and then their numbers they'll look great because of it, and everyone thinks that they're not doing as well as they are.
00:27:24
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate the call. So here's what I would say to that one. I agree with you that both the Mingas and Rice need to get more regular at bats. They just need to get in the game more. In baseball, hitting and getting into a rhythm is vital to success, and right now, because of the roster construction, they're not able to do it.
00:27:43
Speaker 8: Now.
00:27:43
Speaker 1: That doesn't necessarily mean that the Yankees need to sell everybody the trade deadline, but I could see them maximizing the value that they'll get out of Trent Grisham, who's having a phenomenal year, and moving in because not only is he a good defender, but he's got a little pop, he's having a career year offensively. I could see the Yankees getting some for him. I don't think that they're gonna move Boulenger. I don't think that they're gonna move gould Schmidt. I certainly don't think that they're gonna move Domingez. I do think that they might want to make room for Domingez to play every day, but again, this is the Yankees, and they've never shown uh hesitance to screw up somebody's career by miss misplaying them. So let's move on to DJ.
00:28:23
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is Kayden from Tennessee. I'll tell you what I'm getting tired of watching DJ able Mathew at Oswald Praza may be the worst fitter I've ever seen in the Major I don't know, it's close. And then the pitcher that's starting to get really finn.
00:28:47
Speaker 1: Especially in the road station, appreciate the call. Yeah, Parazza is he's having a tough time.
00:28:53
Speaker 3: Man.
00:28:54
Speaker 1: It's like Michael kay says, if this guy could just hit a little bit, he would be so valuable because he can pick it at second, he can pick it at short, he can pick it at third. I'm sure if you want to play him in the outfield, if you wanted to play him a catcher, I'm sure he could figure it out. Some guys just have naturally gifted fielding ability. They also work very hard at it. Problem is his swing path. His swing path is over the ball. That's why he hits so many ground balls, so many choppers, and until he fixes that, he's not gonna have success at the major league level. And he's shown the ability to be overpowered by good major league stuff. Brian Bashman says we can trade Devin Williams and Stanton and still have a playoff team. Number One, I don't think that Stanton is tradeable. One he's got a no trade clause, and two, nobody's gonna want him. He's not that productive of a hitter anymore. I guess if you want to, you know, take a chance at lightning in the bottle for the playoffs, because he always seems to hit in the playoffs. But I don't think there's anybody out there that needs Stanton that he would also accept a trade to Devin Williams. I could see them moving him at one point, but the bullpen has gotten so thin that they kind of need him and they need him to step up. But I agree that the Yankees can unload some guys and still be pretty good. Gotta call here, Marcus Stroman, Hey.
00:30:03
Speaker 6: Derek, big fan, Hope you doing well, Hope your family's doing well. So Marcus Stroman has an innings limit of based on his contract. If he pitches over cer innings, they have to pay him more money. Why not have him be a four inning pitcher at the back end of the games.
00:30:24
Speaker 1: So what you're saying basically is a mop up role. Well, right now they need him in the rotation they've had so many injuries. But maybe when Louis Heal comes back, he does become a long reliever. I don't think the Yankees are in any any danger of him hitting that innings number, because he'd have to throw like complete games every other day for the rest of the season. It's one hundred and forty innings and he's nowhere near that and he's not going to frankly have enough starts left to reach that because of his injury. So I don't think the Yankees are concerned with that at all. Right now, their best sitch best scenario would be for Marcus Stroman to pitch.
00:30:57
Speaker 6: Well.
00:30:58
Speaker 1: Got to call here about Boby Well.
00:31:01
Speaker 6: I wanted to talk about Faulty because look, it is not looking different.
00:31:07
Speaker 5: Sure he had a home run the other day, that's nice and all, but still he should not be getting that best.
00:31:15
Speaker 6: Absolutely not should not be getting at best.
00:31:18
Speaker 8: His entire overall as a player has sank. He's his fielding has gotten worse, it's hitting its significantly dropped. You're slugging in a baseball sunders don't go down fifty and one hundred points in a month or two.
00:31:36
Speaker 5: That's not good.
00:31:37
Speaker 8: I don't know out of nowhere, that's not good.
00:31:40
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think Aiden put it best when he was on the show about a week ago. He's never hit the ball very hard, and so what he's doing is he's having to swing as hard as he can to generate extra exit velocity. And it's still not that good. And as you can see, it's driven his average down to two nineteen on the air, and on base percentage is in there at two ninety six. It's been steadily below three hundred since he came to the major leagues. And he was advertised as being a guy who's gonna get on base a lot, steal a lot of bases. But because he just doesn't get on base enough, he really can't use his legs, which is a big part of his game. I think that if he doesn't turn it around quick, I think he should probably be on the lookout for Lombard next spring, because Lombard is shooting up the prospect ranking season now the Yankees' number one prospect, and there's quite frankly nobody else outside the organization that the Yankees could go out and get Britzy. Boyce says, are there any good shortstops for sale? There are not, There are not. So the Yankees basically need Volpi to play better or else they're gonna have to develop from within. And then what happens to Volpi? Does he move to second base? Does he get traded? You know who knows? But his value right now is sinking. So we'll be back tomorrow. Yankees will take on the Seattle Mariners, and in this series, we're gonna get the major league debut the yankees new number two prospect Cam Schlittler, who has a big fastball, big kid six foot six, just looked outstanding in spring training and I've been really looking forward to seeing what he could bring to this team. So we'll get a shot to see him this week against the Mariners, who have been playing really well and pitching really well. They head back to back shutouts, I believe, so watch out for them, and this could be a make or break week for the Yankees as they head into the All Star break next week. So we'll catch you next time. Thanks for watching.
