The funders here, here in the guest room

Where we throw money, get each other running fried

Oh my, we can't stay here

We're starting to stay the same, we can't stay here

We can't stay this way

Hello and welcome to episode 1,004 of Effectively Wild

The Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectives and Bandgrass

Presented by our Patreon supporters, I'm Ben Limberg of the Ringer

And we are two episodes away from my incoming co-host Jeff Sullivan

rejoining us from vacation so we are still having people fill in for him as guest hosts

And today we have two guest hosts, two people I like a lot

And I'm also having a lot of fun and I'm also having fun with a regular bassist

So I'm happy when I can have them on here to reunite

And they are of course the former hosts of the baseball show with Rainy and Joe

Which also gives away their names, Rainy just early

Of course my occasional colleague at the Ringer, hi Rainy

I've been ever ever more occasionally

Have you subscribed to after the last time he was on a few shows and many more of you should subscribe to?

Hey Ben, happy new year, how you doing?

Yeah, I'm doing okay

So we are talking now, this is kind of, it's like the Star Wars line when Luke Skywalker describes Tatooine

And he says, if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from

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