Episode 31: Welcome Back, Baseball
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2012
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John host a get-together to watch the Twins' first televised game of spring training, take live questions from the audience, and talk about Joel Zumaya's bum elbow, J.R. Towles' chances of unseating Drew Butera, platooning Ben Revere and Trevor Plouffe, Aaron's new car, and J.J. Hardy's comments about the coaching staff. Oh, and John sings and Nick Nelson does poetry.
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| 0:00.0 | gleaming and geek gleaming and the geek |
| 0:07.0 | and the geek |
| 0:11.0 | and welcome to the Gleeman and the Geek podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | This is going to be the public, the public podcast of Gleeman and the Geek. |
| 0:20.0 | We tried doing a couple of extra time, a hundred times actually, but this time we the public, the public podcast of Gleeman and the geek. |
| 0:25.5 | We tried doing a couple of extra times, actually, but this time we got wise. |
| 0:26.9 | Aaron had a really good idea for this one. |
| 0:32.2 | Yeah, well, our last sort of podcast had a get-together, I wouldn't say it was a disaster, |
| 0:34.6 | but it wasn't our... Our listeners might. |
| 0:35.7 | Unanimously highly ranked episode. Some people like the drunken mess, and some people did not. So we're, this is Monday night. We're at the Wild Boar in Hopkins for our little planned get together, and we're here a little early. And my idea was, let's get 30, 40 minutes in the can, as they say. And then we can drink drink and uh all we want as opposed to starting three hours |
| 0:56.4 | into drinking then maybe we'll check back later mid-party and see how things are going possibly uh yeah so |
| 1:02.9 | this is the uh i'm drinking a fat tire you're having a nord east but we're just a quarter of a beer in |
| 1:07.8 | so this is as coherent as we're going to get tonight we'll it'll be a nice little experiment this is is as coherent as we're going to get tonight. It'll be a nice little experiment. |
| 1:11.9 | This is us completely sober. We're going to do about a half hour, twins talk, and then maybe check back later. We may not be completely sober. It might be a different story for the second half of this podcast. We'll see. I don't know. So do you have any news on the car front? Yeah, the car saga. It's finally over. |
| 1:27.1 | Oh, about time. |
| 1:28.1 | I'm so excited. |
| 1:29.2 | I've decided never to drive again. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm moving to New York. Do you have any news on the car front? Yeah, the car saga, it's finally over. Oh, about time. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm so excited. |
| 1:29.1 | I've decided never to drive again. |
| 1:30.7 | I'm moving to New York. |
| 1:31.8 | I'm just going to ride the subway everywhere. |
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