Hello and welcome to another episode of the f*** face podcast. My name is Jeff Rems and with me, as always, the other people, uh, this is episode 166. How's everybody doing?

Nick are you a movie guy?

Yeah, good way to week for that answer. We did we had to win a while, but I got it. I got to the bottom. We were just talking about summer 98 movies. I was

unsure if you're a movie guy or a big movie guy. I need to look through the list though of all the 98 stuff. Fair enough. Yeah, we found out that I'd seen 10 and Jeff had seen 24. I believe 24. I counted it was like 18 or 19. Wow, uh, speaking of summer of 98, I googled summer of 98 just to see what would come up. There was a book

created written called summer of 98 when Homer's flu records fell and baseball reclaimed America by Mike Lupica. It was a, I guess about when Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa were having this stare right off to hit the most illegal homeruns.

Well, have you seen what's happening next year? No, a creed show. All right. Summer of 99 summer of 99 with three doors down. What?

Well, they acknowledge that this is summer of 98 and they don't step on a toes. If so, back though, V Savi, they must. So does that mean if we

If the summer 98 stuff goes well, does that mean that next year we have to do the summer of 2000 because the summer of 99 has been covered. Oh, we like trading off. Well,

yeah, because the summer of 99 will be next. Also, that doesn't make any sense. Why are they doing it in April if it's summer of 99?

Yeah, I don't wait. At least we wait until summer. Yeah. No, I think I think we still have to cover. I think if if we feel good about summer 98 again, which I truly do believe is like the last good year, then then we got to do summer in 99.

You know what? You're really winning me over and this realization that 98 was the year McGuire broke the record. It's pretty crazy. I had forgotten that and it's the year I got out of the army. Wow, good year.

Yeah, it was here. I moved back to Austin and met Gus and Bernie. So it's you take the good with the bad, I guess. We were like firmly out of the steroid era of baseball, right? At this point, or is it still?

I mean, we're in the we're in the hidden steroid era of baseball. Okay. So it's safe. You're a Padre fan. The not so hidden.

All right. Okay. He had he had ringworm or whatever. Yeah. Tainted supplements. I just know like in the NFL.

It doesn't happen often. It's like the tests are so obvious you can work. And I wasn't sure what like baseball's regulations were. It's the same. What percentage of home run balls do you think are are tainted are our steroid balls at this point. I don't know if it's a majority, but it's probably got to be pretty close.

It has to be a lot, right? Yeah. That one. If you caught like one of McGuire's balls with that change your opinion on it, learning like post steroid, like in a pre world where people realize, was it always known? Like how common was the knowledge of steroid usage and baseball during the like McGuire.

I mean record setting. Dude, there was a period in time where Sammy Sosa, Barry bonds and Mark McGuire all doubled in size.

Yeah. Yeah. Barry bonds from where he ended up to where he started in the league is a different human being. Yeah. In a way that is like hard to hard to understand. Yeah, it's really naturally really crazy. And I think a lot of it has to do with like his head size. I mean like his head got so big.

Oh, wow. Like his head in that first photo is inside of a helmet. The photo of his head in the second part on the right. It looks like he has the helmet on. It's so big.

He looks like when Pac-Man would eat the power up pellet. Yeah, like it's larger. That's it looks.

I know, I know that like, you know, there's growth and there's time, but it's just like that is wild.

I think it was also very known with guys like Kinsaco and a bunch of that. So like it was a pretty, I would say open secret. And then I think like the government got involved. And that's when it was like, oh, can you believe this? And everyone goes, yes, we believe it. And that's yeah.

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