Hello everyone, this is Andy Richter and we got another episode of the three questions

here today.

And I am talking today with the author of the book of Joe, trying not to suck at baseball

in life. Joe Madden, who helped my Cubs to end their drought to have 100 and was

eight years? Was that what it was?

It was 108 years. I didn't feel all of that obviously because those kind of believed

a cup band, but it was and after we had won, I mean, all the cup bands come out and they

were this so grateful. Every place they go even now, I don't care where it is. Like the

Bish, Kago, like the B, I'm in Tampa, Florida, it could be out in Los Angeles. It's incredible.

The world is just like in Best of the Cup bands and they are so grateful for that moment.

And they're wonderful. They don't want anything. They're not even asking for autographs or

pictures. Thank you. Thank you for what you did. We've been for years. We've been wanting

this to occur. My grandparents did not make it. Whatever. And that's the conversation

and it's really appreciated.

Yeah. Yeah. No, it was amazing. I have, I grew up with a stepfather, a plumber stepfather

who, because I know you grew up in a plumber's household who had season tickets from like

1970 on. So they were about $4 a piece when we, when he got them and he kept them. So for

me as a little kid, I played Little League, but I wasn't big into baseball or big into sports

for that matter. But so I would get taken to Cubs games and it would, you know, with the

attention span that I got, I'm good for about two or three innings. But it was mostly,

you know, the hot dogs and the cracker jack. And then it was really kind of like in my

adult life that I started to sort of, because you know, it was like baseball was there, but

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