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Ryan McGee, there's really only one way to begin this interview. What the hell is Captain

Dynamite and is exploding cough in a death?

If you've ever been to a minor league baseball game, then you know that a lot of the nights,

no matter what team you're visiting, no matter what ballpark you're in, there's entertainment

between the innings. And back in the day in the 70s, 80s and then 90s, there was a guy

named Captain Dynamite, and he had what he called his exploding cough and of death.

This dude looked like like a redneck evil can evil. And this dude would roll up in a

station wagon. I think we paid him $500. He was in his 70s then and he looked like he

was about 300 years old. And he would literally pack himself into what he called the coffin

of death, exploding cough in a death. And it was really just like a foam board, like

coffin box. And they would pack that thing with Wiley, Coyote, like red sticks of dynamite,

like the fuse is sticking out of and everything. And there was a big countdown. And we're in

the dugout and and lose using it like a bunker. And right before as the countdown is going

on, remember there was one of the players started handing out batting helmets. And he said,

you better put these helmets on. He goes, there's going to be some damn body parts flying

in here. If this goes where we think it's going to go, they would do this old school,

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