Okay, that was a clean one.

Okay, hey everybody.

Welcome to the weekend edition of my great podcast.

How are you doing, Nick Allison?

I'm doing pretty well, Jared Yates-Sexam.

I appreciate that.

Let's not make this a habit.

Okay, that's too much of a mouthful.

It's too much of a mouthful.

Again, not that I don't like the melodic tones of my name

bouncing around on a podcast. But how you, how you doing, pal? You know, I'm doing okay. I think there

might be a little bit of a, the anxiety might be a little bit lower today, perhaps, like some things

maybe aren't bothering me as much as they would normally do politically and then lifewise. So, yeah, maybe there's something going on. Summer, summer is here the time is right. I love summertime. Summertime is a great season, although it's hot. It's real, real hot. I know that's not news, but it's hot. It is hot. And I like hot, though. I like hot, too. I do well and hot. But maybe for the weekend or we should introduce an anxiety meter.

Yeah. People might not know this, but back in the, back in the day for the Chicago Cubs, they have this shortstop named Sean Dunstan, who didn't hit that well. And they had a Shano meter in the stands. They would show where his batting average was, usually not on the right side of the ledger. Maybe we need an anxiety meter. Well, this is the weekender. I have a Sean Dunson story I could add to this. Should I do it now? I make it, make it brief, but I want to hear this Sean Dustin. Here's the briefest version. So when I was in high school. There's nearly five people listening to this. Okay, well, we'll get through it. We used to go to spring break, spring break, spring training in Mesa, Arizona for the Cubs. I grew up right down the street from Ridley Field. And so we'd go to Arizona for a few of those years. And I remember, you know, Jay Baller, who's another one of, I think Baller, maybe his name was, was a pitcher,

and he was pitching in the, in the, um, to Sean Dunson in the batting cage thing back,

you know, they don't have machines throwing the ball. They had pitcher sometimes. So I think I even call out, like, like, strike him out, Jay. Like, I was kind of all excited because I knew who Jay was I wanted to give him some encouragement, but then Sean Dunson turns and glared at me because he's like, what the hell are you doing?

And I'm like, ah, hit a, hit a homer, Sean.

So. encouragement, but then Sean Dunstan turns and glared at me because he's like, what the hell are you doing? And I'm like, ah, hit a homer, Sean. So I will never forget that as a,

as a lapsed Cubs fan and someone who said to endure quite a bit of cubbery. Sean Dunstan owns so

much real estate in my mind, not just because of the shanometer, but also just like the wild

way that he played shortstop. So it's, it's when I'm, when I'm passing from this mortal coil,

I will think a lot about people like Sean Dunstan in a way that probably is unexpected. Yeah,

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