Stacey King

And then they would conspire with their buddies to have the fire alarms go off at like 3 in the morning and make us all come outside in the cold weather. I mean, dude, it was – and then you remember Jeff Greer? Yeah. That played at Iowa State, played in the NBA, played in Milwaukee, played in the Bucs. Jeff Greer's mother had passed away that week leading up to their game. And these guys really went really low. They were like, you know, saying –

Hey Jeff, how's your mother? And stuff like that. And Jeff went up into the stands and started just, you know, fighting the people in the stands and the antlers ended up getting suspended. And that really, they did away with the antlers in Missouri. And because of that, you know, they really crossed the line. So,

You know, I mean, we were getting it way back then, too. But you just, like I said, fans are fans, and you hope that they're respectful. You can boo, you can say you suck, whatever you need to say. When you start crossing the line and, you know, talking about a person that may have lost someone in their family, a child or something, and you're bringing that up, that's kind of low. Whispers, you'll like this. You know, we referenced the movie Major League earlier in the show, and remember they had the bat-burning ceremony or incense when they're trying to, you know,

change the aura. Maybe that's what the Cubs need to do because one of the weird things is that this losing streak started the same day that the owner of the Billy Goat Tavern, Sam Sianis, died. So the curse of the goat is back. It's true. They've got to have some kind of ceremony. They've got to get the juju out of it. P.A.P. on your hands, whatever it takes. Oh, wow. Isn't that something, though? The Billy Goat curse is back. voice-verified

I didn't know that. If you watch the Cubs over these 10 games, they lost 12-1 on Tuesday. It's like the Monstars came in and stole their powers. They forgot how to play. Well, this is the job of a good manager. You've got to earn that $8 million. You've got to pull the... voice-verified

Like Phil always say, circle the wagons, circle the time to circle the wagons. You circle the wagons. You knew it was business then. Like, OK, now we're going to devise a plan and get through this little funk that we're going through. And that's what leaders do. You know, they look for you. This is the time they look for their manager. You know, they can look at each other and go, I got to be better at this. I got to do this. I got to do that. But at the end of the day, the leader is the coach. Yeah.

The manager, the manager's got to be the one, you know, council's got to be the one to say, hey, look, we're going through some stuff right now. We went through some stuff last year, and we were able to get into the playoffs. We're going through it now a little earlier than I'd like, but we can turn this around. We've already proven we can do that. So whatever we got to do, put all the personal stuff that's going on the outside, you know, go deaf ears and come to work every single day, and let's win ballgames. Simple as that.

Well, if you're a Cubs fan, you don't want to watch these days, so let's give some advice and some things to watch on the streaming services. It's brought to you by our friend Andy at Angel Water. He'll take care of your water needs. Right, Tim? voice-verified

What's in your water? Well, and I just found out that, you know, they're doing a remake of the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory in Chicago. How many times have they done that? Yeah, well, they're doing a third one, and they had an open cast call for Oompa Loompas, and then Andy is going to go down there and try out for one of the Oompa Loompas, okay? No, he's going to be one of the Oompa Loompas that, you know, Oompa Loompa, Oompa Dee Doo, I got another riddle for you. Remember that?

That's who he's going to be. Andy, listen, man. He told me not to say it because he wanted to make sure he got the role first. But I heard from the insiders that he's got the role. Way to go, Andy. Well, speaking of fine films, Stacey King took in an excellent film. America. It's good to go back to movies. Remember before COVID, you were in the movies all the time. People don't go to the theater anymore. No one goes to the theater, but I'm going to tell you something.

Get off your butt and go see Michael. Michael Jackson movie. There it is right there. That right there, that kind of looks like Sisqo.

When he was like six. Yeah, that was like six. Wait, listen, America, seriously? Because I can talk about this movie all day. I was a little skeptical going to see it. I'm like, I've seen the Jackson American story, whatever that was on TV with Freddie Boom Boom Washington when he was Joe Jackson. Yeah, and how can anybody mimic the movie? Yeah, yeah. But I'm going to tell you something. His nephew, first of all, the little boy who played Michael did a great job being Michael Jackson, too.

But his nephew, Jafar Jackson, who is Jermaine Jackson's son, did an outstanding job. There was times, Mark, when I looked at him, the dancing and all from the different eras. You're looking at him from off the wall.

to Thriller, the Beat It videos, and how that transpired. In the video, there was actual gang members. He went out and got actual gang members to dance in the video. And so people didn't know that. And so behind the scenes, they show you that kind of stuff. But he was a musical genius. A lot of people don't know. They think other people wrote his songs. Michael Jackson wrote his own songs. And they showed you the way he did things.

His mind never stopped working. His mind never stopped with music. He was always humming beats. He was always doing, even when he was a little boy, they'd have him in the studio recording a song. And he'd actually be dancing. You know, he'd be doing all these, you know, these dry rating moves. And then Barry Gordy's like, Michael,

Can you please stop moving? And he just, because he kept hearing this music in his head. And it's an amazing movie. I'm telling everybody, if you haven't seen it, go see it. The nephew did a great job. It's worth seeing. Whispers, what do you got?

So that's what makes it funny. But it's well done. The latest installment of the Jack Ryan series, the new movie Ghost War, is out on Prime. This kind of is one of those formula movies. It's your typical action thing. Of course, Jack Ryan, CIA consultant who all of a sudden becomes this tough guy beating up people. And every time you watch... voice-verified

You know, him play that part, John Krasinski, you always think back to The Office. You keep waiting for that one of those Jim Halpern, look at the camera with a smirk, you know, like, he just doesn't make it as a James Bond type, you know, secret agent. No, he's, no. He's good, you know, and he's got himself in good shape. He's a good actor, he's a good actor. But it's just, you always picture him as Jim Halpern, so it kind of works. And then, like, you know, whoever plays these roles, voice-verified

they have to be believable. Right, right. When you look at the Bourne identity, you know, you got, you know, he looked like a guy that actually, you know, Matt Damon looked like a guy that whoops people's butts, you know. When you look at Tom Cruise and the stunts that he does in Mission Impossible, like, yeah, I can see Tom Cruise. And Reacher, he was the very first Reacher. And Reacher's coming back. Oh, I can't wait. America, I can't wait till Reacher comes back. Reacher, you know, the guy, what's his name, Alan Richman? Richson. Richson.

He actually had to pull a Reacher on a neighbor in his neighborhood. He was riding bikes with his kids. I didn't see it. And the neighbor, it was early in the summer. And the neighbor is trying to tell them they were riding motorcycles. Yeah, yeah. And the neighbor said, you can't ride motorcycles in the neighborhood. And then Reacher was like, we live here. The guy said, I don't care. And then they got into a little, why would you fight Reacher? If you watched him, okay, let's say you never even saw Reacher. That's not a good idea.

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