Transition: St. Louis Cardinals used AI to produce a really bizarre graphic
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What weekend plans do the hosts share?
Cheers to the freaking weekend.
I will be doing laundry because I didn't do it during the week while I was watching baseball. I'm Layla Rahimi and I don't approve this message. Don't be like me. Enjoy your weekend.
You'll be clean though. You'll smell fresh.
Why do I wait until my weekend to do my laundry?
You'll be all folded up.
Nah, it just takes forever. Okay, so thanks to Mark Grody for filling in for Marshall Harris all week. Thanks to Ray Diaz, Tyler Biederbaugh, Brandon Fryer for helping us out each and every day. Thanks to Cody Westerlund, Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, and Max Curtis. Thanks to our guests today. Mark Sweeney, Scott Merkin and his Chrysler Baron, and Kevin Fishbane. And our transition is brought to you by TORQ Coatings, high-performance coatings for your home or business. TORQ Coatings, T-O-R-Q Coatings dot com. Hello, Lawrence Holmes and Matt Spiegel.
What up?
What's happening?
Yeah, that's it.
Good night, everybody. That's all we got. I thought you were taking a breath.
How do the hosts express gratitude to their team?
Yeah, me too. I thought you were going for something else.
You know the rules in transition. Either nobody talks or everybody talks. I know no rules.
I was busy thinking about Mr. Rourke and his Chrysler LeBaron's and his Corinthian leather.
Corinthian leather.
Right? because that's what Merc's driving around in, man. That's pretty sweet. You've got to love those Mercans. There's Mercans all over. We've got one of them running around our hallways eating cookies and reviewing them. It's beautiful to have Mercans.
Randy Mercan can't keep those HF kids down. Oh, that's right. HF kids. Everybody wants HF is what I'm learning. That's right. We run this city.
Randy and I go back to Sporting News Radio together when it was in a little office park there on Techney Road in Northbrook. Techney Road! And Shirley, the receptionist up front, used to bring in cookies. That's what reminded me. She used to bring in cookies, and you'd go up there, and then you'd be trapped in a conversation with Shirley. That would just... That's why she would bring the cookies? The Shirley trap? Shirley would bring the cookies, so you'd end up up there chatting.
Is that like the Smitty trap downstairs? No.
What humorous anecdotes do the hosts share about their past?
I saw Smitty. What up, Holmes? Yeah, everybody. When you gonna get my CD on the score? CD?
You don't have to shout across the entire lobby. The hallway, yeah.
You don't have to, but he does.
I don't know, man, because our security staff here is pretty chill. at this building. They assume people know what they're doing and stuff. So, you know, maybe Smitty's just here to mix it up.
He's definitely here to mix it up. Asking me what the Bulls have to do for the draft.
He typecast me. He just wants to talk about Bears. I'm like, can't we talk about anything else?
We should give Smitty a show on the weekends.
The Smitty show. Hey, we're still looking to fill that overnight. You know what I mean? Smitty on overnights?
No, that's you.
That's you, big partner.
That's your destiny. You're just putting it off. With these other slash better jobs, in theory. And sleep. What the hell?
Hey, technically I did do overnights.
Now, was it five days a week? No. Was it two to three days a week? Yeah, that's sort of my lifestyle.
You just can't do the five-day commitment.
I just can't. I did four days in a row this week. I'm exhausted. I've had it.
I will say, there is a freedom to the late night or overnight shift. There's a freedom to it. Oh, yes. You mean content-wise?
Yeah.
Oh, hell yeah. Creatively, you can try some stuff.
Absolutely. I thought that when I was DJing on XRT. I used to do Friday overnights on XRT for a while.
XRT.
And one night at 3 a.m., I thought, you know what? I'm going to exercise some freedom. I'm not going to play Soak Up the Sun by Sheryl Crow. I'm going to go deeper onto that record. I'm going to play Ski-Lo. I'm going to play Steve McQueen. I'm going to play Steve McQueen off that record because that's a better song. It is a better song. And on Monday morning, I got called into Norm Weiner's office.
Norm was listening.
Though they have software, which tells them when songs are played.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What weekend plans do the hosts share?
0:00–1:05
2
How do the hosts express gratitude to their team?
1:05–2:09
3
What humorous anecdotes do the hosts share about their past?
2:09–18:31
4
What recent news do the hosts discuss about the St. Louis Cardinals?
18:31–18:39
5
How do the hosts react to the bizarre AI-generated graphic?
18:39–21:28
6
What comparisons do they make with other AI-generated content?
21:28–21:55
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