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March 31, 2023 - Doug Collins Podcast
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Field of Dreams are back!
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You want to listen to a podcast?
By who?
Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
How is it?
The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
Hey everybody, Doug Collins.
Welcome back to the podcast.
In just a few minutes, James and I are going to have Friday signings for you.
We've got a lot to discuss.
We're going to take a little bit of a talk in that memory lane.
It's opening weekend of baseball.
It started yesterday.
We've got the first games going.
Everybody can win a pennant.
It's just that time of the year where everything just feels fresh.
Spring is around the way.
Baseball is in the air.
You can smell the hot dogs and the beer and the Cokes and everything all getting together.
This is all about spring in America.
America's game.
Baseball is back.
We're going to talk a lot about our thoughts from there and also the predictions and all for our favorite teams coming up as we go.
Also, just a lot still going around in the country right now, as you well know from this week.
It's been tragedy in Nashville.
We've seen, again, the Interesting part of this conversation for me is the mainstream media just basically ignoring the obvious.
It is just we don't talk about the shooter because they are described as transgender.
We have sort of downplayed the event.
There's not 24-7 coverage of the event.
In fact, MSNBC this week has been covering the protests at the Tennessee Capitol.
Again, it's just people The media only need to look to themselves for what is wrong with the depolarization many times in our country because this is what we're seeing is they only report what they want to put, they only report the slant they want to report the slant with, and they only want to put the bias that they have.
And this is, I think, dividing our country.
It's sad to see.
In a time in which we should be mourning the loss of life, Instead, you see the mainstream media, AP, Reuters, you see these folks basically ridiculing Christianity, putting out false stories and bias in these reports themselves.
So it's just, again, very frustrating to see what is going on this week.
Again, the Biden administration, the only thing you hear from them is, again, anything dealing with The gun issue, but yet at the same time, Biden was caught on camera seemingly laughing about the fact that Christians were killed, kids were killed at a Christian school in Nashville.
So again, lots going on.
But today, we're going to take, on Friday, we'll get back into politics later, but we're going to kick in.
James and I are ready for baseball.
We're ready to talk a little bit of AI and everything else.
So just after these messages, we'll be right back with Friday's Finest.
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One of the best things about growing up in the South or wherever you may grow up in is something that universally unites us.
Especially for young people playing baseball, young boys, softball, baseball.
For me, it was baseball, getting that first glove, getting, you know, the ball, going out and throwing, you know, molding the glove the way you wanted it to fit around your hand.
You know, just, you know, getting, putting it under the pillow, putting the oil, the glove oil under, on the glove, getting it bent in, then putting it under your bed, you know, get it to where it would, you know, be real loose.
You wanted it as loose as you could be.
Those are all great memories of baseball.
And today, as we talk about Friday's finest, this week, yesterday, was the opening day of Major League Baseball.
It is a lot of changes.
We're going to talk about some of the changes in the rules.
We're going to talk about the teams and just go over a lot of what's going on.
So James by way of New Jersey and a Mets fan at that.
Welcome back, James.
Let's dig into baseball today.
I'm not sure I like the way you said a Mets fan at that.
As if they're lesser than.
No, no.
No, that's funny.
So I'm gonna guess you grew up a Braves fan.
You better believe it.
So you were...
So Hank Aaron is like your guy.
No, Hank Aaron was, you know, he was amazing.
I mean, but I grew up in the town.
Here's the funny part about baseball in Atlanta, okay?
As opposed to, as you well know, and everybody on this podcast has heard it and they see it sometimes in the background when I'm taping.
I... I'm a Falcons fan because in Atlanta, basically the Falcons and the Braves came to Atlanta at the same time.
The Falcons, however, are just the Falcons.
And so I'm also very much of a Raiders fan and enjoy watching football.
When it comes to baseball, I've always been a Braves fan.
I mean, I've watched other teams.
I've sort of, you know, followed Detroit some.
I've followed, you know, others.
But at the end of the day, Braves, I just came out of the Braves.
And I remember a time, and this, James, would be far before your ability to watch sports.
We had, and I wish this was back again, because I am traveling this week, at the end of this week, trying to find some baseball in between some meetings, and nothing is on.
I can't find a game.
And used to, WTBS and WGN, out of Chicago and Atlanta, showed every one of the Atlanta Braves games and every one of the Cubs games, back when they were awful.
And, you know, I just miss those days.
And so I just, I mean, no matter how bad or good they've been, the plays are great.
Now everything's difficult, right?
Like, if you don't have, like, now they, obviously, with streaming and everything, things have changed dramatically, right?
The viewing of baseball.
Oh, yeah.
Like, for example, like, and I don't know anybody in the company, but, like, Yes Network holds Yankee fans hostage because they can't watch it anywhere else.
And they're not on streaming.
If you do not have cable, you do not get to watch the Yankees on television.
That is a fact.
Where others have changed.
They go to Bally Sports and you can watch it on its own and blah blah blah.
But then I just realized, Doug, that I'm forgetting that you also had the...
Greatest pitching era.
I mean, I know that people could say that.
I believe it's the 70s.
I'm not 100%.
But with Glavin, Smoltz, and Maddox, you live the dream of watching.
I mean, we thought the Mets were going to have that, but it didn't even come close.
But, yeah, you lived that.
I was a kid, but I was a little old kid, but you lived it.
No, I love that.
That was back when I was, I mean, I'd waited all my, I mean, I became an adult before the Braves ever made the playoffs, much less the World Series.
But that must have felt amazing.
Oh, it was.
It was great.
I mean, because, I mean, I lived through the years, and for our Georgia listeners, and for some of our TBS listeners, you know, really in many ways, and I will say this, you know, like there's been a lot made of the Dallas Cowboys being America's team and all this stuff.
And I don't, But you know, for a long time, the Cubs and the Braves, because of, you know, TBS and GN, were America's team.
I mean, Braves fans were all over the country because, you know, on...
These satellite, you know, the early, you know, cable and everything, they can pick up every Braves game from, you know, no matter where you were located.
And in Atlanta, as opposed to, you know, your Mets and the Yankees, which are less than, what, 10 miles apart, the Braves...
Yeah, Bronx to Queens.
Yeah, the Braves have no inherent competition for a fan base in the Southeast, if you think about it.
The closest major league team It's almost a tie, and it would be either the Washington Nationals in D.C. or maybe the Tampa Bay team.
That's the closest we have.
I mean, Houston, going west, the first team you encounter, depending on how you go, would be St. Louis or maybe the Rangers, Houston.
Going north, you'd have Chicago.
You start to get into Cleveland and Cincinnati, of course.
But yeah, I mean, we had like a six-state area, seven-state area down here.
You know, relatively, that had no competition.
If you wanted to watch Major League Baseball, your area, so to speak, it was the Atlanta Braves.
And it's funny you mention that because, like, obviously, everyone in In New Jersey, Connecticut, I don't, whatever.
I'm sorry, I don't put Connecticut in our space.
It's New Jersey and New York.
No.
But, you know, a lot of them are houses divided between Mets and Yankees because there's Yankee fans.
Usually Mets fans are people who don't want the stigma of being a Yankee fan.
And that started and then they passed on to their kids and so on and so forth.
But like, you know, back when I was a kid, I was 10 in 2003, 2004. And like, you'd go to a Mets game and they weren't very good.
They had some runs and they ate whatever, but you go to a day baseball game and there's just empty seats everywhere.
And if you went to the Bronx at that same time, that place is packed to the gills.
And don't get me wrong, Mets fans are coming out, and they really do support, and when they're playing well, it's something else.
But I have those memories of going to a day baseball game, and there's just like 10 people in our section, and everyone's screaming at them, and the cursing, and there's just some guy who didn't get his shot in high school, so he's angry at the pitcher.
And it's just like, it's very funny.
Those memories of baseball are like Shea Stadium before...
Changed the city.
Oh, yeah.
And I've had plenty of Yankee games as well, but just makes it.
I love opening day baseball, and I'm so excited it's back.
Well, it is cool.
Well, you know, in Atlanta, I go back all the way to the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
And, you know, that was the original stadium for the Falcons and the Braves.
And before the Olympics came, and, you know, we got the, quote, Turner Field, and now we're out at Truist Park.
And as far as the Braves go, the Falcons have moved already now into Mercedes-Benz.
But he was that kind of, you know, look, I tell people all the time, I was a Braves fan when the Cubs and the Braves played each other and both of them tried to lose.
I mean, it was just, you know, when you go back to the era of people I grew up with, you know, Glenn Hubbard, Dale Murphy, you know, all of these, you know, Folks in Atlanta.
And, I mean, you can do the same thing going back up to, you know, I remember from the Mets in the late 80s, you know, Darryl Strawberry and, you know, the Miracle Mets.
You know, it's always, you know, Seaver kind of time.
So it is pretty fun to see.
Now, the interesting part is I've been coming to New York a good bit.
Of course, you grew up here.
I've never been to either stadium.
I want to go to – I would like to take in some games this summer if I'm going to be up here, especially Yankee, just simply because of the historical – You know, nature of Yankee Stadium.
But, you know, it's funny, though.
You sort of draw the line up here.
You know, I can't tell you, James, and you, of course, lived up here, and I don't know if I've ever been in New York, talked to a cabbie, talked to a Nathan's hot dog vendor, anybody that didn't have an opinion.
You know, I ask them, you know, Mets or Yankees, there's always an opinion.
Oh, yeah.
Let me make this clear.
The unfortunate side of being a Met fan is that you really can't say anything.
Because you have two championships, and in one of the World Series you went to, you lost to the Yankees in 2000. The Yankees have 87 championships, and they have all the prizes, even though it was whatever back then.
The point is, though, that the Yankees have everything and we have nothing.
But the few things we do have are cherished, and it is very...
I mean, look, there are probably more Yankee fans than Mets fans, but they will give you their opinion, and it will be rude, no matter what it is.
It's never going to be like, it'll be like, ah, screw Aaron Judge.
For no reason.
He's done nothing wrong with that guy.
But you hate him because he doesn't play for you.
Yeah, yeah.
It is wild.
It reminds me of that old West Wing.
We talk about West Wing, the old TV show a lot, and Toby was from New York, the construct, and he talked about going to a Yankees game, and there's just some great little Yankee quotes in there where he'll say, you know, he said, I've been to hundreds of Yankee games.
Nothing resembles normal America in a Yankee stadium.
No.
Well, you want to know how crazy it is?
I'm thinking about this now, and I could be wrong.
I don't remember.
The Yankees, since 1995, the Yankees have never had a losing season?
They might not.
Yeah.
Think about that.
There are people alive...
Who are pushing 30, who have never seen a losing season from their team.
Yeah, well, in here...
Think of it.
That's why they have that arrogance.
Oh, yeah.
Well, they also have this.
Well, look, also you get into the Braves, okay?
And we talked about the Braves here for a little bit.
I went to the...
And yesterday was a great start for the Braves.
They won.
They beat Washington Nationals, which is always a good thing.
You know, as it goes.
But, you know, one of the things that...
With the Braves, it's very frustrating.
The Braves have two World Series titles in the last 30, a little over 30 years.
However, they have won the National League East in those 30 years approximately, and I'd have to go back and look at the numbers, but at least 20 times.
And they get to the playoffs, and even with that vaunted Hall of Fame...
You mentioned it early on, and I'll bring it back up.
I don't think there's ever been another Hall of Fame pitching rotation like that one.
Again, I think the only one that comes close is the 70...
I'm going to get the date wrong, but it's the Orioles, and they're the only ones that even come close.
Maddox, Glavin, Schmoltz, you had Avery, you had...
When you hear baseball historians and all that talk about The team that should have won more championships, it is always the 90s Atlanta Braves.
Oh, yeah, yes.
I mean, seven, eight years in a row, we win the pennant every year.
We go to three World Series or something like that.
Four World Series, win one.
Again, just amazing.
You won one, though, and that must have been ridiculous.
Oh, it was.
The very first one was just...
And then again, we waited 20 years.
You know, 20-plus years to win the next one.
So, yeah, it is pretty wild as it goes.
But, you know, talking about, you know, one of the things, though, that going up, and I'm an old sentimental kind of guy, especially the older I get.
You know, I've always said, you know, I cry at, you know, store openings kind of thing.
Oh, wow, your store's opening great, you know.
But, you know, baseball, Baseball, Ray.
It's baseball.
You know, the Field of Dreams kind of feeling.
I mean, it's just ingrained a little bit into our...
It's in our psyche.
The movie, Field of Dreams, has so many just great stories about how baseball is just sort of ingrained into our psyche.
Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, the game...
It has its dips because it's harder for kids to want to play because it's a slow game.
But, like, I have, like, I have the memory of hearing it on, and I know I'm not old enough where it was only on radio.
Neither are you.
But there's that idea that, like, my grandparents would be on their deck.
We'd all be in the pool.
We'd come out of the pool, sit down and have lunch, and the game would be on inside and on the radio, and you're just listening to the game, and, like, your uncles are losing their mind over a...
It's summertime and springtime.
That's just what baseball encompasses.
You just got so many memories of it.
As we were talking about, the Braves picked up their first win yesterday.
Also, the Yankees win.
The Yankees win.
The Yankees win.
They beat San Francisco 5-0 yesterday.
Great.
But hey, you got Scherzer this year.
There's hope.
I mean, you're starting in Miami, you know, so everything that will come a little bit later, you know, get those figures.
But I want to do something quick before we move on.
I'm talking about, you know, again, I love, you know, the essence of baseball.
But this will be something good for us to look at as we go through it.
And that is predictions.
In the American League East.
Now, I have to tell you, the American League East, which is, of course, the Yankees have dominated forever.
Yankees, Boston, Orioles, Tampa Bay, and Blue Jays.
How could you really, truly continue to want, I mean, struggling to be a Orioles fan or a Blue Jays fan, In the past 20 years in the American League East.
I mean, really?
Well, luckily, the Orioles are turning around.
Yeah.
They're turning around dramatically.
And the Blue Jays have had their moments.
But it's literally the Yankees to lose.
It's just a fact.
Yeah.
And most people are putting the Yankees, Blue Jays...
At the top of the list here, it looks like, for first, and Tampa Bay Orioles, and then, surprisingly, the Red Sox.
The lowly Red Sox.
That's a hard spill to swallow.
Oh, I feel bad.
You know what?
Just being a New Yorker, I don't like the Red Sox.
I don't know.
That has nothing to do with it.
That's just...
You're just...
You're born...
You're raised in New York and Jersey like, nah, you don't like Boston.
We don't need Boston.
We don't need Boston.
You hear Boston, you throw in your New York accent and you're like, get out of here.
What are you?
Speaking of New York accents, while we're just sitting here shooting the bullets as we talk about baseball, What is it?
Have you seen, and this is our momentary for those listening to the Doug Collins podcast, this is our time we veer off on Friday's Finest, whatever I'm thinking about.
And that is, have you called the Tulsa King, the new Sylvester Stallone thing?
You know what?
I watched it.
All right, let me, can I just, this is going to, again, we're veering off track here for a moment.
Yeah, but we do that.
Sylvester Stallone annoys me to no end.
This is sacrilegious as an Italian.
I hate the movie Rocky.
Thank you everybody for joining the Doug Collins podcast today.
We were having technical difficulties on the other end.
Rocky is a garbage movie.
Let me get this off the podcast.
Rocky is about a really, really, really dumb Italian guy.
Who dates his best friend's sister, which is always off the table.
His drunk best friend's sister.
And then he just walks into this fight out of pity, and nobody even wins the fight.
It is dumb.
It is a pointless movie.
It's a guy running under the street.
There are a million Rockies out there that don't get their shot, and I'm supposed to feel love for this guy?
No.
Anyway.
No.
I know.
It's a bad take.
I'm aware.
And I'll stand by it till I die.
Bad hot take.
And it's his voice and everything.
And it's just...
What do you got against Rocky, James?
I mean, go on.
And then I watched Tulsa King.
I watched it.
And if you can get over the fact that he can't speak English...
The show is really good.
It is good.
It's surprisingly good.
It is good.
I was shocked that the show was good.
Okay.
Well, after all that, now we got unexpected takes on Rocky.
We got unexpected takes on him.
But the reason I went down this path was, you know, you said put on your Yankee accent.
Well, when you hear it about Boston.
Well, okay, I was going to ask every Southerner's question here to a true Jersey Yankee up here in this part of the world, New York.
What is it with how you do it?
How you doing?
You know, I still use it.
It's just this weird connotation.
Okay, it's weird.
Again, I'm not going to pretend I know the origins of hanging on, but I think it's just easier.
Again, it's just something that our uncle said, our grandfather said.
Now, my grandfather's from Italy, so he's got an accent, so he doesn't have that.
But people I grew up around in New York and, like, North Jersey and stuff like that, they're just like, hey, how you doing?
What's going on?
How you doing?
It's one word, too.
It's, how you doing?
It's not even a...
It's just an amalgam of the words, how you doing?
It's weird, I guess, but, like, I don't use it too often.
I try not to because I think I sound like, in the great words of my family, of Italians, a gavon.
Yeah.
But, yeah, it's weird.
It's how you're doing.
And everyone will say it to you.
Like, it's easier to say that.
I guess it'd be similar to y'all.
Yeah.
If you're gonna pick a word from the South.
Yeah.
I have to say, anyway, but when you said that, that made me think of Tulskine.
By the way, folks, so Tulskine, Paramount +, worth a watch.
First season, I've watched the first season.
I really want to see the second season.
It was actually pretty good.
Yeah, I was surprised, because I don't trust a lot of shows.
They're all not, people are putting out bad shows, but I was like, alright, let's see what this is, and I got hooked on like the first episode.
Yeah, it was really good.
Even with him not being able to say a single word.
Yeah.
If this somehow reached him, I hope he would be mad.
It drives me so insane.
It's not his fault.
Obviously, people love him.
Next week on the Duck Collins podcast, Sylvester Stallone comes on.
Listen, I've been in an interview with his brother, Frank Stallone.
I was like, the only way to describe Frank Stallone is a Costco brand.
Sylvester Stallone.
That's the only way to describe it.
We're on a roll today.
I love it.
Alright, speaking of rolls, let's roll back into the American League Central.
Twins, Guardians, White Sox, Royals, Tigers.
Who do they have at the top?
They've got the Twins.
Twins and Guardians.
Please stop having faith in the Twins.
The city of Minnesota, the fact that they have faith at all, Yeah.
The city of Minneapolis, sorry, the state of Minnesota.
City of Minneapolis having faith.
It's crazy.
The Vikings let them down every year.
The Twins let them down every year.
The Wolves shouldn't even be mentioned in that category, but they let them down every year.
I don't know how people do it up there.
You live in the cold like that, and you're disappointed all year?
Yep.
I have you funny on this one.
I'm looking up, I went through a lot of predictions, and I'm using one right now just to get the things on CBS. The predictors on CBS on the Central here, if it hadn't have been for one person, they would all pick, and we should confirm this real quick, yeah, one person.
Picked Detroit to finish fourth, Kansas City to finish fifth.
Otherwise, they had it completely.
White Sox, Royals, Tigers, third, fourth, and fifth.
White Sox, Royals, Tigers.
That's sort of a weak division there.
Of course, America League West, Houston.
I think that's pretty much a given.
Athletics to be last.
National League East.
It's easy.
It's the Mets.
It's not debatable.
Yeah.
The Mets are picked by four of the six.
The Braves, two of the six.
Braves, second Mets.
Philly is, only a few of them are picking the Phillies to actually bust out, although some think the Phillies can.
Marlins and Nationals, nah.
Not there.
Cardinals.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Central Cardinals, Brewers, Cincinnati Reds.
Is it just, I mean, imagine this.
The Pirates and the Reds are both In the bottom part of the division, that's just hard to believe.
You know, from the years, the Pirates and the Reds being the mighty teams with the Pirates and the Reds.
And it's not even that far, like, when the Pirates had Andrew McCutcheon and they had that run for, like, five years where they were just always in the playoffs and they were fun and they were always like, they always felt like a darling.
Maybe because Andrew McCutcheon was kind of that guy, but...
The division that is stacked is the National League West.
San Diego, LA. I mean...
Now, most are picking San Diego to win it this year, though.
San Diego's picked up a lot of...
That sounds like fatigue of the Dodgers, but...
Yeah, everybody's sort of playing that one off, and it's going to be interesting to see how that goes.
But anyway, baseball is back.
We're excited about the baseball.
Scherzer, I mean, the Mets.
I mean, one thing I've got to give your owner of the Mets, he's willing to spend money.
Yeah, he's a trillionaire.
He's like, whatever.
Who cares about luxury taxes and stuff like that?
Just pay him.
I want a championship, and I can't buy the trophy itself, so just let me buy the big ball.
Exactly.
Listen, the Yankees have been doing it for years.
The Mets are fine with it.
Listen, we experimented with doing all come out of the farm system with our great pitchers, and now we have none of them left.
Yep, they've been traded all out in the world as they get there.
Before we get gone today, though, and baseball, we'll keep up with baseball as we go along this year.
But again, opening day, I can still smell the grass.
I can still smell, you know, the baseball, a new baseball, a new glove.
I mean, getting a new glove...
Those are just great times.
And again, this is where I'll delineate myself from your generation and others.
Most people, parents do the best they can.
But back in my day, getting a baseball bat, a glove, or a bat, that was a big deal.
Oh, for sure.
You know, you remember those things.
And I've still got my glove and picking up, you know, throwing it on my dad.
You know, if you ever want to have a...
When you get older, even if you're younger, you want to have a good cry, just watch Field of Dreams, you know?
Yes.
Absolutely.
There are two things like that.
My dad always tried to play with us whenever we could.
But the two most important things I got to buy every year...
We're my baseball glove when I was a little kid because I had to stop playing when I was like 11. But my basketball shoes were my other most important because that meant everything.
I went to the store, I saved up.
Even if I had a job when I was 13, I would save up for those shoes.
My mom would end up paying for them because she's a sweetheart.
But I was like, I got to get these.
Getting my basketball shoes and breaking them in and getting your glove and breaking it in, those are the two best times as a kid, for sure.
Well, it is.
It's just great times of the year.
I want to end on one, a little bit different note, but I think we need to throw this in.
It's going to be something we're going to explore, and I'm going to be looking here for folks listening on the podcast.
We're going to get some more information on this AI, the chat GPI, the stuff that you're hearing going around.
Interestingly enough, I'm not going to dig deep into this, James, but I think it's interesting enough that now, after it being out for You know, less than a year, you know, it really become more popular in the last two or three months, that you have Elon Musk, you have a lot of big time, you know, quote thinkers, futurists, whatever you call them saying, hey, we need to pump the brakes on this AI stuff.
I think most people feel that way.
I actually do.
I think whether you're...
This is one of those topics where whether you're right or left, you both kind of feel like, okay, this is a little terrifying.
Like one of the AIs, there was something...
I don't remember what I was watching, but they were basically saying like the AI, like...
It started not to have feelings, because it doesn't, but it had an emotional response, and it was figuring it out.
That's obviously the point, but also terrifying.
Well, it is.
It is.
I mean, we're already having, in my mind, you know, we go into these, you know, mass shooters, and typically they become, they're loners, they have issues, and we have, you know, we have the high, I mean, it is just amazing to me that in 30 years we go from,
you know, kids being kids, we'll just call it that, to where now every kid has a mental issue, you know, or has an issue that is now Yeah,
it's a little terrifying.
That is a little terrifying.
I will say, though, I did try to write a cover letter with ChatGPT.
And when I sent it to one of my friends who works, like he works in a big company, I said, do you like this cover letter?
He goes, wow, this is perfect.
I said, I didn't write it.
They literally, that's what he does.
They go over cover letters.
He was literally like, this is one of the best cover letters I've ever read in my life.
And I did not write it.
It's crazy.
Oh, yeah.
My son, yeah, Bo, as people know on the podcast, Bo, they know my boys.
Bo, who works in digital and he does a lot of stuff, they were playing with it.
And he, I mean, you can write stuff like, you know, like here it is.
If there's enough information, it would be write a script for Doug and James for Friday's Finest in the style of Doug and James.
And three seconds later, he's writing stuff out.
He was playing without using...
Congressman Doug Collins was responding to...
Based off this podcast, write about it.
Yeah, they don't know if they could do that in a heartbeat.
I mean, it's just amazing.
And he really did something.
He said, Dad, it's scary.
How, you know, this thing just actually learns.
You know, it is interesting, too, though, in the bias that you saw in the early parts of it.
You know, it would say, write something good about the Biden presidency, and you write a page and a half, write something good about the Trump president, and it doesn't write anything.
You know, there's a lot left to go, honestly.
Oh, boy.
What a world.
It is pretty amazing.
Alright, well between baseball and artificial intelligence, the one good thing in putting these on opposite ends is one thing is, and we should just know that when you have artificial intelligence, things that we don't understand, it's always good to go back to baseball.
And that is what we had today.
Baseball is opening up.
We'll be talking about it now as the year goes along.
But for that, we're out of here.
James, say goodbye.
Take it easy, everybody.
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