Part 2, But You Were Warned.

I apologize, I'm back. I am using a Starlink internet connection here in the truck at Cup Sog and the Starlink failed. Okay, so I apologize for getting kicked offline and I'll air this as part two. We'll have a two-part series today, okay, of inside baseball. I just sent that first 25 minutes.

over to MB at the function that he is at and he said that he's gonna listen to it. And if it if he approves, then we'll post it. And if and if not, um it's going in the vault. And if you came back to listen to part two. Okay, to listen to me and my tinfoil hat. I really appreciate it. And you really should probably re-evaluate your Sunday afternoon or Sunday evening. If you're listening to me on Monday, that's fantastic. I get it. But if you're spending Sunday night with me.

I mean, I I look, I was gonna play a fish concert. I was really close to playing the fish concert because they absolutely burned Madison Square Garden down on Friday and Saturday night. I was gonna play the fish concert. But I know people don't like that and I already did it once and it's kind of low-hanging fruit. All right. But when I go and look at the ratings, I'm gonna look at part two and see what kind of number part two did. And I hope it does really well. just to annoy mv

It's part of me that wants to aggravate him flying the show solo. Look, he didn't have his A-10 Wart Hog display. Okay. He's over in Watermill. He doesn't have the A10 Wart Hog heads up display. So he can't do the show. So what it comes down to. You've heard him say that he you know he needs the iPad, he needs the Bloomberg terminal, he needs the computer, and if he touches anything, it goes offline like like mine just did. But he can't do it without that. So you're stuck with me.

What am I gonna tell ya? You know, I'm not gonna tell ya that I I think that the market is gonna crumble and crash and that we're gonna and that we're gonna we need to to knock twenty five percent off the S P five I'm gonna I won't do that. Morris doesn't like me doing that stuff. So I I said that I would come on and read the news. I dri I read you the Blue Bloomberg weekend reading.

And that's it. All right, we're done. Uh we're gonna go we're gonna go to the fish show tonight. They're playing again tonight at the garden Sunday night. And on the way out, maybe I'll play you one of the songs from the the the show the other night. All right.'Cause they they absolutely when you can pack the garden, they're gonna pack the garden eight nights and they played Friday and Saturday night and they made that room look small.

They made the room look small. So if you've ever been to a concert and you have and it feels small and it sounds good and the energy in the room is just electric, that's what they do to Madison Square Garden. Okay. And I saw somewhere on Twitter this week. And it's a f it's a good question. And I and email me your answers. But somebody asked who's the greatest American band? The greatest American band. And I think the answer they were looking for was the Grateful Dead. Okay, which is laughable.

Comical. I'm not gonna bash the dead, but they're nowhere near the greatest American band.

They're another cult one, but that music isn't great. Those guys aren't master musicians. You know who you know who are master musicians? You know who you could put in a ring and go head to head on a piano? Or on drums, or on guitar, or on bass? And you know who would mop the floor four out of four is fish. Okay. You might not like fish. You might think it's dirty jam band music, but the fact is that those are four. Renown.

Critically acclaimed by their peers, by other musicians as master musicians. Paige McConnell on the P on the piano, keyboards. John Fishman, although he wears a dress, he wears a donut dress. I know that's a a gimmick, but he is a master drummer. He's a god among mortals, okay?

Mike and Paige. I don't know anything about music. I couldn't read music. Music was a joke to me in school. I get you know, music class I used to fool around, roll my eyes, try to read sheet music, play a recorder. Please. But these guys are wizards. They had the garden rocking.

You've sat and listened to a hundred episodes where I've played their music. There's no possible way that you could skip it every week and be like, that's trash. And if you do, joke's on you. We don't need you. But what I'm getting at is. They could be. The greatest American band. Who else? Who else would you pay to see in concert now that's a good modern rock band?

Or even rap. Wu Tang Clan? Is Wu Tang Clan the greatest American band? It's not Metallica. It's not Guns N' Roses. Who else is on tour? It's not Taylor Swift. Who else makes good music? Who's a great American band? Traveling Wilburries, they're not even all American. Maybe they are. Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, the other guy, the other guy. It's not them. It's not the all was it, the Almond Brothers? I saw a lot of the Allman brothers in the in the comments. Okay.

They're not the greatest American band. How about fish 30 years? 30 years on tour? Countless millions of tickets and hundreds of songs. If you don't agree, you don't agree.

More more people that disagree the better because the ticket prices to get into the garden are stupid.$159 to get in the garden and watch the fish, please. Going up to the luxury box with Morris, and I'm not going. So that's my fish rant. And I said the last episode I said about Vermont and how special Vermont is to me and how they got rocked and I would tell you where to s like send the money.

Forget that because Fish is gonna do the show. All right, they're gonna go to Saratoga. They're gonna do Saratoga in August. They're gonna sell out the Saratoga Saratoga Performing Arts Center. They're gonna sell out the SPAC two nights in August and they're gonna give all the money to New York and Vermont. So we don't need we don't need I don't need to f do any more fundraising. But if you were smart, You'd go up to Vermont and you'd go up to New Hampshire and you go to upstate New York.

in the fall because it's the most magical place in America. In the the northeast in the fall is second to none. All right. You can go up to Vermont. You can go up to New Hampshire if you want. I'll send you the name of the places to go. And I love it up there. It's magnificent.

The Hamptons are nice, don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. It's lovely out here. And uh And and and it's a fabulous place to be in the summer, but it's it's ridiculously expensive and the beaches aren't that great. Let's be honest. The beaches in Montauk are terrible. The beaches in Hampton, East Hampton aren't great.

You get to West Hampton, you get to Cup Sog Beach, it's the best beach in America. Okay. There, I give you a secret. Cupsog County Park. Cup Sog Beach in West Hampton, New York is the best beach in America. The best beach in America. Nothing in Florida. I don't want to hear Miami Beach. I don't want to hear West Palm. I don't want to hear West. I don't want to hear Myrtle Beach. I don't want to hear any Jersey Shore nonsense. I don't want to hear Cape Cod with your rocks and seaweed.

Get the fuck out of here. Maine, please. That's not even a beach. I just did the whole Eastern Seaboard. Don't make me do the West Coast. You make me do the West Coast. You're gonna go to the beach in California, disgusting. You're gonna go to the beach in Northern California, disgusting.

It's no such thing. The best beach in America is Cupsog County Park. And here's why. They got a parking lot that probably only fits 200 cars. They got a beach on a barrier island that's a hundred feet deep from s from dune to the shoreline of white sand that's nicer than Turks and Caicos. The 200 car parking lot is full by 9.30 in the morning. It's maxed out. You could walk on the beach for seven minutes and be far enough away from other people that you could sit there naked.

You get to that beach at 8:30 in the morning, you park your car, and you are in paradise on the South Shore of Long Island, New York. No questions asked. You don't have to fly anywhere. You can get there from in 90 minutes from Manhattan. Okay, you can go home. You'll be home by 5 30. You stay for sunset, you're home by eight by nine o'clock.

On the way home, you stop in Queens, you get a little Thai food at Sri Par Pai, cash only. You get Thai food on the way home. You had a magnificent summer day.

A magnificent summer day. And that's what we're doing. That's what we're doing. We but I wanted to come on and do the inside baseball shtick and say hello to Morris. Um and thank the listeners. I don't know if we're gonna do it next week. We're we're in the dog days of summer here, folks. Okay. We're in the dog days of summer. But I appreciate the emails.

I appreciate uh Twitter, what are we doing now? I mean that that it's a dumpster fire. Morris said that years ago it was a dumpster fire and it's gone to shit. It used to be decent and I'll go there for the news and to check in on platinum sombrero and all those other guys, but it's it's don't don't expect that much from from us on Twitter and uh

That's it. I said that I might play some fish to you. Do you want me to play some fish? I'm gonna play the fish on the way out, which I always wanted to do. Okay. But we understand, you know, you come here for the market talk, you come for the two year, you come for the for the C bot stories of Morris and the pit.

You don't come here for this, which is to listen to me ramble. Uh so I'm gonna sign off. I'll say goodbye. If you're in New York, you should go try to get a ticket tonight for fish. Okay, they're at the garden again. It's a beautiful summer afternoon.

Look up in the luxury boxes, you might see more. Maybe you see me. All right. How about this? One song, and then we're out of here. If this works, I'm gonna play the song. If it doesn't, you guys have a nice weekend. Here we go. Let's see if it works. Okay. Okay. I rest my case. I rest my case. And as always. We urge caution.