Woody Show, all right, welcome back everybody. Yeah, Wooding, Greg Minie, Ginah Grant, there is Sea Ben, Sammy's here phones open eight seven seven. Food sent us a text over to two two nine eight seven when the NFL draft happened. We were talking about we got introduced to that. Well, a lot of us did. That country singer his name is Stephen Wilson Junior and he's second the national Anthemy and it was it was polarizing. Some people loved it,
some people didn't. You see, Ah sounds like Moulton God God is doing character.
Yeah kind of.
Some people love it. Like I said, some people really loved it, other people not so much.
Terrible whatever.
I don't know anything about him as an Apparently a lot of other people did already, Like Sammy and some other people were like going back and listening to some
of the songs, and you know Edie Veers and Nelson. Yeah. Now, you know, everybody sets goals for themselves, like to do different things, like hey, you know, at some point, I mean I'll use my own example, like I always wanted to learn how to fly a plane and get my pilot's license AFO, So that became a goal of mine or are maybe it's like, uh, you know, losing weight
or whatever. You set these goals for yourself and some people they give up on other people they just stick to it and they end up making that dream come true. And when it comes to singing an anthem at a major event, Nerve Wracking, one of MENACE's friends, this has been a dream of his and he actually is going to accomplish that. He's reaching his goal and he's going to be singing at a is it a like a minor league baseball game? The Modesto Nuts, the Modesto Nuts,
ladies and gentlemen. The anthem singer for that game is MENACE's friend Hammer and Hank. Hey, good, Hi, Hank, Hi, what's up dude, Hank. It's been a long time. It's been a long time since we've talked to you on the show.
How are you extremely good?
Well, congratulations on the anthem. That's big news. Menace had told me that do you you really wanted to sing this and you wanted to Now why? Why? Why the anthem? And why at a baseball game? Like, where where does that dream come from?
Because I've always would have seen the nationalism at a major or minor League, the Tall Game.
Okay, is it kind of like how Menace has always wanted to get a key to the city.
Yep, So it's just kind of random, all right.
Just a random thing. Now, are you a good singer, Hank? I've never heard you sing? Would you? Would you mind giving us, like, just give us like the first verse and we're not going to go through the whole anthem, but you're like little practice. Yeah, this would be good practice for you. When do you get to do this? By the way, when is this happening to.
John Thannfield in Midneso they're taking on the Ramcho Cuza Wonga quake.
Okay, wait all right, so May twenty eighth is when it's happened. Hammer and Hank will be the the anthem singer. Now, are you prepared to give us the the first verse here? Or do you need to look up the lyrics or anything? Do you know all the lyrics by heart?
Oh?
Say?
Can you see by the dancerly like?
What's so proudly? We have come on.
The trilight last.
Please boo slash rite and bride stars through the peril lest fight or the rest pass we washed We're so gallingly street.
You're gonna do great.
Wow, girl, Yeah, you're gonna do great.
So when you when you show up, do they do they give you a ride to the ballpark? Do you get like a like a jersey with your name? Like yeah, like my friend okay, oh he's good.
Yeah.
And then do you do you get to bring like a bunch of friends and family with you so they can they can see you sing the anthem?
Unfortunately, my sister servets it, says they won't make it because she has works the next day, the.
Next day, super fat. What do you mean the next day? Take the time off? Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Works the next day.
Yeah.
Well, Hank, I'm I'm really happy for you. Uh Medicin have been keeping us updated on on this whole thing and about how you wanted to sing the anthem. I think that's really cool on your journey. Yeah, what do you and what are you up to these days?
Like?
Where are you working? What are you doing with your time?
I'll try to get back into radio.
Are you trying to get back into radio? Because it is DJ hammering Hank? Are we right? Yeah? I mean Hank used to have his own weekend shift. Oh that's right. And then you got fired, right.
Hank, Yes, I did. Unfortunately, why what you do?
I've been fired?
What you do?
Get fired because ratings?
I believe.
That'll do it every time. Sometimes the public doesn't know what good art is. Yeah, that is also true. But in the meantime, said that was years ago that you got fired from that that radio show. Like what have you been doing in the meantime? Like, what are you doing for work?
Right now?
I'm hosted podcasts of my buddy Rtan Hoppy.
I had no idea you were doing that. I forgot that happened. Man, I like some like announcement. But I told you that you've been holding out. We know Ryan Hoppy. Ryan Hoppy is like this worlds are colliding. He is like eight feet tall. He's super passionate about radio. He shows up at all the radio things. And how long have you been doing this?
Six months?
Now?
Six months?
It sounds like something like a mena Saturday night listening cardh my god.
What's what's the hold on? I'm writing this down? What's what's the name of the podcast that you do with Ryan Hoppey The.
Hammer and Hank Show with Henry Oaks and Ryan Hoppy.
With Who The Hammer and Hank Show with Who Henry Oaks.
Henry Oaks and Ryan Hoppy.
And outloading that today. Happy, all right, I will check that out. What kind of stuff do you guys discuss on your podcast?
General topics?
General topics? Love, I love general topics. Yeah, yeah, all right, well, well Hank, we'll we'll definitely check that out. Hey, what's the what's the what's the deal these days between you and our other friend half Baked? Is that still like a like a beef? There's a few where where did this feud begin?
About two thousand and two?
Okay? Over overwhelming? Like like you both trying to get airtime? Like what what happened?
Both try to get airtime?
Okay? So not like woman fighting for the mic, lady fighting for the mine. All right, Well, like that's a shame because we like, you know, full disclosure. We we like hat bag. We think he's a nice enough guy, and then you're always a very nice guy. And I think there could be uh, I don't know, I think there could be peace in the Middle East, you know growth. Yeah, would you be willing to to talk to Half Baked to try to bury the beef?
No?
Why not?
No, yeah, but but why not now.
Right now?
Oh, hold on, ladies and gentlemen, just joining us on the phone right now in an attempt to I figured, since Hank, you are achieving a dream, maybe this is the time to let bygones be by gone. Ladies, gentlemen, please welcome half baked.
What's up?
Half baked? You're on with you on with?
I will never forgiven.
You'll what you and so you'll you'll never forgive Hank Why.
I hope he goes dolphin with John l.
With he's just had with him.
I've always loved him, not like a brother, but as a friend. Whether he's a couple of beers short of a six pack, that doesn't sound very.
Nice, that's not loving well anyway, Hank, we were just trying to squash the be if we figured this could be like an opportunity to turn the page. I mean, Hank is going to be singing the national anthem, hat bakes awesome at a minor league baseball game, which he's a he's realizing a dream. We just figured like maybe this would be an opportunity to you know.
Blenk Away, I wish you nothing but of this. That is quite an accomplishment.
All right, I feel like we did something. Hank, good luck, and I keep us updated on how the anthem goes. Okay, can't wait? All right, quick, Hank? What's the weather like?
Again?
I'm sorry, what's the weather like?
It's right now?
Depressing?
Right there we go, there's a there's hammer and Hank, everybody had out something.
Take about it?
We did, all right, and then we have and now we still have. We still have half baked with us.
How you doing? Man?
Really good? I worked for Costco?
Wow?
Yeah?
And what are you doing for Costco? Either I go operating a forklift or something.
No, don't ever, I don't want to hurt somebody.
Yeah you know Menas You know your friend Menace has Well, he was a licensed forklift operator. I'm not sure if that expired or not, but yeah, at one point he was.
I never knew that. I just do boxes all day. I cut them up and crushed them in a compactor.
Hell yeah, I think do you know what the hot deals are right now?
Yeah?
What's the big item right now?
Costco?
All right, we have a box of tops baseball cars for forty.
Nice.
I would never have guessed baseball.
Yeah, do you get an employee.
If you pull a very Buns autograph, which is humanly possible but not likely. The cheapest one is like six hundred dollars, and some of them are as high as three thousand.
Wow, like a side game.
He hasn't done baseball cards and autograph cards back Poled as they call him. Yeah, if they're worth more than if you get it in person at a game. If they're numbered to like twenty five or sometimes five or sometimes very rare, but one of one.
Oh, damn, damn.
Right now, this is the first experience that Gina's had with Half Baked. I promise you this is not an act. No, this is this is who he is.
It's the real deal.
Holy feel Yeah, it is such an honor to speak with you.
Yeah, she's she's heard a lot about you, but just never uh oh.
And woody, Yeah, I'm buying you in the next month. A Hill T shirt. We have them on eBay Hills. Was this like, oh Hills, It's like a department k Mark was.
Of course eclusive Pittsburgh, Yes, of course, yeah Hill.
It was in Ohio too. It was mainly in the East coast, were.
Like we had Hills in Nashville.
Did you really?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's like the kind of the half cursive writing. Yeah, yeah, Hills. We used to go there. My grandma used to give me a soft pretzel on a frozen coat and we get some deals on toys.
Oh yeah, I've seen pictures of Hill. My close friend that owns Hometown Collectibles used to work at a Hill.
Yeah.
I've never met him or seen what he looks like, but I've bought hell a figures off him, and I bought a ninety two Scottie off him and it has the Hills price tag on.
Yeah. Well, there's a guy. He operates a food truck in and around Pittsburgh. It's a Hills food truck. So like the the old like Hills snack bar that had all this stuff, He's got all that stuff on the Hills food truck that goes around to different events around Pittsburgh. I think he's still doing it. It was a big story when it came out, and.
I don't mean disrespect, and that's great, but you can't replace the original Shill.
It's not just any soft pretzel and frozen cook you know what I mean. It's gotta be very specific top carn and it's not like this guy's selling toys. Yeah, exactly, well, half baked. Great to hear from me. I'm glad to hear that. I think we somewhat squashed that beat. At least, you know what, we cleared the lines of communication. Yeah yeah, yeah, between between you and Hammer and Hank.
Know what they say, time heals most not like Nick Hogan. He will never be forgiven kid Nick.
All right, he bake.
Thank you. I was great to hear it from you. My friend will look forward to our next visit.
Okay, Alter so.
Much I want to ask him about what do you want to ask him? I'll just go into I mean, Gina, he's you might be one. He's way into collectible figurines and baseball cards as an adult, but also pro wrestling.
You know, shocking walking that exceeded my expectations.
But he cut off his interest in pro wrestling after a certain time because like I forget what, like what the what the.
What the line in the sand was?
What the line of the was that well? I hated Vince.
So he takes he took something in pro wrestling personally, as you should anything.
Before that date. He knows it back and for.
Him shout out to Hammer and Hank and his performance of the anthem at the desk of Nuts game. It was, it's could be awesome. It's pretty good. All right, We're gonna be a quick break, a little updated of MENACE's Friends.
Guys.
Thank you all more what he showed next, Hang on.
Next, Thanks again to and congratulations to Hammer and Hank, MENACE's old buddy Hammer and Hank.
For joining us this morning. And someone congratulations on singing the anthem at the Nuts game. Yep, modesto.
Nuts.
Are we gonna get a like a recording of them?
We have to.
We have to be you know, a bunch of people that hang out with him. Send somebody to video. Yeah, I mean have a lot of fun friends in the area. Yeah. Somebody said, also might be good to get like Hammer and Hank or half Baked for what he show family feud.
Oh, that's an excellent idea.
And I think we did a few things with with Half BAKEDO we did it was it was a family feud. Yeah, but I think we should do like a panel that would be like like a real was one.
Yeah.
And then again somebody said on the text, hearing MENACE's Friends explains a lot I'm sure he has other friends too, but those two are interesting for radio.
I know.
Is it one of those things where you know, let's say you're on the look scale, you're like a six or a seven, you would hang around a bunch of twos and threes, right, right, because like by comparison, right, So like is it like you know, we hear the word of the day. I'm trying to I'm not trying to be mean. I'm just saying, like, you know, like, so hang around like Hank and Half Baked. I mean, you look like I don't like a genius.
Like how I met Hank is to work, right, And also I met half Big through work. Half Big at a television station and then Hank at a radio station. So it wasn't like we had classes together anything.
What did half Big do it at a television station?
He was an intern, so like he changed tapes and stop.
Yeah, but was he doing the news?
Yeah, behind the desk.
I mean, I I love my friends groups because I know, like guys are like you know, crazy genius tech billionaire dudes and all the way down to.
You know, yeah respect his his his group varies.
Yeah, yeah, and I forgot you know, half Baked as a kid, I can't remember half Baked was.
So he did go to my high school, but I didn't know him in high school. He was at a school that he had a little incident where.
He rode the short bus to give.
Well, like somebody made fun of him, and he rocked that dude golf. He rocked him so hard that guy couldn't go on a senior trip. And Half Baked was a junior, and so he got kicked out of school. He got transferred to the high school that I went to.
You know, everything you tell me about half Baked makes me like him more.
Yeah, he's a very likable guy.
He is.
He is, especially in person.
And the most random things that come out of his mouth.
Yeah, I would The only thing that I would say about Half Big that he goes through cycles where he gets stuck on a topic for a good five years.
Oh yeah, so he'll be like beans me.
He'll he'll mention Vince McMahon for five years straight and then he's onto because before that it was Michael Jackson. Oh so he'll mention Michael Jackson.
I'll bring that.
Do you think Michael Jackson did it? That would be every day for five, like.
Wedge did any conversation?
Yeah, yeah, eighty four. Who's the most interesting person in your life? Like a character? I would say for me, it's my aunt Chrissy for sure. For sure, she's nuts, she's she's a wild lover. I mean, but she's nuts and she's consistent. Oh yeah, she's never not. I'm putting on and a pride of Dormont, Pennsylvania.
She's never had one of those days where it's just that kind.
Of mellow Hey baby, how you doing this way out? Let's check in and see what's happening on this Wednesday morning trending news headlines.
Gina Grad Yes, Well Diddy is facing serious allegations in his federal sex trafficking trial, and yesterday his ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura took the stand with some intense testimony. She described nearly a decade of abuse and said did he forced her into drug fueled sex parties those of course we've all heard about, called freakofs and controlled nearly every part of her life, from her career, to her personal
relationships with other people to where she could go. Cassie also talked about a bunch of physical abuse, including a twenty sixteen assault in the hotel hallway, that security footage of which was they showed that in court, and a lot of us have already seen that online.
Just showed it on the news. Yeah, it's minutes ago.
She said the experience left her emotionally and physically broken. Now Diddy has pleaded not guilty to all charges, including racketeering and sex trafficking. His legal team claims everything was consensual and just part of his quote celebrity lifestyle. The trial is still unfolding, more witnesses expected in the next few days. A judge has changed the sentence of Eric and Lyle Menendez, who were convicted of killing their parents.
In this story is exhausted. I find this story troubling. Yeah, right, it's like, what are we doing. We had a trial, it was decided, they had a jury of their peers, right, they were convicted. They were sentenced to life in prison with no parole. They did it. They did the crime. There's no question they did it. Okay, And you want to argue abuse and things like that, fine, but just because there's plenty of people who are abused and it
doesn't give them legal justification for murder. Right, Oh yeah, okay. Actually just because Eric or Lyle whichever one, built a garden in the prison, right, what does that matter.
Now that they're newly popular again.
Yeah, well I saw the judge. He had made some comment. Do you have the quote in there about what the judge said?
I don't have the quote from the Yeah, I'll find.
It because I'm like, okay, why let me let me find Yeah, you look for that.
So, yeah, they're eligible for parole now. So they served over thirty years in prison with no chance of release, and now the resentencing, like what he said, fifty years to life, which means they can now request parole since the judge thinks they're no longer a major threat to society. And I mean, I don't know that they're going to kill anyone else's parents, but yeah, they seem to have done the crime. So during the court hearing they have
a lot of emotional testimony from family members. Others described how the brothers have changed for the better, and both admitted guilt and expressed remorse the arc. Oh yeah, okay, And the final decision on whether they get released will be made by the State Parole Board and reviewed by Governor Gavin Newsom. Now a clemency decision is expected in mid June, so that would be like, okay, bye, thank you for your service. You got that quote.
Yeah.
After resentencing the brothers, the judge said he had given the matter quote long thought, acknowledging they committed an absolutely horrific crime and there's no way around it. But he said he was moved by the brother's behavior behind.
Bars, moved.
Life without parole gives an inmate no hope, no reason to do anything good, and I give him a lot of credit. It's remarkable what they did when they had no hope of getting out.
Oh it's like they're saying.
You built a garden and your fundraise for some other thing to do in prison, Like, who gives an eff?
I was moved by these murderers, Like that's that's the opposite. It's like, if you have nothing else.
To do, their parents raped them, and their family knew and did nothing cool, then bring the family up on charges for not, you know whatever, being complicit. Again, I'm sorry whatever happened to you, And plenty of people are abused and whatever, But again, the law is the law. Look, I am a vigilanti justice kind of guy, but I
also understand what reality is. The reality is is just because I've been wronged or abused but whatever by somebody, I can't just go and brutally murder them, as much as I might have fantasized about it.
I again, you can't really do that. I just wanted to say one thing. I don't care that they murdered their dad. If that actually happened, they still murdered their mom. Guys, Yeah, yeah.
Because she just but she didn't do it.
And it also opens the door to people just saying stuff happened to them and that justifies their murder.
Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see how it plays out. I was reading a lot of stuff yesterday that seems to suggest that they're never really getting out, like this happened, but they're never gonna It's like, was it Charles Manson to go before the parole board or who is the other person that it's kind of it's just now a thing where it's like they go before the parole board and they always get shot down. Oh they check that Mercellina, No Manson, Yeah, yeah, one of them die.
Right.
This might be this might be a mood just to get people to shut up about already. I hope it is.
It would be nice and they can just kick the can down the road right to.
The next guy. Well back in twenty fourteen, Malaysia Airlines Flight m AH seventeen disappeared over eastern Ukraine. Remember this was a big story.
It was gone, disappears.
All two hundred and ninety eight people on board were gone without a trace. It's been a mystery ever since. But now the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization has officially determined that Russia shot it down with a missile.
The decision came makes sense. Playing like that with all those people just doesn't disappear. You want to read some good conspiracy theorists read up on that. Oh yeah, I was abducted by aliens.
Yeah.
Well.
The decision came after the Netherlands in Australia, Yeah, took the case to court since most of the victims were their citizens. The agency concluded that Russia violated the Chicago Convention, which prohibits the use of weapons against civilian airplanes, and the Netherlands in Australia are now asking Russia to pay damages and talks are happening with the United Nations to figure this out.
Wow, but even if you shot a plane down, wouldn't they have found records?
Some guy recently who's claimed to found the coordinates of where it landed or where the pieces ended up.
Yeah, but did not find any Well if they're fast, so they haven't searched yet. Yeah, they have to go.
Looking for it.
I would say they were looking for it right after it happened. You would think that, Yeah.
But the exact place where it happened. This guy said that he's actually found it.
So is a big place.
Yeah, they have to go diamond and stuff. You gotta get boats.
Well, MLB just made a big move. Pete Rose no longer banned from baseball. Neither is shoeless Joe Jackson.
A shoe is Joe he was banned.
Yeah, yeah, well, yeah, one the whole Black Sox scandal exactly.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred reinstated them yesterday, finally making them eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame. In fact, Manfred unbanned everybody who's dead, saying, quote, obviously, a person no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game. So Pete Rose was banned in nineteen eighty nine for betting on games will he was managing the Cincinnati Reds. Shoeless Joe and seven other members of the nineteen nineteen White Sox team were banned for
fixing the World Series. Pete and Joe can't get into the Hall of Fame until twenty twenty eight, though at the earliest. That's because their greatest contributions to baseball came before nineteen eighty, which means they'd have to be considered by this twelve person Classic Baseball Committee, and that's not until twenty twenty seven. But I never understood the Pete Rose thing because he wasn't betting against his team. You know,
why didn't you bet for your team? You weren't have to win anyway?
Yeah, right, all right.
But I'm saying it's like he didn't fix the game either way. He said, I'm so confident in my team, I'm putting money on it.
I mean, I understood them making a point, But I mean he's the all time hits leader, right and had nothing to do with any of that, right. You know, I think Barry Bond should be in the Hall of Fame. Yeah, well, now there's a chance for very Bond. Yeah, although Pete Rose this is an interview that he did pretty soon before he died, and he was saying like, well, if it happens after I'm dead, he didn't seem all that pumped about that idea.
I don't see much sense and putting me on the ballot after I die. Most of the people who root it for me my whole career would love to see me in the Hall of Fame as a living player, not as someone is ten feet under. What good would it do in my family if they put me in the Hall of Fame after I die, Because I'm the one who did the work. I'm the one that put the time in. I'm the one who was dedicated to
the game of baseball. I was the one dedicated to my teammates and for the game of baseball in general. I tried to sell the game for my twenty four years as a major League baseball player by going after every day and busting my ass and trying and entertain new people.
He was a character for sure. It's like, yeah, my family, they didn't do nothing.
I think this is more about I want to see it.
You don't want to say that if you're jonesing to gamble that hard. Can't you just get a proxy? Just be like, hey Whatodi? Yeah, I got this game tonight. I want you to bet on it for me.
Yeah, are gambling?
Like yeah, I guess somebody just recently did that. Yeah well yeah, yeah, I'm saying.
Knowingly not you know, taking somebody's identities, taking their money and doing it.
Well, never mind, Oh.
You're going down a rabbit hole. Yeh, conspiracy theory.
Okay, Tommy was getting uh text coming over three and four. We're confusing MH seventeen, the Malaysian Airlines Image seventeen with another Malaysian Airlines flight.
What's up with Malaysian air Line.
Which disappeared over the Java Sea? Oh that was they know that MH seventeen was shot down, but had to determine where the missile came from.
Oh so this is not Oh I thought this was the missing one.
I only knew about one Malaysian Airlines flight, I mean from the top of mind.
Yeah same, Wow.
Okay, how many flights.
In Malaysia go missing? Too many for fight well, yeah, too many for marketers.
I know where I'm not going exactly.
How you're not flying? Well, ESPN will launch a new streaming service this fall, which will let people watch lots of sports without needing cable or satellite. The service will be offered as a standalone option and as part of a bundle with other Disney owned services like Hulu Disney Plus.
Two pricing options will be available. One is an unlimited plan with all ESPN networks and ABC broadcasts that's going to be twenty nine ninety nine a month, and another is the Select plan with the current ESPN Plus service, the full bundle of streaming services including ESPN and Hulu Disney Plus everything, that'll be available for thirty five ninety nine a month.
Okay, So the good one I think I need to do. I think you just need to cancel everything. I'm gonna cancel all of the streaming start and I'm gonna start fresh. Yes, because as Hulu announced Hulu without Ads, I signed up for that. I have ESPN Plus because hockey there was gonna be certain games that I wanted to watch. I want to watch Penguin games that were only gonna be on ESPN Plus, so I signed up for that. I have Disney Plus, which I signed up for individually when
they first launched that. So these are all bundled together one right, and there's other ones, uh, Discovery with Max with Max. So I think what I need to do is just cancel everything and then start from the beginning and then just go all right when I go to that and go, oh, would you like to bundle with what? Yes? Because I guarantee they're not telling you that, uh, you know, I'm paying for the Hulu, the Disney and the other one.
They're not saying, hey, by the way, you know, you can use together and you can spend less and get the same thing. They're not telling you that.
I think mine automatically bundled my Hulu and Disney plus, well, aren't you No, I think that it's happening.
Say it might have happened for me too, but I'm not sure. And then I remember, like, because oh, through your cell phone provider, you get the streaming service for free, I think I'm really missing out on Yeah. And I think a lot of people they just you know, go okay, cool, We'll.
Just keep adding adding yeah.
And I'm with you, Like I just opened up HBO Max, and I think it was like the first time in maybe eight months I did that because I had to watch practical magic talk about what this movie is about, and it's major, major sus in the plot line. But yeah, but I was like, yeah, I've been paying for the past eight months and haven't even like opened this app at all.
Right, yeah, same, same. It's a paramount, I think, and you can always sign back up like once the next season of like Tulsa King or something.
I had it for Fraser and Tulsa King.
That's it.
Pay monthly for two shows.
Yeah, and real quick with Malaysia Airlines. Those two accents, the H three seventy and the MH seventeen happened within four months of each.
Other, So maybe that's why.
Yeah, well that's what's going on, Woodie.
Thank you very much, Gina Grad's a woody show.