18:00

and you have free will and life's

18:02

hard life's hard when all those other

18:04

kids are out there eating pancakes and

18:07

you're Waking up to finger in sports

18:09

twice a day then you are gonna

18:12

be a winner. Yep. That's exactly it. Ah

18:15

So we have two cues major points

18:17

left out of the is dating a

18:19

sport episode. I'm catching up. Forgive me

18:21

from cynic Walnut, how can you possibly

18:23

talk about the competition of dating and

18:26

not bring up the absolute? Insanity that

18:28

is the mating displays in the animal

18:30

kingdom. Are we not but animals ourselves?

18:32

We put on our fancy as clothes brightly

18:35

colored and distracting plumage We bring gifts penguins

18:37

and on their pebbles and sometimes we get

18:39

into fights over love pretty much everywhere in

18:41

the world Dating is life or death in

18:43

the animal kingdom. What greater sport is there

18:45

than the sport of survival? Please bring up

18:48

this year old episode so that I may

18:50

feel validation Sounds like we

18:52

need a is dating a sport in

18:54

the animal kingdom episode. That's animals. They

18:56

can't play sports They're not sophisticated enough.

18:59

That's not true. There are dog sports

19:01

and there are horse sports Do

19:03

you know they're not the ones playing it

19:05

you tell the horses that because they definitely

19:07

play when it comes to polo When

19:10

it comes to racing when it

19:13

comes to to dressage It's

19:15

just a fancy ball They're

19:18

just a four-legged ball. That's all they

19:20

are dog jumping. They're a tool The

19:23

dog racing that you literally set up

19:25

a dog course for Chica. You know

19:27

the dog sports. Oh, I'm sorry Oh,

19:29

no, and she did not do it.

19:31

Let me tell you she didn't accomplish

19:34

nothing She does Chica Chica didn't want

19:36

to play in the sport Oh, if

19:38

we're going down this road is the

19:40

water in a pool playing a sport

19:42

That's an inanimate object. You're riding the

19:45

water you ride a horse It's not

19:47

that they're doing the sport. Do we

19:49

truly know scientifically that these animals aren't

19:51

as coherent as us? We only can

19:53

study it and compare to our brains.

19:55

They're not making rules. You made up

19:58

the rules about Sports and there has

20:00

to be like there has to be

20:02

an understanding for them to know that

20:04

the system is fair But they are

20:06

being used they don't have a fighting

20:08

chance. They don't have a sporting chance

20:11

I think some animals horses in particular

20:13

in horse racing have shown the fact

20:15

that they know they're racing Listen sea

20:18

biscuit was a movie. Is that the

20:20

name of the horse movie? That's one

20:22

of the horse movies Yeah, it was

20:24

just a movie just because it looked

20:26

the other horse in the eye and

20:28

was like I'm on a win That

20:30

doesn't make it true. It's a movie

20:32

but there have been instances shown in

20:34

real life of animals knowing the stakes

20:39

Yeah, right, okay, but cheerleading is not a

20:42

sport you're We

20:44

said competitive cheerleading is a

20:47

sport cheerleaders are lower than

20:49

animals in Tyler's

20:51

rankings it goes Tom

20:54

Brady. No horses. No Soccer

20:57

players no and then cheerleaders. No. Oh

20:59

and then the water in a pool

21:01

and then cheerleaders No, that's the ranking

21:03

people pee in the water in a

21:05

pool then according to Tyler That's what

21:07

makes you it better than cheerleaders. No

21:09

for some reason I think it's weird,

21:12

but he's saying it I said competitive

21:14

cheerleading is a sport I just don't

21:16

think it should be called cheerleading I

21:18

think it should be the true epitome

21:20

of what team gymnastics is because team

21:22

gymnastics is an artificial team in which

21:25

Individuals compete and earn a score where

21:27

they virtually work together as a team

21:29

They don't actually coordinate and holy to

21:31

hold each other and launch each other

21:33

like competitive cheerleaders So to me competitive

21:35

cheerleading is team gymnastics The rest of

21:38

it is individual gymnastics And then the

21:40

cheerleading on the side of like the

21:42

stadium is what cheerleading is because you're

21:44

just leading the the crowd in a

21:46

cheer To support the other sport that's

21:48

happening. I I I'm gonna be honestly

21:50

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21:53

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Yeah, not the desk, please not the desk

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the desk. Oh such a cool desk, but

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honestly Wow Not

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Tyler, close your eyes. I'm

24:26

doing this episode by the way. Alright, my eyes are

24:28

closed. I want you to imagine something. 50,000

24:35

fans running, screaming

24:37

in terror. Explosions

24:39

rocket through the night. Shards of

24:42

vinyl spraying in every direction. Ah,

24:44

my hip! Ah! Ah!

24:46

Tearing up the turf, everyone going

24:49

in every direction. Comiskey Park gets

24:51

turned into a practical war

24:54

zone. Over $250,000 in

24:57

damages, which could have bought thousands of

25:00

new disco records, luxury turntables, even dozens

25:02

of brand new cars. Anywhere between 0-30

25:04

people were injured, and the second game

25:07

that was gonna happen of the double

25:09

header was forfeited because the field was

25:11

left in ruins. I'm gonna tell you

25:14

the story of Disco Demolition

25:16

Night. Disco- What? Have

25:18

you heard of Disco Demolition Night? Is this

25:21

Demolition Derby Monster Trucks? No, it's a baseball

25:23

game. I have not heard of this. Am

25:26

I allowed to open my eyes? Yeah, you can open your

25:28

eyes. Yeah, sorry, you were

25:31

channeling the listeners out there. I have not heard of

25:33

this story. Alright, so I want you to put yourself

25:35

in the mind of 1979. What's

25:38

going on in 1979? Well,

25:43

it's the late 70s. Good,

25:45

very good, very

25:48

good! Yeah! There's

25:51

a war happening. Sure,

25:53

sure. Was that the Vietnam War? I'm

25:55

going to our reporter in the field to

25:58

check when the Vietnam War- No,

26:01

it was over by then. Dang it! 79,

26:04

79. There

26:07

wasn't a war happening. Except for the

26:09

war on drones. That hadn't started yet.

26:11

Gosh darn it! Yeah, no, it was

26:14

a time of peace. But what were

26:16

people listening to in this time of

26:18

peace? Disco music. Disco! Disco was crushing

26:20

it. I do believe that disco is

26:23

more than gonna be in the 80s,

26:25

but because- You didn't see nothing. You

26:27

didn't see shit. You didn't see nothing.

26:29

Nothing happened. You don't comment on it.

26:32

Don't say anything. Anyway, no. Disco

26:34

actually was from 1970 to 1980. It

26:37

was just like nonstop disco. Everyone loved disco.

26:39

I always thought it was 80s. I

26:42

thought, This is just 80s night. Oh,

26:45

what a night. Not disco. Do I not

26:47

know disco? That sounds like disco, but now

26:49

I'm confused about another thing. Oh, is it-

26:52

Wait, is it not 80s night? Is it

26:54

ladies night? It's ladies night. Hold on a

26:56

second. Did

26:58

you say 80s night? I didn't

27:01

even notice because I know this song. Have

27:03

I always heard that from like

27:06

some radio show modifying the

27:08

song? No. Do you like this 80s?

27:11

Oh no. This is ladies night.

27:13

Is that not- Is

27:16

that not it? It's ladies night.

27:18

It's always been ladies night. Oh

27:20

no. Anyway, whatever. The

27:23

event known as disco demolition

27:26

night. Took place on July

27:28

12th, 1979. But

27:31

leading up to it, were the events

27:33

that would lead to the devastation and

27:35

damage that occurred on the field of

27:37

Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois. So for

27:39

some reason, Wikipedia lists the coordinates of

27:42

this. I don't know why. But for

27:44

those who wanted to know that the

27:46

coordinates are, it's 45- 41

27:48

degrees, 49 minutes, 56 seconds north, 87

27:52

degrees, 38 minutes, 0-0 west. 0-0

27:56

seconds west. If people didn't know, if

27:58

you're looking at coordinates, it's degrees. 3s,

28:00

minutes, seconds. I don't know why. I

28:03

might also be wrong. I thought Ladies

28:05

Night was 80s night, so what the

28:07

fuck do I know? There's a certain

28:09

disc jockey, or as he was called

28:12

in the article, a shock jock,

28:14

right? I gotta look up what

28:16

the actual difference between it. Ok,

28:18

a shock jock is a radio

28:20

broadcaster or DJ who entertains listeners

28:22

and attracts attention using humor and

28:24

or melodramatic exaggeration that may offend

28:27

some portion of his listening audience.

28:29

I realize I am

28:31

the definition of a shock jock. I

28:34

started this off with talking about how my

28:36

bike was covered in tree jizz. I'm pretty

28:39

sure I offended some people. You loved finger

28:41

holes. I'm pretty sure that offends some people.

28:43

We're both shock jocks. But anyway,

28:45

Steve Dahl was the promoter

28:48

of this event because Dahl,

28:50

who was a shock jock

28:52

at WLUP 97.9 FM,

28:55

hated disco. He hated it. Hated

28:59

disco. For some reason, he couldn't get by

29:01

it. Everyone wanted him to play it on

29:03

the radio. He was a huge anti-disco dude.

29:05

And this was right about the time when

29:07

disco would have been dying out if it

29:09

was only in the 70s and died

29:11

out in the early 80s. So he

29:13

came up with an idea because he

29:16

was also a sport fan and his

29:18

radio station was partnered or at least

29:20

I think they were partnered with the

29:22

Chicago. Oh, it's not bears. Oh,

29:24

no, it's not bears. There

29:27

are two

29:33

baseball teams. This makes it harder.

29:35

No, there's two

29:37

Chicago based. It's

29:40

the Cubs. Wrong. It's

29:42

not the Cubs because it's at

29:44

Comiskey Park, which is not Wrigley

29:47

Field. What's it difference? Why does

29:49

anyone care? Who cares? Everyone in

29:52

Chicago, any baseball fan who cares?

29:54

Oh, no one lives in Chicago.

29:56

One's in the National League. One's

29:58

in the American That

30:01

doesn't make any sense. They're in the same city. How

30:03

does that make any sense? Because they don't want them

30:05

to be playing in the same league, so there's potential

30:07

for that city to have them face off against each

30:09

other in the World Series. Ugh,

30:12

whatever. Okay, Steve Dahl, did you say the

30:14

name of the team? There's a Chicago White

30:16

Sox. White Sox, right,

30:18

okay. Who stole the name from

30:21

the Cincinnati Red Stockings? No, that

30:23

would be the Boston Red Sox

30:25

that stole the name from the

30:28

Red Stockings. It's

30:30

fine, not the point. So, Dahl came

30:32

up with this idea, which is honestly

30:34

awesome. The idea was that if you

30:36

bought a ticket for the game on

30:38

July 12th, it was a double header.

30:41

I don't know, did that mean two

30:43

games in the same night? Yes. The

30:46

tickets were 98 cents, but

30:48

only 98 cents if you turned

30:50

in a disco record. If you brought

30:52

a disco vinyl that you had and

30:54

you turned it in, you would get

30:56

a ticket for 98 cents. You

30:59

brought a record that was disco music, and

31:01

it had to be disco music. They'd give

31:03

you a cheaper ticket. Yes, it

31:05

would. And also, they would throw it in the

31:08

pile. Now, what's going to happen with that pile?

31:10

I'm not going to spoil just yet, but it

31:12

has something. Let me give you a sense of

31:14

the editors. Help me out. Oh, pfft. Pfft,

31:18

pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft. Pfft, pfft,

31:20

pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft. Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft,

31:22

pfft. I don't

31:24

want any visuals to that. Just enhance the audio

31:26

so it sounded better, right? And

31:30

then a crowd like screaming. No

31:33

video over Mark's face, but put video over my

31:35

face. But

31:37

small in the corner, make it tiny, so you

31:39

don't have to do anything specific. Alright, so, White

31:42

Sox officials, ah, here it says White Sox. Could've

31:45

read down a little bit. I didn't. Whatever.

31:47

Oh, it says it has the top too.

31:49

Oh, shit. You

31:52

really do need Google AI, man. No, they

31:54

would mess this up. I'm just reading Wikipedia.

31:56

I read through it before. I don't know.

31:58

I didn't pay attention to that. More!

34:00

They're like flying saucers through

34:02

the sky abducting people out

34:05

of the stadium and becoming

34:07

dranse inside the disco ball

34:09

of the moon. Wow,

34:11

that's incredible. Uh, okay,

34:13

anyway. The second game was already

34:15

initially postponed. Um, just because it

34:17

was getting too crazy in there.

34:19

There was so many people, everyone

34:21

was going like out of their

34:23

seats, people were not coordinated right,

34:25

people were jamming in, people couldn't

34:27

get out. It was already getting a

34:30

little crazy. But according to the

34:32

event coordinators, not a bad thing.

34:34

Not a bad thing at all!

34:36

Everything is fine! There's nothing wrong

34:38

here. It's because the event coordinators

34:40

were only leasing the venue. They

34:42

didn't own it! And

34:44

also they hadn't done what they

34:46

set out to do. Remember, Dahl

34:49

said, quote, this was a night,

34:51

it was a war. He described

34:53

it as a war dedicated to

34:55

the eradication of the dreaded musical

34:57

disease known as disco. How

35:00

many of those records do you think

35:02

people stole? Stole? Like they didn't, they're

35:04

not their records, they're like, oh I'm

35:06

tired of my neighbor playing the disco

35:08

music, I'm gonna break it and take

35:10

their disc. Right. Just,

35:13

I thought you were meant like people were going into the

35:15

pile being like, free your records!

35:18

Free disco! You know, there's that one guy,

35:21

there was that one guy who was in

35:23

the pile when everything went down. There were

35:25

multiple events that Dahl went around the city.

35:27

He would take over disco tacks, he would

35:30

take over record stores, he would bring, he

35:32

would say on the radio being like, we're

35:34

going here, we're taking off, because he literally

35:37

wanted to get rid of disco. And it

35:39

probably was mostly a bit, but it also

35:41

probably was absolutely not a bit. Because he

35:43

even urged listeners to throw marshmallows, at

35:46

a promotional van, in a shopping

35:48

mall where a teen disco had been

35:51

built. So that's that cool and normal.

35:53

He's attacking the teens with marshmallows? Yeah,

35:56

yep, yeah. And so the, the

35:58

call. Coho's chased the van and

36:00

driver and cornered them in a

36:02

park the situation ended without violence

36:04

thankfully But you know super normal

36:07

to chase a van down to

36:09

a park Very cool.

36:11

I have a question. Does it

36:13

actually say coho's or is it coho's?

36:16

coho's coho's is the

36:19

kind of Organization that

36:21

he put together to be the army

36:24

So it's like the insane coho lips

36:26

is an anti disco army consisting of

36:28

his listeners. So they call him the

36:31

coho's It's a terrible name.

36:33

It's a horrible name. Did they have a

36:35

symbol? Like it was Darth Maul's lightsaber But

36:37

it was just gardening hose on each end.

36:39

He's whipping it around No, it was not

36:41

like that at all. So dolls kind of

36:43

a dick, right? There was a disco star

36:45

His name is van McCoy. He died suddenly

36:48

July 6th The event took place on July

36:50

12th and you know You would think that'd

36:52

be like, oh man disco star passed away.

36:54

Let's be try to be respectful. Nah doll

36:57

He commemorated the death by

36:59

destroying one of his records on live on

37:01

air Yeah, you know

37:03

consistent with he's consistent, but that's

37:06

also like read the room man

37:09

Not his room. He doesn't have to

37:11

read it He can't read all of

37:13

this to say that there was already

37:15

a fervor of a little bit Intensity

37:17

leading up to the night you could

37:19

say there was some disco fever. No.

37:21

Yes, maybe yes. No Shut

37:24

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37:28

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previous night's attendance for this was 15,000 people. More than 50,000

38:33

were there. No

38:36

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38:38

security for 35,000 people that night. They

38:41

were very much overwhelmed. And also, security,

38:43

mathematically, is never truly a science when

38:45

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38:48

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38:50

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38:53

were not only the 50,000 people inside, but there

38:55

were still 20,000 more people

38:57

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38:59

the building. Did they have their discs?

39:01

Everyone has their discs. Because when you

39:03

came to the park, you were supposed

39:05

to drop your records into a large

39:07

box, which was about 4 feet by

39:09

6 feet by 5 feet tall, which,

39:11

if you're doing math in your head,

39:13

is about a comparative to the TARDIS.

39:16

Bigger. No, sorry. Not at all the TARDIS. Okay, because

39:19

the TARDIS is bigger on the inside. So,

39:21

2 Tardai. 4 Tardai. You

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39:26

1 and a half

39:29

Tardai by 4... 2 Tardai.

39:33

This is... Tarduses. Tarduses? What's

39:35

the plural of TARDIS? Tarduses.

39:38

Yes, yes. So now that everyone has

39:41

a perfect idea of what that is,

39:43

that was the box that they were

39:45

dumping records into. Not small. Also not

39:48

that big. Okay, alright. How big a

39:50

box you got. Refrigerator box is bigger

39:52

than that. No it's not. That's only

39:54

1 TARDIS. Refrigerator's bigger than a TARDIS.

39:57

It's like 1 and a half. A

39:59

refrigerator box? What refrigerator what cavernous mammoth

40:01

cave ass refrigerator Do you have that

40:04

is bigger than the TARDIS the one

40:06

from Bob's fridge that flooded his yard?

40:09

You don't have his why would you have his

40:11

because it's 1979 and that's what they do Born

40:17

refrigerators were bigger back then Samsung probably wasn't

40:19

even making refrigerators back then I don't think

40:21

Bob's fridge was Samsung Well, if you could

40:23

tell me what brand it is Then you

40:26

would be able to make me

40:28

believe that you actually know that it's any bigger frigid

40:30

air That might be true.

40:32

That might be Anyway,

40:34

it was overflowing. So all the people brought their

40:37

discs to their seats first game was supposed to

40:39

begin at 6 p.m. CDT

40:41

there's a lot of people on tick-tock that are talking

40:44

about which is the sexiest time zone They're not saying

40:46

that no not at all, but which is the best

40:48

right and I think we can all agree Mountain

40:51

is the worst. Yeah, cuz you're at elevation.

40:53

Is that what you're saying? No,

40:56

I'm saying time zone of

40:58

Pacific Central and Eastern. Oh, we're talking

41:00

just us. Yeah, who cares right? They

41:02

don't get anything. They're not Pacific Central,

41:05

you know always gets mentioned with Eastern

41:07

You know the Eastern is this is

41:09

seven Eastern 600. Hey, whatever don't matter

41:12

Yeah, cuz broadcasting cuz Chicago and Chicago

41:14

actually officially adopted the fact that they're

41:16

on Eastern time and not Central time

41:19

Oh So like the media capitals of the

41:21

United States are on the west coast and

41:23

east coast time zones Specifically,

41:25

but they say Central because Chicago is

41:28

considered one of the broadcast zones But

41:30

Chicago broadcasting follows Eastern time but they

41:32

mention Central because they have to acknowledge

41:34

their own city fair enough Kind

41:37

of weird, but kind of cool. I guess

41:39

yeah, not bad Maybe I should spend some

41:41

time in Chicago everyone always talks about it

41:43

every time I've been to Chicago. It's been

41:45

awful I want somebody to take me there

41:47

that will make me actually enjoy Chicago Maybe

41:49

we should just go and just go to

41:51

let's buy Chicago. How much do you think

41:53

Chicago costs probably not that much anyway 6

41:55

p.m First game was set

41:57

to begin second game to follow July,

42:00

a model who did public appearances for

42:02

WLUP, was a popular in Chicago that

42:04

summer for her sexually provocative poses in

42:06

the station's advertisement. I don't know why-

42:08

she threw out the first pitch. I

42:10

couldn't tell where this was going. Honestly.

42:14

She laid elegantly and got her

42:16

photo taken in the piles of

42:18

records covering her bosoms. But

42:20

the reason I bring this up is because as

42:23

they were starting the game, discs

42:27

were already flying through the air.

42:30

Fans from all the way up

42:32

top were chucking discs down, fans

42:34

right up on the field were

42:36

chucking discs in, everyone was saying

42:38

to each other who was playing

42:41

the game, Dear Lord wear your

42:43

helmet at all times. Quote, it

42:45

wasn't just one, it was many.

42:47

Oh God almighty, I've never seen

42:49

anything so dangerous in my life.

42:51

In all fairness, it was the

42:53

White Sox versus the Detroit Tigers.

42:56

Chicago and Detroit, two cities

42:58

that are used to significant

43:00

violence at that time. Absolutely, that

43:02

excuses it. It also excuses

43:04

the firecrackers they were throwing,

43:07

the empty liquor bottles and

43:09

lighters. So they were just-

43:11

Why were- LIGHTERS! They were

43:13

hoping that, you know, it would all

43:15

mix as it landed and one would

43:18

catch one on fire and then it

43:20

would build itself into a Molotov cocktail.

43:22

There's so much going on, it'll random

43:24

chance laugh. Spontaneous to

43:26

the combustion. Yes, so

43:28

the game was obviously stopped several

43:31

times because of the reign of

43:33

foreign objects. Dozens of hand painted

43:35

banners such as slogans as Disco

43:37

Socks were hung from the ballpark

43:39

seating decks. White Sox broadcaster Harry

43:42

Carey saw groups of music fans

43:44

wandering the stands, others sat intently

43:46

in their seats awaiting the explosion.

43:49

So all this is building up to why

43:51

this is called Disco Demolition Night. Are they

43:53

doing that on the field? Is there any

43:56

protection to protect the field? Who thought this

43:58

was a great idea?! We're

46:00

gonna blow them up real good.

46:03

Then Dolph set off the explosives,

46:05

destroying the records and tearing an

46:08

enormous hole in the outfield grass.

46:11

That's why I was worried about the field. The

46:14

resulting explosion blasted

46:16

shrapnel's of vinyl

46:19

up into the nosebleed section.

46:21

Oh my God. He set

46:23

off a giant claymore of

46:25

vinyl records. And not only

46:27

that, it was also now

46:30

on fire. So the giant box

46:32

had exploded and spread shrapnel all

46:34

over the field, completely covering it.

46:37

And it was also on fire.

46:39

So vinyl, it doesn't exactly burn

46:41

very well, but it smokes up

46:44

really nicely. So when it's on

46:46

fire, it likes to melt and

46:48

make this really acrid plastic burning

46:50

smoke. Which is toxic. Oh,

46:53

back then there was nothing, they didn't know what toxicity

46:55

was in the 70s. What are you talking

46:57

about? So you would think that,

47:00

you know, at this time, people would like panic

47:02

and run away. Nope, 5,000 to 7,000 attendees rushed

47:04

the field. They

47:07

thought that this was the perfect

47:09

time to party. And

47:15

they rushed the field. Some climbed

47:17

the foul poles. Others set records

47:19

more on fire. Others just started

47:22

grabbing fistfuls of grass and just

47:24

throwing them up in the air.

47:27

Weee! There was a batting

47:30

cage got destroyed, bases were pulled

47:32

up, stolen. Among those taking the

47:34

field, apparently, was Michael Clark Duncan,

47:36

and the actor. He slid into

47:38

third base just for fun, had

47:40

a silver belt buckle stolen, and

47:42

went home with a bat from

47:44

the dugout. Stolen? Pretty

47:47

good. Cause it's almost 80s night.

47:50

Yeah, absolutely. And it's

47:53

feeling right. So years later,

47:55

Lorelei, you remember, making sexually

47:57

provocative first pitches. members

48:00

being grabbed by two bodyguards who

48:02

placed her in the Jeep and then

48:04

the Jeep like tried to navigate its

48:07

way through the crowds to get out

48:09

of the stadium and into the surrounding

48:11

streets to the delight of many co-hosts

48:14

outside who suddenly recognized the occupants and

48:16

had heard the explosion like HEY

48:18

LOREN! and then

48:20

started chasing the Jeep down the street.

48:22

All of this while there was constant

48:25

people on the the PA system always

48:27

telling people please turn your seats! The

48:29

entire time Take Me Out to the Ball

48:31

game was being played Hahahahaha

48:34

Hahahahaha Take

48:36

me out Hahahahaha

48:41

Buy me some cracker jacks Pwah

48:43

pwah pwah I

48:45

don't care for never come back

48:48

Pwah pwah Ah light on

48:51

fire At 9.08 and remember the at

48:53

8.40 is when a few minutes

48:56

before the explosion happened 9.08 Chicago

48:58

police arrived in riot gear much to

49:00

the applause of baseball fans they were

49:03

just cheering on everything they were having

49:05

the best time this might have been

49:07

the best night of some baseball fans

49:09

lives as far as they know except

49:11

for the Chicago White Sox lost the

49:14

first game of the double-header so they

49:16

were like AH DAMN Hahahahaha The

49:18

people on the field dispersed after the police arrived 39 people

49:21

were arrested for disorderly conduct estimates of

49:23

injuries arranged from none to over 30

49:26

I don't know how you get none in

49:28

there because there's no way it was none

49:31

there's zero chance that none got injured they

49:33

wanted to play the second game but the

49:35

field was so badly torn up that umpiring

49:37

chief crew Dave Phillips felt that it was

49:39

still not playable even after the

49:41

White Sox groundkeepers spent an hour clearing

49:43

away debris which is like that's really

49:45

optimistic of them to believe that after

49:48

the explosion and rampaging fans who were

49:50

just ripping up handfuls of stuff tons

49:52

of stuff sold they didn't have any

49:54

bases anymore they all get sold even

49:56

the fifth base got stolen and so

49:58

you know there was a There

50:00

was nothing there. The second game got

50:02

forfeited. Here's an interesting thing about baseball.

50:04

They argued under baseball's rules a game

50:07

can only be postponed due to an

50:09

act of God and that as the

50:11

home team the White Sox were responsible

50:13

for the field conditions. So the next

50:16

day they forfeited the second game to

50:18

the Tigers 9-0. So White Sox lost

50:20

twice. One's for being bad and the

50:22

other for not an act of God.

50:24

An act of man. Being bad and

50:27

then being stupid. Being bad and then

50:29

being stupid and they failed to provide

50:31

acceptable playing conditions. Which apparently that rule

50:33

is you ought to when you forfeit

50:35

you lose 9-0. Yeah

50:37

one run per inning. Oh that

50:40

makes perfect sense. I wanted to

50:42

look up who this Lorelei shark

50:45

Lorelei was. Apparently it's Lorelei shark.

50:47

Hello Lorelei. There you

50:49

go for people who want to know

50:51

who Lorelei was. All right now everyone's

50:54

curiosity is sated. Anyway day after the

50:56

event Dahl began his regular morning broadcast

50:58

by reading the indignant headlines in the

51:00

local papers of which he mocked. He

51:02

said quote I think for the most

51:04

part everything was wonderful. Some maniac co-host

51:07

got wild went down on the field

51:09

which you shouldn't have done. Bad little

51:11

co-host end quote that's part of the

51:13

quote. Tigers manager

51:15

Anderson said quote beer and baseball

51:17

go together. They have for years

51:19

but I think those kids were

51:21

doing things other than beer. I

51:26

think they were smoking vinyl man. I've

51:28

met everyone who's smoking vinyl that way.

51:30

Uh so a columnist of the Chicago

51:32

Tribune said it would have happened any

51:35

place 50,000 teenagers got together on a

51:37

sultry summer night with beer and reefer.

51:39

This wouldn't have happened if they had

51:41

country and western night. It said rich

51:44

worth on. Which

51:47

is just such a good opinion to button that whole

51:49

event. They would have just been line dancing you know.

51:52

Well this wouldn't have happened. You're right it

51:54

wouldn't have because 50,000 people would

51:56

not have been there. Back then? Probably for

51:58

country yeah. That is the same. story of Disco

52:01

Demolition Night. What a glorious, horrible

52:03

event at a sports venue. I'm

52:05

stunned no one died. It's

52:08

1979. They could sweep dead

52:10

people under the field. You

52:12

gotta remember, the 90s were

52:14

different, the 70s were

52:16

even different. Yeah, yeah. And just to show

52:18

you a picture of like what the field

52:20

was looking like, I'm sure you've seen pictures

52:22

or, you know, events where people charge the

52:24

field. That's a lot of people. That's a

52:26

ton of people that are just hanging

52:29

out in the field. I was at fireworks

52:31

night at Dodger Stadium and they let people go

52:33

onto the field for the fireworks. They keep them

52:35

off the actual like infield. This is about the

52:38

same amount of people that they let go out

52:40

into the outfield. Oh cool. But that's very orderly

52:42

and they let them in and the security people

52:44

are watching them the whole time. I think people

52:47

regularly try to make the next MLB All-Star on

52:49

the field. But that's, that's a different story.

52:51

I really wish, I wanted to see

52:53

the giant hole in the field. It's

52:55

probably not that big. I might be

52:57

exaggerating it. I mean, it's enough to

52:59

be treacherous to play on.

53:02

What I haven't told you is the

53:04

first time I tore my right knee

53:06

up was in baseball tryouts on a

53:08

baseball field and my foot went into

53:10

a hole in the outfield, which caused

53:13

my knee to hyperextend, which caused my

53:15

injury. I found footage of Disco Demolition

53:17

Night. As you can see, this is

53:19

post explosion and there's a lovely bonfire

53:21

where they're taking the rest of the

53:24

pieces of vinyl and burning them to

53:26

nothingness so that disco can never ever

53:29

plague our great nation again. There's

53:31

a sign saying, please return your seats.

53:35

It's the Soxogram. Yeah.

53:38

Mark, that was a great episode. I never

53:40

thought I'd be talking about Chicago's Disco Destruction

53:42

Night ever in my life. Yes. It's something

53:44

that I wanted to bring to the podcast

53:46

a bit more, but only if people liked

53:49

it. If people want to hear more stories

53:51

of fun sporting

53:53

events throughout history, of which there are tons and

53:55

tons, this is just one of many. I would

53:57

love to do a bit more research into that and

53:59

try to. dig deeper maybe both of us could and

54:02

then tell you some fun tales in the

54:04

world of history, world of

54:06

sports and how sports integrates into even deeper

54:08

parts of our lives like the banishment of

54:10

disco. Yeah, I mean we are going to

54:12

be talking about the story of the 1904

54:15

Olympics, which were historically tragic. So that's going

54:17

to be really fun to talk about. But

54:19

we'll be talking about that coming up pretty

54:21

soon because the Olympics are coming up pretty

54:23

soon. Thank you, Mark, for bringing that wonderful

54:25

tale to my ears and my eyes and

54:27

to the audiences. I think everybody loves it

54:29

when you hijack an episode and come up

54:31

with something yourself. And I think this was

54:33

a great, wonderful time. Let me know in

54:35

the subreddit if you want more of this.

54:37

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54:40

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54:42

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in the next episode. Bye.