Shaggin' Flies

Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach

In lieu of a guest this week – and because we need to keep the lights on somehow – we put together some of our favorite deep cuts from the first 22 episodes of Shaggin’ Flies. Some of our highlights include, in roughly chronological order:

-Michael Ajeto calling the cops on himself

-Janice Scurio calls the Cubs flatulent

-Sung Min Kim on Tinder

-Repeatedly being interrupted by live sports

-Scott Chu gets stopped by idiot immigration officials at the Canadian border and then tells us about sign language

-Bradford William Davis reminisces on Queens and canceling Cookie Monster

-DJ Short on culture and dad jokes

-Ghost stories from DJ, Pat Ellington, and Ellen Adair

-Sarah Griffin on getting pulled over as a result of the Mookie Betts trade

-Sara Sanchez brings a funny story in which you can’t laugh

-Ellen Adair on acting

-The long awaited Cereal Supercut

Enjoy!

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Ben and Zach are fortunate enough to be joined this week by Sean Anderson, former producer at Chicagoland radio station 670 The Score and current host of the Locked On White Sox Podcast, to talk about a million different things that can't possible be condensed into a single paragraph but include, among many other things: hot dogs, Esteban Loaiza, Captain Crunch Berries, why Field of Dreams sucks, and being told at a young age that, plot twist: you're not gonna be a pro sportball player.

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1:30 - Paul Pierce and Derrick Rose buzzer beater bank shots in the 2015 Eastern Conference Playoffs

3:45 – Pink mics

6:15 – A cat or a squirrel?

9:30 – Being told at age six that you’re not gonna make it as a sportball player: the Sean Anderson origin story

14 – Dane Dunning love

19:15 – The best New Yorker in North Carolina

21:30 – College radio

23:15 – Get Back reviews and Paul McCartney’s granny music

29 – Ranking Springsteen

35:30 – Christmas Shoes?

38:30 – Why baseball? Leaving it alone.

43 – Sammy Sosa, Chicago White Sox outfielder

45 – Esteban Loaiza’s windup

46:30 – Hot dog and other essential ballpark foods

53 – Commissioner for a Day

1:01:30 – Order of Operations trifecta!

1:07 – The utterly pathetic Chicago Blackhawks organization

1:15 – A long rumination on baseball movies, the Sandlot, Major League, and Field of Dreams

1:28 – Jesus Christ resurrected outside the 670 The Score studios

1:37 – Ghosts, or lack thereof?

1:42 – The Full Count!

• Sean’s Book Recommendation: Joe Posnanski’s Top 100 Players
• Sean’s Food Recommendation: Mac n’ Cheese
• Sean’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Die Hard/Deadliest Catch
• Sean’s Music Recommendation: Faye Webster
• Sean’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Madden

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Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach

Zach is joined for a special solo session with Howard Megdal (@howardmegdal) of Baseball Prospectus, The IX, and the Next for a lovely ninety-minute conversation about women's sports, Bard College, the Mets, New Jersey, and plenty more baseball.

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3 – Working in politics, but then not

5 – Mouse!

7 – The Next and The IX

10 – A nearly half-hour tangent about the wonderfulness of women’s sports and the criminality of their underfunding

31 – Name and Image Likeness

33 – Loving sports at Bard College

35 – Sending angry emails to KenPom

37:30 – Leon Botstein does have a Wikipedia

40:30 – Campaigning the backup center for D3 player of the year

42 – Why baseball?

47 – Basketball is a shot, baseball is an IV

49 – The Baseball Talmud!

52 – Coolest games ever: 2015 World Series, David Cone, and Johan Santana

58 – Alex Bregman and flawed replay

1:02 – Analytics talk

1:06 – Cat!

1:07 – The enemy is certainty

1:09 – Order of Operations trifecta!

1:14 – The consistency of toothpaste as it hits the teeth

1:15 – A conversation with Abraham

1:17 – No ghosts, but Justin Turner is unexplained

1:20 – The Full Count

• Howard’s Book Recommendation: Katherine Heiny
• Howard’s Food Recommendation: South Jersey Pretzel
• Howard’s Movies/TV Recommendation: The Third Man
• Howard’s Music Recommendation: Bria Skonberg; Veronica Swift; Emmet Cohen; Good Jazz and Good Food (in general)
• Howard’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Flannel pants

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1 – On a floor 😯

2 – Hawaii!

5 – To Fear The Water While Living On An Island

7 – Naming some guys: Erick Aybar; Gary DiSarcina; Darin Erstad; Tim Salmon

10 – Alex Chamberlain, Math Guy

19 – Mark Buehrle love, always worth noting

24 – Zach is a child

26 – Chad Moeller? Yankees backup catcher Chad Moeller?

29 – Taking AP Chem remains one of my biggest regrets

32 – Jim Edmonds inspiring kids to practice diving catches

34 – Freddie Freeman is the second most famous baseball-related alumnus of Alex’s high school

37 – Chris Davis is the modern day Bobby Bonilla

39 – In favor of ballpark food out of a helmet

43 – Mike Trout robs a Grand Slam, and Alex Chamberlain becomes a national hero

47 – Rob Manfred makes $11 million?!?!?

52 – In favor of bullpen carts

55 – The Order of Operations Trifecta! (PEMDAS)

1:00 – No ghosts, but disembodied heads are scary

1:03 – Alex’s daughter escapes

1:06 – The Full Count!

• Alex’s Book Recommendation: Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael-Bob Waksberg
• Alex’s Food Recommendation: Japanese Cuisine
• Alex’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Forgetting Sarah Marshall/MacGruber/Bob’s Burgers
• Alex’s Music Recommendation: The Wonder Years
• Alex’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Slovenia

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1:30 – Zach is weary of society and also on a delay

4 – How are you?

5:30 – We are all just hurtling through space on a tiny rock

8:15 – A pair of life coaches

9 – The podcast has in fact started and we are seven minutes and 30 seconds into it

10:15 – The Ellen Adair story begins in Philadelphia, which is how one becomes a Phillies fan, as few people willingly choose it

12:30 – Ben lobs out possibly the worst borough-related joke ever told

15 – Nepotism, etc

16:30 – Ellen Adair is NOT Ellen Adair’s *full* name

19 – On the day that we recorded this podcast, someone named Ellen Adair died in South Carolina, but not THAT one

21:30 – A story about Kirk Douglas leads to the pronouncement that whiteness is a construct

24:30 – We are all Declan McManus

27 – We would ALL be so lucky as to perform Death of a Salesman in a Bennigans?

27:30 – Why acting? Transformation!

30 – Ben can’t get his Shakespeare plays about English kings straight

32 – Acting, part two: externality and infinity!

35:15 – The Arthur Miller Special

39 – Possibly the first religious turn Shaggin’ Flies has taken

45 – We are all wearing masks and performing, whether it be stage, gender, or interpersonally

51:30 – The difference between stage acting and screen acting

57 – Poetry!

1:00 – Zach is lost and returned

1:05 – Watching the super bowl with Dylan Baker

1:12:15 – Meeting Jim Thome > Meeting Barack Obama

1:13 – Baseball drawings! ([email protected])

1:17 – Why baseball? It is the beauty of renaissance painting combined with the apollonian perfection of Newtonian physics

1:25 – The clarity of the drama

1:29:00 – Favorite Phillies players (Jimmy Rollins love)

1:32 – Ballparks

1:38:30 – Order of Operations Trifecta

1:53 – Baseball movies

2:00 – Ghosts, multiple

2:04 – Making rules about seeing ghosts or not

2:12 – Superpowers

2:15 – The Full Count!

• Ellen’s Book Recommendation: Cloud Atlas (shoutout Ulysses!)
• Ellen’s Food Recommendation: Bún
• Ellen’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Maniac
• Ellen’s Music Recommendation: 4Keus
• Ellen’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Thinking of life in terms of narrative

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