SF 27 - The Many Different Hats Of Chrystal O'Keefe

12/18/21 • 118 min

Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach

Ben and Zach are joined this week by their Pitcher List and South Side Sox Colleague Chrystal O'Keefe (@chrystal_ok) for a delightful and rambling several hours that begins in Indianapolis, Indiana and instantly turns every which way imaginable.

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1 – Opening with Star Wars

7 – SciFis everyone should watch!

10 – Meeting the Firefly cast

14 – What to do in Indy

17 – The Chicago Bulls All Have Covid

21 – Name-a-Pacer

24 – Writing!

25 – Murder?

30 – Writing a kids book

34 – The great hot dog debate part 224

38 – Gino’s East > Lou Malnati’s

41 – Michael Ajeto once again finds himself in reference, this time for the crime of liking Malort

42 – Why baseball?

43 – Other sports don’t have Tim Anderson. Also, family, writing, and Andrew McCutchen!

50 – Stadiums and food!

52 – Go to Pittsburgh and get a pierogi

55 – Churro love

1:03 – Ben messes up the Order of Operations Trifecta

1:06 – Field of Dreams sucks

1:10 – Toothpaste?

1:15 – A conversation with Carrie Fisher if we could

1:17 – A really genuinely unsettling ghost story

1:25 – Relitigating the windshield wiper self consciousness debate

1:29 – The Great Concert Wishlist (Nirvana, Prince, David Bowie)

1:32 – Writing advice: skip the replies

1:40 – Kids are weird and funny

1:45 – The Full Count!

Chrystal’s Book Recommendation: Breath
Chrystal’s Food Recommendation: Garlic and Breadsticks
Chrystal’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Pen15
Chrystal’s Music Recommendation: The Metallica Collection
Chrystal’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Take Care Of Your Face

1:55 – Fading out to Miley Cyrus and Wayne Coyne

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Shaggin' Flies with Ben and Zach

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1 – Opening with Star Wars

7 – SciFis everyone should watch!

10 – Meeting the Firefly cast

14 – What to do in Indy

17 – The Chicago Bulls All Have Covid

21 – Name-a-Pacer

24 – Writing!

25 – Murder?

30 – Writing a kids book

34 – The great hot dog debate part 224

38 – Gino’s East > Lou Malnati’s

41 – Michael Ajeto once again finds himself in reference, this time for the crime of liking Malort

42 – Why baseball?

43 – Other sports don’t have Tim Anderson. Also, family, writing, and Andrew McCutchen!

50 – Stadiums and food!

52 – Go to Pittsburgh and get a pierogi

55 – Churro love

1:03 – Ben messes up the Order of Operations Trifecta

1:06 – Field of Dreams sucks

1:10 – Toothpaste?

1:15 – A conversation with Carrie Fisher if we could

1:17 – A really genuinely unsettling ghost story

1:25 – Relitigating the windshield wiper self consciousness debate

1:29 – The Great Concert Wishlist (Nirvana, Prince, David Bowie)

1:32 – Writing advice: skip the replies

1:40 – Kids are weird and funny

1:45 – The Full Count!

Chrystal’s Book Recommendation: Breath
Chrystal’s Food Recommendation: Garlic and Breadsticks
Chrystal’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Pen15
Chrystal’s Music Recommendation: The Metallica Collection
Chrystal’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Take Care Of Your Face

1:55 – Fading out to Miley Cyrus and Wayne Coyne

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SF 26 - The Bard College Holiday Throwdown with Howard Megdal

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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SF 28 - We Bought A Clip Show!

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