Speaker 1: It's awkward. It's Tuesday. It's awkward Tuesday phone. You know
Speaker 1: the story of the unlikely hero, right Brook? Which one?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just a general you said, so I
Speaker 1: was thinking specific. Let's take this show for example. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was rudderless, flailing, no direction, sinking down into the
Speaker 1: mud when a young Jewish boy genius who was charming
Speaker 1: as he was handsome, hung too, was thrown into the
Speaker 1: first mic position. And the rest is Radio History were
Speaker 1: wildly successful. And then we're like a little bit less
Speaker 1: successful now, but things are still afloat. We all have
Speaker 1: stories of unlikely heroes. Thankfully all of you and studio
Speaker 1: were able to benefit from it. I just think it's
Speaker 1: your humility that sets you apart. Well, it's not me.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about myself different. It takes my place
Speaker 1: after me. Okay, that's going to be the real star.
Speaker 1: They have to, and they need to. Apparently a similar
Speaker 1: situation happened to one of our listeners and they need
Speaker 1: our help today desperately. So please welcome to the show. Lexi.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, oh guy, sorry, sorry, Lexi is his exist name? Okay,
Speaker 1: this is about Yeah, are you the unsung hero? My
Speaker 1: friend I don't think I'm a hero, but I do
Speaker 1: have a problem. Okay, okay, okay, that was very vague.
Speaker 1: Maybe you have to explain for us from one hung
Speaker 1: person to another. Tell us what you're dealing with in
Speaker 1: your life. He wants to know. Tell us what's going on?
Speaker 1: Why do you email the show? So the other week,
Speaker 1: a friend of mine, a good friend of mine, texted
Speaker 1: me for a last minute favor. Okay, and his name's Michael,
Speaker 1: not Brooks, Michael, though we don't have to associate everyone
Speaker 1: with as boks husband, right, Okay, So your friend Michael
Speaker 1: wanted a last second favor. Yeah. So he's this recreational
Speaker 1: kickball team. You know, it's like one of those like
Speaker 1: fun leagues. Yeah, exactly. So did you need like a
Speaker 1: fill in? It's always hard to get people to show
Speaker 1: up literally exactly. So he was going out of town
Speaker 1: for a week and he didn't want to let the
Speaker 1: team down. And apparently like if you don't have enough
Speaker 1: players or something, they have to forfeit or like you know,
Speaker 1: so that's the whole thing. And he asked me if
Speaker 1: I could step in for him. Oh that's nice, all right,
Speaker 1: it's awesome that he found his own substitute. It's usually
Speaker 1: like whoever put the team together? Yeahs got into one
Speaker 1: of those because just dragged her off the sidewalk a
Speaker 1: lot of free time. What'd you say, did you do it? Well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't know. I don't know anything about this, right, Like,
Speaker 1: so I was like okay, sure, and I was you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it'll be fun. Okay, how could this possibly cause
Speaker 1: an issue? Well okay, so I go, yeah, and it
Speaker 1: turns out I might be like a kickball prodigy. Oh nice,
Speaker 1: you can kick that red rubber ball a golden toe. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I remembered from like third Great. I don't know, like
Speaker 1: it's not a huge I mean it's not a it's
Speaker 1: a very cool and hard skill. This is your unlikely
Speaker 1: hero moment. Well, right, so the game I play, we
Speaker 1: ended up winning, right, so it's like a big deal
Speaker 1: because apparently this team like just doesn't ever win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they really So this is where they were like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you're so awesome, Like it was really fun,
Speaker 1: and they invited me to go out to the bar
Speaker 1: afterwards to celebrate, and that's what it got uncomfortable. Cut.
Speaker 1: They're like you we should keep you and like Michael
Speaker 1: should not come back like they were. They were saying,
Speaker 1: like I should play. Oh no, the team for you.
Speaker 1: They're gonna meet him in like a week when their
Speaker 1: down players again, the room for both of you. Listen.
Speaker 1: I thought they were joking, like again, I don't know
Speaker 1: the roles, like how many people are out on a team.
Speaker 1: But then the team captain he like pulled me aside
Speaker 1: and he was dead serious. He's like, we really liked
Speaker 1: to replace Michael. Oh my god. I was a team
Speaker 1: and one of the guys on our team was just
Speaker 1: like what your captain says, like where he wanted to
Speaker 1: hold practice and take it like seriously. I'm like, yo, man,
Speaker 1: that's not what we're doing for the cocktails. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. You can't replace your friend on
Speaker 1: his own team. Yeah, listen. The problem is because, like
Speaker 1: I said, I have a lot of time and I've
Speaker 1: started been looking for a new hobby myself, and everybody
Speaker 1: was so nice and it was just like such a
Speaker 1: good feeling and like I don't want to like take
Speaker 1: his spot, but I kind of want to kind of
Speaker 1: it kind of fits. It's one of those things that's
Speaker 1: like calling him Wait a second, did you say yes,
Speaker 1: I will replace him. I might have said yes, please
Speaker 1: don't tell me. We're calling Michael to tell him he's
Speaker 1: kicked off the kickball team. Yeah, so he's like he's
Speaker 1: back in a day or two. And I don't want
Speaker 1: him to hear it from anybody else. I want to
Speaker 1: be the one to tell him. I want to talk
Speaker 1: to him first. Is like, that would be even worse.
Speaker 1: I have a question, how how serious is this kickball
Speaker 1: team for Michael. Honestly, he's played for a long time,
Speaker 1: so I guess it's pretty serious. Yeah, it's like being
Speaker 1: kicked out of your friend group. It's not necessarily about
Speaker 1: the kickball team. It's like being disinvited to happy hours,
Speaker 1: like because she wasn't reading the bucks every different. This
Speaker 1: is the time when having a young Jewish boy, charming
Speaker 1: genius on the show would really be useful. Where are
Speaker 1: we going to hire him? We don't have that. We're
Speaker 1: just gonna have Brooke and jose give you some advice
Speaker 1: when we come back. I'm catholic. You're really in trouble
Speaker 1: when we do your awkward Tuesday phone call next, it's awkward.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday. It's awkward Tuesday phone call Ah. The Majestic
Speaker 1: Sports of kickball goes all the way back to nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety two. I think it's probably older than that. Okay,
Speaker 1: you'd think people wouldn't take it as seriously as they do,
Speaker 1: because it's really just a bunch of buzzed adults drinking
Speaker 1: beers and kicking a red ball around on a playground.
Speaker 1: Serious if you've played on an adult lead. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is a big deal for people, especially the ones
Speaker 1: who've let the rest of their dreams in life dial
Speaker 1: And this is why this awkward Tuesday is going to
Speaker 1: be especially awkward because Lexi, one of our listeners, ended
Speaker 1: up filling in for her good friend while he was
Speaker 1: away on vacation and ended up doing so well the
Speaker 1: team has asked her to replace him permanently, and after
Speaker 1: a few beers at the bar, Lexi was like, heck, yeah,
Speaker 1: screw Michael, I'll do it. And Michael's coming back from
Speaker 1: vacation tomorrow, so she needs to break the news to
Speaker 1: him first before he hears it from someone else. Oh, Brooks,
Speaker 1: what advice do you have to give for that? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just hard man, Like, I think that the thing
Speaker 1: you do to preserve your friendship is you let him know,
Speaker 1: which is true, that it was their decision. You had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it, right, Yeah, like it was
Speaker 1: their choice. And on the good side, like first time
Speaker 1: you get a little sick, you know he's your backup,
Speaker 1: right right, Yeah, so you know he has something, yeah
Speaker 1: to look forward to. Put it's a nice view from
Speaker 1: the bleachers, Jose, What do you think you need to
Speaker 1: tell his friends to take him off of the email
Speaker 1: list and then just tell him the season's canceled. What
Speaker 1: has to be like secretive about it. Yeah, but at
Speaker 1: least he'll never know, his feelings won't be hurt at all.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of avoiding. How does that sound, Lexi? No,
Speaker 1: I don't think. Yeah, I usually give such sound advice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. And here's something that
Speaker 1: we didn't talk about in the first part. Lex I
Speaker 1: was going back over your email and we talked about
Speaker 1: you filling in for him for kickball. But it also
Speaker 1: says you guys work together and while he was gone,
Speaker 1: you had to do some of his job too. What
Speaker 1: you didn't take his job away? Did you? Oh my gosh, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, oh my god, You're not going to take
Speaker 1: his wife and family. She's actually wearing his clothes, his identity.
Speaker 1: I mean, our supervisor did say I was more productive,
Speaker 1: but like, I don't want to dig. That hurts. That's
Speaker 1: like when they give Alexis my task at work and
Speaker 1: she doesn't ten times faster. Yeah, I mean it could
Speaker 1: be anybody we give your job. Maybe he shouldn't have
Speaker 1: gone on vacation. I don't accusatory attitude into this phone.
Speaker 1: I'm diving his number right now. Good luck, Okay, Hello,
Speaker 1: Hey Michael Flexi. Oh hey, how are you doing. That
Speaker 1: was a weird number. I recognize. How are you? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you? How are you? I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm just been great. Um scuba dive. Yeah, wow, it
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. Well that's awesome. Yeah I was.
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to say thank you so much for inviting me to
Speaker 1: like pulling for you on the kickball team. It was like,
Speaker 1: it was so fun. I don't think I've had that much.
Speaker 1: They're so great. They're awesome. Yeah, they're like the best.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I'm so glad you got to do it.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you enjoyed it because I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: sometimes they get like really crazy and some of the
Speaker 1: girls don't like other girls, you know how it gets.
Speaker 1: But oh, I know nothing like no, no, no, no no, no.
Speaker 1: It was everybody was like over the top nice. So
Speaker 1: that's great, that's so cool. Yeah, like do you really
Speaker 1: like playing on the team, like real talk. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the greatest. It's like my favorite. I'm so glad I
Speaker 1: met those people. You know, it's like really you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like going through something in liven that I met. Like,
Speaker 1: it's like just a great group of friends. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: will say I was a pretty bit hesitant when I
Speaker 1: went because you talk about like sort of how frustrated
Speaker 1: you get sometimes. Let's the kickball team, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't know. We we do. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: lose every time, but it's not really what it's about.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I think it's just you know, the
Speaker 1: camaraderie and having a good time together and everything. Um, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know what's cool is we gave win. We won.
Speaker 1: But like first one you won, Yeah, can you believe it? No?
Speaker 1: You did? You didn't win? No, Like I'm not, I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding. We actually won we'd like folidly won. How
Speaker 1: I mean, how did you win? I mean, we're really
Speaker 1: not We're not good. I mean I had a really
Speaker 1: good night. I think I scored like literally all the
Speaker 1: goals except for like two, So like goals, it's it's points.
Speaker 1: You scored point well, I mean whatever I did, I
Speaker 1: scored them. Wow. They must be loving me that I
Speaker 1: found you. Huh yeah, I mean about that. So some
Speaker 1: of the other people on the team sort of like
Speaker 1: approached me, and I thought it might be like just
Speaker 1: an idea if I just like took your place for
Speaker 1: a couple of games, like just for a few games.
Speaker 1: Who said that? Uh, like like all of them, all
Speaker 1: of them? Really all of them. I mean yeah, like
Speaker 1: the whole like the whole team, all of them. Yep. No,
Speaker 1: what about my sister, Um, what is going on? Michael?
Speaker 1: What's up? Man? We have a lot of heart for
Speaker 1: you right now? My friend? Yeah, what is going on here? Lexi? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're on the radio. Ye what Yeah, surprise, LEXI needed
Speaker 1: our help to break this news to you because we're
Speaker 1: doing something called an awkward Tuesday phone call to let
Speaker 1: you know that you're not on a on a losing team. Anymore,
Speaker 1: not on any team. Oh, oh, you're a little sister
Speaker 1: or your big sister that's on the team. My little sister,
Speaker 1: so Lexie, his little sister was on board two. I
Speaker 1: don't know she was the first one to think, but
Speaker 1: she's definitely on board. I don't know what to say
Speaker 1: other than like, I don't want to help start this team.
Speaker 1: I've been on this team for like eight years. Oh,
Speaker 1: guys sucked for eight years. Yeah, it's about the friendship
Speaker 1: to him. Maybe you know your friends, it's not about friendship.
Speaker 1: It's just about they just finally got that taste of
Speaker 1: victory when you were there, and they want more of it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I get it, Like she's really good and I'm glad
Speaker 1: they won and that's awesome and everything, But I don't
Speaker 1: think that. I don't think I need to be off
Speaker 1: the team. I would agree. I don't think so either.
Speaker 1: I mean, like i'd be happy to like swap or
Speaker 1: what if you're like an alter? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't think Michael's sister would like that idea very much.
Speaker 1: Is there maybe a team manager? Cheerleader? Team manager? You
Speaker 1: want him to be the waterboys, you give be the
Speaker 1: guy who sends out all the emails. Nobody in charge
Speaker 1: of the ball. We're taking the ball. We're taking away
Speaker 1: Michael's manhood. One commented time, Mike are you Are you okay? Man? Really?
Speaker 1: I got to talk to the guys who run this
Speaker 1: because this is not cool. How have you been there
Speaker 1: for eight years and you don't run it? Maybe since
Speaker 1: he's a free agent now, another winning team will pick
Speaker 1: you up. Everybody likes that revenge story. Yeah, of coming
Speaker 1: back and playing your old team and taking them down,
Speaker 1: especially if your sisters on the team. Yeah, that's actually
Speaker 1: not a bad idea. I know the Wisonators. I could
Speaker 1: probably kick forth for them in their backup. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. Good Lexie. It sounds like you have
Speaker 1: a new league rival. I didn't mean to create my
Speaker 1: worst enemy. Yeah, oh yeah, I want to tell him
Speaker 1: about the job thing. Yeah, you guys, job thing? What
Speaker 1: about what about my job? You're fired? All right? Listening?
Speaker 1: That was a job Michael, Brooke and Jeffrey in the
Speaker 1: Morning