Felger and Mazz: 5 questions that have nothing to do with sports
The Felger and Mazz program is typically all about sports. However, Jim Murray can occasionally get the guys off track with five questions that have nothing to do with sports.
Transcript:
Felger: This is usually a Gasper and Murray segment that we co-op here from time to time. It’s five questions that have nothing to do with sports with Gasper. He inserts Felger and Mazz here and you can tell how he says Felger and Mazz, knowing what a trip to the dentist office this is for you and I and him and everybody.
Mazz: No it is. It’s much more entertaining when it’s him and Gasper, because Murray can include questions about like pop culture references.
Felger: About things that have nothing to do with sports.
Mazz: Yeah, but there’s a more expansive list of options.
Felger: That’s what I’m saying. Yes. He can actually do the topic.
Mazz: Yeah. I mean, you could ask us like, what temperature do you like your steak.
Felger: Anyway, go ahead.
Jim Murray: What’s good is that we now do this because we haven’t done this because Chris and I are like never on anymore. Anyway, the month long shutdown of the Orange Line starts tomorrow. Felger, Mazz, how will you solve the MBTA problems in the city?
Mazz: I’m the wrong guy to ask.
Felger: I mean, where do I begin with this?
Mazz: You go ahead.
Jim Murray: Take all the time you want. I know you’re like to be Mr. Fix it. So this is your chance to fix the T.
Felger: I’m not a public transportation fix it guy.
Mazz: No, me neither. What are the problems Murray? I don’t ride it enough.
Jim Murray: Everything’s catching on fire.
Felger: The trains keep breaking down.
Jim Murray: The equipment is old.
Felger: There’s no way to do it, that will satisfy people. To do it right you probably have to shut it down for two years and redo the whole thing and you’ll lose your minds. They try and do it on the fly, you’ll lose your minds. Like, I don’t think there’s a path.
Mazz: Can I give you a model that I would use? I would use the tube in London as a model.
Jim Murray: So this is what I was thinking.
Mazz: The London Tube is one of the most efficient and effective public transportation systems I’ve ever seen.
Felger: Oh, no, no, no.
Mazz: It is freaking phenomenal.
Felger: Oh, no. So the answer is to scrap it. Like DC is good too. There’s a lot of, you know, there’s high end sort of public transportation. So you scrap the current thing and rebuild a new one. Okay. Right. Now get back to me in five years when it’s finished.
Mazz: Yeah. Good luck doing it here.
Felger: That’s just what I’m trying to say.
Mazz: It’s always reminds me of the Olympics and Jimmy Stewart.
Jim Murray: He would have been right. It would have been a complete disaster because now it is a disaster. But you hit on it. Talk to the euros. Yeah, the euros know how to do public transportation.
Mazz: Trains especially farm it out. They are excellent in trains. The European trains system is excellent.The Germans are also very good on the trains.
Felger: They’re not. Easy with that comment. But we’re obsessed with our cars were a-holes about our cars. As soon as we say we’re going to cut back on this to emphasize rail service, some you know, bosefus says “you’re not taking my car. You’re not taking my pickup truck.” It doesn’t work here. You’re porked.
Mazz: Because you’re giving up freedom.
Felger: You’re porked. Yes. You’re infringing on someone’s personal freedom. I.E. their pickup truck.
Jim Murray: College kids heading back to school. Mike, you just dropped off your oldest. Do you guys remember your first college dorm room experience? Was the building terrible?
Felger: Oh, yeah. Mine was Myles Standish Hall, Kenmore Square. Oh, did I get off on the fact that Babe Ruth used to live there. I could open up my window and smell.
Mazz: Babe Ruth?
Felger: No. I could smell the Red Sox games. I could smell the sausage vendors. Oh, I was such a dorky, sporty, I was so geared up, so horned up for the fact that I lived in Kenmore Square. I could walk to the game, I could smell the game outside my window when I opened it. At least the sausage vendor. Babe Ruth used to live there. And what I really remember is what a dork my roommate was. When I got there, my roommate put up two posters on his wall. True story. One was. He was a Jewish fellow, which I am half Jewish, so I’m not making a comment here, but I’m just telling you what he put up on the wall.
Mazz: I put up posters on my wall, but I had to take them down when my parents showed up..
Felger: He put up, one poster was “The Anatomy of a Bagel” from Brueggers Bagels. And the other was Garfield.
Jim Murray: Oh, boy.
And he wasn’t being ironic about it. He was a fan of Garfield. So I had a tough time with my roommate that first year.
Mazz: I’ll make it quick. Carmichael Hall, Tufts University. I was on the third floor. The Red Sox played the Mets that World Series. One of the kids in the dorm who lived on the same side I did threw his TV out the window, smashed in the parking lot, when they lost. I am still regarded this day as the person who did that, even though I didn’t do it. So for some reason I’ve gone down at Tufts folklore. In fact, I’ve told you Debbie Dalton, who’s the son of the former GM of the Bruins. Sure. Harry Dalton was the GM of the Bruins at the time. His daughter went to Tufts when her name was Debbie Dalton. She came up to me like 20 years later and said, I can’t believe you threw your TV out the window during the World Series. I said, that wasn’t me. That’s like urban legend.
Felger: Yeah. You’re not really that kind of guy.
Mazz: No, but I was drunk as a skunk that night when it happened. I’ll tell you that.
Jim Murray: Question number three, the compact disc just turned 40 years old yesterday. Do you remember the first CD you bought?
Mazz: Oh.
Felger: I’m going to say probably a Pink Floyd. Because the sound I remember, I remember listening to that what it sounded like. So I’m going to go with that.
Mazz: So 82, I don’t, was the Joshua Tree out then?
Jim Murray: Oh, for sure.
Mazz: So it could have been that, or you know what I used to do? I used to sign up for those, remember those? Colombia…
Jim Murray: Oh, yeah. That’s scam. That was the best.
Felger: Oh, my God, yeah.
Mazz: Yeah, you get like 13 CD’s for a penny.
Felger: Yeah, I know you fell for that thing on the TV commercials.
Mazz: Oh, yeah. No, no, but then you quit.
Jim Murray: Yeah. You send them a buck, they all show up to your grandmother’s house, and she keeps wondering, “why do you keep showing up? Whose name is this? Oh, it’s just a friend nana. Nice to see ya. CDs! Bye.”
Mazz: And then you quit and do it again. Yeah.
Jim Murray: I don’t remember mine. I know. The first tape I bought was Wayne Chunks mosaic in 1986. Terrible. But CD, I don’t remember. Stores already putting out Halloween candy, costumes, and pumpkin flavored everything. Is it too early? And if so, when’s the perfect date to start fall?
Felger: Yeah. Labor Day is the answer to that. And everyone’s too early on everything now. No one cares. It’s just it’s the culture. It’s like no one can just stop and sort of where you are and what you’re doing.
Jim Murray: Embrace. What it is.
Felger: It’s always just looking ahead to the next thing and it’s like, it is what it is at this point. But the, the answer is Labor Day.
Mazz: I would say Columbus Day weekend. It’s what it should be like Columbus Day weekend. But I’ll give you October 1st for the Halloween stuff like, okay, because nobody’s going to wait till the 10th or whatever Columbus Day is. I don’t even know when it falls this year. Way too early.
Jim Murray: It’s too early for pumpkin spice. Like the pumpkin beers are out. It’s not time for that. Final question. So you’ve heard the song of the summer. We had that question a few weeks back. Many people now declaring the drink of the summer. What is it? Last year apparently was the espresso martini. In 2020, The Aperol spritz. Do you have a drink for the summer?
Felger: So, no, I did go back to an old standby. Used to be my drink, Mount Gay rum and tonic with a lime.
Mazz: Mm hmm.
Felger: But I did. I just went to New Orleans. I’m this guy that when I go someplace, I want you to pound me with whatever you make best. You know. I’m not a picky eater. I’ll eat anything. So if I go, I went to Spain, just pound me with Spanish drinks and Spanish rice and Spanish food. I’ll eat it. So I was just in New Orleans and I was drinking, um. Oh, God. Now I’m blanking on the name?
Mazz: Sangria?
Felger: No.
Jim Murray: Hurricane?
Felger: No, no bourbon drinks.
Jim Murray: Oh.
Felger: Old granddad, not. No. What’s the name of that, umm?
Jim Murray: Old fashioned?
Felger: An old fashioned, old fashioned. I was drinking old fashions this weekend.
Jim Murray: They’ll knock you out.
Felger: In New Orleans because I’m like, I’m here. You do you. I’m here to do you. So you pound me with old fashions and Oh, boy, I’m not a foodie, Murray, you know me. Here’s my philosophy with eating food…order food, eat food, go home and don’t think twice about it. The people that obsess over what they’re eating and perseverate over what they eat and order and is like, Oh my God, I can’t standit. It drives me nuts. Order food, eat food, go home. That’s it. New Orleans is the one place I do like to….
Jim Murray: Best cuisine in the country
Felger: Oh, my God. The only place I care about eating is New Orleans. And, boy, it delivers every time.
Mazz: So vodka sodas are my go to. But I will say of late…whiskey sour.
Jim Murray: Oh and you get those from the zing zangs too in the cans.
Mazz: Yeah. The whiskey sour.
Felger: You want the best whiskey sour in the city? You ever go the D’Luxe in the South End?
Mazz: Ohhh, I remember that place.
Felger: You’d like it. It’s kitschy. I think it’s still there. It’s on Clarendon Street.
Mazz: Gasper’s kind of joint.
Felger: The D’Luxe on Clarendon Street in the South End. Best whiskey sour…At least 20 years ago when I was going best whiskey sour in the city.
Jim Murray: And I go with a painkiller, which is like a mai tai with coconut milk. It’s very summery drink.
Mazz: And a little sweet tooth.
Jim Murray: All right, so concludes.
Felger: Okay, there it is. Not too much blood in the water there.
