Harvest, MDs, and Immersive Baseball

(upbeat music) - Hi again everybody, welcome back to the MilesPath cast. The Blake Ship Podcast of MilesPath MD. And that is not me. I am not an MD, I have a doctorate, I don't have an MD. But I Google myself, as most people tend to do. And the first person that comes up is not me at all. It's the other guy, it's the MilesPath who has an MD. I think I've mentioned him before. He's like this, his picture. All of his pictures look like they're from the 1960s. Like the way that he looks and does his hair, it just looks like super old fashioned. He's not a bad looking guy. It's just, I don't know if it's the way that the pictures are or how he just does his hair and like how he dresses, but it looks like a really old fashioned picture. And I've seen them before. For whatever reason, Instagram's always like, this person should be your friend and it's MilesPath. And I'm like, no, how weird. I'm curious if he shows up on mine. And he might just, or if I show up on his. And he probably shows up on mine 'cause I've looked him up in the past and we share a name. But I looked him up the other day. And instead of just like seeing pictures or seeing his name and seeing his plastic surgeon down in California, there's a link to a podcast. I'm like, oh, I want to hear this guy. I want to see, he already sounds like, lo and behold, it is a dry podcast. It's a podcast on surgical waste. And he's a plastic surgeon, like in down in California. I think he must be attached perhaps to some sort of university. And I think if I was much smarter and like into this stuff, I'd be fascinated by it. But it's on like reducing surgical waste. Like not wasting parts, I guess, or not wasting tissue, but I listen to probably three or four minutes of it. Just enough to hear what he sounds like to hear what another MilesPath sounds like on a podcast. And I don't know, it was interesting. He's far smarter than I am. He seems very, very successful like this. And he looks again, very prim and proper in all of his pictures. And he knows a lot about surgical waste and plastic surgery and for all the things that you'd assume plastic surgery is about, that's what it sounds like he does. So anyways, it's really interesting just to hear somebody else with the same name talk on a podcast. Never thought I'd hear that. All right, all the usual stuff on the podcast day, tell me something good. I owe you one. Sean's what he into. I don't even know why I repeat this stuff. It's just, I like, it makes it easier to plant. I get I've said this before, I like having these like segment because it makes it easier like to think about these things and be creative and playing these things out. Tell me something good. Last weekend, I got down to harvest again. I got down with Emmy a couple of weeks ago and then last week I want to take the girls, they ended up down in the Triad Cities, which worked out great. Because initially I was sad that they weren't there, but then it worked out perfect. Because what I've been trying to do is, I've been wanting to get like pictures down there. And I want to take my drone down at some point, I didn't take it down this time though, because I feel like I've got like every imaginable photo angle from a drone that's possible. Like, and I know if Brandon Rose went down there, he'd find some new awesome, fascinating angle and the pictures look really super sweet and unique. I feel like I've exhausted that. So I want to take my other camera down and I paid extra money for special lenses in the camera itself. So it's like water resistant, obviously to a point, mostly rain and dust resistant. So I knew I could take my stuff out and not have it ruined by the just the ton of dust that's out there and really fine dust. It's just that it gets in everything. But it worked out perfect, because the smoke had kind of cleared and it just so happened to be like this magical moment, like this harvest eclipse where all five of the combines are in the same field. Now, if you know anything about harvests, this only happens like once. And it generally happens the last day of the year, because when you have five combines in the same field, it's just, it's a bottleneck of the trucks, like trying to get trucks and stuff in there, it just becomes a lot, trying to get all the weed out, it's a headache. So they tend to split up into three combines in one field and two and another. But again, it just so happened that the weed was ripening up and just to get everything done, like they just all came to the same field to knock out the rest of the winter weed at half the ways. And again, this is the day that I happen to go down and take pictures, which is perfect, because I could jump in Dad's one ton, his service rig, and go down and get certain angles on his combine, and jump back in and drive ahead of him again, as he's moving along and getting different pictures. And then I could drive up over the hill and I could look down one way and this field they were at, like not only were all five combines in the same field, but it's a very picturesque field, which was awesome. It's right next to Garfield, right next to towns, like the backgrounds was of like the town's skyline, and there's elevators and water towers, and it was perfect for that. So I got like look down and like take shots of one combine passing through there and then literally turn around and there's a combine up on a ridge. So I'm like taking a shot up against like the skyline, it was perfect. Like I couldn't have asked for a better spot and a better time nonetheless. Like they just happened to all be in the right spots, and that was cool. It was fun to get all those pictures. I've been wanting to do that and like throw them into the light room and get everything edited up. And it's just, it's a hobby of mine and I love doing it. And they turned out awesome. Like I'm really, really happy that they turned out and again, it'd been cool to get my drone down there. It'd been even cooler to maybe even be closer to sunset. The problem with sunset pictures is like all of a sudden there's a lot more shadows and it's harder to see everything. So I was right there between three and four, 30, five o'clock and I don't know, that was perfect. So it was really cool. I just, the fact that I was down there the time that I was in the field that they were and having all five combines there was really, really cool. In my office at work, I have two framed pictures from this guy. He was back in 2004. His name was Mark's story and he came and he's making like this coffee table book of like Harvest on the Blues and he chose our family for whatever reason. And he spent all of Harvest like carrying his camera around like I did and it's like taking pictures, being with the guys like taking pictures of like the unique moments and lunch and the combines and the skylines and the storms. Like the one, the ones I have in my office, it's like the two combines, it's dad and then my grandpa right behind him. Right behind him is like steptoe butte and it's probably around five, 36 o'clock late Harvest. Like there's sunset and dusk, it's really, really cool. It's a well done picture. And then the other one is of, it's from like a dirt road and it's overlooking like a storm that's kind of moving in over the area. Like there's lightning coming down in one spot and that's the, it's really dark blue purple clouds. But then off to the right there's a sunset that tends to happen like when these storms moving quick and it's a really cool picture. I've been wanting to kind of go down and like try and do what he did just to kind of mimic it a little bit and obviously not anywhere near the quality of those but I was fun getting my camera down there and my lens and trying to figure out do I want zoom or wide angle and turns out you want like a wide angle lens for combines. As far as they are, they tend to be away. Like they're big enough that I think you get away with a wide angle lens. Anyways, super cool, worked out great. And I got to be in the combine one more time and maybe the last time that I get to here and sit in the combine and hear Rick Rizz's voice and listen to a game with him calling the game 'cause he only does home games at this point. He's retiring at the end of the year and the one reason why I love it is is just like my memories of sitting in the combine as I've said in the past many, many times I've riding with Dad and Grandpa and hearing Mariners games. It was cool to hear one more of those and to hear one more of him calling that game. Also, before I move on, speaking of farmers, I reversed jinxed it last week, talking about the fires, talking about how like there's sometimes fires down in the police and like farmers all rally together and like even if it's not their field or their animals or their crops, they're out there helping each other and you're not sure enough. Sure enough, it's exactly what happened this week. There were two fires, one by like Roselia Maldon. Obviously, I feel like something that you probably know about this already. And there's another one down by Colfax where it just kind of came out of nowhere and Dad and Garrett went out to help like they took the water truck up and they were fairing water back and forth and spraying the fields and there's fire trucks and there's farmers all over the place, just like them that were out helping this field or this fire and trying to put it out as it just ravaged standing wheat fields. A lot of people opened up their pastures whether they knew any of these people are not saying, hey, if you got a livestock, you gotta get out of there, bring them here, people with horse trailers and people with discs and plows, plowing fields, trying to like stop the fire. Like it was all hands on deck or something that didn't affect really anybody. It didn't matter if their fields were in harm's way, like they were out there helping and that was awesome. I felt like I reversed shanked it. I needed to apologize for that. Not that it was my fault by any means, but it's just cool seeing exactly as it talked about. It happened, it happens again and again and again, unfortunately there are hens of be fires, at least one every harvest, somewhere in the, and there's just tons of fields and it's dry and there's wheat everywhere. It's just a tender box for it and it happens and it's always cool that everyone rallies around that. And to see the pictures that Dad and Garrett had of just driving up into the smoke, it's insane. Like you never get used to seeing pictures of fires especially when you're that close in the black smoke just billowing everywhere it's insane. All right, I owe you one. (upbeat music) ♪ You know who you are yeah who you want ♪ This is just a call back now to what I just mentioned earlier, Rick Rizz's last game. The I owe you one is for the Mariners Hall of Fame committee, whoever that may be, whoever it was, they unanimously elected Rick Rizz into the Mariners Hall of Fame. And that alone, like that, that is, it's awesome. It was part of their 50th anniversary weekend. They had a big ceremony for that. They had all their top 50 players that they've ever had. And there was a big surprise where the president of the team or the owner of the team came out and even Rick Rizz who was like, MCN the whole event didn't expect it, but he's like, hey, Rick Rizz has been a part of this for the last 41 years and he has been unanimously electing the Hall of Fame. And I've seen the pictures, I've heard it, I've seen the videos, he keep hearing it, like there was not a dry eye in the house, that is what they said. And I've seen the videos of like older guys like sitting in their chair, like watching this and crying and I was listening to it. Like I knew I could watch it later on YouTube, but I wanted to listen to it 'cause that to me has always been what baseball is. It's on the radio. And it was, my eyes were getting missed. It was everything I could do to sustain there as I was listening to it. listening to it. And I literally, or I later watched it back on YouTube, like the whole ceremony. And I joined in with everybody else because, yeah, I was thinking about it. I, out of all the people that I know in my life, outside of my family, like I haven't known anyone as long as, as him, like, other than Carly and Travis and, and their family, like since, you know, five, six, seven years old, I was listening to these games, like he's been there the entire time. And, and even though the mirrors haven't been wildly successful, there's been, I mean, they finally made it back to the playoffs after a 20-some of your odd drought. And they've kind of been an out of her sense. But Rick Rizz has been the eyes in the years of, you know, listening to these games ever since. And his optimism and the way that he calls the games, like every, every's loves the guy. He's so good at what he does. And it's, it's so fun. To be able to listen to that, he, he completely deserves to get into the Hall of Fame and to be a part of this. And, and to be able to watch it was so cool. Travis and Kenzie were there. And like they, like even there, like I, I didn't expect there to be that much emotion in the field, like, or in the stadium. It was such a cool moment. And just, if you haven't seen it, I would encourage you, like to go to the YouTube page, the manager's YouTube page, and to watch it back, or to very least skip forward to where he, like, gets inducted and John Stanton introduces him and gives a little speech, and then he comes up, and then, and sit around because you can hear, you can see Lupin L after that. And Lupin L is awesome as well. But it was really, really cool to see the manager's an awesome job with their 50 year thing. Their alumni home at home on Derby was really cool, seeing Ichiro out there, hitting bombs at 52 years old. I mean, I forget how many he had. He scored, I think he had a score of like nine, eight or nine, but it was done in a way where you have two minutes, and then you have 30 seconds and that 30 seconds to double the points. And I don't know if he got any in the double points. So I don't know exactly how many he had, but it was, maybe seven or eight home runs in two and a half minutes at 52 years old, hitting the ball well over 330 feet. That's, that's awesome. I mean, Ichiro is just the guy who he is. It's, it's so cool to see that he's still out there doing this thing, and he loves the game of baseball as much as he does. But between him and Rick Rez, it was a cool weekend and to see Rick Rez into the Hall of Fame, very well-earned. This, this is an incredibly, like, bleak silver lining because the Mariners have had an incredibly rough year. And I still hope they make the playoffs. Like I will be rooting for them. I'm the guy who it's like, oh, you're five games back and there's five games left. Oh, you can win every game and they can lose every game. You can still make it in. That's the kind of optimism and hope that I have. But if they are not to make the playoffs, if it's not to go their way, the very bleak silver lining is that on that last game, the season, like when you know they're out of it, you know that's Rick Rez's last broadcast. And that's going to be a must-listen because you're not going to get that if they make the playoffs outside of the fact unless they make it to game seven of the world series, which would just be unimaginable because that'd be that you would know that is also his last broadcast. But again, if they don't make the playoffs, then you know when his last broadcast is going to be. It's going to be on the last day of the season. And I think that alone would make it pretty special. So while again, very bleak silver lining, if they don't make the playoffs, at least there will be that that he will notice his last broadcast. Everyone will notice his last broadcast. And that it's going to be a special emotional moving movement thing to listen to. And I will be there forward as much as possible. But I'm excited because all of this means now next season, he's going to be inducting the Hall of Fame. It's either going to be like, I guess this year they did it in May. They did Randy's number of retirement ceremony in May, which is probably because they knew they're doing their 50s. They're 50 years celebration in August because usually in August, that's when each of those was in Felix's. So next August, they're going to induct Rick into their Hall of Fame. And I will definitely be there. Come hell or high water because that I feel like that's going to be like the last chapter of something that started so many years ago of learning to love baseball and the Mariners and hearing him that will kind of be that last chapter. Barring, of course, unless he makes it into the MLB Hall of Fame. That would be even cooler. And that's in Cooper's town. And that's a trip that I was also seriously consider if that ends up being the case. Because hey, Dave Nehau has made it in. And it is only one broadcaster a year. And there's a lot of a lot of guys out there who deserve it, I'm sure. But no one would deserve it more than him. And that would be a really cool thing to see as well. I mean, I still go back and listen to Dave Nehau's speech all the time. As weird as I'm sure that is, I mean, go listen to it. You haven't heard it. Go listen to his Hall of Fame speech. It's it's legendary. But oh, it's cool. Congratulations for Chris. So fun to see that. So worth it. Go go check it out on my YouTube page. All right. Last but not least, all right. Listeners. It's time for hidden passions, wild hobbies and that one thing they didn't know miles was obsessed with. Buckle up. It's time for Sean's. What are you into sticking the baseball theme? Two years ago. Yeah, two years ago is when Gabby was born, Apple came out with their Vision Pro VR headset. Super high-end, super expensive, not at all worth it. Like at the time it was $3,500. It's even now more expensive because of like Ramageddon and all the prices going up on everything. But it's it's it's awesome. And it's like you put this headset on and it is super high res, high fidelity graphics. Like it's it's a it's a 3d video, essentially, you're watching and you're immersed in it. And I remember like doing their demo for it before I even bike bought it. Because again, I bought it for two weeks and returned it. Newing I could return it with full refund. And that's exactly what I did. And it was awesome. And watching their demo, like part of this demo was like you were like next to this giant mountain and you're at this mountainside lake and there's trees and it starts to rain. And again, it's like it's like you're there. It was really astonishing to see this. I've tried the meta headset and it's just nowhere, nowhere close. But you're sitting next to this lake and it starts to rain. Like you look around it. It's like you're there because you can look all the way around behind you. Like it's it never ends. Like you were you were literally in the environment. But another part of this demo was a baseball game. And it was at Fenway Park. You're watching a Red Sox game. And you were sitting field side, like field level just beyond the first base dugout. And I remember like somebody like got a hit and that you're running at the line. Like you see them again. Like you're at I level and they're running at the line. They run past first base. And it was amazing because like you look around Fenway Park. And again, it's it's super high res. Like movie and it's film with special cameras. And it's all 3D and like the audio is immersive. It's just it was astounding how real it was. And it's like wow, this could be the future sports. Like if if they somehow find a way to justify the giant price tag. And they didn't really do with anything with it for a while. They they'd have like immersive like concert videos come out and short videos come out. But earlier this year, they did a couple Lakers games and by they I don't know who they are. It's some different company. Because I think they use like special black magic cameras that film at like a hundred and eight degree angle. And it's all 3D and like I said, very high res. And they did a couple Lakers games. And it sounded awesome. Like the reviews were really positive. You sat there was like different like spots you could, you know, quote unquote sit one of them like was on the bench. And it's really, really cool. And they're finally doing baseball this year. Apple announced that for their Friday night baseball games. There's like one game each week in August. I think it has to be well, it's coming up. So it can't be in August. Maybe it's like last half August, 1st half September. And then do these games week with the Vision Pro headset. It's like you can be a part of like the demo that I watched like watch these games like in their full immersive, you know, 3D, 180 whatever it is video with 3D and high res graphics. I'm so jealous. It looks awesome. Again, no, that wouldn't even even if they did a full seat limit. It would never justify the price tag because it's just an absurd price. But just to be able to see it like I'm excited to see their reviews. Excited to see how it goes. Like maybe somebody can like screen capture like just some level of it. Like I've seen screen captures before and just isn't a capture of the full 3D effect of it. Obviously. But it's cool they're pursuing it. And it makes me really hope that like there's some other company out there that like jumps on this and like somehow some way like makes a cheaper headset that you can like watch these games on that are filming these special ways. And it's just it was so immersive. I wish everybody could experience with it because it was just like you sit in there. I remember just like just going wow. Like it was one of those moments. And the fact that I'm going to broadcast for different games with it. I'm excited. Excited to see it. See their views. See how it goes. And hopefully it goes somewhere that this someday becomes maybe a different way to watch sports and to consume sports because it was it was really that cool. All right. That's all I got. Thank you all for listening. I appreciate it. What do I got? Go Mariners. They finally won today. So maybe maybe there's started something. I keep saying that and just just keep happening. But yeah, thanks for listening and we'll talk to y'all next week. Amy Gabby's sound button the way out and we'll catch you later. Bye.