Joncast – Tom Hamilton, Nick Swisher and how vacations are awesome – WFNY Podcast – 2013-05-29

It’s been far too long since I did a Joncast. Always nice to catch up with him. Enjoy as we ride the conversation for nearly an hour covering a wide range of topics.

• Vacations and how we don’t take nearly enough of them
• The European method of taking a month off in August
• Our pursuit of happiness and self-inflicting wounds culturally
• Defining needs vs. wants and how we’ve become spoiled
• Swisher and the bro dude stare at the mound
• Tom Hamilton and what he said
• Rob Neyer and comparing baseball to a soap opera
• Derek Lowe and Dusty Baker
• Liking Craig Calcaterra’s blog and writing
• The gotcha culture and why people shouldn’t have an opinion on anything
• Godwin’s law
• Getting ingrained in a culture and having it ruin the things you love
• Did we create obsessive compulsive disorder or at least augment its existence?
• Is sports talk radio a guilty pleasure?
• Have you ever injured your voice screaming at talk radio?
• Jim Rome and forcing the audience to eat their own
• Hiram and why long form is so much better for so many people
• The Indians and how you could see this coming on the schedule
• Walk-offs and overtime NHL goals are the best endings in sports
• Playoff NBA officiating is worse than regular season NBA officiating
• NHL playoff officiating is better than regular season NHL officiating
• The nebulous nature of blocking and charging calls
• USMNT coming to Cleveland
• St. Louis and how it is a big soccer town

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