Longtime Radio Personality Marv Luten interviews guests, shares community updates, National and Local sports and more.
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**Marv in the Morning Podcast**
**Marv:** Welcome to the Marv in the Morning Podcast. Now, here’s Marv.
**Marv:** Thanks again and we welcome you to another episode of the Marv in the Morning Podcast on the Fort Not Lost in the Woods podcast site. The 99th episode brought to you by Three Brothers Meat Company near Lin Creek, Bailes Construction, the Bank of Crocker, Paul’s Furniture, Shelter Insurance Agent Dave Halle of Richland, St. Robert Auto Supply, Seager Toyota, the Pulaski County Health Center, STR Glass of St. Robert, VFW Post 3168 of Lakeway and TK’s Pizza.
**Marv:** Well, it’s the month of May already. And the May flowers should be popping because April showers were numerous. Unfortunately, with those showers came some wicked storms as April made its exit.
**Marv:** I sat down Sunday, this past week, to begin this week’s episode. A day after another threat on the Trump administration and who the gunman was after was unclear at least when I started putting this episode together.
**Marv:** Why do we do this podcast so early in the week? When it drops on the last work day of the week? Well, the answer is pretty simple. Takes me a little time to put it together, do the necessary editing, because no matter how smooth it sounds, there are mistakes that need to be corrected.
**Marv:** That and I try to give my producer some leeway because this is not her only duty of the week. Tracy is the owner of TK’s Pizza. She also has her own podcast, a farm with livestock that I can relate to and probably finds herself singing that old Billy Preston song, “Will We Go Round in Circles?” Every week. So, I try to give her some time to put my rambling together and thank her every week for her time.
**Marv:** By the time I drop this podcast, much of the stuff I write about is three or four days old, but it’s usually still fairly current.
**Marv:** And now on to the big news and the story of this past week, and of course our weekly interview. News came late last Saturday night and into Sunday morning with a gunman apprehended at the Correspondence Dinner at a gala at a Washington hotel ballroom. One Secret Service agent was shot, but thanks to a bulletproof vest, the injuries were not too serious.
**Marv:** Who actually shot the agent was not known 12 hours into the investigation, but most thought it was the gunman. This story will not be going away anytime soon. And if I were in the President’s shoes, instead of asking Congress for more money to blow up Iran, I think I would be asking Congress for a little bit more money for extra Secret Service agents and more protection.
**Marv:** If this was an attempt on President Trump, which is what the gunman is charged with, this would be the third time. The first came at a rally in Pennsylvania where a lone gunman took a shot at Trump and clipped his ear. Another came at his golf course in Florida, when he was on the course and so was the gunman with a rifle hidden in some bushes, who was captured with no ill effects, thank goodness.
**Marv:** With the hatred and division in this country, and let’s hope not, but there may be more incidents involving lone wolves who authorities say are the hardest to catch because they scoot under the radar. Most would think some Iranian faction living here in the US may have been responsible for the latest, but this was a well-educated college grad who had some axes to grind with the current administration, apparently.
**Marv:** There were 2,600 people crammed in that one ballroom in this hotel. This could have turned into a nightmare if not for the swift actions of the Secret Service and other law enforcement. Good job.
**Marv:** The other big story captivating the headlines is the war with Iran, of course. Currently with a ceasefire in place as of earlier this week, but no new negotiations happening, at least not at the table, maybe by phone. The naval blockade by the US still has the Strait of Hormuz closed. And the cost of living all over the world is on the rise because gas prices continue to climb, and that in itself jacks prices of about everything upward.
**Marv:** King and Queen of Great Britain visited the US this week. Security was at a heightened level. But there won’t be much talk about King Charles’s brother, Phillip, who was a key figure in the sad Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
**Marv:** In a local happening, and this one kind of stunned me, but the annual Old Settler’s Day Picnic held at the end of July is taking a one-year hiatus this year, and will not be held at the Ruby Doo Park in downtown Waynesville. This has been an event held at the park since the mid-eighties. The coordinator said due to so many other events happening around the same time, thanks to the country’s 250th birthday, which is a huge milestone for any democracy. They’re taking a year off and hope to have it back in 2027. We’ll share more on this story in upcoming future podcasts.
**Marv:** Coming up today on the podcast, I sit down with a longtime friend and just shoot the breeze a little bit. We’ll tell a few stories, talk about one of my favorite subjects to talk about with her, and that is the National Football League, because she, like I, are passionate fans. CJ Basham is coming up after this.
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**Interview: CJ Basham**
**Marv:** On the podcast today as we near the 100th episode. Not quite there yet, but we’re getting close. I have the opportunity to uh catch up with an old friend and I would say of all my friends, and in the radio business, I’ve come up to have quite a few of them. She is um, probably uh my best friend on the female side. And she is CJ Basham. CJ, hello!
**CJ:** Well, good afternoon, Mr. Marvelous. How are you?
**Marv:** I am doing fine. We have talked about doing this and got together a while back and said, “Well, let’s give it a whirl. See what happens.” And do a little background and I can probably do most of the background for you since we’ve known each other.
**Marv:** I mean, years now.
**CJ:** I was thinking about that on the way over here, what, ’89, ’90, we met. So, I’d say around 37 years. Pushing that 40.
**Marv:** Right before I got married.
**CJ:** Yeah.
**Marv:** Uh, and then uh a little bit after that, you got married. But before we got married, we uh hung out a lot together, didn’t we?
**CJ:** Yes, we did.
**Marv:** We uh played volleyball on a team, we played softball together.
**CJ:** Yes.
**Marv:** And one of the things I really love about CJ Basham is the fact that she is passionate about one of my favorites, and that’s the National Football League.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah, man. Hey, sorry. I’m a Skins fan. It’s always gonna be Redskin to me.
**Marv:** Okay, and we’re going to talk about this uh as we go along. But we met probably in a bar.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah.
**Marv:** Uh, you were working at the time and happened to run into you. And I came from St. Louis and the way we kind of got together, I had a girlfriend up in St. Louis, a fiance at the time, who had a farm down in St. James, outside of St. James on B Highway. That is the highway that comes right in front of the St. James Winery and hooks up on I-44. We would go down there on the weekends and stuff like that. And when I met you, um, you said, “My name is CJ Oldfather.”
**CJ:** Yeah.
**Marv:** And my eyes got big, I’m going, “Oldfather? That is not a name you hear a lot of.” Is that a German name?
**CJ:** It is German. It’s got German, yes. Uh, my dad’s family come from Germany. My mom’s family is Irish and Indian.
**Marv:** Oh, okay. So, you you two have a little Indian blood in you, as as I do.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah.
**Marv:** As well. Well, and when I heard the name Oldfather, I’m going, “There was a guy who lived across the road on B Highway from my girlfriend’s farm. His name was Oldfather and I think his first name was Gene. And we started talking and Gene was related to you somehow.”
**CJ:** My cousin, my first cousin.
**Marv:** Okay, and you grew up in Owensville.
**CJ:** I grew up in Owensville. First we lived in Redbird, which is off of B Highway. Yeah. And then, uh, we moved to Owensville, I’d say I was seven. Probably ’68, somewhere in there, giving my age away. But, yeah.
**Marv:** Yeah. And that’s how that’s how the relationship kind of started. Well, you know this guy and you know how that how that goes when you start talking. And then, uh, we became really good friends and I will say probably uh some drinking buddies go to go along.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah, we did.
**Marv:** To go along with that. And
**CJ:** Yeah, we, what, drank a few beers together over the years.
**Marv:** I would I would say. And we have a lot of mutual friends together.
**CJ:** Yes, we did.
**Marv:** Uh, and one of them is your husband.
**CJ:** My husband, Doug. Yeah.
**Marv:** Doug Basham, um, just an outstanding, outstanding man. Worked for MODOT for, gosh.
**CJ:** 35 years.
**Marv:** Okay.
**CJ:** Well, not quite, it’d been 35 in April and I think he retired the first of January, something like that of that year. So, yeah.
**Marv:** And I asked Doug, I said, “Retired, what’s that going to be like?” I think he looked at me and said, “I’m not retiring. I just retired from MODOT.” He goes, “CJ’s going to have me out there working.” Because you were still working.
**CJ:** Uh, yes.
**Marv:** He ain’t sitting around the house doing absolutely nothing.
**CJ:** No, he fiddles.
**Marv:** Yeah. So, uh, and then Doug eventually went back to work doing a little bit. He’s just kind of like part-time and maybe um, you know, a little spending money here and there.
**CJ:** Yeah, it’s fun money. Yeah, he’s driving a dump truck for Lawson. Yeah. He likes it.
**Marv:** Okay. And you have your your jobs, my gosh, you have been you’ve been a factory worker, uh, you’ve been a dental tech. Uh, and
**CJ:** Medical assistant.
**Marv:** Medical assistant.
**CJ:** Pizza Hut, restaurants. Yeah.
**Marv:** Okay. So, you you’ve done a lot of stuff.
**CJ:** I’ve done a lot of stuff. I’ve worked a lot of factories growing up, Pizza Hut, bartending, which I did for 12 years. That’s where we come in.
**Marv:** Yeah.
**CJ:** Um, let’s see, what else have I done? I went to when um, HD Lee closed, I went to school, became a medical assistant, worked for Dr. Thomas for a while, and then worked for Dr. Powers in Richland as a dental assistant for 10 years, and then I went to Foren Dental for 10 years. And then I retired from Foren Dental and went to work in Richland again.
**Marv:** So, you are just pretty much part-time right now.
**CJ:** Yeah.
**Marv:** At the at the retirement age. We’re not going to give your age away.
**CJ:** It’s all right. You know, it’s just a number. It’s how you feel that keeps you young.
**Marv:** That’s exactly right.
**CJ:** Yeah. Just a number.
**Marv:** And you’re looking you’re still looking good.
**CJ:** Yeah, man, God’s been good to me.
**Marv:** Yeah. Same here, I went to the went to the doctor the other day and had some blood work done. My wife told me, she goes, “You know, with our friends who have been passing away.” You know, she goes, “You need to get the blood work done. Have you done that?” You know, well, “No, if it ain’t broke, I’m not fixing it.”
**CJ:** Yeah.
**Marv:** It’s like it’s like at the farm, you know, you don’t fix you don’t fix a tractor that’s working.
**CJ:** No, you do not.
**Marv:** So, uh, but I got the blood work done and knock on wood and thank the good Lord, uh, everything came out pretty good and we are uh on our way. Now, the one the one nurse told me or asked me, she goes, “Um, do you get aggravated and upset easily?” I said, “Lady, I have a farm. Let me tell you, yes, I do. When things don’t work and cows tear down fences or horses mess up your electric fence and you got to go back out and fix it.”
**Marv:** Not only do I get upset, I get pissed off. You know.
**CJ:** Oh, hell yeah.
**Marv:** So, you know, that’s just the way things are. Now, you are a member of the Shrine Wives Club.
**CJ:** Shrine Ladies.
**Marv:** Shrine Ladies. Um, do they have I know you’re not a spokesperson for them, but uh do you have any events coming up this summer?
**CJ:** Well, we just did a raffle at the Crawfish Ball that we do every year with the men. Well, the men do it and they let us do a raffle, God love them. Um, let’s see.
**Marv:** Oh, they put you to work is what it is.
**CJ:** Well, actually, no. They’ve been on the Crawfish Ball, that’s the men’s thing and it turned out great. Excellent band, great food. Them guys bust butt for that. Um, us ladies uh raffled a wagon off, went really well and they helped with the mouse races, which was a lot of fun. Uh, 4th of July’s coming up. I know they’re we have our fish fry coming up like we always do in July 2, and they’re going to raffle off some stuff for that. But we raffle off to help the community. I know uh they like to give to the Geness House for the ladies.
**Marv:** Oh, the Geness House, yes.
**CJ:** Mm-mm.
**Marv:** Great cause.
**CJ:** We’ve done that in the past. We helped with the nursing homes in the past. We do we try to give back to the community as much as we can. Plus help our men. You know, we’re there to help the men, to raise money, to give to the children. That’s our whole goal as Shriners is the children.
**Marv:** The children’s hospital, and what a great what a great cause.
**CJ:** Yes. You know, these men work hard for that. They really do. We had a great turnout for Easter, too, as we always have every year. That’s fun. Those kids, that is a blast.
**Marv:** You know what you guys also do during the holidays? You know, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah, Meals on Wheels.
**Marv:** Cook all these all these turkeys and hams and stuff like that. And serve them to the public. Um, and the cost is absolutely nothing. Just come in there and enjoy the food. And then you go uh deliver meals uh out to the public, people that uh may not be able to get out and also uh to uh a lot of the um law enforcement and ambulance agencies and stuff like that. Those guys are kind of stuck there. Uh, and then you guys just bring the meals to them.
**CJ:** Yes. Yeah. We’re here to help the community, because the community helps us. Without the community, the Shriners couldn’t do what they do. The community is the key in this place. And what a great community. You know, from our soldiers, the locals, the businesses that help, you can’t ask for a better group. All these, if you ever want to know what this community’s about, look at these, um, benefits they do for the ill, people that, you know, have really bad medical conditions or someone was hurt in a fire or whatever, this community comes together. It is a great community.
**Marv:** You came from a pretty good community in Owensville.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah.
**Marv:** I came from St. Louis, which, of course, it’s just way too big uh to be called a community.
**CJ:** Yeah.
**Marv:** Uh, it is a it is a city. But when I came down here and met some great people, and then got into well, with the radio business, of course, you’re involved in the community, you’re doing things with the community. And found out that um, this is a this is a really good place to live.
**CJ:** It is a good place to live. That’s what made me stay was the locals, the people.
**Marv:** Same here.
**CJ:** You know, I come down here when I was 23 years old. I was young, I was just a baby. But I love it here. This is my home.
**Marv:** Well, I got here when I was 24.
**CJ:** Yeah.
**Marv:** So, so yeah. And um Don Nelson, one of our the late Don Nelson, one of my very good friends who was uh killed in a motorcycle accident, told me one day, he said, he goes, “Why don’t you apply for a job like ESPN?” He goes, “You could do so much more than you’re doing here.” And I said, “I don’t want to leave.” I said, “My god, I look, you know, I came down here from St. Louis, we used to come down here from St. Louis and float the rivers. Now, you know, I’m here in the place where we used to drive all the way from St. Louis to and now I’m here with the rivers, live on the Gasconade.” Don’t go down there as much as I uh used to. We had some wingdings down there, at a gravel bar.
**CJ:** Oh, we had some big wingdings on that gravel bar. We’ve seen a full moon on that gravel bar once, didn’t we, Marv?
**Marv:** Yes, we did. And uh we’ve um shot some raccoons or tried to shoot some raccoons, me and your husband and Larry Zigan by.
**CJ:** In the mouse house?
**Marv:** In the mouse house. I will never forget that night.
**CJ:** That was funny.
**Marv:** Yeah, you girls you girls were the smart ones. You stayed at the campsite.
**CJ:** Yeah.
**Marv:** Uh, but uh me, Larry, and Doug, we decided that we were going to go up there and we’re going to shoot some raccoons that were getting in the mouse house, which, oh, about uh midnight, 1:00 in the morning, we found out, okay, the raccoons ain’t coming tonight.
**CJ:** No.
**Marv:** So, Doug and Larry went back to the gravel bar. I stayed up and, um, about 3:00 in the morning, I was inside that mouse house and the raccoons showed up. And one and I didn’t even hear them come in. Uh, I’ve got a 12-gauge and a couple pots of coffee there because, like I said, it’s 3:00 in the morning. I’m trying to stay up trying to because they kept killing all the um mice that my wife were raising and her and her sister were making some money at this taking them to a distributor who took them to St. Louis and different places uh to feed snakes and stuff like that in pet houses, uh, or pet stores and stuff like that. But, um, didn’t hear them come in and all of a sudden I hear this noise above me. Took my flashlight, shined it up there. There’s four raccoons staring right down at me. I said, “Okay, baby, the party’s on and.”
**CJ:** Party’s on.
**Marv:** Got three of the four of them.
**CJ:** Yeah, you did.
**Marv:** Blew the hell out of the mouse house.
**CJ:** Yeah, you did.
**Marv:** Had to replace a window.
**CJ:** Yeah, I was gonna say, wasn’t there a window involved in that?
**Marv:** And luckily, I didn’t have to replace the roof because your husband and I and a couple other friends.
**CJ:** Donnie.
**Marv:** Donnie, we put a metal roof on that on that thing. So, um, the shells didn’t go through the metal roof. So, I didn’t have to replace the metal roof, but I had to replace a window and uh a few other things in there because I was going to get them that raccoons because you weren’t killing anymore of my my wife’s mice, but anyway. That’s another story. That’s for another time.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah, I’ll tell you what. I was sitting there thinking about the time Doug and I was camping on that gravel bar or baby was gone and kept hearing something outside. That’s when we had the shell on the truck. Do you remember that?
**Marv:** Mm-hmm.
**CJ:** And sitting there, laying there and thinking, what is that? And looking at and there was raccoons and I’ll never forget Doug in his underwear and boots. It was funnier than hell. I wished I’d had a camera, movie camera then, but we didn’t have them back then. So, those were the days. That was funny.
**Marv:** I don’t know if we’ll ever get back down to the gravel bar because now you guys got a camper and we can’t get that camper down to the gravel bar because it’ll get stuck.
**CJ:** Yeah, there’s no way that camper would get down there.
**Marv:** No, and I’m if I’ve got a house a quarter mile away from that campsite, I guarantee I’m going to my bed. I’m not I’m not going to pitch a tent on the gravel.
**CJ:** Well, yeah, back then we were in our 30s and that, Marv. Come well, I was, you aren’t, but I was. And you know, we did sleep in the tents. We, you know.
**Marv:** Yeah.
**CJ:** I ain’t going back to the tent, save my soul. I ain’t doing it. That’s why we have a camper.
**Marv:** That’s right. And uh you guys you guys go all over the place, don’t you?
**CJ:** Yeah. Matter of fact, uh we’ve got a camping trip coming up next weekend. Um, in Branson with the Shriners, our ABA camping club. We go down there. This is our spring rally.
**Marv:** Really? So, what are you guys doing in Branson?
**CJ:** Anything we can.
**Marv:** Well, of course.
**CJ:** But uh, no, we’re down there by the landing. There’s a campground on the right side as you keep going, you know, as you go down by the landing and keep straight before you cross the bridge to the right. I think it’s called Riverview. So, there’s a group of us coming down there and we meet up and we go to a restaurant and we have, you know, dinner on Friday, and then we have something cater on Saturday, but we play. You know, we do events and we play and
**Marv:** Do you go to any of the shows down there?
**CJ:** Uh, I have personally, but not as a camping group, we haven’t.
**Marv:** I went down there. Terry Bradshaw does a variety show in the summer times. When the NFL is not in you know, mode like not in their season because he’s a um analyst on FOX. I don’t know if he’s going to be back this year or not. But he really puts on I didn’t know he he was a singer, besides. He had a actually came out with a 45 uh when I was in radio and we got it one day and said, “Terry Bradshaw,” I’m going, “The quarterback?” And did a little research on it. And yes, he uh made made an album, got into the studio, and he tells this story. And it was all all over a $100 bet. Is basically what he did and he’s made a little money singing and now he does this variety show and he comes out and does this, sings this, and then talks about his horses and opens up the um field to the uh audience in there and asks them, you know, you got any questions and there’s a lot of people ask him, you know, what was Jack Lambert like and you played with Mean Joe Green. Terry Bradshaw played with one of the best football teams ever.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah.
**Marv:** In the National Football League. Uh, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Of course, he was involved in probably the most iconic play in NFL history, the Immaculate Reception. And I asked him, uh, raised my hand, I said, “Did you even see what happened on that play?” He said, “No.” He said, “I got pancaked.” ‘Cause when he threw that ball, he got leveled.
**CJ:** He got leveled.
**Marv:** And he had no idea what happened. But the crowd went wild. They were you know, raising cane. And he said it was about five minutes before I knew what happened. I’m sure it wasn’t five minutes. But, you know, yeah, that was that was one of the neat things about um seeing Bradshaw uh down there in Branson. And I hope he comes back because I’ll go I’ll go back and see him.
**CJ:** Yeah, I’d love to see that myself. I’d like to ask him a few questions. He’s funny.
**Marv:** Yes, he really is. He’s great on great on FOX. Okay, we’re going to take a break and when we come back, we’re going to talk a little football because I’ve got a Washington Commander fan.
**CJ:** Ah, Redskins.
**Marv:** Okay, sitting on the other side of me, who has a little Indian blood in her. I have a little Indian blood in me. Mine is Cherokee. What is yours? Do you know?
**CJ:** Um, Cherokee and Mohawk.
**Marv:** Okay. So, we’re going to come back and talk a little bit about um the Redskins and other things in the NFL. Don’t go away.
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**Interview: CJ Basham**
**Marv:** Back with CJ Basham, one of my longtime friends and we decided just to sit down and shoot the breeze for one of these podcasts. And I know when the National Football League decided that the Redskins should not be called the Redskins anymore. And I don’t know, I always thought it’s probably somebody who started this, who first off woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Might have had a fight with their spouse before they went to work, was sitting there with nothing to do at a computer and maybe got this wild hair and said, “Redskins is not proper.” ‘Cause they were going on through all different things, protocol and stuff like that with other teams, like the Cleveland Indians. They were after the Kansas City Chiefs. They were after probably the Chicago.
**CJ:** Braves.
**Marv:** Black Hawks, yeah, the Atlanta Braves. But the Redskins took the biggest beating. And I can understand this a little bit because of the Redskins, okay? Just because of the color of the skin. Was it derogatory? I don’t know. That is for everybody else to decide, not me, not you. You said you suggested they just should have called them the Washington Skins.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah, why not? And put our emblem back on there, the original. Come on, it was drafted by Native Americans. It was drawn, it was drawn after a Native American. And you have this name for 70 years and now it’s not good enough. It’s all that political correctness is when all this come about and Snyder that used to own the Washington Commander Redskin, sorry. But anyway, they’re the Skins to me. He caved because Pepsi was going to pull endorsement and all this because of this political crap.
**Marv:** Yeah, that’s where we’re back to the guy or the gal sitting at the computer uh with all this nothing to do and all of a sudden want to name for himself and, “Let’s get let’s get politically correct with the Washington Redskins.” And then they like you said, went through all kinds of stuff and finally they changed their names. And now they’re back in the news because they are going to put a spear on their helmet that runs through the W for Washington. And now that’s causing a stir.
**CJ:** I don’t understand that. I, you know, come on, it’s just an symbol, but it’s got the old uniform symbol on it, so, which I applaud them for. I really do. And you know, I don’t mind the W. It don’t bother me in the least, but I don’t like the Commander’s name. Don’t like it, never did.
**Marv:** I didn’t like I didn’t like when they called them the Washington Football Team.
**CJ:** I didn’t like that either, but I like the brand and I do the Commanders. I just think that they should call them Washington Skins. Everybody’s got skin. You know, come on.
**Marv:** Do you know any Native American Indians who are upset, uh, when they called them the Washington Redskins?
**CJ:** No, actually, I’ve met some service members here that was full blooded Sioux or whatever and they had the emblem on their arm. You know, they’re Washington Redskin fans. And what burns me today is when they talk about the older players such as Darrell Green, he’s sick, you know, and oh, one of the best. They call him a ex-Commander. He’s not. He’s an ex-Redskin. Get it right. There’s nothing wrong with it, people. Let’s go back to common sense. Let’s get this world back on track.
**Marv:** And when Joe Gibbs was the coach.
**CJ:** Oh, my.
**Marv:** Of that team. They had one of the best offensive lines. They were called The Hogs.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah.
**Marv:** Uh, and the National Football League. Theisman was one of their quarterbacks. Sonny Jurgensen was another quarterback. I don’t know whether Jurgensen.
**CJ:** Doug Williams was the big one under Gibbs.
**Marv:** That’s right. I don’t think Gibbs was the coach when Sonny Jurgensen, uh, was, but he was, I think, when Theisman was quarterbacking.
**CJ:** He just started.
**Marv:** And so, you know, you go back and look at this and by watching that, I always thought that, man, an offensive line. If you, if you don’t have a good offensive line, your football team’s not going anywhere.
**CJ:** It doesn’t matter how many weapons you got, it does not matter.
**Marv:** No, you can’t run the football, you can’t throw the football because you’re getting chased all over the all over the field by linebackers and defensive defensive linemen who have some speed.
**CJ:** Speed. Especially now today. Back then, the Hogs today standard are lightweights.
**Marv:** Oh, yeah.
**CJ:** By today’s linemen.
**Marv:** Yeah, well, today’s linemen.
**CJ:** And front line. I mean, they’re 300 plus.
**Marv:** Oh, easy.
**CJ:** Washington Hogs back then was 280, maybe three at most. And they were just, you know.
**Marv:** But they were athletic.
**CJ:** Very athletic.
**Marv:** And they knew how to block and that was that’s what um Vince Lombardi always said, “Football’s an easy game. It’s blocking and tackling. Blocking and tackling.” You know, and then you add the extra little things that go along with that. And of course, then you have the Green Bay Packers who were a dynasty for a while.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah.
**Marv:** Back in the early days of the Super Bowl. I think the Super Bowl started back in the mid-60s. ’66, I think, was the first Super Bowl.
**CJ:** Yeah, that’s when Kansas City Chiefs came in and all that. Yeah.
**Marv:** Well.
**CJ:** I don’t like the new rules, you know. Football this one thing I love about football, it’s like your gladiators sport, you know, where men are men and they get hit and let’s have some fun. They’re taking a lot of that away. And I understand the injuries and that, but you know, that’s what football’s about. Can’t be no different than Lacrosse, right? Them guys are rough in hockey and look at all that. Come on.
**Marv:** I’ll tell you what, though, with football and hockey, the hitting is vicious. And especially in I’ll tell you what, we have a little local football team right now, called the Missouri Generals.
**CJ:** Right.
**Marv:** They are a eight-man football team that are playing out of Crocker. Uh, they’re playing at the City Park and I don’t know, I think their league starts, it may be underway right now.
**CJ:** It is. They played last weekend, I think it was.
**Marv:** Okay. And I went to I went to their first game. Now, these are kids who are I you can’t call them kids anymore because they’re in their 20s, some are in their 30s. And they’re out there, they are hitting. And I mean, they’re splattering people all all over the all over the field.
**CJ:** That’s football. That’s what it’s about.
**Marv:** That’s football. It is and they’re having they’re having a lot of fun. Unfortunately, they don’t make a whole lot of money and it’s kind of like when we went out and played, you know, slow pitch softball.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah.
**Marv:** You know, you pay to play.
**CJ:** You pay to play. Well, same way with the volleyball when we did that. That was fun, though. That was fun.
**Marv:** Yeah, well, it certainly was and we again, had a lot of a lot of good times. Well, I look at my clock and I say, well, man, because we could go on for a long time.
**CJ:** Oh, yeah, we could.
**Marv:** Talking some. We’re going to have to bring this to an end and, uh, man, I I really thank you for stopping by.
**CJ:** Oh, anytime. I love chatting with you. You know it.
**Marv:** You know, shooting the breeze and.
**CJ:** Shooting the breeze.
**Marv:** Talk about some old times. CJ Basham has been our guest on our podcast today. We’re going to take a break here from some of our fine sponsors and I’ll be right back.
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**Sports**
**Marv:** Well, it’s on to sports on the podcast, brought to you by Three Brothers Meat Company at Lin Creek. Although we did touch a little bit on it prior to our break. Now we’ve been looking at some end of the season districts for spring sports at the high school level. And today we check into track and field and soccer, the last two left. This year all mine Frisco League schools have some type of track and field program. Richland, Stoutland and Newburg are all class one, they will run in the district two meet at New Haven. Crocker, Dixon and Iberia will run in the class two district four meet at New Bloomfield, while Lakeway, Licking and Plato run in the class two district five meet at Cuba. The Waynesville Tigers and Lady Tigers will run, jump and throw in their track and field districts at Kickapoo in the class five district five meet.
**Marv:** There is a Frisco League soccer team playing host to a district meet. The class one district three tournament will be hosted by the combined team of Lakeway and Richland. And they will welcome in Crocker and Dixon from the League, along with Fair Grove, Greenwood, Mountain View, New Covenant, New Heights Christian who partner with McCauley Catholic out of Joplin, plus Sacred Heart and Smithton.
**Marv:** The NFL draft is over and the Kansas City Chiefs surprised some in Chiefs Kingdom with their first four picks of the draft. Many expected Kansas City to go after some offensive protection for their quarterback, who was chased all over the backfield in last year’s campaign, where they only won six games, and the offense took a dramatic turn for the worst. Instead, with the first four picks, Kansas City went all defense. Two D-backs, two linemen, one tackle and the other an edge rusher. Then with the rest of the picks, the Chiefs went to the offensive side with the running back, wide receiver and an LSU quarterback with their last selection. On the Chiefs website, for those interested, they also signed an undrafted player with some pretty good bloodlines, E.J. Smith, the son of Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith. Ink the free agent deal with Kansas City. And yes, he is a running back, just like his Hall of Fame father.
**Marv:** St. Louis Cardinals are back at the bottom of the division after going on a five-game winning streak that put them a half game out of first. They were five and five in their last 10 games and tied with Milwaukee in the seller of the division, both three and a half games back of Cincinnati when the week started. Kansas City Royals remained in the seller of their AL Central Division, also three and a half games out of first as we approach the second full month of a very long season. NBA playoffs are close to entering their second round as we drop this podcast earlier this week. One team, the defending champ Oklahoma City Thunder, are into the second round. By the time this episode drops, several more will have won their first series and others will have been eliminated. Same goes with the National Hockey League.
**Marv:** Well, that’s a look at sports this week, brought to you by Three Brothers Meat Company at Lin Creek.
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**Outro**
**Marv:** Again, thanks to my sponsors, Three Brothers Meat Company, Bailes Construction, the Bank of Crocker, Paul’s Furniture, Shelter Insurance Agent Dave Halle, St. Robert Auto Supply, Seager Toyota, the Pulaski County Health Center, STR Glass of St. Robert, VFW Post 3168 of Lakeway and TK’s Pizza. Thanks to my producer, Tracy for putting this all together, and thanks to you, my podcast faithful, old and new ones for letting me come into your life, albeit for a short period of time. If you’re enjoying the Marv in the Morning Podcast, we invite you to leave a review on whatever app you’re listening on. We would also love for you to share the episode with family and friends on your social media accounts. Be sure to follow our podcast on Facebook, on the Marv in the Morning Podcast page, and you’re also invited to join us on Facebook on the Fort Not Lost in the Woods podcast group. This podcast is a production of Old Quinn Media. Join me next time when we drop our 100th episode of this podcast. Don’t know exactly what’s going to happen, but it should be interesting. Until then, later.