Ochoman: Behind the Eightball

Pokemon Go

Brian explains Pokemon Go to Armand. “It is a game that exists like the map of the real world. [The developers] took Google maps and a game map so you can see your character moving around in the real world. The point of the game is to walk around and capture these Pokemon and level them up, readying yourself to battle other people and their Pokemon.”

Brian goes on to say, “If you walk around downtown Saint Louis at any time of day, you will find someone playing this game. Just last night my wife and I went, and there were at least thirty other people walking around playing Pokemon Go.”

Armand brings up the point of people dying while playing this game. A few people have been hit by cars; others have been robbed and even attacked.

The stock for Pokemon has gone up $9 billion since the release of this game five days ago.

Warm Jupiters have companions

Armand exclaims to Big E that he found a topic of discussion for his show Surreal Talk. “What they thought would happen was these warm Jupiters would form outside the solar system and they would get caught and kick out all the other planets, but apparently that is not what happened; they do have companion planets.”

A Warm Jupiter is something cooler than a hot Jupiter. It is just like our Jupiter just a little further away.

Is Global Warming a hoax?

Armand goes back and forth with the young buck in the studio, Todd, about global warming. While Big E keeps the debate under control, the two go back and forth, each of them making good points when in the end they both stick with their original opinions on global warming.

Todd states, “As you add more carbon dioxide to the air, there is more heat kept, and I am just investigating different possibilities how light could transfer different amounts of heat based on the composition of our atmospheric gas.”

Big E asks, “What is different now than when the dinosaurs were here? My point is that it goes up and down on the cycle, so if we’re having global warming, do you believe it is man made?”

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The Ochoman and Kris both believe that Troy Brouwer is the epitome of the way the Blues need to be playing. Kris shares a shocking fact about the Blues: Troy Brouwer and Scottie Upshall are the only current Saint Louis Blues players who have ever been as far as the Blues are now.

Darren Pang, co-host of Chasen Pucks with Panger, on LineupMedia.FM.

A very important guest today, Darren Pang from the Saint Louis Blues, calls in from The Scottrade Center to talk a little bit about the Blues and their postseason run.

Beating Chicago in the first round was unbelievable for everybody. The huge rivalry between the two teams created an atmosphere like no other. After beating Chicago in game seven at home and then beating Dallas in game seven at Dallas, the Blues have the momentum they need to take this all the way. Darren Pang believes that they have to keep their opportunities to a minimum and keep the puck away from Pavelski. Joe Thornton is not a big sniper, but he can make a difference.

The Ochoman repeats that he is tired of seeing this coach challenging off-sides. Darren Pang remembers not too long ago when the coach’s challenge was a brand new thing: it was meant to be used for goals, goalie interference, or if someone were to hit the puck with their hand out of play. Panger is in agreement with The Ochoman that they need to get rid of the off-sides coach’s challenge.

Mr. Pang explains his thoughts on Saint Louis Blues Hockey. He describes how fast the game is and how fast players are skating. Every player wants the puck, and they want it back as fast as possible. The Ochoman and Kris are hyped for the game later after talking with NHL announcer Darren Pang.

The Ochoman and the guys discuss the Saint Louis Blues and their recent success in the postseason. The Ochoman continues to blame Joel Quinville (coach of the Chicago Blackhawks) for the recent use of challenges against the Blues to decide off-sides. “If your skate is behind that blue line, even if it is in the air you should be on-sides. Who cares if it is dragging on the ice or not,” exclaims The Ochoman as some of the other guys discuss whether or not off-sides should even be a thing.

A new scientific study is out that claims Chipotle and Panera restaurants are more unhealthy than McDonalds’ food. The Ochoman remembered a time when someone found a chicken beak in a McDonald’s McNugget. Armand attempts to persuade the group that a little bit of vermin in your food is allowed: “it is impossible to make it perfect.”

The Ochoman brings up George Zimmerman and his attempt to sell the gun that killed Trayvon Martin. Ochoman does not care much for George Zimmerman, saying that he is a snake. Other members of the group just explain that he is just trying to make some money.

Vladimir Putin, Russian president, plays hockey with his star-studded team including NHL legends Vyacheslav Fetisov and Pavel Bure on his 63rd birthday.

Hockey with Vladimir Putin could be dangerous; none of the guys would ever agree to play hockey with Putin, and, if they did, they all agreed they would never score in fear of being killed.

The guys call out The Ochoman out for saying that he never eats fast food. Is Jimmy John’s considered fast food or deli? One of the guys brings up a past comment said by The Ochoman about how if he sees a Papa John’s pizza commercial on TV at night that he has to get a pizza. The Ochoman simply says that sometimes you just get hungry, which leads him to his next topic of discussion, the legalization of marijuana.

“That pot oil should be legal. I got a buddy right now, Daren Miller, [and cannabis oil] cured him,” The Ochoman exclaims. Armand says that all drugs should be legal. Armand asks “Why do you think people get addicted to heroin?” The Ochoman responds, “Right now it is the doctor’s fault for giving away all these prescriptions. The doctors are getting fed a bunch of information from these pharmaceutical companies, and they do not know what they are giving out.”

People get hurt and start on pain medication, but then they get addicted to the pain medication. Because the doctor is worried about the DEA and won’t refill the prescription, now the patients have to get some expensive painkillers off the street. They cannot afford their painkillers, so they go to heroin. Armand is stuck on the fact that if all drugs are legalized, then there would be no more drug wars. “Just let the people come get their heroin,” he says. Heroin should be regulated by doctors and given in certain increments, according to Armand.

Wendy’s self-serve kiosks are being installed because of the minimum wage being raised. Two percent of the homes in The United States work for minimum wage. Can a family of four survive off of minimum wage? Armand argues that minimum wage is not enough to live and that it should just be raised to $20/hour. The Ochoman strongly believes that he could live off of $15 dollars/hour.

As the show comes to a close, the guys discuss Obama’s visit to Japan. The guys agree that if he is to apologize for winning the war (yes we are talking about WW2 here) we are in trouble. A 97-year old man survived both atom bomb droppings. He was in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both when the bombs were set off. Another city was supposed to get hit before Nagasaki, but it was cloudy and they were unable to release it.

The beginning of this episode of Behind The 8 Ball starts off with the guys discussing Jerry Sandusky, the coach of Penn State, and what he had done with his football players. One of the guys compared it to an older movie called Foxcatcher.

Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

When someone texts you and asks you to call them and you reply “K” and do not call right away, do they have a right to be mad at you? The Ochoman shot one of the guys a text that said to call him, and he replied “K”. During the conversation of phone calls and text messages one of the guys lets slip that he was rehearsing for a play.

The movie Concussion is next up on the agenda and how its ratings were not that high at all. Why were the ratings so bad? Some say it was long and boring which is why the ratings were low, also they were thinking that the NFL had something to do with it.

Throughout the whole show, The Ochoman and the guys keep referring back to Armand and his car. A transvestite broke into Armand’s car and continued to stay in his car upon his return.

In the news recently there was a 16-year-old Pakistan girl who helped her friends elope (which is a crime in Pakistan). She was strangled, thrown in a van, and set on fire. You cannot elope on your own in Pakistan, according to The Ochoman.

Armand invested some of The Ochoman’s money into The Bank of America. The Ochoman only gave Armand $250 to invest, and over the course of three days, Ocho is down $40 and is troubling Armand about it. The Ochoman tells us a story about how he got laughed at and had beer thrown on him by some guys because of his investment decisions.

In the presidential campaign, Kasich was complaining about it not being one on one, so then Cruz dropped out, and as soon as he did that Kasich dropped out. Why? The guys think it may have been because the more established Republicans told Kasich that he had to stab Cruz in the back and get him to drop out because they despise him.

In Canada there is a liquor store chain. The head of the chain told the employees that if people are stealing things, to let them. They do not want to cause problems and put people in harm’s way.

As the show comes to a close the conversation shifts back to the transvestite in Armand’s car, and The Ochoman states that he would not have even talked to the person; he would have called the cops. He would not have given the person in his car a chance to attack him.

The Ochoman is gone! The Ochoman took the day off to play golf, so Kris and Armand have Big E take over for The Ochoman.

The Blues won last night, barely. The guys talk about when the Blues get a lead they play conservatively and stop attacking, therefore taking their foot off the gas. This allows the other team to apply pressure and usually score.

Eddie Redmayne in the film “The Danish Girl.”

Armand fell asleep at work, and he was the only car in the parking lot at 5:00 AM. He thought he was in the wrong car and apologized for being in said car before he realized that it was his car. Armand asked the stranger what they were doing in his car, and this person answered, “You invited me here.” This banter went on for a while. This person stole Armand’s wallet while he was in his car.

Armand talks about three habitable planets out there near a red dwarf planet. Apparently, they are of the correct temperature and close enough to a sun of their own to make these planets habitable for human life.

Armand enlightens us about the Bermuda Triangle and why things sink. The methane bubbles from the bottom of the ocean rise up and come up to the top of the water and sink ships because methane is less dense than water and the ships just start to sink randomly. The same thing happens with planes, the bubbles rise through the air and the methane messes with the altitude therefore causing pilots to hit the water.

Kris tells us about this comedy page on Youtube where the videographers go into the “hood” and leave a bike unlocked. The bike is out in plain sight, but they have tied it to a tree, and the tie is hidden. Someone jumps on the bike and takes off down the hill, and the rope catches, and the person goes flying. The videographers also sometimes strap airbags to the bike seat and remotely detonate them when someone hops on the bike.

The Ochoman is upset with the NFL Draft. He said, “We need a DB or two and what do we go do? We get a running back.”

Ochoman’s Cincinnati Reds are upsetting him, too, because they do not have any pitching. All of his teams are totally letting him down. Should the Cincinnati Reds recruit some Palestinian rock throwers?

Back to the NFL draft: The Ochoman is upset because The Cowboys drafted a running back when they already have three of them. Why? The Ochoman thinks that the white guys that The Globetrotters used to play could give the 76ers a run for their money.

It is a big night for the Saint Louis Blues – the first game of the series against the Dallas Stars. Does God hate the Blues? Out of all the years the Blues have lost so tragically, there have been goals that should not have gone in, and The Ochoman is blaming God for hating the Blues.

The Blues fans and the atmosphere here in Saint Louis is absolutely outstanding. Not a single hockey player that has played for the Saint Louis Blues has hated it; the fans are outstanding. Brett Hull gave The Ochoman a fake number; he gave him the number for IHOP.

Kris and The Ochoman talk a little politics when they bring up Ted Cruz’s big announcement and they also talk a little about Trump. The Ochoman and Kris agree that they would be ok with Obama for four more years. Unemployment is down, house prices are back up, why would he not be a good idea to keep around?