Appendix W.2

## Date

Thursday, 12/31/2020, 11:00 pm

**Length:** 1:54:58

## Title

**The Day It Was “The 7th-Inning Stretch After Dark” On New Year’s Eve And We Met Pop Culture Correspondent Hallie St. Clair Before Mary Got A Little Loopy, Told Aunt Diane Stories And Found Out About Her Political Future From 2032 Kelly Hogan**

## Link

Facebook Videos:

* https://facebook.com/760848141448738

## Noteworthy Details

Special Episode

**Location:** Living Room

**Secret Surprise Special Guest:** Hallie St. Clair and Kelly Hogan

## Episode Description

* 7IS New Year's Eve Episode
* Took place across two days, two months, two years, and (technically) two decades!

## Quotes and Taglines:

"It's the nothing-better-to-do-on-New-Year's-Eve show. Welcome, everybody, to the 7th-Inning Stretch! Sponsored by…nope. No sponsor."

* "I have a tattoo. Not yet. I'm gonna get a tattoo that says, 'Hey It's Friday, how about some Van Halen?'" (on chat comment that 2021 starts on a Friday)
* "Like how I messed up that song in the middle? Occasionally I flub a tiny little thing, but it's so tiny that nobody except me notices. I've never flubbed it badly at the ballpark. I've never flubbed it that badly. That was bad." (on Take Me Out To The Ballgame)
* "This song is what I call gateway prog. It's poppy, but it's got some odd counts. If you like it, then you might succumb to prog rock." (on Heat Of The Moment by Asia)
* Conversation (on Mary's aunt setting clocks ahead on New Year's Eve to fool the kids in her family into thinking it was midnight):
	+ **Josh:** Now on YouTube you can just pull up a video of the ball dropping and show it to your kids at seven o'clock and then be like, 'OK, time for bed.'
	+ **Mary:** We didn't have YouTube or even internet back in my day.
	+ **Josh:** Well, 'cause you were in Maine.
	+ **Mary (laughing):** Oh, that's true!
	+ **Josh:** Maine didn't get the Internet until after everybody else, I think.
	+ **Mary:** Guys, I totally just said 'back in my day' without even, like, being silly about it.
* "Karin T. requested three songs. I'm not gonna play all three of them, Karin T. She wanted a 'Karin T.' that I would play at least one of them. Get it?"
* Conversation:
	+ **Mary:** I think somebody just put into the chat that it's their first time watching the 7th-Inning Stretch.
	+ **Josh:** Wow. \***Mary:** Hey, person who just did that, welcome. So much welcome. Do you have a request?
	+ **Josh:** Yeah, for real. If you have a song request, person who's just now discovering us after 8,000 episodes…Because all these other people making requests, they make requests all the time.
	+ **Mary (with mock indignation):** Been there, done that.
	+ **Josh:** But, like, we love to honor new people and we hardly ever get new people anymore, it seems like. I don't know. At least not in the chat, like when we see the chat and we see who's here, it's the regular crew — who are such wonderful, lovely people — and then other people kind of flit in and out. It's great. It's a great scene going on here."
* "God, wouldn't that be so great to go to baseball games with people and play tunes and take requests? It'd be just like this — but with money."
* "Hooray, we did it! Confetti all over my crap. There's crap on my crap." (in the immediate aftermath of the baseball drop and shredded 2020 calendar confetti)
* (RPM) "Fizzies and hats, that's what this show is this year. Even last year it was kind of about fizzies and hats, too."
* Conversation (upon learning from future Kelly Hogan that RPM will run for president of the U.S. in 2032):
	+ **Josh:** This is wild. What I'm realizing…because of course for me, it's all about me, right? So what that means is if (Mary gets elected in November 2032), then you're gonna be looking at Josh Kantor: the second Jewish first gentleman of the United States.
	+ **Hogan (from 2032):** First organist!
* "Things are weird. This episode — things that have been happening in the living room here for the last hour and a half — are per-culiar, I would say. Very per-culiar."
* Conversation (after Josh tells the bathroom-related origin story of "Hold On, I'm Comin'"):
	+ **Mary:** If we were in England, with shows, there's like a line in the broadcast where you are allowed to do bathroom humor and more raunchy stuff if it's after a certain time at night. And there's a (term) for that…
	+ **Josh:** This is definitely 7th-Inning Stretch: After Dark.
	+ **Mary (laughing):** Oh yeah, this is as raunchy as it's gonna get.
* Conversation:
	+ **Josh:** That's an interesting question: Would these (big fans of the show) watch it at 4 a.m. if that's when it was live in their time zone?
	+ **Mary:** I know my answer. I would be sleeping.
	+ **Josh:** Well, that's why we don't do the show at 4 a.m.
	+ **Mary:** Oh yeah, that is the reason.
	+ **Josh:** I mean, you're in the show. Technically you're off screen, technically you're behind the scenes, but people love to see you. You're part of the show; they love to hear your voice, they love to see you get up there and do the stuff.
	+ **Mary:** Yeah, but sometimes I'd rather be sleeping. And you know, it's our show. So are we gonna play one more tune? Two more tunes? Five more tunes?
* "What's a song that I want to play? Guys, I'm gonna pick one that I want to play. This is the hardest thing to do is to actually decide what song to play. This is really hard." (he eventually chose Baby, Now That I Found You by The Foundations)
* (RPM) "I changed my hat because I don't think a presidential candidate would wear a panda hat, to be fair, right? I'm getting ready for it. Ooh, grapes!"

## Baseball Card of the Week

* Roberto Clemente, 1968 Sporting News — passed away on New Year’s Eve 1972

## Album of the Week

* Bob Dylan – New Morning (back cover displayed)

## Hatter or No-Hatter?

* Late Hatter

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