Last Chance! And The Hoagie Hour Top 20 🍞
This will be a short one! I've been pretty busy lately, but more on that in the coming days...
If you're just here for Tony T and Tommy, scroll down a bit.
Mike's long-time writing partner Patrick Kang will be on the podcast tonight, to talk about his years of writing with Mike, and their script for Brotherly Love, the (never made) sitcom based on Ben Simmons and his life and family. The entire project came from LeBron's entertainment company SpringHill. You may best remember this from the year Mike didn't critize Simmons even once.
Anyway, you have until midnight to buy the script for $5 (it's a preorder but you'll get it tonight). Only $5, wow!! And it all goes to charity, no matter what Bryan Colangelo says.
The charitable causes are great!
You'll be supporting the Coded By Kids CBK Academy. Coded By Kids has always been in person, but the Covid-19 pandemic forced them to figure out a way to do it online, and they did. Now, CBK Academy is able to teach so many more kids in underrepresented communities coding, problem solving, entrepreneurship and more. Your money will benefit the creation of the CBKA platform.
You'll also be supporting the Providence Animal Center's K9 College (and everyone who works there). Some dogs do not do very well at all in the shelter atmosphere, and it makes them impossible to train so they can go to forever homes. Dogs like Tiny. So if we sell about 100 more scripts, we can send Tiny (and more dogs like him) to K9 College, which is a program in Philadelphia that will give him the kind of attention he needs.
And thanks to our very good friends Touchstone Electric Fireplaces in Exton, your donation will be doubled. A huge thanks to Touchstone! Don't forget, regular fireplaces are a pain in the ass and messy (can also smell weird). Get an easy-to-install electric one from Touchstone for 15% off with the promo code TTP at zerodeadbirds.com.
Toni Tony Tatone and Tommy from Down The Shore did their list of Top 20 Foods. Dimetapp makes it's way on there and the spelling and grammar is questionable. They'll be on the pod soon to discuss.
Pride Month might be over, but you still have a week to order the Ricky Pride shirt, with proceeds benefitting the Attic Youth Center. After that, it'll be gone! There's also the official Vallone's Deli shirt, which benefits Prevention Point, and the shirts that SixersAdam's food list inspired, the Cantaloupe shirt, the Chicken shirt, and the SixersAdam doesn't like food power pack.
Congrats to official Ricky Reverend Pablo Torre on his new job and podcast with ESPN (another person steals our idea to do a podcast). Make sure to tell Pablo to say the name on the new pod. Repeatedly but really nicely. Congratulate him first.
Welcome new Ricky sponsor, high quality, slow cooked, super nutritious, By Nature Pet Foods! It is Rebel endorsed. Just use the code RTRS20 at Chewy to get 20% off your first order of By Nature (they've got cat foods too).
Alright, that's a lot.
By the way, the guys told me that June had the second most Ricky downloads of any month in our history. That's pretty ridiculous. We've gotten a lot of support during the pandemic that you've enjoyed the pods, and we've enjoyed doing them. We appreciate every email, photo wearing a Ricky shirt somewhere you shouldn't, and Carl Landry Record Club suggestion.
Wear your mask!
-K