I was 13 hours in at the Stargate diner and 16 pancakes deep when this Michigan finished off their electric victory to give me three straight wins:

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The Final Bet #goblue #marchmadness #livestream #challenge #diner #pancakes #michigan

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I wish I could’ve bottled up the euphoria at that moment and sell it. I’d be a billionaire. Now all I had to do was eat four more pancakes and we were going home! 20 pancakes would shave off another number from the string of bets I had to hit and thanks to UCLA, Michigan, and this random guy named Jacob who gave me the UCLA/Utah State under I was out of the pancake penitentiary. No sleeping over in the diner! Finally, I polished off the last four and was about to saw bye to the stream, but then came this absolute Delco legend named Marty out of nowhere. Like a gift from the diner gods.

Marty could’ve kept me there for another 13 hours:

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Shout out to Marty #delco

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You ever meet someone and you wish you could explore their brain? That’s Marty for me. I couldn’t stop thinking about that conversation  my entire drive down 95 back home. It went in every direction I didn’t know it could. His cousin Paul Kelly, his athletic achievements at 63 years old, to calling his shot that Howard Eskin would be back and getting it wrong that Mikey Miss was on WIP (of course he doesn’t know there are two radio stations in this city), it then took a detour to his cousin being the reason Tom Hanks won two Academy Awards in a row. I know Marty now better than some of my immediate family members. That was like playing Delco Mad Libs. That is a living breathing WIP Uncle in the flesh.

I kind of wish I didn’t have brain fog and a belly full of pancakes. Half of me wishes the Michigan bet never hit and we had to stay over. I would’ve just turned the stream over to him. Imagine the stories he has. We talked for five minutes and I was enthralled. If you know a guy named Marty who lives around Ridley and likes to visit the Stargate Diner get me in touch with him. I need to know more.


Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 of the stream. Marty’s at the end of Part 2 (obviously) if you want to listen to the entire conversation: