Mrs. Fields with Matt Singer

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4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Matt Singer (@superpulse, Opposable Thumbs) joins the 'boys to talk about movie tie-in menus, theme parks, and wrestling before a review of Mrs. Fields. Plus, a new Snack or Wack.

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Sources for this week's intro:

https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2015/06/13/mc-hammer-golden-state-oakland-as

http://www.centerfieldmaz.com/2019/11/the-1970s-oakland-as-ball-girls-mlbs.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDaUUBGVleE

https://www.franchisewire.com/from-housewife-to-entrepreneur-the-debbi-fields-story/

https://www.mlb.com/athletics/news/athletics-las-vegas-ballpark-agreements-approved

https://www.mrsfields.com/pages/about

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.5	Want to watch this episode?
0:07.1	Check it out on our YouTube channel by going to YouTube.com slash doughboys media.
0:12.3	Get the angelries special at McDonald's now.
0:14.4	Let's break it down.
0:15.4	My favorite barbecue sauce, American cheese, crispy bacon, pickles, onions, and a sesame
0:20.5	seed bun, of course. And don't forget
0:22.7	the fries and a drink. Sound good? Butta, ba, ba, ba. Participating restaurants for a limited time.
0:30.3	In 1971, a nine-year-old boy named Stanley Burrell began working odd jobs for his hometown team,
0:37.1	newly minted Major League Baseball franchise, the Oakland Athletics. Burrell began working odd jobs for his hometown team, newly minted Major League Baseball
0:38.4	franchise, the Oakland Athletics.
0:41.0	Burrell eventually graduated from Gofer to Bat Boy and became a beloved fixture of the
0:45.7	A's clubhouse as a youth.
0:47.5	So much so that, after a stint in the U.S. Navy, Burrell received a loan from a group of former
0:52.9	Oakland ball players to launch his music
0:54.6	career under the pseudonym MC Hammer. But Hammer, who later Sean Parker to weigh the MC,
1:01.2	its cleaner, wasn't the only celebrity who built his brand by first working for the Oakland
1:05.4	Ball Club. Around the same time the can't touch this rapper was cleaning cleats. A recent high
1:10.7	school graduate
1:11.3	and aspiring professional baker named Debbie Sivier took a job with the A's in the newly created
1:15.7	role of Ball Girl. The brainchild of obviously horned up owner Stanley Finley, Ball girls were a troop
1:21.8	of fetching young women who were fetching foul balls while wearing short shorts and platform
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