WEBVTT - Greatest WNBA Players with Mo Welch 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.680 Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.440 Alrighty week, We're going. Yep, that's how I start things. 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:18.840 All right, you are we going? It's better than um um? 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:20.320 How are we doing? Well? I just had to tell 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.680 you to stop talking. Save it. Well, I just every gem, 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.599 everything I say is a gem. So Megan's like saying 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.400 for the podcast, you know, not all classic at it? Actually, 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.600 I mean we were we were watching. We were in 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.120 a group viewing setting last night, and you had some 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.520 you had some bangers, then you had some duds too. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.080 You can't have the bangers are bangers because you got 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.000 to say the duds and you learn from every day, 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:46.880 don't know. I feel like they were I feel like 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.000 I was back in a thousand last night. Well, welcome 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.239 to the Greatest. Thank you guys for tuning in. We 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:59.840 have another great episode for you. Here. I'm there and 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:05.080 we are joined by one of our best friends, friends, 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:11.920 oldest friends, comedian writer Mo Welch. Thanks for having me, guys, 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.840 Actually genuinely very excited to be on this podcast. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.800 we do every week. Yes, there was, Yeah, there was 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.199 a childcare situation, busy being a mother and she could 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.039 I mean She's done two podcasts so far, and she could, 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:31.160 but I have to stand up and it's just like, yeah, 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:37.000 that's She's on Sabrina's and Atlanta Johnson's. Okay, does seem 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:42.360 like so she she only does Canadian, Yeah, exclusively Canadian, 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.480 even though she watches so much basketball. Yeah, like I've 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.400 had it on the entire Well, first of all, I 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.360 played when I was pregnant. Yeah, but when you were pregnant, yeah, 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.880 up to the second trimester. Oh my god, I didn't 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.240 know that. Yeah. I took an offensive foul on the 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.960 last day with my first trimester and Sam was like, 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.080 you're out. And when you're playing in the women's league 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:08.680 or the yeah, yeah, she plays in every I coach. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.040 You're one team for a couple of games, and then coach, 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.080 and then you're on and then you're on my team 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.360 the next seven? Yeah, seven? And are you qualified to 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.560 be a we meant to basketball? I mean, I was 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.400 feeling in for Brianna Baker, who is another friend of ours, 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.160 but I mean it was like, she just plays. I 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:24.680 don't know if she coaches, and she's like, you can 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.960 do it, and I went and I was like saying 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:28.680 things on the sideline, but I don't think anyone's listening, 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.000 and well it's all about like the you know yes, 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.320 and like a bunch of girls don't want to hear 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.000 like a guy coming and be like okay, so you 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.080 see it's like yeah, we're here. Yeah, was like for 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.000 some reason, it's really weird. The hottest girl, the best player. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.480 So I'm gonna play her the whole time, and then 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.240 I'm also going to need to get her phone numbers 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.320 and then we can talk after the game about plays 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.760 and prises. I mean, that's a good that's a good 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:56.000 transition into you met your wife from that from that 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.079 basketball league. Yeah, well we didn't meet from um, we 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:07.160 we met bowling straight sorry another straight and the yeah exactly. Um, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.240 but she was like, oh hey, Like her first line 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.359 to me was like I think I know you from 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.800 the basketball league because there's a women's basketball league. But 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.280 she did follow me on Twitter too, and then after 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:22.600 that night she unfollowed me to follow me back like 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.720 a week later. Yeah, that was the whole tactic. Yeah, 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.560 but did know that, Yeah, yeah, I didn't know that. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.680 But then her our second date, we went to this 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.560 restaurant in West Hollywood, and I was like I have 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:37.360 to leave because she's like, do you want to hang 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:38.600 out for this? I was like, I actually have a 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.280 basketball game after and she's like oh. She was like 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.800 kind of bummed. And we were also drinking, but it 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.160 was she was kind of bummed. And then I was like, 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.920 do you want to go? And she's like yes, And 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:51.520 that was the team that I was on with you, 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.560 and then she just went watched. She went and watched. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.680 She met c J. Yes, this is this girl is 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:04.839 really cool. I was like, she was only supporter. Yeah, 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:09.480 it was really Yeah. She was like, you those are 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.320 cool movies you did out there. I'm like, whoa, someone 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.800 is giving me confidence about basketball. Yeah, she said that 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.040 c J like when he plays basketball, it's like he's 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.760 dancing because he does moves into the lane. Okay, I 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.240 she's caught me. In my later years, I've actually been 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.760 banned from going to watch I've seen you at one 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.279 of the games. That was the last one. Yeah, you 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.839 guys beat us in the championship? Is that why? And 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.240 I went to a game before that. That was the 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:38.640 second one I went to. The first one I went 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.080 to A man had to go to the emergency room. Yeah, 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.920 and they lost and so c J was just like, 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.920 I don't think I did not say that she offered 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.320 would you ever would you ever have that with with 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.080 Sam if you felt like the coincidence that she was 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.040 there every time you guys lost. She's been to so 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.800 many games, and I will say that that Jim is 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.599 so stinky. Yeah that like if there's been one game, 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:05.680 like Sam will go in and she's like, I can't 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.000 stay the whole time. She's like, oh yeah, she's not 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.440 shy about it either. She's just like everyone here smells Yeah, 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.800 it's a new gym. Now, oh it is you p K. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:19.080 My teammate is now a commissioner. That is so funny. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.279 I did not know the new gym that has the 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.000 same not the same exact, but it looks like the 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.320 Lakers looks like Staples. It's incredible. Are you not you're 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.560 not playing? I'm going to now, Yeah, I'm gonna get 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.240 a team together. I've thought about getting a co ed 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.160 team together for that league because I know some some 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.520 women who can take. But I mean, you've been hanging 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.080 in even playing basketball recreationally. I mean you're maybe like 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.039 my first friend who was like, yeah, I think I 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.280 do comedy because there's so many basketball games. Yeah, well 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.200 it's yeah, I don't know how that happened, because like 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.719 in Chicago, there was a pickup game that I feel 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.279 like Jason Sudeikis started started and it was like an 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.559 improviser's game. There was a waiting list that if someone 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.800 like wanted off the list, then you got bumped in. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:05.800 Where was it at Park? Yeah? And what part of 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:10.440 that is that Southport Corridor? You played in it? Yeah? 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.599 Me and Mo played in it, and our friend Namdi 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.400 and West Needham. It was It's just like all a 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.039 lot of the improvisers obviously had to get some stand 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.080 ups in there because they because problems. Like everyone was, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.279 let's get some more out of balances. They were trying 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.560 to sweep the core. But that was maybe the first 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.560 sort of semi organized game as a comedian that I 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.400 played in at least Yeah, same and it just is 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.360 like we're like, oh, yeah, how come I think we 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.480 moved to l A maybe around the same time, and 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.839 we're just like, yeah, we should have a game again. 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.480 And yeah, and then c J started a game in 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:50.800 Silver Lake. Were you guys together then? Okay? Not to 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:52.920 It was just like I was in a different phase 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.520 in my life, I was with somebody. You can't remember 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:00.760 who was my husband, you can't remember who. I had 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:05.120 a bit of thought, honey, Um, I've never played in 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.680 a comedian basketball game. You played growing up? I played 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.840 one season growing up, and I did not score ever, 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.560 didn't make a layup. Do you remember what position they 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.360 put forward? I think, um, yeah, because I couldn't be 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.920 point guard, I definitely was going to be center. Actually, 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:27.200 like I do remembers, I remember fouling out multiple times 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.720 having not scored any points. And then my greatest crowning 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.640 achievement was once my parents were out of town. So 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.440 I was staying at another girl on my basketball team 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.280 who was like my good friend, who actually is very 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.440 good at basketball. Her brother was on a Michigan State 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.080 final four team. So maybe I thought like, oh, i'll 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.680 sleep there, I'll get a little rubbed off on me. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:56.000 Escially just in the home. I've gotten my braces tightened 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.920 the day before. And so I took three Thailand all 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.240 and didn't eat, And in the middle of the game 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:06.640 I puked through my hands onto the court, and as 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.880 I was running out of the gym, I heard someone 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:17.160 say her mom's out of town. So so. I Yeah, 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:22.800 I love the cost in the stands to town. When 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:27.000 I had the UM. Basketball was definitely my worst sport 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.080 because I played softball, you know, which was like the 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.640 eval into my brother's playing baseball. And I was really good. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.040 I was an all star. My dad will say I 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.920 was the best tennis player. I was athletically inclined, but 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.320 basketball was like a disaster for me. I feel like 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.160 basketball and soccer don't really go well together either, Like 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:47.880 if you can if you're really good at soccer, I 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.320 don't know if you're really bad at soccer to actually 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:54.280 horrible physically demanding. I feel like in basketball you can 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.280 kind of like if you're tired, you can like hide 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.679 in the corner, but soccer is just like you have 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:00.360 to run it all. You're running all the time. And 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.440 I always like when I subbed into WRED games in 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.360 college and soccer, I was like I would always put 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.320 my hand up. It's like a handball all the time. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.000 I'm just like kind of let me do a crossover. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.959 You know, my dad still plays basketball. He's sixty four 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:17.319 years old. My dad is like a very intense loves basketball. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.120 I just forgot Yeah, when we were there over over. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.520 I can't remember when we go there. Oh, during your shower, 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.240 your wedding shower. Me and your dad went to the 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.719 gym and I had that terrible ankle injury a few 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.920 months ago, and I was like midway through the recovery 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:32.680 and he was like, we're gonna go play basketball. And 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.719 we played and he was like, you're fine. He's like, 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:40.240 we're just shooting jumpers, old Jeff Gay. And also he 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.640 is good. He he I was beating him at horse 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.319 but he was like, all right, I gotta go lift weights. Um. 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.920 And then also as we were walking, as we were 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.760 walking into the complex, we he stopped at the front 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.280 door and he looks at me goes, let's get large. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:01.160 That's amazing, and it's a my I texted my friend. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.760 I was like, hey, my future dad and Lodges told 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.640 me let's get large right as we walk into the gym. Yeah, 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.320 he loves basketball. There's like a group in Indy that 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.280 still plays and it's a lot of guys that my 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.120 brother's group with. So it's like people our age. My 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.640 dad is playing with them, and it gets so annoying 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.679 to my brother because they'll see my brother if he's 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:23.880 back in town. And be like, what's up, little Gaily, 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.840 And it's like, no, I'm not little. My dad is 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.720 not big Gaily. We are the same age. That's not 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.000 your friend, that's a father who used to coach you 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.280 in basketball. But now he's like the cool guy because 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.080 he's still plays. I love that he still plays. That 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.880 gives me hope, I think. So, I mean, the biggest 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:44.079 fear of playing late to his Achilles Achilles a c 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.760 L knee replacements. Hips. Yeah, I mean I did physical 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.120 therapy with all those guys, just getting bunked on the head. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:54.120 I go like, and I have two years year. I 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.240 just like, I don't go into the lane. Really, I 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.720 don't rebound, but I'll pass it. So so team, the 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.400 team still you'll shoot those those deep three, Yeah, I'll 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.920 shooting three. I'm just kind of like, I know, I 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.160 don't want I don't want to have it polutely not. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.839 How young were you when you started playing? I mean 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.240 I wasn't. I was like ten. Uh. And then when 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.360 we moved to Chicago, there was like these guys played 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.880 in the alley at our house. Alley yeah, and the 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:26.000 alley yeah crazy, there's a hoop out there out there, 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:31.079 And so I thought it was worn baskets. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.320 I know there's like a hoop and there's like ten 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.280 hoops in every alley and Chicano. So I played in 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.760 that game, and then for a long time it was 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.240 like since I was twelve, I didn't go a week 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.680 without playing basketball. That's like that was for a long 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.840 time until you got pregnant. It was No, it's basically 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.520 when I started comedy. I think I took a little 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:53.679 break because we started a comedy. I have an ex 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.200 who says that he saw us on the same day 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.760 and was like, what has happened that we like appeared 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.440 at the same time. We did appear at the same 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.520 time Lisa. I remember seeing Lisa do her first set 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.800 at Shoebus. I remember seeing her, or at least I 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.520 remember being at edge with you, and it was like 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.840 a funny time in my life because I would like 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:22.160 wear a going out top and like heels go to 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:26.000 an open. I relate to that, not the heels, but 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.439 I relate to like stopping at the mall and picking 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.400 up a new shirt before the open. Yeah, that was 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.199 part of I mean. The thing is, I don't think 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.880 we were that off base because knowing what I know 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.760 now we still look good, like we still have a 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.920 look when we're doing stand up. We just you know, 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.440 back then we were going to like wet seal right. No, truly, 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.920 I think still exists that I wanted the buckle, but 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.400 it wasn't my mom, like you wouldn't go in there 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.400 for some wease him and that was like sort of 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.720 like the Western, the Western look, yes exactly, and it 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.960 was really like low rise and like really big buckles. Yeah. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.000 Actually one last question before we get into the topic 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.560 for the episode, but so was there a time in 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.400 your childhood where you were like, I want to make 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:17.800 the n B A w n B A and I 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.560 think I could do it? Definitely. I mean everything that 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.719 I've sought out to do, I I truly am like 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.880 I can do this. So I have blind confidence, like 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.120 I'm not insecure in that way, like truly, like when 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.319 I started comedy, I'm like I'm on SML next year, 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:36.600 and like I don't even do scut comedy. But like, yeah, 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.920 there was a time where I was, you know, in 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.880 high school that I really got into basketball and I 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.439 was like I think I can do this, but did not. 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.520 I mean I was not talented enough to make it. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:53.080 Did you start in high school? I had a weird 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:58.320 like I was. I don't know, like I started like freshman, sophomore, 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.640 and then junior year got kicked off the basketball team 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.360 because I like lied about a grade. I was like, 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.160 really bad in school. Yeah, I lied about a grade 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.760 and I'll never forget it. But my my basketball coach 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.960 and the the athletic director in my dean all brought 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.040 me into a room and they were like, you lied, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.319 and we don't want that on the team. And then 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.040 the ad said you'll never play a sport here ever again. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.520 And she was a lesbian and I was just like 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.000 I I could not. I mean like, I just feel 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.120 like she should have known a little bit that I was, 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.800 but she didn't think like looking back and I was 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.000 a goodie goodie. But I've been in instances in my 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.360 adult life where like it's three on one and that's 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.800 not okay to do to what at least bring your parent. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.040 You probably didn't want your mom to come, but it's like, 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.960 but I didn't know it was coming three grown adults. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:53.080 My football coach after it was no but like after 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.400 we even I even played for him, It doesn't mean 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.440 he's not even my coach. He was also a counselor 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.800 at the school. He brought me in like two months 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.720 before where we graduated, and he said that being funny 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.680 isn't going to get you a job, isn't going to 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.960 get your wife and kids. Being funny is going to 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.040 get you nowhere. I'm like, why did you bring me 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.320 into your office to tell me this? And now he 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.520 follows me on Twitter and I was about to say, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.640 you need to have him on the police. More importantly, 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.400 he's not active. He uses it to like retweet clips 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.160 of his players who go D three. Okay, Well, I 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:25.960 don't know what the power of player is there with 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:31.240 like coaches. I just drilled up myself. Someone was like 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.080 someone did a Twitter thing about like question about this 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.880 last week. That was like tweet your like a time 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.480 in your childhood when someone like told you you couldn't 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.440 do it. I feel like I was raised with a 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.840 lot of ambition and hope, like I believed and no 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.680 one was telling me no. Strangely, but yeah, my dad 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.680 said he had a guidance counselor who was like, you'll 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.040 never get into Cornell, like you are a jackass. And 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.360 then he got and he lived this person lived across 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.400 the street and then he did get in and they're 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:05.120 on a scholarship. Guy went to Cornell. We were talking, 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.560 we were making fun of my dad yesterday. Now he's 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.480 like Michael Scotty goes. You know, I went to Cornell. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:12.840 I didn't even watch the show. And I know, I 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.240 love your dad so much. He's like a character. He's 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.440 like Ed Helms in the office in the league. Right, 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.880 it's once a day that you went there. It's considered 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.280 the worst IVY league. So I love that. And it 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.040 was at one point voted by g Q as the 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.160 biggest douche bag school in the country. Wow. But I 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.120 have one of my dearest friends, Allison Leby, went there, 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:39.960 you know, and she's really I don't know. I mean, 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:41.560 I don't. I mean, like, I don't say I went 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.600 to Columbia College. Should Yeah, I went. I did a 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.520 semester in college. No basketball team. Weird. There are people 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.160 that are like, I went to Columbia, and it's like 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.920 college go one step forward. We're going to need a 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:58.120 city or back end to that title. Okay, So and 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.280 then when was it? When did you really lies you 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:01.560 weren't going to be in the w n b A. 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.520 I mean I tried to play basketball. Yeah, it's going 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:13.399 to make a comeback. Brought you here to you guys. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.120 You guys sent a highlight clip. Hold on what hat 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:20.280 do I have already talked to said that you can 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.040 do both. I love it. Okay, Oh yeah we should. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.639 We should say that to you guys. Work together, you 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.080 guys right together on good talk with Anthony Gentlemans. I 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.600 bet when this comes out, we'll be back right. Your 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.560 boss is a bully, not a bully. He j on 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.240 Twitter today and it was really funny. But then everyone's like, 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.439 we got you. I was like, no, he's famous. It 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:45.639 looks cool. Yeah, being bullied by a famous person. You're like, 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:50.159 this is IMDb lifting, okay and going up? All right, 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.679 So let's just get right into the episode then. So 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:57.320 today's topic is the greatest w NBA players of all time, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.959 which is gonna be great because I feel like I 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.639 know the legends pretty well, but the newer ones I 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:08.040 feel like I need some education on a little bit. Um. So, Megan, 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.040 do you want to go first? Maybe? Yeah, And I 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.040 feel like there might be some overlap, but let's not 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.880 you know, we can just keep adding to the resume. 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.280 I think this has started to be a trend for me. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.720 I like to do a Homer pick as my number 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:23.080 three spot. This this gal is a freaking legend. A 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.960 w n B, a m v P Rookie of the Year, 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.000 four time Defensive Player of the Year, won the title 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.840 in two thousand twelve finals m v P and was 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.920 part of the two thousand four two thousand and eight 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.919 gold medal team played under Pat Summit at Tennessee. Played 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:43.720 her entire fifteen year career with the Indiana Fever. Give 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:49.399 it up for Tamika catch nice. Oh my god, I 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:54.160 love Tamika And what's great is everybody an Indie like 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.639 worships her truly, truly the Fever. When they won, it 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.560 was like really really big deal. My this is like 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.080 a classic. My parents, my parents were like, we went 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.000 to a benefit tonight. We sat with tim because she 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.760 is such a nice lady, such a nice kid. Um. 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.520 But yeah, she's beloved. She's so awesome. And as I 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.359 was like doing the research for who I wanted to pick, 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.439 what I thought was really cool about w NBA players, 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.159 which I know is not true of NBA players. A 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:26.680 lot of them win. Players like m v p win finals. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:31.720 And then they're also incredible defensive players, like they play 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:35.040 both sides, And that seems to be kind of the 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.399 stamp and the calling card that the w n b 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.399 A has over the NBA for sure, because every single 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:44.320 person I picked was also a multiple defensive Player of 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:47.359 the Year, which interesting. I feel like that has to 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.160 do with the fundamentals when you learn, because girls learned 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.119 differently than boys. Yeah, when they're playing there, there's like 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.720 not as much hero ball. Yeah, And I feel like 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.080 some of these guys who were there's a lot of 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.679 NBA players don't last very long becau because they're like 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.040 talented or like they're built. You're like, oh, you're gonna 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.160 play basketball, and they're just like, yeah, it's just gonna 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.800 carry me through. And they don't learn those fundamentals because 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.280 they can dunk right, and I don't need that. I'll 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:13.240 just to be the guy who shoots threes from the corner, 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.680 and they don't learn those other things, which I feel 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.879 like women basketball players do. It's also wild to just like, 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.480 even as I'm reading that and and my other two 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:25.400 choices obviously have equally if not more impressive resumes, It's 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:29.760 like that's an incredible Like, if any male athlete had 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.160 that resume, they would be not only a mega mega 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.240 mega mega millionaire, they would have endorsements and they would 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:41.960 be so famous. And Tamika Catchings played in my hometown 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.639 for fifteen years, and I like barely kind of know 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.320 what she looks like, right, Yeah, that's bad. I mean, yeah, 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:53.360 what I mean, probably more legendary than most Indiana players 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.639 since who Reggie Miller maybe, I mean, and spending your 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.880 whole career there, I mean, Reggie did the same. Yeah, 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.240 there's another person I have on this list who also 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.400 spent an entire career at a team. And that seems 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:10.719 to kind of be a w n B A staple too, 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:15.320 And I wonder if that's because just from a market standpoint, 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.480 they're like, we gotta get people invested in players, and 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.080 you can't really move them. It's not a bad idea, 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.720 right to just be like, Okay, this is like not 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.840 only an incredible player, and and obviously to like play 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.679 under Pat Summit at Tennessee and was an incredible college 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:37.320