Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest. I'm CJ. Toldno and my co host.
Speaker 1: Um not cos we're both the main host. Oh, I
Speaker 1: didn't know co host was. It's not just a side
Speaker 1: I feel like I definitely said it in in that way. Um,
Speaker 1: you just wanted to be there, any Megan Gaily? Um, yes,
Speaker 1: And we are joined. I'm already saying I'm too much.
Speaker 1: We are joined by our guests Jen Statsky. How are
Speaker 1: you doing? Jen? Hello, Well, you gotta give her the thing.
Speaker 1: I think you've been out of stand up too long
Speaker 1: because you like, okay, Well, then you don't have the
Speaker 1: skills to host. I was going to answer, okay, well
Speaker 1: here let me that was and then Jen is your
Speaker 1: long time friend, and then well that's why I thought
Speaker 1: you had it handled a comedy god before we come
Speaker 1: in here, when we were Yeah, I think there's probably
Speaker 1: started on the same day. And listen, there was a
Speaker 1: fork in the road in the past one different ways.
Speaker 1: A writer for The Good Place, Parks and Rack, Broad City.
Speaker 1: An amazingly talented comedic writer, your old like office mate,
Speaker 1: office mate, I mean friend, dear friends, very very talented,
Speaker 1: had a deadline article this week, baby a deadline. Hello, Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm very happy to be here. CJ really naking me
Speaker 1: right off the bath. I wasn't on purpose. I I
Speaker 1: feel like I nagged everyone in the room. Oh I
Speaker 1: forgot one more thing too, maybe the most important Clippers
Speaker 1: season ticket holders. Yes, you are a huge sports fan.
Speaker 1: It's not just like you're a random successful friend we
Speaker 1: brought in here. You are, which we will have at
Speaker 1: some point. You are. I'm a I'm a huge, huge
Speaker 1: basketball fan obsessed with basketball. We're different from you guys.
Speaker 1: They think no, pretty much nothing about other sports. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know, like the basic tools that they use, but yeah,
Speaker 1: the football, the bad, etcetera. But I I really like
Speaker 1: the mountain I know about basketball and think about basketball
Speaker 1: compared to what I think about any other sport. It's
Speaker 1: it's very different, and was that from a young age.
Speaker 1: I think what it was was I grew up playing
Speaker 1: softball and field hockey, which is it's like mowing grass
Speaker 1: as a sport, because you're just hacking at the field
Speaker 1: with a stick to chop down grass. It's truly the
Speaker 1: worst sports wild wild that it exists. It's pretty wide
Speaker 1: from thee in Indiana. We didn't. We had no lacrosse,
Speaker 1: we had no field hockey. It was not the crossing
Speaker 1: field hockey were big in my town. Really interesting, but
Speaker 1: I think it was. And I played basketball, but I
Speaker 1: think it's a reaction to try to like it was.
Speaker 1: Basketball was not my main sport growing up. And I
Speaker 1: think it's a reaction that distanced myself from my childhood
Speaker 1: because to focus on basketball and forget all the others
Speaker 1: that a lot of because a lot of our friends
Speaker 1: it's because like they wanted they embrace their childhood. It's
Speaker 1: like this is away from it. Yeah, because I mean
Speaker 1: like the Reds, I like two thousand and four when
Speaker 1: they won the World Series. That's like right when I
Speaker 1: was in Like they were so huge when I was
Speaker 1: growing up, and my dad used to take me up
Speaker 1: in my park like a bunch. And yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want to think about that. The town is tough for
Speaker 1: you to lot. Yeah exactly, Well it truly like it
Speaker 1: is only because like my dad does have the craziest
Speaker 1: Boston acts and you've ever heard like he came out
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of years ago. We were buying my
Speaker 1: husband and I were buying a house of time and
Speaker 1: he met the real estate age in my real estate
Speaker 1: agent plum me aside. He was like, I can't understand
Speaker 1: him because he has like there. He also like uses
Speaker 1: old school Southie words that are like like when I
Speaker 1: moved in college. He my roommate had a photo of
Speaker 1: her and her boyfriend at the time, and he was like, ah,
Speaker 1: is that your huga? And she was like excuse me,
Speaker 1: and I was like, huga he means is that you're
Speaker 1: like boyfriend guy? He like he calls coins silva. It's
Speaker 1: almost like he's trying to hit the lack of the
Speaker 1: R on where it's really crazy. He's like, it's pilot
Speaker 1: seats hid, you got to get my brand. But but yes,
Speaker 1: back to me and c J. For listeners who don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you haven't talked about it. Um No, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't. There's not much to know. We we started.
Speaker 1: We got hired on the same day at fallon um
Speaker 1: and this is when it was late night I was
Speaker 1: with the night before he interviewed because myself Chicago comedian
Speaker 1: Danny Callis he's a tracker, and our other friend Kenny
Speaker 1: to force. We just happened to be in New York
Speaker 1: on like a field trip. It's the only way it
Speaker 1: can be described because they were all very poor and
Speaker 1: immature and very and c J was like, I'm in
Speaker 1: town and we went and had pizza with him and
Speaker 1: you know at my hotel. Yeah, he had like a tie.
Speaker 1: It was not ready for the guys famously because we
Speaker 1: still have them and love them, took This was pre
Speaker 1: thirst trap because there wasn't even Instagram. Liza and I
Speaker 1: took sexy pictures in CJ's hotel bathroom. That's amazing, paid
Speaker 1: for by NBC Universal. How old because I was howling.
Speaker 1: And so then you guys were you shared an office? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we both somehow got hired. Well, the thing is too
Speaker 1: when they fly, it's also a complete waste of money.
Speaker 1: Not that they don't have the money, but like they
Speaker 1: basically know they're hiring you because they like they flew
Speaker 1: us both out from California. We didn't know each other,
Speaker 1: you know what I remember. I just remembered as I
Speaker 1: was coming in, I e knowled you during like packet submissions,
Speaker 1: I think, and I was like, hey, I've heard your
Speaker 1: name from somebody. Do you know, like, do you have
Speaker 1: any tips? It was more than anybody it almost like
Speaker 1: it makes me embarrassed now to this day too for
Speaker 1: people to know he's my husband and be like, you
Speaker 1: probably got an email from him or first got unsolicited
Speaker 1: emails from me. Oh yeah, we're getting like a little um.
Speaker 1: I loved it. We were getting like a love actually
Speaker 1: just doing some behind the scenes iPad work here. Yes,
Speaker 1: I sent you an email I think and just to
Speaker 1: be like, what are you doing for your packet stranger
Speaker 1: something like that. I think we were doing the monologue
Speaker 1: tryouts at that time where you did like ten a
Speaker 1: day for a week. It's all just paid. This is
Speaker 1: the most embarrassed because this is the one and only
Speaker 1: like embarrassing unsolicited. I sent Sean O'Connor, who had never
Speaker 1: met you, the name names um and Facebook message that
Speaker 1: I would be willing to do whatever job they needed
Speaker 1: me to do on the Norm Sports show, and I
Speaker 1: ended it by being like you guys can put cigarettes
Speaker 1: out on me God, and like did I hear back?
Speaker 1: I don't think no. Off from the show ended like
Speaker 1: two weeks later. Yeah, they were like we have a cigarette. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I remember us taking the same flights and
Speaker 1: just I think I saw you as we're flying back
Speaker 1: to l A after interview and just both of us
Speaker 1: just kind of being a wreck. Oh yeah, because they
Speaker 1: they you go in and you meet for truly, they've
Speaker 1: flown across the country and then it's like a five
Speaker 1: minute meeting at the mine at the time, which I
Speaker 1: think yours would have been to fallon EP Mike Shoemaker
Speaker 1: head right at the time, eighty miles uh and who
Speaker 1: else I think that might have been it. Kevin was
Speaker 1: an EP too, Yeah, and you're just like, I think
Speaker 1: Jimmie talked for my whole meeting, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't get it because I didn't speak, and they
Speaker 1: probably want I feel like I did not speak. I
Speaker 1: mean that that should have been. I feel like that's
Speaker 1: the note I should have got for the weeks that
Speaker 1: I was there. Um, but we shared an office. CJ
Speaker 1: and I shared an office for ten weeks. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: And then they had to get you away from him.
Speaker 1: They were like, they're like, yeah, we can't have him
Speaker 1: playing hockey in the hallways anymore. My greatest memory, probably
Speaker 1: of my entire time at that show is the day
Speaker 1: do you remember this, the day your credit card was hacked?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes, this is an insane story that
Speaker 1: only you know my credit card because I used to
Speaker 1: take But this before is pre uber. I was flying
Speaker 1: back from Chicago and I would take cars from the
Speaker 1: airport back down to Manhattan and it would just be
Speaker 1: random people waiting for you at the baggage claim and
Speaker 1: be like, hey, I can give you a ride, and
Speaker 1: you're just like, oh great, And then I would swipe
Speaker 1: my card or I would give them my card and like, hey,
Speaker 1: my machines is not working, so they write down my number.
Speaker 1: And then my mom, who we had like we had,
Speaker 1: she had access to my bank account. She saw it.
Speaker 1: She's like, are you calling sex hotlines? And I was
Speaker 1: like what um? And we're sharing an office and I
Speaker 1: barely know this man and I hear him and like
Speaker 1: I could hear your mom yelling through the phone and
Speaker 1: you're like, God, no, Mom, and it's like you're out work,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I mean, was this before after the incident?
Speaker 1: This was after. He's not going to want to go
Speaker 1: into it, but he did overdraft a bank account on
Speaker 1: something sexy. I guess I have. I'm a sex addict,
Speaker 1: and so that's why I'm like, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: that crazy. That your mom asked this base because when
Speaker 1: you to even more so, then my I called my
Speaker 1: credit card company and then they gave me the phone
Speaker 1: number to where my card was being used. Wait, they
Speaker 1: wanted you to like them. I mean a bank, isn't Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they're like, you need to call this place.
Speaker 1: You need to see what's going on, who's using your card.
Speaker 1: And then I called that sex hotline and was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I think someone's using my card. Gave my card number,
Speaker 1: which again should probably shouldn't have done that, and then
Speaker 1: they're like, Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We record
Speaker 1: every message, so we're going to play the messages so
Speaker 1: you can confirm it's not you. And so I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm finding this. It's all unfolding in front of me,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know, I'm gonna put them on
Speaker 1: speaker so my office mates can can confirm that this
Speaker 1: is actually happening, and it's a dude just literally getting
Speaker 1: off on my my bank. You don't need to listen
Speaker 1: to the whole thing. I was, yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: was like a minute and I was like no, no,
Speaker 1: but I had to confirm because he did it multiple times.
Speaker 1: I had to be like, Yep, that wasn't me. That
Speaker 1: wasn't me. That wasn't like they made you do so
Speaker 1: much legwork. It wasn't me. But I do think your
Speaker 1: girls sound lovely. I love what they're doing to call
Speaker 1: in the future. I was just getting over that time.
Speaker 1: It was. It was amazing. It was such a delightful
Speaker 1: workday thing that happened. I'm glad you guys were able
Speaker 1: to enjoy that moment. I think I am I can now,
Speaker 1: but man, wow, Yeah, we went back recently and people
Speaker 1: seemed genuinely happy. You were a delight. I was delighted.
Speaker 1: Was I a comedy writer? I don't know you were,
Speaker 1: but maybe you were a bit of like a little
Speaker 1: mascot or like when the class gets a pet. Yes,
Speaker 1: I definitely was a class pet you were. You're also
Speaker 1: twenty three. That's so young. Who's ready for a job
Speaker 1: at twenty three? Pete Davidson? He is? He? All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll get into some of the history of our careers
Speaker 1: because I and I didn't mean to force this topic
Speaker 1: on you, Jen, because he did text me last night,
Speaker 1: You're like, I don't know if this would be I
Speaker 1: think my exact message was your podcast is in danger.
Speaker 1: Well when he because he came in and was like,
Speaker 1: I know what Jen should do, and I feel they
Speaker 1: actually needed him to explain what he meant like that,
Speaker 1: I'll do a little bit of explaining. Um. So, the
Speaker 1: topic for today's episode is the greatest athlete cameos, and
Speaker 1: I think we can make a little bit broad. It's
Speaker 1: anytime an athlete is on a TV show or movie
Speaker 1: and they're playing themselves. So I feel like it's a
Speaker 1: little bit blurred lines here, you know, because some of
Speaker 1: these characters are big parts, and I feel like maybe
Speaker 1: you mentioned Jen that you might have one that is
Speaker 1: like a legitimate costar in a movie. But so should
Speaker 1: we just get it right into it? Do you want
Speaker 1: to start? Megan? I think so yeah, I'm ready to
Speaker 1: go my first one. Maybe it's good I'm going first.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a downer and it's very CJ will know.
Speaker 1: This is very strange for me. This is a Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Steeler that I decided to spotlight. But it is such
Speaker 1: a crazy, wild scene and I do remember watching it
Speaker 1: in the movie theater being like, well, uh, hinds Ward
Speaker 1: in the dark knight rises. Oh yeah, that is so
Speaker 1: and I rewatched the clip today and and it's funny
Speaker 1: because they like pan both full teams, and Gotham is
Speaker 1: playing like rip City or some rapid city. And you
Speaker 1: see all of these players and you're like, that's not
Speaker 1: that's not an athlete. That's not an athlete, that's not
Speaker 1: w And then you see Kinds Ward and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: wait are the other Steelers here? And then the kickoff
Speaker 1: happens and the stadium is like starting to collapse. I
Speaker 1: think Kind's Ward had a note for the director too,
Speaker 1: because he completes a touchdown while the field and I
Speaker 1: think that was not how it was supposed to go.
Speaker 1: And he was like, yeah, but I'm so focused. Ten
Speaker 1: thousand people could die and I would still be going
Speaker 1: for the goal line. Baby, you can't make me look
Speaker 1: bad exactly, even if I'm about to die and the
Speaker 1: earth is cratering below. You can make me selfish because
Speaker 1: I'm not been looking at the human carnage around me.
Speaker 1: But I would never stop that a kickoff charge. It
Speaker 1: is funny because I recall him him like running and
Speaker 1: like running very far until realizing everything has collapsed behind him,
Speaker 1: Like I touched him. I hear someone sneezing like nine
Speaker 1: houses down from hers, Like you don't realize that the
Speaker 1: world is collapsing behind. Like I guess Hines War was
Speaker 1: that good? He was. It was also like years after
Speaker 1: he retired, right, it was not prime heinz. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: I have to like, as I'm not a football fan,
Speaker 1: how how famous is he? Can you give me an NBA?
Speaker 1: He was? He's been commercials. I'm think bigger than that
Speaker 1: because he did um he did. He has like a
Speaker 1: very recognizable face and he was also on the Steelers
Speaker 1: teams that were really really good. So it's not a
Speaker 1: Kevin but like I think he's a famous Smith. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to infamous that way. You have to wonder
Speaker 1: how much did it really add to the movie that
Speaker 1: it was a real player. I feel if anything distract Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the That was the Batman that was filmed
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, and so I think that they somebody was like,
Speaker 1: we gotta get a Steelers player. You know, Ben was
Speaker 1: busy with his Equit didn't call it the Steelers, you know,
Speaker 1: And I've been looking at and researching licensing just calling
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Also, every third person in Pittsburgh looks like
Speaker 1: a football player, you know, but not like hind not
Speaker 1: like a kick returner. But the NFL is so bad
Speaker 1: with licensing, right, they probably never even for that huge
Speaker 1: driven movie, did do it? I mean, but then they
Speaker 1: wouldn't have gone to play Rapid City. Yeah, Rapid City?
Speaker 1: Who was black and yellow? No? Um, Gotham was black
Speaker 1: and yellow. Rapid City is blue? See, I don't remember, well,
Speaker 1: I mean I watched it today. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: great one. Does Hindesward have any other credits on his IMDb? Um,
Speaker 1: not that I think so, but I know that he
Speaker 1: And now I'm like, am I just confusing Troy Polamalo's
Speaker 1: head and Shoulders commercial? Ward? Do you know who that is? Jim?
Speaker 1: I don't love that someone did a head and shoulders? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And now he's he's reprised. He's like beautiful big. He
Speaker 1: was like the first football player with a tuft of
Speaker 1: hair out of the helmet, and so that's how he
Speaker 1: sort of like rose to be the head and shoulders guy.
Speaker 1: And now he's in commercials with Patrick Mahomes. Got it?
Speaker 1: Got it? That's a whole subsection of this is athlete commercials.
Speaker 1: There are some good ones of that. That's a whole
Speaker 1: other episode. Look at me. I'm I'm producing for you guys.
Speaker 1: Also in The Walking Dead and also this is crazier.
Speaker 1: It was also on Dynasty the two thousand seventeen. Like
Speaker 1: he's an ye see, Like this is what I wanted
Speaker 1: to happen, is to find out these these athletes to
Speaker 1: get the acting bug and the like what TV shows
Speaker 1: will have me? And it's the Walking Day, you know.
Speaker 1: So he was on Dancing with the Stars too. I
Speaker 1: have friends that will be like, oh, that's who's that
Speaker 1: couple player? Just Matt. He was so nice? Does David Ross?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, how do you know David Ross? Like
Speaker 1: he was on Dancing with the Stars, So that like
Speaker 1: raises an athletes profile to the moms and aunts of
Speaker 1: the country. So I think that's kind of like And
Speaker 1: he did. He was on the Bachelorette too. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm proud of him. He was in The Dark Knight
Speaker 1: Raises after Dancing with the Stars. So he got an
Speaker 1: agent and he said, give me some work. He either
Speaker 1: has the acting bug or is in debt, has a
Speaker 1: gambling problem. I so far I don't believe he does.
Speaker 1: All right, that's a great one, Megan Jen, Yes, what
Speaker 1: do you got for your first pick? Okay, here's my
Speaker 1: first pick, and it's a weird one and it's great.
Speaker 1: It's very recent, so you might not even know about it,
Speaker 1: and it's not great in the acting, I believe, And
Speaker 1: I must say that I haven't seen every episode, but
Speaker 1: it might be greatest in the most what the fuck
Speaker 1: of it? Yes? Yes? Uh sorry, that was very Mark Marin.
Speaker 1: But Martina Navartalova on The Politician playing, do you guys
Speaker 1: know about this? I did not know about this act.
Speaker 1: It's true, it's real. I scared to god basically in
Speaker 1: The Politician. In the pilot, I believe, or the second episode,
Speaker 1: Gwyneth's character is married to Bob Balaban, but the conflict
Speaker 1: recently is that she has fallen in love with a
Speaker 1: horse trainer at her stable, played by Martina Navratalova. And
Speaker 1: they like, there's this cutaway to this dinner shot. It's
Speaker 1: this very extravagant dinner and her she plays this woman, Bridget, Bridget.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what they said, and it cuts
Speaker 1: to her and you're like, is that I think it?
Speaker 1: That's her? Yeah? Weird and it's so crazy, but also
Speaker 1: like such funny casting to me that they were like,
Speaker 1: this will be Gwenny's lover. Does it fit the tone
Speaker 1: of it? Is it like jarring? The tone of that
Speaker 1: show is interesting. It's very um I think it is
Speaker 1: like kind of it's supposed to be very, very campy,
Speaker 1: and so I think that is what they were going for.
Speaker 1: And in that vein, I'm like, Okay, that does make sense, right,
Speaker 1: That's that's camp being weird. Guess, yeah, I guess. I
Speaker 1: think it's strange that they didn't have Gwyneth leave her
Speaker 1: husband for her tennis instructor, which is to me like
Speaker 1: a class Maybe you didn't know someone that happened in
Speaker 1: real life left her her spouse for tennis and and
Speaker 1: I was like, that happens like in real life. And yes,
Speaker 1: so she needed to sell our old house immediately that
Speaker 1: me and my um oh, the guy who we just
Speaker 1: released ups at Wymer Thomas. We're living together, and she
Speaker 1: this is one of the I hope they don't listen.
Speaker 1: This is one of those l a women dresses like
Speaker 1: little house on the Prairie and drives a range of
Speaker 1: her She pick up the reason why she was renting
Speaker 1: out the house to us was because her friend of
Speaker 1: a friend owned a what's the architect I'm blanking you know,
Speaker 1: it's literally the most um, it's literally the most famous architect,
Speaker 1: Frankoy right in Pasadena. Like, we get to live there indefinitely. Wait,
Speaker 1: it was a Frankly frank in Pasadena, and my mom
Speaker 1: has brought up to me that there is a Frankly
Speaker 1: right in passagen So literally was like, we get the
Speaker 1: opportunity to live there, but we can't give up our
Speaker 1: house because we're trying to be reasonable about it. And
Speaker 1: they lived there and they got divorced because yeah, because
Speaker 1: which is interesting to have like one of the greatest
Speaker 1: tennis players of all time and make her be stable
Speaker 1: That had to have been intentional, right, because I guess
Speaker 1: first thought is like tennis instructor. Second thought is like
Speaker 1: personal trainer boy, cool boy, right, and then they got
Speaker 1: down to like someone at her I think it's a
Speaker 1: big feature of Gwenna's character that she rides horses and
Speaker 1: own horses and stuff. So that's probably But you're right,
Speaker 1: why not tennis instructor? I mean, a stable gal is
Speaker 1: pretty good, pretty good Indianapolis. Really he he hates it.
Speaker 1: He went to Karmel, which is like the I'm doing
Speaker 1: air quote the wealthy part of suburb of Indie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not talking about indianapolists, you know, but Glee is
Speaker 1: apparently based on Carmel High School. Yeah, that's nice, that's sweet.
Speaker 1: I mean, now you guys start off so obscure that
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad. I mean mine was like mine
Speaker 1: is easing into it. And literally, I mean the specific
Speaker 1: it's Barkley in Space Jam, but more so I just
Speaker 1: want to shout out Barkley as like he's Cameo. He
Speaker 1: want onto Cameo and the Goldberg Simpsons Suits, Thunderstruck. And
Speaker 1: then also this is mainly for me, the Clerks cartoon,
Speaker 1: which is nothing like the Clerks movie. It's just like
Speaker 1: a cartoon that joke per second. Um, but he was
Speaker 1: in it playing himself, voicing himself, and I just Charles Barkley,
Speaker 1: and especially after this week, like I'm looking at these
Speaker 1: guys and I'm just like, it's so insane that these
Speaker 1: are the same guys who walk on the same earth
Speaker 1: as as like Shack and Barkley. Okay, amazing NFL or
Speaker 1: NBA players. And then they're also the funniest people I've
Speaker 1: ever I've ever seen is the funniest comedy on television.
Speaker 1: So and I know these guys are like, oh, hey day,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go show up and I'm going to be
Speaker 1: the punchline. But I think Barkley transcends that. He has
Speaker 1: comedic timing on commercials are so funny. He's funny on
Speaker 1: his own, just like as an analyst, but anytime, And
Speaker 1: I think, like the most memorable lines in Space Jam
Speaker 1: are Barkley the be gone. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys have If you guys while it's terrible there, but
Speaker 1: like I guess in my business, yes, Space Champ, it's
Speaker 1: like he's bad. Yeah, it's terrible. It's a terrible movie.
Speaker 1: I forgot. I rewatched it and I was like, I
Speaker 1: love this movie. The first twenty five minutes are Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan highlights. Of course I liked the movie, but in
Speaker 1: in it, he like, I think it's like the first
Speaker 1: time he really has to act. So one of the
Speaker 1: famous scenes is him getting his powers taken away from
Speaker 1: and he has to do like this shake and I
Speaker 1: want to watch outtakes of him director being like all right, Barkley,
Speaker 1: you're getting the power stuck or taken out of you
Speaker 1: and then him shaking or whatever. I could imagined Barkley
Speaker 1: as being a one take guy though, now that's that's
Speaker 1: gonna be my best one of the day. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize he's done so much. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of appearances. Awesome. Um, so I think he's like, he's
Speaker 1: not like an obscure one er, like, but he's always
Speaker 1: I feel like amongst comedy rooms too, are just like,
Speaker 1: oh Barkley so funny, or like, can we get Barkley
Speaker 1: to do this? And he transcends kind of. I feel
Speaker 1: one thing I've noticed working on some shows that athletes
Speaker 1: have been on is like it's always very for the
Speaker 1: most part, half of the room, a quarter of the
Speaker 1: room is like, holy sh it, incredible, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Chris Bosh is going to be on the other half
Speaker 1: is like who then is that? But like, Barkley is
Speaker 1: one of those dudes that everybody knows, and I think
Speaker 1: everyone knows is funny and like a comedian in that way.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's kind of maybe the all star of
Speaker 1: him and Shack for sure. I go back and forth like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the shock doing all the commercials and it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's worth the money to get he is there is
Speaker 1: no other person like him. Yes, I go back and
Speaker 1: forth on wanting Barkley to run for public office. I
Speaker 1: mean he's like he's an oprah of like he is
Speaker 1: a name that gets mentioned as someone who could win
Speaker 1: in the South and well not in Texas, they hate,
Speaker 1: but he's not from Texas. Is from Alabama. Yes, and
Speaker 1: so he was actually like pretty instrumental in speaking out
Speaker 1: against Roy Moore when the election was happening, and people,
Speaker 1: I don't know much about his like politics, but I
Speaker 1: don't anyone well neither would anyone who voted for I
Speaker 1: can't imagine it's worse than the rest of what Alabama
Speaker 1: is shutting up. So I was like, give you a shot.
Speaker 1: All right, Well it's a break and then we'll be
Speaker 1: back with more picks. Okay, and we are back. We
Speaker 1: are back. They're back. So I guess it's me again.
Speaker 1: All right, this is my second pick, and this was
Speaker 1: I my one and two were in my mind locked
Speaker 1: like excited personal reasons. This is going to feel obscure too,
Speaker 1: but it is John Madden in Little Giants. I remember
Speaker 1: when the bus to open and I was like a kid,
Speaker 1: but I knew that he was a famous cool football
Speaker 1: guy even though I didn't know who he was, And
Speaker 1: then he continues to be in the rest of the movie.
Speaker 1: There was also a Hall of Famer Bruce Smith, who
Speaker 1: is a famous defensive end. He's the one who smashes
Speaker 1: the ball to teach them intimidation, and as I was like,
Speaker 1: I wanted to read about it and like, remember that
Speaker 1: I love little Grants. C J got me an icebox
Speaker 1: jersey that I'm wearing this weekend for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Um and so John Madden is in the scene where
Speaker 1: the really smart like I guess sort of future head
Speaker 1: coach like the money ball boy, teaches him his play
Speaker 1: the Annexation of Puerto Rico, which ends up being their
Speaker 1: game winning play, and it involves like pulling down the
Speaker 1: pants of your opponent. It involves like on the ground
Speaker 1: and technically for purists of the game, these movies are
Speaker 1: really difficult show wild. The Carolina Panthers ran a play
Speaker 1: called the Annexation of Puerto Rico in two thousand and
Speaker 1: eleven that they ended up scoring a touchdown on. That
Speaker 1: is like absolutely a nod to little Giants. What was
Speaker 1: it the same player. No, I watched it and it's
Speaker 1: it's definitely like a trick, like the ball is gone
Speaker 1: like the stuff. Yeah, yeah, great, Peyton used to do
Speaker 1: stuff like that all the time. He was like, no
Speaker 1: for his fake spikes, right, yeah, because Peyton is an actor.
Speaker 1: What's a wait, faxa like when people in football, when
Speaker 1: you spike the ball, it stops the clock, and so
Speaker 1: there are plays where people like are you just gonna
Speaker 1: spike the ball so like, or they're just gonna kneel
Speaker 1: so run out the clock. And so Neil respiked the ball,
Speaker 1: so he like fake spiked it and then the play
Speaker 1: was still alive, and then he just walked into the
Speaker 1: ends because I was like, oh, we thought the play
Speaker 1: was dead again. That's like a great example of Peyton
Speaker 1: being in amaze an actor. Yeah. Peyton was also really
Speaker 1: really good at catching twelve men on the field, probably
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time at doing that, which is
Speaker 1: that cool. But it was like good at telling on
Speaker 1: someone telling on some it's luring extrements, which I find
Speaker 1: even exact. Wait, so he would trick the other team
Speaker 1: into getting more play would just feel he was just
Speaker 1: doing the transition like so fat like this is sort
Speaker 1: of when the no huddle was like being perfected by him,
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't have time to get substitutions and so
Speaker 1: they would just get stuck. It would it must be
Speaker 1: like tag and they just didn't get to base and time.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know how there's a bunch of rules
Speaker 1: in the NBA that are such like sticks. It's like
Speaker 1: Chris Paul with the jersey. It's exactly that you're gonna
Speaker 1: win that way. And so yeah, like there are players
Speaker 1: who I guess they can call it. You know, they'll
Speaker 1: do anything to win. But it's classic like if it's
Speaker 1: on your team, and if it's any other, I like
Speaker 1: that that's insane. But I do love John Madden. He's
Speaker 1: one of those guys too that I'm like, I'm so
Speaker 1: happy that we have had you this long. And in
Speaker 1: Little Giants, I think it's like commonly known John Madden
Speaker 1: does not fly. He takes like a big art everywhere,
Speaker 1: and so that's you know, they always kind of worked
Speaker 1: his analysis schedule around that. And on Little Giants he
Speaker 1: pulls up on a big that's where nine other cameos
Speaker 1: are on. Right, that's one of the other guys they
Speaker 1: show up to the practice. Yeah, but he is. He's
Speaker 1: just so likable and like obviously his name will live
Speaker 1: on because of the video game. Um, there's a really
Speaker 1: good podcast about the rise of the Madden Football game itself.
Speaker 1: But he just is such a gem And he looks
Speaker 1: just like one of the guys in the game. Guess who?
Speaker 1: There is a character your dad also looks like a
Speaker 1: lot of the dozen. Guess who? Or that white haired?
Speaker 1: He's not gonna like no, but there's a guest who
Speaker 1: has white hair, but like really luscious lips. Alright, um,
Speaker 1: all right, Jen, what do you got? Um? So this
Speaker 1: next one is less I think you referenced it earlier.
Speaker 1: It is not a cameo. It's more of a full
Speaker 1: performance I think definitely worth giving a lot of credit to.
Speaker 1: And that is Lebron and training. Yes, yes, I think
Speaker 1: this is this just sets him up as like, oh,
Speaker 1: you could just fully be an actor, you could lead
Speaker 1: basketball behind and just this could be your career from
Speaker 1: now on. I think it's a it's a wonderful performance.
Speaker 1: It's also like, as I was kind of doing my
Speaker 1: research for this for days and days preparing for this podcast,
Speaker 1: I noticed that like a lot of athlete cameos are
Speaker 1: on like super for lack of a better term, not
Speaker 1: to like gender it, but there are movies that I'm like, hell,
Speaker 1: these are very like broad kind of a lot of
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell, a lot of Will Farrell, a lot like
Speaker 1: Entourage's head re Athlete under the Sun. It's incredit should
Speaker 1: be called the cameo show. That's what Entourage truly. Yes,
Speaker 1: the line producer of Ron trouge all the credit wrangling,
Speaker 1: those schedules. But Lebron in this, like, I think I
Speaker 1: love it so much because the tone of like the
Speaker 1: character he's playing, it's so it's more nuanced than your
Speaker 1: average athlete cameo. And the jokes about like how he's
Speaker 1: cheap and won't pay for lunch with cater and stuff like,
Speaker 1: it's so so funny. I think he's so good in it,
Speaker 1: and I just love it the best. His hair has
Speaker 1: ever looked. Risk of the film. He's like, I'm showing
Speaker 1: him what it could be, what it will never be again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you need that Hollywood hair and makeup team. He got
Speaker 1: a taste of it. That's why he moved to l A.
Speaker 1: Probably it was it's so funny that you bring up
Speaker 1: the browness of it, because I was like reading a
Speaker 1: list and even and that was on there and you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was so good. And then like the last line
Speaker 1: of the guy describing Lebron's appearance on it, Mican come on,
Speaker 1: was like he was the best if we're being honest,
Speaker 1: obviously the best part of train Wreck. If you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's like, you don't need to take
Speaker 1: a shot at Amy Schumer. Yeah yeah, right, but that's
Speaker 1: like they can't like even handle liking a female lead
Speaker 1: films and take it away. Yeah, it's like, listen, I
Speaker 1: don't like rom comps, but if I'm gonna like one,
Speaker 1: I need Lebron James in. But I just the way
Speaker 1: they use them too is so great because most of
Speaker 1: these cameos are like it's athlete and then you know
Speaker 1: pedestrians going like whoa. But it's so funny that the
Speaker 1: relationship is that Bill Hayter just friends with Lebron and
Speaker 1: then it's not brought up that he's Lebron James for
Speaker 1: the rest of the movie and they're like they have
Speaker 1: that that rom com cliche scene where they're like shooting
Speaker 1: around and then it's Lebron James dunking on Bill Hayter
Speaker 1: and they're trying to have like the heart to heart.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, that that was a really funny I read.
Speaker 1: I was I was reading an apparently hater there. It's
Speaker 1: in like the special features of the movie that like
Speaker 1: Hayter really did score on him once and was so
Speaker 1: psyched about it, which of course you would be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Lebron is on the next in that movie, right, No, No,
Speaker 1: he's in it too. He's great too. He's really good too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of other athlete. He's the Knicks doctor
Speaker 1: who I think is he a famous sportsman, but his
Speaker 1: buddy is Lebron James. I'm confusing that because she does
Speaker 1: the NIXT day like dances with at the end she
Speaker 1: dances with the NIXT girls. And Sex in the City
Speaker 1: Miranda dates the NIXT doctor for the whole season. Oh god,
Speaker 1: it's his name is I'm like so upset it's not
Speaker 1: coming to me again. Another show that is Sex in
Speaker 1: the City where we'll be watching other shows, you know,
Speaker 1: current and you're like, oh my god, that person was
Speaker 1: a he has a unique name. Blair Underwood. Listen. I
Speaker 1: didn't even have to look at the really good because
Speaker 1: I was like a woman's day you can't see but
Speaker 1: she barely touched. That was from her memory sex in
Speaker 1: the City, and my computer just goes not again. Is
Speaker 1: that Megan? You know? Um? All right? This one? My
Speaker 1: second pick is I don't know if you guys remember
Speaker 1: this show do you get? First of all, start with
Speaker 1: do you guys remember the Nickelodeon show My Brother and Me?
Speaker 1: So Kendall Gill? Do you know Kendall Gill? Is Kendall
Speaker 1: Gilt beautiful man? Maybe like the most beautiful flat top
Speaker 1: of nineties n b A. I feel like I always
Speaker 1: got his card. But it was such a kind of
Speaker 1: it was a random cameo that we always brought up
Speaker 1: when talk like, there's two things about the show My
Speaker 1: Brother and Me that people bring up still, and it's
Speaker 1: the famous line hit me, where the little brother gets
Speaker 1: the advice in a fight, you just tell the other
Speaker 1: guy hit me, and then he gets hit. It's like
Speaker 1: that was like a really funny joke from when we
Speaker 1: were a kid. And then the other one was that
Speaker 1: the cameo was Kendall Gill, who was clearly the ninth choice,
Speaker 1: maybe the nineteen choice for NBA player to be in
Speaker 1: a show. But then upon researching this one, I I
Speaker 1: remembered that my brother and me for as big as
Speaker 1: show like Cult Falling it has, it was only like
Speaker 1: eight episodes, but they just re ran the hell out
Speaker 1: of it for years and then too, this was the
Speaker 1: pilot episode, so to hang a premise. The premise was
Speaker 1: that they were working at a carnival and had to
Speaker 1: or wanted to leave to go to a comic bookstore
Speaker 1: to get Kendall Gill's autograph, which is just like in
Speaker 1: the writer's room, I feel like you can make this
Speaker 1: a little bit more realistic, like haven't be at a
Speaker 1: card shop, haven't been at a game. But yeah, they
Speaker 1: was one of those home at three pm rasing everyone
Speaker 1: has kids on the staff. Hey we're getting at here
Speaker 1: at three? Was he from Chicago? So he now he
Speaker 1: might have been from Chicago because he's been i think
Speaker 1: almost ten years now, has been doing been an analyst
Speaker 1: for the Bulls. Okay, because I was like, I feel
Speaker 1: like I've met him a show where he was. Now
Speaker 1: I'm looking at I'm like Kendall Gills really ringing a
Speaker 1: bell from me um and I remember actually at a
Speaker 1: party when I first moved here that you and Travis
Speaker 1: jen had invited me to someone, and I love this
Speaker 1: conversation is like, who are the most beautiful NBA players?
Speaker 1: And all of us also like Jim Jackson, Rick Fox,
Speaker 1: and Kendall Gill. So like Kendall constantly just comes up
Speaker 1: and I've got to look up, look right now. He
Speaker 1: looks good. He looks good. Yeah, he's aged. Well, there's
Speaker 1: like a picture of him and a hat at a
Speaker 1: golf outing and he's got like a nice salt and
Speaker 1: pepper beard going on, very very attractive in there. I thought, well,
Speaker 1: he's a biak, was always a hunt. He's a little
Speaker 1: too Twilight looking for me, I know, but he's like
Speaker 1: a classically good looking man. Yeah, I mean, you don't
Speaker 1: want me to get into my list of NBA players.
Speaker 1: I think. Another topic for the podcast Hottest and Greatest.
Speaker 1: I'm in a like an NBA basketball text threat with
Speaker 1: like twenty other people and we all all voted on
Speaker 1: hottest NBA players the hottest team. Yeah, um, who was
Speaker 1: up there? Horford? Really? Yeah, you gotta look at Al
Speaker 1: Horford's eyes. He has the most beautiful eyes you've ever sea.
Speaker 1: It is soft. Yeah, it's almost like an it just
Speaker 1: find him to have a strange headsheet. I hear that,
Speaker 1: but I think you gotta look at him, looker you
Speaker 1: know who? To me j J Reddick, it's basic but
Speaker 1: very I mean he looks like a fitness model. Yes,
Speaker 1: home the one to me, which is not a like
Speaker 1: Netto is so attractive raw Netto. I don't let's see
Speaker 1: this is good for yes, yes, this is good for
Speaker 1: a vision. He looks like we might know. These are
Speaker 1: all just like dudes who got like an under five
Speaker 1: a show we've worked on or something could be an improviser. Um,
Speaker 1: but who do you think current NBA player? I know,
Speaker 1: I know. I feel like you've said it before. Every
Speaker 1: time he comes on, you're just like, oh, yeah, there
Speaker 1: is someone. There is a guy that I'm always like,
Speaker 1: what's his story? C J? And now I'm forgetting it too.
Speaker 1: I always was really attracted to p J. T p
Speaker 1: J Tucker, Yes, interesting. I loved David West, someone helping
Speaker 1: people up, but then snaps like I love I love
Speaker 1: someone like I was as a kid. I loved Antonio Davis.
Speaker 1: I thought he was really hot, too interesting, Like you don't, yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't want any player that looks like you could
Speaker 1: know him and really someone that I could like, I
Speaker 1: would look like my bodyguard, Like I could leave c
Speaker 1: J for a bodyguard someday and I would go have fun.
Speaker 1: I have to say CJ could be a bodyguard enough
Speaker 1: for who. Yeah, I looked at p J. Tucker again,
Speaker 1: I love it, not who I would I know. But
Speaker 1: then like, okay, but then look at this sure where
Speaker 1: he's like smiling. Okay, I'm seeing it. I'm seeing it.
Speaker 1: I like a little um rough around the edge. All right.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Kelly Ubre? Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he's like he's got he's like a model. I
Speaker 1: think kuzma is looks like a model. Oh no, way out.
Speaker 1: You don't like his hair recently, it's so bad. I
Speaker 1: think it's saying. I think it's um. But like when
Speaker 1: c J was always like, oh, girls love Clay and
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't see that at all, Clay,
Speaker 1: what do you think Clay. I'm not that into Clay.
Speaker 1: I'm not like, you know, but his girlfriend's very beautiful.
Speaker 1: Obviously they all have beautiful girlfriends. But Clay doesn't really
Speaker 1: go Clay doesn't. He's grown on me. Recently personality wise't
Speaker 1: I like him a lot? Listen, I love that he
Speaker 1: endorses chocolate milk. I love everything Heaven loves also in
Speaker 1: that same time, but yeah, he doesn't flip it for
Speaker 1: pretty sure. Paul George too, oh yeah, is a handsome man.
Speaker 1: Famously always supported Paul George, even when he requested a train.
Speaker 1: I talked about him yesterday about with the man. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I was getting a new phone, and I like talked
Speaker 1: about him to the Apple store man. Just like, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm from Indiana and they boot him, but they voted
Speaker 1: for Trump, and he's like, your phone is like the
Speaker 1: X screen. I'm gonna fire a Sunday. It's just like
Speaker 1: that one lady who like flipped out in an Apple store.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have like a crazy sports woman at Apple.
Speaker 1: Knowing about Paul George, you know, I get to like
Speaker 1: my friend came and met me halfway through, and then
Speaker 1: we were leaving and she was like, did you know him?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, no, no, we connected. I do know. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's take one more break and then we'll be back
Speaker 1: with our number one, all right, and we're act with
Speaker 1: our final picks. And then also I just The one
Speaker 1: thing that Megan and gen here have in common is
Speaker 1: that you both have worked with athletes, particularly Blake Griffin,
Speaker 1: on productions where these guys are doing comedy. Technically, I
Speaker 1: think Blake was my boss. I would say worked for yeah,
Speaker 1: and then General was yours a couple of things actually,
Speaker 1: So Blake was on Broad City, Yes, a very fun episode,
Speaker 1: and then also independently from that, I've pitched a movie
Speaker 1: that he was producing that no one bought. It's still available,
Speaker 1: an you want to listening, But Blake what Yeah, Blake
Speaker 1: was on Broad City and he I mean me, I'm like,
Speaker 1: he's so so funny, Like obviously we've all now seen
Speaker 1: him do stand up and like and stuff, but he
Speaker 1: he was great on Broad City and he was like,
Speaker 1: there was our director Lucian Yellow, who's a really wonderful director.
Speaker 1: She I don't know if you've seen the episode, but
Speaker 1: he there's like a line where Alana is like, I
Speaker 1: wish there was a basketball league for women and he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there is, but that wasn't in the script. Lucia is
Speaker 1: just on so it was like, Hey, I want to
Speaker 1: say this, say you wish there was a bast weldy
Speaker 1: for women and Blake say, you watched all the time
Speaker 1: and you steal all your moves from them, and he did,
Speaker 1: and then it's this great rand. He like kept going,
Speaker 1: He's like, Oh, they're so amazing, Like some of the
Speaker 1: moves they do, I can't even like the picture to
Speaker 1: my head, let alone do it. And like he kept
Speaker 1: going with like, yeah, women, they just always make stuff better.
Speaker 1: And that was all Blake just improvising, Like he he
Speaker 1: is so so funny and good and like it makes
Speaker 1: sense that he's going to go on whenever he stops
Speaker 1: playing to have a long career in commenting. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: also seems like a really good actor. Like we would
Speaker 1: give him line raids and it would be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're better, Like I have like a fair degree and
Speaker 1: you're doing better than me. But we shot there was
Speaker 1: like a day where we had to film like four
Speaker 1: different setups, and so he was in like street clothes
Speaker 1: for the first three and then the final one and
Speaker 1: everyone's like, oh, these are great, you're doing great. And
Speaker 1: then the final one he's playing a ninja who's like
Speaker 1: fighting five ninja's and so he gets into his costume,
Speaker 1: which is him shirtless in Ninjapan's and oiled up and
Speaker 1: he came out and even like the men that did,
Speaker 1: everybody was just like, oh, yeah, he is different than us.
Speaker 1: What a good actor. You're being so funny and then
Speaker 1: it's like you are a specimen I don't even deserve
Speaker 1: to look at right now. I mean, and this is
Speaker 1: why men are broken and stupid and dumb, is that
Speaker 1: there are like male comedians who don't like Blake because
Speaker 1: he's so funny and also plays in the NV. He's
Speaker 1: not taking your spotting because Blake is a JFL totally.
Speaker 1: He is. If anything, he is taking Paul George's spot
Speaker 1: like he's only competing with other famous NBA JFL. I
Speaker 1: feel like we're getting into that territory where a lot
Speaker 1: of NBA guys are funny. But yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: Blake is Like, what what is Blake going to do
Speaker 1: after he's like too good to be an analyst? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he'll act and stuff. I mean he also
Speaker 1: that movie that we developed it was with he started
Speaker 1: a company with Ryan Khalil, who a NFL player who
Speaker 1: is also like same deal, Like they're both so smart,
Speaker 1: really good at notes, really like intuitive about script stuff
Speaker 1: and developing and you're like, oh wait, you're also an
Speaker 1: incredible I have no other skills, like zero, There's nothing
Speaker 1: else I can do. And it's so it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's crazy because I like, and I was just telling
Speaker 1: Megan about this the other day. I was like, working
Speaker 1: on this pitch or the script. I just yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think I can do it tomorrow because I have
Speaker 1: a doctor's appointment at nine am a day. Those guys
Speaker 1: are like, I'm playing the Knicks and the Nets back
Speaker 1: to back, but also I'm gonna read Jens stats. Yeah, truly, truly,
Speaker 1: he was like it was in the middle. I remember
Speaker 1: there was something we were working on and it was
Speaker 1: like right before his agency decision. It's like I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's also deciding between this multimillion dollar contract to go
Speaker 1: get paid to play basketball and he's thinking about like
Speaker 1: the nuances of this carry. It's like, it's really crazy.
Speaker 1: And then the other one, Parks and Wreck. We had
Speaker 1: a bunch of athletes Andrew last yea, we have the
Speaker 1: funniest thing. So that was shot, Like the crew and
Speaker 1: cast went out to Indianapolis to shoot that. So I
Speaker 1: didn't go with them, but he missed. But so what
Speaker 1: happened though was very nicely the Cults said to us, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're playing the Chargers in San Diego. If the writing
Speaker 1: staff wants to go and like go down and go
Speaker 1: on the field and stuff, you should go. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: Megan is, well wait for this. So so it was
Speaker 1: kind of but it was on like I don't know
Speaker 1: why this would Maybe it was it must have been
Speaker 1: Monday night football because it was a work day, and
Speaker 1: so we kinda were like, like, Mike Shure couldn't go
Speaker 1: because I think he needed to be in the edit,
Speaker 1: and he was like, no, I can't just go down
Speaker 1: to San Diego that and we were like can we?
Speaker 1: And he very nicely let us go. Pretty Much everyone went,
Speaker 1: aside from like one writer who was like what is
Speaker 1: a football? Um? But so the way we did it
Speaker 1: is we chartered like this really small bus and the
Speaker 1: fucking oh but we worked that a half day. We
Speaker 1: came in and we worked and then we were like,
Speaker 1: all right, let's leave. The problem is the traffic getting
Speaker 1: down to San Diego was crazy to leave exactly, which
Speaker 1: we did not do. We're in the bus, we get
Speaker 1: to the stadium, then we don't know where the tickets are,
Speaker 1: We're not sure if they're well this exactly, and so
Speaker 1: we finally get them. We walked through the tunnel and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, we just closed the field off, so
Speaker 1: we didn't get to go in the field. We sat
Speaker 1: through this game, which again I'm not a football van,
Speaker 1: so I started like whatever. Then the bus on the
Speaker 1: way back, we couldn't find it to get home to
Speaker 1: San Diego. So we were just like wandering around the
Speaker 1: Charger Stadium that like staff of parks and reck like
Speaker 1: half of us who had like didn't want to come.
Speaker 1: And then finally the bus got us. It was like
Speaker 1: a seven, and then it took so much to get
Speaker 1: out of traffic getting on the stadium, and I remember
Speaker 1: there was I don't know why, but there was a
Speaker 1: screen on the bus and what is that bad bad
Speaker 1: movie with Will Smith and Jaden m After After After Earth,
Speaker 1: After Earth. Joe Mandy, the fucking asshole brought a DVD
Speaker 1: of After Earth because I think we had had one
Speaker 1: in the writer's room, and so After Earth just kept
Speaker 1: playing on a loop and we're all like, we just
Speaker 1: want to be home, we don't want to watch after
Speaker 1: We didn't get to do the cool thing. Let us
Speaker 1: go the Colin. It's a great question. I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Charger Stadium is so bad. It was
Speaker 1: a horrible stadium, notoriously bad. But yeah, we had and
Speaker 1: then yeah we had good. We had Chris bosh On
Speaker 1: who was very, very cool. He was so nervous about
Speaker 1: nailing his line that he couldn't hit a shot. The
Speaker 1: most memorable appearance, yeah Chris bosh Is. I think I
Speaker 1: remember really liking Chris bosh after seeing him on Parks
Speaker 1: and Rack. Yeah, he was great. And then Hibbert also
Speaker 1: Roy Hibbert was love. Yeah, of course you do. I've
Speaker 1: met or right where I actually seen me do comment.
Speaker 1: He was like that he was he was so psyched
Speaker 1: to meet Joe Mandy and John Glazer because he loved Delocated.
Speaker 1: He was like snrding out. He's like a huge did
Speaker 1: he Internet? He Internet some production company one summer and
Speaker 1: then I don't know if he pushed for a trade
Speaker 1: to the Lakers, but like I remember, like when he
Speaker 1: got traded to the Lakers or signed with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: I was like it kind of made a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if this was like person, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very cool when you realize these guys like like
Speaker 1: the stuff. It's it's it's awesome. Well, one of the
Speaker 1: my my last pick was actually a Parks and Wreck
Speaker 1: cameo that you didn't mention is Debt left Shrimp. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you if you have an interaction
Speaker 1: with him, but it is truly when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: just you know, he doesn't look like an NBA player,
Speaker 1: and so like he was like an ongoing joke kind
Speaker 1: of like he felt like a carusoe back then. My friend,
Speaker 1: he was like a legit player and like went to
Speaker 1: the finals with the Sonics. But then I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: I was just as like a person who wanted to
Speaker 1: be in comedy, loving the Office, and then Parks and
Speaker 1: Rec and then him appearing on that was such a
Speaker 1: like specific choice and then it just didn't stuff. Like
Speaker 1: I think he came on for other episodes, and the
Speaker 1: way he was used as like just yeah, it is
Speaker 1: so funny, and he plays himself and he doesn't need
Speaker 1: to do much, but his appearance and just the way
Speaker 1: he played stuff was so funny on that show. That's
Speaker 1: what that's what's so funny. Who is Like, I think
Speaker 1: it's also like a lot of credit goes to Mike
Speaker 1: Shure because he's such a huge sports fan that like
Speaker 1: we got the people that sports fans were like, holy
Speaker 1: sh it, that's so funny and specific, and then you
Speaker 1: know that of the rest of yours were like is
Speaker 1: that a real player? Who was that? But yeah, that
Speaker 1: is that's an excellent one. Yes, that's awesome. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: so Jen had Blake, I had debt lefts. I'm just stressed.
Speaker 1: Why are you stressed? Well, because I'm thinking about I'm well, prayer,
Speaker 1: I have to cut this out. But the shows that
Speaker 1: I'm like developing right now, one of the main players
Speaker 1: is one of the main characters is a PACER's backup
Speaker 1: point guard, and I'm just like imagining all the fun
Speaker 1: things we could do. I think I think this show
Speaker 1: has proven to us that like athletes are very desolutely
Speaker 1: to do whatever. Yeah, we have a Rick Smith's joke
Speaker 1: in the final draft, and my writing partner was like,
Speaker 1: who's that? It's like perfect, And then people like like
Speaker 1: us will go, oh my god, that's my favorite show
Speaker 1: because they know who Rick Smith's. Yeah, yeah, that's kind
Speaker 1: of the It's interesting like it's also an interesting thing
Speaker 1: because you kind of need to target. I've learned like
Speaker 1: it helpful to target the people who are in on
Speaker 1: the joke and get it, like I think Himbert being
Speaker 1: such a like comedy fan. Like on Good Place, we
Speaker 1: have this long running joke about Stone called Steve Auston
Speaker 1: where you're gonna say, boardles, Yeah, but I grew up
Speaker 1: like a huge pro wrestling fan and I am extremely
Speaker 1: sexually attracted to Stone called Steve Aston, and him and
Speaker 1: Travis kind of look alike. No. Well, it became a
Speaker 1: joke in the regismeen because I started saying again not
Speaker 1: to objectify man, but I love a strong, bald kind
Speaker 1: of actual yeah I love I love like a thick
Speaker 1: like pot roast of a torture. Yeah yeah yeah. And
Speaker 1: then no, like a big really does it for me,
Speaker 1: and he's exactly that. But so we have this long
Speaker 1: running joke about one of the characters being like obsessed
Speaker 1: with him, which comes I think a sleep from me
Speaker 1: being obsessed. And so we were talking for a bit
Speaker 1: entertaining the idea of like we should get him to
Speaker 1: cameo that would be amazing and make sure it was
Speaker 1: like and I was like, yeah, please, I've never asked
Speaker 1: you for anything side note gave me my whole career
Speaker 1: of asking for a lot. Uh, but like please, let's
Speaker 1: do it. And he was like no, Like the thing
Speaker 1: with these things is like you end up chasing them
Speaker 1: for like three weeks trying to in touch with their
Speaker 1: pub like whatever. He's like, I just don't want to
Speaker 1: like write it in and then spit like so it
Speaker 1: is an interesting thing where you're like you want to
Speaker 1: kind of target people you know are are down to
Speaker 1: like being on the joke and even maybe have a
Speaker 1: knowledge a bit prior, because it makes it easier probably
Speaker 1: for them to just be like, oh, yeah, that's so fun.
Speaker 1: I get it. I want to do that. You know
Speaker 1: who always wants to be in something and it is
Speaker 1: literally sitting by the phone t O and and yes similar, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they just they love I'll be a cameo. They'll write
Speaker 1: the script for you. I feel like at the SPS
Speaker 1: they would if like if if you're in the monologue,
Speaker 1: you get a closer seat and so interesting, like can
Speaker 1: you get t O in? And it's like what he
Speaker 1: has not played in ten you? I know it's funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when dudes You're like, like, Patrick Patterson on The Clippers
Speaker 1: is apparently a huge like he interned at a film
Speaker 1: company this summer and stuff like he's a huge nerd
Speaker 1: about TV and film, and you're like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you want to do in something. You're like, it's
Speaker 1: kind of tonal. I mean, love love him, happy to
Speaker 1: have and then they're just trying to have a better
Speaker 1: season so they can be on a network show. Like
Speaker 1: I gotta get my numbers up. Okay, Oh gosh, I
Speaker 1: feel kind of rough that we're ending on me because
Speaker 1: mine is perhaps this is my favorite movie and I
Speaker 1: know it has not aged well and it's just I
Speaker 1: love you Daddy by Louis. Yeah. Yeah, my favorite cameo
Speaker 1: is Louise Peenie pell Peenie. You know, I wanted to
Speaker 1: like be disrespectful to it. Um c J knows this
Speaker 1: is my favorite movie. I think this this movie sprinkles
Speaker 1: cameos throughout, so I kind of have to give it
Speaker 1: up for the movie as a whole. Ace Ventura and
Speaker 1: my two favorite cameos are obviously Dan Marino, who were
Speaker 1: kidnapped in the film, and then also points out the
Speaker 1: Finkel and iron Horn situation. Which is he solves the mystery,
Speaker 1: and that is from that movie. The part that has
Speaker 1: not aged well is that um but then when they're
Speaker 1: going through the sequence of Ace Jim Carey trying to
Speaker 1: find the Super Bowl ring that has the missing stone,
Speaker 1: that he goes to like all of these famous late
Speaker 1: eighties nineties Dolphins players and like you see him in
Speaker 1: the shower with football players, him and Don Shula have
Speaker 1: like a really funny interaction. Like that movie just nailed
Speaker 1: how to incorporate athletes into it because most of them
Speaker 1: didn't have to do anything. Dan was really the only
Speaker 1: one that had to do any heavy lifting, and he
Speaker 1: was so good at it, and I just I love
Speaker 1: it so much. Yeah, and I want to I want
Speaker 1: to now look up the screenwriter or the director why,
Speaker 1: like why the Dolphins? Why Dan Marino? But it just
Speaker 1: it works so perfectly, Like Dan Marino is just such
Speaker 1: you knew him as like a generic athlete almost. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was one of the best quarters I think in
Speaker 1: that era they were the Patriots, but like fun, really
Speaker 1: they weren't. They weren't winning, but I mean they had
Speaker 1: the undefeated team. Marino never won a Super Bowl, so
Speaker 1: that but like Marino was famous. He was definitely as
Speaker 1: famous as Brady is now. Don Shula is very very famous.
Speaker 1: Head coach Miami is beautiful. Do we does I know
Speaker 1: Dan Marino? Like I know about him? But how is he?
Speaker 1: Do we like him? Has he remained controversial? Ready to
Speaker 1: look up his political belief that guy? Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want to judge. I don't want to ruin your favorite
Speaker 1: movie either, No, I know. I mean And I had
Speaker 1: a friend who had never seen ace Ventura and knew
Speaker 1: I loved it, and she was like, I watched it, Um,
Speaker 1: it's transphoback. And I'm like, I, oh, shoot, yeah, she
Speaker 1: missed her window that you don't want to watch that? Um,
Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, I mean, you can't put a
Speaker 1: plunger on your face after you find out you kissed
Speaker 1: a man. But at the time, it is when when
Speaker 1: is the last time you've seen ace venture a year ago?
Speaker 1: I mean, when it's on TV. I'm watching it. It
Speaker 1: is funny they're they're playing the second one on heavy rotation. Now,
Speaker 1: the second one, never seen, the second one great Tommy
Speaker 1: Davidson appearances, but yeah, the first one is problematic and
Speaker 1: how that's really sad? Okay, but like in Marino won
Speaker 1: the Walter Peyton Man of the Year, which is the
Speaker 1: ward that goes to I know, but the heisman doesn't
Speaker 1: take into account you who you are as a person.
Speaker 1: A Man of the Years that bears Walter Payton's name.
Speaker 1: It goes to the person who has the biggest charitable
Speaker 1: impact in their community. O J was a co star
Speaker 1: and Naked Gun. Looking through that list of like cameos
Speaker 1: as I was prepping for this, I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: there's a lot, a lot of the ones I'm skipping here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and o J was very good in them. Yeah I
Speaker 1: knew No, I knew o J as the guy a
Speaker 1: naked Gun. Well, our best actors are psychopaths. So who
Speaker 1: can play other people or play people other than themselves
Speaker 1: the reality where you're not doing those things? Okay, this
Speaker 1: is nice, this is good. Marino has the Dan Marino
Speaker 1: Foundation because his son Michael, was diagnosed with autism, and
Speaker 1: they have raised over twenty two million dollars research services,
Speaker 1: treatment programs serving children neurodevelopment disabilities. That is listen, we
Speaker 1: don't want to know who he voted for. He's a
Speaker 1: white man born and raised in Pittsburgh, moved to Miami.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it out of there. But he's done, good work.
Speaker 1: I love it. And then he points at the it's good,
Speaker 1: all right. Do we have any honorable mentions? I don't
Speaker 1: think I have any. I mean, there's so so many.
Speaker 1: I'm probably feel like I had. I think Kareem and Airplane. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a pretty pretty fantastic one that that is up
Speaker 1: there for me. Yeah, and also just Kareem because he's
Speaker 1: in the scene with the line, right, it's not the
Speaker 1: Shirley line, isn't that he's the one. It's the line
Speaker 1: he's like insisting he's someone else. And they're like, He's like, no,
Speaker 1: my name is I forget what his name is. But
Speaker 1: they're like, no, my dad says, you never played defense.
Speaker 1: And then he like Kareem did a very very any
Speaker 1: bit at the SPS. Danna ka Patrick really wanted Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones in there, even though it wasn't a Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones year okay, and so they were like okay,
Speaker 1: and so they care I know, of course, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Danna got blessed you, happy to have you, um and
Speaker 1: so to like, you know, when when talent wants something,
Speaker 1: you go, we'll find a way so they were like,
Speaker 1: we'll just do it where like the bit got cut,
Speaker 1: and so that was the bit, and so they cut
Speaker 1: to Danna because she's dressed as Kalisi, and then they
Speaker 1: cut to Kareem standing in the audience and like full
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones stuff with a dog that looked like
Speaker 1: a wolf, and she's like the bit is cut and
Speaker 1: he's like, oh man, and like he we were like
Speaker 1: do whatever, and he add I didn't I mean, I
Speaker 1: didn't speak to him. Someone told him and he ad
Speaker 1: libbed that and he was so funny. And so see
Speaker 1: him walking around and like sitting in the green room
Speaker 1: eating a sandwich dressed in full Game of Thrones gear
Speaker 1: was the real highlight of the Microsoft whatever the funk
Speaker 1: that buildings and bigger than a cameo writer on Veronica Mary.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is a guy who has transcended his
Speaker 1: own playing career. What we're learning today is we're all
Speaker 1: pretty bad. Yea he do one thing and don't I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess you're good? Are at um No? I found
Speaker 1: out last night I played for the first time since
Speaker 1: my injury, and it is looking like almost going to
Speaker 1: be over soon. I only have a few more years
Speaker 1: of playing. It is sad, but yeah, we don't need it.
Speaker 1: And on that sad note, honorable mentions any cream. I
Speaker 1: was also saying, you made me think of cream. In Earnest,
Speaker 1: Ernest plays basketball. I don't know if that's the name
Speaker 1: of it, but he is a like he plays himself
Speaker 1: as like, um, a guardian angel type. And Ernest and
Speaker 1: then also Isaiah Thomas and fresh Prince was a good
Speaker 1: one to who did I don't know if I remember that.
Speaker 1: He it's when Will is having a day dream or no,
Speaker 1: not a daydream. It's like a dream when he is
Speaker 1: playing against a rival played by I can't remember, notable
Speaker 1: actor from the then back then, but he's having a
Speaker 1: dream where he has his own sneaker commercial and then
Speaker 1: he plays against Isaiah the commercial and beats Isaiah. And yeah,
Speaker 1: just just a great cameo, great show. So many cameos
Speaker 1: on that show in particular too. But yeah, any parting words, Jen,
Speaker 1: any more projects on the pilot, Thank you, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. No projects. I'm you know, when I was
Speaker 1: listening to you argue with a sex hotline operator and
Speaker 1: listening to a man you didn't know getting off, I
Speaker 1: never thought you'd get a cool wife I know on
Speaker 1: and so really my parting words are congratulations, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Jen. And we used to sing a song
Speaker 1: about me finding a wife in the city. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out to Patrick Borelli. Yeah, Patrick, if you're listening,
Speaker 1: he was our third office lovely man. And yeah, we
Speaker 1: used to sing a son about you finding a wife
Speaker 1: big city. What a what a full circle, full circle.
Speaker 1: I can put a bullet in my brain. Don't do that, well,
Speaker 1: make sure do it after the pilot. Yeah, I'll see
Speaker 1: if we go to series. All right, well, Megan anything,
Speaker 1: Um oh, I watched The Good Place to the final
Speaker 1: season finale. We can probably the series back and go
Speaker 1: back and watch it for them. If you have Netflix,
Speaker 1: you can start from the beginning. Yes, yes, and um,
Speaker 1: I'm so happy we finally got to meet this first.
Speaker 1: This is a long time coming. I can't believe, but
Speaker 1: you stand up in Chicago. Yeah years ago, yeah, years ago.
Speaker 1: That was. That was when you guys were just friends,
Speaker 1: just friends. And I remember my friends who are my
Speaker 1: friends from back home. We were visiting my friend's sister
Speaker 1: and we went and we knew you were like, oh,
Speaker 1: I have a show come And then I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: my friend's CJ is performing, and all they talked about
Speaker 1: was Megan and I was like, yeah, but my friends
Speaker 1: c J. You're like, uh huh, yeah, he was there
Speaker 1: and we both love your husband Travis to Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: Travis who is track Jen is travisig wonderful man. We
Speaker 1: need to we need to beat him. We need to
Speaker 1: get him into the straw balds category. We got to
Speaker 1: beat him up because he's been looking pretty shaft. We're
Speaker 1: gonna shave his head. Yeah, he's been looking if he
Speaker 1: will kind of look like stone cold bald. I don't
Speaker 1: you're actually not ron. They have similar coloring. Yeah, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: we can follow you on Twitter at tends to ask you.
Speaker 1: You can follow Megan at Megan Gaily, and myself at
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