Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Greatest. It's March, so
Speaker 1: we're thinking in March madness. Today we're talking March madness.
Speaker 1: I'm joined here by my co host, my wife, Megganey.
Speaker 1: What a sad phrase? What my co host, my co host,
Speaker 1: my wife, my wife, my co host. You wanted dad
Speaker 1: order dint um No? I didn't necessarily um And we
Speaker 1: picked our guests today because he's our only friend who
Speaker 1: is a former college basketball star. That's like the one
Speaker 1: thing that's like one of one billion things about I know.
Speaker 1: But but that gives him. We could have had any
Speaker 1: old Joe Schmo come in here and say, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm true TV. I watched this now. This man's been
Speaker 1: on Trip TV. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Josiah Johnson. Thank
Speaker 1: you guys so much for the glowing introduction. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: really say star I was. I was there a star
Speaker 1: of NBA Twitter. You are the top, you are at
Speaker 1: the Apex. I feel like, yeah, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: obviously just get my name out there, stay stay relevant,
Speaker 1: talk about things. I like, you're getting your name out there, man,
Speaker 1: I know You're like, I'm just trying to just like everyone,
Speaker 1: every name, everything, and I kind of cracked the algorithm
Speaker 1: of Twitter. I'm sure I'm trying to figure out Instagram. Now.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing that really is like it's tormenting me.
Speaker 1: I have because is there a way to monetize Twitter anymore?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know they're they're definitely direct and indirect
Speaker 1: way as I kind of operate them both. You know,
Speaker 1: It's one way that I feel like someone's got to
Speaker 1: do is you could just I mean you do the
Speaker 1: work of like nineteen little kids who run these social
Speaker 1: media departments on Twitter, and I often let them know
Speaker 1: that they're not doing Ship like that. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: I pick up the pace, Guys, how am I getting
Speaker 1: this off? You literally got a family, two kids, Like
Speaker 1: if they can see where I'm tweeting from, where they're
Speaker 1: tweeting from, Like they go into these nice offices like
Speaker 1: nice free just feel with Ship. I'm at the crib
Speaker 1: going barbecueing one handed, like just you know, staying on
Speaker 1: top of stuff. I've seen people ask you recently how
Speaker 1: you pick like the gifts me and you're respond you
Speaker 1: were just like, my brain is just good. I look,
Speaker 1: I watched a lot of television growing up, so a
Speaker 1: lot of my references are kind of from that like
Speaker 1: early nineties two thousand's range, so which, you know, it's
Speaker 1: tough because a lot of kids nowadays, like SpongeBob and
Speaker 1: all that type of really just over my head. But
Speaker 1: I just kind of missed that boat, like that was
Speaker 1: my little Brothers kind of generation. So I'm becoming obsolete,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to get in with the young kids.
Speaker 1: I was just trying to stay stay on top of
Speaker 1: what's going on. You stay obsolete, but like, and maybe
Speaker 1: that's because I pay attention to so much, but now
Speaker 1: I think you were the first person started bringing back
Speaker 1: like come to America scenes as as memes, and then
Speaker 1: I'm now seeing other people pulling from that movie. Janice
Speaker 1: obviously Nike. He has a whole campaign for sure based
Speaker 1: off that movie, like he needs to break some bread
Speaker 1: because yeah, I mean, look, I think at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, like we grew up with all those movies,
Speaker 1: Like I literally went to the elementary school with John Land.
Speaker 1: It's a daughter who directed the movie. So I just
Speaker 1: had always had an affinity for Eddie Murphy movie stuff.
Speaker 1: Like that. I was in the John Singleton phase when
Speaker 1: he passed away, was going ahead with the John Singleton names.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of whatever I think, like when people
Speaker 1: looking at it's always kind of a deeper meaning to
Speaker 1: the stuff I'm doing. Sometimes it's just like this is topical,
Speaker 1: let me get it out. Other times it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's there's actually a method to this madness. One out
Speaker 1: of five you do, I go, oh, he's wrong for that,
Speaker 1: But I want to do like you really you've got
Speaker 1: the pulse. You gave the one of one of my
Speaker 1: favorites recently was you gave a warning like I'm about
Speaker 1: to drop the most out of pocket one tomorrow and
Speaker 1: it was the Crusoe. Yeah. If people who know, no,
Speaker 1: it's just a it's it's been able. You've been able
Speaker 1: to use it like four times in the last few months,
Speaker 1: and it's hilarious. I think. The thing I always tell
Speaker 1: people and this is this is a trick of the
Speaker 1: trailer I'll give you guys on Twitter, especially if people
Speaker 1: like relate and resonate with a good video, then find
Speaker 1: other ways to repurpose when we use it, because you
Speaker 1: already know that it's a hitter, so just whatever topical trending,
Speaker 1: Like I had that Chris Browne in my mind and
Speaker 1: think about you. Obviously, you know you work in House
Speaker 1: of Highlights Bleach Report. I know there's a level that
Speaker 1: you guys can't cross. There's a threshold that that's somewhere
Speaker 1: up somewhere like now you can't post that ship Like yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's the level I try to go to because
Speaker 1: I know I can operate alone here. But that's why
Speaker 1: I was like when I went over there, They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do stuff like this, like you know, post
Speaker 1: memes with captions, and I was like, literally, teenagers can
Speaker 1: do this, so I don't want to be responsible for that,
Speaker 1: thus creating like new me or like you know, uh,
Speaker 1: shooting my own stuff and stuff like that. But the
Speaker 1: fact that, you know, I get embarrassed sometimes when like
Speaker 1: companies i've worked with can't beat one guy who I know, well,
Speaker 1: I operate under a different system, then I do it.
Speaker 1: I obviously I to love and just for fun and
Speaker 1: I love the community, but also I know, like I
Speaker 1: don't have to get my stuff approved by anybody, So
Speaker 1: there'll be times I'll come in Lebron or whoever, maybe
Speaker 1: he's my favorite player. Obviously haven't, but it's like, Damn,
Speaker 1: I got this funny joke in my head. I can't
Speaker 1: really let it die. I got a tested let me see.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I've been over the line. I've had to delete
Speaker 1: those tweets. Definitely had people hit me up like, yeah, God,
Speaker 1: like this is this is too much. It's like there's
Speaker 1: like five to eight people that I listened to who
Speaker 1: are like too much. Like generally I'll go to my
Speaker 1: boot first. She's like, you know, she's like, roll with it.
Speaker 1: I'll put it up. But sometimes be like, yeah, you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't get that. Megan does the same thing for me.
Speaker 1: I showed her a stand up clip last night. She
Speaker 1: was just not that funny. No, that's not what I said.
Speaker 1: I did not say not that funny. I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't like the beginning, you know, like unfortunately a
Speaker 1: stand up clip you have, it has to come out
Speaker 1: of the gate funny immediately. If there's any riff raff any,
Speaker 1: just sort of like people are not so I was
Speaker 1: just trying to give you the God's honest truth. We
Speaker 1: do it with my outfits. I'll be like, I like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wear this on television and he's like, I
Speaker 1: don't like that, and it's like, okay, well it works. God,
Speaker 1: that's why you guys were together. I'll hear getting it.
Speaker 1: This is where marriage is. But you gotta be honest
Speaker 1: with each other because if you go out and the
Speaker 1: dress is a hitting and you get roasted for it,
Speaker 1: who's the first person you're pointing the finger out? And
Speaker 1: that's why I say. I was like, the comments, they
Speaker 1: can't you give them targets, Like it's just we we
Speaker 1: know now what the we can almost predict with all
Speaker 1: the comments are going to help each other in the game.
Speaker 1: So like you literally know, like with people like if
Speaker 1: I do this, I'm gonna get at least eight of
Speaker 1: these comments. Like I know, like if I posted video
Speaker 1: shooting on the Warriors, I'm gonna get at least like
Speaker 1: eight fat shaming because I don't really care because I'm
Speaker 1: sexy and I don't really you know, I love my body.
Speaker 1: But it's definitely like you know it's coming when a comment,
Speaker 1: I'm not prepared for it. That's what I'm like, who
Speaker 1: you got me? Sometimes it'll I mean, a man made
Speaker 1: fun of my knees, Like I was like, I'm prepared
Speaker 1: to be like fat ugly dumb bitch, but he just
Speaker 1: wrote dem knees though, And I was like, tanna hurt
Speaker 1: me so bad? I do have fucked up knock me.
Speaker 1: That was a compliment, It wasn't. I mean the thing
Speaker 1: his years at least are vague. Like I was doing
Speaker 1: that Twitter show with Omar and all my comments were
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna murder the dude in the blue hat
Speaker 1: and it's like that who has nothing to say about
Speaker 1: my takes the type of I mean, when someone can
Speaker 1: respond to like a live show like that. At the NFL,
Speaker 1: they were just sending me eagles. You know these are
Speaker 1: crazy people. Yeah, it's I mean, the thing is like
Speaker 1: when you really break them down there like little kids
Speaker 1: sometimes and that's a whole ship. And then when you
Speaker 1: really call him out and check them. Because I've had
Speaker 1: to happen a few times where I've had to dig
Speaker 1: deep and be like all, I know this person lived,
Speaker 1: just in case they really want to give Then it
Speaker 1: kind of quickly changed like I was just kidding whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like nowadays, like this cloud thing that they're on, right,
Speaker 1: they want these cloud coins, so they got to go
Speaker 1: out there and really try and insult you. Like I
Speaker 1: remember seeing it on YouTube back in the day, and
Speaker 1: I thought that was bad. Like nowadays, it's like ship
Speaker 1: that wish cancer in your whole family. It's like, you're like,
Speaker 1: but the video of guy's fans of a podcast that
Speaker 1: I'm a host of will come after. I had to
Speaker 1: like delete a comment last week because I started fighting
Speaker 1: with somebody who is a fan. But they just didn't
Speaker 1: like something, not even the I said. But I didn't
Speaker 1: like how they were coming after this girl until and
Speaker 1: then I went after It's like, what am I doing?
Speaker 1: I make money? This is crazy. This is the job
Speaker 1: guys for some of us. So that's why we can't
Speaker 1: really funk what y'all like we want to. Well that's
Speaker 1: the thing. It's like these kids were like that sucks
Speaker 1: is unfunny, but it's like, oh, it's unfunny, or like
Speaker 1: you can think that, but I have you know, you
Speaker 1: have had a short comedy Central and the head writer
Speaker 1: for all most of y'all who sports like original series
Speaker 1: in the past couple of years. Like, great, you can
Speaker 1: say that, but my checks are coming in every two weeks.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I know sometimes I put up ship
Speaker 1: that's whacked. That's a part of being funny. Like you
Speaker 1: were saying, you show Megan the video may not be
Speaker 1: you know, she's gonna be honest with you. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: doesn't hit, but I learned from all that's a part
Speaker 1: of the process. Like look at lebron he makes one
Speaker 1: out every two shots gets you literally the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: You go fifty for fifty or fifty's you know, comedy
Speaker 1: is kind of in that level. You got to maybe
Speaker 1: be a little bit better, but you're gonna have some
Speaker 1: ship that you may think it's funny that nobody else did.
Speaker 1: I don't really give a funk. I just do it
Speaker 1: kind of for me. I mean honestly, like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of these players people like them because the highlight mixes.
Speaker 1: You know, we can't like chop up our stand up
Speaker 1: sets or our scripts to take off the parts that
Speaker 1: we don't know hit every time, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you and also to I wanted to mention
Speaker 1: that to get this podcast, we actually recorded the first
Speaker 1: pilot with you. Thanks. Someday we'll just will release it
Speaker 1: to the highest bidder. Yeah, I feel like like the
Speaker 1: first Dad in Full House, Like yeah, the black vin
Speaker 1: but it's got to come back. I don't know, and
Speaker 1: she's honestly, I kind of saw it with her now
Speaker 1: because there's been some bitter turmoil for years and surrounding that.
Speaker 1: I've heard about that for sure. Um what was it?
Speaker 1: What was the topic? Greatest comeback? Greatest comeback? And we
Speaker 1: haven't been like we guys, do another one. And it's
Speaker 1: like that one was so good. You had really really
Speaker 1: funny picks. Yeah, yeah, you're probably the coolest person I know. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. So I something about a rap influencer,
Speaker 1: but do you know, I do know one rap influencer
Speaker 1: who's have you ever heard of Fake Shore Drive. It's
Speaker 1: like a Chicago rap blog. His name is Andy Barber's
Speaker 1: very He's like he's like the Chances guys, Kanye guy,
Speaker 1: and he's just a white boy from Anderson, Indiana that
Speaker 1: is a family friend. He's kind of like a You
Speaker 1: and Wob but for hip hop okay legend. So he'll
Speaker 1: like bring back like videos and drop like the craziest
Speaker 1: fact or like yeah, he'll pull up some performances that
Speaker 1: you just forgot about. That that's the thing as we
Speaker 1: get older, that's think I really love in life because
Speaker 1: we've seen so many beautiful moments in our life, but
Speaker 1: you don'thinitely forget that ship and yeah wait that was legendary. Oh,
Speaker 1: especially I feel like in sports. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: kind of what the topic. I mean, that's kind of
Speaker 1: like the point of this whole show. But then especially
Speaker 1: the topic that we chose today, we wanted to have
Speaker 1: you on. You played for U C l A two thousand,
Speaker 1: two thousand five, so played in the tournament Sweet sixteen twice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were there getting it. Yeah, do you guys get
Speaker 1: goodie back liked? Because for bowl games? You know, I
Speaker 1: did lots of football players in college and they would
Speaker 1: come back with out back bowl slippers exactly. And like
Speaker 1: I remember there were PlayStations with like the guy code
Speaker 1: sticker on them. Do you do they do that for
Speaker 1: March Madness? We get broken off like that? Like, So
Speaker 1: the thing about March Madness is, so you have your
Speaker 1: conference tournament, which when I was there, I want to say,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we when the tournament come back,
Speaker 1: but it was right around the point when I was there.
Speaker 1: So you get a tournament to get for that. And
Speaker 1: I was like, DVD player or something like that, something
Speaker 1: that you could generally either use it for nest a
Speaker 1: couple of hundred bucks just to be transparent, and then
Speaker 1: uh and then for the tournament. So you get one
Speaker 1: for the opening round and if you go to like
Speaker 1: the sweet sixteen in the final four. Obviously we were
Speaker 1: todd to school at that point. So Adidas like, you know,
Speaker 1: you're the hot commodity. You're the one that's getting them,
Speaker 1: get them all the airtime and promo, so they would
Speaker 1: give you as much as they could. You get like
Speaker 1: duffle bags full of stuff. Damn well, you flipping your
Speaker 1: sneakers at all. Sometimes there's actually a funny story. So
Speaker 1: I was my freshman year two thousand and oh one,
Speaker 1: we had the Adidas. Then we were like one of
Speaker 1: Kobe's main theater school, so we got probably like twenty
Speaker 1: pair of Kobe So I sat on these things literally individually. Yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty pair of each. Don't you remember which ones? It
Speaker 1: was a Kobe one. So before the Mottle boots, like
Speaker 1: the year before that, we got moon boots too, but
Speaker 1: nobody's really working with them. Ones are kind of moon
Speaker 1: boots too, a little bit. They were they were heavy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like Audie Design or whatever whatever, like sleek, but
Speaker 1: we got like twenty pair of that years. I just
Speaker 1: literally had them in a garbage back chilling in my
Speaker 1: house and I started to bring him out again. Obviously
Speaker 1: the legend, but like they're all falling apart, like the
Speaker 1: glues all pulling off. They've literally been chilling in garages
Speaker 1: and ship But yeah, so the answer your question, and
Speaker 1: we got lace all the time with like stuff just
Speaker 1: depending obviously, when you do good, you get all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and when when not, you know you don't. But yeah,
Speaker 1: tournament time, you're getting laced. Okay, well, so take us
Speaker 1: a little bit more background. You when did you start
Speaker 1: playing your your dad was he played for the Bucks?
Speaker 1: He played, he's a professional NBA player. Yeah, he played
Speaker 1: for a number of years, the five time All Star. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got if Jersey retired last year. It was so
Speaker 1: cool when I told my dad that I knew his son,
Speaker 1: my dad was like, wow, like it was so cool
Speaker 1: to him. He's got major love in the Midwest from
Speaker 1: like the seventies and eighties, like they weren't getting like
Speaker 1: nationally televised game, so like a lot of people is
Speaker 1: funny cause he's from l A too, But a lot
Speaker 1: of people kind of and other other spots don't don't
Speaker 1: really remember him as much as they should. But you
Speaker 1: go back to the Milwaukee Midwest anywhere out there and
Speaker 1: you say his name is like Woralthy. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're getting your jersey retired anywhere that Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: a legendary player. And he also played. He played my
Speaker 1: older brother played. You said that they actually both won
Speaker 1: national championships there. God damn, I didn't like you know,
Speaker 1: you go to u c l A events, it's literally like,
Speaker 1: you know, dude, that one like championships all four years
Speaker 1: of college or they're standing on you and like what
Speaker 1: are you supposed to say to them? And then I'm
Speaker 1: just like, you know how many TV shows that you created?
Speaker 1: And then exactly becomes a lot smaller. So that's not
Speaker 1: it's a nice But that's why I like about you
Speaker 1: is that you know you're sort of you're beginning to
Speaker 1: a career in show business. Was you were playing a
Speaker 1: lot on Jersey Chasers, you know, kind of you and
Speaker 1: your buddies roles as the bench warmers on a on
Speaker 1: a national college basketball team. So basically, when we got
Speaker 1: the whole legend of Chamban high shows a result of
Speaker 1: of our experience of U c l A. And when
Speaker 1: I was you know, we would sit on the end
Speaker 1: of bench have these crazy funny as conversation to ship
Speaker 1: during games you're dealing with like you know, sometimes nashally
Speaker 1: televised games of time outs for like three hours long,
Speaker 1: so games are like three hours, just like boring a ship,
Speaker 1: so you're trying to occupy your time. But from that,
Speaker 1: we started the Jersey Chaser blog because we were just like, look,
Speaker 1: we want to be the voice of athletes, like a
Speaker 1: lot of people were getting athletes were getting shiped on
Speaker 1: back in those times. So we did a bunch of content,
Speaker 1: funny videos Kobe the Brown Puppet, Parrty and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Ended up getting a TV show in Comedy Central as
Speaker 1: the result of it. So I sa it worked out,
Speaker 1: Everything worked out how it was, and that was pre
Speaker 1: NBA Twitter. Yeah. I really feel like the Jersey Chase,
Speaker 1: especially a lot of the ship that's that's flying now,
Speaker 1: we were doing like ten twelve years ago, like I
Speaker 1: was making me it's not even realizing. I was like,
Speaker 1: it would be funny if I just slaped Mr Miyagi
Speaker 1: on this video and had him saying something crazy but
Speaker 1: not realizing like how the game would shift and change.
Speaker 1: But I think all of that prepared me for now
Speaker 1: and just really how to go out there and get it.
Speaker 1: Because we were doing it. It was like we were
Speaker 1: just like three dudes chilling at the crib, like trying
Speaker 1: to entertain each other, like all right, let's voice this
Speaker 1: ship over and drop a video and see how it performed.
Speaker 1: But stuff started hitting, and then you know, it's been,
Speaker 1: you know, great ever since. Did you, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: did you do theater acting or anything like that when
Speaker 1: you were growing out? Yeah. So I'm from l A.
Speaker 1: Like my dad played for the Clippers. He had a
Speaker 1: lot of money. I got to live in Bettle Air.
Speaker 1: So when you watch like Fresh Prince of Battle Air,
Speaker 1: that was more or less my life. Our career wasn't
Speaker 1: that that dynamic is there's But I went to school
Speaker 1: that school called US which is right on U. C.
Speaker 1: L As campus for elementary school. So I was in
Speaker 1: school with like Jason schwar Its men just like you
Speaker 1: know so, but like we would take like film classes
Speaker 1: together in the summertime, and I gotta find this movie
Speaker 1: we have it on VHS, but he actually wrote this script.
Speaker 1: It is probably like a fourth grader that met him.
Speaker 1: It was like it's like a lethal weapon like Buddy
Speaker 1: Cop movie that me and him starting. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: was like, I've been taking like film classes all that
Speaker 1: type of stuff. Obviously my dad has been acting as
Speaker 1: a kid. I also went to school with the Debbie
Speaker 1: Allen's kids, so we would go from school to the
Speaker 1: set of Different World, Like that was just like every Friday.
Speaker 1: I thinking Thursday's they taped or whatever it was. But
Speaker 1: as like so just being around it and not really
Speaker 1: know what's going on, but these sets are cool. Was
Speaker 1: there a hierarchy of like whose parents were cooler? Like
Speaker 1: athletes were cooler than the actors? I think because when
Speaker 1: my dad would show up this stuff and literally I
Speaker 1: was at us and this is like Jeffrey Kassenberg's kids,
Speaker 1: like you can just really rattle off names, but they
Speaker 1: would show up at events and they would be like
Speaker 1: my pops because you know, like they anybody could be
Speaker 1: a good business executive than anybody, but you know, it's
Speaker 1: a lot harder to have a forty in vertical and yeah,
Speaker 1: just like physically cooler, you know, taller, jacked, so he
Speaker 1: would show up kind of looking sweet, like you know,
Speaker 1: in his old league look, and there's like tons of
Speaker 1: respect that they definitely bowed out. Verton Fleming's daughter was
Speaker 1: my friend and yeah when and he had a twin brother,
Speaker 1: and so they were the Fleming twins would just like
Speaker 1: be around Indianapolis. But like when Verne would come to
Speaker 1: watch his play basketball. Oh A thrill, A thrill you guys.
Speaker 1: I had a different childhood. I think my one friend
Speaker 1: who said his dad was Turbo from American Gladiators is true.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's true. He got expelled like
Speaker 1: four weeks later, and so I mean, why would somebody
Speaker 1: Turbo feels like, you know, like I don't. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess it's like who would brag about that? But I
Speaker 1: was the one kid who was impressed by it. It
Speaker 1: was a pre internet. There's like no way to prove. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do those guys have that listed on their IMDb? Like
Speaker 1: I was Turbo on American Gladiators. Absolutely, American Gladiers was killer. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to watch the reruns on US. Mike Adam
Speaker 1: Lee was the host, one of the two hosts, and
Speaker 1: I've worked with him at w m a Q in
Speaker 1: Chicago and people would come up like this was two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, like still coming up to him to
Speaker 1: ask him to sign their Mike Adam Lee trading card
Speaker 1: from Gladiators and he was on the Bear like he
Speaker 1: played football too, but they knew him from the Gladiators,
Speaker 1: from the Bears, but as the host Gator. But I
Speaker 1: think the thing about Gladiers with everybody rocked with its
Speaker 1: pre internet time. But it's one of those shows I
Speaker 1: ended up working with a bunch of like when I
Speaker 1: started working in NFL network way back in the day
Speaker 1: in production, like a people that I worked on Gladiators
Speaker 1: like they were like forties and fifties, but they would
Speaker 1: talk about the Gladia your time so glowingly they maybe
Speaker 1: we were working on Gladiators like they were just you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like there was a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of turning up and well that's what I'm going to get.
Speaker 1: It was like a lot of party and like just
Speaker 1: a better time less on the seventies, like going to Gladiator.
Speaker 1: I'm reading this ESPN book right now and it's a
Speaker 1: lot of partying. I mean they just been like two
Speaker 1: pages on sexual harassment and it's like, I think this
Speaker 1: whole book could have been about that. Yeah. And also
Speaker 1: in the book credit tied to this episode, they sort
Speaker 1: of credit themselves with creating March Madness as we know
Speaker 1: it now because pre them getting the contract, the whole
Speaker 1: pool was never on TV before that. They were the
Speaker 1: ones that were like, let's put all sixty four teams
Speaker 1: on ye for sure? All right, well maybe we should
Speaker 1: just get right into it then, because we're gonna we
Speaker 1: can spend hours listing your credits. Hopefully everybody listening to this,
Speaker 1: we want to listen to hours of just chatting and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have you back anyways after this. Um. But
Speaker 1: so today's episode greatest March Madness moments. Um again, like
Speaker 1: when this air is gonna be March. So uh, we
Speaker 1: felt like this is a great topic because these are
Speaker 1: just like March. I feel like n say, basketball dominates March.
Speaker 1: No one else ever has any crazier events because it's like,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna beat yea yeah. Um, so I don't
Speaker 1: want to step on any of years because sometimes I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm gonna overlap with your picks, just especially
Speaker 1: being a huge lebron guy. Why don't you go ahead
Speaker 1: and go first. So this is my favorite March Madness moment, Yeah,
Speaker 1: greatest or favorite? Yeah, most meaningful. I have three, though,
Speaker 1: so you can pick multiple. Yeah, well, I think the
Speaker 1: main one. To me, I have a few, but I'm
Speaker 1: a fans. My brother was actually a freshman on that
Speaker 1: national championship team. They beat Missouri in the sweet six team,
Speaker 1: but it was kind of a highly contested game. Missouri
Speaker 1: was leading with four point eight seconds ago. Ty sad
Speaker 1: and he was actually my cousin. You know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I got so many cousins. It's like I'm sir, like
Speaker 1: if I really broke down, like cousins I have doing
Speaker 1: stuff and we really don't talk to each other like that,
Speaker 1: but we know what up because like that's literally like
Speaker 1: we're not Chris. We're just staying what's up, cousin. But
Speaker 1: uh so Tides gets the ball, goes the length of
Speaker 1: court four point eight seconds, HiT's his great shot. My
Speaker 1: dad actually doing radio for u c l A at
Speaker 1: that point, so he did this whole yeah baby call
Speaker 1: that that literally became legendary and they played with it
Speaker 1: every time they show the clip. But that moment, it
Speaker 1: was kind of like that moment. I was a ball
Speaker 1: boy for that team that year, and just being around
Speaker 1: those dudes, you kind of just knew like ed o'band
Speaker 1: was like one of the greatest leaders, just like the
Speaker 1: dudes are really gonna do something. And then to see
Speaker 1: that moment they kind of knew from there like yeah,
Speaker 1: and and came nobody fun with us and they went
Speaker 1: on to go beat Arkansas, which at that point it
Speaker 1: was like this juggernaut that it's like forty minute press
Speaker 1: that nobody could break or beat for that moment, just
Speaker 1: as U c l A fans being able to win
Speaker 1: the step for an entire season like that, That to
Speaker 1: me is probably my favorite greatest comeback. What are the
Speaker 1: responsibilities of a child ball boy? So back when I
Speaker 1: was there, we would help like we would any sweater
Speaker 1: perspiration and thing. I think it's on the court we
Speaker 1: go that the circular like baller style pregame. We're rebounding
Speaker 1: for dudes. So I would shag balls for ed o'band
Speaker 1: whatever if he wanted, like somebody to garden whatever, just
Speaker 1: like passing ball, go garden and grab everybody's rebound, make
Speaker 1: sure everybody got adequately. Did you feel like the coolest
Speaker 1: kid on us. It was because we were we better.
Speaker 1: We basically had like the best seats in the house.
Speaker 1: We would still run underneath the hoop so we'd see
Speaker 1: everything here. Everything off. Players were talking ship to each other,
Speaker 1: and I'm probably like twelve at this point, like players
Speaker 1: are talking to each other whatever it is, it's just
Speaker 1: like we hear all this of going on, we get
Speaker 1: like the inside look at it, and just to be
Speaker 1: that close. We were right near the U. C. L
Speaker 1: A bench too, so you might be scrubbing the floor
Speaker 1: down to coach it would be like cheering you on
Speaker 1: and ship and be like okay, like this is the
Speaker 1: legendary I was. When I was growing up, I always
Speaker 1: yet watched him be like did that kid get that Joe.
Speaker 1: So basically it was a lot of nepotism. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: which we don't deny. We'd we take full of. I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't just your day. You said, your cousins everyone,
Speaker 1: you were just related everyone. I wanted to be a
Speaker 1: ball girl. Um in tennis at the there used to
Speaker 1: be a tournament in Indianapolis called the r C Championship,
Speaker 1: and a lot of kids that I played junior tennis with,
Speaker 1: did it that like, if you were good at tennis,
Speaker 1: you would go try out, but you had to like
Speaker 1: sprint under a certain amount of time, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: do it. I was too slow to be a ball
Speaker 1: girl in Indianapolis. But the outfits were so cute. Did
Speaker 1: that hurt? How long did that score you for? In left?
Speaker 1: Just to this moment being a flower girl, I like
Speaker 1: still carry with me on a daily basis, But to
Speaker 1: be like I was cute, nobody wanted me on their
Speaker 1: wedding the thing. But now you're writing for SPS. You
Speaker 1: that's not the same camera for the US Open. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I did give it back to the US. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's a legendary one. I forgot. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: forgot too slow and then I got to drink alcohol
Speaker 1: on U S T A t V or whatever. Yeah.
Speaker 1: As I was like prepared, I'm going next, I decided okay.
Speaker 1: As I was like preparing for this, there are moments
Speaker 1: that are obviously huge from the entire span of the tournament.
Speaker 1: I really think of March Madness, I guess selfishly from
Speaker 1: like our childhood on for some reason, just because of
Speaker 1: the TV of it, Like I know I'm going to
Speaker 1: have one on here that is before I was born,
Speaker 1: just because it was so important, but I didn't see
Speaker 1: it like I needed these ones to be things that
Speaker 1: I had witnessed for them to be impactful in my life.
Speaker 1: Um My, number three, this is maybe like the first
Speaker 1: time I remember seeing my mom really excited about a
Speaker 1: sporting event. She went to Valparaiso and so this is
Speaker 1: from the thirteen seed Valparaiso player Bryce Drew, who was
Speaker 1: the coach's son. Homer Drew hit a three point buzzer
Speaker 1: beater to defeat the fourth seed Old Miss. It was
Speaker 1: in the first round, so I know that's not important,
Speaker 1: but I just like my mom like a new Homer
Speaker 1: Drew somehow, and like she was just so excited, and
Speaker 1: it fell like I lived in Indiana and so I
Speaker 1: you and Purdue always had these major things, but nobody
Speaker 1: in my family went there until I eventually went to produce,
Speaker 1: so I didn't feel connected to college sports in any way.
Speaker 1: And so this was like a huge moment for me
Speaker 1: to be like, oh my god, I guess my mom
Speaker 1: likes basketball, and it just felt really cool. Like the
Speaker 1: Drews are so famous still to this day in Indiana
Speaker 1: because of it. I didn't even realize until I was
Speaker 1: researching this that Bryce Drew was a sixteenth pick in
Speaker 1: the draft. Like he was like a real a real
Speaker 1: player and a coach coached Vanderbilt until last year when
Speaker 1: he was fired and now Jerry Stackhouse is there. Um,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it was. I just remember him like jumping up.
Speaker 1: It's called the shot obviously, but I think like seventeen
Speaker 1: of them are called the shot. But a thirteenth seed
Speaker 1: that's like a tiny school Indiana is so March Madnessee
Speaker 1: to meet like Butler is always kind of like in
Speaker 1: the conversation and had a famous missed buzzer beater. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I needed it to be connection to my
Speaker 1: life to make this list kind of. Yeah, definitely. I
Speaker 1: mean I think you say that. I just feel like
Speaker 1: we there were so many like white dude stars in
Speaker 1: the n c A and then you never hear from
Speaker 1: them again because it's like a coaching It's like coaches
Speaker 1: are the stars in these leagues, and it's insane. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just it's a it's crazy. And there's a lot
Speaker 1: of fathers and sons too. Like there was a moment
Speaker 1: on one of the lists with the guy he tore
Speaker 1: his achilles celebrating and then he had to be on
Speaker 1: a scooter and then he fell off the scooter and
Speaker 1: his son was on the day. It's a really I
Speaker 1: guess it's nepotism, but you also have to be talented
Speaker 1: and it it actually like raises the Steaks. One of
Speaker 1: the saddest things in sports always for me is watching
Speaker 1: the guy's cry because I still think of them as
Speaker 1: children like they are and it's the end of most
Speaker 1: of their careers. And I think that's like why March
Speaker 1: Madness feels special to a lot of time. You're like
Speaker 1: watching their childhood ends for sure, because they're going to
Speaker 1: go and work at Enterprise. But that's also why I
Speaker 1: always Enterprise loves former athletes. They definitely have a program
Speaker 1: where they get former athletes, they love them. But I
Speaker 1: always took some of that, like these kids crying and
Speaker 1: stuff like not like college sports obviously, and like seeing
Speaker 1: or hearing, uh the stories about the Fab five back
Speaker 1: in the day, and it's like the guys, you know,
Speaker 1: they start wearing the black Sox more in those like
Speaker 1: air Force max is, and then they would walk by
Speaker 1: a sports store and literally the display is their jerseys
Speaker 1: without their names on them, like Jalen Rose, you know,
Speaker 1: Juwan Howard and these guys and being like we we
Speaker 1: didn't have been have money for pizza. Like that is
Speaker 1: still and so insane to me that that is an
Speaker 1: issue today, Like you don't have enough money to actually
Speaker 1: physically buy the jersey of yours that there and then
Speaker 1: and then people think it's like a joke or whatever.
Speaker 1: And look, there's means of getting bred, Like if you're
Speaker 1: a big name player, like you'll figure it out where
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, over under the table. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that can't sustain, that don't have
Speaker 1: that luxury and they have to kind of do this.
Speaker 1: And it's like the schools treat you while they fly
Speaker 1: you out, you know, when you're in season of course,
Speaker 1: like they want you to be at your best, but
Speaker 1: long term afterward, after that dream end, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't know, a lot of guys have to kind of
Speaker 1: go to the overseas, right or whatever. They're just not
Speaker 1: prepared to get into regular life. Like they don't teach
Speaker 1: you all the other ship that you need to become
Speaker 1: a human being. It's all just like basketball, basketball or football,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, and then you get out there in
Speaker 1: the real world. You gotta figure it out. You gotta
Speaker 1: pay taxes and rinting all the Yeah, because like I
Speaker 1: didn't play a sport in college, and I still left
Speaker 1: with like, I'm like, what did I learn? Um? I
Speaker 1: did memorize one of my friends parents credit card numbers? Um,
Speaker 1: I did you know? Like I learned, I guess some skills,
Speaker 1: but like, luckily I graduated at the height of the recession,
Speaker 1: so there were no jobs to be found anyways. But
Speaker 1: then it's just like the most viewed thing on TV.
Speaker 1: It's just so crazy. Yeah, because I remember my heis.
Speaker 1: I went to an all boys high school and we
Speaker 1: would turn on the tournament and just be on in
Speaker 1: the background. Yeah, you could have it on at school.
Speaker 1: It's the only sporting event that you got to because
Speaker 1: it's important. I mean in Indiana, I think they were
Speaker 1: looking for a reason to not teach us. And then
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, basketball ours we would watch Hoosiers in class.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like a great movie, But is there anything
Speaker 1: to learn from it at a high school age? I
Speaker 1: think it could teaches kids, like play a sport. In
Speaker 1: Chicago would always felt like it was the beginning of spring.
Speaker 1: Like I remember multiple years in Chicago, the first day
Speaker 1: of March Madness when there's I guess they're sixteen games
Speaker 1: on that first day getting fucked up because it starts
Speaker 1: at eleven am and go. It's like a real drinking
Speaker 1: and then a lot of my friend I was like
Speaker 1: a bartender, so I didn't have anything to do, but
Speaker 1: a lot of my friends who worked a nine to
Speaker 1: five jobs, they would get out early or like they
Speaker 1: didn't have to go. They could work from home that
Speaker 1: day because their bosses are degenerates that are gambling and
Speaker 1: want to watch the games. The brackets. Yeah, I never
Speaker 1: really got into bracket any of that stuff, but I'd
Speaker 1: love a bracket. I mean, I love Sister Jean, I
Speaker 1: love all that stuff. It's so sweet. So that kind
Speaker 1: of goes into what my first one was. It can
Speaker 1: be a coming out party for some like legendary people.
Speaker 1: And the one I remember this is the first time
Speaker 1: I heard about Steph Curry was at two thousand eight
Speaker 1: Davidson run. It's like one I didn't even know Davidson
Speaker 1: as a school I didn't know Steph Curry who he was,
Speaker 1: and just seeing his game that he's still shooting crazy
Speaker 1: threes now and then knowing just like I rewatched some
Speaker 1: of the games last night and I couldn't believe one
Speaker 1: he was. He was like averaging thirty two points a game.
Speaker 1: He was down like seventeen in the second round and
Speaker 1: came back and ended with forty. And then in the
Speaker 1: third round he ended with thirty three points in front
Speaker 1: of Lebron two thousand and eight, but they lost in
Speaker 1: the in the sweet sixteen to Kansas who ended up winning.
Speaker 1: But then just thinking, man, he dropped thirty three in
Speaker 1: front of Lebron and then less than ten years later
Speaker 1: was just you know, stopping Lebron in the phone already.
Speaker 1: So I just think, you know, March madness can create legends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you bring up an interesting point about like Davidson,
Speaker 1: it's like Gonzaga. That's it's that's in Gonzaga, but it's
Speaker 1: an entire school. Shawn us snowing it because of March madness.
Speaker 1: Like I had, I did shows in Spokane. I guess
Speaker 1: this is where it is. I'm like, oh, I thought
Speaker 1: it was in North Carolina, Like I had no concept
Speaker 1: of where it was, but I know that it's a
Speaker 1: place Villanova is kind of that way too, like, yeah, Illanova,
Speaker 1: what the fun? Where is it in Philadelphia? But it's
Speaker 1: like on some random side of it was just like
Speaker 1: come on as a school. And I remember they were
Speaker 1: giving every new freshman a laptop. But I only went
Speaker 1: to tour Villanova because I had heard of it because
Speaker 1: of basketball. Yes, some of these schools I just thought
Speaker 1: were names of starter jackets until like I started looking
Speaker 1: into it. All right, well let's take a break and
Speaker 1: we'll be back with that on more picks and we're back, Okay.
Speaker 1: Josiah was another one here, So another one. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep it U c l A themed again for this one,
Speaker 1: and then for my last one, I'll switch it up.
Speaker 1: But so two thousand six U c l A. Gonzaga.
Speaker 1: Gonzaga had Adam Morrison at that point, obviously back back
Speaker 1: to Zack talk, but uh but I love Morrison. He
Speaker 1: was like ship talking again, like Larry kind of Larry
Speaker 1: birdish with this ship talking level. So they end up
Speaker 1: meeting U c l A. I want to say it
Speaker 1: was at the sweet six team, I'm not I think
Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen. I remember because we were all That was
Speaker 1: the year after I graduated, So who were all at
Speaker 1: Cabo Cantina on worlshop. Both of our remember, honestly I
Speaker 1: remember this like yesteryet getting two for one, just getting
Speaker 1: literally blitz. I'm there with a couple of my former
Speaker 1: teammates and we're not salty, but we're just like the
Speaker 1: year before we lost in the first round and that
Speaker 1: they're literally playing for the national championship like that. You
Speaker 1: know they would end up going on to do that.
Speaker 1: So it's like they gotta squad should difference. I wish
Speaker 1: I would have stayed back a year in high school
Speaker 1: than I could have been a senior for that squad.
Speaker 1: But so we're at Cabo Cantina just getting blitz. Watching
Speaker 1: the game is the heavy U c l A crowd
Speaker 1: much of our classmates do some other teams like you
Speaker 1: know whoever, it may be just like heavy U c
Speaker 1: l A contingent watching there. I want to say, Gonzago
Speaker 1: is up like eighteen points and everybody's like the other
Speaker 1: ships over me and my like inebriated state. I'm like, nah,
Speaker 1: I know the dudes on the squad like they're not
Speaker 1: just gonna throw the town this ship, like, but I'm
Speaker 1: the only one that kind of keeps watching. Everybody goes
Speaker 1: about their business. They start chipping away, chipping away soly
Speaker 1: but surely. Then literally final final moments they get the
Speaker 1: steel and get the go ahead bucket. And then one
Speaker 1: of my former teammates, said Bozeman, who's a close friend
Speaker 1: of mine, who had actually tours a c L the
Speaker 1: year before, supposed to be a senior and graduated with
Speaker 1: us towards a cl like you know two days for
Speaker 1: the season started, came back turned I think Robbio had
Speaker 1: got the inbound pass, ended up like turning Robby. And
Speaker 1: then I want to say, uh, it was like a
Speaker 1: flower lucambo mute jumped and got the steel to kind
Speaker 1: of preserve the game. And just like knowing how turn
Speaker 1: those dudes were, I was kind of like depressing square mugs.
Speaker 1: I had started my regular life at that point. It
Speaker 1: just kind of gave me a moment to like, really,
Speaker 1: I remember me and my buddies were at Cobo Canteen
Speaker 1: and literally hug fell on the ground, dumping drinks on
Speaker 1: each other. You know, thought we won the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: just how lit we were for the squad winning. But
Speaker 1: then we got a little sold because like damny mother
Speaker 1: Fuer's about the Winter National. Your buddy was a former
Speaker 1: player too. Yeah, okay, specialize in watered down too for
Speaker 1: one alcohol, so they'll give you that. So literally like
Speaker 1: Margharita's whatever it is, but they're like, let's say two
Speaker 1: for like eight bucks. But literally they're like two water
Speaker 1: down ask Margharita's. But in your mind you're thinking, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gaming the system of sticky floors, like literally reasonable
Speaker 1: they were reasonably tough to mess up nachos for me.
Speaker 1: But that was your go to spot. That was our
Speaker 1: go that was literally like a mile away from the house.
Speaker 1: Like like I said, heavy, you say, like contention, we
Speaker 1: go there watch games. There's in buzz Bees, which is
Speaker 1: right next door. So if Buzzy was too lit in
Speaker 1: the line was too long, you know, vice versa, you
Speaker 1: hit the other spot. You bring up a great point
Speaker 1: because I love this culture. And there's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite clips that came out a few years ago when
Speaker 1: this guy, I can't remember what team it was, but
Speaker 1: they lost and he was doing a press conference and
Speaker 1: they're like, what are you gonna miss most about your
Speaker 1: playing career? And he pauses from like thirty seconds and
Speaker 1: he goes going out to eat and it's but the
Speaker 1: thing is like at any level, it was just because
Speaker 1: it's the it's maybe my favorite thing that builds suspense
Speaker 1: in the payoff is just like incredible. But it's also
Speaker 1: just because I could relate to it, just like being
Speaker 1: on road trips or just like going out to meals
Speaker 1: with your teammates is one of the greatest joys in
Speaker 1: sports when the ship is free. Like yeah, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I remember we played it per Due one year when
Speaker 1: gene Katie was there and we went to the spot
Speaker 1: called c Ray. This is my freshman year literally probably
Speaker 1: ordered like three or four thousand dollars everybody, but freshman
Speaker 1: year gaming the funk out of this system. Like everybody
Speaker 1: got like two or three main courses literally just roads
Speaker 1: and desserts on the table just like one taste like
Speaker 1: I'm good. But because for some reason these schools like
Speaker 1: that was the loophole. Was that a food budget. No,
Speaker 1: it's never gonna be questioned, and we got shipped for
Speaker 1: it after the fact. But I remember, like gene Katie
Speaker 1: rolled through too because he was friends with Steve Lavin,
Speaker 1: who was my coach at the time, and then he's
Speaker 1: getting lit too. I'm sure he got a bunch of
Speaker 1: food on the have Like. It was literally just like wow,
Speaker 1: we were really like but those moments, as Hooper's like,
Speaker 1: when you're eating these good meals at these luxury restaurants
Speaker 1: in places you would never be able to afford to,
Speaker 1: you know, Monday through Wednesday, but come conference time for
Speaker 1: game time, you get these nice meals and ships like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you really appreciate those moments. Just a concept of West
Speaker 1: Lafayette having a nice restaurant is making me laugh. I
Speaker 1: would I know, I would go. I would go. That's
Speaker 1: how I knew people's parents credit card time. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put but they would be like, no, I know my
Speaker 1: parents credit card number, and they would just like read
Speaker 1: it off in their head to the waitress and then
Speaker 1: waitress be like, oh, like writing it down and then
Speaker 1: would put it into the system. Yeah. I mean we
Speaker 1: were having free meals, but someone's parents were paying for it.
Speaker 1: A good time. We would go heavy on the gas card.
Speaker 1: Do you sell that? Definitely new zips? We knew the
Speaker 1: zip coach. Fill it up. That's so funny. All right, Megan,
Speaker 1: what's your what's your sec? Okay, this is a very
Speaker 1: very recent National Championship game U n C versus Villanova
Speaker 1: came down to the wire, which I feel like sometimes
Speaker 1: they don't. It's fun when they're when they do targles.
Speaker 1: Marcus Page hit a game tying three pointer and then
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, okay, we're done. It's less than five seconds.
Speaker 1: And then Chris Jenkins sinks a three pointer as time expired,
Speaker 1: and they end up winning the National championship, which kind
Speaker 1: of is like, how I mean, if that had been
Speaker 1: first round, probably not gonna make my list, but to
Speaker 1: do that. And then what I loved about this as
Speaker 1: I because I was like, I don't know who Chris
Speaker 1: Jenkins is. I can't believe that this man has fallen off.
Speaker 1: He's playing in Germany. Um. But then as I did
Speaker 1: more digging on him, sadly he was given up for
Speaker 1: adoption when he was in middle school by his family,
Speaker 1: and he was adopted by a basketball family, Like I
Speaker 1: think it was someone he played with. Um. Their name
Speaker 1: is the Britt family, and his adopted brother, Nate Britt,
Speaker 1: actually played against him in the tooth was sixteen national champion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Chris was playing for Villanova and Nate his brother
Speaker 1: by adoption, which is like, so blind Side was playing
Speaker 1: at u NC. That's a real familial episode. Now, I
Speaker 1: think that's like really well, but I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of what college basketball and I think there are a
Speaker 1: lot of families right right. Well, this the first game
Speaker 1: played on True TV. I think that was the first
Speaker 1: year they ran the National Man somewhere around that time,
Speaker 1: but I remember it wasn't on CBS, and I'm just thinking, like, damn,
Speaker 1: they really they loved this though for for for advertising dollars.
Speaker 1: I just remember I started like tuning in like midway
Speaker 1: through that tournament and then learning about that coach who
Speaker 1: looked like George Cliney that everyone says, right, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: why I was like, that's what you want to talk about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: That's what's so nice is there is like a rise
Speaker 1: of Sister Jean's kind of like a perfect example of
Speaker 1: like people becoming famous just for that tournament. And like
Speaker 1: I think there's been like dogs that were famous and
Speaker 1: kids and like all this. Yeah, it's almost like a
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes of fame, but just for March madness and
Speaker 1: coaches that are hot get that too. But the thing
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, I feel like that was like used
Speaker 1: to be the prerequisite was like salt and pepper ass dudes,
Speaker 1: But now it's like a lot of former NBA players,
Speaker 1: thank god, but it's just like what what You just
Speaker 1: have slicked that gray hair and you can coach a
Speaker 1: basketball team. I kept trying to like find a perdue
Speaker 1: moment that made me happy. To me, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: awesome to make it to the Sweet sixteen, it really is,
Speaker 1: but we're losing the Sweet sixteen every single year unless
Speaker 1: it's the first or second round. So I the one
Speaker 1: kid they had, that one kid who win off end
Speaker 1: up getting uh like Carson Wizard kid's name. He was
Speaker 1: getting buckets recently on Villanova. Oh yeah yeah, Carson net
Speaker 1: words that he has such a quarterback name that I
Speaker 1: don't want to mix. Like we could we could have
Speaker 1: that team with hummele like we had teams and I
Speaker 1: feel like you always have these like big Bruiser like
Speaker 1: Big ten Midwest teams and that stuff good like Wisconsin
Speaker 1: for me to like, Okay, like, hey, watching a brand
Speaker 1: of basketball, but good performed well. I think Tom Izzo
Speaker 1: is the greatest March Madness coach of all time. He
Speaker 1: could take me a team of five means and he's
Speaker 1: like final four like that he's so he just like
Speaker 1: can coach in the tournament in a way that I
Speaker 1: think is really really impressive. Michigan State is always so
Speaker 1: dangerous even if it's no one. Well, let me ask
Speaker 1: you just side because bring it's like per do some
Speaker 1: of these teams have to lose out on some prospects
Speaker 1: because they're in West Lafayette, Indiana or like what makes
Speaker 1: it is it's the one thing in sports where you
Speaker 1: can kind of go where you want to go, where
Speaker 1: you want to live. What makes players not choosing a
Speaker 1: California school every time? Honestly, it's really weird for me,
Speaker 1: special for us in USC Like you said, he's literally
Speaker 1: like prime really stay right across the street from bell
Speaker 1: Air and like we've gotten some solid recruits him. But
Speaker 1: to me, it's like if you take a visit, like
Speaker 1: how do you not I want to go to Duke.
Speaker 1: I want to go wherever? Like like these spots are
Speaker 1: just not like it's literally like eighty some degrees today,
Speaker 1: Like what is that? Just like the organization being like
Speaker 1: we're gonna take care of you, Like you don't need
Speaker 1: that distraction of l a exactly. Sometimes that helps because
Speaker 1: literally out of college, I was looking at at Xavier
Speaker 1: in Ohio, like and it was just like it would
Speaker 1: have been great to get away, Like I'm sure my
Speaker 1: basketball career would have been a lot better. No, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. I've been the Xavier's campus. You don't
Speaker 1: want to go there and snow like all you have
Speaker 1: to do is go to the gym. Xavier's like kind
Speaker 1: of a notoriously fucked up program too. They've had some issues.
Speaker 1: I think they're no Cincinnati, But well, I think what
Speaker 1: I love I can bring up like a school. Now
Speaker 1: I can't graduate. Listen, I don't care. Nobody needs to
Speaker 1: graduate college. Our kid, I'll be like, I don't. You
Speaker 1: don't need to look at a college. But since Addie
Speaker 1: did not graduate a player for like seven years, you know,
Speaker 1: and if the whole thing is like we're student athletes
Speaker 1: and I'm doing air quotes, then you have to have
Speaker 1: someone graduate as a student one person. Um, I feel
Speaker 1: like Lance went there. Now Lance went there, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Then he went to St. John's. I do think California
Speaker 1: is going to have a big edge now that they're
Speaker 1: like the only state that is saying they're going to
Speaker 1: play or pay college athletes. I mean, look, we have
Speaker 1: so many good schools out here for U C, l
Speaker 1: a USC, Sant Diego State, Stanford, cal like you know UOP,
Speaker 1: Like there's there's there's squads out here. Bakersfield even has
Speaker 1: a squad, like you'd think that. You know, I would
Speaker 1: never want to live in Bakersfield, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: But if I could be on Cali, like it's close
Speaker 1: enough to ship, like I can get to l A
Speaker 1: in like an hour and a half, I'd rather have
Speaker 1: that than playing somewhere where it's too cold to humor
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, Like, how do you not want
Speaker 1: to live in How do you not want to live
Speaker 1: in California? That's why I love when people are like
Speaker 1: why did Lebron come the Lakers? Like maybe because a
Speaker 1: fucking gland he grew up in Acre. They have no
Speaker 1: loyalty to Cleveland whatsoever. This is not a thing. Could
Speaker 1: you imagine if like it's again, people are mad at that,
Speaker 1: people who never left their hometown. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: he's he didn't move here, he's had a house here,
Speaker 1: like this is where he comes. This is the thing
Speaker 1: that cracks me up. This is where the guys all
Speaker 1: come in the summertime. They don't go to all these
Speaker 1: other spots, Like they literally have houses in l A.
Speaker 1: So why not why not play here? Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll do my pick. My pick is eighty two U
Speaker 1: n C. Michael Jordan's game winner. I just you know,
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I've been watching a lot of
Speaker 1: early Jordan's stuff and like people didn't know who he
Speaker 1: was yet, and it's like, oh, he's been doing that
Speaker 1: like Jordan's I love watching the first few games of
Speaker 1: Jordan's Bulls playing career because it's like people are like,
Speaker 1: I've never seen this before, and it's like he got picked,
Speaker 1: drafted three and it's like he hit the game winner.
Speaker 1: He had something in him that was gonna make him legendary,
Speaker 1: and it was all right there. His coach was Dean
Speaker 1: It they found him. And again, I guess you know,
Speaker 1: guys picking what college he went to? North Carolina. He
Speaker 1: grew up in Wilmington's like he was a hometown guy.
Speaker 1: And to hit that game where it's a famous basketball school,
Speaker 1: well it's not like, well, yeah, but he could have
Speaker 1: went to Duke. He could have went to other places,
Speaker 1: But you know, I just think it was the start
Speaker 1: of a amazing career. In Megan's mad, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's I'm not mad. I'm glad that you were.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you were alive and two to see it.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I wasn't, you know, you know, but I
Speaker 1: definitely I remember then Jordan Brandon Nike going, oh, why
Speaker 1: aren't we milking North Carolina colors that much? And I
Speaker 1: fell into that too. I was like, said, like when
Speaker 1: he got drafted by the Bulls, he was like, no,
Speaker 1: I want my shoe to be tar Hill blue and white. No, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that story is. I swear I
Speaker 1: saw something, and you must have forced me to watch it.
Speaker 1: I'm not seeking out Jordan's material content on my own.
Speaker 1: I know he was like he was wanted to be
Speaker 1: Adidas or Converse before Nike picked him up. But that's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's just craz like the Flex and Nike, He's being
Speaker 1: able to pull based off one dude. And the thing is,
Speaker 1: it's funny because you ever see like the videos of
Speaker 1: Jordan's hanging out around like the North Carolina facility and
Speaker 1: be like all right, I'll give you guys new shoes
Speaker 1: if you guys like win these next few games, call
Speaker 1: players out like you can't wear And I think Kobe
Speaker 1: had the same thing. I was like, you can't play
Speaker 1: like you're playing and wear my shoes and don't like
Speaker 1: take my ship off, like you can wear my lester,
Speaker 1: you can wear my like team stuff. Yeah, get out
Speaker 1: of here, Bro, because if you're Jordan or Kobe and
Speaker 1: you're wearing my ship and you suck and you're at
Speaker 1: my alma mater, what are you doing? Some things are
Speaker 1: bigger than money, Like how do you disrespect me by
Speaker 1: wearing my nice as ship? Playing like trash? Like did
Speaker 1: you guys? Did you guys were you in a te
Speaker 1: mac era when you're at So we went from the
Speaker 1: Kobe era to the t mac era, So we definitely
Speaker 1: had a bunch of team mats. The thing about Adidas
Speaker 1: and no knock to the coming, I'm sure there's great
Speaker 1: people there, but the shoes were always heavy as fucking
Speaker 1: It was like wearing literally like Semen boots and like
Speaker 1: they would have cool designs or whatever, but like those Kobe's.
Speaker 1: When the Moon boots that came out the next year
Speaker 1: was like what the like, who do you fun expect
Speaker 1: to want to play basketball? Yeah, like I know, like
Speaker 1: you guys are going for stylistic or whatever, like did
Speaker 1: you not give these to hoopers and let them wear them? Right? Like?
Speaker 1: Literally we had remember Matt Barnes literally like fucking he
Speaker 1: cut the center part off of it just to get
Speaker 1: to where the laces were, like zipped up and did
Speaker 1: all this elaborate and I was like, bro, I just
Speaker 1: want to put these shoes on him. I remember seeing
Speaker 1: that picture and I didn't remember it was Matt Barnes,
Speaker 1: but I remember that. I was following Sneakers big time
Speaker 1: back then. But people were modifying those codes because there
Speaker 1: was so you couldn't even get your foot in them.
Speaker 1: It was literally like you were like stomp and it's
Speaker 1: like what the like, come on, man, like make these
Speaker 1: just light and sleek wherever guys are Like, I just
Speaker 1: needed like a regular Adidas shoot that like the big guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, I hear rumors I want the name names
Speaker 1: in particularly some people would basically wear Jordan's and then
Speaker 1: put like three stripes on them. Yeah, because we would
Speaker 1: have Adida's reps there. They're literally just be looking at
Speaker 1: your feet to make sure. Like, so, even if I
Speaker 1: didn't play and I was wearing some other shoes, who's
Speaker 1: doing I think Clay actually did that a couple years
Speaker 1: ago when he went to ant and the anti shoes
Speaker 1: weren't ready, so he would just tape over the swoosh.
Speaker 1: You met your friend, Clay, Yeah, my friend my skateboard.
Speaker 1: But I don't know why that's that's That's just always
Speaker 1: so interesting to me, especially at a college level when
Speaker 1: you kind of just had your team. You're sponsored by Adidas,
Speaker 1: you gotta wear Adidas. Well, you usually hear of people
Speaker 1: putting logos on something like we were joking last night
Speaker 1: to put We're going to put a Jaguar logo on
Speaker 1: CJ's niece on Cube. It's usually someone being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is Gucci. It's not like someone lying to get
Speaker 1: away with it. It's lying to have a little come up?
Speaker 1: Is how you're doing it? All right? Um, Josiah, what
Speaker 1: other nuggets share with us? We would would never come
Speaker 1: and visit. He came all the time. He was literally
Speaker 1: he was a legend. He is the I mean he
Speaker 1: did but he was so cute to me. John, I
Speaker 1: haven't stopped thinking about it, so I don't think any
Speaker 1: of it would He would like come and just watch practice, talk,
Speaker 1: come hang out. Like we were playing the John Wind
Speaker 1: Classic or the Wooden Tradition every year, so generally the
Speaker 1: one we were playing uh Anaheim, he would come to
Speaker 1: that one because it was close enough for him. But
Speaker 1: he come my practice every once in a while. He
Speaker 1: had seats right behind the bench, so you'd always just look.
Speaker 1: He was very kind of hands off with this approach,
Speaker 1: but he was still talk a little shit to you
Speaker 1: every once in a while. I remember one time I
Speaker 1: was dribbling two basketballs and he's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Like you only play with one who was your coach
Speaker 1: while you were there. I was there with Steve Lavin
Speaker 1: and Ben Holland. All right, well, actually let's take a
Speaker 1: break and we'll come back with our final picks for
Speaker 1: greatest March Madness Moment. And we're back and we have
Speaker 1: our final selections for the greatest March Madness Moments, which
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like we've been leaning on it.
Speaker 1: We've just been getting some good stories about college athletics
Speaker 1: in general from our guest here, Josiah. So Josiah share
Speaker 1: with us one one more story here one more so favorite.
Speaker 1: It's kind of it's more elaborate than a comeback moment,
Speaker 1: but loyal Merrymount Squad, Hank Gathers and and Bo Kimball
Speaker 1: We're beasts. Obviously, Hay gradually passed away on the court
Speaker 1: kind of with the cardiac arrest. I was damn hold.
Speaker 1: I was seven going on eight years old. I was
Speaker 1: living actually in Italy. My dad was playing professionally overseas
Speaker 1: out there, and we only got like a few channels
Speaker 1: and it was super jankie like we literally got like
Speaker 1: I think it was like basically the Hallmark channel and
Speaker 1: like the other ship we gets bored. It was. It
Speaker 1: was like but like all Hallmark movies, like like literally
Speaker 1: a year of my life just like watching those ships
Speaker 1: and like they were they were god awful. But that's
Speaker 1: what's all we had. But we would get l m
Speaker 1: U games occasionally. I don't know. For some reason, I
Speaker 1: really gravitated towards Hank Gathers, like watching play like like
Speaker 1: the style. Loved his highlights. So when you passed away,
Speaker 1: I remember, even as like a seven year old kid
Speaker 1: for eight year old, you know, going on eight. My
Speaker 1: birthdays in April so it would have been before that,
Speaker 1: going on eight, like just how sad I was, and
Speaker 1: I was just starting to play basketball at that point.
Speaker 1: We're playing on the team out there, so definitely like
Speaker 1: put a band on him for it, like like an
Speaker 1: RMP band during the game out of respecting ship. But
Speaker 1: I remember that run they made with Bo Kimball and
Speaker 1: Kimball shooting shooting the free throws with his all hand,
Speaker 1: and just how they were running. Numbers of the were
Speaker 1: putting like a hundred hundred, fifty hundred, twenty on dudes
Speaker 1: just getting buckets. Ended up losing the Elite eight, obviously,
Speaker 1: but just from that moment lost it. I think you
Speaker 1: and l V that year God like smoked in the
Speaker 1: Elite eight, but you really thought, like Dan, the dudes
Speaker 1: might be able to do it, just kind of all
Speaker 1: the motions around and and I grew up probably like
Speaker 1: five minutes aware from l m U. So that moment
Speaker 1: to me was just like, Yo, one of one of
Speaker 1: the things you love to see in the tournament, kind
Speaker 1: of like the Sister Jean level, just like things that
Speaker 1: you'll remember forever, like you know, seeing both shoot with
Speaker 1: his off hand and make a free throw. I think
Speaker 1: it was left hand out out of respecting for his
Speaker 1: teammate and literally just knocking that ship down. And I
Speaker 1: got to meet both both a few times when you
Speaker 1: play with the Clippers. Just a cool last dude. I
Speaker 1: don't think he ever really emotionally recovered from that moment,
Speaker 1: you know, if you really because his career should have
Speaker 1: been a lot better than it was. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I I lost a friend the same way playing basketball
Speaker 1: in high school and I didn't play for three years
Speaker 1: after that. My friend called a time out and then
Speaker 1: he fell over and then he fell in to Tacoma.
Speaker 1: It was crazy and they died a day later. And
Speaker 1: so I mean, I I mean, I knew the hand
Speaker 1: gather story, but I didn't know that Bo Kimball like
Speaker 1: sort of his career is kind of a little different
Speaker 1: after that. Yeah, I think they were boys like growing
Speaker 1: up once they grew up in the same area, end
Speaker 1: up going to SC together. Didn't you really get burned
Speaker 1: at SC? So transferred to l m U. They ended
Speaker 1: up like you know what, I think Paul westfall like
Speaker 1: introduced his ridiculous offense, like you know, but they were
Speaker 1: putting game. It's just you know, stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: it happened just recently with Kobe. Obviously, it's like it's
Speaker 1: such an not to get like bring this down a bit.
Speaker 1: But you know, basketball is such a silly game. You know,
Speaker 1: we're watching on so many different levels, and then something
Speaker 1: like this happened to like, wow, the game. You think
Speaker 1: about the game differently, you think about you know a
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff differently, and for you know, I
Speaker 1: was even talking about just trying to put this Kobe
Speaker 1: stuff in any sort of perspective, you know, hand gathers
Speaker 1: or like who it wasn't Lamby, Like it's like a
Speaker 1: Zion die. There's a kid that went shoot. I was
Speaker 1: thirteen at the time. He went to my rival high
Speaker 1: schools and was Jon Stewart and my rival high schools
Speaker 1: where Greg Odin went, Mike Conley went. It's a pot
Speaker 1: Lawrence North, it's a powerhouse. They played on national television
Speaker 1: all the time, and he um, he died on the court.
Speaker 1: I mean he died right. He went into cardiac arrest
Speaker 1: and it like shook the community to I mean I
Speaker 1: remember my dad, my mom, my brothers, and it was
Speaker 1: just so horrible and he was the star, to which
Speaker 1: like doesn't make it worse, but it kind of does
Speaker 1: because he was this like lovable face of this iconic
Speaker 1: program and for his classmates who are also children to
Speaker 1: watch him die is and it's it's just so sad that,
Speaker 1: like basketball has so many of those stories. I have
Speaker 1: a friend who is a nurse who actually does heart
Speaker 1: screenings now to specialize in catching like what John has
Speaker 1: like this very and her she was a basketball player,
Speaker 1: her son is like a young phenomen basketball player, like
Speaker 1: it's and that has she's like changed the course of
Speaker 1: her career to specialize in that cardiac issue so she
Speaker 1: can screen athletes around the country. And but like she's
Speaker 1: only doing that because it has become such a such
Speaker 1: an issue mandatory, and I think they're pushing to have um,
Speaker 1: you know that there's murmurs and there's regular harpie. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: who there was an NBA player recently not channing from Bosch.
Speaker 1: Bosch has something to deliver deliver thing. Jeff Green too,
Speaker 1: I think Jeff Green, that's who was He got surgery
Speaker 1: mid mid career for that. I mean that's the thing
Speaker 1: about especially like high school and kids like that, they
Speaker 1: don't have the resources available, Like a high school don't
Speaker 1: even have trainers to like tape ankles and do ship
Speaker 1: like that because they can't afford it. So you'd really
Speaker 1: just like to see, like, you know, because because it's
Speaker 1: sad that it takes one of those types of things
Speaker 1: happening to get people to weariness, Like nobody before the
Speaker 1: fact would be like, yeah, we need to do heard
Speaker 1: screen AND's like why nobody, nobody nothing, you know, nothing's
Speaker 1: bad ever happened from it, like why why should we
Speaker 1: give a funk? On a lighter note, but still on
Speaker 1: the same topic as that, so my friend who passed away,
Speaker 1: we got there, like we need to get a defibrillator
Speaker 1: in the gym, and then at one point they were like,
Speaker 1: should we name the defibrillator off of him? And tribute?
Speaker 1: And I was like that is not I was like
Speaker 1: in high schools, like do not name the thing he
Speaker 1: needed to live off of him? You know? But yeah,
Speaker 1: just I remember his name hanging over It's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that would have been great if we had that before. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm just trying to find our company. It's
Speaker 1: called play Heart Smart and so they go around the
Speaker 1: country and do e KG tests, which are not required
Speaker 1: as part of a general physical for sports because you
Speaker 1: have to get a physical um and so they are
Speaker 1: doing like just one more advanced screening to make sure
Speaker 1: that again, what's the name of it, play heart smart
Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, that is like a legitimate awareness
Speaker 1: that I mean the thing I want to put awareness mind.
Speaker 1: I think about high school physicals. All they do, especially
Speaker 1: for boys, like literalis like check your heart like a second.
Speaker 1: My grandfather was a pediatrician, and I get he used
Speaker 1: to do mine. He was like eighty years old and
Speaker 1: he would do my tennis physical. I remember when I
Speaker 1: after he passed away, I was like, I don't even
Speaker 1: I didn't even like know. I mean obviously I wasn't
Speaker 1: as a child, but I had never been to a
Speaker 1: doctor other than my grandpa to do it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean for me, for me, they would have been like
Speaker 1: you just eat funnians and have asthmy be fine, Like,
Speaker 1: but a legitimate you're gonna say something racist. Yeah that's
Speaker 1: when I was. You know how it's always I don't
Speaker 1: trust erie to have been kind to you as a
Speaker 1: young Asian, you know what. All they were like, hey
Speaker 1: that's a little Asian kid, and I'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: check me out. So I liked the attention, But there
Speaker 1: was my brother and sister didn't have a great time.
Speaker 1: So but I was already handling it. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: broken in the perfect way, I guess. Yeah, yeah, I've
Speaker 1: made I've made money off of my brokenness. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think though I have one more. I roasted
Speaker 1: you for not being alive in the Jordan one, and
Speaker 1: I'm not alive for this one. But it is still
Speaker 1: the most watched basketball game in the history of America,
Speaker 1: professional or college. Forty million people tuned in to watch
Speaker 1: Magic versus Birds in the seventy nine championship game Michigan
Speaker 1: State Indiana State. The hick from French Lick Indiana State
Speaker 1: came in undefeated. And I think people really point to
Speaker 1: this game as like changing how people viewed college basketball
Speaker 1: just as a whole. Like it just wasn't like, oh,
Speaker 1: these are young kids and the good ones will play.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is actually a very marketable, interesting,
Speaker 1: dynamic players happening, and it launched one of the greatest
Speaker 1: rivalries that basketball has ever known. Yeah, I always forgot
Speaker 1: that was like when I was watching those old NBA
Speaker 1: hs is, Like I watched that Magic one and then
Speaker 1: when they would always cut to like that game and
Speaker 1: what these dudes played each other already and we're already famous.
Speaker 1: Imagine those dudes playing each other in college and then
Speaker 1: going to the Lakers in the Celtics was like that, Sure,
Speaker 1: that was just a coincidence, right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like Calves got number one pick in two thousands three
Speaker 1: already million is so crazy. Yeah, but really when you
Speaker 1: think about that moment, because I'm sure from a business standpoint, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta get these dudes, like we can have Magic
Speaker 1: and Larry being like two ship holes, but we need
Speaker 1: them our biggest markets. We need these dudes battling each
Speaker 1: other for the next ten years. But and we got it,
Speaker 1: and they literally and they made it happen. There is
Speaker 1: a Broadway play. Did you guys know that there's a
Speaker 1: Broadway play Magic Versus Bird. It was about their their
Speaker 1: careers playing against each other. See, I mean we could.
Speaker 1: The fact is we could. There should be shows about basketball.
Speaker 1: People like it's it's a weird thing. People like people
Speaker 1: necessarily like watching games, but things about basketball they really
Speaker 1: like enjoy watching. Yeah, I mean, even just like the
Speaker 1: thirty for thirties that are about basketball. Everyone I know
Speaker 1: that watches them that doesn't like sports are like, oh,
Speaker 1: these are very compelling. Yeah, happy and sad ones That
Speaker 1: Benji one that's like one of the saddest movies I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. Sorry, I didn't mean to bring it down,
Speaker 1: but then Winning Time. Winning Time is one of the
Speaker 1: funniest movies I've ever Winning Time I think is a
Speaker 1: big reason why we got married. I think we've that's sad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what can you get left from Reggie on the engagement
Speaker 1: still from race today? I love Reggie. My mom used
Speaker 1: to be you see, my mom used to be his
Speaker 1: real estate agent for his summer like summer living. So
Speaker 1: I literally got to hang out with Reggie at like
Speaker 1: the Sentry City mall and ship dropping around the city.
Speaker 1: I want to do. I don't know how we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about. I want to just ask you all
Speaker 1: these stories about it's funny like until you bring them up,
Speaker 1: like I gotta think about ship, Like we've had all this,
Speaker 1: Like my mom was like the real estate agents for
Speaker 1: the Clippers back in the day, so just randomly like
Speaker 1: any dupe from like the Terry to hair air like
Speaker 1: like she was. I can get in the rich. It
Speaker 1: was like the most have seen them out like that
Speaker 1: death row snoop and all those through the sugar like
Speaker 1: literally real estate agent fucking for death brows. It's like
Speaker 1: random mass story. And I was just living as a kid.
Speaker 1: Were you like, can I get all eyes on me
Speaker 1: autographed or anyways? Like we would go to events of
Speaker 1: like dad's house, like barbecues and was going on. I
Speaker 1: was young at that point, but like but definitely like
Speaker 1: some fucking like turn up ship cracking um. Reggie's boat
Speaker 1: growing up was named the Bruin and he had a
Speaker 1: tap on it, which is not allowed, I don't think,
Speaker 1: because yeah, you all those we are. We grew up
Speaker 1: on the lake and our house looked out on the
Speaker 1: lake almost like around the corner directly at his house.
Speaker 1: Okay legends and then Vic vic Odipo lives across the
Speaker 1: street from your parents, and it was the one, the
Speaker 1: latest thing. It was his first game back the other day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he hit the with the game winner. He hit
Speaker 1: a game tying three to send it to overtime. And
Speaker 1: then her dad send a textas next morning, Hey, Victor
Speaker 1: had a Rosal Royce and brand new Rose Royce vintage.
Speaker 1: Oh dropped off in the driveway. It's like, that's how
Speaker 1: it is day, what a feeling, Rose Royce. How inspirational
Speaker 1: was it last night seeing Matthew Cherry when an oscar? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean literally, I think you know a lot of people,
Speaker 1: especially on the Twitter space. You know Cherry and is
Speaker 1: how how amazing of a duty is He's always positive.
Speaker 1: I've actually never got to meet him, Like Faith and Fish,
Speaker 1: we've communicated a bunch through email, DMS whatever. He showed
Speaker 1: love to your account quite a bit, and literally, like
Speaker 1: I remember the moment we both knew we were legends.
Speaker 1: We were watching Game of Thrones and we both used
Speaker 1: this uh meme from set it off, like I forgot
Speaker 1: who died, Lady Morimond died. He put a better caption
Speaker 1: to me. I'll remember doing stuff I'm watching because we
Speaker 1: literally dropped in the same exact moment. Because like what
Speaker 1: we're gonna say, like you're one second, you put the
Speaker 1: same ship up as me, but his capin was better
Speaker 1: than my. Remember being me so soft, like yo, do
Speaker 1: the genius. But now it's like, yeah, you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm in the same class as a DUDEY just wanted
Speaker 1: Oscar and you guys you set it off. That's like
Speaker 1: such an obscure. That's why I knew that like work,
Speaker 1: and he was a former athlete, but just seeing like
Speaker 1: I remember when you put up hair Love when it
Speaker 1: first came out, and one of my biggest regrets was
Speaker 1: not contributing to it. But I also saw that it
Speaker 1: was going to hit its target. So I was like, alright,
Speaker 1: like my money is not really gonna make a difference
Speaker 1: on this when it's gonna hit it, let me let
Speaker 1: me put it for somebody else's ship, but to see
Speaker 1: where it's come from and winning an Oscar and like
Speaker 1: this dude on stage bawling out giving contributes to Kobe's like, damn, bro,
Speaker 1: this is like this is why we all hustle. I
Speaker 1: feel like for those moments, but you know it just yeah,
Speaker 1: it was great. I knew it was gonna win any
Speaker 1: other ones about It's like I feel like this has
Speaker 1: a good campaign going, yeah, and had tons of love
Speaker 1: on the street, and it was because you know, like
Speaker 1: sometimes those things happened, like I was a big fan
Speaker 1: of when they see this and then then up winning
Speaker 1: the Emmy and my buddy Michael Starbury wrote on that
Speaker 1: and that you know it was like, you know, there
Speaker 1: ain't no way the ship can't win to Emmy. But
Speaker 1: you know Turn Up Boys he will point out to
Speaker 1: you like turn Boy was a good, good show. So
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about Starbury. He's he's collecting a war.
Speaker 1: He's got his oscar coming up soon at some point.
Speaker 1: All right, well, Josiah, where can we find you? Um?
Speaker 1: What are you working on right now? What do you
Speaker 1: want people to check you out? So? I'm doing a
Speaker 1: show with y'all who Sports called dunk Bait, So you
Speaker 1: can watch that on y'all who Sports social platforms NBA, Twitter,
Speaker 1: related me legettro Jen because in Zack Swartz also known
Speaker 1: as Zack's exactly on that one. Then, Uh, doing some
Speaker 1: other stuff behind the scenes that I can't announce you,
Speaker 1: but it's definitely bather and it definitely keep my kids
Speaker 1: very well filled. Uh, And working on some other stuff
Speaker 1: too with a couple of former teammates working on a
Speaker 1: little animated project that I'm super excited about that that
Speaker 1: I'll be dropping in the near future. That will be
Speaker 1: super runchy sounch is gonna be I could agree to do.
Speaker 1: It was like, yo, like he came with me with
Speaker 1: the idea and I'm like, this isn't inherently a new idea,
Speaker 1: but I know you, and I know the way that
Speaker 1: you're gonna tell stories and you're gonna make a fucking
Speaker 1: completely different thing that nobody else will be able to run.
Speaker 1: So I love those type of moments and we can
Speaker 1: get it on the air, like yeah, get it. We
Speaker 1: gotta go back us to be Megan. You should come
Speaker 1: along too. We gotta go back to that cheesecake factory
Speaker 1: that we first hung out for. Honestly, it's a funny
Speaker 1: thing that I meet so many people like like yourself,
Speaker 1: like we'll have lunch or or whatever. It's like, damn,
Speaker 1: so many legends I hear that that are doing such
Speaker 1: great ship and you kind of form these bonds just
Speaker 1: off of funny tweets, and I feel like, now, you know,
Speaker 1: because everyone just just thinking are just guys, you know,
Speaker 1: messing around on Twitter, but now everyone has like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: they did this, they won that Oscar or they have
Speaker 1: this show. It's like, yeah, these are real people on
Speaker 1: Twitter is just like shoot around for us. The thing
Speaker 1: about the Twitter that people don't understand like a lot
Speaker 1: of people come hating and talking. It's like, dude, I'm
Speaker 1: getting paid to do this, Like this is a job
Speaker 1: for me, Like this is you know, this is fun
Speaker 1: for you, like you wish me cancer or whatever, like
Speaker 1: that's cool, but I'm getting a check. So whether you
Speaker 1: love or hate this content, my employees are very very
Speaker 1: pleased with what I'm giving them. And I'm using Twitter
Speaker 1: as literally a platform to test my material, test defense,
Speaker 1: like they say in Jurassic Park, just to rap there,
Speaker 1: testing the fence, trying to find the weeks, but help
Speaker 1: the ships off. Let me go ahead and get it.
Speaker 1: But so yeah, so it's just a good time, man.
Speaker 1: I hope to see you in your fur coat next time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I might bring it up to Chicago. Yeah you should.
Speaker 1: You have to. It's too bothered though. People start staring,
Speaker 1: start assuming I'm doing good. I don't have that much money.
Speaker 1: So your handle at King Jos fifty four right on Twitter,
Speaker 1: so you can that's like your main your main handle, Megan,
Speaker 1: Where can people follow you? Megan Gaily and then better
Speaker 1: Megan Gaily and then depending on when this comes out,
Speaker 1: I will be in d C at the DC Draft
Speaker 1: House on March and that should be out by that.
Speaker 1: I hope you guys uh come to a show. I've
Speaker 1: got lots of sports material and my brother lives there,
Speaker 1: so whenever I'm in d C, I always go out
Speaker 1: after the shows and get lit. Alright, alright, maybe I'll
Speaker 1: be there. You can check out me at c J
Speaker 1: Tolodonno on Twitter Fallow House of Highlights. And I got
Speaker 1: a show and meaning to plug this in Eagle Rock
Speaker 1: every Thursday stand up show at Cousina Filipino nine pm
Speaker 1: every Thursday, comics from Comedy Central, HBO, Netflix and all that,
Speaker 1: and the best tacos in l A. I get the
Speaker 1: Olympia and the taco Yeah, just start doing that. The
Speaker 1: Filipino food is amazing. It's really really good taco spot
Speaker 1: around the corner. And you turned me on it. You're
Speaker 1: the one who was like, oh, I'm getting tacos over there.
Speaker 1: Like later, I've become a show to just see comedy
Speaker 1: anyone if I'm trying to get in that space. But
Speaker 1: saw that the tacos set up they had there the
Speaker 1: most elaborate, like baller like delicious, like they make their
Speaker 1: their tortillas right outside of a tiny target exactly. But
Speaker 1: so yeah. I mean, if you come to that show,
Speaker 1: come hungry because the Filipino food and the tacos ye
Speaker 1: both support support the support the restaurant support. June is
Speaker 1: a legend to June the owner because the Filipino basketball
Speaker 1: team where you have to be older than thirty five. Yes,
Speaker 1: and every he was telling me, he was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I try to get some. Kobe's
Speaker 1: recently goes already gone online. Like he's just the most
Speaker 1: legendary Filipino basketball guy. Him and his team. They have
Speaker 1: custom Nike uniforms that are on the level of NBA uniforms.
Speaker 1: It's crazy they have flames on them, that says Christina Phillips. Anyways,
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