Speaker 1: It was nineteen seventy eight. I was going up for
Speaker 1: parts for various things. I read the scripted it's the
Speaker 1: part of Louis de Palma. I never watched television. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, okay, I'll go wait, you got
Speaker 1: to make an impression, right, Yeah. I walk into office
Speaker 1: and I had to script in my hand, and I said,
Speaker 1: one thing I want to.
Speaker 2: Know before we start. Who wrote this? And I threw
Speaker 2: it on the table.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Games with Names. I'm Julian Edelman, there, Jack
Speaker 3: and Kyler, and we're on the search for the greatest
Speaker 3: game of all time. And on today's episode, we don't
Speaker 3: really get into covering Game seven of the twenty sixteen
Speaker 3: World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians,
Speaker 3: but we had legendary actor, director, producer, and American treasure
Speaker 3: Danny DeVito. We get into talking about his sports growing
Speaker 3: up in Jersey, split household. When my father was around,
Speaker 3: it was a die or a Dodger fan. When my
Speaker 3: mother was around. Come on, Mickey, what it's like sitting
Speaker 3: courtside with Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 1: We're all standing out there and ready for the ball
Speaker 1: to be thrown in the air and tip throw the
Speaker 1: ball up just as the guy's tipping the ball.
Speaker 3: And then what inspired his new show Game seven on
Speaker 3: Amazon Prime.
Speaker 1: What I liked about any sports was that playoff game.
Speaker 3: It was electric, it was exciting, like a holiday. It's
Speaker 3: a holiday. It's a holiday. And then we wrap it
Speaker 3: up by ranking our top five greatest baseball movies. Hugh,
Speaker 3: you gotta stick around to the very end. Let's go.
Speaker 3: Games of Names the production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4: November twenty sixteen, Progressive Field.
Speaker 3: Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 5: A billy coach, a bartman, a black cap, one hundred
Speaker 5: and nine years, a heartbreak in Wrigleyville, bottom of the tent,
Speaker 5: two outs, the ain't run, steps up to home plate.
Speaker 3: Can the curse be reversed?
Speaker 5: This is Game seven of the twenty sixteenth World Series.
Speaker 2: My guys, so much beautiful.
Speaker 3: You want to jump into this, bad boy? I'm ready, man,
Speaker 3: you're ready, ready to talk? Well, welcome to Games with
Speaker 3: Names Today we are going over Game seven of the
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen World Series Cubs versus the Indians, with legendary
Speaker 3: actor Danny DeVito holy cow. In one sentence, Danny, why'd
Speaker 3: you pick this game?
Speaker 1: Oh? Well, first of all, I have this is what
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. I have to preface all of
Speaker 1: this with I am I was born in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: I'm a sports fan like this. My father used to
Speaker 1: take me to ebbitts Field to see the Dodgers play, okay,
Speaker 1: fucking Dodgers, like whenever I could, whenever he could.
Speaker 3: And he was a die hard Dodger fan, my father.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I was like not, I didn't play sports.
Speaker 1: I didn't do like a lot of that. Maybe marbles
Speaker 1: was my big sport, shooting a game of pool every
Speaker 1: once in a while. But like the idea is that
Speaker 1: he was like till now, my mother, they're all Italians,
Speaker 1: first of all, Okay, so they're there, Yeah, the Vido,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're from southern Italy. My grandparents are from
Speaker 1: from Potenza, from uh the son Fela, which is all
Speaker 1: the places.
Speaker 3: Maybe you don't know, but you could check out.
Speaker 1: They're beautiful places in southern Italy, Collabria, Rite down by
Speaker 1: the foot of the of of of the Peninsula. Anyway,
Speaker 1: long story short is that my mother, she's born.
Speaker 3: In the United States. She was born in Asbury Park,
Speaker 3: New Jersey.
Speaker 2: My father was.
Speaker 3: Born in Brooklyn. They got into it. They got into.
Speaker 1: The the whole sports milieu, like but from different places.
Speaker 1: So what Ultimately when I was born, I was like
Speaker 1: a late baby. I was like one one of the
Speaker 1: one of these babies, Like, look, my, what's we got?
Speaker 1: Here's a baby, you know what I mean, I'd already
Speaker 1: had she had five kids and and wonderful two wonderful
Speaker 1: sisters that were left. I'm telling you a lot of stuff,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to get to one major thing that
Speaker 1: has to do with his question, which is about my
Speaker 1: enthusiasm for this game, for for Game seven in general.
Speaker 2: My mother.
Speaker 3: Was a die hard Yankee fan. Ooh Yankee Dodger.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So you got a lot of elements. So
Speaker 1: you got the Italian family that are like already like
Speaker 1: at level ten. Yeah, right on everything, every on food,
Speaker 1: on this, on how Wednesday? Who's taking the garbage out?
Speaker 3: On whatever? The hell?
Speaker 2: You know this this.
Speaker 1: Kind of stuff like the lawn's gonna get moat are
Speaker 1: we gonna do? Geraniums is gonna be like this? Or
Speaker 1: the heck when are we going to do?
Speaker 2: We know, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like a cacophony of like conflict.
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking right now of like labor day barbecue.
Speaker 3: You in the heat of baseball season. What the fuck's
Speaker 3: going on over here? Are we having just straight fights?
Speaker 1: Over the canolis were flying? Baby, you know, can you imagine?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So, like in New Jersey, I lived in a little
Speaker 1: house on Second Avenue in Asbury and I had a
Speaker 1: lot of friends. We're all we're all into punch ball.
Speaker 1: We used to play punch ball stickball in the street.
Speaker 1: We all had our our favorite teams.
Speaker 3: You basically live like, hey, Arnold, I was.
Speaker 1: I was basically like you know, uh, you know torn
Speaker 1: When my father was around, it was a die or
Speaker 1: a Dodger fan.
Speaker 3: When my mother was around, come on, mickey, you know
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And like so, you know,
Speaker 3: trying to be make nice in a family and all that.
Speaker 1: So I grew up watching like basically watching sports at
Speaker 1: the height of.
Speaker 2: The the conflict.
Speaker 1: Like if if there was a Dodger Yankee game, forget
Speaker 1: about it. It was like the whole block. If you
Speaker 1: look at the block and you and they shut the
Speaker 1: grid down and there was no electricity, my house would
Speaker 1: be far fire with lights because there was so much
Speaker 1: brain activity going.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we lived in this.
Speaker 1: Little house in New Jersey and we're on Second Avenue,
Speaker 1: and we had a porch and if we had no
Speaker 1: air conditioning know this, that and you other summer nights brutal,
Speaker 1: you know, mosquitoes the size of you know, B fifty
Speaker 1: two's man. And it was like, you know, really like
Speaker 1: you know, so we had a screen, screens. Okay, now
Speaker 1: you got the porch, no screen in the porch. Everybody smoked.
Speaker 1: Smoke drank was like one of those things we had
Speaker 1: on you know, my father, Jack Daniels, next to him.
Speaker 1: My mother would have some kind of like sweet drink,
Speaker 1: you know, this thing smoke like fiends. But what we
Speaker 1: would do is we would take the television. You gotta
Speaker 1: get the picture, and we would all sit on the
Speaker 1: porch on a nice sofa, on a or on a
Speaker 1: recliner or a chair, and we would turn take the
Speaker 1: television and move it to the to the windows. Oh wow, okay,
Speaker 1: so you'd be outdoor televisioning watching the games.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: If Roy Campanella came up the bat, holy shit, you
Speaker 1: had to I don't care where you were, you had
Speaker 1: to get in front of that television to watch because
Speaker 1: Roy Campanella, by the way, according to my father was Italian.
Speaker 2: Okay, so and and he was. I think he might have.
Speaker 1: Been part half Italian or something. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the deal was, but wasn't.
Speaker 3: It's the pre wreck of a family favorite Italian. So
Speaker 3: Demagio was. Mom loved him.
Speaker 1: Come on, I mean, just please, is the greatest, you know.
Speaker 1: And I you know, like if in my house, if
Speaker 1: there was if Demaggio and and and and and and
Speaker 1: Campanella walking down the street and Perry Como crossed the street,
Speaker 1: forget about it, you wouldn't know where to go, you know,
Speaker 1: how to be. But it was Connie frances was in
Speaker 1: the neighborhood. Man, you were done done for any Italian.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. I'm Jewish, but I get it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well you know you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: You know, pee wee reese man.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, okay, we'll be right back after this quick break.
Speaker 3: So that's the the kind of like.
Speaker 1: Pad I'm trying to lay out for y'all. In terms
Speaker 1: of my involvement with Game seven, Okay, what I liked
Speaker 1: about any sports was that playoff game.
Speaker 3: I loved.
Speaker 1: I loved the World Series with no matter who was playing, right,
Speaker 1: I love the World series because it was it was electric,
Speaker 1: it was exciting.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I loved the you know, the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I loved like, you know, getting that that day that
Speaker 1: game was that was like just like off the charts,
Speaker 1: you know, you you're doing you're looking at the finals
Speaker 1: in the NBA or whatever. I mean that that just
Speaker 1: you know, it's like a holiday. It's a holiday. It's
Speaker 1: a holiday, I mean, and it starts from the time
Speaker 1: you wake up in the morning on the time that
Speaker 1: giddy that you're just giddy that that ball is you know, hiked, spike, piked,
Speaker 1: pitched whatever, shot anything. That thing was like I once
Speaker 1: saw a and I digress, I'm sorry, but I once
Speaker 1: saw a great documentary call It was about the Olympics,
Speaker 1: and it was I'm trying to think of the name
Speaker 1: of it, but it was it was all visions.
Speaker 3: Of eight, Visions of eight.
Speaker 1: It was called and yeah, okay, so it was eight directors, right,
Speaker 1: and they each had access to the.
Speaker 2: Olympics and meet Looks.
Speaker 3: Foreman was one of them. Yeah, who directed Cucko's Nest.
Speaker 1: You know, there were many good directors and what they
Speaker 1: did was they made a.
Speaker 3: Movie of it.
Speaker 1: You can watch it somewhere visions of eight and it's
Speaker 1: how they dealt with each sport that they picked. They
Speaker 1: didn't do the entire Olympics, right. They would do weightlifting,
Speaker 1: they would do like something like, you know, a hundred
Speaker 1: yard dash, they would do the swimming, they would do this,
Speaker 1: they would do the.
Speaker 3: A different one. It's a different event.
Speaker 1: It was really cool the interpretation and how they dealt
Speaker 1: with it and how they made that each one. The
Speaker 1: most exciting segment of those eight segments, you know how
Speaker 1: they were going to present it, and which is kind
Speaker 1: of like game.
Speaker 3: It is kind of like this is what I'm getting,
Speaker 3: this is I'm just doing, Matthew, this is my this.
Speaker 1: Is my, my, my, my, my presentation of Danny my
Speaker 1: how I feel about all sports? Right, And so the
Speaker 1: one that I I mean, I liked them all.
Speaker 2: They were all really great.
Speaker 1: The one I I I responded to Milush was I
Speaker 1: think Milish is what was one of my favorites. He
Speaker 1: became one of my favorite directors. I didn't know him
Speaker 1: at the time. This was like before Cuckoo's Nest and everything,
Speaker 1: and and I think what he did was it was
Speaker 1: either Milos, who are another director that I can't remember
Speaker 1: his name now, But one of my favorite ones was
Speaker 1: they did the prep of each sport and how the person,
Speaker 1: the athlete, the man, the woman was preparing themselves for that.
Speaker 3: Competition physically, mentally, everything the training and the preparation and.
Speaker 1: And then what they what he did, and they were
Speaker 1: all insane, So you didn't get the whole movie to
Speaker 1: do it. You got a short amount of time to
Speaker 1: do it. And they did all of the preparations leading
Speaker 1: up to the moment when they were going to start,
Speaker 1: the moment when the flat this was going the flat
Speaker 1: the gun was going off and they were going to begin,
Speaker 1: so right up until the point where their their foot
Speaker 1: was going into the chalk block or whatever, the person
Speaker 1: was getting ready to you know, holding the javelin, and
Speaker 1: the person was doing the you know this moment and
Speaker 1: that first step, and then they intercut this really cool
Speaker 1: thing of each event. So they went through every event
Speaker 1: that that director and it was my heart almost stopped
Speaker 1: because it was like just you know, it's that level
Speaker 1: of like intensity, but.
Speaker 3: It's also the ability of the directors to capture that
Speaker 3: absolutely view which I think.
Speaker 1: Beginning which which I think and and and not to
Speaker 1: jump way ahead, but when when I was when when
Speaker 1: my partners and I Isaac Charah and Mark Messier and
Speaker 1: and folks that were were working with me on on
Speaker 1: Game seven, when I we were deciding to do the
Speaker 1: presentation the Game seven, uh uh we uh.
Speaker 2: To put this all together.
Speaker 1: The median thing I went to was what was the
Speaker 1: most I used to watch, you know, thirty thirty and
Speaker 1: and I looked at the last Waltz and you know,
Speaker 1: and I looked at and I went to this Connor
Speaker 1: Shell guy, right, Connor Shell runs words and pictures. And
Speaker 1: I went through a friend of mine, Peter Chernan, who
Speaker 1: I worked with at showtime. I don't want to forty
Speaker 1: years ago, I don't know. I was just like, it's
Speaker 1: thirty five years ago. Let's say, okay, it gives you
Speaker 1: like it gives you, It gives you chills thinking about it.
Speaker 1: And he says, oh yeah, I hook you up with
Speaker 1: him right away. And as soon as I said it.
Speaker 2: To Connor, he was in.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it was like a blessing yea,
Speaker 1: because in order to do what I was talking about
Speaker 1: in that movie, to get you on the edge of
Speaker 1: your seat, they did it.
Speaker 3: They did it, and you know which you know, I
Speaker 3: was watching Game seven on Amazon. I was watching in
Speaker 3: the twenty sixteen World Series between the Cubs and the Indians,
Speaker 3: and like you said, you capture the prep the storylines
Speaker 3: of the last game seven going into the game, the
Speaker 3: excitement from the player's perspective on both sides of the teams,
Speaker 3: which is an awesome thing. It's a really cool concept.
Speaker 3: And you know, the one thing that got me thinking is,
Speaker 3: you know, this is such a fucking great show. But
Speaker 3: why does he hate football? Ah, because there's no Game
Speaker 3: seven in football? No, I know, but this is.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Now, I'm glad you brought that up because
Speaker 1: I was thinking in the car on my way over
Speaker 1: here to talk to you. You know, I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking to Chop Liver over here, the dog
Speaker 1: guy who's got the rings.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know you got you tonight as you're not, bro,
Speaker 1: you do not do not you know it's your But
Speaker 1: that preparation, that's the same thing I'm thinking, like an
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you that now because you know what
Speaker 1: I'm going for. What we're going for at Game seven
Speaker 1: with at Amazon, uh, with with these guys. By the way,
Speaker 1: you don't you notice it's five episodes. Howre you looking
Speaker 1: at a producer? You gotta know that I asked them
Speaker 1: to do seven. Yeah, okay, okay, sick. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be This is gonna knock you off your seat. You're
Speaker 1: gonna do five of them. It's called Game seven.
Speaker 6: Were the two that didn't get made? What?
Speaker 1: Oh? This? Oh by the way, just look up Game seven.
Speaker 1: There are there are tons of Game sevens, and I
Speaker 1: there are Game sevens on the on the dock that
Speaker 1: if we get picked up for another season, I will
Speaker 1: definitely we will have. You know, I was gonna do
Speaker 1: one with the game.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, Jack, what Game seven do you do? That
Speaker 3: comes up to your mind instantly? That should have been made?
Speaker 6: Let me think here, Well, it was interesting.
Speaker 7: You guys did the two thousand and three Yankees Red
Speaker 7: Sox and not two thousand.
Speaker 3: And four, which both have their own games, so you
Speaker 3: grow up half.
Speaker 6: A Yankee's house. It makes sense.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, go ahead, I don't know. It's tough games,
Speaker 4: the toughest Game seven of all time. It's a very
Speaker 4: hard question because we're on the search for the greatest
Speaker 4: game of all time. So we got these lists, we've
Speaker 4: seen these games and yes. So seeing this in doc
Speaker 4: for my man, it was well.
Speaker 3: You can imagine like sitting there with the game seven's
Speaker 3: down there. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And so like when I went Morollo, right yeah, right,
Speaker 1: I went where I said, they say, somebody, somebody just
Speaker 1: in passing said oh, you're gonna do a cup You're
Speaker 1: gonna well you gotta tell you gotta talk to Tom Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I go, oh shit, you know, not only do
Speaker 1: I love his music and his sensibility about the world. Uh,
Speaker 1: I called him up and I think it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, Hi, it's Danny DeVito.
Speaker 3: Why Danny you know?
Speaker 2: And people take my call?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know how you have to get before
Speaker 1: people don't take your call. I mean, so I am,
Speaker 1: I've been around and so I said, you know we're
Speaker 1: doing this, blah blah blah, and I give him a runda. Man,
Speaker 1: he was like on it, like right, you know, rice,
Speaker 1: some white on Rice.
Speaker 3: He was ready to go. He killed it in that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. He loves the Cubs. He loved he
Speaker 3: loved that.
Speaker 2: He was like just so on.
Speaker 3: It from a little boy like his story was awesome
Speaker 3: to learn his fandom of this such a heroic like
Speaker 3: story book kind of team that the Cubs were to
Speaker 3: see and get to capture how much agony this fan
Speaker 3: group has gone through over what was it one hundred
Speaker 3: and eight years? Yeah, and something like this, see and
Speaker 3: he's like a rock star, superstar, and like how it
Speaker 3: affects everyone. That's how big sport is. That's why this
Speaker 3: this concept of Game seven, which is on Amazon is
Speaker 3: freaking it's got to see watch it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so that was that's the.
Speaker 1: Enthusiasm of it and and how it sells in a way.
Speaker 1: If I to call somebody like that like that is
Speaker 1: who has is? Uh? Is such an icon himself to say.
Speaker 1: And and Billy Crystal, who's a good friend of mine, right,
Speaker 1: Billy Crystal, you know throw Mama from the.
Speaker 3: Train, the same lady from the Goonies by the way,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 1: God rest his soul anyway, So the thing is I
Speaker 1: call Billy Billy was like on it like like this, right,
Speaker 1: and then that damn actors strike happened because we would
Speaker 1: have had that, We would have had that one, right.
Speaker 3: But we're gonna go there hopefully.
Speaker 1: You know, God, God, from your mouth to God's ears,
Speaker 1: we have a season two, and we have a list
Speaker 1: of things that we are gonna attack and go for
Speaker 1: and uh you know, and and now let's get back
Speaker 1: to football for a second, because you you because I
Speaker 1: did say I was thinking about this on the way there.
Speaker 1: You see, the whole feeling of Game seven to me
Speaker 1: is it's much broader than just It's just much deeper
Speaker 1: and much richer than just you know, Okay, there's a
Speaker 1: series of Game seven and best out of uh seven,
Speaker 1: and and we're gonna go everybody's.
Speaker 3: You're Game six and that's that.
Speaker 1: That's gonna blow your mind and everything as a fan,
Speaker 1: as a person who you know, cares about the team,
Speaker 1: as a players a player, huh.
Speaker 3: Well you care about as a person that cares about
Speaker 3: a team, you care about two teams because your mom
Speaker 3: and dad got no.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying that. I'm just talking about, like
Speaker 1: if you're looking at like from the player's point of view, Okay,
Speaker 1: what is it like for you? Okay, there's not It's
Speaker 1: not a Game seven. It's it's it's a super Bowl, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Can't give me a break,
Speaker 1: you know this was what are we talking about? Super
Speaker 1: is in the title.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Now, this is the thing you see, like people go, Okay,
Speaker 1: these athletes are training there there, it's ingrained, it's in
Speaker 1: their blood, it's in their spirit.
Speaker 3: But it's a super Bowl. You you gotta get that.
Speaker 3: You gotta do it.
Speaker 1: You don't do it, you don't do it. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: got to be a winner. It's got to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're just trying to capture the doer die moment
Speaker 3: moment because Game seven it's winner go home. It's it's
Speaker 3: it's the last game. You're just trying to capture the
Speaker 3: doer die moment, last game of the season. It's like
Speaker 3: Game seven could be a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: It's like a young man who's like totally passionately in
Speaker 1: love with this woman, right, and he's already bought the
Speaker 1: engagement ring, and he's way out in the foyer and
Speaker 1: and and somebody comes in and says, yes, mister so
Speaker 1: and so, will see you now. And you walk in
Speaker 1: the door and there's your father standing there.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean, whatever he is, and you're and
Speaker 1: you're going, you know what you're gonna say?
Speaker 2: What are you say, mister so and so?
Speaker 3: I am totally, totally in love and.
Speaker 1: Dedicated to your daughter. May I have her hand in marriage?
Speaker 1: Game seven motherfucker written all over it. That feeling is like,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, tonight is his night? How
Speaker 1: many night right there?
Speaker 3: Would have done a little different?
Speaker 2: What will you do?
Speaker 3: So? You know, like I don't know. I just when
Speaker 3: you said going in to talk to the dad, I
Speaker 3: started thinking, you said, may I wouldn't you want to
Speaker 3: be the guy who says, hey, I'm taking your daughter.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, man, you're a tough guy. Man, you go,
Speaker 1: you go, You're going to you going too don cor
Speaker 1: Leoni's house and say I'm taking your daughter.
Speaker 3: And see how far out the doors to.
Speaker 1: Dinner to dinner, sir, to dinner to dinner to dinner.
Speaker 6: Dinner, Jules is singles?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, yeah, just around. No, I know, I
Speaker 3: think it's I think it's it's the thing I.
Speaker 1: Have a I like and and like I say, that's
Speaker 1: what I was talking about when I say, you know,
Speaker 1: broadening it out like it means lots. Every day we
Speaker 1: go through you know this game sevens there are these
Speaker 1: decisions that that could change the course of your entire life.
Speaker 1: I remember one vividly.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: It was nineteen seventy eight, and I was, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm actor. I'd done Cuckoo's Nest. But I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, going up for little parts. People all thought
Speaker 1: I was nuts, you know, when they saw Cucka's ness.
Speaker 1: They said, this guy is like a you know, like
Speaker 1: an inmate, you know. And so I was, you know,
Speaker 1: going up for parts for various things, and the guy
Speaker 1: said to me, you have to. It was a casting director,
Speaker 1: and I meet these guys. These are the krem de
Speaker 1: la Creme guys. It's Jim Brooks, Ed Weinberger, Stan Daniels,
Speaker 1: Dave Davis. They created Mary Tyler Moore, they created Room
Speaker 1: twenty two. They wrote a you know, lou Grant blah blah,
Speaker 1: all this stuff.
Speaker 2: I never watched television.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, you know, okay, I'll go and I
Speaker 1: read the script and it's the part of Louis de
Speaker 1: Palmer and I go, wait, you got to make an impression, right.
Speaker 1: So I walk in the office and they're all sitting
Speaker 1: there in the beautiful you know, it's.
Speaker 2: Like like really lush.
Speaker 1: You know, sofa like this, and I'm walking in. There's
Speaker 1: a chair there and casting it. It's the guy's office.
Speaker 1: It was that paramount. There were big shots, you know,
Speaker 1: all the actors. You'd come over there and I had
Speaker 1: the script in my hand and I said, I said
Speaker 1: to him. They introduced me, and I said, one thing
Speaker 1: I want to know before we start who wrote this ship?
Speaker 1: And I flew it on the table. Okay, okay, and
Speaker 1: now I walked for one tiny little men second in
Speaker 1: terror shit and then they laughed there okay, and Louie
Speaker 1: walked into their life. Okay, So these guys are this
Speaker 1: you know? Okay, So we rehearsed the show. We had
Speaker 1: ten days of rehearsal, and we're gonna do a pilot.
Speaker 1: Now this is big because this means this is a
Speaker 1: huge show. Everybody tells me was gonna be like, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a It's either're gonna it's ABC and all
Speaker 1: this stuff Taxi. So I am like, you know, shipping
Speaker 1: my pants all week. We're getting ready to were rehearsing.
Speaker 1: Everybody's in the same boat. We know we're doing it.
Speaker 1: We're doing the runs, we're doing the things, we're doing
Speaker 1: the lines, we're doing the you know, we do the blocking.
Speaker 1: We're there with the director. We have the same blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. And the night of the pilot shoot, there's
Speaker 1: three hundred people in the audience and I get to
Speaker 1: the my dressing room early. I always do that, try to,
Speaker 1: you know, psych myself up, get get into the mode,
Speaker 1: get in, get ready to go out.
Speaker 2: And there's a.
Speaker 1: Little plant, this tiny little plant like sitting on my dresser,
Speaker 1: and it's got a note and it's from Jim Brooks
Speaker 1: and the and the boys, and it says, huh, it's
Speaker 1: like a little like a real gnarly little looking thing,
Speaker 1: but you know, not creative, nothing fancy, nothing fancy. It's
Speaker 1: in a clay pot. And and a note says dear Danny,
Speaker 1: as Louis de Palma would say, if you don't do
Speaker 1: good tonight, you'll be eating ship tomorrow.
Speaker 3: No, what are you thinking of that? That's my game seven, baby, man.
Speaker 1: You're preparing, You got everything on the line, and you
Speaker 1: go out and that guy goes action, and there you go,
Speaker 1: and you're in front of all those cameras in the
Speaker 1: audience and whatever, and you you are you want to be.
Speaker 3: On your game. Yeah, that's like what you go through.
Speaker 1: So that's what I was getting at with football, Like
Speaker 1: what is that like? What is that daylight for you?
Speaker 1: I mean is you know, maybe somebody will say it's
Speaker 1: a blase thing. I just go and do it, But
Speaker 1: what is that like from that morning?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Danny, I was blessed enough to play
Speaker 3: in four of them and win three. So you got
Speaker 3: to kind of refine the routine. And that's what a
Speaker 3: lot of athletes are. We're creatures of habit and we're
Speaker 3: creatures of routine. And so that specific week, you travel
Speaker 3: a week early and you're out of your your own
Speaker 3: team's facility and you're working out on in a different zone.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're doing everything to kind of a different facility.
Speaker 3: So like we were at like there zon A Cardinals
Speaker 3: because it was in Arizona, we're at their facilities. So
Speaker 3: you're doing everything that week to try to make your
Speaker 3: routine exactly what got you there. All the little things
Speaker 3: your prehab, your rehab, your weightlifting, your ball drills, your
Speaker 3: extra outs, your extra catches, you do all those exact
Speaker 3: same things that you did all year was what got
Speaker 3: you there. So that's something that I would do and
Speaker 3: you know that that's kind of that is a game
Speaker 3: seven moment Like everyone sees just that one game, but
Speaker 3: like you're saying, and what you capture in your own
Speaker 3: in game seven the documentaries, is that all the work
Speaker 3: you put in for that one moment. That's the crazy thing, Like,
Speaker 3: how did you prepare for a big role, like when
Speaker 3: you had to go do you know, the Cuckoo's Nest?
Speaker 3: Or when you had to get all disgusting and become
Speaker 3: the penguin and become or when you were the asshole
Speaker 3: fucking dad in Matilda like or when you're you know,
Speaker 3: Benedict fucking Twins. How did when you had like a
Speaker 3: real scene that you had to really well, that's that
Speaker 3: challenged you. What was your preparation?
Speaker 1: Well, in the in the in the movies, you know,
Speaker 1: in the movies and I, you know, in in sports,
Speaker 1: you're relying on You're relying on your teammates, you're relying
Speaker 1: on the coach, you're relying on the plays that are.
Speaker 3: Called the equipment staff. You're every single component. And it's
Speaker 3: the same thing in the movies.
Speaker 1: We're relying on the sound people, were relying on the
Speaker 1: camera man, we're relying on the director, We're relying on
Speaker 1: each other. Arnold and I or in Cuckoo's Nest, Jack
Speaker 1: with everybody. We had ten days of rehearsal for Cuckoo's Nest.
Speaker 3: We were in a.
Speaker 1: Mental institution in Salem, Oregon that was closed except for
Speaker 1: the upstairs floor. Was the the the real heavy duty
Speaker 1: bad guys.
Speaker 3: It was the maximum security board.
Speaker 2: And so it's all.
Speaker 1: It's all those components coming together. In movies, it gets
Speaker 1: the it's it's kind of like it's extended beyond the
Speaker 1: the making of the movie because now you have all
Speaker 1: the little elements that the director has put together in
Speaker 1: his mind, Like Daniel has done all the work on
Speaker 1: Game seven. He's put all the elements. He knows all
Speaker 1: the all the ins and outs, and how is he
Speaker 1: how's this All these puzzle pieces are going to fit
Speaker 1: together so that you the viewer can get the first
Speaker 1: experience that that that jolt of adrenaline hopefully that the
Speaker 1: people had in the stands that night. That what we're
Speaker 1: doing with Game seven. But it's the same thing in movies.
Speaker 1: What happens is it all funnels down to basically the director.
Speaker 1: Okay that the directors, Why well, because you have the
Speaker 1: director is the only reason to become a director is
Speaker 1: because the position of God is already filled. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you're you're there are many God too, Yeah, well you're God,
Speaker 1: and so you you are. You know, you rely on
Speaker 1: desperately rely on the costume designer, the makeup people, the hair,
Speaker 1: the wardrobe, the this that, the set designers, the lighting designers,
Speaker 1: all of these elements, because what's important is what's in
Speaker 1: that little little frame. That's the light that's going through
Speaker 1: that that element that's going to be recorded years ago
Speaker 1: on film these days on ones and zeros, and then
Speaker 1: that all goes funneled back into the editing room where
Speaker 1: you and your other team. It's the same team, big
Speaker 1: big different people. The editor, the assistant editor, the sound people,
Speaker 1: the colorists, the people are doing all the special facts,
Speaker 1: anything you need, whatever's going onto that element that's gonna
Speaker 1: wind up going into a place where you're gonna color corrected. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna make the sound right, You're gonna do
Speaker 1: all that stuff and then you're gonna.
Speaker 2: Show it. That's the kickoff right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, yeah, that's that's that's the kickoff of the game.
Speaker 1: Right kickoff bag and that you could do now it's
Speaker 1: out there. Frame one has been projected, has been projected
Speaker 1: on that screen, and there's a thousand people in the
Speaker 1: audience or whatever looking at your baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like you know, that's what coaches say.
Speaker 3: The work's already in the bank, it's already there. Once
Speaker 3: the game starts to go with it. Now, it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Whatever is gonna happen, it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, see now.
Speaker 3: But for you though, individually and like an acting scene,
Speaker 3: like in a Game seven acting scene for you where
Speaker 3: it was a role or it was a scene that
Speaker 3: you knew you had to fucking knock out the park,
Speaker 3: you had to do really good. Like what was it
Speaker 3: like which one of those scenes? What did you do
Speaker 3: to get prepared for that in the trailer? Did you
Speaker 3: like do like a breath thing, did you fall back
Speaker 3: on your research or the character, or like how did
Speaker 3: you cope with or did you not get anxiety? Or
Speaker 3: did you know all those things? All all of the
Speaker 3: above everything you mentioned.
Speaker 2: It's it's a it's a similar thing like.
Speaker 1: What you do as a as a as an athlete,
Speaker 1: as a as a you know, uh, a player, a
Speaker 1: person who is a professional. That's that's what you do
Speaker 1: so everything, all those little rituals and all those things
Speaker 1: that you do, like you know, uh, during before you
Speaker 1: get ready to go out and do a scene, and
Speaker 1: that all all of those things apply and you and and.
Speaker 3: And they're very very very important, I mean.
Speaker 1: And then and to get you to the moment when
Speaker 1: you know, whether you're trying out for a little league
Speaker 1: where you're trying to out for.
Speaker 2: Whatever it is that gets you.
Speaker 1: You start learning those things at an early age, whether
Speaker 1: I'm doing children's theater when I'm starting out, or whether
Speaker 1: I'm doing off Broadway or I'm going to Broadway. I
Speaker 1: did a Broadway show last year with my daughter. I
Speaker 1: was really happy to do that. I need that. That
Speaker 1: was the name of the play. And uh, you know.
Speaker 2: All the rituals that she does.
Speaker 1: Every actor has their own and their method of preparing
Speaker 1: for that to get yourself turn your wheel. The emotions
Speaker 1: and the colors that you live every day, we all
Speaker 1: live them, whether it's you know, the pain, the thoughts,
Speaker 1: the depressions, the elations, all these things, and to try
Speaker 1: to funnel that into the whatever the dictated dictated by
Speaker 1: the script, dictated by what the author is saying, whether
Speaker 1: it's you know uh Neil Simon or Tennessee William bo
Speaker 1: Goldman or you know Ken Kesey.
Speaker 3: Or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Those things all play an element into that thing, and
Speaker 1: you perform them and you prepare for every It's like
Speaker 1: every single role you play is your baby, and every
Speaker 1: part you do is.
Speaker 2: Is treated in that way.
Speaker 1: Now, I've done things like on stage where I've had
Speaker 1: some a couple of funny things happened.
Speaker 2: One thing, you know, I had a ritual.
Speaker 1: I was in a play off Broadway and it was
Speaker 1: a garage on Wooster Street. The Wooster Garage was called
Speaker 1: it was the theater, and it was it had bleachers, right,
Speaker 1: so there audience in the bleachers, and it was a
Speaker 1: thrust stage. So in other words, it just comes out
Speaker 1: a bit. And there was one step off and there's
Speaker 1: the audience and they're all there. And I'm in a
Speaker 1: play with Peter Regert, who was a wonderful actor. And
Speaker 1: this is like many years ago, and the play is
Speaker 1: called Call Me Charlie, and I play a guy who's
Speaker 1: a janitor who gets stuck in a night watchman who
Speaker 1: falls asleep and has some hallucinations that he's in a
Speaker 1: Charlie Chan movie. And and but he's in the astoria
Speaker 1: and there's all the props and everything that they shot
Speaker 1: all the movies there, and he finds himself in a
Speaker 1: that's the premise. So I'm on stage for an hour
Speaker 1: and a half, let's put it that way, and all
Speaker 1: the different characters come in and out and in and out.
Speaker 3: And I had a ritual every night.
Speaker 1: I got there very early, Like I said, I always
Speaker 1: get to the theater early. I do my yogo whatever,
Speaker 1: breathing this, that and the other thing, whatever gets you,
Speaker 1: you know, have a tee, have my whatever, and get
Speaker 1: ready put on you know, if you got any costumes
Speaker 1: to get yourself in the mode of a certain kind
Speaker 1: of meal, if you have whatever, whatever, you've chosen to
Speaker 1: take that path, that journey to your performance. And every
Speaker 1: night I did the same thing. And then the last thing,
Speaker 1: you know, you go out before you go, you take
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be on stage for now and a half
Speaker 1: to take a leak, right, you know, go out stage.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, bing lights are on, full house, audience,
Speaker 1: people are going. Peter Regert's on stage talking to me,
Speaker 1: and we're in the middle of the second scene, and
Speaker 1: I realized there's one thing I forgot to do, p
Speaker 1: forgot to peek. Okay, you pish yourself.
Speaker 2: No, No, here's the good thing.
Speaker 3: The football guy would. Well, that's a different story. You
Speaker 3: can't you.
Speaker 1: Know, you know you you you would have to pish yourself,
Speaker 1: your football player as an actor.
Speaker 3: I know that's theater. I know where it is.
Speaker 1: I know that down stage right there's the men's room
Speaker 1: for the for the audience, and downstage left there's the
Speaker 1: men's room that the ladies room for the for the audience.
Speaker 1: So during the scene, I start inching closer to the downstage.
Speaker 2: Left or right.
Speaker 1: No, I'm going to the right toilet. And Peter's starting
Speaker 1: to figure out something wacky here. Why is Danny changing
Speaker 1: the blocket right? And then at one point he realizes,
Speaker 1: now the scene goes on right and the audience starts
Speaker 1: getting hiped to it. Now, So I go down, I
Speaker 1: take the step off the stage, I go into the
Speaker 1: men's room right.
Speaker 2: I leave the door open.
Speaker 1: And and he's standing by the front of the men's room,
Speaker 1: and we're still doing our dialogue, and I'm pissing and
Speaker 1: and and it's going on, and the audience is all gone.
Speaker 1: They're going wild, right because they know what's you know,
Speaker 1: the dilemma. And I come out and and and I
Speaker 1: and I say, ah, you know, something like the pous
Speaker 1: It refreshes and the goes crazy, and it's.
Speaker 2: A tempting thing to leave in every night. But the
Speaker 2: playwright's not gonna.
Speaker 3: Let you do that, because improv baby, improv baby.
Speaker 2: You gotta be adaptive, adaptive.
Speaker 3: Ow. Now, you clearly have such a crazy passion for
Speaker 3: acting and directing. Do you ever think about doing a
Speaker 3: sports movie? Doing a sports movie? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know, there was a sports movie once on the
Speaker 1: on the books, but I don't I don't remember quite
Speaker 1: being a you know. The closest I came to that
Speaker 1: is I I played Rocky Marciano's corner man in uh,
Speaker 1: in a wonderful Barry Levinson movie called Survivor. Had a
Speaker 1: small part in it, but I played Charlie.
Speaker 3: Goldman and it was like really cool.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: But no, I've never you know, I've never thought to
Speaker 1: do any given Sunday or anything like that.
Speaker 3: No dream role of like any athlete you'd like to do,
Speaker 3: you know, like like you know, the world's greatest curler. Hey,
Speaker 3: I don't know, that could be fun? Yeah, fun, that
Speaker 3: could be I want to see the inside. I want
Speaker 3: to see I.
Speaker 1: Think, yeah we should definitely. Yeah, yeah, that's that's the
Speaker 1: way the way it is. You know, really like I no,
Speaker 1: I haven't had that that that desire, although you know
Speaker 1: I I.
Speaker 2: Do like sports movies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now you had what's it you had, Billy Crystal?
Speaker 3: You ever had you ever get to talk about with
Speaker 3: Bill Murray about those cubs?
Speaker 1: No, I'm I'm I know Bill Murray. We we we
Speaker 1: we met each other. We haven't bumped into each other
Speaker 1: a lot, but I know, I know there is a
Speaker 1: plethora of like yeah, you know, he's like, uh, there's
Speaker 1: a treasure trove of of stories and his passion is
Speaker 1: like well known for the see, I'm we're fledgling. Game
Speaker 1: seven is just starting out. We're like just beginning with Amazon,
Speaker 1: and we're hoping that they we we get we get
Speaker 1: a good enough audience that they'll they'll go, you know, hey, Danny,
Speaker 1: you were right. We should have given you the other
Speaker 1: two plus we'll give you seven for next season. But
Speaker 1: let's do it because there are so many there are
Speaker 1: so many beautiful stories to be told, and the people
Speaker 1: that were with words and pictures, this group of people
Speaker 1: that are that will do the you know, do the
Speaker 1: digging to the footage and Adam Silver and people that
Speaker 1: you know, all the people that in the in the
Speaker 1: in the various you know, uh clubs, the n b
Speaker 1: A and the NFL and where we we we have
Speaker 1: I'd like to do a gold the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3: Yeah one with Lebron you know, come on, we've got to.
Speaker 2: Please yeah.
Speaker 3: Universe with Arnold to Yeah, they do that.
Speaker 2: No, definitely. Well, Arnold and I are good friends.
Speaker 1: I love the guy and we're gonna we're working on
Speaker 1: a screenplay right now that hopefully next season we'll be
Speaker 1: able to like, uh get some traction with.
Speaker 3: But we're we're excited to work together again. He's a
Speaker 3: he had to have been pretty fun to work with.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you two guys such a good time.
Speaker 3: He's so talented too.
Speaker 1: And he's funny and just genuine like good spirited guy
Speaker 1: and uh, you know he's he's you know, he's a
Speaker 1: good man, a truly good brother.
Speaker 3: Now at work, like when you guys go to a
Speaker 3: work day, was he like just a fun guy to
Speaker 3: be around. He reminds me of like how Gronk was
Speaker 3: when I was at we were at work in the
Speaker 3: locker room. Gronki just a funny like a big old
Speaker 3: labor labrador. Yeah, just happy, always farting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was having a good time. You know.
Speaker 2: We we did this.
Speaker 1: He had this trailer full of equipment when we did
Speaker 1: Twins and it was like a big you know.
Speaker 3: Full of all kinds workout stuff and there was a
Speaker 3: bike in there.
Speaker 1: So he said, you know, if you want to come
Speaker 1: and you know, any dad Dan, you know, Okay, So
Speaker 1: I go in like lunchtime, I put my sweats on,
Speaker 1: I go in, I do I do the life.
Speaker 2: Cycle or whatever it was. Uh. I think it was
Speaker 2: level four for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I mean, really just barely broke
Speaker 1: a sweat, you know. And he does, you know, he
Speaker 1: puts it up to the levels twelve and like eighty
Speaker 1: eighty and it's just like so different. And we would
Speaker 1: work out and do a half hour or so nice
Speaker 1: workout and then we go have a little light lunch
Speaker 1: because we were He's always talking to me about you know,
Speaker 1: taking the gut off and uh, and I'm always yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to stay healthy and uh and
Speaker 1: then you know, we'd be finishing up. Of course you
Speaker 1: break out the stogies and the next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: one of his of his his friends, people assistants would
Speaker 1: the door would open end up, big gooey ass.
Speaker 2: Dessert would walk in and I got on with you, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: Man, You're you're killing me man, you know, And but
Speaker 1: I would have it. And we always had fun, oh love, Oh,
Speaker 1: never a dull moment with Arnold.
Speaker 3: I can only imagine. He seems like a fun dude.
Speaker 2: He's a fun dude.
Speaker 3: Now, what's your favorite role you've ever one? And then
Speaker 3: and then also your favorite and then what's what do
Speaker 3: you think is your most iconic? Well, I, I, you know.
Speaker 1: Have a lot of like roles that like I've been
Speaker 1: blessed with from you know, Cuckoo's Nest all the way
Speaker 1: to what I'm doing now. It's always Sonny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Frank is like the most uh you know, self centered,
Speaker 1: like who gives a ship character? He doesn't care about
Speaker 1: anybody except himself. He loves the guys and and his
Speaker 1: two fake kids, his kids because my wife was a whore,
Speaker 1: you know, so she was probably you know, but there
Speaker 1: you know, the tall blondes you know beautiful, you know,
Speaker 1: Caitlyn Olson then and Glenn Howardson and Rob mcelhaney and
Speaker 1: Charlie Day, wonderful people who work with that, work with them,
Speaker 1: working with him now. But like you know, people will
Speaker 1: come up to you and say, well, they'll go you know,
Speaker 1: they like the Twins character and they like Matilda and
Speaker 1: they you know, Matilda.
Speaker 3: I get a lot because young kids.
Speaker 1: The great thing about Matilda is that the new generations,
Speaker 1: the kids, the young girls and boys, pass them on
Speaker 1: to their siblings and they get to see those movies. Batman,
Speaker 1: you know, the penguin Oswald Copple plot is high on
Speaker 1: the list.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of people who are like younger.
Speaker 1: Ones, you know, terrified of Oswald that I'm gonna steal
Speaker 1: them away and cook them for dinner or something like that.
Speaker 1: But you know, I get a lot of that, and
Speaker 1: and of course, so you know, you can't pick a favorite, because.
Speaker 3: It's like children. They're like your kids, like your kids,
Speaker 3: like your kids. Have you seen the New Penguin at all?
Speaker 3: In cosl Yes Owens was like one of my kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Colin is a it's a totally different take on it.
Speaker 3: And uh, and I god, bless him for doing it.
Speaker 3: And you know, I h.
Speaker 1: I take my hat off to him for sitting in
Speaker 1: the makeup chair for all that time, because I did
Speaker 1: it for three hours every day, and uh, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a different take on it and it's fun. Pay
Speaker 1: was not a good guy. I mean, it's not not
Speaker 1: a good guy. I mean I think working with Tim Well,
Speaker 1: I just did the Beetle Juice Beatle Juice. I got
Speaker 1: a little part in there. We we just Tim and
Speaker 1: I have done five movies together. We did, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: besides Batman Returns and Beetlejuice and uh, you know, Dumbo
Speaker 1: and Mars Attacks and things. You know, there's a there's
Speaker 1: a cookie, there's a there's a there's a really cool
Speaker 1: thing in HALFA because I directed HALFA and he came
Speaker 1: to visit today.
Speaker 2: I was doing a scene.
Speaker 1: Where there were coffins laid out after some big fight
Speaker 1: between the you know, the bosses and the workers and
Speaker 1: you know the unions, and and I wanted one coffin
Speaker 1: to be open, right, And Kim was there just visiting,
Speaker 1: and I said to me, would you would you like
Speaker 1: to do a part in my in you know, in
Speaker 1: a huffa. He said, yeah, what I said, Okay, a
Speaker 1: little more white makeup on him, and it made him
Speaker 1: look a little bit more dead. Yeah, he always looks
Speaker 1: a little bit like weird. And he's got the black
Speaker 1: hair and it's all over the place. And he was
Speaker 1: in black already. We gave him a costume, give him
Speaker 1: a nice suit. I laid him in a coffin and
Speaker 1: I did a shot over the top of the coffins
Speaker 1: like this, like so looking down on the coffins, all
Speaker 1: the closed coffins, and then go past the open coffin,
Speaker 1: and then it went up to Nicholson. Who was on
Speaker 1: the stage in that last open coffin is Kim Kim Burton.
Speaker 2: So if you look at the movie, I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to look at it. Check that out. Nugget. It's a
Speaker 2: little nugget.
Speaker 3: Love a nugget.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back after this quick break. Let's let's
Speaker 4: let's go and score this game.
Speaker 3: And we gotta name this game. The name of the
Speaker 3: game twenty sixteen World Series game between the Cubs and Indians.
Speaker 3: Do you got a name for this game? There? We
Speaker 3: have a couple names. What do you think we should pick?
Speaker 3: The curse breaker.
Speaker 2: Bye Bye bye bye Billy Cob.
Speaker 3: The Curse of the Billy Goes strikes again.
Speaker 1: I think I think bye bye Billy Goat, Bye Bye
Speaker 1: bye bye Billy Goat.
Speaker 3: Man's score the game? Is this the greatest game of
Speaker 3: all time? Let's score now, Danny. The stakes of this
Speaker 3: game seven game World Series routs. You gotta score zero
Speaker 3: to one decimal is okay? Two droughts for two cities
Speaker 3: that have known nothing but heartbreak?
Speaker 2: Oh man, the stakes of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, zero to ten.
Speaker 2: Oh it's ten ten oh ten? Oh stakes.
Speaker 3: I think it's like a nine to five. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It is twenty one million Americans watching. I mean it's
Speaker 4: in there, twenty one million, insane.
Speaker 3: That's big for baseball. In the star Power star Power
Speaker 3: zero ten, Lebron James is there. Lebron was in at
Speaker 3: the games there. Oh you've got the game. Oh they
Speaker 3: were all there. Every star is there but stars.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah no, no, I'm saying like, I'll give it
Speaker 1: to nine nine nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I'm gonna go with the nine as well.
Speaker 3: I went nine to five five five.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 3: This is the story, game gameplay, the game play, the delay,
Speaker 3: rain domain runs. Come on, that's a nine. That's a nine.
Speaker 3: I think that's a nine. That's big. That's big. Baby.
Speaker 3: The name of the name, Evan, you got to you
Speaker 3: gotta the name of the game. You gotta score the name.
Speaker 3: The billy, what is it by by b that's a
Speaker 3: great one. But yeah, we got it, Bye bye Billy.
Speaker 3: But you gotta score the name. Now, score the name.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a great And that's a ten. Yeah, baby,
Speaker 3: are you ship? Let's go that's a ten. That's eight
Speaker 3: for me. All right, what do you want to say?
Speaker 3: What do you want to call it? I like, okay,
Speaker 3: where does it stack up to all the games that
Speaker 3: we've done? Where does it rank on our board?
Speaker 4: We got to do a nine point one five, nine
Speaker 4: point one ice.
Speaker 6: Nine point one five?
Speaker 7: That puts us just below a miracle on ice, which
Speaker 7: is a nine point one six, and just a Jim
Speaker 7: Crale game two thousand and one AFC Division around Raiders
Speaker 7: versus Patriots.
Speaker 2: Fitting.
Speaker 3: Baby, that's a very high game.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 3: I mean that's good. Baseball needs to be up there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: our highest game set, I mean I.
Speaker 1: Do yeah, huh, yeah, that's that's great that you score
Speaker 1: it and you you know, you do the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I say, being being a enthusiastic adrenaline.
Speaker 3: That's that's what happens.
Speaker 1: That's why I watched these I've watched them a million times.
Speaker 1: When send me cuts of stuff, you know, as the producer.
Speaker 1: But I went as soon as you went on the air,
Speaker 1: I put it on that big screen.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I've watched it three times already. It was awesome, man,
Speaker 3: it was great. So is that three times? So that
Speaker 3: at fifteen? Because there's only five episodes, so you three each?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we nice if there was you know seven seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Avason's got to get your ship together, you know,
Speaker 1: come on, man, Sorry, sorry, mister Bezos.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Well, uh yeah, I'm looking at you board. I do
Speaker 1: I do want to I do want to plug a
Speaker 1: couple of things. Well, I got a movie that.
Speaker 3: I did with my daughter last year called A Sudden
Speaker 3: Case of Christmas. Sudden Cases.
Speaker 1: It's available now on a video on demand tomorrow or
Speaker 1: when you're when you guys air, this will be available
Speaker 1: and I love it.
Speaker 3: With your daughter seven year old and seven year old
Speaker 3: is gonna love this?
Speaker 1: In a Sudden Case Christmas in the nutshell, it's a
Speaker 1: guy who's gotta uh his wife passed away. He has
Speaker 1: a house in the Dolomites in Italy, and he and
Speaker 1: he has and every Christmas his daughter, my daughter Lucy
Speaker 1: to Vito. I mean in the movie, she and her
Speaker 1: husband and her daughter who's ten, her daughter's ten, Yeah,
Speaker 1: come every Christmas. This year, they're coming in the summer.
Speaker 3: And I don't know why, why, it's just and I
Speaker 3: don't know why.
Speaker 1: I think maybe, you know, maybe they're gonna tell me
Speaker 1: they're gonna have another kid.
Speaker 3: No, you know what I mean. And don't give it away. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna don't give it. I want to watch it.
Speaker 1: Well, I just said, maybe they're gonna tell me that,
Speaker 1: But I'm just okay, I want you to watch it.
Speaker 1: It's a very wonderful movie, and there's so much emotion
Speaker 1: and wonderful bright family love. It's love this movie, A
Speaker 1: sudden case of Christmas that's amazing and of course always
Speaker 1: sunny in Philadelphia. You know you can't miss it. You
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta run away from it because.
Speaker 2: We chase you with it.
Speaker 3: Now, is there one Is there one scene that you
Speaker 3: were it was a little too much that you had
Speaker 3: to cut out from always on airs balls go.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we've done We've done things like you know, no, listen,
Speaker 1: you got to cut some scenes. No, we've we've no,
Speaker 1: we don't ever cut scenes. We just go balls to
Speaker 1: the wall, mother fucker. You want it, you got, you got?
Speaker 1: You want to let the suits worry about it. Who's
Speaker 1: coming after them? Like we pitch forks and everything because
Speaker 1: we're putting it up there.
Speaker 3: But we gotta put that on T shirt. Balls to
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you know, go all the way with
Speaker 1: with the with with with the with the creativity of it.
Speaker 1: I mean we're doing we're doing one right now. It's
Speaker 1: like just off the charts. We're doing a crossover. This
Speaker 1: is like two of the oddest. We're doing a crossover
Speaker 1: with Abbot Elementaries.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine?
Speaker 3: I heard about that.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine.
Speaker 3: Third grade teacher? Yeah? So I understand a little bit
Speaker 3: of the behind the like scenes, like teachers hate their lives,
Speaker 3: but can you so comedic like when they have to
Speaker 3: deal with these little kids that are rotten children and
Speaker 3: then they have like their own little sub life when
Speaker 3: they're at the water cooler.
Speaker 1: Just me and and that show is you know, got
Speaker 1: so such great, wholesome good stuff in it. Oh, and
Speaker 1: you put a bunch of monsters in there. That's what
Speaker 1: we did. They threw, They threw through through ab Elementary
Speaker 1: to the Sunny Wolves, and we're ripping them apart.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you, you would.
Speaker 6: Think all those characters would have a distance from the school.
Speaker 6: They would have to be.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, the reason where they are I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1: Tell you because it's too good. A you know, a
Speaker 1: story point. So and it's fun.
Speaker 3: And then lastly, I wanted I had one last thing
Speaker 3: before I let you go. What was it like sitting
Speaker 3: courtside with Jack Nicholas.
Speaker 1: Nicholson Nichols, Jack Nicholson the golf? Okayack, Jack Nicholson. Jack
Speaker 1: Nicholson is the best. Oh, I get one, Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So we did Cuckoo's and uh now was it nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy four? We were up in Salem, Oregon, and the
Speaker 1: Trailblazers are playing. Okay, we're in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1: He's got a car and a couple of people hanging
Speaker 1: out with him. We had Scatman cruthers with us. We
Speaker 1: had nice and you know, there's always a doobie and
Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, we're in the car, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? I contact Hi, I must admit. Okay,
Speaker 1: we get there. He's now a big star. He's a
Speaker 1: major star. At this time, I am just I'm like
Speaker 1: dog shit, like I'm just like a guy on the
Speaker 1: off the street.
Speaker 3: I'm still there. I'm still there.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying at the time, nobody knew, you know,
Speaker 1: they'd never seen Cucko's next yet we were shooting it.
Speaker 1: And we go and of course it's like an arena.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever been to a basketball game
Speaker 1: like that. And he said, come on, d We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a great time. This is really what you want
Speaker 1: anything die, I said, I have a coke, so the
Speaker 1: the there's a person with us. That was a sign
Speaker 1: to getting us to our seats. And she gives me
Speaker 1: a coke half the size of myself and we go
Speaker 1: down the seats. Now every single camera it's focused on him. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's it's the big Trails Blazers game, and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: it's packed.
Speaker 3: And where are our seats gonna be?
Speaker 1: Duh court side right on the on the line, baby, right.
Speaker 1: And we're there and how you doing everything good? I'm
Speaker 1: I'm good, Jack, I'm good.
Speaker 2: It's really fun. And this is so and so and they're.
Speaker 3: Coming over saying hello to him, and there's pictures and
Speaker 3: video and everything, and then this is Danny's in the movie.
Speaker 3: This scot Man.
Speaker 1: We're doing a movie and Salem and he's holding court
Speaker 1: on the court and it's just like every eye in
Speaker 1: the stadium has tour. And it gets to the time
Speaker 1: where we're ready to go, and they're all standing out
Speaker 1: there ready for the ball to be thrown in the
Speaker 1: air and tipped.
Speaker 3: Throw the ball up.
Speaker 1: Just as the guy is tipping the ball, I kicked
Speaker 1: my coke over and the coke goes like this court
Speaker 1: center pooh, and it just.
Speaker 8: Covers soon a tsunami of Coca cola all over, whistles
Speaker 8: blowing shit going on, people running with towels and spray
Speaker 8: buckets and this that and the other thing.
Speaker 9: All the team, every team looking at me like motherfucker. Okay,
Speaker 9: all right, he's fine, looking at me. They wipe it up.
Speaker 9: They're all ready to go, just before they get out there,
Speaker 9: to set up where they're gonna be before the refs
Speaker 9: get out there.
Speaker 2: He looks at me and he goes, you want another coke?
Speaker 3: Dude? I say, yeah, Jack, give me another coke. Probably
Speaker 3: in the coolest manner too. He is the best. Oh,
Speaker 3: thank you so much, man, I appreciate you. Coming on. Everyone,
Speaker 3: go check out Gabe seven on Amazon. Always Sonny in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: Also your your holiday movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a Sudden Case of Christmas.
Speaker 3: Sudden Case of Christmas that he did with his daughter
Speaker 3: on d v O D Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: Man, Old the veto, the coolest man, the absolute man.
Speaker 3: Yo, No do we yet, bro, man, He's so cool,
Speaker 3: so cool.
Speaker 7: I've been watching It's always sunning in Philadelphia ever since
Speaker 7: we knew he was coming to the show.
Speaker 3: You know, you're part of like old Hollywood is when
Speaker 3: he says, you know, when I was doing the movies,
Speaker 3: he said, the movies that Jack Nicholson story.
Speaker 6: You want another coke? Dyd Hey, do you want another coke?
Speaker 3: You want another coke? Wow?
Speaker 4: Unbelievable that in the nuthouse, Danny, that was I'm still
Speaker 4: flying high.
Speaker 3: That was incredible. You know, we didn't really get into
Speaker 3: the game. What who cares that game? There was an
Speaker 3: insane Game seven that we did a lot of research
Speaker 3: on that. I want to I want to get one
Speaker 3: of those players. Yeah, one of those dudes. We got
Speaker 3: to get him. Ras He that was the game.
Speaker 2: J R.
Speaker 4: Smith was in there with his shirt off, threw a rally, monkey,
Speaker 4: I want to rally.
Speaker 3: Who the curse breaker? The o man? That dude is
Speaker 3: what a stud. You gotta go to a casino with
Speaker 3: the I bet you he's fucking rain man. It seems
Speaker 3: like it Bro from I bet you, I bet you
Speaker 3: he could. I bet you he's really good on on cards.
Speaker 4: Show me a curse he'll break it snapped nothing to me, Billy.
Speaker 3: I've been watching a lot of this Red Sox stuff
Speaker 3: and and then watching a lot of this Cubs stuff.
Speaker 3: He know, that's pretty impressive. Man. They was really young
Speaker 3: when he started bro.
Speaker 2: Full on like boy genius. Yeah, and it could walk
Speaker 2: the walk.
Speaker 3: What a fucking what a what a leap of faith
Speaker 3: by the organization.
Speaker 8: Kid.
Speaker 3: That's smart. It worked, baby, it worked, It works. But
Speaker 3: just ones like a Game seven.
Speaker 4: You hadn't want a World Series and one hundred and
Speaker 4: eight years, hundred eight nine years and to go Game
Speaker 4: seven on the road, extra innings.
Speaker 2: That was a game, Like I was a fucking game
Speaker 2: one of the.
Speaker 3: Games away to the weather break, Davis, Man, I remember that, crazy.
Speaker 3: I want to wait. I'm litt save our memories for
Speaker 3: when we get into the game for someone, because we
Speaker 3: got to cover that game. That's a fucking really good game.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: And all the games they do in Game seven are
Speaker 4: just incredible. Of course it's the name, Hey, do or die?
Speaker 4: High stakes baby?
Speaker 6: Little on our turn, I.
Speaker 4: Was gonna say I wanted to pitch Danny. Hey, if
Speaker 4: you need some consultants, baby, we know games. We are
Speaker 4: game Knower's baby.
Speaker 6: I mean I was like this close to having you
Speaker 6: pull up our excels that close.
Speaker 3: For games Phillip, Yeah, we got some docs talk about. Well,
Speaker 3: since we didn't talk about the Cleveland Indians and the
Speaker 3: Chicago Cubs, let's talk about some of the movies, the
Speaker 3: baseball movies, because those have two great movies associated with them.
Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year in Major League Classics. Godens, I
Speaker 3: want to just go.
Speaker 4: I want to go make my little boat with my friends,
Speaker 4: all right. I don't want to have a big ling arm.
Speaker 4: You don't want to you don't want to share with
Speaker 4: mister brigman on the road. What is his name, mister Gardner,
Speaker 4: rock and rocking ice. So let's let's let's go over
Speaker 4: let's do a little Mount Rushmore or something, or let's
Speaker 4: let's go over our top five. I love it best
Speaker 4: baseball movies because there's a lot of great baseball movies.
Speaker 3: It's crazy and they're sneaky ones that that will get
Speaker 3: you yeoh yeah.
Speaker 7: And from all different angles, to like slapstick comedies to
Speaker 7: like you know, family dramas, to cerebral.
Speaker 4: The American past time baby, I mean, I used to
Speaker 4: love for the love of the game all time costner.
Speaker 3: Nothing like Field of Dreams, Field of Dreams insane.
Speaker 7: I recently just want that second and third actor kind
Speaker 7: of wild, like it's like a road trip with fucking
Speaker 7: uh James Earl Jones for like some reason, but like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because if he builds it, they'll come, bro, and
Speaker 3: he saw the fucking ghost walking out that field.
Speaker 6: It's also not they will come, it's he will come
Speaker 6: his dad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he wants. He wants to play one
Speaker 3: last time catch old ball from old pop. Ain't nothing
Speaker 3: more American than that Americ's pastime. We got in there,
Speaker 3: mister baseball. I used to love that when he went
Speaker 3: to j Reynolds that that was all Timer. I mean
Speaker 3: the Sandlot. If you're a sandlot, that's in there.
Speaker 6: James Earl Jones gotta be in there.
Speaker 3: Jones is the out rushmore asters in baseball movies.
Speaker 4: Real, it's all the time. You know, I'm a hard
Speaker 4: I'm a hardball guy. I'm gonna stand on the table
Speaker 4: for hardball, Baby Man Hans and the if you don't
Speaker 4: I wish I was on the key combos Man Man.
Speaker 3: That's a movie.
Speaker 4: It gives me every single time. Jefferson, Albert Tibbs, g
Speaker 4: Baby the gold Crew. Keanu Reeves, Oh, such a cool dude.
Speaker 2: That was such a good movie. Like, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to rewatch that All Timer.
Speaker 3: The rookie is that with the New York Baby that
Speaker 3: was with the Brendon Frasier Or is that this was
Speaker 3: a scout that was a scout? What's the rookie?
Speaker 6: The rookie is uh, Dennis Quaid.
Speaker 3: Dennis quaidh he's the old guy. He's the old It's
Speaker 3: like a Disney joint. Ye, it's actually a true story.
Speaker 3: It's got story from two and a half men in there,
Speaker 3: Bernie Williams and mister three thousand, Bernie Mack, Bernie Mack.
Speaker 7: It's a great premise. We were talking about that earlier.
Speaker 7: Great premise for a movie.
Speaker 4: Anything with Matt I'm in there, Baby Angel was in
Speaker 4: the Outfield.
Speaker 3: I used to love that movie because it used to
Speaker 3: come on, uh this Disney channel. What was the kid's name?
Speaker 6: Christopher Lloyd was the angel?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the kid, I know it's see it's that
Speaker 3: actor McConaughey was. He was a baseball player.
Speaker 4: Glover was the coach, Christopher Lloyd, Yeah, Joseph Gordon Levitt
Speaker 4: was the kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was his name? What was his name in
Speaker 3: the in the movie Roger was it Roger Bondman? I
Speaker 3: remember that. A League of their Own?
Speaker 6: Adrian Brody in that too.
Speaker 3: What a cast? Tom Hanks. I used to love that.
Speaker 3: That was on TBS all the time, so we used
Speaker 3: to always watch those that and like Fried Green Tomatoes.
Speaker 3: Whatever happened to Rosie o'donald loved the Rosie Show when
Speaker 3: I was a kid.
Speaker 6: She's just like printing money and just was like, see you.
Speaker 3: I don't know what else was she she was had
Speaker 3: her own.
Speaker 6: She was she was in that episode.
Speaker 2: Isn't and he was.
Speaker 4: She was his nemesis in the softball League, the New
Speaker 4: York Softball League.
Speaker 3: Her time show. She was like Ellen before Ellen. She
Speaker 3: was when I was a kid. She was like the Ellen.
Speaker 3: Rosie's funny. She used to give away so many things too.
Speaker 3: It's like Diet Oprah, You'll get a car uh Moneyball.
Speaker 7: Moneyball is probably the most well crafted movie out of
Speaker 7: all these. Now there's cultural stuff whatever, but like that
Speaker 7: might be the best movie.
Speaker 4: For full Durham. Costner is also in the Hall of
Speaker 4: Fame for Baseball Movies. Yes, bro so so he's in
Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame for baseball movies. When I think
Speaker 4: cost I've seen, I think baseball, baby, what American pastime?
Speaker 3: But didn't he play in like the Miners or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think he.
Speaker 3: I think he grew up playing baseball. Fever pitch. This
Speaker 3: isn't a soft love that movie. He always talks about it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: They had to rewrite it because the Red Sox won and.
Speaker 2: Jimmy founds a Yankees fan.
Speaker 3: Which one is the babe? Is that the babe ruth one? Yes,
Speaker 3: I think I've seen. Yeah, I think I got to
Speaker 3: rewatch that. It's been a while. I always wanted to
Speaker 3: be good, but it's I didn't remember never yet he
Speaker 3: always wanted because it was the Bad News Bears, the
Speaker 3: original all time, that's original. I remember my dad let
Speaker 3: me watch that and like swore. I think I think
Speaker 3: I rented it from the library. You know, you can
Speaker 3: get movies and CDs at the library. I was getting
Speaker 3: like Bad News Bears in the album Dookie by Green Day,
Speaker 3: like ninety four at the library.
Speaker 4: Dude, those are those are formative years transforming yourself.
Speaker 3: Dude. It was crazy American media. We got Blockbuster, I
Speaker 3: could get Charlie than Chocolate Factory and fucking Bad News
Speaker 3: Bears at the goddamn library for free. Walter Matthew goaded, bro.
Speaker 3: He was giving them red stripes.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, red stripe. And then in the New
Speaker 4: Women in the Billy Bob Thorton, Billy Bob Thornton one
Speaker 4: was good.
Speaker 2: Except they're drinking like, oh, duels man, that's no fun,
Speaker 2: fake beer.
Speaker 3: Come on, different age man.
Speaker 4: Kelly Leek, who has a badass Many League is a
Speaker 4: bad head, all right, So we got to put Bad
Speaker 4: News Bears in There.
Speaker 3: Is Bad News Bears in there, Alter Math, what do
Speaker 3: you think. I don't mean, what's number one is made?
Speaker 3: We didn't even talk about major League Hayes. Yeah, major
Speaker 3: League might have to be one.
Speaker 4: Is that one? I don't think it's one, not one,
Speaker 4: not for me? Okay, okay, Hardball is one for me.
Speaker 4: But I think I'm on my island here. We like
Speaker 4: Field of Dreams being in there. I mean Sandlot is
Speaker 4: probably one.
Speaker 6: Okay, Sandlot's a good number.
Speaker 3: One. Balls got to be in there for artistic integrity,
Speaker 3: can hold the cord. Artistic integrity, Kyler.
Speaker 6: It's not even artistic, it's just a well crafted move.
Speaker 3: It's an artistic integrity Kyler has to have.
Speaker 6: Hey, someone's needs some artistic integrity around here.
Speaker 3: What's that supposed to be? You know?
Speaker 4: My goodness? Moneyball five? Okay, that feels a little low,
Speaker 4: but I like it being in the top five.
Speaker 3: Four.
Speaker 2: The four spot opened up because we moved Sandlot up
Speaker 2: to one. O. Bad News Bears is probably four. Bad
Speaker 2: News Bears goes four.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 6: I don't think Bad News Bears belongs on this list.
Speaker 3: What do you think? Who's your who? What? Honestly?
Speaker 6: Because like major League?
Speaker 3: What about the fucking natural boy wonder.
Speaker 6: Natural Robert Redford, shout.
Speaker 3: Out Redford, bro boy, fucking wonder you put natural at three.
Speaker 3: I'm not matter. Love of the game. Costner when he's old, old,
Speaker 3: older like MLB player on the back nine of his career,
Speaker 3: falls in love with his single mom. He's out there
Speaker 3: in Detroit, baby, then she goes up to Boston. All right, Yes,
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I like, you gotta have some constant representation to be
Speaker 2: in here too.
Speaker 3: I think Field of Dreams is in there.
Speaker 6: I think the dreams is in here too. And I
Speaker 6: would say your.
Speaker 3: Dreams gotta go. Yeah. Two League of their own three.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think I think you got to kill
Speaker 7: bad News Bears and you gotta replace it.
Speaker 6: With Major League. And I think you can probably move
Speaker 6: Major League up to two or three.
Speaker 3: No major leagues three, Okay, major League is three, League
Speaker 3: of their owns four. Rosier Donald was in that too,
Speaker 3: isn't she is? That we were talking about it.
Speaker 7: It was Madonna, yeah, crying in baseball Davis Olympic archer.
Speaker 3: And then what what was the mainly the main ship
Speaker 3: the main girl.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, she was an Olympian too. She's an archer.
Speaker 7: She's in Thumb and Louise.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I used to love that movie too. That's like,
Speaker 3: what was that ninety five?
Speaker 6: It was early Brad Pitt was in that.
Speaker 3: That's crazy. That's did you imagine that? Forty their own?
Speaker 3: That's crazy. We go off to war and all the
Speaker 3: men have to go out so to entertain people. They're like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're going to create a they didn't have girl leagues.
Speaker 3: That's gnarly, pretty sweet movie.
Speaker 6: This is a list.
Speaker 4: Forty million dollars budget made one thirty two pretty good
Speaker 4: league of their own.
Speaker 7: It just remade into a series that didn't quite I
Speaker 7: loved Mister Baseball too, so fun.
Speaker 3: I don't remember it like a lot, but I remember
Speaker 3: watching it a lot.
Speaker 4: Hardball is really good too. That's a sad one. No
Speaker 4: Bull Durham, No Hardball on here, No Dham people.
Speaker 7: Even summer Cat shoutout Cape cod Baseball League.
Speaker 3: Benjarm benchmar Yeah, what's eight man out?
Speaker 2: That was about the Black Sox handle.
Speaker 6: Yeah style movie.
Speaker 7: That story deserves a modern retelling in some way, shape
Speaker 7: or form.
Speaker 2: All Right, I guess I'm pleased with this. I'm pleased
Speaker 2: enough with this list.
Speaker 6: I could you could move around feel the dreams in
Speaker 6: Major league. You could you could switch those if you
Speaker 6: wanted to. But I think you can go to bat
Speaker 6: with this list. Ton't even mean that good.
Speaker 4: Button to recap saying Lot taking the top spot, baby,
Speaker 4: Henry warn Gardener, I hate no, yeah, no, Rack and Ruiser, Man,
Speaker 4: I think Rookie.
Speaker 3: Of the year. What about the one uh with the
Speaker 3: kid with the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, that's that was another one that's on TV
Speaker 4: A little coach.
Speaker 3: It's a little big league, big little.
Speaker 4: We don't have that on the list, do we No,
Speaker 4: I didn't have it here like little big leagues all time.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 7: I think Rookie of the Year is on the outfield
Speaker 7: and the little big league is all because of weare
Speaker 7: of a certain generation.
Speaker 4: Yeah is baseball? Does baseball have the best sports movies?
Speaker 3: I think it does.
Speaker 6: Because it was America's pastime for so long? You know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So what are the football movies?
Speaker 6: Any given Sunday? Deliver the Titans?
Speaker 3: Remember the Titans? I think remember the Titans goes up
Speaker 3: with any of these. I think it's just below Sandlot.
Speaker 3: Sandlight I think is a better movie. First, dude, remember
Speaker 3: the Titans.
Speaker 6: I love, Actually, I don't love the movie. I don't
Speaker 6: like that movie.
Speaker 3: I remember going to see that on Thanksgiving my parents.
Speaker 3: I look at my dad's crime all time, left.
Speaker 6: Stride Okay in the car accident like that.
Speaker 3: United and become a team united earlier. I guess you.
Speaker 4: Don't understand young Gosling, Young Gosling, Sunshine.
Speaker 3: He wasn't Sunshine though, I know, but I'm just I'm
Speaker 3: just riffing here. Whatever happened to Sunshine? Who any given?
Speaker 3: Water Boy?
Speaker 6: Water Boy boy replacement?
Speaker 3: There's more there? What else?
Speaker 6: Replacements? Both of them?
Speaker 3: Replacements? Look at look at look at old Keana. Keanu
Speaker 3: Reeves in some sport movies and he's a hell a
Speaker 3: good shooter. They said he was a could have been
Speaker 3: a good quarterback. Did you see that post or something?
Speaker 4: Talk about that on Instagram the other week, they said,
Speaker 4: they said, when he was doing the replacements, they thought
Speaker 4: of like bringing him in for a tryout for the Ravens.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, come in the nuthouse. We gotta spot.
Speaker 3: We need you to come in and talk about if
Speaker 3: you could come and play on the raven That was
Speaker 3: a good Ravens team when they needed a quarterback. Here's
Speaker 3: I'm going kea.
Speaker 6: Here's a TikTok for us. Here's the hook.
Speaker 7: Could the two thousand Ravens win a Super Bowl with
Speaker 7: Keanu Reeves?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Did you see the Replacements movie? You can throw
Speaker 3: Shane Falco?
Speaker 4: Baby get Shane Falco's on a boat.
Speaker 3: That's how focused he is.
Speaker 4: Brian Billy see Yakman coome Onring Happens?
Speaker 3: Sports Member?
Speaker 6: Who's yours?
Speaker 3: Hoo's yours?
Speaker 6: Two more football movies?
Speaker 3: Rudy, I Love Rudy.
Speaker 6: Also Varsity Blues.
Speaker 3: Oh, great, eighty for Brady, eighty for Brady? Great movie?
Speaker 3: Is it? Great movie? Great movie? Great? Hey my dog
Speaker 3: isn't it? It's a great pay of my dog in it?
Speaker 3: What else is? There's some I don't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe baseball has the best space movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Baseball, best sport movie? Basketball movies?
Speaker 6: How's yours?
Speaker 3: GM?
Speaker 6: Like, what's the spike?
Speaker 1: Lee?
Speaker 2: Rey Allen?
Speaker 3: Oh? He Got Game? That's some beautiful movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Really, that's like one of my favorite movies. There's a Rewatch.
Speaker 2: Hustle with Adam saying, Jawanna man, is that all the time?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yes, dude?
Speaker 4: What if a man played the w n B? A
Speaker 4: classic late nineties early two thousand spremise.
Speaker 6: Does that uncut gems count?
Speaker 3: Yes? I will count it. Bookies Air Air kind of Yes.
Speaker 6: I love that's a movie as a basketball movie, Jason,
Speaker 6: You're never on.
Speaker 4: The court, Coach Carter. Oh, like Mike, how are we
Speaker 4: forgetting like Mike? Like Mike all timer rookie basketball?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Is he bow wow now? Or he's not little
Speaker 3: bow he's just bow wow? Christopher, you're not really mad
Speaker 3: about that? Did he really after he became bow wow?
Speaker 3: When people call him little bow Wow? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just bow and everything. He is thirty seven now,
Speaker 4: he was fucking on top of the world when I
Speaker 4: was Wow bow Wow four point seven million followers on Instagram.
Speaker 3: It's still a little bow wow, bow Wow bro or
Speaker 3: bow Wow? Well? What a game?
Speaker 2: I see DC college memberies doing those ads.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let'll do that.
Speaker 7: We'll do that game. That's a great game. We'll do
Speaker 7: it again. We'll do that game.
Speaker 3: Justice that we got it. That was a fucking that's
Speaker 3: a very important game for baseball. That's a special game.
Speaker 3: And we need someone very special to come in and
Speaker 3: talk Billy Crystal. Maybe we have him coming.
Speaker 6: There's a long like we talked about.
Speaker 3: Bill Murray talk about Bill Martin. He was there. Maybe
Speaker 3: he'll come my dishes at my house. Well, while we're
Speaker 3: fucking talking about it and we randomly ask at least
Speaker 3: expect this is what he does. He goes like fra
Speaker 3: houses or something. He just up wherever all timer cubs fans.
Speaker 3: But regardless, what an episode with Danny I can't.
Speaker 6: Also, we had an.
Speaker 3: All time guest. That couch is so on my all
Speaker 3: time guests. Hey, he's propped up pretty good. Actually he
Speaker 3: was pretty comfy and work.
Speaker 6: You were more uncomfortable than he was.
Speaker 3: Hey, you got Danny Demidos sitting down here, We're all good.
Speaker 3: I was Danny's comfy. I'm comfy. Hey, you cofy and comfy.
Speaker 3: Remember to check out Game seven on Amazon Prime and
Speaker 3: Sudden Case of Christmas both out now that he did
Speaker 3: that with his daughter. Great movie.
Speaker 6: That's a classic, like old Hollywood guy.
Speaker 7: Who like puts some movie together just so we can
Speaker 7: be in Italy with his family.
Speaker 3: Well regardless, it represents family in good time. Great holiday flick.
Speaker 2: We got to check it out.
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