Speaker 1: I've never done anything. Two one and thirty one days
Speaker 1: in a row. There's nothing I can think of. Is
Speaker 1: there anything you can think of that you did?
Speaker 2: Honestly, this is a PG podcast, but uh I no, Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's nothing. There's nothing. Today we have a very special guest.
Speaker 2: He's a legendary comedian, actor and playwright. Now isn't that
Speaker 2: a load of horse? Huge Baltimore fan Lewis Black and studio.
Speaker 2: We're talking twenty one thirty one. This is the game
Speaker 2: where cow Ripken broke the record for most consecutive games.
Speaker 2: Is this deserve the twenty two minute standing out?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think it's deserved. But I don't want to
Speaker 1: be there for.
Speaker 3: Who is worse or more insufferable? Boston fans or New
Speaker 3: York fans?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: The Yankees go? Thank you?
Speaker 2: Sub I hate the Yankees. Going back to the track
Speaker 2: to fan reaches up and touches it.
Speaker 1: You got anything else you want to traumatize me with?
Speaker 2: What's your greatest rant of all time?
Speaker 1: Jennet Jackson's nipple? The nipple Jannet Jackson THRESTC. That's fellos
Speaker 1: to the entire nation. What would we do? You show
Speaker 1: a nip? I'm gonna be there to watch the nip.
Speaker 1: You never saw her nipple?
Speaker 2: Bring us the brask wait by Say.
Speaker 1: The Breast, and they just kept showing it, showing showing it.
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Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: September sixth, nineteen ninety five, Camden Yards, Baltimore, Maryland.
Speaker 1: After two thirty games.
Speaker 2: Cal Ripken is on the doorstep of immortality. This is
Speaker 2: twenty one thirty one Costner. Welcome to Games with Names Today,
Speaker 2: we have a very special guest, Lewis Black and Studio.
Speaker 2: He's a legendary comedian, actor and playwright. Loved him and
Speaker 2: accepted as a kid. His stand up is tragically I
Speaker 2: Need you streaming now on YouTube. Catch him on the
Speaker 2: Off the Rails tour in a city near you. Huge
Speaker 2: Baltimore fan, Baltimore, oriole fan, Welcome to Games with Names.
Speaker 2: That's Jack, that's Kyler. We got Leah over there. She's
Speaker 2: a huge Baltimore fan. So welcome to the studio and
Speaker 2: appreciate you coming.
Speaker 1: Well. This is great. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's as soon as you walked in, you know,
Speaker 2: I was like Hollywood people. You guys all look great,
Speaker 2: you just look young always. You could always see an actor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this was I'm not Hollywood, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of I've reached the wax fruit stage stage
Speaker 1: at my age.
Speaker 2: Wax fruit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I really I live in New York.
Speaker 1: If I was out here, I would I'd probably be
Speaker 1: I wouldn't you wouldn't you never see me? I just
Speaker 1: this place freaks me the fuck out.
Speaker 2: It does, and I probably wouldn't see you because even
Speaker 2: if you live three miles away, it'd be forty five
Speaker 2: minutes to get to you. So traffic is not easy.
Speaker 1: I love your card, I don't. I stopped driving here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I stopped.
Speaker 2: You want to know something crazy, If you want to
Speaker 2: have a fun night on a Friday, you go up
Speaker 2: to any rooftop apartment in like the West Hollywood area,
Speaker 2: and you're guaranteed to see a police chase. You know,
Speaker 2: you're seeing helicopters. You might see some road stoppages. I
Speaker 2: swear to god, I see one at least once once
Speaker 2: a month here.
Speaker 1: Well, the helicopter thing is a constant here, A lot
Speaker 1: of the thing it is. You can day after day
Speaker 1: of them tracking something somewhere, you know, I mean, but
Speaker 1: I literally discovered that I had to stop driving because
Speaker 1: I would get picked up or be in a car
Speaker 1: just heading out with friends, and I'd be in the
Speaker 1: back seat experiencing road rage, and I'm thinking, if I'm
Speaker 1: not driving, this is not healthy for me to be
Speaker 1: behind the wheel, and I just scream at cars.
Speaker 2: Literally.
Speaker 1: Somebody would pick me up at the airport to go
Speaker 1: do something, and I would sit in the back of
Speaker 1: the car and yelling out the window, where are you going?
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: I literally felt, there's too many cars. These people are
Speaker 1: supposed to be at work. Why aren't they at work?
Speaker 1: I had a lot of questions students I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask them, No one works here, No, it doesn't appear
Speaker 1: to be. I was on four or five. Four or
Speaker 1: five is just like it's rush hour twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: Honestly, it's rush hour all the time here, except if
Speaker 2: you're a you get up before seven o'clock. Like it's crazy.
Speaker 2: I could get I could leave my house by seven. Rocky,
Speaker 2: that's my dog, Rocky, by the way, come here over
Speaker 2: the Rocky go. Yeah, we do this a little differently here.
Speaker 1: It's good.
Speaker 2: No, No one gets up early here. Like I remember,
Speaker 2: I lived in the city in Boston, and then I
Speaker 2: would commute to Foxboro, which is like thirty miles, and
Speaker 2: I'd wake up at like four thirty. I'd leave the
Speaker 2: house by like four fifty. Wanted to be there by
Speaker 2: five point fifteen. There'd be a line of traffic there,
Speaker 2: the traffic in the East Coast. People get up to
Speaker 2: work in the East Coast out here after nine, then
Speaker 2: there's traffic.
Speaker 1: Is that right? It's crazy because I haven't been out here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it's it's too much cars.
Speaker 2: It is. So today we're looking at the twenty one
Speaker 2: thirty one game cal Ripken game California Angels versus the
Speaker 2: Baltimore Orioles from nineteen ninety five. This is the game
Speaker 2: where cal Ripken broke the Lou garrick. But this is
Speaker 2: when he broke the record for most consecutive games. And
Speaker 2: why do we picked this game?
Speaker 1: We picked this game because I'm an Oriole fan. And
Speaker 1: going back earlier, if we went back to really kind
Speaker 1: of where I started, the Brooks Robinson thing, happy you
Speaker 1: know that team bro Weaver, here's the coach at that time.
Speaker 1: This was I think a better sweet spot for folks
Speaker 1: to remember. Yeah, you start to get back there and
Speaker 1: we lose the third of our audience, wouldn't they they
Speaker 1: played baseball then, Yes, that's when they actually played baseball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they actually Yeah, and people lived in the town.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is home run Derby. Now they same baseball.
Speaker 2: You never see a bun or a walk. It's crazy. Rocky,
Speaker 2: can you go? Can someone take Rocky?
Speaker 1: What kind of a dog is that?
Speaker 2: That's an Australian Labradoodle. Wow. Yeah, So I wanted to
Speaker 2: get a Golden Retriever. Yeah, but I have nightmares because
Speaker 2: I had a Golden Retriever growing up, and my responsibility
Speaker 2: as a child was a to pick up his huge
Speaker 2: turds and b to keep the hair out of the
Speaker 2: house and hair out of the house. The dog's been
Speaker 2: dead for fifteen years and there's still hair in the house.
Speaker 2: So I got I went and I started looking at
Speaker 2: hypoallergenic dogs that don't shed. This has Retriever in it,
Speaker 2: lab in it. He also has a cocker Spaniel, water
Speaker 2: spaniel and poodle. That's the reason he doesn't shed. So
Speaker 2: I got a little Rocky. My little girl, Lily loves him.
Speaker 1: So it's a beautiful dog.
Speaker 2: He is. But he's just he's starting to choose stuff.
Speaker 2: He's getting crazy.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you. But the other reason I kind
Speaker 1: of picked this game was just because I've never done
Speaker 1: anything two thousand and one and thirty one days in
Speaker 1: a row ever. Honestly, I mean not even eat breakfast
Speaker 1: every day. There's nothing I can think of. Is there
Speaker 1: anything you can think of that you did? We're every
Speaker 1: every two thousand and thirty one. That's a lot of games.
Speaker 2: This is a PG podcast. But yeah, there's nothing. There's nothing.
Speaker 2: There's nothing.
Speaker 1: The contest, the Streek Really what you're gonna tell me
Speaker 1: two thousand thirty Yeah?
Speaker 4: Wow, I don't know you're talking to wow.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, that would have rather discuss that.
Speaker 2: Yeahs all about cal Ripkin, Lolly Pippen, Lou Garrick and
Speaker 2: Lou Garrett.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, Wally Pip that was talking about screwed to
Speaker 1: come in after that and after the speech. You know
Speaker 1: you can't follow that.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: There's no way.
Speaker 2: That says a huge thing that everyone always brings up
Speaker 2: with me. Because Belichick asked, Welker, have you heard of
Speaker 2: Wally Pip? And it's always like a meme going around
Speaker 2: on the internet about about me when I returned a
Speaker 2: touchdown and it was so we always try to bring
Speaker 2: that in. Somehow we snuck it in there with Louke
Speaker 2: Eric and on this thing you got to tell us
Speaker 2: about tell us about your sports fandom in Baltimore. How'd
Speaker 2: that grow? Like? You were born in Maryland.
Speaker 1: Here's how let's hear. I'll tell you this. So I'm
Speaker 1: from Maryland, but I'm close to DC and closer to
Speaker 1: that's you know the ballpark. Yeah, it was a Griffith
Speaker 1: Stadium back then, and then that went away. I don't
Speaker 1: even remember the name of the other stadium they came
Speaker 1: up with. But I was a Senator fan and initially
Speaker 1: a Dodger fan. Okay, the Brooklyn Dodgers. My family would
Speaker 1: go there and and I was and I kind of
Speaker 1: like cooked when that was. I was really like four
Speaker 1: or five, and I started getting into them. Then of course,
Speaker 1: what do they do. They screw me by moving out here. Okay, hey, well,
Speaker 1: leaven take your childhood dreams. Let me just shit on them.
Speaker 1: And so then I go to the Washington Senators, who
Speaker 1: are now playing downtown. They start to get good, and
Speaker 1: they got Harmon, Killerbrew, Bobby Allison. They're getting good. And
Speaker 1: what do they do. They moved, They moved to Minnesota, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: So they do that. That really okay, and then they're gone.
Speaker 1: So I start to pay attention to Baltimore, which is
Speaker 1: close by. And that's how old are you?
Speaker 2: And that's when this is all going down.
Speaker 1: That was early on, so I must have been probably ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's another It wasn't a hard that was more like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is really a bit. This sports thing is a business.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't need to leave and learn that
Speaker 1: at that age. So they go away and I get
Speaker 1: into you know, the Orioles, who at that time start
Speaker 1: to have Earl Weavers. The manager, he's phenomenal. They've got
Speaker 1: you know, Jim Palmer is pitching all of these you know,
Speaker 1: you've got this Stu Miller's pitching. They had for twenty
Speaker 1: game winners. They were just a great team to follow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I kind of started following. Then then Washington
Speaker 1: brings a team back, and they got another one come
Speaker 1: in and okay, we'll root for them. Let's root for
Speaker 1: them again. And within three years they're gone. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: already They're like they go to Texas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Arrangers.
Speaker 1: And so once that happened, it was that was it.
Speaker 1: It was Baltimore.
Speaker 2: You're kind of like the good Luck Chuck of franchise
Speaker 2: is going to somewhere new.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And then what they did too, which is
Speaker 1: solidified my fandom for Baltimore's they bring in another They
Speaker 1: bringing a third time in the history of sports, within
Speaker 1: a like a fifty year span, three teams come to
Speaker 1: your town. Now they switch from the American League to
Speaker 1: the National League.
Speaker 2: Come on, I mean, it's erroneous. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you could use that word there, but I just feel
Speaker 2: like I need to bring up my vocabulary when I'm
Speaker 2: around you, because you're a funny guy.
Speaker 1: But that's okay, that's okay, And don't throw up words
Speaker 1: that I don't know.
Speaker 2: Were you a Baltimore Colts fan?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they screwed me there too.
Speaker 2: You're getting screwed left right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I was a Colts fan. I was, and that's
Speaker 1: what sent me back to Washington because the Colts cover
Speaker 1: a night. They take them away in Mayflower trucks.
Speaker 2: So you're an our words fan back then you went
Speaker 2: to the Baltimore Colts to our words. Yeah, and then
Speaker 2: now they're the Commanders, but they might go back to
Speaker 2: the No they're not going back or not. I heard
Speaker 2: there's a petition.
Speaker 1: No, no, there's a petition with good luck with that, okay,
Speaker 1: and the commanders is that name is going to go too,
Speaker 1: that's gotta go, let's go. And then there was a
Speaker 1: group it.
Speaker 2: Was honestly a great great football team. Was a great
Speaker 2: team name, Yeah, especially with an old school color combination
Speaker 2: that the.
Speaker 1: Red or the maroon.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you came. I'm sorry, we'll blank that out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Washington football team sounded that was kind of cool
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 1: That is what they should have called him. That was
Speaker 1: the name they should have.
Speaker 2: Hogs.
Speaker 1: No, fuck the hogs? Can we say that?
Speaker 2: I don't know you could say fuck anything here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you don't know because then they do some
Speaker 1: of it's on the radio and then they tell you.
Speaker 2: This is podcast, it's live on YouTube. We are just uncensored.
Speaker 2: You could pull out anything right now.
Speaker 1: Really well, I don't have anything.
Speaker 2: So I was just saying, like, out of your brain, Oh,
Speaker 2: out of your brain.
Speaker 1: That made my day. So we'll see at least Dan
Speaker 1: Snyder's gone.
Speaker 2: This is all new. Yeah, no, the NFL is crazy,
Speaker 2: man like, look at look at the Chiefs. The Chiefs
Speaker 2: weren't good. They haven't been good since nineteen sixty before
Speaker 2: this run. The Patriots were never good until Brady. It's
Speaker 2: all crapshoot on how you get a quarterback?
Speaker 1: And can I ask you a question? Yeah, ask me
Speaker 1: a question because the thing that I'm you know, now,
Speaker 1: I do fantasy football, you know. Yeah, I have three
Speaker 1: teams because I need as much distraction as I can
Speaker 1: from reality. So I have three teams.
Speaker 2: Video games you just try video games.
Speaker 1: Don't do those. I'm not dexterity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough. I grew up on three three buttons. Yeah,
Speaker 2: now these like fifty buttons. I'm getting my ass beat
Speaker 2: by a fucking ten year old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well mine, you know, think about it. My generation
Speaker 1: was Pong, which is like dank. Yeah, dank. Text is
Speaker 1: not there, there's nothing there just going on.
Speaker 2: I cut you off.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Oh no, no, no, it's it's fine. It's
Speaker 1: your show. The question the question I had was, so
Speaker 1: I'm playing this, you know, playing these games, I mean
Speaker 1: watching these games and have my team. And it's really
Speaker 1: when you finally doing that realize that the level of
Speaker 1: injury is going on is staggering, and you don't really
Speaker 1: before that. I knew it with my team. I knew
Speaker 1: it with Washington. God he's gone and that's gone, and
Speaker 1: now we don't have a line. But but you don't
Speaker 1: get the whole devastation. I mean it is literally and
Speaker 1: then they and then these now they've had this thing
Speaker 1: where oh good, here's a good idea. Let's play Monday,
Speaker 1: Thursday and Sunday. Let's let's try to get people to
Speaker 1: play with with with five days rest? What planet even?
Speaker 2: I know, why don't we add another couple of games
Speaker 2: too while we're at it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's what the NFL.
Speaker 2: More more games, more money.
Speaker 1: More games women. And it's and they already have money.
Speaker 2: It is I mean, when you play in the National
Speaker 2: Football League and if you if you're talking about your
Speaker 2: team before the season, and if and if you ever
Speaker 2: hear if we stay healthy, we'll be like you're already
Speaker 2: wrong because it's one hundred percent injury rate. It doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't matter if you don't play or
Speaker 2: if you're playing. Every guy starts at at about one
Speaker 2: hundred percent. By week four they're already probably eighty percent
Speaker 2: just from bangs and bruises, God forbid any big you
Speaker 2: know injuries, which you know with the plane surface that
Speaker 2: they're on nowadays.
Speaker 1: And well, that's the thing that was the question I had.
Speaker 2: Is I hated the playing surfaces.
Speaker 1: That's what I wondered, because I when the first time
Speaker 1: I walked on to I didn't know. It was years
Speaker 1: and years ago in Seattle at the at the whatever,
Speaker 1: the Kingdom, whatever the hell it was, and it was
Speaker 1: that it was they were you were guys who were
Speaker 1: playing on concrete out there.
Speaker 2: It's changed up, it's changed up. They have the artificial turf.
Speaker 1: Now, right, which isn't that above concrete.
Speaker 2: It is above concrete, and they do put a rubber
Speaker 2: layer over it.
Speaker 1: There's not enough rubber in the universe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's tough. And that's why a lot of
Speaker 2: the you know, there's a big thing going on right
Speaker 2: now between the players and the owners where the players
Speaker 2: are trying to mandate you know, grass.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't it make sense.
Speaker 2: That's the crazy thing is, you know, when I would
Speaker 2: play a Gillette, we played on a turf field, an
Speaker 2: artificial turf field. We would always host these international friendlies
Speaker 2: to soccer teams or football teams, and they would bring
Speaker 2: in grass for one night, put it on there because
Speaker 2: they have a mandate where their players have to play
Speaker 2: on grass for health reasonings. And then they would take
Speaker 2: that grass and throw it away and you know, let
Speaker 2: us go play. So it's crazy. But speaking of how
Speaker 2: crazy injuries are, it's pretty crazy that cow Ripken twenty
Speaker 2: one thirty one. Yeah, like that's that's even that's that's
Speaker 2: insane to me.
Speaker 1: That Yeah, it's really beyond belief.
Speaker 2: Like you we were joking earlier, like have you done
Speaker 2: anything that long that is like flu?
Speaker 1: You sprang exactly, but I mean flu. I mean any
Speaker 1: Look what I called covide.
Speaker 2: It couldn't happen nowadays. If he would have got COVID,
Speaker 2: he would have to sit out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what if you caught Kevin Costner with your wife.
Speaker 2: Or Kevin Costa. No, that's what you know what you do, Jack,
Speaker 2: You cancel the game.
Speaker 1: Turn the lights off.
Speaker 2: You turn the lights off, it's really you turn the
Speaker 2: lights off.
Speaker 3: I want that urban legend to be true. I want
Speaker 3: it to be true.
Speaker 1: I really hope it's true. And I don't know why
Speaker 1: anybody would sleep with Kevin Costner, And you can quote
Speaker 1: me on that. You know, well, I mean, you know, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to sleep with him, you do.
Speaker 2: Nah, But he's a pretty cool guy. If I was
Speaker 2: a girl, maybe.
Speaker 1: Well maybe I don't know, he said, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He was supposed to come to a show that I
Speaker 1: did and then didn't show ups.
Speaker 2: So then I would never sleep with him. I would
Speaker 2: never We got a segment where we go back in
Speaker 2: the day of September twenty, the day that where the
Speaker 2: game takes place, and we talk about pop culture things
Speaker 2: this game.
Speaker 1: That's when the macarena came out.
Speaker 2: Makarna No. September sixth, nineteen ninety five. Makarina came out?
Speaker 2: Good God, can you do the mockerena?
Speaker 1: No? No, I don't even want to think. No, it's
Speaker 1: in my head.
Speaker 2: You remember everybodys we have Austin powers. Remember they were
Speaker 2: yet made fun of it? Yeah, Apollo thirteen was the
Speaker 2: number one movie. Good, great movie. How crazy use it? Though?
Speaker 2: Like after I watched that movie, that's like the absolute
Speaker 2: best scenario that could ever have, Like those people could
Speaker 2: have been gone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, has anyone been.
Speaker 2: Lost in space?
Speaker 1: No, not to my knowledge, No, No, just in the TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that'd be a weird way to go. Imagine
Speaker 2: what if you had like oxygen, if you were just
Speaker 2: floating around you get sucked out of your thing, but
Speaker 2: you somehow had your your your suit on and you
Speaker 2: had like a year of oxygen and you're just floating.
Speaker 2: If you had a couple of power bars that you
Speaker 2: could last out there, it was.
Speaker 1: This is this is the you are my LEAs psychotic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not the first one to tell me that
Speaker 2: you won't be the line?
Speaker 1: Did I say that? It was a comple of But
Speaker 1: that's the sad part, actually I do. Actually, you're out
Speaker 1: there with a couple You're out there with the years
Speaker 1: play of oxygen and a couple of power a.
Speaker 2: Couple of bars. So you're getting at least you're getting
Speaker 2: at least maybe two or a month somewhere.
Speaker 3: Neil deGrasse Tyson's pulling his hair out right now, isn't
Speaker 3: to that?
Speaker 2: Around this time September third, eBay was found in Jesus.
Speaker 1: I've never bought anything an e Bay.
Speaker 2: Oh. When this first came out, Lewis I went in
Speaker 2: to my parents' fucking like closet and I would just
Speaker 2: start taking pictures of everything, and I would just try
Speaker 2: to sell everything I could. Oh, I was selling everything
Speaker 2: I could find on eBay that's great or best offer
Speaker 2: a PlayStation.
Speaker 1: No, if I took a picture of my parents closet
Speaker 1: to try to sell the stuff, people would have tried
Speaker 1: to adopt me. They would have said, this is the
Speaker 1: saddest collection of clothing we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes was born on the seventeenth, while he's young. Oh,
Speaker 2: in October of this year, this is when Oja was
Speaker 2: found not guilty.
Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, that was just an extraordinary moment in time.
Speaker 2: Do you remember where you were at when that chase
Speaker 2: was going on. I was in like third grade or something.
Speaker 2: Where was I in fourth grade?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I had friends. I mean I don't remember I
Speaker 1: was at home because I just sat there watching it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone did. They rolled in a fucking TV to
Speaker 2: my goddamn classroom and we're like eight years old watching
Speaker 2: the goddamn police chase.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: Yes, wow. I was like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: That is crazy? That's really and you're in the but
Speaker 1: you're in the Bay Area.
Speaker 2: That was in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1: Wow, you thought they'd be a little hip.
Speaker 2: Ja OJ played for the Niners. You know he's from
Speaker 2: San fran.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you don't. The eight year old doesn't need
Speaker 1: to see the chase. No, there's a good there's a
Speaker 1: good lesson. And remember get a front to drive you
Speaker 1: if you're thinking a murder.
Speaker 2: There's a way to start designated drivers.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, d D.
Speaker 3: It's insane. We have gone twenty something odd episodes with
Speaker 3: no OJ mentioned. We moved the show to Brentwood. We're
Speaker 3: talking about OJ every other episode. It's it must be
Speaker 3: a Brentwood thing.
Speaker 2: It must be a Brentwood thing. The juice, the glove
Speaker 2: don't fit. You must have quit. Yes, I guess that
Speaker 2: was a It was just.
Speaker 1: An unbelievable moment in time.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the crazy thing is Lewis. He did
Speaker 2: endorse me to get in the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 1: Did he?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't know why, but it randomly came on
Speaker 2: like someone had a camera in his face and asked me,
Speaker 2: asked him about He's like, yeah, he endorsed me.
Speaker 1: Wow. Well that's taking you down a notch and they
Speaker 1: still like it as a person.
Speaker 2: It's all right, it's all right. At least there's a
Speaker 2: couple more notches to go down. What was life like
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety five for Lewis Black.
Speaker 1: I've been on The Daily Show twenty seven years. So
Speaker 1: I am just wandering around the country stand up, stand up,
Speaker 1: doing stand up and clubs. I had been a playwright
Speaker 1: until I was forty years old. Yeah, and then and
Speaker 1: about nineteen ninety I was done with playwriting, and now
Speaker 1: I started to go out on the road as a
Speaker 1: comic and going to playing clubs around and I was
Speaker 1: lucky enough that I'd worked enough. I kind of skipped
Speaker 1: being a middle act. You know, there's the opener of
Speaker 1: the headliner, of the middle act in the headliner, and
Speaker 1: I kind of jumped the headliner status, and so I
Speaker 1: made it. I started to make a living. I made
Speaker 1: no money.
Speaker 2: How did you transition from playwright to stand up comic?
Speaker 1: Well, I was doing it on the side for kind
Speaker 1: of fun, for brims, because I always got a kick
Speaker 1: out of it. Have you ever tried it?
Speaker 2: No? I can't. No, Yeah, I mean't that funny?
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, you're funny?
Speaker 2: So yeah, but that's like it's time, Like when I
Speaker 2: have such a crazy respect because I've kind of Sam Morrel.
Speaker 2: We we did this podcast last season together. He's a
Speaker 2: big comic out there, and to watch him over at
Speaker 2: the cellar all the time. Yeah, and so I've been
Speaker 2: in that comic community. Those guys are so smart to
Speaker 2: be able to fucking tell a story, tell a couple
Speaker 2: of other jokes, keep you dingled with this, and then
Speaker 2: bring it back to and bring it all together, to
Speaker 2: bring the other the intro back into that. I can't
Speaker 2: do that. That's like writing a fucking paper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's but there. But you're you're you are funny.
Speaker 1: And then everybody there's a lot of people who tried
Speaker 1: at least once, you know, And I was just wondering
Speaker 1: because they're but you at least have a respect to
Speaker 1: people who just go those people go, you know, I
Speaker 1: could do that. No, you can't do that.
Speaker 2: No, anyone who's at the highest level of anything they do,
Speaker 2: they're not there by mistake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's really it's good.
Speaker 2: And you and the amount either touched by God or
Speaker 2: you work your ass off. You know, there's there's there's
Speaker 2: a couple of different things, but even the touch by God, guys,
Speaker 2: they still have to work hard to stay there, yeah,
Speaker 2: because there's there's just so many people are always coming
Speaker 2: to take jobs, and you.
Speaker 1: Know, it's truly true, and they but but I ended up.
Speaker 1: I started doing the road and I made the transitioning
Speaker 1: part because I'd been doing it on the side for fun.
Speaker 1: And I ran this room in New York City that
Speaker 1: was called the Westbank Cafe downstairs theater bar, and it
Speaker 1: was this restaurant and there was like nineteen eighty three
Speaker 1: I started running this thing, and so by about nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety we were rolling along and I was introduced everything
Speaker 1: that came on the stage and on the side. And
Speaker 1: then on the weekends we would do a show and
Speaker 1: I would do stand up, you know, and nobody really
Speaker 1: and I didn't really worry about it because I'm not
Speaker 1: a stand up so you kind of get rid of that.
Speaker 1: But doing the intros, I got really comfortable on stage,
Speaker 1: and then doing these things on the weekend where I
Speaker 1: started to develop material, and so then people started to
Speaker 1: see me, and so I'm wanted to be a playwright.
Speaker 1: But then they're going, you're really good at this, why
Speaker 1: don't you come down to catch a rising start. I'm
Speaker 1: going to come on, No, nope, And so that's what
Speaker 1: people kind of gravitated toward and really playwriting and stand up.
Speaker 1: The thing is I was writing for myself, so basically,
Speaker 1: you know, you get up there, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I was writing plays. So now I'm I'm the performer,
Speaker 1: I'm a writer, I'm the.
Speaker 2: Director, so you know how to write?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I didn't really provide anything down. I just
Speaker 1: got up and talk. That's how I'm nuts. I I am.
Speaker 2: But you you can, you can connect those dots and
Speaker 2: probably being around it, like when you're introing everyone. You're
Speaker 2: sitting there and you're watching these guys and you're probably
Speaker 2: you know, like, well he probably could have went here
Speaker 2: with that because your your your brain thinks like that.
Speaker 2: You got a big brain.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. But it's there's a garage in there and
Speaker 1: a couple.
Speaker 2: Of Yeah, you can probably put two three cars in
Speaker 2: that thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, a big garage.
Speaker 2: What's the comedy scene like in ninety five were you
Speaker 2: rolling around to these places? Did you ever come to
Speaker 2: LA Did you ever go to New York?
Speaker 1: I went to I came out somewhat, but but I
Speaker 1: never worked. I was at the comedy store yesterday. I
Speaker 1: never and I didn't perform that yesterday. I just went there.
Speaker 1: I'd never been in there.
Speaker 2: It's cool.
Speaker 1: I mean, i'd been there twice, but i'd never performed there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I performed at the Improv when I got out of there,
Speaker 1: the laugh Factory first. But I went around the country
Speaker 1: and just went to whatever club that would have me.
Speaker 1: So I was, you know, wandering from club to club
Speaker 1: to club. But I wasn't. It wasn't consistent because I
Speaker 1: wasn't really known. But in New York, I'm working Catch,
Speaker 1: a rizing star. I'm working the impro well not the
Speaker 1: improvate left, but I'm working Catch, I'm working Carolines, I'm
Speaker 1: working Danger Fields. Did you go to Danger Fields? It's
Speaker 1: really Yeah, it's really fascinating. Guys dressed up in touches.
Speaker 1: It's like a mob joint and it looks because the
Speaker 1: guys are in touches and they're serving and they have
Speaker 1: these little red lights on the table and you could
Speaker 1: flick them and then somebody'd come over and serve food
Speaker 1: and I'd be on stage. There was so great. It
Speaker 1: was so insane. And never met Rodney. I was, you know,
Speaker 1: and you'd get on stage and the waiter would come
Speaker 1: literally and stand in front of you, like five feet away,
Speaker 1: and so, what do you want talking to the to
Speaker 1: the table And I'm standing there in the middle of
Speaker 1: my act. I And it teaches you a lot because
Speaker 1: instead of getting upset, I would just I would start laughing.
Speaker 1: I just went there was a piano behind me, and
Speaker 1: I put my head down and laughed like until he
Speaker 1: was done. And then I'd come back to the audience
Speaker 1: and I said that was fun, and then I'd go
Speaker 1: back on. But you'd learn these things.
Speaker 2: From club to club.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I did the comedy. I did the cellar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I had to lead the cellar because the seller
Speaker 1: was it was like a squash court this way, and
Speaker 1: the back of the room was like seventy five eighty
Speaker 1: feet away, ninety one hundred feet it's and I'm screaming
Speaker 1: like a lunatic. So that my act then was just
Speaker 1: totally bellowing. Shit. You know, I have hot and that
Speaker 1: would be what I do for you know, like twenty
Speaker 1: straight minutes.
Speaker 2: Well, if you're doing.
Speaker 1: It and it's it's eighty feet away, it's like they
Speaker 1: can't handle that. It's too much. It's so I could
Speaker 1: never really, It was never really. I've always felt that
Speaker 1: if I could have stood at this end of the
Speaker 1: room and talk that way, I had a shot in
Speaker 1: that room.
Speaker 2: But I pitched levels are a little weird.
Speaker 1: I just said, I can't do.
Speaker 2: This reminds me of Seattle Seahawks in their stadium. The
Speaker 2: pitch levels make it really loud.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, see, you know, I can.
Speaker 2: Only imagine if you were to go there, you'd have
Speaker 2: we'd have to pitch you at our right angle, so
Speaker 2: you could hit that whole thing, and it probably sounded
Speaker 2: insanely loud.
Speaker 1: Yeah, on a rant, it would be great.
Speaker 2: Who who?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 2: Was like a comedian when you first started that was
Speaker 2: like rolling around that you kind of looked up to.
Speaker 1: George Carlin, yeah prior Uh. I really liked Letning Bruce
Speaker 1: but he was gone. Yeah. I like uh, Lily Tomlin.
Speaker 1: I liked you know, some of you know people don't
Speaker 1: Phyllis Diller, who was just as wacky as they came.
Speaker 1: She was just great. I like I liked the Bob Newhart.
Speaker 1: There was a whole slew of them, and they all
Speaker 1: and I watched every edge Sullivan used to have comics school. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so every week I watched and they were all
Speaker 1: different and all unique, and they all seem to be,
Speaker 1: you know, making a living, and I just kind of
Speaker 1: watched them. I just was fascinated by the fact that
Speaker 1: somebody could get up there and say I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: you laugh. And it took me a long time to
Speaker 1: get comfortable with that because it seems there's a certain
Speaker 1: amount of arrogance to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you do you watch comedy now at all?
Speaker 2: Do you watch these stand up because.
Speaker 1: It's I watched some comedy, but it's it's hard to
Speaker 1: watch people that I think are gonna do stuff that
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about because I don't want to. It'll just
Speaker 1: go into my brain and it'll sit there, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I find myself I might be
Speaker 1: saying something that somebody else said. So I kind of
Speaker 1: avoid it for a time until it's kind of the
Speaker 1: statute of limitations. I'm not doing that stuff anymore that
Speaker 1: I can go watch what the take wash?
Speaker 2: That's interesting. You don't want it because of material, because
Speaker 2: it's really your head. Yeah, and then you'll you'll naturally subconsciously, yeah.
Speaker 1: Well it just goes in, you know, and and my
Speaker 1: come out and you don't. You don't want to deal
Speaker 1: with that, you know, Oh he stole this, No, I didn't.
Speaker 1: And it was also because I want to think about it,
Speaker 1: and sometimes which just drives you nuts. You kind of
Speaker 1: watch somebody and you go, fuck, why didn't I think
Speaker 1: of that? And so at least this way I could
Speaker 1: stumble into something that might be a lot.
Speaker 2: Of stolen material out there, just like in nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: four when the MLB stole our hearts away with the strike.
Speaker 2: How angry were you with that?
Speaker 1: I was, well, you know, for me, it was probably
Speaker 1: I remember I wasn't. I was angry at the fact
Speaker 1: that they've struck, but it also meant that my team
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna lose, So it was kind of an up
Speaker 1: kind of an upbeat thing. You know, at least they're
Speaker 1: not going to screw them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know Baltimore, they wont any when they win.
Speaker 3: Oh it's way three eighty three me double check.
Speaker 1: I think it's eighty three, and I think it's something else.
Speaker 1: There was another.
Speaker 3: Sixty six and seventy that was it, I believe. So
Speaker 3: as far as World's World Series goes.
Speaker 1: Wow, as sad as that, ye man, right, yeah, those.
Speaker 3: Are those three.
Speaker 2: The thing is, baseball now is completely different than what
Speaker 2: you grew up watching. I mean even how they're teaching
Speaker 2: fundamentals to these baseball players. And I was on like
Speaker 2: the very early stage of it where they don't talk
Speaker 2: about takes anymore. It's all about bat speed, upward trajectory,
Speaker 2: get that thing out. We don't care about how many
Speaker 2: strikeouts you have. If you've got thirty eight home runs,
Speaker 2: it's all matters. Baseball has changed. All of sports have
Speaker 2: really changed because of in America, at least because the
Speaker 2: American product, the American owner does a good job of
Speaker 2: feeding their consumer. They want the consumer to be happy.
Speaker 2: Like you look at sports and you look at soccer.
Speaker 2: It's been the same fucking game forever. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 2: why they don't make as much money like I or
Speaker 2: the owners, you know what I mean. The players make
Speaker 2: a boat load, but as far as when you look
Speaker 2: at like I remember, I was talking to this international
Speaker 2: soccer player. He's got a legend. He was Manchester United,
Speaker 2: Peter Schmichael, insane goalkeeper, and he was so fascinated about
Speaker 2: our stadiums. How you could have any kind of food
Speaker 2: you want, You have any be like you go to
Speaker 2: a soccer game, No one's moving around anywhere. Everyone's watching there.
Speaker 2: He was insanely fascinated with the jumbotrons. You get instant replayed,
Speaker 2: so you're making the consumer happy, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: that's what America does. Yeah, it's capitalism, baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And now it just.
Speaker 2: Flew over that pitch count. We're in or out.
Speaker 1: I think it's good. Yeah, I mean I think they
Speaker 1: had to do something because then they were It was
Speaker 1: almost as if, come on, guys.
Speaker 2: It's only good for TV because when you're at the
Speaker 2: ballpark now, like fourth inning, about eight beers deep, I
Speaker 2: want another about fifteen. I want this thing to go
Speaker 2: to extras. It's a beautiful day. Give me a couple
Speaker 2: of hot dogs. Eight hour thing, Jackie Whyn't you break
Speaker 2: down this Baltimore Orioles squad, this historic day.
Speaker 3: Not the most remarkable O's team of all time. This
Speaker 3: was real. It was Paul Marrow ripping June.
Speaker 1: Do we go through? As you listen, you can go
Speaker 1: Paul Marrow, Uh steroids. Yeah, bastards And I literally for years,
Speaker 1: for years afterwards, that was bullshit. REPI hit those hits.
Speaker 1: Nobody he never did any steroids. Oh yeah, he did,
Speaker 1: Brady Anderson and we still didn't win. If you're get
Speaker 1: to cheat, you gotta win. Winds out there should learn
Speaker 1: a lesson.
Speaker 2: You got it. If you're cheating, you better you better
Speaker 2: win or it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It doesn't it's worthless. Amen. Uh.
Speaker 3: Solid pitching staff and this this year led by Mike.
Speaker 1: Who left us future Yankees. Fuck you amen?
Speaker 3: How awful.
Speaker 1: I hate the Yankees, so do I, but you'd Boston right.
Speaker 2: Well, for the last twelve years, thirteen or fifteen years,
Speaker 2: you know, I've been associated with Boston. It becomes part
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, it's really and I you know, and
Speaker 1: I live in New York in it, and it's all
Speaker 1: my friends Yankee and they just they're irritating. This was
Speaker 1: so great this year. Yeah, to be able to shove
Speaker 1: it in their face. So they're paying Aaron Hicks his salary,
Speaker 1: the Yankees, Yeah, and he's killing them. We won games
Speaker 1: with Hicks playing against the Ens and he really I
Speaker 1: was just that made me as happy as I think
Speaker 1: as anything in my life. How sad is that?
Speaker 2: It's not that sad, it's a happy thing.
Speaker 1: It's good value.
Speaker 2: I just I don't know. It sucks that the Yankees
Speaker 2: hat looks so cool, because it does look cool. It
Speaker 2: does look I've never put one on, and I never
Speaker 2: will because even as a Bay Area kid, I mean,
Speaker 2: he just you felt the Yankee entitlement from three thousand
Speaker 2: miles away. Yeah, I'd be watching these I don't know.
Speaker 2: He always respected Jeter. Everyone loves Jeter. I liked him.
Speaker 1: I know the AD's kind of huh, these ads that
Speaker 1: he's in, just stop it, you know, stop it.
Speaker 2: You don't want a wagoneer. You don't want a wagoneer.
Speaker 2: Right now, I feel like you see Jeter with his
Speaker 2: hot bottle wife, these two beautiful little kids. He owns
Speaker 2: a baseball team, he's driving a wagoneer going camping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I feel like I want to go
Speaker 1: camping now. Yeah, right, Yo, give him a call. He
Speaker 1: tell me what it's like, write me a note. So
Speaker 1: he but he that thing, the ad where he goes
Speaker 1: just call me the captain. Yeah, that is just gets
Speaker 1: under my skin.
Speaker 2: That's because you know he didn't write that.
Speaker 1: No, he didn't, and he shouldn't have said it. I'd
Speaker 1: just call me and that would be better than than
Speaker 1: the captain because to me, I liked him. I mean
Speaker 1: I do. Even as an oriole fan, I still liked him.
Speaker 1: He was a pleasure to watch. He was a great ballplayer,
Speaker 1: but nobody in the rest of the country knew him
Speaker 1: as captain. He's the captain in New York, so zip it.
Speaker 1: You don't get to tell another state you're the captain. Ludicrous.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Jeter, what's your opinion on Jeffrey mayor.
Speaker 1: Mayor which one is he? I'm not even that was
Speaker 1: in ninety.
Speaker 3: Six, the kid who reached over the fence and stole
Speaker 3: the home away in the ALCS the next.
Speaker 2: Year little shit against the Yankees.
Speaker 3: But while we're on the topic of the Alias Lewis,
Speaker 3: who is worse or more insufferable Boston fans or New
Speaker 3: York fans?
Speaker 1: New York New York. Okay, I well, Boston once they won,
Speaker 1: it just started to get to be jackasses. In Baltimore,
Speaker 1: we still don't even have enough people who've returned to
Speaker 1: the stadium yet to be asses, because they'd still like
Speaker 1: shell shocked from the last ten years. They're like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. Can they be winning? Are
Speaker 1: they really winning?
Speaker 2: Is that the school is the simulation last time on
Speaker 2: stranded too, the Yankees have left ten men on base,
Speaker 2: including the bases loaded in the seventh. That's a young teater.
Speaker 2: That's a very young that's a gift bag Zeter right
Speaker 2: there in right field. Torrasco going back to the wall.
Speaker 1: And what happens here.
Speaker 2: He contends that a fan reaches up and touches it,
Speaker 2: but Richie Garcia says, no, it's a home run. Yep,
Speaker 2: everyone's working for the Yankees.
Speaker 1: That was really once again, I'd forgotten him and you
Speaker 1: didn't need to bring that back. Okay, you got anything
Speaker 1: else you want to traumatize me with. Once again, it's
Speaker 1: just screwed.
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Speaker 2: the California Angels, the Angels in the Outfield right here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before we throw on the bill Buck.
Speaker 1: What a team.
Speaker 2: I love that movie.
Speaker 3: Another mildly unremarkable team. But yeah, the most interesting thing
Speaker 3: about this team was that it was a year after
Speaker 3: Angels in the Outfield. Yeah, surprisingly good cast McConaughey, Major
Speaker 3: and Brody and a young Joseph Gordon Levitt. Who Joseph
Speaker 3: Gordon Levitt, he was the kid? Yes, Yeah, what a cast.
Speaker 2: That was the signal, right if the Angel was touching them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But this team collapsed down the stretch to nine
Speaker 3: game losing streaks after the All Star Break had Jim Abbott,
Speaker 3: that was I have a forgotten Jim Abbot era.
Speaker 1: From Yeah and then nobody and they kind of unbelievable
Speaker 1: Jim Abbit one hand, what a guy. Yeah, they don't,
Speaker 1: they don't. You know, he's gone. You know, they talk
Speaker 1: about all of these you know, we're trying to get
Speaker 1: those who have disabilities, you know, and you got one
Speaker 1: of the greatest of all times Jim Abbott, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: got that thing he's got with the glove. I mean,
Speaker 1: the whole thing was nuts. I couldn't even do it
Speaker 1: with two hands. You could have given me four hands.
Speaker 1: I couldn't do with jimbit was doing.
Speaker 2: It's pretty impressive. Yeah, what about the guy with the
Speaker 2: remember the sprinter that with the legs the blades and
Speaker 2: he murdered his Yeah, yeah, that's I think that's kind
Speaker 2: of an advantage less leg white thighs.
Speaker 1: Yes, but it was pretty amazing that he could know
Speaker 1: that off.
Speaker 2: There's you ever who was the comic the comic oh
Speaker 2: Cat Williams. Cat Williams talked about he had a bit
Speaker 2: about ting. He called he called him ting Ting.
Speaker 3: The lead up to this game, this was all about
Speaker 3: the record. Uh, baseball needed like needed something this year.
Speaker 3: The fans were pissed about the strike players flipping off fans,
Speaker 3: flans flipping off players. So this was like some good,
Speaker 3: wholesome let's let's all rally around cal Ripken type. Bill
Speaker 3: Clinton was at the game. Al Gore was at the game. Demjo,
Speaker 3: Frank Robinson, Johnny You. I mean this was a star
Speaker 3: studed game. Everyone was out there. I met a huge
Speaker 3: hero of mine was Johnny and Ill. Yeah, and I
Speaker 3: met him black high Tops, unbelieving. I met him at
Speaker 3: an event.
Speaker 2: So you're a Baltimore Colts fan at that time, at
Speaker 2: that time, yeah, until Chick got his start there nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy five, was a special team's assistant.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 2: I went to Baltimore Colts is Sula Shula coaching.
Speaker 3: Let me look that up.
Speaker 1: I'm so it's appalling my lack of memory when it
Speaker 1: comes to things, when stuff like my brain just was like, no,
Speaker 1: it was somebody else, Lewis, because you're an idiot. But
Speaker 1: I met Johnny you, so I like to call him.
Speaker 1: It was a fundraiser and at Duke University, and so
Speaker 1: I performed and he we were afterwards. We were all
Speaker 1: a bunch of folks like him, athletes and stuff were around,
Speaker 1: and some others, some celebrities, and but the only one
Speaker 1: that gave a shit about was Johnny United. And so
Speaker 1: I was up. I went up to just say hi
Speaker 1: and to get some wine. And he's in line and
Speaker 1: he gets a bottle of wine and turns around, and
Speaker 1: I talked to him for a second, and I go,
Speaker 1: I have a glass of wine. And he looks at
Speaker 1: me and goes, do you want to come back here?
Speaker 1: You want to come back here and get another glass
Speaker 1: of wine? Then get up again and get another glass wine.
Speaker 1: Give the man a bottle of wine. Okay, that's what
Speaker 1: you do. Take the bottle Johnny Unite, he said that
Speaker 1: to you. No, he didn't.
Speaker 2: Did he have a flat top?
Speaker 1: He did have a flattop that he did have, and
Speaker 1: he and he handed me that bottle of wine.
Speaker 2: And it's was he a big man?
Speaker 1: He was at that point he was older, he was
Speaker 1: still big, I mean you know, but his hand was really,
Speaker 1: you know, like gnarled. I mean he'd broken probably every
Speaker 1: fringer nine.
Speaker 2: That's not even football, that's that was straight gladiators at
Speaker 2: that time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially that that team, that line Art Donovan was
Speaker 1: on that line, Jesus Art Donahan. That was the gig
Speaker 1: Art Donovan, the lineman who would go on Johnny Carson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, two yards and a cloud of dust.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So my dad, my dad always threw like Johnny Uniteds
Speaker 2: when we when I was a kid, he loved Johnny Hugh.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The guarantee. We gotta do the guarantee on the show.
Speaker 2: The guarantee we're getting Joe Namath. I don't know we
Speaker 2: should I hope so we got we got Lewis for good.
Speaker 3: We Yeah, amen's we need so the.
Speaker 2: Star studied event. Angels lost four to the last five.
Speaker 2: Baseball needs something detached.
Speaker 1: To yep, and it's better.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is pretty insane that he did. They
Speaker 2: win the game?
Speaker 3: They did four to two. Yeah, Cal had a homer
Speaker 3: in the fourth.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, dropped an event. Did they bring him around
Speaker 2: an a vet?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean it was twenty two minute stoppage. They went
Speaker 3: all out Cal. You know, he was a he was
Speaker 3: a humble type, like milk toast type cat. He didn't
Speaker 3: want all this fanfare. But Bobby Bonia and Paul Merraly said, you.
Speaker 2: Like his dad? Do you like his dad? Kyle Ripken Senior.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was great. He was good. So it was Billy,
Speaker 1: you know that at Billy it was a classic family
Speaker 1: and and Cal Ripken is it was you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: we weren't winning. You know, he became the constant we're
Speaker 1: not who we you know, it's basically that was what
Speaker 1: we were. You know, Okay, he'll get a record. That's
Speaker 1: one thing.
Speaker 2: That's kind of like how I was Barry Bonds. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like we weren't all we weren't winning. Yeah. The rally
Speaker 2: Monkey or the rally Monkey came out with the Angels,
Speaker 2: which is stupid. Why are they the Los Angeles Angels
Speaker 2: of Anaheim?
Speaker 1: Now they don't get that. Is that what they're called?
Speaker 2: That's what their official name is.
Speaker 1: It's too long, it's a paragraph.
Speaker 3: There's two different cities.
Speaker 2: I don't understand it. And they're trying to steal the
Speaker 2: thunder of LA.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just bizarre. It would be nice
Speaker 1: if they got a coach and an owner who could help,
Speaker 1: and they'd be a much better team.
Speaker 2: They would be a very good I mean, they have
Speaker 2: the best player probably ever to suit up anything. This
Speaker 2: guy's hitting dingers and throwing out shutouts, Yeah, doubleheaders.
Speaker 1: It's crazy that. Yeah, oh, TONI is the most extraordinary.
Speaker 1: I mean that's what we all.
Speaker 2: Thought Babe Ruth was like when we when we pitcher
Speaker 2: Babe Ruth, Like Baby Ruth only pitched for a few
Speaker 2: years and then he went to hitting, you know, and
Speaker 2: it's completely different generation.
Speaker 1: But like, still, this is what he was doing was crazy.
Speaker 2: It just sucks. Is he gonna be able to come
Speaker 2: back from it? The UCLA this is second one though, right.
Speaker 1: I think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate to see that.
Speaker 2: Seems like tires like NASCAR put on a new one.
Speaker 2: So when Cow breaks the record after five, they give
Speaker 2: him a twenty two minute standing out, right, Like, are
Speaker 2: you enjoying that standing o the whole time? Or is
Speaker 2: that a little long? Like what's our standing?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Is this deserved the twenty two minute standing out?
Speaker 1: If you? Yeah, I think it's deserved that. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be there for it. You know.
Speaker 2: I was just at this Taylor Swift concert. Yeah, with
Speaker 2: my daughter and her three two little friends on a
Speaker 2: Wednesday on a school night. We had like a fucking
Speaker 2: twenty two minute goddamn standy. No, there I'm sitting there
Speaker 2: like Taylor, we all love you, but can we get
Speaker 2: this act going now?
Speaker 1: Just before she started or after.
Speaker 2: No, it was like in the middle of it, like
Speaker 2: the crowd just started going crazy for no reason and
Speaker 2: she like sat and played it, which she deserved every
Speaker 2: second of it.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, but it's twenty two minutes.
Speaker 2: I'm sitting there like we got school tomorrow. They're gonna
Speaker 2: be cranky.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen a six year old at six
Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning with a thirty five minute commute?
Speaker 1: No, I've avoided that. Yeah, it was really one of
Speaker 1: the it's one of my things.
Speaker 2: But Standy knows well.
Speaker 1: The standing oh I got, not just me, but when
Speaker 1: we did Inside Out we went to it was one
Speaker 1: of the great things about it. We were in con
Speaker 1: for the film festival. They show this fucking cartoon and
Speaker 1: I mean it's a great it's a great animation. But
Speaker 1: they stood up and it was we had we stood
Speaker 1: up because they started plotting. It was it was ten
Speaker 1: to twelve minute standing ovation.
Speaker 2: Like I think that you probably got a little like
Speaker 2: embarrassment that then, or like, are you like after like
Speaker 2: five minutes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was ready for food. Yeah, okay, enough, let's
Speaker 1: let's eat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, A couple. Yeah, who's the cow Ripken of the
Speaker 2: comedy space?
Speaker 1: You know who came close? And this was and this
Speaker 1: was a tip off for me that I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do this. I'm flying and I think I'm either
Speaker 1: in Grand Rapids of Detroit. On the plane is Don Rickles,
Speaker 1: who's like in his eighties and he's going to go
Speaker 1: to a show and I'm thinking, you know, and I
Speaker 1: love him. And on the plane he was spectacular. He
Speaker 1: kind of knew he knew I was. He turned around
Speaker 1: and just went after me for like ten minutes. You
Speaker 1: you schmuck and d D you know. He's kind of
Speaker 1: giving me all sorts of shit. And I said the
Speaker 1: stupid thing to him. I go, they're doing a documentary
Speaker 1: about you, you know, you know, and I said, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to apologize to you. And this is coming
Speaker 1: out of my mouth, I know, Oh what am I
Speaker 1: saying that I'm not going to be able to I
Speaker 1: was unable to kind of be able to be there.
Speaker 1: They wanted to shoot me for your documentary and I said,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I wasn't able to do and he said,
Speaker 1: do you think I give a shit? Do you think
Speaker 1: you were the one who was going to get that
Speaker 1: documentary of me over the top. What is the matter
Speaker 1: with you? I said, I'm really sorry. I said, don't
Speaker 1: be you should really be sorry. This is one of
Speaker 1: the most and he just went on and on and on.
Speaker 1: So we get out of the plane. He's with his
Speaker 1: tour manager. It's just the two of them, and he's
Speaker 1: going from there. He's going to stay in a motel
Speaker 1: that night and then get on a plane the next
Speaker 1: day and fly to Saginaw. And I turned to the
Speaker 1: comic I was working with John John Bowman at the time,
Speaker 1: and I said, if I'm made three years old and
Speaker 1: I'm doing this, shoot me to shoot me, bring me down,
Speaker 1: bring me down like a like a buffalo. That's that's
Speaker 1: strayed too far. No, I am not doing this. But
Speaker 1: he was going and going. And then also you look
Speaker 1: at George Burns.
Speaker 2: Who's all right, he's cal Ripken, who's his Kevin Costner.
Speaker 1: Wow, wow, wow wow wow. That is That may be
Speaker 1: the most insane thing anyone has ever said to me.
Speaker 1: And I consider him for a week, had not come
Speaker 1: up with an answer. I mean that I'm gonna call it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you later. I'm gonna put it on
Speaker 1: a little iPhone thing going. I figured it out, you
Speaker 1: said it to me, We'll put it on the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is Kevin Costner. Wow, well did Don Rickles Kevin Costner? Jesus,
Speaker 1: who would that.
Speaker 2: Be If he's cal Rikan of course, yeah.
Speaker 1: No, if he's cal Ripkens, Kevin Costu would be. I
Speaker 1: have to be somebody in their seventies. So uh, no idea.
Speaker 1: But if I think of it, I'll let you know.
Speaker 1: You'll be the first one I.
Speaker 2: Call perfect perfect?
Speaker 1: Perfect?
Speaker 2: Is this the greatest streak in sports history?
Speaker 1: I think my not playing any sports is the greatest
Speaker 1: streak in sports history. That I could have gone pro
Speaker 1: in anything and I said no, and the fact that
Speaker 1: I didn't is really the greatest streak. People talk about
Speaker 1: it time and again. God if he'd not gone into comedy,
Speaker 1: who he would have been a great cricket player.
Speaker 2: Cricket actually, I think the third most popular sport in
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 1: You've pulled that out of your ass, Jack. Let me
Speaker 1: see here. That is really It's.
Speaker 2: Huge in the UK, South Africa and Indie, India. How
Speaker 2: many people are.
Speaker 1: In Indie India? They love it there.
Speaker 2: Cricket is number two.
Speaker 3: Oh no, oh, estimated two point five billion fans.
Speaker 1: Oh, two point five billion.
Speaker 3: You won't even you. You don't even want to know
Speaker 3: what number three is?
Speaker 1: Three is croquet?
Speaker 2: Close hockey?
Speaker 1: You gotta be kidding me. What's one soccerer?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but shmuck, boy, what's one idiot? Moron? I mean
Speaker 1: field hockey? When was the last time you said, boy,
Speaker 1: I can't wait for the Marching Hairs to come to town.
Speaker 1: And they played such great field hockey.
Speaker 2: And I don't I remember the field hockey team at
Speaker 2: Kent State.
Speaker 1: Then it was women. Yeah, it was women and it
Speaker 1: was great to watch. I did go to those.
Speaker 2: I dated one of them. I think, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1: I really can't believe. Have you ever watched cricket for
Speaker 1: how long? I've watched cricket for eight minutes.
Speaker 2: I've never watched cricket. It's it's it's tough, you know,
Speaker 2: they go way overhand. I saw them. There's like a
Speaker 2: Disney movie about a cricket player that tried to become
Speaker 2: a baseball player.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's my Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I read the spark notes, Jack, What do we
Speaker 2: got on the aftermath?
Speaker 3: Just just to put this streak in a perspective. Real
Speaker 3: Quick col played with one hundred and fifty different teammates,
Speaker 3: eight different managers, played both shortstop and third base, spanned
Speaker 3: from eighty two to ninety eight. Perfect correct one team
Speaker 3: and for a little bit of a pop culture context
Speaker 3: on that, the entirety of Seinfeld happened during the streak.
Speaker 1: The entire the entirety of Seinfeld eighty nine to ninety eight.
Speaker 3: He was streaking, He was streaking.
Speaker 1: Did you come up with that?
Speaker 3: I just did a little research before the show.
Speaker 1: Wow, I mean, did somebody actually write that down or
Speaker 1: did you figure that out?
Speaker 3: Oh? I just I just kind of did my own math.
Speaker 1: If he figured it out, I'm hiring him away from you.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, okay, then your price, I'm there Lewis.
Speaker 2: He did also, he did have a theory did you
Speaker 2: go to school because with oh, yeah.
Speaker 3: We were doing our years here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's hear it.
Speaker 3: Were you and Larry David in College Park at the
Speaker 3: same time?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, okay, you're apart when you're the ages were close,
Speaker 3: and I knew you went for one.
Speaker 1: Year and yeah, but I don't think we were there.
Speaker 3: At the same Okay, that would have been epic, you know. No, Okay,
Speaker 3: just had a double check.
Speaker 1: Which is too bad. I could have turned my career around.
Speaker 1: I would have I would have been Seinfeld. I would
Speaker 1: have watched yea a different Seinfeld. What I'd be. So
Speaker 1: did you have a fucking bullshit and nonsense and fucking bullshit?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: That would be my Seinfeld No suit for you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Really?
Speaker 2: How about what is cal ripkens legacy in Baltimore? Like
Speaker 2: you're a Baltimore guy.
Speaker 1: His legacy is is it's like him, Brooks, Robinson, Johnny United.
Speaker 1: There's a pantheon of those.
Speaker 2: So is he above Johnny You?
Speaker 1: No, no, he They're all kind of equivalent.
Speaker 2: So that the mount Rushmore is is col.
Speaker 1: Johnny U, Brooks RP. There's another one's the fourth probably
Speaker 1: I mean, uh, Paul Merrow. Yeah, but maybe I was
Speaker 1: just going to say maybe Jim Palmer. He was a
Speaker 1: great pitcher. I mean he's he was another mainstay who
Speaker 1: was there forever. I mean, I'm also talking about guys
Speaker 1: which doesn't exist anymore. You did it, right, I mean
Speaker 1: you played with with those guys forever. Yeah. Staying with
Speaker 1: the team is unusual at this point, and all of
Speaker 1: the guys that were that the greats of Baltimore all stayed. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, once you're in Baltimore, why would you want
Speaker 1: to go anywhere else.
Speaker 2: Baltimore's a cool city, though it is. I love it there.
Speaker 1: Get rowdy, you know, and there's some great places and
Speaker 1: they and the greatest crab cakes on earth are there.
Speaker 2: If you are the commissioner of the MLB right now,
Speaker 2: what's one rule you would change or establish?
Speaker 3: What you know?
Speaker 2: Was you off the most?
Speaker 1: That? You know? What bothers me the most is that
Speaker 1: we're getting stab with the man in second day. We
Speaker 1: finished the ninth inning. Now we're getting fab with the
Speaker 1: man at first? No, no, no, did he get this? Second? No?
Speaker 1: And you pick him because he was the last guy
Speaker 1: up with the guy who was coming up next? No bullshit,
Speaker 1: second off you just no, you take you? You play
Speaker 1: it out, okay, And I don't care if you go
Speaker 1: twenty two winnings. That's the game. At least keep that
Speaker 1: part of the game. You have to win by winning. Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one thing in football, all right, where you can Okay,
Speaker 1: let's bash our heads for another. You know, continue to
Speaker 1: play no but this, but you know you have enough pitchers,
Speaker 1: you know, bullshit, bullshit.
Speaker 2: Can't get ct from swinging a bat?
Speaker 1: No, and it's no and you can't, or you can
Speaker 1: get is tired and it's just ruined. I just think
Speaker 1: and I look at it. It's like lunas. Don't it
Speaker 1: just irritates me. What would you change pitch clock? You
Speaker 1: don't like it? Huh? Wow?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: I like the routines of what guys were doing before
Speaker 2: you to get in. You give them some of this,
Speaker 2: you stop them a little bit, you come back. No,
Speaker 2: I'm not ready yet. I'm back. Like there was always
Speaker 2: a game I used to play sometimes when I was
Speaker 2: going in the batter's box with the picture. Now I'm back, Hey,
Speaker 2: ref blue, put my things I want. It was a
Speaker 2: timidation in fact, now we gotta have time limit on timidation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well because it and also I like going to
Speaker 1: the games. I want to be longer as our guy was.
Speaker 1: Eighteen beers, Well you could do that. You could have
Speaker 1: seven beforehand.
Speaker 2: They stop after the seventh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that drinks seven before you get there. Maybe
Speaker 1: nine doesn't.
Speaker 2: It doesn't feel right. I need to I need to
Speaker 2: feel the sun soaking my beer out of me right
Speaker 2: while I'm drinking it.
Speaker 1: Wow. The pitch cloud, I like, only because it became
Speaker 1: too much. Yeah, you know what I mean, Or you
Speaker 1: could have fucking nomal you know what else. You know
Speaker 1: what I would say, I'd agree with you if you
Speaker 1: could only do that. The batter can only do that
Speaker 1: each batter once, and you can pull at you once.
Speaker 1: The rest of the time, your pat get in there
Speaker 1: and shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2: Actually, I'm going back now, I'm changing my rule. What
Speaker 2: you gotta be able to take out the catcher? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean that was the coolest thing about baseball. Pete
Speaker 2: Rose in All Star Game, taken out goddamn catcher. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's the one time you get to see a hit
Speaker 2: that her.
Speaker 1: You know, a fight, take out the catcher.
Speaker 2: Remember these take thet broke his ankle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, And I don't want that to happen.
Speaker 1: But I can't have Rushman get hurt.
Speaker 2: You can't put it. You know. That's what brings the
Speaker 2: lore of being a major leaguer this. You know this
Speaker 2: guy you may take on a dude. You're gonna see
Speaker 2: a little Charlie running down the sideline or down third
Speaker 2: base and he comes in like slide like nah, I
Speaker 2: want to see chuck take his head off. Will this
Speaker 2: streak ever be broken? I don't think so. No, no, shot,
Speaker 2: not nowadays.
Speaker 1: No, And nobody, And I don't think the way it
Speaker 1: goes to nobody cares. Yeah, they're not letting pitchers pitch anymore.
Speaker 1: They stop them at the sixth I mean, none of that.
Speaker 1: All of that bothers me too, that they're not letting.
Speaker 2: A guy load management. They call it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: Analytics, analytics, analytics, Yep, it's just about analytics. Guy, the
Speaker 2: meter went a little too analytic.
Speaker 1: Y Yeah, it did, and it's and it's crazy. And
Speaker 1: if I'd known that, I would have majored in math.
Speaker 2: Oh you were caring. You you're doing ages right there,
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of minutes ago, and I was like,
Speaker 2: he's carrying a couple twoes there. I don't I don't
Speaker 2: know if you're gonna math major right there? Yeah, you
Speaker 2: stick to the writing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: So you're known for your your rants. What's what's your
Speaker 2: greatest rant of all time that you are just so
Speaker 2: proud of?
Speaker 1: And I don't ask me to remember what it was,
Speaker 1: but no, I just findable the one. It was one
Speaker 1: that it took me a while. There's four or five
Speaker 1: things they did. But when they put uh, Jannet Jackson's
Speaker 1: breast on the nipple, the nipple, the nipple Caper.
Speaker 2: How what year was that?
Speaker 1: That was j T And I flipped out and so
Speaker 1: I just and that's what I went off on. Nobody know.
Speaker 1: It's like, uh, the four four four. It was horrifying.
Speaker 1: I was literally sitting we were we were in La,
Speaker 1: sitting in in a friend's house. I was this close
Speaker 1: to the TV and uh, if not closer, I watched
Speaker 1: the whole fucking halftime show. You never saw her nipple, okay,
Speaker 1: And I'm a guy who would look for that immediately.
Speaker 1: I'm not fooling around. I don't have time. You show
Speaker 1: a nip, I'm gonna be there to watch the nip. Okay,
Speaker 1: never saw it. So to me, it was like you're
Speaker 1: out of your minds. And then and then I literally
Speaker 1: just went nuts the first time I went on stage,
Speaker 1: and then it was just taking I was going going.
Speaker 1: Not only did what really was disturbing was the fact
Speaker 1: that they kept saying, well, this is horrible, this is
Speaker 1: just awful. Let's see it again. This was awful. Let's
Speaker 1: see it again. Can we see that again? Look at
Speaker 1: that thing. It's disgusting that nipple just appeared out there,
Speaker 1: and this is not the kind of flick. See it again.
Speaker 1: And they just kept showing it, showing it, showing it,
Speaker 1: And so I went off and then eventually carved it
Speaker 1: all thegether and I loved doing it, and I kept
Speaker 1: that bit but way too long, probably till two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven, three years of the nipple bit.
Speaker 2: I like a nice nipple bit.
Speaker 1: It was good. It's good.
Speaker 2: Do you miss anything?
Speaker 3: No, we were pretty pretty clean this episode. The uh,
Speaker 3: the one the one thing we were looking up during
Speaker 3: the thing was it was Ted Marchibrodis was Bill Belichick's
Speaker 3: head coach when he got to start in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Ted Marchibroda. Do you remember him?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Well, you know I thought you were like the history
Speaker 1: of football and yeah, but he was boss another great one.
Speaker 2: Bay Area football pre my career.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, yeah, I mean it is nuts.
Speaker 2: Keys are and ship like, but like that's keys our time, right,
Speaker 2: that's a long time ago.
Speaker 1: That was keys. That's right, keeps Our Stadium.
Speaker 2: I played a high school game there, did you really? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's where they used to play like games and ship.
Speaker 1: That must have been fun, so fun.
Speaker 2: Because this is the old looking old time stadium in
Speaker 2: the city.
Speaker 1: Is it was in the city? Yeah, yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I never saw that stadium.
Speaker 2: I was. So we name the game? What is this game?
Speaker 2: Twenty one thirty one? Or the Iron Man Game? What
Speaker 2: do you think?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 3: What game?
Speaker 2: What name should this this game be?
Speaker 1: Oh? The Iron Man Game?
Speaker 2: Iron Man Game? Perfect? Now we do this thing where
Speaker 2: we score the game. Is this the greatest game of
Speaker 2: all time?
Speaker 1: Do I get cash from this to be able to
Speaker 1: play in Vegas?
Speaker 2: Uh? We can, we can, we can, we got some
Speaker 2: Is this the greatest game of all time? Let's score it? Stakes?
Speaker 2: What are the stakes of this game? Not very high?
Speaker 1: High at all? So what is that?
Speaker 2: Zero out of ten?
Speaker 1: Three?
Speaker 2: Three? Yeah? That sounds about right. The steak is only
Speaker 2: really the streak?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Star Power? Yeah, I mean Al Gore is there.
Speaker 1: I'll go yeah, you know, and and he's you know right,
Speaker 1: and he made you know, that was his first climate
Speaker 1: change move. I'm going to go to the game. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna watch it on TV. I'm gonna save electricity.
Speaker 1: Star Power, I would say seven eight seven point eight
Speaker 1: seven eight seven eight. Yeah, seven or eight.
Speaker 2: Let's go eight, Well, seven point eight, we'll do seven point.
Speaker 1: Seven point eight. I like that game and two points.
Speaker 2: The game player, this thing you remember that. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's a baseball game.
Speaker 1: The fact that he hit the homer is pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the dinger, Yeah, that's huge. In the street game,
Speaker 2: Lou Garrett was there, Yeah, and or his family was there, right.
Speaker 1: His family was there, I think and the doctor who
Speaker 1: discovered Lou Gerrig's disease.
Speaker 2: It's important, man.
Speaker 1: So I think it's the homer.
Speaker 2: So what we got one out of ten?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 2: I would say? Probably like a seven. This is your
Speaker 2: this is your show.
Speaker 1: No, that's all right. I'll take the seven. Seven. I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, if you hit two omers, I put it
Speaker 1: at ten. There you go, name the iron Man game?
Speaker 2: What is the score of that name? You're out of ten?
Speaker 2: That's a pretty good name.
Speaker 1: It's a good name, and it's a solid name. And
Speaker 1: I give it a nine. Nice. Let's see what our
Speaker 1: iron Man the Iron fuck fuck Man game would have
Speaker 1: been a ten?
Speaker 2: Are we talking?
Speaker 1: Next?
Speaker 2: Six?
Speaker 3: Where is it rank? That puts us right in between
Speaker 3: the Oh? Look at this the manning seven? Where Peyton
Speaker 3: Manning through seven touchdowns in a week one game and
Speaker 3: right above the Nuggets Lakers two thousand and nine Western
Speaker 3: Conference Finals. I don't know. Don't we agree with that?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, at least where I had of
Speaker 1: Gilbert Arenas is sixty point game, and it should be
Speaker 1: ahead of Gilbert Arenas. I think being found was was.
Speaker 3: He the one with a gun and the was Ian
Speaker 3: Javares Crittington in the locker room.
Speaker 2: A little bit of a duel.
Speaker 1: That's where you need a gun. We were to be
Speaker 1: called them, and they weren't even called the Bullets anymore.
Speaker 1: That's another here's a piece of shit. Take a name
Speaker 1: the Bullets away and call any team the Wizards. Talk
Speaker 1: about a fruity name. That's fruity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Wizards.
Speaker 1: Is different, different, that's being nice. It's awful. They're not magicians,
Speaker 1: they're they're I barely have basketball.
Speaker 2: Player Lewis I grew up watching in reading Harry Potter.
Speaker 2: I love Wizards.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, wow, jesus wow, I really I can't look
Speaker 1: in your eyes when you say stuff like that.
Speaker 2: His stand up special Tragically I Need You is streaming
Speaker 2: on YouTube. Got to catch them on off the rails
Speaker 2: tour at a city near you? Anything else you want
Speaker 2: to plug?
Speaker 1: I want to plug my Uh, I have a rant
Speaker 1: cast I read ranch read brands.
Speaker 2: Where do we find this? How do we how do
Speaker 2: we listen to these rants?
Speaker 1: Well, because it's on wherever, wherever find brands are found.
Speaker 1: There's uh, you know, like I said, the whole Foods. No,
Speaker 1: it's uh Apples, I think for Apple, and I know
Speaker 1: we're on Spotify. Uh but Apple for sure. And but
Speaker 1: you know what, cut to the chase, Go to Lewis
Speaker 1: black dot com and you'll find it there.
Speaker 2: That's where everyone here is going to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see them leaping from their seats.
Speaker 2: There's only three of us here. I jumped out, but quick,
Speaker 2: quicker than fast.
Speaker 1: But that's really the But what's what's fun about that
Speaker 1: is to be able I do. I talk at the
Speaker 1: beginning about whatever happened that week, which is always the same.
Speaker 1: I'm beginning to notice it's always the fucking saying. And
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to make jokes about the same ship again
Speaker 1: and again and again. It's exhaust So.
Speaker 2: It's basically like a current event rant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do kind of a current event or what like,
Speaker 1: I'll talk about us meeting. Yeah, I wish, I wish,
Speaker 1: and I'll give you a plug.
Speaker 2: I wish it was around when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: because I probably would have just used it in my
Speaker 2: World Studies class and on Thursdays and Fridays because we
Speaker 2: always needed a political event and I would just would
Speaker 2: have presented you and.
Speaker 1: That'd be good.
Speaker 2: But I do that mister Gregory would have hated me
Speaker 2: even more.
Speaker 1: But I bet he likes you now maybe, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think he.
Speaker 2: I don't think he watched sports really yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I read rants to other people. So if
Speaker 1: you've got something you want to complain about, send me
Speaker 1: a rant. I'll read it.
Speaker 2: But no I want you to. I don't want you
Speaker 2: to read it. I want you to rant it.
Speaker 1: Oh I will, don't worry. I literally screamed through most
Speaker 1: of these.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for doing games with names.
Speaker 1: I'll do and I'm going to come back because I
Speaker 1: want to win this fucking thing. And that what was ten? Again?
Speaker 1: Show me that fucking thing, Mavericks versus Heat. I can
Speaker 1: beat that game?
Speaker 3: Was that's just because Mark Cuban was here. He he
Speaker 3: he rigged the books out there, he put the scores
Speaker 3: up oh did he put the score up? Well, he
Speaker 3: gave everything at ten.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Not fair except gameplay, except game.
Speaker 1: But yeah, wow, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you think about it, though, it's a
Speaker 2: it's a it's a smart marketing move. Yeah, because now
Speaker 2: we're talking about the Mavericks. Yeah, Lewis black Man, everyone's
Speaker 2: coming here. What's number one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm gonna I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna pitch him a couple of things. I know, I
Speaker 2: told him I never pitch him anything.
Speaker 1: Oh you yeah, Awes, that's a show, thank you. That
Speaker 1: was fun.
Speaker 2: That's fun.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Man, that was an awesome episode. He's a legend, insane.
Speaker 3: Lewis is a beast. So glad to have him.
Speaker 2: You know what, ship you gotta think about it. Guy's
Speaker 2: been on TV for forty odd years. I mean some
Speaker 2: of the names he was dropping.
Speaker 3: And didn't start comedy until like forty something. Him and
Speaker 3: Rodney Dangerfield, Like, that's insane. Pissy hadn't eaten't meet Rodney though.
Speaker 3: I was waiting for a good Rodney.
Speaker 2: Hey. Yeah, you know, Sam, Sam.
Speaker 3: Did a great Rodney. Bro he had a really good Rodney.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 3: My wife called me, she said there's nobody home. I
Speaker 3: went over, there was nobody home. Yeah, Rodney. So Leah
Speaker 3: has a little gripe. Yeah, she's from She's from Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Our producer, Leah she uh, she thinks it should be
Speaker 2: twenty one thirty one, not the iron Man Game.
Speaker 3: And she couldn't believe he didn't know Jeffrey Mayer off
Speaker 3: the top of the head. The little kid, that little kid,
Speaker 3: I mean, who remembers losers had in one in since
Speaker 3: eighty three?
Speaker 2: Who's the other guy? Like if it was like if
Speaker 2: it was like the Buckner guy, or who's Noah what's
Speaker 2: his name? Uh? The guy from Chicago.
Speaker 4: Bart Man Bart Yeah, the Irony Jewels. If you're saying,
Speaker 4: who remembers losers wearing your red sox hat is because
Speaker 4: you just mentioned Bill.
Speaker 2: Buckler there were losers. I don't remember that. I know
Speaker 2: what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: On the Uh, should we get into our post show segment?
Speaker 2: What's our post show segment? Jack?
Speaker 3: As we talk, we do an episode here. We dedicated
Speaker 3: this episode to a game that broke a record, iron
Speaker 3: Man Game. Great record. I thought it was apropos to
Speaker 3: talk top five most unbeatable records in all of sports.
Speaker 3: What do you think.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 3: You do uh, you're mean to rattle some of these off.
Speaker 3: I think we can I.
Speaker 2: Well know, Joe Demaggio coming out of the jumping Joe
Speaker 2: fifty six.
Speaker 1: I think we can come.
Speaker 3: We can come to a top five here, I'm love.
Speaker 2: There's like the black and white footage of him coming
Speaker 2: out of like the paper sheet.
Speaker 5: Remember that high school football style, and here comes Joe
Speaker 5: jump bou jo news, old news, real footage, you know,
Speaker 5: all announce time.
Speaker 2: I got Joe the Bajia okay, through the piper. Well,
Speaker 2: hey break the record today, folks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean legendary. You got uh, Cal Ripkens insane
Speaker 3: two thousand, dude twenty one thirty one, Boat lay Leo
Speaker 3: will get mad three hundred something, three hundred something after
Speaker 3: that though, gret Ski fifty one consecutive games with a point,
Speaker 3: pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: Is that a goal? Or is that just a point?
Speaker 3: I think an assist counsel.
Speaker 2: I know, see that's not I'm not a hockey guy,
Speaker 2: not men either, But I lived in a fucking hockey town.
Speaker 2: You did, we both did, and I won championships in
Speaker 2: that town with the hockey people there.
Speaker 3: Tyler's say, you get hanging out with Sagan.
Speaker 2: Well set Sagan, Jesus, we gotta get him off.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. The story is that guy would.
Speaker 2: Have oh my god, uh, back to consecutive unrepeatable records.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm partial to you know, I'm a hoops guy.
Speaker 3: Celtics eight straight, fifty eight to sixty six in straight titles.
Speaker 3: Who's ever gonna do that again?
Speaker 2: No one.
Speaker 3: I granted the NBA is different nowadays, but yeah, that's different.
Speaker 3: Eight in a row UCLA.
Speaker 2: I don't want recency bias, so I'm not saying any.
Speaker 3: UCLA men's basketball eighty eight consecutive wins pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: John Wooden Theater, John Wooden Theory Bill fifteen minutes if
Speaker 2: you're if you're on time, you're late. Fifteen minutes early kids,
Speaker 2: what a wise pyramidive success wise? Man?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lewis was thirty minutes early today. Dude, he would
Speaker 3: have played. He would have been starting point guard for
Speaker 3: John wood.
Speaker 2: He would have been And he said, that's the biggest
Speaker 2: streak he's ever heard him never playing anything in athletics.
Speaker 1: Is really a lifetime of no athletics.
Speaker 2: He's still streaking to this day. Globetrotters. They've won two thousand,
Speaker 2: four hundred and ninety five straight wins over the Washington Generals.
Speaker 3: Impressive, but kind of who's the Washington Generals. That's like
Speaker 3: the team that they travel with that they just beat
Speaker 3: up on. So I mean, it's it's it's a scripted record,
Speaker 3: but still impressive. It's a lot of nights the Generals
Speaker 3: did beat him.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 2: I did watch the Harlem glow Trotter. I forgot where
Speaker 2: I saw it though, Yeah, I saw him once. My
Speaker 2: dad took me to see him too, Belkarina. It was
Speaker 2: the what's the song? No? Sounds like more Andy Dick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm doing Andy Griffith. What the Andy Dick? Why
Speaker 3: was I doing Mayberry? Jeezy?
Speaker 2: It has like the basketball dribbling, the metal of.
Speaker 3: Lark Lemon, all that swag. What am I? Damn dude,
Speaker 3: I really did just do Mayberry. Now I'm just thinking
Speaker 3: about don Knots playing for him. But don Ns was
Speaker 3: a Globe trugger.
Speaker 2: Tiger Woods one is pretty crazy.
Speaker 3: I don't never bene that would never be done again.
Speaker 2: How many years is that? That's a lot of years
Speaker 2: that I mean. Jerry Rice two hundred and seventy four
Speaker 2: consecutive games with the catch Jerry Man. He did he
Speaker 2: play though, like he didn't miss a game or is
Speaker 2: that how does that work? I mean he had like
Speaker 2: three careers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're only counting games he played in.
Speaker 2: I remember he was just racking up. I went to
Speaker 2: a touchdown party, like I think he beat. Like I
Speaker 2: was on a Pop Warner team and Jerry Rice just
Speaker 2: beat a touchdown record. I think it was like seventy
Speaker 2: seven or whatever that was. Was it that I don't
Speaker 2: want to say. I remember there was hats. I had
Speaker 2: a hat. I had like a little Jerry Rice guy
Speaker 2: and the number of and we we were like, huh,
Speaker 2: that is.
Speaker 3: Some valuable merchant.
Speaker 2: Sounds like I don't think I have it anymore. But uh,
Speaker 2: we were like the Pop Worner team that had to
Speaker 2: go out and like Jerry Rice. We brought this Redwood
Speaker 2: City forty nine er football team to like commemorate you dude,
Speaker 2: and we're like, yeah, our little like RC Jackets, we
Speaker 2: meaning Jerry Rice.
Speaker 3: Just just the like the pairing of words touchdown party
Speaker 3: sounds awesome. I like that combo of words.
Speaker 2: That was good together party. It was a touchy party. Man,
Speaker 2: it was cool. It was over in like arling game
Speaker 2: at a hotel and Jerry made an appearance. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was his party. Oh, that's so sick they were. It
Speaker 2: was like an award they were giving them for something.
Speaker 2: It may have been touchdown. Don't fact check me, but
Speaker 2: I think there there was a number on a hat
Speaker 2: that I got with the Jerry Rice guy on it.
Speaker 2: If anyone out there was at that event and still
Speaker 2: has that hat, there's probably some like forty year old
Speaker 2: guy that I was there with when we were both
Speaker 2: like twelve, Like send the picture over, dude.
Speaker 3: Guarantee eBay eBay, MSRP on that thing is probably at
Speaker 3: least four hundred bucks plus.
Speaker 2: What what else do we got? We got Wing, got
Speaker 2: the hurdles, Edwin Moses.
Speaker 3: This was seventy seven to eighty seven, four hundred meter hurdles,
Speaker 3: didn't lose a race from seventy seven to eighty seven.
Speaker 3: That's got to make the top five a decade a
Speaker 3: decade in track and field, man. I know Kyler's very partial.
Speaker 3: Speaking of records to Marie Ole, muse five goals in
Speaker 3: five ways. If he's got to explain that, I don't
Speaker 3: know what.
Speaker 2: Let's hear it, he's on the wall.
Speaker 4: Okay, so Mario mwse five goals in five games.
Speaker 2: Let's hear it from the guy who's from western Massachusetts
Speaker 2: that supports the Penguins. All right, keep going.
Speaker 4: My parents lived in Pittsburgh, and I like the animal.
Speaker 2: They wait, where were they born?
Speaker 4: Boston area?
Speaker 2: Oh? And then and then they went and had a
Speaker 2: cup of coffee in Pittsburgh on a date. And you
Speaker 2: like the animal.
Speaker 4: Penalty animal. They waddle, they wattle, yeah, but Mario, they slide,
Speaker 4: they slide. Mario le muse five goals in five different ways.
Speaker 4: So in hockey, you can score a goal in five
Speaker 4: different ways. Right, So there's even strength five on five.
Speaker 4: There's penalty kill, so you're down. You're down a man,
Speaker 4: so it's four on five on your team. There is
Speaker 4: power play, so it's five to four on you're up. Right,
Speaker 4: there's also an an empty net goal with the goalie pulled,
Speaker 4: and then there's also a.
Speaker 2: A penalty shot, so you know a penalty happened.
Speaker 4: So he was able to score the amount of times
Speaker 4: five goals scored in an NHL game is super rare
Speaker 4: to begin with, maybe two three times a season, tops
Speaker 4: uh and then this has never happened and will never
Speaker 4: happen again. To put in perspective, Brad Marsham did this
Speaker 4: recently in a season in a season, right, one or
Speaker 4: two guys a year can do this in a season.
Speaker 2: He did in a game.
Speaker 4: He did it in one singular game. Not only just
Speaker 4: score five goals, which rarely happens. He scored five goals and.
Speaker 2: Five and he played a long time. He played.
Speaker 4: He had an injury shortened career, but yeah, he was
Speaker 4: he was around for a while. But it's a lot
Speaker 4: of it's just opportunity.
Speaker 2: To what how old was he until he retired, like.
Speaker 4: Thirty, So he retired in two thousand because he had
Speaker 4: some back issues, and then he came back old. He
Speaker 4: retired in ninety six and came back in two thousand
Speaker 4: and one.
Speaker 2: Five years off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because he had like hotchkins and foam and he
Speaker 4: had a bad back and then whatever whatever whatever, But he.
Speaker 2: Took five years up. Was he productive when he came back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was a point point a game player and
Speaker 4: he owned the team at the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah or that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So this it's probably not even just from the
Speaker 4: skill level. It's opportunity, Right, there's not many penalties show.
Speaker 2: You're basically saying, that's a lightning type record. It'll never
Speaker 2: happen again, ever, ever, ever, ever. No, it's getting struck
Speaker 2: by lightning twice type record.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of it's not just skill skills involved,
Speaker 4: because not a lot of players score five.
Speaker 2: But no, like it's it's kind of like you have
Speaker 2: to get struck by lightning twice.
Speaker 3: All right, enough sucking off Mary move let's uh, you
Speaker 3: want to rank these bad boys? That's all about Lance
Speaker 3: bro seven straight Twitter France wins exactly.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm also a big Twitter France guy. You're
Speaker 4: touching my two niches. Uh, this will happen because there's
Speaker 4: been numerous guys who've got five right now with Teddy
Speaker 4: Pigatta and uh you know its Vinderguard. They're young guys
Speaker 4: that could win maybe in a row. A row is tough,
Speaker 4: but like I suspect there'll be a guy who wins
Speaker 4: seven tours in the future.
Speaker 2: That was pretty crazy. I had the I had the
Speaker 2: Yellow band.
Speaker 3: Love Lance Love what a guy, great guy, just a
Speaker 3: good guy?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Top five?
Speaker 3: Should we should we rank these bad boys or just
Speaker 3: compile the top five? I don't think in any particular order. Oh,
Speaker 3: must rank them, Okay, must rank them.
Speaker 2: The with what you just pitched me on with Mario Lemoux,
Speaker 2: Jesus chriming. That's gotta be in the top five.
Speaker 3: Five goals in five ways.
Speaker 2: Uh, Kyle Ripkins in there. Okay, that's fucking crazy. As
Speaker 2: Lewis said, if you do, have you done anything two
Speaker 2: thousand and six hundred and thirty two times?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, No, Joe DiMaggio, how many how many times have
Speaker 2: they gotten close? Who's gotten closest to the to the hits? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but I I just that sticks
Speaker 2: out to me.
Speaker 3: I think number two he's gonna be Willie Keeler of
Speaker 3: the Baltimore Ools forty five games. Oh my god, that
Speaker 3: was back in the eighteen hundreds, eighteen ninety six, so yeah, wow,
Speaker 3: geez Louise. And then Pete rose Charlie Hussell seventy eight,
Speaker 3: he got to forty four games in a row.
Speaker 2: We gotta get Pete rose On to be tight, bro,
Speaker 2: So I bet you we could get Pete rose On.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, just gonna if you go to the
Speaker 3: nearest autograph table at some random sports.
Speaker 2: Line, yeah, just mind room. He will be there by
Speaker 2: Red's jersey and say.
Speaker 3: Hey Pete, say hey kid.
Speaker 2: I know he's not Willy.
Speaker 3: He's always sitting mine the table signing something somewhere. I
Speaker 3: did my podcast, Dude, we gotta get him in here
Speaker 3: Byron Nelson. Who's who is ever gonna win eleven straight
Speaker 3: PGA Tour events? That's never gonna be broken?
Speaker 2: When was that done?
Speaker 3: Nineteen forty five?
Speaker 2: See, you know what these I mean, they've been running
Speaker 2: time and is it still? I mean that's tough.
Speaker 3: Still stands eleven straight?
Speaker 2: It's great number. I think we gotta get Tiger Woods
Speaker 2: on there too. Gotta put Tiger that's just crazy. The longevity,
Speaker 2: I mean, ten years without losing hurdles is tough edwin,
Speaker 2: but we gotta put edwin ten years. And I mean
Speaker 2: just taxing on your body.
Speaker 3: Yes, crazy, all right? So we uh, well.
Speaker 2: That's our top five. The comments, let me I want
Speaker 2: to hear what they think. Hell, and then we'll do
Speaker 2: a post. Give us, Give us, just so everyone's clear
Speaker 2: at home, give us these top five out of our fives. Yeah,
Speaker 2: read that, out of all the fives. These fire fives
Speaker 2: are five of the most unbeaten, unbeatable records.
Speaker 3: Yes, give us these ones, just to clear it up
Speaker 3: for the people at home.
Speaker 2: Our top five are Edwin Moses one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: two consecutive four hundred meter hurdlewins, ten years, didn't lose,
Speaker 2: cal Ripken Junior two thousand, six hundred and thirty two
Speaker 2: consecutive games played, even got a game cancer because of
Speaker 2: Kevin Kostners, Joey DiMaggio fifty six consecutive games with a hit.
Speaker 2: Guy had a killer eye in Roe. Oh it was
Speaker 2: his girl. The guy had that. He must aid his carrots.
Speaker 2: Tiger Woods one hundred and forty two straight PGA cuts.
Speaker 2: May did that go? Yep? We'll keep that at that
Speaker 2: because we might get him on here.
Speaker 3: I want to love Tiger.
Speaker 2: Tiger will come on. I want to I want to
Speaker 2: talk about when he had the broken knee and won
Speaker 2: the US Open.
Speaker 3: Kind over matter, baby tough.
Speaker 6: And Mario Lemieux five goals in five ways in one game, insane, insane,
Speaker 6: struck by lightning twice. That's a top five. That is
Speaker 6: a great top five.
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