Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of My Heart Radio. Hello,
Speaker 1: and welcome to another episode of the Greatest. I am
Speaker 1: Megan Gally, joined this week by my husband and co
Speaker 1: host c J Toladano. What's happening? Why? Why are you
Speaker 1: this week just trying to throw some flavor? It just
Speaker 1: sounds like an intro just trying to throw a little, um,
Speaker 1: a little change on their happy week of Thanksgiving. UM.
Speaker 1: I hope you are planning to stay safe and healthy.
Speaker 1: Same side. I am going to be making corn souffle,
Speaker 1: corn cast role, whatever you want to call it. And
Speaker 1: c J is going to be making mac and cheese
Speaker 1: and stuffing. Wow, those are two big important items. Now,
Speaker 1: some people don't think you're supposed to have mac and
Speaker 1: cheese at It's ridiculous, absolutely certain stupid. We never had
Speaker 1: it growing up, and I always wanted to. I remember
Speaker 1: when you're asking if we could have spaghetti and meatballs,
Speaker 1: UM for Thanksgiving? If you enjoy it's like Thanksgiving is
Speaker 1: a time to eat all your favorite foods, and spaghetti
Speaker 1: meatballs is in my top ten. And I've been to
Speaker 1: a m one of your family large family gatherings for
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and there was Filipino food. There's Filipino food, there's
Speaker 1: pizza Frankis. Oh it was so good. I was thrilled.
Speaker 1: All right, well that is that's the most Thanksgiving theme.
Speaker 1: Um portion of the show. I want to bring on
Speaker 1: our guest, who is a dear, dear friend of ours,
Speaker 1: very very funny comedian, comedy writer, actor. He's got it
Speaker 1: all half of but But but Sketch comic favorite Sketch Crew,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Joe McAdam. Guys, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. And um, I'm psyched about Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Let's let's do this. What are you making Thanksgiving? What
Speaker 1: are you making making? I'm making mac and cheese. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mac and cheese. If you don't think it should be
Speaker 1: at Thanksgiving, that's weird, Like just allow it, just allow it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never knew it was controversial until recently. I see
Speaker 1: people tweeting like, oh, yeah, it's not a real it's
Speaker 1: not a real like holiday food. It's like, it's the
Speaker 1: most comfort food to me is Thanksgiving Christmas tip. Well,
Speaker 1: and if you can have like cheesy potatoes, why can't
Speaker 1: you have cheesy pasta? That's all I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1: You should everything should be like a cheesy you know,
Speaker 1: carb starch whatever. That sounds great, that sounds fantastic. You
Speaker 1: should be that got turkey. Turkey in a turkey. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make some gravy with some about a thing at turkey. Next,
Speaker 1: you know what turkey. Next, go for the grocery store.
Speaker 1: Take a guess, leg I'm okay, I'm gonna say a
Speaker 1: buck a neck. I've next three five for three dollars
Speaker 1: only in America. What you want about this drink? You
Speaker 1: can buy five turkey necks for three dollars. If you're
Speaker 1: a turkey listening to this, that has to really piss
Speaker 1: you off. Listen up, Turkey, because if someone was selling
Speaker 1: five Megan necks for three dollars, I go, this is bullshit.
Speaker 1: It would deserve more. And if you flip the numbers,
Speaker 1: if it was three necks for five bucks, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: even blink. But it's that's like a way worse deal.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a Yo Mama joke, like Yo Mama's next,
Speaker 1: so stupid it goes for three for five bucks. You
Speaker 1: should do Yo Mama Thanksgiving jokes for turkeys. All right,
Speaker 1: I'll start a Google doc and we'll start dropping in,
Speaker 1: um your mama jokes for turkey. Next. I love this project.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see it to completion for sure. Wait,
Speaker 1: well real quick, because I don't think I've ever had
Speaker 1: just solely turkey. Next, what what is involved in cooking it?
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm just gonna cook like a like
Speaker 1: a sear some turkey next in a you know, a
Speaker 1: pretty big pan, and then just like add whatever the
Speaker 1: some drippings and some flour and I don't know what
Speaker 1: stuff to make it a make it a gravy. And
Speaker 1: then and then you take the turkey necks out at
Speaker 1: some point, Yeah, straight out the turkey. Next, get rid
Speaker 1: of it. You don't want to turkey neck in there,
Speaker 1: but that's where that's where the turkey keeps all its
Speaker 1: flavor is in the neck. So that's what you want.
Speaker 1: You want to get those next in there. Now. C
Speaker 1: J says that he's been looking for a mac and
Speaker 1: cheese recipe. Maybe if you could share. No, I'm not
Speaker 1: happy to share the whole thing. Maybe you leave out
Speaker 1: one or two ingredients so the secret is safe. But
Speaker 1: I'd like to lobby for CJ to get the recipe
Speaker 1: so I can eat that mac and cheese. And I've
Speaker 1: been tweaking, Like the last I think the last time
Speaker 1: you guys ate my mac and cheese was did I
Speaker 1: bring it to the super Bowl party? I forget I
Speaker 1: brought something over to your place. I brought mac and
Speaker 1: cheese your place a while ago. Yeah, I think it.
Speaker 1: I've been improving the recipe. I'm working on it. I've
Speaker 1: got over. I've got a much better mac and cheese
Speaker 1: recipe today than I did one year ago. Okay, And
Speaker 1: that's the secret, Like we're not seeing what's what do
Speaker 1: you think is like an important aspect of a mac
Speaker 1: and cheese dish? To you, Velvita, it's like it's hands down,
Speaker 1: it's Velbata put it in. And if someone's a snob
Speaker 1: about it, tell him to take a hike. It's because
Speaker 1: the thing is they're already been snobs about not wanting
Speaker 1: mac and cheese. So ce J and I we've cut
Speaker 1: any mac and cheese snobs out of our lives. I
Speaker 1: gotta lose them. You gotta go with the good stuff.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, you go with and there's there's more to it,
Speaker 1: but I'll send over a recipe. Now we had are
Speaker 1: now famous super Bowl party. And I say famous because
Speaker 1: it's the last time I felt safe being around people.
Speaker 1: Um and maybe for the rest of my life. We
Speaker 1: had our famous super Bowl party almost entirely for Joe McAdam.
Speaker 1: I can't express how much I appreciate that. It's the
Speaker 1: sweetest thing. It was the best day of my life,
Speaker 1: maybe better than my marriage. Its beautiful. It's it's mine
Speaker 1: to say it. It's fine to say no, it's not.
Speaker 1: It is okay, it is okay. My dad I think ranks.
Speaker 1: Oh I forgot they listen, But I feel like my
Speaker 1: dad ranks the Colts winning the Super Bowl behind the
Speaker 1: birth of his children, but ahead of his wedding day
Speaker 1: and they're still married. Yeah, so Dad, you can correct
Speaker 1: me if that's wrong. We had a saved seat for you.
Speaker 1: Let me give a little backstory, like why was it
Speaker 1: as important and also get into your allegiances a little
Speaker 1: bit with your teams and sports. I'm originally from Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Obviously I met you guys in Chicago, but I've I've
Speaker 1: never like latched onto Chicago sports teams. I've always been
Speaker 1: Chiefs Royals, and I'm definitely a bigger football fan than
Speaker 1: anything else. Um, and so as a Chiefs fan, I mean,
Speaker 1: they that was the first Super Bowl they've won in
Speaker 1: fifty years, and they are notoriously the most heartbreaking team.
Speaker 1: The Colts have destroyed our our hopes so many times.
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of fun watching the Colts. It's
Speaker 1: and it's been it's been very rough. And so now
Speaker 1: where it's like this is the first time ever in
Speaker 1: my whole like sports life where it's like it's not
Speaker 1: even a fluke. It's like, Okay, this this is a
Speaker 1: very game team and they are expected to win. And
Speaker 1: that's like my brain doesn't even know how to process.
Speaker 1: I've like like internalized this identity of being like an underdog,
Speaker 1: you know, for sports, and for that leads into everything else.
Speaker 1: Like that's just it's like because we it was a
Speaker 1: topic of ours I think a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: small market teams and like the Chiefs, I don't. I
Speaker 1: think the Chiefs might be the most dominant team in sports,
Speaker 1: and like I also am like calculating they're probably the
Speaker 1: favorites for the next few years. And that's like that's
Speaker 1: that's strange for Kansas City to hold that like for
Speaker 1: it's weird, not really known like, Yeah, Pat Mahomes is
Speaker 1: going to be there for his entire career. It looks
Speaker 1: like and it's crazy. The Kansas City Chiefs or Kansas
Speaker 1: City might be the number one NFL team for the
Speaker 1: next for the next five years. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: it's Uh, I love it. I can't. I can't express
Speaker 1: it enough. That's so cool. I can't. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: like doing back backflips about it. I'm a little hungover
Speaker 1: today because the chief has played the Raiders last night.
Speaker 1: We've got our houses, uh struggling today. Cults beat the
Speaker 1: Packers in overtime. And there was definitely some reserve alcohol
Speaker 1: that I had for the election that we didn't get
Speaker 1: to that when who boy, when you squeak out a
Speaker 1: game against the NFC North, you got to get that
Speaker 1: election and alcohol popping. And I don't know that we're
Speaker 1: going with. Last night, Um, we took c J and I,
Speaker 1: just the two of us in our home, took shots
Speaker 1: of fireball and she has like she had like a
Speaker 1: twelve pack of little like airplane fireballs. Um, and that's
Speaker 1: the that that was like the third. We also have
Speaker 1: these can Margarita's and palomas that she kept going no,
Speaker 1: not cut water, which was like an early favorite, but
Speaker 1: it's these new ones. I don't even know what they're calling. Um.
Speaker 1: And then c J and I I also hadn't eaten
Speaker 1: because I had eaten so much the night before, so
Speaker 1: I was drinking on an empty stomach. So excited we
Speaker 1: got drunk enough to do karaoke alone in our home
Speaker 1: with these microphones not plugged. Yeah, CJ took him out
Speaker 1: of the podcast and handed it to me and we said, okay,
Speaker 1: ed sheeron, We're ready. That rules. I'm so glad I've
Speaker 1: been there. I think at least once during during quarantine,
Speaker 1: just me and my wife just just singing, you know,
Speaker 1: beas or something, just as loud as possible. What a
Speaker 1: beautiful moment. Felt amazed. I like, just before we started this,
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to do that again. We
Speaker 1: don't even we don't even need the cults to almost
Speaker 1: lose a game that they should have won. You know,
Speaker 1: we could just have fun and regardless it helps, though,
Speaker 1: football really helps. Yeah, but then bring it down. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a roller coast one. Then marcusol the Lakers
Speaker 1: had signed marcossol Um, and yeah, it was just it
Speaker 1: was a good moment for the Tolo Donnod Gailey household
Speaker 1: in terms of sports that we then got Rack Sheep.
Speaker 1: Megan ordered Raman and then I ordered Papa John's. Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the ordering of two restaurants for the same meal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a move that I didn't think like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I had like some kind of
Speaker 1: mental block about it, but I've I've unlocked that during
Speaker 1: the last few months, and it's great. Get crazy bread
Speaker 1: from Little Caesar's with you know the you know, McDonald's
Speaker 1: cheeseburgers and whatever. It's it rules. I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We got Danny Palumbo pasta one Sunday, which is louzy
Speaker 1: that don't know. Danny Palumbo is a very talented comedian
Speaker 1: slash chef and makes like gourmet food and I opped
Speaker 1: on the way home to get Crazy Brett to go
Speaker 1: with it. Yeah that's amazing. Yeah, I haven't had Danny,
Speaker 1: but I've I've heard amazing things. I gotta I got
Speaker 1: to hit Daniepe for an order. I had spicy tuna
Speaker 1: on Crispy Rice last night and then I popped over
Speaker 1: and said, heck, y'all have a piece of Papa John.
Speaker 1: So I don't care. Yeah, that's the way to do it.
Speaker 1: It feels like we weren't allowed to do it as kids,
Speaker 1: because there's no way we were, and so it just
Speaker 1: it's there's like a level of we've been left with
Speaker 1: a credit card that we don't have to pay for,
Speaker 1: even though we do. And how much of living with
Speaker 1: c J is like is like living in the movie
Speaker 1: blank Check? It's it's it's blank Check. It's also don't
Speaker 1: tell them on the Babysitters Dead. It's so many it's
Speaker 1: it's all of those I just got a home alone,
Speaker 1: Blanket Deliver. Yeah, it's um. It's sometimes I feel like
Speaker 1: I am Sally Field and Mrs Doubtfire. And this is
Speaker 1: at the beginning, you know, this is the prequel where
Speaker 1: I'm just like, he's so funny, this is amazing. I
Speaker 1: love him. He makes me laugh. And then the sequel
Speaker 1: is obviously you know, there's a donkey in the living
Speaker 1: room and she wants to divorce. They're playing yeah jump
Speaker 1: around and on a birthday cake, right, So yeah, I
Speaker 1: worry if Mrs doubt Fire is my future, Well that's
Speaker 1: you know, there's worse stuff that could happen. Then you
Speaker 1: start to live the film this is doubt. C J
Speaker 1: and I get separated. I pierced brosen in and then
Speaker 1: I go, you know what, c J. I did, Like
Speaker 1: you impersonating an old Filipino woman in our house. I'm
Speaker 1: coming back. The thing is pretty nice. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: guess this makes me a cook. But like whenever Megan
Speaker 1: brings up like fucking like Pierce Brosnan or like a
Speaker 1: weird old NFL lineman, I was like, I'd congratulate you
Speaker 1: that that's same high five. Yeah, getting busy with like
Speaker 1: yeah and an old retired offensive lineman. Yeah. Can you
Speaker 1: do our podcast afterwards? Can you get Willie rof on
Speaker 1: this show? Fully? Count? Um? All right, so incredible. Let's
Speaker 1: get into our topic a little bit. We we came
Speaker 1: up with this topic together, which I always look forward
Speaker 1: to it when we want, you know, our guests, we
Speaker 1: want like the topic to sort of reflect how they
Speaker 1: viewed sports, and we came up with greatest Quitters. Now, Joe,
Speaker 1: explain a little bit and without revealing st your choices,
Speaker 1: what is appealing to you for this particular topic. I
Speaker 1: think sports our first and foremost for me. How I
Speaker 1: engage with them. Is that it's entertainment. For me, I'm
Speaker 1: not much of an athlete and I don't know anything
Speaker 1: about playing sports. Uh so, like the entertainment value of
Speaker 1: something is is superior for me than anything else that
Speaker 1: I'm looking at. And if someone like everybody has to
Speaker 1: quit and it's not even I'm not even living this
Speaker 1: to retirement or anything, it's just what's a funny thing
Speaker 1: you can do that is just like quitting, Like I'm done,
Speaker 1: I can't. I just don't. It's about like what it
Speaker 1: means for someone's brain to just be like Nope, nope,
Speaker 1: not doing it. I'm not, I don't, I don't want to,
Speaker 1: I don't want this and I love that, and I yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm looking for. It's quitting is also
Speaker 1: like so villainized in sports, like it's the worst thing
Speaker 1: you can do. They would rather you fight the umpire,
Speaker 1: you know, they would rather you bash a baseball bat
Speaker 1: through a third baseline coach card then to quit. And
Speaker 1: so when it happens, it sometimes happens in really hilarious ways. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: it's it's always going to be entertaining when like frustration
Speaker 1: boils over whatever the thing is or apathy, it could
Speaker 1: be any number of reasons, but yeah, I'm into it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's like our dream. Like if anyone was asked us,
Speaker 1: would you want to play professional sport, be like yeah
Speaker 1: in a second. But then this is just like these
Speaker 1: giant muscle dudes or women and just like who are
Speaker 1: so good? They're saying like, yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 1: do this anymore. It's it's very funny to me. I
Speaker 1: thought you were going to say our dream is to
Speaker 1: quit stand up and I was like, for sure, for sure,
Speaker 1: ye wouldn't that? Yeah? That that's every every stand up
Speaker 1: comic stream is to quit doing stand up comedy, and
Speaker 1: you can't blame them, and they're right all right, As
Speaker 1: someone who's done it fifteen times, pretty great, I feel
Speaker 1: like that. I feel like the process is like when
Speaker 1: you're starting out, you're like, I just want to be
Speaker 1: able to make a living doing comedy, and then you
Speaker 1: make a living doing comedy and you're like, oh boy,
Speaker 1: I just want to be able to make a living
Speaker 1: at something else besides comedy, so I can stop doing comedy.
Speaker 1: I'm looking into other like oh I could I could cook,
Speaker 1: I could barbecue. I just bought a big barrel smoker.
Speaker 1: I'm we'll do that. I don't need comedy. I can
Speaker 1: do other stuff. I'll make brisket. Yeah, your food is that.
Speaker 1: No one is like there's too many brisket guys in
Speaker 1: the game. You know, maybe they are, maybe maybe that's
Speaker 1: a Reddit board. But in comedy you hear someone like
Speaker 1: starting comedy and you're like, get the funk out of here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. If any of you guys ever had somebody
Speaker 1: ask you like, hey, I'm thinking about starting comedy the time,
Speaker 1: yeah I would. Yeah, it's just like I just don't
Speaker 1: do it, don't worry about it, don't worry about other
Speaker 1: stuff out. Um. All right, well so let's get into it.
Speaker 1: So Joe, how it works is? Um, is it ascending
Speaker 1: or a descending We've still someone tell us. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we start with the number three, number three, and then
Speaker 1: you go to one, So that's descending if you're going
Speaker 1: three to the bottom. Mine mine don't even have like
Speaker 1: a great order, but they're it's fine, totally fine. Well
Speaker 1: give us, give us the first one you want to
Speaker 1: hit us with. Yeah, okay, just to to set the table,
Speaker 1: this is I think I found out about this just
Speaker 1: because I was in the YouTube kind of wormhole watching
Speaker 1: John Kruc on David Letterman, and I can't recommend it enough.
Speaker 1: Watch every single piece of entertainment from John Kruk on Letterman.
Speaker 1: But he he, uh, he quit. I think it was
Speaker 1: in the first inning of a game. He was playing
Speaker 1: for the White Sox at the time. It was his
Speaker 1: you know, mid season. I want to say, I don't
Speaker 1: know when it was, and he it was the first inning.
Speaker 1: He hits a single, gets to first base, and then
Speaker 1: it's like I'm out and then he leaves. He left
Speaker 1: the game because he was the reason he did it.
Speaker 1: What he said is is that he wanted to leave
Speaker 1: and retire with a perfect average, and it was that
Speaker 1: was the hit that it took to get him, like
Speaker 1: exactly on the line of batting three D and then
Speaker 1: he's like, I come out, So yeah, what were what
Speaker 1: was the aftermath of that? Who runs? Like? Does someone
Speaker 1: I think they just got a pinch runner and they're
Speaker 1: just like all right, and I I don't even know
Speaker 1: what happened to any Did he have any reason? He's
Speaker 1: a very lazy dude, like he's just super like But
Speaker 1: now he's on TV all the time where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is interesting that. Then he's like, all right, I
Speaker 1: got another job. Like maybe he just didn't make enough.
Speaker 1: I don't know that baseball salaries and the eighties were
Speaker 1: cranking the way they are now, so it's not quite
Speaker 1: the same. But he's he's you know, comfortable. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine he's like high maintenance either. I'm sure he
Speaker 1: loves like a pretty humble life. No. Yeah, if he's
Speaker 1: the type of dude where you could you could see
Speaker 1: if they had like an MTV Cribs episode for John Kruk,
Speaker 1: they brought you to like a double wide, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: be ted right, like a laid back dude. He doesn't
Speaker 1: give a ship. It would be like the nicest house
Speaker 1: of my five uncles could be John KRU's house. So
Speaker 1: he yeah, no, that's again. Watch watch all of his
Speaker 1: interviews with Letterman, because he talks just about like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, times when games were there, like sometimes if
Speaker 1: you just are stuck on first base and you have
Speaker 1: to keep running, if it's the end of the ininning.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like you just have to keep running
Speaker 1: if if there's contact, and he's just like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to I don't want to do this. I hate it.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't bear to play baseball anymore. I'm
Speaker 1: far too lay for this. And there was there wasn't
Speaker 1: really like Twitter, you know, I mean, there was nothing,
Speaker 1: so it would be on the local news and then
Speaker 1: Sports Center, which wasn't even massive at that time. And
Speaker 1: I know, again, because there was a social media, I
Speaker 1: feel like the league back then could have a little
Speaker 1: bit of control of the narrative that they didn't, like
Speaker 1: make it a big story so that it didn't set
Speaker 1: a bad example that you can just quit after getting
Speaker 1: on base. And also too, it's like John Kruk and
Speaker 1: I just knew him. I knew him from The Best
Speaker 1: Damn Sports Show, which again was like the show that
Speaker 1: just was a bunch of retired athletes didn't give a
Speaker 1: shit anymore, and which I then think, you know, Danny McBride,
Speaker 1: like can Kenny Powers is like based off of John Kruk,
Speaker 1: and maybe like Pete Rose, it's like a lot of
Speaker 1: John Rocker John Kruk, Yeah, yeah, and it's that Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a perfect dead on, like, yeah, he's just like
Speaker 1: a dude, who is I don't know. I love fat
Speaker 1: baseball players. It's like, I love it. I love a
Speaker 1: big dude playing baseball, and I'm always going to root
Speaker 1: for those guys every single time. I kind of like
Speaker 1: any fat athlete man, woman's sport. When I see someone
Speaker 1: out there just that I know didn't hold back on Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's I like that you are. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know how hard it was to watch, like the Royals
Speaker 1: World Series against the Mets going up against Bartolo Colonne
Speaker 1: and I love him. I'm rooting for COLUMBU dude. I
Speaker 1: love the Royals, but I'm rooting for Bartlo Colonna. And
Speaker 1: it's like with him, he was in shape when he
Speaker 1: got drafted and then it just slowly how fat he
Speaker 1: got is funny because it's like, what are you skipping practice?
Speaker 1: Like I remember, and he only got better. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: only got better. You know, there's somebody he showed. It
Speaker 1: was the year he retired, maybe two years ago. I
Speaker 1: forget when he retired, but it was it was like
Speaker 1: the his his rookie card from and then what he
Speaker 1: looked like today. It was like, holy ship, that is
Speaker 1: a different dude, totally different guy. Like Shack was that
Speaker 1: way too, was like, how did you get fatter while
Speaker 1: playing basketball every day. Yeah, I love it. Can I
Speaker 1: go next? Because my number three pick is a fat athlete? Okay,
Speaker 1: so my number three is John Dailey quitting the Australian
Speaker 1: Open after hitting six balls in a row in the water.
Speaker 1: He like he um, And this was this was like
Speaker 1: the third time he quit the Australian Open. Like one
Speaker 1: one of the times he left the Australian Open he
Speaker 1: broke a reporter's camera. That was like that infamous time
Speaker 1: the time before he played in it. He just after
Speaker 1: the second round, I think he did qualify and he
Speaker 1: was like, nam good. Um. So he hit the wrong
Speaker 1: ball out of the bunker, which is listen, I played
Speaker 1: high school golf and that didn't really even happen that month.
Speaker 1: Like you mark the ball, you really know which ball
Speaker 1: is yours, especially if you're a professional golfer. So that's
Speaker 1: what got him into this pickle. And then he hit
Speaker 1: so many balls in the water that he said he
Speaker 1: was out of balls, and he tweeted, when you run
Speaker 1: out of balls, you run out of balls. Yes. I
Speaker 1: shook my playing partner's hands and signed my card with
Speaker 1: the rules official and the tournament was like we would
Speaker 1: have brought you more balls, and he's like, no, easily
Speaker 1: gotten another ball. No, No, I'm not gonna take any
Speaker 1: more balls. I'm a big John Daily fan. Yes, I
Speaker 1: don't watch golf. I don't know anything about golf. I know,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm that dummy that's just like yeah, Tiger Woods, right,
Speaker 1: and then I know John Daily. No, John Daily, he
Speaker 1: just transcends golf. Yeah. I just looked him up on
Speaker 1: cameo just by pure coincidence. Uh, John Daily charges set. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a big Trump guy. Um. And so I do
Speaker 1: think if you're like a Republican celebrity quote unquote, you're like,
Speaker 1: it's me or my pillow man. You know, like, if
Speaker 1: you're trying to get a liberal celebrity, you gotta have
Speaker 1: any anyone you want Republican. If you want just a
Speaker 1: man that bleeds for America to make you a birthday message,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of options. So you're charging to
Speaker 1: some fifty. That's the American way. Yeah, yeah, you get
Speaker 1: you get Craig te Nelson to get John Daily Nilson.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I think so. I don't know, but i'd
Speaker 1: assume so. But there I also want to recommend there's
Speaker 1: an YouTube video. I forget what the guys, maybe Graham something,
Speaker 1: but um, there's an interview with John Daily where he
Speaker 1: talks about his diet and I think it's something like
Speaker 1: fourteen diet cokes um from McDonald's. Yeah, he loves diet
Speaker 1: cokes and he loves peanut m and m's and he
Speaker 1: loves McDonald's and and he's like, and the thing is
Speaker 1: like he's cut weight before. Like when you hear him
Speaker 1: describe his diet, you would think he is a he
Speaker 1: should be a fatter man. And then he says like, yeah,
Speaker 1: one time I went on a diet and I just
Speaker 1: like didn't e McDonald's and he lost like a hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: But then he was like, but he said it it
Speaker 1: like hindered his performance, so he decided to put the
Speaker 1: weight back on. I would imagine with the with your golfs,
Speaker 1: when you get used to very specific body shape that
Speaker 1: you're working with. Yeah, there's the d Shambo is like
Speaker 1: this really famous golfer that's on the rise right now
Speaker 1: and he gained like seventy five pounds and now is
Speaker 1: better because of it. I mean, John Daly's whole thing
Speaker 1: was that he could hit the ball far and like
Speaker 1: being fat for him or being you know, curvy, whatever
Speaker 1: you wanna call. John Dailey was part of that recipe
Speaker 1: for the Australian Open. Was so mad at him. This
Speaker 1: was sort of like a three strikes your out that
Speaker 1: in this article they said that he would never be
Speaker 1: playing the tournament ever again. All right, what's to what
Speaker 1: I was? I was? I knew John Daily had done
Speaker 1: stuff like this, so I was googling. I mean, he
Speaker 1: also quit the U s g A, the the entire
Speaker 1: um United States Golf Association, because they wouldn't let him
Speaker 1: have a golf car during senior tournaments. They're like, no,
Speaker 1: you have to walk. These men they're one thousand years
Speaker 1: old and fought in World War Two. They're walking, so
Speaker 1: you have to walk. And he's like, well, then I
Speaker 1: quit golf. If I can't set my golf card, I
Speaker 1: quit altogether. So um, so he's left the game altogether.
Speaker 1: Now good for him, you know, like he can do
Speaker 1: anything he wants to play, played by your own rules.
Speaker 1: John Dailey, alright, great pick? Should I Okay? So my
Speaker 1: I feel like this guy could be three or one
Speaker 1: for me. But I'm gonna say Ricky Williams, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I was heavily considering him. Yeah, and more
Speaker 1: so so. Like the thing I remember, and this is
Speaker 1: like almost two decades ago, when they would talk about
Speaker 1: Ricky Williams when I was a kid. They said he,
Speaker 1: you know, he quit to smoke weed, and everyone was
Speaker 1: like and that was like their insult. And then this
Speaker 1: article into the sixteen came out where Ricky Williams said, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of true. Like he was he was, he
Speaker 1: led I think the league in rushing a couple of seasons, um,
Speaker 1: but then he tested positive for marijuana. Which again, if
Speaker 1: you're leading the league and rushing and you're smoking weed,
Speaker 1: you are incredible. Like if anything else, Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: it hinders my Yeah, like if I was smoking a
Speaker 1: ton of weed, I'd probably terrible at sports. But he
Speaker 1: was the best, So let him keep smoking. We you
Speaker 1: were so mean to him. It was really like Ricky Williams,
Speaker 1: I feel like this is an issue sometimes I have
Speaker 1: with the older generation of sports reporters. They'll be like
Speaker 1: he's an addict, or they'll frame someone as like a
Speaker 1: drug abuser. And are there people whose lives have like
Speaker 1: gone in shambles because of marijuana? Yes? Is it is
Speaker 1: it the least amount of any substance. Yes, I think so.
Speaker 1: And also that's not what happened to this person. He
Speaker 1: was operating at the highest level. So to frame him
Speaker 1: as this villain in this addict and this selfish, like
Speaker 1: weird man with his because they were I mean, he
Speaker 1: was like the first player I remember that had dreads
Speaker 1: or had like long dreads, and even that was shipped
Speaker 1: on like they just think it's just it was kind
Speaker 1: of just ingrain and racism a little bit. It was like,
Speaker 1: per Okay, this black dude with dreads loves smoking weed,
Speaker 1: and they're like, we got him. I think that was
Speaker 1: like a lot of like people in power, like this
Speaker 1: guy's going down. He can't be he can't be a
Speaker 1: role Model's like it's not his response. I know. It's
Speaker 1: like a classic Barkley things like this is a responsibility
Speaker 1: to be a role model for your kids. Like and
Speaker 1: then also too, it's like in the last few years
Speaker 1: with CT and all these injuries, it's like, we found
Speaker 1: that marijuana is a great way to rehability. Well he
Speaker 1: he It since has come out that he suffered anxiety
Speaker 1: and social anxiety, and it's a huge proponent of medical
Speaker 1: marijuana and has done a lot to try and like
Speaker 1: raise the profile to where it is now where we
Speaker 1: see mass like uh, legalization, like Ricky Williams is a
Speaker 1: is a part of that and and things. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: totally at the curb and turned out to be a
Speaker 1: role model in a way that nobody expected. The media
Speaker 1: narrator around him was for sure racist and shitty, and
Speaker 1: looking back on that, like I revisited something I saw
Speaker 1: an interview with him somewhat recently, and it's just like
Speaker 1: what were we told when we were kids? Like what
Speaker 1: were we shown and what were we told about, like
Speaker 1: about weed and just any of that, Like the was
Speaker 1: it the Sports Illustrated or was it a ESPN magazine
Speaker 1: where it was like him an address on the cover
Speaker 1: with Dicka like a break. They treated him so bad.
Speaker 1: He's smarter than but that was that was you know
Speaker 1: of that. And that's the thing is like so he
Speaker 1: I think he got suspended and fined and then he
Speaker 1: did he ended up just retiring and then he was
Speaker 1: he decided to study It's called I you a Your Vita,
Speaker 1: the ancient Indian system of holistic medicine. So it's not
Speaker 1: like he retired and them was like just like smoking
Speaker 1: weed and like buying a bunch of like bonds, which right,
Speaker 1: so but he has every right to do and like
Speaker 1: also him, no, like he was villainized for smoking weed
Speaker 1: at a time that we now know the NFL knew
Speaker 1: about c t E and it was killing people. So
Speaker 1: it's like, you guys are fucking evil and he just
Speaker 1: likes to get high, like you're you are You're so
Speaker 1: off base on this. And plus weed was like barely
Speaker 1: anything in the nineties. Yeah, like come on, that was
Speaker 1: very Yeah. I think now they really only test you
Speaker 1: if they're like pissed at you. I think it's sort
Speaker 1: of like they know um. But there was a player
Speaker 1: I think there. Yeah, there was a player who was
Speaker 1: kneeling last year and had like six random drug tests
Speaker 1: and he's like, Okay, I didn't come up six times.
Speaker 1: He's like, luckily I passed to them all. But if
Speaker 1: I did it, that's sucked up too. Yeah. I know,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's insane. If I was in the NFL. Listen,
Speaker 1: let's just say I get that a thirty six year old, bald,
Speaker 1: five foot tall man Joe, I don't even think you
Speaker 1: could be a mascot. No, I wouldn't even qualify for that.
Speaker 1: I don't. I couldn't be like one of the yet,
Speaker 1: the local guy that like, where's a goofy hat and
Speaker 1: garbeering or whatever. Okay, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: then we'll be back with our second picks. And we
Speaker 1: are back. Megan, you thought you were going to bring
Speaker 1: a speck. All right, let's get on our second pick. Joe,
Speaker 1: what do you got for us? Greatest quitter? Um, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with me. I'm I'm myself. I Uh, I
Speaker 1: think I've quit every single sport I've ever attempted to
Speaker 1: play because I'm not very big and strong, but I've
Speaker 1: quit football. I went to like an all boys football
Speaker 1: high school. Both went to an all boys school. While
Speaker 1: I always get along with a lot of former all
Speaker 1: boys school kids because you're like emotionally stunted. No, we
Speaker 1: were just so we can fart anywhere we want, anywhere
Speaker 1: in the bathroom, anywhere. Alright, sorry, cut you off, go ahead,
Speaker 1: there's no there there is something that it does to
Speaker 1: your to your brand to go to an all boys
Speaker 1: high school. And uh, and it's a weird like unearned freedom. Uh.
Speaker 1: That no one should have. But yeah, I I went
Speaker 1: to like a super football high school, like h like
Speaker 1: Friday Night Lights, state championship, always contending kind of high school.
Speaker 1: When I was a freshman year CE team, I believe
Speaker 1: they had like that many teams um and I quit
Speaker 1: because my back went out and it was like, you know,
Speaker 1: it was a I did have I had back issues.
Speaker 1: I was a bald fourteen year old classic freshman freshman.
Speaker 1: Did you guys know that I had a cane for
Speaker 1: a stretch that seems in high school and this is
Speaker 1: like honestly before it was like I fell on my
Speaker 1: back as a little kid, and I had like a
Speaker 1: pinched nerve in my back, and you know, it's like
Speaker 1: trying to be this this is why you quit. It's
Speaker 1: like I don't I don't want to deal with any
Speaker 1: of this. I don't even know how you were allowed
Speaker 1: to play in the first place. Hearing all of this.
Speaker 1: They make you at this school, They made you do
Speaker 1: one semester of sports, so you have to do one.
Speaker 1: Couldn't you have done like swimming or something that would
Speaker 1: be good for your back, Yeah, sure, definitely could. I
Speaker 1: don't know why football starts the earliest so I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I could get it out of the way that the
Speaker 1: fastest um quit that I've I quit baseball like numerous times,
Speaker 1: very bad at that. But baseball is like fine if
Speaker 1: you quit, no one really notices. Baseball is the scariest
Speaker 1: sport to me in my opinion, that ball comes at
Speaker 1: you fast. Yeah. No, it's insane. Why do people do it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I saw a girl in fourth grade
Speaker 1: break another girl's jaw and fast pitch softball. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was the so and then they left the picture in
Speaker 1: and my dad was like, what the um, I just
Speaker 1: had a player have to leave in an ambulance. Can
Speaker 1: you maybe warm up the bullpen somebody? Yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: would be I would definitely be the guy that would
Speaker 1: um that would throw into get hit on purpose and
Speaker 1: take a base. You know, I'm not a great runner,
Speaker 1: not great. Uh you know hand eye coordination. Spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time. Oh I threw I had to be
Speaker 1: hospitalized and during a softball game. Yeah as an adult man,
Speaker 1: I know it's probably like eighteen, um, but playing playing
Speaker 1: softball and my buddies like, uh, you know, work league.
Speaker 1: He worked for the video store, and uh, I was
Speaker 1: in left field, first first play. It was the first
Speaker 1: pitch of the game. I think got hit directly to me.
Speaker 1: I threw the first base and my arm popped out
Speaker 1: of the socket on the throw to first base, and
Speaker 1: I had to quit that. I mean, thank got you
Speaker 1: quit or you'd be dead, you know, like that's why
Speaker 1: you are one of the greatest quitters. You saved your
Speaker 1: own life. Yeah, I I quit basketball. I was again
Speaker 1: like a C teamer basketball again, short, short, little chubby fella,
Speaker 1: not not. I was the defensive specialist. You would say
Speaker 1: that was my role. But I very distinctly remember my
Speaker 1: first game. I'm gonna start and uh, this is like
Speaker 1: this is a big deal for me. It never happened,
Speaker 1: and we're doing warm ups and I got those sick
Speaker 1: ass hair away ants. I just zip off my tear
Speaker 1: aways and one of the snaps hits me in the
Speaker 1: eye and they don't let me. I can't see. Uh,
Speaker 1: I like hurt my eye on my first start. Um.
Speaker 1: So every single sport I've ever played, I have quit
Speaker 1: and dramatic fashion. Uh mostly well yeah, every time due
Speaker 1: to injury, not even in game. Yeah. I had one
Speaker 1: time with an ambulance with this offball. One they took
Speaker 1: me away in an it's pretty Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: pretty big I made a big scene. I made a
Speaker 1: big old scene. I'm impressed that we were able to
Speaker 1: get someone from your list on the podcast. I know
Speaker 1: this is a big get you. We have one of
Speaker 1: the great here. But that is like if there were
Speaker 1: if there were Marvel superhero movies about comedians, it would like,
Speaker 1: that's your origin story. There'd be that scene where you
Speaker 1: you're trying to play like eight different sports and your
Speaker 1: the ambulance comes for each one, and then you get
Speaker 1: really into comedy. Take me away. Yeah, uh yeah, there's
Speaker 1: something funny there, I guess. Yeah. You're in a hospital
Speaker 1: bed and you see an infomercial from Monty Python. You're like,
Speaker 1: what's this A long oh commerce for comedy Time Life
Speaker 1: presents an eighteen DVD Boxer Python. You see an advertisement
Speaker 1: for Kyle's Ceces comedy. Oh God, Yes, that's the you
Speaker 1: know what, that's the most upsetting, like celebrity lookalike thing
Speaker 1: I've gotten. Joe. We've been your friend for years. We
Speaker 1: do not think it was somebody gave me Kyle ce
Speaker 1: And and it's the name of who it is who
Speaker 1: said it won't won't be important to any of the listeners,
Speaker 1: but it's funny for you guys. But it was Dave Odds,
Speaker 1: Dave BG. And the thing is, if we didn't say
Speaker 1: Kyle Sees Comedy boot Camp, we would have to say
Speaker 1: Dave Odds Comedy book Camp. That full Easter egg for
Speaker 1: any Chicago comedy people out there listening. All right, Megan, Okay,
Speaker 1: So my number two pick is boxer Oliver McCall ne Um.
Speaker 1: So he actually was the heavyweight champion of the world,
Speaker 1: knocked out Lennox Lewis us In and then they had
Speaker 1: a rematch in seven and at some point he just
Speaker 1: put his hands down and refused to box. Um. They
Speaker 1: thought maybe he was kidding. Here this is a quote
Speaker 1: all read kidding, kidding, kidding. This is a quote that
Speaker 1: I'll read from the referee for the fight, whose name
Speaker 1: is Mills Lane. He said um. In the third round,
Speaker 1: he got in close and then seemed frustrated, and then
Speaker 1: he just backed off and put his arms down. I
Speaker 1: thought he was playing possum, but then I saw his
Speaker 1: lips start to quiver, and I thought, oh my God,
Speaker 1: is crying. He in fact was crying um. And then
Speaker 1: at some point he started to like try again, and
Speaker 1: they were like, no, dude, you seem not okay. So
Speaker 1: they called the fight Lennox Lewis one. And then afterwards
Speaker 1: Oliver McCall did say, oh, yeah, I was just kidding.
Speaker 1: I totally was kidding. I just was playing possum and
Speaker 1: then was gonna come out and beat him um. And
Speaker 1: he did not ever address why he was crying though.
Speaker 1: In the boxing rotten it's like the Larry David SNL story,
Speaker 1: but for boxing. Yeah, really quit, Like, yes, you did
Speaker 1: show up to the fight again. Yeah, I know here
Speaker 1: here I am. What's up. Let's do this. That's relatable,
Speaker 1: right that that's that that guy has a relatable story.
Speaker 1: I have someone punched me in the head, I'd for
Speaker 1: sure be crying. Yeah, I'd want that to stop as
Speaker 1: fast as possible. I think what they think happened was
Speaker 1: that he just wasn't able, Like he just felt like
Speaker 1: he was losing or something, so he just refused. This
Speaker 1: is also someone who was very much villainized for drug abuse.
Speaker 1: He was arrested and it ended up basically and his career.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he he was arrested for I mean, like
Speaker 1: some of this, like possession of drug paraphernalia and Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, of course, have you ever been to
Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale? Like that's all you do. There's a Hooters.
Speaker 1: I got my nose pierced there, and I got I
Speaker 1: got alcohol poisoning. So it's like, of course my dog
Speaker 1: has drug paraphernalia. He's a heavyweight master. Yeah, let him
Speaker 1: have a damn pipe on him. Why would anyone care?
Speaker 1: This is what? What year was this again? Nineties something
Speaker 1: so the year he quit and started crying in the
Speaker 1: rings in Vegas, but his last sort of legal issues
Speaker 1: seems to have been in two thousand and ten. I
Speaker 1: really want to see like video of this in him
Speaker 1: being like stop, knock it off. There's there should be
Speaker 1: more than in boxing, like ouch, like just evaluate the
Speaker 1: fuck dude. Major. There is like a kind of famous
Speaker 1: photo of him crying. Yeah, I've seen that. I never
Speaker 1: wondered who it was, but I never knew the backstory.
Speaker 1: But that should be the crying Jordans mean, the crying
Speaker 1: McCall meme of a dude crying because an emotional breakdown. Wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's from his Hall of Fame speech and he
Speaker 1: was crying out of like, um happiness. Okay, it's really strange.
Speaker 1: The Internet yet did strange things. So there are people
Speaker 1: that um like. This is a reporting from Boxing News
Speaker 1: Online dot Net, one of my favorite websites. Um and
Speaker 1: they say that he suffered a mental breakdown during the match,
Speaker 1: which I yeah, oh okay, So he was in rehab
Speaker 1: and then he left rehab to do the fight. Okay,
Speaker 1: well come on now, see that's okay. I'm surprised he
Speaker 1: showed up. He didn't have to fight, of course. Not. No,
Speaker 1: I'm on his side. I really wild. It's just a
Speaker 1: it's I think we're only laughing because the visual of
Speaker 1: a giant beast of a man crying in boxing briefs
Speaker 1: is is like visually interesting. But no, I I'm on
Speaker 1: his side. I like Oliver McCall and I say, go
Speaker 1: on with your drug paraphernalia, dog who cares? Yeah. No.
Speaker 1: I always judge an athlete, you know, in terms of
Speaker 1: being like the greatest or whatever, in terms of who's happiest,
Speaker 1: you know, like that that's been whatever. If somebody is
Speaker 1: like a super happy basketball player, they're the greatest. In
Speaker 1: my book, John Dailey seems like a shitty person, Oliver McCall,
Speaker 1: good person. That's what I'm That's what I'm decided. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, you want to give us two. So, in
Speaker 1: in classic me fashion, it's a Chicago Bowl, but maybe
Speaker 1: not one to celebrate. Did you guys all watch the
Speaker 1: last Dance? Yeah? So I watched it with you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Um, he did watch it with me, But
Speaker 1: I was actually surprised, and I just today was looking
Speaker 1: up more about it that um. When Jordan's had left
Speaker 1: the Bulls and four, it was then Pippen's team. But
Speaker 1: Pippen was really upset about the new guy, Tony ku
Speaker 1: coach um. And again they detailed this in the Last
Speaker 1: Dance that it was game three in the ninety four
Speaker 1: playoffs against the Knicks, and again Pippen, okay, here's your chance,
Speaker 1: this is your team, but he's he was kind of
Speaker 1: like sour about not getting paid and like this new
Speaker 1: guy coming in that within the last two seconds, they
Speaker 1: were like, all right, you're your time to shine, Scottie,
Speaker 1: and he was like, no, I'm just gonna set this
Speaker 1: one out. And he set it out and then Tony
Speaker 1: ku Coach hit the game winner in Game three against
Speaker 1: the Knicks, but yeah, Scottie Pippen, who everyone is like,
Speaker 1: he's the reason why Jordan won quit in game three
Speaker 1: of the Eastern I think it's the Eastern semi playoffs
Speaker 1: on the Bulls And so yeah, now, so when that
Speaker 1: story was on the Last Dance, I had never heard
Speaker 1: it because I blocked out almost all m was that
Speaker 1: a commonly known no again? I think it was the
Speaker 1: lack of social media kind of wasn't spotlighting some of
Speaker 1: these weird things that were not weird things, but like
Speaker 1: it was no one, it's not a fun stir to
Speaker 1: report that Pippen quit, you know, And I'm sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: like the the hero of the team and likable dude,
Speaker 1: uh did something that was like selfish. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: like motivated by like because it wasn't It wasn't the
Speaker 1: story that like like Phil Jackson was writing up the
Speaker 1: play and he's like, we're gonna give Tony the last
Speaker 1: shot and he's like, all right, well on that plan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like oh okay, so yeah, I forget about that detail. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're totally right. It's just like it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of his u He's like, oh, Jordan's gone, I should
Speaker 1: be the one shooting that well, and Scotty seemed like
Speaker 1: deeply remorseful and regretful in the last Dance, and they're
Speaker 1: also seemed to be like players former teammates that we're like,
Speaker 1: I'm still pissed, like they still are, Like that was
Speaker 1: sucked up. Yeah, that that definitely. I mean, like I
Speaker 1: don't know, watching that documentary was a like a whole
Speaker 1: new all that stuff, all the information and within was
Speaker 1: like new to me. Like the idea of of Scottie
Speaker 1: being underpaid for his entire career basically tricked up. They
Speaker 1: tricked him into signing that deal kind of. I mean
Speaker 1: maybe he didn't know he was that good, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like I kind of get why he quit
Speaker 1: a couple of times because there was like another time too,
Speaker 1: but they totally tricked him to sign a long term
Speaker 1: deal and for what the nineties bulls were, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: severely underpaid. No, there's that one part where they're just
Speaker 1: like number two and points, assists, rebounds and then like
Speaker 1: what are you crazy? Yeah, I know that. Of course
Speaker 1: Scotty man, he should get paid so much money. But
Speaker 1: he did get to have sex with Madonna and Jordan didn't.
Speaker 1: So that is and it is rumored that he has
Speaker 1: a way wait wait, wait, way bigger penis. So it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, is that that's in a lot of places.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good current. Wait, do you think Jordan is
Speaker 1: as good as he is because he has a small penis? No,
Speaker 1: there's no way that Jordan has a small penis. I
Speaker 1: think he has. I think there's no way. I think
Speaker 1: he probably has a hefty hog. But I think I
Speaker 1: think Scotty's just got the bigger hog. Yeah. No, I
Speaker 1: want to know every hog suze, absolutely for the Bulls
Speaker 1: of that era. I want to know for every championship
Speaker 1: Bulls team. Let's see the hogs. You can come back
Speaker 1: and we'll do greatest sports hogs I've seen. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been in some locker rooms, um, some baseball locker rooms,
Speaker 1: and I've seen some famous Hawks, famous hogs, famous hogs.
Speaker 1: I've seen some wild hogs. All Right, before we go
Speaker 1: any further, let's take a break and we'll be back
Speaker 1: with our number one picks. And we are back Joe.
Speaker 1: How this works? Um, since you are guests, you'll be
Speaker 1: the big finale. So Megan and I will pick our
Speaker 1: number one picks. Maybe some honorable mentions. So, Megan, why
Speaker 1: don't you um okay, yeah, okay, I see you typing
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is the pick I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, okay. So my one honorable mention is Spice Adams,
Speaker 1: who is like one of my favorite sports comedy people
Speaker 1: like he meets. He's a former Bears player, and he
Speaker 1: threw his own retirement at a white castle. Um, you
Speaker 1: know a lot of times people retired, it's a big deal. Spice.
Speaker 1: It was like, I don't really think I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: the numbers I thought I was going to. So he
Speaker 1: just staged his own retirement at a white castle that
Speaker 1: was fully operational and there were other patrons there. Didn't
Speaker 1: rent it out, just posted up there and said, today's
Speaker 1: the day I hang up the cleats. That My number
Speaker 1: one though, is a former Cults player who became famous
Speaker 1: in my heart when I saw him as a Dolphins
Speaker 1: player on Hard Knocks. He was traded from the Dolphins
Speaker 1: to the Colts on that season of Hard Knocks and
Speaker 1: told the coach he needed his grandmother on the phone
Speaker 1: um to be able to sort of let the transactions
Speaker 1: sink in. And he just kept saying, I need to
Speaker 1: call my grandmother and I and he's like, no, I
Speaker 1: need my grandmother on the phone right house. I'm sure
Speaker 1: people have asked, like for their agents. Um, not my
Speaker 1: Vonte Davis baby, he said, give me my grandmother. And
Speaker 1: he famously quit the Bills and the NFL during halftime
Speaker 1: week two of a game. Vante Davis is the brother
Speaker 1: of Vernon Davis, um and Vonte Davis in his own right,
Speaker 1: was a pro bowler with the Colts and then got
Speaker 1: not trade. They just cut up that he was released.
Speaker 1: The Bills picked him up, and he said that he
Speaker 1: he was like a healthy scratch. Week one. Week two,
Speaker 1: he was starting. He had a a tackle that forced
Speaker 1: a fourth down in the first half, like he was
Speaker 1: playing pretty well, and he said he just got into
Speaker 1: the locker room and he was like, something doesn't feel right.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this anymore. And he went
Speaker 1: up to his defensive coordinator and said I quit. And
Speaker 1: they were so confused by what was happening that the
Speaker 1: chaplain went with him, like they thought like that. He
Speaker 1: just kept telling the chaplain like, no, I quit, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not coming back. He texted his wife, I
Speaker 1: quit and she was like what is happening, and then
Speaker 1: that's exactly what he did. I mean, I follow him
Speaker 1: on Instagram. I did then, I'd still do to this day.
Speaker 1: He's been having the best time. He's still in amazing shape,
Speaker 1: he's still at his playing weight, he goes on vacations.
Speaker 1: His wife's name is Megan. They seemed to have a
Speaker 1: beautiful life, and he got ripped to shreds. Like this
Speaker 1: was someone that that teammate, former teammate. They were like,
Speaker 1: this is so fucked up. How could you do? He
Speaker 1: was like a punchline on all of the late night
Speaker 1: shows that week. And Vonte Davis is like a sweet person.
Speaker 1: I think he has like a really good soul, and
Speaker 1: he's just someone who's very in tune with what he
Speaker 1: needs and I think it's probably sensitive. And he just
Speaker 1: didn't want to play anymore. And like, listen, football you
Speaker 1: can die. I mean, that is a real thing that
Speaker 1: has happened. It's definitely a real thing that you are
Speaker 1: cutting down on your life expectancy with each time you
Speaker 1: step out there. And he just he didn't want to
Speaker 1: do it anymore. And I think it's like kind of
Speaker 1: inspirational to like know yourself and then go no, I'm
Speaker 1: good right now, thank you, goodbye Bills. I think that
Speaker 1: quitting football is like the reward, like that's I'm done.
Speaker 1: I I I escaped without you know, getting brain damage
Speaker 1: or whatever the hell happens to your body by playing football.
Speaker 1: And it's like, if you're on the team that sucks,
Speaker 1: what are you crazy? If you're on a shitty baseball team,
Speaker 1: you're you kind of you just turn into it's a
Speaker 1: hangout every day hanging out. But if you're on a
Speaker 1: shitty football team, what are you doing? Just get out
Speaker 1: of there, quit or get traded whatever. I don't know
Speaker 1: how the Jets still have, Like I think about Frank Gore.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is the very end of your career.
Speaker 1: You're clearly not going to get to and they're like, no,
Speaker 1: he's here every day, the last one to leave. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's the most a mental illness at that point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know he's a workaholic in some way that you're
Speaker 1: just like, I can't relate to whatever that We talked
Speaker 1: about a lot about like late night talk show hosts
Speaker 1: and they're all like scared to retire because, like Johnny
Speaker 1: Carson said, the second that he quit was the day
Speaker 1: he felt like he died. And I think a lot
Speaker 1: of these players are just like hypnotized. Well, quitting football
Speaker 1: is different to where it's like if you well, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you quit football, it is like it is this
Speaker 1: thing you've been doing since you were a kid, and
Speaker 1: it's been been the only thing you've been doing since
Speaker 1: you were a kid, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: like my whole life has been just training and then
Speaker 1: like then what if you're lucky, you get to be
Speaker 1: like I'm a car dealership guy or your own restaurants
Speaker 1: or whatever. Uh And otherwise it's like I just kind
Speaker 1: of sit around now. I don't know. It's like your
Speaker 1: life can look really grim after football if you don't
Speaker 1: have like something going on, if you have like a
Speaker 1: game plan. Vante doesn't have anything going on, and he
Speaker 1: had no plan to do this. I mean I was
Speaker 1: reading an article that was like a year after he quit,
Speaker 1: and his like morning routine the day that they were
Speaker 1: interviewing him was that he was gonna work out and
Speaker 1: then do some chores, and I just thought that was
Speaker 1: so cute, Like that's what I do, you know, Like
Speaker 1: if I wake up, I don't have to work tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna work out and do some chores. Like that's
Speaker 1: classic stuff. Good for him. I'm like knowing yourself to
Speaker 1: know that that you're like, I'm out of here and
Speaker 1: I know what people will say, and I know that
Speaker 1: I'm letting I mean, I don't even know if it's
Speaker 1: like letting people down. You know, he was a new
Speaker 1: guy in the team anyway, right, Like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the chemistry is like there. I was working at
Speaker 1: the NFL. I was at the in the building when
Speaker 1: this happened, and everyone was like, this is the weirdest
Speaker 1: story we've ever seen. There were definitely people, especially like
Speaker 1: the former players, that were like how could he do this?
Speaker 1: And I like love Vonte enough that I was like,
Speaker 1: this is what Vonte wanted, Like, you can't this is
Speaker 1: not this is like a sweet, like very just sweet
Speaker 1: little soul that like, yeah, you you may want to
Speaker 1: frame him as a villain, that's not what this is
Speaker 1: gonna be. Like, you gotta just let Vonte be Vonte.
Speaker 1: His brother said he was heartbroken. I mean, Vernon, come
Speaker 1: on now, So it's yeah, no, it's it's a big
Speaker 1: deal for people that I don't I don't know like
Speaker 1: for me, I'm was just going to be on the
Speaker 1: side of the player no matter what. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like it's your choice, do whatever the hell you want.
Speaker 1: Like you know, with Andrew Luck, I was just like,
Speaker 1: go for it, dude, get out of here. Don't do that.
Speaker 1: What you gotta do. This is this is good for you, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's still probably a touchy subject. It's not
Speaker 1: it was gonna be one of my picks. Well, let's
Speaker 1: let's just talk about a little bit. Great great segue. Well,
Speaker 1: so I was gonna say honorable mentions. Jordan's a couple
Speaker 1: of different circumstances, but I love that he quit twice,
Speaker 1: retired or whatever. And then Roberto Duran boxer, who I
Speaker 1: guess like what made his famous was he said no moss,
Speaker 1: Like in the fifth round he was like no more
Speaker 1: because he just kept getting it punched. Um. But I
Speaker 1: think it was like part two of that fight and
Speaker 1: he just showed up out of shape. He said. So
Speaker 1: I didn't know if Andrew Luck, but I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: and talking about this, Andrew Lucky is my number one
Speaker 1: pick for greatest quitter because again I totally agree, like
Speaker 1: as a Colts fan and what was like their big
Speaker 1: This flaw over those years was that he's not a
Speaker 1: great old line, right, he was not protected and he
Speaker 1: was constantly being hit running and and like ruptured his spleen.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had traumatic injuries that were caused from
Speaker 1: humans banging into him with helpmets. Yeah, and again short,
Speaker 1: like a short lived career. And what we know about
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is like just the nicest, sweetest man. For
Speaker 1: him that many times it's like, of course he's like
Speaker 1: calling it quits. Of course, like, yeah, maybe stick around
Speaker 1: for a couple more years, but the same ship's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: Like he like, I don't even care, Like if you
Speaker 1: ever was like I want to come back and be
Speaker 1: like I don't even think you should. Andrew. No, if
Speaker 1: he came back, I'd be like what the um? But
Speaker 1: you know he was. He was booed. It was during
Speaker 1: a preseason game when the news came out, and so
Speaker 1: people got like alert on their phone that we're at
Speaker 1: the game and started booing him. And I, you know,
Speaker 1: I love the cults more than maybe any person on earth,
Speaker 1: which is not an awesome sentence to say, but I do.
Speaker 1: And so I was, yeah, it's like it hit me
Speaker 1: like a gut punch, and then I also, as like
Speaker 1: just a human beings, started to think of the things
Speaker 1: we're saying. I think the only thing that Colts fans
Speaker 1: can be upset about is the timeline, like it was
Speaker 1: ten days before the season started or something insane, where
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I guess personally, I would just like
Speaker 1: to know, like when did he start feeling that way?
Speaker 1: What was the conversation? But guess what, I'm not privy
Speaker 1: to that because it's not my fucking business. You know, like,
Speaker 1: it is a human, it is a human's health and safety,
Speaker 1: and we don't necessarily know the conversations that happened between
Speaker 1: the organization and him, and if there was like if
Speaker 1: there were moves on the old line that he was
Speaker 1: promised we're going to be made and then they weren't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what led him to that decision.
Speaker 1: But that's the only thing that I've ever been like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can be like I don't like the timing of this,
Speaker 1: but you can't be mad at a person for picking
Speaker 1: their health over being on this team. That's Moven good. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it was it was the right move, and man, I
Speaker 1: don't know. But did the Colts improved the offensive line
Speaker 1: like they did almost immediately after? Yes, Like it was
Speaker 1: pretty quick, right, yeah, because um, so this wasn't last year,
Speaker 1: this was two years ago. And yeah we got Quentin Nelson.
Speaker 1: I mean, now we're supposedly have the best old line
Speaker 1: in the league. Except for yesterday they were the biggest
Speaker 1: piece of shirt. Um, but yes they did. And that's
Speaker 1: probably a credit to all the ship Andrew had to
Speaker 1: put up with. Yeah, I bet, I'm yeah, I could
Speaker 1: talk about like what's going on with the Colts with
Speaker 1: you for a while. Actually it's like it's I'm so
Speaker 1: curious about all right, what's the deal with with Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers and how does what's the consensus of fans? You know? Right? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean and and and I wonder because then Jacobi
Speaker 1: bur said they were like, okay, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: our starter. Who was the backup? Came in and played really,
Speaker 1: really well. I think far exceeded people's expectations. And you
Speaker 1: almost have to wonder, like, oh, did that give Luck
Speaker 1: peace at making that decision? Like he was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: Burssette was Brady's backup. He's been here a few years
Speaker 1: he's good. I think Jacoby Brissette is probably one of
Speaker 1: the best backups. I think he could be a starter.
Speaker 1: And and you have to be like that must have
Speaker 1: made him be like, Okay, I can leave and I'm
Speaker 1: not leaving them with you know, a rookie who, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a total disaster of a person. So I think it's
Speaker 1: a testament to Jacoby. I just love Jacoby a lot.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't. Yeah, he's great. Um, all right, Joe, So
Speaker 1: bring us home here with your number one pick for
Speaker 1: greatest sports quitter. Okay, this is like it's maybe maybe
Speaker 1: bending the rules, but I love it. It combines all
Speaker 1: the stuff that I want in this. It's a fat athlete,
Speaker 1: a fat baseball player. It is high stakes. Is high
Speaker 1: stakes as it can possibly be. This is my number
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Is Babe Ruth. The nineteen six World Series
Speaker 1: against the St. Louis Cardinals and it's game Game seven,
Speaker 1: end of the Yeah, two outs in the ninth and
Speaker 1: Babe Ruth is on first base and attempts to steal
Speaker 1: second base and then gets thrown up by about ten
Speaker 1: ft just like not even close. And the series Yankees lose. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they could have had another World Series and he just
Speaker 1: like ran the second base, just like whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: like like I don't know what even what you're thinking
Speaker 1: in in a in a moment like that, other than
Speaker 1: like I'm going to leave because I don't care. I
Speaker 1: don't care. I would rather be just like downing beers
Speaker 1: and Polish sausages. I'm out. Let's wrap up this game,
Speaker 1: treating it like it's, you know, the middle of July,
Speaker 1: kind of like who gives a ship game at the
Speaker 1: World Series? Love it, love it. I love what it
Speaker 1: says about the man. I love what it says about
Speaker 1: the sport. I love of everything about it. It's the
Speaker 1: It's maybe my favorite sports thing that has ever happened.
Speaker 1: It's probably yeah, just doing that. He's yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: it's like, the biggest athlete ever. And like when I
Speaker 1: say Jordan quit, but he had like a formal announcement.
Speaker 1: But Babe Ruth, for as like iconic as he has
Speaker 1: to go, Yeah, I'm good, it's gonna wrap up this season.
Speaker 1: Totally my team too. Yeah no, yeah, no. Everybody's recounting
Speaker 1: on you. You're you're goddamn Babe Ruth. And when you
Speaker 1: and you think about it in the context of him
Speaker 1: I'm like, was he hung over? Was he drunk? Did
Speaker 1: he have to pee? Like he truly may have been,
Speaker 1: like I gotta take a ship. We gotta get out
Speaker 1: of here, I gotta I gotta take a ship. Guys,
Speaker 1: did he like not know that the outside on the
Speaker 1: outs there? The hell? He doesn't even strike me as
Speaker 1: a base stealer, Like has he ever even stolen a basement?
Speaker 1: Like he was a stovepipe of a man. No, there's
Speaker 1: I don't know what the stats are, but if you
Speaker 1: there's no way he's given us even close to good
Speaker 1: numbers for his If I'd be shocked if he had
Speaker 1: like two stolen bases career, like he's a big fella,
Speaker 1: he's not, And also like that's not his game at all. Crazy, No, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my favorite thing that's ever happened in sports, Just
Speaker 1: giving up on on your whole team, on the whole season,
Speaker 1: the entire being. Any I mean, with how out he
Speaker 1: could have he was, he could have maybe gone back
Speaker 1: to first, like he wasn't even that far off for space.
Speaker 1: The yeah, the account of it says he got thrown
Speaker 1: up by about ten feet unbelievable, unreal, how far? Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you were to ask me the feat between first
Speaker 1: and second base, I probably would have guessed around ten feet.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's my guy. That's my that's my
Speaker 1: number one dude. And he still managed to have a
Speaker 1: candy bar named after him. Good. It's one of the
Speaker 1: butter can bars, rips apart my mouth, but very delicious
Speaker 1: and worth it. I'll never quit on a Baby Ruth
Speaker 1: candy bar. No, absolutely love the guy loves candy all right, Joe, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for doing this. Um, Where can
Speaker 1: people find you? And what are some projects you'd like
Speaker 1: to plug? I do a Patreon where I will mail
Speaker 1: jokes to your house instead of I should instead of
Speaker 1: using Twitter for jokes. I still use Twitter for jokes
Speaker 1: a little bit, but like go to patreon, dot com,
Speaker 1: slash Joe McAdam or Twitter. I'm at at Joe McAdam.
Speaker 1: They are so good. But I do a sketch comedy
Speaker 1: things called but with Chris Stevens. So funny. But it's
Speaker 1: so funny. The one I was, Um, I mean, as
Speaker 1: people know because people started replying to my tweets that
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast that I eat a lot of gummies.
Speaker 1: Um and but I love eating gummies and reading your
Speaker 1: Patreon your analog tweets as you call them. And one
Speaker 1: of my favorite recently it was just so short. It
Speaker 1: was just like you should be able to eat lotion.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. It was like the perfect thing
Speaker 1: to hit them. That's the it's the fun way to
Speaker 1: do it. Great. It's nice to get mail too. Now
Speaker 1: that the joy has unsuccessfully dismantled the USPS, we can
Speaker 1: have fun again. Yeah, we can have fun in the
Speaker 1: mail again. And this isn't that what we've been trying
Speaker 1: to do. Just have some pen pals, that's all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so do that. It'll be fun. You'll you'll really enjoy
Speaker 1: getting a piece of mail. Awesome. Yeah, I'll link to
Speaker 1: that in Megan, Where can people find you? Oh? Boy,
Speaker 1: c J's mom just sent a picture of white Castle sliders.
Speaker 1: That's that's just the type of thing going on in
Speaker 1: the Tiladano family thread. We like to snack eighteen cheeseburger
Speaker 1: sliders from white Castle. Um. You can find me at
Speaker 1: Megan Gailey at better Megan Gaily. I've been getting some
Speaker 1: questions about the bubble machine. It will be coming back
Speaker 1: once basket ball is back, and that's how because I
Speaker 1: prefer basketball. I just needed more than the NFL and
Speaker 1: college football that that doesn't that doesn't stir my soul
Speaker 1: the way it used to, and at one point basketball
Speaker 1: was doing it right. Um, So when basketball is back,
Speaker 1: the bubble machine will be back, baby, and you can
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