Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: All right, and welcome to another episode of the Greatest
Speaker 1: Still in the Laundry Nook still with my wife uh
Speaker 1: and co host Megan Galey. How are you doing megas
Speaker 1: are good? How are you? Honey? Very very good? Not
Speaker 1: very good? I'm better, Yeah, but I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 1: You've got a great fit on. Today was a day
Speaker 1: where I felt, you know, put on some pants, put
Speaker 1: on some shoes, put on like a kind of jacket,
Speaker 1: and feel like I am doing something today. Well, it's
Speaker 1: also a little overcast in l A, so it feels
Speaker 1: like I've got a sweater on, a dirty sweater. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you. And dirty leggings. Dirty leggings. That sounds like
Speaker 1: your next album. That's sad. And for a woman in
Speaker 1: her mid thirties to be talking about dirty leggings as
Speaker 1: a brand is like pretty bad. I'd like to just
Speaker 1: keep that to this podcast and then never do it
Speaker 1: or say it over again. Um. On that note, I
Speaker 1: am so excited for our guest this week, a friend
Speaker 1: I haven't seen wow since We all went in a
Speaker 1: group to see us um, which was a very fun
Speaker 1: That was a great field trip Um, grown ups going
Speaker 1: in large groups to movies. I highly recommend it when
Speaker 1: movie theaters come back and amazing. Um. We wrote together
Speaker 1: on the SPS, originally from Tallahassee via Chicago, now in
Speaker 1: l A. Writing on the news say by the bell,
Speaker 1: Shantira Jackson, Welcome. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: How are you doing? I'm going. I mean, I'm sad
Speaker 1: but good. You know the way the world is, We're
Speaker 1: all like sad but good. You've been so busy. I
Speaker 1: want to just highlight some of the stuff you've been doing.
Speaker 1: You helped organize and run one of the massive, very
Speaker 1: successful protests in Hollywood the day after Brianna Taylor's birthday.
Speaker 1: And then you were also one of the names that
Speaker 1: was signed at the bottom of the letter demanding changes
Speaker 1: to Second City. And then I have to imagine on
Speaker 1: top of that, are you are you working right now?
Speaker 1: Are you writing too? Yes? I am. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: Um yeah, how how are you doing all of this? No?
Speaker 1: It's yeah. I mean, like I complain about having one job,
Speaker 1: but um yeah, to do all those things as awesome. Now,
Speaker 1: can I ask just a question that's been on my mind?
Speaker 1: How do you organize a protest. Okay, so here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I love a party, but I don't throw parties, right, So,
Speaker 1: I mean there are people who really do this work. Um,
Speaker 1: this girl named Fannon Morton and my friend um Sheets Rashida,
Speaker 1: they like were the women who were like, let's fucking
Speaker 1: do this. And I was like, okay, I'll use my
Speaker 1: blue check mark and trying to get people there is possible,
Speaker 1: and then I'll say that I'll speak, And I mean
Speaker 1: like they were the working forces behind like getting like
Speaker 1: the place where you go, Like it was us, we'll
Speaker 1: be in trouble because we wouldn't have a permit, right,
Speaker 1: But um, there's a lot of organizers who really do
Speaker 1: the work, live and breathe that stuff. And then like
Speaker 1: I was in a fortunate position where I could be
Speaker 1: like I can give people to show up, and I
Speaker 1: can get people to and I'll speak and for for
Speaker 1: some reason, people if you've ever been associated with television
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form, people will come and
Speaker 1: listen to you. Yeah. So the blue checkmark people have
Speaker 1: really it's like it's weaponized, Like they're weaponizing it against us,
Speaker 1: and it's like I don't really know anyone who was
Speaker 1: like give me a blue check mark. No, it's right exactly.
Speaker 1: It's like what people get so mad, like it's it
Speaker 1: used to be like you fat horror, and now it's
Speaker 1: like you blue check mark, yes, and it's like, I'm
Speaker 1: not rich. I think they associate the blue checkmark with
Speaker 1: like fucking green stacks and it's like, no, dade I
Speaker 1: wrote on a TV show and like I live in
Speaker 1: an apartment and NoHo like I'm not you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. They see the blue check mark and they're
Speaker 1: like it is Marie and Twinette herself. It's like they
Speaker 1: really like I don't have enough natural light in my apartment.
Speaker 1: The blue check mark means nothing, So do you. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm genuinely just curious as a friend and fellow creative,
Speaker 1: and I do want to say there maybe a photo
Speaker 1: that surfaces of Shantira and I and I'd like to
Speaker 1: address that we are dressed as security guards and not cops.
Speaker 1: Going there my Instagram and I'm like, why am I
Speaker 1: dressed as a cop? And then I was we were
Speaker 1: security guards, um in a sketch that that we worked
Speaker 1: on that we then forced ourselves to be a part
Speaker 1: of which is if you're going to be a creative
Speaker 1: forced your way into things. I think that is my
Speaker 1: number one. Are a woman in this industry, you must
Speaker 1: write for yourself. So we wrote a sketch and we
Speaker 1: were like, you know, who should be in it? Us
Speaker 1: as two female security guards who are smaller than the
Speaker 1: man we have to pull off the stage. It also
Speaker 1: was they were like, oh, since you know, you get
Speaker 1: paid to write for a show, but then since we
Speaker 1: were doing something on camera, they legally have to pay
Speaker 1: us too. And I was so behind on my sag fees.
Speaker 1: I actually had to pay seven hundred dollars to be
Speaker 1: in that sketch. You know, I still to this day,
Speaker 1: I am not inside. I have not booked anything enough
Speaker 1: for that. So I got that's the time I was
Speaker 1: ever paid to be on camera. So I got four hundred,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm rich again. Repeat blue check
Speaker 1: marks have no money? Yes, and who are you guys
Speaker 1: were pulling off Bill Murray on stage? No, it wasn't
Speaker 1: Bill Murray. It was um, gosh, what is it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Michael who who is like so lovely and is so funny.
Speaker 1: But we were Our sketch was also after like a
Speaker 1: really somber wild piece that so we just stood backstage
Speaker 1: listening to it was not the best time to do
Speaker 1: that sketch. We were like, we're going next, Oh no,
Speaker 1: And then my mom was watching and she was like,
Speaker 1: I just saw you. It was like a weird thing
Speaker 1: to be like getting a test from my mom after
Speaker 1: this really really sad like it was basically like in
Speaker 1: Memorium kind of vibe after and then we were like,
Speaker 1: let's go do this bit. Yeah, they were famous people
Speaker 1: standing backstage crying. We were making sure we had all
Speaker 1: of our props for the security guard part. Is that
Speaker 1: story that you've told me about this appropriate? Free to
Speaker 1: tell about the rehearsal? No, sorry, it's not appropriate. It's
Speaker 1: so Shantera. We'll we'll discuss that off air because you
Speaker 1: will remember and it's so funny. Maybe CJ and I
Speaker 1: will do our first ever Patreon just to tell people
Speaker 1: what this insane story is. Um. But yeah, sometimes you
Speaker 1: behind the scenes of things is really really where the
Speaker 1: action you think it was really wild. I remember exactly
Speaker 1: what you're talking about because I was a participating and
Speaker 1: I was like, this is not my job. So if
Speaker 1: we never if we never tell the story, just know
Speaker 1: that a black woman said this is not my job,
Speaker 1: that is why. So that gives you any idea. It
Speaker 1: was just something and we're like, that's not your job,
Speaker 1: all right, Oh my god. So fun. I mean remember
Speaker 1: when the world was a fun place where we would
Speaker 1: just get Mendocino Farms for free no matter where we were.
Speaker 1: And remember, okay, so like Mendicino Farms was like chill.
Speaker 1: But I remember they were like, you can order whatever
Speaker 1: you want out of this book. And they would go
Speaker 1: to like it's a yard house, breaking out yard house,
Speaker 1: and I would order a forty dollar rearby. Every people
Speaker 1: be like and I'll be like I need I need
Speaker 1: the ribby um mashed potatoes, and I just like every time,
Speaker 1: I was like, well I want a forty dollar steak.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, that's what I did. Sometimes you'll be
Speaker 1: on or I've been on things where it's like here's
Speaker 1: the menu, and like the first day, everybody is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get chips and gawk for the whole room.
Speaker 1: Let's get some calamari. And then everyone's getting like an
Speaker 1: entree salad and three tacos. And then the next day
Speaker 1: they come in and they're like, Okay, the limited fifteen dollars.
Speaker 1: We go so intent we're just because I'll order lunch
Speaker 1: and dinner and I'll be like, we need extra to
Speaker 1: go boxes and take stuff home. I was paid so
Speaker 1: poorly on something I was working on that the food
Speaker 1: was my only way to like make up for it.
Speaker 1: And they would you have like it's like I am
Speaker 1: living below the poverty line being on television. I'm getting
Speaker 1: a club sandwich and a steak and you can suck
Speaker 1: my dick. I yield my time. Yes, give me the
Speaker 1: snacks on my last job, and it was like the
Speaker 1: last day and I just like I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take this granola bars because I asked for them.
Speaker 1: This show is over. They're going in my backpack and
Speaker 1: I'm an equal opportunity food um mooch. Like I gave
Speaker 1: blood last week and I took a ton of snacks
Speaker 1: for myself, and then I took snacks home for CJ,
Speaker 1: who did not give blood. But I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I know he likes these kind of fruits. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. You know I've been on a diet
Speaker 1: to First of all, you guys are married. Your blood
Speaker 1: is his blood, his blood is It's fine, absolutely let's
Speaker 1: chat sports before we get into the topic. You are
Speaker 1: from Tallahassee, moved to Chicago. Now growing up, were you
Speaker 1: Florida fan? Oh? Yeah, like I'm I was. I went
Speaker 1: to Florida State, so my dad went to Florida State,
Speaker 1: My aunts went to Florida State. My dad ran track.
Speaker 1: They're like, I was a huge sports fan, so like
Speaker 1: there's nothing to do in Tallahassee except for play football
Speaker 1: or work for the State of Florida, and like that's it.
Speaker 1: And since I grew up and didn't want to do
Speaker 1: either of those things, I moved away. Yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: so wow. I mean Florida State one of like the
Speaker 1: mast storied football programs for sure. It's like when I
Speaker 1: closed my eyes and think of football college football, that
Speaker 1: I just picked of the Marooning Gold. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: like and also like we're good at like every sport.
Speaker 1: So like even if you just on campus and you
Speaker 1: just want to like puts around, you could be like
Speaker 1: I did, go watch the golf team probably and they'd
Speaker 1: be good. It's like everybody's good. It's like I can't
Speaker 1: watch a couple of holes of this every time you
Speaker 1: come to campus. Whatever was happening. It was good when
Speaker 1: you moved to Chicago, did you feel because like, I mean,
Speaker 1: you were on a sketch team called three P So
Speaker 1: it's like you're definite. You you definitely became part of
Speaker 1: like the Chicago comedy scene is we did, which in
Speaker 1: turn is kind of like you have to be a
Speaker 1: part of the Chicago sports scene as well. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, like I O was across the street from
Speaker 1: Wrigley Field, which which which kind of made me a
Speaker 1: Socks fan. I lived behind Wrigley and I didn't care
Speaker 1: about baseball, but then my commutes home from my job
Speaker 1: at Blockbuster made me a Socks and I was like,
Speaker 1: are adding minutes to my commuteant? I hate them? Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was just trying to do a couple of improv shows.
Speaker 1: I will never forget my first improv show. Ever, this
Speaker 1: isn't even a Cup story. It's a black Hawks story. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the black Hawks had won the World Series and
Speaker 1: not the World Series the Stanley Cup. Um that the
Speaker 1: day of my first Harold show, and I got there
Speaker 1: early because I was just going Stanley Cup. You know,
Speaker 1: like that is the improv equivalent of the stand. So
Speaker 1: like I made a Harold Team, and it was our
Speaker 1: first show ever and people couldn't come to the show
Speaker 1: because the fans from the Stanley Cup were so wild
Speaker 1: that the police put up barricades, so people were like
Speaker 1: trying to cross Clark Street and like couldn't get so
Speaker 1: like it was just like the people who were already
Speaker 1: the theater had to stay in the theater and watch
Speaker 1: our show, and the people who came to see the
Speaker 1: show couldn't get in because of the Stanley Cup. It
Speaker 1: was a mess. Yeah, that corner would just be absolute mayhem.
Speaker 1: What was it? A Bar Louie that was next to Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you would go and like eat there after class
Speaker 1: or shows and then it honestly, like the image that's
Speaker 1: coming to mind is in Ghostbusters when the Titanic comes
Speaker 1: to New York City and all the zombies pour off
Speaker 1: of it and are roaming the streets like you would
Speaker 1: be in Bar Louie just having a nice zip zap
Speaker 1: zop time with your friends, and then zombies would overrun.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is why I think a lot of
Speaker 1: great comedians and writers all come from Chicago's because that
Speaker 1: was our audience. Like we had to like entertain the
Speaker 1: dumbest people in the dumbest bars and now it's just like, oh,
Speaker 1: everything else is a cake walk to us. Oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: Also people walking in drunk in the middle of your show,
Speaker 1: going what is this? What are they doing? And it's like,
Speaker 1: shut up, I'm trying to do improv and they're like no, Like,
Speaker 1: nothing's worse than being yelled at from some guy who
Speaker 1: just love a baseball game, who just wants to know
Speaker 1: what's happening. Yeah, we we did comedy in a hostile environment.
Speaker 1: Um I did. I did just watch the Saved by
Speaker 1: the Bell reboot, which you're you wrote for right, are
Speaker 1: you guys currently writing on that where all the episodes
Speaker 1: are written. Production is halted, so we have a couple
Speaker 1: of episodes left before we can put a show out. God.
Speaker 1: You know, the trailer really surprised me. I thought it
Speaker 1: was just gonna be another like multi cam reboot, and
Speaker 1: it was like, I mean, I don't know, the jokes
Speaker 1: are feel it feels like thirty Rock. I know there's
Speaker 1: a thirty Rock right around it, but I'm like really
Speaker 1: excited about it now, thank you. I'm really proud of it.
Speaker 1: It's really fun and the um the Yeah, Tracy Wickfield
Speaker 1: is like a thirty rock baby. The show running. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's like joke heavy, it's really smart. The rooms diverse.
Speaker 1: Like you know that if I didn't like the job,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, it was a fun time I had,
Speaker 1: but I actually really like yeah yeah, you'd just be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone was great and I'm looking forward to doing some
Speaker 1: new things. No, that job was great. I hope we
Speaker 1: get a second season so I can go back to
Speaker 1: the job I liked. I knew. I knew you loved
Speaker 1: that job because I knew there was a job previous
Speaker 1: to it that you did not love. And that's how
Speaker 1: you can tell someone actually likes a job. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they do, and they don't got a past job. You're like,
Speaker 1: oh they like this one, got it? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I the job I had previously. I worked up for
Speaker 1: six days and I quit. And then I also like
Speaker 1: didn't post that I was working there, Like usually when
Speaker 1: you get a new job, especially in TV, and you're like,
Speaker 1: I want people to watch it. I'm really excited about
Speaker 1: this experience. I like took that job that I quit,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm away before I post. This
Speaker 1: has a weird vibe, And then um, I did not
Speaker 1: post about it because I quit after a week. I
Speaker 1: was like, your girl has got to go. No, I, um,
Speaker 1: I hated that show and I hate that person. And
Speaker 1: I was very proud and happy and then yeah, I
Speaker 1: heard like fun drama behind the scenes, and yeah, I
Speaker 1: told me with joy. Yeah, then I was really happy
Speaker 1: you're out of there. Yeah. Also, it's so funny. It's
Speaker 1: because like you know about it, but like also like
Speaker 1: a lot of people know about it, Like if you
Speaker 1: don't know about it, sorry, you don't have a blue
Speaker 1: check mark. Now, I'm just kidding. It's just that it's
Speaker 1: one of those things where like I really was low
Speaker 1: key on my exit and people would be like I
Speaker 1: heard about that, and I'd be like, who told you?
Speaker 1: It's wild out here? Well, I think I think sometimes
Speaker 1: what happened you You were very discreet, and I remember
Speaker 1: you being like, I'm not saying what I didn't like.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to be at this new show that
Speaker 1: I did like. But since you came from a show
Speaker 1: that other people didn't like, or people don't like the
Speaker 1: person associated it was, it was fun for us, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you so much respectful and professional, but you gave us
Speaker 1: a nugget and we ran with it. Let's get into
Speaker 1: the topic. So our topic today is the greatest comeback.
Speaker 1: And this was actually a peek behind the curtain. CJ
Speaker 1: and I did this topic for our pilot of this
Speaker 1: podcast that was never released, but we have been wanting
Speaker 1: to do it again and you felt like the perfect
Speaker 1: person to do it with. Um, it's feel good. We're
Speaker 1: trying to kind of do things that feel a little
Speaker 1: empowering right now within the realm of sports themselves, so
Speaker 1: this felt like a good topic for that. And UM, yeah,
Speaker 1: Shin Terry, you want to give us your number three?
Speaker 1: Pick my number three comeback? We we just talked about them. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the Cubs winning the World Series. Great one,
Speaker 1: that's my number three. Were you in Chicago then? I
Speaker 1: was in Chicago and my experience so like, uh, c J,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you like baseball now, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think I don't know what will ever change it.
Speaker 1: But no, I think it's the most boring sport. Like
Speaker 1: I think it's so boring, it's too long. But I
Speaker 1: was working at Second City and then uh, when I
Speaker 1: finished my show that that last game went into extra innings,
Speaker 1: it was like hell along. So I watched a bunch
Speaker 1: of the game in the bar and then I went
Speaker 1: to go work out at Export. I was like, this home,
Speaker 1: my So I went to go work out in the bar.
Speaker 1: I mean it went to work work out an Export,
Speaker 1: and they were playing the game like on different things.
Speaker 1: So like I was like just working out and like
Speaker 1: looking to see if they were winning. And then I
Speaker 1: like finished working out, went downstairs, changed came back up,
Speaker 1: and then like they won, and I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god. And then I walked home like it was
Speaker 1: announced that they won. I walked outside on well Street
Speaker 1: and then it was people pouring out and I was like,
Speaker 1: holy crap. So like I watched most of the game
Speaker 1: and then I like watched the replay in Export, and
Speaker 1: then I was like I gotta go home right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like I gotta get out of here. Even hearing
Speaker 1: that Export, I'm like transported back to a certain time
Speaker 1: in my life. That Export is burned in my memory.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean what's wild too, is there were
Speaker 1: so many bars in Chicago that were just showing the
Speaker 1: game on TV. But it was like it's a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars to come in here and watch the
Speaker 1: game where Yeah, and it's like you were just at
Speaker 1: export for free watching it having the same experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was wild. I was in that bar and it
Speaker 1: was just getting kind of crazy, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to win, but I
Speaker 1: do know that if they win, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be in this small bar, and I do know that
Speaker 1: if they lose, I don't want to be in this
Speaker 1: small bar. So then I went and got an elliptical. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean. What I love about this come back, and
Speaker 1: there's gonna be one similar to it is that it
Speaker 1: goes from being you know, they were down, the Cubs
Speaker 1: were down three one right, and then you're just like, well,
Speaker 1: disappointment again, like I can't believe I wasted my time caring,
Speaker 1: and then you then they win one, and then when
Speaker 1: they win another and you're like, oh my god, and
Speaker 1: it's just like if I was a Cubs fan, I
Speaker 1: would just be incredibly stressed out and that, but that
Speaker 1: payoff then going into extra innings in Game seven, it's
Speaker 1: just it is like whether or not you're a fan
Speaker 1: of them or a fan of baseball, you're like, this
Speaker 1: is an achievement and like something we may not see
Speaker 1: for a while. Also, I was in Chicago when it happened.
Speaker 1: That's why that's so amazing, because like all of the
Speaker 1: choices that I have today were things that I actually saw,
Speaker 1: are like participated in, you know, like not like I
Speaker 1: remember watching it live and I like remember the moment
Speaker 1: when like the whole city was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: something amazing happened today and you could feel it. There's
Speaker 1: nothing like somebody winning, Chicago winning. It's like there's nothing
Speaker 1: like yes, yeah, well, and do you got what which
Speaker 1: is more impressive to you? Coming back from down three
Speaker 1: one in the World Series or coming back from a
Speaker 1: curse that a man put on you over a hundred
Speaker 1: years ago? The Goat? You think the Goats a more
Speaker 1: impressive comeback? Okay, overcoming the curse? I think that. I
Speaker 1: think the Goat is more impressive because I've seen people
Speaker 1: come back from three to one. I've seen people come
Speaker 1: back in basketball. I've seen that before. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: anybody way in a hundred and eight years to win,
Speaker 1: So I think that's impressive. It's a longer wait. Overcoming
Speaker 1: a curse is what, like Harry Potter is about you know,
Speaker 1: like it is impressive. Um, okay, I will go next.
Speaker 1: My number three is gosh, this is when I actually
Speaker 1: didn't even know about until last week, when this person
Speaker 1: may be celebrated in a birthday or some sort of anniversary,
Speaker 1: and it is Ben Hogan winning the nineteen fifty US Open,
Speaker 1: and I know about this. What I'll just say now,
Speaker 1: my honorable mention is going to be Tiger winning the
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen Masters. And everyone considers that like truly
Speaker 1: the greatest, um the greatest like individual comeback from his
Speaker 1: He had four back surgeries and his personal scandals and
Speaker 1: the Hooters waitress and all of that, and then he
Speaker 1: was able to come back and and win. But when
Speaker 1: Tiger is asked about that, he says, ben Hogan's come
Speaker 1: back is the greatest comeback in sports. So I'm giving
Speaker 1: the nod to him, and he Ben Hogan was hit
Speaker 1: by a greyhound bus. Hit by a greyhound bus on
Speaker 1: leaving a turn after on his way driving home from
Speaker 1: a tournament and broke his pelvis. Ribs were broken. When
Speaker 1: the authorities were whoever first got to the scene, they
Speaker 1: thought he was dead. That's how smashed the car was
Speaker 1: Um he should have died. He should have died, and
Speaker 1: doctors are like, there's no way he'll ever play golf again,
Speaker 1: he may never walk again. And then less than a
Speaker 1: year and a half later, he not only was back walking,
Speaker 1: but he won a major tournament and he wouldn't he
Speaker 1: shouldn't have even been playing, and based on like medical report,
Speaker 1: So if you read what he had to go through
Speaker 1: to get like he had to soak an EPs and
Speaker 1: salt for an hour every day before even going out there,
Speaker 1: I think he he was in. He was towards the
Speaker 1: top spot going into the weekend, and I guess told
Speaker 1: his wife, I don't think I'm gonna be able to finish,
Speaker 1: Like he just didn't even think he could physically walk
Speaker 1: thirty six more holes, and then out of like sheer determination,
Speaker 1: was able to do it, and yeah, and one a
Speaker 1: major and then went on to win many more majors
Speaker 1: after that, and that kind of like cement, that's why
Speaker 1: we even know who he is. I guess he also
Speaker 1: hit the ball further than any whenever, so he just
Speaker 1: sounds great. I just to be hit by a greyhound bus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cartoonist. That's like a punchline in scary movie. Can
Speaker 1: I just be honest with you really quick? When you
Speaker 1: said a guy hit by a bus, I truly was thinking,
Speaker 1: like mean girls like I hit. So when you were
Speaker 1: like in a car, I was like, okay, so like
Speaker 1: a little private. Me was like less impressed, but I'm
Speaker 1: still impressed. Well that's that's how sick our brains are.
Speaker 1: Because I thought the same thing, Shantira. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, he got hit by a bus. And
Speaker 1: then you're like, d yeah, Wiley Coyotes style, and then
Speaker 1: he's swinging a golf club. But yeah, it's just it's
Speaker 1: I mean, to your point, Shanterra, It's like I wasn't alive,
Speaker 1: so I don't know this and I only know about
Speaker 1: it because I think what Tiger did is so incredible,
Speaker 1: and Tigers like, yes, it is incredible that I cheated
Speaker 1: on my wife and won a major after it. But
Speaker 1: it's more incredible that this man got hit by a bus.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's crazy Tiger opinion on that. So that's my
Speaker 1: number three. I mean, poort Ben Hogan, he couldn't even
Speaker 1: he couldn't even get it to my one spot. Um, okay, see,
Speaker 1: did you give us your number three? All right, my
Speaker 1: number three. I don't like showing them love. God, I
Speaker 1: don't like what this is already. It's Patriots super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty one. That you know what, it was probably one
Speaker 1: of the worst sports moments to have to experience, just
Speaker 1: like not a good year Trump one again. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's why I'm like it truly, yes, yes, but I
Speaker 1: can't discount that it happened, you know. That's why. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, and I know people will get mad at
Speaker 1: us if we don't bring it up. And like it was,
Speaker 1: you know that year, especially Brady had been suspended for
Speaker 1: the first four weeks, and it's part of like his legacy,
Speaker 1: whether you like it or not. Like for them to
Speaker 1: then win the Super Bowl. They were down twenty eight
Speaker 1: to three with two minutes left in the third quarter
Speaker 1: and then they came back in one. It's just like
Speaker 1: something I've never seen before. I know, I never want
Speaker 1: to see it again, I know, you know. So I
Speaker 1: watched the election results come in at a comedian's house
Speaker 1: and then it was heartbreaking and terrifying and all, you know,
Speaker 1: all those emotions. And then three months later, I guess
Speaker 1: it wasn't even it was like, yeah, maybe two or
Speaker 1: three years later, the same comedian was like, you want
Speaker 1: to come over and watch the super Bowl here? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, fuck, yeah, you know, we'll break the curse
Speaker 1: on your house. And then this happens and I was like,
Speaker 1: I will never set foot in your home ever again.
Speaker 1: I hope you move and this burns to the ground.
Speaker 1: Curse that person. Yes, yeah, oh it was um yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you're right, c J. It is. The thing is it's
Speaker 1: an amazing comeback. But it's it's like symbolized evil winning.
Speaker 1: And I know that that's too harsh, but it was like,
Speaker 1: it's an amazing combat. If it happens for the team
Speaker 1: that we want to win, it happened for the team
Speaker 1: that we're like sick of their ship. Yeah yeah. It's
Speaker 1: like Darth Vader being like clinging for his life and
Speaker 1: coming back. It's like, Okay, you did it, Darth Vader,
Speaker 1: but like we don't like you. Yeah, CJ, thank you
Speaker 1: for taking one for the team because people would be mad.
Speaker 1: But ye, the super Bowl is a large stage and
Speaker 1: they did do it. It's just I feel for the Falcons,
Speaker 1: but I needed it. We need to know and I
Speaker 1: didn't know. It's like I say, we I don't give
Speaker 1: a funk about the falcons, you know, but I was no.
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone against Trump was on the falcons. We
Speaker 1: needed that and we did not get it, and we
Speaker 1: got in the most upsetting fashion. Yeah. So wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: what a what a span of a few months that was. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be back and more.
Speaker 1: All right, and we are back with our second picks.
Speaker 1: Shantira kick us off here. Okay, So my second pick
Speaker 1: is another game that I remember watching live and it
Speaker 1: is the miracle minute by Duke in two thousand one,
Speaker 1: Like Jay Williams, they were playing Maryland and they scored
Speaker 1: ten points in like a minute. It was this in
Speaker 1: the championship for Final four. No, I don't even think
Speaker 1: it was in the championship. It was just just like
Speaker 1: a regular season game. It was just like a wild game.
Speaker 1: It was just like a wild game. And like they
Speaker 1: we're down by ten points with like a minute left,
Speaker 1: and like in men's basketball, like that is nothing like
Speaker 1: I've grown up to be, like anything that happened in
Speaker 1: ten minutes, right, But it really felt like they weren't
Speaker 1: at Duke. I don't believe I think they were at Maryland,
Speaker 1: and it was just like, Okay, we have a minute,
Speaker 1: let's see what happened, and they tied, the game came
Speaker 1: back and then one in overtime and then like Jay
Speaker 1: Williams score were like ten points in like a minute. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: ten points in fifty four seconds against One Dixon and
Speaker 1: Steve Blake. We talked about One Dixon a lot because
Speaker 1: the housewives. But uh and also just like I had
Speaker 1: I had One Dixon Wizard's jersey as a kid because
Speaker 1: I liked that Wizard's Jordan team for some weird, sick reason.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean yeah, Maryland was eight. I mean
Speaker 1: these were like college stars in the game. We talked
Speaker 1: about Jay Williams a lot to yeah, but for other reasons.
Speaker 1: I remember watching it and being like, dang, that was
Speaker 1: a good game. I guess, oh crap, they came back.
Speaker 1: I just because I also played basketball growing up, and
Speaker 1: I was like, that was the most amazing thing I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. Wait, wait, so were you were you four
Speaker 1: or against Duke? Oh? I was four, Duke. I was
Speaker 1: in the A C C like a CC family, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And like I really looked, I
Speaker 1: really loved who was winning. I was like fifteen. So
Speaker 1: I love Duke, I love Yukon. I love watching really
Speaker 1: really good players be good. So I was like, I
Speaker 1: want Duke to win. And man, that was a crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy game to watch. I've always wondered if Conference, if
Speaker 1: Conference c J gets makes fun of me when I
Speaker 1: can't say words right, and shock, he didn't do it.
Speaker 1: I've always wondered if Conference Allegiance, like I do that
Speaker 1: I went to a Big Ten school. If if Produe
Speaker 1: is out of it, I root for the other Big
Speaker 1: ten schools And people are like that seems weird, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know, it seems like we're a family.
Speaker 1: Are We're a family. And if Florida states out, honestly,
Speaker 1: in Florida states out, I'm rooting for anybody except for
Speaker 1: the University of Florida. If I'm being okay, that's that's
Speaker 1: my Anybody, give me a Big ten, give me the SEC,
Speaker 1: anybody but the University of Florida. But if I'm sticking,
Speaker 1: if it's a toll, if there's somebody in the A
Speaker 1: C C, I'm going a C. Yeah. Yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: I feel too. I'm glad to hear that I'm not
Speaker 1: the only like I don't even know if it's Homer
Speaker 1: because it doesn't even make sense. But I'm like, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I'll for Michigan. I don't give a fun you know,
Speaker 1: like great, it feels good for all of us, even
Speaker 1: though Michigan wouldn't spit on pretty if they were on fire.
Speaker 1: What family would I be a part of? If I
Speaker 1: went to Columbia College, a school that accepts its happens,
Speaker 1: you are part of the Kardashian West family. To if
Speaker 1: any of the Kardashian West are in any um sort
Speaker 1: of struggle, you are. That's what I tell. People are like, oh,
Speaker 1: Columbia College, interesting, what's that all about? Like, well, it's
Speaker 1: where Kanye dropped out, you know, um, and he is
Speaker 1: a brilliant artist. And they're like, okay, cool, but you
Speaker 1: there to be like an art school, um, because art
Speaker 1: school they don't compete in athletics. There is no conference,
Speaker 1: there's no But then maybe it's just like you, whichever
Speaker 1: has like a good like color or like a good song.
Speaker 1: A logo, Yeah, you're like that logo symbolizes anything that
Speaker 1: you if there was a documentary that you were moved,
Speaker 1: That's what I did five for a while with the
Speaker 1: Michigan Black Sox black Nikes, Like that's usually what I do.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that's a your your the art
Speaker 1: School conference. Okay, great pick, Shantira, Okay. My second pick
Speaker 1: is a game that I was actually at and that's
Speaker 1: why it goes. That's why it goes ahead of Ben
Speaker 1: Hogan being hit by a gray humbus. I apologize, Ben,
Speaker 1: but this is the two thousand seven Colts a f
Speaker 1: C championship game. C J is laughing, And the thing is,
Speaker 1: I know this is a Homer pick, but this game
Speaker 1: is on a lot of lists at that At that time,
Speaker 1: it was the greatest comeback in conference championship history. I
Speaker 1: do not think that record has been broken. And it
Speaker 1: was the fourth greatest comeback in postseason history. Now obviously
Speaker 1: we've mentioned when that so now we watched we watched
Speaker 1: parts of it. It was it was like the Patriots
Speaker 1: always beat the Colts, like in the moments and games
Speaker 1: that mattered most, they won, and so it really and
Speaker 1: and Peyton had never been to a super Bowl at
Speaker 1: this point. We were the second of the conference championship,
Speaker 1: so we already knew the Bears were going and you know,
Speaker 1: you have to be delusional as a sports fan and
Speaker 1: be like, we're gonna win this time, but that's an
Speaker 1: uphill battle to go against Belichick and Brady in two
Speaker 1: thousands seven. Oh my god, this is like prime evil
Speaker 1: time for them. And the Colts went down to three
Speaker 1: in the first half, and it truely, I mean I
Speaker 1: was reading an article about it today and it was
Speaker 1: like when they scored that touchdown to go up three,
Speaker 1: the stadium was silent, like the air felt like it
Speaker 1: was sucked out of there. I remember my brother leaving
Speaker 1: at halftime to go smoke a cigarette, like it was
Speaker 1: bleak inside of there. And then the Colts just fucking
Speaker 1: came out roaring, and it was so incredible to be
Speaker 1: a part of because it wasn't just a comeback in
Speaker 1: this particular game. It was a comeback for all the
Speaker 1: times the Patriots had beaten the Colts. Like the rivalry
Speaker 1: was so real and so fresh, and it felt David
Speaker 1: versus Goliath. It really felt like the little, tiny losers
Speaker 1: had finally beat them. And I remember Marlon Jackson catching
Speaker 1: that interception and that's when it was cemented. And I
Speaker 1: was reading this article today and the guy was like,
Speaker 1: it's the greatest NFL game I've ever been to. And
Speaker 1: is he a Colts fan? I don't know. He does
Speaker 1: have a journalism job, so I'd assume not. And he
Speaker 1: was like talking about there were grown adults crying. My
Speaker 1: brother had to hold me up, like my knees gave out.
Speaker 1: And I didn't even remember that will s it's welcome
Speaker 1: to Miami because the Super Bowl was in Miami that year.
Speaker 1: Started playing and I'm like, we're the best. We had
Speaker 1: the best, we had just the best time. That day.
Speaker 1: I saw a woman p in a sink at a
Speaker 1: white castle. I mean, I'm living my little Indiana dreams.
Speaker 1: And it was at the r C a doome like
Speaker 1: that doesn't even exist anymore. It was just it was
Speaker 1: magical to be there. So that's my number two, honestly,
Speaker 1: And that's why I made the Patriots come back my
Speaker 1: number three, because I knew it would just set you
Speaker 1: up nicely for that. Thanks, honey. Feel good, Oh, I
Speaker 1: feel so good. I just I love that blocked out
Speaker 1: there for a second describing it play by play well.
Speaker 1: I also, I mean the Colts went on to win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl if they hadn't with that game, still
Speaker 1: feel is good. I don't know. I think it would
Speaker 1: still be a great comeback, but it's like it was
Speaker 1: the biggest hurdle too. Then went what went on to
Speaker 1: be a Super Bowl win. So yeah, it feels it
Speaker 1: feels sweet. Okay, okay, alright. My second pick is one
Speaker 1: that I'm still like diving into a lot. Last week
Speaker 1: I watched when we were Kings and I, you know,
Speaker 1: just also with you know, the current climate, I was like,
Speaker 1: how big of a feat this was? So Ali Foreman
Speaker 1: rumble on the Jungle, because I don't think it like
Speaker 1: our generation realizes how done people thought Muhammad Ali was
Speaker 1: like he was banned and suspended from the from boxing
Speaker 1: and sixty seven didn't return until three years later. At
Speaker 1: that point, I believe is like two and was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get my title back, went to fight Frazier,
Speaker 1: who won lost umanimous decision, and you're like, this guy's
Speaker 1: gotta be done. Like at this point, like to put
Speaker 1: it in more current like analogy, it's like it is
Speaker 1: like Jordan's Wizards or Wizard Jordan's and then just In
Speaker 1: and also just seeing Foreman in this documentary to you're like, whoa,
Speaker 1: this was a different dude, this guy like Foreman was
Speaker 1: a machine beating Frasier. He was just a ston't like
Speaker 1: just stone cold. Ye, he was like a badass and
Speaker 1: now we think of him as like a sweetie pie
Speaker 1: and and rewatching that doc too and just that fight,
Speaker 1: you realize everything in boxing movies is stolen from literally
Speaker 1: everything all he has done. But like there was a
Speaker 1: comeback not only in this like long period of time,
Speaker 1: but also within the fight of like doing the rope
Speaker 1: adope where he's just getting like hit by punch after punch,
Speaker 1: heavy punch and then tired out Foreman and beat him
Speaker 1: and that is just like again something I've never haven't
Speaker 1: seen since um and just I get adds to the
Speaker 1: legend of Muhammad Ali. Yeah, Muhammad Ali is probably like
Speaker 1: the number one person that I've learned about that. I'm
Speaker 1: that I'm very much aware that, whether it was my
Speaker 1: own choosing to not know about him or society as
Speaker 1: a whole being like, oh, that's just not a dude
Speaker 1: that we like fully celebrate. But I'm like, damn, this
Speaker 1: guy was is a legend, Like was it? Was it
Speaker 1: a king of God amongst amongst humans, amongst the normal
Speaker 1: people to to boycott going to war. I mean that
Speaker 1: ship sounds so like he really walked out. So many
Speaker 1: people talk to talk, but he was like, I don't
Speaker 1: give a shit about this medal. I don't care about
Speaker 1: this bill, Like I'm here for my people, and it's
Speaker 1: like whoa, Like also, that's a lot of money, Like
Speaker 1: he was really like he gave up a lot just
Speaker 1: to be like, I'm gonna stick to my principles. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stick to my morals. And then came back and
Speaker 1: whoops and masks like you can't be mad at Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and it's so interesting to this NBA debate
Speaker 1: is happening right now and like that's not something I
Speaker 1: can even have an opinion on. You know, like if
Speaker 1: if Kyrie doesn't want to play, I get it, Lebron
Speaker 1: wants to play, I get it. You know, like everybody
Speaker 1: is right in what they want. But Mohammed Ali, he
Speaker 1: wasn't boycotting. They banished him and they said you cannot play,
Speaker 1: because like that's so he would have taken the platform.
Speaker 1: He would have continued to fight and and use his
Speaker 1: platform and push the issues. But he was silenced and
Speaker 1: unallowed to which is so crazy given what we see
Speaker 1: I mean it would be like Lebron being punished for
Speaker 1: calling Trump a bump, you know, like it we've evolved
Speaker 1: since then, but it's like, wow, he really did so
Speaker 1: much and is so underappreciated, I think, especially in white America. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: also they like there's a different narrative. America is very
Speaker 1: good at like rewriting history. So now they're all like,
Speaker 1: we love Mohammed Ali, we love everything about him, and
Speaker 1: we're like, yeah, I get two years ago you did
Speaker 1: not love him and you were not about him. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great pick. Thanks c J. Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a break and then we'll be back with our
Speaker 1: number one picks. All right, and we're back. Can she
Speaker 1: can't hear how we do this? Since you're our guests,
Speaker 1: you'll be the last of the to choose the number
Speaker 1: one pick. That's sort of our big finale. So, Megan,
Speaker 1: why don't you kick us off? Okay? So my number
Speaker 1: one is a person coming back from an injury again,
Speaker 1: and this one is Monica Sellis coming back from being
Speaker 1: stabbed in the back while playing a tennis match. Um,
Speaker 1: it's so insane. I've been a lifelong tennis fan. This
Speaker 1: happened in ninety three. So I do remember this happening.
Speaker 1: I like, yeah, it's it doesn't matter where the funk
Speaker 1: I was doing. But it's but like it's something that
Speaker 1: I forget about a lot, and then when I re
Speaker 1: remember it, it's so crazy. Um. Monica Sellis at that point,
Speaker 1: was like she was the number one ranked woman in
Speaker 1: the world. She had won eight majors. She was playing
Speaker 1: kind of even like a warm up match in Hamburg, Germany,
Speaker 1: and a Steffi Graff like psycho fan ran onto the
Speaker 1: court and stabbed her in the back. And the guy's
Speaker 1: name was, Um, I know it's Santira. It's so fucking crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that's my response when things are
Speaker 1: so I just laughed. Now I know it's the story
Speaker 1: is going to get even more fucked up. Unfortunately, the
Speaker 1: guy's name is um Gunter Parch and yeah, he was
Speaker 1: obsessed with Steffie Groff and Sellis had recently beat her,
Speaker 1: and Gunter ended up um serving no jail time he
Speaker 1: was given. He was given two years probation and because
Speaker 1: of that, Monica Sellis said and then did not ever
Speaker 1: play in Germany ever. Again. She said she did not
Speaker 1: feel safe playing there, and she felt like they they're
Speaker 1: like justice system had let her down. But she did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she did come back to play. There was even discussion
Speaker 1: about UM holding her number one seat for her because
Speaker 1: her ranking was dropping, not because she like got injured playing.
Speaker 1: She got injured because someone stabbed her, and so they
Speaker 1: ended up voting to not hold her seat for her.
Speaker 1: But she still had her ranking when she came into tournaments,
Speaker 1: and so she came back. It was less than four
Speaker 1: years later and one the Australian Open, which is the
Speaker 1: major that Serena one while she was pregnant, So I
Speaker 1: just you know, it's like so badass for both of them, UM,
Speaker 1: But then that ended up being the last major that
Speaker 1: she one. UM post the stabbing, but she did have
Speaker 1: a career, but it really, I mean, it halted her.
Speaker 1: It took away four years of her tennis prime, which
Speaker 1: tennis is such a short um traditionally, like career length
Speaker 1: you have obviously, like Serena has busted that in Federer,
Speaker 1: but it used to be like, oh, you've got like
Speaker 1: five years you can play tennis, and and four of
Speaker 1: them were taken away from her. But she did come
Speaker 1: back to win a major and then some other like
Speaker 1: tour tournaments after Yeah, so Gunter, you fucking stinker Gunter.
Speaker 1: I mean I was, I'll just reveal my second pick.
Speaker 1: It's you know, the calves coming back from three once
Speaker 1: your first pick, first pick, and then I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: none of them were stabbed in the series. You know.
Speaker 1: It's the thing that makes it extra crazy is that
Speaker 1: it was in a tournament, Like she was playing tennis
Speaker 1: during this and and she has she has contended that
Speaker 1: that tennis has not done enough to protect player like
Speaker 1: that year at Wimbledon. Usually the chairs they have their
Speaker 1: backs to the crowd and they're seated like next to
Speaker 1: the umpires that you're Wimbledon, they turned the chair so
Speaker 1: they were facing the umpires, and Monica Sells was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not really enough to stop someone from running on
Speaker 1: the stabbed somebody like I mean, yeah, I mean maybe
Speaker 1: you should have gone last, because like there's nothing. When
Speaker 1: you were like she got stabbed in the back, I
Speaker 1: was like metaphorically, like I can't what, Like I thought
Speaker 1: they got hit by a bus, uh for real? And
Speaker 1: then I thought they were the metaphorical stabbing. And you
Speaker 1: know what, every time you tell me with th real.
Speaker 1: It's a I'm flabbergasted, but also like how bad does
Speaker 1: Stephie grow feel? It's like, oh my god, Gunter, what
Speaker 1: are you doing. It's like it's that Jodie Foster. It
Speaker 1: didn't one of her fans. He tried to kill. He
Speaker 1: tried to assassinate somebody, and it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: these fai like Gunter, Stephie is not going to be
Speaker 1: like wow, I love you now. Yeah, it doesn't make
Speaker 1: any suits. Well, that's wild. She's married. She's married Andre Agassi.
Speaker 1: She don't care about you Gunter well, and like in
Speaker 1: the articles, they're like an authorities think he maybe had
Speaker 1: mental problems. It's like you think, you think Gunter was
Speaker 1: suffering some from some mental issues to run on a
Speaker 1: tennis court and stab a woman he doesn't know, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's suffering from some mental issues. It's so wild. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to really look into this later because in
Speaker 1: my head it heads up. Happened so fast, but in
Speaker 1: my head it's like slowed down. You see a man
Speaker 1: with the knife. People are running like you know, how
Speaker 1: buck wild and like like insecure things have to be
Speaker 1: for a full grown man with the knife to come
Speaker 1: onto a court and I'm best she was wearing all white.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, wow, she was in her cute little
Speaker 1: tennis outfit. There's actually like a really iconic photo. It's
Speaker 1: it's eerily similar to the Nancy care again on the
Speaker 1: ground owned where Monica's on the ground being tended to.
Speaker 1: It's it's such a wild, insane, terrifying, uh story, I
Speaker 1: will be looking into good good. I'm I'm glad, and
Speaker 1: I also just like I've always loved Monica Sellis. She
Speaker 1: was she was a badass, awesome tennis player and so
Speaker 1: cool and yeah, I feel like he definitely robbed her
Speaker 1: at this, but she's still a badass to come. I
Speaker 1: would never I wouldn't even play ping pong ever again,
Speaker 1: Like it would be a rap for me, a rap
Speaker 1: on my tennis life. But she came back and beat
Speaker 1: some ass too, Okay, c J, all right, give us
Speaker 1: the cast. Well no, so honorable mention. I didn't mentioned
Speaker 1: because it's it felt so new and I just remembered
Speaker 1: it was the Chiefs the game before the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: where they were answered points and then I think maybe
Speaker 1: Damian Williams he returned it like it was like a
Speaker 1: seventy year. I don't even know how long it was,
Speaker 1: but then everyone knew, like oh, like you could feel it.
Speaker 1: And then they rode that all the way into the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and one that was against the was that
Speaker 1: against Texas, and like that was like again a correction.
Speaker 1: We just didn't want to see, like we needed the
Speaker 1: Chiefs to um in our climate. And so the Texans
Speaker 1: coming in there and scoring twenty four un answer, You're like,
Speaker 1: all right, people are we're going we'reering back? Why were
Speaker 1: we mad at the Texas? I just mad at JJ
Speaker 1: wat right right right, right, right, right right, because this
Speaker 1: was pre knowing about the astros um cheating. Because it's like,
Speaker 1: you guys got a World Series that you kind of
Speaker 1: don't deserve. So yeah, you're not going to go to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Yeah, we just gotta That's just what's
Speaker 1: going to happen any Red, White, and Blue team. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, as like I don't know if the
Speaker 1: Chiefs and that weird forgotten can be but totally forgotten
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. It's like the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are technically in the A C C. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean That Like, if we're going for they are
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. We know everybody's got some problematic stuff going on,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go for the Chiefs. The Chiefs have
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have a crazy history. Whoever has the least
Speaker 1: amount of bad things is yeah, yeah, and you want
Speaker 1: Andy Reid, you know it was he Yeah, And I mean,
Speaker 1: what's beautiful. They both have black quarterbacks, Like that was
Speaker 1: a celebration. I forgot my honorable mention obviously. Reggie and
Speaker 1: the eight points and we just talked about it. We
Speaker 1: know it. And same with this one. So three one
Speaker 1: Calves coming back three one, it was it made me cry. Um,
Speaker 1: just everything was so beautiful about it, Like the Warriors
Speaker 1: were the best team in basketball. We kind of got
Speaker 1: the sense of like we don't need to watch this anymore.
Speaker 1: And Lebron doing it for Cleveland, Um, it was just
Speaker 1: a yeah, I said, like that was like one of
Speaker 1: his first words in the post post game, like genuine
Speaker 1: like just tears of joy and relief. I rewatched that
Speaker 1: last five minutes of that fourth quarter of Game seven,
Speaker 1: is just truly magical. Every player has like Lebron had
Speaker 1: the block, Kyrie had the three, and Kevin Love had
Speaker 1: to stop on Steph Curry. It's just in sports. Is
Speaker 1: one of the greatest moments. I think, very much like
Speaker 1: the Cubs win, it's not just a win from three down,
Speaker 1: it's that he was He's from Cleveland, he played in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: They couldn't do it. They go, he goes to Miami,
Speaker 1: they burn his jerseys. He wins that he comes back
Speaker 1: like it was so layered and and everything Cleveland has
Speaker 1: been through with the Calves being bad and the Browns
Speaker 1: being how they are, and and then them also having
Speaker 1: just like financially kind of falling apart as a city.
Speaker 1: Didn't their river catch on fire like crazy ship is
Speaker 1: constantly happening there. They call it the Mistake by the Lake.
Speaker 1: I think it's so rude. I love Cleveland, but it
Speaker 1: really also it did feel like good versus evil. And
Speaker 1: I know that's wrong to say that the Warriors were evil,
Speaker 1: but you just I wanted Lebron to win for his
Speaker 1: whole athlete. Yeah, I wanted him to win for his city.
Speaker 1: And it's like that's where he grew up. It's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, like it really truly is like a great
Speaker 1: American tale, like he was this young black kid doing
Speaker 1: it for his city. He goes all over the country
Speaker 1: and he comes back for like, wasn't that that contract
Speaker 1: was like four He was like, I'm gonna come and
Speaker 1: win a championship for you, and then I'm leaving. Like
Speaker 1: he literally did it all for his city and then
Speaker 1: he was like, ah, this is finished. I feel like
Speaker 1: if Lebron retired after that, he did his work. He
Speaker 1: did the work he wanted to do well. And now
Speaker 1: we know that that win was what made Jordan be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you can make a documentary. He was like, oh, jo, okay,
Speaker 1: he's really coming for like it, and and there will
Speaker 1: be a documentary about on someday and that will obviously
Speaker 1: be so integral and it is like such a magical moment.
Speaker 1: I hope we have to wait two years for it, right, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think we will. I'm sure Lebron's working on
Speaker 1: it already. Um, but yeah, it really damn that was
Speaker 1: It made it made me cry. I think it made
Speaker 1: a lot of grown ups cry. Okay, she and are
Speaker 1: you ready for your number one? I'm ready for my
Speaker 1: number one. My number one is Florida State National Championship
Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen. Okay, we uh, we were really really losing.
Speaker 1: We were down I think we we we scored first,
Speaker 1: we were like three zero, and then Auburn came back
Speaker 1: and they were in the league to three, and it
Speaker 1: looked really, really, really bad. And then we came back.
Speaker 1: We came back and we won fourth quarter, last minute,
Speaker 1: Chamis Winston throws it to Kelvin Benjamin thirteen seconds left
Speaker 1: on the clock, and we came back. We we ended
Speaker 1: the season national champions I fully remember that. It was
Speaker 1: like I must think that one gets overshadowed because of
Speaker 1: j Mess, you know. I also have a story about
Speaker 1: where I was when that happened. So, like I was
Speaker 1: living in Chicago. It was the middle of the polar vortex.
Speaker 1: The day that four Stage won the national championship. I
Speaker 1: was in my studio apartment alone. It was negative fifty
Speaker 1: four degrees outside. I was talking to my aunt, my family.
Speaker 1: We were watching it right My aunt is up Florida
Speaker 1: State alumni to and we're watching it and it's the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, I mean, it's halftime and we're down three,
Speaker 1: and she turns it off. She goes, I can't watch
Speaker 1: us lose this game. And then I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: stuck inside in the middle of an apocalypse. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch this game. So I'm drinking bourbon by myself in
Speaker 1: my studio and we fucking come back and we're national champions.
Speaker 1: And I called my aunt and I go, we won,
Speaker 1: and she goes, what I turned really? Yeah? She didn't.
Speaker 1: She Oh my god. She hadn't even been getting like texts.
Speaker 1: I guess she's an aunt. She was like, I can't
Speaker 1: do it. I'm gonna turn it off. I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear anything because also, like there's some members of
Speaker 1: my family, like my mother is a Gators fan, trash
Speaker 1: she so she was like texting my eye being like
Speaker 1: you're losing, You're losing. So my aunt was like, fuck it,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking any more text call me when the
Speaker 1: game's over. And then I was like, yo, we just
Speaker 1: won undefeated Rose Bowl, Baby, give me my championship. Well,
Speaker 1: and then how do you celebrate something like that because
Speaker 1: the polar votex, because my first instance will be to
Speaker 1: run out on the street and find somewhere to get drunk.
Speaker 1: So how do you then celebrate? I was already pretty
Speaker 1: drunk because we were losing so bad at halftime, but
Speaker 1: it was like one of those things where I like
Speaker 1: my my friends from if we were like texting being like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, like there was no bar to go to,
Speaker 1: Like there was nowhere for me to go to actually
Speaker 1: do with the people and watch that game and it'd
Speaker 1: be safe. So like literally like I was thinking about,
Speaker 1: but like, also, if you're like an Auburn fan, you're
Speaker 1: probably somewhere I don't go in the South. At least
Speaker 1: you got to be warm. When you lost, I freezing
Speaker 1: and I was like, I can't believe my team. First
Speaker 1: of all, I was gonna blown underbeated season while I'm
Speaker 1: trapped in this small apartment freezing my ass off. But
Speaker 1: we came back and it was I mean, I think
Speaker 1: because I'm a Florida State fan, but like it was
Speaker 1: the best thing I've ever seen, because I literally was like,
Speaker 1: are we gonna lose this game? Was that was Cam
Speaker 1: at Auburn? Then? Was it Jamie's versus Cam? Um? No,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I side tracked Chest, but yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's Scott. Now. I'm just thinking about, like not even
Speaker 1: just the culture shock, but like the weather shock of
Speaker 1: moving from Florida to Chicago as a young woman watching
Speaker 1: in Pasadena to Yeah, it was saying no, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about experience. Oh yeah, I didn't say snow till I
Speaker 1: was thirteen. It was it was a big change, but
Speaker 1: I had I had improv dreams, y'all, and that's where
Speaker 1: it had to go. You know. I had was your
Speaker 1: family like, why are you going to Chicago? Well, I
Speaker 1: have one aunt who lived in Beverly, who lived in
Speaker 1: the suburbs. So like my family was like, because I
Speaker 1: went to school in my hometown, so like that was
Speaker 1: the first time I've ever moved away from home. So
Speaker 1: like my family was like, we'll take you going into
Speaker 1: Chicago because we have like a family member rather than
Speaker 1: me going to like New York or l A where
Speaker 1: I didn't know anybody, and I had literally never been before,
Speaker 1: Like I've been to Chicago for Christmas like three times.
Speaker 1: So like it was like they were like, this is fine,
Speaker 1: We've been to this city before, and if all hell
Speaker 1: breaks loose, you can go to the bourbs and figure
Speaker 1: something out. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. Chicago
Speaker 1: has always been a great natural step if you weren't
Speaker 1: like I was always afraid of New York in l A.
Speaker 1: And I was like, Chicago will be a nice, easy
Speaker 1: transition into a major city. And also it was like wait,
Speaker 1: and I had been to New York when I was
Speaker 1: like nineteen, and I didn't know that they threw the
Speaker 1: trash on the sidewalk. So I came from my like
Speaker 1: hoity toity fucking Tallahassee recycled everything neighborhood and I got
Speaker 1: there and I remember walking down the street and some
Speaker 1: man came and just dropped two trash bags on the sidewalk.
Speaker 1: And I looked at this girl and I was like,
Speaker 1: why did he do that? She was like, that's where
Speaker 1: they put the trash, and I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: think I believed here. That's how I felt, too, So funny,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, oh, I mean even iving from Chicago to
Speaker 1: New York as a culture shop because you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: where are the alleys. It's like there's there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things Chicago fux up, but like at least our trashes.
Speaker 1: You know why there's alleys, right, It's because Chicago burned down.
Speaker 1: So Chicago is on a grid sweat day and it's
Speaker 1: built exactly like New York. It was like New York
Speaker 1: the second city. It was literally New York two point oh.
Speaker 1: And then it smelled like garbage because there was nowhere
Speaker 1: to put the trash, which is what they did to
Speaker 1: New York, and then the whole city burned down. And
Speaker 1: then when they rebuilt it, they were like, you know what,
Speaker 1: we should just add one more in between. We need
Speaker 1: to do over, a little do over. You would have to,
Speaker 1: I feel about the whole country of Germany. Yes, they
Speaker 1: got to do over starting like nineteen fifty. And it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they have their trains work better because they stopped being
Speaker 1: a country for a while and now they're yeah, they
Speaker 1: rebuilt the whole thing. And that is why Chicago. They
Speaker 1: that's why Chicago has alleys. Literally, you would have to
Speaker 1: burn New York to the ground for it just to
Speaker 1: get the alleys that it needs. Oh, it doesn't come
Speaker 1: to that, I don't think so. It's I think they've
Speaker 1: accepted the way they are. Yes, they love it. They're like,
Speaker 1: we're killing it. This is a character in a movie.
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna have to cut all of a
Speaker 1: shipping on New York because they're going to be but
Speaker 1: I mean, keep the story about Chicago burning down. That's
Speaker 1: why we have alleys. Literally, that's just a kid. Yes,
Speaker 1: we'll keep that. We'll keep that. Okay, shantire, What can
Speaker 1: we plug for you? You can plug my my Twitter,
Speaker 1: on my Instagram, and then whenever production pops back up,
Speaker 1: we could plug say by the Bell. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we're all gonna be on the lookout first,
Speaker 1: say by the Bell. We're plugging it here. But I
Speaker 1: feel like the people are gonna they're gonna get to
Speaker 1: it on their own. But yeah, your Twitter, you've been
Speaker 1: making me laugh, You've been educating, You're covering a lot
Speaker 1: of bases on your social media right now, I'm trying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got to be fucking exhausted. I hope you are napping.
Speaker 1: I know that you're like you're making a lot of
Speaker 1: delicious um. You're baking, you are pickling, you're making salsas.
Speaker 1: It all looks incredible. I'm trying to like come out
Speaker 1: of this with the notary like a skill set. But
Speaker 1: like if she went down, if you need bread or pickles,
Speaker 1: I got you right. I mean, I appreciate all of
Speaker 1: like the activism work you're doing, and then on Instagram
Speaker 1: visually you're doing a lot of great work too. I
Speaker 1: always remember your your fun suits. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see you in a fun suit in person, in real life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hug you. Yeah, I know. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: see you can find c J at c J Tolodano.
Speaker 1: I am at making gaily please rate reviews. But oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been getting great suggestions. We're gonna do it. We're
Speaker 1: going to do an all Canada episode. Excuse me, yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: I promised a thirteen year old in Canada that we
Speaker 1: would be doing in all Canada episodes, so you're getting it.
Speaker 1: Thirteen year old. I'm not going to say your name
Speaker 1: because you're already talking to year old. On from thirteen
Speaker 1: year old reached out to me, okay, can't here. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. We missed you. You're yeah, you're killing it.
Speaker 1: You'r we love you and you are inspiring us to
Speaker 1: love you. Guys, thanks for having me. Bye bye. Shore
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