1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Unreal is back with their limited edition Vikings drop, so 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: head over to Narl dot com for more details. Hey guys, 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: welcome back. Thank you for joining us again on another 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: episode of The Tailgate. I really appreciate you guys. This 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: is a fun episode. I know I say that every week. 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: But Joe Mandy is here. He's originally from Minnesota. I 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: know we normally do comedians and entertainers and actors from 8 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: other teams, but I couldn't pass up an opportunity to 9 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: have Joe on the show. Not only is he a 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: fantastic comic who filmed his special here in Minnesota at 11 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: the Parkway Theater, He's one of the best writers in Hollywood. 12 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 1: He wrote on Parks and rec The Good Place, a 13 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: ton of your favorite shows. It's really fun to have 14 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: him on this episode because we're playing the Jags, and 15 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: if you watched The Good Place, you know what. He's 16 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: responsible from a Jaguars standpoint. We're gonna get into all 17 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: that on the show. Because he and I talked more 18 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: Minnesota culture. We talked a lot of Timberwolves, you know, 19 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: we just talked a lot of general life in sports. 20 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: I threw a big chunk about the team and how 21 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: we're doing on the front with myself and my producer Jay. 22 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: So you're gonna hear about twelve minutes of football breakdown 23 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: and talk, and then we're gonna hop into our conversation 24 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: with Joe Mandy. So you guys are getting a little 25 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: bit of both a little bit of football and a 26 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: little bit of fun. Thank you guys for listening. We'll 27 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: see you next week. 28 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 2: The Recket Recket I here. 29 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of The Vikings Tailgate, 30 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,559 Speaker 1: brought to you by ticket Master, the official ticket marketplace 31 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: of the Minnesota Vikings. I'm your host, Si Aminson, and 32 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: it is Jaguars Week. You're six and two. Minnesota Vikings, 33 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: fresh off a win against the Indianapolis Colts, head to 34 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:09,519 Speaker 1: their last place in the division Division mate Jacksonville Jaguars 35 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: to try to start stacking some wins in the first 36 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: of what will be a three game road stretch. Now, 37 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: normally on this show, we talk to comedians and actors 38 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: who are fans of the opposing team. We go back 39 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,239 Speaker 1: and forth. It's a lot of fun. This week we 40 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: have something kind of fun and special. He's one of 41 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: the best comedy writers in Hollywood. And he's just a 42 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: huge Minnesota sports fan, but he has a unique connection 43 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: to the Jacksonville Jaguars through his writing. If you're a 44 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: fan of the Good Place, you know what I'm talking about. 45 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: If not, stick around, Joe's going to be joining us 46 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: in the second half of the show. But first, before 47 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: we get to all of that fun, let's talk about 48 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: I'm here with my producer, Jay Nelson. Let's talk a 49 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: little bit Jay about where the Vikings are at, where 50 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: they are existing in this current moment. Because I am 51 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: we talk about this every week on the show. I'm 52 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:10,119 Speaker 1: a psychopath. I get way too dramatic. When we will 53 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: win two in a row and I believe we're going 54 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: on a twelve game streak, we lose one and the 55 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: season's over, I don't I'm not able to I would 56 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: be a horrible quarterback. I am not able to even 57 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: things out emotionally. But I think these next two games 58 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: are perhaps the crucial stretch of the season. I know 59 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: that might seem crazy to say, because we've got this 60 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: heavy sided division finish, We've got Kirk and the Falcons. 61 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: You know, We've got some really tough games coming down 62 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: the stretch, and I think a lot of people look 63 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: at these next two weeks as a little bit easier 64 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: of matchup. Sure, I also understand that two weeks ago 65 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: I was telling everybody that the Rams game was the 66 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: most crucial game of the year. I think now, looking 67 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: back on that, understand that teams our friend Zach Martinez, right, 68 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: teams that play the Lions usually really struggle physically. The 69 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: next week, it was a short week, Pooka and Cooper 70 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: were back. That team looks like it's turning into who 71 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: they're supposed to be. I don't know that that was 72 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: quite the canary and the coal mine that I was 73 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: worried it might be. So let me pitch you this. 74 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 1: We are at this point where six and two. These 75 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: are two I think they're gonna be tough but winnable games. 76 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: They're both on the road, they're both outdoors. If you 77 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 1: go get these two and you bounce to eight and 78 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: two and you build on what you did against Indianapolis, 79 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: and that's the key here. That's why I believe it's 80 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: crucial because what was important to me about that Colts 81 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: game was it felt like maybe the start of this 82 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: team building into an identity that you can truly rely on. Sure, 83 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 1: I don't want to take anything away from what we 84 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 1: did in the first part of the season. That was 85 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: as fun of a stretch of football to thump the Niners, 86 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: the Texans, and the Packers through the first half. Just 87 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: like that. It felt like when AP when they were 88 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: loading ten people in the box during AP's MVP season, 89 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: He's like, what if I carried you guys all to 90 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 1: the end zone like the movie Little Giants. 91 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know. The thing about it, too, is the 92 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 3: beginning of the season was when the pundits and everybody 93 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 3: were looking at it saying, this is going to be 94 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 3: the hardest stretch of the season. Are they going to 95 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 3: be able to survive this? And you aced the course, 96 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,359 Speaker 3: you went five to zero through that stretch. Everything felt great. 97 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 3: We were talking about you know, power rankings and all 98 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 3: that kind of stuff, and then we had the hiccup 99 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 3: and now you're hoping that you're getting back on track 100 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 3: at this point. 101 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a lot. The beginning of the season 102 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,239 Speaker 1: was kind of like when Tiger Woods won that Masters 103 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: where everybody's like, what did he shoot? Yeah, when he 104 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 1: was young? Just an outrageous course record that it's just 105 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: not sustainable. Turnovers and sacks and defensive performances at that level, 106 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: offensive execution at that level. They were games that were 107 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:08,039 Speaker 1: just completely tilted towards the Viking side. And in the NFL, 108 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: it is a lot easier to execute what you want 109 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: to do when the game is tilted your direction. I 110 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: think what we saw against the Lions and what we 111 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: saw against the Rams were pressurized moments where the game 112 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: wasn't tilted your direction. And so to have the Vikings 113 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: come out in that first half against the Colts and 114 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: play I think you know, most people in that locker 115 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: room would say about as bad offensively as they're capable 116 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: of playing multiple turnovers, they just can't sustain anything, can't 117 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: get anything going. They put zero points on the board, 118 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 1: a turnover that leads to points the other direction. To 119 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: have that happen and then come out in the second 120 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: half and score three times and most importantly score a 121 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: dagger touchdown. Like we all know, koc is a fantastic 122 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: foot ball coach, But I think the thing that a 123 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: lot of us have been waiting to see are these 124 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: opportunities for him to define himself in the middle and 125 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: later stages of a game and put together exactly what 126 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: we saw against the Colts the game was tilted the 127 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: other direction, and he and Sam Darnold and the offense 128 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: came out and went touchdown, touchdown, crucial game on the line. Touchdown. Now, 129 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: the defense helped him out, But that is the universe 130 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: in which this team wins really big long term throughout 131 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: this season. Is that ability right there, And no matter 132 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,239 Speaker 1: who you think the Colts were or how Joe Flacco 133 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: looked on Sunday, Jonathan Taylor was back to Forest Buckner 134 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: is one of the best players in league. That was 135 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: no slouch. That was no slouch accomplishment in the second half. 136 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: So that to me, what I'm like, really long windedly 137 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: getting up in my colin Cowherd Am radio one man 138 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: to a microphone Ted talk, is I view these next 139 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: two games Jay as a monster stretch for us because 140 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: that vibe, that energy, the thing that KAOC talked about, 141 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: like we need to be able to exist during these 142 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: struggles and also recognize room for improvement, like that vibe. 143 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: Carrying that forward and pairing it with the fact that 144 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: we do have the ability to at times do what 145 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: we did earlier in the season, that is what makes 146 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: a more cohesively consistently built contender. So that that's why 147 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: I'm just really aggressively honed in on this week against 148 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: the Jags and next week against the Titans. 149 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the idea of you know, building on momentum 150 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 3: and getting back into your mojo, getting back on that 151 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 3: railroad track. And I guess you know, part of it 152 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 3: for me too is I was looking through a couple 153 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 3: of stats and the idea right now that defensively against 154 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 3: the rush you talked about Jonathan Taylor, we are second 155 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 3: in the league giving up eighty one point nine yards 156 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 3: per game like that is something that if you can 157 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 3: make a team one dimensional and force them to be 158 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 3: throwing through the air that kind of stuff against teams 159 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 3: that are, you know, trying to be able to control 160 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 3: the clock, which we did last game. If you are 161 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 3: able to go through with some of these teams and 162 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 3: be able to stifle them in one direction, that is 163 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 3: something that we have shown that we can then let 164 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 3: Flores just really confuse quarterbacks that are forced to throw 165 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 3: and keep up with our offense. 166 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you look at these next two matchups, 167 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: you know that you should be favored, that you should 168 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: have a chance to their opportunities to come out and 169 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:41,319 Speaker 1: do what's expected of you, and if you do that 170 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: to me, it just provides this really cool opportunity. I've 171 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: said all season long that this transition away from Kirk 172 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: Cousins into the new version of the Minnesota Vikings, it 173 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: is not a this year thing, it is a multi 174 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:58,839 Speaker 1: year thing. Obviously, I would like to win as many 175 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: football games as possible, so I would love to see 176 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: this team playing in the super Bowl. But I think 177 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: knowing the cap space that's available in the off season 178 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: and knowing what the future holds, if some of these 179 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: building like all of a sudden, here comes Dallas Turners 180 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: starting to flash a little bit, Jordan Addison starting to 181 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: flash a little bit in the offense now that Hockinson's back, 182 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: I think, if you can go out and take care 183 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: of these next two games, you put yourself at eight 184 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: and two, yep, and you have a legitimate, big time 185 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: stretch of big boy football to test yourself. And I 186 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: don't just mean for right now, the experience that you 187 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 1: can garner by having the Bears are not the old Bears. 188 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: They're not They're fourth in our division, but they can 189 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 1: bite you. So you come out and you got to 190 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: go two Bears games. You gotta get the Packers again. 191 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: You've got to get the Lions again. You got the 192 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: Kirk coming for revenge game. The Cardinals are starting to 193 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: play really good football. You have six minimum, really difficult 194 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: game that you're set up to deal with. Here. I 195 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,839 Speaker 1: think it's an opportunity to see where you stand right now, 196 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 1: battle test this new identity that you're building, hopefully that 197 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: springboards you into a playoff run. But more importantly, on 198 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: top of that, whatever you're doing now and building because 199 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 1: of how young the core pieces are that are locked 200 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: into this organization and how much cap space there is, 201 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: you just take that and you stack a ton of 202 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: more goodness. How's that for a proper an educated phrase. 203 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 4: You're just gonna stack some goodness on top of it, Jay, 204 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 4: But you just you have the opportunity to pile experience 205 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 4: and you know, just and be a battle test a 206 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 4: team that can build into a very legitimate window in 207 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 4: the next few years. 208 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: So I'm really psyched for this Jaguars game, and I'm 209 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: really really psyched for the Titans game after it. 210 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think the thing about it too is 211 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 3: you have this three game stretch on the road, then 212 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 3: you come back home for three games, and then you 213 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 3: kind of go every other at the back end. But 214 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 3: basically you've gone through now your tough stretch at the beginning, 215 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 3: your road stretch is coming up here, and then you 216 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 3: have your home stretch at the back end too. So 217 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 3: like being able, like you said, to stack those wins, 218 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,119 Speaker 3: be able to get some of the younger people more experienced. 219 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 3: It's like you're clicking on all cylinders going into that 220 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 3: final week against Detroit in week eighteen, and then who 221 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 3: knows what happens after that. Like I think the team 222 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,439 Speaker 3: right now feels like they're starting to get some different 223 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 3: people back. Hopefully cash Men's back here this week, and 224 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 3: I think the Jaguars and the Titans the next couple 225 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 3: weeks are the right type of opponent springboarding you into 226 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 3: the back half of the season. 227 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: What a fun way this season could end if you 228 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: are competitive for a playoff spot and you are running 229 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: into the Green Bay Packers at home. They're competitive potentially 230 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: for a playoff spot, and the Lions look like the 231 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 1: class of the NFC. But let's see how this thing 232 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 1: plays out. Maybe there's a universe where that game really, really, 233 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: really matters, and I don't think you can ask much 234 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 1: more as a fan than that opportunity, because that that 235 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: is what you want. You want to be the team 236 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: that is playing these really that nobody expected to be here. 237 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: Everybody thought you were a couple of years away. You 238 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: arrived ahead of schedule, and now you're getting these opportunity 239 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: to play these crucial games down the stretch. Now this week, 240 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,439 Speaker 1: you got to take care of that first, and then 241 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: one week at a time. But it's a really cool opportunity. Guys, 242 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: that's enough of the football, like peer football, me being 243 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,959 Speaker 1: a lunatic about what I think could happen and how 244 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: great I think this team could be. Let's get the 245 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 1: guests in here. He's so funny, so talented. It is 246 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 1: really a treat for me. Like I said, it's normally 247 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: fans of other teams, so it's fun to have him 248 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: on here. Let's jump into our conversation with Joe Mandy. 249 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: We are joined by the great Joe Mandy. Joe, first 250 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: of all, thank you for being on the show. Second 251 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: of all, this is fun for me because I love medians, 252 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: but I also love comedians who've been able to find 253 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: like long term work as writers. I'm just gonna this 254 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: is gonna be like me stacking layers on top of 255 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: a contract. But the next layer to that is when 256 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 1: you when you get out to LA, you realize how 257 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: difficult it is to get staffed on the worst show 258 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: you've ever heard of in your life. That is a 259 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: hard thing to do, let alone someone like you who 260 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: has written on Parks and rec Good Place, all of 261 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: these absolutely fantastic creative shows. So it's really fun to 262 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: have you here. And that being said, let's talk about 263 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: the Bortles man. Let's talk about the bortles thing. This 264 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: is JAG's week, is there. You are the guy who 265 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: came up with the bortles idea. You got to tell 266 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: the story of coming up with that in the room. 267 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: But I also want to know have you done anything 268 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: comedically in your career that has hit harder? I mean 269 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: that's the sort of like gets shouted on this street sort. 270 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 2: Of yeah yeah, I mean okay, yeah. So I wrote 271 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 2: for The Good Place and was there for its entire run, 272 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 2: which was very special. But we knew very early on 273 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 2: that we wanted the Jason Mendoza character to be from well, 274 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 2: originally it was Orlando, but I had just done a 275 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 2: show with John Mulaney in Jacksonville, and he and I 276 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 2: were just making fun of Jacksonville the entire trip, and 277 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 2: I it was just fresh on my mind, and I 278 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 2: was like, no, this guy has to be from Jacksonville. 279 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 2: It's so much funnier than Orlando. And then you know, 280 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 2: Mike Sure is a huge sports nut, and then you 281 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 2: know it then became like, oh, he's a diehard Jaguars fan. 282 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 2: And as the as the season progressed, there's a part 283 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 2: in one episode where that character throws a a Molotov 284 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 2: cocktail at a speedboat, and on set I pitched that 285 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 2: he should yell the word Bortles, you know, because at 286 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 2: the time, Blake Bortles was the quote unquote star quarterback 287 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 2: of the Jacksonville Jaguars. And Mike loved it and thought 288 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 2: it was so funny. But then when I watched the 289 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 2: first edit they he took it. He took it out, 290 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 2: and I lost my mind because I was like, no, 291 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 2: you gotta put Bortles in there, like he's chucking a 292 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 2: Molotov cocktail, like obviously he would yell Bortles. And there's 293 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 2: a long back and forth, and Mike finally uh, we 294 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 2: reached a compromise and he put it in and then uh, yeah, 295 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 2: it just like the people in Jacksonville loved it, and 296 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 2: the people who worked for the Jaguars loved it because 297 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 2: I think it was the first time anyone. 298 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: Satirized the Jags. 299 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly, and yeah, and then we worked it 300 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 2: back in multiple times throughout the length of the show, 301 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 2: and they actually sent me and Manny Acinta, who played Jason, 302 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:16,479 Speaker 2: to a Jaguars playoff game, and Manny's Canadian and not 303 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 2: a big sports head, and it was literally, quite literally 304 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:24,439 Speaker 2: the worst game of football maybe ever played. It was 305 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 2: like two field goals, and like I was kind of 306 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 2: apologizing on behalf of like American sports to him, try 307 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 2: to be like, it is usually better than this. Yeah, 308 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 2: but and yeah, that was right before they replaced him 309 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,879 Speaker 2: with Nick Foles, and then they were trying to get 310 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 2: us to make Nick Foles references. But at that point 311 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:51,919 Speaker 2: it was I think we ran our course. But I 312 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 2: definitely remember walking outside of a sports bar in LA 313 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 2: during that playoff run where they made the conference finals 314 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,919 Speaker 2: and there were just a group of dudes screaming Bortals 315 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,439 Speaker 2: that I was like, I really did something here. This 316 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 2: is really special. Yeah. 317 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: Well, you know when you have satirized a community and 318 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: a team and an area and they're like, yeah, that's 319 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: you know, that's like perfect, Like you got away with it, right. 320 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean the only thing I could compare it 321 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,719 Speaker 2: to is I don't know if you've seen the second 322 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 2: to last Kat Williams special. I'm obsessed with it. He 323 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 2: is performing on a stage that is dressed to look 324 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 2: like the Oval Office for no particular reason. But he 325 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 2: shot it in Jacksonville, and the first twelve minutes of 326 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 2: his special are local references to Jacksonville, and so if 327 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 2: you're not from Jacksonville, you have no idea what he's 328 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:55,159 Speaker 2: making fun of, what he's referring to. But people in 329 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 2: the crowd are absolutely losing it. He's like, y'all have 330 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 2: too many bridges, and everyone's like, yeah, we do, we 331 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 2: have too many bridges. Uh yeah, So they have a 332 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 2: great sense of humor down there. It goes. 333 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with Cat Williams. I think he is. He 334 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,399 Speaker 1: is easily one of the greats. But when I saw that, 335 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: it's it's like when you go when you're doing clubs 336 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: and you always have like here's the six minutes on 337 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 1: you you see it, right, let me just say stuff 338 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 1: that's never gonna work anywhere else. And he was like, 339 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: what if that was the like an amount of my 340 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: special that you really have to be committed to Kat 341 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: Williams to get to the regular catwa it goes on 342 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: for so long. 343 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 2: It's sort of obligatory as a comic you do some 344 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 2: local references. And obviously he knows that, but he was 345 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 2: so sure that these were gonna work no matter what, 346 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 2: no matter where you were from, and they you know, 347 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 2: they don't. But then there is something funny just by 348 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 2: like how long he commits to the local references that 349 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,199 Speaker 2: I think that in itself is a joke. I mean, 350 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,400 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna question the brilliance of Kat Williams. He's 351 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 2: he's on my He's on my Mount Rushmore for sure. 352 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,640 Speaker 1: So yeah, there's no pushing back on Kat, that's for sure. 353 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 1: That year that you were talking about where they you know, 354 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: people are yelling Bortos they go to the championship, So 355 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 1: that is that is the year that the Vikings also 356 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: went to the NFC Championship, almost got to the super 357 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: We were talking about this before the show as a 358 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 1: lifelong sports maniac. I identified with what you told me. 359 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: But that is the year that essentially broke you, after 360 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: a after a life of Vikings fanhood, that it pushed 361 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:30,880 Speaker 1: you over the edge. 362 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 2: Yes, okay, So here's the thing is. I was born 363 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 2: in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and spent the first eleven years 364 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 2: of my life being a sports fan, but in a 365 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 2: region with no professional sports, so all I had was 366 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 2: like the University of New Mexico and a minor league 367 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 2: baseball team. But then my family moved to Minnesota, and 368 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:58,479 Speaker 2: I like embraced Minnesota sports, like in kind of a 369 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 2: sad way. Like I've actually seen photos of myself, like 370 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 2: in sixth grade going to the first day of school 371 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 2: wearing like so much Vikings and Twins. 372 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: Rin way too hard. 373 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, way too hard. But like was so happy to 374 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 2: live in a city with with with sports teams, and 375 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 2: and soon after that, you know, maybe the coolest era 376 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,439 Speaker 2: of Minnesota sports. I mean, I can't say, maybe the 377 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 2: seventies were pretty cool or whatever, but like. 378 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: Back when you could hardly find what was happening on 379 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: TV or the radio in theory maybe. 380 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 2: In theory, yeah, Killa Brew and Tarkington might have been cool, 381 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 2: but whatever, like like Garnet and Randy Moss that was 382 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 2: the era. Man, that was Like I was so happy. 383 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 2: I went to a bunch of Vikings and Wolves games 384 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 2: and you know there was that like Culpepper, Randy Moss, 385 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 2: Chris Carter era. I remember, yeah, yeah that I mean no, 386 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,439 Speaker 2: it was Randall Cunningham. That was the team that. 387 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: That's the team ninety eight. 388 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 2: Gary Anderson missed the field goal. I was at a 389 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,160 Speaker 2: friend sleepover and fully like started crying like I took 390 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 2: it like way too seriously. And then uh, you know, 391 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,439 Speaker 2: and then they are kind of bad for a while, 392 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 2: and then yeah, that Minnesota miracle game, it just seems 393 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 2: so storybook. I was like, they're gonna do it, like yeah, 394 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 2: they're they're the super Bowls in Minnesota, like like it's 395 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 2: all it's all happening. And then yeah, when it didn't happen, 396 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 2: I was sort of like I can't take this anymore, 397 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 2: Like like I like emotionally can't handle because like like 398 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 2: as a bat, I mean, basketball is my number one 399 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 2: I'm I have to say, but like there are things 400 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 2: in the NBA season called scheduled losses, right where if 401 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 2: you're playing two nights in a row and you're traveling 402 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 2: like you're not expected to win. The team doesn't expect 403 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,199 Speaker 2: to win. You like, like you know, you mark that 404 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 2: as a loss going into it, and there's just no 405 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 2: such thing. In football. There's sixteen games. Every game matters, 406 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 2: and it like takes an emotional toll on you, especially 407 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 2: for a team like the Vikings that are so like snake. 408 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 1: Bit it makes every new moment that much worse, you know, 409 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: because of you're carrying the weight of every other moment. 410 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: It's funny, like I was even worse in that Minnesota 411 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: miracle year because if I don't know if you remember this, 412 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 1: but so we're playing the Saints in the game before 413 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: the championship. But on the other side it was the 414 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: Falcons and the Eagles, right, and nobody everybody kind of 415 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: now looks back like they were this force and we 416 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:37,679 Speaker 1: should have known and Foles and this, and but I 417 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 1: think a lot of people win that game, like, of 418 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,199 Speaker 1: course the Eagles and Nick Foles are going to lose 419 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,679 Speaker 1: to Matt Ryan. Yeah, and the Falcons. And I remember 420 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: saying to my The two things that stick out to 421 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: me is I remember saying to my nephew that I'm 422 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: not sure that I I think I would rather go 423 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: to Atlanta and play them and and my nephew just 424 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: like win on a irade about how bad Nick Foles 425 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: is that I want to get engraved and hung in 426 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: his house for the rest he just he deserves. 427 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 2: It's his fault. 428 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: It's his fault. Yeah, But I had I had convinced myself, 429 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: and my breaking point was the far thing when he 430 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: in nine, when he threw it to Sydney Rice and 431 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: he got up across the fifty into field goal range 432 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: and we had Ryan Longwell, I actually, in my brain, 433 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: I don't think I even thought it. I think a 434 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:28,640 Speaker 1: voice somewhere went. 435 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 2: We're going to the super Bowl. 436 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: That happened. So I had kind of like had that 437 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 1: breaking moment and slowly built back to this, and then 438 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,719 Speaker 1: I convinced myself. I was like, oh my god, not 439 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: only is it story like, we're gonna we're gonna beat 440 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: New Orleans who beat us in No. 441 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 2: Nine. 442 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 1: Then we're gonna beat the Falcons who beat us in 443 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 1: the Gary Anderson year, and then we're gonna win a 444 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 1: super Bowl. And our build like I bought in so 445 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: heavily too. 446 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 2: I was I was sort of protecting my mental health 447 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 2: watching games, he checking scores, and then once it got 448 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 2: to the playoffs, I was like, I'm back, here we 449 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 2: go and then it yeah, then it just it it 450 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 2: was just too much for me. And but but what's 451 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 2: great is my best friend from high school is still 452 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 2: a Vikings super fan, but just as pessimistic and unhealthy 453 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 2: as I am. So he'll he'll kind of give me 454 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,719 Speaker 2: recaps of every game, which I find very helpful. So, like, 455 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 2: you know, and I don't really have much context. I 456 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 2: don't know who a lot like, he was so sad 457 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:37,439 Speaker 2: when JJ quarterback, oh JJ McCarthy he got hurt, and 458 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 2: then he was really happy for a while. And then 459 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 2: now I know, an offensive lineman went down, and now 460 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 2: he's like, we're that ruined this season for him, he 461 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 2: knows we're never gonna overcome. 462 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,959 Speaker 1: He's just one of those guys who like hanging on 463 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: every single Yeah. 464 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a I mean, yeah, he's a lunatic. 465 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: My best friend, uh, one of my best friends, Chad, 466 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: do you know Chad Daniels. He uh, he were like 467 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: we have agreed to like we've really had to peel 468 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: back our messaging on game day because it's just one 469 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: of us being such a about something and then the 470 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: other one almost trying to undermine that person as though 471 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: they're not, Like you're being ridiculous, You're a child, right, 472 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 1: And so it's just it's just developed into this really 473 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 1: unhealthy dynamic. And uh yeah, when a season goes like 474 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: this where it's like you come out of the gate 475 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,119 Speaker 1: and you go, oh my gosh, who knew Sam Darnold? 476 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: Who is the new MVP? And then you lose a 477 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,719 Speaker 1: couple like it's just been nothing in my phone is 478 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: good for me. 479 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 2: I understand that completely. Yeah, And the only other context 480 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 2: I have is Nick Swardson's Instagram stories, which are just 481 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 2: vile at best, just so unhinged that I can't I 482 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 2: can't ever often it's like I can't tell if he's 483 00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 2: happy or upset, Like there's so the son used. 484 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: When you develop a healthy relationship with your favorite sports team. 485 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: Seeing Nick Swartzon's post is a lot like when you 486 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 1: quit drinking and you go to a bar and you 487 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: see somebody asleep on a stool. You like, got it, Yeah, 488 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 1: I got it. That's why I made this choice. 489 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 2: It's like the ghost of Vikings fandom future. Yeah, he is. 490 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: He Nick is this sort of person who he's so 491 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 1: immersed in Minneapolis, like in the normalacy that he wants 492 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,400 Speaker 1: when he's there, Like he's got a bar, he likes, 493 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: he's got all the places, because he would show up 494 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: to like open mic on Mondays back in the day, 495 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: like in the in the early two thousands. 496 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:41,919 Speaker 2: I was there. I remember, Yeah, I mean. 497 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,959 Speaker 1: And that that was that was wild because you're at 498 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: the height of the the Sandler fame and all that stuff. 499 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: But he's just turned himself into such a human in 500 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,879 Speaker 1: town that he can just like I'll be out of 501 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 1: place and all of a sudden, I'll just hear like 502 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: swore and I'll be outside and all of a sudden 503 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: somebody will walk by and you go like yeah, ye 504 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 1: scream obscenities and you turn your like, oh, there's Nick. 505 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: I wonder what the school. I wonder if the did 506 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: the wild just give up a goal. 507 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 2: I don't know how he has the bandwidth. 508 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: So you lived in Minnesota from the time you were 509 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: like eleven, all the way through graduation and then out 510 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: to school and then to La when you back at 511 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:23,880 Speaker 1: all in between that. 512 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 2: Never moved back at all, But I you know, would 513 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 2: come back for holidays and stuff. And I always try 514 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,719 Speaker 2: to go once or twice a year for shows. So 515 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 2: and you know, I just take my last special in Minneapolis, 516 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 2: So I go back as much as I can and 517 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 2: try to catch at least a Timberwolves game. 518 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, or how are you? I know this is a 519 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: Vikings podcast, But do you buy into Do you buy 520 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: into this? Because it's it's not just the Vikings, it 521 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: is the timber You want to talk about snake bit 522 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: and like we Timberwolves fans own, we have a trademark 523 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 1: on the term snake. 524 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 2: Oh for sure. Yeah. 525 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: Do you buy into this? This thing that has developed 526 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety one? The curse, it's never gonna happen. 527 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: It's always gonna get pulled out from under us. Do 528 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: you where where are you at now? As a grown, 529 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: older adult man in the Is it possible that we 530 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 1: will get happiness from a title? 531 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 2: I think so? I think. I don't think it's I 532 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 2: don't think it's impossible, but I do I do believe 533 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 2: in like removing the negative energy at Sage the inside 534 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 2: of the target center, you know, and there's probably. 535 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: Something to send some lady from a Dina in there 536 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: with a burning like branch to try. 537 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 2: To fix everything up. That's what we need. That's what 538 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 2: we need. We might need a few few ladies, but yeah, I. 539 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: Just I think sports has come down to your owners. 540 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: And I you know, I get people who yell at 541 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,719 Speaker 1: me for sucking up to the Vikings owners, but I 542 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: truly think that, like I truly think they're trying to win. 543 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 1: I think they put winning a title next to business operations. 544 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: And I think, you know, to your point with the Wolves, 545 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: there were so many people who were anti a rod 546 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here in my brain going the rich 547 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: guy who's very famous, who's a public facing figure, who 548 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: will take all the heat if we're bad, and who's 549 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 1: a competitor. Like to me, it seems like such a 550 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: great opportunity, and now the twins are for sale. Like 551 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: wherever you go in sports, if the owner actually cares 552 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 1: about winning, it's not a guarantee that you're gonna but 553 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: it does. I do think it usually translates to a 554 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: better chance than not. 555 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 2: For sure, Oh for sure. I mean that is. Yeah, 556 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 2: as I've gotten older and realized the like business side 557 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 2: of this stuff, that's that's the most important thing is 558 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 2: who the owner, like it's almost never does a cheapskate 559 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 2: owner win a title, and when they do, it's not 560 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 2: it's not like a dynasty. It's a it's a blip, 561 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 2: you know. 562 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, it happens once in baseball, every once in a while, 563 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: and then four years later they've sold every player they had, 564 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: Like it feels like it feels like the beginning of 565 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: a major league when they got Pedro Serrano and everybody's 566 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 1: showing up on a motorcycle and stuff like, this was 567 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: your plan, yeap for this season. 568 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 2: I yes, Great Reference is one of the one of 569 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 2: the ten VHS movies I owned as a kid, so 570 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 2: I know every single frame of that movie. 571 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: I would argue, I was having this conversation with somebody 572 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: the other day, I think Major League is not just 573 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: in the conversation for best sports movie of all time. 574 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: I think it is. And this you can get very 575 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: you can push back very hard on this. I think 576 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 1: it's in the best if we're talking fifteen to twenty. 577 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 1: I don't know how big the number has to be, 578 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: but it's in the best comedy conversation That one in 579 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 1: Kingpin I think kind of transcend their genre into I 580 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 1: just love them as movies. 581 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 2: Yeah that's fair. I mean I don't I don't think 582 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 2: of either of those movies as just like a sports movie, 583 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 2: which is saying a lot, you know. So uh yeah, 584 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 2: it's up there, probably with Happy Gilmour in that world too. 585 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 1: Are you a Sandler fan? 586 00:31:55,720 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 2: I love Sandler. In fact, I've never like yelled at 587 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 2: an agent my agent before. But I was so mad 588 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 2: to find out that the movie Uncut Gems is like 589 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,479 Speaker 2: a fever dream. I would have a movie. 590 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, that's what this is where I was 591 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: going with this go. 592 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 2: Ahead a movie starring Adam Sandler and Kevin Garnett. Like 593 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 2: how did I not know this movie was getting made 594 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 2: into It was in the can Like I was like, 595 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,479 Speaker 2: I'll I don't even have to be on camera. 596 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 1: Could do punch up for free, just go stand by us. 597 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 2: A punch up. I would do craft services. I'd make 598 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 2: sandwiches for people just to be there. 599 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: You know. 600 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 2: I was so mad, Oh my god, yeah I I. 601 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: And then you throw ants on the film. I mean 602 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: that is uh, that's about as good as I know. 603 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, So I do love Adam Sandler. And if they 604 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 2: make a sequel to What a Hustle Uh, that was 605 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 2: the name of it, The the Anthony Edwards One. I am, 606 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 2: I am there, I will I'll do anything. 607 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: Or more uncut gems. 608 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like uncut uncut, uttered. 609 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:05,719 Speaker 1: Gens, uncut gems to uncutter. Yeah, he is. You know, 610 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 1: he's such a huge basketball fan. I just it's funny 611 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 1: how and I think that's gonna happen with everything you 612 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 1: see it happening with the Office. I'm starting to see 613 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 1: it with It's just really hard to remember what influence 614 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: feels like. And it's really fun to see Sandler have 615 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: who is not to be corny, but he's in that 616 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 1: category of reason I wanted to do it. You know, 617 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: you're we're of the age where Happy Gilmore and Billy 618 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 1: Madison and the wedding singer. You just it's just the silliest, 619 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 1: most fun thing. And I think you forget what, like 620 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 1: how silly it is, like with how movies are made now, 621 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: you're like, oh, he just had a culture club dance 622 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 1: scene in the middle and a musical number out of 623 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: nowhere with a clown that dies and a penguin. 624 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,680 Speaker 2: Well, it's just like they don't make comedies anymore. That's 625 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 2: the that's the bummer is like, you know, especially like 626 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 2: where I'm at in my career, it's just like, yeah, 627 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 2: they it's everything's a comic book movie basically, So like 628 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 2: to get a get a silly comedy made is like 629 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 2: is such a huge win. It's such a triumph. So yeah, 630 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,279 Speaker 2: just being able, like he's been able to do that 631 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,359 Speaker 2: for what like thirty years now you got to give 632 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,719 Speaker 2: it up. And then on top of that, not just 633 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 2: like you know, the movies are very obviously like a 634 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,440 Speaker 2: way for he's he's figured out a way to like 635 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,760 Speaker 2: get paid to have fun with his friends and exotic locales. 636 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,840 Speaker 2: It's crazy. But then you know, his last couple of 637 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,479 Speaker 2: specials have been like you're like, oh, this dude's still 638 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,280 Speaker 2: like so brilliant at stand up, so good. 639 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, I love watching And we're way 640 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 1: off the topic of vikings, but let's we'll I'll wind 641 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 1: it back. 642 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,320 Speaker 2: It's all the weed. It's someone, yeah. 643 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: Someone cares about that's right. The Twain Award, Like whenever 644 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,799 Speaker 1: somebody gets the Mark Twain. If you ever want to 645 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:59,359 Speaker 1: like remember why and how much you love someone, watch 646 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: them receive that prize. It's the greatest the saying the 647 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,080 Speaker 1: one was the best I've ever seen. It was so good. 648 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 2: That's cool. 649 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 1: Have you ever wanted to because you know Sure is 650 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,880 Speaker 1: involved with LeBatard and all those guys and that cool universe. 651 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: Do you keep your love of sports? I know you 652 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,399 Speaker 1: were just talking about desperately wanting to be on uncut Jet, 653 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 1: But do you keep your love of sports over here? 654 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,880 Speaker 1: Or does any have you? Do you always find yourself 655 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: kind of trying to write something that lands in the vein? 656 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: Have you ever crossed across the two over? 657 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 2: I mean I was doing an experiment last year where 658 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,880 Speaker 2: I was doing like an overly complicated live stream on 659 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,920 Speaker 2: YouTube where I would have like a comedian friend or two. 660 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 2: We would be live streaming watching a basketball game, but 661 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,880 Speaker 2: because we didn't want to get sued for the rights, 662 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 2: the whole joke was that people would have to find 663 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 2: the game themselves and sync it up to our own commentary, 664 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,720 Speaker 2: and you know, just too stupid to make it a success. 665 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 2: But it was very fun, and I guess my dream 666 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,880 Speaker 2: would be to do something like that. I don't know, 667 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,400 Speaker 2: and I think it would work for football too. Definitely 668 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,879 Speaker 2: would work for football because there's so much dead air, 669 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,759 Speaker 2: so much like Discover But like get comedians to do 670 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,920 Speaker 2: play by play just as an option, Like you know, 671 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,880 Speaker 2: there's odd like when you are on Netflix, there's multiple 672 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 2: languages do like do Like you know, you have Tony 673 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,840 Speaker 2: Romo as one option, then Joe, Mandy and Friends as another. 674 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,160 Speaker 2: And it's not like I'm a super expert at basketball, 675 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,239 Speaker 2: but I know enough to do that. I'm sure you know, 676 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,400 Speaker 2: I'm sure there's you know, I know you had Megan 677 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,879 Speaker 2: on last week right like she could do football, like 678 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 2: she could absolutely do you know what I mean. So 679 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,120 Speaker 2: it's like I just like I think with technology, it's 680 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 2: certainly an option that should be explored where you could 681 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,760 Speaker 2: have different forms of commentary because I would I would 682 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,400 Speaker 2: give up my career to do that full time, to 683 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,600 Speaker 2: be able to go to basketball games and do like commentary. 684 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,799 Speaker 1: The uh, it's funny. First of all, the people on 685 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: you there are people on YouTube who that is they 686 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,840 Speaker 1: will during the game, they will live stream. You cannot 687 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:09,040 Speaker 1: watch the football game. You can watch them and it 688 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,440 Speaker 1: is it's just no screening. They're like and it's a 689 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 1: run okay, and there is no commentary. There's nothing good 690 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:21,399 Speaker 1: with it. So I think you'd be surprised at how 691 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,799 Speaker 1: easy it would be to rise to the top of 692 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,960 Speaker 1: that mountain. I think the NBA is a perfect place. 693 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,719 Speaker 1: They've always been so progressive and like, let's let blogs in. 694 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,920 Speaker 1: Who cares if you show our highlights on social media? 695 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,719 Speaker 1: Like there is a universe where I do think it 696 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,280 Speaker 1: is hard though, it's like as I learned at ESPN, 697 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 1: and I think a lot of other people when you 698 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:46,239 Speaker 1: bring like traditional like you're a real comic who's been 699 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,560 Speaker 1: on the road and written and done the things you've done, 700 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,760 Speaker 1: and then you go exist in that world where people 701 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,319 Speaker 1: take it like you love it and I love it 702 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,399 Speaker 1: and it's fun, but we also can't stray away from 703 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: what's the funniest about it. And then you get in 704 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,160 Speaker 1: part of this guy goes to make fun of the jazz. Yeah. 705 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,319 Speaker 2: If you say, if you mentioned certain things about a 706 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,919 Speaker 2: player's pass, you could get in trouble or they could 707 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 2: get in trouble. Yeah, so it is like it is. 708 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,440 Speaker 2: It is kind of it is kind of dicey, but 709 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,160 Speaker 2: that would be great. I would love to figure out 710 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:17,040 Speaker 2: a way to well, I guess I did I I 711 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:18,960 Speaker 2: there's a I worked on the show at the beginning 712 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:23,000 Speaker 2: of the year. That is uh uh Mindy Kaln produced 713 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,880 Speaker 2: with is Me by Ike Barnholtz and David Stassen, writing 714 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,440 Speaker 2: a show that's loosely based on the owner of the 715 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,919 Speaker 2: Los Angeles Lakers, so it's a lot of basketball and yeah, 716 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,680 Speaker 2: that comes out on Netflix early next year. It's called 717 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,759 Speaker 2: Running Point and uh yeah, Kate Hudson is the star. 718 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,440 Speaker 2: So that, like, that was very fun and I was 719 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 2: able to like, it was funny being in a room 720 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,480 Speaker 2: where I'm there fundamentally to be a comedy writer. But 721 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,160 Speaker 2: there would be sometimes where people were pitching storylines and 722 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,960 Speaker 2: I would be like, well, we can't do that because 723 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,480 Speaker 2: the salary cap, you know, that's just not realistic. The 724 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,279 Speaker 2: team would enter the second April and yeah, yeah, but 725 00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,759 Speaker 2: I yeah, it was almost like annoying for everyone how 726 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:06,319 Speaker 2: much I knew. 727 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,200 Speaker 1: Well, but that is the worst thing in sport. That 728 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,160 Speaker 1: is the worst thing in TV. When you see a 729 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,279 Speaker 1: guy shoot a jumper and it like You're like, I 730 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,520 Speaker 1: don't think that went more than three feet. You know, 731 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 1: you gotta it's nothing shatters the glass quicker than somebody 732 00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,960 Speaker 1: going it'll be a five team trade and you're like, 733 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,759 Speaker 1: that's not a We've never seen one of those before. 734 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,719 Speaker 2: You know, ultimately it's an office place comedy, so like 735 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,839 Speaker 2: we it was a sort of mandate within the room 736 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,000 Speaker 2: to show as little actual basketball as possible because Basketball 737 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,360 Speaker 2: fictionalized basketball, and and you know, I guess football is 738 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,560 Speaker 2: a little better. I mean, any given Sunday looked good. 739 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:42,719 Speaker 2: I think in retrospect. 740 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, the way they can I think, the way they 741 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,959 Speaker 1: can chase shots with the action a little bit. 742 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, and everyone's in pads and you just have to 743 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,279 Speaker 2: show people slamming. But like, yeah, there's like, you know, 744 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,480 Speaker 2: you can tell pretty quickly if someone's played basketball before, 745 00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,040 Speaker 2: just by the way they dribble and shoot. You know, 746 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,840 Speaker 2: most of the show it was just people in the office, 747 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,960 Speaker 2: the front office, just yeah, discussing trades and stuff. 748 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,120 Speaker 1: The one thing that somebody live action thing that somebody 749 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,280 Speaker 1: was dumb enough to cast me in was a tennis movie. 750 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:13,960 Speaker 1: And I played tennis in high school. I could really 751 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,760 Speaker 1: play tennis. And I don't know that I'm the worst 752 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,719 Speaker 1: actor of all time, but you know, for sure, I'm 753 00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:20,640 Speaker 1: a bad auditioner. 754 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,279 Speaker 2: And sure, yeah, but easy. 755 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,239 Speaker 1: No, for sure. But part of the audition was you 756 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:30,000 Speaker 1: read the lines and then you go out and you 757 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 1: hit a few balls. On camera and I could really 758 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,799 Speaker 1: play tennis. And I think they were having such a 759 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,960 Speaker 1: hard time finding a human who could play tennis that 760 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,960 Speaker 1: they actually like. They changed a Latin dude to it 761 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,640 Speaker 1: was and they named the character for Hayes Davenport. They 762 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,920 Speaker 1: switched it to after him. And then I came in 763 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:51,920 Speaker 1: and they were like, man, this guy could play tennis. 764 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:53,680 Speaker 1: And then the first scene they were like. 765 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:59,080 Speaker 2: Oh, no, what have we done? Like, oh, but he can't. 766 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,799 Speaker 1: But they hit I'll tell you what, they hid the 767 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,480 Speaker 1: acting and the tennis looks really good. Man. 768 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,000 Speaker 2: You know what that's that's called you you cut together, 769 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,160 Speaker 2: That's all that matters. Uh. Yeah. We had a thing 770 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,719 Speaker 2: on Parks and rec once where we cast Chris Bosh 771 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:18,120 Speaker 2: to be on the Eagleton basketball team, and he was 772 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:23,040 Speaker 2: so nervous about delivering his line that he would say 773 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,040 Speaker 2: his line and then just brick jump shot after jump 774 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,040 Speaker 2: and these are like bunnies, These are like eight foot 775 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,719 Speaker 2: jump shots that he would make a thousand times out 776 00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,360 Speaker 2: of a thousand. But he was so nervous about landing 777 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,840 Speaker 2: his mark and saying his line that we had to 778 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:37,600 Speaker 2: literally like do a clever editor. 779 00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,279 Speaker 1: Because Chris Bosh one of the greatest power forwards of 780 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,120 Speaker 1: all time couldn't make a jumper. 781 00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,120 Speaker 2: So yeah, so you you struck. You have the same 782 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:47,480 Speaker 2: struggle as Chris Bosh. 783 00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,719 Speaker 1: Yeah. What I've always said is Chris Bosh and I 784 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:50,800 Speaker 1: are very similar. 785 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,359 Speaker 2: We're very in so many ways. Yeah, I was gonna 786 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:54,440 Speaker 2: mention it very similar. 787 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,000 Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate you letting it you know, you 788 00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,239 Speaker 1: letting it trickle out. Just in this late moment in 789 00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,520 Speaker 1: the show he had that Chris Bosh had that weird, 790 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,040 Speaker 1: that weird period where obviously the sad thing happens with 791 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:06,480 Speaker 1: his heart and he's got to leave the league, and 792 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,600 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden they were sticking him stuff. 793 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,400 Speaker 1: He was in like a kid show, and I remember 794 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,200 Speaker 1: being like, and they just introduced him as Chris Bosh 795 00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:14,959 Speaker 1: in a fictional world, and I was like, I don't 796 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,520 Speaker 1: know that this makes sense, but that is Chris Bosh right. 797 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:21,560 Speaker 2: There right now. Hero. He rules, He rules. I was 798 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:22,680 Speaker 2: a huge fan of his. 799 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:26,360 Speaker 1: Who is the who is the most fun person in 800 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,399 Speaker 1: the sports world that you have crossed with? 801 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,839 Speaker 2: Well, I'm friendly with Blake Griffins. He did a thing 802 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:38,240 Speaker 2: for my first special. So he rules. Uh, Roy Hibbert, 803 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,840 Speaker 2: I'm only I feel badly that I'm on this football podcast. 804 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,560 Speaker 2: We wrote a thing for Kroll Show years ago that 805 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,160 Speaker 2: nom the Awesome Wa ended up doing, and he was 806 00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:49,680 Speaker 2: he was great and very funny. 807 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,800 Speaker 1: That's a deep cut, A nom the Awesome Wa cut. 808 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,520 Speaker 1: That's a deep cut. Yeah, yeah, it's funny when you 809 00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,400 Speaker 1: see somebody like Blake Griffin. It's the same thing with 810 00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,680 Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. You know, we've got a guy in town 811 00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,400 Speaker 1: here who you know, he just does broadcast and radio 812 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:06,439 Speaker 1: and host like it's he's kind of the Minneapolis version 813 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,280 Speaker 1: of oh you got I don't know why I'm explaining 814 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,440 Speaker 1: it to you like this. It's Ben Lieber. Liber is 815 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,480 Speaker 1: so former linebacker for the Vikings retired. He is so 816 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:21,719 Speaker 1: talented and like in and around media, it's almost infuriat 817 00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,360 Speaker 1: And that's the thing you always see with Blake Griffin. 818 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,719 Speaker 1: You're like, oh, so you just you just were one 819 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,279 Speaker 1: of the greatest athletes to ever walk the earth, and 820 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,640 Speaker 1: you have this version of comedic timing. It's wild. 821 00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:35,640 Speaker 2: No, it's it's so annoying. It's so annoying. 822 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,640 Speaker 1: Uh, dude, I really appreciate this man. Do you have 823 00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,040 Speaker 1: a We put everybody on the spot. They don't like it. 824 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:45,480 Speaker 1: But okay, the Jacksonville Bortals are playing the Vikings this weekend. 825 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,279 Speaker 1: Can I get a prediction from you? 826 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:55,080 Speaker 2: I think the Vikings will win forty two to three. 827 00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:56,759 Speaker 1: I like forty two to three. 828 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:03,120 Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson will have four touchdowns three hundred yards, four. 829 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:08,399 Speaker 1: Touch three hundred yards, four touchdowns. The great Joe Mandy, Hey, 830 00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:09,520 Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. 831 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,479 Speaker 2: Man, of course, thank you for having me. This is fun. 832 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,440 Speaker 1: Thanks again to Joe Mandy for joining the show, and 833 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,279 Speaker 1: thank you for listening to our podcast feed. Hey, while 834 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,040 Speaker 1: you're here, make sure to give us a subscribe. Maybe 835 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,920 Speaker 1: you give us a comment that helps a review. I 836 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:29,320 Speaker 1: think they're called on podcast apps. Also a huge shout 837 00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:33,080 Speaker 1: out to Ticketmaster, the official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings, 838 00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,880 Speaker 1: for helping make this show happen. We will see you 839 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:37,240 Speaker 1: all again next week.