Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Greatest. I Am Megan Gaily,
Speaker 1: joined in my backyard by my husband and co host
Speaker 1: c J. Toledano. Hello. Yes, we're in person. I mean
Speaker 1: me and you are always in person. I'm using a
Speaker 1: different microphone. It's weird. We're set up and we actually
Speaker 1: have our guest here, which who am excited against? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really exciting to be in our backyard and be
Speaker 1: in person with a guest. We are joined today by
Speaker 1: our dear friend, hilarious comedian. She has a Netflix special
Speaker 1: called The Degenerate. She's been on seth Meyers. Not the
Speaker 1: person she is, um, the queen of all of our hearts.
Speaker 1: Returning to the Greatest, Please welcome Lisa Trager. Hello, I'm
Speaker 1: really happy to be here. The yard is lovely. Nice
Speaker 1: Eli Sunshine and both of you with um novel t
Speaker 1: T shirts listened. Actually this is my doing. I'm definitely
Speaker 1: in quarantine. Been like, we need comfy clothe uh and
Speaker 1: you're wearing Tell the people what you're wearing, Dina co
Speaker 1: uh gas station shirt which is the gas station in
Speaker 1: cars and a space jam quilted hat. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that embroidered. Listen, when you put space jam merch up
Speaker 1: on the internet, it's hard for me to say no.
Speaker 1: And I am wearing a giant cedar point shirt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Megan's fashion for sure has changed post meeting Suture. We
Speaker 1: don't know how actual fashion is though these days? Do
Speaker 1: we know? Right now? My fashion is what do I
Speaker 1: fit into? And then that's it, and then I leave
Speaker 1: the house and then I go, oh, I guess this
Speaker 1: is out now too. I put jeans on last week
Speaker 1: just to feel what that's like, and they still fit,
Speaker 1: but different, Like I'm like, there was more room in
Speaker 1: than knee, like my knee. Well, the other night I
Speaker 1: had jeans on and I was like, because I was
Speaker 1: doing I did outdoor comedy for the first time and
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, like you don't know about you obviously
Speaker 1: know um And so I had these jean ton and
Speaker 1: I was like, do these have two tighten? Just loosen
Speaker 1: the belt and I'm like, no, it's the thighs, Like
Speaker 1: there's no way to loosen the thigh belt. That's happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's wild out there. But today is my day one
Speaker 1: of no sweets. I think I can do it. I think,
Speaker 1: as long as I have bread and cheese, I can
Speaker 1: do no sweets. I'm gonna try, what is your favorite sweet?
Speaker 1: Not to already right off the bet, I think when
Speaker 1: I eat the most is probably like a gummy candy
Speaker 1: and that little treat that one's tough to give up
Speaker 1: because like, technically it is fat free. Yeah yeah. When
Speaker 1: I first met you, Megan, and you like brought those
Speaker 1: out and I think I was like watching my weight
Speaker 1: at that time, and you were like, they're fat free,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I but there's also forty pounds of
Speaker 1: sugar in this listen. I'm not saying it's like a
Speaker 1: rational thought, but that's I always think of gummy candies
Speaker 1: as like the healthiest candy. Yes, yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: better than the Snickers, I think, but the Snickers have protein.
Speaker 1: Sneakers are amazing. I mean it's um, but lately it's
Speaker 1: been cakes. We went to a pop up to pick
Speaker 1: up desserts from a famous chef and I got I
Speaker 1: couldn't decide, and I'm like, I've wanted to eat the
Speaker 1: chef's food for forever. Who knows when I'll ever be
Speaker 1: able to, And so I got three things delicious, Natasha,
Speaker 1: I was, ye, I've just been like looking for him, like,
Speaker 1: what am I ever going to get to do this exactly?
Speaker 1: She's a James Beard nominee. It's like I gotta get
Speaker 1: a taste of a Sappersata whatever it was I wanted
Speaker 1: the three what was it? I don't even know what
Speaker 1: you're trying to describe. Passion fruit, Yeah, I can't. I
Speaker 1: don't remember sem Afredo and then Semifredo Semifredo because Karen
Speaker 1: knew how to say, and she kept saying, um, that's well,
Speaker 1: she's lived in Italy. The three of us, we were
Speaker 1: kind of a circle of death when it comes to
Speaker 1: food too. We like we in we that's our problem area.
Speaker 1: We have attachment to foods, yes, and it makes us
Speaker 1: feel good and have be right now when so few things.
Speaker 1: My favorite story of the past quarantine was us being
Speaker 1: filled to the brim and seeing a picture of a
Speaker 1: big Mac and getting McDonald's and getting two like main
Speaker 1: protein items per person too. Yeah, well that's why the
Speaker 1: other night I had texted you that Jack Black had
Speaker 1: made a surf and turf burger, which to him was
Speaker 1: well he got McDonald's his first birthday, right, and he
Speaker 1: got a quarter pounder into a big Mac and he
Speaker 1: took the middle piece out and he put a fish
Speaker 1: filet in the middle, and then he put sweet and
Speaker 1: sour and catch up on the top. And you know,
Speaker 1: I I it looked good to me, and its like
Speaker 1: it looks good and then we all had McDonald's the
Speaker 1: next day. Did not look good to me. I would
Speaker 1: try it, though, because I love the crunch of the
Speaker 1: fish flat and a big Mac is like my favorite
Speaker 1: from childhood. It's my favorite item. I would say, no,
Speaker 1: we love food and even um. I think we were
Speaker 1: watching a sport recently and I noticed the Taco bell
Speaker 1: advertising in the background of the people playing is a
Speaker 1: big house of highlight sponsor c J has he's bought
Speaker 1: into all the bubble advertising. Cook Are we become a
Speaker 1: michelob Ultra home because of Jimmy Butler and the man
Speaker 1: who cleans his room in the commercials? Yeah, and you're
Speaker 1: like it's good, And I'm like, wow, they got you,
Speaker 1: c J. I've had spurts of active of like being
Speaker 1: active and like healthy. Um, and for some yeah, I
Speaker 1: would just believe them because they have a fancy bottle. Well,
Speaker 1: it is the lowest calorie beer. But then I saw
Speaker 1: a Miller light commercial where do just throws like a
Speaker 1: what are those called? Like a thirty six pack on
Speaker 1: the counter at a gas station and uh it says
Speaker 1: only one more calorie than Michael whoa, They're coming for them.
Speaker 1: I like, how like I want beer but as with
Speaker 1: the lowest calories. And I'm a Miller high life I
Speaker 1: would say I'm a high life girl, but I love
Speaker 1: a plain beer. I like a Miller button And then
Speaker 1: I love the I love a coronas. Yeah. One time
Speaker 1: are an old friend of our, Sean Flannery, told me
Speaker 1: corona is good for your throat. And I know it's
Speaker 1: a lie, but I've kept it and every time I
Speaker 1: have a tickle in my throat pre COVID, of course,
Speaker 1: and I had a show or it was time to
Speaker 1: do lots of shows for a week, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: corona is gonna soothe my throat, and so I'd like
Speaker 1: drink myself into loving it. Taking health advice from a
Speaker 1: man who created a show called The Blackout Diaries. Yeah
Speaker 1: who yeah, who was told he had cancer and refused
Speaker 1: to remove it because he was too bid. I believe
Speaker 1: he's walked off a roof before too. But listen, he said,
Speaker 1: Corona is gonna hel my itchy throat and not believe him.
Speaker 1: You know what, I fucking god, what I miss um?
Speaker 1: What was that place called? It was in the middle
Speaker 1: of sucking the business part of Times Square Health Kitchen,
Speaker 1: Mexican spot, and they would put Corona's flipped into drinks.
Speaker 1: They have that all over I know. I just that
Speaker 1: memory to me in New York in the middle of
Speaker 1: everyone in business outfits like hustling and bustling, and then
Speaker 1: I'm just drinking a margarit. I'm like young, I'm early
Speaker 1: mid twenties. You know, life is that you were sex
Speaker 1: in the city all in that that was your cosmo.
Speaker 1: Fucking hate the turn on sex in the city so
Speaker 1: much people have been like, we're not against it. I
Speaker 1: think people the idea like carries the worst and I'm like,
Speaker 1: she is an annoying person and you all are like her,
Speaker 1: so you hate yourselves more than any where? Is this
Speaker 1: turn occurring just on the internet and like in the zeitgeist,
Speaker 1: Like when you talk to people, it's like the go
Speaker 1: to conversation is Carrie sucks and that it's like not
Speaker 1: feminine and it's updated, and of course it's outdated. It
Speaker 1: was cutting edged twenty years ago. Of course it's going
Speaker 1: to be outdated. But we love it. But she's not canceled. No, No,
Speaker 1: it's just that's what the first conversation always is. And
Speaker 1: it bothers me because it's instead of being like that
Speaker 1: fashion her hair, the Apartment show. Yes, I think it's
Speaker 1: some of that too. Is it's like a really good
Speaker 1: show that women liked, and so of course it's going
Speaker 1: to be shipped on because no one ever goes, wow,
Speaker 1: Tony soprano is a piece of ship. Walter White, What
Speaker 1: a fucking no, that's not Walter White. I've seen something, Argua,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure, yeah, I'm not. I haven't seen. I
Speaker 1: don't follow the people who are who are giving sex
Speaker 1: and discourse. Some people are like I can't watch Breaking
Speaker 1: Bed and root for this drug dealer. Oh really? Not
Speaker 1: like an outcry. I'm just like I'll keep scrolling them
Speaker 1: like you're a nerd? Who? Yeah, who, I've never seen that.
Speaker 1: That seems crazy. It's a show about a drug dealer.
Speaker 1: Watch it. Yeah, it's very good. Well, let's shift to
Speaker 1: sports here, Lisa. I've got a long non non sport thing. No,
Speaker 1: I just I just we I just want to make
Speaker 1: sure we get to the topic. But I wanted to irespect. No,
Speaker 1: just listen our listeners. They love a little sex in
Speaker 1: the city trip down member player a New York He's like,
Speaker 1: it's not like a Yeah, they go to a Yankees
Speaker 1: game and then she has her are like wasted and
Speaker 1: she has her press pass and so they get to
Speaker 1: like meet a guy. Interesting. Yeah, totally like a thing
Speaker 1: in our world that we've seen. There was an they
Speaker 1: go ice skating. Is there really never a Knicks Oh
Speaker 1: Maranda that meets a guy at a bar and he's
Speaker 1: a sports not like at a sports bar, and he
Speaker 1: only sucks her if the Knicks win. And then when
Speaker 1: the next season over, she's relieved she's gonna get sucked
Speaker 1: more often. But then he switches to baseball and he goes,
Speaker 1: I'm out of here, and Miranda dates the Knicks um doctor, yes,
Speaker 1: Dr Robert. She thinks he likes a cheerleaders that played
Speaker 1: by Blair Underwood. Yeah yeah, here else sexy. Okay, so
Speaker 1: today's topic is greatest tear jerker. I did want to
Speaker 1: see how Lisa is like consuming sports. No, I was
Speaker 1: going to ask her her favorite. Um, what's been your
Speaker 1: favorite recent sports moment um recent? I think I'll say, um, Naomi, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Naomi Osaka tennis, that's been. I haven't really what your
Speaker 1: bubble machine show. Thank you, Um, that's been. I loved
Speaker 1: the boyfriend flipping off. He saw Naomi and her boyfriend
Speaker 1: what is her boyfriend's name? Okay, thank you? He they're
Speaker 1: like on Center Core after they want and everything, and
Speaker 1: you know, she's maybe holding and he's like flipping. Everybody
Speaker 1: got so bad and it's like he's so cool. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I don't know anything about her boyfriend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a famous rapper. Yeah, he's really ruddy rich and
Speaker 1: he the fungehots of him celebrating when she won. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're a great couple. And it's just like again with
Speaker 1: the sport of tennis, usually it's like and it's still exists,
Speaker 1: but just like this what vibe of you know, fancy
Speaker 1: and like yeah country class Yeah, and like these two
Speaker 1: are just the best. Yeah. And then the clothes yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: I also did like the picture of my gun post
Speaker 1: that of all the moms, young moms with their babies
Speaker 1: in the bubble watch. Yeah. I liked. Of course, it's
Speaker 1: been sad when teams have gone home, Like when the
Speaker 1: Raptors went home, I was like, I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: say goodbye to the Van Bleek kids. You know, like
Speaker 1: there's like families. I've fallen the new kids. There's new
Speaker 1: kids now. Yeah. Hanging out with Lebron, Yeah, but he's
Speaker 1: like older, he's like eight. He's funny because he has
Speaker 1: like the bravado of Dion Waiters. Yeah, he is funny.
Speaker 1: I also like that Brownie's favorite player is not Lebron. Yes,
Speaker 1: I learned that, so I think it's like he has
Speaker 1: other favorite players. I bet you he is, like my
Speaker 1: dad is cool and is one of the best players
Speaker 1: of all time, but he had a room full of
Speaker 1: posters of his dad would be like pro gay Brownie.
Speaker 1: You know, we make fun of him. There's this whole
Speaker 1: world on YouTube where people because you can go on
Speaker 1: NBA to care these video games. I mean, your nephews
Speaker 1: probably do this, but like and you can like stream
Speaker 1: yourself playing it and people will engage with your like
Speaker 1: type comments and people would ask who's your top five
Speaker 1: favorite players? And he like still lists his dad in there,
Speaker 1: but he like still hates his dad's opponents like the
Speaker 1: same way that fans do, which is really fun, but
Speaker 1: isn't Russ's favorite player. Yeah, but like, like I think
Speaker 1: that the Kauai rivalry is very really like someone would
Speaker 1: be like, Kauai is better, and he'd be like, no, okay,
Speaker 1: well that's nice. I like that. That's true. He's not better.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta keep the enemies on one side.
Speaker 1: And a family, yeah, like Caroline Manzo, Yes, yes, that's
Speaker 1: like my family's thickest. You do not mess with my
Speaker 1: You look like a clown. She's like the most. And
Speaker 1: then after the first season of New Jersey, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: obviously people and he was like, no, you know, people
Speaker 1: have brought up a lot of like maybe mafia connections,
Speaker 1: and they're like, we are not a part of the mafia.
Speaker 1: My father in law was murdered by the mafia. And
Speaker 1: you're like, what seem like you are a part of
Speaker 1: the mafia. I didn't watch this, but I do. I
Speaker 1: was told this, But I love a buzzer beater win.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, because yeah, later as I heard one
Speaker 1: in the last second, uh um Sunday night, Sunday night. Um. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we're doing greatest tear jerkers. C J joked last
Speaker 1: night that every moment is a tear jerker for me. Um,
Speaker 1: so well, no, I agree, because um, I cried all Olympics.
Speaker 1: They'll be a loser and I'm crying. I don't remember
Speaker 1: who it is, but like when they do the Biopics
Speaker 1: and then they're crying winning the gold and their families cheering,
Speaker 1: I cry a lot. So it was actually really hard
Speaker 1: to pinpoint and remember the ones that stick to my mind,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure I cried when Michael Phelps one and
Speaker 1: his mom was crying. Of course. Well, the Olympics, like
Speaker 1: nail's human interest better than other sports because they do
Speaker 1: have so many packages getting to know the people. You know.
Speaker 1: What's so funny. I was once in Oslo, Norway, watching
Speaker 1: track and field on the TV and I saw a
Speaker 1: comedian in the States tweeting about it and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: are they showing this? And I'm like, oh, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: showing them Rwegian packages here. So it's fun to see
Speaker 1: the packages in different countries. You're getting to know the
Speaker 1: other players. Yeah, I mean yeah, I think like in
Speaker 1: the US they end up showing other country like spotlighting
Speaker 1: a foreign athlete if their story is like really exceptional
Speaker 1: or they've like lived through something that like America's helped
Speaker 1: them with, you know, well, yeah, they'll always do a
Speaker 1: Russian gymnastics package, you know, or like a Romanian girl
Speaker 1: because we're fascinated by that. Um. So yeah, this was
Speaker 1: definitely this was the last minute choice. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: was exciting and it brings um I personally, I've mentioned
Speaker 1: a lot of moments in Naomi, Osaka and Cocoa Golf
Speaker 1: like that. I brought that one up in press conferences
Speaker 1: and so I for the listeners, I tried to pick
Speaker 1: ones that I have not picked for other things before. Oh,
Speaker 1: you guys did best press conferences. We've done some really
Speaker 1: specific ones and some really this is Was it a
Speaker 1: journalist who did the It was our friend Adam left Co,
Speaker 1: who host the Tuesday night edition of Inside the NBA.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, cool guy, cool voice too. Okay, So, Lisa, um,
Speaker 1: since you our guests on our show and guests in
Speaker 1: our backyard, please give us your number three pick for
Speaker 1: greatest teater curse. So I'm really excited about this. I
Speaker 1: didn't see it live in how it happened. I saw
Speaker 1: it in an episode of Iconoclasts on Sundance and it
Speaker 1: was Tony Hawk with Jon Favreau. One of the best episodes,
Speaker 1: and I've cried multiple times throughout that episode. And then
Speaker 1: we were watching YouTube clips out here and it came
Speaker 1: up and I was like, this is my favorite. And
Speaker 1: so it's um Tony Hawk landing the nine hundred for
Speaker 1: the first time, and I just love um perseverance, and
Speaker 1: I love the idea of like falling and falling and
Speaker 1: falling and you keep going and you keep going and
Speaker 1: then like landing, falling to your knees, grabbing your board
Speaker 1: and then everyone comes and hugs you. It's just like
Speaker 1: all too And did he nail it at a tournament?
Speaker 1: Was game okay? X games? Oh yeah maybe? Which is
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it was like a it was a
Speaker 1: huge event. Like they were like he's going to attempt
Speaker 1: it at that Like it wasn't in competition with anybody
Speaker 1: him doing that, I don't think right now. It was
Speaker 1: like you get an amount of time, the revenges like
Speaker 1: you get fifteen minutes and do as many tricks and
Speaker 1: cool point things you can. And he was just like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fucking to land this. Yeah. It was about
Speaker 1: anything else. And he has another tier jerker because his
Speaker 1: father died right before the first X Games and his
Speaker 1: dad did so much work for that, and so that's
Speaker 1: he has a few tier jerkers. To me, Yeah, Tony
Speaker 1: Hawk has been He's been present in our lives recently too.
Speaker 1: Not mine why I just came out of the new
Speaker 1: video games. I love everything about Tony Hawk. His story
Speaker 1: is like his cribs. Yeah, like I like skateboarding holding
Speaker 1: a baby, and I wish you didn't have so many wives,
Speaker 1: Like I'd like to know that what's happening then? Of wives,
Speaker 1: he has a bunch of wives and yeah, really, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not rich, I mean, and I'm sure he's like
Speaker 1: self centered a little superstar. I mean, I say he
Speaker 1: wasn't very selfish or but who knows. You know, relationships
Speaker 1: work don't work effort. So for sure, that's the only
Speaker 1: thing where I'm like, what are you doing here? Listen?
Speaker 1: I think what say is it's the women's fault fault.
Speaker 1: But I do like yeah, and I love On Twitter
Speaker 1: he tweets funny conversations you'll have with people coming up
Speaker 1: to him being like you look like Tony Hawk and
Speaker 1: then you'll be like I am and they're like you're
Speaker 1: too old. Oh my gosh. That reminds him another tear
Speaker 1: jerker Tony Hawk moment on TikTok. There was a just
Speaker 1: there's a lot of like delivery people are like FedEx
Speaker 1: people in uh. This FedEx guy who's like friends with
Speaker 1: the people he delivers to. A little girl came up
Speaker 1: to him and was like, can you give this letter
Speaker 1: to Tony Hawk? And again he doesn't know Tony Hawk.
Speaker 1: She just thinks like that's it's like Santa, like how
Speaker 1: that's how mail works? And um he posted him reading
Speaker 1: the letter on TikTok to Tony Hawk asking for board
Speaker 1: like the board was. The girl was like, I need
Speaker 1: a new skateboard. Tony, can there any way you can
Speaker 1: give me one? He read out lout and then Tony
Speaker 1: Hawk went and delivered a new skateboard to her. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. In person, I knew he would probably give
Speaker 1: her the skateboard, but that was an additional nice touch.
Speaker 1: Ye showing up in person and he seems luck I
Speaker 1: bet he knows like he's like, holy sh it, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like you or you're like, oh, okay, I
Speaker 1: guess this is my job. Like he's a lucky guy,
Speaker 1: I think, and I think he feels the luck. That's
Speaker 1: why I think he's so cool. Yeah, I um, I
Speaker 1: know that mail is not part of the sports world,
Speaker 1: but male stories are really getting me tear jerkers right now.
Speaker 1: I'm really into all the mail. Okay, Lisa, great first pick,
Speaker 1: C Do you want to go? Yeah, I'll go. Um,
Speaker 1: I would say, I mean, this year has been the
Speaker 1: year I have cried the most watching sports. So I
Speaker 1: would just say all just like everything that the Lakers
Speaker 1: have done, I mean, obviously the Kobe stuff, and then
Speaker 1: it was just like every response to that from the
Speaker 1: team from the league, I've like cried like the Lebron.
Speaker 1: I think Lebron giving the speech before their first game
Speaker 1: is one of like the strongest I've ever seen an
Speaker 1: athlete person give, like he didn't have to do that.
Speaker 1: And then last night, when again we were talking about
Speaker 1: earlier eight hitting the buzzer beater, you just think about it,
Speaker 1: and so I don't know if you guys do this,
Speaker 1: but he said Kobe when he shot it, and that
Speaker 1: went viral on Twitter, and it's just like I just
Speaker 1: bawling because Yeah, I mean before even said Kobe. I
Speaker 1: was like bawling, But you just everything that they have
Speaker 1: had to go through, Like we are all like this
Speaker 1: is sad, is crazy, like basketball in general reminds you
Speaker 1: of it, but like, yeah, the Lakers have endured so much.
Speaker 1: I think, and I know him a little bit biased,
Speaker 1: but uh, for them to continue to excel and play
Speaker 1: is just so yeah, yeah, they have a lot on
Speaker 1: their plates right now. Um, I did not know. I
Speaker 1: didn't know you were going to go Kobe right out
Speaker 1: of the game. I'm sorry, that's okay. No, I definitely
Speaker 1: knew we were going to be talking about cod I
Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be your I guess, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: it's going to be your number two and your number
Speaker 1: one pick two. Be surprised. I just yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, the thing is I've said on this podcast,
Speaker 1: I didn't like Code before, and then it took that
Speaker 1: and then I was like it made me think about
Speaker 1: life and humans and and all that, and uh and
Speaker 1: then just seeing everyone's response and like the way they're
Speaker 1: using him as an inspiration all that, It's just like, Lisa,
Speaker 1: what did you say yesterday? You had you were like,
Speaker 1: we didn't we didn't realize how much we loved him,
Speaker 1: or like he grew up with him too. I was
Speaker 1: my story with Kobe is I just didn't. I never
Speaker 1: thought about It's not like I know of him. I understand,
Speaker 1: you know, as a thing. I didn't even know he
Speaker 1: had four kids, like I didn't, but I did. I
Speaker 1: do remember that cute moment with him in like you
Speaker 1: in the front courtside um. But the moment I found
Speaker 1: out he died, I was sad, crying, and I probably
Speaker 1: cried for weeks and I don't so to me, it's
Speaker 1: like it's about how many people you touch, and he's
Speaker 1: touched everybody, even people that thought that they don't care.
Speaker 1: I was like truly devastated um for a long time.
Speaker 1: And I you know now I follow Vanessa and sad
Speaker 1: all the time, but also nice. I like seeing the
Speaker 1: kids and and Pal's daughter being born, and having Donna
Speaker 1: some middle name in Vanessa being has got mother like
Speaker 1: and those things make it's also nice to see that
Speaker 1: people continue their support of her, because I think what
Speaker 1: happens with grief or when people lose someone, it's like
Speaker 1: there's a hoopla and then they're left alone. And it
Speaker 1: feels good to see that she's not being left alone, um,
Speaker 1: there for her. Yeah. They talk about like in the
Speaker 1: process of Greece, when like the calls stopped coming and
Speaker 1: people stop visiting, and that's when you're like really alone
Speaker 1: with it. But it seems like they have a very
Speaker 1: very strong support system. So oh boy, okay, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we talked about too, just he is like, um, he's
Speaker 1: an example of redemption at its best. Yes, where he
Speaker 1: admitted wrong, grew and then every action in his life
Speaker 1: was positive. M Yeah, all right, Okay, I think you
Speaker 1: guys are going to make fun of me for this one. Um,
Speaker 1: it's the two one. So the first NFL games after
Speaker 1: nine eleven, Okay, I thought we were. It's so the game.
Speaker 1: I can't even pretend to get involved in this one, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what the gate. So the weekend
Speaker 1: of nine sixteen, that Saturday, all of those games were postponed.
Speaker 1: It was week two of the NFL and and they
Speaker 1: moved those games to January and then they played the
Speaker 1: rest of the schedule as usual. So they went back
Speaker 1: to playing on September. And the Giants were obviously kind
Speaker 1: of the Giants and the Jets to some extent were
Speaker 1: like the teams that everybody was like looking at and
Speaker 1: where they're going to be and and a lot of
Speaker 1: the Giants had met with first responders, and so the
Speaker 1: Giants were actually playing in Kansas City, and there were
Speaker 1: signs everywhere that were like Kansas City loves New York
Speaker 1: and all of this like show of patriotism, and you
Speaker 1: could tell that the Giants players had just like truly
Speaker 1: been affected and felt in their core and felt like
Speaker 1: they needed to win. And the thing that's so it
Speaker 1: was like beautiful and that was such a uniquely like
Speaker 1: powerful time in our country that like we clearly don't
Speaker 1: have anymore, because you see this like outpouring of support
Speaker 1: from the entire Chiefs fan base at the game, and
Speaker 1: it just like struck me how odd and how like
Speaker 1: sad that where we are now. That like when there
Speaker 1: was a moment of unity between the Chiefs and the
Speaker 1: Texans on Opening Night, those fans booed, and it's like
Speaker 1: just nineteen years ago you were like, we'll do this
Speaker 1: for America, like where they were almost like cheering for
Speaker 1: the Giants that game, and the Giants ended up beating
Speaker 1: the Chiefs in that first game back. But it's like fuck,
Speaker 1: like these are the same. This is the same fan
Speaker 1: base that was like making signs being like we love
Speaker 1: you New York and now they're booing when players are
Speaker 1: like joining in a moment of just saying like, hey,
Speaker 1: we'd like to be together. Yeah, so I guess it's
Speaker 1: a It was a teer teer jerker and now it's
Speaker 1: like an anger jerker. Do you think the Chiefs tried
Speaker 1: their hardest in that game? Um, yeah, they weren't. I
Speaker 1: don't think they were that good then. But I think
Speaker 1: the Giants like had destiny on their side, which I
Speaker 1: think is kind of how people feel about the Lakers
Speaker 1: this season. Like that exists in sports where there's like
Speaker 1: a story that's so big with the Saints in Katrina,
Speaker 1: like they just have. If you're not from that fan base,
Speaker 1: everyone is rooting for you know, like everybody gets behind them,
Speaker 1: and they just feel this like higher call leg. It
Speaker 1: was everyone rooting for the Lakers this year, but they
Speaker 1: should be that they should be. I'm getting hate texts
Speaker 1: for some reason. Well, there's just a lot of Blakers haters. Well,
Speaker 1: I know you said people were happy that the Clippers
Speaker 1: were out. No, our fans were sad. But then I
Speaker 1: think other people were. Do you know it the comedy
Speaker 1: community is big clippers. No, because I just thought of
Speaker 1: our friend Noah when the Nuggets one. Oh yes, I
Speaker 1: just was like, oh, he'll be happy. So I don't
Speaker 1: really know. I just know we like the coach. She means, um,
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers. Yeah, dog, we like Doc. He has some
Speaker 1: flaws basketball anyway. But yeah, and the return, I mean
Speaker 1: that's what my friends and I we we always look
Speaker 1: at like classic Conan episodes and Conan and s and
Speaker 1: now just seeing the return to sports and an attempt
Speaker 1: at normalcy, which we've seen several misstarts in the last
Speaker 1: few months, is um set for the bubble. It's just
Speaker 1: a lot that we put a lot of weight on
Speaker 1: such trivial things in our lives, and it's craziest seeing
Speaker 1: when when like they sports handle it well. And I
Speaker 1: do think this this nine eleven like instance that I'm
Speaker 1: bringing up has been used a lot incorrectly in the
Speaker 1: last few months to be like, you see how much
Speaker 1: it healed us, And it's like, for sure understand that,
Speaker 1: But this is a different situation. This is a pandemic
Speaker 1: where if people are close to each other, they could
Speaker 1: potentially kill each other. So yes, like we would love
Speaker 1: to be able to do that, but like you're comparing
Speaker 1: apples to oranges here. Also, if you guys just sucking
Speaker 1: united and wore masks and behaved and thought it was real,
Speaker 1: we could have had a sports exactly like you want.
Speaker 1: I mean to put all these players in danger and
Speaker 1: everything when you won't even do the bare minimum. Yes,
Speaker 1: like go funk yourself. So people have to live away
Speaker 1: from their families and I get tasted constantly for you,
Speaker 1: like the entitlement people feel too famous people, but athletes
Speaker 1: in particular is um fucked. I'm sure there's a lot
Speaker 1: of race things associated with it, but the shut up
Speaker 1: and drip all of that is just disgusting. Y um. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like you were in a sho store, but you
Speaker 1: can talk about your opinions, but this person can. I
Speaker 1: just don't understand. I hate it. We hated to and
Speaker 1: I think most of our listeners who too. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and then we will be right
Speaker 1: back with our number two picks. Okay, and we are
Speaker 1: back with our number two picks in greatest tear churkers.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited because I was there, uh not at
Speaker 1: the event. But I said the latest US women's sack
Speaker 1: her team parade, the ticker Tape parade. UM. I was
Speaker 1: lucky enough to go, and UM. I went with my
Speaker 1: friend Julia, and she was crying more than me, and
Speaker 1: after she explained it to me on her walk out
Speaker 1: of there, I cried more to But just UM being
Speaker 1: there was insane. It was like so many people downtown,
Speaker 1: the team one. I mean, there's such inspirations and I
Speaker 1: just love watching champions party and how hard they've worked
Speaker 1: and just seeing people like cheer for them. And then
Speaker 1: the additional stuff that my friend brought to my attention
Speaker 1: was she said she'd never seen men in female jerseys before.
Speaker 1: She was like, that has never happened because I've never
Speaker 1: seen a man wear a woman's jersey. And so that
Speaker 1: was a lot. And and she also said being downtown,
Speaker 1: being by the new World Trade Center building, you know, UM,
Speaker 1: and just thinking about nine eleven and how fast New
Speaker 1: York has rebuilt. And then we're all here together celebrating
Speaker 1: this amazing team, UM, and just seeing all the young
Speaker 1: girls and it was really exciting. It was really excited.
Speaker 1: The women's soccer team is UM. Like every iteration of them,
Speaker 1: you know, like we've talked about Brandy Chastain on like
Speaker 1: she was one of our greatest celebrations, and then they
Speaker 1: really women's soccer and women's US tennis. Phil me personally
Speaker 1: with so much joy because it really does feel like
Speaker 1: that glass ceiling has been broken, because the amount of
Speaker 1: people that watch them and root for them is equal to,
Speaker 1: if not surpassed, what the men get. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: unfortunately you were saying that, and I was like, but
Speaker 1: they're not. They won't pay them even they weren't even
Speaker 1: like you know, it's just it is so fucked up.
Speaker 1: And there was some tennis guy talking shit about the
Speaker 1: women's and they're always there. Then we have Andy Murray, right,
Speaker 1: he's the good one. Well I like all the Andy's okay,
Speaker 1: but there's one that thing I've always seen on Instagram
Speaker 1: where a person goes, you're the first tennis player to
Speaker 1: achieve this thing, and he goes, um, actually, so isn't
Speaker 1: has achieved this multiple times? Um, so obviously I love him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I do think men's tennis is besides Djokovic and his
Speaker 1: like crew of men who joined this weird federation for
Speaker 1: just men, I think that a lot of the you know,
Speaker 1: like I hear Andy Roddick, you hear the commentators who
Speaker 1: end up being former tennis players giving women's tennis the
Speaker 1: props that it. I mean, it kind of carries the
Speaker 1: spot in America does because there's no male US Tennis stars.
Speaker 1: The only female I just remember Andrea Agassi um exams
Speaker 1: when a long time ago. Those are the way who
Speaker 1: got stabbed Monica Sellis. Yeah, we've talked about her, talked
Speaker 1: about it and I still haven't looked it up. But
Speaker 1: because it sounds so crazy, Yeah, stabbed on the court.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess that's a tear jerker, but it's
Speaker 1: like a sad, very very sad one. Um. There's an
Speaker 1: amazing commercial. I think it's for Google, but it was like, um,
Speaker 1: I think it was during Black his three month, but
Speaker 1: it was like the number one Google tennis player Serena Williams.
Speaker 1: The number one national anthem is Whitney Houston, And it
Speaker 1: was just how like the number one of everything is
Speaker 1: a black person searched wise and that just when people
Speaker 1: talk to you you about women's tennis, it's like I only
Speaker 1: think Serena when you know when people say tennis, that's
Speaker 1: the first person to pop in my head. Yeah, okay, see,
Speaker 1: do you give us your number two pick? So I
Speaker 1: I admittedly don't know much about more than the event itself.
Speaker 1: But Derek Redman during the Olympics, and you guys have
Speaker 1: noticed that's not my list. Okay, yeah, well then chiming
Speaker 1: because I don't I don't know much other than like
Speaker 1: I would always see this in montages doing research for it,
Speaker 1: just on in the Wikipedia. I cried twice. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: just the basics. He in the Olympics, British runner, he
Speaker 1: his hamstring snapped, Oh my god, and midway through the
Speaker 1: race and his dad ran past security and had him
Speaker 1: and carried him because he was like, we have to
Speaker 1: finish this. The thing is he's he had a lot
Speaker 1: of injuries, this player. He was always surgeries. There was
Speaker 1: always like a lot of trauma. But he had beaten
Speaker 1: the it was the four race and he had British
Speaker 1: world records in it. He was like very good and
Speaker 1: then yeah, fucking snapped. He fell to the ground screaming
Speaker 1: and he was just like, I'm gonna fucking finish this race.
Speaker 1: And his dad helped him and they leaned and he
Speaker 1: limped his way to the end to a standing ovation
Speaker 1: in Barcelona and um, his dad actually lit the torch
Speaker 1: in the London Summer Games and yeah, so that was
Speaker 1: and it became just this moment um like it's been
Speaker 1: used in commercials everywhere and it's just this moment of
Speaker 1: um finishing. But he was disqualified. Obviously, you know, some
Speaker 1: wanted to help him, but wait, he didn't win. We
Speaker 1: did the most. He gets the gold medal. Those are
Speaker 1: the rules. Now, when we talked about how breaking that
Speaker 1: is because Olympics every four years, and you were like,
Speaker 1: you have these other events in between, but man, you
Speaker 1: are I on the Olympics. I'm thinking about the Olympians
Speaker 1: for this year. I just don't even have one, and like,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have it next year. But it's like,
Speaker 1: who knows what that does to their training, into their
Speaker 1: bodies and to the people who are like, you don't
Speaker 1: kind of pushing it age wise, like it's um that
Speaker 1: they should have tread no, because it's everywhere, from every
Speaker 1: It's like people from everywhere. You can't even bubble it up. No,
Speaker 1: And if they were going to bubble it up, I
Speaker 1: think I think the US they'd be like, we're not
Speaker 1: welcome like you're not invited. We would be we would
Speaker 1: have to do our own like COVID games. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: surprised we don't have zoom Olympics. What do you mean
Speaker 1: we should have zoom Olympics, Like people have to run back,
Speaker 1: like run the dash in their office or something. It's
Speaker 1: a stupid joke. I just know. It just sounded like
Speaker 1: something that you were trying to pitch for your job.
Speaker 1: Surely it's a good idea. Yeah that It also says
Speaker 1: so much about like parenthood and like well, yeah, because
Speaker 1: sacrifice could have been a coach, it could have been
Speaker 1: a lot of things, but because it was his father
Speaker 1: definitely ups the emotional um thing and being able to
Speaker 1: he's a sick just do it. Hat on as It's
Speaker 1: just like Nike must have been like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: the commercial for the next twenty years. Yeah. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: probably didn't have a hat on and they were like,
Speaker 1: you need the sun, you need a hat. No, there's
Speaker 1: a moment. There's a famous moment and Survivor the TV
Speaker 1: show where um Surrey like she's just not strong enough
Speaker 1: in her team obviously lost, but in her head she
Speaker 1: was like, I have to do this for my kids.
Speaker 1: My kids need to see me not give up. But
Speaker 1: then upon and she does finally get up on the
Speaker 1: thing and like finishes the race. But a part of
Speaker 1: me does think, like I don't know if I would.
Speaker 1: I know it's the thing we um admire, but I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know what what is the importance
Speaker 1: of finishing? Like I just I wonder the psychology and
Speaker 1: like what all of it means. I have the heart
Speaker 1: of a quitter? Um, But how you say that, I
Speaker 1: don't think so Okay, I mean, look at my office disarranging.
Speaker 1: You might just not care about how swears. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you're a quitter and everything I was about to say,
Speaker 1: you know, you keep writing scripts. That's what I have seen.
Speaker 1: You really bomb and you keep doing Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 1: working comedian is definitely now. I never mind. I know
Speaker 1: there is no end. There is no there's nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just what you're like mental illness. Hears you toward.
Speaker 1: It's like, listen, we're not going to do a marathon,
Speaker 1: but I'll I'll bomb in Wisconsin five nights today. I mean,
Speaker 1: I did my first show in six months the day
Speaker 1: that the smog and smoke was so bad in California.
Speaker 1: The air quality, they said was like smoking twenty packs
Speaker 1: to day, and I was like, well, I'm not canceling
Speaker 1: how many? How many people were there? Maybe because I'm
Speaker 1: bad at that, but I would say fifteen. Have you
Speaker 1: guys ever done a set where you had like fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes but you're bombing so hard to like, all right,
Speaker 1: eight minutes? And yeah, I had one. I've also had
Speaker 1: many bombs where I went over because I kept being like,
Speaker 1: I'll get them, let me get them, and it's like
Speaker 1: now I'm just bombing for longer and running the light
Speaker 1: and everyone hates me. Well, it's also like experience because
Speaker 1: when I was younger, I definitely have a moment where
Speaker 1: I had to waitress the show and then um, I
Speaker 1: went up bombed and then had to continue waitressing And
Speaker 1: what sucks about that? In my um like I didn't
Speaker 1: know how to get out of it. I kept and
Speaker 1: Ken Barnard took me aside and went, listen, this is
Speaker 1: I'm so glad I got this a device early on.
Speaker 1: He goes, they already don't like it, step back, change
Speaker 1: it up and do something different, Like what you're doing
Speaker 1: isn't working, and so now I feel I would keep
Speaker 1: like I'd be like, oh, well, you guys sucking hate me,
Speaker 1: Like I would kind of turn on them or funk
Speaker 1: with them or do something. And there's a comedy show.
Speaker 1: I mean, back then we didn't have a choice. But
Speaker 1: now I'm like, I don't want to see these people
Speaker 1: are like all the given like take their tickets and
Speaker 1: then go on stage. You know. It's just like, I
Speaker 1: feel like it's preventable. Now it's a little embarrassing. It's
Speaker 1: a little embarrassing, but so is Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: the things in our career, but um, yeah, shout out. Well.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember getting off stage at like a
Speaker 1: giant club and a guy being like, come here, and
Speaker 1: so I walk over and I'm like that's a good compliment,
Speaker 1: and he's like, can you give me a diet coke?
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't the waitress and he thought I was
Speaker 1: the waitress. What did you say? I go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll tell somebody. Of course, I was like, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: get somebody to get you know. I do. I mean,
Speaker 1: I do it because we're all humans. But sometimes I'll
Speaker 1: be standing waiting to go up and someone will be like,
Speaker 1: where's the bathroom and I'm like, just it's a their
Speaker 1: go away, like clearly about to Yeah, go up. But
Speaker 1: have you ever like hung out by the bathroom after
Speaker 1: a good set, No, hung out by the hung out
Speaker 1: in the common area, where you're like, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: some compliments, help and then you don't. Or you're like,
Speaker 1: maybe people want to meet me. That went well and
Speaker 1: then everyone's just zooming by you going to the chili's
Speaker 1: next door. Yeah, I hate those, like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you love this man. I bombed a nursing home once
Speaker 1: and afterwards this old woman goes, I mean, do you
Speaker 1: need some jokes? I can give you some Give me
Speaker 1: some jokes. Yeah, there are times where I have to
Speaker 1: We always talk about annoying audience numbers who come up
Speaker 1: and try to give you tags. I've taken a tiger too. Listen.
Speaker 1: People are like, I have this idea. I'm like, I'll
Speaker 1: hear it. I'm gonna hear it. May be good, all right.
Speaker 1: My number two pick is the Iowa Hawkeyes tradition of waving.
Speaker 1: So the Iowa hawk Eyes football stadium is built in
Speaker 1: a location and then directly across from the football stadium
Speaker 1: built a children's hospital. The university of Iowa did, and
Speaker 1: so after the first quarter of every single home football game,
Speaker 1: the entire stadium turns and waves to the children's hospital.
Speaker 1: And on game days only the children and the children's
Speaker 1: families are allowed in the hospital, and they like all
Speaker 1: they bring them all towards the windows and they all
Speaker 1: wave to each other, and really beautiful and magical. I
Speaker 1: can't believe I've never heard. Yeah, I mean it, it's
Speaker 1: definitely like a sensation, and it's considered. You know, college
Speaker 1: football has like a lot of traditions, and this is
Speaker 1: for sure considered the best one. And like I had
Speaker 1: to read an article today that was like miss about it.
Speaker 1: The Iowa Hawkeye football team did not build the children's hospital,
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, of course I didn't think of
Speaker 1: college football team built a children's hospital, but it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went viral a few years ago. It's really so wonderful.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I just love I don't love sick kids, obviously,
Speaker 1: don't want kids to be sick, but like athletes interacting
Speaker 1: with children that are like going through such a difficult
Speaker 1: thing is always so beautiful to see. Athinks there are
Speaker 1: a sign of hope and for the whole stadium to
Speaker 1: acknowledge that is just yeah. I mean it's so good
Speaker 1: that we on the House of Highlights again, Like we're
Speaker 1: picky about what we post, like we posted every time.
Speaker 1: There's nothing different about it each time. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: just sweet and makes everybody feel good. Yeah, so let's
Speaker 1: take a quick back. Well huh, let's take a break.
Speaker 1: See this is like your dream come true. Um, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and then we'll be back with
Speaker 1: our number one picks. Okay, and we are back. Our
Speaker 1: number one picks are up and ready to go. CEJ,
Speaker 1: do you have any honorable mentions? I mean, all of
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill's Super bowls I keep own is sad
Speaker 1: and I didn't Granted I didn't cry when that was happening.
Speaker 1: I cried when I watched that documentary. It is one
Speaker 1: of the four falls of Buffalo. That's what's called right
Speaker 1: something like that. But um, yeah, the Bill's gone with
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl four times in a row and losing
Speaker 1: each time. Is if I was a Bills fan, like
Speaker 1: I would cry every time. You know what my parents did, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they became said we we got to get off this trade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got a worst team. We're going to root for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they would be happy if the Bills one. Right, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and we still like the Bills are their second favorite
Speaker 1: team for sure. They still want them to do. I
Speaker 1: have Bills gear. Oh, I love the Gears so good. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get Bills had after this. I think the
Speaker 1: Sabers Gears like Buffalo does have. Um oh, I think
Speaker 1: New Era is Yeah, they're oh interesting friends, were friends
Speaker 1: with my sister and her husband. Well, a lot of
Speaker 1: Buffalo connections. Violet Violet, Yes, okay, um Home of Violence
Speaker 1: subs um c J. So that's your honorable mention? And
Speaker 1: then do you have your number one pick? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry it made me cry the most, but the NBA
Speaker 1: Finals Game seven, uh yeah. And I don't need to
Speaker 1: explain it much anymore. I've said it so many times
Speaker 1: in this podcast. But I was working at Bleacher Report
Speaker 1: two weeks in, you know, taking out his trash um
Speaker 1: that happens when you record outside. But and I didn't
Speaker 1: know it was gonna cry. It wasn't like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: cry if they're gonna win. Like again, it was two
Speaker 1: weeks in. It was I was working with employees or
Speaker 1: co workers. I just met they don't know anything about
Speaker 1: me really, and we're watching the game and it happened.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't believe. I wasn't going to believe it
Speaker 1: until it happened, and then just again, it was a
Speaker 1: flood of what it all meant. And it was like
Speaker 1: Lebron coming back to his hometown, coming back from three one,
Speaker 1: which at that time was not like it never happened
Speaker 1: in boards and winning it for his hometown. And that
Speaker 1: was his promise when he came back, he went in
Speaker 1: front of all of Ohio and promised that he wasn't
Speaker 1: leaving into or he was gonna win one for them.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to put words in his not but
Speaker 1: like because he did leave, but yeah, he promised he
Speaker 1: was gonna win one again. A guy who already has
Speaker 1: had so much pressure in his life doesn't owe anything
Speaker 1: to anybody, and promised that added that pressure to him
Speaker 1: and he won. He and he wanted under such insane odds. Well,
Speaker 1: we have a famous story that our friends are married
Speaker 1: from Cleveland and he cried when when the game happened,
Speaker 1: but she got mad because he did not cry at
Speaker 1: their wedding. Also did not cry at her Yes I did,
Speaker 1: I did not see a dear. I mean I did,
Speaker 1: but I mean, yeah, but tell people about your I
Speaker 1: g story pool the other day. What what was it
Speaker 1: about the Lebron And oh yeah, I did a I
Speaker 1: did a poll that says the c J loved me
Speaker 1: or Lebron more, and it was like seventy Ubron. I'm
Speaker 1: that's fine. I'm okay with that. They I hope they
Speaker 1: were a kidding And it's not true. I don't even
Speaker 1: care if it is teaching. He's don't a lot more
Speaker 1: with his life. So and and I really like Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I grew up ninety miles outside of it. And I
Speaker 1: think they're owed. They deserve to win. There's no three
Speaker 1: people not from Cleveland that love Cleveland more than the
Speaker 1: three of us. Right here, ye multipland stands. We write
Speaker 1: a heart for Cleveland. We decorated a friend's home in
Speaker 1: Cleveland gear this past week. Everyone during the pandemic is
Speaker 1: like I missed New York, I missed traveling, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to Cleveland, Like truly, I have a
Speaker 1: lot of work and love the comedy there, love the
Speaker 1: food there, love the food. They're they're listen, They're not
Speaker 1: giving up sweets they're they're going hard for sweets. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind if the Indians. I mean, i'd root for
Speaker 1: the Indians. Uh. I don't know if i'd root for
Speaker 1: them over the Dodgers, but I'd root for the Indians
Speaker 1: for right now. I root for the Indians to change
Speaker 1: their name and then and then I root for them.
Speaker 1: I wish them well. After that, I bought a mustard
Speaker 1: from that shade, Jacob Jacob mustard. What's so special about it? Spicy?
Speaker 1: A good mustard, but you know it has an offensive
Speaker 1: label on it at least. And I went to like
Speaker 1: the uncorking of the Christmas Ale like we ares um. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now I am. I have three honorable mentions. Tyler Trent,
Speaker 1: who was a Purdue football super fan who got bone
Speaker 1: cancer and then became like friends with the team. The
Speaker 1: Colts owner flew him and his family on his plane
Speaker 1: to be able to see produe play. He has since
Speaker 1: passed away, but you know, he was twenty, so he
Speaker 1: was like old enough to be their friends, like they
Speaker 1: were peers, not like, oh, you're like a mascot. And
Speaker 1: I just he just became like such a symbol of
Speaker 1: like strength for almost like the entire state of Indiana,
Speaker 1: and um, yeah when he when he passed it, really
Speaker 1: I cried and I was I was sad for sure.
Speaker 1: Serena Williams making her return to Indian Wells in two
Speaker 1: thousand one, it was just a complete catastrophe and like
Speaker 1: racial things being yelled at her and and Venus and
Speaker 1: her dad while they sat and watched her. And so
Speaker 1: the sisters vowed to never go to Indian Wells ever again.
Speaker 1: And then she made her return thirteen years later and
Speaker 1: like amazing signs and was welcomed back and and I
Speaker 1: think the fan turnover had changed, Like I are as
Speaker 1: a country, we knew like maybe a little bit more
Speaker 1: about how ingrained racism was. But she cried before the
Speaker 1: match even started, like she just walked out there and
Speaker 1: and I think she genuinely felt like I'm happy to
Speaker 1: be back here and they are happy to have me.
Speaker 1: And then when Steph Curry made like promised that young
Speaker 1: girl that he would make girls shoes. I love that
Speaker 1: she wrote a letter and was like, why aren't there
Speaker 1: any girls shoes? And then he like met her. I
Speaker 1: think center a bunch of stuff. Yeah, I think they
Speaker 1: could have met, but yeah, then sent her a bunch
Speaker 1: of female specific and then he vowed to make female
Speaker 1: basketball ships a lot of strides in that because of
Speaker 1: that moment, yes, absolutely. And then my number one moment
Speaker 1: is Stewart Scott accepting the Jimmy V Award at the
Speaker 1: two thousand and fourteen SPS. We were actually at a
Speaker 1: Mexican restaurant in New York and SPS was on and
Speaker 1: Stewart Scott was battling like late stage cancer at that
Speaker 1: point and gave such a beautiful speech. His teenage daughters
Speaker 1: were there, and he said like I am here because
Speaker 1: of you. You are my heartbeat and someone who was
Speaker 1: like so funny, so cool, you know, dying and being
Speaker 1: extremely vulnerable and thankful for all of like the blessings
Speaker 1: in his life. And I mean the SPS just is
Speaker 1: like a good I mean I've stood backstage and cried
Speaker 1: at them. They just like Pat Summit had an incredible
Speaker 1: Arthur Ash acceptance. They're like they just really do tear
Speaker 1: jerkers beautifully. Jimmy V one that like launched it all.
Speaker 1: But Stewart Scott watching him give that speech, I I
Speaker 1: like sobbed beginning to end, like even just thinking about
Speaker 1: his life and his passing brings me to tears, and
Speaker 1: I just love him and really miss him. What's great
Speaker 1: is I'm not even gonna try since one of mine
Speaker 1: was taken. I've been like, uh one of my doing,
Speaker 1: trying to think, and I found a you know, a
Speaker 1: Bleacher Report list, and I want to cry at all
Speaker 1: of them are really good. I can't wait to watch him.
Speaker 1: It's like cal Ripkins Final at bat. I want to
Speaker 1: watch that. There's one where these this high school girls
Speaker 1: carrying another one. There's a lot of like coming back
Speaker 1: after injuries and like dad's dying and stuff a little
Speaker 1: so the same. You know, these all seem really great.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick to what I know. And it is
Speaker 1: a movie, so that sex. But I do cry remember
Speaker 1: the Titans a lot. But and this might be controversial
Speaker 1: because there's obviously like White Savior of stuff on it,
Speaker 1: but the end of the blind Side when they show
Speaker 1: the real version of him being drafted really makes me
Speaker 1: cry every time. And then I wish I had more
Speaker 1: specific names. But anyone getting drafted and that and like
Speaker 1: the beginning of someone's dreams coming true. Um always I
Speaker 1: like that, So I would say drafts. Drafts are great
Speaker 1: Our friend A J who we had on the podcast,
Speaker 1: did this incredible thing. I think it was like three
Speaker 1: drafts ago where she had people from the football players
Speaker 1: lives right then letters and so they got drafted and
Speaker 1: then they came off stage and they read these letters
Speaker 1: from their mom, their high school coach, whoever it was,
Speaker 1: and it was like the most magical, amazing thing because
Speaker 1: they most of these guys have lived through incredible adversity
Speaker 1: and have had someone like in their corner, and then
Speaker 1: this person that was in their corner is being like,
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you this. You are one in
Speaker 1: a million, you like made it happen. Yeah, it's really
Speaker 1: because if you said a movie, I want to say
Speaker 1: one from a documentary. Remember Undefeated, Um, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I gotta watch it. I mean everyone's gotta watch. I
Speaker 1: don't know it won an Oscar and no one. It's
Speaker 1: about a high school football team in Memphis, Um, and
Speaker 1: like U inter city team and who who never won
Speaker 1: in this one player who was like the Rudy he's
Speaker 1: actually still pretty good and they go to his house
Speaker 1: throughout the movie and it's just like falling aparties, you know,
Speaker 1: from a poor family and he like tours a c
Speaker 1: L or something, and but he's like a really good
Speaker 1: student and didn't he didn't expect to go to college.
Speaker 1: And right before practice, when he was coming back, they
Speaker 1: get word that he's all four years of his college
Speaker 1: is going to be paid for by an anonymous guy
Speaker 1: who I think is puff Daddy. He was a producer
Speaker 1: a piece. But it is like that movie is so
Speaker 1: good from it has the funniest moments and very very
Speaker 1: sad and beautiful. Yeah yeah, and the pine Side it's
Speaker 1: like a controversial moment. But I did like the movie
Speaker 1: and that it is based in fact. I don't know.
Speaker 1: The last time I saw The blind Side was at
Speaker 1: a dry bar in Indianapolis. That was the movie they
Speaker 1: were playing, and I'm like, this is the perfect movie
Speaker 1: for a bar in Indiana, just like white women getting
Speaker 1: their blonde hair blown out, being like we are good,
Speaker 1: we are see, we're pretty good. That Sandra. I just
Speaker 1: you know, and get getting siblings in the meetings of
Speaker 1: the like and what school he went to. I just
Speaker 1: loved it all. Yeah, and he's a real guy and
Speaker 1: and for a bowl, I didn't know that For all movies,
Speaker 1: I love when they show at the end the real
Speaker 1: life of what was happening, like, that's always great. Wait
Speaker 1: team to win a Super BOWLS. I was also going
Speaker 1: to say I heard Rudy is a dick. I'm sure
Speaker 1: I never liked Rudy the film. I don't care or
Speaker 1: I don't care about Notre Dame as a whole. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't sorry, Irish Catholic from Indiana and guess what,
Speaker 1: Notre Dame you can go fun yourself with you when
Speaker 1: your touchdown. Jesus Well, Lisa, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being on the show. I'm sorry I ended with a
Speaker 1: controversial movie pick. But but you like the real life guy? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do. That's very nice. Um. Do you want to
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Speaker 1: but we have a stylist in common. That thing cut
Speaker 1: my hair the other day. Well, you have you You
Speaker 1: seem to have allergies to things that I didn't know
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Speaker 1: I've warned my Clyde one or my Megan one. But yeah, Megan, Oh,
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Speaker 1: promising we're going to do Great as Canadian for like
Speaker 1: six months. We will do it, but if you have
Speaker 1: any other ideas, please you. Is he Canadian? That's the
Speaker 1: thing I gotta like. Yeah, I gotta like it would
Speaker 1: be mostly hockey, I think yes, and then maybe Mike
Speaker 1: Myers curling. There's there's some ice skating blows. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: some Canadian basketball players for sure, Steve Nash Okay, see
Speaker 1: Jake name more Canadians. Do you want people to people?
Speaker 1: Um the sending suggestions of what to do not as
Speaker 1: much as I'd like. Yeah, well they do, and they
Speaker 1: send some picks that we forgot, which are always helpful
Speaker 1: and cool. But yes, send top. People have been accusing
Speaker 1: me of sounding drunk you know when I'm sober. You know,
Speaker 1: we get we get some fan interaction, and we always
Speaker 1: want more. Always we want more fan interaction. We want
Speaker 1: you guys to do our work for us, because it
Speaker 1: is hard coming up with it is, but this is
Speaker 1: a great topic. Pick from you. You suggested it. Um.
Speaker 1: You can follow me at c J Toldono on everything. Okay, awesome,
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Speaker 1: sure you're registered to vote and you've got all of
Speaker 1: that situated. If you are healthy and well enough to
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