Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Greatest. That's the end
Speaker 1: of the title with C. J. Toldano and my wife
Speaker 1: Megan Gaily. Everybody. I've been corrected on that before, so no,
Speaker 1: you know what you know that last week I made
Speaker 1: a promise here going forward, it's something going to be
Speaker 1: positive thoughts and not even constructive criticism anymore, just love. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring our guest on because I do want
Speaker 1: to talk to him about this, because he also has
Speaker 1: a wife who also does comedy and does projects with
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. We are very very happy to have
Speaker 1: on an old friend. He's a writer for south Side,
Speaker 1: has his own special power. Um. You will probably know
Speaker 1: him from Two Black Dudes and Open Mic. Yeah, the kid,
Speaker 1: what's up? Well? How you doing? Man? Good? Good good?
Speaker 1: I see where I see Megan and the pacers. Nice job.
Speaker 1: As as a virtual fan, by the way, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Oh wow, Yeah, I gotta tell here. Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk to you and then I'll tell about my
Speaker 1: little virtual fan experience because it only ended like thirty
Speaker 1: minutes ago. Yeah, still writing that high Will is in
Speaker 1: his backyard and his beautiful home where I'm guessing your daughter.
Speaker 1: Your daughter is snapping. Yeah, she's napping in the side,
Speaker 1: so I'm not here. You're a new father. You're a
Speaker 1: new father. Got a three weeks, four weeks, just hit
Speaker 1: the months the mark. Yeah, yeah, how does it feel?
Speaker 1: It feels good. It's uh, it's like it's still weird
Speaker 1: because it's like, oh, I'm you think every second you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm just me, regular me, and oh shoot, I'm a
Speaker 1: dad who isn't Well, you're still you, but yeah, you
Speaker 1: have that tact on responsibility. But you're going to be
Speaker 1: a father through the lens of Will Miles exactly. That's
Speaker 1: so weird to think about. It's like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: knew I was gonna be always be like a father,
Speaker 1: but I was always You never expect that you're going
Speaker 1: to be like, you know who you are and a
Speaker 1: father at the same time. You imagine there'll be some
Speaker 1: sort of like freaky Friday situation and then you'll just
Speaker 1: be carrying the baby in a three piece suit and
Speaker 1: know how to do everything, and it's like, oh, nope,
Speaker 1: just Scott weed in the baby's hair. Um, we came
Speaker 1: over to socially distant meet your daughter in your backyard,
Speaker 1: and you were holding her so confidently, and c J goes,
Speaker 1: how's he holding her like a football? Which is like
Speaker 1: I was. So sometimes you see Dad's and it's like,
Speaker 1: oh boy, there this they're holding it like the damn
Speaker 1: sack of flower. But you had Stella you were doing
Speaker 1: moves with Are you at all let it down? I
Speaker 1: had some practice. My nieces are eleven pretty soon. So
Speaker 1: when I would like sort of sneak sneak to New
Speaker 1: York and be like gone for so long because I
Speaker 1: knew I could stay there if I babysat my brother
Speaker 1: and his wife. So I was like, all right, well
Speaker 1: here's the good reason to go to New York repeatedly,
Speaker 1: and so I just I had to be good at
Speaker 1: it in order to like sleep there and do comedy
Speaker 1: at night. So I was like, let me figure this out.
Speaker 1: That is a good trade off, because those are skills
Speaker 1: that you picked up in that you're now using for
Speaker 1: your own children, your own child wild Now, does does
Speaker 1: Stilla have sporty gear? Does she have bull stuff? She has? Uh?
Speaker 1: Does she have bull stuff? I think I know she
Speaker 1: has basketball items. I believe you guys got us some
Speaker 1: as well, And I think I got you like that.
Speaker 1: I think I got you like practical stuff. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like there was one like you guys got
Speaker 1: practical and there was one or two. Okay, yeah, he'll slip,
Speaker 1: he'll slip in. So Kyrie spongebobs for kids, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: where did this come from? My brother actually got my
Speaker 1: niece some uh some what was it? Like some Tiger Kyrie's.
Speaker 1: They were for children and we were so excited to
Speaker 1: have her open those up and she didn't care at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I already I am looking at like goat baby sneakers.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah, So how how are you going
Speaker 1: about that? Are you just gonna, you know, dress her
Speaker 1: up and all all the type of gear, the fashion
Speaker 1: that you like and then see how she likes it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping to influence her in some way with how
Speaker 1: she dresses, trying to raise a little lean away. But well,
Speaker 1: you and Julie are pretty fashionable. I think it'll just
Speaker 1: rub off naturally, I hope. So yeah, yeah that'd be great,
Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, but she gets pick her own style
Speaker 1: whenever she wants, absolutely absolutely. Yeah. Uh So Chicago basketball,
Speaker 1: I feel like the topic for anyone who didn't read
Speaker 1: the title is greatest Chicago sports Moments. Oh, there may
Speaker 1: be people that read the title and said, no, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be in this circulture of them just
Speaker 1: talking about Chicago. Yeah, because it's if you are not
Speaker 1: in the comedy community, you may not know how annoying
Speaker 1: people from Chicago come across. Um, and I'm c J
Speaker 1: and are not from Chicago. We are comedically considered from Chicago,
Speaker 1: and people hate us. Like the group of us. We're loud,
Speaker 1: we're annoying, we show up late, we are funnier than
Speaker 1: most people, and we have bad attitudes and we definitely
Speaker 1: take over a room. Um. So sometimes you know, they'll
Speaker 1: be some of us roll in and you'll see eyes
Speaker 1: roll and they're right. Those people are right. If I
Speaker 1: was not part of the Chicago comedy scene, I would
Speaker 1: also hate our crew. Yeah. So it's like, you guys
Speaker 1: are correct, we are annoying, But Chicago sports fans that
Speaker 1: is a whole another level of obnoxious. Well, I just
Speaker 1: think to the comedy thing. It is. It's hard because
Speaker 1: we all came up around the same time and all
Speaker 1: started doing well around the same time, so we were
Speaker 1: all like we went from all being an open mics
Speaker 1: being friends, which everybody an open mics was friends is
Speaker 1: super annoying. But then when you carried it over to like,
Speaker 1: oh no, now we're all in Montreal, or we're all
Speaker 1: now we're all on this Comedy Central set, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: we're still the same annoying open micers. We just all
Speaker 1: have now done things. We're scared and nervous, and we
Speaker 1: were gonna, you know, latch onto our friends we started
Speaker 1: out with, Yeah, exactly, it just so happens they're still around.
Speaker 1: It's great now. Oh sorry, you you love Chicago though,
Speaker 1: you love where you're from. Some people don't love where
Speaker 1: they're from. But you really represent Chicago. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: And you are from boys Town. I mean when you
Speaker 1: were growing up, would you guys say lake View or
Speaker 1: Boys Town? We would say, you know, I think lake View,
Speaker 1: because I don't know how many people said boys don't.
Speaker 1: I always thought it maybe was like a mean thing
Speaker 1: to say. It was like, oh, man, Boystown, you can't
Speaker 1: call me from like Boystown. Yeah, but you were a
Speaker 1: boy and you were from that town exactly. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: boys Town in Chicago is sort of like the gay neighborhood,
Speaker 1: tons of gay bars, that's where Pride, the everything goes
Speaker 1: through there. Very very fun. It's in the overall Lakeview neighborhood,
Speaker 1: which then like butts up exactly next to Wrigley Field.
Speaker 1: So it's the northeast corridor of Chicago where Will is from.
Speaker 1: And Andy, I mean, yeah, Born raised. It's you're You're
Speaker 1: actually probably when of the least annoying Chicago sports fans
Speaker 1: I've ever encountered. Though it's got to be Cubs fans,
Speaker 1: especially to super annoying people in general. Now do you
Speaker 1: do you get like a chip on your shoulder because
Speaker 1: you're from like right by the state? Um? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I love the Cubs, but also I I
Speaker 1: understand the full hatred for their fan base because I mean,
Speaker 1: like we were even saying because we're trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: figure out volume levels for raising our kids child and
Speaker 1: uh and I'm like, well, I grew up near Wrigley Fields,
Speaker 1: so I don't know what that's like because people were
Speaker 1: drunk screaming my entire life outside of my croom window.
Speaker 1: So I have no like context for like, oh it
Speaker 1: should be quiet for a baby. It's like, well, I
Speaker 1: never was quiet for me, So I have no idea,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, maybe it's good to get used to
Speaker 1: like drunk assholes leaving some of the first night games
Speaker 1: ever in field. I really do think that's part of
Speaker 1: why we, you know, have pounces success in comedy is
Speaker 1: that most of the shows we were doing, we're just
Speaker 1: bars that had just got done watching a Cubs Bowls,
Speaker 1: Blackhawks Bears game and now surprise, a comedy show with
Speaker 1: a bunch of people who have just started and we
Speaker 1: were trying to vince them and yell over them and
Speaker 1: they're all wasted. Yeah. But yeah, I I love the clubs,
Speaker 1: but yeah, again, hatred of the fans. And the thing
Speaker 1: I noticed growing up was how many fans were not
Speaker 1: from Chicago. Like it's a lot of Illinois at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're moving from Iowa or like you know, not probably
Speaker 1: Indiana because they've got their own No, No, there's tons
Speaker 1: of I mean, we don't have a baseball team, so
Speaker 1: it's kind of split between the Cubs and the Reds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's way more I would say Indianapolis if you
Speaker 1: were like going around and asking people Cups fans, but
Speaker 1: they have no knowledge of anything that's happening. They just
Speaker 1: want to get sucked up. Yeah, And I think the
Speaker 1: team was different, which will go into one of my
Speaker 1: sports things. But like the teams and the and the
Speaker 1: fans were different when I was a kid. I'm almost
Speaker 1: certain when I was an adult, when we were doing comedy,
Speaker 1: everybody was like pretty one note. I felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: like land and White most fans, and I don't remember
Speaker 1: them being that way growing up now. When Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year came out, was that. I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: even imagine a movie being about me as a child. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what was that? Like? Huge? And I kind of remember
Speaker 1: when they were filming it because it was it's so big,
Speaker 1: and you know, that's the movie. We all everybody at
Speaker 1: school at least watched it and try to do the
Speaker 1: arm thing. We all thought we're gonna break our arms
Speaker 1: and sad was gonna be amazing for our career. It's
Speaker 1: like a baseball player. But they also shot Babe down
Speaker 1: the Street from me too, Why in the City Babe,
Speaker 1: the one with John Goodman, the other Babe my bad.
Speaker 1: In my defense, the Babe Pig movie is much more
Speaker 1: famous than the Babe Babe Ruth movie. Yes, wait, Why
Speaker 1: did they shoot it in your hometown? He didn't play
Speaker 1: in Chicago? Are you playing? I know? I never under
Speaker 1: really is the shittiest looking stadium. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: the most historical looking stadium, and so they it looks
Speaker 1: like it's in the nineteenth century exactly. They didn't have
Speaker 1: to change much. But I just remember some somebody coming
Speaker 1: outside or like our neighbor was one of my friends
Speaker 1: from elementary school, was like, uh, you know, they're shooting
Speaker 1: babe down the street. The dad from Rosanna's Houseide, the
Speaker 1: dad from Roseanne has a name, and it's that's what
Speaker 1: you said. Um were you? Was there ever a point
Speaker 1: that you were like, the White Sox are cool? Though? Nah?
Speaker 1: I mean oh five, yeah, as an adult, but never
Speaker 1: as a kid. As a kid, it was always like,
Speaker 1: I can't even understand how you could like the White Sox.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. I don't know that's ingrained in US
Speaker 1: so early. The sports team ship where you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I guess I hate the other team well and then yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean. The thing is like in the nineties, I
Speaker 1: didn't think there was any other basketball teams besides the Bowls.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't even live I lived in Iowa
Speaker 1: for when I was born in eighties seven, and Iowa
Speaker 1: lived there for five years, but it was just WJ
Speaker 1: and so that was the only team that was being played. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what was it like? That's what this is why
Speaker 1: I always ask our friends who grew up in Chicago,
Speaker 1: what was it like being a Bowls fan in the
Speaker 1: nineties as a kid? Amazing in the eighties, well, because
Speaker 1: like late eighties is when we started to get good.
Speaker 1: The nineties when we were the best, And it is truly,
Speaker 1: you don't know how amazing your squad is until you
Speaker 1: realize that other people didn't grow up like that. Like
Speaker 1: I had family in New York and they were Knicks fans,
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, oh my god, you must be
Speaker 1: so miserable. We'd beat you every time. This must suck.
Speaker 1: Your life must be terrible as a result of us
Speaker 1: constantly just sucking you over and winning championships. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, sorry the other fans, No, Megan. Megan went silent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I know. Well, you know, I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to practice something in my own life where when men
Speaker 1: are speaking, I like to I like to just you know,
Speaker 1: get a little quiet and listen to them, and maybe
Speaker 1: I can learn and maybe I can grow from from
Speaker 1: the smart men around people and listening to you ears open, eyes, open,
Speaker 1: heart open, let all of the masculine bulls dick sucking
Speaker 1: flow into and were fun to watch. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Know it's it's fine. I honestly like, as a kid
Speaker 1: who you grow up with your team not winning all
Speaker 1: the time, you start to understand adversity and like I
Speaker 1: played sports growing up and I would lose, and then
Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh, okay, Reggie's lost to you know,
Speaker 1: like you do you kind of like learn how that
Speaker 1: Once I didn't get a dollhouse. My mom got caned
Speaker 1: by a con man and um, it's a long story.
Speaker 1: And I was supposed I was supposed to get a
Speaker 1: dollhouse for like my it was like Christmas my when
Speaker 1: I was four, and it didn't come. And my aunt
Speaker 1: was like, well, it's time she starts learning about disappointment
Speaker 1: in life. Um, and like that's harsh, but it's true.
Speaker 1: Like growing up watching teams that lose and it's not
Speaker 1: like these were terrible teams, but you do start to
Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, I'm not gonna win all the time,
Speaker 1: everything isn't gonna go my way. Um, but like that,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm telling you that as a white woman
Speaker 1: from Indiana to a black man from Chicago, You're like,
Speaker 1: you just let my team win. I've got enough ship
Speaker 1: going wrong for me. Okay, but yeah, no, the teams
Speaker 1: were all like it must be such a different lesson
Speaker 1: back then because the teams were so good. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess the teams are really good now we're watching
Speaker 1: the weird version of it. But they were. Everybody was
Speaker 1: like championship level back then, like the best player ever.
Speaker 1: When you see and not so much now, but like
Speaker 1: a few years ago, when you would see kids at
Speaker 1: Warriors games, it'd be like, fuck you kid, you don't
Speaker 1: deserve it. You don't deserve first of all, you're rich.
Speaker 1: Second of all, your parents suck, and you don't deserve
Speaker 1: to get to be in this building just watching this
Speaker 1: dominant team. You haven't earned it. But but if I
Speaker 1: saw a little you at a Bulls game, I don't
Speaker 1: think I would think you suck, I know, but probably
Speaker 1: because it was just a bunch of like winners gloating
Speaker 1: over and over again. That's I wonder if there is
Speaker 1: like a if there's a correlation with a lot of
Speaker 1: famous comedians are out of Chicago, especially in the eighties
Speaker 1: and nineties, like and then obviously our group that we
Speaker 1: talked about. Do you think any of it there's a
Speaker 1: correlation to winning sports teams. Yeah, we we tasted winning
Speaker 1: early on, especially Chicago Stadium Bulls. That was the first
Speaker 1: few change when we had access to the stadium that
Speaker 1: a lot of like everybody lost access after when it
Speaker 1: moved to the United Center because it just it seemed
Speaker 1: like a much richer place and it was like a
Speaker 1: lot of uh, we were really big by then, so
Speaker 1: everybody wanted to come to a Bulls gamp those first
Speaker 1: three three championship seasons when you could still get tickets
Speaker 1: to a game, it was pretty incredible because it was
Speaker 1: like everybody in the whole city was seeing just winners.
Speaker 1: So no matter where you were, you're like, I guess
Speaker 1: I could win. Winning creates like delusion kind of and
Speaker 1: delusion is something that's actually quite important in what we do.
Speaker 1: But you have to have kind of like the right amount.
Speaker 1: If you have too much, oh boy, and if you
Speaker 1: have not enough, you know, so like there is a
Speaker 1: sweet spot of of delusion and I'm happy that you,
Speaker 1: growing up as a winner, did not like overshoot your delusion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you saw like the wind the people who were
Speaker 1: they even overshot it or undershot it, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna peak in high school probably those kind of people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta believe. And your delusion is such an important
Speaker 1: thing to think, like, I'm gonna make it at all,
Speaker 1: so stupid if you really think about it. But then
Speaker 1: you're like what you do now? When we we decided
Speaker 1: or you just we we wanted to pick a topic
Speaker 1: that was gonna be not labor intensive research wise, for
Speaker 1: for you specifically because you have a baby and we
Speaker 1: love you and we wanted you to do the podcast
Speaker 1: so badly that we kind of, you know, give you
Speaker 1: a little softball. Um. But it was. But it also
Speaker 1: made me think of a topic that I'd like to
Speaker 1: do in the future, which is greatest sports city because
Speaker 1: people have real strong opinions when it comes to the Boston's,
Speaker 1: the Phillies, the New York's, the Chicago's. Of course l
Speaker 1: A wants to be in there. I'm sure places in
Speaker 1: Texas think they deserve to be in there. I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm I'm from a great d C. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: lots of um. But since we have you, I'm putting
Speaker 1: you on the spot with this. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: Chicago is the greatest sports city? Uh? I mean I
Speaker 1: want to say yes, just because I in my lifetime
Speaker 1: I've seen every team win a championship, which feels good.
Speaker 1: That's pretty amazing. Since so I do think, yeah, in
Speaker 1: the past thirty seven years, we've been the hell of
Speaker 1: a sport city on everything. Well, and like we we've
Speaker 1: all lived in New York and now in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: in addition to Chicago, and you kind of see how
Speaker 1: the city reacts differently, like and I know, of course
Speaker 1: New York in l A has lots of transplants, so
Speaker 1: when the Dodgers are in, it's not gonna like be.
Speaker 1: But even in even in Chicago, when there's not Chicago
Speaker 1: teams in the in the Finals, or in the super
Speaker 1: Bowl or in the World Series, the city shuts down
Speaker 1: like we would not have shows may be like oh,
Speaker 1: Wednesdays in in jail in June k is gonna be
Speaker 1: canceled because they'll be the Finals happening, and and out
Speaker 1: here it's like the Rams were in the super Bowl
Speaker 1: and it was business as usual, like totally normal out here.
Speaker 1: I said that to a lift driver as it was happening,
Speaker 1: because I think I flew back from somewhere the day
Speaker 1: that the rams were like around the time it was
Speaker 1: like super Bowls next week, and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: who's in the super Bowl this year? And he was like,
Speaker 1: we are, And I was like, really, like the ship,
Speaker 1: I don't see anything nothing. I was like, damn, I'm
Speaker 1: not paying attention, I guess, and neither of the whole city. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean like, yeah, they left, they
Speaker 1: came back. You know. I think if you got into
Speaker 1: like the muddiness of I mean teams, it would be
Speaker 1: wild to me if a professional team left Chicago, ever,
Speaker 1: that would be like like that would be the last
Speaker 1: chapter of Sure, yeah that would make sense. Oh the
Speaker 1: Bowls are leaving. Okay, yeah that makes sense. Like before
Speaker 1: we get to the topic, I do want to ask
Speaker 1: you this, because this is the one bright thing of
Speaker 1: the last few months. Was the last dance? How did
Speaker 1: you feel about the last dance? What was your favorite part? Uh?
Speaker 1: Favorite parts were just kind of everything. But I loved
Speaker 1: how because michaels or in such an asshole. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it was like you could kind of see it, but
Speaker 1: also you got to see him explain why he was
Speaker 1: an asshole. So that was hope for me to watch, like,
Speaker 1: oh man, good, you are a dick. You will admit it,
Speaker 1: and you had like lied to make things happen, but
Speaker 1: it's like, I guess it worked. I don't. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just kind of fun seeing him be aware of
Speaker 1: that because we were it was always like speculation that
Speaker 1: he was an asshole and you're like, oh, no, he
Speaker 1: needed to be an asshole to be the best, and
Speaker 1: he was. Um, did Julia your wife watch the last
Speaker 1: dance as well? Yeah? She was right there, and what
Speaker 1: was what was her reaction like to it? She obviously
Speaker 1: didn't care as much, but she was watching me be
Speaker 1: so excited that she was like huh, that's weird because
Speaker 1: like every and and it was the thing that I'm
Speaker 1: sure every Chicago like uh, wife of somebody from Chicago,
Speaker 1: husband and somebody from Chicago experience where it's like I
Speaker 1: was there or like I remember that day like yeah,
Speaker 1: because I yeah, there are so many experiences in there
Speaker 1: where I was like, oh yeah, I forgot like I
Speaker 1: was there for a lot of the Chicago stadium stuff.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. I mean yeah, even for you, Megan, it
Speaker 1: was like when we got to the Pacers stuff, you
Speaker 1: were like, oh, I remember that day, and you know,
Speaker 1: watching it on this Would Square arena, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I miss you. Yeah, loud, dirty giant piece of crap.
Speaker 1: I miss you so much. It was great wondering if
Speaker 1: I might have gone to Market Square even back then,
Speaker 1: three hours down to see a little road Bulls game.
Speaker 1: That sounds fun as hell. Yeah, go eat at I
Speaker 1: don't know. We probably had a chance downtown or something that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say cheesecake factory. We didn't have cheesecake
Speaker 1: factory back then. Is that new? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I would love to know where the original one is.
Speaker 1: That seems like a trip you and I will take.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, yeah, I think so, yeah, because I think
Speaker 1: the owner is from Mountain Here. Um, okay, so let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and then we'll be back with
Speaker 1: our picks. And we're back, and as a reminder, we
Speaker 1: are doing greatest Chicago sports moments with our guest here,
Speaker 1: Will Miles. Will, why don't you kick us off with
Speaker 1: your your third pick? We'll go three to third Pig
Speaker 1: in Chicago sports history is a well, actually all of
Speaker 1: them might be personal. Number three is when I saw
Speaker 1: Andre Dawson and On Dunstan in my barbershop. Whoa ho ship,
Speaker 1: Yeah you we talked about this. This is I like
Speaker 1: I thought when you said weirdly specific, I thought you
Speaker 1: meant like games you were, well, stay on the same
Speaker 1: time you're in and by your barbershop. You don't work there.
Speaker 1: It's just weird, Okay, it's the one I go to.
Speaker 1: It's the one I went to Terrell's barbershop, which was
Speaker 1: at the Sheridan Red Line stop from Wrigley. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I just remember one day, like my brother had been
Speaker 1: going there for years because he's six years older, so
Speaker 1: it was his barbershop first. And then I was like
Speaker 1: all right, I think I started going at like three
Speaker 1: or four years old, every black kid, and and then
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I just walked in one day and like
Speaker 1: Andre Dustin was in Terrell's chair, and I think Sean
Speaker 1: was like waiting or like my dad and I used
Speaker 1: to always call him schiwan because that's how it's spelled,
Speaker 1: but like he was way and I was just remember
Speaker 1: being like, what the fuck? These are like absolute heroes.
Speaker 1: They were two of the biggest like ever at the time.
Speaker 1: I couldn't They were their biggest players I ever saw
Speaker 1: at the time. Ever, I was like, these are these
Speaker 1: are clearly like the basketball icons you know before Sammy
Speaker 1: Sosa and everything. Did their hair look good? Well? The
Speaker 1: thing was Andre Dawson had a Jerry curl and I
Speaker 1: didn't understand why he was even there. I think you
Speaker 1: must have just been getting a pine up. But he
Speaker 1: was in the chair for like an hour, just talking
Speaker 1: Dawn and I got his autograph and I got Sewan
Speaker 1: Dunceon's autograph. That's what I was wondering. How do you
Speaker 1: approach them? Right? Or? Were you like, yeah, is that
Speaker 1: a question you have when you're six, whether or not
Speaker 1: you should approach them? Yeah? Definitely. Well, I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to, like, I've only seen this
Speaker 1: guy on TV, and I've only seen this guy on TV, Like,
Speaker 1: how do I even come up and say, hello, you're
Speaker 1: a baseball player by yourself? I think my mom was there, okay,
Speaker 1: but she didn't. She didn't know who they were. She
Speaker 1: didn't really like only after I think I was with
Speaker 1: my brother, and maybe we both got like really excited
Speaker 1: about them, and so she must have been like, well,
Speaker 1: that must be somebody, and they're in perfect shapes, so
Speaker 1: she was like, Wow, my son's really love hot men.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. They were always here and there's just kind
Speaker 1: of flabby men, but now there's these jacked men and
Speaker 1: they want autographs and photos. Interesting. That's gotta be awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't imagine if I grew up in
Speaker 1: the city, the same city as some of my favorite athletes,
Speaker 1: it would be like, Hey, we're getting on our bikes
Speaker 1: and we're gonna go find their house. Yeah. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: the fact that you were like polite, like should I
Speaker 1: like you guys in a in a barbershop? I would
Speaker 1: have been like, what's up? Man? Can I play on
Speaker 1: the Cubs? Like that's the kind of kid that I was.
Speaker 1: Maybe you guys rookie of the Year. Maybe it's for
Speaker 1: the best that you grew up in a town without
Speaker 1: any major sports teams, Like that's actually what you needed
Speaker 1: to do. Um, okay, well that's a great pick. All right, thanks?
Speaker 1: Really really personal. I don't mean the thing is I'm
Speaker 1: having a little fun. Can I have a little fun? Okay,
Speaker 1: do you want to want me to go, I'll go. Sorry,
Speaker 1: that was me to just see um my my number
Speaker 1: three pick. It happened today. They fired Jim Boylan. This
Speaker 1: is a huge sports sports news, Sports news. Jim Boylan
Speaker 1: maybe the worst coach in sports history. And we've had. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's been some stinkers since Phil Jackson and before Phil Jackson,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, and they gotta they got a
Speaker 1: new GM and they were gonna I believe they were like, no,
Speaker 1: we have no plans on firing Jim Boylan and that team.
Speaker 1: I mean, Megan name one personal bowls. Um I must
Speaker 1: said Marco Rubio. Somebody there's someone like lu all day,
Speaker 1: there's everybody's there's no one killed. You know what. That
Speaker 1: brings up a great time when you also made a
Speaker 1: shitty pick, you said coach Tip and I was one
Speaker 1: of the greatest coaches of all and he just said
Speaker 1: he killed DA but he gave us some great moments. No,
Speaker 1: he was. He was one of the best coaches. I said, listen, listen.
Speaker 1: Clark was on the episode and Clark goes, no, just
Speaker 1: s Clark, And it's like people still bring it up
Speaker 1: to me. They're like, is your husband. Okay, like are
Speaker 1: you It seems it seems like you love him, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's mentally fully there is this
Speaker 1: some sort of like make a wish thing that you
Speaker 1: guys are doing. Okay, so when that was going on,
Speaker 1: but yeah, when you realize how much you've ruined those
Speaker 1: players lives, yeah, maybe it wasn't me, but I don't
Speaker 1: know his job. So Jim Boylan is fired. Heired. You're
Speaker 1: happier today than of the three championships you picks because
Speaker 1: there were there's like a lot of them and you've
Speaker 1: run out. Now you only have two picks left. Al Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm happy for I guess we'll move on to me,
Speaker 1: the only person taking this seriously. Um. And the thing
Speaker 1: is I had like a silly one and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I'll put it in honorable mention, am professional? Okay? No,
Speaker 1: So my number three is this was my number one.
Speaker 1: I moved it back to my number three and it
Speaker 1: is the black Hawks winning three Stanley Cup championships in
Speaker 1: five years. That is like, if that happens in a city,
Speaker 1: you can make the case to be like, no, you
Speaker 1: get nothing else. Now you know you've had you've eaten enough,
Speaker 1: no more. Um I was there. We were all there
Speaker 1: in for that one. I was still there and then
Speaker 1: I was gone. But they were. I mean, everyone says
Speaker 1: playoff hockey is the best there, it's the it's the
Speaker 1: absolute most like cutthroat, exciting fun. We're obviously seeing some
Speaker 1: of that even now these NHL games. Great job on
Speaker 1: their bubble too. And yeah, the black Hawks, they were
Speaker 1: like a really fun team, and we knew comedians that
Speaker 1: were friends with them, and so you would sort of
Speaker 1: like field tangentially close. I definitely like met one or
Speaker 1: two of them and you're like, oh my god, Like
Speaker 1: they were just really cool and the city the parade
Speaker 1: was so fun for them, Like it was kind of
Speaker 1: like everybody wants the Bulls to win, everybody wants the
Speaker 1: Bears to win, and then this the city is split,
Speaker 1: and it almost feels like the black Hawks are sort
Speaker 1: of like the kid brother that everybody loves the most.
Speaker 1: But sometimes it does get a little like lost in
Speaker 1: the shuffle of all the things going on. But when
Speaker 1: they do succeed, it's like, oh my god, we all
Speaker 1: love them. They're the best, and their games are so fun,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I just think for any organization to be
Speaker 1: able to win three championships in five years is extremely impressive.
Speaker 1: It was like a dynasty, and they were one of
Speaker 1: only two dynasties we've really had. I mean they tried
Speaker 1: to call embarrassing in dynasty, but really just championships. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like seeing that was amazing because every the black Hawks
Speaker 1: before that were just a fashion thing. Like I'm from Chicago.
Speaker 1: The logo is cool, even though it's mildly rapeist, but
Speaker 1: it's like it's cool and I'm gonna wear it regularly.
Speaker 1: And the you know, it doesn't have any gang affiliations really,
Speaker 1: so that was why it was popular. And then when
Speaker 1: they won, you're like, well, yeah, of course I knew
Speaker 1: the whole time. Yeah, I mean I own a Blackhawks
Speaker 1: Christmas vacation griswald Um sweater that he wore on our
Speaker 1: honeymoon um because that's how c J shows his love
Speaker 1: uh sports teams off for you and everything. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he comes fan. Yeah, he's he's definitely he's like Suburbs,
Speaker 1: so North Suburbs. I'd say he's a Chevy Chase though, racist, racist,
Speaker 1: old man. I'm sure he's a Cubs fan. Demo still
Speaker 1: works we got you. Okay, we'll give us your second pick.
Speaker 1: Second pick, I'm gonna go with the Cubs winning the
Speaker 1: World Series. Ye good job. Yeah that was and this
Speaker 1: is slightly personal, but it was I'd love to hear. Okay.
Speaker 1: So you were living in New York at the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was living night and just take us through. Everybody knows,
Speaker 1: like it went to Game seven, so that that first
Speaker 1: of all that week. I was in l A before that,
Speaker 1: and I was doing sets in l A. I had
Speaker 1: never really been to l A. So I was visiting
Speaker 1: and I was doing a bunch of sets, and uh,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers were playing the Cubs, and the last game
Speaker 1: of that series, I was out at a bar watching
Speaker 1: it and I cheered so loud when the Cubs wanted
Speaker 1: ran around the bar and I forgot where. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you can't do that, and I was like right. So
Speaker 1: when I went back to New York, it was also
Speaker 1: one of the like big first things I got, I
Speaker 1: think was Comedy Central comics to watch, and I got
Speaker 1: it and that night was the night of comics to watch.
Speaker 1: Was I was there with you. Yeah, the last game
Speaker 1: of the World Series, and it was insane and so
Speaker 1: I did my I didn't watch anybody else that night.
Speaker 1: I went in to do my set. Then I immediately
Speaker 1: went back out to watch the game in the lobby
Speaker 1: and then Caroline, and then the show ended, and everybody
Speaker 1: was like, I'm supposed to meet and greed and my
Speaker 1: manager was like, all right, great, we're meeting and greeting
Speaker 1: and I was like, sure, but I am still watching
Speaker 1: the game. I do care that all these people want
Speaker 1: to meet or whatever, but I don't at the same time,
Speaker 1: and then it started raining. And then right as it
Speaker 1: ended and it started raining, everybody was like I was
Speaker 1: like ah, and then um, the venue changed. We all
Speaker 1: went to an after party down the street. And as
Speaker 1: we're walking in to the venue to the like second
Speaker 1: after party venue or whatever, the game starts back up.
Speaker 1: And so everybody has just seen me not pay attention
Speaker 1: to them at Caroline, so they're like, now they're rooting
Speaker 1: for me to root for the Cubs. So like the
Speaker 1: whole after party is everybody being like, well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess we're into the Cubs now, because it was
Speaker 1: I mean, there's the World Series two. Everybody was into it,
Speaker 1: but they knew I was like dedicated. Next to the
Speaker 1: Ridley Field and everything. So then they won, and like
Speaker 1: I ran around the block and everybody was tugging me
Speaker 1: and cheering me, like like I won. And then I
Speaker 1: like FaceTime my mom and introduced to everybody at Comedy
Speaker 1: Central and everything that like, look, mom, we won. This
Speaker 1: is everybody. I FaceTime my brother who was in Chicago
Speaker 1: at the time, and he was like running around in
Speaker 1: Wrigley like Wrigleyville because they shut the streets down everything,
Speaker 1: and he was out there with them, and so we
Speaker 1: were all. I was just facetiving family, FaceTime my dad.
Speaker 1: It was just nuts all the same night that I
Speaker 1: was like supposed to be really happy about this other thing,
Speaker 1: but I was even more happy about this, the Cubs winning.
Speaker 1: So it's just a weird, weird day, but it sounds
Speaker 1: like a great day. You have a one and now
Speaker 1: you have a wonderful career. So all I just like
Speaker 1: love the image of like industry people being like what's
Speaker 1: going on. He's from Wrigleyville and the and it was
Speaker 1: a tiny TV like behind the bar, and like half
Speaker 1: of us were yet out there watching in the lobby
Speaker 1: and people in the show and it's just like there's
Speaker 1: a way. I mean, not to speak ill of any
Speaker 1: of the comics on it, but the game was more interesting.
Speaker 1: Why were you at comics to watch? You just watching friends? Yeah? Oh,
Speaker 1: I remember why you were there with that? Wasn't Tommy
Speaker 1: there too? You guys were both there because I remember
Speaker 1: I needed the Chicago people around. Oh yeah, I know
Speaker 1: you're saying, sure about I know, I know, I but that.
Speaker 1: I thought Will was trying to cover for me. I was,
Speaker 1: But yeah, it wasn't Tommy there. Don't you bring sweet
Speaker 1: Tommy Mack into him down Tommy watching other comics? Of course? Great.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm glad Will had to set a good
Speaker 1: set and that the Cubs one and then fuck everybody else,
Speaker 1: you know what, I know exactly all right? Remember two pick,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say the Bears, the Bears. I think
Speaker 1: the Bears SNL SKA. I think it's a cultural phenomenon.
Speaker 1: It was, it was. It's the true like in my
Speaker 1: field of trying to figure out the overlap between pop
Speaker 1: culture and sports, the Bears is like the dream to say,
Speaker 1: you came up with Bears on SNL and we still
Speaker 1: see the Bears commercials to this day, And I think
Speaker 1: it might be the height of professional sports comedy out there.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I mean, Dick has had a
Speaker 1: tough few weeks, So what happened? I don't think, I know.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's down with the movement, if you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Um, yeah, he's not. Someone did
Speaker 1: what I can't. An athlete told me his story once
Speaker 1: of golfing with him, and and it was it was
Speaker 1: Dick because course in some like I don't know if
Speaker 1: he owns the course or he's like part of a course.
Speaker 1: And Dick could just peed on the green, just like
Speaker 1: whipped out his dick and pete on the green. It
Speaker 1: didn't even didn't even go to the woods. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: so your pick is not the Bears team, but the
Speaker 1: Bears sketched the Bears sketch. I feel I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm crazy. Is how it like? It did? It did
Speaker 1: really reach everybody? It's not even that funny. Yeah that's true,
Speaker 1: you know, it just is like, yeah, it's iconic. It's
Speaker 1: just like captured at a time in sports and pop culture.
Speaker 1: And yeah, again, the Bears haven't been good for a minute,
Speaker 1: and we're still seeing the Bears commercials on TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've almost never really been that good. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty good the Rex. Yeah, but X was
Speaker 1: awful and he blew it. That's Megan's Megan lived in
Speaker 1: Rex's apartment. Oh god, not with him. He didn't, he
Speaker 1: had vacated it. But he left a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: He left a knee braise. He left some like kind
Speaker 1: of body shirt. You know those shirts that have like
Speaker 1: different um like that when you roll the cuff up,
Speaker 1: it's like a different pattern. He left some of those.
Speaker 1: He left some shoes, like, he did leave some weird
Speaker 1: things behind. And Robbie Gold had been living there, and
Speaker 1: I think he left something behind. Two umb Okay, So
Speaker 1: that brings me to my second pick, which is when
Speaker 1: the Bears won the Super Bowl. So the Bears the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Shuffle, then they won the Super Bowl actually
Speaker 1: in eighty six. That the NFL like schedule confuses me
Speaker 1: all the time, just because it's like the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: is always in the next year, and I don't know why.
Speaker 1: My brain just like can't handle it. Um. So it's
Speaker 1: the eighty five Bears. My mom was pregnant with me
Speaker 1: at that time, and I was I was breeched so
Speaker 1: like my feet were coming out, We're gonna come out first. Um.
Speaker 1: And I was Doe in like two weeks. And so
Speaker 1: she had done all this stuff to try and flip
Speaker 1: me back over and just like couldn't do it. Um.
Speaker 1: And she was pissed, of course, I mean or annoyed
Speaker 1: because you can you can't come out feet first. It's
Speaker 1: not water slide um. And so isn't think she had
Speaker 1: just sort of like, I don't know, maybe given up.
Speaker 1: And then she said during the Super Bowl I flipped
Speaker 1: back over. Wow, what do you think that me? I
Speaker 1: think I always thought it meant like I was watching
Speaker 1: the game and I was like, I love this man. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I think I was doing an audition for the Jesse
Speaker 1: White Tumblers in Utero. You know, I said, check that out,
Speaker 1: look at what I can do. Yeah, that was like
Speaker 1: you were inspired by Walter Payton or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But people, I mean people cling to those eighty five bears.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge PTI fan, and like will Bon brings
Speaker 1: it up once a week. Um, it really and I
Speaker 1: you know, I understand that I do that with an
Speaker 1: and it's sort of it's tough too, because that was
Speaker 1: the last time. So I think that's why it's like
Speaker 1: so burned in everyone's memories, and Bears fans had that
Speaker 1: delusion that we were kind of talking about, where you know,
Speaker 1: it's not as bad as Brown's fans, but Bears fans
Speaker 1: are they. I think Chicago fans are the hardest on
Speaker 1: the Bears. I really do, because they'll be like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna no, you know, squads looking good, squads looking good.
Speaker 1: And then after like one Mitch Robinsky funk up there,
Speaker 1: like get what it's like. Obviously he it was a
Speaker 1: bad pick, but it's not Mitch's fault, you know, like
Speaker 1: he wants to be good too. He would love to
Speaker 1: be as good as Patrick Mahomes. He's trying. But I
Speaker 1: remember when they gave Cutler that deal where they were like,
Speaker 1: we're hoping we'll pay him this huge amount of money
Speaker 1: and he'll play up to it. It's like, that's not
Speaker 1: ever how anyone has done a contract. That's the dumbest
Speaker 1: thing I've ever heard. Um right, yeah, well, but they
Speaker 1: were just like he hadn't been that good and then
Speaker 1: they overpaid him, being like now he'll be good, And
Speaker 1: it's like you can't will someone into being better as
Speaker 1: a quarterback, and yeah, the quarterback position has always kind
Speaker 1: of plagued them. And and I guess when I hear
Speaker 1: people complain about the Bears not having one one and
Speaker 1: now what is it years, it's like you guys have
Speaker 1: had so much that like this is this is actually
Speaker 1: the team that is going to have a drought. And
Speaker 1: that's and that's like what you guys do deserve. Damn. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you're right. We are the worst fans for Bears, though,
Speaker 1: I think that is a lot to do with it,
Speaker 1: because we will make like a we made Cutler cry,
Speaker 1: basically made Eric Kramer cry, We made Rex cry. Kyle
Speaker 1: Orton was like, get me out of here, y'all all
Speaker 1: broken cement, Yeah, Matt Forte. We broke so many people
Speaker 1: who were like had the talent that all they needed
Speaker 1: was a bush and like they had any push it
Speaker 1: off from the fan base to be like, all right,
Speaker 1: that was just one bad thing, keep going. But we
Speaker 1: never gave anybody that sort of thing. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that was one bad thing. I hate you. Now here's
Speaker 1: some memes about how lazy you are. Here's here's you
Speaker 1: eating a hot dog on the sideline, and it's like
Speaker 1: he's a diabetic. He needs a hot dog. Just let
Speaker 1: us have that. I mean, who's starting for the Bears
Speaker 1: this year? No, I don't know. I think they said
Speaker 1: it's gonna be um a competition. They have a new No,
Speaker 1: they don't have a new coach. They would have been
Speaker 1: a great hard knocks team. Yeah, because now we're getting
Speaker 1: two teams. And I honestly think they picked it for
Speaker 1: production reasons, because like it's out here in l A
Speaker 1: and it's easier with COVID. But I do think the
Speaker 1: Bears would have been a really interesting team. They're so
Speaker 1: they're kind of like secretive and old school. You know,
Speaker 1: they've got no cheerleaders, they're they're one of the original
Speaker 1: and they just really seemed to like cling to that
Speaker 1: history and and the mc MCCASKI, oh no, I didn't know. No,
Speaker 1: I mean just in terms of they just haven't done
Speaker 1: really well with having a team. Yeah, they're not like
Speaker 1: Dolan status yet, but they're like, you know, they they've
Speaker 1: been sucking up for that long and it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: well let's take a break and then we'll be back
Speaker 1: with our number one picks. All right, and we are
Speaker 1: back with our number one picks. Will if you're not familiar.
Speaker 1: This is what we do. Megan and I will choose
Speaker 1: first and you'll be our grand finale. Okay, cool, all right, Megan,
Speaker 1: do you want to go? Yeah? So my honorable mention
Speaker 1: is um the Bears getting to lose to the Pulse
Speaker 1: in the songol I actually I think that is I hear.
Speaker 1: Let me frame it this way. The Bears making it
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, Lovey Smith Tony Dungee was the
Speaker 1: first time a black Head coach Um had made it
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. And then we had two facing
Speaker 1: each other. Devin Hester returns the kickoff for a touchdown
Speaker 1: and then and then you know, nothing went right after that,
Speaker 1: and that's fine, that's what y'all deserve. M But it
Speaker 1: was you were worried. No, you know what it was.
Speaker 1: I was actually watching it in Chicago. We were at Mullins,
Speaker 1: which of the year as a Colts bar, but when
Speaker 1: the Bears are in the Super Bowl, it's a Bear's bar,
Speaker 1: which we did not know. And they were so I mean,
Speaker 1: the place like erupted and we were a table of
Speaker 1: maybe like eight Colts fans and you just have to
Speaker 1: be like, that's okay. So no, that's you know what,
Speaker 1: he was gonna get one. He was gonna get one.
Speaker 1: And now it's out of the way and it's pouring
Speaker 1: rain and it's in Miami and what like, we it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be. It ended up being a showdown where
Speaker 1: Dominic Rhodes was actually the m v P, which is insane.
Speaker 1: But they gave it to Peyton of course, which I
Speaker 1: hope Peyton gave Dominic Rhodes his like Silverado. He won
Speaker 1: because he really truly deserved it. Um. But yeah, of
Speaker 1: course I was scared and then which led me to
Speaker 1: over drinking. So I actually don't really remember the end
Speaker 1: of the game, but I was extremely happy, and I
Speaker 1: did get thrown out of the bar. But I do
Speaker 1: think it's really nice that the Bears got to lose
Speaker 1: to the Colts in the Super Bowl. Okay, so it
Speaker 1: felt good for you too, Uh well, we didn't deserve
Speaker 1: it that year. I mean really, defense was amazed. I
Speaker 1: love Peanut, but like, who's not an FBI agent? Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean, yeah, you guys had it. It was
Speaker 1: one of those where it was like, yeah, of course
Speaker 1: they're gonna win. I don't know, maybe that's just like
Speaker 1: a defeatist. Edit. I really felt like at the time,
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, of course they're gonna win. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna We're not built for this. Really out thank you.
Speaker 1: You didn't even you didn't even know me yet, but
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. That was it weird. That was actually
Speaker 1: the first time I was in Chicago, or no, not
Speaker 1: the first time, but it was I was visiting there
Speaker 1: to see if I was going to move there, so
Speaker 1: that I that's my only honorable mention I have, and
Speaker 1: then my number one. I guess it's a top. It
Speaker 1: was just going to be the Cubs winning the World Series,
Speaker 1: but you said that, And I also I feel so
Speaker 1: bad for the White Sox. They also won the World
Speaker 1: Series in two thousand and five. Ozzy Gean famously told
Speaker 1: me that if I wanted to be famous in this country,
Speaker 1: I should kill a person. I mean, they're fun, that's
Speaker 1: a fun Remember he threw j Marriotti. He wasn't allowed
Speaker 1: to come into like the clubhouse, he couldn't be a
Speaker 1: press Conferenceszynski was crazy told me, was I mean, that
Speaker 1: was like a really really really fun team. And I
Speaker 1: just feel like they get so overshadow owed. And and
Speaker 1: they also deserve, you know, their day in the sun,
Speaker 1: and and their fans are equally ravenous and definitely like
Speaker 1: much more of a chip on their shoulder because they
Speaker 1: feel like the second uh team, like the passenger team
Speaker 1: to the Cubs. But they won, and they won like
Speaker 1: before the Cubs won, and yeah, I just I loved
Speaker 1: that team. And I thought it was like kind of
Speaker 1: shitty how Chicago won a World Series and more than
Speaker 1: half of the city was like pooh pooing it and
Speaker 1: acting like they didn't win a World Series. Oh really,
Speaker 1: I see if my roommate who you guys met, and no,
Speaker 1: I think even my old roommate Adam, he uh he's
Speaker 1: a White Sex fan because he's from the South six
Speaker 1: from right around there. So I was in my boy Steve.
Speaker 1: You also know, we were all watching that game and uh,
Speaker 1: that whole series. The whole year we were watching the
Speaker 1: White Sex So I I became a huge fan of
Speaker 1: the White Sox that year. Pres seemed like a dude
Speaker 1: who might calmed the inn word, but I love time
Speaker 1: because when he fought that dude, that fight was so
Speaker 1: dope that I was like, you know what, I just
Speaker 1: don't want to know if he says the inn word,
Speaker 1: like that's where you're like, I just never asked him
Speaker 1: if he's ever said it, because I love that guy, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't send per Zinski on Z show. And he swept
Speaker 1: to like it was like a definitive, like we are
Speaker 1: whooping your ass from the South side of Chicago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're better fans. The Socks fans are better fans. I'll
Speaker 1: give them that. Damn all right, um My number one
Speaker 1: pick I'm gonna go with because I also don't want
Speaker 1: to take any from you, well just in case, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Jordan's. I'm back him coming back,
Speaker 1: coming back the Bowls. It's just again, you know, and
Speaker 1: it took the last dance for me to again put
Speaker 1: him back in the goat the true greatest of all time.
Speaker 1: And it's just the fact that you can win three
Speaker 1: eve and I don't I don't count lose them losing
Speaker 1: in the playoffs in his first year coming back. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just like the dude's been playing a completely different sport,
Speaker 1: you know, thinking he was never gonna come back, and
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, I'll go back, and then yeah, and
Speaker 1: then winning three in a row. I don't think we'll
Speaker 1: ever see anything like that. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: with especially with Geordan, I know people are like Bill
Speaker 1: Russell was eleven, but like them winning six in the
Speaker 1: nineties and that era with the Malone's, the Ewings, the
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller, like Barkley a came that was impressive. Six
Speaker 1: in that era is is insane to me. So and
Speaker 1: it all because Jordans came back and that was like
Speaker 1: one of the sports wise that was the biggest story
Speaker 1: of my life as a kid growing up. And I
Speaker 1: mean that the whole Lebron Jordan argument that I'm sure
Speaker 1: you got into the clark On here. It is like
Speaker 1: Lebron doesn't have what Jordan's has because that's why Jordan's
Speaker 1: a go. But it's for the best man. He doesn't.
Speaker 1: He's such a better person. Yeah, he said, like I
Speaker 1: don't want him to have whatever it is that made
Speaker 1: Jordans be like I took that personally about everything that
Speaker 1: and made up ship too, like personally and they're like
Speaker 1: that never even happened, Like I don't want Lebron to
Speaker 1: be that guy. Lebron just bought out Dodger, say to
Speaker 1: him so we could vote. Yeah, it's like I'd rather
Speaker 1: that guy. No, but it's like yeah, people like no,
Speaker 1: but he did that, well, he didn't. He didn't win
Speaker 1: the finals, you know, nine times in a row. That's
Speaker 1: all crazy sports fans. But all right. I do think
Speaker 1: that whoever wins, whatever team wins the championship this year,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be extremely extremely difficult. And if that ends
Speaker 1: up being Lebron, I really do think you have to
Speaker 1: give him an edge because he basically made this bubble
Speaker 1: happens like singlehandedly. It feels like in some ways he's
Speaker 1: down here. What does are you being chased by a bug?
Speaker 1: Like I thought it was like I thought there was
Speaker 1: a ghost we couldn't see, you know, like this is
Speaker 1: how you go out. I think if Lebron is able
Speaker 1: to win the championship bubble on top of having a
Speaker 1: championship with the Calves and then two with the Heat too,
Speaker 1: then it's like he's got that's three different teams, but
Speaker 1: the third team is within this really insane situation that
Speaker 1: so few people could duell. I mean, and you see
Speaker 1: him struggling he actually is. And you see people like
Speaker 1: t J. Warren Dame that are able to like elevate
Speaker 1: that you you definitely are like, oh, these circumstances are
Speaker 1: they're affecting people differently. Um, and I mean these playoffs
Speaker 1: are going to be so fun and I'm so happy
Speaker 1: we have it. But if he is able to pull
Speaker 1: this off, yeah I think he's then he's the go
Speaker 1: oh my god, my god, oh my god, Will Will
Speaker 1: right now? He will just ran down the stairs. This
Speaker 1: will be careful. Don't like that bug. That bug is
Speaker 1: a Kobe fan And it's like, how dare you not
Speaker 1: in the conversation? Yeah? Sorry, man, he's in there too.
Speaker 1: We like, Kobe bug, are you okay? Are you okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm okay. Because our screen also froze for seconds, so
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, what happened. We are so sorry listeners.
Speaker 1: We just needed to make sure our guest Will was okay. Um.
Speaker 1: But it was that a firefly. It was a june
Speaker 1: bug or something what do they called. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was like I thought that was it's when you
Speaker 1: can like hear coming. Yeah, it looked like a bird
Speaker 1: to be honest. Yeah, it was gigantic. Well, it's so
Speaker 1: hot out and you're up in the shade, it's probably like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is nice up here. Like, oh wow, and he's
Speaker 1: a sports bug in my crew. What I do? I
Speaker 1: like Lebron. We didn't mean to laugh at year over there? Well,
Speaker 1: why don't you close this out? What is your number
Speaker 1: one pick for greatest sports moments? For sure? Honorable mention?
Speaker 1: Jordan's kissing the floor at last game at Chicago Stadium
Speaker 1: was a Prome game, I believe. Yeah, it was like
Speaker 1: a primer, like a chair. It was it Pippin's Scary game.
Speaker 1: And my dad got us tickets. Awesome, So seeing that
Speaker 1: was pretty incredible. Uh. And the number one is oh
Speaker 1: second honorable mention, Yeah, as many great second mention, greatest
Speaker 1: sports year probably of my life is ninety. It ended
Speaker 1: in mum the championship, the Bulls Championship. We won that,
Speaker 1: which was our final championship, the whole thing, the whole
Speaker 1: last dance basically that was that year. That was also
Speaker 1: my freshman year of high school and we won state
Speaker 1: championship for that as well. So I was like, oh, man, basketball,
Speaker 1: we're the I'm just around the best in basketball at all.
Speaker 1: Were you on the team? No, not at all excited.
Speaker 1: I tried out like everyone at school tried out because
Speaker 1: quin Richon was our star. So like before the year before,
Speaker 1: they were on the news all the time because we
Speaker 1: won city but we didn't win state, and then everybody
Speaker 1: was like, oh, Hugh rich is gonna win state this year.
Speaker 1: He's got to win state. He's gotta be Corey mcgetty
Speaker 1: or whatever. But and then, uh so then freshman year,
Speaker 1: everybody was like, well, shit, if this is the biggest
Speaker 1: team in the country right now or city, at at least,
Speaker 1: they were like, we gotta play for the squad. So
Speaker 1: the tryouts were like beyond belief. Everybody at the school
Speaker 1: basically tried out for the team. Oh my god, and
Speaker 1: nobody got it, but like a few people got his
Speaker 1: kid Najib was like, really good, he got varsity freshman year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like it was huge. And so when we
Speaker 1: won that, it was huge. And then a couple months
Speaker 1: later the Bulls won, it was like basketball is the
Speaker 1: greatest thing ever. I'll never not watch it. I can't
Speaker 1: believe I'm only watching winners. That's honorable. Mentioned the biggest
Speaker 1: was when I graduated grade and we had our party
Speaker 1: and uh and it was the night of our graduation
Speaker 1: party at Lenny Jones House. Was also the night we
Speaker 1: won the fifth championship, and so it was like the
Speaker 1: house I think was either on the south side or downtown.
Speaker 1: I don't know where the party was, but it was
Speaker 1: near where people were riding. So, like we won, everybody
Speaker 1: in the like no parents were there, so we all
Speaker 1: started like I think they were smoking going on. I
Speaker 1: think there might have been drinking. I don't know. But
Speaker 1: then like everybody went outside and like we were just
Speaker 1: around people looting and we were like this is the
Speaker 1: greatest day of Like people were flipping cars outside like
Speaker 1: this is so and you were just like unsupervised eighth graders. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you get to make out with anybody? I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I think I watched them pretty close. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think. I never think when my team wins, to
Speaker 1: go make out with something. No. I meant just because
Speaker 1: it's like eighth grade graduation, that seems like a makeout night,
Speaker 1: and then the game happens, it should have been a
Speaker 1: makeout night. I was not as cool as I am,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? You got a woman pregnant,
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right, Yeah I was. That was a big deal.
Speaker 1: Did you did you loose at all? Did you flip anything?
Speaker 1: You kick any mailboxes. I might have, like me and
Speaker 1: my buddies might have tried to kick some ship because
Speaker 1: we're like, you know, we're trying to be tough eighth graders.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was like it was pretty amazing because
Speaker 1: it was the first time you could really like, you know,
Speaker 1: kids weren't really allowed to leave the house when the
Speaker 1: Bulls won because because of all the looting. But it
Speaker 1: was like, do you feel like you're growing up because
Speaker 1: you're going into high school and a couple of months
Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm a man now. They're supposed to
Speaker 1: be adults. All the Jewish kids, they were just all
Speaker 1: their men, so I guess. So it was like it
Speaker 1: was huge. It was like growing up. I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: now I'm out with the looters. I'm out man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a coming of age looting story. Yeah, I'm slipping. If
Speaker 1: the Lakers won't even though I've been a fan of
Speaker 1: them for two years, I'm gonna go flip a car.
Speaker 1: He does, turn off, turn off the I had myself
Speaker 1: muted on the virtual fan, and so was like, turn
Speaker 1: on your mic, turn on your mic, and so I
Speaker 1: turn on my mic and then he goes go Lakers.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm gonna get kicked out of the
Speaker 1: damn PACER's virtual fan because my husband's a hater. That's
Speaker 1: the joy. That's what sports has become. Us yelling heckles
Speaker 1: into our laptop. We're doing it on Twitter. We're gonna
Speaker 1: virtually flip a car. Somebody to go flip their car
Speaker 1: and then they have to say, go lak. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: burn all my masks. Oh yeah, I'm gonna burn all
Speaker 1: my masks. Yeah. And then I'm gonna take the ashes
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna make a new mask. All right. Well, well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for spending an hour with us
Speaker 1: talking about Chicago. Um, stay safe, stay healthy, or anything
Speaker 1: we can to send our listeners your way. Oh at
Speaker 1: Mr will Miles on everything at Will Miles. And I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to have a website soon. I haven't had a
Speaker 1: website ever, had one earlier and then somebody was like, hey,
Speaker 1: your website says you were voted one of the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: comedies people to watch Brooklyn Magazine and I was like,
Speaker 1: they were like, is that your biggest credit? I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I should delete that website. Well you don't have to
Speaker 1: delete it. You can just update it, will I know,
Speaker 1: But I was like, that's done. Let's just start from scrap. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you looted your own damn website. All right, we'll check
Speaker 1: out well on all that stuff. Check out of the
Speaker 1: shows he writes for south Side Side is coming to
Speaker 1: HBO Max. Yeah, congrats, that's awesome. Okay, we'll be on
Speaker 1: amc Uh there's another one, uh grownish grown Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: back in one. I wrote episode I think seven when
Speaker 1: it comes back or something awesome. Hell yeah, I do
Speaker 1: all that and um you can find me at Better
Speaker 1: Megan Gailey on Instagram, Megan Gailey on Twitter, and I
Speaker 1: have started The Megan Gailey Bubble Machine, which is my
Speaker 1: show that's covering all things sports in the Bubble. I know.
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to talk about my virtual
Speaker 1: fan experience on here. We were just having so much
Speaker 1: fun talking ship. That's what I'm doing. You think I'm
Speaker 1: just mentioning it, don't, Megan Gailey the Machine, do not
Speaker 1: watch it. I think you're just apologized. But no, I'm
Speaker 1: saying I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about it on the show.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Now I know how you feel. Now
Speaker 1: I know how you feel um so yeah, I'm please
Speaker 1: watch it and be safe and wear a mask and
Speaker 1: be cute. And I'm at c J toldon and I
Speaker 1: do stupid things, okay, And thank you Ker, and thank
Speaker 1: you Sean too. Shout out to Sean and Will, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for being here. And thanks to um Kamala.
Speaker 1: I guess I want to shout out Steve Kurt. Steve
Speaker 1: KURTA to go Steve when you're listening from one miles
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