WEBVTT - Greatest Chicago Sports Moments with Will Miles 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.680 Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:14.400 Welcome to another episode of the Greatest. That's the end 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.480 of the title with C. J. Toldano and my wife 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:21.279 Megan Gaily. Everybody. I've been corrected on that before, so no, 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.720 you know what you know that last week I made 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:26.680 a promise here going forward, it's something going to be 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:32.440 positive thoughts and not even constructive criticism anymore, just love. Um, 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:34.120 I'm gonna bring our guest on because I do want 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.280 to talk to him about this, because he also has 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.440 a wife who also does comedy and does projects with 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:41.600 ladies and gentlemen. We are very very happy to have 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.640 on an old friend. He's a writer for south Side, 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:50.400 has his own special power. Um. You will probably know 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:58.960 him from Two Black Dudes and Open Mic. Yeah, the kid, 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.000 what's up? Well? How you doing? Man? Good? Good good? 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.840 I see where I see Megan and the pacers. Nice job. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:08.840 As as a virtual fan, by the way, thank you 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.760 so much. Oh wow, Yeah, I gotta tell here. Well, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.440 let's talk to you and then I'll tell about my 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.120 little virtual fan experience because it only ended like thirty 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:21.000 minutes ago. Yeah, still writing that high Will is in 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:25.280 his backyard and his beautiful home where I'm guessing your daughter. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.720 Your daughter is snapping. Yeah, she's napping in the side, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.440 so I'm not here. You're a new father. You're a 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:37.560 new father. Got a three weeks, four weeks, just hit 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.440 the months the mark. Yeah, yeah, how does it feel? 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:46.280 It feels good. It's uh, it's like it's still weird 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.360 because it's like, oh, I'm you think every second you're like, 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.320 I'm just me, regular me, and oh shoot, I'm a 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:57.120 dad who isn't Well, you're still you, but yeah, you 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.240 have that tact on responsibility. But you're going to be 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.240 a father through the lens of Will Miles exactly. That's 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.880 so weird to think about. It's like, oh, yeah, I 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.120 knew I was gonna be always be like a father, 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.560 but I was always You never expect that you're going 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.320 to be like, you know who you are and a 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.600 father at the same time. You imagine there'll be some 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.160 sort of like freaky Friday situation and then you'll just 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.000 be carrying the baby in a three piece suit and 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.080 know how to do everything, and it's like, oh, nope, 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:31.200 just Scott weed in the baby's hair. Um, we came 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:35.639 over to socially distant meet your daughter in your backyard, 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:41.280 and you were holding her so confidently, and c J goes, 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.440 how's he holding her like a football? Which is like 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.680 I was. So sometimes you see Dad's and it's like, 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.440 oh boy, there this they're holding it like the damn 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.280 sack of flower. But you had Stella you were doing 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.520 moves with Are you at all let it down? I 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.240 had some practice. My nieces are eleven pretty soon. So 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:06.360 when I would like sort of sneak sneak to New 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.359 York and be like gone for so long because I 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.240 knew I could stay there if I babysat my brother 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:13.480 and his wife. So I was like, all right, well 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.239 here's the good reason to go to New York repeatedly, 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:18.520 and so I just I had to be good at 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.800 it in order to like sleep there and do comedy 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.440 at night. So I was like, let me figure this out. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.600 That is a good trade off, because those are skills 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.120 that you picked up in that you're now using for 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:34.200 your own children, your own child wild Now, does does 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:38.920 Stilla have sporty gear? Does she have bull stuff? She has? Uh? 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.000 Does she have bull stuff? I think I know she 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.200 has basketball items. I believe you guys got us some 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.120 as well, And I think I got you like that. 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.800 I think I got you like practical stuff. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.240 I feel like there was one like you guys got 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.920 practical and there was one or two. Okay, yeah, he'll slip, 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.760 he'll slip in. So Kyrie spongebobs for kids, and I'm like, 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.960 where did this come from? My brother actually got my 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.040 niece some uh some what was it? Like some Tiger Kyrie's. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.160 They were for children and we were so excited to 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:18.200 have her open those up and she didn't care at all. Yeah, 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.440 I already I am looking at like goat baby sneakers. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.680 Oh my gosh. Yeah, So how how are you going 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.560 about that? Are you just gonna, you know, dress her 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.240 up and all all the type of gear, the fashion 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.719 that you like and then see how she likes it. Yeah, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.720 I'm hoping to influence her in some way with how 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.240 she dresses, trying to raise a little lean away. But well, 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.120 you and Julie are pretty fashionable. I think it'll just 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.600 rub off naturally, I hope. So yeah, yeah that'd be great, 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.280 thank you. Yeah, but she gets pick her own style 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:53.760 whenever she wants, absolutely absolutely. Yeah. Uh So Chicago basketball, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.320 I feel like the topic for anyone who didn't read 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:01.480 the title is greatest Chicago sports Moments. Oh, there may 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.240 be people that read the title and said, no, I 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.480 don't want to be in this circulture of them just 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.080 talking about Chicago. Yeah, because it's if you are not 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.560 in the comedy community, you may not know how annoying 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.800 people from Chicago come across. Um, and I'm c J 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.120 and are not from Chicago. We are comedically considered from Chicago, 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.000 and people hate us. Like the group of us. We're loud, 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:29.520 we're annoying, we show up late, we are funnier than 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:34.200 most people, and we have bad attitudes and we definitely 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:38.840 take over a room. Um. So sometimes you know, they'll 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.000 be some of us roll in and you'll see eyes 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.560 roll and they're right. Those people are right. If I 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.640 was not part of the Chicago comedy scene, I would 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:52.600 also hate our crew. Yeah. So it's like, you guys 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:57.120 are correct, we are annoying, But Chicago sports fans that 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.480 is a whole another level of obnoxious. Well, I just 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.479 think to the comedy thing. It is. It's hard because 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.680 we all came up around the same time and all 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.920 started doing well around the same time, so we were 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.680 all like we went from all being an open mics 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.719 being friends, which everybody an open mics was friends is 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.200 super annoying. But then when you carried it over to like, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.680 oh no, now we're all in Montreal, or we're all 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.240 now we're all on this Comedy Central set, it's like, well, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.400 we're still the same annoying open micers. We just all 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.760 have now done things. We're scared and nervous, and we 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.279 were gonna, you know, latch onto our friends we started 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.440 out with, Yeah, exactly, it just so happens they're still around. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:41.320 It's great now. Oh sorry, you you love Chicago though, 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.040 you love where you're from. Some people don't love where 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:47.040 they're from. But you really represent Chicago. Yeah, I love it. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:51.160 And you are from boys Town. I mean when you 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:52.880 were growing up, would you guys say lake View or 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:58.640 Boys Town? We would say, you know, I think lake View, 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.280 because I don't know how many people said boys don't. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:03.840 I always thought it maybe was like a mean thing 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:08.120 to say. It was like, oh, man, Boystown, you can't 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.320 call me from like Boystown. Yeah, but you were a 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:15.160 boy and you were from that town exactly. Yeah, So 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.440 boys Town in Chicago is sort of like the gay neighborhood, 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.840 tons of gay bars, that's where Pride, the everything goes 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:28.320 through there. Very very fun. It's in the overall Lakeview neighborhood, 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:33.120 which then like butts up exactly next to Wrigley Field. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:39.240 So it's the northeast corridor of Chicago where Will is from. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:44.520 And Andy, I mean, yeah, Born raised. It's you're You're 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.520 actually probably when of the least annoying Chicago sports fans 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.440 I've ever encountered. Though it's got to be Cubs fans, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:55.360 especially to super annoying people in general. Now do you 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.320 do you get like a chip on your shoulder because 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.920 you're from like right by the state? Um? Yeah, yeah, 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.920 I mean I love the Cubs, but also I I 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.080 understand the full hatred for their fan base because I mean, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.000 like we were even saying because we're trying to, you know, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.360 figure out volume levels for raising our kids child and 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.280 uh and I'm like, well, I grew up near Wrigley Fields, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.520 so I don't know what that's like because people were 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.679 drunk screaming my entire life outside of my croom window. 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.040 So I have no like context for like, oh it 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:28.960 should be quiet for a baby. It's like, well, I 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.320 never was quiet for me, So I have no idea, 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.480 and I'm like, maybe it's good to get used to 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:37.720 like drunk assholes leaving some of the first night games 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:42.040 ever in field. I really do think that's part of 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.600 why we, you know, have pounces success in comedy is 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.400 that most of the shows we were doing, we're just 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.760 bars that had just got done watching a Cubs Bowls, 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:56.280 Blackhawks Bears game and now surprise, a comedy show with 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.880 a bunch of people who have just started and we 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:03.000 were trying to vince them and yell over them and 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.480 they're all wasted. Yeah. But yeah, I I love the clubs, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.400 but yeah, again, hatred of the fans. And the thing 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.280 I noticed growing up was how many fans were not 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:17.640 from Chicago. Like it's a lot of Illinois at all. Yeah, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:22.040 they're moving from Iowa or like you know, not probably 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.120 Indiana because they've got their own No, No, there's tons 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.600 of I mean, we don't have a baseball team, so 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:31.440 it's kind of split between the Cubs and the Reds. Yeah, 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.200 but it's way more I would say Indianapolis if you 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:39.559 were like going around and asking people Cups fans, but 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.000 they have no knowledge of anything that's happening. They just 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.160 want to get sucked up. Yeah, And I think the 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.000 team was different, which will go into one of my 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.040 sports things. But like the teams and the and the 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:51.880 fans were different when I was a kid. I'm almost 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.600 certain when I was an adult, when we were doing comedy, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.520 everybody was like pretty one note. I felt like, you know, 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.040 like land and White most fans, and I don't remember 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.600 them being that way growing up now. When Rookie of 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.160 the Year came out, was that. I mean, I can't 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:15.760 even imagine a movie being about me as a child. Yeah, 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.720 what was that? Like? Huge? And I kind of remember 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.720 when they were filming it because it was it's so big, 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.080 and you know, that's the movie. We all everybody at 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.040 school at least watched it and try to do the 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.200 arm thing. We all thought we're gonna break our arms 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.600 and sad was gonna be amazing for our career. It's 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.400 like a baseball player. But they also shot Babe down 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.960 the Street from me too, Why in the City Babe, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:48.640 the one with John Goodman, the other Babe my bad. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.520 In my defense, the Babe Pig movie is much more 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.800 famous than the Babe Babe Ruth movie. Yes, wait, Why 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.960 did they shoot it in your hometown? He didn't play 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.960 in Chicago? Are you playing? I know? I never under 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:05.719 really is the shittiest looking stadium. I mean, I mean, 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:10.199 the most historical looking stadium, and so they it looks 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.160 like it's in the nineteenth century exactly. They didn't have 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.520 to change much. But I just remember some somebody coming 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.120 outside or like our neighbor was one of my friends 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.960 from elementary school, was like, uh, you know, they're shooting 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:26.920 babe down the street. The dad from Rosanna's Houseide, the 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.720 dad from Roseanne has a name, and it's that's what 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:35.560 you said. Um were you? Was there ever a point 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.920 that you were like, the White Sox are cool? Though? Nah? 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:44.320 I mean oh five, yeah, as an adult, but never 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.080 as a kid. As a kid, it was always like, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.079 I can't even understand how you could like the White Sox. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.480 That's so funny. I don't know that's ingrained in US 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.920 so early. The sports team ship where you're like, oh, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.720 I guess I hate the other team well and then yeah. 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.559 I mean. The thing is like in the nineties, I 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.199 didn't think there was any other basketball teams besides the Bowls. 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.400 You know, I didn't even live I lived in Iowa 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.320 for when I was born in eighties seven, and Iowa 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.760 lived there for five years, but it was just WJ 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.320 and so that was the only team that was being played. Yeah, 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.160 but what was it like? That's what this is why 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.640 I always ask our friends who grew up in Chicago, 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.360 what was it like being a Bowls fan in the 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.400 nineties as a kid? Amazing in the eighties, well, because 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.440 like late eighties is when we started to get good. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.040 The nineties when we were the best, And it is truly, 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:39.240 you don't know how amazing your squad is until you 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:43.800 realize that other people didn't grow up like that. Like 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.360 I had family in New York and they were Knicks fans, 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:47.920 and I'd be like, oh my god, you must be 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:52.160 so miserable. We'd beat you every time. This must suck. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.440 Your life must be terrible as a result of us 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:59.160 constantly just sucking you over and winning championships. Yeah, I 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:03.680 don't know, sorry the other fans, No, Megan. Megan went silent. Yeah, 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.640 I know, I know. Well, you know, I'm just trying 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.439 to practice something in my own life where when men 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.320 are speaking, I like to I like to just you know, 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.720 get a little quiet and listen to them, and maybe 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.959 I can learn and maybe I can grow from from 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:28.480 the smart men around people and listening to you ears open, eyes, open, 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:33.520 heart open, let all of the masculine bulls dick sucking 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:39.640 flow into and were fun to watch. Thank you, thank you. 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:43.040 Know it's it's fine. I honestly like, as a kid 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.400 who you grow up with your team not winning all 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.360 the time, you start to understand adversity and like I 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.160 played sports growing up and I would lose, and then 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.600 I'd be like, oh, okay, Reggie's lost to you know, 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:59.160 like you do you kind of like learn how that 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.880 Once I didn't get a dollhouse. My mom got caned 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.120 by a con man and um, it's a long story. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.440 And I was supposed I was supposed to get a 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.280 dollhouse for like my it was like Christmas my when 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.400 I was four, and it didn't come. And my aunt 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.800 was like, well, it's time she starts learning about disappointment 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.880 in life. Um, and like that's harsh, but it's true. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.760 Like growing up watching teams that lose and it's not 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.920 like these were terrible teams, but you do start to 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:29.800 be like, oh, yeah, I'm not gonna win all the time, 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.920 everything isn't gonna go my way. Um, but like that, 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.640 I mean, I'm telling you that as a white woman 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.400 from Indiana to a black man from Chicago, You're like, 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.120 you just let my team win. I've got enough ship 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:49.440 going wrong for me. Okay, but yeah, no, the teams 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.480 were all like it must be such a different lesson 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.000 back then because the teams were so good. I mean, 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:56.600 I guess the teams are really good now we're watching 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.800 the weird version of it. But they were. Everybody was 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.640 like championship level back then, like the best player ever. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.200 When you see and not so much now, but like 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.640 a few years ago, when you would see kids at 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.960 Warriors games, it'd be like, fuck you kid, you don't 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.200 deserve it. You don't deserve first of all, you're rich. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.680 Second of all, your parents suck, and you don't deserve 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.280 to get to be in this building just watching this 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.760 dominant team. You haven't earned it. But but if I 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.720 saw a little you at a Bulls game, I don't 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:32.080 think I would think you suck, I know, but probably 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.080 because it was just a bunch of like winners gloating 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.920 over and over again. That's I wonder if there is 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.200 like a if there's a correlation with a lot of 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:45.080 famous comedians are out of Chicago, especially in the eighties 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.640 and nineties, like and then obviously our group that we 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.040 talked about. Do you think any of it there's a 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:55.560 correlation to winning sports teams. Yeah, we we tasted winning 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:59.440 early on, especially Chicago Stadium Bulls. That was the first 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:04.400 few change when we had access to the stadium that 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.720 a lot of like everybody lost access after when it 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.840 moved to the United Center because it just it seemed 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:12.640 like a much richer place and it was like a 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.040 lot of uh, we were really big by then, so 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.800 everybody wanted to come to a Bulls gamp those first 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.400 three three championship seasons when you could still get tickets 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.560 to a game, it was pretty incredible because it was 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.960 like everybody in the whole city was seeing just winners. 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:28.880 So no matter where you were, you're like, I guess 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:36.080 I could win. Winning creates like delusion kind of and 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.880 delusion is something that's actually quite important in what we do. 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.840 But you have to have kind of like the right amount. 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.160 If you have too much, oh boy, and if you 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.760 have not enough, you know, so like there is a 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:51.120 sweet spot of of delusion and I'm happy that you, 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:55.880 growing up as a winner, did not like overshoot your delusion. Yeah, 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.080 and you saw like the wind the people who were 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.480 they even overshot it or undershot it, and it's like, yeah, 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:05.600 you're gonna peak in high school probably those kind of people. Yeah, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:10.280 you gotta believe. And your delusion is such an important 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.160 thing to think, like, I'm gonna make it at all, 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.200 so stupid if you really think about it. But then 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.600 you're like what you do now? When we we decided 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.119 or you just we we wanted to pick a topic 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:26.320 that was gonna be not labor intensive research wise, for 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.000 for you specifically because you have a baby and we 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:30.840 love you and we wanted you to do the podcast 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:32.359 so badly that we kind of, you know, give you 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.359 a little softball. Um. But it was. But it also 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.600 made me think of a topic that I'd like to 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:43.200 do in the future, which is greatest sports city because 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:47.760 people have real strong opinions when it comes to the Boston's, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.520 the Phillies, the New York's, the Chicago's. Of course l 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.560 A wants to be in there. I'm sure places in 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.600 Texas think they deserve to be in there. I feel 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.480 like I'm I'm from a great d C. Yeah, there's 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.600 lots of um. But since we have you, I'm putting 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.520 you on the spot with this. Do you feel like 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:11.399 Chicago is the greatest sports city? Uh? I mean I 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.959 want to say yes, just because I in my lifetime 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.440 I've seen every team win a championship, which feels good. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:22.000 That's pretty amazing. Since so I do think, yeah, in 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.399 the past thirty seven years, we've been the hell of 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:28.359 a sport city on everything. Well, and like we we've 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.320 all lived in New York and now in Los Angeles 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.320 in addition to Chicago, and you kind of see how 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:38.280 the city reacts differently, like and I know, of course 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.879 New York in l A has lots of transplants, so 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.480 when the Dodgers are in, it's not gonna like be. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:48.000 But even in even in Chicago, when there's not Chicago 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.919 teams in the in the Finals, or in the super 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.920 Bowl or in the World Series, the city shuts down 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.280 like we would not have shows may be like oh, 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:03.959 Wednesdays in in jail in June k is gonna be 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:08.760 canceled because they'll be the Finals happening, and and out 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.919 here it's like the Rams were in the super Bowl 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:16.840 and it was business as usual, like totally normal out here. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:19.800 I said that to a lift driver as it was happening, 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.680 because I think I flew back from somewhere the day 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.600 that the rams were like around the time it was 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:27.960 like super Bowls next week, and I was like, man, 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:30.119 who's in the super Bowl this year? And he was like, 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.600 we are, And I was like, really, like the ship, 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:38.840 I don't see anything nothing. I was like, damn, I'm 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.520 not paying attention, I guess, and neither of the whole city. No, 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:43.520 I don't know. I mean like, yeah, they left, they 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.080 came back. You know. I think if you got into 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.200 like the muddiness of I mean teams, it would be 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.400 wild to me if a professional team left Chicago, ever, 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.600 that would be like like that would be the last 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:59.119 chapter of Sure, yeah that would make sense. Oh the 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:04.439 Bowls are leaving. Okay, yeah that makes sense. Like before 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.040 we get to the topic, I do want to ask 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.280 you this, because this is the one bright thing of 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.120 the last few months. Was the last dance? How did 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:16.200 you feel about the last dance? What was your favorite part? Uh? 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.359 Favorite parts were just kind of everything. But I loved 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:24.760 how because michaels or in such an asshole. Yeah, and 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:26.560 it was like you could kind of see it, but 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.280 also you got to see him explain why he was 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:30.720 an asshole. So that was hope for me to watch, like, 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:33.840 oh man, good, you are a dick. You will admit it, 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.439 and you had like lied to make things happen, but 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:40.440 it's like, I guess it worked. I don't. Yeah, it 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:42.320 was just kind of fun seeing him be aware of 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.520 that because we were it was always like speculation that 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:46.880 he was an asshole and you're like, oh, no, he 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.040 needed to be an asshole to be the best, and 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:53.520 he was. Um, did Julia your wife watch the last 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.679 dance as well? Yeah? She was right there, and what 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:00.320 was what was her reaction like to it? She obviously 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:02.080 didn't care as much, but she was watching me be 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:10.160 so excited that she was like huh, that's weird because 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:12.400 like every and and it was the thing that I'm 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:16.359 sure every Chicago like uh, wife of somebody from Chicago, 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.240 husband and somebody from Chicago experience where it's like I 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.560 was there or like I remember that day like yeah, 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:25.480 because I yeah, there are so many experiences in there 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.760 where I was like, oh yeah, I forgot like I 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:31.240 was there for a lot of the Chicago stadium stuff. 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:34.000 That's crazy. I mean yeah, even for you, Megan, it 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.760 was like when we got to the Pacers stuff, you 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:38.959 were like, oh, I remember that day, and you know, 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:43.480 watching it on this Would Square arena, I was like, oh, 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:48.919 I miss you. Yeah, loud, dirty giant piece of crap. 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:52.919 I miss you so much. It was great wondering if 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:55.880 I might have gone to Market Square even back then, 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.240 three hours down to see a little road Bulls game. 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:02.600 That sounds fun as hell. Yeah, go eat at I 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:07.480 don't know. We probably had a chance downtown or something that. Yeah, 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.560 I was gonna say cheesecake factory. We didn't have cheesecake 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:14.600 factory back then. Is that new? I don't know, but 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:17.120 I would love to know where the original one is. 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:19.600 That seems like a trip you and I will take. 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:24.280 I'm sure, yeah, I think so, yeah, because I think 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:28.040 the owner is from Mountain Here. Um, okay, so let's 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.080 take a quick break and then we'll be back with 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:39.960 our picks. And we're back, and as a reminder, we 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:43.440 are doing greatest Chicago sports moments with our guest here, 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:45.879 Will Miles. Will, why don't you kick us off with 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:50.520 your your third pick? We'll go three to third Pig 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:54.399 in Chicago sports history is a well, actually all of 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:58.560 them might be personal. Number three is when I saw 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:04.320 Andre Dawson and On Dunstan in my barbershop. Whoa ho ship, 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:08.320