WEBVTT - Greatest Celebrations with AJ Curry 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:12.040 Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio. Hello, 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:16.640 welcome to another episode of The Greatest. I'm when your 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:18.919 host c J told and I'm joined here by my 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.400 co host. You're not even talking into the mike. You know, 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:24.680 whenever we do it on the couch, I have to 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:28.720 look at you and be like talked into the mic. Listen, 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.599 this mic is multidirectional? Is that? And Kurt, the producer 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.720 of the show, We've discussed it over emails that you skipped. 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:40.080 We have tech rehearsals, we have fought. We do one 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.479 a day every day of the week. We make sure 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.120 that the equipment is working properly. And I think we're 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.519 actually hitting a really great strike. You're doing a great job, 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:54.520 you and Kurt together. Um, we are back. I'm Um. 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.560 I am c J's wife and co host. We just 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:02.400 got back from Utah. I was gonna say vacation. Vacation 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.880 feels like to use right now. We had to drive 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.679 eleven hours there and back and then but we have 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.039 to see my parents. Everybody tested negative beforehand. We were 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:16.080 masked up. Were the people in the national parks glaring 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:20.360 at the people without masks? Yes, Um, that's who we've become. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:24.440 Um I did go down a rapid in the Colorado 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.360 River outside of the raft on my butt, and I 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:32.200 feel like maybe comedy isn't my calling and maybe I 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:36.119 should be some sort of nature guide. Now I could 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:41.080 do that. Uh are are we had a guide on 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:46.399 the raft and marl as in Marlow coach from Alga 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.960 their own lots of night games. One of my favorite 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.640 lines she does she sleeps in a forerunner to be 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:56.080 able to just there are people that love I mean, 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:57.840 that's why I asked my mom, Like I was looking around, 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.840 I go, so some of these people they just loved 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.760 being outside, and we like being outside too, But then 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.400 we have an oversized couch that we do like coming 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.840 back to. We like to lay as well, so we 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:09.920 we like to go to parks and then we like 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:16.079 to come back and sleep in a sanitized five star Airbnb. Yes, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.079 that's how. But it was successful trips. Everyone's healthy. Yeah, 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.720 and we we practice social distancing. We did it the 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.400 right way, and yeah, I'm very glad that we were 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.480 able to do that and very grateful that we were 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.520 able to escape and and get out of the city 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.320 for a few hours. But um, I don't want to 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.000 delay bring on our guests who were so so so honored. Okay, 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.400 you give your you give your superlatives, and then I'll 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.640 give my superlatives. I mean this is like sounds corny 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:47.680 and cheesy but awesome. UM, so smart, so creative. I 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.160 was lucky to work with her at the NFL. Okay, 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.600 your your turn. I I think of this person as 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:58.399 the NFL's north star, where you know, like they look 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.600 to her to write to the ship, um if it 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.280 ever goes off course she is somehow in charge of 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.800 all of these people. But it is friendly and kind 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.480 and so cool and recently was featured on Good Morning 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:19.360 Football talking about women in sports media. And yeah, appear 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.920 that I also look up to. So please welcome the 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:27.760 NFL's AJ Curry h who Yeah, I like don't even 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:33.200 know how to live up everything wild Well we actually 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.200 didn't even say what your job is there? What is 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.880 your what is your title at the NFL? So I 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.240 am the senior manager of Social Content at the NFL. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:45.760 I do our activations at our temple events. So last 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.520 year I printed tweets on confetti that rained down at 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:53.320 the people. Wow, I've like helped players break like Guinness 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.840 World records like just a bunch of whatever if it's 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.600 out a temple of it and it's social, like I've 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.280 probably helped with it. And then I run are like 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:05.800 platform innovation team, so that's Snapchat, Giffy, and I mean 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.520 hopefully still TikTok. I think I know what I was 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.760 thinking about this last night when I was reading all 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.800 the news about TikTok potentially being banned, which is an 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.760 insane thing to say, but yeah, I mean maybe we 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.640 can start there. What do you how what are your 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:25.000 thoughts on that? And don't get her into troubles right? Oh? Yeah, 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.720 you know, I mean I just saw you know you 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.320 sort of said in tweets just like it's more than 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.400 what he what what our president was calling it, but like, well, 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.760 what attracts you to TikTok so much? And how is 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.760 it relevant to your job right now? Yeah? So obviously, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.320 like I've run the NFL's TikTok along with one of 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.800 my colleagues, Matt Cummings. He handles like most of our 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.320 day to day programming, but we really launched it together. 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.080 And along with the launch, obviously there was like a 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.560 bunch of strategy involved. So like I've been in the 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:58.000 TikTok world like a very long time and uh, it's 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.279 obviously weird and crazy and a lot of people don't 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.960 understand it, but it's like easily, easily my favorite social 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:08.080 media platform. Like it is just it's so positive, like people, 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.520 they are truly so positive. It's filled with advocates like 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.400 I love that, Like they're like they care about things 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.200 and they talk about them and they perform songs about 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.039 black lives matter and they there's just like it's so 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.719 powerful and like it really is. It just makes me 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.640 really confident in our next generation. Um it's so cheesy, 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.760 but I just love it so much, and I find 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:32.920 it hard to believe that we'll be able to mimic 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.840 exactly what that was anywhere else maybe features and things, 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.920 but like the community in the environment like is so no. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.760 I mean we worked together, you know, in the social lab, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.960 and I think a lot of the sort of stigmas 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.200 that the tech talk generation and even when like Instagram 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.680 and Snapchat all this was coming out, was that the 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.800 youth were just like dancing or just showing off. And 0:05:55.839 --> 0:06:00.320 it's really like best with technology because it is new 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:01.960 technology and it's like, oh yeah, they just want to 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.120 be on their phones all the time. But it's like, yeah, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.200 but people are making incredible things. Yeah, it's like and 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.840 and I like how people are sort of phrasing, you know, 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:15.160 uh TikTok and you know, saying that it's about the creators, 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.040 like the fact that like YouTube and all these platforms 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:22.520 are like we are built by our creators. And by 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:27.120 just calling the youth creators and empowering them to just 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.240 like make stuff and make it easy for them and 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.480 present them with features to further their voice and messages 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.400 is so cool. And so to hear that any of 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.840 these are in danger, it is just such a bummer. Yeah, 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.480 it's like literally there's a girl that I followed who 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.840 started as just like someone who was just like playing 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.120 guitar and piano in her bedroom and she just was 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.240 on like the top music charts the other day. One 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.240 of hers like that is TikTok, Like that is purely 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:56.000 TikTok powering that. And it's just it's wild how like 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.320 it's opened up so many doors and opportunities. And I 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.200 know people always point to like whatever, like some cringeing 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.159 influencers as being like that them defining the app, but 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.400 like it it really like when you're on there, you 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.880 can just see like it's so much more. And I 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.160 feel like to the fact that like older people are 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.520 intimidated by like making TikTok and being on TikTok, I 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.120 think that's like kind of kept it so like young 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:18.960 and youthful, like you were staying with like the new tech, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.000 like they are the only ones who wanted to get 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.600 on there and try, and that's kept it kind of 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:27.200 like its own little bubble insulated. Yeah. I always say like, oh, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.080 they'll reach a point where I'll just be like, no 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.200 new technology for me, you know, I'll just have been like, oh, 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.960 I aged out. And I really thought TikTok was gonna 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.880 be it, you know, Like I thought I was like, 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.280 oh no, not gonna be able to learn that. And 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:44.720 I haven't learned it, but I do love watching it. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:46.880 But I'm so happy you brought up this girl that 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.480 you were able to see her like rise, because I 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.160 think c J and I feel that way kind of 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:57.920 about you and your role within the NFL, Like we 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.560 you know, there's at a revolving door, but like we're 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.120 not there anymore. Other people that we worked with are 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.720 not there anymore, And you're kind of a constant in 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.560 the best way who's there and who is really like 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.800 really such a good voice for women and for youth 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.640 and for progress within the league that we always joke 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.520 about how you will be the first female commissioner in 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.520 any league, because we just you have such a passion 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.960 for the NFL that it is impossible for it to 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.000 not rub off on other people. Yeah. I think it's 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:33.480 like it's so funny to say that, because I think 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.280 about that, like so often. There are like people like you, 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.640 guys that I love that have like come and gone. 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.319 And I think for me, the NFL was truly my 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.800 dream job. That was like kind of my like like 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.400 I loved football literally forever, Like this was like my peak. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.160 And so when I got there at like kind of 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:52.920 a young age and I got my foot in the door, 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.400 I was like, all right, here we are. You want 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.960 to make your dream continue to be your dream, you know, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.360 like you wanted to be as good as you imagine 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.040 to be, And like, I think the only way that 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.360 I saw the opportunity to do that was to like 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.480 get in there and stay there and like work to 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:13.559 continue to make change kind of like throughout what you do. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.160 I wasn't recording, but I was recording on this. H 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:22.080 my gosh, Like, I mean, that's a perfect example of 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.760 why women need to be in charge of things. You know, Well, 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.920 actually I can't. I just can't know. I think we 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.120 got it. I think we got that. We had Okay, great, 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:40.000 happy to hear that. Now. I mean, we're not gonna 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:41.439 we're not gonna cut that out. We're not going to 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:49.680 pretend to restart. But I think that's another absolutely because 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.320 you know, we talked a lot about in in comedy, 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.160 sometimes you get a dream job and then you're like, oh, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.360 it's actually a job and I do have to go, 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.920 and there are annoying things about it. And and I've 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.800 seen this happen in sports to where people they have 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.480 worked in it so long that they're they used to 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.320 be these die hard Cubs fans or whatever it is, 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.920 and now they're just like, who even cares? What's it 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.199 even meant? Like it they've seen too much that they 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.000 become so disenfranchised by it. But you're someone who, like, 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.920 you've seen so much and it just continue, Like do 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.080 you just take all the good and then leave the 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.840 bad to be able to keep going? Yeah? I think 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.400 like I just try really hard to like not get 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.760 into like a jade of passive place, whether it's like 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.440 how I'm growing at the like it's just in my 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.839 career as a whole, whether it's things that I care about, 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.400 like I just try not to settle, and it's I mean, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.160 it's obviously not easy at all, but I just try 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.920 and like remember, I don't know, I just I just 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.280 try and keep fighting forward. And I just can't sit 0:10:55.480 --> 0:11:01.320 around like You're very promotive to me. I imagine in 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.800 high school, Like what what clubs were you in in 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:12.000 high school? Oh? Well I I was on the speech team. Okay, yeah, yes, exactly. Yeah. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.479 So you're just like a positive go getter and that 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:19.720 that will you know, that helps you in a career, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.880 like you've chosen because it can be I mean, you 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.880 are a Bears fan and the Bears have not won 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.200 the Super Bowl. I'm just saying the Bears have not 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.000 won the Super Bowl. Like when I was at the NFL, 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:32.520 they would get not mad at me, but I'd be 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.840 like cults, colts, cults, cults, and it's like Megan, there's 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.560 actually other teams and the cults aren't that good. And 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.240 I was like I don't know what you're talking about. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.959 We squeaked into the playoffs that year. But like you've 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.400 got a Texan shirt on right now? Is it is 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.400 it hard to like be a fan and then also 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.000 in it. That's such a good question, So like football 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.080 as a hole, So like that for me, I'm like, 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.120 it's really easy to like acknowledge when like it's a 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.840 good team, a good highlight. That is easy for me 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.320 to like object to really separate. But like I do have, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.920 of course biases towards the Bears, but like I just 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.000 try and also to be like, all right, this could 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.360 be biased or but I think this could be cool, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.880 and then I let other people help. But I also 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.640 just really like the players themselves, So like this is 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.800 a Deshaun Watson shoot because I love DeShawn Watson, and 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.240 I also have a lot of interactions with players throughout 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.360 my career, so like when I have like a really 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:28.280 good positive interaction with someone, I become like their biggest fan. 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.520 And so like I had a great time with DeShawn 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.439 when he was drafted and I presented him with a 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.840 letter from his mom. He cried and I cried, and 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.040 we cried together, and it was like so precious and 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.080 like I he definitely does not remember me, but like 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:42.720 that just moment me a lot. So I feel like 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.480 also I get these like jerseys and jerseys, it's like 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.280 kind of mementos to like these like moments and interactions 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.920 in my career as well. Can you can you describe 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.199 sort of that you know, you talk about activations, but 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.320 maybe people who aren't in the industry know what that is. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.199 And like, you know, you talked about the letters that 0:12:58.200 --> 0:12:59.600 you gave to Shawn. Can you tell us about that 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.000 project act and maybe some other projects you've done at 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.959 these ten pole events for the NFL. Yeah, So the 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:09.480 activations are kind of content capture opportunities or like really slashy, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:14.000 newsworthy things that we try and do at our temples, 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:18.559 which are Draft, Kickoff, Combine, Pro Bowl, Super Bowl, all 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.840 of those kind of main events. So it can be 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.679 anything from like something in partnership with one of our 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.839 platform partners, so like a TikTok or Twitter, or it 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.880 can be just like a really cool organic content capturing opportunities. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.960 So Draft Letters was one of those when we started 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.960 that actually that year um that Sean was drafted and 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.319 we found we basically got loved ones of the players 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:49.840 to write them letters uh, congratulating them, um right like, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.880 and so we would present those with the players right 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.920 after they were drafted. Right they get off the stage, 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.840 they'd like honestly, they go through like a bunch of 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.280 crazy interviews right there, you know, like running around, and 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.600 then I bring them kind of into our area and 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.640 I sit them down and I say, take a breath, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.480 You've made it, and now we have a message for 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:11.520 you God. And it's always like even like we helped 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.640 the parents some sometimes they film them, We help them 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.480 fum before and like even just have them filming the 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.240 message before their you know, son is even drafted. I'm 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:23.160 like crying with them as they're filming, like, oh my god. 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.480 Devin Bush's family had me like full balling with them, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.120 like in like a hotel ballroom and he didn't even 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.320 drafted yet, it was. And so it's like, I think, 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.000 a really special moment because when they see their families 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.400 after they're drafted, it's still part of this whirlwind, right, 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.280 like they have to go do all these things, and 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.640 so to give them just a second to like sit 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.440 down take it all in, like this is fully their 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:49.720 dreams come like they've worked their entire lives for this, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.400 and they get to sit down and just take it 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.320 like like a second to like take it all in 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.400 and then just get this message from the people who've 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.520 been by their sides this entire time, just saying how 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.240 proud they are of them, Like it's like my favorite 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.960 thing that we do. It's so powerful and yeah, like 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:07.920 it it makes me want to cry talking about it, 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.720 like it's just no, it's I mean, and and the 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.600 reality is to be even make it to the NFL 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.640 is a miracle, you know, like you are a one 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.480 in billion, and a lot of these guys and families 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.320 have had to go through so much. We just started 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.400 watching the New Last Chance You season and the first 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:30.040 episode ends with like the star wide receivers sleeping in 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.520 his car and you're like, fun, and he just loves 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:37.240 football so much and and and so there's guys like 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.840 that that that that then are getting that letter and 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:45.440 it's a culmination of of so much hard work by 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.960 an entire community and family that yeah, I mean, that's incredible. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.480 Is your second favorite thing? The tweets on the confetti? 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.080 I think yeah, And honestly, they kind of like fall 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.160 in the same realm of Like one of the big 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.320 parts of the Twitter confetti that we did was we 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.680 went and we found players old tweets from like way 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.080 back in the day talking isn't manifesting that this would 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.440 one day happen, right, Like Patrick Mahomes tweet was on there, 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.560 and it was like, I can't wait to wonder it 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.880 must feel so great to be the quarterback who went 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:18.280 to the Super Bowl and then gets to say I'm 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.840 going to Disney World and you tweeted that years ago, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.280 and then that rains down on his head as he 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:27.960 did that. Yeah, And it's like, I guess like one 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.160 of the best parts I think about the NFL, and 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:34.040 like it's sometimes hard to remember, but like every you're 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.880 just watching people live their dreams constantly, whether that's you know, 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.920 the first time they scored a touchdown or they're like, 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.200 you know, fifty if sack, or they're like, you know, 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.080 making it to a certain level in the playoffs, or 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:46.840 to the super Bowl or the Pro Bowl, like every 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.560 single thing, and especially knowing where like so many of 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.000 them came from, like and work to get there. There's 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:53.880 just so many milestones and you just see like this 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.000 pure joy of like playing the sport that they love 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.320 and have always loved, and like that just it just 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.600 warms my heart always. It's great. I mean I do 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.800 think that kind of brings us to the topic. Yeah, 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.040 I mean you suggested this and I was like, oh, 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:15.080 this is such a perfect midnight like the MD and 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.200 I was like, okay, hear me out greatest celebrations. Yeah, 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.200 and and that that's like on a personal level, it's 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.560 also perfect because I remember when when I went to 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.560 the NFL and we were launching the Checkdown and we 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.240 didn't you know, obviously it was like, you know, the 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.199 Checkdown is is a fun, sort of youthful way of 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:36.959 looking at sportsbrations. It's like what it's specialized. And I 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:38.840 think I was just so lucky for the time that 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.600 I was there and we were launching this thing, because 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.080 celebrations just became like legal or or it was being 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.879 sort of embraced by the league, and the account was 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:48.320 kind of like, hey, if you want to see the 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.560 celebrations that players are doing after plays, you can see 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.439 it all on the Checkdown. And so I just remember, 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.919 like I'm mark in my head just so there's like 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.960 some marks of like time just based on like celebration 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.480 stions of like the Packers playing Duck Duck goose and 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:04.879 and all this other stuff. I don't want to I 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.480 don't want to say anyone's selections. So I just want 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.520 to say, this is also such a perfect topic to 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.720 how do you want to discuss It's also just so 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:17.040 funny being their personalities and their creativity. Like that's the 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.480 side I think that it's hard to see unless you're 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.960 looking for it, And so when we change some of 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.000 the rules, bring that into the light a little bit more. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.960 Like I mean, it just up the fun bag games 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:31.960 by like a million. It was a smart move because yeah, 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.320 it just makes it endears you to all of these 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.000 players and you're like, oh my god, they're a really 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.959 good dancer. Oh they're really funny. Like you see all 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.080 these different facets of their personality that before then you 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.320 weren't able to see. And I think that's a really 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.520 valuable thing if you want to continue to grow and 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.320 like appreciate your fan base. We want to know the players, 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.600 you know. That's the that's the reality. It doesn't I 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.280 don't want the Colts to just be a roster of 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.399 people I don't know, Like I love their family, ease. 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.480 I love their kids. I want to know what they like. 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.320 I watched their wedding videos like I'm in it. Yes, 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.000 I mean, I'm obviously like a thousand percent the same. Um. 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.560 I have like like an Instagram Burner account if you will. 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:17.240 It's not really burner, it's like it's a Mac and 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.320 Cheese account, but I was gonna bring up Mac and cheese. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:22.640 I also use it to like if you look at 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.800 who is that account is following, it's all NFL players 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.560 and like their families because I love to go through 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:30.159 and like look at that stuff. And obviously you can 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.280 pull some of it for content, but like it just 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.520 helps you just learn about them even more. Yeah, oh 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.040 a j I got. I got made fun of for 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:42.240 picking Brawny James as one of my favorite sports influencers 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.320 on a previous episode. So I listened to that episode 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.119 and like you guys were talking about it before you 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.359 even said brawny, I was kind of thinking brawny and 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:52.480 then you said it. I was like, oh my gosh. Yes, 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.639 And he's like such like a modern person too, because 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:58.240 he also is like on Twitch and like obviously to 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.720 talk and and then he said Carmel Anthony who I 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:02.480 used to work for us when my mom's surprised there, 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.399 but I was girled about that. So I think that 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:08.480 us making fun of c J with the brawny stuff 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:10.560 is more that c J is a grown man and 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.439 he is brawny as a child. Um, and just the 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:19.480 questions that that raises in society in general. Um. But 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.840 I know that c J has such love for him. 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:28.080 He does own a jersey of this trial. He's really cool. Um. Okay, 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:30.240 a J, do you want to lead us off with 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:34.119 your first pick for greatest celebration? Oh my gosh. Okay, 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:36.679 So first I have to talk about how I've been 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:40.920 like really stressing out about calibrations because there's so many 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:45.119 ways to categorize them, right, Like there's obviously like the 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.960 just like overall like iconic celebration. I mean, I don't 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:50.840 want to take any of yours, so I won't say 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:53.800 him yet, but like obviously there's like the classics celebrate tours, 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.600 like you know, the t O and the Chad and 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.160 like everything from like you know, the Dirty Bird and 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:01.720 things like that, where those are like iconic celebrations. But 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:05.320 then we have this new era of celebrations. And also 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:07.800 I figured I listened to the podcast. I know what 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.239 sports you guys like, so I figured I just come 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.000 in with the full football expertise, so that wall are 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:14.800 definitely gonna hit on the other sports. It was kind 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:19.159 of my thoughts. So there's also like the more modern ones, 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:24.000 there's some touchdown celebrations, sack celebrations, first down celebrations, like 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.479 there's just there's so many you could do, just like 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:30.679 your favorite celebrations with the best pantomime props, because the 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:33.399 best teams you could like, there's just so many. So 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:36.600 it was very, very hard for me, and I literally 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:38.479 am like looking at my list of notes right now 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.280 to like like, okay, here's a million of them, which 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:44.680 one of mine. People, this is how invested she is listeners. 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:46.760 She's picking on the fly because it's too hard. This 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:51.879 is sophace choice. Yes, um okay, So I think what 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.800 I'm going to start with. I think it was vastly underrated. 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:59.240 Um frankly, I think it did not get enough attention. 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:01.520 But I think that almost why it was so great. 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:05.679 And it is Trey Quinn did the Michael Scarn dance 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:11.280 from the office. I remember this, what a phenomenally subtle 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.760 pop culture reference. That like if you got it and 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:17.480 you felt it, you were in this community of people 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:19.280 who knew what was happening. And I just thought it 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:22.119 was so creative. Everybody else is out here doing you know, 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:26.720 childhood games or like you know, really like well known dances, 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:28.760 and I just thought he came out with like the 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:31.439 most creative take on a dance that people would know, 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:34.040 but also like you gotta be in this office community 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:36.680 to kind of understand. So yeah, that's my favorite thing 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.160 is when like they do that and they're like that's 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:41.720 cool or like it's kind of like underwhelming at first, 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.679 but then the internet, just one person on the Internet, 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:47.480 all they have to do is just tweet, oh my god, 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.280 that was a Michael Scarn dance from uh the office, 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:52.760 and it blows up. All the office fans come in 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:57.560 and it's like it's These dances, especially in the NFL, 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:01.399 have really been a great way for pop culture to 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:04.760 overlap with sports. And I think that's how like a 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:07.320 lot of sports is being consumed now with social media. 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:10.080 So I think that's a great thing. Yeah, it reminds 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:12.800 me of and this wasn't a celebration, but when that 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:17.960 song got put to Cam doing his like warm up 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:25.840 and that um that was so like and everybody was like, Oh, 0:23:25.880 --> 0:23:28.359 you don't even have to like football, just pick a 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:30.840 song that you think this would look funny with and 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:34.719 it took off. What was the hashtag, uh Dak dances 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:37.720 to Anything, That's what it was, Jack Dances to Anything. Yeah, 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:41.360 I think like to Like there's like these If you're 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:44.159 a casual fan, if you just see like highlight after 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:46.240 highlight after highlight in your feed, that's like not going 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:48.679 to make you like football anymore. Like you don't have 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:50.640 like a way in right like we talked, like Megan, 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:53.520 you said like families like you know, players themselves. That's 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:56.119 like you're at least start into like why you like 0:23:56.280 --> 0:23:58.159 like the sport and then build your fandom. Like that's 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:00.960 definitely how I was too. There's people like who like 0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:03.680 food is their way into football fandom because they love 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:06.040 all the food and snacks and tailgates and parties and 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:08.000 like to be able to open this new door for 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:10.600 someone who maybe doesn't ever watch football but loves the 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:13.880 office and then they see this like that's just like, Oh, 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:15.800 I'm in a root for Trey Quinn and I happen 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:17.440 to be you know, this is on TV or it's 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:19.959 all around, and so I think things like that, Like 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:22.120 you know, people I say like hot game A Chargers 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:23.800 because I love their logo or whatever. Like people like 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:26.080 at their color. This team's colors were cool, Like people 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:28.400 grow their fandoms that way. But this is expanding those 0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:30.720 doors even more so there's even more ways to like 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.199 find your way into like this football fandom. That's a 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:36.280 great first pick. Okay, you want me to go? Okay, 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:40.000 so I went really classic for all of my picks. 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:44.320 I did. Um. Yeah, that's just so. My my first 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:47.800 pick is actually a person one that has been mentioned already, 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:53.399 and I'm just I'm going with Teo because I think TiO. 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:57.440 TiO was doing all of his celebrations before it was allowed, 0:24:57.720 --> 0:25:01.440 so he was being danalized, he was being fined, he 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:03.560 was like getting in trouble, and he just was like 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:06.720 I'm gonna do it. Anyways. My favorites are the sharpie, 0:25:06.960 --> 0:25:15.520 the cheerleader, obviously going to the Cowboys logo, uh, popcorn, 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:21.920 the cell phone like he just was. So TiO has 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:25.919 like a really soft spot in my heart, and I 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:30.119 think it's because he kind of was a viral sensation 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:34.920 before that existed, and he helped kind of bring the 0:25:35.040 --> 0:25:38.320 NFL into the twenty one century. I think if he 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:41.760 hadn't done those celebrations and they hadn't been so popular 0:25:41.800 --> 0:25:45.280 and funny, we may not have the celebration rules we 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:48.119 have now. Like it kind of took someone to do it. 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:51.080 I mean, just everything he did, like the situps on 0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:55.960 his driveway that's my quarterback. He just was so you 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:58.879 just had to look at what he was doing and 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:01.920 his celebration since he just puts so much thought in it, 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:05.840 and he like to leave props. He was putting props 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:08.919 places that He's like, I'm gonna score in this end 0:26:09.000 --> 0:26:11.119 zone and I'm gonna pick this prop up. Like it 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:13.720 takes so much confidence too. It's like a new age 0:26:13.760 --> 0:26:18.760 Babe Ruth. It is. Yeah, he just, uh, he cracks 0:26:18.920 --> 0:26:23.320 me up and so like he like gave football a personality. 0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:25.199 I feel like like he's one of the people who 0:26:25.240 --> 0:26:29.040 truly helped give football a personality, and I really love that. Like, 0:26:29.400 --> 0:26:31.720 I mean, it's just so fun like and obviously even 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:34.280 if you're like a die hard fan or a casual fan, 0:26:34.359 --> 0:26:36.640 like you can point to like him if somebody asked 0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:39.639 you about celebrations, like he's just a staple. Yeah, I 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:43.159 remember getting because I played football for nine years, but 0:26:43.200 --> 0:26:46.080 I never watched it. And I think, to me, I mean, 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:48.720 on a very like basic dumb brain level that I have, 0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:54.000 I just thought, like every obviously every NFL play is 0:26:54.040 --> 0:26:56.800 a human feat but it just looked all the same 0:26:56.840 --> 0:26:58.399 to me, Like a tackle look the same, like a 0:26:58.400 --> 0:27:00.680 cash look the same. But then yeah, seeing t O 0:27:00.840 --> 0:27:03.480 like what is he gonna do? Was always like I 0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:05.439 would tune in and that was like one of the 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:08.320 first jersey. Him and Chad Johnson were first jerseys that 0:27:08.359 --> 0:27:10.640 I wanted to get when I was a kid. Those 0:27:10.680 --> 0:27:15.879 were the celebrators. So my pick, uh and ah, I 0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:17.919 love how you said that we do lean into certain 0:27:17.920 --> 0:27:20.360 sports quite a bit or favorite them. Um, so I'm 0:27:20.359 --> 0:27:24.960 gonna go very c J pick NICKI Young his missed 0:27:24.960 --> 0:27:29.920 shot celebration. So, like we all know Steph Curry as 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:32.400 the guy. You know, he's known for shooting at three 0:27:32.400 --> 0:27:34.040 and then turning around and not even looking at it 0:27:34.040 --> 0:27:36.520 going He's just that confident. But Nick Young, this is 0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:38.560 two thousand fourteen, so I don't even think this death 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:41.120 stuff even caught on. But he shot it and then 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:43.880 he turned around and put his arms out and then 0:27:44.280 --> 0:27:46.639 I feel like he also like heard it miss and 0:27:46.640 --> 0:27:49.080 then turn around was like dang it. But I just 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:53.000 love like he was committed to every single motion of 0:27:53.040 --> 0:27:56.680 that play. And again we talked about like this, these 0:27:56.720 --> 0:28:00.760 celebrations being extension of personality. Man, if you were to 0:28:00.840 --> 0:28:04.480 like guess, like, okay, one NBA player to ever do this, 0:28:04.600 --> 0:28:07.520 who would you guess? And it would Nick Young without 0:28:07.560 --> 0:28:10.439 a doubt. And that was like one of my my 0:28:10.520 --> 0:28:13.000 favorite memes, Like it's a it's it's a gift that 0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:16.400 is used for anyone trying to look cool and failing, 0:28:16.440 --> 0:28:21.000 and so it's almost, yeah, it's a bad celebration, but 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:26.640 also aid, yes, I mean I think the football equivalent 0:28:27.240 --> 0:28:31.360 is doing that sort of like slow or like funny 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:34.000 dance into the end zone and then having the ball 0:28:34.080 --> 0:28:36.920 stripped from you or like you don't end up scoring, 0:28:37.520 --> 0:28:41.200 but like you when you celebrate and then the touchdown 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:44.920 gets called back, which I've seen. Actually, the saddest one 0:28:45.040 --> 0:28:47.320 of that I couldn't even think of is I hope 0:28:47.320 --> 0:28:49.760 I feel like it's probably well I compared your listening 0:28:49.840 --> 0:28:52.720 in but I want to talk about Clenton Nelson, No 0:28:52.880 --> 0:28:57.120 he's not on my list to is my only footballer. Okay, 0:28:57.160 --> 0:29:01.120 good so Quenton Nelson. Um, he scored a touchdown, it 0:29:01.120 --> 0:29:03.920 got called back, but they had a phenomenal celebration where 0:29:03.960 --> 0:29:06.760 he did a keg stand and I loved it because 0:29:07.000 --> 0:29:10.680 obviously on brand for an offensive lineman. Um. Somebody literally 0:29:10.720 --> 0:29:14.200 played the keg which I mean amazing um, and it 0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:16.040 got called back, which is really sad, and I don't 0:29:16.040 --> 0:29:17.600 know if they ever got a chance to do it again. 0:29:17.800 --> 0:29:20.800 So I do it. It is fun to how there's 0:29:20.840 --> 0:29:24.200 like teams that get really into it, Like the Seahawks 0:29:24.240 --> 0:29:27.520 are really good, the forty Niners are Like. There are 0:29:28.000 --> 0:29:30.640 entire teams that you're like, oh, I wonder what they're 0:29:30.640 --> 0:29:34.080 gonna do, And I do love that the Colts and 0:29:34.120 --> 0:29:35.760 I think some of it is t y, but I 0:29:35.760 --> 0:29:38.120 think some of it is. The younger guys too have 0:29:38.280 --> 0:29:40.840 like fully been we're going to be a celebration team, 0:29:40.840 --> 0:29:43.200 and I'm like, I love rooting for a celebration team 0:29:43.280 --> 0:29:46.080 because it's just more fun to watch too. Um. Okay, 0:29:46.160 --> 0:29:54.680 let's take a quick break and then we'll be right back. Okay, 0:29:54.680 --> 0:29:59.000 and we are back with our number two picks for 0:29:59.120 --> 0:30:02.840 greatest celebration and c J did pick a basketball player 0:30:02.880 --> 0:30:06.560 who actually did not score for his first pick. Um 0:30:06.680 --> 0:30:11.080 just wanted to read CJ. Is I just you know, 0:30:11.160 --> 0:30:14.719 sometimes you have to do a refresher Like Fiance, they 0:30:14.760 --> 0:30:18.240 always play the last episode like they go to commercial 0:30:18.320 --> 0:30:20.120 and then they play the scene before the commercial. It's like, 0:30:20.200 --> 0:30:24.480 we just saw it. Keep it moving, Nigeria. I want 0:30:24.480 --> 0:30:27.160 to go not Everyone is like you were your fast 0:30:27.200 --> 0:30:29.920 forwarding through commercials or like, So we were on this 0:30:30.000 --> 0:30:33.120 road trip this past week and Megan won't sit through 0:30:33.160 --> 0:30:36.240 a fifteen second ad read on a podcast. What she'll 0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:39.000 do is for a full minute, hit the fifteen second 0:30:39.080 --> 0:30:41.480 fast forward and then miss it and then go back 0:30:41.520 --> 0:30:43.400 and then keep doing it until you find a spot. 0:30:43.600 --> 0:30:45.600 And that is longer than they add read. Okay, but 0:30:45.640 --> 0:30:48.400 that is also a thousands to present me. And we're like, 0:30:48.520 --> 0:30:52.360 I have like premium everything just because I cannot sit 0:30:52.400 --> 0:30:54.360 through the app. I can't do it, cannot do it. 0:30:55.600 --> 0:30:58.920 I had regular Hulu until like a year ago, and 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:01.360 our friend Lisa, who's been in the pod, was like, 0:31:01.520 --> 0:31:04.120 what do you do, Like you have a brand new car, 0:31:04.400 --> 0:31:07.760 just buy Hulu without commercials, Like give it up? And 0:31:07.760 --> 0:31:09.760 I'm like, you're right, You're right, And then I get 0:31:09.800 --> 0:31:13.000 so like irrationally mad at the few shows that like 0:31:13.080 --> 0:31:15.360 still have commercials even if you opt out of commercials. 0:31:15.360 --> 0:31:18.719 I'm like, why why? Yeah. I do want to also 0:31:19.120 --> 0:31:21.800 bring up that I just we got panned Express last 0:31:21.880 --> 0:31:24.440 night after we got back from the road, and so 0:31:24.520 --> 0:31:26.800 we had fortune cookies and I just found on the 0:31:26.840 --> 0:31:30.520 ground c J's fortune that was in his fortune cookie 0:31:30.560 --> 0:31:34.520 and it says share your witty humor with others. That's 0:31:34.520 --> 0:31:36.520 what I'm saying, I mean, and then it has like 0:31:36.520 --> 0:31:38.320 a little I always think you should this should be 0:31:38.360 --> 0:31:41.760 your next um tattoo because Panda Express is written underneath 0:31:41.800 --> 0:31:45.720 it you pand Express it is it is pretty great. 0:31:45.720 --> 0:31:48.960 And I had just put I tweeted the stupidest joke ever. 0:31:49.080 --> 0:31:52.040 I said, more like crabber and good because I had 0:31:52.080 --> 0:31:54.480 just eaten a lot of crabber and coons. And then 0:31:54.520 --> 0:31:56.640 I opened up my fortune cookie and said this, and 0:31:56.640 --> 0:31:58.880 I was like, you know what, I gotta I gotta 0:31:58.960 --> 0:32:01.239 keep going on my instinct. My instinct is great, and 0:32:01.320 --> 0:32:04.000 mine says it's okay to say sorry. And I was like, 0:32:04.160 --> 0:32:09.040 fuck you, pand Express, that's an insane like I oh, 0:32:09.120 --> 0:32:11.080 I wish I could go back in time and switch 0:32:11.240 --> 0:32:15.160 our fortune cookies at the last second. Alright, alright, okay, 0:32:15.480 --> 0:32:19.280 so um okay, agge, we are a number two picks. 0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:23.680 You lead us off. Okay, my number two is actually 0:32:23.720 --> 0:32:27.200 it's a tie, um and it's a tie between um 0:32:27.400 --> 0:32:29.280 we Actually you just mentioned it. It's a tie between 0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:34.600 teams because not pick just one, and so by tie 0:32:34.800 --> 0:32:38.640 is the Vikings and the Seahawks. And I think that 0:32:38.800 --> 0:32:41.920 exactly what you were saying. They are all in on celebration. 0:32:42.120 --> 0:32:46.320 They are celebration teams. They are wildly creative. And so 0:32:46.880 --> 0:32:49.640 I will list a few of my favorites. Now, Seahawk 0:32:50.040 --> 0:32:54.120 the Bye Bye Bye phenominal really great. Everybody can identify 0:32:54.240 --> 0:32:57.240 that like such a win. They did the new the 0:32:57.280 --> 0:33:02.400 new edition dance. The amount of practice and coordination, I 0:33:02.680 --> 0:33:06.000 I just like, I cannot even um. They did I 0:33:06.160 --> 0:33:11.440 believe mining for Gold against San Francisco, what I mean savage. 0:33:11.720 --> 0:33:14.800 And then also they've done I mean there's probably a 0:33:14.840 --> 0:33:17.240 million more. I'm not even this game, but they've done surfing, 0:33:17.600 --> 0:33:20.800 love surfing. They did one where they were doing they 0:33:20.800 --> 0:33:23.240 were like an orchestra, but then all of a sudden 0:33:23.240 --> 0:33:26.840 it morphed into everyone doing the macarena. I want the storyline, 0:33:26.840 --> 0:33:30.120 like I need to know more. I love the Seahawks celebrations, 0:33:30.160 --> 0:33:34.080 and then the Vikings were my second choice. Um. Specifically, 0:33:34.120 --> 0:33:37.040 the two that stand out to me are definitely Limbo Um, 0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:39.800 which they took from I believe, like a soccer team. Um, 0:33:39.840 --> 0:33:41.680 but I love that they brought it to the NFL, 0:33:41.800 --> 0:33:46.560 And then the duck duck gray duck because it's playful, 0:33:47.040 --> 0:33:51.000 it's nostalgic, it's easily identifiable, and also like a shout 0:33:51.000 --> 0:33:52.800 out to the local jargon because most people call it 0:33:52.880 --> 0:33:55.160 duck duck goose. In Minnesota, they call it duck duck, 0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:57.000 gray duck, And so I felt like it was also 0:33:57.040 --> 0:33:59.080 like just a celebration where they're you know, they're from 0:33:59.120 --> 0:34:03.200 in their home. So that burger stuff with cheese, Oh 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:06.600 that thing is good. Um yeah. I remember seeing the 0:34:06.640 --> 0:34:10.640 Seahawks do so much choreography and being like, I hope 0:34:10.680 --> 0:34:14.279 they win because if they lose, and their coaches like 0:34:14.640 --> 0:34:17.560 you guys spent forty five minutes on an eight count 0:34:17.600 --> 0:34:19.879 of bye bye bye, like when we could have been 0:34:20.200 --> 0:34:23.280 watching film, Like you almost have to be a team 0:34:23.320 --> 0:34:27.600 that's good to fully be all in on celebrations because 0:34:27.600 --> 0:34:32.160 if you're under five hundred but you're doing choreograph celebrations 0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:35.560 at practice, they're gonna be like, guys, we gotta get 0:34:35.640 --> 0:34:39.360 drills down before we're doing uh, you know, like a 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:43.160 toe heel. It's like the first touchdown of the game 0:34:43.440 --> 0:34:46.080 and you celebrate and then it just goes downhill from there. 0:34:46.200 --> 0:34:49.960 Like then that celebration feel like almost loses, like it's shine. Yeah. 0:34:50.000 --> 0:34:52.400 It's so funny too, because like the Seahawks used to 0:34:52.400 --> 0:34:55.480 be this like beast mode team where it was the 0:34:55.560 --> 0:35:00.440 defense was really intimidating and cool and like bad asks 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:03.959 him punch you in the face and they're gonna and yeah, 0:35:04.000 --> 0:35:07.680 and they're still cool. They still are very good. But 0:35:07.760 --> 0:35:10.799 now it's like, yeah, we're gonna have a little fun, 0:35:10.880 --> 0:35:15.200 so we're gonna do dances as well. When you see Lebron, right, 0:35:15.239 --> 0:35:17.839 Lebron is like super cool, but when you see him 0:35:17.880 --> 0:35:20.759 like being like kind of goofy. I don't know why, 0:35:20.760 --> 0:35:23.160 but like he makes being goofy cool, like it's a 0:35:23.400 --> 0:35:26.719 more cool. And when he's care me it's cool. They're 0:35:26.880 --> 0:35:31.560 like you're a giant jacked man. Anything kind of looks cool. 0:35:31.880 --> 0:35:34.440 You know. I tell you Ja that all the time. 0:35:34.480 --> 0:35:37.879 It's like, baby, just get ripped and then anything's cool 0:35:37.880 --> 0:35:40.399 you do. I'm trying. I just want to be considered cool, 0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:44.120 but you're so cool. I'm now noticing your shirt, to 0:35:44.280 --> 0:35:47.280 which I'm sure is going to come up. Okay, okay, 0:35:47.360 --> 0:35:53.360 so um my number two pick again in this classic realm. 0:35:53.480 --> 0:35:56.200 If I had to point to a specific one, I can, 0:35:56.680 --> 0:36:01.440 but it is the Tiger Sunday red sure fist pump 0:36:01.640 --> 0:36:06.719 like there's pins made after it. The twenty nineteen Masters 0:36:06.760 --> 0:36:09.200 when when the comeback like he does sort of like 0:36:09.239 --> 0:36:12.759 a double flex and then it was a really I 0:36:12.760 --> 0:36:16.759 thought it was such a heartwarming, nice moment because they 0:36:16.800 --> 0:36:20.080 flashed back to his first Master's win and he's hugging 0:36:20.120 --> 0:36:23.319 his mom and his dad, and in twenty nineteen he's 0:36:23.360 --> 0:36:26.280 hugging his mom and his children, and it really felt 0:36:26.600 --> 0:36:29.359 full circle. But when you see Tiger in that red 0:36:29.400 --> 0:36:32.040 shirt and when he gets at fist pump, it's like, 0:36:32.120 --> 0:36:35.719 you know, we want, Like that is it signifies, Oh, 0:36:35.800 --> 0:36:40.759 I just want And it's like so masculine for like golf, 0:36:41.160 --> 0:36:43.360 you know, you just put it in and it's a 0:36:43.520 --> 0:36:46.800 put is like truly just like tapping a ball into 0:36:46.840 --> 0:36:49.400 a hole and he's able to like get his whole 0:36:49.640 --> 0:36:54.080 body going, and golfers have celebrated. I remember when Phil 0:36:54.160 --> 0:36:56.640 Mickelson finally won a major and it was a huge 0:36:56.680 --> 0:36:58.839 as very much Peyton, get the monkey off your back, 0:36:59.040 --> 0:37:01.719 and he just like jumped up in the air kind 0:37:01.719 --> 0:37:04.560 of like he was a bridesmaid and made to do it. 0:37:04.880 --> 0:37:08.080 And it's like, oh, yeah, Tiger does make golf so 0:37:08.160 --> 0:37:12.160 much cooler by just like being there and being who 0:37:12.200 --> 0:37:14.880 he is. Because if any of the other golfers did that, 0:37:14.960 --> 0:37:18.759 it would feel very all lives matter. But Tiger doing it, 0:37:18.840 --> 0:37:22.320 You're like, yes, great, love it. I feel like to 0:37:22.480 --> 0:37:24.680 golf is like such like a it's kind of like 0:37:24.680 --> 0:37:28.279 a subtle rate. Yeah. And so would you just see 0:37:28.360 --> 0:37:31.719 him punch like all of that like penned up, like 0:37:32.360 --> 0:37:35.080 keeping it down and chilling in Like when you see that, 0:37:35.120 --> 0:37:37.200 it just feels like almost like a police of energy 0:37:37.320 --> 0:37:40.480 like he did it, and like it's it's perfect and 0:37:40.520 --> 0:37:43.880 I have to want like it's it's such a natural. 0:37:44.360 --> 0:37:46.799 Like I mean, even as a kid, I remember my 0:37:46.840 --> 0:37:49.000 brother's making fun of me once because my mom said 0:37:49.000 --> 0:37:50.640 I could do something, and I go yes, and I 0:37:50.680 --> 0:37:53.600 like did that like kitching, and it's like it's dorky, 0:37:53.680 --> 0:37:57.040 but it's your natural like inclination if you're just trying 0:37:57.080 --> 0:37:59.879 to do a contained celebration. But I wonder if now 0:38:00.040 --> 0:38:03.479 he's like, well, this is my thing, I gotta do it. Yeah, 0:38:03.480 --> 0:38:06.640 I mean for for being a kid, like when we 0:38:06.680 --> 0:38:08.800 go out and try to be like our favorite athletes, 0:38:08.840 --> 0:38:10.880 like for Jordan's it was putting your tongue out and 0:38:10.920 --> 0:38:14.359 playing basketball, but like I remember playing golf for one 0:38:14.440 --> 0:38:17.279 summer and kids were doing that, and so like it 0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:19.680 is really I just feel like some of these athletes 0:38:19.680 --> 0:38:23.040 who become stars, they have one built in naturally in them, 0:38:23.040 --> 0:38:25.160 like not only are they good, but then they can 0:38:25.280 --> 0:38:30.480 do this significant, iconic celebration that's just like every brand 0:38:30.560 --> 0:38:33.920 that they endorse, just their eyes lap and goes that's it. 0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:37.800 The tiger pump, I mean like Aaron Rodgers, but is 0:38:37.840 --> 0:38:43.719 like discount double check. Yep, that's ours, all right, my 0:38:43.800 --> 0:38:46.480 number two pick. We're talking about iconic is and I 0:38:46.480 --> 0:38:50.759 gotta I gotta watch more these these fights uh to completion. 0:38:50.840 --> 0:38:55.680 But like Muhammad alive knockout Sunny listed in the first round. 0:38:55.960 --> 0:38:58.880 We all know the picture He's standing over Sunny liston 0:38:58.920 --> 0:39:01.440 who was just knocked cold on the ground, and he 0:39:01.520 --> 0:39:04.200 kind of has like the tiger kind of like arm 0:39:04.280 --> 0:39:07.879 hook and he is yelling at just like taunting him, 0:39:07.920 --> 0:39:11.040 but like not just like taunting him and you suck 0:39:11.120 --> 0:39:13.680 blah blah, but just I can't. I think he's like, 0:39:14.040 --> 0:39:16.600 get up. No one's gonna believe this, even though it's 0:39:16.640 --> 0:39:18.720 on TV. That's what they said. He he was saying. 0:39:18.760 --> 0:39:20.879 But he was just like in that moment to have 0:39:21.480 --> 0:39:23.560 kind of the presence of mind to just still be 0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:26.920 clever and act as if like it wasn't hard to 0:39:26.960 --> 0:39:29.200 knock him down. And I remember my friend had the 0:39:30.120 --> 0:39:32.320 picture of the photograph blown up on his wall and 0:39:32.360 --> 0:39:35.680 we used to just stare at it and I was like, Wow, 0:39:35.719 --> 0:39:39.000 to be as good at something and to have that 0:39:39.080 --> 0:39:41.880 confidence and to have that wit all in the same 0:39:41.920 --> 0:39:44.760 moment is one of the most badass things I've everseen. 0:39:44.840 --> 0:39:49.000 So um, Ali, I almost almost knocked out my microphone. 0:39:49.640 --> 0:39:52.720 So funny maybe talking about like how cool and badass 0:39:52.760 --> 0:39:56.040 and then you hit your own podcast Mike, because I 0:39:56.080 --> 0:39:59.920 get passionate and I'm just like that and start fumble 0:40:00.120 --> 0:40:04.600 the microphone. But Ali, and probably not Eiven his best celebration, 0:40:05.120 --> 0:40:08.279 but Muhammad Ali is one of the greatest performers to 0:40:08.400 --> 0:40:11.399 ever live. Was sunny, Okay, I don't know, oh dear, 0:40:11.680 --> 0:40:14.319 al Right, well, let's hope. I hope we watched the 0:40:14.560 --> 0:40:16.879 and when we were the King. When we were Kings, 0:40:16.920 --> 0:40:21.480 Ali two, he in his knockout punch on George Foreman. 0:40:22.000 --> 0:40:24.200 He hit him and he was falling down, and he 0:40:24.239 --> 0:40:27.239 would have been legally able to punch him again to 0:40:27.360 --> 0:40:30.400 make sure, but Ali said it was he liked the 0:40:30.440 --> 0:40:33.080 aesthetic of him slowly falling, So I mean he didn't 0:40:33.080 --> 0:40:35.640 punch him again, And I'm like, yeah to me again, 0:40:35.680 --> 0:40:42.320 that's like Ali is a creative director as well, loving 0:40:42.360 --> 0:40:45.719 the aesthetic, the fact that that's like how you, you know, 0:40:45.800 --> 0:40:48.120 control your career and your place. They're like, oh yeah, 0:40:48.120 --> 0:40:50.920 I want to because I love the aesthetic and also 0:40:51.080 --> 0:40:54.360 like the sheer violence that's happening, you know, like a 0:40:54.440 --> 0:40:59.480 man is falling down in his because he's just been beaten. Alright, 0:40:59.760 --> 0:41:01.359 let's take a break and we'll be back with our 0:41:01.440 --> 0:41:14.560 number one picks. All right, and we're back a j 0:41:14.760 --> 0:41:17.279 You said you've listened to some episodes before, so you 0:41:17.280 --> 0:41:19.880 we're gonna have you go last is our big finale. 0:41:20.360 --> 0:41:22.239 So Megan, how about you give us your number one 0:41:22.239 --> 0:41:25.600 pick for groups. So, in typical fashion, I have lots 0:41:25.600 --> 0:41:29.960 of honorable mentions. Um Ocho Sinko, as we've mentioned. I 0:41:29.960 --> 0:41:33.440 mean yeah, him and TiO kind of go hand in hand. 0:41:33.600 --> 0:41:36.480 I remember I loved his putting. I thought that was 0:41:36.520 --> 0:41:40.520 like so funny to do that. Um yeah, he just 0:41:41.239 --> 0:41:46.239 he's a classic too. Ums my favorite like Bold Bold celebrations, 0:41:46.239 --> 0:41:48.439 which is when he made his own Hall of fame. 0:41:49.800 --> 0:41:53.360 I mean, yes, the confidence that you have to exude 0:41:53.360 --> 0:41:57.160 to be able to do and then execute like just perfection. 0:41:57.480 --> 0:42:00.759 I don't like proper humor. You should, but when it 0:42:00.800 --> 0:42:04.640 comes to NFL celebrations, I love prop humor. That is 0:42:04.719 --> 0:42:07.960 my exception. Honestly. I like to judge the pantomime propping 0:42:08.320 --> 0:42:11.120 more even more so, and I feel like sometimes you're 0:42:11.120 --> 0:42:14.360 not confident in your object work if you're lying props. 0:42:14.400 --> 0:42:17.000 So I mean object work that's like a real thing 0:42:17.040 --> 0:42:20.239 and improps like I'm not. I I always like, you know, 0:42:20.360 --> 0:42:23.279 go to the opening the cabinet. Some of these men 0:42:23.440 --> 0:42:26.239 and women they're very they've got great object work. They 0:42:26.239 --> 0:42:30.160 could absolutely go to Second City and make the main stage. 0:42:30.239 --> 0:42:34.440 I think, Okay, my favorite sort of league celebration. I 0:42:34.480 --> 0:42:39.040 love that the winning hockey team gets the Stanley Cup 0:42:39.080 --> 0:42:41.720 for the entire summer and they pass it around player 0:42:41.760 --> 0:42:43.920 to player. I think that is like one of the 0:42:43.960 --> 0:42:48.239 coolest traditions. It's also very disgusting now, um when you 0:42:48.280 --> 0:42:50.319 think of it in like COVID times, because I think 0:42:50.320 --> 0:42:52.239 what they do is like have sex next to it, 0:42:52.280 --> 0:42:54.200 fill it up with beer and drink out of it. 0:42:54.600 --> 0:42:59.359 Who knows what they're doing. They eat cereal lot of it. 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:02.160 But it is like so cool that it just gets 0:43:02.280 --> 0:43:05.160 like passed around. I love that. I would want it 0:43:05.280 --> 0:43:09.040 fully sanitized before it got to me. But I think 0:43:09.040 --> 0:43:11.319 it's so cool that these men, you know, get to 0:43:11.360 --> 0:43:14.200 take it to small villages in Russia and just do 0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:17.080 whatever the funk they want with it. Um. And then 0:43:17.360 --> 0:43:22.480 also honorable mention is Jr. Having his shirt off the 0:43:22.680 --> 0:43:26.000 entirety of the summer after the Calves winning. Did he 0:43:26.040 --> 0:43:28.480 have a shirt off at the White House? Like, okay, 0:43:28.520 --> 0:43:30.200 he had a shirt on at the White House, maybe 0:43:30.239 --> 0:43:33.440 that was the exception, but he he just took his 0:43:33.480 --> 0:43:37.120 shirt off and didn't put it back on. So iconic 0:43:37.239 --> 0:43:41.880 that they made a Jr. Sleeve tattoo shirt that you 0:43:41.920 --> 0:43:45.799 can buy. Um. I posted a picture this week. Someone 0:43:45.840 --> 0:43:47.960 thought I was wearing one, and I was like, now 0:43:48.000 --> 0:43:50.879 I wish I was wearing one. Um, so I will 0:43:50.920 --> 0:43:52.920 be buying one. So happy to see him. I know 0:43:53.000 --> 0:43:56.080 CJ just got a new JR. Lakers jersey. Would you 0:43:56.080 --> 0:43:59.479 call that a waste of money? For sure? But that's 0:43:59.480 --> 0:44:04.480 my husband. That's what I've signed up for. Okay, um no, 0:44:04.640 --> 0:44:10.600 my pick Okay, So my pick is a female athlete 0:44:11.440 --> 0:44:17.160 US Women's World Cup, Brandy Chastain ripping off that jersey 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:23.120 after just a nailing the penalty kick. And this was 0:44:23.239 --> 0:44:28.040 something that like, oh, I think it put female soccer 0:44:28.200 --> 0:44:32.080 on the map in the US. It was like an 0:44:32.160 --> 0:44:37.719 act of such joy and aggression and fun and it 0:44:37.840 --> 0:44:40.040 was also something that you see the men get to 0:44:40.080 --> 0:44:43.680 do all the time, and she did it and and 0:44:43.760 --> 0:44:48.479 there was nothing like scandalous about it, but people still 0:44:48.520 --> 0:44:51.680 got mad. I remember people being like, oh my gosh, 0:44:51.680 --> 0:44:55.600 like there are, yes, there are like events as a 0:44:55.680 --> 0:44:57.919 child that I look back on now being like why 0:44:58.000 --> 0:45:01.520 were people Like I remember my parents being like who cares? 0:45:01.600 --> 0:45:03.520 This is awesome? And then you would like hear on 0:45:03.560 --> 0:45:07.200 the radio, you know, corn eaters being like, okn't believe 0:45:07.239 --> 0:45:09.480 she took her shirt off. So it was like it 0:45:09.600 --> 0:45:12.680 kind of was like divisive, which I always love. The 0:45:12.719 --> 0:45:16.319 New York Times called it the most iconic photograph ever 0:45:16.400 --> 0:45:19.839 taken of a female athlete. There's a statue of it 0:45:19.920 --> 0:45:25.279 now in Pasadena. The game is like, Pasadena, we can go. 0:45:26.320 --> 0:45:30.080 I'm guessing yeah, we can go look at it. But 0:45:30.160 --> 0:45:34.879 like so she said that, like when she like, people 0:45:34.880 --> 0:45:36.440 are like, why did you do it? Why didn't She's like, oh, 0:45:36.480 --> 0:45:38.960 I wasn't even thinking. All I was thinking is this 0:45:39.040 --> 0:45:42.080 is the greatest moment in my life. And and I 0:45:42.080 --> 0:45:44.359 think you see that in her face, and it's just 0:45:44.520 --> 0:45:48.719 so cool and it's giving me chills. I just I 0:45:48.800 --> 0:45:52.680 love to see women just be like, you know, we're 0:45:52.719 --> 0:45:55.560 so rarely allowed to do that, and in sports to 0:45:55.600 --> 0:45:57.960 see it, it it was just so badass and cool and 0:45:58.000 --> 0:46:02.200 I love her forever for its great. Yes, that that 0:46:02.320 --> 0:46:05.360 actually was going to be my like sneaky honorable mention 0:46:05.560 --> 0:46:08.440 because I grew up playing soccer, Like I played soccer 0:46:08.520 --> 0:46:11.719 my whole life. I played travel soccer. I played UM 0:46:11.840 --> 0:46:14.680 soccer in high school UM for a bit, and that 0:46:14.719 --> 0:46:16.520 team was like my idols at the time, and like 0:46:16.640 --> 0:46:19.600 that home. It just I mean, you said it perfectly, 0:46:19.640 --> 0:46:21.839 but it just that will live in my heart and 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:26.520 like it's my favorite energy. Like it's just it's yeah cool, 0:46:27.239 --> 0:46:31.160 all right. So as you can see I'm wearing on 0:46:31.200 --> 0:46:33.840 a shirt you have to talk into the microphone. I 0:46:33.920 --> 0:46:36.160 have talked you into the microphone. I'm trying to look 0:46:36.160 --> 0:46:39.280 at I was taught to speak to people in their eyes. 0:46:39.600 --> 0:46:43.240 I'm now holding the microphone up to my face. Uh my. 0:46:43.239 --> 0:46:47.120 My number one pick is the Minnesota moon. Uh and 0:46:47.160 --> 0:46:48.719 what we don't need to talk about a lot because 0:46:48.719 --> 0:46:51.960 I know it is sort of a controversial topic in 0:46:51.960 --> 0:46:55.800 the NFL. But two thousand four wild card game Vikings 0:46:56.000 --> 0:46:59.200 versus Packers, Randy Moss scores a touchdown and then he 0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:04.000 mimes mooning the crowd, which I think it is, you know, yeah, 0:47:04.000 --> 0:47:06.480 I think now it's it's it's not so so bad, 0:47:06.880 --> 0:47:08.959 but I just thought it was. It was really cool. 0:47:08.960 --> 0:47:11.000 I Mean I really loved Randy Moss back then, again 0:47:11.040 --> 0:47:14.920 a player who had such personality that showed in his 0:47:15.040 --> 0:47:17.239 game and then off the field too. Like I also 0:47:17.280 --> 0:47:19.920 just loved his giant afro. Like there were just so 0:47:19.960 --> 0:47:24.320 many moments and like visuals that made Randy so cool, 0:47:24.360 --> 0:47:26.880 but the Minnesota Moon was always such a bad, like 0:47:27.200 --> 0:47:30.200 no pun intended, badass thing that he did. So I 0:47:30.200 --> 0:47:32.239 had to get this shirt from my This is the 0:47:32.239 --> 0:47:34.800 first pick that I've ever had where I've worn the 0:47:34.840 --> 0:47:37.759 shirt during the episode. But yeah, this are these are 0:47:37.840 --> 0:47:39.839 the things I like to buy. I think it's like 0:47:39.880 --> 0:47:42.200 a really funny and cool So it was also one 0:47:42.239 --> 0:47:45.719 that was very divisive. Do you have any honorable mentions, um, 0:47:46.040 --> 0:47:49.840 honorable mentions? No, not really, not that I thought Randy 0:47:49.880 --> 0:47:54.440 Moss was not someone that as a player we rooted for. 0:47:54.600 --> 0:47:58.560 I don't know, you know, we can It could be racial, 0:47:58.600 --> 0:48:00.440 it could be any number of things of just like, 0:48:00.440 --> 0:48:02.880 oh a man who just like is a badass and 0:48:02.920 --> 0:48:06.839 field school. I can see Indiana not liking that. And 0:48:06.920 --> 0:48:11.200 he's someone that I've like so enjoyed as a broadcaster 0:48:11.520 --> 0:48:16.560 and as someone um post career and yeah, to play 0:48:16.560 --> 0:48:19.040 for the Patriots and they still love you. It's like, wow, 0:48:19.080 --> 0:48:24.720 you really are fun and cool. Yeah that that Randy 0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:29.240 celebration actually was in a response to the Wisconsin Marching Band. 0:48:30.800 --> 0:48:33.560 Yeah they had like they I forget exactly what they did, 0:48:33.640 --> 0:48:35.279 but they had things like printed I think on their 0:48:35.360 --> 0:48:37.880 drums um and they like it's like marching Man came 0:48:37.880 --> 0:48:39.600 out and that was like a the moon was in 0:48:39.600 --> 0:48:42.000 a response to that as a retaliation. I got to 0:48:42.040 --> 0:48:44.640 look up more exactly what happened. But it's funny because 0:48:44.760 --> 0:48:46.799 that wasn't just like an out of nowhere thing, like 0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:49.279 he was responding to something, which I think is all 0:48:49.480 --> 0:48:52.319 interesting spin on this story now. And I think you know, 0:48:52.840 --> 0:48:55.319 I remember in the article Joe Buck apparently I called 0:48:55.360 --> 0:48:57.360 it a disgusting act. But I feel like if you 0:48:57.360 --> 0:48:59.239 hear the back story on that, it's like, man have 0:48:59.320 --> 0:49:03.160 so much thought is put into that that it's but 0:49:03.440 --> 0:49:07.840 he's kidding, like it's fully and if he's big pulling 0:49:07.880 --> 0:49:10.000 his pay ups down, that's not even a big deal. 0:49:10.560 --> 0:49:13.480 I would be remiss if I didn't mention. Also, the 0:49:13.520 --> 0:49:16.520 Lamba Leap. I love the Lambo leap. I love hearing 0:49:16.680 --> 0:49:19.520 stories about it. James Jones was like, oh my god, 0:49:19.560 --> 0:49:21.839 once I did the Lambo leap, an entire beer got 0:49:21.880 --> 0:49:24.400 dumped on my head because people are just so excited. 0:49:24.800 --> 0:49:27.280 But then he's like, then I'm just drenched in beer 0:49:27.400 --> 0:49:30.000 for the rest of the game. I love when guys 0:49:30.040 --> 0:49:32.719 can't make it up there like everything about it is 0:49:32.920 --> 0:49:36.120 like that is probably one of the most classic. We 0:49:36.239 --> 0:49:39.520 do this always here and it's there's and it and 0:49:39.560 --> 0:49:42.640 it really when you see people do other places, you're like, 0:49:43.040 --> 0:49:46.080 something doesn't feel fully right like it it's so packers 0:49:46.120 --> 0:49:51.400 centric to me. Yeah, a j bring us home honorable mentions, 0:49:51.480 --> 0:49:54.719 feel free to give us those as well. Okay, so 0:49:54.800 --> 0:49:56.480 first I'm gonna make it quick, but I'm gonna do 0:49:56.480 --> 0:49:59.440 an honorable mensic category to when people like fallout to 0:49:59.680 --> 0:50:03.160 things they care about in their celebrations. So my, um, 0:50:03.200 --> 0:50:07.000 that's everything from like Cassius Marsh does a taekwondo sack 0:50:07.120 --> 0:50:09.680 celebration because he used to do taekwondo as a kid. 0:50:10.200 --> 0:50:12.960 Um Marquist Goodwin does a long jump celebration because he's 0:50:13.120 --> 0:50:14.920 done the long jump. I like when people shout out 0:50:14.960 --> 0:50:17.960 their babies. But Watson put a fullball shirt, put it 0:50:18.000 --> 0:50:20.480 up when pregnant, and then he actually did that when 0:50:20.480 --> 0:50:22.319 he's on the Patriots, got fined for it, and then 0:50:22.360 --> 0:50:24.520 obviously you know, the rules changed. So when he's on 0:50:24.560 --> 0:50:27.600 the Saints, um, he did it again because his wife 0:50:27.640 --> 0:50:29.279 was expecting twins and he did it and he held 0:50:29.360 --> 0:50:32.920 up two fingers. Um, everyone found out he was having twins, 0:50:33.239 --> 0:50:36.040 which I Devin Funchius has done it with like the 0:50:36.120 --> 0:50:38.839 lack of my baby. But my favorite example of that 0:50:39.040 --> 0:50:42.839 is actually Dante Pettis on the forty Niners has two 0:50:42.920 --> 0:50:46.040 cats and he loves his cats, and his signature celebration 0:50:46.560 --> 0:50:49.839 is like like a cat, like cleaning itself, and that 0:50:50.040 --> 0:50:55.279 is I think it challenges traditional masculinity. It's meaningful, it's bold, um, 0:50:55.320 --> 0:50:58.239 but it's also like not like super distracting. I just 0:50:58.440 --> 0:51:00.959 to me, that is hilarious. Oh I love that one. 0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:04.840 And then my like for real honorable mentions. Also, the 0:51:04.880 --> 0:51:09.719 Packers did a lunch line which like, um, the Titans 0:51:09.719 --> 0:51:13.640 did remember the Titans stands, I mean only pull that 0:51:13.680 --> 0:51:19.279 off perfectly. Um. But my like true winner here. Um. 0:51:19.320 --> 0:51:24.200 In modern day football celebrations is and it's also probably biased. 0:51:24.239 --> 0:51:28.799 But the Chicago Bears motown celebration, I thought it was 0:51:29.200 --> 0:51:33.040 super creative. They had basically away for everyone to be involved. 0:51:33.040 --> 0:51:35.200 So Prince and Mukamar was the main singer. Who's got 0:51:35.200 --> 0:51:38.360 his mic, he's pointing his finger, He's owning the stage 0:51:39.000 --> 0:51:40.799 like the rest of the team behind him is doing 0:51:40.840 --> 0:51:44.480 this like shops thing. Um, so that meant like it 0:51:44.520 --> 0:51:46.840 wasn't just like a three person thing, like anybody like 0:51:46.840 --> 0:51:48.799 could get involved and be a part of the celebration, 0:51:48.880 --> 0:51:51.960 which I loved. And then to me like almost like 0:51:52.000 --> 0:51:55.720 the very subtle hero of that celebration was Dion Bush 0:51:56.040 --> 0:51:58.160 runs in front of the camera and kneels down in 0:51:58.200 --> 0:52:00.760 front of Prince and like cheers like he's the crowd, 0:52:00.800 --> 0:52:04.040 and I just put the scene together, you know, And 0:52:04.080 --> 0:52:06.600 so I thought that and then that led to very 0:52:06.600 --> 0:52:09.600 similar to the Dack dance hashtag Bear sitting to anything, 0:52:10.040 --> 0:52:12.240 and it blew up and had this own like whole 0:52:12.560 --> 0:52:15.000 social media you know, then take on it, and I 0:52:15.040 --> 0:52:18.960 think obviously the Bears have you know, not been you know, 0:52:19.000 --> 0:52:21.839 the best team for for quite a bit, but they 0:52:21.840 --> 0:52:24.920 were really that year coming back onto the maps like 0:52:24.960 --> 0:52:27.320 a true threat with you know, Khalil Mack and everything. 0:52:27.360 --> 0:52:30.680 And so I thought, like, one beyond just being like, 0:52:30.719 --> 0:52:32.799 oh okay, the Bears are coming back, it was like 0:52:32.960 --> 0:52:34.799 we're coming back with a vengeance and you're gonna know 0:52:34.960 --> 0:52:37.920 also everything about us, like we're gonna celebrate the best, 0:52:38.080 --> 0:52:40.600 we're going to play best, we're going to like it 0:52:40.760 --> 0:52:43.480 just felt like they didn't just come back and like, 0:52:43.480 --> 0:52:45.200 oh we're gonna try. It was like we're gonna go 0:52:45.280 --> 0:52:48.400 all in on everything and like we're gonna get your 0:52:48.440 --> 0:52:50.719 attention no matter what we have to do. And so 0:52:51.120 --> 0:52:53.239 that one takes it home for me. Did they do 0:52:53.320 --> 0:52:57.640 that one against the Lions. Yes, they didn't. That's because 0:52:57.640 --> 0:52:59.759 I'm like they play them twice and it feels like 0:53:00.040 --> 0:53:03.279 a dig at them m to be like we own 0:53:03.360 --> 0:53:06.920 no town. Actually maybe in the mo town, but we 0:53:06.960 --> 0:53:10.960 own it. Yes, they like they have done. Also, I 0:53:11.000 --> 0:53:13.320 feel like underrated because they weren't. I think it's a 0:53:13.320 --> 0:53:15.399 good last year. Obviously the year before, but that year 0:53:15.440 --> 0:53:17.839 they really they pulled out all the stuffs. They were 0:53:17.840 --> 0:53:22.720 doing drills, they didn't work stuff, they did the Choco 0:53:22.880 --> 0:53:25.960 slide like they and then obviously Club Dub is like 0:53:26.000 --> 0:53:29.799 a permanent like for every win. I mean that is 0:53:29.840 --> 0:53:31.399 you know, they go back to their locker room after 0:53:31.440 --> 0:53:34.400 they win and there's lights, there's two scoballs, plastic music. 0:53:34.560 --> 0:53:36.319 I mean that could probably be you know, in this 0:53:36.400 --> 0:53:39.520 as its own entity, like just like you know, they 0:53:39.640 --> 0:53:42.280 branded this thing and they kind of own it, which 0:53:42.320 --> 0:53:45.319 I just really love. Yeah, we really need like a 0:53:45.440 --> 0:53:49.080 hard knocks spinoff of just these see them in the 0:53:49.120 --> 0:53:54.200 meeting rooms planning, starting at the pitching process to the rehearsal, 0:53:54.400 --> 0:53:56.640 and then all the way to doing it in game. 0:53:56.800 --> 0:53:59.280 Oh my gosh, I wanted. I actually pitched a player 0:53:59.320 --> 0:54:01.920 once a celebrate ation and he loved it, and then 0:54:01.920 --> 0:54:03.600 he took it to his team and they didn't like it. 0:54:03.760 --> 0:54:06.400 They never did it, sad, But I really wanted a 0:54:06.440 --> 0:54:10.879 synchronized swimming celebration, so that'd be so good, so good. 0:54:11.200 --> 0:54:13.560 Me and one of my coworkers, Brendan, all the time 0:54:13.600 --> 0:54:19.800 we talked about wanting a hibachi grill celebration like the shrimp. Yeah, 0:54:19.840 --> 0:54:22.640 I just catch it in your mouth. Yes, I forgot. 0:54:22.719 --> 0:54:24.960 That happens a lot like when I was at the Pistons. 0:54:25.440 --> 0:54:28.719 Andre Drummond and I he we exchanged numbers and then 0:54:28.719 --> 0:54:32.120 at like two am one night, I got a text 0:54:32.120 --> 0:54:34.080 and it was Andre Drummond being like, have you seen 0:54:34.160 --> 0:54:35.640 Game of Thrones? And I was like I have, and 0:54:35.760 --> 0:54:39.080 he goes, well, can you ask if when I dunk it, 0:54:39.400 --> 0:54:42.120 if they can play the Game of Thrones theme song 0:54:42.680 --> 0:54:45.960 on the JumboTron with a picture of my head on 0:54:46.000 --> 0:54:49.680 a dragon. And I was only there for it. Was 0:54:49.760 --> 0:54:51.359 like the first month of two and I was like, 0:54:51.520 --> 0:54:54.120 I can ask, and I asked and they were like 0:54:54.280 --> 0:54:58.080 absolutely not. But I was just like head on a dragon. 0:54:59.480 --> 0:55:02.160 I love just the full planning and thought process that 0:55:02.160 --> 0:55:06.160 goes into that, and like them envisioning themselves in their heads, 0:55:06.239 --> 0:55:09.319 like executing all of like little you know, pieces that 0:55:09.360 --> 0:55:11.680 go into it. It's so good. They're so they really 0:55:11.680 --> 0:55:13.640 are so creative and it goes back to showing like 0:55:13.880 --> 0:55:16.279 who they are, Like it's very like helmets off more 0:55:16.320 --> 0:55:19.239 than just like you know this like touchdown machine like 0:55:19.680 --> 0:55:23.839 just and in baseball, they have their walkout music that's 0:55:23.880 --> 0:55:26.880 sort of like and it's like with the ball, like 0:55:26.960 --> 0:55:29.960 whenever when you hear like a country song, you're like, Okay, 0:55:29.960 --> 0:55:31.919 I'm gonna go to the bathroom, don't need to see 0:55:31.920 --> 0:55:34.120 this guy bat. But then I love when someone like 0:55:34.200 --> 0:55:37.120 walks out to like nas or like guns and Roses 0:55:37.160 --> 0:55:39.840 and you're like, oh more, there's like funny songs that 0:55:39.920 --> 0:55:42.279 sometimes people pick. I guess, yeah, we didn't do a 0:55:42.280 --> 0:55:45.279 lot of but we we have no baseball, but we 0:55:45.360 --> 0:55:47.840 do like the baseball walkout song because I don't know, 0:55:47.880 --> 0:55:52.000 I'm just thinking about doing the Jose Batista bat flip um, 0:55:52.239 --> 0:55:54.360 but de started to keep it to football, but that 0:55:54.600 --> 0:55:57.600 you know, No, I do think baseball they got to 0:55:57.600 --> 0:56:00.319 expand their horizons, but they may not be a lot too. 0:56:00.400 --> 0:56:01.839 I don't know. Are you allowed to break a bat 0:56:01.840 --> 0:56:05.000 over your leg? I think, but whenever I see it, 0:56:05.000 --> 0:56:07.239 it's like I would break my leg. Oh yeah. In 0:56:07.320 --> 0:56:11.040 the new Nike commercial they have somebody breaking a bat 0:56:11.080 --> 0:56:14.279 and then breaking a putter or like a golf club, 0:56:14.320 --> 0:56:16.680 and I'm like, if you broke a golf club over 0:56:16.719 --> 0:56:18.840 your I would die. I would be in the hospital, 0:56:18.960 --> 0:56:21.680 like Bo Jackson is doing. His leg is just like 0:56:22.880 --> 0:56:25.759 Mac Tree is too. Mac trucks as les. So that's 0:56:25.760 --> 0:56:28.480 sort of like a negative celebration, but it is cool 0:56:28.520 --> 0:56:33.480 as hell. Yeah, very cool. Um. All right, well a J, 0:56:33.680 --> 0:56:35.920 thank you so so much for coming on the show. 0:56:35.960 --> 0:56:38.919 Where can people find you and your Mac and Cheese 0:56:38.960 --> 0:56:43.520 burner account? Um? Okay, so you can find me on 0:56:43.560 --> 0:56:48.120 Twitter and Instagram at a J underscore Curry Curry as 0:56:48.120 --> 0:56:51.320 in step Cury. No, we're not really you know, um 0:56:51.400 --> 0:56:56.799 and then also on TikTok at at a J. That's 0:56:56.840 --> 0:57:00.319 my subtle flex. It can't go away now out, it 0:57:00.360 --> 0:57:03.439 can't go I know I'll be so sad. And then 0:57:03.760 --> 0:57:05.800 you can find my Mac and cheese Aron on Instagram 0:57:05.840 --> 0:57:10.800 at Baby Got Mac with two y y NFL Disposables 0:57:10.840 --> 0:57:13.719 account at NFL Disposables on Instagram, where I post my 0:57:13.760 --> 0:57:16.840 film shots from games. Oh yeah, you just have really 0:57:16.920 --> 0:57:19.160 cool and you and that's when you have like the 0:57:19.240 --> 0:57:21.200 vest on. I love seeing you in a vest a 0:57:21.320 --> 0:57:26.320 media vest Well, we're so excited I for, you know, 0:57:26.440 --> 0:57:30.439 fingers crossed getting to see funds stuff. Maybe they'll be 0:57:31.080 --> 0:57:36.160 Dr Fauci theme celebrations this year or who knows. You know, 0:57:36.200 --> 0:57:37.840 they're really going to have to put some thought in 0:57:37.920 --> 0:57:41.120 some heart into the celebrations this season. But thank you 0:57:41.200 --> 0:57:44.640 so so so much. We miss you. Thank you guys, seriously, 0:57:44.720 --> 0:57:48.000 I'd like am so. I miss you both so much 0:57:48.080 --> 0:57:49.880 and I'm so glad that we follow each other on 0:57:49.880 --> 0:57:51.680 social and we can keep up. But I just miss 0:57:51.960 --> 0:57:53.840 seeing your faces and talking to you. And I'm glad 0:57:53.880 --> 0:57:57.480 that we got this and this podcast is phenomenal and um, 0:57:57.520 --> 0:58:00.560 I am just so lucky to be part of it. 0:58:01.320 --> 0:58:04.440 Thank you, thank you, thank you. Um. You can find 0:58:04.520 --> 0:58:08.320 c J at c J Toladanno and myself at Megan 0:58:08.360 --> 0:58:15.040 Gaily I am starting a UM NBA bubble show. I 0:58:15.080 --> 0:58:17.360 will be filming it in our backyard. I have a 0:58:17.360 --> 0:58:19.919 bubble machine. That's as far as I've thought so far. 0:58:20.880 --> 0:58:24.560 C J has promised to not help me or contribute 0:58:24.560 --> 0:58:27.000 in any way, and I can't wait to see what 0:58:27.000 --> 0:58:29.280 that looks. I have no choice. I will be helping you. No, 0:58:29.480 --> 0:58:33.040 you will not be helping me. I've actually hired a producer, 0:58:33.080 --> 0:58:35.400 slash editor, slash friend who I used to work with 0:58:35.440 --> 0:58:39.400 at the NFL, another female content creator. And we don't 0:58:39.400 --> 0:58:42.280 need you, c J. Okay, so be looking for that 0:58:42.680 --> 0:58:44.720 the name who knows I may change it every week. 0:58:44.760 --> 0:58:46.800 C J says that's bad for social media. I don't 0:58:46.800 --> 0:58:50.120 really give that that. Um and thanks to our producer 0:58:50.240 --> 0:58:58.120 Kurt and oh everybody stays safe. 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