Speaker 1: From the King of Sports Books comes the Key Sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jerry
Speaker 1: Ferrara and Olivia Harland Decker. Welcome to the final Unleashed
Speaker 1: of two And I think my voice kind of says
Speaker 1: it all. As I'm battling a cold, Jerry, your house
Speaker 1: has been battling some illnesses. Are we limping to the
Speaker 1: end of? Yeah, if this were a fight, our trainers
Speaker 1: will be thrown in the towel. If this were football,
Speaker 1: we'd be taking a knee, even though we're not winning.
Speaker 1: It would be victory formation. Although we're not winning. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're limping to the end of That was gonna be great. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. You've got to share with everyone
Speaker 1: what you just told me, fair of what your son
Speaker 1: said when he threw up for the first time, because
Speaker 1: it's about the funniest thing I've heard today. We completed
Speaker 1: the three We had colds, and both kids we had
Speaker 1: pink eye, which I never had as a kid, both
Speaker 1: had and then one kid, our oldest, a little stomach bug,
Speaker 1: threw up in our bed and said, dadda, I pooped
Speaker 1: out of my mouth, which is disgusting. And not completely inaccurate. Oh,
Speaker 1: it just paints a nice picture. So yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1: Two is done. Oh gosh, Although, to be serious, like
Speaker 1: a really really good year in sports and Jerry, we're
Speaker 1: coming up with a list of what we thought the
Speaker 1: ten best moments in sports was this year. And you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the year past January feels like
Speaker 1: a lifetime ago. I think, especially when you have kids,
Speaker 1: like I became a mom in twenty two, I don't
Speaker 1: really remember much before the baby was born in May.
Speaker 1: And as we put together this list, it was really
Speaker 1: fun to enjoy what a year in sports it was.
Speaker 1: And I think everyone will be as surprised as we
Speaker 1: were as we actually put pen to paper. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: even we were talking off air, I was bringing up
Speaker 1: some stuff that was very recent, and you said, are
Speaker 1: you being prisoner at the moment? And I had to
Speaker 1: think about it, and I'm like, yes, I am, Because
Speaker 1: when you look at the beginnings of two till now,
Speaker 1: so much has happened, and there's so much going on
Speaker 1: in our lives, and there's so much going on with
Speaker 1: social media, you forget about stories so quick. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a good reminder for everyone and
Speaker 1: everything that happened in But we've actually got some huge
Speaker 1: games left this year. We're obviously going to get into
Speaker 1: that the college football playoffs semifinals that's on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: I am so excited We're going to break down those games,
Speaker 1: will give our picks. I bet mine really surprise you.
Speaker 1: But Jerry, any sports betting resolutions as it pertains for
Speaker 1: the new year, Yes, Okay, a couple of things first
Speaker 1: on the sports betting front. We all know I'm an
Speaker 1: emotional better. I do think it's time to we gotta
Speaker 1: ride Peter Andrew. The boys hot we talked about it
Speaker 1: in last week's episode is coming off of some really
Speaker 1: really big wins. I think we have to. Now it's time.
Speaker 1: We were fading Peter maybe in the beginning. Now we've
Speaker 1: gotta get on Peter. But also, look, I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of the ten point teaser. I get a lot of
Speaker 1: crap for it. People say, why do you need ten points?
Speaker 1: Put it in Portland. Listen, I've been hitting ten point
Speaker 1: teasers all year. I've needed every one of those points.
Speaker 1: So more teasers in three and then now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: also start segueing into basketball. I haven't even locked into
Speaker 1: basketball betting yet, and now is the Super Bowl approaches,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see me get hot with some NBA picks. Well,
Speaker 1: and also you're just now dipping back into the NBA
Speaker 1: because your team is doing well, the Knicks and looking
Speaker 1: all right. They look they're they're playing tough. You know
Speaker 1: something else that happened in two The Nicks signed Jalen Brunson,
Speaker 1: and everyone in sports media said we overpaid and what
Speaker 1: has he ever really done? And he comes off the
Speaker 1: bench and to all of you, because that signing is
Speaker 1: the first really great signing the Knicks have had in
Speaker 1: twenty five years. So that happened too. That happened. Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about everything else that happened, because wow, what
Speaker 1: are your in sports? No? Er one? And this is
Speaker 1: chronological for the most part. This isn't in terms, This
Speaker 1: isn't important obviously, but kicked off with Antonio Brown streaking
Speaker 1: off the field in the middle of a game. It
Speaker 1: really feels like that was years ago, but that was
Speaker 1: just January two. The dude took his jersey off, shoulder
Speaker 1: pads off, and bolted did a lap like a victory lap.
Speaker 1: I just cannot believe that still was in this calendar year,
Speaker 1: and then a lot of conversation has come out from that.
Speaker 1: And then remember he's posted all this weird stuff with
Speaker 1: like gazelle boonshin and pictures, and I mean, it's hard
Speaker 1: to leave this out of our list. Not the only
Speaker 1: time we've seen him naked pretty much this year as well. Hey,
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. I forgot about like that was
Speaker 1: weird and we could focus on the Antonio Brown of
Speaker 1: it all, of course because that was the headline, but
Speaker 1: it also does signify this to me, potential end of
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady run in Tampa. We'll see what happens
Speaker 1: in the playoffs this year, and if they get in,
Speaker 1: I mean, that might be the ugliest division I've seen
Speaker 1: in a long time. I think one the last one.
Speaker 1: I think the cam Newton Panthers in the South made
Speaker 1: the playoffs at like eight and eight or seven and nine.
Speaker 1: So that also signified Brown left one little last playoff
Speaker 1: run that didn't work out for them, Gronks gone. That
Speaker 1: was also kind of the end of the Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and Tampa potentially if they don't get their act together
Speaker 1: and I just don't see it. So yes, that's how
Speaker 1: we started number two. So back in January, also Tom
Speaker 1: Brady retired. It seemed like the rest of the NFL
Speaker 1: could breathe a sigh of relief, but that didn't last long.
Speaker 1: The goat unretired less than six weeks later. I forget
Speaker 1: it was just six weeks. He came back for year
Speaker 1: twenty three at age five, and yeah, that final chapter
Speaker 1: is still being written. So I don't know. What do
Speaker 1: you think that Tom Brady hurt his legacy in that
Speaker 1: weird six weeks span. I don't think it's post Cibolt
Speaker 1: for him to hurt his legacy. If it were someone
Speaker 1: maybe with wondering and still some of the accolades, possibly
Speaker 1: there's nothing Tom Brady could do to hurt his legacy.
Speaker 1: When you do hear stuff about the Miami Dolphins, stuff
Speaker 1: with you know, and maybe getting rid of to it,
Speaker 1: so Brett, that stuff is always a little weird, all
Speaker 1: the stuff that's behind the scenes that we maybe don't
Speaker 1: need to know. But no, I don't think he hurt
Speaker 1: his legacy, And I for sure I think he plays
Speaker 1: another season. I really why not? Why wouldn't he? Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't he His arm his arm strength is still there, obviously,
Speaker 1: he's not nearly as good as he was, but he's
Speaker 1: good enough compared to this crop of quarterbacks in the
Speaker 1: NFL this year. It's not gonna be with Tampa, but
Speaker 1: it's gonna be somewhere else. Well, you gotta think of
Speaker 1: it like this, right, he's not gonna go anywhere Obviously
Speaker 1: that doesn't have immediate chances to win a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: or at least immediate chances to spend some money to
Speaker 1: win a super Bowl. So when you start thinking of
Speaker 1: it like that, I you know, you could say the Patriots,
Speaker 1: maybe you're back on the table. I think that would
Speaker 1: be an interesting story to have a good defense, to
Speaker 1: have pieces. I think, Look, the Niners are always in play,
Speaker 1: but you know, because they don't know what's going on
Speaker 1: with Trey Lance's injury, Jimmy Garoppolo's injury. If unless, if
Speaker 1: brock Purdy tom Brady's Tom Brady and wins the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl as a rookie being the last overall pick, then
Speaker 1: that that could hurt that potentially. But if brock Purty
Speaker 1: does not come up for the Niners, I do think
Speaker 1: there's a chance that it's still a one and done
Speaker 1: with the Niners and maybe a sneaky chance that like
Speaker 1: Vegas is Vegas? Really are the Raiders happy with Derek Carr?
Speaker 1: They have weapons, there's a star wide receiver there, it's
Speaker 1: a star running back there. So and then a coach Dad,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady knows and Josh McDaniels. Yeah, the whole brock
Speaker 1: Purty story is really getting pretty incredible. Number three, what
Speaker 1: did you say? Pretty incredible? One go down Fleete that
Speaker 1: did retire right, twenty three time Grand Slam champ Serena Williams,
Speaker 1: who gave us a few more memorable moments at the
Speaker 1: US Open, making it to the third round. She truly
Speaker 1: changed the game, took women's tennis to new heights. Also,
Speaker 1: that movie King Richard came out this year, so we
Speaker 1: can kind of lump that in with all that. That
Speaker 1: was such a good movie. Will Smith really incredible obviously
Speaker 1: Roger Federer also retiring so big here in tennis it
Speaker 1: makes me a little, well, it makes me sad for
Speaker 1: the obvious reasons. I don't think we'll see anything like
Speaker 1: Serena Williams and just the way someone comes in and
Speaker 1: dominates a sport in that kind of a run. Also,
Speaker 1: I went to so many of her matches the US Open.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever been Olivia in New York.
Speaker 1: I like tennis. I can't say I love tennis. I
Speaker 1: like tennis. I mainly watched the Majors and that's it.
Speaker 1: The US Open is an unbelievable live sporting event to
Speaker 1: go to. If you haven't been, I highly suggest if
Speaker 1: you ever get the opportunity to go. And I've had
Speaker 1: the pleasure of seeing Serena play four times for U
Speaker 1: s Opens. I was just at the Osaka one where
Speaker 1: they ended the match early because you know, she was
Speaker 1: getting a little chippy. So, yeah, that's sad. And then
Speaker 1: you think out Federal. The thing that bumps me out
Speaker 1: the most is I'm getting so old now. These are
Speaker 1: people I grew up with watching them from Afar, admiring
Speaker 1: them from Afar. You never think one day tennis won't
Speaker 1: have Serena and Federer, and now they don't, and that
Speaker 1: just makes me feel old. Yeah, and I do feel
Speaker 1: like we shouldn't have Federal as the byeline there, like
Speaker 1: that's an obviously huge deal that he's retiring as well.
Speaker 1: It's just the impact of Serena on women's tennis was
Speaker 1: really big. I've never met Serena. I've met and interviewed Venus,
Speaker 1: and I'm just completely interested in them as a as
Speaker 1: a power sister duo. But yeah, really big moment in tennis.
Speaker 1: I'm getting old. I didn't say it. Number four Aaron
Speaker 1: Judges chase of sixty one home runs, the American League record,
Speaker 1: which he now owns with sixty two, all while betting
Speaker 1: on himself and playing for new contracts. So he did it,
Speaker 1: he hit sixty two, he got paid, and what's next
Speaker 1: for him? Aaron? Aaron? People do confuse me with Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge all the time. We're similar size. What's next for
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge and Olivia. I'd love to hear your take
Speaker 1: on this, because you know he did the I bet
Speaker 1: on myself year, which we love to see. I love
Speaker 1: when people bet on themselves and they win that bet
Speaker 1: or a betting show. The home run chase was so
Speaker 1: fun to watch for Yankee fans and baseball fans. Probably
Speaker 1: good for baseball, and now we got paid. Great great
Speaker 1: year for Aaron Judge for the Yankees. A fine year,
Speaker 1: not a good year because we measure with World Series
Speaker 1: wins and we still can't even get to the World Series.
Speaker 1: So for Aaron Judge, what's next? Look, you got your money.
Speaker 1: We all know you're one of the best home run
Speaker 1: hitters we've ever seen. We need to get to the
Speaker 1: World Series. I'm even saying win a ring. Let's by
Speaker 1: getting to the show and then we'll work from there.
Speaker 1: Gott to make the World Series this year. I like it.
Speaker 1: High expectations Number five. Over to the hardwood. The Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors returned to the top of the NBA. Steph
Speaker 1: Curry like Thompson Draymond Green, they get their fourth ring
Speaker 1: beating the Celtics. Steph finally got that NBA Finals m
Speaker 1: v P and put that Yeah, but argument to rest, right,
Speaker 1: so as we kind of digest that, and obviously now
Speaker 1: Steph Curry's out for a couple of weeks and everyone's
Speaker 1: all concerned about the Warriors. But where does Steph Curry
Speaker 1: rank all time? After what we saw in this last
Speaker 1: finals run that was his uh forgot about dre Championship
Speaker 1: where everyone's sort of forgot and talked about k D
Speaker 1: and Kenny win without having that other guy and he did.
Speaker 1: I love the NBA rankings and it's so fun to
Speaker 1: talk about who's the goat all that stuff. Here's where
Speaker 1: I'm at with that stuff. It's hard for me to
Speaker 1: rank all time NBA players. I never saw Bill Russell play.
Speaker 1: I didn't see Old Chairman play and see Jerry West play.
Speaker 1: So for me, just the people i've seen play, and
Speaker 1: I've been watching basketball for now probably thirty five years,
Speaker 1: it's m J. Lebron, Kobe, Shack, Duncan, Curry. It's not
Speaker 1: top five, that's six. So if you have to leave
Speaker 1: someone out of your top five whatever, Oh from people
Speaker 1: i've seen, Yeah, look I love Larry Bird, I love
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson. I saw them. I was really really young.
Speaker 1: I watched them more as they were older players. But yeah,
Speaker 1: sure you could. You could move shot out and put magic.
Speaker 1: And I'm just talking about people I've watched in their primes.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry is right up there with with the greats.
Speaker 1: Is your reasoning for dropping him technically out of your
Speaker 1: top five of players that you've seen, because just not
Speaker 1: the all around game that we see from m J, Kobe, Lebron.
Speaker 1: You know, steff Is, He's a shooter. He's a shooter.
Speaker 1: He's the greatest shooter we've ever seen. I just don't
Speaker 1: think he's done yet, and I think it's really hard
Speaker 1: to fully say where a player ranks until they're done.
Speaker 1: And I think he has a little he has more
Speaker 1: left in the tank if he wins another ring. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where does that? Yeah? Where does that put him? You know,
Speaker 1: he's championship wise, he's up there with everyone. So I
Speaker 1: don't know I rank Curry up there on people. I've
Speaker 1: just never seen anything like him. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I've been watching basketball for thirty five years, and he
Speaker 1: stands out as someone who is just different than everything
Speaker 1: I've seen in basketball. Number six, I'm going to college basketball. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Kansas Jayhawks won it all, but I think the
Speaker 1: biggest thing that happened in college basketball this year is
Speaker 1: that coach K retired after forty seven seasons, wins, five
Speaker 1: national titles, seventy five NBA players, and of course it
Speaker 1: was UNC in the Final four that sent him off
Speaker 1: into the senset. It was like the most poetic justice.
Speaker 1: He can't write this stuff. Love him, hate him. He
Speaker 1: had a massive impact on college basketball. What did you
Speaker 1: think about Coach K retiring? Coach K Gonna miss him. Obviously,
Speaker 1: greatest coach ever. I get this anytime someone does something
Speaker 1: for that amount of time, with that amount of success,
Speaker 1: you've gotta get props. I just always wonder, and this
Speaker 1: is something I would love to ask Coach K or
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and all that. I just feel like if
Speaker 1: that were me, maybe I would have called the quits
Speaker 1: in my sixties, just so I don't know, do you
Speaker 1: really I get it. You get addicted to the to
Speaker 1: the helping, to the process, and you know you're helping
Speaker 1: these players become things that they maybe never thought they
Speaker 1: could even become. And I get all that, But for me,
Speaker 1: I would have called the quits earlier, just because maybe
Speaker 1: I'm lazier than Coach K and like, yeah, I'll let's
Speaker 1: play some golf and I just want to sit in
Speaker 1: a chair quietly for a little while and not have
Speaker 1: to scream at players to do their suicide drills. Quicker,
Speaker 1: I kind of agree. It's like, enjoy all the money
Speaker 1: you've made, all the success you've had. You're still at
Speaker 1: an age where you can travel and run around with
Speaker 1: your and kids. And I'm kind of with you on that. Jerry, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't knock it. I mean, obviously it's amazing what
Speaker 1: he's done. But for me, I just know if I
Speaker 1: ever reached like a point from like financially we're good,
Speaker 1: and I just feel like I did it. I'm I'm good,
Speaker 1: young you see me again. I'm not going to be
Speaker 1: on the podcast, noted I'll start looking for a new cow,
Speaker 1: start looking number seven. Now, this one I obviously put in,
Speaker 1: but how could I leave this out? In college football,
Speaker 1: it was all Georgia Bulldogs. They finally won the national
Speaker 1: championship to start off two beating Alabama. It has been
Speaker 1: over twenty years since they've done it, and they picked
Speaker 1: up the start of the season right where they left off.
Speaker 1: They still haven't lost a game and they're going back
Speaker 1: to the playoff. And Jerry I tweeted, I like to
Speaker 1: call upon people for a little help sometimes when we're
Speaker 1: putting together our show. And I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: what are the best moments in sports this year? And
Speaker 1: I had so many responses of Georgia, of Kirby Smart
Speaker 1: kissing the National champion Ship trophy, like all the stuff. Now,
Speaker 1: that probably says more about who follows me than anything,
Speaker 1: but it really is. I think one of the better
Speaker 1: moments in sports. I fully was ready to turn the
Speaker 1: floor over to you on this. I don't even think
Speaker 1: anyone we'll care about what I have to say. I
Speaker 1: don't have much to add to that. All I'll say
Speaker 1: is that was amazing. And obviously they could still cap
Speaker 1: off even though account for three, but this would still
Speaker 1: if they put the cap on this season, it still
Speaker 1: would feel like a cap. It would be one of
Speaker 1: the best one year stretches any team's ever had in
Speaker 1: a history of college football. And just with the whole
Speaker 1: steps in Benett part of it all the quarterback, who's
Speaker 1: just such an interesting story of being so slowly recruited.
Speaker 1: You know, he's short, he's undersized, he has a small arm,
Speaker 1: he's just the whole story is like rags to riches
Speaker 1: as football is concerned. And it's such a good story.
Speaker 1: And I'm a sucker for a good story. They said
Speaker 1: the same things about me coming out of Brooklyn the
Speaker 1: book to Hollywood. You know, sure, small shot, you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't have a cannon, doesn't have a I got a
Speaker 1: decent arm. The same things about me coming out of
Speaker 1: Brooklyn moving out to Hollywood. Oh, I love it a
Speaker 1: good thing for my businesses. If you're five seven on screen,
Speaker 1: you look like you're six too. Yeah, if you're five
Speaker 1: seven on screen, isn't that the average height of a
Speaker 1: Hollywood actor? Yeah? I think there's a line from Entourage
Speaker 1: where the Ri character says, look at Tom Cruise, he's
Speaker 1: five seven on screen. He looks like, yeah, man, I
Speaker 1: love it. Okay, switching to golf for number eight and nine, Jerry,
Speaker 1: why don't you take us to number eight? Number eight? Okay,
Speaker 1: number eight? I do This was a thing. It might
Speaker 1: not feel like a thing now because months have gone by,
Speaker 1: but the golf world was definitely shook when the Saudi
Speaker 1: Back Lived Golf tournament took the world by storm. It
Speaker 1: did create a little, I wouldn't say a little, I'll
Speaker 1: say major division across the p g A. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of pros bailed, took some big upfront money and
Speaker 1: the potential to play a lot less and win a
Speaker 1: lot more. And then you have guys like Rory and
Speaker 1: Tiger and speak out on just you know, the p
Speaker 1: g A is the gold standard and the majors of
Speaker 1: the majors and almost like you're either with us or
Speaker 1: against us sort of thing. Really think back, and then
Speaker 1: we're seeing all the videos from the live Tour jet
Speaker 1: which everyone looked like they were having a great time
Speaker 1: part in obviously the things that come with anything that's
Speaker 1: saddie back that people are gonna have a lot to say,
Speaker 1: you know, politically. Someone said something really smart that would
Speaker 1: never ever happen in a million years, and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying this is not my thought, and I think it
Speaker 1: was might have been one of the barstool guys. I'm
Speaker 1: forgetting who it is, so forgive me whoever's thought this is.
Speaker 1: I'm not plagiarizing. What would be amazing for golf will
Speaker 1: never happen in a million years. Is instead like you
Speaker 1: have the Ryder Cup where it's euro versus USA. If
Speaker 1: you could do a live tour verse p G a
Speaker 1: tour Ryder Cup style event I did. This is not
Speaker 1: my thoughts. Someone else thought of this. I read this
Speaker 1: on Twitter, but I did think when I read that, Wow,
Speaker 1: that would probably the best or second best golf are
Speaker 1: The only thing better ratings wise, would just be Tiger
Speaker 1: on a Sunday with a one stroke outside of app
Speaker 1: that would be extremely high rated, but that it just
Speaker 1: would never happen. It is definitely a power struggle. I
Speaker 1: can't say I've watched many live tour golf e penns
Speaker 1: Olivia the day you have. I think I've watched point
Speaker 1: five like a half of an event, like a half
Speaker 1: of a round, and I still love watching the PGA Tour.
Speaker 1: So that definitely made a lot of noise when it
Speaker 1: was happening. Guys taken big contracts to play less golf.
Speaker 1: I mean it did. And let's think of it with
Speaker 1: more of one of our major sports, and golf has
Speaker 1: a huge fan base. But let's say this was the
Speaker 1: NFL or NBA. Can you imagine if all of a
Speaker 1: sudden there was a new league and some of our
Speaker 1: biggest stars left for it because it was more money,
Speaker 1: shorter season, maybe we're better protected, better union, all that stuff,
Speaker 1: that it was more player friendly, and they all just
Speaker 1: went to I don't know, Mexico and decided to play
Speaker 1: a league. They're like, this was a big deal in
Speaker 1: the golf world, really big momento. Yeah, even think about
Speaker 1: like I hear you with the NFL, but there's so
Speaker 1: many players. Think about it if it was the NBA,
Speaker 1: where there's you know, fifteen guys on the roster. So
Speaker 1: if you imagine if you took fifty of the best
Speaker 1: NBA players and they went and just formed like an
Speaker 1: eight team league. Uh, they could be playing, you know,
Speaker 1: in Vegas or somewhere cool or Cabo or Miami. Don't like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm watching that. That would be devastating.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was. It was a big thing number nine.
Speaker 1: And this might go under the people's radar. And if
Speaker 1: you're not into golf, I get it. I totally totally
Speaker 1: get it. But you got to hear the whole thing.
Speaker 1: If we recall Tiger Woods at two Masters, shot opening
Speaker 1: round one under par Okay, that does not sound like
Speaker 1: anything significant. One under at the Masters. That's a good
Speaker 1: round for Tiger Woods. Not his best round. He nearly
Speaker 1: lost his leg in what was it? Remembering the year,
Speaker 1: the fact that he went out there on one leg
Speaker 1: after an accident that should have ended his career, and
Speaker 1: he shot one under, gutting it out on arguably one
Speaker 1: of the harder golf courses to play. It just adds
Speaker 1: to his legacy. Not that he needs to add to
Speaker 1: his legacy, but let's not forget that happened this year.
Speaker 1: It was the hey, I'm not even supposed to be
Speaker 1: here around we Even though he was playing, no one
Speaker 1: knew he was really gonna play. It was like a joke.
Speaker 1: We saw him hitting balls on the range. It's like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, Tiger looks like he he's swinging. He was
Speaker 1: swinging on the range, and like a month and a
Speaker 1: half later, he's shooting a one under at the Masters,
Speaker 1: and now you watch him play with his son. And
Speaker 1: what I love most about Tiger Woods this version is
Speaker 1: he officially laughs at himself a little bit. He said
Speaker 1: some cool stuff with his son. He was letting his
Speaker 1: son put second, meaning he was giving his kid to
Speaker 1: read and letting him put This is like the greatest,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest part as we've ever seen. He's
Speaker 1: already talking about Charlie's hands. He's like, oh, his hands
Speaker 1: are already bigger than mine and he's only whatever fourteen
Speaker 1: years old. So I just think was a really really
Speaker 1: cool story in really cool story. And as we were
Speaker 1: coming up with our list, I was thinking, you know
Speaker 1: those moments in sports that like, for at least the day,
Speaker 1: if not a couple of days the week, it just
Speaker 1: has everyone's attention, Like it's the thing when you see
Speaker 1: your friends you're like, hey, did you know did you
Speaker 1: see Tiger? Like, boy, he looked he looked good and
Speaker 1: he played well, and I mean, so we forget these
Speaker 1: things were the water cooler conversation for that week, and
Speaker 1: I think this was a huge water cooler conversation. This
Speaker 1: was trending on social media, this was the headline. So
Speaker 1: this for sure, how to make our top ten list,
Speaker 1: but Jerry to finish out our list. And this might
Speaker 1: be recency biased, but I think it's perfect because it
Speaker 1: came in December and it was as big of a
Speaker 1: moment that shook the world. Sometimes we get so insularius Americans.
Speaker 1: We think that you know here, I am living overseas
Speaker 1: and I still feel like an infler. Americano came to
Speaker 1: an end with one of the most significant moments We've
Speaker 1: got to all agree on that. Number ten Argentina winning
Speaker 1: the World Cup led by Lionel Messi, arguably the greatest
Speaker 1: player of all time. It was dramatic fashion. It was
Speaker 1: said to be the best World Cup final ever. It
Speaker 1: was tied up, it went to penalty kicks, they won
Speaker 1: four to two, and Tim Howard Jerry told us a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, Messi is compared to Maridonna, his
Speaker 1: fellow countrymen, who had won a World Cup and this
Speaker 1: was the one thing he needed to finally be proven
Speaker 1: as not only the best player ever, but the best
Speaker 1: player to come from his country. And it was a
Speaker 1: huge deal. Messi's thirty five. He broke the World Cup
Speaker 1: record for most appearances with twenty six games, and he
Speaker 1: said before the tournament that this would be his last one,
Speaker 1: but after the win, he said he wants to keep
Speaker 1: playing for Argentina's We may actually see him in another
Speaker 1: World Cup. It's in four years in North America. Canada,
Speaker 1: US and Mexico are sharing it. My hometown Kansas City
Speaker 1: is even hosting some games, so it's a big deal.
Speaker 1: But that had to be one of the biggest sports
Speaker 1: moments of the year. And last week we use the
Speaker 1: audible of the Week for the call, which I loved
Speaker 1: from the Telemundo call when they want it so really
Speaker 1: really moving stuff. You can tell World Cup just kind
Speaker 1: of Elicits more emotion than traditional sports does or even
Speaker 1: like a Super Bowl. Like the fact that grown men
Speaker 1: are just in full tears hugging each other. It's really
Speaker 1: moving to watch. Look, as someone who's not the biggest
Speaker 1: soccer fan in the world, not because soccer isn't the
Speaker 1: amazing sport just because my bandwidth of things I could watch.
Speaker 1: I can't watch every sport anymore until these kids get bigger.
Speaker 1: It was truly, truly incredible. But to also to ask
Speaker 1: someone after their greatest accomplishment, do you want to still play?
Speaker 1: You know, you've asked a lot of questions to a
Speaker 1: lot of athletes in your time, so I would almost
Speaker 1: defer to you, like, I get it, you gotta ask.
Speaker 1: But how often do we see that player or that
Speaker 1: athletes say yeah, you know, I'm done. Guess what if
Speaker 1: you would have asked me after our second son was born, Jeredy,
Speaker 1: you just had a big if you can have another kid?
Speaker 1: I'd be like, hell, yeah, I'm gonna have another kid.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't I? This is the best thing ever. Cut
Speaker 1: to eight months later, everyone's puking and throwing up and
Speaker 1: pooping and pooping out of the mouth. Right, So let's
Speaker 1: give him a minute to enjoy this wonderful accomplishment, and
Speaker 1: let's talk to him in a few months. But that's
Speaker 1: the tricky thing, right with the World Cup. We could
Speaker 1: talk to him in two years and he could still
Speaker 1: be thinking about it, because it's not something that's gonna
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to be O, T, A, s and
Speaker 1: five months from now, so it's gonna be really interesting
Speaker 1: to see he'd be thirty nine. What's wrong with thirty nine?
Speaker 1: That's so young? I mean to me, that's your thirty nine?
Speaker 1: Who thanks some forty? Okay, So that rounds up our
Speaker 1: top head of most memorable and significant sports moments. But
Speaker 1: we can have a little fun here because as we know,
Speaker 1: weird stuff always happens, like off the field stuff, and
Speaker 1: because our show we don't take ourselves too seriously, we
Speaker 1: definitely indulged in the off the field stuff too. We
Speaker 1: have to come up with our list of most random,
Speaker 1: most surprising, most weird things that happened in two Why
Speaker 1: don't you start us off? All right? I didn't really
Speaker 1: have an issue with this one when it sort of happened,
Speaker 1: but now I definitely get it. The Jeff Saturday higher,
Speaker 1: I thought everyone reacted in a way that was borderline overreacting.
Speaker 1: But when you hear the argument of you know, there's
Speaker 1: so many other coaches that deserve that spot. Sure we
Speaker 1: could have that argument. And he wins this first game
Speaker 1: against the Raiders, and it's like everyone could shut up
Speaker 1: now and then as we saw the comeback and all that,
Speaker 1: I just I thought they hired Jeff Saturday to tank.
Speaker 1: They're trying to win. I thought they were going to
Speaker 1: do like a graceful tanking, like let's teach these young
Speaker 1: guys some things, but we don't want to win any
Speaker 1: games because we got some stuff to do in the draft.
Speaker 1: So now that one is definitely looking more and more
Speaker 1: surprising for me. Okay, for me, it's gotta be Zach Wilson's.
Speaker 1: Would we call it alleged affair? Which is his mom's
Speaker 1: best friend or his best friend's mom, maybe both? It
Speaker 1: could be both, it could be both. We'll just call
Speaker 1: it the Zach Wilson mom friends story. I think it
Speaker 1: was his mom's friend. It was someone's mom, It was
Speaker 1: someone's mother. It was a mother. Yes, And that one
Speaker 1: just really rocked us because it was the first little
Speaker 1: inkling that we were like, oh, is Zach Wilson kind
Speaker 1: of is there something kind of weird? Is Zach Wilson?
Speaker 1: And then more things come out, and then of course
Speaker 1: he got benched, and then we find out he's maybe
Speaker 1: not the most liked in the locker room and and everything,
Speaker 1: and then Mike White is just like on fire, And
Speaker 1: of course then Mike White gets hurt. Zach Wilson beck in,
Speaker 1: but I mean, what a weird saga. Well, he also
Speaker 1: leaned into it a little bit because after the story
Speaker 1: was going on for like a week, he hadn't said
Speaker 1: anything right and then I think I believe it. If
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, I apologize, but I'm pretty sure I'm right,
Speaker 1: he tweeted, because I think he was down in like
Speaker 1: Cobo with all his buddy there's something before the training
Speaker 1: camp was starting or whatever, he just had one last
Speaker 1: hurrah and like tweeted something like, hey guy, I've been
Speaker 1: off the grid for like the last seven days. Anything
Speaker 1: going on in the world, like totally pointing either you
Speaker 1: make in front of it because it wasn't true, or
Speaker 1: he's kind of shining a light on it because it
Speaker 1: was true. That just looked not a good omen and
Speaker 1: we've seen that it's not led to the best results
Speaker 1: this year. So stay focused out there, young men, Stay
Speaker 1: focused out there. Okay, it's his mom's best friend's best friends,
Speaker 1: so um, a lot to unpack there, but that would
Speaker 1: probably be a whole other podcast. That was a good one.
Speaker 1: That Okay, what else, Well, just in terms of surprise,
Speaker 1: not this does not necessary, This isn't going the fun
Speaker 1: list at all, but the email Eudoka story from a
Speaker 1: shock factor of wow, he's not coaching the team that
Speaker 1: was just in the finals, could have won the finals,
Speaker 1: and should potentially be back in the finals. So not
Speaker 1: commenting on this personal life and all that, I don't.
Speaker 1: I just find that hard of how much of that
Speaker 1: factors in. But I was just shocked when that news
Speaker 1: came out that more so that they were like moving
Speaker 1: on from him all together. That was pretty surprising for me,
Speaker 1: only because the Celtics did not start off last year
Speaker 1: well and they had one of the biggest turnarounds ever
Speaker 1: and he was really proven to be one of the
Speaker 1: best new coaches we had. Yeah, and I think now
Speaker 1: as as this story has played out, he's obviously spend
Speaker 1: it for the year. But remember his name was in
Speaker 1: contention for the Nets job. That's part of the story, right,
Speaker 1: It's got to be part of the surprising story. They
Speaker 1: were like, you know what, screw it, we'll hire him,
Speaker 1: and we thought that wasn't appropriate, and then you know,
Speaker 1: him and n Along I think have now filed for
Speaker 1: divorce and then she's come out saying that she was
Speaker 1: really upset with the Celtics as an organization, that no
Speaker 1: one reached out to her, No one reached out they
Speaker 1: have a son together, that it was all very blick
Speaker 1: and it was kind of made more about basketball than
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah, so you're right that that wasn't a
Speaker 1: fun one. And also on this note, and I know
Speaker 1: I talked about it when it happened, but they never
Speaker 1: obviously said who it was within the Celtics organization, the woman,
Speaker 1: and so it made every woman who works for the
Speaker 1: Celtics a potential target of who had the affair with
Speaker 1: the coach. And like I said, I have friends who
Speaker 1: worked for the Celtics women and they it was a
Speaker 1: really really horrible time for all of them, because especially
Speaker 1: those who are on the front facing side of it
Speaker 1: in the front office or on TV, even worse than
Speaker 1: their you know, young beautiful women. Of course people thought
Speaker 1: it was them and anyway, so that was a really
Speaker 1: ugly situation and just a lot of bad decision making,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, bad decision making. But yeah,
Speaker 1: surprising moment and certainly impactful one on the court as well.
Speaker 1: To me, there's really like a number one here. Oh,
Speaker 1: at least for me, who is Like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: I've been watching basketball for thirty five years and I'm
Speaker 1: glad we've moved on from it, and the Warriors have
Speaker 1: seemed to move on for Oh they're not playing, they're
Speaker 1: missing Steph Curry. But the punch, the Draymond Green Jordan
Speaker 1: pool punch, because it's one thing to hear about it,
Speaker 1: Oh they got we I've heard you know, there was
Speaker 1: the Bobby Portius mirror titch punch where Brookish jaw. We
Speaker 1: didn't see it, but we heard about it. That was
Speaker 1: not nearly viewed as bad, even though the guy's jaw
Speaker 1: was broken, had a missed time because the public didn't
Speaker 1: see it. Right. We've heard about the Steve Kerr Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan's We've but to see it definitely was whoa moment
Speaker 1: for me. That was a pretty big surprise. Although I'm
Speaker 1: sure that thing maybe not a surprise because I don't
Speaker 1: know when that happened as opposed to when it got released.
Speaker 1: But I feel like you heard about it and then wow, okay,
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen there? And then the video hits and
Speaker 1: that was like the second oh shit moment. Oh, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was like the punch heard around the world, and
Speaker 1: it seemed to have very little consequence. And then now
Speaker 1: we see Damon like yepping at fans still and there's
Speaker 1: still like a lot going on with that. But that's
Speaker 1: that's Hey, Raymond gonna Draymond. But that was a big thing.
Speaker 1: And then even Steve Kerr's reaction to it I liked
Speaker 1: because he was like more mad that the video leaked
Speaker 1: than that the punch happened. But that was a big Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's always going to be something that is happening off
Speaker 1: the field that has our attention, and Jerry, damn it,
Speaker 1: you and I will be there to cover it, like
Speaker 1: the serious journals that we are. What do you say
Speaker 1: we get to unleach it's t alright. Mine has got
Speaker 1: to be paying credit to the man who deserves it.
Speaker 1: If I were a football player, I would want to
Speaker 1: play for this guy, Dan Campbell. Gotta give the Lions
Speaker 1: credit for not firing their head coach after a one
Speaker 1: and six start. I think Dan Campbell deserves a ton
Speaker 1: of credit for keeping not only his locker room invested,
Speaker 1: but the fans. Those Detroit fans are such good ones. It.
Speaker 1: People were checking out and he was trying to kind
Speaker 1: of signal the rallying cry and hard knocks can always
Speaker 1: give people's attention. But that's August, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's not what it counts. And in December football,
Speaker 1: they really hit a stride. In November, they really hit
Speaker 1: a stride. And they've had to be gritty. They've had
Speaker 1: to do it offensively, which no one thought that this
Speaker 1: Detroit offense was gonna have anything sexy to it. They
Speaker 1: didn't have too many toys to play with, and they
Speaker 1: are doing it now. They're still on the outside looking
Speaker 1: in with regards to the playoff, but spend an emotional
Speaker 1: roller coaster and I give the Lions franchise a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. The sad thing is is there's like two
Speaker 1: playoff teams that are probably gonna get in over the
Speaker 1: Lions that don't deserve to be there, like the Bucks
Speaker 1: or the Panthers or the Saints are gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And that sucks because right now the Lions are surging
Speaker 1: and the lines are the best team in the North.
Speaker 1: They are. I'm sorry, I just look at it. They
Speaker 1: I know that the record doesn't show, but the Lions
Speaker 1: right now the best team in the North, and it's
Speaker 1: not not even that close to me. I agree. I
Speaker 1: think we just learned that the Vikings were pretty fraudulent,
Speaker 1: but gritty, I don't know. I I'm not sold on
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Obviously, what they did a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago was incredible over the Colts. But I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think right now what team is the best in
Speaker 1: the NFC North. I'm totally with you. Like I said,
Speaker 1: they started one in six, they were closer to getting
Speaker 1: that first overall pick than they were making the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and and now they've got a real case. So uh
Speaker 1: that's my unleashed. Good on you, Dan Campbell. I love
Speaker 1: your unleashed because I spent two weeks ago I was
Speaker 1: arguing for Jarreed Goff on Twitter and uh my, that
Speaker 1: argument gets better. And also they still, as we all know,
Speaker 1: they still have the Rams first round pick, which is
Speaker 1: getting worse by the week. So good time to be
Speaker 1: Alliance fan. Good for you, Dan Campbell. I'm gonna switch
Speaker 1: sports for a minute. I know we're not quite in
Speaker 1: full NBA swing, although I am. I have to talk
Speaker 1: about my Knicks year for a second, okay, and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to focus on on how they're playing right now,
Speaker 1: because I know that's the big talk. I'm going to
Speaker 1: focus on Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson. When he was signed,
Speaker 1: that move was picked apart by every smart journalist talking
Speaker 1: head out there. Oh, the Knicks overpaid, why would they
Speaker 1: sign it for this number. They're gonna regret this contract
Speaker 1: in two years, and he has been everything Nick fans
Speaker 1: and the Knicks organization could have hoped for from a
Speaker 1: point guard, stability, leadership, crunch time minutes. I was excited
Speaker 1: for the signing because what I saw him do when
Speaker 1: Luca was out in Game six and seven verse the Jazz.
Speaker 1: That's a big time player like forty two and thirty nine.
Speaker 1: That's not easy against a good defensive team at the time.
Speaker 1: So I think we could finally stop and say, look,
Speaker 1: we all know what's gonna happen four years from now,
Speaker 1: but for right now, that is the best move the
Speaker 1: Knicks have made. And I think since Latrelle Spree, well,
Speaker 1: I think that's the best move the Knicks have made
Speaker 1: since Latrell Spree. Well, that's my unleashed I don't think
Speaker 1: the Necks are going in the championship. Obviously, I'm not stupid,
Speaker 1: but things are looking up. Dare I say, in the
Speaker 1: spirit of things looking up, let's look at our championship parlay.
Speaker 1: We're both gonna put together an interesting parley of sorts.
Speaker 1: I think yours might be a little bit more out
Speaker 1: there than mine. Maybe I'm playing it a little too safe,
Speaker 1: But let's do the four major sports, NFL, n B, A, NHL,
Speaker 1: and MLB, right, okay, and you're gonna plug it in
Speaker 1: bet MGM, and you're gonna tell us what the odds are. Okay,
Speaker 1: I will tell you the odds. And let's unveil this
Speaker 1: because look, we don't We don't talk a lot of
Speaker 1: NHL in this show. We talk a little MLB. So
Speaker 1: let's go NHL, MLB, n B A, NFL in that order.
Speaker 1: At least we could presented that way, because um but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see what your odds plug in at.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be plugging these in as we go. Okay,
Speaker 1: for NHL, I'm very honest. I don't follow the league
Speaker 1: as much. I don't know as much about the league.
Speaker 1: Peter Andrews a big hockey guy, so he can he
Speaker 1: can tell me if this is a bad pick, it's
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a favorite. I'm just going to the favorite,
Speaker 1: the Avalanche at plus five fifty. That's my NHL pick.
Speaker 1: For MLB, I do follow the MLB a little bit
Speaker 1: more closely. I'm going with the Padres at plus one thousand.
Speaker 1: They just added Sander Bogart's getting Fernando Tattoos junior back.
Speaker 1: They have one so too. They just have so much talent.
Speaker 1: They have paid their way to a championship, I think,
Speaker 1: and I like the Padres, so put that in from LB.
Speaker 1: What's next, NBA, n A, NBA. I'm going with the
Speaker 1: Bucks at plus four twenty. That's my NBA team. I
Speaker 1: never really know what my NBA team is, but my
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Tis always pulled me back to the Bucks. Don't
Speaker 1: go with them. I just still that coaching staff is
Speaker 1: who I had in Atlanta when I was working for
Speaker 1: the Hawks, so I still I'm always coach cheering on
Speaker 1: coach Bud. So that's just a little bit of who
Speaker 1: I want to win. And then in the NFL, like
Speaker 1: my hat suggests, I'm going with the Chiefs at plus
Speaker 1: four seventy. My Packers are out of it. Chiefs, although
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks not looking that great. I
Speaker 1: still really believe in Kansas City. So what am I at? Okay,
Speaker 1: that was a little chalky for all four major sports,
Speaker 1: but you still have a lot of value. And I'm
Speaker 1: actually I am going to bet on both of these
Speaker 1: because the worst thing for any better is to hear
Speaker 1: someone say a lottery ticket bet and not throw a
Speaker 1: little money on it because if it hits, we'll never
Speaker 1: forget it. But yours plugs in at And if I'm
Speaker 1: doing this math right, guys. Math is not my strongest
Speaker 1: I'm just reading off the website here. That is plus
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty five thousand, eight hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: So yeah, a hundred dollars get you two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty five thousand, nine and fifty. I think that's worth
Speaker 1: at least a dollar. That's worth at least a dollar.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of ticket. I like it. Okay, my turn,
Speaker 1: I guess right. So starting with hockey again, like you
Speaker 1: used to love hockey, played a lot of hockey as
Speaker 1: a kid. They got me very upset when they locked
Speaker 1: the players out in the year after the Rangers won
Speaker 1: the Cup, Rangers on bet MGM are plus two thousand.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be a total homer, so I'm going
Speaker 1: sort of mid odds here. I'm going with the Vegas
Speaker 1: Golden Knights at plus nine hundred. They've won before. I
Speaker 1: just think that they have a great atmosphere to play
Speaker 1: in and it's gonna all be about getting hot at
Speaker 1: the right time. So I'm gonna go Vegas Golden Knights
Speaker 1: for hockey for baseball, and I spared us. I am
Speaker 1: gonna go a little bit homer here because also we
Speaker 1: did talk about what is next for Aaron Judge. He's
Speaker 1: already hit a million home runs and he's already got
Speaker 1: paid billions of dollars. He needs to win a World Series.
Speaker 1: And I like what the Yankees are doing so far
Speaker 1: in the off season. It hasn't been as splashy, but
Speaker 1: it's been good plus seven fifty for the Yankees. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna plug them in there. Do they are do okay? NBA?
Speaker 1: This one gives me a lot of This one I
Speaker 1: could agonize about because I could make the argument for
Speaker 1: so many teams. But similarly to Olivia, I have a
Speaker 1: hard time. I don't like going chalk. Celtics are the
Speaker 1: best odds, But I have a hard time going under
Speaker 1: that with the Suns or even of Warriors a plus
Speaker 1: one thousand, I'm going with the Clippers. Okay, I know
Speaker 1: that's a borderline ridiculous pick I get it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put a dollar on this, But I have the Clippers
Speaker 1: in there because if they could just We've seen it.
Speaker 1: We saw a Kauai and Paul George did a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago to the Celtics, who arguably have the better
Speaker 1: version right now of Paul George and Kawhi Leonard and
Speaker 1: Jayalen Brown and Jayson Tatum, if they are well coached,
Speaker 1: if they could just get Paul George and Kawai Leonard healthy,
Speaker 1: fit and in shape for the playoffs, I like those
Speaker 1: plus one thousand odds. So that's what I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: in the NBA, especially if the Warriors slipping a little
Speaker 1: bit here, they can catch up, kind of make some
Speaker 1: ground up in the West and help playoff seeding. If
Speaker 1: you look big picture, Macro, I'm with you. I really
Speaker 1: do love the Clippers actually to make it to the finals. Again,
Speaker 1: all those things I just said being true if those
Speaker 1: two are healthy, because who in the West is really
Speaker 1: sticking out of you, But I'm with you. In the East,
Speaker 1: the Celtics and the Bucks are I think Janice is
Speaker 1: going to be like the Terminator Man possessed this year
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I can't wait to watch it. West
Speaker 1: is tight, Okay, the NFL. This is gonna be the
Speaker 1: first one of these two hit on our tickets here.
Speaker 1: I love the Chiefs. I'm with you, I get it.
Speaker 1: I do worry a little bit about the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: falling asleep at the wheel sometimes. I am going to
Speaker 1: go with us. I'm betting on a story here and
Speaker 1: a very good team. I'm betting on the Tom Brady story.
Speaker 1: But except I'm not betting on Tom Brady. I'm betting
Speaker 1: on brock Purty. I just feel like we've seen this
Speaker 1: story before with the guy who comes out of nowhere
Speaker 1: late pick and then you see that he's really good
Speaker 1: in the system. It seems like he's been paying attention
Speaker 1: while he's been the backup quarterback. I just feel like
Speaker 1: with those weapons in San Francisco, obviously the debo, they
Speaker 1: may have dodged a bullet. That injury might not be
Speaker 1: that bad. Kittles coming alive now that defense is absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: I think at plus of an hundred to put the
Speaker 1: Niners in there for an outright Super Bowl win, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be thrown down on that even outside of this ticket,
Speaker 1: no matter what. So Golden Knights, Yankees, Clippers, forty Niners,
Speaker 1: that gets you plus seven hundred thousand. Yeah, so a
Speaker 1: hundred dollars wins you seven hundred forty thousand. Who wants
Speaker 1: to go buy a really, really nice house in Ohio,
Speaker 1: let's go. I think the Clippers are the one spiking
Speaker 1: that price a little bit. But yeah, of course the
Speaker 1: Clippers are definitely spiking that. I may do another version
Speaker 1: of that with maybe the Celtics or the Box just
Speaker 1: to have a little yeah but not all chalk from
Speaker 1: the kid. We know. I I love lottery tickets, Okay,
Speaker 1: I love that. That was fun. Everyone can hold us
Speaker 1: accountable to that. But as for this year, we've still
Speaker 1: got the Fiesta Bowl and the Peach Bowl to help
Speaker 1: us decide the National cheer Chapionship. So let's give our
Speaker 1: picks there. First, up TCU versus Michigan. Michigan's a seven
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite. Darry. Beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: you couldn't find a college football team. You said, maybe
Speaker 1: you do Michigan because your wife's half family cheers for
Speaker 1: the buck Eyes. Yes, are you riding this one through
Speaker 1: to the very end? Well after Pat Forty, friend of
Speaker 1: the show, gave me Coastal Carolina, I no longer have
Speaker 1: to ride hard for the Wolverines, but I do like
Speaker 1: them for the for the win here. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they cover seven and a half. I feel like
Speaker 1: it'll be a little tighter than people might think, but
Speaker 1: I do like Michigan to win. I'm definitely interested to
Speaker 1: hear your opinion on this one because I think I
Speaker 1: know what your opinion is gonna be on the next one.
Speaker 1: So this one I really like, who do you do
Speaker 1: You do you give TCU any chance at winning here? No,
Speaker 1: I like Michigan to win and cover. I think TCU
Speaker 1: will be exposed now that they're playing the big boys
Speaker 1: from up north, and I think this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a blowout, I gotta say. And then, obviously you mentioned
Speaker 1: this next one is it's gonna be more personal. But
Speaker 1: I've I've seen him in person. They're they're undefeated. There's
Speaker 1: a reason that they are so stout, and they will
Speaker 1: be for the foreseeable future. I mean Georgia, the recruiting,
Speaker 1: the process, that everything, Georgia is just playing at a
Speaker 1: different level right now. Then everyone there a six and
Speaker 1: a half point favorite over Ohio State, who's snuck in?
Speaker 1: Snuck in and I or yeah, we had a great
Speaker 1: by hope they're all arrested and healthy. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just the whole thing with the college football playoff, And
Speaker 1: I told you this was going to happen. Someone who
Speaker 1: lost and didn't even win their division in their conference
Speaker 1: is going to sneak in by not having to jump
Speaker 1: that thirteen turtle, and it happened. So I laid an
Speaker 1: os U pretty hard to after they're lost to Michigan.
Speaker 1: Poor coaching, poor decision making, poor effort. I do think
Speaker 1: they'll have some new life because they're like a cat
Speaker 1: on their ninth life now getting into the playoff. But
Speaker 1: I still like the dogs to cover. They're gonna win
Speaker 1: big two at least a touchdown, so the cover that
Speaker 1: six and a half and I don't think this will
Speaker 1: be that close. And I think we'll have a really
Speaker 1: good national championship with Michigan and Georgia to two blue bloods.
Speaker 1: That would be a great Finals matchup. Just know on
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve I will be I will be watching
Speaker 1: this game with a bunch of Ohio State fans. I
Speaker 1: will say a couple of things. I'm with you. I
Speaker 1: think Georgia wins and cover. I do think it will
Speaker 1: be close for a really long time, enough to make
Speaker 1: you and other Bulldog fans very uncomfortable. I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be two and a half, maybe even three quarters
Speaker 1: where Georgia is very fans are very uncomfortable, and then
Speaker 1: I think ultimately just pull away because there's just too
Speaker 1: much talent. However, I'm just gonna put this out there,
Speaker 1: and this is no bad or goodwill, just pointing out
Speaker 1: a thing I see. If for some reason Ohio State
Speaker 1: should happen to win this game, which I don't think
Speaker 1: they will, I think we have to go redo our
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty two more moments of surprise and shock
Speaker 1: because this would end a Georgia run that has been spectacular.
Speaker 1: And I think will that game end before midnight? Probably
Speaker 1: on the East right? I think so? Yeah, So it
Speaker 1: would count. Yeah, editors would love that if we say, guys,
Speaker 1: stop what you're doing, you know, put down your flute
Speaker 1: of champagne stop presses. We've got to re record that
Speaker 1: episode by Georgia. Georgia will do it. Yeah, I mentioned
Speaker 1: at the top of the show, I am sick. My
Speaker 1: voice sounds so horrible. If you've made it this far,
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm sick of hearing my own voice. So
Speaker 1: let's get to the audible of the week so we
Speaker 1: can hear someone else's. Darry, Why don't you walk us
Speaker 1: through this one. So I was thinking about what could
Speaker 1: be Audible of the year. A lot of great nominees.
Speaker 1: But look, Olivia, I didn't notice there was a strange
Speaker 1: trend in sports this year. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: protesters at games have gluing themselves for the core, handcuffing
Speaker 1: themselves to baskets, all sorts of colored smoke. You know
Speaker 1: all of that. And of course, who out one of
Speaker 1: the better calls of one of these moments. Your dad.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say friend, I'm gonna say dad of
Speaker 1: the show. Kevin Harland, one of the best in the business,
Speaker 1: just happened to be on the call for a bunch
Speaker 1: of them. So here's Kevin Harland on the mic at
Speaker 1: the rams Forts game with my audible of the year,
Speaker 1: and here comes They've stopped it him playing because someone
Speaker 1: has run on the field with a smoke bomb that
Speaker 1: is pink and he's running up the sideline. Now a
Speaker 1: couple of rams come over there and make the tackle
Speaker 1: head first into the player who has taken the field
Speaker 1: and he's in a cloud of pink smoke so you
Speaker 1: can't see him. And now on him are a couple
Speaker 1: of security guards. That guy is headed into the swimmer
Speaker 1: and it will not be a good night. Okay. When
Speaker 1: that music plays, everyone knows what time it is. I
Speaker 1: know for a lot of people, it's their favorite part
Speaker 1: of the show. I have so much fun because I
Speaker 1: like when I'm prepping for work, I can say I'm sorry, honey,
Speaker 1: I can't get the baby right now, I'm I'm prepping
Speaker 1: for work. I'm watching Entourage, and it's been such a
Speaker 1: joy because as you joined our show this year, it's
Speaker 1: been a huge part of what we do, what we
Speaker 1: talk about. Hearing all these behind the scenes stories from Entourage. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm watching it obviously for the first time. I've finished
Speaker 1: season five. So what you joined in August and I've
Speaker 1: made it through five seasons, that's not bad. You're doing
Speaker 1: you're kind of averaging like a sea a season a month.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good for a mother of a little baby
Speaker 1: with job and a husband who has a job like
Speaker 1: that's and you're in a whole new city and the
Speaker 1: whole new country, so that's really really good. You actually
Speaker 1: further ahead than I thought you would be. Well, I've
Speaker 1: it thoroughly enjoyed it, I've got to say. And everything
Speaker 1: from furries to tripping shrooms in Joshua Tree to can
Speaker 1: red carpet, all the behind the scenes stories that you've
Speaker 1: provided have been so colorful, really fun. I also feel
Speaker 1: like I've learned a lot about how Hollywood works, not
Speaker 1: only through watching n trage, but through you explaining things
Speaker 1: to me. So we've got to end with the bang.
Speaker 1: The last segment of two has got to be our
Speaker 1: entrage segment. So I just want to almost interview you, Jerry.
Speaker 1: This is kind of a change. Oh wow, Okay, I
Speaker 1: get to sit back and Okay, hard hitting questions coming.
Speaker 1: I will say the pilot was shot in two thousand three,
Speaker 1: so coming up on the twenty year anniversary of shooting
Speaker 1: the first episode. Damn, I'm old, So let's do. I'm
Speaker 1: ready for this. So I guess that is actually a
Speaker 1: great place to start, because the show took what two
Speaker 1: seasons to really get as popular as it did, And
Speaker 1: I guess I'm just curious, at what point did you notice, like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is really taking off. Well, two moments stand out early,
Speaker 1: here's a here's a good story that's roughly around the
Speaker 1: same time a year I think it was. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was like October, uh, and I was at a party.
Speaker 1: So Season one had just finished airing. We had shot
Speaker 1: most of season two and we're still shooting seasons who
Speaker 1: hadn't aired yet. And we, like I said, we were
Speaker 1: successful season one, like critically but not ratings wise. So
Speaker 1: I'm out at a party. I used to do that
Speaker 1: when I was like twenty four years old. It was
Speaker 1: a party for the Golden Globes because the next morning
Speaker 1: that's when they announced the Golden Globe nominations, right, which
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, especially at the time, was a big deal.
Speaker 1: So I was at a party celebrating, Hey, they're gonna
Speaker 1: announce some awards tomorrow. So there was people from like
Speaker 1: desperate it was a big Hollywood party. I definitely felt
Speaker 1: out of place and like I shouldn't have been there,
Speaker 1: but I was having fun taking all and so I
Speaker 1: was then talking to an agent, a high powered agent
Speaker 1: who I will not name, and it's not Ari, but
Speaker 1: I will not name this person. Uh, but we were
Speaker 1: talking and she's you know, she was said, all right,
Speaker 1: I revealed it was a woman. She was saying, you know,
Speaker 1: this must be really cool. The show is really cool.
Speaker 1: And she said to me like, don't worry though tomorrow
Speaker 1: like the Golden Globes. Like you guys, maybe one day,
Speaker 1: a couple of years from now, maybe you get one
Speaker 1: of these nominations. I think she represented some people who
Speaker 1: are getting nominated. So I'm like, yeah, that would be
Speaker 1: really really cool if we got a Golden Globe nomination.
Speaker 1: I hope that happens one day. Great, So you go
Speaker 1: to sleep that night. I went to sleep late, and
Speaker 1: Pacific time, they announced those awards like six in the morning,
Speaker 1: and my phone was blowing up at like six o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning, and I look an entourage, uh, and
Speaker 1: Kevin Dillon and Jeremy Piven all got nominated for Golden
Speaker 1: Globe Awards. So I just remember thinking of that that
Speaker 1: agent who was like, you know, one day gave me
Speaker 1: the one day kid get there, so that stood out.
Speaker 1: And then do you remember the Vegas episode in season
Speaker 1: two with the Seth with Seth Green and all that,
Speaker 1: So shooting that episode was before the moment I just
Speaker 1: talked about. So, like I said, we were happy to
Speaker 1: be in season two, didn't know who was watching. I
Speaker 1: come out to do that pool scene with all of
Speaker 1: the beauty pageant contestantsy we'll call them, and right, and
Speaker 1: I'm wearing the next jersey. I come out and there's
Speaker 1: like a bunch of probably like two d people in
Speaker 1: the pool, and as I come out, they start chanting
Speaker 1: like turtle, Turtle, And in my mind, I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is cool. We got all these extras to like paying
Speaker 1: two hundred extras in Vegas and the pool. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: And I come over and I find out that's actually
Speaker 1: not our people were shooting way over at this other pool,
Speaker 1: and those were just people who heard we were shooting
Speaker 1: who then wanted to come like watch us walk out
Speaker 1: to set and that. And then there was another time
Speaker 1: we were shooting on Sunset Boulevard and a school bus
Speaker 1: full of lacrosse players passed and they saw Kevin Dillon
Speaker 1: and I shooting a scene and the bus stop and
Speaker 1: forty lacrosse players are like rattling the bus going victory,
Speaker 1: like screaming because they see Kevin Dial And there I
Speaker 1: thought the bus was going to turn over. So those
Speaker 1: were three moments early on where I thought, I think
Speaker 1: this is starting to catch on. Okay, that's really good
Speaker 1: to know, and I can't imagine what that felt like.
Speaker 1: You know, now in retrospect, you're like, of course people
Speaker 1: watched didn't know, but at the time you're probably actually surprised.
Speaker 1: So I'm curious as you then got this new found celebrity,
Speaker 1: like then you were going till all those stories. I
Speaker 1: was about twenty five years old. What was the coolest
Speaker 1: thing you got to do now in like your first
Speaker 1: year as a celebrity. Well, going to the Golden Globes
Speaker 1: is really really cool, like going into the bathroom to
Speaker 1: like wash your hands, like, oh, hey, Johnny Depp, what's
Speaker 1: going on going outside where people like smoke cigars and
Speaker 1: cigarettes and it's you know, just it's Brad Pitt And
Speaker 1: it's like I said, the Golden Globes are a big party.
Speaker 1: And I do remember one year, and if I told
Speaker 1: the story, I don't. I don't think I told this
Speaker 1: on the show and am I. I think it was
Speaker 1: our first year we went and we went to all
Speaker 1: day after parties after that, and we had ourselves a
Speaker 1: good time. And I was coming this is like out
Speaker 1: of Entourage. I was coming back to my house. It's
Speaker 1: like five o'clock in the morning, Sun's coming up. I'm
Speaker 1: in my tucks. What a night, right, A little had
Speaker 1: a few drinks and I get I get home, I
Speaker 1: getting bit in my head just hits the pillow. And
Speaker 1: this was pre cell phones. My alarm clock goes off
Speaker 1: and I had to work. We add to every year.
Speaker 1: The Golden Globes were always like our like first day
Speaker 1: of work too, So we had a we had a
Speaker 1: six am call time, so I had to throw myself
Speaker 1: in the shower and eat some breakfast and we we
Speaker 1: were all feeling pretty crappy that day, but we got
Speaker 1: through it. That was a pretty cool. But the coolest
Speaker 1: thing I ever got to do because of this celebrity
Speaker 1: that entouragees brought me is courtside at Knicks games. It's
Speaker 1: by far, it will never get old to me. The
Speaker 1: fact that I've sat in those seats a bunch of
Speaker 1: times is by far the coolest thing I've ever gotten
Speaker 1: to do in my career. And if you would have
Speaker 1: told the twelve or thirteen year old me you'd be
Speaker 1: sitting courtside for a Knicks game, I would have thought
Speaker 1: that's because I broke in and was it was a
Speaker 1: protester or something, and your dad was going to be
Speaker 1: doing the call of me running on the court. That's
Speaker 1: how I would have thought. I would have gotten the
Speaker 1: And that's why you got into acting, right, of course,
Speaker 1: keep that's why I still act. I talked about Coach
Speaker 1: k If it wasn't for those Knick tickets, I would
Speaker 1: have retired already. I gotta get back on another show
Speaker 1: so I could keep those Knicks tickets. Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do. I'm curious, just as you
Speaker 1: went into it so green, like you've always told me
Speaker 1: those first couple of years of entourage, you were you
Speaker 1: were like you were green, you were raw, like you
Speaker 1: hadn't had much success, and obviously this was a big break,
Speaker 1: huge break. What did you learn about acting while playing
Speaker 1: Turtle so well? Because of the nature of the show.
Speaker 1: I I love that you say that you learned a
Speaker 1: lot about what it's like to be an actor and
Speaker 1: stuff in Hollywood and stuff like that, and you're finishing
Speaker 1: season five or just finished season five, and that really
Speaker 1: is a good look at a lot of those inner
Speaker 1: workings and lessons of what it's like for an actor
Speaker 1: or even just trying to get a movie made. So
Speaker 1: I was learning a lot just on that level. But
Speaker 1: what I would say is because I I had worked
Speaker 1: up until that point, but never something we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is good, you can shoot this for nine months.
Speaker 1: The I guess it's almost like how an athlete would
Speaker 1: prepare for a season, you know, preparing to shoot a show,
Speaker 1: where it's like, yeah, for the first month, you have
Speaker 1: a lot of energy, and then by month too, it's
Speaker 1: like we're doing fifty sixty hours a week for another
Speaker 1: seven eight months. So it's more about brokering out your
Speaker 1: energy and and just staying focused and knowing that I
Speaker 1: hate to use the word job because it's like a dream,
Speaker 1: but there's a job for a big corporation like HBO
Speaker 1: and millions of people are watching. So it is the
Speaker 1: closest I've ever gotten to be an athlete of what
Speaker 1: you have to I didn't always go out like and party.
Speaker 1: I probably should have partied more. To be honest, I
Speaker 1: didn't enjoy it as much as I should have because
Speaker 1: I was so afraid of screwing up. So I was
Speaker 1: home in bed on the Friday night by ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I haven't slept all week. I just
Speaker 1: need to sleep this weekend so for Monday, I could
Speaker 1: be back to myself. So I probably should have enjoyed
Speaker 1: it and went out a little more. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: just learned what it actually takes to be one of
Speaker 1: the top series regulars on the show. So I obviously
Speaker 1: haven't gotten to the Entourage movie. I gotta finish the
Speaker 1: series first, then I'll get to the movie. But a
Speaker 1: lot of people would love a sequel of the movie.
Speaker 1: And if there was one, and they had you guys
Speaker 1: in now, present day, your current ages, walk me through
Speaker 1: what you think Turtle would be doing, what you would
Speaker 1: like Turtle to be doing, and maybe like kind of
Speaker 1: a fun storyline for everyone. Well, I know what I
Speaker 1: would say, but I'm not gonna say this one thing
Speaker 1: because it will spoil stuff for you. So I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna give you a different answer than I
Speaker 1: would get that that what I think would really really happen. Um,
Speaker 1: I think they they I know, I think they all
Speaker 1: got kids. Turtle, I think, or at least Turtle definitely
Speaker 1: has a kid. I think he's probably lost some money
Speaker 1: with the crypto crash. He was probably invested a you know,
Speaker 1: big on bitcoin at sixty thousand and now. I think
Speaker 1: whatever money he had, he probably lost a lot in
Speaker 1: uh in some crypto. I do think that he would
Speaker 1: probably be doing something with music or with athletes stuff
Speaker 1: like that. You know, I really do think that Turtle
Speaker 1: was such a sports fan. That's also so cool about
Speaker 1: this show and what it meant to athletes. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of athletes watched this show, and we were
Speaker 1: all such big sports fans. You know, we talked about
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods earlier. I remember watching that US Open where
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods was on a broken leg and one and
Speaker 1: this is again really early internet phone days, so we
Speaker 1: were watching on like portable TVs. We were like in
Speaker 1: between takes racing to go see Tiger Woods because he
Speaker 1: had to play on a Monday in a playoff. So
Speaker 1: sports was always a part of our life, right, exactly
Speaker 1: exactly right. It's it's a it's a something that gets
Speaker 1: a television signal, So yeah, this was Sports has always
Speaker 1: been such a big part of all our lives too,
Speaker 1: so that's made it fun. Well, that would be fun.
Speaker 1: And also I don't know how much into writing you
Speaker 1: got at the time when the movie is being shot
Speaker 1: and everything, because didn't you write or produced one episode
Speaker 1: of Rage. I co wrote two episodes of Roge. Yes,
Speaker 1: not produced, just co wrote. But now you've kind of
Speaker 1: refined that skill and that's like, I know that's currently
Speaker 1: what you're doing as well. So do you feel like
Speaker 1: you'd want to really, right, if there was a sequel?
Speaker 1: I mean I would love to, I really would. But
Speaker 1: Doug Ellen has done such a great job. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, he's done such a great may. I would
Speaker 1: maybe just love to be help him with like ideas
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I think obviously my name should
Speaker 1: be on the script because he doesn't need my help
Speaker 1: for that. I just wonder, you know, a sequel, right,
Speaker 1: we're just so old No, not though, and are in
Speaker 1: their upper thirties, right, but like, could we can't be
Speaker 1: running around and club We're like it's creepy now creeping
Speaker 1: you know, have to just show the characters in the
Speaker 1: relationship have aged. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Turtle definitely has a
Speaker 1: kid for sure. I don't know if he's still married
Speaker 1: or not. Vince's probably been married four times. Yeah, see,
Speaker 1: this is great, I like already, I know you thought
Speaker 1: about it. I know you've of course you think about
Speaker 1: but we we joke on like we're obviously group text
Speaker 1: and stuff. We we joke around. Or is it like,
Speaker 1: do you just flash forward to like twenty years from
Speaker 1: now and it's like our kids or the nuance, you know, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think you're there yet. I don't think you
Speaker 1: need to do that, but then we could be the
Speaker 1: old heads. We could come in and be the old heads.
Speaker 1: And and I don't know, I feel old today thinking
Speaker 1: that we just Serena and Federal are just retired. I
Speaker 1: feel old. Well that's a good place to wrap. I
Speaker 1: have a lot of entraged still to watch ahead of me. Jerry,
Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure. Twenty two has been so much
Speaker 1: fun with you by my side. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for everything you bring the show. Seriously, well, I would
Speaker 1: say one of the big highlights for me in two
Speaker 1: was becoming a part of this show and getting a
Speaker 1: chance to work with you and everyone at bet MGM
Speaker 1: and everyone behind the scenes who I I thank and
Speaker 1: I'm just really excited to do this show going into
Speaker 1: it's gonna get really good again. It will. We have
Speaker 1: great guest lined up too, and got a shout out Maddie,
Speaker 1: our producer who's on here as well. And wishing everyone
Speaker 1: who helps with the show, everyone at Amazed Media, everyone
Speaker 1: at bet MGM. You're right, this is a good, a
Speaker 1: good opportunity to thank all the people who will put
Speaker 1: this up and gosh, we have a lot of fun
Speaker 1: Joel who helps write, Joel Solomon, so thank you to everyone.
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