WEBVTT - SNL’s Alex Moffat Joins the Show 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:08.559 From the King of sports books comes the key sports 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:19.360 podcast Unleashed, presented by bet MGM. Here's your host, Olivia 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:29.120 Harlan Decker. Welcome back to Unleashed by bet m VM. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.280 What a great week in sports. You know, this is 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.720 kind of our last push of games being on TV 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.760 because late July August it's so slow leading up to 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.360 the regular season in the NFL. So we gotta soak 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.520 this up. People. Let's savor this. We'll preview the Sun's 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.040 Buck series in a bit. We'll bring in our betting 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.839 expert Peter Andrew at the end. And when I say we, 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.160 I mean myself and this week's co host. I am 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.120 very excited to be joined by Saturday Night Lives Alex Moffatt. 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.600 He was making me laugh earlier just as we kind 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.760 of met on the phone. He's gonna make you all 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:07.480 laugh on this episode, Alex. Welcome to Unleashed, Olivia. It's 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.399 a pleasure. Hey, Gang, it's so exciting to have you 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.120 on my friend. This is cool, This is a blast. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.039 So did I hear that right? Bet MGM slogan is 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.680 what a week in sports? No, that's that's my slogan 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.640 because you said, brought to you by bet MGM, what 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.360 a week in sports, and then you went into the 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.360 whole thing about enjoying these days of summer. So I 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.640 can send that at the flagpole. We can try, but 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.360 I believe our real slogan, our tagline is the king 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:42.240 of sports books, the king of sports books. Okay, I 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.600 better get that down. You know what, we'll we'll white 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.320 board it is that what they say, white boarded where 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.840 they like work on new stuff. I don't know. You're 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.880 the professional here, you're the TV man. We're up to 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.600 a great start, Olivia. I'm excited to be here. We're 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.919 partying today. When you hear like Saturday Night Love, Alex Moffitt, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.520 do you get chills like you're in it still a 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.360 little bit. I mean chills has taken it a little far, 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.480 but I definitely I pinched myself and then I get 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:15.240 the chills. Yeah, yeah, it's I'm still very tickled to 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:16.880 death that I get to do this job. It was 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.359 always the dream. I always kind of thought, well, how 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:23.560 the heck would that ever happen? And then somehow it did, 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:29.280 like a thunderbolt of good luck, lightning that old expression. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.960 I've been having a ball. I just finished my fifth season, 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.800 and yeah, I still do get very excited when I 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.040 hear that. So throughout this if you could do the 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.480 whole preamble before my name, that'd be great. Every time 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.560 anytime you address me, just say s N Hell's Alex 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.000 Moffitt and all get real chilly. No it does. It 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.480 sounds good live from Saturday Night. No, but really, when 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.960 you had the COVID year we were just talking about that, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.120 you guys had to do it all from home. Was 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.880 that as painful as I am? And it would be, yeah, 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.720 pretty much, depending on how painfully you're imagining it. He 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.200 is probably right in that ballpark. Well, I saw you 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.160 setting up your zoom in audio, so I imagine pretty painful. Yea. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.640 A tech guy, it was a director's nightmare. We would 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.880 have the you know, we would sort of like zoom 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.720 with the director, but also be like filming on the phone. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.639 My god, I mean it's going back to work this 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.679 past fall for the actual season where we weren't doing 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.840 it at home just felt even though everyone was wearing 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.600 masks and it was like mid pandemic, it felt really 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.760 nice to go back and know that I would not 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.040 have to sit in front of my computer for three 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:45.720 hours dropping files into a Google Drive, and that that 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.040 was an entire department's job to take care of the 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:52.040 tech side, not my forte. So yeah, but the SNL 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:53.840 at homes, I mean, don't get me wrong too, by 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.280 the way, to get to do that during a pandemic 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.840 nothing but uncertainty in the world US and but sort 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.240 of mayhem, chaos and like despair and a lot of 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.040 like to actually have something to do was great. To 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.640 have a job was even better. To have it be 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.560 in comedy was even better. And to know that like 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:18.480 it was maybe helping on some teeny tiny level with people. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.680 Just to have like something new to laugh at it 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.280 was kind of in a way, sort of like an 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.279 honor to get to be a part of that. So yeah, absolutely, 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:33.760 But setting up my mic ain't my forte as you noticed, No, no, Well, 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.920 and at the beginning of the year, and this would 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.080 have been when you were back in studio, but you 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.440 had your first child. I did, My wife did most part. 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:46.120 But yes, we had we had our little girl in January. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:52.039 And actually so I started playing sitting President Joseph Robinett 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:57.200 Biden this year in December and then in January literally 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:01.200 on Inauguration day, our little gal came into the world. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:06.240 So yeah, so like the night before Inauguration day, and 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:07.800 she was three and a half weeks early, like, she 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.760 was not do for a while, and we were not 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.040 expecting this. And my wife and I you know, we 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.880 used to party pretty hardy, eat some you know, Turkish 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:21.400 food around midnight, watched some Seinfeld around one that kind 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.760 of thing, you know, yeah, real punk rock couple. But anyway, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.279 so we were doing that and then we're like laying 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.000 down to watch some Seinfeld that literally like one thirty 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.159 in the morning, and she heard a pop. Oh my god, 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.520 and stood up and it was there was like literally 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.400 a puddle on the floor like in the movies. And 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.359 a lot of people think like, oh, because of the movies, 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.479 everybody's water always breaks and that's how it happens. It's 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.960 like ten percent of the time or something like that 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.440 that the water actually breaks. So she she heard a 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.360 gafluch and then I bet your wife loves you telling 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.840 this story to everyone, but she does. She yeah, it's 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.240 your favorite thing. And so we and we were also 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.040 planning on doing like a home birth. Wow, I know. 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.560 So we had had like had hired a doula, a 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.479 midwife who was going to bring like an inflatable pool 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.599 and everything. Am I getting too detailed in the story 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.480 of my child? I mean I haven't had kids, and 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.960 so maybe for me I kind of have like a 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.680 squeamish feeling right now through all this. Sure, no, no, no, 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.240 keep going. I'm sure our sports fans listeners love. I 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.919 bet anybody tuning in too, bet MGM for like, what's 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.440 the lying on the game tonight is gonna love this 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:40.919 story about midwives. So she here's a pop, feels a 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:47.400 good flush, yeah, and she's you know, soaked, and so 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.320 we called the duel. I was like, all you guys, 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.240 gotta go to the hospital and so like that through 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.920 and and our baby was breached, which means upside down, 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.000 not a big deal, but it just means it's going 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.240 to be a C section. So we went to the hospital. Anyway, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.000 long story short, I don't need to give you the 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:08.039 whole you know of it, but anyway, we get there 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:12.360 and they can't do a c section immediately because we've 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.720 just eaten, and so we just hang out there five 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.480 hours and they were like, we can give you some 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.320 pain meds. And my wife was like I think I'm 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.960 gonna actually just do this naturally as long as I can, 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.080 so that I experienced childbirth so that I know what 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:32.000 it's like for next time, which I know. So she 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.120 was experiencing like fast and furious contractions. And as I'm 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.320 saying all this, I am in my head going yes, 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:43.400 the listener to the bet mgm unleashed, just going fast forward, 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.600 fast forward, best forward. We're also we're sports and lifestyle, 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.440 and I don't know what's more lifestyle than you know, 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.520 DoLS bringing life into the world right, the whole thing. Yes, 0:07:54.600 --> 0:08:01.000 I mean graphic graphic yep, but you know now everybody knows. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:05.720 So anyway, long story short, Yes, later that morning, my 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.560 little gal was was born and life has not been 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.320 the same. Baby Everett and you call it vy and 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.480 we saw her before we started recording. She's precious. Thank you, 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.560 So congratulations. I heard you telling Jimmy Fallon that life 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.040 is mostly the same. You're just breastfeeding a little bit 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:27.680 more than you used to exactly, yea, thank you. Yeah, 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.440 I'm doing it half the time and my wife does 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.200 it the other half. That's so generous. It takes a team. 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.320 You mentioned playing Joe Biden. You succeeded Jim Carey in 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.040 that role. I mean, tons of people have now played 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.439 Joe from back when he was vice president. Yes, I mean, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.520 what's the hardest part. What's the best part about playing 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.640 our sitting president? Huh, that's a good question. The hardest part. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:53.240 I mean, honestly, like, it's not, you know, I think 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:58.280 with Trump, for example, he's such a big character like 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:02.080 in life and it so it's sort of like, oh week, 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.920 not to say it's an easy impression, it's not. No, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.040 I think it is an easy impression. Everyone does it, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.079 So it's right, there's a lot there. Whereas like when 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.080 I first got the call like about playing by and Now, 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.520 I was like, great, cool, Wait what is this impression 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.920 going to look like? And so I really did more 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.040 research on him than I've done on just about anybody 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.440 else I've done an impression of also, because like you know, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.640 it's a more high profile impression him being the pres 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.440 and all. But yeah, I mean I was super pumped. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.320 I just for a little while I was like, well, jeez, 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.080 I better figure this out because it's gonna look pretty 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.600 bad if I can't get my little talents into this 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.280 guy guy. So it took more research and work than 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.280 I would like to say. But it's super fun too. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.720 He's got like there's there's a lot there once you 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.520 kind of dig into, you know, to actually work on 0:09:55.760 --> 0:10:00.280 so little mannerisms, little mannerism. Nailed it. There's a icular 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.160 thank you, there's a particular rhythm of his voice. I'm 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:07.400 not going to get Yeah, exactly, give me a little yeah, 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:20.160 give me a little uh olidia. Ye that was horrible actor. Yeah, 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.360 you played Eric. Can you give us a little Eric? Yeah. 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.880 Basically it's simple as this. He just goes like and 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:33.520 I'm Eric, uh yeah, without mikey Day there as he's 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.760 just sort of a yelling toddler in the way that 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.400 I play him, I realize. And again that's another one, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.040 you know, that's another one where actually come to think 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.200 that I did tons of research to make sure it 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:48.960 was a nuanced, detailed, rich impression reflecting the real man 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:54.200 that is Eric Trump, which is a real man. That 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.720 was a really good impression a real man. Yes, that 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.520 was awesome. No, you're you're hilarious. I also want I 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.839 watched more recently was a guy who just bought a boat. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.320 I love that character. I thank you know that character 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.280 I feel like I went to high school with that character. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.400 I think we all went to high school and college 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.280 with a couple of guys who just bought a boat. Yeah, hilarious. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.040 It's loosely based on a whole bunch of different people 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.680 who I met. It's sort of an amalgam. Okay, sorry 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:26.040 for the listener, A combination of different people for simple 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.320 sports fans here, simple mind. Yeah, I don't know. I 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:33.520 don't know our demos. Well, you've got your own monogram 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.479 the Starbucks cup? Did? I just should not have done that, hello, 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:44.000 Olivia Decker. I mean it was on and it's leopard print. Well, 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.360 you can get any print you want. I'm I should 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.880 have waited for my coffee break when we wrap this up. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:54.040 But no, no, no, that's a beaut Wow. Yeah, I've 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.920 got a friend of mine sent me this is what 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.600 I'm having my coffee out of today. It's Robbed Nighter 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.920 as the guy going the caffeine maister the beanster. So 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.040 talk about being self referential. You have your name on 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.080 it and I have something from the show I work on, 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.240 so we're both pretty cool. Well I love it. Hey, cheers, cheers, cheers. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:18.280 What's in your cup? This is some locally sourced rumplements. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.040 Love it, you know which I take great pride and 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.720 I make it on the back porch here. Nice. Nice. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.959 I always wonder what you guys do out of season, 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.880 you know. Yeah, I got a whole distillery going. No, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.960 this is some coffee with some oat milk. I hate 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.800 to say it. Sorry, Wisconsin. No, I'm the same. What 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.760 about you? What are you drinking? Yeah? Black coffee splash 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.920 a boat. Hey yeah, okay, okay, well hang on, hang on, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.319 we gotta get back here because you said sorry, Wisconsin. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.560 You are a Chicago guy. Yes, but very close to 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.760 here is where you got married in Elkhart Lake, correct 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:56.920 and el car Lake, Wisconsin. Shout out to guess Sort's 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:01.840 Ice Creamery. Yes, okay, yeah, that's right. You've been so Yeah. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:03.440 My wife and I were living in l A when 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.280 we got engaged, and then we decided we wanted to 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.040 get married in Wisconsin because we both have so many 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.480 good memories growing up in Chicago. She grew up in 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.520 the house behind me in the Chicago suburbs. Yeah. Although 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.240 we didn't know each other when we were kids, we 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.400 met later in life. I was auditioning for a VELV 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.160 to cheese commercial. Did you get it? I did not, 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.280 but I got a wife out of the deal. So 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:31.680 they paired me up with a beautiful fellow actor named Caroline. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.000 And when she told me her last name and where 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.319 she was from, I was like, oh, yeah, I think 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.360 I know your mom and brother and she was like, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:43.600 well that's creepy, but hello you. So we started dating. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.480 But anyway, so then yeah, when we were living in 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.800 La La Land, the desert that it is, we were like, 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.800 let's let's do the whole like Wisconsin Lake Vibe for 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.120 our wedding, and so we just randomly selected Elkhart Lake. 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.000 But like I said, so you're in Sheboygan or close 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.240 to it, and we filed our marriage certificate and license 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:06.240 or whatever it is in So there's our that's pretty Wisconsin. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.000 It is pretty cool. And then we bought red Wing boots. 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.720 There's a red Wings, a red Wing store. They and 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.760 they'll want to be a sponsor of this podcast after this, 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.560 trust me, so sign them up. Okay, So you're from 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.080 Chicago and you got your start at Second City, which 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.560 is like a theater to s and now, but at 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.600 the same time you're working for the Chicago Bulls. Yes, 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.280 and also to back up, I mean I worked for 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.760 a Second City in some capacity. I did a cruise 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.280 ship gig for them for four months, which was two 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.480 weeks too long, and then I did corporate gigs for them, 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.400 and I taught. But I was never on the main 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.720 stage or anything. So usually when people say, oh, I'm 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.600 a Second City alum, it means they were on the 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.600 main stage, which is why I don't say I'm a 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.400 Second City of alum. But I did work for them, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.280 but I did stuff at all kinds of theaters in Chicago. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.320 I owed the annoyance every Zanies, every theater under the 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.400 sun that would allow this old bag of bones on 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.440 the stage. I sprinted up there and took them up 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.400 on the opera. But yes, so then at some point, 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:12.000 I think, in like oh nine ish, I saw Craigslist 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:16.920 ad one day poking around for talent gigs, as everybody 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.320 out there does, I'm sure, and there was a thing 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.800 that said like open call for Benny and the Elevators, 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.760 which is the Bulls Dunk team. Send us an email 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.720 telling us why you think you should be able to audition, 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:33.840 And so I sent an email to this random Craigslist 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.920 post saying like well, I'm a giant Bulls fan and 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.920 I can still shoot a tray bomb pretty well. Oh yeah, 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.200 I played rugby in college, so I don't mind having 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.520 my body take a huge beating, right, and I do improv, 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:49.920 so I don't mind crowds. And they were like great 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.200 swing on by. So I went to this open casting 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.160 call and then, you know, come to find out, the 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.320 person I was emailing was the guy who played Benny 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.320 the Bull himself no longer Benny the Bull, but he 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.000 was the most dedicated person in any profession that I've 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:08.000 ever seen. This guy worked his bull tail off. I 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.400 think he was psyched about the fact that I did improv, 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.280 so he was like, okay, cool, maybe we'll use you 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.880 in bits and stuff like that, which we did that 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.520 too over the years, and he taught me how to 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.960 acro duncan stuff. So yeah, it was the coolest side 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.560 hustle as they say, that I could have ever asked for. 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.200 So it's pretty cool. That is very cool. Yeah, And 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:27.960 just to wrap it up, since now we are actually 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.880 getting into sports, you're big Bears fan. Are you like 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.920 reveling in this Aaron Rodgers drama? Uh? Catch me up, Olivia? Okay, 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:37.960 catch me up on the drama. Is he going to 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.760 be a Bear? No? Is this what they're saying? Oh no, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.280 in the drama. In the fact, just his drama with 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.000 the Packers, I was like, wait, do not here's something today? 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.680 What's the deal? Okay, No, to catch you up. Training 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.560 camp starts July. No one knows if he's showing up. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.960 He's in a very public dispute with the team this 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:02.640 I've heard. They're kind of maintaining their stance. He's being 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.399 a bit of a diva. And the rumors are that 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:10.640 he's going to Denver Denver boo, if you know, you're 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.560 kind of catching up. Their roster is actually pretty stacked. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.879 He would be a great fit, but he's locked in 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.160 with the Packers. They're not going to trade him. They've 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.600 made that very known. I just thought, as a Bears fan, 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.120 maybe you would be like, this is awesome. No. See, 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.600 here's the thing though, Olivia. Even though I'm a Bears 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.480 fan and I know I'm gonna kiss off some people 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.760 out there, my third favorite team is the Packers, just 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.720 because you know, the aforementioned Wisconsin connection. So I'm not 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.239 necessarily happy that Rogers is, you know, being a bit 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.800 of a diva. But what's the what you know for 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.760 pretend pretend I don't know a thing about it. And 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.800 what is the source of this friction between them? It's 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.840 very under much his contract. So he's you know, older, 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.760 but he just you know, says he won regular season MVP. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.000 He's not going anywhere. He's peaking. He wanted a long, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.000 longer term deal. The Packers gave him, I forget how 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.639 many years, but a couple of too short. That's mostly it. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:11.240 He is commanding the type of attention and he wants 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.960 to have full say over who's in the front office, 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.119 who the coaches are all this. He's upset that they 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.520 hired a new coach without asking him his opinion all this. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.879 So it's very much a power struggle. And yeah, yeah, 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:29.639 so those are all about I'm married, just figured go 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.920 for the catskills coming Yeah, back to blue. But when 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.320 you said as a Bears fan or you, I was like, 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.000 wait a minute, is there did I did not see 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.280 a tweet today that Rogers is thinking about Okay, No, 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.639 he couldn't do that to us. I thought that he 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.400 was maybe leaving to become the full time host of Jeopardy. 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.240 Isn't that. Ye see year more on the show business side. Yeah, 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.680 he cantually angled that out there, but yeah, so hey, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.760 we'll get more into sports talk because we have NBA 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.640 Finals talk that begins this week. It begins Tuesday night. 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.320 We are so excited, Alex. We're so excited you're here. 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.080 I know you are a general sports fan, but I'm 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.440 going to totally catch you up on NBA Finals. General 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:13.119 sports fan here reporting Yes, go ahead, Olivia, catch me up, 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.400 Pretend I know nothing. I will tell you the finals 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.400 are weird this year. They are not sexy, but they 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:29.280 are historic. More on that. I'm not well. The NBA 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:33.840 Finals are upon us, and they are historic, albeit not 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.560 very star studded, not very sexy, not much to look at. 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.639 We've got small markets. So here's kind of the breakdown 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:42.840 for you, Alex, because I know you haven't been watching 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.040 every game. You watched casually, right, Oh yeah, yeah, you 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:51.639 know it as casual as casual Friday. Maybe go ahead. Actually, okay, 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.199 So the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks. The Suns 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:56.520 have never won at all. They haven't been to the 0:19:56.560 --> 0:20:00.720 finals since nine, the year I was born. But who's aragging. Hey, 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:03.720 they're the first NBA team to make the finals after 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:07.080 a ten year playoff drought too, So that's pretty incredible. 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.280 The Bucks haven't won at all since nineteen seventy one 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.159 in Milwaukee. Get this is the third smallest market in 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.720 the NBA. We're talking earlier. You kind of like Milwaukee 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.479 sports teams Wisconsin sports teams because of that fact, because 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.439 it's a small market. Do you think that makes this 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:27.520 playoff more interesting to me? It does. I love small 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.520 market sports. I like the and it's not to say 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:32.280 these are all my favorite teams, but I love the 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:36.040 fact that Buffalo, New York has a football team. Green Bay, 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.200 Wisconsin as a football team. Milwaukee, I mean, I don't 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.399 know where it ranks in like population in the United States, 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.720 but it's a small market. I love it that these 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:48.280 small towns have teams that they get behind. And I 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.040 think that small market towns get behind their teams even 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.520 harder than big market towns. And I say that even 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.840 as someone from Chicago. I'm gonna piss off some Chicagoans, 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.800 but I think Milwaukee ins and you know, Green Bay 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.520 in's and all that stuff. Get you know, Oh Claire, 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:06.679 Wisconsin should have its own n h L team for 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:08.920 all I care. I mean, I just I like small 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.720 markets teams. Well, I I kind of agree when like 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:14.920 the Calves are doing well, the Browns are doing well, 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.720 when Oklahoma is the thunder is doing well. Like these 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.520 small market teams. It's so cool when they show the 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:22.600 live view of like when the team's on the road 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.879 and they showed their hands. Oh my gosh, is that 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:27.080 cool to watch? They care and even like do you 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:29.840 ever see that ESPN thirty for thirty? Maybe we're not 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:32.600 supposed to say those words in here, but anyway, that 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.760 four Falls of Buffalo about when the Bills went to 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:39.760 the Super Bowl, right around the time you were coming 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.320 into this world. Yes, yes, the last time the Sons 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.480 went to the finals. But anyway, they went to four 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:47.640 super Bowls in a row, lost them all, and they 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:50.640 made a great documentary about it, and just about the 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:54.480 town rallying behind these guys and still like holding parades 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.040 from them even though they were basically runners up, which 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:00.119 no town does. And they were like crying and they 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.639 even brought like, you know that guy Scott Norwood, the 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:05.000 kicker who blew their first Super Bowl, He was like 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:08.080 hiding in the bed. Do you know this? It's been 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.360 a while, but yeah, oh my god, I weep every 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:12.480 time he was hiding in the back because he was 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.240 like embarrassed that he basically let an entire city down, 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:17.560 which I would be too. Yes, and then they just 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:20.320 started chanting his name until he came out to the front, 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.320 and then they just went wild for him, even though 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:25.879 he you know, screwed the pooch. He screwed the pooch. 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:27.679 I almost said, shot the bed. But would we have 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.240