Speaker 1: From the King of sports books comes the key sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by bet MGM. Here's your host, Olivia
Speaker 1: Harlan Decker. Welcome back to Unleashed by bet m VM.
Speaker 1: What a great week in sports. You know, this is
Speaker 1: kind of our last push of games being on TV
Speaker 1: because late July August it's so slow leading up to
Speaker 1: the regular season in the NFL. So we gotta soak
Speaker 1: this up. People. Let's savor this. We'll preview the Sun's
Speaker 1: Buck series in a bit. We'll bring in our betting
Speaker 1: expert Peter Andrew at the end. And when I say we,
Speaker 1: I mean myself and this week's co host. I am
Speaker 1: very excited to be joined by Saturday Night Lives Alex Moffatt.
Speaker 1: He was making me laugh earlier just as we kind
Speaker 1: of met on the phone. He's gonna make you all
Speaker 1: laugh on this episode, Alex. Welcome to Unleashed, Olivia. It's
Speaker 1: a pleasure. Hey, Gang, it's so exciting to have you
Speaker 1: on my friend. This is cool, This is a blast.
Speaker 1: So did I hear that right? Bet MGM slogan is
Speaker 1: what a week in sports? No, that's that's my slogan
Speaker 1: because you said, brought to you by bet MGM, what
Speaker 1: a week in sports, and then you went into the
Speaker 1: whole thing about enjoying these days of summer. So I
Speaker 1: can send that at the flagpole. We can try, but
Speaker 1: I believe our real slogan, our tagline is the king
Speaker 1: of sports books, the king of sports books. Okay, I
Speaker 1: better get that down. You know what, we'll we'll white
Speaker 1: board it is that what they say, white boarded where
Speaker 1: they like work on new stuff. I don't know. You're
Speaker 1: the professional here, you're the TV man. We're up to
Speaker 1: a great start, Olivia. I'm excited to be here. We're
Speaker 1: partying today. When you hear like Saturday Night Love, Alex Moffitt,
Speaker 1: do you get chills like you're in it still a
Speaker 1: little bit. I mean chills has taken it a little far,
Speaker 1: but I definitely I pinched myself and then I get
Speaker 1: the chills. Yeah, yeah, it's I'm still very tickled to
Speaker 1: death that I get to do this job. It was
Speaker 1: always the dream. I always kind of thought, well, how
Speaker 1: the heck would that ever happen? And then somehow it did,
Speaker 1: like a thunderbolt of good luck, lightning that old expression.
Speaker 1: I've been having a ball. I just finished my fifth season,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I still do get very excited when I
Speaker 1: hear that. So throughout this if you could do the
Speaker 1: whole preamble before my name, that'd be great. Every time
Speaker 1: anytime you address me, just say s N Hell's Alex
Speaker 1: Moffitt and all get real chilly. No it does. It
Speaker 1: sounds good live from Saturday Night. No, but really, when
Speaker 1: you had the COVID year we were just talking about that,
Speaker 1: you guys had to do it all from home. Was
Speaker 1: that as painful as I am? And it would be, yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much, depending on how painfully you're imagining it. He
Speaker 1: is probably right in that ballpark. Well, I saw you
Speaker 1: setting up your zoom in audio, so I imagine pretty painful. Yea.
Speaker 1: A tech guy, it was a director's nightmare. We would
Speaker 1: have the you know, we would sort of like zoom
Speaker 1: with the director, but also be like filming on the phone.
Speaker 1: My god, I mean it's going back to work this
Speaker 1: past fall for the actual season where we weren't doing
Speaker 1: it at home just felt even though everyone was wearing
Speaker 1: masks and it was like mid pandemic, it felt really
Speaker 1: nice to go back and know that I would not
Speaker 1: have to sit in front of my computer for three
Speaker 1: hours dropping files into a Google Drive, and that that
Speaker 1: was an entire department's job to take care of the
Speaker 1: tech side, not my forte. So yeah, but the SNL
Speaker 1: at homes, I mean, don't get me wrong too, by
Speaker 1: the way, to get to do that during a pandemic
Speaker 1: nothing but uncertainty in the world US and but sort
Speaker 1: of mayhem, chaos and like despair and a lot of
Speaker 1: like to actually have something to do was great. To
Speaker 1: have a job was even better. To have it be
Speaker 1: in comedy was even better. And to know that like
Speaker 1: it was maybe helping on some teeny tiny level with people.
Speaker 1: Just to have like something new to laugh at it
Speaker 1: was kind of in a way, sort of like an
Speaker 1: honor to get to be a part of that. So yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: But setting up my mic ain't my forte as you noticed, No, no, Well,
Speaker 1: and at the beginning of the year, and this would
Speaker 1: have been when you were back in studio, but you
Speaker 1: had your first child. I did, My wife did most part.
Speaker 1: But yes, we had we had our little girl in January.
Speaker 1: And actually so I started playing sitting President Joseph Robinett
Speaker 1: Biden this year in December and then in January literally
Speaker 1: on Inauguration day, our little gal came into the world.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so like the night before Inauguration day, and
Speaker 1: she was three and a half weeks early, like, she
Speaker 1: was not do for a while, and we were not
Speaker 1: expecting this. And my wife and I you know, we
Speaker 1: used to party pretty hardy, eat some you know, Turkish
Speaker 1: food around midnight, watched some Seinfeld around one that kind
Speaker 1: of thing, you know, yeah, real punk rock couple. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so we were doing that and then we're like laying
Speaker 1: down to watch some Seinfeld that literally like one thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning, and she heard a pop. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: and stood up and it was there was like literally
Speaker 1: a puddle on the floor like in the movies. And
Speaker 1: a lot of people think like, oh, because of the movies,
Speaker 1: everybody's water always breaks and that's how it happens. It's
Speaker 1: like ten percent of the time or something like that
Speaker 1: that the water actually breaks. So she she heard a
Speaker 1: gafluch and then I bet your wife loves you telling
Speaker 1: this story to everyone, but she does. She yeah, it's
Speaker 1: your favorite thing. And so we and we were also
Speaker 1: planning on doing like a home birth. Wow, I know.
Speaker 1: So we had had like had hired a doula, a
Speaker 1: midwife who was going to bring like an inflatable pool
Speaker 1: and everything. Am I getting too detailed in the story
Speaker 1: of my child? I mean I haven't had kids, and
Speaker 1: so maybe for me I kind of have like a
Speaker 1: squeamish feeling right now through all this. Sure, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: keep going. I'm sure our sports fans listeners love. I
Speaker 1: bet anybody tuning in too, bet MGM for like, what's
Speaker 1: the lying on the game tonight is gonna love this
Speaker 1: story about midwives. So she here's a pop, feels a
Speaker 1: good flush, yeah, and she's you know, soaked, and so
Speaker 1: we called the duel. I was like, all you guys,
Speaker 1: gotta go to the hospital and so like that through
Speaker 1: and and our baby was breached, which means upside down,
Speaker 1: not a big deal, but it just means it's going
Speaker 1: to be a C section. So we went to the hospital. Anyway,
Speaker 1: long story short, I don't need to give you the
Speaker 1: whole you know of it, but anyway, we get there
Speaker 1: and they can't do a c section immediately because we've
Speaker 1: just eaten, and so we just hang out there five
Speaker 1: hours and they were like, we can give you some
Speaker 1: pain meds. And my wife was like I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna actually just do this naturally as long as I can,
Speaker 1: so that I experienced childbirth so that I know what
Speaker 1: it's like for next time, which I know. So she
Speaker 1: was experiencing like fast and furious contractions. And as I'm
Speaker 1: saying all this, I am in my head going yes,
Speaker 1: the listener to the bet mgm unleashed, just going fast forward,
Speaker 1: fast forward, best forward. We're also we're sports and lifestyle,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what's more lifestyle than you know,
Speaker 1: DoLS bringing life into the world right, the whole thing. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean graphic graphic yep, but you know now everybody knows.
Speaker 1: So anyway, long story short, Yes, later that morning, my
Speaker 1: little gal was was born and life has not been
Speaker 1: the same. Baby Everett and you call it vy and
Speaker 1: we saw her before we started recording. She's precious. Thank you,
Speaker 1: So congratulations. I heard you telling Jimmy Fallon that life
Speaker 1: is mostly the same. You're just breastfeeding a little bit
Speaker 1: more than you used to exactly, yea, thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm doing it half the time and my wife does
Speaker 1: it the other half. That's so generous. It takes a team.
Speaker 1: You mentioned playing Joe Biden. You succeeded Jim Carey in
Speaker 1: that role. I mean, tons of people have now played
Speaker 1: Joe from back when he was vice president. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: what's the hardest part. What's the best part about playing
Speaker 1: our sitting president? Huh, that's a good question. The hardest part.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, like, it's not, you know, I think
Speaker 1: with Trump, for example, he's such a big character like
Speaker 1: in life and it so it's sort of like, oh week,
Speaker 1: not to say it's an easy impression, it's not. No,
Speaker 1: I think it is an easy impression. Everyone does it,
Speaker 1: So it's right, there's a lot there. Whereas like when
Speaker 1: I first got the call like about playing by and Now,
Speaker 1: I was like, great, cool, Wait what is this impression
Speaker 1: going to look like? And so I really did more
Speaker 1: research on him than I've done on just about anybody
Speaker 1: else I've done an impression of also, because like you know,
Speaker 1: it's a more high profile impression him being the pres
Speaker 1: and all. But yeah, I mean I was super pumped.
Speaker 1: I just for a little while I was like, well, jeez,
Speaker 1: I better figure this out because it's gonna look pretty
Speaker 1: bad if I can't get my little talents into this
Speaker 1: guy guy. So it took more research and work than
Speaker 1: I would like to say. But it's super fun too.
Speaker 1: He's got like there's there's a lot there once you
Speaker 1: kind of dig into, you know, to actually work on
Speaker 1: so little mannerisms, little mannerism. Nailed it. There's a icular
Speaker 1: thank you, there's a particular rhythm of his voice. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to get Yeah, exactly, give me a little yeah,
Speaker 1: give me a little uh olidia. Ye that was horrible actor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you played Eric. Can you give us a little Eric? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Basically it's simple as this. He just goes like and
Speaker 1: I'm Eric, uh yeah, without mikey Day there as he's
Speaker 1: just sort of a yelling toddler in the way that
Speaker 1: I play him, I realize. And again that's another one,
Speaker 1: you know, that's another one where actually come to think
Speaker 1: that I did tons of research to make sure it
Speaker 1: was a nuanced, detailed, rich impression reflecting the real man
Speaker 1: that is Eric Trump, which is a real man. That
Speaker 1: was a really good impression a real man. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was awesome. No, you're you're hilarious. I also want I
Speaker 1: watched more recently was a guy who just bought a boat.
Speaker 1: I love that character. I thank you know that character
Speaker 1: I feel like I went to high school with that character.
Speaker 1: I think we all went to high school and college
Speaker 1: with a couple of guys who just bought a boat. Yeah, hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's loosely based on a whole bunch of different people
Speaker 1: who I met. It's sort of an amalgam. Okay, sorry
Speaker 1: for the listener, A combination of different people for simple
Speaker 1: sports fans here, simple mind. Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know our demos. Well, you've got your own monogram
Speaker 1: the Starbucks cup? Did? I just should not have done that, hello,
Speaker 1: Olivia Decker. I mean it was on and it's leopard print. Well,
Speaker 1: you can get any print you want. I'm I should
Speaker 1: have waited for my coffee break when we wrap this up.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, that's a beaut Wow. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: got a friend of mine sent me this is what
Speaker 1: I'm having my coffee out of today. It's Robbed Nighter
Speaker 1: as the guy going the caffeine maister the beanster. So
Speaker 1: talk about being self referential. You have your name on
Speaker 1: it and I have something from the show I work on,
Speaker 1: so we're both pretty cool. Well I love it. Hey, cheers, cheers, cheers.
Speaker 1: What's in your cup? This is some locally sourced rumplements.
Speaker 1: Love it, you know which I take great pride and
Speaker 1: I make it on the back porch here. Nice. Nice.
Speaker 1: I always wonder what you guys do out of season,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, I got a whole distillery going. No,
Speaker 1: this is some coffee with some oat milk. I hate
Speaker 1: to say it. Sorry, Wisconsin. No, I'm the same. What
Speaker 1: about you? What are you drinking? Yeah? Black coffee splash
Speaker 1: a boat. Hey yeah, okay, okay, well hang on, hang on,
Speaker 1: we gotta get back here because you said sorry, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: You are a Chicago guy. Yes, but very close to
Speaker 1: here is where you got married in Elkhart Lake, correct
Speaker 1: and el car Lake, Wisconsin. Shout out to guess Sort's
Speaker 1: Ice Creamery. Yes, okay, yeah, that's right. You've been so Yeah.
Speaker 1: My wife and I were living in l A when
Speaker 1: we got engaged, and then we decided we wanted to
Speaker 1: get married in Wisconsin because we both have so many
Speaker 1: good memories growing up in Chicago. She grew up in
Speaker 1: the house behind me in the Chicago suburbs. Yeah. Although
Speaker 1: we didn't know each other when we were kids, we
Speaker 1: met later in life. I was auditioning for a VELV
Speaker 1: to cheese commercial. Did you get it? I did not,
Speaker 1: but I got a wife out of the deal. So
Speaker 1: they paired me up with a beautiful fellow actor named Caroline.
Speaker 1: And when she told me her last name and where
Speaker 1: she was from, I was like, oh, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I know your mom and brother and she was like,
Speaker 1: well that's creepy, but hello you. So we started dating.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so then yeah, when we were living in
Speaker 1: La La Land, the desert that it is, we were like,
Speaker 1: let's let's do the whole like Wisconsin Lake Vibe for
Speaker 1: our wedding, and so we just randomly selected Elkhart Lake.
Speaker 1: But like I said, so you're in Sheboygan or close
Speaker 1: to it, and we filed our marriage certificate and license
Speaker 1: or whatever it is in So there's our that's pretty Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: It is pretty cool. And then we bought red Wing boots.
Speaker 1: There's a red Wings, a red Wing store. They and
Speaker 1: they'll want to be a sponsor of this podcast after this,
Speaker 1: trust me, so sign them up. Okay, So you're from
Speaker 1: Chicago and you got your start at Second City, which
Speaker 1: is like a theater to s and now, but at
Speaker 1: the same time you're working for the Chicago Bulls. Yes,
Speaker 1: and also to back up, I mean I worked for
Speaker 1: a Second City in some capacity. I did a cruise
Speaker 1: ship gig for them for four months, which was two
Speaker 1: weeks too long, and then I did corporate gigs for them,
Speaker 1: and I taught. But I was never on the main
Speaker 1: stage or anything. So usually when people say, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: a Second City alum, it means they were on the
Speaker 1: main stage, which is why I don't say I'm a
Speaker 1: Second City of alum. But I did work for them,
Speaker 1: but I did stuff at all kinds of theaters in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I owed the annoyance every Zanies, every theater under the
Speaker 1: sun that would allow this old bag of bones on
Speaker 1: the stage. I sprinted up there and took them up
Speaker 1: on the opera. But yes, so then at some point,
Speaker 1: I think, in like oh nine ish, I saw Craigslist
Speaker 1: ad one day poking around for talent gigs, as everybody
Speaker 1: out there does, I'm sure, and there was a thing
Speaker 1: that said like open call for Benny and the Elevators,
Speaker 1: which is the Bulls Dunk team. Send us an email
Speaker 1: telling us why you think you should be able to audition,
Speaker 1: And so I sent an email to this random Craigslist
Speaker 1: post saying like well, I'm a giant Bulls fan and
Speaker 1: I can still shoot a tray bomb pretty well. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I played rugby in college, so I don't mind having
Speaker 1: my body take a huge beating, right, and I do improv,
Speaker 1: so I don't mind crowds. And they were like great
Speaker 1: swing on by. So I went to this open casting
Speaker 1: call and then, you know, come to find out, the
Speaker 1: person I was emailing was the guy who played Benny
Speaker 1: the Bull himself no longer Benny the Bull, but he
Speaker 1: was the most dedicated person in any profession that I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. This guy worked his bull tail off. I
Speaker 1: think he was psyched about the fact that I did improv,
Speaker 1: so he was like, okay, cool, maybe we'll use you
Speaker 1: in bits and stuff like that, which we did that
Speaker 1: too over the years, and he taught me how to
Speaker 1: acro duncan stuff. So yeah, it was the coolest side
Speaker 1: hustle as they say, that I could have ever asked for.
Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool. That is very cool. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: just to wrap it up, since now we are actually
Speaker 1: getting into sports, you're big Bears fan. Are you like
Speaker 1: reveling in this Aaron Rodgers drama? Uh? Catch me up, Olivia? Okay,
Speaker 1: catch me up on the drama. Is he going to
Speaker 1: be a Bear? No? Is this what they're saying? Oh no,
Speaker 1: in the drama. In the fact, just his drama with
Speaker 1: the Packers, I was like, wait, do not here's something today?
Speaker 1: What's the deal? Okay, No, to catch you up. Training
Speaker 1: camp starts July. No one knows if he's showing up.
Speaker 1: He's in a very public dispute with the team this
Speaker 1: I've heard. They're kind of maintaining their stance. He's being
Speaker 1: a bit of a diva. And the rumors are that
Speaker 1: he's going to Denver Denver boo, if you know, you're
Speaker 1: kind of catching up. Their roster is actually pretty stacked.
Speaker 1: He would be a great fit, but he's locked in
Speaker 1: with the Packers. They're not going to trade him. They've
Speaker 1: made that very known. I just thought, as a Bears fan,
Speaker 1: maybe you would be like, this is awesome. No. See,
Speaker 1: here's the thing though, Olivia. Even though I'm a Bears
Speaker 1: fan and I know I'm gonna kiss off some people
Speaker 1: out there, my third favorite team is the Packers, just
Speaker 1: because you know, the aforementioned Wisconsin connection. So I'm not
Speaker 1: necessarily happy that Rogers is, you know, being a bit
Speaker 1: of a diva. But what's the what you know for
Speaker 1: pretend pretend I don't know a thing about it. And
Speaker 1: what is the source of this friction between them? It's
Speaker 1: very under much his contract. So he's you know, older,
Speaker 1: but he just you know, says he won regular season MVP.
Speaker 1: He's not going anywhere. He's peaking. He wanted a long,
Speaker 1: longer term deal. The Packers gave him, I forget how
Speaker 1: many years, but a couple of too short. That's mostly it.
Speaker 1: He is commanding the type of attention and he wants
Speaker 1: to have full say over who's in the front office,
Speaker 1: who the coaches are all this. He's upset that they
Speaker 1: hired a new coach without asking him his opinion all this.
Speaker 1: So it's very much a power struggle. And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so those are all about I'm married, just figured go
Speaker 1: for the catskills coming Yeah, back to blue. But when
Speaker 1: you said as a Bears fan or you, I was like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, is there did I did not see
Speaker 1: a tweet today that Rogers is thinking about Okay, No,
Speaker 1: he couldn't do that to us. I thought that he
Speaker 1: was maybe leaving to become the full time host of Jeopardy.
Speaker 1: Isn't that. Ye see year more on the show business side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he cantually angled that out there, but yeah, so hey,
Speaker 1: we'll get more into sports talk because we have NBA
Speaker 1: Finals talk that begins this week. It begins Tuesday night.
Speaker 1: We are so excited, Alex. We're so excited you're here.
Speaker 1: I know you are a general sports fan, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to totally catch you up on NBA Finals. General
Speaker 1: sports fan here reporting Yes, go ahead, Olivia, catch me up,
Speaker 1: Pretend I know nothing. I will tell you the finals
Speaker 1: are weird this year. They are not sexy, but they
Speaker 1: are historic. More on that. I'm not well. The NBA
Speaker 1: Finals are upon us, and they are historic, albeit not
Speaker 1: very star studded, not very sexy, not much to look at.
Speaker 1: We've got small markets. So here's kind of the breakdown
Speaker 1: for you, Alex, because I know you haven't been watching
Speaker 1: every game. You watched casually, right, Oh yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know it as casual as casual Friday. Maybe go ahead. Actually, okay,
Speaker 1: So the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks. The Suns
Speaker 1: have never won at all. They haven't been to the
Speaker 1: finals since nine, the year I was born. But who's aragging. Hey,
Speaker 1: they're the first NBA team to make the finals after
Speaker 1: a ten year playoff drought too, So that's pretty incredible.
Speaker 1: The Bucks haven't won at all since nineteen seventy one
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. Get this is the third smallest market in
Speaker 1: the NBA. We're talking earlier. You kind of like Milwaukee
Speaker 1: sports teams Wisconsin sports teams because of that fact, because
Speaker 1: it's a small market. Do you think that makes this
Speaker 1: playoff more interesting to me? It does. I love small
Speaker 1: market sports. I like the and it's not to say
Speaker 1: these are all my favorite teams, but I love the
Speaker 1: fact that Buffalo, New York has a football team. Green Bay,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin as a football team. Milwaukee, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know where it ranks in like population in the United States,
Speaker 1: but it's a small market. I love it that these
Speaker 1: small towns have teams that they get behind. And I
Speaker 1: think that small market towns get behind their teams even
Speaker 1: harder than big market towns. And I say that even
Speaker 1: as someone from Chicago. I'm gonna piss off some Chicagoans,
Speaker 1: but I think Milwaukee ins and you know, Green Bay
Speaker 1: in's and all that stuff. Get you know, Oh Claire,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin should have its own n h L team for
Speaker 1: all I care. I mean, I just I like small
Speaker 1: markets teams. Well, I I kind of agree when like
Speaker 1: the Calves are doing well, the Browns are doing well,
Speaker 1: when Oklahoma is the thunder is doing well. Like these
Speaker 1: small market teams. It's so cool when they show the
Speaker 1: live view of like when the team's on the road
Speaker 1: and they showed their hands. Oh my gosh, is that
Speaker 1: cool to watch? They care and even like do you
Speaker 1: ever see that ESPN thirty for thirty? Maybe we're not
Speaker 1: supposed to say those words in here, but anyway, that
Speaker 1: four Falls of Buffalo about when the Bills went to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, right around the time you were coming
Speaker 1: into this world. Yes, yes, the last time the Sons
Speaker 1: went to the finals. But anyway, they went to four
Speaker 1: super Bowls in a row, lost them all, and they
Speaker 1: made a great documentary about it, and just about the
Speaker 1: town rallying behind these guys and still like holding parades
Speaker 1: from them even though they were basically runners up, which
Speaker 1: no town does. And they were like crying and they
Speaker 1: even brought like, you know that guy Scott Norwood, the
Speaker 1: kicker who blew their first Super Bowl, He was like
Speaker 1: hiding in the bed. Do you know this? It's been
Speaker 1: a while, but yeah, oh my god, I weep every
Speaker 1: time he was hiding in the back because he was
Speaker 1: like embarrassed that he basically let an entire city down,
Speaker 1: which I would be too. Yes, and then they just
Speaker 1: started chanting his name until he came out to the front,
Speaker 1: and then they just went wild for him, even though
Speaker 1: he you know, screwed the pooch. He screwed the pooch.
Speaker 1: I almost said, shot the bed. But would we have
Speaker 1: to beleeve that. I don't know how this podcast works
Speaker 1: well because chat isn't a real word. I don't think
Speaker 1: we do, right, Sorry, he shouted the but its still
Speaker 1: a part of the birthing story. Yes it is. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know that part is lesser known. But anyway, that
Speaker 1: gets me weepy every time thinking about these small market
Speaker 1: teams who get behind even a kicker who blows all
Speaker 1: their dreams apart. Yeah. No, it's cool because you live
Speaker 1: in New York City. You live, you know, you're one
Speaker 1: of those coasters, you know it. I feel like people
Speaker 1: on the coast now are like whatever, you know, there's
Speaker 1: not a l A or New York team in it,
Speaker 1: or you know, one of these franchise teams. So I'm
Speaker 1: glad to hear you say and need to have Midwestern roots,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad to hear you say that. You think
Speaker 1: it kind of adds to the dialogue. I like it.
Speaker 1: I think it does. And I mean Phoenix I could
Speaker 1: take or least because what a dump. But you know,
Speaker 1: if if Milwaukee can pull it out, that'd be pretty cool. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: the cool thing with Phoenix and the main storyline is
Speaker 1: Chris Paul. This is a legacy building run. He's in
Speaker 1: his sixteenth season and it's his first finals appearance. He's
Speaker 1: always been an all star caliber player. He's played for
Speaker 1: five teams. He knows he has a lot of unchecked
Speaker 1: boxes six if you count Wake Forest go ahead. Sorry,
Speaker 1: but he finished fifth in m v P voting in
Speaker 1: the regular season, but now he's the favorite to win
Speaker 1: finals MVP. I'm excited. Later we'll talk to Peter Andrew
Speaker 1: and kind of pick his brain on that. But I
Speaker 1: think what he's putting together for his tournament resume now
Speaker 1: is how much of a battle it's been. He played
Speaker 1: with partially torn ligament in his right hand in the
Speaker 1: series versus the Clippers, and luckily he's getting some needed
Speaker 1: rest right now. Before he takes on the Bucks Tuesday night.
Speaker 1: But he missed games in the last series due to
Speaker 1: COVID protocol. The series before that, it was a shoulder.
Speaker 1: So the fact that he's missed as few games as
Speaker 1: he can dealing with three different issues, and here he
Speaker 1: is in the running for Finals MVP, I think is incredible.
Speaker 1: It is pretty cool. And even though you know, I
Speaker 1: just took a big dump ru all over Phoenix, uh,
Speaker 1: I do love C three p O as everybody calls him,
Speaker 1: No CP three. I love the guy. He's one of
Speaker 1: the best like leaders in the history of sports. I
Speaker 1: think it would be pretty cool if he won Finals
Speaker 1: m v P that I could get behind Olivia. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like that as long as the Sun's lose. If
Speaker 1: he wins Finals MVP, then everyone's happy. Totally, totally. Well,
Speaker 1: let's go over to the Milwaukee side more in our neighborhood.
Speaker 1: You know, the Bucks are without two time m v
Speaker 1: P Jana Santa to Tumpo. They're screwed. They beat the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks in the last series that took six games,
Speaker 1: and they're going to the NBA Finals for the first
Speaker 1: time since nineteen seventy four. Oh, I love it. No,
Speaker 1: but you honest did he hyper extended his left knee.
Speaker 1: There's no structural damage. He's doubtful for game one. Again.
Speaker 1: We record this on Tuesday, so by the time this airs,
Speaker 1: we will know if you played. He's doing court work,
Speaker 1: he's walking through with the team, he's going to shoot
Speaker 1: around with the team. But you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I also wanted to talk about Peter Andrew with this.
Speaker 1: How Charles Barkley said that they're better without them, that
Speaker 1: it allows other players to shine, guys like Drew Holiday,
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton. You know, all these good offensive weapons that
Speaker 1: otherwise are just feeding Janice so much that now they're
Speaker 1: more of a team effort. It's not a bad point. Yeah. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, as much as I love you, honest, I
Speaker 1: mean talk about overrated as a player. Goodness, gracious this guy.
Speaker 1: You Oh yeah, they're better off without them, just barn one, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you agree. No, I'm kidding. I don't know what sir
Speaker 1: Charles was talking about. I think when you've got to
Speaker 1: time m v P. I think you're right, it does
Speaker 1: make other people step up. But maybe if they could
Speaker 1: sort of mild the two where everybody steps up and
Speaker 1: plays well, but also you've got Janice at Compo, the
Speaker 1: best player in the world playing. I think, thank you.
Speaker 1: I worked on it for two hours this morning, knowing
Speaker 1: i'd be saying it. Well, regardless it is, you know,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, it's not sexy again too. If
Speaker 1: Janice isn't playing, there's sexy Phoenix Lucky now talk about sexy. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The desert versus the America's dairy land. Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1: That's the tagline for the finals. That's how the NBA
Speaker 1: should build these finals, the desert versus the cows. Well,
Speaker 1: what's next? I tell you what, though, every NBA writer
Speaker 1: right now, every Beat writer covering this league is just
Speaker 1: putting together the Chris Paul resume, because that's kind of
Speaker 1: now the story here. It's this season has been truncated.
Speaker 1: They've been playing more games and less time, and there's
Speaker 1: been so many injuries, and now it's kind of coming
Speaker 1: down to this is what we got. Like, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people feel like either of these teams
Speaker 1: right now wouldn't beat you know, teams who lost a
Speaker 1: couple of rounds ago at their peak. So, like I said,
Speaker 1: historic for reasons of you know, they haven't made it since.
Speaker 1: But yeah, not. I feel bad for NBA writers this
Speaker 1: week because they're just you know, scraping the bottom of
Speaker 1: the barrel. They'll be alright, let's not well, they will
Speaker 1: be all right if they listen to our next segment
Speaker 1: with Peter Andrew, because he's going to guide us on
Speaker 1: where to place our bets the son. Yeah, he's coming
Speaker 1: on next and we can't wait. And we are joined
Speaker 1: now by Peter Andrew. He's our betting expert, he's our friend,
Speaker 1: he's newly engaged, he's got his golf clubs behind him.
Speaker 1: It's good to be Peter Andrew. Welcome back, Peter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not so good to be me after what I
Speaker 1: shot yesterday on the course. So it's not did you shoot, Peter?
Speaker 1: I shot a ninety nine Okay, okay, and baby yeah
Speaker 1: bad last half. That's what Alex was telling us earlier
Speaker 1: that he has become more of a golf fan recently.
Speaker 1: So have you been on the course yourself, Alex lately?
Speaker 1: Are you any good? You bet your ass? I'm good, yeah,
Speaker 1: no out. I did catch the bug a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, and I played. I was in Kansas City
Speaker 1: last weekend for a bunch of stand up shows, and
Speaker 1: I played it. A friend of a friend hooked up
Speaker 1: a couple of really nice rounds, so I played some
Speaker 1: good courses. Was it Jason Sadekis? It was neither of them?
Speaker 1: Think ten times more famous. No, I'm kidding. It was
Speaker 1: a friend from high school, whose friend from college from
Speaker 1: Notre Dame as a lawyer in town. B J Craig.
Speaker 1: Shout out to b J. You guys know who that is. Anyway,
Speaker 1: great lawyer for all your corporate law needs and the
Speaker 1: greater Kansas City. Yeah, well for b J for lining
Speaker 1: up these sweet ass golf rounds. I'm giving them some
Speaker 1: free you know, advertising love. So I played Mission Hills
Speaker 1: and Indian Hills and I, okay, hang on, I gotta
Speaker 1: stop you. I'm actually from Kansas City and that's where
Speaker 1: I lived during the winter. No way, So now we
Speaker 1: have two things. And my sister and her husband belonged
Speaker 1: to Mission Hills Country Club. No way, Yes the way,
Speaker 1: whoa have you played Mission Hills? I know this world's
Speaker 1: getting too small. I have not I golf, but usually
Speaker 1: just in the summer when we're up in Wisconsin, because
Speaker 1: I'm smart and I don't like temperatures over a hundred.
Speaker 1: I feel you it was pretty muggy and old Mission Hills.
Speaker 1: Although that is that Kansas sermons. It's right on state
Speaker 1: line on the Kansas side, but barely. Yep. Yes, because
Speaker 1: they used to have the clubhouse in Missouri because there
Speaker 1: was no booze allowed in Kansas. Have you had this? Yes? Yes? Cool? Hey,
Speaker 1: you know who else is a member there? Who? Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes is he? Yeah? Well, for freak's sake, Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes golf there frequently. Really, well, you know who?
Speaker 1: I almost I shanked my drive on seventeen and almost
Speaker 1: killed a guy who plays every day with George Brett.
Speaker 1: That's about as close as I came to. They're not
Speaker 1: George himself, but his friends think buddy, Okay, Well we've
Speaker 1: gotten way off topic here. I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: think this was all scripted. Go ahead, sorry, let me
Speaker 1: go ahead. So there's a big usc fight this weekend,
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor. Anyway, I shot an eighty seven to answer
Speaker 1: your question, and I don't mind telling you no one
Speaker 1: asked you said your original question. After he said a
Speaker 1: ninety nine, You said, did you golf recently? And what
Speaker 1: did you shoot? I thought, so I could be wrong anyway.
Speaker 1: In eight seven we'll roll the tape. Yeah, well, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Beat the pants off of old Peter Andre.
Speaker 1: You bells his last name with a U at the end.
Speaker 1: Go ahead. Oh, the senetic spelling is just Andrew. So yes,
Speaker 1: So Peter is going to tell us all about the
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor fight coming up. But Alex, you have played
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor on s n L, so we gotta bring
Speaker 1: in some kind of impression again here Sure he's put
Speaker 1: me on the spot for these in predictions. Good lord,
Speaker 1: I haven't done him in two years. All right, here
Speaker 1: we go again, my Peter, uh, fill fill the time
Speaker 1: while I get into character. Would you well, I got
Speaker 1: McGregor to win McGregor first round, first round knockout. So
Speaker 1: win in the first round. You're darn right, you've got
Speaker 1: me to win. How about that, Peter Andre you shouldn't
Speaker 1: have nine and now coming in with a right prediction.
Speaker 1: That's my guy, something like that. Yeah, I caught a
Speaker 1: little McGregor and I caught a little Lepricaun in there.
Speaker 1: But either way, it surprised it works for both. There
Speaker 1: we go, No, I love. You know, he's got his
Speaker 1: first initial on his hat thinking he's cool. Look at
Speaker 1: him thinking he's Ricky Fowler with his Puma hat. Go ahead, Sorry,
Speaker 1: how do I compete with that? You've got him to win?
Speaker 1: Go ahead? No, I really want to hear no, Poria
Speaker 1: McGregor three. Obviously he didn't look too hot last go
Speaker 1: around a couple of months ago. But he's got a
Speaker 1: bit more time to prep here, so I think he
Speaker 1: comes out a little more prepared. First round knocked out.
Speaker 1: We've seen it all by A puts the poor in
Speaker 1: POORI A anyway, go ahead, I do want to hear
Speaker 1: this now. I mean I guess that. How do I
Speaker 1: compete with that? I mean you kind of you're feeling
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Yeah, Pourier, I think pouri A outclass
Speaker 1: him a little bit last time. McGregor's coming training a
Speaker 1: little bit harder. I'm gonna pouri A myself a whiskey
Speaker 1: when I beat his hours into the ground. Although he
Speaker 1: sold the proper tool, I think so will he be
Speaker 1: born in that? Oh man, he probably made a fortune
Speaker 1: a bunch of of Irish frame did it? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he needed it, poor fellow. Well, hopefully with these three picks,
Speaker 1: I'll be making everybody fortune too. Not quite that proper
Speaker 1: twelve money, but there you go. I think it's favorable
Speaker 1: this week. He's even money to win. He was a
Speaker 1: heavy favorite last time around, disappointed a lot of people.
Speaker 1: First round knockout plus three fifty under two and a
Speaker 1: half rounds. I think minus s price. I like to
Speaker 1: be a quick fight. I think he's coming out, he's
Speaker 1: coming fire. And like I said, we've seen this a
Speaker 1: couple of times with him. It wouldn't shock anybody. And yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a good shot this weekend in Vegas. So
Speaker 1: I like where he's at. I think having that extra
Speaker 1: couple of months to train is going to do him
Speaker 1: a solid. Okay, he's gonna be a big star, that
Speaker 1: kind of McGregor. Now, Peter, are there any prop bets
Speaker 1: in UFC fighting? Is that something that occurs? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: there's a ton of prop bets. But I'll do you
Speaker 1: one better. So you can pick round by round fighting,
Speaker 1: you can pick by decision, by t KO, by submission, etcetera.
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Speaker 1: That's not our tagline, that's next year's marketing campaign. You're
Speaker 1: just you're ahead of the curve. Yeah, yeah, we'll call
Speaker 1: you to record it, Alex. You say at first, well,
Speaker 1: we got to mention that Thursday this airs, but Tuesday
Speaker 1: night the NBA Finals begin. Bucks Sons. Now we've shifted
Speaker 1: so much with m v P and now we actually
Speaker 1: have our two teams set Peter. We've talked so much
Speaker 1: about who we think finals m v P will be.
Speaker 1: Whoever it is has never won before. There's no finals
Speaker 1: MVP playing in this tournament. So, now, what are your favorites?
Speaker 1: Where should we put our money? Yeah, so there's two
Speaker 1: ways of thinking here. I think it's very binary, sons
Speaker 1: or books. I think a lot of people are leading sons.
Speaker 1: If you do lean sons, you'd have to imagine that
Speaker 1: CP three is is the favorite because he wants. This
Speaker 1: has been fifteen years of him waiting to get a
Speaker 1: chance at this. He's plus one fifty, so it's it's
Speaker 1: not and he's gonna have to wait sixteen Go ahead,
Speaker 1: there we go. Someone's on the bucks train. He is
Speaker 1: above and beyond the favorite because of what he's gonna
Speaker 1: do for the team. Plus one fifty. I think you
Speaker 1: have to take it. If you want to get a
Speaker 1: little crazy, I think you go for someone like DeAndre Ayton. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it was your dad a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago that said that that the offense really runs through him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He essentially indicates how well they're gonna play. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's plus two thousand, so worth a couple of bucks there.
Speaker 1: And then if you want to go on the other side,
Speaker 1: Janice is a tough bet because who knows what's happening
Speaker 1: with him. I know he's likely out for tonight because
Speaker 1: he come back for game too. So I think you
Speaker 1: have to go to Middleton route plus five hundreds of
Speaker 1: still pretty good chance there. Middleton so slept on he
Speaker 1: I feel like he gets no credit. He'll have a
Speaker 1: great game and people are surprised, you know it's yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of like that at plus Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think he gets the short end of the stick sometimes
Speaker 1: because he's a streaky shooter at times, and when he's
Speaker 1: misses a couple he's getting chirpped that. But he's a
Speaker 1: great player. I mean, he's a great two way player.
Speaker 1: And then the other one. I kind of look at
Speaker 1: brook Lopez. If he catches fire and they win a
Speaker 1: couple of games plus six, throw ten bucks on him.
Speaker 1: If you like the bucks, throw ten bucks and see
Speaker 1: what happens. But but I'm leaning the Sun's route. I
Speaker 1: think it's it's got to be CP three. Did you
Speaker 1: see the other day Charles Barkley said he thinks the
Speaker 1: best thing to happen to Milwaukee was losing you honestly,
Speaker 1: no comment. If Sir Charles said it, then it's the gospel.
Speaker 1: It's my opinion. Yeah right, And he's Sir Charles is
Speaker 1: busy today he's broadcasting the match with Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: that whole thing. Are there any bit MGM bets on that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So Rogers Bryson are the favorite. I think they moved
Speaker 1: to minus one eight or minus one seventy today. We'll
Speaker 1: actually have a ton of live betting so whole by
Speaker 1: whole hitting green. So we have a couple of props,
Speaker 1: like all four players hit the green on a part three,
Speaker 1: but certainly you'll be able to go through each of
Speaker 1: the eighteen holes and with everybody as the as the
Speaker 1: round goes on. So really exciting. I saw Rogers doing
Speaker 1: a club fitting with Tayler made yesterday video and he
Speaker 1: was piping the ball, So I think that's where my
Speaker 1: money is going with Bryson and Rogers. Do you good golfer? Rogers?
Speaker 1: What's his handicap? Yeah, he was hitting the ball three fifteen,
Speaker 1: so I'm guessing he's a five or less handicap. They
Speaker 1: were doing a club fitting and he looked unbelievable. So
Speaker 1: he's really been hitting the weights in preparation for the match.
Speaker 1: You could say, yeah, well he's not reporting to camp
Speaker 1: for the Packers, so he's got to do something right.
Speaker 1: We already talked about this, Peter, and we're a little
Speaker 1: upset about it. One of us is more upset about it.
Speaker 1: One of us just found out about it. Hey, moving
Speaker 1: over to another sports now I've heard it. Don't make
Speaker 1: needs down like a total clown. I've heard of it.
Speaker 1: I just I wanted to ask you to explain it
Speaker 1: for our listener at home who doesn't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: You're busy, breastfeeding, You're busy. It's there's a lot going
Speaker 1: on going on. Wimbledon is going on right now across
Speaker 1: the pond, and it's really cool because two time defending
Speaker 1: Wimbledon champ Novak Djokovic reached his fiftie Grand Slam quarterfinal
Speaker 1: and Roger Federer is now the oldest Wimbledon quarterfinalist in
Speaker 1: the Open era. So it's so cool to watch these
Speaker 1: two big names still competing at such a high level
Speaker 1: when so many people have taken on. I know, Federer
Speaker 1: just turned fifty five years old today. Congrat a big
Speaker 1: happy birthday to Roger Federer, the Swiss Cheese man, Swiss Cheese.
Speaker 1: I love it. It's just incredible watching the US to
Speaker 1: compete and just having such big names in it. Though.
Speaker 1: But Peter, what are some of the lines going forward
Speaker 1: in Wimbledon? Yeah, so it seems like neither of them
Speaker 1: have obviously lost a step more relevant for federal or given.
Speaker 1: I think he's thirty nine, which is close to but
Speaker 1: I actually like Mateo beartteeny to beat him in the Samis,
Speaker 1: so I think again, where in my Italy shirt. Italy's
Speaker 1: playing in two hours so you know me, Oh you're
Speaker 1: from that part of Jersey. I see, Okay, go ahead,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I new was gonna get it at some point,
Speaker 1: bet teeny. I think Djokovic cruises his way to the final.
Speaker 1: I think you get both of them meeting the finals
Speaker 1: plus one sixty five teens actually only played better twice.
Speaker 1: They would have played in the French Open, but Roger
Speaker 1: had to withdraw, so that would have been nice if
Speaker 1: they got to meet again here. But I think he's
Speaker 1: just gonna help Boss and I think younger. They're both
Speaker 1: crafty in their own right. But I think he's just
Speaker 1: got a small ledge. He's been playing great. I think
Speaker 1: he's only lost one set all of Wimbledon so far
Speaker 1: through four or five matches. So I'm just picking him
Speaker 1: to just keep with the momentum and continue being consistent,
Speaker 1: and I think you'll see no back in the finals. Okay. Well,
Speaker 1: Peter Andrew, thank you as always for all of your expertise. Alex,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for your McGregor impression, especially that
Speaker 1: was solid gold. And there's so much going on this weekend.
Speaker 1: It's going to be fun to watch Good times. Peter,
Speaker 1: You're the best. Thank you, Peter, Thank you guys. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: I hope you guys had as much fun with that
Speaker 1: one as I did. Alex Moffatt was hilarious. You can
Speaker 1: catch him on s n now when their season resumes.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening another week. Thanks so much
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