WEBVTT - Greatest Sports Cities with Michael Joyce 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:10.559 Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio. Hello, 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.440 and welcome to another episode of The Greatest. I am 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:21.040 Megan Gaily, and I'm joined by my husband and co host. Um. 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.520 We're currently sharing a microphone now because we're doing an 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.000 in person recording with a very special guests who'll bring 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.480 on in just a moment. But when you said welcome 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.560 to the Greatest, I was like, that's not the name 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.040 of the show, because I was thinking you were saying 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.800 welcome to the Bubble, because I watch you record the 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.159 Bubble every week. But um, but yeah, that's all I 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.199 wanted to say. I'm C J Toldano, and this is 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:46.320 a very fun episode. Oh I don't like this already. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.159 We're sharing a mic back and forth, even though our 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:53.040 guest who lives eight minutes away, so I have mikes. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.800 There we go. I hope you caught C Digo. No. Um, 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:03.600 it's just really hard not to interrupt, and I know 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:07.360 that that's something that I need to work on. So 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.920 I guess this episode not only will it be informative, 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:18.920 it'll also be a chance to watch me not interrupt people. Hope. 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:23.039 Boy Um, our guest, very dear friend just launched his 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:30.080 new podcast doing my best. Okay, great, Um, dear friend 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.880 originally from Cleveland, I know that's going to come up 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:38.360 by way of Chicago and New York. Give it up 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:43.399 for Mike Joyce. Hello, hello Michael. Also, I don't want 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.960 to miss a credit. You co produce a very fun 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.600 stand up show. When that existed with me, we were 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.920 every Thursday night. Yeah, me, you and Megan go way back. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.520 We started comedy together in Chicago. What what year was this? 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:03.480 Two thousand, two thousand and I'm trying. I moved there 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.920 in two thousand and nine, okay, a little before you. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.320 I mean such good friends that when you and your 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.239 wife moved from Chicago to New York, you gave me 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:19.640 your open mic and we threw you going away party 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.160 where we said that you and your wife were ore 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:27.519 twin Towers and that we would never forget you. Um. Well, 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.440 I'm just see you can't say you can't go, Megan, no, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.400 because I have the mic right now. It's almost like 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:41.080 we're in I've never been to marriage counseling despite Michael, Michael, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:42.960 thank you for being here. You guys are missing so 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.400 many I rolls like. It's too bad this is a 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:51.480 podcast format because I just love doing rolls. But Michael, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.799 so you are a father, you are a two very 0:02:55.840 --> 0:03:01.600 beautiful children, a lovely wife, beautiful wife, and I got 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:07.600 the whole. We got to take offense. So yeah, but 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.560 this is a sports podcast, so I do want to 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.720 just like I want to align the audience with where 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:19.720 your allegiance stands. That would be all things Cleveland sports. Um, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.040 I am sort of a psychopath when it comes to that. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:27.120 I would I would put myself on Megan Gaily Indiana, 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.720 I put you, Um, I would put you maybe over 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:35.520 me Wo's that's an honor. But I'm also kind of scared. 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.040 I mean, do you think this is a phenomenon that's 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.520 kind of like specific Cleveland in some ways? Though I 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.920 don't know any passive Cleveland fans. No, I don't either. 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.480 We are We're a strange breed. We truly live and 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.480 die by it. And I try to get excited for 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.200 other sports, but but nothing like I can't get in 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.320 the hockey because there's no Cleveland team. It's it's there's 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.520 something that's broken in my brain. But um, I don't know. 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.880 I mean, yeah, because most of my friends growing up Cleveland, 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.440 like for a lot of our friends a lot of 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:15.720 Cleveland fans, and it almost is I guess, uh, Stockholm 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.279 syndrome or just like the more they lose, the more 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.320 you guys love them and believe in them. Yeah, it's fatalism. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.520 You know. The Browns are five and two right now, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.760 and Cleveland fans don't know how to act. In fact, 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.200 they're upset that because we lost two games kind of badly, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.920 but they're like they're angry, and I'm just I feel 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.279 like it's the last two years of Lebron. It's like, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.000 can we just enjoy this, like it's not gonna last forever? 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.880 Remember how terrible it was? So you I mean, and 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.840 and that's sort of like an interesting fan thing where 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.760 like I wonder, like next year, if the Jets are 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.920 five and two at this point, are their fans gonna 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.360 be like, why do we lose those two games? Like 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.480 do you? It's almost as though, like psychologically we're not 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.679 able to be like this is great because you still 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:05.320 want more. You want to be seven, to know even 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.000 though you've been oh and seven many many times. I 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.200 think nothing matters to us until the Browns win a 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:15.680 championship and the Indians win a championship. Um for for myself, 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.120 I think Lebron and Seen lifted that weight off my shoulders, 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.479 and I'm no longer in the Cleveland is now the 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.040 city of champions, and that's how I like to approach 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:29.080 my sports now. Um, but that's not I find I'm 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.960 in the minority. I I text with all my Cleveland 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.320 friends and they're pretty miserable right now. And I just 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.360 don't understand what I mean O b J went down. 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.200 I was going to ask about so od I mean, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.360 so what I want to first say, I saw that firsthand, 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.560 and we had a text thread with our friends Zack 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.880 also Cleveland guy, and you were a pretty celebratory I 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:51.520 was like, ce, like I thought, I was, you know, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.800 you inviting you guys to glow, to celebrate a little bit, 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:57.600 and you did a little bit. But then our friends 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.000 Zack was just like, no, this is the worst team 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.039 I've ever watched, the worst Brown Sees. It's not. It's 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.119 by far one of the best teams we've ever watched 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.440 since he's he was four years old. So I don't 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.159 want to hear it. Zach, how you're listening? But what 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.599 is that it is? You know? I don't know. It's 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.840 some it's some sort of fatalism. Maybe we enjoy being 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:22.359 losers more than we enjoy being winners. It is it 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.480 was happening with Lebron. Like at the last year of Lebron, 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.800 there were people on sports radio who would be like, 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.680 let's just trade Lebron and get what? And I'm like, 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.400 are you kidding me? And I soak up every second 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.960 of this because he's the greatest ever to do it 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:40.279 and I want to enjoy myself. So would anyone fall 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.120 for that? Would anyone fall for trading for Lebron with 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:48.080 a one year left? I guess it's Lakers, Yeah, the Lakers. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.760 But there was intention. Yeah, it just seems like that 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.640 when it was not in cleaning. Yeah, he probably will. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.440 It seems like all those baby Lakers make their way 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.800 through there. What's what's the like club and Street, sixth Street, 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.720 he'd be at Liquid or whatever. I feel like as 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:10.800 as the King of Cleveland would be amazing. Um. This 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.880 kind of brings us to our topic today, which is 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.840 greatest sports cities. C J and I were having a 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:22.240 bit of a discussion about this before you got here, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.760 and just sort of like what we were using as 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:32.600 our criteria. My criteria sort of ended up being events 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:40.280 that that city can offer overall vibe, sensitivity to social issue. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.960 I mean, there are there are some cities that I 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.800 was like, listen, you're not on the list anymore. Okay, 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.520 there's been no I'm saying for my list. There's been 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:53.680 enough UH players on home teams and opposing teams that 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.160 have been like I got called this name there so 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.960 many times that it's like, I do think that that 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.000 you don't get to be on the list. Then if 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:06.880 that's something that's a habitual issue, I mean, um so, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.760 I mean and you hear that across the board, you 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.440 hear that hockey, I think it's harder to hear. And 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.120 there's not a lot of black NHL players even though 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.680 there I think there's gonna be a lot more. But 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.680 like in when football probably less too. But in in 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.240 basketball and baseball you hear from players that Boston. It's 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:27.600 just I mean, I think it's part of the reason 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:31.800 Mookie is not there anymore. And so that does end 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.360 up being an issue for me. If you if you're 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.880 not nice to your own players, then I don't think 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:40.439 you're a great sports town. I would agree with that criteria. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.439 I think I took it from more of a like 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:47.320 who's got the best fans kind of and yeah, because 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.360 if you're looking from sheer championship volume, that's that doesn't 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.200 impress me at all because that just that just means 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:59.319 you have yeah s Meigan's going to say the joke 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.959 into the micro phone, Shanaia Twain, baby, that don't impress 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.000 you much. Now you don't get it back. I was 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.640 once talking to a Boston guy in the airport in 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.680 and he's like and we're just like talking sports, and 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.280 he's like, yeah, I'm actually rooting for the Calves. I'm like, oh, yeah, why, 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:19.360 he's like Kevin Love's He's like a good white players 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:24.080 hitting me makes sense? Get out mookie well. And I 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:28.679 would just like to say the reason that fans is 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.880 fans can be something that takes away from you in 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:32.600 my criteria, but it doesn't really add you. I mean, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.000 sports fans are bad. We're stupid. Were and I'm saying 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:41.720 this is me. I'm stupid, I'm emotional. I don't I'm 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.840 not fact based. It's all sort of like how do 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.400 I feel and what did my dad tell me? You know, Like, 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.480 so it's not you can't even like sports fans are 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:56.040 so bad and so fickle that they don't even get 0:09:56.080 --> 0:10:01.280 a voice in my domin in my nominees. Well we 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.160 can get up. I just put Michael. I know you said, 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.160 that's how you're define define it how you want to 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.960 define it. Don't let you know. We're gonna have different 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.840 several different reasons, whether it's debate events. Yeah, this is 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.960 what the show is, a spirited debate where audience members, 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:23.600 they say, Megan yells at me. Too much spirited debate, spirited. Yeah, 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.560 So okay, what are we? How are we on time? Okay? 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.640 So temper so well, yeah, let's just go right into it. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.319 How it works. We're gonna have three picks each descending orders. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.280 Still haven't figured out if it's descending or sending, but 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.600 you're gonna do your third pick, and they we're all 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.040 gonna end on our greatest number one pick. So why 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.120 don't you kick us off with your number three pick 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:44.400 for greatest sports city? Okay? Um, well, clearly like New 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:49.600 York Boston, they're all out because they're they're terrible. Yeah. Well, okay, 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.120 did you see how many people wore Mets hats who 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.280 were formerly Yankees fans when the Mets went to the 0:10:54.280 --> 0:11:00.040 World Series. I don't respect that. Uh. I actually to 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.080 respect White Sox fans because they've they've they ride hard 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.520 well when they should have been Cubs fans, but they aren't. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:12.719 But yeah, Boston racism. Also, they pretend like there's some 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.679 oppressed sports team, but they've won so many in the 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.560 last twenty years. It's like that it's over. You guys 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:24.200 are just you know, New York Yankees with like worse accents. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.800 I do like Fever Pitch and The Town, which both 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.640 have iconic scenes at fent so I will say that 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.520 that's true. Was a Fever Pitch, the one with Jimmy Fallon, Yeah, 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.560 where they were like were losers, were losers and then 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.440 they won and then they're like we got to reshoot 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.680 the end of the movie. He's like, yeah, I remember, 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.960 what a what an opportune time. It's almost like, why 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.240 didn't Jimmy have a movie career after the Red Sox 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:52.200 one while making a Red Sox movie. Well, I think 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.920 Jimmy is okay. I don't know if I think he's okay. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.440 I think he likes this gig. We love you, Jimmy. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:02.320 Do you know the family at me oh wow, wow, Okay, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.439 now give us your number, So number three, I am 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.800 gonna can I go. I kind of want to give 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:14.520 it to you can do whatever you want. Minnesota. I'm sorry, 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:23.959 well then my apologies, but like Minnesota Vikings, you know, yeah, Minneapolis. Um, 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:25.920 and I kind of want to lump in Green Bay 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:31.360 with that because they tailgate very hard when it's cold. 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.640 I'm just very impressed with how much they go out 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.000 in the cold. The shirts are off. I mean, I'll 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:40.559 give like Chicago honorable mentions for the shirts fat men 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:45.400 in the cold. Um, So I highly respect that. I 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.080 feel like you're Joe Biden right now. You're like, I 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:55.480 love Minnesota love. It's like bringing home, not home. Um. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.719 I fully agree and co signed on this. I mean, 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.800 Peckers fans own their teeth and that's really cool, very amazing. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.040 And the Twins they always have good attendance, no matter 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.079 how bad the team is or how good they are. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.480 They always sell out even when it's cold. Like no 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.280 one goes to Cleveland games in in the spring because 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.600 it's freezing, but like people show up for Twins games. 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.559 So I have a lot of respect for that fan base. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.599 They like jump into ice cold water. It's it's a 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.760 lot of weather based things. But but I I do 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.920 believe there aren't any fair weather fans up there, and 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.800 they're just there. There's no fair weather because there's no 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:35.200 good weather. No. Yeah, Megan and I went to well, 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.199 we went there for the Super Bowl Minneapolis, spent a 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.560 week there and we went to a Timberwolves game where 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:45.440 a child ran away and Megan, yeah, assaulted. What it 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.360 was like? This was this was a toddler was like 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.240 running around Is it the target center? I knew it was. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.280 He's like running around the charge. I mean he's too 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.400 he had a diaper on, like this is like a 0:13:56.440 --> 0:14:04.640 baby toddler, okay, still in a diaper, and he's fully 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.880 like I'm like looking around at people being like is 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.440 he and no one is coming for him? And so 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.960 I start he's just running but he got a little 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.199 short baby legs, so I just start following him. And 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:21.160 now we're like eight sections away from where we started. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.200 I mean we're a quarter away around the massive stadium. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.720 So I'm like they're not coming, and so I go up. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:31.720 I'm like hi, and he hits me and then I'm 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.560 like are you okay? And then he kicked me, and 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.480 then another you know, white lady do good or she's 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.000 like what's going on over here? And we're both like 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.840 trying to find like get a security guard. At one 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.640 point he pushed open the door to the outside and 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:51.040 was like leaving, and then some fucking idiot barreled up. 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:55.640 A man, the massive man came up, where have you been? 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.280 And just took him by the hand and walked away. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.080 But the man, I'm like, where did you comfret? We were? 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.520 We were sitting behind the backboard, and now we are 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.640 behind the bench like we've we've traveled around the stadium. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.360 And I think the kid was just so bad. They 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.480 weren't They didn't really want him back. Maybe it was 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.880 like that Bugs Bunny cartoon where it's actually an old 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.080 man dresses a baby who robs banks. Oh yeah, maybe 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.800 was he smoking a cigar? Yeah he was. He almost 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.720 had teeth that looked like they had been ruined by nicotine, 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.840 like his kids looked like he lived hard, alright, That's 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.240 why when he hit me, I was like, the fun 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.280 I don't even I don't know if you have your shots. 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.520 I don't know if you're gonna bite me, like you 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.720 seem like they dragged you out of the damn wilderness. 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.560 And this is some sort of make a wish. But 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.480 just for a little billy bob kids to come and 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:47.480 watching basketball, Oh my god. Not a plus for Milwaukee. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.160 Megan's doing time and between the picks. Um. No, I 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.560 did want to add to that. Lombardi leap is maybe 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.400 the most like I feel like when people do that 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.960 in other stadiums, they still called the Lombardi leap. Right, 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.760 It's like such, it's so Lambeau lambe leap. Sorry, why 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.200 am I saying why did you let me say that 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:10.120 for so many times? Lambeau? Yeah, my bad, the Lambo leap? Um. 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.760 But yeah, it's like it's so iconic. Um. And then 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:19.080 snow snow like Brett Farve and he's not a great person, 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:23.680 but he's Rogers who person. I'm not gonna say anything 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.560 about Aaron Rodgers. I'm just gonna give um Michael more evidence. 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:32.120 I also think college sports factor into this, and they 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.320 are oh my god, you get a Wisconsin person saying 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.240 go Badgers. They love it. They love the Gophers up there. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.000 I mean they ride really hard. My brother lives in Madison, 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.240 and it's like that's a great town. They really they 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.120 do sports nice up there. I think that's a good 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.040 and two states we really need to get back. Okay, 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.600 come on, blue baby. Alright. So for my number three pick, 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.520 I don't give a funk what anybody says. I'm picking 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.880 Indianapolis and here we go. They host said a super Bowl. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.120 For you to even be on the list of cities 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.720 to host a super Bowl is a really really big deal. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:11.080 They have the Pacers, the Colts. They also host the 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:15.080 largest sporting event in the world every single year. I 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.920 don't really care about it that much, but two people 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.480 come to Indianapolis every year to see a race car thingy, 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.239 a race car race. Can you say that? Um? And 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:28.960 I think that that's a huge deal. And sports college wise, 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.320 we've got Butler in the city. You've got Purdue an 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.080 hour away, You've got i You an hour away. I 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.520 mean the Notre Dame isn't two hours away. You are 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.359 kind of in like Big ten Heaven there. People ride 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.800 really really hard for those teams. The Final Four comes 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.000 to Indianapolis every like third year. It's the n C 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:53.600 Double A headquarters. It's the home of basketball. I just 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.800 I think any day in in the if you want 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.520 to see a sporting event that's like cool and fun 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.600 and will be in a venue that is unique. You 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:07.600 have that possibility. Now. I will also say there is 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.160 gonna kind of a time when these small markets are 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.320 going to have to appeal to athletes, and the way 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.960 to do it is not by saying, please shut up, 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.120 we don't care about your political views. And I see 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.040 a lot of those comments, and it's like, if you 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.280 want Victor Ladipot to stay in Indianapolis, you need to 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.480 be nicer to Victor Oladipot. Like that's just kind of 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.879 common sense. And if we want to have any black 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.040 athletes at all in any of these shitty cities, they've 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.639 got to start fucking acting nicer to them. So your 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.639 number three pick, but your number one thing to ask 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:43.440 them is to not be racist. I'm gonna say that 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.679 to every single city that's on my list, because every 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.880 single city that's on my list has racist people as 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.560 sports fans that are really loud and really annoying and 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.360 really hateful and dragged down the rest of the city. Yeah, 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:59.160 I think that's a problem in the entire world. Um 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:03.359 for his sports, it's yeah, and and even in like 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.120 you know, soccer and European soccer. There's some horrible things. 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.199 I have said a single thing, but but I agree. 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:14.120 Pacers are always good, cults are always good, like they're 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.880 good sports, and you're right people from Indiana. I love 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.560 college sports. I have mad respect they love high school sports. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.960 Is crazy? What was like, Oh, I was just gonna say, 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.320 my other two cities are in blue states, and this 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.680 is my This is a blue city in a red state. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.359 And I do think, like, as fans, you've got to 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:37.080 start being more conscious of how the people are just 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.080 being treated. These are these are not entities, these are 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.840 human beings and you have to be good to them 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.320 on a human being level for them to want to 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.280 stay in any of these cities. Yeah, it's no longer 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:54.359 we own you. And that just started. I mean it 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.560 was probably with with the letter Dan Gilbert wrote yes, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.800 and people are like, oh, thank God. And I've heard 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.600 rumors that Lebron and his crew want to buy the 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.520 Calves and I pray for that because not only for Lebron, 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:11.119 but for players to end, like you know, still the 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:15.200 prime of their career to like be able to buy 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:17.960 the team, like yes, they made do the money in 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.800 the first place, like like the Calves are as big 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:25.959 as an organization operating organization because of Lebron, Like, so 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.639 you should have every opportunity to buy that when you 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.000 know when he has the money. When he left, he 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:35.680 not only like the dollar amount that the franchise, uh 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.200 like was valued at dry I can't remember the exact number, 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.920 but it was, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars. 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.800 And not only that, it was like the income of 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:50.159 the city, like it is in incalculable because we have 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.320 proof because Lebron left and then came back, Like there 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.960 are numbers that show, like this, Lebron is worth so 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.280 much money to the greater Cleveland area. It was he 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:05.119 was insane. Yeah, alright, my third pick um, I was 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:07.680 having trouble where to put this. Uh it might be 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.720 the wrong order, but I'm gonna say, Los Angeles, why 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:14.520 do you say that way? I'm saying that way because 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:17.480 I we live here. I love the sports here. L 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:21.360 A is notoriously a bad sports town. Yeah, I mean 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:26.280 my entry point is basketball. I think it's like, it's basketball, 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:30.360 it's baseball, It's okay, it's the Lakers. And I will 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:32.360 say nice. I'm not gonna say that many nice things 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:34.439 with Lakers. We all know why. You know, it's a 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:38.439 historic franchise, seventeen championships. Um, the best basketball team in 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:42.840 the city. Uh, but the Dodgers to despite the Someone 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:46.920 recommended a book and some some reading about how Dodgers 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:50.560 Stadium is h was bad for the Echo Park community, 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:54.440 and yeah, absolutely bad. Um. But you know, I think 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.520 there are a lot of transplants come here from you know, 0:21:57.600 --> 0:21:59.960 these these other cities that we're talking about, and they 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:05.520 are able to experience sports, like coming from Erie, Pennsylvania 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:08.520 and living here, like, I love that I can go 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:11.760 to any major sporting event and for the most part, 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:14.960 they've been pretty good. Football, Like I saw the greatest 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.000 football game NFL game of like the last ten years, 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.960 that Kansas City Rams game, and it was in the Colosseum, 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:25.080 not a great pro football stadium, but incredible and like 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:28.479 the vibes of it was kind of like an even split. 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.439 It was like half Rams fans, which maybe every Rams 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:34.639 fan to ever exist l a Rams fan in the Chiefs, 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:36.760 which a lot of transplants from Kansas City. It was 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.880 awesome also to a lot of my friends who liked 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:44.040 the Clippers, who weren't basketball fans came here and are 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.560 now diehard basketball fans because the Clippers games were affordable 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:50.240 and they have some got season tickets. Some just went 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.960 more often, and that team has had some historic lineups. 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:58.040 Lob City, this current one, and also the Olympics. Uh, 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:01.439 the Olympics. We were supposed to have the second it 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:04.960 was it was it the second Yeah, was supposed to 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:08.000 be Oh wait, that's yeah, and then the eighties is 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:12.320 that when the last one was yeah? So yeah. Most 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.199 athletes live here in the off season because it's a 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:18.760 mixture of like, you know, the weather is nice, the 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:23.439 top like trainers and doctors are out here. It's just 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:25.959 it's yeah. I mean I think every player is like, 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:27.520