Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio
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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, the most formal of all introductions for the Greatest,
Speaker 1: because we're trying to fancy it up a little bit.
Speaker 1: Because we are currently in our home in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: We're reporting from the quarantine. We are just like everyone
Speaker 1: else in the world, have adjusted to the times. There's
Speaker 1: our first ever episode being recorded in our home. We
Speaker 1: kind of we have a little set up here. I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio, UM send us some nice equipment, said, we
Speaker 1: are sending love and well wishes to you and your
Speaker 1: family and hope that you are healthy and safe first
Speaker 1: and foremost, well I was I didn't. I didn't know
Speaker 1: there was some sort of order. Of course, I think
Speaker 1: that's significant. I just want to give people logistical updates.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you have to tell them about
Speaker 1: our equipment, but families SCREENNY, we we do. Hope you
Speaker 1: guys are safe and healthy and doing the right thing
Speaker 1: and staying home. We are locked in this house together.
Speaker 1: So it is what week three, I think today marks
Speaker 1: week three, three weeks of us being in this house.
Speaker 1: So if you could please and review this podcast, but
Speaker 1: while you're doing that, if you could send us topic ideas,
Speaker 1: because we have ideas that we are bouncing back and forth.
Speaker 1: To be perfectly honest, I don't even think c J
Speaker 1: likes the idea we're doing today, but I said, this
Speaker 1: is what we're doing, So I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: if I don't like the idea today or just you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to focus on things right. Rate review
Speaker 1: and then let us know the topics that you would
Speaker 1: like to hear us do. We're gonna, hopefully at some
Speaker 1: point have guests when we figure that outre sort of
Speaker 1: like a little test um, but I think it will
Speaker 1: be great if we have a lot to talk about.
Speaker 1: The van that was parked right outside of our house
Speaker 1: that was blasting Free World drove away. Do you hear anything, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not the van at these two. Google wants to bed.
Speaker 1: We have new neighbors, we think, and CJ wants to
Speaker 1: put every negative feeling he has onto them, which I
Speaker 1: do appreciate that he's not putting it onto me, But
Speaker 1: it's the neighbor on the other side he's blasting Free World.
Speaker 1: But you're like, that guy is cool because he has
Speaker 1: an old range rover. He's an Orange rover and he
Speaker 1: has a Kobe sticker on the front of it. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's your friends, and this is what he's doing. Well,
Speaker 1: he doesn't know. We're trying to record a podcast in
Speaker 1: this environment. The greatest you have to think that at
Speaker 1: every moment, someone is trying to record a podcast. That's
Speaker 1: just that's that's just the climate that we're living in.
Speaker 1: That is a little We're happy that you guys are
Speaker 1: listening to our podcasts in these times. This coffee is
Speaker 1: hitting you in a way. Um, J, my second cup
Speaker 1: of coffee. I have some bits I want to do
Speaker 1: real quick. I don't know, Um, what's the WiFi here? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's like you know when you go into like a
Speaker 1: place and your recorded studio or prodcast and yes, um,
Speaker 1: do you guys validate? Yeah, okay, those are the bets
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. You had to hold up a paper.
Speaker 1: Remember that. I have another one on here, but it's
Speaker 1: not good. It's since the quarantine has started. Uh. C
Speaker 1: J has gotten into a Twitter feud with an NBA star. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and as Cantor stole my tweet, I didn't know we
Speaker 1: were going to talk about this, but I tweeted. I
Speaker 1: tweeted that now I feel like the exact tweet was.
Speaker 1: Now I feel like Jordan's flu game was irresponsible and
Speaker 1: feel like in there, I don't think I feel like
Speaker 1: he's in there. That's what That's what it was. And
Speaker 1: then ten ten or eleven days later and as Cantor
Speaker 1: tweeted this same exact thing, word for word, punctuation for punctuation,
Speaker 1: and he was getting numbers, and I was just like, dude,
Speaker 1: you can't just steal a little lowly comedy writer, basketball
Speaker 1: video makers tweets like that. Mine went viral. People got
Speaker 1: mad at and and then I because you go and
Speaker 1: you look, and it was like a lot of people
Speaker 1: we know, even people that I didn't know that we
Speaker 1: were that good friends with that we're defending you. That's nice.
Speaker 1: But then I also saw Celtics fans being like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: this is like the third tweet stolen, Like, I can't
Speaker 1: imagine never doing that to Victor Ladipo. No, I mean,
Speaker 1: and his Cantor is very hate herbal. I can see
Speaker 1: him being like a guy on your team that you
Speaker 1: you hate him. You're like, why are we giving n s?
Speaker 1: So many minutes. So you know, some of these guys
Speaker 1: will always find a way to be hated during non
Speaker 1: playing times. But what's going on over there? I'm having
Speaker 1: some bodily issues. Just okay, So that's the cancer and
Speaker 1: its cantor enis. And then my my good friend who
Speaker 1: has hung out with him a few times goes ns
Speaker 1: does that he doesn't care and he doesn't. He acted
Speaker 1: like he didn't the fat Jew of the n b A.
Speaker 1: But you know what, we like the fat ju Now.
Speaker 1: I don't rem mark my words. I do not. Okay,
Speaker 1: other sports updates, We've watched half of the Michael Vick.
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? I thought it was good.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that there were two parts, and so
Speaker 1: it ended and I was like, but we haven't gotten
Speaker 1: to the second part. I look forward to the second.
Speaker 1: They're doing a very good job of of painting him
Speaker 1: sort of as a victim of his narrative now and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, obviously times have changed. I think
Speaker 1: he's changed immensely for the better. But I don't think
Speaker 1: for documentary saying this is a lot of the lot
Speaker 1: of issues I have a documentary sound was that they're
Speaker 1: very biased or they have an agenda. Oh yeah you could.
Speaker 1: I could watch a documentary and be like, yeah, I will,
Speaker 1: I will go to Congress, I will march on the hill.
Speaker 1: And then I could watch a documentary that is the
Speaker 1: opposing view and go, oh, yeah, no, they're right, Like
Speaker 1: I switched so easy. I don't know if we need
Speaker 1: two parts. I don't I'm not sure I'm going to
Speaker 1: watch the second part. YEA Bleach Report came out with
Speaker 1: a pretty good one a few years called called VIC
Speaker 1: and it's kind of covering the same ground less access
Speaker 1: to his friends and family. But I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have always said that, not that anyone cares what
Speaker 1: I say, but I do think the way that it
Speaker 1: went down, in the way that he was vilified, did
Speaker 1: have a lot to do with race. I really do
Speaker 1: believe that culture where he came from, all of that was. Um,
Speaker 1: that was definitely part of it. And so sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: I think the first part was laying the groundwork for that.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, oh, I like when you had just
Speaker 1: made me I feel like we're in a star was born, um,
Speaker 1: and then that doesn't end very well. CJ has gotten
Speaker 1: some very good news that the Jordan doc he's dropping early.
Speaker 1: The ten part. I mean, I just complained about VIC
Speaker 1: being two parts, but the ten hour long ten part
Speaker 1: it's I think it's not just Jordan. I think it's
Speaker 1: the Bulls. It's called The Last Dance Esparents released early um,
Speaker 1: and it's caused a lot of turmoil, I think. So far,
Speaker 1: Megan and I've been doing pretty well together here in quarantine,
Speaker 1: and I would like to update our listeners. We are
Speaker 1: I mean, knock on wood, we haven't gotten as that
Speaker 1: would luster. We haven't gotten in any big blow ups.
Speaker 1: And I know that's very surprising since one of us
Speaker 1: is mentally unstable. But CJ got us I am in
Speaker 1: some ways, just quieter ways. CJ got us a ping
Speaker 1: pong table, and I love the ping pong table. It's
Speaker 1: really awesome. It's really great. It gets us to go outside,
Speaker 1: and again I we're very grateful unfortunately we have this
Speaker 1: space we can go outside. Like That's the weird thing
Speaker 1: about being quarantine in l A is it's just so
Speaker 1: beautiful outside and we are a lot of walk outside
Speaker 1: and as long as we retain social distance. But yeah, ultimately,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a little weird where you're like I
Speaker 1: can't go outside, it's poison, can't virus is spreading. But
Speaker 1: then it's just like it's so nice looking outside. How
Speaker 1: much do you miss the NBA? What do you think? Well,
Speaker 1: I just is there a way that you could articulate
Speaker 1: it to people that are listening to may also? Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean I think you know a lot of people
Speaker 1: bigger than me. I have already said it. But it
Speaker 1: is our form of escapism. It is the NBA and also,
Speaker 1: especially in the last few years, has had a great
Speaker 1: connection and a great like representation for the majority of
Speaker 1: you know, how we feel about social issues, and for
Speaker 1: these players in the league and Adam Silver and the
Speaker 1: fans to not have this platform to either express the
Speaker 1: importance of social issues or just you know, have fun
Speaker 1: and escape and watch these great games is such a
Speaker 1: bummer because it's like, you know, we've gone through events
Speaker 1: like this, national tragedies, and we go, you know, we're
Speaker 1: just gonna get minds off and watched the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: watch the All Star Game, watch the finals, and what
Speaker 1: do we turn to now? That was the first thing
Speaker 1: to go down. Well, yeah, and the added layer of
Speaker 1: scariness is that some of the players were sick, you know,
Speaker 1: in a way, it almost like thank God, well it
Speaker 1: definitely once they shut down. I do think that helped
Speaker 1: a lot of people that were not tuned into what
Speaker 1: was happening realized this is real. Were you were? You
Speaker 1: were like, did you realize it was that real at
Speaker 1: that time? Oh baby, I've been listening to podcasts since
Speaker 1: January about this, But did you know, Like, Hey, we're
Speaker 1: gonna prepare, We're gonna be I kept saying pre this,
Speaker 1: I was like, there will be a tipping point, like
Speaker 1: something will happen and then we will take it seriously.
Speaker 1: But I listened to a podcast probably back in February
Speaker 1: that said and it was It's the Daily of the
Speaker 1: New York Times, um and the Health. It was a
Speaker 1: man who had been following it. He had he maybe
Speaker 1: lived in China and as a correspondent, and he was like,
Speaker 1: Americans need to be prepared to worst case scenarios. Spend
Speaker 1: a few weeks at home. And I went into work
Speaker 1: that day and I was like, did anyone else listen
Speaker 1: to this? Because a lot of my coworkers would listen
Speaker 1: to the Daily. And then we started sort of having
Speaker 1: conversations like once a day, just a little like coronavirus update.
Speaker 1: But then on that Wednesday, I was at dinner with
Speaker 1: a friend from high school and we both had our
Speaker 1: phones away, as I think is nice to do at
Speaker 1: a dinner, and you know, we were catching up. I
Speaker 1: hadn't seen her since the weddings. We were chatting and
Speaker 1: she has a baby. And then we both looked down
Speaker 1: at our phones after two hours and the NBA had
Speaker 1: been canceled and Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson had tested positive.
Speaker 1: And then when we said goodbye, I hugged her like
Speaker 1: three times because I knew then and you hadn't seen
Speaker 1: her for years, adding um and I see her like
Speaker 1: four times a year, but I just I knew once
Speaker 1: that happened, Like I went into work the next day
Speaker 1: for like an hour, we ordered lunch, and then they
Speaker 1: sent us home. Like that was that. The m b
Speaker 1: A was the tipping point for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I think that helped them realize. For my dad, it
Speaker 1: was the Masters. Once the Masters was canceled, he was
Speaker 1: like whoa, because that's an outdoor event, like the golfers
Speaker 1: could still in his mind like play. You just don't
Speaker 1: have fans. Like Once that stuff started to share, it
Speaker 1: is interesting, and I'm sure there was conversation about about
Speaker 1: doing the Masters without fans, but you know, I think
Speaker 1: everything was just shutting down. It just would have been
Speaker 1: that your responsible thing to do. Probably we found out
Speaker 1: that this will probably come out in a few days,
Speaker 1: but I found out yesterday that's all the other lovers
Speaker 1: of this did that Wimbledon as canceled? And when and
Speaker 1: like when that really breaks? When does that usually happen?
Speaker 1: Um July? Like end of June July. And they can't
Speaker 1: postponent because the grass and you know, it's a living
Speaker 1: plant is what they play, so there's not a way
Speaker 1: to sort of recapture that. So that's sad. You know,
Speaker 1: we're dealing with sports being canceled. I think sports has
Speaker 1: still brought us some happiness. You and I watched Game
Speaker 1: seven of year it was last night. Was kind of
Speaker 1: great because all of Twitter and ESPN and you know,
Speaker 1: House the Highlights and all these big sports uls had
Speaker 1: been playing throwback stuff and I feel like last night
Speaker 1: was the one game that everyone is they played the
Speaker 1: two They played Game five in Game seven of the
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen NBA Finals, where the Calves won, and
Speaker 1: I feel like as a collective. No one has ever
Speaker 1: rewatched a game like that collectively. Yeah, like the whole
Speaker 1: I looked at so many people my well, in my
Speaker 1: Twitter timeline, everyone was tweeting about it as if it
Speaker 1: was just happening. People are noticing things because I just
Speaker 1: think everyone was too nervous during that game to notice
Speaker 1: certain things. And so many of my friends that we're
Speaker 1: posting about it. Last night, ever, friend from Cleveland, and
Speaker 1: she was like, I'm so nervous right now, Like I
Speaker 1: know what happens and I'm still nervous. What does it
Speaker 1: make you feel like seeing all those people in the stadium,
Speaker 1: Like do you get anxiety seeing you? Know? It's just
Speaker 1: it's very strange to even like watch movies now because
Speaker 1: it is so like you're just everything. You're like, let's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen again. That's not gonna happen again. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just an old cell phone in a movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like a simpler time. I do think we'll
Speaker 1: get back there, And I guess that probably perfectly brings
Speaker 1: us into our topic today. We were inspired to do
Speaker 1: this because this was going around a bit on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I saw I think it's a guy the first person
Speaker 1: I saw do it, Mike Dine, and I don't know him,
Speaker 1: but thanks for the inspiration. And it was people listing
Speaker 1: their first stadium, their last stadium, their best stadium, and
Speaker 1: there were stadium and I partook. I'm changing it a
Speaker 1: little bit. But we thought, in the spirit of oh God,
Speaker 1: honoring a place that we love to go for sure,
Speaker 1: that we would do an episode about the greatest stadium. Yes,
Speaker 1: and hopefully it doesn't bring too much pain to our hearts.
Speaker 1: I don't think so at all. I think we'll look
Speaker 1: back with fondness. And even as even as I was
Speaker 1: like doing the Twitter challenge, I I wasn't a challenge.
Speaker 1: No one asked me to do it. But I had softened,
Speaker 1: like I had. Even so Philip Rivers is now on
Speaker 1: the Colts and that has happened since the I know,
Speaker 1: but I've even everyone's like, you're gonna like him, You're
Speaker 1: gonna like him. I'm like, oh, well not. And I
Speaker 1: have softened like it's just like, wow, football seems beautiful,
Speaker 1: Like that's it's everything is um you it's Red Britains,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's hindsight with beauty and um,
Speaker 1: did you make that up. I guess I don't think
Speaker 1: it's like correct rems with beauty. I said, hindsight with
Speaker 1: beauty with beauty. Okay, boy, so we're fine. We're fine.
Speaker 1: CJ's mom is also texting us about um fake Louis
Speaker 1: Baton masks she's making up. My mom has been doing
Speaker 1: a very good job in this quarantine. She's been staying inside,
Speaker 1: but now she's picked up hobbies where she's making fake
Speaker 1: Matt not fake Mass, fake Louis bat Yeah, she's using
Speaker 1: fake Louis but Louis Vatton fabric to make masks, which
Speaker 1: is great. So um, let's get into our first pick. Okay,
Speaker 1: our first pick for greatest stadiumium. And I want to
Speaker 1: preface I haven't been that many stadiums have I really
Speaker 1: I was thinking about it in the shower, and you
Speaker 1: really have all the ones that you've dragged me to. Um, Okay,
Speaker 1: my first stadium that I would like to talk about
Speaker 1: is twenty minutes from our home, Staples Center. You're gonna
Speaker 1: clap for that greatest stadium. I just think it is
Speaker 1: one of those, uh is one of those stadiums that
Speaker 1: has talked about that it is. It has characters so
Speaker 1: many things have happened there is distinct looking and a
Speaker 1: lot of people have been talking about it lately because
Speaker 1: the Clippers just bought the Forum, which was a legendary
Speaker 1: Lakers like Lakers one I can't remember, like it was
Speaker 1: like old school cool. It reminded me of a giant
Speaker 1: movie theater, one of your favorite Fresh Prince episodes and
Speaker 1: too for them to move and I gotta look back
Speaker 1: and see how you know, Lakers fans or l a
Speaker 1: people kind of felt about it, but then to recreate.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't think people are that mad about it,
Speaker 1: because so much history has happened in the Staples Center
Speaker 1: and when you go, it is truly it's an experience
Speaker 1: that goes beyond sports. It's you know, culture. You see
Speaker 1: all the celebrities there and I'm talking to Lakers games
Speaker 1: and even Clippers games and Sparks games have been there.
Speaker 1: It is, I think, a really great stadium. I think
Speaker 1: it's easy to get to. I think, you know, I
Speaker 1: think the food can step up a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: mostly a lot of chains, like you get a Blaze
Speaker 1: Pizza there, you get Tonnelds. But um so the food
Speaker 1: experience isn't that great. But I think it is a
Speaker 1: great kind of middle ground of like luxury and fun
Speaker 1: seeing like celebrities and you know. And they dimmed the
Speaker 1: lights around the at least for Lakers games. They dimmed
Speaker 1: the audience and they the court is just kind of
Speaker 1: like lit up like a show, like a Broadway Boys show,
Speaker 1: and I just love that atmosphere. Now, what was the
Speaker 1: first stadium we ever went to? UM Probably gund Arena
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, Ohio to see the Bulls versus the Calves,
Speaker 1: and that's no longer. That's so interesting that some of
Speaker 1: these that we love are the very first stadium I
Speaker 1: went to. Gosh, and I wasn't gonna put it on
Speaker 1: my list, but I guess it will because I really
Speaker 1: did love it. The first stadium I ever went to
Speaker 1: was the Hoosier Dome UM, which then got changed. The
Speaker 1: name was changed to the our Cia Dome, and our
Speaker 1: high school used to play our rival high school in
Speaker 1: the Who's Your Dome And it was like, so, I mean,
Speaker 1: I was a child, but we would get like you
Speaker 1: would go in a suite quote unquote because they were
Speaker 1: like four thousand people there, you conn have a suite,
Speaker 1: and it was just it would get so loud during
Speaker 1: Colt schemes. I remember people talking about it being the
Speaker 1: loudest stadium, and I do know a lot of people
Speaker 1: will take offense to this because football stadiums are supposed
Speaker 1: to be outdoor, and so that's why I don't have
Speaker 1: Lucas Oil on here, even though I think Lucas Oil here. No.
Speaker 1: I think Lucas Soil is so beautiful and so amazing
Speaker 1: and has hosted a super Bowl, multiple final fours. It's
Speaker 1: really considered like a crown jewel. But a lot of
Speaker 1: purists say football stadiums should be outside, and so it
Speaker 1: has all these beautiful features and really great food and
Speaker 1: hanging cars and pyrotechnics, but it's able to do that.
Speaker 1: Go ahead performing performing in the horseshoe. I think the
Speaker 1: ceiling being the ceiling being able to open, the windows
Speaker 1: opening like the first time I went into it, I cried,
Speaker 1: for sure, But the Hoosier Dome felt like one of
Speaker 1: those like old nasty stadiums, like we would be at
Speaker 1: games and stuff would be falling from the world. I
Speaker 1: did because it just felt like home to me because
Speaker 1: it was my first experience, um the first NFL game
Speaker 1: I ever saw, was there High School, like it just
Speaker 1: everything happened there. It was the center of Indianapolis, like
Speaker 1: fun for me as a kid. And I think there
Speaker 1: are good and bad versions of that. I like a
Speaker 1: stadium that is classic and has a lot of history
Speaker 1: but has been like well maintained. I think, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was just a bad game I went to,
Speaker 1: but I went to Wriggley, and I do not like Wriggley.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if they've updated it since,
Speaker 1: but it was cold old and this is I'm talking
Speaker 1: about like a game in August that I saw and
Speaker 1: it was like if you get in the shade at Wrigley,
Speaker 1: it is freezing. Yeah, so Wrigley has undergo a chap
Speaker 1: like a renovation, I think. I think I do think
Speaker 1: they pumped like a billion or something in there. But
Speaker 1: when I used to work in Chicago, my two like
Speaker 1: assignments would be to go to the Cell and to
Speaker 1: go to the US cellular field where and then to
Speaker 1: go to Wrigley. And just as like a person that
Speaker 1: was using things, the Cell was like a mecca. And
Speaker 1: then Wrigley, even though it's this hollow ground and the
Speaker 1: goat and the mr it was like this is falling apart.
Speaker 1: They remember Lupinello would do his press conferences in a
Speaker 1: sod closet that they converted into like a press room.
Speaker 1: It would be so hot to get up to like
Speaker 1: the press box. Sometimes you would have to climb a
Speaker 1: this sort of staircase but half the ladder. It was
Speaker 1: really not a great like working environment. And having been
Speaker 1: in even their clubhouse and then seeing the White Sox clubhouse,
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, you guys are being screwed because
Speaker 1: but but a lot of players we're fine with that
Speaker 1: because it was like, you're playing at Wrigley. It's a
Speaker 1: lot nicer now. But I am not one of those
Speaker 1: people that like loves the Wrigley. We also, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's I think it is a little bit biased because
Speaker 1: we had moved to Chicago to do comedy and that's
Speaker 1: where all the comedians had lived was in that area,
Speaker 1: and boy, what an inconvenience. Oh yeah, I mean for anything.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've mentioned this on this podcast, where
Speaker 1: you would get a letter at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: season that was like, hey, sorry, your house is about
Speaker 1: to get really fucked up by Cubs fans, And that
Speaker 1: was the exact and you're like, okay, I would be
Speaker 1: forty five minutes late to work at Blockbuster because and
Speaker 1: I would have left a half hour early to make
Speaker 1: it on time, but the trains would just be too full.
Speaker 1: You kind of get on and the vibe of just
Speaker 1: like Wriggley area in general. We would do bad shows there,
Speaker 1: we would we lived there, so we did have love
Speaker 1: for it, but it was it's not our favorite a
Speaker 1: week a week before a season. One time, though, I
Speaker 1: do have one good memory, and it's I was getting
Speaker 1: off the train after shift up Blockbuster and it wasn't
Speaker 1: busy whatsoever. It was week before the season, so I
Speaker 1: think people were kind of waiting for the you know,
Speaker 1: quite before the storm. And I get off and one
Speaker 1: guy next to me is walking very slowly, just like
Speaker 1: looking at the stadium, and it was Jeff Garland. And
Speaker 1: then I went to him and I was like, hey, Jeff,
Speaker 1: my name CJ. I do comedy here, blah blah. I goes,
Speaker 1: oh cool, Yeah, I'm gonna walk around the stadium. You
Speaker 1: wanna you wanna walk with me? I was like sure,
Speaker 1: So I walked with him and we went to who
Speaker 1: Who's the statue? Outside of Wrigley, Harry Carrey like Barry zero.
Speaker 1: Is that a no? I think it's not very Zito.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a baseball name. Anyways, we went, we
Speaker 1: walked for fifteen minutes and and stood and he said
Speaker 1: he likes to visit that state statue before every season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's nice. You have to see like a legend with
Speaker 1: a legend. Let's take a break and we're back, and
Speaker 1: we're back. Okay, wait, so did you pick one or yeah?
Speaker 1: I said the Hoosier Do. I wasn't gonna. I played
Speaker 1: at the Hoosier. Is it the practice remember when we went,
Speaker 1: So that's where the that's where the movie Hoosiers was filmed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so stadium. That's actually not I think that
Speaker 1: was the high school because the championship game I think
Speaker 1: was played where Butler plays and that people like love that.
Speaker 1: This is the thing people in Indiana like worship their stadiums.
Speaker 1: I almost said my least favorite stadium was Mackie Arena,
Speaker 1: which is produced one, and I was like, people are
Speaker 1: going to come for me, so I didn't. But you
Speaker 1: say so many bad things on this podcast that could
Speaker 1: be vilified, and you won't say MACKI stadium is not
Speaker 1: one of your favorites. No, I was gonna say it
Speaker 1: was the worst. Yeah, you can't. I can't say that.
Speaker 1: You're scared of that, you're scared of your your This
Speaker 1: is called hincklefield House. I couldn't. We love a field
Speaker 1: house in Indiana, So hincklefield House. People if there was
Speaker 1: like a big time Homer on here, they would say that.
Speaker 1: I know people love the i U One Assembly Hall.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Um, so we ride hard for our
Speaker 1: stadiums there. My parents lived in a town called Washington, Indiana,
Speaker 1: where very famous about some famous basketball Washington Robinson, Washington, Indiana, Washington, Indiana, Washington, Indiana. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: I have to look it up and it's a tiny,
Speaker 1: tiny town and the high school stadium sat more people
Speaker 1: than the town had population wise. Like that's how intense
Speaker 1: high because people from other towns are coming famous basket.
Speaker 1: What are you looking up exactly? I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out who are these men from this small town. I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone cares. That's the thing. Okay, okay, great,
Speaker 1: my mom will care, and she's our most avid listener.
Speaker 1: Shout out to your mom. Your mom does listen and
Speaker 1: gives us it's going to be really upset with me
Speaker 1: that I can't figure this out. Well, that's pre research
Speaker 1: you should have done. Well. I didn't know that it
Speaker 1: was going to come up. Luca Zeller, the Zeller's Zellers,
Speaker 1: thank you, and they're all from this place. Now I
Speaker 1: can move on, you know, when it's like just you can't. Um.
Speaker 1: I do want to criticize your first pick because I
Speaker 1: I love Staples Center, I really really do. My issue
Speaker 1: is I do not like a stadium that is shared
Speaker 1: by teams in the same sport. The first time I
Speaker 1: went to MetLife, I was like the like where there's
Speaker 1: no giant stuff, and it's like, oh well there's no
Speaker 1: giant stuff because then they have to have Jet like
Speaker 1: it just it and and Staples I think obviously you
Speaker 1: feel the heart is in the Lakers to the point
Speaker 1: where the Clippers are like, we're building our own stadium,
Speaker 1: and then I think I'll like it more. But it
Speaker 1: just feels so vanilla to me, Like I love a
Speaker 1: stadium that's just like purest I love a stadium that's
Speaker 1: dripping in history of a team, dripping in the colors.
Speaker 1: Everything is like just that theme and so when something
Speaker 1: has shared it, I think, yeah, I think more so
Speaker 1: it's sad for Clippers fans because I think the Lakers
Speaker 1: do do a good job in the city, obviously of
Speaker 1: covering up that they do not share that stadium with
Speaker 1: another basketball team. Like when you go to a Lakers game,
Speaker 1: there is not a single piece of evidence that the
Speaker 1: Clippers also play every game. But that's how it is.
Speaker 1: If you go to MetLife, there's no there's no giant
Speaker 1: stuff when the Jets are there. But that's I don't know.
Speaker 1: Life is so weird because where is that in. That's
Speaker 1: New Jersey. It's called the New York Giants. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: just a lot of issues there. Netlife was what I
Speaker 1: put as my worst stadium, and I said, it's not bad,
Speaker 1: it's just boring. But what happened after the last time
Speaker 1: you went to MetLife? You came over and yeah, it
Speaker 1: kind of our first date. Nothing happened though, I know,
Speaker 1: but it was like a nice moment. Okay, and the
Speaker 1: Colts beat the Jets. That's the nice moment I remember. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for the Jets and Giants to share a stadium, and
Speaker 1: I guess it happened with the Lakers and Clippers for
Speaker 1: a while. Two really rough teams is h Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna make a stadium appealing. You know what, I
Speaker 1: just changed my pick. I'm going crazy change it. I'm
Speaker 1: going left out of left field. You're going left, you're
Speaker 1: right before. I love and it like holds such a
Speaker 1: special place in my heart. Arthur Ash Stadium, that's where, um,
Speaker 1: it's actually right next to city Field. City Field one
Speaker 1: of my honorable mentions. When that little apple comes up, Oh,
Speaker 1: I get excited. City Field has amazing food, It's easy
Speaker 1: to get to. I love Mets games. They're so fun.
Speaker 1: It is such an event, like when the US Open.
Speaker 1: Is that where they play? Yea, So Arthur Ash is
Speaker 1: so the U s t A like Tennis Center is
Speaker 1: right next to the city Field complex. It's all out
Speaker 1: in Flushing and Arthur Ash is just this giant mecca
Speaker 1: that was built for tennis. And I think now the
Speaker 1: roof can close so they can play when it's raining
Speaker 1: or you know, it has lights. It's just beauty. It's
Speaker 1: so beautiful. And to be in a massive stadium of
Speaker 1: that size when there's just two people competing like against
Speaker 1: each other, it's really amazing. I got to walk on
Speaker 1: the court this summer. Someone took me on it and
Speaker 1: I truly teared up. Like I love Arthur Ash. I
Speaker 1: was telling CJ recently, every time I could do a
Speaker 1: project about him, I would. I did so many Arthur
Speaker 1: Ash projects. A true hero and incredible. Gosh, just an
Speaker 1: American athlete hero that I think a lot of the
Speaker 1: good kinds of athletes look up to now as as
Speaker 1: a voice of positivity. Um. But yeah, the U S
Speaker 1: Open is so amazing and just a really fun I
Speaker 1: hope it ends up happening this year. But Arthur Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Labor Day Arthur Ash Stadium is incredible and good concessions.
Speaker 1: I love the drink, Like what's the drink again? Because
Speaker 1: I always told people about this drink. It's called the
Speaker 1: Honey Douce, and so it's a gray goose and then
Speaker 1: I don't know what else is in gray goose, and
Speaker 1: then maybe lemonade, and then they take little honey dew
Speaker 1: Scooper balls and they make little tennis balls and put
Speaker 1: it in. I mean, it's you took the cup home
Speaker 1: and I use that cup a lot, big fan of it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's why people tune in to hear about
Speaker 1: what cup I use, but um, the US Open is great.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean like tennis stadiums in general. That's
Speaker 1: what always loving like tennis video games is that when
Speaker 1: you get to pick a stadium, they are so distinct looking.
Speaker 1: Like in basketball, every court surface is hardwood, but in
Speaker 1: tennis it's like there's clay, there's is there sand, No,
Speaker 1: there's clay, grass and the hardcore. But then there's two
Speaker 1: different kinds of clay. There's red clay, which is what
Speaker 1: the French Open is and the red clay. A French
Speaker 1: Open has a beautiful stadium as well. I've been to
Speaker 1: Margaret Court Stadium in um Melbourne. I would love to
Speaker 1: go to Wimbledon. I know that center Court would be
Speaker 1: so beautiful. Um. And then there's green clay. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: okay cool cool? No um yeah okay, Well, so I
Speaker 1: feel like my second pick you're gonna like and it
Speaker 1: is Banker's Life and I've only been one, but it
Speaker 1: is just on paper and from the side of it,
Speaker 1: it is a really great stadium. Beautiful and not just
Speaker 1: down to whatever materials or like lighting. Um, yes that
Speaker 1: is visually. I love how it's kind of like stacked
Speaker 1: up it's a field house, but it's a stadium, I know,
Speaker 1: but it's called Banker's Life field House, hanklefield House, like
Speaker 1: that is the architecture. There is something different about when
Speaker 1: people say that there is not a bad scene of
Speaker 1: house whenever they refer to a stadium. I really feel
Speaker 1: like there is like I don't know why, but when
Speaker 1: you're really high, it still looks like you get a
Speaker 1: great view. You're like kind of on top of the game,
Speaker 1: kind of um. And it is beautiful, It's easily accessible.
Speaker 1: It's in like a fun part of town. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't you probably have your own opinions about It's
Speaker 1: in downtown Indianapolis. So that's why I have like issues
Speaker 1: with my first pick. Actually, Banker's Life was just really cool,
Speaker 1: really accessible, really fun vibe the crowd. I don't think
Speaker 1: the pacers were that good that year or particularly like amazing,
Speaker 1: but it was still pretty packed. You went and walked
Speaker 1: around for like an hour, walked around. I got I
Speaker 1: got in trouble because I was trying to buy a
Speaker 1: Demontes Sabonis jersey and I was in line for such
Speaker 1: a long time. Not abandoned me, which is fine. I
Speaker 1: was just drunk and I got scared of drink and
Speaker 1: her brother never showed up and just sitting alone. But
Speaker 1: it was it was a really great stadium and and
Speaker 1: I want to get back there. And it's right next
Speaker 1: to Harry and Izzy's. Yeah oh yeah, by all the
Speaker 1: restaurants and you can see Luca Soil from it. Like
Speaker 1: Indy has set up the downtown and like a really
Speaker 1: is it connected to a mall? No, but very close
Speaker 1: to them all Circle Center. Oh do you have any
Speaker 1: bankers life stories? Um? I tried to work there. They
Speaker 1: didn't get higher, but no, I love bankers life. My
Speaker 1: family has definitely um caused issue in a suite before
Speaker 1: home of the All Star Game next year. I hope
Speaker 1: it happened. I hope so too. But um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that because there was like recently there was a
Speaker 1: friend not a friend of a friend, but um, Yahoo
Speaker 1: was calling out Indianapolis for saying for calling out the
Speaker 1: NBA for hosting or for letting Indianapolis host the All
Speaker 1: Star Game next year. I feel like it's trash or
Speaker 1: something there, and it's just like then, you've never been
Speaker 1: to the stadium, and I think you've never been to
Speaker 1: a large event there. Like we hold we hold the
Speaker 1: Indie five hundred every year, but this year that's like
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand people. We've hosted a super Bowl and
Speaker 1: c double like we can do it. Everyone who has
Speaker 1: been to an event in India is like, listen, it's
Speaker 1: not like my first choice. But when you get there,
Speaker 1: it's set up so well. Everyone's so kind, you know.
Speaker 1: It's like when we went to Minneapolis super Bowl was like,
Speaker 1: this is set up really well. It's just negative forty
Speaker 1: degrees and Indy, you're not going to have that, Like,
Speaker 1: what's the weather going to be like that in February?
Speaker 1: It'll be nice. The super Bowl was like sixty degrees.
Speaker 1: It was great. Really yeah, it was a fluke. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jesus smiled on us for being a state in the
Speaker 1: babble bell. Okay um, okay, So I have some honorable mention.
Speaker 1: I've never been to this stadium, but I know that
Speaker 1: I would love it. It's like a true dream of mine. Lambeau, Lambeau.
Speaker 1: I want to go to Lambeau. My dad has been.
Speaker 1: I'm always like, tell me about Lambeau and he's like
Speaker 1: I was in a suite and I wish I had
Speaker 1: been like out with the people like I would love
Speaker 1: to go there. Um, I've been to the Bills Stadium
Speaker 1: so fun and quote there was a blizzard happening. They
Speaker 1: had to plow the field at halftime. That's how much
Speaker 1: this would have been, like not two nine, maybe I
Speaker 1: was plump um. Well I look at the photos and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I was plump um and then gosh, I know,
Speaker 1: for the sake of it being what it is, I
Speaker 1: sort of have to mention it. I've only been there once.
Speaker 1: I would love to see the Knicks play at Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden. Yeah, I have not seen that. You have.
Speaker 1: I have and thanks to our friends Tommy McNamar who
Speaker 1: also sang a beautiful song about us at our wedding,
Speaker 1: but he got the craziest hook up. You got us
Speaker 1: like front row behind courtside for Bulls Knicks a few
Speaker 1: years ago. Granted the Bulls weren't good, but it was
Speaker 1: like people talk about Madison Square Garden and how beautiful
Speaker 1: is and how it is experience, like, yeah, it probably
Speaker 1: has some of the best character of a stadium I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. As well. The ceiling is just like mesmerizing.
Speaker 1: That's why it's so like even if you're not a
Speaker 1: Knicks fan. If you're a basketball fan and the Knicks
Speaker 1: haven't been good, this song it's not good, it's like
Speaker 1: it makes you mad. That important. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: I felt lucky. I saw a Rangers game there and
Speaker 1: it was cool. I honestly felt like I was in
Speaker 1: a movie that we're just all these like finance bros
Speaker 1: pouring in and you're the heart. You're in the heart
Speaker 1: of New York City. Yeah, you're actually in like my
Speaker 1: least favorite part of New York City. So when you
Speaker 1: go in, you're like, think, that's where all movies seemed.
Speaker 1: It's like Grant Like, um, you know, right by the
Speaker 1: trains people get dropped off. That's where everyone enters the
Speaker 1: city from, you know, New Jersey or whatever. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it is like because all all stadiums and movies as
Speaker 1: a kid were in you know, Madison Square Garden like
Speaker 1: Space Jam and um Eddie all that stuff. I have
Speaker 1: one more honorable mention and this this stadium gets a
Speaker 1: lot of trash talked about it news Soldier Field, I
Speaker 1: think is so beautiful. I actually when I first saw
Speaker 1: it was like that does look crazy. It's grown on
Speaker 1: me just because it's right on the lake. You you
Speaker 1: come into the city, you see it immediately. It does
Speaker 1: look like a space ship dropped onto some sort of
Speaker 1: like Washington d C. Monument. But it's when you're inside
Speaker 1: of it, it's um it's beautiful. Like it's too cold
Speaker 1: always in it and it's very hard to get to,
Speaker 1: but it does have a very cool feeling in it.
Speaker 1: And I remember having a really good Italian beef there
Speaker 1: and also no bad seats, like the way the incline
Speaker 1: was set with that space shuttle. We were in like
Speaker 1: the second level and I felt like I had an
Speaker 1: amazing view of the field. It's just tough because it
Speaker 1: is outdoor in Chicago, winters are but they take that
Speaker 1: as like a rite of passage where they look at
Speaker 1: something like Lucas soil and they're like, you guys are pussies,
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, we are. Yeah. I have a
Speaker 1: couple of honorable mentions. I was gonna say the Forum,
Speaker 1: which I've never seen a game there, but it just
Speaker 1: I just want to so I want them to play
Speaker 1: the when the NBA resumes, hopefully it does. They're trying
Speaker 1: to find I think they're talking about a central location
Speaker 1: for all the teams of place so that there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of traveling, and like players would just like
Speaker 1: live in that city for the next few months. I
Speaker 1: think the form would be great if they're doing no
Speaker 1: fans with the which they shouldn't do. It's not that,
Speaker 1: you know, capacity is on an issue, and you could
Speaker 1: just if it's made for TV. It's easily. You just
Speaker 1: light up the court and they play. And I think
Speaker 1: all the players would appreciate being in l A. Those
Speaker 1: very reasons why we're grateful to be here and not
Speaker 1: in New Yorker anywhere else here already, Yeah, exactly, um
Speaker 1: or Miami, but I think Florida is like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a while to that clears up. But I also
Speaker 1: had a really good time at Fenway. I think that
Speaker 1: is a what I was talking about, classic but in
Speaker 1: well maintained and just I actually really liked the Boston crowd.
Speaker 1: Like I've been to the Celtics games and it's a
Speaker 1: little you know, kind of what you know, kind of
Speaker 1: a little racist and um but I don't know, just
Speaker 1: it was. I saw a game there during the summer
Speaker 1: a few years ago with my friend Connor the Green Monster,
Speaker 1: the Wall and like, yeah, there's a lot of just
Speaker 1: like and the town. The town. I just think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not a Red Sox fan. I hate Boston sports.
Speaker 1: But go to a game at Fenway during the summer
Speaker 1: and you will be one over and you've been to
Speaker 1: the garden, Boston Garden it was called the Fleet Center
Speaker 1: at the time. Saw Lebron play his rookie year. There
Speaker 1: is that has the really pretty floor, parquet floor. They
Speaker 1: don't have that anymore. I don't think I don't think
Speaker 1: any teams have that anymore. I thought it was so cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, the guys are back outside, um, but they're
Speaker 1: not issues. Uh. Anyways, I want to go back to
Speaker 1: Fenway again. It is just like, yeah, when when sports
Speaker 1: come back now, it's like that is a thing that
Speaker 1: people should do well. People do this. Going to every
Speaker 1: baseball stadium has been something that like old men do
Speaker 1: with their children's for forever. And I think that's so
Speaker 1: beautiful and amazing. I love Dodger Stadium. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't really. We both forgot that Dodger Stadium is
Speaker 1: so beautiful. To be at the top of this mountain
Speaker 1: looking out over all of l A, the palm trees, Um,
Speaker 1: it's also an older one that feels like it's been maintained.
Speaker 1: Actually it's not old. I think it was mean to
Speaker 1: look old because there was some displacement of families to
Speaker 1: build that in recent years. But it's a really beautiful
Speaker 1: like I took my parents there and they were like,
Speaker 1: this is this It is like your parents or friends
Speaker 1: in town. Uh, and you don't want to go to
Speaker 1: to like touristy spots, like a baseball game at Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium Dodger dog delicious. Um. We went on Memorial Day
Speaker 1: and so they had three you know, fighter jets fly
Speaker 1: over and then there was a World War two vet.
Speaker 1: I of course lost it. My mom and dad and
Speaker 1: I were all sobbing, you know, kicked out. I did
Speaker 1: get kicked out, I have that was a different game.
Speaker 1: I did get thrown out of Dodger stadiums. They took
Speaker 1: our vape pen Yeah, and um, we're gross. And it
Speaker 1: was it was after the game. We were just waiting
Speaker 1: for the fireworks. I guess what has pen in his
Speaker 1: cargo pants. If you throw someone out of a stadium
Speaker 1: for fireworks, they can still see the fireworks. You just
Speaker 1: sit outside ding dong. Okay, um, but yeah, Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: It's also an Echo park, which is like awesome. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that that's a crown jewel. It's force Field.
Speaker 1: People say it is beautiful, but I heard the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like a weird type of Wrigleyville. But
Speaker 1: in Colorado. I believe that. I believe that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought you're going to say something naughty, Old Comiskey.
Speaker 1: That was when I went there with my grandfather and
Speaker 1: there's such a cute photo cargo stadium looked like it
Speaker 1: was cool. Yeah. The issue with the cell the cell
Speaker 1: is like a great stadium. For some reason, the Chicago
Speaker 1: has an iconic skyline. They decided to put US Cellular
Speaker 1: Field facing northern Indiana, the ugliest part of the country.
Speaker 1: All they had to do was turn the stadium hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty degrees. Yeah they should have done that and
Speaker 1: also too but easy to cellular Cellular and that skyline, Man,
Speaker 1: that don't really make you love Chicago. When you remember
Speaker 1: falling in love with Chicago the first time I was
Speaker 1: coming back. When you drive in, when you drive in
Speaker 1: and you see US Cellular and um, up, someone just
Speaker 1: dropped off a package and a doorbell. But um yeah,
Speaker 1: you see us cellular and you see the skyline, You're like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I really like the city. Should we take
Speaker 1: a break before we get to our final picks and
Speaker 1: work back with our final picks again? You know, thank
Speaker 1: you for listening to this podcast. If you have any
Speaker 1: suggestions for topics or if we missed any, if you
Speaker 1: feel passionately tweet at us. That's why I've been saying
Speaker 1: so many this time address it. Well, it's just such
Speaker 1: a This is a hard one because it's like we
Speaker 1: probably haven't been to our favorite stadium yet. I feel
Speaker 1: like we've been to a lot though, yeah, um yeah,
Speaker 1: and and oh yeah I had another honorable My dream
Speaker 1: is Lambeau. I really would love to do that. And
Speaker 1: you know what I would like, this is a hot take.
Speaker 1: The Colisseum sucks. That's a terrible stadium. It's like, I know,
Speaker 1: it's iconic, great, beautiful. I love the fire Olympics, yes,
Speaker 1: thank you. A very bad place to see a modern football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the food is terrible. Um Like, and I love Rams
Speaker 1: like l A Rams fans who are really trying to
Speaker 1: make it a thing. But like the tailgate is like
Speaker 1: embarrassing and like the seats are bad. Everything is not good.
Speaker 1: They're getting a new stadium. We have like three stadiums
Speaker 1: under construt action here. Another honorable mention I had was
Speaker 1: US Bank Stadium. It's a newer one, but I think
Speaker 1: it was. I mean it was We went and saw
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl there the Eagles beat the Patriots, and
Speaker 1: I thought it was really beautiful. Oh yeah, yeah, all
Speaker 1: of those I mean all of those indoor that new Atlanta.
Speaker 1: One part of me thinks it would be interesting to
Speaker 1: go to the one in um the Cowboys stadium is
Speaker 1: that called Texas Stadium? Like I would almost rather go
Speaker 1: to that stadium to see a college football game. I
Speaker 1: would love to go to Michigan the Big House, Like
Speaker 1: there's definitely you could even just do like a big
Speaker 1: ten like ring of great stadiums and be very, very satisfied.
Speaker 1: Are you ready to do your number one? Yeah? My
Speaker 1: number one? And I feel like I talked so passionately
Speaker 1: about my other ones that I don't feel like it's
Speaker 1: my number one anymore. But the United I hate the
Speaker 1: United Center, you hate the Madhouse on Madison. You you
Speaker 1: make your case, and I don't have a case. For
Speaker 1: other than the Bulls, and it was just nineties basketball,
Speaker 1: which is my favorite thing the whole world. And then
Speaker 1: getting a chance to go there as many times as
Speaker 1: I did in my twenties, UM was incredible, and I
Speaker 1: in my head when I think of just like great
Speaker 1: sports visuals, I always think of the Jordan's statue of
Speaker 1: him doing the jump man outside of United Center, which
Speaker 1: I now found out is inside the stadium. I think
Speaker 1: so much history has happened in there. I think it
Speaker 1: was one of the first newer stadiums I've ever been to.
Speaker 1: And I saw one one Bulls game, their nineties Bulls
Speaker 1: game there, and I also saw all of the Derrick Rose,
Speaker 1: Joakim Noah um Lu all dang years there and that
Speaker 1: was when I refell in love with basketball and I
Speaker 1: haven't stopped since. And it has been a great experience. Okay,
Speaker 1: And so now this is why I don't like it. UM.
Speaker 1: I have been lucky enough to see Bulls, black Hawks,
Speaker 1: Simon and guard Funkele and the first round of an
Speaker 1: n C Double A tournament there. I lots of experience.
Speaker 1: It is very hard to get to. It's not in
Speaker 1: a great part of town, and I don't even mean
Speaker 1: danger wise. There's nothing walkable around, so it's like it's
Speaker 1: like out in the middle of a no man's land
Speaker 1: of Chicago. That is, I've been like stranded outside there.
Speaker 1: I don't think it has a lot of character. I
Speaker 1: think the best sporting event you can see there is
Speaker 1: black Hawks. I do think a black Hawks game at
Speaker 1: United Center very very fun um more fun than a
Speaker 1: King's game at Staples Center. Like Lakers own Staples I
Speaker 1: think the black Hawks own United Center. I just when
Speaker 1: they're like when the Oregon there's something about the hockey
Speaker 1: that gives it the character that it lacks when the
Speaker 1: Bulls are I think that's something that just had happened
Speaker 1: because of the last decade the black Hawks had one.
Speaker 1: To some extent. Yes, I also think live hockey is
Speaker 1: the like hockey is the best sport to see live.
Speaker 1: It is the worst sport to watch on TV, I think.
Speaker 1: And so that just sort of like Trump set and yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the United Center sucks. Can I ask you
Speaker 1: this one this I just wanted your reaction on this.
Speaker 1: But does Benny the Bull help at all? Benny the
Speaker 1: Bull does not help. The only thing that helps I
Speaker 1: do like and they probably don't use this anymore. The
Speaker 1: running of the Bulls like through the different party do
Speaker 1: which was directed by the house Keys brothers, the guys
Speaker 1: who made the Matrix or one because now Trains, but
Speaker 1: it is they I don't think they used to. In
Speaker 1: the beginning the original one, the Bulls would run over
Speaker 1: a team bus with the team's logo that they were
Speaker 1: playing on it, run it over and everyone would go nuts.
Speaker 1: And they don't have that in the new one, according
Speaker 1: to my friend John who works for the Bulls. And
Speaker 1: also they still use the nineties like Burned here and there,
Speaker 1: the Alan Parsons Project song. They should not do that
Speaker 1: with this team. It just is like because kids when
Speaker 1: people like do the fantasy lineup thing where they just
Speaker 1: like running out to and they picked that even if
Speaker 1: they're not trying to recreate the Bulls, it's so iconic
Speaker 1: and you don't do that for this crappy Bulls team.
Speaker 1: Terrible organization right now. Um, but yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: to see that intro, the Bulls intro when the team
Speaker 1: was good it was, it would make me. I think
Speaker 1: you just like the team though so not the stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Chicago sports is one of the most fun
Speaker 1: things to be a part of. Yeah, I mean we've
Speaker 1: mentioned every stadium, four of them, and I think Wrigley
Speaker 1: probably is at the top, and then Soldier Field probably
Speaker 1: after it. For me. Okay, so now my number one
Speaker 1: pick this was this is going to be a shock
Speaker 1: to you. I think I'm going baseball. Um. I was
Speaker 1: very lucky enough to go to Old Yankee Stadium with
Speaker 1: my family and it's the only stadium I've ever been to,
Speaker 1: the only sporting event I've ever been to where they
Speaker 1: were like, we are getting there two hours early so
Speaker 1: we can go to the used to there was like
Speaker 1: a graveyard or maybe not the bodies there, but definitely
Speaker 1: like the blacks of the greats. And Yeah, it just
Speaker 1: was a vibe of you felt like you were in
Speaker 1: a special place. It felt ethereal like it definitely felt
Speaker 1: like hallowed ground, beautiful, You're part of something special, historic, American,
Speaker 1: like all of those things that baseball is. We're very
Speaker 1: much like encapsulated in this place. And I've been to
Speaker 1: New Yankee Stadium and it's obviously beautiful and modern, but
Speaker 1: like that feeling that you just have in your heart
Speaker 1: is very much gone. Unfortunately. Yeah, I'd like to go there.
Speaker 1: I don't remember, but there was always you know in comedy,
Speaker 1: there's those Lauren seats, those Lauren tickets and may they
Speaker 1: exist at Madison Square Garden and the Yankees. And the
Speaker 1: day before I found out it wasn't getting renewed at
Speaker 1: Fallon and offered me the tickets, and they knew they
Speaker 1: were firing, you know, it wasn't. It was more so
Speaker 1: they were passed down to a just one of my
Speaker 1: co workers, and he was like, do you want to
Speaker 1: go to the game tomorrow. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to sit in Lauren's seats behind home
Speaker 1: plate at Yankee Stadium. And then you got fired, um,
Speaker 1: not fired, was not going to be allowed to come
Speaker 1: back after a couple of weeks. Um. And I was like,
Speaker 1: that's really embarrassing to go there after I knew I
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be a part of the show anymore, did you?
Speaker 1: So you didn't go? I did not go. Well, but
Speaker 1: that's new Yankee Stadium, that is, and I'm talking about
Speaker 1: old Yankee Stadium. Um, what year was that then? Gosh,
Speaker 1: I think I was like fourteen or fifteen, so last
Speaker 1: year and what did it become? I think they tore
Speaker 1: down so hard to me. You know, they're big. They
Speaker 1: can't remember when the Hoosier Don't got torn down. We
Speaker 1: all watched it on the news. Like when they tear
Speaker 1: down on those things. That's what's so sad, is like
Speaker 1: then they're just gone. Like the Forum can't be torn
Speaker 1: down because it's a historical landmark. Right. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is a great YouTube recommendation, but there's there's I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's a serious or not, but there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of them where people go into abandoned stadiums
Speaker 1: with like drones and like beautiful cameras and they just
Speaker 1: shoot these abandoned stadiums and the seats are still up,
Speaker 1: even some of the turf. The silver don't look up
Speaker 1: the Silver Dome that is the where the Pistons played
Speaker 1: for a long time and won a bunch of championships,
Speaker 1: and which is it's interesting. That's another kind of honorable mention.
Speaker 1: And again I'm biased, but the Palace of Auburn Hills,
Speaker 1: which is in the suburbs of Detroit, but the Pistons
Speaker 1: had so much history there and I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I do know why they moved the team to uh,
Speaker 1: downtown Detroit because Detroit is on the rise, and but
Speaker 1: it was like, there was nothing wrong with the Palace
Speaker 1: of Auburn Hills and now it's just a you for
Speaker 1: like concerts and stuff. Yeah, so it's it's just weird
Speaker 1: how some of these places will leave a venue or
Speaker 1: a stadium and there was nothing really wrong with I
Speaker 1: do like a venue that's downtown though, Yeah, I say
Speaker 1: bring it to the people. I mean in l A.
Speaker 1: It's different because downtown is not like the epicenter of
Speaker 1: what's popping on. Like there's things happening downtown, but then
Speaker 1: there's also things happening sort of like all over the city.
Speaker 1: For the Yankees, I mean, you've got to go all
Speaker 1: the way up to the Bronx. It's obvious. I think
Speaker 1: though a lot of these stadiums are built, our teams
Speaker 1: go to an area to gentrify or to vitalize, vitalize
Speaker 1: the economy of that area, but also revitalizing it pushes
Speaker 1: out a lot of people who have lived there for
Speaker 1: a very long time. Stadium eat I think. I think
Speaker 1: the Bronx like very much. And I hope this is
Speaker 1: what Inglewood two is like, this is our um economy.
Speaker 1: You know that stadium becomes where people work and like
Speaker 1: then open businesses um round it because and and Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: you're they're not really able to do that because it's
Speaker 1: like up a hill. It's at like the top of
Speaker 1: a hill and that's where it is. But then you know,
Speaker 1: you hope the trickle down. But you Yankee Stadium so beautiful.
Speaker 1: R I P. I feel really blessed I was able
Speaker 1: to go there. Thanks Dad, Thanks Dad for a lot
Speaker 1: of those Yeah, oh thanks Dad for this whole episode.
Speaker 1: To have a parent who loves going to sporting events
Speaker 1: and you get to go to all these things. And
Speaker 1: I also love going to sporting events in different towns.
Speaker 1: I mean even when I'm on the road for stand
Speaker 1: up like I've been to Indians games like Pirates games.
Speaker 1: I love. That's Like one of my favorite things to
Speaker 1: do when I'm on the road is go go see
Speaker 1: the teams, Go see the stadiums, go see the environment
Speaker 1: that they have there. I went to one of the
Speaker 1: worst NBA games I've ever seen in Denver. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what the stadium is called where the Nuggets play,
Speaker 1: but it was Nuggets Hornets and it was like thirty
Speaker 1: to forty at halftime very Me and Charlie Barry were
Speaker 1: very high and it was so fun. Um quick, you
Speaker 1: talk about New York Barclays Stadium, anythink Barkley Center. I
Speaker 1: think Barclay's. I saw the Nets practice there and then
Speaker 1: we saw Bruno Mars there. I think Barclays is in
Speaker 1: such a cool part, Like if we were to move
Speaker 1: back to New York, I would love to live in
Speaker 1: downtown Brooklyn. I think it's like a really um fun
Speaker 1: part of Brooklyn. I think it's cool that it's like
Speaker 1: dug down into the ground and then you certain descend
Speaker 1: like that. I think all of that, but Barclays does
Speaker 1: sort of like lack some character for us, I think.
Speaker 1: I think as especially with Katie and Kyrie playing there.
Speaker 1: I think it's on the rise of course. Um but
Speaker 1: I'm very glad that they have a stadium there, and
Speaker 1: um it was It's been fun seeing a few games
Speaker 1: and there. I'm very happy that they don't have to
Speaker 1: share I mean they used to be like all the
Speaker 1: way in New Jersey. Wow, we love you guys. We
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