WEBVTT - Greatest Stadiums 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.680 Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:13.680 Test Test Test one too. All right, let's start, ladies 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:18.520 and gentlemen, the most formal of all introductions for the Greatest, 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:20.880 because we're trying to fancy it up a little bit. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.680 Because we are currently in our home in Los Angeles. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.400 We're reporting from the quarantine. We are just like everyone 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.360 else in the world, have adjusted to the times. There's 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.960 our first ever episode being recorded in our home. We 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.120 kind of we have a little set up here. I 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:42.159 Heart Radio, UM send us some nice equipment, said, we 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.080 are sending love and well wishes to you and your 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.520 family and hope that you are healthy and safe first 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.400 and foremost, well I was I didn't. I didn't know 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.160 there was some sort of order. Of course, I think 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.320 that's significant. I just want to give people logistical updates. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:57.840 I don't know why you have to tell them about 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:02.000 our equipment, but families SCREENNY, we we do. Hope you 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.800 guys are safe and healthy and doing the right thing 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.080 and staying home. We are locked in this house together. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.600 So it is what week three, I think today marks 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.920 week three, three weeks of us being in this house. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:22.800 So if you could please and review this podcast, but 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:27.880 while you're doing that, if you could send us topic ideas, 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.479 because we have ideas that we are bouncing back and forth. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:33.720 To be perfectly honest, I don't even think c J 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.880 likes the idea we're doing today, but I said, this 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.160 is what we're doing, So I don't know if it's 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.880 if I don't like the idea today or just you know, 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.360 it's it's hard to focus on things right. Rate review 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.440 and then let us know the topics that you would 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:53.400 like to hear us do. We're gonna, hopefully at some 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.720 point have guests when we figure that outre sort of 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.560 like a little test um, but I think it will 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.640 be great if we have a lot to talk about. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.080 The van that was parked right outside of our house 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:09.359 that was blasting Free World drove away. Do you hear anything, Yes, yeah, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.359 it's not the van at these two. Google wants to bed. 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.560 We have new neighbors, we think, and CJ wants to 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.079 put every negative feeling he has onto them, which I 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.240 do appreciate that he's not putting it onto me, But 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.239 it's the neighbor on the other side he's blasting Free World. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.000 But you're like, that guy is cool because he has 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.120 an old range rover. He's an Orange rover and he 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.040 has a Kobe sticker on the front of it. Okay, 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.799 so that's your friends, and this is what he's doing. Well, 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.000 he doesn't know. We're trying to record a podcast in 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:42.079 this environment. The greatest you have to think that at 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.799 every moment, someone is trying to record a podcast. That's 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.040 just that's that's just the climate that we're living in. 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.200 That is a little We're happy that you guys are 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.800 listening to our podcasts in these times. This coffee is 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.040 hitting you in a way. Um, J, my second cup 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:58.840 of coffee. I have some bits I want to do 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:04.040 real quick. I don't know, Um, what's the WiFi here? Okay, 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:05.560 that's like you know when you go into like a 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:09.080 place and your recorded studio or prodcast and yes, um, 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.160 do you guys validate? Yeah, okay, those are the bets 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.720 I wanted to do. You had to hold up a paper. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.120 Remember that. I have another one on here, but it's 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.280 not good. It's since the quarantine has started. Uh. C 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.040 J has gotten into a Twitter feud with an NBA star. Yeah, 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.560 and as Cantor stole my tweet, I didn't know we 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.880 were going to talk about this, but I tweeted. I 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.760 tweeted that now I feel like the exact tweet was. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.800 Now I feel like Jordan's flu game was irresponsible and 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.880 feel like in there, I don't think I feel like 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.520 he's in there. That's what That's what it was. And 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.160 then ten ten or eleven days later and as Cantor 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:53.240 tweeted this same exact thing, word for word, punctuation for punctuation, 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.000 and he was getting numbers, and I was just like, dude, 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:02.840 you can't just steal a little lowly comedy writer, basketball 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.960 video makers tweets like that. Mine went viral. People got 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.080 mad at and and then I because you go and 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:11.640 you look, and it was like a lot of people 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.920 we know, even people that I didn't know that we 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.200 were that good friends with that we're defending you. That's nice. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.600 But then I also saw Celtics fans being like, come on, man, 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.679 this is like the third tweet stolen, Like, I can't 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.600 imagine never doing that to Victor Ladipo. No, I mean, 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.800 and his Cantor is very hate herbal. I can see 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:30.640 him being like a guy on your team that you 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.800 you hate him. You're like, why are we giving n s? 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.520 So many minutes. So you know, some of these guys 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:39.120 will always find a way to be hated during non 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.400 playing times. But what's going on over there? I'm having 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:47.720 some bodily issues. Just okay, So that's the cancer and 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.320 its cantor enis. And then my my good friend who 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:52.920 has hung out with him a few times goes ns 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.280 does that he doesn't care and he doesn't. He acted 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.560 like he didn't the fat Jew of the n b A. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.000 But you know what, we like the fat ju Now. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:05.839 I don't rem mark my words. I do not. Okay, 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.440 other sports updates, We've watched half of the Michael Vick. 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.440 What do you think of that? I thought it was good. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.640 I didn't know that there were two parts, and so 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.720 it ended and I was like, but we haven't gotten 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.520 to the second part. I look forward to the second. 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:25.080 They're doing a very good job of of painting him 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:30.320 sort of as a victim of his narrative now and 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.640 I think, you know, obviously times have changed. I think 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.280 he's changed immensely for the better. But I don't think 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.000 for documentary saying this is a lot of the lot 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.760 of issues I have a documentary sound was that they're 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.160 very biased or they have an agenda. Oh yeah you could. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.760 I could watch a documentary and be like, yeah, I will, 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.599 I will go to Congress, I will march on the hill. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.800 And then I could watch a documentary that is the 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.719 opposing view and go, oh, yeah, no, they're right, Like 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.480 I switched so easy. I don't know if we need 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.160 two parts. I don't I'm not sure I'm going to 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.240 watch the second part. YEA Bleach Report came out with 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.800 a pretty good one a few years called called VIC 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.520 and it's kind of covering the same ground less access 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.080 to his friends and family. But I don't know. Yeah, 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.640 I have always said that, not that anyone cares what 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.159 I say, but I do think the way that it 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.719 went down, in the way that he was vilified, did 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.680 have a lot to do with race. I really do 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:31.640 believe that culture where he came from, all of that was. Um, 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:36.480 that was definitely part of it. And so sometimes, you know, 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.200 I think the first part was laying the groundwork for that. 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.520 Oh you know, oh, I like when you had just 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.200 made me I feel like we're in a star was born, um, 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.200 and then that doesn't end very well. CJ has gotten 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:55.720 some very good news that the Jordan doc he's dropping early. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.240 The ten part. I mean, I just complained about VIC 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.920 being two parts, but the ten hour long ten part 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:05.760 it's I think it's not just Jordan. I think it's 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.680 the Bulls. It's called The Last Dance Esparents released early um, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.840 and it's caused a lot of turmoil, I think. So far, 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.400 Megan and I've been doing pretty well together here in quarantine, 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.760 and I would like to update our listeners. We are 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:19.840 I mean, knock on wood, we haven't gotten as that 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.280 would luster. We haven't gotten in any big blow ups. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.560 And I know that's very surprising since one of us 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.960 is mentally unstable. But CJ got us I am in 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.600 some ways, just quieter ways. CJ got us a ping 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.560 pong table, and I love the ping pong table. It's 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.120 really awesome. It's really great. It gets us to go outside, 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.040 and again I we're very grateful unfortunately we have this 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.560 space we can go outside. Like That's the weird thing 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.480 about being quarantine in l A is it's just so 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.160 beautiful outside and we are a lot of walk outside 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:56.160 and as long as we retain social distance. But yeah, ultimately, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:58.560 you know, it's a little weird where you're like I 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.920 can't go outside, it's poison, can't virus is spreading. But 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.960 then it's just like it's so nice looking outside. How 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:09.720 much do you miss the NBA? What do you think? Well, 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.680 I just is there a way that you could articulate 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.000 it to people that are listening to may also? Yes, 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.320 I mean I think you know a lot of people 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.200 bigger than me. I have already said it. But it 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.960 is our form of escapism. It is the NBA and also, 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.520 especially in the last few years, has had a great 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.200 connection and a great like representation for the majority of 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.720 you know, how we feel about social issues, and for 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.960 these players in the league and Adam Silver and the 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:39.320 fans to not have this platform to either express the 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.400 importance of social issues or just you know, have fun 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.800 and escape and watch these great games is such a 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.199 bummer because it's like, you know, we've gone through events 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.240 like this, national tragedies, and we go, you know, we're 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.240 just gonna get minds off and watched the Super Bowl, 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.960 watch the All Star Game, watch the finals, and what 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.560 do we turn to now? That was the first thing 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:03.360 to go down. Well, yeah, and the added layer of 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:08.679 scariness is that some of the players were sick, you know, 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:13.320 in a way, it almost like thank God, well it 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.880 definitely once they shut down. I do think that helped 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.679 a lot of people that were not tuned into what 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.640 was happening realized this is real. Were you were? You 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.520 were like, did you realize it was that real at 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:29.200 that time? Oh baby, I've been listening to podcasts since 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.240 January about this, But did you know, Like, Hey, we're 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.880 gonna prepare, We're gonna be I kept saying pre this, 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:37.800 I was like, there will be a tipping point, like 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:42.960 something will happen and then we will take it seriously. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:47.240 But I listened to a podcast probably back in February 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.719 that said and it was It's the Daily of the 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.520 New York Times, um and the Health. It was a 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.439 man who had been following it. He had he maybe 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.120 lived in China and as a correspondent, and he was like, 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.079 Americans need to be prepared to worst case scenarios. Spend 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.320 a few weeks at home. And I went into work 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.200 that day and I was like, did anyone else listen 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.600 to this? Because a lot of my coworkers would listen 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.240 to the Daily. And then we started sort of having 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:17.520 conversations like once a day, just a little like coronavirus update. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.760 But then on that Wednesday, I was at dinner with 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.840 a friend from high school and we both had our 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.959 phones away, as I think is nice to do at 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:28.840 a dinner, and you know, we were catching up. I 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.640 hadn't seen her since the weddings. We were chatting and 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.480 she has a baby. And then we both looked down 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.040 at our phones after two hours and the NBA had 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:41.440 been canceled and Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson had tested positive. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.640 And then when we said goodbye, I hugged her like 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.680 three times because I knew then and you hadn't seen 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:53.960 her for years, adding um and I see her like 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.120 four times a year, but I just I knew once 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.400 that happened, Like I went into work the next day 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.960 for like an hour, we ordered lunch, and then they 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.920 sent us home. Like that was that. The m b 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.720 A was the tipping point for a lot of people. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.600 I think that helped them realize. For my dad, it 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.720 was the Masters. Once the Masters was canceled, he was 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.640 like whoa, because that's an outdoor event, like the golfers 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.160 could still in his mind like play. You just don't 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.640 have fans. Like Once that stuff started to share, it 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.480 is interesting, and I'm sure there was conversation about about 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.400 doing the Masters without fans, but you know, I think 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.320 everything was just shutting down. It just would have been 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.120 that your responsible thing to do. Probably we found out 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.120 that this will probably come out in a few days, 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.600 but I found out yesterday that's all the other lovers 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.200 of this did that Wimbledon as canceled? And when and 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.720 like when that really breaks? When does that usually happen? 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:46.400 Um July? Like end of June July. And they can't 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:51.720 postponent because the grass and you know, it's a living 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.640 plant is what they play, so there's not a way 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.760 to sort of recapture that. So that's sad. You know, 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:04.920 we're dealing with sports being canceled. I think sports has 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.480 still brought us some happiness. You and I watched Game 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:14.760 seven of year it was last night. Was kind of 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:18.240 great because all of Twitter and ESPN and you know, 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.760 House the Highlights and all these big sports uls had 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.120 been playing throwback stuff and I feel like last night 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.920 was the one game that everyone is they played the 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.320 two They played Game five in Game seven of the 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.520 two thousand sixteen NBA Finals, where the Calves won, and 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.920 I feel like as a collective. No one has ever 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.840 rewatched a game like that collectively. Yeah, like the whole 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.160 I looked at so many people my well, in my 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.640 Twitter timeline, everyone was tweeting about it as if it 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.720 was just happening. People are noticing things because I just 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.320 think everyone was too nervous during that game to notice 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:57.320 certain things. And so many of my friends that we're 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.760 posting about it. Last night, ever, friend from Cleveland, and 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.760 she was like, I'm so nervous right now, Like I 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.800 know what happens and I'm still nervous. What does it 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.520 make you feel like seeing all those people in the stadium, 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.120 Like do you get anxiety seeing you? Know? It's just 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:14.040 it's very strange to even like watch movies now because 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:18.000 it is so like you're just everything. You're like, let's 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.439 not gonna happen again. That's not gonna happen again. Um, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.719 it's just an old cell phone in a movie. Yeah, 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.760 it feels like a simpler time. I do think we'll 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.439 get back there, And I guess that probably perfectly brings 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.280 us into our topic today. We were inspired to do 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.959 this because this was going around a bit on Twitter. 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.679 I saw I think it's a guy the first person 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.719 I saw do it, Mike Dine, and I don't know him, 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:46.320 but thanks for the inspiration. And it was people listing 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.560 their first stadium, their last stadium, their best stadium, and 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.360 there were stadium and I partook. I'm changing it a 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:58.920 little bit. But we thought, in the spirit of oh God, 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.360 honoring a place that we love to go for sure, 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:05.360 that we would do an episode about the greatest stadium. Yes, 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.640 and hopefully it doesn't bring too much pain to our hearts. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.240 I don't think so at all. I think we'll look 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.560 back with fondness. And even as even as I was 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.760 like doing the Twitter challenge, I I wasn't a challenge. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:22.480 No one asked me to do it. But I had softened, 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.520 like I had. Even so Philip Rivers is now on 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.800 the Colts and that has happened since the I know, 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.120 but I've even everyone's like, you're gonna like him, You're 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.000 gonna like him. I'm like, oh, well not. And I 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.960 have softened like it's just like, wow, football seems beautiful, 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:44.240 Like that's it's everything is um you it's Red Britains, 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:49.200 you know, it's it's it's hindsight with beauty and um, 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.800 did you make that up. I guess I don't think 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.920 it's like correct rems with beauty. I said, hindsight with 0:14:55.920 --> 0:15:04.680 beauty with beauty. Okay, boy, so we're fine. We're fine. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.760 CJ's mom is also texting us about um fake Louis 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.560 Baton masks she's making up. My mom has been doing 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.640 a very good job in this quarantine. She's been staying inside, 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.120 but now she's picked up hobbies where she's making fake 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.520 Matt not fake Mass, fake Louis bat Yeah, she's using 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.760 fake Louis but Louis Vatton fabric to make masks, which 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:28.280 is great. So um, let's get into our first pick. Okay, 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.320 our first pick for greatest stadiumium. And I want to 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.600 preface I haven't been that many stadiums have I really 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.320 I was thinking about it in the shower, and you 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:41.520 really have all the ones that you've dragged me to. Um, Okay, 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.920 my first stadium that I would like to talk about 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:48.960 is twenty minutes from our home, Staples Center. You're gonna 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:53.120 clap for that greatest stadium. I just think it is 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.880 one of those, uh is one of those stadiums that 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.320 has talked about that it is. It has characters so 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.760 many things have happened there is distinct looking and a 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.720 lot of people have been talking about it lately because 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:10.200 the Clippers just bought the Forum, which was a legendary 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:15.280 Lakers like Lakers one I can't remember, like it was 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.560 like old school cool. It reminded me of a giant 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.760 movie theater, one of your favorite Fresh Prince episodes and 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.160 too for them to move and I gotta look back 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.760 and see how you know, Lakers fans or l a 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.400 people kind of felt about it, but then to recreate. 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.200 That's why I don't think people are that mad about it, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.240 because so much history has happened in the Staples Center 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.440 and when you go, it is truly it's an experience 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.640 that goes beyond sports. It's you know, culture. You see 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.600 all the celebrities there and I'm talking to Lakers games 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.120 and even Clippers games and Sparks games have been there. 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.600 It is, I think, a really great stadium. I think 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.320 it's easy to get to. I think, you know, I 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.680 think the food can step up a little bit. It's 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.080 mostly a lot of chains, like you get a Blaze 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.160 Pizza there, you get Tonnelds. But um so the food 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.760 experience isn't that great. But I think it is a 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:09.520 great kind of middle ground of like luxury and fun 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:14.040 seeing like celebrities and you know. And they dimmed the 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.760 lights around the at least for Lakers games. They dimmed 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.520 the audience and they the court is just kind of 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:23.240 like lit up like a show, like a Broadway Boys show, 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.760 and I just love that atmosphere. Now, what was the 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.919 first stadium we ever went to? UM Probably gund Arena 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.439 in Cleveland, Ohio to see the Bulls versus the Calves, 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:40.119 and that's no longer. That's so interesting that some of 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.679 these that we love are the very first stadium I 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.119 went to. Gosh, and I wasn't gonna put it on 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:47.760 my list, but I guess it will because I really 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.359 did love it. The first stadium I ever went to 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.639 was the Hoosier Dome UM, which then got changed. The 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.560 name was changed to the our Cia Dome, and our 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.600 high school used to play our rival high school in 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.280 the Who's Your Dome And it was like, so, I mean, 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.520 I was a child, but we would get like you 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.439 would go in a suite quote unquote because they were 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.119 like four thousand people there, you conn have a suite, 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:14.040 and it was just it would get so loud during 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.959 Colt schemes. I remember people talking about it being the 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:22.280 loudest stadium, and I do know a lot of people 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.960 will take offense to this because football stadiums are supposed 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.560 to be outdoor, and so that's why I don't have 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:31.280 Lucas Oil on here, even though I think Lucas Oil here. No. 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:35.480 I think Lucas Soil is so beautiful and so amazing 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:40.320 and has hosted a super Bowl, multiple final fours. It's 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.560 really considered like a crown jewel. But a lot of 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:48.320 purists say football stadiums should be outside, and so it 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.080 has all these beautiful features and really great food and 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.359 hanging cars and pyrotechnics, but it's able to do that. 0:18:55.520 --> 0:19:00.240 Go ahead performing performing in the horseshoe. I think the 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.879 ceiling being the ceiling being able to open, the windows 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.200 opening like the first time I went into it, I cried, 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:11.480 for sure, But the Hoosier Dome felt like one of 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.360 those like old nasty stadiums, like we would be at 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:20.399 games and stuff would be falling from the world. I 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.800 did because it just felt like home to me because 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.520 it was my first experience, um the first NFL game 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.480 I ever saw, was there High School, like it just 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:36.520 everything happened there. It was the center of Indianapolis, like 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.719 fun for me as a kid. And I think there 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.399 are good and bad versions of that. I like a 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.280 stadium that is classic and has a lot of history 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:48.080 but has been like well maintained. I think, I don't 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.320 know if it was just a bad game I went to, 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:55.080 but I went to Wriggley, and I do not like Wriggley. 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:56.960 I mean, I don't know if they've updated it since, 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.800 but it was cold old and this is I'm talking 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:02.960 about like a game in August that I saw and 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:04.679 it was like if you get in the shade at Wrigley, 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:10.440 it is freezing. Yeah, so Wrigley has undergo a chap 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:15.400 like a renovation, I think. I think I do think 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.320 they pumped like a billion or something in there. But 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.080 when I used to work in Chicago, my two like 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.000 assignments would be to go to the Cell and to 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.840 go to the US cellular field where and then to 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.439 go to Wrigley. And just as like a person that 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:36.959 was using things, the Cell was like a mecca. And 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.560 then Wrigley, even though it's this hollow ground and the 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:44.360 goat and the mr it was like this is falling apart. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:48.520 They remember Lupinello would do his press conferences in a 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.920 sod closet that they converted into like a press room. 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.760 It would be so hot to get up to like 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:57.960 the press box. Sometimes you would have to climb a 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:02.000 this sort of staircase but half the ladder. It was 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:08.240 really not a great like working environment. And having been 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.440 in even their clubhouse and then seeing the White Sox clubhouse, 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.160 it was like, oh, you guys are being screwed because 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.280 but but a lot of players we're fine with that 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:19.560 because it was like, you're playing at Wrigley. It's a 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:22.480 lot nicer now. But I am not one of those 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:26.920 people that like loves the Wrigley. We also, yeah, it's 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.000 it's I think it is a little bit biased because 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.320 we had moved to Chicago to do comedy and that's 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:34.320 where all the comedians had lived was in that area, 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:38.040 and boy, what an inconvenience. Oh yeah, I mean for anything. 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.280 I feel like I've mentioned this on this podcast, where 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:41.960 you would get a letter at the beginning of the 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.160 season that was like, hey, sorry, your house is about 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:46.199 to get really fucked up by Cubs fans, And that 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:50.280 was the exact and you're like, okay, I would be 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.359 forty five minutes late to work at Blockbuster because and 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:55.720 I would have left a half hour early to make 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.800 it on time, but the trains would just be too full. 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:01.159 You kind of get on and the vibe of just 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:04.960 like Wriggley area in general. We would do bad shows there, 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.600 we would we lived there, so we did have love 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:11.399 for it, but it was it's not our favorite a 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:14.920