Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio,
Speaker 1: and welcome back to I said, welcome back up, Tom.
Speaker 1: I guess it's because we took a break to the Greatest.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Megan, I'm good. How are you? I'm
Speaker 1: doing good. It's it's good to be back. Your name
Speaker 1: is c J. My name is c J told, my
Speaker 1: name is Megan. Sorry, I'm just like getting back in
Speaker 1: the groove of this. Yesterday you said we got to
Speaker 1: do a podcast, and I forgot we had a podcast.
Speaker 1: I did know. You've had a lot of life stuff
Speaker 1: going on, and so it's good to get back and
Speaker 1: just talk about the trivial stuff like sports. But we
Speaker 1: did miss you, guys. We missed ranking the greatest crop
Speaker 1: shots ever. That's what we were going to do last week.
Speaker 1: My number one was going to be when Lebron accidentally
Speaker 1: showed his penis talking about that. So there you are,
Speaker 1: sorry for missing last week. Do you want to tell
Speaker 1: them your number one? No, that could have been my
Speaker 1: number one pick for this week's topic. Okay, alright, so no, um,
Speaker 1: no spoils for this week, but just a little uh
Speaker 1: teaser of what would have been last week? What would
Speaker 1: have been last week, we'll do that as a minisode.
Speaker 1: Is that a Is that a term? A minis um?
Speaker 1: Joining us this week is one of our dearest, dearest friends,
Speaker 1: one of the funniest comedians we know. Some would say
Speaker 1: the m v P of our wedding very like in
Speaker 1: terms of original content, this guy brought it. And yes,
Speaker 1: without further ado, let's welcome our guests for this week,
Speaker 1: Tommy McNamara. Wow, I'm so excited to be here. If
Speaker 1: you can't get Lebron's penis, you can get me. You
Speaker 1: know what we weren't actually going to interview is Penis.
Speaker 1: We were just gonna send everybody to the link of
Speaker 1: the video to rewatch him. But interviewing is a really
Speaker 1: good idea that actually I'm gonna put that up on
Speaker 1: the white board for next time I interview Lebron's penis. Guy. No,
Speaker 1: you know Dr Fauci and Braun at the same pr guy.
Speaker 1: So we just got to get in columns somebody that
Speaker 1: we did sign an NBA with. But I'm happy we
Speaker 1: know that, and I don't think those were part of
Speaker 1: the terms of the NBA. Tommy, how are you? I'm
Speaker 1: doing great. Yeah, it's been a nice, nice weekend. Dr
Speaker 1: Faucci went to my college, like holy Cross? Holy Cross?
Speaker 1: So did my grand My grandpa went there on a
Speaker 1: basketball scholarship, Yes, which I love that fact. He was
Speaker 1: five seven. Maybe it was the time. Yeah, in same
Speaker 1: with the doctor of Sports Bill Simmons, he went to
Speaker 1: holy Cross. The list keeps getting better. There's a big
Speaker 1: statue of him and house in Jacko Onion Rings yelling
Speaker 1: about the Celtics. Did any notable women go to holy Cross?
Speaker 1: Of course I can't think of right now. Okay, Tommy,
Speaker 1: you're um, You're in your bedroom surrounded by I see
Speaker 1: balls banner, a Cubs flag? Who is batting Chris Bryant? Okay, great, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So every time I zoom with someone, they're like, oh, cool,
Speaker 1: you're at your parents house. You're from your childhood bedroom.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, this is my third year old man
Speaker 1: bedroom and this is how I've chosen to decorate it
Speaker 1: with all sports memorabilia. Are you and your girlfriend living
Speaker 1: together yet? No? No? But basically, okay, when you put
Speaker 1: that pressure on the man, I'm only asking that in
Speaker 1: terms of, like, how does she feel about your decorating?
Speaker 1: I think she's learned a lot about the Cubs because
Speaker 1: I have all the World Series stats on this poster
Speaker 1: in the back and you can kind of read which
Speaker 1: games they won. I think she's been studying it when
Speaker 1: I'm not in the room. I'm assuming she's studying on
Speaker 1: the wall, regurgitating the facts to you. And at dinner
Speaker 1: she's going to have like a Gloria on Jeopardy and
Speaker 1: White Man Can't Jump moment where it's like Cubs World
Speaker 1: Series victory and she's gonna be like, man, I feel
Speaker 1: can hate how Tommy decorates, but now I know every
Speaker 1: single answer. Yeah, it's all good, Sammy. I must called you.
Speaker 1: Sammy knocked us through the seventy Tommy sang an original
Speaker 1: song on our wedding, and I have been seeing people
Speaker 1: over the last few weeks and it has been brought
Speaker 1: up to me by every single person i've seen. Really, yes,
Speaker 1: that is very exciting to me. I think you're like
Speaker 1: my mom's favorite comedian, because you know, she went to
Speaker 1: the wedding and she knew all of our friends were comedians,
Speaker 1: but no one was being funny, you know, to her,
Speaker 1: except for you, who like had it before. You managed
Speaker 1: to do a show at our wedding. During the ceremony,
Speaker 1: and it was amazing. You got time. Well I knew that,
Speaker 1: you know, comedy was going to shut down. I was like,
Speaker 1: I need to get time wherever I can. Any time
Speaker 1: I have a crowd, I need to perform. And there
Speaker 1: was some industry there. My managers were there. They saw
Speaker 1: you would have gotten Montreal this summer. If only Jeff
Speaker 1: Singer had been in our wedding. If Jeff Singer was
Speaker 1: getting married this year, I would be at his wedding.
Speaker 1: I just get invited to industry weddings. I don't get.
Speaker 1: That's very insided. People listening. That is the guy who
Speaker 1: decides people's careers in this business for some reason. Um.
Speaker 1: But so, Tommy, your your allegiances lie in all Chicago sports?
Speaker 1: Is that correct? Yes, all Chicago pro sports. Notre Dame
Speaker 1: for college because my dad went there. But mostly the
Speaker 1: teams I care about the most there. Yeah, Cubs and
Speaker 1: Bears and Bulls. Nice. How do you feel about the Bulls?
Speaker 1: I guess the last few things that happened with them
Speaker 1: they fired boiling, which is great. Um, and then they
Speaker 1: got the what what pick do they have fourth for? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that? I'm really excited I'm
Speaker 1: very excited for new front office and a new coach.
Speaker 1: I took them so long to fire Boiling that it
Speaker 1: made me really nervous. I was like, I mean, they
Speaker 1: come longer than most people thought they would, Like they
Speaker 1: thought new GM and everything, like he's definitely gone and no, yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be literally his first action,
Speaker 1: like before he decorates his office, he's fired Jim Boiler,
Speaker 1: like he has his moving box in his hand, and
Speaker 1: Boiling is getting fired at that moment. But now my
Speaker 1: dream is that Jim Boylan will get hired by thee
Speaker 1: because the greatest meltdown in the history of basketball, and
Speaker 1: they're already like halfway through that meltdown, you know, so
Speaker 1: they just need someone to finish it off. Football shockingly
Speaker 1: starts on Thursday. I can't believe it. We're barreling towards it.
Speaker 1: It's coming despite all outside forces, but it is happening.
Speaker 1: Mitch Trovitsky has been named the starter as far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned. He beat out Nick Foles in in training camp.
Speaker 1: How how do you feel about this Bear's season? I
Speaker 1: am like the biggest Mitch. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: I every time I'm watching the game, I hate him,
Speaker 1: and then whenever anyone says anything bad about him, like
Speaker 1: give him another time. And I still feel that. Ways,
Speaker 1: Like when he got named the starter, I was excited,
Speaker 1: Like in the off season, I really wanted them to
Speaker 1: get Teddy Bridgewater. That was like I had my heart
Speaker 1: set on that, and they got fools, which was kind
Speaker 1: of like, he's not a guaranteed starter. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: he wanted super Bowl, but it wasn't like it wasn't
Speaker 1: the most exciting thing to me. So I'm happy that
Speaker 1: they're going with Mitch. And you know, Cordon Patterson said
Speaker 1: that he thinks he's a whole new player now, which
Speaker 1: someone says every year and which is also kind of
Speaker 1: a dig in and of itself too, Like, Mitch, we
Speaker 1: know you feel good about the last few years. We
Speaker 1: do not, though, um so we're just gonna pretend that
Speaker 1: you're a whole new person now. Yes, no, Yeah, Mitch
Speaker 1: is like a Chicago quarterback who is bad and you
Speaker 1: feel bad for me. But he's not like an asshole.
Speaker 1: He's not like a you know, like to some extent,
Speaker 1: like Mitch, I feel very maternal over him, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: people are mean to him, I'm just well, and I
Speaker 1: think Chicago and especially Bears fans are just like so
Speaker 1: relentless because you have this history of having not great quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: and so he's almost like kind of eat well. And
Speaker 1: then the ma homes and there's just like a lot
Speaker 1: of things that kind of didn't go right, but this
Speaker 1: could it seems like your division is fine. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Packers aren't gonna do as well as they didn't remains
Speaker 1: to be seen. You know, the Vikings seem like they
Speaker 1: could be pretty good, and then the Lions are you know,
Speaker 1: a coin flip towards disaster or being good every year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the thing I love about Mitch is, you know,
Speaker 1: whenever someone gets drafted, people immediately go through their old
Speaker 1: tweets and try to cancel them. And the closest Mitch
Speaker 1: got to that was an old tweet where he said
Speaker 1: I love kissing titties. That's what. It's the worst thing
Speaker 1: this guy's got. Can cancel someone over that, but that like, oh,
Speaker 1: look at this tweet. That's like, yeah, that's great. Kissing
Speaker 1: them is like so like the pornographic way to say
Speaker 1: that is sucking them. But he's like, no, I just
Speaker 1: like to kiss him. Yeah, they're nice. You kiss things
Speaker 1: you like in deserve respect. Well, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say last year it was looked at
Speaker 1: such a disaster and they went eight and eight. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like, if that's the worst things are going to go,
Speaker 1: then I don't know. I feel confident, you know, if
Speaker 1: they're just I'm I'm nervous. I think there's going to
Speaker 1: be a lot of injuries because there's been not really
Speaker 1: a lot of contact because of coronavirus, you know factors.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Nick Foles maybe in there. What you do
Speaker 1: you guys have a third string I would I would
Speaker 1: hope they've invested in that. You're in the third string
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Bears, and I can't I don't know
Speaker 1: who it is at the top of my head, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I I don't know. I would hope that Mitch would
Speaker 1: finish the season, But if he gets hurt and then
Speaker 1: maybe Folds will do the same thing he did with
Speaker 1: the Eagles and we can have the great the season
Speaker 1: ever lives awesome. You have a very good defense, and
Speaker 1: you have a coach who doesn't seem to like the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and so that seems like a recipe for success. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is so bizarre that it's happening this week. I
Speaker 1: cannot believe it, Like I can't put my head around it. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're watching Hard Knocks for the last few weeks and
Speaker 1: the practices are hilarious where it's like everywhere in the
Speaker 1: mask and then it's like the next scene is him
Speaker 1: like the coach yelling at them for not rapping on
Speaker 1: a tackle. You know, It's like I feel like you
Speaker 1: just got to go all in on one way, like
Speaker 1: if they're all in, if you get it, you get it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I also shouldn't be giving away medical
Speaker 1: advice too. I would just like to say that the
Speaker 1: greatest stance is not heard immunity. Um c J speaks
Speaker 1: for himself. I do not think everyone in the NFL
Speaker 1: should get it or not get it. They should replace
Speaker 1: the front face mask of a helmet with like they
Speaker 1: have made. I think they have made helmet adjustments, and
Speaker 1: I honest, so you can't remember the helmet adjustments are
Speaker 1: because of brain damage or because of pandemic. But I
Speaker 1: know that they've done tweaks because they showed them on
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks, like putting on new ones and guys being
Speaker 1: like not on like that one. Yeah, like that, Like
Speaker 1: they are outfitting them in a new stuff. It's wild.
Speaker 1: The cults are going to have fans there, which the
Speaker 1: number sounds large when you think about it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a giant stadium that does have open roof. Are
Speaker 1: you okay? Do I seem not okay? Well, yesterday, Tommy,
Speaker 1: we're watching TV and nothing on the television was football,
Speaker 1: and Megan took a big sign she goes a week
Speaker 1: from now, I'll be cheering for Philip Rivers. Like, there's
Speaker 1: just a lot of different um thing challenges in life
Speaker 1: in and one of mine is having to wrap my
Speaker 1: head around feeling positive thoughts towards Philip Rivers. What isn't
Speaker 1: about Philip Rivers? I mean, I know he's always just
Speaker 1: been like a vanilla, but like so he taunted Colts
Speaker 1: fans after a playoff win, like he's a little he's
Speaker 1: one of those little Christian hot dogs where it's not
Speaker 1: like I'd rather have a Christian quiet. Okay, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna be into the God, just shut the funk up.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be into God. But then you're doing little
Speaker 1: finger guns and wearing your bowlow tie and doing the shocker.
Speaker 1: You piss me off, you know, talking to two Midwest
Speaker 1: Catholic boys here, so we're not on your sis. I'm
Speaker 1: a Midwest Catholic girl and I will fuck you up. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna root for him. Listen, he's on the god
Speaker 1: squad and now he's on my squad. So whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: people who are going to go to the games, Megan,
Speaker 1: I'm sure no one has like told, like, my parents
Speaker 1: gave away their tickets, my mom my, mom goes, she goes.
Speaker 1: I just want to tail Kate, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: really even care about the games. I just want to
Speaker 1: tail she goes. So maybe we're just gonna tailgate in
Speaker 1: our driveway and invite our friends over. They gave their
Speaker 1: not going to one game this season, gave up privileges, Uh,
Speaker 1: would not? I mean I think it's totally reasonable to
Speaker 1: consider it. Yeah, it's such a bad idea, but like
Speaker 1: just the thought of, like not that there's a real situation,
Speaker 1: but you're just saying would you go? It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I could go. And I see how there's people that
Speaker 1: have like had COVID already and feel like they've got
Speaker 1: this to me the reality of having fans there, It's like, well,
Speaker 1: then you're asking a whole another amount of workers to
Speaker 1: also be there. And so it's like, yeah, if fans
Speaker 1: could just be there and no one would have to
Speaker 1: be at the stadium in in peril, But like you've
Speaker 1: got to have concessions, parking, tickets, security, Like you're just
Speaker 1: adding in people at every every time you want another
Speaker 1: round of whoever is there, whether it's a family of players,
Speaker 1: you know, I totally get that. Then you've got to
Speaker 1: have more. You want to have fans, you gotta have more.
Speaker 1: So twenty five hundred fans. But when you think about
Speaker 1: the staff that maybe five hundred people not being paid
Speaker 1: hazard pay that have to go to the stadiums, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I don't know how I would feel. Maybe
Speaker 1: they really want to work, and maybe they were given
Speaker 1: the option, who knows, but that that's how I that's
Speaker 1: how I'd be, Like, I don't want to go, but
Speaker 1: the Rams Chargers new Stadium looks beautiful and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to go when it feels really really safe. Mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went to two NBA games the week before the
Speaker 1: shutdown at Madison Square Garden. One that MSG and one
Speaker 1: at Barclay's UM and it was crazy. Obviously I was
Speaker 1: very naive about you know, I read all the international news,
Speaker 1: but I was, you know, naive about it. So I
Speaker 1: went to Nick's Jazz, which is very funny. I saw
Speaker 1: really go there like yeah, and then went to Bull's Nets.
Speaker 1: I think it was like the Sunday before Wednesday was
Speaker 1: like everything shut down. Those could have been super spreader events,
Speaker 1: like did you panic when you heard the the Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert news. I was For some reason, I was more
Speaker 1: nervous when I saw that four Nets had testifies it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was just so it was also weird,
Speaker 1: and I think at the time, I think for a
Speaker 1: lot of people, I've heard other people think this too.
Speaker 1: It's like it wasn't until that Jazz game than that
Speaker 1: whole Gobert thing happened that I really thought of it
Speaker 1: as a real thing in America. And I just remember
Speaker 1: that moment that I did have that like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I was, you know, pretty close to Rudy Gobert not
Speaker 1: that long ago, like I was in Good Seats c J.
Speaker 1: You went to these seats at MSc that was there's
Speaker 1: such great seats, so you're really close. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I could throw a ball and
Speaker 1: hit Rudy Gobert, which I might should have done with
Speaker 1: how we spread that disease. He sneezed. We may not
Speaker 1: be talking to you right now. I would say, as
Speaker 1: a huge NBA fan, if I was to get COVID
Speaker 1: in anyway, I would pick through Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 1: You know that's so okay. I'm sorry. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: so people are already unsubscribing because of my theories on
Speaker 1: this disease. I am taking very seriously. But so, how
Speaker 1: have you been enjoying these NBA playoffs in the whole bubble?
Speaker 1: It has like changed, um, how I'm doing psychologically so
Speaker 1: much like just having these games to watch. I've been
Speaker 1: watching so much basketball and just like even just like
Speaker 1: looking at scores, just like I feel like my mood
Speaker 1: and my life has gotten immeasurably better and I'm so
Speaker 1: happy that it's working out so well, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: like when I watch baseball, I feel like more nervous
Speaker 1: and guilty, and when I watch basketball, like they're doing
Speaker 1: a great job. So it's been it's been so great
Speaker 1: and the playoffs have been so good. I've been Something
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about is I think if anyone says
Speaker 1: this is an asterisk title, it's only because your team lost. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's harder. Yeah, It's like it seems like it
Speaker 1: should be like an asterisk in the good way. This
Speaker 1: is like a it's like a bold title like this,
Speaker 1: there's no home court advantage and we're watching the best
Speaker 1: team in the league right now. They're currently down three
Speaker 1: one the Bucks. It gives the heat and I think
Speaker 1: some of it is due to the conditions in the
Speaker 1: no home court advantage, and yeah, it's just it's such
Speaker 1: a weird time. It's such a weird time and weird
Speaker 1: like atmosphere, and the games have been so good too,
Speaker 1: And I think they're not traveling is a huge thing
Speaker 1: for these guys. I mean, I must I compare it
Speaker 1: to myself as as a professor comedian, but like the
Speaker 1: day you travel, you're just so tired and miserable, and
Speaker 1: it's like that definitely does affect the way they play.
Speaker 1: Like you can't say it doesn't. Boy that Thursday show
Speaker 1: at a club, I'm like, I hope I make it
Speaker 1: through you know, because they're giving out free tickets to
Speaker 1: see me for sure. So it's people that already are
Speaker 1: like I don't like this. You know, they've been invested in,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, listen, I woke up at five am
Speaker 1: l A time to fly to Wisconsin to try and
Speaker 1: figure out what you people like and listen, by Thursday night,
Speaker 1: I don't have it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, they look really
Speaker 1: sharp and fresh and shooting started bad in those seating games,
Speaker 1: but now it's gotten really good. Yeah, so many great games.
Speaker 1: I've loved it. I almost I'm like, man, we should
Speaker 1: do the bubble every playoffs. I don't know, I just
Speaker 1: I do really like the even playing ground. I think
Speaker 1: it changes the game. And yeah, like you said, every
Speaker 1: game is close, like and just psychologically like we didn't
Speaker 1: have sports for what four months and for it to
Speaker 1: come back, and there are games that we're starting at
Speaker 1: like ten thirty AMR time, like on the West Coast,
Speaker 1: but just like having it all day is just and
Speaker 1: we're inside and like we can watch them like I
Speaker 1: was watching I can't remember when they were before the
Speaker 1: regular season. I was watching some of the worst which
Speaker 1: would have been the worst games that uh that we're playing,
Speaker 1: but I was just watching all of it mm hmm,
Speaker 1: just because I think the last dance to like bridge
Speaker 1: that really important gap leading up to it too, it
Speaker 1: was yeah, and like that would that like scratch that
Speaker 1: itch for me? But once that ended, like that time
Speaker 1: in between that and basketball was really brutal, and I'm
Speaker 1: still up so much happier now. Who do you got?
Speaker 1: What are your predictions for the playoffs? I think it
Speaker 1: is going to be I don't know. I've been standing
Speaker 1: for the Lakers. I uh, I don't know why, but
Speaker 1: I've always been a Lebron guy, even though you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a Bulls fan, and he was going up against
Speaker 1: them with the heat teams and everything. But I've just
Speaker 1: always like Lebron, and I feel like this could be
Speaker 1: his last one, so I've been all in on them,
Speaker 1: even though the Clippers are probably way better. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the Clippers are better. They are, I mean
Speaker 1: they are, but like Lebron is just different, like playoff Lebron.
Speaker 1: I think he will step it up in ways. I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen the best of like a d or
Speaker 1: Lebron yet, and they have one. They've won the last
Speaker 1: two against them. Did they matter? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: mhm um, all right, should we get into the topic. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's take a break and then we'll be right back
Speaker 1: with the topic. Okay, and we are back and this
Speaker 1: week's topic. Coming off the heels of last week's greatest
Speaker 1: crop shot, we decided to do greatest. We're going to
Speaker 1: do that NBA layoff moment. Okay, was there was there
Speaker 1: some confusion between c J and I as to whether
Speaker 1: we are doing greatest playoff moment or greatest is playoff performance? Yes,
Speaker 1: there was, but we are well no, because moment for me,
Speaker 1: I'm like, that could be when I got really good,
Speaker 1: not chose at Come shut up, j I love you.
Speaker 1: You're sweaty? Are you sweaty? But just your arm? Interesting? Okay, So,
Speaker 1: greatest playoff moment, Tommy, you are illustrious. Guests, please lead
Speaker 1: us off with your number three. Pick the three? Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: here's what I think, okay, Ione, just so you do
Speaker 1: your your least best, my least best first okay, okay. Interesting,
Speaker 1: So here's what I'm thinking is stalling. So I am
Speaker 1: going to say Jordan sixty against the Celtics, just announcing
Speaker 1: himself as I'm the best player in the league right now,
Speaker 1: I'm playing against this amazing team, this legendary team, and
Speaker 1: no one can stop me, no matter what they throw
Speaker 1: at me. I think reliving that in the last Dance
Speaker 1: is just uh, just realizing how cool that would be
Speaker 1: to see someone do that. You know, I don't think
Speaker 1: I was alive at the time, but it's just it's
Speaker 1: just truly amazing, you know, and having you know, fifty
Speaker 1: whatever in the game before that and then just coming
Speaker 1: out three. It's it's truly incredible. People don't really talk
Speaker 1: about that, but yeah, that's like the it's the game
Speaker 1: where whenever they show the high it's Jordans with hair.
Speaker 1: He's very skinny, short shorts playing against the Celtics. Who ever,
Speaker 1: I think all of the Celtics starters are now Hall
Speaker 1: of famers, um and just a young Michael Jordan's. I
Speaker 1: think they were the eighth seed going against some one
Speaker 1: seed and yeah, like you said, no one ever mentions
Speaker 1: Game one where I think he had fifty two or
Speaker 1: something like that, but they lost. Did they lose? I forget?
Speaker 1: I think he had and they lost. But then yeah,
Speaker 1: he does that like scissor like between the legs and
Speaker 1: then shoots it over. I can't I remember, but it's
Speaker 1: just like we're seeing a little bit of that now
Speaker 1: with um with like Donovan, I guess, well, Donovan is
Speaker 1: not a rookie. There is someone now. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like Jordan's sixty point game in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I forget who, but it's three. It was like it
Speaker 1: felt like that, like the coming out party. You know,
Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna shoot and I'm still gonna make it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because this really, I mean in the last dance, I'm
Speaker 1: just I've avoid it all Jordan thinks until the last dance.
Speaker 1: So any opinion I have is based on what Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan's wants me to think, which, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of fine with. But this definitely this was like
Speaker 1: the Rise and they have like funny footage of Celtics
Speaker 1: players like looking at each other like what the who
Speaker 1: is this? What's happening right now? And then them just
Speaker 1: being astounded, And it really was like, Oh, if you
Speaker 1: haven't been paying attention to this guy now, you're definitely
Speaker 1: going to Yeah, great first pick. So I did pick
Speaker 1: a performance, but my next to our moments, So that's
Speaker 1: performance as well. It's a moment. Okay, c did you
Speaker 1: want to go next to you? Do want me to
Speaker 1: go next? Um, I'll go next, just really quickly. Again,
Speaker 1: it's a performance, but it is I think it is
Speaker 1: a moment in that it is a chapter or you know,
Speaker 1: a thing that happened in this guy's career that was
Speaker 1: kind of his coming out. But it is the it's
Speaker 1: Lebron's twenty nine straight against the Pistons in the playoffs. Tommy,
Speaker 1: you're shaking head? Did I steal this one from you?
Speaker 1: That was when I was thinking of doing And but
Speaker 1: I love it. I'm happy you picked because remember well
Speaker 1: it's twenty yeah, twenty nine and the last thirty against
Speaker 1: the Pistons, and I believe was it game five or
Speaker 1: Game six? But this is the game. So this series
Speaker 1: was Calves Pistons, and the Pistons are defending champions and
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, it's just a Pistons time. Now
Speaker 1: they're gonna just like win everyone. Lebron is good, but
Speaker 1: like he doesn't have enough help. He like this is
Speaker 1: like the first Lebron just like taking it in his
Speaker 1: own hands. Um. Young, I think he's like three or
Speaker 1: four years into the league at this point, brings it
Speaker 1: into overtime scores twenty nine of the last thirty, and
Speaker 1: the Calves end up going to the finals against the
Speaker 1: Spurs where they get swept um. But it is truly like,
Speaker 1: I'm that was the moment where I was like, I, I,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm like a die hard Bowls fan, and
Speaker 1: I haven't really found anyone I'm like consistently rooting for,
Speaker 1: but I'm just like, I this was awesome to watch,
Speaker 1: and I really want to root for this guy, and
Speaker 1: because it's just genuine was so fun and incredible to watch.
Speaker 1: I remember watching this game so vividly. I remember watching
Speaker 1: it with my dad and we were both just freaking out,
Speaker 1: and I remember like jumping up and down when he
Speaker 1: because he just kept scoring and it was truly amazing
Speaker 1: to watch it. I grew up, so I was born
Speaker 1: in nine d so obviously the Bulls won six championships,
Speaker 1: but they won the last one when I was eight
Speaker 1: years old, so you know, I my brain wasn't really
Speaker 1: developed enough to like understand and it was just kind
Speaker 1: of like what was happening? And I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're the Bulls, we have the best player. He does
Speaker 1: what everyone. You know, we went every time, but Lebron
Speaker 1: felt like the first player where I was watching someone
Speaker 1: have that, you know, in real time as like an
Speaker 1: adult into someone who really loved sports in that way,
Speaker 1: not just as a little baby boy. So and he
Speaker 1: wasn't like you were programmed. You were kind of like
Speaker 1: the bulls as a kid. You know, you really didn't
Speaker 1: have an option. It's like Lebron almost like wood you.
Speaker 1: He charmed you over to his side because he wasn't
Speaker 1: on a team that you rooted for, say a team
Speaker 1: you probably very much rooted against. And yeah, he like
Speaker 1: he wooed us all. He he actually is the bachelor.
Speaker 1: You know, we all accepted the rose from Lebron. I did,
Speaker 1: okay my number three pick. It will come as no
Speaker 1: surprise that it is the eight points in nine seconds
Speaker 1: if I get a chance to bring it up on
Speaker 1: the podcast of going to I absolutely love it. I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, they have like twenty year anniversary articles about it.
Speaker 1: It's incredible and yeah, it lifted the Pacers over the Knicks.
Speaker 1: I'll give the breakdown. If you've ever listened to this podcast,
Speaker 1: you've heard it before. You could just go back to
Speaker 1: previous episodes, but the Pacers were down one oh five
Speaker 1: twenty seconds left. Reggie scored two quick threes, then was
Speaker 1: fouled hit both foul shots got to the eight points
Speaker 1: in nine seconds. The Pacers went on to beat the
Speaker 1: Knicks and win the series. So it wasn't us like
Speaker 1: a snapshot of like wow, that was wild and then
Speaker 1: like turned and you know that was the Pacers and
Speaker 1: nixt They were classic enemies of the nineties and it
Speaker 1: it was a momentum swift, swift, you can do it?
Speaker 1: Do it? What's swift? Okay, I meant to say shift,
Speaker 1: but it was a swift shift, swift shift, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And so yeah, I remember it and
Speaker 1: him and Spike and they're just they're they're iconic. He
Speaker 1: is iconic. Together, it was one of the it's like
Speaker 1: one of the greatest nineties NBA moments in general. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love winning time is so good that thirty thirty
Speaker 1: and I just like love. I definitely went down to
Speaker 1: YouTube rabbital after watching that and just like I think,
Speaker 1: I feel like I watched that like five times in
Speaker 1: a row, just because it's so wild. We've talked about
Speaker 1: it so many times in this podcast. But it's like
Speaker 1: a top ten comedy movie to me. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just like so funny. The personalities and like John Starks
Speaker 1: and I can't remember whose mom was yelling at who.
Speaker 1: But it's just so many characters and we can't recommend
Speaker 1: that documentary enough. All right, going to the next pick. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not stolling anymore. I know exactly what I'm gonna do,
Speaker 1: and I think I'm gonna be stealing this one from
Speaker 1: c J. I have a theory. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: we'll see it is the ray al and shot for
Speaker 1: the Heat. That Yeah, that was one of the best
Speaker 1: basketball players I've ever seen live, the Chris Bosh rebound.
Speaker 1: I've always been a huge Bosh fan. He finds him
Speaker 1: in the corner and just the way he got his
Speaker 1: feet behind the line in the corner to hit that three.
Speaker 1: That literally they would have lost the finals. The Heat
Speaker 1: would have only won one finals probably, and you know
Speaker 1: they had to win game seven after that, but those
Speaker 1: games six, but I just remember that being like the
Speaker 1: purest amazing shot of everything in real time. It is,
Speaker 1: um it's awesome because I can't remember exactly the scores
Speaker 1: how it broke down, but um, I was watching rayl
Speaker 1: and talk about it again recently. But for a second,
Speaker 1: you think that the Spurs are gonna win and they
Speaker 1: start to put up the ropes, which they said they're
Speaker 1: putting up the ropes, and rail and hits the shot
Speaker 1: and he starts yelling at the staff in the arena
Speaker 1: to put down the ropes, like, why are you calling
Speaker 1: us out early? But we make minimum waights just we
Speaker 1: were told to do it, like they're getting on lockie talkies,
Speaker 1: like Ray Allen is telling us to take them down.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's like it's the whole I love
Speaker 1: when they print shirts early. There's shirts made for both teams,
Speaker 1: championship shirts, so apparently, yeah, the ropes were being put
Speaker 1: up and the plastic was being covering the Spurs locker
Speaker 1: room too because of champagne, and then they had to
Speaker 1: take all of that down, which is sad, like having
Speaker 1: to take down NBA Final Like championship decorations are like
Speaker 1: having to take down a failed proposal decorations. You know,
Speaker 1: just like when you see someone like sweeping rose petals
Speaker 1: off of a bed, You're like, oh, that's a tough one.
Speaker 1: That's a tough break. Yeah. I also I want to
Speaker 1: collect those the shirts that were made for the team
Speaker 1: that didn't win. C J. Sullivan has a hilarious remember Um, Tommy,
Speaker 1: I didn't know you were such a bosh head. Oh.
Speaker 1: I've always been a huge Chrish Bosh fan. I don't
Speaker 1: know why um Parkson wreck. Maybe I feel like it
Speaker 1: was like it was like half a bit, but I
Speaker 1: just became kind of obsessed with him, Like I I
Speaker 1: got a temporary tattoo that said Bosh on my arm
Speaker 1: one year or that around for like a week or two.
Speaker 1: I was just the biggest Chris Bosh man and I
Speaker 1: love him. My favorite well, there's a Chris Boss. There's
Speaker 1: a picture of him just playing a guitar on a
Speaker 1: boat and like he posted it to look like really
Speaker 1: cool and interesting, and I love that. My favorite recent
Speaker 1: Chris Bosh thing is he put out like a series
Speaker 1: a newsletter about that Heat Championship that I'm talking about
Speaker 1: and he calls it the last Chip and they won too.
Speaker 1: You can't call it the last like you guys only
Speaker 1: one to listen. It was his last Okay, technically it
Speaker 1: works for him. But yeah, Bosh is hilarious. I mean
Speaker 1: he yeah, he was on like Parks and Wreck, and
Speaker 1: I remember for a moment. I don't know how you felt,
Speaker 1: but there was a a day or so where everyone
Speaker 1: thought that Wade, Lebron, and Bosch were all coming to
Speaker 1: the Bulls. Oh yeah, for sure that If you, If
Speaker 1: you which a lot of people often do, if you
Speaker 1: look through my old Facebook profile pictures, one of them
Speaker 1: is Lebron and a Bulls jersey up of Lebron number six,
Speaker 1: and you made that that you made that your profile picture. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was Chris what is the guy's name? Um, the
Speaker 1: NBA reporter who then we saw Chris Broussard. Yes, he
Speaker 1: was like, I have inside reports Lebron is coming to
Speaker 1: the Bulls. And then it was like fully wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when that happened, I was like, because you know, like everything,
Speaker 1: when you hear something you want to happen, you're like,
Speaker 1: that's the truth, that's those are the facts. That's why
Speaker 1: I was worried about you with Lebron and the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Like you were like, I know, I'm tracking the plane
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh boy, well so this is
Speaker 1: another tracking the plane moment. But when this was happening again,
Speaker 1: I was working at Blockbuster. You know, we're living in
Speaker 1: our Chicago comedian lives, and I had the most money
Speaker 1: at the time. I ever had six hundred bucks in
Speaker 1: my and I was like, and we lived by Wrigley
Speaker 1: and I always love people selling T shirts out there,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm gonna go and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make this. I had this design I made on on like, uh,
Speaker 1: what was it called paint Microsoft paint and it said
Speaker 1: it said LaBrash in Bulls font and then I had
Speaker 1: the horns coming out on each side, the bulls horns,
Speaker 1: and I was hitting up my my mom's like friend
Speaker 1: who had a T shirt printing business in Chicago. I
Speaker 1: was like, I need six hundred dollars worth of shirts
Speaker 1: that have us on there, and I'm gonna go and
Speaker 1: sell it outside of Wrigley Field. And I was like
Speaker 1: one step away from doing that, But you didn't. You
Speaker 1: weren't factoring in Dwyane Wade into that, because I just was.
Speaker 1: I think I was into your graphic. The guy from
Speaker 1: Chicago who would like the most sense for people to
Speaker 1: be excited about it was gonna say Lebrash and Wade
Speaker 1: and then just like Dwayne Wade, waving also just LaBrash
Speaker 1: is such a bad Come on, wait, Tommy, didn't you
Speaker 1: have like a very you have like a tattoo sleeve?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, weren't you. Weren't you wearing something during the
Speaker 1: Cubs playoff run run, I had a fake Cubs tattoo
Speaker 1: sleeve that my mom had sent me that I wore
Speaker 1: for every game and I would put up a hashtag
Speaker 1: believe in the sleeve and uh it worked, So it wasn't.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't like a replica in the way that
Speaker 1: j R. You know, there's like a JR tattoo shirt
Speaker 1: you can buy. This was just what like a man
Speaker 1: who lived in Elmhurst would have tattooed on his arm, right,
Speaker 1: this is what if I was an idiot. Okay, great, great, great,
Speaker 1: try both tattoos sleep. So my parents had a contractor
Speaker 1: and when they lived in Evanston, who had he had
Speaker 1: like fat calves too, and he had somehow like merge
Speaker 1: the Cubs and no it was a bear's logo. But
Speaker 1: then he had a little cubby bear hugging the bear's logo.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I remember. And he had a wedding ring
Speaker 1: and I was like, I want to meet her, you
Speaker 1: know who's missus? I came so close to getting a
Speaker 1: cub stadto in twenty sixteen, like a few of my
Speaker 1: friends did. They got the w flag, and I said
Speaker 1: that if they I was like, if they went next year,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. I'm kind of happy. I didn't you
Speaker 1: know that there's funeral home sprinkled around the Midwest that
Speaker 1: they're like, we got another Cubs flag coming in. All right,
Speaker 1: give him the works? Okay, um, did you give your Oh,
Speaker 1: we're just having too much fun. More Chicago stuff. We'll
Speaker 1: get through mine quickly. I feel like I'm always like
Speaker 1: I don't want to get my top two picks are
Speaker 1: not Chicago. Actually, none of my picks are Chicago because
Speaker 1: I knew you fucking deep Dish choppers. We're gonna take choppers.
Speaker 1: I can't call us that. I feel like if me
Speaker 1: and taught me a bowling league or bowling team, we
Speaker 1: would be called the Deep Dish chompers. I did I
Speaker 1: do a quick tangent. Here's something that annoys me is
Speaker 1: when people go, well, people actually from Chicago don't eat
Speaker 1: deep Dish. Every single time I go back to Chicago,
Speaker 1: I eat me too. When the pandemic happened, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I think I need to order forty deep frozen deep dish.
Speaker 1: They don't need it every day, but it's definitely a
Speaker 1: point of pride. You're eating, like for birthdays, christenings, you're
Speaker 1: getting the deep dish? Is it not a weather? Is
Speaker 1: your favorite over other pizzas or Iluma Mattie's Pepperoni pizza
Speaker 1: is like my favorite thing in the world deep and
Speaker 1: that's yeah deep dish. Yeah, I love it so much
Speaker 1: and it will it will kill me. I will send
Speaker 1: me to an early grave. But I eat it very often.
Speaker 1: Who did you order it from? Giordanos? I think it's jeered,
Speaker 1: wasn't it? Lum nat was okay, Luma Naughtis because yeah,
Speaker 1: Gierdarno's is a super thick one and Luma Natis is
Speaker 1: kind of like in the middle. Um It's just so good.
Speaker 1: It's so good, and it really it does is like
Speaker 1: if you can't go, will you just go into your
Speaker 1: second picka sponsored by Luma Naughtis and Gerdano's Classic. I
Speaker 1: love Gino's too. We gotta throw them in there too.
Speaker 1: And while we're here, why don't we throw in some
Speaker 1: you know what? Was? What's the one place I hate?
Speaker 1: I love pizza. What's the soup? Pizza? I hate Chicago
Speaker 1: up and grind her. That is not pizza. Have ever
Speaker 1: had that place, Tommy, No, it sounds like it's right
Speaker 1: by Lincoln Park Zoo. So we kiss Papa, We'll go there.
Speaker 1: Let's do a show. When this is all overall us
Speaker 1: three make no money and just eat pizza. The last
Speaker 1: time I traveled for comedy was to do Anthony Rizzo's
Speaker 1: benefit in Chicago, and it was like the best time.
Speaker 1: It was so fun, Like, yeah, it was great. So
Speaker 1: that was That was the last time I flew to perform.
Speaker 1: And I did it for I mean, some hot babes
Speaker 1: to their wives. Some of them did not like me
Speaker 1: because they deemed you a threat because I told them
Speaker 1: that they were their first wives. Anyways, anyways, al right,
Speaker 1: my number two pick is Game one NBA Finals, Jordan's
Speaker 1: hitting six threes against the Blazers in the first half
Speaker 1: and then hitting the shrug. I just think, you know,
Speaker 1: was it uh like a wild moment that changed the events? No,
Speaker 1: but it is like, just like Conic, it is so
Speaker 1: impactful to the game. Like every every player now after
Speaker 1: they hit some sort of streak, hits that shrug. And
Speaker 1: I think it's because of Michael Jordan's so I have
Speaker 1: to go in like as a kid, I just remember
Speaker 1: doing the shrug and watching that moment and just being like,
Speaker 1: I don't yeah, even jordanself was like I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that was this good. I mean, how about his security
Speaker 1: guard shrug. He's the goat of the shrug that dude
Speaker 1: is I mean after the last dance that is the
Speaker 1: last same But yeah, okay, so game one of first half,
Speaker 1: which I can't remember what people's feelings were against the Blazers.
Speaker 1: I think people are like, you know, the Bulls were
Speaker 1: a heavy favorite still, but just hitting that and just
Speaker 1: being like, yeah, you're not gonna beat Jordan and the
Speaker 1: Bulls in the nineties. So all right, okay my number
Speaker 1: two pick. I'm going pretty modern for my my top
Speaker 1: two all we only have to go to last year,
Speaker 1: um the And I think it's because of the photograph
Speaker 1: that this is, like so it's just like burned in
Speaker 1: my memory. I can like, we're recording this in our
Speaker 1: dining room. I can see into the living room of
Speaker 1: where I was standing when we saw it, and it's
Speaker 1: the Kauai Game seven buzzer beater. Over the seventies sixers
Speaker 1: to send them to the NBA Finals. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a big deal. And he and then just everyone around him,
Speaker 1: him on the ground, him just like so he's not
Speaker 1: you know, he's not even pretending to not care. He
Speaker 1: maybe doesn't even care, just like the Kauai of it all.
Speaker 1: And yet it's just that that photo like won all
Speaker 1: these awards. It just to me, that is like a
Speaker 1: moment and like watching him go up and and Luca
Speaker 1: with that fade away through that sort of was felt
Speaker 1: reminiscent of it. But this just had so much on
Speaker 1: the line, and for it to be such a like
Speaker 1: clutch just really even tempered person to do it, I
Speaker 1: think made the aftermath of it so much more memorable.
Speaker 1: I remember watching that game. I was at a bar
Speaker 1: with a huge seventy six Ers fan, and I remember
Speaker 1: that moment so well of when it was bouncing on
Speaker 1: the rim and he literally collapsed to the ground and
Speaker 1: Patrick Schroder it was exactly I didn't like the name
Speaker 1: drop like that, the name drop we feel for you,
Speaker 1: we love you. It is so heartbreaking and yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like a commercial where the whole world stops to watch it.
Speaker 1: Bounce off the rim four times. Uh yeah. And then
Speaker 1: and then the fact that they went on to beat
Speaker 1: one of the best Warriors teams. I know Katie was hurt,
Speaker 1: but it's just like and then he bounced like Kau
Speaker 1: I want it, and then he balanced. It just adds
Speaker 1: to the legend of him. Yeah. Absolutely, I think if
Speaker 1: they had not gone on to win, this would still
Speaker 1: be an incredible moment. But this was kind of like
Speaker 1: the beginning of then what was a wildly impressive finals
Speaker 1: performance by the Raptors, kind of as a whole, like
Speaker 1: Caau I get so much credit as he deserves, but
Speaker 1: like Van Lee, I didn't even know who that man
Speaker 1: was before Rockford's finest I'm like all up in the
Speaker 1: Van Vleet family, like I loved all the children, Like
Speaker 1: it's just Nick Nurse. Why do I know this man?
Speaker 1: Why do I know his hats? Like it exposed us
Speaker 1: to like all of these cool, fun characters that we
Speaker 1: did not know. I think we're it also like exposed
Speaker 1: basketball fans because for a couple of reasons, is that
Speaker 1: one when Dwayne Casey was fired from the Raptors, people like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? And then they ended up bringing
Speaker 1: on a guy who brought him the fire like help
Speaker 1: coaching to the finals and now isn't the coach of
Speaker 1: the year? Um just and then Fred VanVleet who was
Speaker 1: undrafted and then these playoffs two of like we're seeing
Speaker 1: like Jimmy Butler, Fred VanVleet like players. That's why I
Speaker 1: feel like the draft matters, but just doesn't matter that
Speaker 1: much that you have the number one pick. Is your
Speaker 1: team capable of drafting well? And like looking for talent
Speaker 1: outside of these prospects, I think is is huge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and a lot of teams are not able to get
Speaker 1: It's like Nick's you should not be mad that you
Speaker 1: didn't get the number one pick, No, because you would
Speaker 1: have gotten it and you would have sucked something up
Speaker 1: in you would have drafted like a mailbox. And we
Speaker 1: support the USPS. That's the wrong way. Okay, um, let's
Speaker 1: take one more break and then we'll be back with
Speaker 1: our final picks. Are we having fun today? And we're
Speaker 1: back Tommy. How this works is since you are guests,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be our big finale. So Megan and I
Speaker 1: will pick and you'll you'll take us home. Megan, do
Speaker 1: you want to? Yeah, I'll go first. Okay, So mine
Speaker 1: is a moment that came after the biggest moment of
Speaker 1: the Lebron and the Cabs coming back from down three one.
Speaker 1: But when Lebron says, Cleveland, this is for you, Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean a whole city deserved to celebrate. I hope
Speaker 1: they like that in their hearts forever. I love Cleveland
Speaker 1: so much. And you know, I hear them say this
Speaker 1: is going to be the Browns year, but but I
Speaker 1: don't know. But I don't know if it will be.
Speaker 1: So it that just to me that like is sports
Speaker 1: of like this entire city, who's gone through so much,
Speaker 1: who who raised this guy who lost, this guy hated him,
Speaker 1: Chad Zoomac burned his jersey. Then he comes back and
Speaker 1: then and then they win in the most dramatic, incredible,
Speaker 1: against all odds way, and a kid from that town
Speaker 1: is like, I did this for this town. It gives
Speaker 1: me chills. It's so emotional and amazing. And when you
Speaker 1: watch the last inns and you see all that footage
Speaker 1: of Jordan's down on the ground because he he was
Speaker 1: mourning his father. So it's such a real and raw way.
Speaker 1: I like this this Cleveland, this is for you. Is
Speaker 1: kind of that spectrum. But it's like the city is
Speaker 1: still alive and he brought it back, Like Lebron made
Speaker 1: Cleveland have an economy again in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: And and I think him being gone hurts them drastically,
Speaker 1: you know, like when when he is there, they do better.
Speaker 1: And I mean I think the Saints ended up winning
Speaker 1: beating the Colts the year that Katrina happened, and everyone
Speaker 1: was really really happy for the Saints in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: I obviously was not, but like when something happens for
Speaker 1: an entire city, like whether you're a sports fan or not,
Speaker 1: I think it's just really it's really incredible. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really emotional. I was getting really emotional, you know.
Speaker 1: I love like a Midwestern city with a chip on
Speaker 1: its shoulder. Yeah, that's why it was tough to watch
Speaker 1: Indians versus Cubs that year, even though I was rooting
Speaker 1: for the Cubs. Yeah, I like, I was rooting for
Speaker 1: the Indians. You were, yeah, they deserve happy Cleveland. That Like, listen,
Speaker 1: Chicago has enough you hear me say this. Obviously the
Speaker 1: Cubs are different, but it's like, you guys won six championships.
Speaker 1: You've had three Stanley Cup Championships, the White Sox of
Speaker 1: one pick up fucking team and celebrate that. Okay, all right, okay,
Speaker 1: do you c J, were you gonna pick something for
Speaker 1: that game? Because that was my guest that you were
Speaker 1: going to do the block. But I just talked about
Speaker 1: it so much on and and sometimes a lot of mine,
Speaker 1: a lot of my picks aren't like necessarily the the
Speaker 1: absolute greatest. It's like it deserves to be mentioned. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: what what that's what we should call the show deserves
Speaker 1: it deserves to be noted. But these are actually not
Speaker 1: the greatest, which it leads me into my next pick. Um. No,
Speaker 1: but my next pick is it's It's a game I've
Speaker 1: only become familiar with. And so I'm a Lakers fan
Speaker 1: right now, right now. Uh. In my big my big
Speaker 1: bit on Twitter is I like to tell people I've
Speaker 1: been a Lakers fan since I was a baby. Whatever.
Speaker 1: Whenever I'm jumping on the bat fan wagon of something,
Speaker 1: I say, what do you talk? I've been a fan
Speaker 1: of them since I was a baby, been a fan
Speaker 1: of verse and you tell us, can you take us
Speaker 1: through the NBA teams You've been a fan of, Yes,
Speaker 1: the Bulls, the Calves and the Lakers. Okay, alright, so
Speaker 1: only three, but also like there have been some teams
Speaker 1: I've gotten because I like the hat, Like yeah, so
Speaker 1: I like, aren't you. Aren't you a Nuggets fan? Now? No,
Speaker 1: I like Bull Bowl a lot, but but this current series,
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for the Nuggets because I'd rather the Lakers
Speaker 1: play the Nuggets if they advance. That. Um. That was
Speaker 1: something I realized when I went to New York is
Speaker 1: that people will just wear the head of a team
Speaker 1: that they don't like, Oh yeah, that they don't like, Well,
Speaker 1: that just because they think the hat looks cool. Because
Speaker 1: I found that out because I got in the street
Speaker 1: wearing the Bulls at once. I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Bulls fan, and he just glared at me. I have
Speaker 1: a joke about this, where like if I ever see
Speaker 1: someone in Colt Skier in l A or New York there,
Speaker 1: they're they're not doing well, like they're they've gotten that
Speaker 1: gear for free somewhere and they are very surprised that
Speaker 1: I'm like ed you and James, and they're like what
Speaker 1: they're like digging for the trash is that you're They're like, well,
Speaker 1: that guy's ed you and James Jegs, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: up to him and he's eating like a half eaten
Speaker 1: cake that was thrown out of the garbage. But but listen,
Speaker 1: he got a cool jersey. Okay, so uh um. So
Speaker 1: it's a Lakers moment and it is game since the
Speaker 1: night Finals, cream Up dul Jabbar was out their center
Speaker 1: and Magic Johnson was a rookie and he played every position,
Speaker 1: including center and they won. Could you imagine if if
Speaker 1: like Zion, That's like if Zion was to again, granted
Speaker 1: like the Lakers were a still like a dynasty team
Speaker 1: at the time, but like to be able to do that,
Speaker 1: and he's like he was a point guard like what
Speaker 1: was the six six maybe maybe even shorter, and he
Speaker 1: filled in for cream Up dul Jabbar and they closed
Speaker 1: out that series and one. Yeah, that's on a lot
Speaker 1: of lists. Yeah yeah, I mean it's kind of like
Speaker 1: me finding out yesterday that p J. Tucker is a center. True, Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm a center. Yeah. I mean, the thing
Speaker 1: is like they didn't they were the Lakers were like,
Speaker 1: we have a center and he's maybe the greatest to
Speaker 1: ever do it. But but he was the problem with
Speaker 1: that too, is he refuses to play center Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: against his team, like the Lakers could sweep but any
Speaker 1: Davis Like, No, I love to shoot threes and it's
Speaker 1: like your fourteen feet So that's the only thing preventing
Speaker 1: them from winning this series. So Game six, NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson doing it all? And would they be? I
Speaker 1: have no idea? Okay, And this was this was seven
Speaker 1: years before you were born, so you were a baby.
Speaker 1: So you actually have been a Lakers fan since you
Speaker 1: were a baby. Okay, So I just I like, I'm
Speaker 1: glad that I'm married to someone who's honest and has
Speaker 1: good loyalty and has exposed how stupid he has is honesty. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, Tommy, bring have any honorable mentions? Um? No,
Speaker 1: I need to save them for later picks. Yeah, okay, okay, Tommy,
Speaker 1: bring us to the promised playant. Look, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick. I have to pick this. I'm a
Speaker 1: deep dish chopper at heart. Yeah, I have to pick.
Speaker 1: Jordan's the last shot ninety eight, Game six, his last
Speaker 1: shot as a Bowl should have been the last shot
Speaker 1: of his career, but it's like the name of it
Speaker 1: because he came back as a wizard. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: the best. I mean, reliving it through the last dance
Speaker 1: was so amazing. But it's just like such a mis
Speaker 1: making thing for this guy who was the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time to hit the game winning shot of the
Speaker 1: Finals in his last year as a bowl It's it's truly,
Speaker 1: you know, a real life hero and it's it's really amazing.
Speaker 1: And he's so he's so nice too. That's why I
Speaker 1: love about it. He really treats people well and that.
Speaker 1: But I think that that you'll never find a shot
Speaker 1: as important as that in the history of sport. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the sequence of it all like coming down stealing it
Speaker 1: from what was Karl Malone like yeah, and then tripling
Speaker 1: it like it was. That was like truly a movie,
Speaker 1: Like everything slowed down because he got to bring it up,
Speaker 1: and he's like he settled the whole team down, like
Speaker 1: kind of ice called ice. So and then the controversial
Speaker 1: push off on Byron Russell. So you watch it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not that he doesn't touch him. I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not a crazy person. He obviously touches him. But
Speaker 1: I I think if any ref called that, they would
Speaker 1: be the most insane ref in history. That's how That's
Speaker 1: how I feel about Reggie pushing off on short and
Speaker 1: it's like they all got away with it at some
Speaker 1: point that like that's just sort of I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think the last like five seconds and I'm and
Speaker 1: I do, I do think this is how they officiate.
Speaker 1: But it feels like in the closing seconds of a
Speaker 1: very important close game, unless it's like a greedious you
Speaker 1: kind of got to like take the whistle out. But
Speaker 1: if I'm saying, if someone even looks at the Pacers,
Speaker 1: I'm like, blow the whistle. So I only I do
Speaker 1: say that knowing that I'm a hypocrite. Yeah, No, I
Speaker 1: think in that move in particular, there's so many different
Speaker 1: iterations of it that REST don't know what to call,
Speaker 1: Like the push up. I see Kauai he does that
Speaker 1: hook when he's driving to the basket, just like trying
Speaker 1: to clear space, and they just started calling offensive fowls
Speaker 1: on it, so like it's a debatable move to call.
Speaker 1: And also but in that time, as a basketball fan overall,
Speaker 1: it's like just let him play, you know, It's like
Speaker 1: the time play. It's like you're gonna decide the fate
Speaker 1: of this game, fade of a series on a put
Speaker 1: like a tiny push off. Yeah, and then he was,
Speaker 1: you know, thirty five. I think he was, which is
Speaker 1: which would make it cool if Lebron one this year
Speaker 1: at five and then I want to play for the Wizards.
Speaker 1: Lebron went to play for the Wizards. I was, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, he's just like, indeed, see he's going to
Speaker 1: all of like the Supreme Court hearing. I like, the
Speaker 1: only way that's gonna happen is because Lebron's like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to run for Congress and I am a page
Speaker 1: in the Capitol. Yes, that would be incredible. Biden puts
Speaker 1: him on a task force. Look, we've had a player coach.
Speaker 1: We need a player congress. That's the last thing we
Speaker 1: need because we've had NFL player congressman. I think we
Speaker 1: need a player president. But at the same time, it's
Speaker 1: also like, hey, I gotta leave this this hearing. I
Speaker 1: gotta and I want a player president. When I say that,
Speaker 1: I mean I want Lebron, not Gordon Hayward. Okay, I
Speaker 1: want I want the type of let me pick the
Speaker 1: player who gets to be president. Yes, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a great pick. I have that picture autographed of him
Speaker 1: holding Michael Jordan's. Okay, Mike Myers, So those are one
Speaker 1: Mike Myers. They were hosting us a now can and
Speaker 1: I got it signed you sign my favorite photo. You
Speaker 1: guys are my favorite comedian. Now, can I ask a
Speaker 1: really stupid question since we're talking about photos. You guys
Speaker 1: have seen that photo of like Magic walking into the
Speaker 1: finals and it's surrounded but that's fake? Right? Yes? Yes, okay.
Speaker 1: I was like, I think I know the person who
Speaker 1: photoshopped and I'm not quite sure, but it's so it's
Speaker 1: Mike Magic Johnson walking into Uh it's not Caesar's. It
Speaker 1: would have been the Forum, I think the form, yes,
Speaker 1: and he's in and Mike it's like Mike Tyson. Who
Speaker 1: else is behind? It's a bunch of like crude. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like all these famous but then but then not
Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe. But there's definitely people that you're like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, people are mem ifying it and now no,
Speaker 1: now people think that original photo was real. As if
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson walked in with all those people, it's like,
Speaker 1: all are you guys are ready to walk in? All
Speaker 1: the legends of this time. All the reactions to it
Speaker 1: are is if it's real, like what a crew? Yeah,
Speaker 1: when Di and I remember that, like, we wouldn't know
Speaker 1: what that event was if that was real. There was
Speaker 1: one one last thing I want to bring up that
Speaker 1: chat that I forgot that I learned from The Last
Speaker 1: Dance that made it really more special to me was
Speaker 1: that they showed Michael Jordan celebrating that title by drunkenly
Speaker 1: playing the piano, which is something I've been doing for
Speaker 1: so many If there's anything I like, it's being drunk
Speaker 1: and playing the piano, Like did Jordans go to a
Speaker 1: wedding at a nice hotel? Did get that piano? Tommy?
Speaker 1: I just came up with next time we're together? Or
Speaker 1: if you want to do this on your own, you
Speaker 1: should film, or you should make a music or a
Speaker 1: song or music video about the like summing up the
Speaker 1: Last Dance, Um, oh my god, and you should like
Speaker 1: recruit we should rent a hotel with a piano in
Speaker 1: it and you just like you remember how like movies
Speaker 1: in the nineties would have the song and the credits
Speaker 1: would just sum up the whole movie. Yes, we should.
Speaker 1: We should write one where it's you summing up the
Speaker 1: whole last dance, and you're it's like you cigar Champagne
Speaker 1: singing that eating pizza and them throwing and then all
Speaker 1: of like your your yes men around you going like
Speaker 1: we love this guy. That's what's a sad thing about
Speaker 1: watching that last dance. We was thinking about those guys
Speaker 1: lives and like their wives and kids who are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's hanging out with Michael Jordan again, won't come home.
Speaker 1: I think I think he was like good to the families,
Speaker 1: you know, That's what I'd like to imagine. All Right, Well, Tommy,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Listen, Tommy is an amazing podcast
Speaker 1: that we didn't even stand by. Your band have an
Speaker 1: album called Who's Tommy? You can look it up on Spotify.
Speaker 1: It's from a Special Thing Records. And also I put
Speaker 1: the full recording on YouTube, the video of it, so
Speaker 1: that's in my pin tweet if anyone must awesome, and
Speaker 1: I'm working on the wedding video as we speak. In
Speaker 1: at some point people will be able to see the
Speaker 1: song good they need to. I don't even think you
Speaker 1: need to do the last dance, tom I think you
Speaker 1: just released that and say this is the greatest song
Speaker 1: of all time? Tommy, what is your what's your your
Speaker 1: social handles? Oh so Twitter and Instagram. I'm a Tommy
Speaker 1: mc n a m Tommy mcmas Okay. I hope your
Speaker 1: mom and dad and all of the McNamara's are doing well.
Speaker 1: Huge fans of Oh, thank you so much. I love
Speaker 1: your family, both your love. I love the comedy families.
Speaker 1: You know, Tommy, thank you so much. I can be
Speaker 1: found at Megan Gaily on Twitter at Better Megan Gaily.
Speaker 1: There will be a new Bubble Machine this week. I'm
Speaker 1: very excited. Djokovic hit a woman with a ball in
Speaker 1: the face, so we're gonna have tennis stories on the
Speaker 1: Bubble Machine. Can't wait. And c J is at c
Speaker 1: J Tolodono. Um, and I do a sneaker show on
Speaker 1: br Kicks. Yeah yeah, And he says that's why he
Speaker 1: has to have seven thousand pairs of sneakers. Um, and yeah,
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