July 13, 2025 • 26 mins
From Bill Burr and Adam Ray to Nikki Glaser and Bert Kreischer (and more), we've had some legendary comics join us in The Nuthouse! In this edition of Highlight Reels we've compiled some of the most hilarious moments from the show with some of comedies biggest names. No shortage of laughs in this one!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We're bringing you another compilation of my favorite stories from
games with names. Thoughts on the current state of the
Patriots Rade out, Bill?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Can I call you Bill?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
No, it's it's fine, all right. Why would you call me?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Will?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
At what point did you?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I don't know, I called Bill Belichick?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Will?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh you do?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
No?
Speaker 5 (00:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Did you ever get inside that head? Never? Never?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He doesn't let anyone in there?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Well, he's the modern day Paul Brown. Do you ever
read on what Paul Brown did?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah? He started the Browns and then he went down
to Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
In other words, you didn't know if he could read.
He would though if I could read. Paul Brown was
in the league.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
It was called like the the something, the the aa
f L, some fucking thing like that.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
There was. They went three years, the.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Cleveland Browns with autogram the first Tom Brady right fucking wins.
They win the championship all three years. Then he goes
into the NFL in nineteen fifty and the NFL was
laughing at them, saying they're not going to do shit,
and he ends up going to the championship game like
four years in a row and wins one either two
or three of them. Then Bobby Lane came with the Lions.
So one of the things that they did with him
(01:20):
is they tried to figure out how is this guy
winning so many games? And what it was was he
was the first guy that took the kicking aspect of
the game seriously.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And he had a field goal kicker.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
What the fuck was it was an offensive lineman, of course,
and he was kicking straight on what's the oh yeah,
what was his name?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
And this guy was lights out Lou Groze, Lou the
toe Grozer.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
So and they were winning all of these games by
three points and two points and everything.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
So he was the guy like it was.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
It was him realizing that that was important and that
could be a competitive advantage. That Oh my god, how
did I leave off?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Adam Viniti?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Is he?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Is he in the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yet they put up this this year?
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Fucking ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Okay, that guy is first ballot, no question, Hall of
Famer Adam Vinetario Apologies, he probably shut this podcast off.
Nah walking around. They never got to they're never got
to knowledge just kickers.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I was a gkowski guy.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Who's that was that?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The guy was kind of fat, That was our kicker
for my whole career. That oh Staniskowski, Guskowski, Steve Gzkowski.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh I think you said, goes to Kowski.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I listen, you get to a certain age you can't
remember kickers names.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I'm at that age.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
You got it.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
You gotta sauce things up. It could take things to
the next level.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Always some people think it's trashy. I just think it's.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Fuck that, dude.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
It's trashy to use dips to fucking live a little.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I like putting a one sauce on like my white rice. Okay,
that's where they're coming from. One sauce is like when
people like, well, I'm not gonna use ketchup.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
I'm not an animal. Let's get a one, you know
what I mean. It's it's trash trying to be class
you no offense.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
No, I know a one.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
You gotta let go of any other dip.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I'm with you.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
I hate to really love to stab you in the
back like Tragy too. So maybe I'm a hypocrite here.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Whenever I eat Greek food, I always bring in don't
say ranch, God damn.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Ranch with Greek food.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Genie and Tazeke, I think it's a bad ranch.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
No, what are your fun The fuck are you talking about?
We don't even teenies, not even us. That's more.
Speaker 8 (03:39):
That's more of the Middle East, where you know, right
in the middle, right on the other side.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
But no, you gotta go.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You can't do ranch. Like what do you dipping in ranch?
I just or a hot saw. I like to put hots,
like a different hot sauce. I like like my euro
in there. I like like when I have a kebab,
or like I like, you.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Gotta get You might just be going to a place
with bad there's no great ship out here now where
what kind of ranch?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Because this is important too. There's there's a ranch here
in La. I don't I forget what it's called. But
it's like a it's a mom and pop ranch. Okay,
you might be winning me, but amazing, Oh yeah, good, Okah,
it goes bad after a week.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
That's how you know it's real sauce.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Then maybe there's some ranch's killer and they got a
great blue cheese that I always have to get for
Rob because he loves blue cheese. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
get that, all right, I'm willing to I'm gonna have
to try this ranch before I come in with an
ultimate heat, like deciding whether that's trashy or not. Go
back to like nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Oh, game day ritual, game day, wake up early, wake
up early.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Did you go to bed with like the cleats on
or something?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We partied all night, partied all night standard. Yeah, uh,
wake up early and uh and bong hits right away,
like right away, bacon bake bank. Everyone got just casual high.
And then you'd run errands like all right, we need
some kegs we got are we gonna make Are we
gonna have any food there? Yeah? And I was I
(05:06):
was in an organization called Scoutpunters and so and I
was like I was in college so long I was
on the I was on the panel of the rand
Scoutpunters for like four years. And so we would have
we would host the party in a place called Indian
Village right next to the stadium, and so we put
up a big Scoutpunter sign. Anyone that was like cool
at that time. That's still the same at Tallahassee. Anyone
(05:27):
that was like someone with a little leverage was a scalpunter.
So the coolest dudes in that whole school would show
up two Indian village and we'd have probably like three
different houses, four different houses, different attorneys. But then the
Scalpuners party was the shit. And then say we had
like a one one thirty game, a noon game. People
are rolling in at nine o'clock and we have we
start with a specialty cocktail, like my buddy Hutch would
(05:50):
be like, all right, today it's Harvey Wallbangers, and so
we'd be like, oh, we'll run through Harvey Wallbangers until
we step into beer and so we get a nice
buzz and then bong hits through the day, like through
the day until it was came time. And then then
this is really interesting. People would load up on because
you couldn't insert booze and the thing they'd load up on,
plastic bags and jim Beam at the time was what
(06:10):
we everyone drank, and then they put them in their waist.
And then I would take locks and bagels and put
them in my waist, and then we would go in
and I would be what you'd call the patsy. I
would be the mark, and so I would go in
very notice will be with a plastic bag in my
waist and very nervous and making movements and touching my
(06:31):
bag and the cops would be like, we got one,
and they grab me and I'd be like hold on
and I'd make a little thing and then and then
everyone walks in. Everyone goes in and they're like, sir,
can I see what's in your pants? And I go yeah, sure.
They take you back. Then you'd open it and they're like,
what's that. I was like, I was like, I just
I don't know if they have locks and begels, and
I'm starving for locks and begels, and my parents brought
(06:51):
them in for the game, and I just wanted to
have like a begel with some locks on it. And
they'd be like, fuck, go go ahead, and then they'd
let you in and then we would go up and
we will party our fuck and Dick's off and it
was awesome. It was to this day but best Saturday
Saturday is all ever have in my entire life.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
The roast we were on, there was like no holding
anyone back there. It was wild, you know what I mean.
Everyone was hitting every joke and it was kind of
it was it was it was like comedy was almost
coming back.
Speaker 9 (07:18):
I felt that too, and I don't know that, like
if we would have submitted that script of what it
ended up being to Netflix prior, they would have been like.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
No, we're not letting you do this.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
Like I there was I'm sure Netflix perused what was
going to be said, but they weren't.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Really.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
I can't imagine anyone green lighting what was said that night.
And even sitting there that night, I was thinking, oh, man,
tomorrow it's going to be like they went too hard.
This was uh you know, did they did they cross
the line? Is this the end of roast? Like because
it was so harsh, but everyone seemed to just be
like so excited about it that night. Day it was
there was not one headline of like it's too far,
(07:57):
like not even one and it was.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Too far are to me at the.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Time, it was pretty it was. It was great, but
it was great for like for us like the athletes,
when the civilians on the stage, when we went up
there and when Kevin led it off. It was good
to see Kevin like that was a teammate move, Like
he showed like where the bar was set when he.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Came out, Oh my god, so relieved to.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Be he said, oh he said that, I'm like, all right,
I'm good. What was the line he said that made
you like, where's the Brazilian jiu jitsu stuff? He was
bringing it.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Right away, yes, and he was showing you where the
threshold was, like where we're willing to go. Absolutely I
felt that way too. He was he was the best
man and just like commenting after everyone set and like
showing credit where it's due, like he was really a
team player that night, where on a night where it
is competitive and comedians aren't usually that generous with each other,
of like giving each other accolades, and it was just
(08:53):
it just it felt. But the roast is weird because
you didn't know what other people were going to say,
what other jokes people were doing. None of them had
any idea what the other people were doing. So you're
writing something like can I get away with it? Am
I gonna be the only one who addresses this thing?
And then when I heard you were doing an Aaron
Hernandez joke, like, I guess it's on the table, that
(09:15):
world to me. No, of course it was jokes, And
you know, I think anything can be Jokes can be
made about literally any topic. It's not like you're like
making fun of the victim, like there's a certain way
that it shouldn't be done and that's not the way
it was done that night. It was it was really refreshing,
but there was just like I heard just like a
(09:36):
hint that or like someone said, yeah, you know, uh,
Julian is a Aaron her Aunt just joke, and I
had been like, I can't do it because no one's
going to go there, and then it just was like yes, hell, yes,
you killed so hard man, like I'm we a comedian
should kill like I should have done as well as
I did, but like there's no precedent for you doing
(09:58):
that well or doing that well. It really was like
you all should have done his boss Brandy here.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
He likes you too.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I think.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
I met Kronk and uh, that Bright before he goes
out was like talking to me as a Foson old man.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And then at some point I just go.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
Because I was just trying to be in character because
before we went and did that, we ran our jokes
the night before this comedy club called Laugh Boston. It
was me Bill bur Josh Wolf of Anthony Mackie and
Burr's like, so you canna dress up like Babe Ruth
and some shit. I was like, just watch Bill, it's
gonna be great. Next day, we're in the lobby getting
ready to walk over to the House of Blues next
to Fanway and uh and Bill's in the lobby.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I was like, oh, it's a perfect I gotta go
test this out.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
So I walk up. I go, hey, big Bill, Billboard
a big fan. He goes, thanks, buddy, and then turns away.
I was like, oh, shit, doesn't know it's me. So
then I go, hey, I just started watching your Car
too and Epics for Family. It's pretty good. He goes, oh, thanks.
I go, yeah, there's no Simpsons, I'll tell you that much.
And he goes, what's that? But I go, yeah, I
got a few notes for you. You got a few minutes.
And he goes, Buddy, fuck off and like in my face,
and I go, Bill, it's at him and he goes what.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I go, it's at him.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
He goes, holy fucking shit good and he just couldn't
take his eyes off me the rest of the night.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You're built.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
And so then I went up to to Gronk and
the same thing was like I was like, oh, Gronk,
big fam and big fan.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I go, yay. If you're not doing anything.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
I maybe we got double team of hootas waitress and
Gonk was like, yeah, ring tech man. And then I
was like, my name's Adam Ray. I'm like thirty five,
and he was like, oh shit, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And then he comes up. He's like, hey, dude, can
I run some jokes by you?
Speaker 10 (11:19):
And he had this joke did want to run buy
me about titty fucking Josh Wolf's wife after shitting on our.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Chet, can you curse on the show?
Speaker 10 (11:26):
Yeah, he's a too late to ask, all right, and
uh this is just all bleeved and uh but so
I was like, and I started, he says, he goes,
so okay, So so I'm to fucking Josh Wolf's wife
and then but I know sure and then the tooo
fucker and I go, what's the joke and he goes, well,
that's why I need help with I go, you know what, dude,
just say that forbade him and you'll be golden. And
(11:47):
he was like, it's funny, right, I go, it's something,
and then he went out there and I honestly did not.
He opened with it and it fucking bombed, but then
also got laughs. But then he saved it by being
just charismatic, swagger filled and he does his fucking He
just goes, fuck you, guys. I thought that was funny
and everybody starts laughing.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Dude and immediately won the room over.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I was, you know, going up for parts for various things,
and the guy said to me, you have to Uh.
It was a casting director, and I meet these guys.
These are the krem de la creme guys. It's Jim Brooks,
Ed Weinberger, Stan Daniels, Dave Davis. They created Mary Tyler Moore,
they created Room twenty two. They he wrote a you know,
(12:30):
lou Grant blah blah blah, all this stuff. I never
watched television. Yeah, I said, you know, okay, I'll go
and I read the script and it's the part of
Louis de Palma, and I go, wait, you got to
make an impression, right. So I walk in the office
and they're all sitting there in this beautiful you know,
(12:51):
it's like like really lush, you know, sofa like this,
and I'm walking in. There's a chair there. Casting it's
it's the office, it's that paramount. There were big shots,
you know, you all the actors, you'd come over there,
and I had the script in my hand and I said,
I said to him. They introduced me, and I said,
(13:12):
one thing I want to know before we start.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Who wrote this shit?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
And I threw it on the table. Okay, okay, and
now I walked for one tiny little men second in
terror shit and then they laughed there okay, and Louie
walked into their life.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
So these guys are this you know? Okay, So we
rehearsed the show. We had ten days of rehearsal, and
we're going to do a pilot. Now this is big
because this means this is a huge show. Everybody tells
me was gonna be like, it's going to be A
It's either gonna it's ABC and all this stuff taxi.
(13:55):
So I am like, you know, ship my pants all
week getting ready to rehearse, and everybody's in the same boat.
We know, we're doing it. We're doing the runs, we're
doing the things, we're doing the lines, we're doing you know,
we do the blocking. We're up there with the director,
we have the same blah blah blah. And the night
of the pilot shoot, there's three hundred people in the
audience and I get to the my dressing room early.
(14:18):
I always do that, try to, you know, psych myself up,
get get into the mode, get in, get ready to
go out. And there's a little plant, this tiny little
plant like sitting on my dresser, and it's got a
note and it's from Jim Brooks and the and the boys,
and it says, huh, it's like a little like a
(14:39):
really gnarly little looking thing, but you know, not creative,
nothing fancy, nothing fancy in a clay pot. And and
a note says dear Danny, as Louis de Palmer would say,
if you don't do good tonight, you'll be eating ship tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
So I'm interested. You know you're on SNL. So you
guys perform once a week.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
What's the prep process like? Because in football, you know,
we're saying you get one week, one day a week
you have to perform for three hours. The preparation process
is like to a tee science Monday, film, Tuesday, day off, Wednesday,
first and second down, Thursday, third down, Friday, red area
(15:28):
walk through, Saturday, play game on Sunday. What's the routine
like for SNL?
Speaker 11 (15:33):
I mean I love hearing this because I always feel
like I'm an athlete. I'm part of a team exceptance now.
But yeah, it's like Monday, meet the host, start thinking
of your sketch ideas, Tuesday, writing night, Wednesday table read,
find out what sketches get in Thursday we start rehearsals.
Friday we rehearse more and we shoot all the like
(15:53):
film sketches. Then Saturday you get in there early. You
do like a full run through of the show in
wigs and costumes, and then you do dress rehearsal and
then live show and then on Sunday then I get
to watch what you guys do and that's my break.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, Like it's a lot of walkthroughs
because like, yes, is it to a point where you guys,
I mean, I mean for us, like we walk through
the walkthrough, the walkthrough just to get the mental rep
because once it's game day, you know, you want to
go out and do it. So they just it's crazy
to me because the whole process of SNL, like it's
(16:29):
a new show every week. It's kind of like South Park,
you know how it's so cut up and then they
do it right away and then they go do it.
I don't know where the question was going there. I
just was thinking out loud.
Speaker 12 (16:38):
Well, not the question for you. Yeah, So like with him, repetition, repetition, repetition.
But there's got to be a level of spontaneity that
you need in performance. Is there like a balance of
too much practice, too much repetition?
Speaker 11 (16:50):
Totally? Like I'll have to remind myself like, Heidi, you
got it, you got the character, you know it. You
know you don't want to be too memorized because you
have the cards right in front of you. I do
probably get a little too memorized, but yeah, you want
the spontaneity. And I always know it's like, even in rehearsals,
I'll be like, am I bringing it enough? But i
just know in front of a live audience, I'm like,
(17:11):
you're gonna go nuts. But it's always cool. It's my
favorite when an athlete hosts because I have no I mean,
I don't know what it's like to host SNL. But
there's this binder. Once you know what all the sketches are,
there's a binder of all the sketches, and every actor
that's ever hosted I just know that that binder's in
(17:32):
their dressing room. And they're looking at it between rehearsals,
but whenever there's an athlete, they bring that out onto
sat with them and I'm like, that's their playbook like
for a week, and I'm just it was like when
Travis hosted, like you know, I was asking him, I'm like, okay,
like on game day, what are you eating? You know,
He's like uncrustables all day long. So like before on Saturday,
like I had like four boxes of and crustables delivered
(17:55):
to his dressing room and he told me he was like,
I'm pounding those, you know. And I was like, yeah,
this is a game. And I just knew he'd be
awesome because also all week long, you're getting adjustments. You're
being told like look at these cards, those cards, you know,
and it all seems overwhelming. But I was like, he's
used to this, he's getting I'm guessing he probably gets
adjustments from coaches all week long and then has to
(18:17):
make those for the game, like and he's doing he's
playing on a live game every week.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Who are some of the younger comedians that you know,
you let hang around you or you you kind of
saw and maybe you've helped.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Yeah, it's uh it's a lot.
Speaker 13 (18:34):
It becomes that thing where like you don't and it's funny,
like when we talk about those guys weren't out to
teach us, like, yeah, I wasn't really, but I was like, hey,
do you want to open for me? And just taking
them around. And then there's this guy, Stavros Halkias, you
know Stavros Y.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, I just watched it.
Speaker 13 (18:53):
He he uh. He opened for me, he was. I
was one of the first guys to take him on
the road.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
He was.
Speaker 13 (19:00):
I just found him at this little Maryland club. I
was just doing clubs at the time, and they sent
me a tape, a YouTube link or whatever to check
out this chubby little guy from Baltimore, and I took
him under my wing and I just he just did
my radio show yesterday, awesome, and he was talking about
how much I helped him, you know, during that time.
(19:23):
And it's so funny because I just loved him. I
just thought he was funny. I met my family, spent
Father's Day with me and my dad once and he
was just he was just a super talented guy who
I like to be around. And in my mind, he
went from opening for me and then I don't know.
Three years later, he's on Netflix and he's like, dude,
(19:44):
that was twelve years ago. Like he quietly was hammering
and doing all the stuff he had to do, some
of it based off of, you know, me helping him
out and showing him stuff. And yeah, so Stavros is
like the one I'm proud of right.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Now, young bucks.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I mean that's I was an asshole in the locker room.
But if I saw a kid that was really trying,
really working his ass off, yeah I was, you know,
I had to help him out. Yeah, you know, because
I remember being that kid. Yeah, you know, and I
needed that. And there's guys that you know, looked out
for me, and there's guys that were assholes me.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Yeah, you know, but I was.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
More of an accounting I made you accountable, asshole. You know,
you were a fucking slap dick, and he thought your
ship didn't sink in the fucking room. He wasn'tnna tell you.
All right, dude, we we went before you. We don't
need you, you know, right, Yeah, we Boathch just did
the roast, the Tom Brady roast. What did you think
of it?
Speaker 14 (20:38):
It was wild?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
It was wild.
Speaker 14 (20:41):
It was wild from the stage perspective, like a lot
was a lot was going on, a lot of energy.
I loved watching For me, it was a lot of
complete completing the story, you know, like hearing Drew's perspective,
you know what I mean, him making fun of Tom
like you used to come to that yellow truck. It's like,
oh shit, okay, So that was that relationship.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
And here and Gronk.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
I loved Gronk's part of the ross and him just
being like, yeah, you know, yell at me, but what
I do I count it. So it's like, oh, you
guys had your own little tensions and like different stuff,
and hearing you guys kind of you know, toss and
throw the kind of that ship. As a fan, it
was like kind of having an insiders like view into it.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (21:17):
But then there was just like wild shit going on,
like Gronk spiking that glass.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And is there gonna be a lot? I think it
will be a lawsuit.
Speaker 14 (21:22):
I think someone, dude, That's what I said. I was
Me and Drew were sitting on the couch. I was
like that lady got hit and she's pretty pissed off.
She was like pissed and I was like, oh, this
isn't good.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
So then there was.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Just like someone hit yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, you could actually see someone be all pissed.
Speaker 14 (21:38):
It was a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
It was It was big for me. I thought it
was such a cool perspective to a c professionals work
in contrast to guys that the athletes were. We're all
fucking nervous. You know, we're all terrified. You know you're
in the forum. There's fifteen thousand people, it's a live
show on Netflix. We don't do this ship. Yeah, you
(21:59):
guys are used to this stuff. And to see how
you guys were able to I was reading teleprompters. I
was watching the teleprompter the whole time. I probably wasn't
supposed to be doing that, but how you guys would
see on the teleprompter what you were supposed to say,
and sometimes you guys wouldn't even say anything that the
teleprompter said. You would deliver it in a different way
and bring things from that what you heard recently, and
(22:22):
then throw it in joke and go like, it was
really impressive to watch you guys work. So you're known
for your your rants, What's what's your greatest rant of
all time? That you are just so proud of.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Anything. And I don't ask me to remember what it was,
but no, I just findable the one. It was one
that it took me a while. There's there's four or
five things they did. But when they put uh Janet
Jackson's breast on the nipple, the nipple the nipple Caper, how.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
What year was that?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
That was j T?
Speaker 6 (22:58):
And I flip doubt and so I just and that's
what I went off on nobody, you know, it's like,
uh the four four high. It was horrified. I was
literally sitting we were we were in La, sitting in
a friend's house. I was this close to the TV
and uh, if not closer. I watched the whole fucking
(23:20):
halftime show. You never saw her nipple, okay, And I'm
a guy who would look for that immediately. I'm not
fooling around. I don't have time. You show a nip,
I'm gonna be there to watch the nip. Okay, never
saw it. So to me, it was like you're out
of your minds And then and then I literally just
went nuts the first time I went on stage and
(23:41):
then it was just taking I was going going not
only did what really was disturbing was the fact that
they kept saying, well, this is horrible, this is just awful.
Let's see it again. This was awful. Let's see it again.
Can we see that again? Look at that thing. It's
disgusting that nipple just appeared out there, and this is
not the kind of gluck. See it again. And they
just kept showing it, showing it. And so I went
(24:02):
off and then eventually carved it all the together. And
I love doing it. And I kept that bit, but
way too long, probably till two thousand and seven, three
years of the nipple bit.
Speaker 15 (24:13):
But the idea that football players are any athlete our
meatheads is so false and insulting because the level of
intellect and the decision making, the quickness. Not to mention
the kinetic genius that you guys have, but anybody I
know they make fun of grounk, But anybody who can
(24:33):
do these these reads has has an intelligence. Maybe not
for chemistry and physics, no, but right, but for the
movement and also just the decision making quickness is really impressive.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, I played in the league for twelve years. I
played with some meatheads. Really, they couldn't follow the the
there's like maybe one to three guys on a team
that are just either so big, so fast, I.
Speaker 15 (25:01):
See strong, I see physically they were able to dominate
and do that, and they won't do it for a
long time now, right, you know, because people learn your
moves when you get on film.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
The people can prepare for it, yes, but you know
they can sneak out. There's some meatheads that can sneak
out a couple of years. All right, all right, thanks
for thanks, no, but I also I also say that too, Like, uh,
I got a little disappointed in Meryl Street because I
was a huge Meryl Streep fan and still am. But
when she went on the she won an award for
(25:31):
Best Actress or something. It was like five years ago
or something, and she goes she called out the athlete
community like we're the arts, we're the this, And I go,
you know how artistic it is to be able to
have this vision, to be able to set up a block,
do a spin move that's like that's a person's art.
Oh my god, Like you said, that's kinetic art. Yeah, movement, yes, yeah,
(25:56):
you see some of these guys run. Yes, they're big, strong, fast,
but they have footwork like a ballerina.
Speaker 15 (26:01):
It wasn't a coincidence that Jerry Rice dominated Dancing with
the Stars. Yeah, yeah, right right, because he's an artist. Yeah,
there were a lot of There were a lot of
players who who could have been equally impressive and dance
or things like that.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, Em Smint well too.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, oh my gosh, he was awesome. Yeah, great feet.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
Yeah, you get offered every single year to be on
that show.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I'm not going on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 12 (26:31):
Thanks for listening. Remember to tune in every Tuesday for
a brand new episode and every Sunday for another Games
with names high that year.
We're bringing you another compilation of my favorite stories from
games with names. Thoughts on the current state of the
Patriots Rade out, Bill?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Can I call you Bill?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
No, it's it's fine, all right. Why would you call me?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Will?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
At what point did you?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I don't know, I called Bill Belichick?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Will?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh you do?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
No?
Speaker 5 (00:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Did you ever get inside that head? Never? Never?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He doesn't let anyone in there?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Well, he's the modern day Paul Brown. Do you ever
read on what Paul Brown did?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah? He started the Browns and then he went down
to Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
In other words, you didn't know if he could read.
He would though if I could read. Paul Brown was
in the league.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
It was called like the the something, the the aa
f L, some fucking thing like that.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
There was. They went three years, the.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Cleveland Browns with autogram the first Tom Brady right fucking wins.
They win the championship all three years. Then he goes
into the NFL in nineteen fifty and the NFL was
laughing at them, saying they're not going to do shit,
and he ends up going to the championship game like
four years in a row and wins one either two
or three of them. Then Bobby Lane came with the Lions.
So one of the things that they did with him
(01:20):
is they tried to figure out how is this guy
winning so many games? And what it was was he
was the first guy that took the kicking aspect of
the game seriously.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And he had a field goal kicker.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
What the fuck was it was an offensive lineman, of course,
and he was kicking straight on what's the oh yeah,
what was his name?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
And this guy was lights out Lou Groze, Lou the
toe Grozer.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
So and they were winning all of these games by
three points and two points and everything.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
So he was the guy like it was.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
It was him realizing that that was important and that
could be a competitive advantage. That Oh my god, how
did I leave off?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Adam Viniti?
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Is he?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Is he in the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yet they put up this this year?
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Fucking ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Okay, that guy is first ballot, no question, Hall of
Famer Adam Vinetario Apologies, he probably shut this podcast off.
Nah walking around. They never got to they're never got
to knowledge just kickers.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I was a gkowski guy.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Who's that was that?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The guy was kind of fat, That was our kicker
for my whole career. That oh Staniskowski, Guskowski, Steve Gzkowski.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh I think you said, goes to Kowski.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I listen, you get to a certain age you can't
remember kickers names.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I'm at that age.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
You got it.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
You gotta sauce things up. It could take things to
the next level.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Always some people think it's trashy. I just think it's.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Fuck that, dude.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
It's trashy to use dips to fucking live a little.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I like putting a one sauce on like my white rice. Okay,
that's where they're coming from. One sauce is like when
people like, well, I'm not gonna use ketchup.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
I'm not an animal. Let's get a one, you know
what I mean. It's it's trash trying to be class
you no offense.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
No, I know a one.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
You gotta let go of any other dip.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I'm with you.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
I hate to really love to stab you in the
back like Tragy too. So maybe I'm a hypocrite here.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Whenever I eat Greek food, I always bring in don't
say ranch, God damn.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Ranch with Greek food.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Genie and Tazeke, I think it's a bad ranch.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
No, what are your fun The fuck are you talking about?
We don't even teenies, not even us. That's more.
Speaker 8 (03:39):
That's more of the Middle East, where you know, right
in the middle, right on the other side.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
But no, you gotta go.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You can't do ranch. Like what do you dipping in ranch?
I just or a hot saw. I like to put hots,
like a different hot sauce. I like like my euro
in there. I like like when I have a kebab,
or like I like, you.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Gotta get You might just be going to a place
with bad there's no great ship out here now where
what kind of ranch?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Because this is important too. There's there's a ranch here
in La. I don't I forget what it's called. But
it's like a it's a mom and pop ranch. Okay,
you might be winning me, but amazing, Oh yeah, good, Okah,
it goes bad after a week.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
That's how you know it's real sauce.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Then maybe there's some ranch's killer and they got a
great blue cheese that I always have to get for
Rob because he loves blue cheese. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
get that, all right, I'm willing to I'm gonna have
to try this ranch before I come in with an
ultimate heat, like deciding whether that's trashy or not. Go
back to like nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Oh, game day ritual, game day, wake up early, wake
up early.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Did you go to bed with like the cleats on
or something?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We partied all night, partied all night standard. Yeah, uh,
wake up early and uh and bong hits right away,
like right away, bacon bake bank. Everyone got just casual high.
And then you'd run errands like all right, we need
some kegs we got are we gonna make Are we
gonna have any food there? Yeah? And I was I
(05:06):
was in an organization called Scoutpunters and so and I
was like I was in college so long I was
on the I was on the panel of the rand
Scoutpunters for like four years. And so we would have
we would host the party in a place called Indian
Village right next to the stadium, and so we put
up a big Scoutpunter sign. Anyone that was like cool
at that time. That's still the same at Tallahassee. Anyone
(05:27):
that was like someone with a little leverage was a scalpunter.
So the coolest dudes in that whole school would show
up two Indian village and we'd have probably like three
different houses, four different houses, different attorneys. But then the
Scalpuners party was the shit. And then say we had
like a one one thirty game, a noon game. People
are rolling in at nine o'clock and we have we
start with a specialty cocktail, like my buddy Hutch would
(05:50):
be like, all right, today it's Harvey Wallbangers, and so
we'd be like, oh, we'll run through Harvey Wallbangers until
we step into beer and so we get a nice
buzz and then bong hits through the day, like through
the day until it was came time. And then then
this is really interesting. People would load up on because
you couldn't insert booze and the thing they'd load up on,
plastic bags and jim Beam at the time was what
(06:10):
we everyone drank, and then they put them in their waist.
And then I would take locks and bagels and put
them in my waist, and then we would go in
and I would be what you'd call the patsy. I
would be the mark, and so I would go in
very notice will be with a plastic bag in my
waist and very nervous and making movements and touching my
(06:31):
bag and the cops would be like, we got one,
and they grab me and I'd be like hold on
and I'd make a little thing and then and then
everyone walks in. Everyone goes in and they're like, sir,
can I see what's in your pants? And I go yeah, sure.
They take you back. Then you'd open it and they're like,
what's that. I was like, I was like, I just
I don't know if they have locks and begels, and
I'm starving for locks and begels, and my parents brought
(06:51):
them in for the game, and I just wanted to
have like a begel with some locks on it. And
they'd be like, fuck, go go ahead, and then they'd
let you in and then we would go up and
we will party our fuck and Dick's off and it
was awesome. It was to this day but best Saturday
Saturday is all ever have in my entire life.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
The roast we were on, there was like no holding
anyone back there. It was wild, you know what I mean.
Everyone was hitting every joke and it was kind of
it was it was it was like comedy was almost
coming back.
Speaker 9 (07:18):
I felt that too, and I don't know that, like
if we would have submitted that script of what it
ended up being to Netflix prior, they would have been like.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
No, we're not letting you do this.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
Like I there was I'm sure Netflix perused what was
going to be said, but they weren't.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Really.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
I can't imagine anyone green lighting what was said that night.
And even sitting there that night, I was thinking, oh, man,
tomorrow it's going to be like they went too hard.
This was uh you know, did they did they cross
the line? Is this the end of roast? Like because
it was so harsh, but everyone seemed to just be
like so excited about it that night. Day it was
there was not one headline of like it's too far,
(07:57):
like not even one and it was.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Too far are to me at the.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Time, it was pretty it was. It was great, but
it was great for like for us like the athletes,
when the civilians on the stage, when we went up
there and when Kevin led it off. It was good
to see Kevin like that was a teammate move, Like
he showed like where the bar was set when he.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Came out, Oh my god, so relieved to.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Be he said, oh he said that, I'm like, all right,
I'm good. What was the line he said that made
you like, where's the Brazilian jiu jitsu stuff? He was
bringing it.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Right away, yes, and he was showing you where the
threshold was, like where we're willing to go. Absolutely I
felt that way too. He was he was the best
man and just like commenting after everyone set and like
showing credit where it's due, like he was really a
team player that night, where on a night where it
is competitive and comedians aren't usually that generous with each other,
of like giving each other accolades, and it was just
(08:53):
it just it felt. But the roast is weird because
you didn't know what other people were going to say,
what other jokes people were doing. None of them had
any idea what the other people were doing. So you're
writing something like can I get away with it? Am
I gonna be the only one who addresses this thing?
And then when I heard you were doing an Aaron
Hernandez joke, like, I guess it's on the table, that
(09:15):
world to me. No, of course it was jokes, And
you know, I think anything can be Jokes can be
made about literally any topic. It's not like you're like
making fun of the victim, like there's a certain way
that it shouldn't be done and that's not the way
it was done that night. It was it was really refreshing,
but there was just like I heard just like a
(09:36):
hint that or like someone said, yeah, you know, uh,
Julian is a Aaron her Aunt just joke, and I
had been like, I can't do it because no one's
going to go there, and then it just was like yes, hell, yes,
you killed so hard man, like I'm we a comedian
should kill like I should have done as well as
I did, but like there's no precedent for you doing
(09:58):
that well or doing that well. It really was like
you all should have done his boss Brandy here.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
He likes you too.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I think.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
I met Kronk and uh, that Bright before he goes
out was like talking to me as a Foson old man.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And then at some point I just go.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
Because I was just trying to be in character because
before we went and did that, we ran our jokes
the night before this comedy club called Laugh Boston. It
was me Bill bur Josh Wolf of Anthony Mackie and
Burr's like, so you canna dress up like Babe Ruth
and some shit. I was like, just watch Bill, it's
gonna be great. Next day, we're in the lobby getting
ready to walk over to the House of Blues next
to Fanway and uh and Bill's in the lobby.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I was like, oh, it's a perfect I gotta go
test this out.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
So I walk up. I go, hey, big Bill, Billboard
a big fan. He goes, thanks, buddy, and then turns away.
I was like, oh, shit, doesn't know it's me. So
then I go, hey, I just started watching your Car
too and Epics for Family. It's pretty good. He goes, oh, thanks.
I go, yeah, there's no Simpsons, I'll tell you that much.
And he goes, what's that? But I go, yeah, I
got a few notes for you. You got a few minutes.
And he goes, Buddy, fuck off and like in my face,
and I go, Bill, it's at him and he goes what.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I go, it's at him.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
He goes, holy fucking shit good and he just couldn't
take his eyes off me the rest of the night.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You're built.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
And so then I went up to to Gronk and
the same thing was like I was like, oh, Gronk,
big fam and big fan.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I go, yay. If you're not doing anything.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
I maybe we got double team of hootas waitress and
Gonk was like, yeah, ring tech man. And then I
was like, my name's Adam Ray. I'm like thirty five,
and he was like, oh shit, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And then he comes up. He's like, hey, dude, can
I run some jokes by you?
Speaker 10 (11:19):
And he had this joke did want to run buy
me about titty fucking Josh Wolf's wife after shitting on our.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Chet, can you curse on the show?
Speaker 10 (11:26):
Yeah, he's a too late to ask, all right, and
uh this is just all bleeved and uh but so
I was like, and I started, he says, he goes,
so okay, So so I'm to fucking Josh Wolf's wife
and then but I know sure and then the tooo
fucker and I go, what's the joke and he goes, well,
that's why I need help with I go, you know what, dude,
just say that forbade him and you'll be golden. And
(11:47):
he was like, it's funny, right, I go, it's something,
and then he went out there and I honestly did not.
He opened with it and it fucking bombed, but then
also got laughs. But then he saved it by being
just charismatic, swagger filled and he does his fucking He
just goes, fuck you, guys. I thought that was funny
and everybody starts laughing.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Dude and immediately won the room over.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I was, you know, going up for parts for various things,
and the guy said to me, you have to Uh.
It was a casting director, and I meet these guys.
These are the krem de la creme guys. It's Jim Brooks,
Ed Weinberger, Stan Daniels, Dave Davis. They created Mary Tyler Moore,
they created Room twenty two. They he wrote a you know,
(12:30):
lou Grant blah blah blah, all this stuff. I never
watched television. Yeah, I said, you know, okay, I'll go
and I read the script and it's the part of
Louis de Palma, and I go, wait, you got to
make an impression, right. So I walk in the office
and they're all sitting there in this beautiful you know,
(12:51):
it's like like really lush, you know, sofa like this,
and I'm walking in. There's a chair there. Casting it's
it's the office, it's that paramount. There were big shots,
you know, you all the actors, you'd come over there,
and I had the script in my hand and I said,
I said to him. They introduced me, and I said,
(13:12):
one thing I want to know before we start.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Who wrote this shit?
Speaker 4 (13:17):
And I threw it on the table. Okay, okay, and
now I walked for one tiny little men second in
terror shit and then they laughed there okay, and Louie
walked into their life.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
So these guys are this you know? Okay, So we
rehearsed the show. We had ten days of rehearsal, and
we're going to do a pilot. Now this is big
because this means this is a huge show. Everybody tells
me was gonna be like, it's going to be A
It's either gonna it's ABC and all this stuff taxi.
(13:55):
So I am like, you know, ship my pants all
week getting ready to rehearse, and everybody's in the same boat.
We know, we're doing it. We're doing the runs, we're
doing the things, we're doing the lines, we're doing you know,
we do the blocking. We're up there with the director,
we have the same blah blah blah. And the night
of the pilot shoot, there's three hundred people in the
audience and I get to the my dressing room early.
(14:18):
I always do that, try to, you know, psych myself up,
get get into the mode, get in, get ready to
go out. And there's a little plant, this tiny little
plant like sitting on my dresser, and it's got a
note and it's from Jim Brooks and the and the boys,
and it says, huh, it's like a little like a
(14:39):
really gnarly little looking thing, but you know, not creative,
nothing fancy, nothing fancy in a clay pot. And and
a note says dear Danny, as Louis de Palmer would say,
if you don't do good tonight, you'll be eating ship tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
So I'm interested. You know you're on SNL. So you
guys perform once a week.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
What's the prep process like? Because in football, you know,
we're saying you get one week, one day a week
you have to perform for three hours. The preparation process
is like to a tee science Monday, film, Tuesday, day off, Wednesday,
first and second down, Thursday, third down, Friday, red area
(15:28):
walk through, Saturday, play game on Sunday. What's the routine
like for SNL?
Speaker 11 (15:33):
I mean I love hearing this because I always feel
like I'm an athlete. I'm part of a team exceptance now.
But yeah, it's like Monday, meet the host, start thinking
of your sketch ideas, Tuesday, writing night, Wednesday table read,
find out what sketches get in Thursday we start rehearsals.
Friday we rehearse more and we shoot all the like
(15:53):
film sketches. Then Saturday you get in there early. You
do like a full run through of the show in
wigs and costumes, and then you do dress rehearsal and
then live show and then on Sunday then I get
to watch what you guys do and that's my break.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, Like it's a lot of walkthroughs
because like, yes, is it to a point where you guys,
I mean, I mean for us, like we walk through
the walkthrough, the walkthrough just to get the mental rep
because once it's game day, you know, you want to
go out and do it. So they just it's crazy
to me because the whole process of SNL, like it's
(16:29):
a new show every week. It's kind of like South Park,
you know how it's so cut up and then they
do it right away and then they go do it.
I don't know where the question was going there. I
just was thinking out loud.
Speaker 12 (16:38):
Well, not the question for you. Yeah, So like with him, repetition, repetition, repetition.
But there's got to be a level of spontaneity that
you need in performance. Is there like a balance of
too much practice, too much repetition?
Speaker 11 (16:50):
Totally? Like I'll have to remind myself like, Heidi, you
got it, you got the character, you know it. You
know you don't want to be too memorized because you
have the cards right in front of you. I do
probably get a little too memorized, but yeah, you want
the spontaneity. And I always know it's like, even in rehearsals,
I'll be like, am I bringing it enough? But i
just know in front of a live audience, I'm like,
(17:11):
you're gonna go nuts. But it's always cool. It's my
favorite when an athlete hosts because I have no I mean,
I don't know what it's like to host SNL. But
there's this binder. Once you know what all the sketches are,
there's a binder of all the sketches, and every actor
that's ever hosted I just know that that binder's in
(17:32):
their dressing room. And they're looking at it between rehearsals,
but whenever there's an athlete, they bring that out onto
sat with them and I'm like, that's their playbook like
for a week, and I'm just it was like when
Travis hosted, like you know, I was asking him, I'm like, okay,
like on game day, what are you eating? You know,
He's like uncrustables all day long. So like before on Saturday,
like I had like four boxes of and crustables delivered
(17:55):
to his dressing room and he told me he was like,
I'm pounding those, you know. And I was like, yeah,
this is a game. And I just knew he'd be
awesome because also all week long, you're getting adjustments. You're
being told like look at these cards, those cards, you know,
and it all seems overwhelming. But I was like, he's
used to this, he's getting I'm guessing he probably gets
adjustments from coaches all week long and then has to
(18:17):
make those for the game, like and he's doing he's
playing on a live game every week.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Who are some of the younger comedians that you know,
you let hang around you or you you kind of
saw and maybe you've helped.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Yeah, it's uh it's a lot.
Speaker 13 (18:34):
It becomes that thing where like you don't and it's funny,
like when we talk about those guys weren't out to
teach us, like, yeah, I wasn't really, but I was like, hey,
do you want to open for me? And just taking
them around. And then there's this guy, Stavros Halkias, you
know Stavros Y.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, I just watched it.
Speaker 13 (18:53):
He he uh. He opened for me, he was. I
was one of the first guys to take him on
the road.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
He was.
Speaker 13 (19:00):
I just found him at this little Maryland club. I
was just doing clubs at the time, and they sent
me a tape, a YouTube link or whatever to check
out this chubby little guy from Baltimore, and I took
him under my wing and I just he just did
my radio show yesterday, awesome, and he was talking about
how much I helped him, you know, during that time.
(19:23):
And it's so funny because I just loved him. I
just thought he was funny. I met my family, spent
Father's Day with me and my dad once and he
was just he was just a super talented guy who
I like to be around. And in my mind, he
went from opening for me and then I don't know.
Three years later, he's on Netflix and he's like, dude,
(19:44):
that was twelve years ago. Like he quietly was hammering
and doing all the stuff he had to do, some
of it based off of, you know, me helping him
out and showing him stuff. And yeah, so Stavros is
like the one I'm proud of right.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Now, young bucks.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I mean that's I was an asshole in the locker room.
But if I saw a kid that was really trying,
really working his ass off, yeah I was, you know,
I had to help him out. Yeah, you know, because
I remember being that kid. Yeah, you know, and I
needed that. And there's guys that you know, looked out
for me, and there's guys that were assholes me.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Yeah, you know, but I was.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
More of an accounting I made you accountable, asshole. You know,
you were a fucking slap dick, and he thought your
ship didn't sink in the fucking room. He wasn'tnna tell you.
All right, dude, we we went before you. We don't
need you, you know, right, Yeah, we Boathch just did
the roast, the Tom Brady roast. What did you think
of it?
Speaker 14 (20:38):
It was wild?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
It was wild.
Speaker 14 (20:41):
It was wild from the stage perspective, like a lot
was a lot was going on, a lot of energy.
I loved watching For me, it was a lot of
complete completing the story, you know, like hearing Drew's perspective,
you know what I mean, him making fun of Tom
like you used to come to that yellow truck. It's like,
oh shit, okay, So that was that relationship.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
And here and Gronk.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
I loved Gronk's part of the ross and him just
being like, yeah, you know, yell at me, but what
I do I count it. So it's like, oh, you
guys had your own little tensions and like different stuff,
and hearing you guys kind of you know, toss and
throw the kind of that ship. As a fan, it
was like kind of having an insiders like view into it.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (21:17):
But then there was just like wild shit going on,
like Gronk spiking that glass.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
And is there gonna be a lot? I think it
will be a lawsuit.
Speaker 14 (21:22):
I think someone, dude, That's what I said. I was
Me and Drew were sitting on the couch. I was
like that lady got hit and she's pretty pissed off.
She was like pissed and I was like, oh, this
isn't good.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
So then there was.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Just like someone hit yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, you could actually see someone be all pissed.
Speaker 14 (21:38):
It was a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
It was It was big for me. I thought it
was such a cool perspective to a c professionals work
in contrast to guys that the athletes were. We're all
fucking nervous. You know, we're all terrified. You know you're
in the forum. There's fifteen thousand people, it's a live
show on Netflix. We don't do this ship. Yeah, you
(21:59):
guys are used to this stuff. And to see how
you guys were able to I was reading teleprompters. I
was watching the teleprompter the whole time. I probably wasn't
supposed to be doing that, but how you guys would
see on the teleprompter what you were supposed to say,
and sometimes you guys wouldn't even say anything that the
teleprompter said. You would deliver it in a different way
and bring things from that what you heard recently, and
(22:22):
then throw it in joke and go like, it was
really impressive to watch you guys work. So you're known
for your your rants, What's what's your greatest rant of
all time? That you are just so proud of.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Anything. And I don't ask me to remember what it was,
but no, I just findable the one. It was one
that it took me a while. There's there's four or
five things they did. But when they put uh Janet
Jackson's breast on the nipple, the nipple the nipple Caper, how.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
What year was that?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
That was j T?
Speaker 6 (22:58):
And I flip doubt and so I just and that's
what I went off on nobody, you know, it's like,
uh the four four high. It was horrified. I was
literally sitting we were we were in La, sitting in
a friend's house. I was this close to the TV
and uh, if not closer. I watched the whole fucking
(23:20):
halftime show. You never saw her nipple, okay, And I'm
a guy who would look for that immediately. I'm not
fooling around. I don't have time. You show a nip,
I'm gonna be there to watch the nip. Okay, never
saw it. So to me, it was like you're out
of your minds And then and then I literally just
went nuts the first time I went on stage and
(23:41):
then it was just taking I was going going not
only did what really was disturbing was the fact that
they kept saying, well, this is horrible, this is just awful.
Let's see it again. This was awful. Let's see it again.
Can we see that again? Look at that thing. It's
disgusting that nipple just appeared out there, and this is
not the kind of gluck. See it again. And they
just kept showing it, showing it. And so I went
(24:02):
off and then eventually carved it all the together. And
I love doing it. And I kept that bit, but
way too long, probably till two thousand and seven, three
years of the nipple bit.
Speaker 15 (24:13):
But the idea that football players are any athlete our
meatheads is so false and insulting because the level of
intellect and the decision making, the quickness. Not to mention
the kinetic genius that you guys have, but anybody I
know they make fun of grounk, But anybody who can
(24:33):
do these these reads has has an intelligence. Maybe not
for chemistry and physics, no, but right, but for the
movement and also just the decision making quickness is really impressive.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, I played in the league for twelve years. I
played with some meatheads. Really, they couldn't follow the the
there's like maybe one to three guys on a team
that are just either so big, so fast, I.
Speaker 15 (25:01):
See strong, I see physically they were able to dominate
and do that, and they won't do it for a
long time now, right, you know, because people learn your
moves when you get on film.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
The people can prepare for it, yes, but you know
they can sneak out. There's some meatheads that can sneak
out a couple of years. All right, all right, thanks
for thanks, no, but I also I also say that too, Like, uh,
I got a little disappointed in Meryl Street because I
was a huge Meryl Streep fan and still am. But
when she went on the she won an award for
(25:31):
Best Actress or something. It was like five years ago
or something, and she goes she called out the athlete
community like we're the arts, we're the this, And I go,
you know how artistic it is to be able to
have this vision, to be able to set up a block,
do a spin move that's like that's a person's art.
Oh my god, Like you said, that's kinetic art. Yeah, movement, yes, yeah,
(25:56):
you see some of these guys run. Yes, they're big, strong, fast,
but they have footwork like a ballerina.
Speaker 15 (26:01):
It wasn't a coincidence that Jerry Rice dominated Dancing with
the Stars. Yeah, yeah, right right, because he's an artist. Yeah,
there were a lot of There were a lot of
players who who could have been equally impressive and dance
or things like that.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, Em Smint well too.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, oh my gosh, he was awesome. Yeah, great feet.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
Yeah, you get offered every single year to be on
that show.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I'm not going on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 12 (26:31):
Thanks for listening. Remember to tune in every Tuesday for
a brand new episode and every Sunday for another Games
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