Ep.35 - Sports Movies Pt.2

Ricky & Chris delve into some of their favorite Sports movies once again. We also get a fun tale into how Ricky failed to make his college basketball team.

Episode Transcript

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Well, greetings everyone, welcome toanother edition here of the Lunch Break Podcast.
We're in a different spot than usual, new location, a new location
or an old location. Oh atouchet you. We've been here before,
whether you recognize it or not.If you've been a follower of the show
for some time, you may remembersometime last year when when Will Smith slapped

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Chris Rock across the face. Wewere in this room shooting an episode as
the first time I saw it too. That's true, it's that time.
That's right, because we held offseeing it and you wanted to show it
to me that morning or I didn't. We have to do this live because
if there's anyone who didn't know aboutit, it would be you. That's
true, because you're not on socialmedia. Well, I mean you are,
but you're not like, you're notreally um Like I tagged Chris on

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a post yesterday and he was onInstagram, but somehow still didn't go to
the where the little red notification isthat says you have a message waiting,
and he he didn't see it.It was a real story. The story
vanished. It wasn't a real feel. It's a story. That's fine here,
that's fine, you know what Imean. But I guess we've gone

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over this before, like that,Chris is there, but he's lurking in
the shadows. That's true. That'sthat's what I do best, I think.
Yeah, speaking of shadows, it'sa little bit different in here because
last time we were in this room, we had windows. There were windows,
so we had some natural lighting comein. So now we don't have
that, and it was a littlebit of a different feel. Fluorescent lighting.

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Fluorescent lighting. Yep, that metmade a little bit of a difference.
I'm also detecting. Maybe you guyswill hear it when listening or not,
but the room's a little echo weer. Yeah, there's a little bit
of a yeah, a little bitfeedback we can hear. I don't know,
maybe maybe it won't translate. Itjust sounds like we put some reverb
on our voices, that's all.Yeah, it sounds cool like we're in
a recording were cave. We're ina we're in the lunch break cave cast.

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Yeah. Yeah, that's what Ialways do. I just take you
take something and I just take potout and add another word. And yeah,
every time we meet lunch Break SportsCast sportscast sports cast. Well,
that's what we're doing. Am Idoing word association. I guess I was
gonna say something cool, like hey, on the menu for today is but
you already changed it over to oh, sportscast, so I can't really say
something cool. Has something to dowith want lunch? The chat GPT write

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you up a little thing to say, Yeah, that's a good idea.
We just rely on that totally.Now, any any kind of I can't
think of words. Okay, Wellare you on Sunday you preached? I
did? Um did you use chatGPT for anything? I didn't. I
totally forgot about it. Actually,good, I could have. That's good.
Yeah, that is good. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't do

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I didn't cheat. That's by tryingto go to GPT. That's GP cheat
gpch even for an illustration. Ican't with my own illustrations too. So
I'll bring you guys in on theU behind the pastoral curtain a little bit.
Well it's not barely behind the curtain, but um, I I preached
here at the church not too longago, and I the passage is all

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about soils, and I won't getinto the whole thing about it. Um.
But we went on later the nextweek and said to chat GPT,
write a sermon, yeah about theparable of the four soils, but make
sure there's a Seinfeld illustration in there, because I always will will add somehow.
And and then what happened was itit didn't just do one Seinfeld illustration.

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It actually characterized the four soils fromthat passage as different characters in Seinfeld.
And the one soil where I hadwritten down a Seinfeld joke about George
Gistanza, they likened that soil toGeorge Gistanza as well, I say they
because it can't just be one.It deserve the thing, the thing whatever

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it was a AI. AI,just call it AI. It keeps making
the same jokes that I would make. So either one I'm not creative or
two I'm as smart as AI.Yeah, we won't go that far,
but all right, it just itjust it Maybe it just knows you somehow.

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That's even scarier. That would beyeah, way weird, Like,
hey, based on my personality profile, right thisthough you didn't do that,
But I mean I wonder if youdon't do that, that's a whole other
dimension of AI. But anyway,we're not telling about AI today, but
we're not. That was cool thatyou did that. It actually kind of
affirmed what you had already come upwithin your own mind. It did.

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Yeah, it was. It waswild. Yeah, it was wild.
So I wasn't sure you didn't,but you did it after like to see
that after after Yeah, after thefact. It was because it was it
was a couple of days after youwere already preached, so exactly you were
clear here just like, hey,just for fun, let's just see what
AI would have done, what wouldit have done? Yeah? Yeah,
And it was actually like not unusable. Yeah right, And so that's why,

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because we talked about it, I'mlike, I don't know, did
you hit a snag somewhere and andgo I need an illustration? No,
but you didn't. Not, No, you did what normal people do.
You know what your life? That'strue. That's true. Quote the Lord
of the Rings I did, whichis which is different for me because I'm
that I have never never It's notthat I haven't liked Lord of the Rings,
but it's never a big fan.But I'm trying to be one now.

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We I'm trying. Yeah, Idon't think we could do a whole
the Rings, but it's probably couldat some point. Yeah, yeah,
it's I mean, I think it'sworthwhile to do that, said the test
of time, it would have tobe the about the movies though, Yeah,
but the movies. I haven't readthe book. I read the books.
No, I haven't read the books. I'm not good with with when
color is spelled with a U init. Yeah, I can't read English

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like that, but interestingly enough Ihave to. This is not where we
were gonna go today, but justsince we're talking about it anyway, you
said, after watching Lord of theRings did a great job. Obviously it's
one of your favorite, you know, Saga's trilogies, whatever it is.
And yet you also watched The Hobbitinstaid they botched it dumpster fire, And

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yet did you Is it because youread the book or is it because it
was just the filmmaking itself was notdone. You could not well executed.
You could tell that they didn't havea firm direction going into it, which
seems crazy because the direction was therefor you in writing. It's already there,
it's written. But they took somethingthat should have been one movie and
and made it into three. Wellit was three movies, it had I

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thought it was two. Yeah,So from from even rumors, I just
heard like Peter Jackson was on theset actively making script changes and kind of
like doing what a high schooler woulddo when they're making a movie, like
they're they're doing it as they go, which it's not. You can't do
that on a million upon million whateverbillion dollar budget. I don't know what

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they but the pressure come back,you know, he was trying to make
that film, So come back,isn't it? Come back? Get back,
get back at me. I'm sorry, That's what I'm gonna say.
Get back, come back, comeback to where you know he was.
He was, he was worried aboutmaking sure then he did well with the
Beatles. He did do and hejust didn't do the hob But what's funny
is that, like we're just gonnago down to Peter Jackson training or who

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didn't make a sports movie by theway, No he didn't, which is
which we'll get to We will getto those today from this part to addition,
but uh, what was I goingto say about, oh, get
back? Like you don't like lookat it and go, man, what
director cut this like it's still it'sstill just like nine hours long, right,
and you're just piecing together what wasalready filmed. So that doesn't mean

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that there wasn't any work involved.I know, I get that, I
understand it. But like when yourpeople Jackson got coming for you left right
right, But when you're putting somethingtogether like that versus something like The Hobbit,
you know, it's yeah, it'sdifferent. You're doing everything from scratch
except for the you know writing.Um, with Get Back, you're doing
documentary and you're just taking what wasalready there and cutting back what was there.

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I know it probably did some sound. Yeah, there was a tremendous
sound. Cool. I mean yeah, when you're watching that, you don't
feel like you're watching retro film fromthe sixth True. They did a great
job. Yeah, it's it's cool. Yeah. Um, I don't know.
Oh, because you mentioned Load ofthe Rings, Yeah, I did
a little. So I'm actually butI'm on the second movie now, I'm
on. When I did watch them, I did watch them initially when they

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came out, but I only watchedthe first two. I never watched the
third one. So the Return ofthe King and then you were like how
did you stop at the every time? Them all three of them? Well,
or I should say I say bestone. I just mean like,
how do you not finish? Right? That's true too, how do you
not finish? Finish out the trilogy? The ending? And I don't know
what it was that kept me fromdoing it, But then enough time has

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gone by where I have to goback to the first one and watch it
again, watch a second, Sowatch Fellowship, watch two Towers, and
then finally watch So you did watchFellowship take end? I watched its Fellowship.
I watched the first thirty minutes fortyfive minutes maybe of the Two Towers,
which I've seen before, and soI'm kind of remembering some stuff as
I go along. But I'm reallylooking forward to finally seeing Turn of the

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King. So it's good. It'sI think it's a very strong trilogy from
start to finish. Yeah, Idon't there's probably naysayers out there that hate
one more than the other. Ijust like them all, and it's mostly
people who read the book. Soyeah, yeah, yeah, I want
to tell a story. But ifwe're gonna do an episode, I'll save
it for then. Okay, arewe doing a Lord of the rings.
I'll do it. We'll definitely doit. Let me finish off of the

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movies, and then we'll talk aboutit, because then I'll have something to
talk about. I can talk intelligentlyabout it and you'll have to just rely
on I'll do what I always do. And yeah, but you not talk
intelligently, intelligibly intelligently. I can'teven get that word right. Yeah,
let's go home to sports. Here'smore of a sports guy sports. Let's
talk sports. Uh so, Yeah, so we we're on part two,

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right, because we talked last timeabout sports movies, but we had to
talk about had to categorize them becausethere's just so many ways in which you
could talk about them, and ifyou don't have a way of doing it
systematically, you're gonna get lost inthe weeds. So we talked last time
about comedy. So ifn't I didn'tlisten to it yet, go back and
listen to it. We talked aboutcomedies, talking about kids, sports,
and now we're going to talk aboutjust just we'll mention, will mention.

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Yeah, we're gonna mention movies.But we can't die. We can't dive
into even most of them. No, we'll give a little clip on some
of them, you know, butwe'll definitely want you to interact with us
and let us know what the oneswe missed out, which your favorite in
that kind of thing. So well, two things piggybacking off of what we
did last time with the comedies.Yeah, So Katie listened to it and

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then asked me. She said,I know this is random. And when
she says that, I'm like,what is coming? Yeah? Can we
watch Billy Madison or Happy Gilmore?Yeah? Of course you've never seen them?
Well maybe she asked for Billy Madison. I'm like, you want to
watch Billy Madison? Are you sureyou don't want to watch Happy Gilmore?

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That's the one we talked about.Oh, She's like, well either.
So then we watched Happy Gilmore lastweekend? Oh cool or last week?
What was her What was her thoughtson She's she's seen it, but she
didn't remember half of it. Shewas laughing. I think she definitely found
it funny. I think there werea lot of like this is ridiculous kind
of comments, which it is.Yeah, that's what it's for. I
had to hold back. I couldjust sit there and quote everything, right,

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before it said, which is annoying. So I had to not do
it. I did do it sometimes. Yeah, yeah, it's hard not
to. But that's that's the funof it is, is watching somebody else
be able to enjoy it for thefirst time, or maybe the first very
first time, but like maybe ina way that she'd never really watched it
before, kind of like how you'refeeling like it's the first time again for
the Lord of the Right exactly sense. Yeah, when you know the guy

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in Happy Gilmore, he's a professionalgolfer. I forget who it actually is,
but he's always looking shaking his head. Yes, yes, she would
laugh, and she go on thatguy again something something to that degree.
What do you fall out of thewindow and Realy Adams did have a beard.
Yeah, he is a professional golfer, though, I think, yeah,
for sure. I just I can'tremember his name, so and I

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do like golf. I just thatwas before I would ever watch golf,
right, yeah, um, sothat happened. The other thing was this
past weekend I saw there's an espnum thirty for thirty or thirty once upon
a time in Anaheim, okay,which talked that was a weird breath.

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That was like a I was like, I slightly died in breath? Did
you hear that something happened? Itwas okay, I don't if it was
me at first. Actually I knowit was like a weird like you've went
up too many steps and you justget to the top of That's been really
something very important about to say,Once upon a Time at Anaheim. So

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it's a thirty for thirty. It'sreally about it's about the Anaheim Mighty Ducks,
but it um has Connie and UmGoldberg from the movies in it.
Oh that's cool. Um, Soit kind of talks about the birth of
it's really about the NHL team,but you have pieces of the movie.
So I thought that was fitting basedon Oh, you should definitely check it

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was. It was very interesting.Now this is a question. I guess
I assumed one thing. Maybe I'mwrong as a kid, but did the
movie come out first and then theAnaheim Angels came Angels? Did the Anaheim
My Ducks then come birth out ofthe movies or was it the other way
around? Disney literally bought the team. That team was owned and run by

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Disney. That was the Mighty Ducksof Anaheim, I believe is what it
was, and then eventually Disney soldit off and now they're just the Anaheim
Ducks. Okay, um, sothey never won a Stanley Cup as a
Disney owned team, but I thinkyears years later they have they did win
the Stanley Cup finally as the AnaheimDucks. To check that out. Yeah,

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I'm sure that was all on that. Yeah, it is a spoiler,
but yeah, I just have alwayswondered that. I always thought it
was that way, that it was. The movies then gave rise to the
team, the actual professional team,So I was right, Okay, cool,
Yeah, Michael Eisner was all intothat. He was just capitalize.
Yeah, so anyway, yeah,yeah, So let's let's dive in.
Let's do this category by category,and we'll start with America's favorite pastime soccer.

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Weird, I don't have any soccer. Is that what they call it?
In football ball? They call thatin the European leagues. Uh,
in the European continent and the restof the world aside from US, pretty
the world where it was developed.It's around the world. You have football
in the metric system and we're likeno imperial soccer, right, that's how

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we roll. We do what wewant. Yeah, anyway, that way,
don't have any soccer movies for you. Maybe you know some good ones.
Oh She's the Man, What agreat soccer movie. I don't remember
that one. I remember the buChanning Tatum and I'm pretty sure it's about
soccer. Yeah, she imitates aboy way soccer. Okay, I did
not know Amanda Binds. You know, Oh yeah, the Stellar Oscar winning

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train. Right, Um, it'sa base of ball with the base of
ball baseball? What do we whatdo we got here? First on the
list, let's start from just gofrom top to bottom. This is a
no order, as we're not rankingthe importance by this order. We're just
it's just a bunch of um titlesthat we came up with as we were
talking about Yeah, about basic spitballing. This is the most prep we've ever
done ever. Yeah, where weactually thought this through a little bit before

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speaking into Mike's Yeah, and sowe started out with top of list,
fuel the dreams, feel, feelthe dreams? Should we watch that club?
Should we watch? We have tohave that cute up? Can we
the cute up? Please? Fish? I got it queued up kind of
let's sit here for y'all to see, for us to see fans, is

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that you don't have the money tobring the mortgage up to date, so
you're still gonna have to sell.I'm sorry, right, I don't know
if the audio is going to bescrewed up for you guys watching, but
it's okay. You'll live with it. If you're just listening, then it
doesn't matter. It's perfectly will comeright, I'm sorry, people will come.
People will come to Iowa larissas theycan't even fathom. They turn if

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you're driveway, not knowing for surewhy they're doing it, they'll arrive at
your door. It's innocent as childrenlonging for the past. Of course,
we won't mind. If you lookaround, you'll say it's only twenty dollars,
but press you'll pass over the moneywithout even thinking about it. But
mon, I'm gonna say, twentydollars per person still be steep for back

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then, Oh, it's definitely.But if you're saying dead people play baseball,
baseball, it's worth twenty bucks.Sit in shirt sleeves on a perfect
afternoon. I love how the guysthey're just who's trying to talk? Trying
to warn about being foreclosed. Onesee the guys whatsoever? Don't believe You
don't see it too, You believe? Right? Children and chiered their heroes,

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and they'll watch the game. It'llbe is that they dipped themselves in
magic watersber you get chills watching clips. I get a little chill something like
this Ray when the bank opens inthe morning before for the twins. Though
you're broke, Ray, you sellnow or you lose the remember a little

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bigly, Yes, okay, justmaking it's been Baseball America has ruled by
like an army of steam rulers rebuilt. Think about it. That's right,
but baseball baseball at the time thisfield that he does that same thing with

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the finger in the sand passed Ray. It reminds us the same voice and
sands they could be. Is thatthe same guy? It looks familiar.
Do you mean it's the same.People will most definitely come Ray, you

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will lose everything, You will beevicted. No, I'm gonna listen to
the crazy guy having speeches. That'swhat I'm gonna do. Here's what I
don't like about this movie. Arewe good? Yeah, we're good?
With the scene. The only thingI don't like is essential let me stop

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it here is essentially the ending whereI know you're seeing people come because you
see all the cars, all thecars lined up, but you kind of
want to see what people experienced bycoming right. Ah, that's the only
thing about it. But that's notthe point of the movie. You know,
they leave off there to your imagination. But everything came true. Like

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whatever that whoever it was that wasprophisil, we could come true. It
does come true. That little voice, you know what I mean. Love,
I just want to keep saying peoplewill come right right. That's that's
That's a great movie. That's sogood. And then also what I've liked
that Major League Baseball implemented a coupleof years ago was the Field of Dreams
game, where once a season theyat the Field of Dreams location. They
built a much bigger ballpark that's suitablefor Major League Baseball and fans coming out,

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but the original Field of Dreams fieldis on the other side of the
cornfield. Then what they did andI watched it, and the first time
I watched that, it literally gotgoosebumps. They had the teams enter by
walking out of the corn but withKevin Costner leading the way I got.
I got goosebumps, just I havegoosebumps talking about it. And it was
the Yankees versus White Sox, whichwas a great, great matchup. It
came down to the wire. Itwas a whole thing. Did you see

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any of the clips from it?Oh? I did not. You gotta
check it out, check it,check it out. You got check it
out on too. But everyone mustcheck out. Yeah, I would.
I would love that. And I'mnot a huge baseball fan. I like
watching baseball, don't get me wrong, But when you watch in film,
everybody can can come alongside and justbecome a big fan. It seems like
when you're watching a movie like that, it's a sport with such an underdog

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chance. Yes, because like ifyou're down by I don't know, twenty
five thirty in basketball, right,the odds are coming back. You're just
so tough because momentums in the otherpeople's court. Yeah. Um. But
in baseball, I mean, unlessyou're down by a ton of runs,
like anything can happen in the swingof a bat, That's true. It
changes everything. You know. Youget you get that that grant, that

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miraculous grand slam. You know whatI mean, It happens occasionally, and
then just it comes at the timewhere you're like least likely to see something
like that happened, and you're like, wow, it changes the whole course
of the game. Or yeah,it's absolutely and that movie, that movie
is cool and fun, going backto Field Dreams, just because it's it's
a baseball movie. There's not alot of baseball happening, right, right.

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That was that was a hard partas we were coming up with a
list, right was like what isconsidered an actual sports movie versus a movie
that has sports in it? Right? You know what I mean? Is
is the sport the main fair oris it take a backstory to the characters
or too or to the or tothe story and the character that's going on,
the character's lives, you know whatI mean. This is one where
I think you have to say thatas much as it is about the people,

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it's you can't divorce it from thebaseball right if you did. If
you did, it just wouldn't itwouldn't work as a movie. No,
you know what I mean. It'sit's so tied to baseball culture that it
is a baseball movie. Yeah,yeah, definitely without without it being without
you watching a game of baseball,you know, and watching a bunch of

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teams going at it, trying toget to the very end and see who
wins the pennant or who thats theyou know, the world series. This
is just about the love of thegame, you know what I mean?
What it is different Kevin cost whichis yes, movie two. I didn't
like that movie, but that's okay. What do you say in that movie?
Before he would pitch clear the mechanismor something like that. Yeah,

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and then it would go silent silencearound him, so we could just focus
all of his energy on getting thatpitch in there. Yeah, that was
a cool movie. But he's beenWe could talk forever about him, but
he's been lots of sports movies,clearly baseball, Baseball especially yeah, Bull
Durham, which we can't which they'realways anything from, right, um,
love the game, love of thegame, and maybe those are a field

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of dreams. Those are probably thethree baseballs. But Tin Cup that was
a great golf movie, right,which again, golf movie or romance,
right, it's hard. Yeah,it didn't make me list, but it
was it was a good movie.It was entertaining. That's a that's a
miscellaneous I guess yeah, yeah,Um. Any good sports movie shouldn't only
be about just the game that they'reThere's always these side side plots. Another

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great baseball movie, historical kind ofI guess, dramatic, historical talently Eight
Men Out right about the Chicago BlackSocks. Uh Um, I can't believe
I'm flaking on the actor's name,John Cusack. Just I forgot about that
movie until you mentioned it. Ithink I did see. I don't know

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if I saw the movie all theway through, but it was one that
I remembered. Well, those twoare connected when he feels the dreams and
eight Men Out because of Shulis JoeJackson exactly that this was. Yeah,
that's what this movie is all about, right, Eight Men's Out is all
about the about that conspiracy that wasgoing on, right to betting back the
game, betting against the game againsttheir own team, right, yeah,
bet against themselves that they were theywere throwing the game, right, So

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it's infamous. Infamous. Why it'seight Men Out is because Shulish Joe is
the only one I think who hadnothing to do with it. But um,
By association. He and the restof them by association. Yeah,
we're banned from from baseball. Yeah, so that's a that's a good movie.
Um, mister baseball. Oh yeah, mister, that's right. That's

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Tom Selleck. Yeah. I believehe just looks over in Japan player.
He looks like a seventies or eightiesbaseball That's what I mean. He just
looks like he's got that look abouthim. The all American baseball player,
you know what I mean. Oneof the best mustaches in Hollywood forever.
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, thatwas a good movie. That's right.

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He played He played in U inJapan. That was a pretty that was
a pretty funny movie. Yeah.Oh, I enjoyed that while thoroughly since
I've seen it. But I hada m oh, I'll get this one
cued up here, you guys willsee it going on on the screen behind
me. But uh, in college, there was one I think it was
either my sophomore or junior year.Probably junior year. We had a few

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days before our team was doing springtraining, so I just stayed on campus.
But there was like nobody left oncampus. So I was just like
I was one going stir crazy.But I just watched as many baseball movies
before spring training as I could.So that's like I had never seen The
Man Out. I watched that.I watched Mister Baseball, I watched Field
of Dreams, I watched The Natural. I'd watch all these movies just to

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get you buy myself in my roomlike yeah, and then yeah, I
was motivated to to go out andlose a lot of baseball games because but
it's all about it's all about heart. Though we were the we were the
Crimson Eagles, but we played likethe Crimson Seagulls, that's for sure.
But we had fun doing it.So the next movie on our list for
baseball, The Natural. Yeah,a good movie about a complete and utter

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fiction but your story. But butreally for the Knights, Robert Robert Redford,
this is this is the kind ofthe final closing scene. He he's
injured, people count him out,and he comes up and he does the
impossible. Yeah, that's what everysports movie needs and needs the impossible to

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be done right, and he doesit. You know, this is probably
a little long and drawn out,but one of the one of the things
I just always found funny with thismovie is that this, oh blood clothes.
I shouldn't. That's that's not good. Uh. Glenn Close has looked

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old since she was young. Shewas young, she's young in this movie.
Just get that look about it,right, she always just looks older
than she is. It's and butRobert Redford even looks well seasoned in every
aspect of this. But like whenhe's supposedly young and they finally figure out
who he is, the wonder Boy, he looks old. Like every that's

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just supposed to span a long periodof time, he just looks the same.
And they couldn't do what they donowadays. They could make you look
a lot younger than Yeah, theanti aging make you look younger. But
yeah, some people just have alwayslooked old. Like Leslie Nielsen, even
when he was young, looked old. Yeah, there's just people that way.
Unfortunately, Glenn Close is that way. Yeah. Oh, here's the

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pitch. People, single pitches allit takes. Look at that swing laces
out? Dan movie? Is thata football? Mom? Is that sports
movie? I'd say that, Oh, look here it comes. Oh when
it hits the lights? Whoa thatguy? That guy? Oh the Oatsman's

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there too. Well, here's okay, you guys. Also, Um,
here's what I don't understand. Hehit one light correct, they're yeah,
even ones that aren't even on thesame the same one, the same error.
I mean, that's old wiring foryou. Look who's that he said,
not a finger the father And uh, that's a Christmas story. The

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story he wanted failure. He wenton to like, oh well wait,
well when he hit that ball,he wove a tapestry of profanity that show
this day is still hungry Michigan.That's love that bat boy, happy bat
boy. That because he believed inhim, right, this is that's that's

(28:02):
part of the story too, isthat he was he was constantly motivated.
Yeah, you know he's younger,be who you are, who you are,
you know what I mean. Yeah, that's just a great another underdog
story, you know what I mean. Like he yeah, nobody thought he
would amount too much afterwards, andhe got wrong. He got involved in
the mob or something, or hegot he involved with like I think a

(28:22):
woman who was supposed to be likethe devil almost yeah, pretty much like
a Jezebel kind of Um. Yeah, that's a just a good movie.
He's yeah, he's he's old whenhe starts playing for the Knights, right,
yeah, but he used that specialbat, right, the one that
he made from the tree that gothit by the lightning. Wonder boy and
boy bat. Yeah yeah, Soif you ever in Cooperstown, you can

(28:44):
see that bat in the Baseball Hallof Fame museum. That's a Hall of
Fame and museum and museum because thehall is just one spot, not the
spot you bring kids to either.Yeah, they want like Lily's like,
yeah, I want to come withyou, and then she's like, I'm
good, can we go now?It turns out bronze faces on plaques it's

(29:06):
not appealing to a five year oldat that time, maybe four year old,
probably four years I gotta go backwhen she's just a little older.
Probably maybe she appreciate it then,yeah with you uh watch yeah, yeah,
I mean she uh she has decidedthat she's a Phillies fan because mommy's
a Phillies fan. Oh Phillies fan. Did you say good? Good?

(29:29):
Yeah? Sorry I got confused becauseyou said Phillies and I and I and
I immediately went to Eagles. Eagles. She does like Eagles and you're an
Eagles fan. So yes, that'swhy. So category errors, but I
wasn't too far off. But yes, no, no, no, I
yeah, so she has. Sheactually put my Mets blanket on the other
day and then looked at me andsaid, but I like the Phillies.
Dad, Wow, I'm like this, like I don't. I don't get

(29:55):
it. Yeah, it's just becausemom likes the Phillies, which it's that's
sorry, But she likes Eagles oretoo, right, Yeah, okay,
but um, the Mets are gonnabe on the TV a lot more than
the Eagles artist, so I needher to get on board, right and
get off this crazy Phillies wagon.Okay. I finally got Katie to come
around and say she likes both teamsgood, which took a while, but
I still wasted. But she can'tfor the Phillies. No, no,

(30:21):
she liked, but she liked umthe Mets a little bit before, but
before she regid it. Yeah,uh no. You had to draw her
attention to the fact that I wasgonna say the team better than she knew
the Phillies exactly, and then sherealized after you talked to her, talked
it over with her, Yes,you really a Mets fan, right.
Fandom is knowing your team and knowingabout them and knowing how they're doing exactly.

(30:41):
She's a fan, Yeah, afan. So but the natural great
movie, MISTERR three thousand, that'strue. Bernie Mack, Bernie mac Man,
remember him, he was all aboutWe were all about him back in
the in the nineties early two thousands, right before he passed away unfortunately.
But he was a funny guy.And then he did this mister three thousand,
and he comes he comes out ofretirement, right, I think I

(31:03):
remember correctly. He comes out ofretirement so that he can hit that three
thousand hit, you know what Imean, So he can get he can
get his I have not seen themovie. Yeah, it's I've seen it.
I don't know anything. That's wherethat three thousand comes from. He's
trying to get that three thousand hitand uh, he's out of retirement and
someone says, you really should youknow, you really should do that,
and he's like, Okay, I'mgonna try to do it. And he's

(31:26):
having a tough time of it.Yeah. So having been away from the
game for so long. But anyway, that was a funny movie. Um,
like you said, and this,I can't believe I haven't seen this
one either, but the Rookie,I haven't seen the Rookie. Oh he
could have pulled up. There's severalgood parts of that movie that would I
would have I showed too. Here'swhat's weird. I don't want to spoiled.
Even though it's like fifteen years old. Probably at this point, I

(31:47):
won't spoiling the Dennis Quaid. Theonly thing that the only thing I would
I would would have wanted to putup was when he's really seriously considering going
back or trying out, to say, trying out. He tells his team
he wants to he'll try out ifthey if his little league team, not
the little league team, but youknow, his team that he's coaching does
well or wins this important game,and so they do it. So he
wants to try out. So it'snot really giving much away. But then

(32:10):
there's one part where he's like reallyseriously considering it, even though he said
he would do it, He's like, I'm not really gonna do it.
He throws a pitch, he andhe uses he stubs inside the road and
he uses a m a spedometer,you know, like for the speed limit.
Yeah, I see I've seen this. See. Yeah, that's the
only that's the scene I was goingto point out where he throws it across

(32:30):
the sea if it if you canactually still throw hard, and it looks
as though he only hits he onlythrows it at a slow speed, but
then as he walks away and thenthe lights flickers and it actually shows he's
hitting in like ninety miles per hour. So that was pretty evil. You
know. That whole thing with thepro gooing trying out for the pros,
it's very similar to Gordon Bombay's story. That's true, right, Yeah,

(32:51):
at the end of D two,Yeah, first and the first one he's
gonna go try out. Yeah,yeah, but it's one of the people
from Iceland, right who hurt hisleg intentionally. Yeah, I think that
was in the second one, secondone after he after he already injured himself
and gets himself out of he hasto pretty much retire immediately injured, out

(33:14):
of playing the game. But yeah, a similar story, but this one
was based on a true story therookie, which makes it based on a
story, which that makes it allthe more exciting and engaging and fun.
And I feel like a failure onethat This wasn't on my locked in my
dorm room list. I don't Maybehe came out after I don't know what
year came out. You have anIMDb Let me see it IMDb one.

(33:34):
Did it come out two thousand andtwo? I have no excuses, yeah,
because that was a year I graduatedhigh school. You graduated high school
two thousand and two. I wasin middle school in two thousand and two,
just for that's why, or fouryears apart, right, but I
graduated. What's good about this movietoo, is that it's a family friendly
movie. Two to only. It'sG. It's one of the last G
movie ever, probably ever seen becauseeverything now is at least PG. But

(33:58):
yeah, check it out. Agreat movie, the rookie. You're typing
it in around? What are you? What are you making a note like
must see movies? Yeah? Idon't know. I hate that my cool
stuff, I hate that. Mykeyboard clips are just coming through. Um.
Yeah, so check that. Checkthat out. What was the other

(34:21):
one that I had on the listhere? Oh, we already talked about
Bull Durham, which I don't thinkyou've actually even seen that movie. You
haven't seen Bull Durham. I don'tthink I've seen it either. Oh yeah,
I definitely have seen parts of itlike here and there. But it
was one of those movies when Iwas a kid I wasn't allowed to watch
actually let me watch. Yeah,but after I heard about it, yeah,
I understand why. Um, shouldwe transition to another sport? Yea?

(34:42):
So football football on the next nextlist. I'm gonna start with probably
my favorite football movie. Here,my favorite football movie. I can't imagine
what it could be. Ever,Um, well, I know we didn't
talk about it. I just cuedup a clip that it's fun. This
is from the Disney movie We Arethe Titans. Remember the Titans, but

(35:06):
they say we are? How manyyear are you for? You gonna get
this season fixing? I don't wantto brag Big Blue, but I figure
on at least. I also loveDonald Fayson. This is my first exposure
to him. Baby from now ownthe Titans is gonna be popped by soul
pop bro. He said, ohthis movie ended racistly. It did work

(35:34):
about it. That's what I likeabout it is right, sports can do
anything. I just love it.Him and pet I mean less, push
your hand down, you smile,yes, service, Why are you smiling
because I love football, balls fun, fun, sir, it's fun.

(35:55):
Yes, you sure, I thinknow you mile then you think you think
football is still fun? Yes,sir, yes, no, no certain,
Uh it was fun. Not anymore, though, is it is it?
No? Not No, it's notfun anymore, not even a little
bit, no makeup? Is itfun? Great? Absolutely not zero fun,

(36:21):
sir? All right, listen up, all right. Uh, there's
just the whole back and forth.I could leave the whole. I'm not
going to leave. It's just thatinteraction between them is stellar. Acting,
very good acting. It's so good. I watched that movie. I say
this about a lot of movies,but this is just what I did.
Like I would watch a movie andI would just watch it and watch it
and watch it all watch it,which I can't do anymore. Like once

(36:43):
I see a movie now I don'treally want to watch it again. But
back then it was like it wasVHS. Oh yeah, well, now
you're beholding to whatever your kids wantto watch over and over again. That's
true. So what I what Itry to do is is I try to
watch movies with them that I hopethat they'll latch onto and then we could
watch over and over again, soI at least I can say that's acceptable
movie, Like I don't I won'tget so tired of it. Like the
sand Lot, which you know wetalked about last last episode, but that

(37:06):
was one of the ones that likethey got stuck on for a while.
I'm like, I don't mind thatone so much seeing that one on replay.
Yeah, but I haven't haven't seenthis movie. I really need to
introduce them this movie. But thismovie has is also just a great soundtrack.
Oh yeah, yeah, just Spiritin the Sky. Yes, um,
peace Train. But I know thatpeople probably wouldn't put that high on
the list, but I just likethat Cat Cat Stevens. I love the

(37:29):
stuff on the soundtrack. Well,it's all from the time the time period,
which is cool, long cool woman, Like just every scene starts with
an iconic song and it's just likea great transition when they're playing football in
the field. This goes well withfootball. Yeah, absolutely, It's just
such a good And why I don'tthink of that move very often, I
guess I'm just not much of aIt's it's a good it's a good movie

(37:52):
like I used to but it's itis a very good movie this, This,
there's the race tension in it,but then they learned to work as
a team. They have to,you know what I mean, They start
to love and care for each other, you know what I mean outside of
football. But yeah, a goodmovie. Ryan Gosling in it before he's
really Ryan Gosling. Yeah, whoelse? Who else? Well, there's

(38:15):
a lot of actors. Now,obviously Denzel is great in that. I
love the scene in that movie whenthey're they're they're practicing, and uh,
I think is named Blue. He'slike like, we need a water break.
Coach a water break, you needa water break. We're gonna do
updowns all day until Blue is nolonger tired and thirsty or whatever. I

(38:39):
know, it's not a great Idon't have a great Denzel impression. How
is it that's the one sport likethat has two days? You know what
I mean? Oh, it's it'sbrutal. I could not survive. It's
probably got the most team rigorous practice. Oh yeah, and then like they
play the least amount of games,right because in that game it's you get
so mutilated by other people that youcan't play more than once a week,

(39:01):
right, Yeah, but you practicethat you practice two times a day every
day leading up to it. Youknow, the big guy and that yeah
supper he's supper at him too.Yeah, in phenomenal shape. Yeah he
was, well, he was alsohe's been in he was in a lot
of different he was in them.I'm sure that my kids are now watching
that. I used to watch asa kid. Boys World. He was

(39:21):
like, oh, he was oneof the guys that was in there that
was an older um, you know, like upperclassman and uh. But he
was like, um, he wasa bully, but he was also like
a likable bully because he would sometimesgo back on what he would saying.
Yeah and uh. But anyway,Yeah, he was always known as just
being the big guy. But thenall of a sudden, like he said,
he just got jacked, right,He's just like, yeah, changed

(39:43):
his life. He I mean,I don't know what his whole diet regiment
it is. I don't know.I don't think it's like vegetarianism, but
maybe it is. But he completelydifferent. Yeah, and it's just crazy,
Like stories like that are what makeyou want to actually pursue getting in
shape, Like he lost a bunchof I ain't got in shape there's a
chef, you know, Graham Elliott. He was on Master Chef. Maybe

(40:04):
if he was the big dude withthe thick frame glasses, he went and
got in shape, Like if thoseguys can get in shape, surely I
can get in shape. Like soit's cool when you see that happen,
not just like you don't good forthem, but like you're like, I
can do it. Let's go dosomething right. And I mean I have
no idea if there was any gastricbypass involved, which if there was more

(40:28):
power to you. I don't wantto shrink my stomach. I just love
food. Um, but it's stillhard work to maintain that. Yeah,
that's it's not a quick fix.It's not like it just changes everything,
and you still have to be verydisciplined and regimented like you said, yeah,
yeah, yeah for sure. Butyeah that's crazy because he was huge
and very big. Yeah yeah,oh yeah, poor power to him,

(40:49):
for sure. Great great flick.Another one, Rudy. Rudy was a
great movie. How do we havea clip of Rude? I know Rudy.
Yeah, we're bringing that up.We're bringing that up. We're bringing
this is how we know how wedo on the Lunch Break podcast we fly
by the Is it the seam orthe seat? I always thought it was
the seat of your pants? Maybeseat right? Yeah, that's why I

(41:10):
thought I'll try. John Favreau wasin this movie too. He was his
friend. Um, he asked,uh, asked Fordy to help him pretty
much meet girls in exchange for helpinghim with his his homework and his class
work. Young Jon Favreau. Um, that's right, I forget he was
in there. Let's see. Oh, we're gonna go. We're gonna buy

(41:31):
a pas ad another base on ourtrue story. This is someone filming their
TV. The thirty six thousand viewson a maybe it's the only one thing,
if that anybody could ever find online. I don't know. We're gonna

(41:52):
We're gonna see. I'm not I'mnot sure if this is the right right
clip. Oh yeah, this is? Oh yeah, here we go is
where he lets him back in thegame. At the very end, he's
like, finally, let relents,I'm not gonna play. I'm not gonna
play him. Is that coach?That's the coach who puts snot on the
ball and forgot. Yeah. Youjust love to see him get in the

(42:15):
game, man, that's all hedoes. It's just it's just so he
can play the last few seconds ofthe game, last play of the game.
You can be involved in there.He is, Ah, mind you
did you want to be a collegefootball They're watching this like, I want
to be a big fan of UHfootball. I'll be Notre Dame fan.

(42:42):
Look at the colors of that team. What do I do? Stay in
the game. That's right. Thewhole stand, the whole places stadium is
saying Rudy, chanting his name.And then after this guy he goes on
a journey with his friend Frodo.Right, this is where he built his

(43:09):
confidence food and he actually gets Yeah, he gets a tackle. But does
that happen in real life that heactually gets a tackle. I don't know
if he gets tackle. I feellike I don't know that in there,
I feel like I've heard the realRudy story isn't quite as great as the

(43:30):
movie movie. They'll have to makeit a little more romanticized. That's a
security guard from the Twins, right, oh man, everything comes back to
these classic movies. That's a greatthat's a great flick. He gets he
gets carried, him getting hoisted up. They did say at the end of
this movie in the when they showedthe text that he was the last player
to ever he be um carried offthe field? Really yeah, and in

(43:52):
that stadium for Notre Dame. Yeah, oh, before they built a new
stadium. Maybe it could be surelynot the last person ever carried off a
field, right, he went abig game. You're not gonna be like,
whoa we even exactly? Yeah,it might have been for that field.
John Favro, who's the man?Now? Uh? Yeah, that

(44:13):
was a good That was a goodflick. That's the Rudy we are Marshall,
we are Marshall's good? Was thatMatthew McConaughey and that I think?
So that's what He's a walk onplayer right for that movie? I know
I've seen it. I don't remember. You know, he's he's the he's
the coach, the coach, he'sI'm thinking you have a different movie where
maybe the same movie. But whois it that he's a walk on player?

(44:34):
Um ends up? No, Ican't remember. With the football flick
too, but you know underlog,underdog, you know what I mean,
comes in, makes the team,carries the team. I don't know.
Oh, you know what we don'thave on this list. I'm ashamed as
an Eagles fan. Invincible, whichyes, ah, what a great movie,

(44:55):
Invincible about the Eagles and basically awhole team team of walk ons.
So good. Yeah, that's good, Mark Water, that's what I was
thinking of. That's what you're thinkingof. That that's the movie you're thinking
of them. It is okay,now you're putting all together. I felt
that was the whole team was awalk on team. It was, I
believe, I'm pretty there was tryouts. Yeah, it was different. It

(45:17):
was like a weird year. Ohdidn't something happened to the team, like
the all the the original team diedin a plane crash and so they didn't
have anybody. So they were bringingSo that's why they had all these tryouts,
and they were looking for walk onsand they were not expected to be
a very good team, but theyturned out to be a great team.

(45:39):
Yeah. He was a thirty oldbartender from South Philadelphia. Yeah, I
could remember that. I'm not surecorrectly, but wow, the storyline is
very very long on the IMDb.Right up. I just remember I remember
watching the movie. I can't evenI just I'm so ashamed to not sorry

(46:00):
you got it in matter, butdid not know the plot of the movie.
I should know everything about this movie. I should know. I didn't
want to say that, but fromnineteen seventy six doesn't mean much to me.
True because the Eagles don't have aSuper Bowl until twenty eighteen. Wow,
that's right, So I do knowabout that. It was the year

(46:23):
my daughter was born. How aboutthat? It'll always be tied. I'm
a friend from college who I thinkPhiladelphia. One of the Philadelphia news stations
did a report on them because theyhad a for sure Super Bowl baby born
nine months after the Super Bowl win. I'm pretty sure that were born on

(46:46):
the Super Bowl one. One wouldbe a less creepy story. Sure thing
going, we know what you doit? Nine months ago? Right during
halftime my family podcast Family Yeah facingthe Giants, Oh yeah, Philadelphia head
coach Dick vermil okay Um announces thathe will hold open tryouts for the team.

(47:10):
Vince reluctantly decides to give it atry, but he does, OK,
it wasn't It wasn't. No nobody. I don't think. I didn't
remember the entire Eagles team dying ona plane but it might have been thinking
of but oh, you're thinking ofthe replacements? Oh that with Keanu Reeves.
May maybe I don't. I don'tknow that. I can't remember.
I don't watch so yeah, Iknow, I know a little bit.

(47:32):
I didn't know enough about some moviesthe things that happened, but I don't.
I don't watch a lot of sportsmovies, and if I'm honest,
probably the least likely sports movie Iwatched will be a football one, just
because I don't watch football in general, not drawn to the sport, although
I do like watching it when I'mwith people who who really enjoy its players.

(47:52):
But players strike? Oh is thatwhat happened for that? For that
one? And that's why they hadthe comedy based on the nineteen eighty seven
professional football player strike. Gene Hackmanplays the coach of Oh yeah, I
remember that. Jack Warden's the owner. Brett Collin, all pro quarterback that
goes on striking. Keanu Reeves isthe scab replaces the star QB replacements.
That's a good that's a good comment. Yeah, Keanu, I know,

(48:15):
kung Fu. He doesn't even talklike that, but that's everyone's impression.
Over here is the greatest guy inreal life, like this guy. Yeah,
like down to earth, giving andyeah, compassionate. Yeah, let's
see. I don't know. Idon't know how long we've been chatting here,
but we haven't gotten to any Sofacing the Giants Friday night lights,
we're giving Sunday. We might,we will, we might want to move

(48:37):
over to basket's go to basket basketballnow? Pushing an hour here, forty
nine minutes. I know, it'scrazy. Who I gotta show this football
scene. I gotta I talked aboutit last time. I's gotta show the
scene from facing the Giant over tobasketball sport. No, you can show,
you can show you. I don'twhat's it from it? I don't

(48:58):
have to. Just here's what I'mgonna say. I just google Google or
YouTube search Facing the Giants death crawlscene. Oh yes, you gotta watch
that. It's a good scene.I had it ready. It's a longer
clip anyway, Yeah, that's athat is a great scene. Well,
I added I added some clips thatwe didn't have. I'm gonna cut a
clip. Okay, it's all good, just death crawl, facing the justin

(49:23):
the Giants. Let's move on tomotivation. Very motivational basketball Hoosiers Classic.
That's one of those movies I watchover and over again, especially in the
fall. That's a movie I've watchedone time. Is it you know?
I think that No, I justthink a gene Hackman, if I remember
correctly, you didn't even want todo the movie. I think. I

(49:44):
don't think he've verven wanted to,but he reluctantly did it, and uh
it turned out to be a hit, I think. And it's not like
it's anybody really could have played thepart realistic. I mean, it's not
like it's that difficult of a wowof a part of a role. No.
I mean if you could have playedon a challenge roles, what are
you going Hollywood? No, likethat easy to get a job. I
mean, like any any actor atthe time probably could have you know what

(50:07):
I mean, and did a goodjob of it. But because of who
he was, like they, Ithink he was you know, cast for
it, and he did a goodjob. Don't get me wrong. But
what I mean is it's not it'snot a great, glorious, you know,
like oh Oscar winning kind of filmor were even part, but it
was good. But it's a reallygood movie, you know, in a
very motivational movie. So my kidsliked it too. Though. It was
kind of cool, even though it'slike setting back. Man, I can't

(50:29):
tell you the last time I watchedThe Days Who was a VHS tape?
I know, though, Yeah,it wasn't a beta, but it wasn't
a beta Max Beta Max Max.We got a number two? Uh,
what do coach Carter? Coach Carter? Oh, we gotta cli. This
is a great scene. I likedthis movie. This came out in the
peak of me playing basketball, souh, I just I just really enjoyed

(50:52):
it. Um. I played basketballin high school, did not play basketball
in college. I tried out,you know, before I play this clip,
I tell everyone basketball. It wasprobably multiple factors, but this is
the one thing I attributed to overall. So there were a couple issues anyway

(51:15):
with me trying to play college basketball. One, I had already had one
to two months of living as afreshman on a college campus with zero discipline
and all you can eat lunch roomokay, working against me. Second thing
working against me, As it turnsout, in college they actually want you
to be able to handle the basketballa little bit better, and none of

(51:36):
my high school coaches helped me withthat, ever, because they were just
like, you're gonna do a twohanded power dribble and you're gonna go to
the hoop, right, So Iknew how to do that post, maybe
a couple other post moves, butlike dribble between your legs. Oh okay,
this is awful. I hate thatyou're watching me dribble with your left
hand all the way down the court, like not having all But even though

(52:00):
those things, I still feel like, sorry, my phones are wacky.
Um didn't fully cut me from theteam. We fully cut me from this
team. It was the last dayof tryouts. I'd been there, I've
been on time, like I didthe team thing. The guys on the
team like me, like I'm stillfriends with everyone from I mean, I

(52:21):
went to a small school. Butum, we're running. It wasn't a
suicide. It was a ladder run. I don't know the difference. I
don't remember. All I remember ismidway through, I feel a gurgle in
my stomach and it's like one ofthose where you know this isn't solid.

(52:44):
Oh no, and I'm like,this isn't good. This is the last
this is the last day of tryouts. This is also like the last conditioning
of the day, right, andI'm running through it and all of a
sudden, I'd just go. Ijust did my head like I can't,
I need to go to the bathrooms, and I just start I start running

(53:10):
out of the gym, and Isaid, coach, I gotta poop,
I got, I gotta poop.Oh my god. I go into the
locker room and sitting on a throneof misery, knowing like that was the
nail in my coffin and I willbehold Monday. I'm called into his office

(53:34):
to get cut. Oh no,he's very nice about it. Yeah,
but uh oh what oh man,I go to poop like I just like,
well, I'm still like if Icould have held, if I could
have, did I have a chance, I wouldn't mind riding the bench right

(53:54):
for me? For me, likebeing able to play college basketball would have
just been and like the best Iplayed college baseball played college basketball. Oh,
if I if I made the basketballteam, baseball would not have been.
Wouldn't play baseball, No, I'dget coerced into playing baseball. Really
they needed guys. Oh I justthought that. Uh, I thought that

(54:15):
that you were pretty much lined upto play basket play baseball. No.
Once baseball is something I've done mywhole life, but once I got into
basketball and high school, yeah,basketball was That's how it was for me
too. It was just my favoritething. Yeah, Like I never played
travel baseball, but I played AAUbasketball, Like, yeah, I made
that. I did summer league basketball. I got really into it. Um

(54:37):
so it was a lot of fun. Baseball was always good, But I
wasn't planning on playing past high school, right because I didn't have I think
I had more success in basketball thanI did in baseball. But uh yeah,
so I ended up doing that becausemy school was like, well we
really need guys and you used toplay right, Like sure, I guess
so. But then I ended upreally liking enjoying being a part of that

(54:57):
team and finished out all four yearsplaying baseball. Um, but it certainly
wasn't the uh not the it's notthe tier. My college is very very
good at baseball now. Yeah,like they went and adapted to the conference
they were in, like we werelike we had fully defeated seasons. We
were for us in garbage like thatwas like that for us from basketball and

(55:17):
I lived in Florida though. That'sthat was my sport all the way growing
up, was basketball, all daybasketball. And similar story for me when
I just when I didn't make theJV team. When I was trying out
for JV and I think it wasin ninth grade, and I would have
made it, like I was prettymuch guaranteed because I had played already,
and um, you know, butI didn't keep I didn't keep playing in

(55:38):
the off season as much as Ishould have. So when the tryouts came,
you know, I made all itto last day and the last no
second to the last day and thelast day, Um, I was supposed
to go, and I just didn't. I didn't even go there. I
didn't even go to the tryou becauseI was like, you know what,
I can't get out of bed,Like I was so sore. I was
so defeated, you know, Ilike physically and then of course at that

(56:01):
point mentally because I was so like, um down, you know, just
because I couldn't get up, wasso sore and everything. I just I
didn't make it. So they're like, Chris, you gotta go. If
you just go, you're gonna makethe team. Pretty much I'm like at
that point, it's like I don'tI didn't want to be there. And
plus, like we were in aconference that was very similar like what you
were saying. We had a basketballcoach who had brought us our program to

(56:24):
like the next level, so wewe actually changed conferences. So we were
playing some like really big um schools, really big um high schools, and
we were like defeating them. Wewent to the we went to the finals
in you know, for the state, and because of that, we were
in that. But then he gotpretty much drafted to a different school.
That's what happens, right, Youget the good coach, the coach goes

(56:45):
to another school, it goes somewhereelse, and then all of a sudden,
you're stuck in that program where youwere in that conference, even though
you probably shouldn't have been there,because we were. We were we were
playing like public schools and we werea private Christian school, and so we
were just being defeated almost every game. It just was not fun. So
I was like, all the morereason for me to like, I don't
want to play. You know,I'm not feeling good, I'm not feeling

(57:07):
it, and I'm probably gonna loseevery game. What's the point. So
I wish i'd looking back, Iwish I'd stay with it. But anyway,
but yeah, yeah basketball, atleast you were sore from working too
hard. I literally got diarrhea.Friends terrible. That's the worst story or
better story, I should say Ihad friends who would just randomly say they're

(57:29):
on the court. I really,I was dead set. I want man
anyway. So, um, whatnone of those guys could have done to
help me out is what this teamdid to help the guy out you got.
Can you imagine? Got um cutfrom the team I think because of
his selfish attitude if I remember correctly, but he wants back on the team.

(57:50):
Yeah, and in order to getback on the team, you gotta
do unbelievable number of suicides and pushups. So this is where's where we
find out he didn't do enough.But that will be okay. All right,
that's it for today. We havea game tomorrow, so get some
rest tonight. Remember ties and jacketstomorrow, Clide, Channing Tatum, baby

(58:19):
face right, Oh, miss crews, I'm impressed with what you've done,
but he came up short. Youon me. Eighty suicides and five pups
believe those numbers by themselves sound terrible, right, so that must have been

(58:43):
more he had to do. Thanksclide, gentlemen, see tomorrow. I
forget. I wish I knew that. I can't remember the number that they
gave him to do. But that'ssorry. That's when he steps up.
I'll do something. Yeah that we'rea team. Yeah, one person struggles
and we all struggle. One playerof triumphs, we all triumph. Right,

(59:13):
there's something about Chantantatum's face. Ijust don't love. Look at the
shorts. Remember the age of bigshorts. Yeah, now they're too little
now my opinion, we're going backto the seventies. Kareem shorts were Jamal
from fighting Forrester. You played basketballin that movie too. If that's not

(59:37):
the guy, are you that person? Ok? Yeah, they looked at
up Rob Brown, I think hisname is. Here's my beef with this
scene. These are the laziest suicidesI've ever seen. No hustle, and
they are jogging. Oh yeah,can't it can't? I mean just starting
out running. That's terrible. Iguess you gotta pat yourself doing doing five

(01:00:01):
hundred of them. No eighty suicide. But each guy should accumulate one,
so you divide it by eight.They each had through ten suicides, which
also sounds bad. It does,but with the okay, I don't even
call him suicide anymore. They Idon't think they're encouraging the use of that.
That's that's frowned upon nowadays. Shouldn'tknow what is going on. They're

(01:00:22):
just showing Samuel Jackson clips on theon the old YouTube's now But that's a
great thing. I do like thehey, let's come alongside. Let's get
this guy back on the team becausewe're a team. It's give him a
chance. He's part of the team. Yeah, absolutely, that's that's It's
all about team play. There's somethingabout it. Definitely playing a sports when

(01:00:43):
you have your when you're surrounding tobuy teammates, you definitely, uh grow
to appreciate one another and learn eachother's strengths and weaknesses and make up for
that. That's at all, that'swhat team's all about. That movie is
good because it was kind of likeit was just full of what teenage do.
I mean, the partying was probablymore extreme than what really happens,

(01:01:04):
but like, yeah, you wouldthink, like you gotta keep your grades
up. You gotta perform. Well, don't do something stupid. But that
goes against the teenage brain that alwaysdoes something stupid, and that's like you
see that in the movie. Yeah, this is It was a good,
very relatable movie. Yeah, um, I think we we just got to
mention some of these basketball ones andimpress on here hustle. That was a

(01:01:27):
good more recent movie. Yeah,Adam Sandler did a good job with a
lot of NBA players. That guyfrom the Minnesota Timberwolves kind of played the
antagonist. I hope. I can'tthink of his name. Um, he's
a current players. I remember himbeing in there. That's all I'm thinking
of, is like, um,yeah, I can't Yes, that's right,

(01:01:51):
I do remember right there. Yes, yes, yeah, I think,
well now that's a that's a preview. Yeah, but yeah, I
think he's on the Timberwolves. Ijust wish I could remember his name.
Uh t Woolves two Wolves, twoWolves. Oh I didn't. I forgot
that Jalil White was in it too. Um, Anthony Owards Anthony Edwards plays

(01:02:12):
Kermit Wilts. They don't have hispicture, but I know it's Ny Edwards.
Sorry, I forgot all the peoplewho are in Doc Rivers. Dirk
Nowitzki was in it. Yeah,a lot of Big Island Iverson. It
was a great movie. I meanit was a Philly movie too. Oh
that's try. The Professor was init. Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
It's been a while, but youknow, you know, but it

(01:02:35):
was a good movie. Yeah,Ben Foster, he's a good actor.
He's the one that took over theteam. It's just funny how much I
don't like the Phillies but like likeall things Philadelphia related, like because it's
but I like the Celtics but likewhich I shouldn't forget. Can't like both
really right, um, but Istill like I thinks I'm not invested in

(01:02:57):
the NBA. I just don't carethat much. I used to be like,
I want to see the seventy sixers succeed. Well I got really
did seventy sixers when Alan Iverson wasaround, like then obviously that that's a
team that you can like now Andyeah, he and not just he single
handily, all the other players too, but like he was the big name,
he was a face. He becamethe face of the organization. Whenever
I played on my n sixty fourNBA Showtime on NBC. I was always

(01:03:20):
The Sixers with Allen Iverson and AaronMcKee. Oh yeah, a key,
Yeah. He was really good too. So but yeah, so that's a
good movie. Good move. WhiteMan Can't Jump. That was a That
was a pretty I like that movie. That was a pretty funny movie.
Actually they made a remake of that, or they're making a remake of that.
They got to stop doing that.I know, remake all the good

(01:03:40):
movies. Um, I haven't abad one. I haven't seen the last
two at all. He Got Game, which was pretty good. The Way
Back Was was another more recent moviewith um Ben Affleck. He plays like
an alcoholic who comes back to coachhis the team that he played on when
he was in high school, andyou know, it was kind of like
a returning back to his roots andgetting So that was. That was.

(01:04:03):
I would say it was definitely abasketball movie, even though there's more too
than basketball. But We Love wasa pretty good loving basketball, loving basketball.
I don't know. I didn't seethat movie, but from looks of
it, I would say it's moreof a love story than it was a
basketball movie. But I don't know. It was more of a chick flick.
It looks like to me, exactlyshould be. It's got basketball in

(01:04:25):
the name. Yeah, basketball.Yeah, so yeah, that's and then
we have our basketball miscellaneous ms leans. We got to mention the one because
Larry pointed out friend Larry Listener,loyal listener miracle. I haven't seen,
so I gotta see that, Larry. So you aren't hockey guys, Yeah,
that's the problem except for like peeweehockey. Yeah, we're I'm super

(01:04:48):
into watching hockey play hockey, youknow what I mean. Yeah, because
were kids when it came out.So with that movie when it came out,
mate, gave us, gave ushope of like going from playing on
a pond to playing in some absurdlylarge tournament in California. It could be

(01:05:08):
done. I could do that.Yeah, you could do it. Why
can't I just need someone to getin some drinking du I trouble right?
Yes, that community services working withchildren Now it seems like a bad Division
five you know or whatever it was. What was a Division five was the
name that they were the D fiveright, District five, District five,
District five and tourn them into theMighty Ducks from Duxworth. I really amerrate

(01:05:32):
we're returning to Mighty Ducks a lot. Yeah, we clearly liked this movie.
We like it, but it's theearly reference point for hockey because watch
hockey. I grew in Florida.We didn't have hockey, although we did
that, we did have a hockeyteam. I'm pretty sure you at least
had the Tampa Bay Lightning. Yeah, we had. We had the Solar
Orlando Solar Bears. Was back whenthe Solar Bears. But so they were

(01:05:54):
the h L team. So Idid go to a game. I think
it was not NHL, but Ih L. But I into a couple
of games. But I wasn't Iwas never a hockey fan. I wanted
to be. I wanted to playthe game hockey, but I never watched
hockey one I had Just like networktelevision with an antenna, hockey was not
broadcast. Yeah until maybe the StanleyCup Finals, in which case I didn't

(01:06:15):
know what was going on anyway,right, Yeah, I didn't know a
team that just yeah, the twoteams that were playing, I couldn't name.
I couldn't name five teams. ButI really liked the San Jose Sharks
because of their colors. It wascool. That's where I liked gotten to
like a team. I like theMighty Ducks because that logo, yes,
that the duck mask and that andthat greenish like real purple. Yeah.

(01:06:36):
Yeah, it was a great comboof colors. It was. That's a
Disney product. They appealed to us. Hence why we're still talking about the
Mighty Ducks almost every category of this, right, bring it back to the
actual team that came out. No, they are actual team, Oh no,
but what I mean before before theybecame a real team, they were
the They were the peewee team thatwe watched on TV in the movies.

(01:06:59):
But for them, a more agreater team played. And the e is
a nineteen eighty I think it wasnineteen eighty that I mean it was in
the last That's what I thought.Yeah, yeah, but sometimes I doubt
myself. You were just up inLake Plastic, did you you were?
Didn't a dog in my We tookit. My my daughter was. I

(01:07:20):
was playing a basketball tournament there,and least they did a good job.
They actually won the tournament. Um, but I would I would have liked
to gone to some of the stuffthat was there. The one thing we
did was we went to the skijump, which is really cool, terrifying.
But then and I pushed myself hardto go to go there because I
was I ended up having strup throatstake the lift up the skid. We

(01:07:41):
took the sea lift up. Thenwe went up the elevator to the very
top. It was unbelievable, butI wanted to go. Yeah, I
wanted to go see where Miracle wasplayed. The Miracle. There's two rinks.
There's like the old rink and thenew rink because there was two Olympics
hosted there. Right, Yeah,there's one way back thies I think it
was thirty one. Speed skating wasoutside. Yeah, yeah, easy,
Yeah, it's cool. That's acool place for sure. You know,

(01:08:01):
I'd like to go back. Itold Brianna we should, just two of
us should go back and spend sometime because it's it's beautiful. And then
they also have all the different sitesyou can go to Olympic places. But
um, but yeah, that's where. So that's our homework. We need
to watch that. I got towatch that for sure. I mean it's
it's Kurt Russell's in it. Yeah, he's great, plays a coach.
Right, Um, I think,yeah, who made the call? Who
made the do you believe in miracles? Or was that his speech that says

(01:08:24):
it? I thought it was theannouncer call. I could be hilario.
I mean, oh, yeah,they'll listen to this. Yeah, let
me know, let us know wherewe're missing out here, and we'll go
back and we'll definitely have to watchit. And then we'll let you know
when we have watched it. Yeah, because I know all you guys are
gonna be like, I can't waitto hear when they watch this movie.
Um, yeah, then you itwas a good movie that we need to
put on our list and then ohand then share to fire. I thought,

(01:08:46):
you know, it's it's outside thenorm for sports movies, but this
is a great movie. This isa good clip. I haven't seen the
movie. I know, shame onme. Eric Little he won several,
um several medals in the Olympics fromit's nineteen fifteen, nineteen twelve, something
like that. I don't know.But look at this track that they're on

(01:09:09):
that's just straight grass. Yeah thisis in scott I think it's in Scotland.
Look how just well dressed everyone inhis life. That's not legal.
It's just such an amazing soundtrack too. Just it's great. I was actually

(01:09:33):
thinking this was a little weird soundingnow but back then, but he deals
with it, I think it backSo he gets knocked over the beginning of
the race and he runs and catchesup to the crowd. Yeah, that's

(01:09:54):
something that I would never do.I would never believable. That's just ends
up being his nemesis drat. Butthen they also are are warmed toward each
other in the end. But itjust gets your blood like racing, like

(01:10:16):
is he gonna be able to doit? Could he really do it?
Because back and he wins it.Unbelievable. That's a that's a that's what
you need in the sports movie.Yeah, that's what you need is good
sports movie. Look at that theyran in straight cleats. Yeah, look
at that. That's how I feelafter about one hundred feet. Yeah,

(01:10:45):
I couldn't do that. If Ifell down, I'd be like, well,
I guess i'm out. I'm done. Yeah, I'm gone, got
me out of it right, Well, thanks. I didn't want to run
this race anyway, But I guessthat's the between real real athletes and the
rest of us like I'm starting torun, but I'm not a runner.
That yeah, yeah, I knowthat's an actor. But yeah, yeah,

(01:11:08):
that was a great movie. People, blow my mind. That's the
whole list we had. We gotthrough it. How long did it take
us to get through everything? Ohmy goodness, it's all were bantering back
and we had it. We wereat an hour and like eleven minutes.
That's okay, that's cool, Andmaybe it's not that long. I started
rolling a little bit before we actuallystarted the episode, but it's been a

(01:11:29):
little longer. Yeah, trying.We're trying to go Joe Rogan length right,
like, like we're two and ahalf hours the third of the way
through this. We're gonna just keepgoing to talk about something else next,
what's next? What's on the net? On the agenda? No, but
no, but seriously, thanks forchicking around for this episode. We hope
you guys really enjoyed it and talked. Well, let us know you know
what what you thought thought of it, what movies that we we missed out

(01:11:51):
on, and what we should checkout, because because it clearly loves a
good sports movie, it rebody lovesbeing inspired, right, And if you
can't do it. You're so likeyou could live vicariously through other people enjoy
it. I think we inherently wantto see people who were told they can't
do it do it. Yeah,that's seed to overcome, right, Yeah,
because we all want to be theone who overcomes. Just doesn't always

(01:12:15):
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