Games with Names - Highlight Reels: Best of Comedians

Episode Date: July 13, 2025

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! Tickets for the Live Show are ON SALE NOW! GRONK & JULES PRESENT WELCOME TO THE NUTHOUSE! August 28th at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston. Get Tickets Here!  Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Let's go. Thoughts on the current state of the Patriots right now, Bill? Can I call you Bill or is it Will? Yeah, no, it's fine. Why would you call me Will? At what point did you? I don't know. I call Bill Belichick Will. Oh, you do?

No. No? No. Did you ever get inside that head? Never. Never. He doesn't let anyone in there. Yeah, well he's the modern day Paul Brown.

You ever read on what Paul Brown did? Yeah, he started the Browns and then he went down to Cincinnati. In other words, you didn't. No. If he could read, he would though. If I could read. Paul Brown was in the league,

it was called like the, something like the AAFL, some fucking thing like that. It was, they went three years, the Cleveland Browns with Otto Graham, the first Tom Brady, right? Fucking wins, they win the championship all three years. Then he goes into the NFL in 1950, and the NFL was laughing at them, saying they're not gonna do shit.

And he ends up going to the championship game like four years in a row and wins, won either two or three of them. Then Bobby Lane came with the Lions. So one of the things that they did with him 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. And he had a field goal kicker. What the fuck was it was an offensive lineman, of course, and he was kicking straight on with. Oh, yeah. What was his name? Yeah. And this guy was lights out.

Groza, Lou Groza, Lou, the toe groza. There you go. So and they were winning all of these games by three points and two points and everything. So he was the guy like it was it was him realizing that that was important. And that could be a competitive advantage that. Oh, my God. How did I leave off Adam Vinatieri? Oh, is he, is he in the hall of fame yet?

Have they put this year fucking ridiculous. Okay. That guy is first ballot. No question. Hall of Famer, Adam Vinatieri, apologies. He probably shut this podcast off, walking around. They're never going to, you're never going to acknowledge us kickers. Is that how kickers sound?

I was a Guskowski guy. Who's that? Oh, was that the guy who was kind of fat? That was our kicker for my whole career. Oh, Staniskowski. No, Guskowski, Steve Guskowski. Oh, I thought you said Gusakowski. No.

Different policy. Listen, you get to a certain age, you can't remember kicker's names. I'm at that age. You gotta dip, you gotta sauce things up. It can take things to the next level. Always. Some people think it's trashy, I just think it's...

Fuck that, dude. It's trashy to use dips to fucking live a little? I like putting A1 sauce on my white rice. Okay, interesting. Like that's how I like maybe they're coming from a one sauce is dog shit I like a one sauce is like when people are like well I'm not gonna use ketchup I'm not an animal let's get a one you know what I mean it's it's trash trying to be classy no offense no I know a one you got to let

go of any other dip I'm with you I. I hate to really love stab you in the back Are you ranch guys? Like when I'm a great guy when I was trashy too, so maybe I'm a hypocrite here whenever I eat Greek food I always bring in don't say ranch. Oh God damn it. I like did my your own ranch with Greek food Zicky have you read Zicky? I think we have our fucking right fucking writing teeny and tzatziki. I think it's a bad wrench No, what are you? What the fuck are you talking about? We don't even teenies not even us. That's more

That's more of the Middle East where you know right in the middle right on the other side But no you gotta go to Zatziki. You can't do ranch. What like what are you dipping in ranch? I just eat or a hot so I like to put hot like a different hot sauce I like like my euro in there or I like to put hot, like a different hot sauce. I like like my gyro in there. Or I like like when I have a kebab or, like I like. You gotta get tzatziki. You might just be going to a place with bad tzatziki.

There's some great shit out here. Now what kind of ranch, because this is important too. There's a ranch here in LA, I forgot what it's called, but it's like a, it's a mom and pop ranch. Okay, you might be winning me about, comes in like a mayonnaise looking thing. Is it refrigerated? Oh yeah. Good, okay. It goes bad after a week. That's how you know it's a ranch. That's a mom and pop ranch. You might be winning me about it. Comes in like a mayonnaise looking thing. Oh yeah.

Good, okay. It goes bad after a week. That's how you know it's a ranch. That's a real sauce. All right. Then maybe there's some space. No, this ranch is 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 going to have to try this ranch before I come in with the ultimate, like deciding whether that's trashy or not go back to

like 1995 oh game day ritual game day wake up early wake up early did you go to bed with like the cleats on or something no no no no no no we partied all night all right partied all night standard yeah wake up early and bong hits right away. Like right away. Wake and bake. Wake and bake. 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? Frito Lay's. Yes, and I was in an organization called Scalp Hunters. And so, and I was like, I was in college so long, I was on the panel, I ran Scalp Hunters for like four years. And so we would host the party at a place called Indian Village right next to the stadium. And so we put up a big Scalp Hunters sign.

Anyone that was like cool at that time, it's still the same, at Tallahassee, anyone that was like, someone with a little leverage was a Scalp Hunter. So the coolest dudes in that whole school would show up to Indian Village. And we'd have probably like three different houses, four different houses, different fraternities, but then the scalp hunters party was the shit. And then say we had like a 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 cocktail. Like my buddy Hutch would be like, all right, today it's Harvey Wallbangers. And so he'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 game time. And then, then this is really interesting. People would load up on, because you couldn't insert booze in the thing. They'd load up on plastic bags and Jim Beam at the time was what 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 noticeably with a plastic bag in my waist and very nervous and making movements and touching my bag and the cops would be like, we got one. And they'd grab me and I'd be like, hold on.

And I make a little thing 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 don't know if they have lox and bagels and I'm starving for lox and bagels.

My parents brought them in for the game. And I just wanted to have like a bagel with some lox on it and they'd be like, oh fuck, go, go ahead. And then they'd let you in and then we would go up and we would party our fucking dicks off. And it was awesome. It was, to this day,

the best Saturdays I'll ever have in my entire life. The roasts we were on, there was like no holding anyone back. There was- That was wild. You know what I mean? Everyone was hitting every joke and it was kinda, it was like no holding anyone back. There was- That was wild. You know what I mean? Everyone was hitting every joke and it was kinda, it was like comedy was almost coming back. 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, no, we're not letting you do this. Like, I'm sure Netflix perused what was going to be said, but they weren't really, 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, you know, did they, did they cross the line? Is this the end of roasts? Like, cause it was so harsh, but everyone seemed to just be like so excited about it that I'd say. It was not, there was not one headline of like, it's too far. Like not even one, and it was too far.

It was offensive to me at times. It was pretty, it was pretty. It was great though, so fun. 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 let 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 came out.

And so it relieved me, he said, oh, he said that? I'm like, all right, I'm good. What was the line he said that made you? There was the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu stuff, he was bringing it right away. Yes, you're right, he was showing you where the threshold was, where we're willing to go. Absolutely, I felt that way too.

He was the best man. And just commenting after everyone's set and showing credit where it's due, he was really a team player that night. On a night where it is competitive, and comedians aren't usually that generous with each other of giving each other accolades. And it was just, it just, it felt,

but the roast is weird because you didn't know what other people were gonna say, what other jokes people were doing. None of us 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, I was like,

I guess it's on the table. That opened up a world to me. No. It's comedy. Of course it was jokes. And I think jokes can be made about literally any topic. It's not like you're making fun of the victim. There's a certain way that it shouldn't be done

and that's not the way it was done that night. It was really refreshing, but there was just like, I heard just like a hint that, or like someone said, yeah, you know, Julien is a Aaron Hernandez joke. And I had been like, I can't do it because no one's gonna 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 that well, or Gronk doing that well. It really was like, you all should have done as well as Randy did. Drew good, I like Drew.

He likes you too, I think. Oh, and Drew. I met Gronk, and Gronk, that, right before he goes out, was like, talking to me as if I was an old man and then at some point I just go, because I was just trying to be in character, because before we went and did that, we ran our jokes the night before

at this comedy club called Laugh Boston. It was me, Bill Burr, Josh Wolfe, Anthony Mackey, and Burr's like, so you going to dress up like Babe Ruth or some shit? I was like, just watch Bill, it's going to be great. Next day we're in the lobby getting ready to walk over to House of Blues next to Fenway, and Bill's in the lobby. I was like, oh, it's perfect's going to be great. Next day we're in the lobby, getting ready to walk over to the House of Blues next to Fenway, and Bill's in the lobby.

I was like, oh, it's perfect, I got to go test this out. So I walk up, I go, hey, Bill, Bill Burr, big fan. He goes, thanks, buddy. And it kind of turns away, I was like, oh, shit, he doesn't know it's me. So then I go, hey, I just started watching your cartoon, episode of Family, it's pretty good. He goes, oh, thanks.

I go, yeah, it's no Simpsons, I'll tell you that much. And he goes, what's that, bud? I go, yeah, I got a few notes for you, you got a few minutes? And he goes, buddy, fuck off. And you're like, in my face, and I go, Bill tell you that much. And he goes, what's that, bud? I go, yeah, I got a few notes for you. You got a few minutes? And he goes, buddy, fuck off. And you're like in my face and I go, Bill, it's Adam. And he goes, what?

I go, it's Adam. He goes, holy fucking shit, dude. And he just couldn't take his eyes off me the rest of the night. And so then I went up to Gronk and same thing was like, oh, Gronk, big fan, man, big fan. I go, yeah, if you're not doing anything, maybe we got a double team of Hooters waitress.

And Gronk was like, yeah, rain check, man. And then I was like, Gronk, my name's Adam Ray. I'm like 35. And he was like, oh shit, you know? And then he comes up, he was like, hey dude, can I run some jokes by ya? And he had this joke that he wanted to run by me about titty fucking Josh Wolfe's wife

after shitting on our chest. Can you curse on the show? Is it too late to ask? All right. And this is just all bleeped. And so I was like, and I started, he goes, so okay, so I'm too fucking Joshua's wife. And then, but I know, sure.

And then a tootie fucker. And I go, what's the joke? And he goes, well, that's what I need help with. I go, you know what, dude, just say that verbatim and you'll be golden. And he was like, it's funny, right? I go, it's something. And then he went out there and no, I honestly did not,

he opened with it and fucking bombed, but then also got laughs. But then he saved it by being just charismatic, swagger-filled gronk. And he does his fucking, he just goes, fuck you guys, I thought that was funny. And everybody starts laughing, dude. And immediately won the room over. Going up for parts for various things.

And the guy said to me, you have to, it was the casting director, and I meet these guys, these are the creme de la creme guys. It's Jim Brooks, Ed Weinberger, Stan Daniels, Dave Davis, they created Mary Tyler Moore, they created Room 222, they wrote Lou Grant, blah, blah, blah, all this stuff. I never watched television. They wrote a, you know, Lou's like a really lush sofa like this. And I'm walking in, there's a chair there. Casting room, right?

The casting, it's the guy's office. There's that paramount, there were big shots. You know, 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, one thing want to know before we start, who wrote this shit? And I threw it on the table.

Okay? Game seven. Okay? And now I walk for one tiny little min second in terror. Shitting. And then they laughed their ass off. Oh my gosh. Okay?

And Louie walked into their life. Okay? So these guys are this, you know, okay, so we rehearsed the show, we had 10 days of rehearsal and we're gonna do a pilot. Now this is big because this means this is a huge show, everybody tells me was gonna be like, it's gonna be a, see they're gonna,

and it's ABC and all this stuff, taxi. So I am like, you know, shitting my pants all week, getting ready, we're rehearsing, 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 300 people in the director, we have the same blah blah blah. And the night of the pilot shoot, there's 300 people in the audience and I get to my dressing room early, I always do that. Try to psych myself up, get into the mode, 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 Okay, and it says huh? It's like a little like a really gnarly little looking thing Yeah, but you know not creative plan nothing fancy. No nothing fancy. So you got a little in a clay pot any and and a note says dear Danny as Louis the pommel would say if you don't do good tonight, you'll be eating shit tomorrow So I'm interested, you know you're on SNL. Mm-hmm. So you guys Perform once a week. Yep. What's the prep process like cuz 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 T science Monday film, Tuesday day off, Wednesday, first and second down Thursday, third down Friday, red area, walk through Saturday, play game on Sunday. What's the, what's the routine like for SNL? I mean, I love hearing this because I always feel like I'm an athlete and I'm part of a team except it's, but yeah, it's like Monday, meet the host, start

thinking of your sketch ideas, Tuesday, writing night, Wednesday, uh, table read, find out what sketches get in Thursday. We start rehearsals Friday. We rehearse more and we shoot all the like 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. Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, like 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 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. Well, I got the question for you. 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, too much practice, too much repetition?

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, 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 their dressing room and they're looking at it between rehearsals. But whenever there's an athlete,

they bring that out on to set with them. And I'm like, that's their playbook for the week. And I'm just, it was like when Travis hosted, I was asking him, I'm like, okay, on game day, what are you eating? He's like, Uncrustables all day long. So before on Saturday, I had four boxes of Uncrustables all day long. So like before on Saturday, like I had like four boxes of Uncrustables delivered 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 make those for the game. Like, and he's playing on a live game every week. Who are some of the younger comedians that, you know,

you let hang around you or you kind of saw and maybe helped. Yeah, it's a lot. 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 Halkeis. You know Stavros? Yeah. You love Stavros? We love Stavros.

Yeah. I just watched himros? We love Stavros. Yeah. We just watched him. He opened for me. I was one of the first guys to take him on the road. He was, 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. And it's so funny because I, I just loved him. I just thought it 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 liked 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, that was 12 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 look my the one I'm proud of right now young bucks Yeah, awesome. 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.

Because I remember being that kid. Yeah. And I needed that and there was guys that looked out for me and there was guys that were assholes for me. Yeah. But I was more of an accounting, I made you an accountable asshole. Right.

If you were a fucking slap dick and you thought your shit didn't stink in the fucking room, I was going to tell you, all right dude, we went before you, we don't need you. Right. So. Yeah. We both just did the roast, the Tom Brady roast. What'd you think of it?

It was wild. It was wild. It was wild. From the stage perspective, like a lot was going on. Oh yeah. A lot of energy. I loved watching, for me it was a lot of completing the story.

Yeah. You know, like hearing Drew's perspective, you know what I mean? Him making fun of Tom, like you used to come with that story. You know, like, hearing Drew's perspective, you know what I mean? Him making fun of Tom, like, you used to come with that yellow truck. It's like, oh shit, okay, so that was that relationship. And hearing Gronk, I loved Gronk's part of the roast and him just being like, yeah, you know,

he's trying to 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 that kind of that shit. As a fan, it was like kind of having an insider's like view into it yeah uh but then there was just like wild shit going on like girl spiking that glass and like is there gonna be a lot i think it'll be a lawsuit 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 oh she was like pissed and i

was like oh this isn't good so then it was just like. Yeah I heard that. You could actually see someone be all pissed. It was a lot going on it was it was big. For me I thought it was such a cool perspective to A see professionals work in contrast to guys that the athletes were we, we're all fucking nervous, you know, we were all terrified. You know, you're in the forum, there's 15,000 people, it's a live show on Netflix, we don't do this shit. You 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 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 then throw it in joke and go. Like it was really impressive to watch you guys work. So you're known for your rants. What's your greatest rant of all time that you are just so proud of? TV, anything? And don't ask me to remember what it was,

but it's findable. The one, it was one that it took me a while. There's four or five things I did, but when they put Janet Jackson's breast on the- Nipple? The nipple, the nipple caper. How, what year was that? That was JT. And I flipped out and so I just,

and that's what I went off on. Nobody, you know, it's like, they, they. Yeah, oh four, oh four. I was in high school. It was horrifying. I was literally sitting, we were in LA, sitting in a friend's house. I was this close to the TV, and if not closer, I watched the whole fucking 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'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 it and then I literally just went nuts the first time I went on stage And 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 is awful. Let's see it again Can we see that again? Look at that thing, it's disgusting. That nipple just appeared out there,

this is not the kind of, let's see it again. And they just kept showing it, showing it, showing it. And so I went off and then eventually carved it all together and I loved doing it. And I kept that bit, but way too long, probably till 2007. Three years of the nipple bit. But the idea that football players are any athlete are meatheads is so false and insulting because the level of intellect and the decision making and the quickness, not to mention the kinetic genius that you guys have,

but anybody, I know they make fun of Gronk, but anybody who can do these reads has an intelligence. Maybe not for chemistry and physics. No, without a doubt. Right, but for the movement and also just the decision-making quickness is really impressive. Gary, I played in the league for 12 years. I played with some meatheads.

Really? Yeah. That couldn't follow the... There's maybe one to three guys on a team that are just either so big, so fast, so strong. I see. Physically, they were able to dominate. They can do that. They won't do it for a long time now. Right.

Because people learn your moves. When you get it on film, then people can prepare for it. But they can sneak out. There's you know, they can sneak out. There's some meatheads that can sneak out a couple years. All right, all right, thanks for, thanks for getting on that. I also say that too, like, I got a little disappointed in Meryl Streep because I was a huge Meryl Streep fan, I still am.

But when she went on the, she won an award for best actress or something, it was like five years ago or something. And she goes, she called out the athlete community, like, where are the arts, where are the this? And I go, you know how artistic it is? Oh my gosh. 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 gosh. Like you said, that kinetic art of movement. Yes. You see some of these guys run, yes they're big, strong, fast, but they have footwork like a ballerina.

It wasn't a coincidence that Jerry Rice dominated dancing with the stars. Yeah. Well he used to do ballerina stuff for his ankle and foot. Right, right, because he's an artist. Yeah, there were a lot of players who could have been equally impressive in dance or things like that, yeah. Emmett Smith did well too.

Yes, oh my gosh, he was awesome, yes. I think he won it, didn't he win it? He had great feet, yeah. So you get offered every single year to be on that show. I'm not going on Dancing with the Stars. Thanks for listening. Remember to tune in every Tuesday for a brand new episode and every Sunday for another Games with Names highlight. So what happened at Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who

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