Games with Names - Nick Swardson on The Randy Moss Moon Game | Vikings vs. Packers

Episode Date: March 10, 2026

Nick Swardson is in studio! The hilarious actor, comedian, and die hard Vikings fan is with us to relive a legendary night in Minnesota sports lore: The 2004 NFC Wildcard Game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers aka "The Randy Moss Moon Game." We talk saving R-rated comedies, being bros with Adam Sandler, Sam Darnold, and a whole lot more.  (00:00) We kick things off. (00:58) Nick joins us on the couch. (20:56) We got back to January 2005. (1:00:59) We look at the teams. (1:10:53) We dive into the game. (1:18:00) We score the game. Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Bad blood, frozen tundra, winter go home. But there was a full moon in the end zone. This is straight out. Homie! Welcome to Games with Names. I'm Julian Edelman. They're Jack and Kyler. And we're on a mission to find the greatest game of all time.

And we got a great episode coming up with hilarious actor-comedian Nick Swartson. And if you haven't already, drop a like and a subscribe to Games with Names. Let's get into it. Games with Names and production of IHeart Radio. Welcome to Games with Names. today we have a special guest and we'll be looking at the 2004 NFC wildcard game Vikings versus Packers the moon game with the one and only Nick Swartson.

Merrill Streep. Hi everybody. How are you? It's good to see you. It's great to have you here in the nut house. Nick, we start the show off always. In one sentence, why did you pick this game? in one sentence In one sentence No one ever follows the one sentence But we'll see We judge our guests

I'll say Devastating turn of events Ooh Is that a teaser? Yep I'm out of here This guy knows Is this the greatest game of all time?

It's up there It's a pretty great game I'll say devastating turn of events is this was kind of the impetus for us, not me, but the organization getting rid of Randy Moss. That's what that, that was one thing they said, our old owner, Redmond Combs. This was his second to last game.

This was his second to last. Well, the first one. The first one. Now, the mooning incident was a huge reason he got traded. That's what they were saying. They said that, you know, he was like difficult or whatever. they said, oh, and then this happened. And it's so absurd.

It's like, and then they were saying that Randy Moss did that in retaliation because the Packers actually physically mooned the Vikings off the bus. Real moon, real moon, real butt. Yeah, real moon. Ficked fresh labias. They showed off. And so that was a retaliation to the Packers. That's a retaliation.

So, yeah. And Randy Moss, it wasn't even a real moon. He just did a little shimmy. It is, it is so crazy. We were watching the highlights of this and going down memory lane. And they couldn't even show. They're like, all right, we won't show. It was on ESPN.

It was the sports center with Berman. He's like, we're not going to show you, but Randy did a very inappropriate act right here. It wouldn't show the mood. It was, it's, it's, it's, it wouldn't show it. And then, but, and you saw this. The best is Joe Buck. reaction to the moon. He's like, oh, this is crazy.

How can he do that? It was like, what a disgusting act. Yeah, what a disgusting act. It's like, I wish Randy had really done it. And not only that gone potty and then thrown it at the Packer fans. That's where I'm at. Now, speaking of disgusting acts, how about these current Vikings? I've got to be careful about how I talk about it

because I don't want to be a downer. It's just I support the team. Yeah, it's just, it's mind-blowing to me. Now, Sam Darnold leaving the building. What were your thoughts on that? I was, I couldn't believe it. I was like, you've got to be kidding me. We're going to, he was all set.

I remember in December they announced they're like, okay, Sam's coming back. We're going to go with him. and then we had two snafus with the Lions and then the playoff game in LA against the Rams which the Rams are a great team. They're on the road. You know,

Donald didn't play well, but it's like, yeah, that's going to happen. And then they just bailed on them. And it's like, I don't know how you implode a 14 and 3 team. The reason that wasn't a bigger deal is because the Lions went 15 and 1,

which is insane. So nobody really like talked about how the Vikings had this crazy season. but, you know, I just don't know how you implode a 14 and 3 team after that. It's so crazy. I mean, like, what would you think? If that happened to you and you were like, wait, what? We're getting rid of the... I remember vividly after the season, I go,

I look at the guys and I go, there's no shot they're letting Sam walk out the building with 14 wins. Is there for a rookie quarterback? Especially at the number of Seahawks got them at, which is $30 million, which is a mid-tier contract, which means you could still pay other guys and have a good team around them? Yeah, completely.

Like, they were saying it was a money issue and it's like, no, it wasn't. No, it was, and I became friends with Sam via social media and he's super cool, man, and I stood by him for the Seahawks. I was like, yeah, just go, dude, go win it. It's been really cool to watch him have success, though, because of the story, though. Even though your Vikings didn't win.

watching Sam Donald will go out there. I mean, I doubted him for years. And then to see him go out and prove people wrong, I thought that was insane. That was a fun story. Dude, that's a great story. And it's like, you know, it's hard for quarterbacks. When they come out of college, you get highly drafted,

there's so much pressure. And it's, you know, I mean, you know way better than I do. But like, if you don't fit into a system and you get thrown into something that just doesn't work for you, you know, it implodes. And then everyone's like, oh, this guy's a bust. And it's like, well, no, this guy wasn't given a shot. I mean, I mean, you look at the Cleveland Browns. I mean, how many how many quarterbacks have they gone through where they had a first round pick?

I always feel bad for that. And the Jets are right there with them. The Jets. Oh, I mean, is that like, so I'm NFC North. And so the Packers are our biggest rival, like, by a mile. And it's to the point where I've had to, it was like unhealthy. I was getting so upset about Green Bay, Minnesota games. I couldn't watch them in public.

The 2004 game, I think I watched at home because I did watch it home because I couldn't, I can't be out at a bar and watch a game, especially a big game. But do the Patriots have the equivalent? Like if the Vikings don't win the Super Bowl, which we don't. If we don't win the Super Bowl, all we care about is beating the Packers. Like, that's our Super Bowl. So do the Patriots have a rival like that? The Jets.

The Jets. The Jets. Boston, New York always. Right. That's what I would assume. Some money in there. The Jets have just spent such a disaster.

I wouldn't say, though, like, if we don't go to the Super Bowl, we don't, the Jets can't win. It's not, it was never that big because it was so one-sided for at least when I was there. For a while. For a while. For a long time. It still is. It was a solid one side. I mean, they beat us twice, though.

And they beat us once in the, uh, to go to the AFC championship in 14. no, in what years that? That was 2010. 2010 with Sanchez. Yeah. So they had a couple runs. Well, for them, I bet you are that way. You know what I mean?

Yeah, for them, 1,000%. We're going to eat shit, so hopefully we take down the pads. Right. Do you believe in J.J. McCarthy? I mean, yeah. I've got to, you know, I support the kid. I feel bad for him to be thrown in to, again, like a 14, three team and you've got a guy like Justin

Jefferson and you know this dude got thrown into it and you know like with he got injured and then God man it's just I feel like you have to have a season or two of a really like hard backing up of a quarterback and you see it with

what Aaron Rogers did with Farr and Jordan Love did with Rogers and he I don't know I mean these new owners they see CJ Stroud go up and light it up and have the best rookie season of all time for a quarterback. And then the very next year, Jaden Daniels does the same thing and tops it. So then you got these owners that have a whole

lot of money now. Back in the day, they didn't have the money to just move on. Yeah. Now they could just say, ah, fuck it, it's a rounding there. We'll get a new guy. The, the patience for these guys, I've heard Brady talk about it at length that agreeing with what

you just said, let the guy sit, let them learn. But it's tough because other people have done and you know in business, like the comedy world, when someone else goes and does something, then you're agent or the people you're working for says, why can't you do that? Right.

You know what I mean? It's just one of those things where that's the sad part of it. Yeah, and to address what you said, Tom and I are always on the same wavelength. It's like, it's kind of a broken record at that point. But yeah, it actually is similar to comedy because you'll have let's say you'll have a kid that has a really funny 10 minutes or five minutes or a couple minutes that goes viral on the internet.

So what agents will do will be like, oh, well, this guy needs his own sitcom or this guy needs his own movie. And it's like that they're not ready. Just because they. Octua. Exactly. Did she get a podcast? Yeah.

But then she did the pump and dump with the fake coin went down. Now she's back. I think she's back with only fans. That's fair. Pretty cool little arc there. Well, you know, it's even crazier. she's now backing up McCarthy. Oh, that's how crazy this world is,

is that she's like, give me the ball. Fucking lightning strikes, man. That's what we do. Is there any interest in Kyler, Murray, Tua, or Mac Jones, or Malik Willis? Malik Willis would probably be the most exciting for me, honestly. I would be interested in Kyler. you know, nothing against Mac or Tua.

I feel like he gets injured a lot. Yeah. I think he's got a healthy problem. Yeah. Play away. But I don't know. It's just frustrating to wrap my head around it. I don't know.

Well, let's wrap our head around something that you do know about your new comedy special on YouTube, toilet head. Now, how do you come up with naming these awesome specials? So my comedy, so I've never take anything seriously outside of football. But I don't take anything seriously. So when I did my first hour on Comedy Central, they were like, what do you want to call it? And I'm like, I want to call it seriously who farted. That's a good one though.

Yeah. That's a good one. And so I'm in the room with the executives and they're like, oh, that's funny. But what do you want to call it? Like for real. And I'm like, seriously, who farted? And they're like, that's what you want to call it? And I'm like, yeah, because I do.

just want, in case it gets nominated for something, I want somebody to have to say on a stage, like, all right, and next the nominee, seriously, who farted? And then people are like, what the hell is that? So then I just ran with it after that. And I just started naming my specials. Because some comedians take it really seriously, or they make it kind of boring. And I'm like, you can still have fun with the name. So Toilethead, I just thought, I got known for, not known for but like telling a lot of shit jokes. So I just called myself like I have a toilet head. Like my brain is just talking about farts.

It did not get nominated. It will. I realize pretty quickly, nothing I do is getting nominated. Like the only nominations I've had are for Razies, which are the worst of the worst of actors. And I've been nominated probably seven times. And every time, most of the times I've lost, if not every time, I've lost a Sandler.

So that's pretty fun. Do you go? I would go if I won 100%. Yeah, I got nominated multiple times in one year. I got nominated for worst actor, Bucky Larson, worst acting, supporting actor, just go with it. Worst movie, Bucky Larson,

worst screenplay Bucky Larson, which I wrote with Adam and covert. So it was like, all right. Like the Susan Lucci of the Razzies got to leave. Yeah, totally. So we're not drinking anymore. Yeah, quit drinking, man. It's been a year and a half.

Let's go. Let's go. Yeah. Amazing. How does it feel? It feels great. And I'm not one of those sober people that just is like, hey, man, here's the deal. But here is the deal.

I was a really fun drunk. I loved drinking. I had a blast. I loved drinking with fans. Love doing shots with fans. But my only thing that I will tell people is that it'll catch up to you physically. Like you'll have problems. I used to be brag about how much I could drink.

I thought it was cool when I was in my 30s and then bleeding into my 40s. And it's just, it's not like when you're 45 and you're blacked out at the bar, it's not the best look. But you just, you've got to be careful. So if you're a drinker, that's fine. But just make sure you monitor and, you know, how much you're drinking. What were some of the best cities to drink in? All of them. Every city is fine.

great to drink in. I mean, so like New Orleans is great. Vegas is great. But like I would throw down in like Springfield, Missouri. There's like a great club there called the Blue Room. And I would spend like a week. One of my MOs was I would do a show for a week or even one show. I would do a gig, a casino.

And then I would just stay in that town for like a month. So I did a college of Miami one time. I just stayed in South Beach for a month. I mean, that's a good place. Yeah, it was great. but one of my favorite moments, I think they might have told you, is I'm in Vegas. This is, I can't remember the year.

You can find it. I'm in Vegas and I'm at this club at the, whatever, at the win. And I have a table. And they were like, hey, do you know who's at the table next to you? And I'm like, no. And they go, gronk. And I'm like, what? And I look over and there's gronk, massive gronk.

And he's like, what it points at me. And you know that feeling when you're a big partier and you run into another big partier where it's almost like two tornadoes and you're excited but also horrified? Like when I saw him, I was like, oh, no. Oh, no. Like here we go. And Gras goes, dude, are you drinking? And I'm like, yeah, I have a table in Vegas.

Like, no, man, I'm going to go to Barnes & Noble in like a half hour and fucking read up on some Nietzsche. And it's like, yeah, dude, let's do this. this. So anyway, he's with his crew. I'm with my crew. It's just the wheels come off. Bottles. There's no glasses anymore. It's just like chugging. Straight chug. So his, half of his buddies are just falling like flies. And then I'm, so I start to just fade away. I'm out. And I grab the VIP host and I'm like, I got to get out of here. And Rob's like, what is going on? And I'm like, I almost can't see. So they get me to my room, wake up the next day. And my buddy, one of my friends goes, dude, have you opened your phone? Have you seen TMZ? And I'm like, no.

And he goes, bro, grunk af, like five minutes after you left, went on stage, fucking, I think it was shirtless, body slammed his buddy, hurt his wrist, and he's fucking out. And I'm like, what? And he's like, it's all on camera. And I'm like, oh my God, I saw it. I'm like, holy shit. And then part of me was like if I had stuck around a little bit longer. You would have been body slammed. Oh, dude. It would have been you. I would have body slammed gronk somehow with just Yeager energy.

Just fucking, oh. But yeah, I'll never forget that. I was like, holy shit. He's the best. He's such a fun dude to be around. He's such a fun guy. I've run into him throughout the years. He's always so nice.

Sweetheart. Such a sweetheart. And he's just fun. Like everything about the guy. He's like a goal retriever. Yeah, totally. It's a complete golden retriever. Yeah, that'll body slam you. A giant golden retriever. It's like Clifford, that dog.

That big dog. He's Clifford. Yeah. That's it. That's perfect. I've been thinking about it. It's Clifford. Nailed it.

Thank God we got Nick on. Rob, you're Clifford. No going back. Spread the word, everybody. See, you, you comedians, you guys can just come up with stuff like that. Yeah, it's like a Tourette's or just constantly. Yeah, and even like when you sober up too, like your brain is just on all four cylinders just going. You know what I mean?

Maybe even more cylinders. Now, is there like a joke you came up with that you thought was hilarious that didn't land the way you wanted it to or people didn't like it? Yeah. I mean, there's tons of them. It's like the one that you know the most, like you remember the most. You get so in your head about comedy that you get obsessed with things. things that you think are funny and you just know it's not going to work. And so, but then that makes it even funnier when you do it and it just eats it.

And you're just like, you just kind of laugh to yourself. So there's one that I thought of. And I tried it twice and it has not come close to working. And I go, I'm like, hey, I like going to really nice dinners. And I went to a really expensive restaurant. And it was a Michelin restaurant. It was like 300 bucks ahead. and me and my friend

finished the dinner and there were no leftovers and it was so expensive so then to just maximize my money the next day I ate my own shit and dude

silence I liked it I think it's solid I would say it's a 7.8 a 7.8 I like that I'll take that. 7.8? I mean it's not like an 8 or a 9 but that's a midway

joke that you got to keep going for the next joke. Yeah. Yeah, maybe, yeah, you shouldn't put, I shouldn't put that much weight to isolate it. Maybe I'll just blend it in. Yeah. And then, you know, throw it away. Blend in the shit. But yeah, blend it in. Fucking diarrhea smoothie right there.

Now, what's life like for you on tour? I'm off tour right now. So I'm really excited about, I decided to get off, get off the road. And I really, my goal right now, and this has helped with my sobriety is focusing. and I want to get comedies back in the theaters. Like that is my goal.

I've got four original scripts. I created a TV show. I'm out with all of them. And it just, that's my goal, man. I miss it. I mean, I'm almost,

I'm going to be 50 this year. So I grew up in the 90s. So my high school, I would go to the theaters and see Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Dumb and Dumber. Something about Mary. Dumb and Dumber.

Ace Ventura. Yeah. 94 was an elite year. It was elite. And I remember, and even after that seeing, I mean, I thought, so what's the hardest you've ever left in a movie theater at a movie? Could you remember?

Yeah, I mean, probably, right, that just came to my head super bad. Yeah. Because I was on a date in college and it was like, I just got into college and I remember having those, the opening scene where they're talking about hiding their porn subscription from their parents. Like, you know that scene? Yeah.

I specifically remember having that same conversation with my friends, like a year. earlier. Bullying website. And you're up there on a date. She's dying. I'm dying. It was just,

I started laughing the whole fucking movie. That was a, that was a fun movie. That was a great movie. I love that. And then 90, I love the old, I love Jim Carrey.

Back in the day, dumb and dumber. I loved, you know, we were going over the time and place with this. You know, we'll talk about it, but like the Ben Stiller movies,

your guys' movies, I put you in Sandler's category, along with him and his little disciples. it's kind of like the tree, you know, like the coaching tree. You got the Bill Parcells. Yeah, totally. That's funny. That's a good analogy. You know what I mean? So you got the trees like that. Comedy was the best from 90 to probably 2010 to me.

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a story that was nearly lost to time. Until now, listen to Charlie's Place on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Yeah, I remember being in the theater, and the hardest I've laughed, I remember something about Mary in the theater. Dude, when the guy pulls the baseball up

from behind Ben Stiller's ear, and he body slams him on the table. It's one of the only times where I stood up, I was laughing so hard. at that scene. And the whole theater was losing their minds. That Team America

I saw in the theater That was awesome. Dude, I again got up out of my seat. I remember I saw it with Spade And Spade's like, where are you going? And I was laughing so hard. I'm like, I can't walk. I just, I mean, I got to walk.

The scene where there was many scenes, but the one where the dude is in the alley vomiting. And you could tell Matt and Tray were like, just turn up the vomit as high as you can. And then the guy's just like, like spasticly, vomiting. I fucking couldn't breathe. I thought I was going to die.

I literally thought I was going to die. What was some of your favorite when you were young? Like when your young experience. I mean, when I was really, really young, it was Monty Python. Yeah, watching those movies and trading places. Trading Places. Trading places, Caddyshack.

I mean, that whole era, too, was incredible. But I mean, in the 90s is when it got really amped up where it was another level. And a lot of the issue is with streaming, you know, a lot of people are streaming now. Like Stiller's doing TV, Will Ferrell's doing TV, Sandler's got his deal. Which is so crazy to me because back in the day, like, in the 90s or even in the early

2000s, if you saw a movie start doing TV, it was like, it was like, what, what, what, what's going on right now? Like, remember when, when, when, uh, who McConaughey did the, the, the, the true detectives for the first time? That was like one of the first, I was like, is he doing a drama on HBO? No way. Yeah. Is it over? Dude, that is it over?

And then you watch the show and you're like, am I over? Are we all dead? What is going on? That was a great show. How different would that show would have been if it was me and Spade? They should do a spin-off and just see same tone, though. How is Spade? What?

How's Spade doing? He's solid. I've hung out with Spade a few times. Yeah, he's around. He's always around. Yeah. He randomly came to like watch a fight at my buddy's house once. And he just kind of spaded around, you know, just.

Yeah, he spades around. Did you see my last special where I told the story about urinating on him in a helicopter? No, let's hear it. So David's one of my best friends. He's like my older brother, which is a side thing because it's funny because we roast each other online. all the time on social media, on Instagram and stuff. I'm constantly posting just slams on him. And then people in the comments will be like,

oh my God, David, he's going to be really sad about this. Like leave David alone and all these things. And they're like, David's funny than you are. Fuck you, Nick. And I'm like, you guys were friends. This is all. We're part of the same thing. Trollin is crazy now.

Yeah, it's crazy. But so David invited me to go see Def Leopard and Brian Adams. in San Bernardino. So that's about maybe an hour outside of L.A. And so David called me up and he's like, hey, I'm going to this concert. Do you want to go? And I'm like, yeah, I'm like, how are we going to get there?

Traffic's going to be shit. And he goes, I got a helicopter. I'm like, okay, cool, whatever. Yeah, let's do it. So we get in this helicopter. It's just me and him and his date. And I've never been on a helicopter before. You know what I mean?

I'm not fucking Magnum PI. So we go on this helicopter and I realize I have to pee. And there's no bathrooms on a helicopter. No, it's like a 20-minute ride. Well, yeah, it was about half hour. So I'll give it 10 more minutes. But still, I had to pee. You know what peeing is, Julian?

Yeah. Christ. So I got a kid. I'm like, can we pee before the fucking trip? I mean, what are we doing? Exactly. Let's go. Let's go.

So that's what I said to David. I go, I got to go. I'm like, for a bathroom. And he's like, there are no bathrooms on helicopter. So I'm like, okay. So then I go, well, I got to pee really, really bad. And he's like, piss out the window. So I didn't realize he was joking when he said that.

So I, there was like a, sliding window. And so I'm so dumb that I thought the pee would just go pee. Like it would go pee. Like you normally go pee. And it doesn't do that. Like you know. You know. It sucks right in. It just,

it's like hitting a fan. And it hit it and just spray. Just. And it went on David's date. And then splashed on David. And he's like, what the fuck? And I go, you said piss off the window. And he goes, I was joking. And I'm like, oh my God, it was so awkward. And then we got to the concert.

And then he just ditched me. And he went and hung out with Brian Adams, so I love Brian Adams. And then I just was floating around this concert. And then afterwards we flew home. And I'm like, where were you? And he goes, I was saying that Brian Adams. And I go, why don't you tell me? He's like, you peed on me.

So I'm not, I wasn't going to invite you. I might not ever invite you to anything ever again. And I'm like, I think the helicopter was the fucking problem. I'm not going to sit here. You told me to go pee. Yeah, you said it. But David and I have reconciled, so it's fine. Man, you, comedy.

Yeah, comedy. Those are my friends. All my friends are comic. Comedy is the best. I mean, you got to be really good comedy if you guys would take a helicopter to San Bernardino. To see, Def Leopard. You got to be really good comedy. That's the best part.

And it was one of the best shows. I highly recommend. That double bill. When was your I made it moment in comedy? There's, I mean, when I did my first half hour special, I do on Comedy Central, rest in peace,

Comedy Central. I mean, how do you mess up a whole network? It's like they just imploded a fucking network. They had every comic, I just did a cruise with the workaholics guys, their buddies of mine, and it was awesome.

And we were just talking about it on the cruise. Like that heyday, the heyday you're talking about of, you know, mid-90s to 20 with Comedy Central maybe 2015. It was like wild. All the stand-up, Reno 911

workaholics. I mean, they still have South Park at Chappelle, Key & Peele. I mean, it was Broad City. It was broad city. I mean, there was so many bangers. It was like, and they'd have the specials. Oh, yeah. They'd have comics on all the time. The roasts were big.

The roasts were Comedy Central. But yeah, they did all those half hours, which I was a part of that, that new wave of comedy. Towards the late 90s, early 2000s, it was me and Mitch Hedberg, Greg Gerardo, Dane Cook, Pablo Francisco. I mean, there was just a whole wave

of people. You like ducks? I like ducks. I like you talking about the strippers. I loved Pablo Francisco when I was a kid. Because remember back in the day, we would just we would rip all your guys' comedy specials off of Napster. Yeah. And we would just listen it to that way.

I wonder why they went under. I was like 13. This is why I'm here. Also, Comedy Central was great for developing talent too. Like they could take a risk on like a show. Well, workaholics was like that.

Yeah. They rolled the dice on that. And Comedy Central didn't even develop Reno 911. Reno 911 was shot by Fox and then thrown away. And Comedy Central somehow found it. And they were like, oh yeah, we'll make this.

I mean, there's no more Comedy Central in Paramount. No. They got the. There's selective. They're selective of what they have. Just like the office rerun. Well, the network itself, but Paramount picked up their catalogs,

but like my show pretend time, which was on for two seasons, crazy sketch show that I don't know if we could get away with a lot of that now, but they don't even have any of that. So you can't find it. So that's what's super weird too. Did you, I get in a wormhole sometimes you said sketch show. I get in a wormhole of fucking in living color. Oh, amazing.

Outrageous and unbelievable that show. was. It was so incredible. And people, you know, they don't talk about it enough because it was really, they had so many, so many great sketches for so long. Fire Marshal Bill, Romy the clown. Yeah, it's crazy. How about, you know that they actually invented the halftime show. Yeah, that's wild. I don't know if people know that story. Yeah, I guess so like they put on a special before the halftime show was big at halftime. It was the Wayne's brothers. Yeah, switch over to Fox.

And then they do their own. And it killed. It was massive. And so that's when the league took that into note and like, well, we need to do something extraordinary to get these ratings. Right. And then so it basically led into what the halftime show has come today. Yeah. It's crazy.

The whole 26. Crazy. Good pull brother. Yeah, 1992. They drew 20 to 30 million viewers away from CBS. That's insane. 20 to 30. I didn't know what's that many.

Man, insane. That's wild. Now you can do a puppy bowl. Yeah. We're going into the 20th year anniversary of Grandma's Boy. Yep. Congratulations. Let's go, baby.

Let's go. Yes. What's your favorite? Yeah, but so, sorry, where are you going to say? What were you going to say? Well, that's why I'm trying to, it's so funny because it's 20 years from Grandma's Boy, which is crazy to think about. But that's my goal is to get movies back, A, in the theaters,

but that kind of comedy where, I love all those movies that I was a part of like Grandma's Boy, Benchwarmers, Bucky Larson, I mean, all these movies that are just so fun and you just want to detach and laugh, you know? So that's my goal. And it's funny because the pushback I'm getting of the script I'm doing now,

I can't really talk about it, but it's really close to happening. And the fucking notes I'm getting on the script are people, producers going, oh, you can't say that. Oh, you can't say that. you can't say that. And I'm like, that's the whole point.

Like people don't want, you know. We're still, we're still not there yet. I know, but I want to be there. And it's nothing like that crazy. It's just, you know,

we all need to laugh together and with each other and make jokes. And comedians are always on another level where we don't, we don't get that mandate of like, hey, just see, no, here you go. You can't, you can't say this and that and that.

It's like, if you tell a comedian, hey, don't do this. They're going to fucking triple down. Yeah, they're going to do it. Yeah, I mean, you're not going to go to Tom Brady and be like, hey, no long balls. Just keep it tight.

Yeah, just 10 yard passes. Okay, thanks. Like, that's fucking dumb. It is. I swear, I don't even realize. You can swear, baby. Okay, I don't know. That'd be great if you're like, hey, Nick, we got to cut all this.

You can. We're censoring you. You're done, Bob. You're out. What was your favorite memory of making that movie? Making Grandma's Boy? All of it. The thing was, is.

I'm really bad and I'm sure people have seen when comedians and actors break in scenes What is yours? I was just I was thinking of Did you call your parents your roommates in that movie? Yeah. Yeah.

That's what I just thought of. Yeah, I love that. I wrote. Yeah, my roommates are the other room. But anything the robot guy said, there was a point where I was thrown off the set

and I'm one of the writers, producers and co-stars. And they were like, you can't, we got to like now like frame the shot up where you're not in it because I kept laughing. So anytime the robot guy played by Joel Moore, who's awesome, yeah. Sit on my face.

Every fucking thing he said, I lost it, dude. It's so hard. And I'm sure people can, like, if you had to be in a scene with these people, I mean, it's almost, if I walk into a scene and I look at Sandler, I start laughing. Like, and he does the same thing. It's, we've had, we've ruined so many takes. But Grandma's boy was literally to the point where I was thrown. off the set where they were like, you can't, you can't do it because I would ruin it for other people and other people would break. Benchwormers was really bad. I remember there was a scene where it was a

wide shot. So when you're shooting a scene where you establish a wide, which is everybody in the scene. So we were shooting that scene and it was the whole crew, I mean the whole cast. So I'm standing there behind John Heater, the other guys are on the couch. And we do this scene. It's really intense. It's Rob Schneider admitting he was a bully. And then to break up the drama of it, the robot wheels in. And he has milkshakes and he goes,

let's party. And I couldn't hold it, dude. Every time the robot came in, I would start laughing and they'd be like, cut, we got to go again. And you have to get the master shot. You got to get the wide. So I ruined like five takes and then I just started blaming John Heater.

So that's another immature thing that people do where they're like, well, he started it. So, you know, John Heeter was Nepoleon Dynamite. So I would break and they'd be like, cut. And I'm like, John did it. He started it. And he'd be like, no, I didn't. Nick, you're lying. And I'm like, no, he did. And then then he started breaking after me. And it was just a disaster. So to answer your question, every scene in Grandma's boy that involved the robot guy, it was tough. That seems so fun, though. I've done a couple things like that where you got to not laugh.

But to do it with your friends. Yeah. I mean, you guys genuinely are having just fucking so much fun on as work. Yeah. It's a blast. That's insane. How did you get into this group? How do you become friends with Adam Sandler if you're a young comedian or Norm or all the whole, or Spade or all the guys? How do you get into the, how did you get into the gang? The weird thing is I've never met them. They're all holograms. I have no idea who there. Simulation.

I'm going to give you a compliment. We have a mutual friend Sam Marrell. Sam. So viewers out there, Julian did a bit in Sam's movie and Sam raved about you. He said you were phenomenal. He said you showed up super prepared, took it really seriously, and were great. Well, that's my guy. Yeah. I know he's putting his hard earn money and time into it. I wanted to.

Yeah, but that's really cool though because a lot of people, not a lot of people, but some people don't know what they're doing or take it seriously and they think it's, you're going to like comedy camp or something. No. Fuck off. No. I recently just did a movie and I have like a comedy type character and it was tough. It was tough. In what way? Just like you don't want, I didn't want to be the guy too. laugh because I didn't want to fuck up the scene. Yeah. And have everyone have to start everything over or just like

it's kind of like class. When you're in class with your kid, when you're a kid, you're in class and you're sitting there telling jokes with your boys and trying not to laugh out loud and the teacher catches you and you don't want to be the one that gets caught. So like those are fucking crazy.

Well, and it's the same thing when you're told not to do something. Like you cannot laugh. No. Do not. laugh and you're like and then you're looking at your buddy and you're just you know and it's all eye contact where it's like fucking don't dude don't laugh don't and it's just takes one it just takes it doesn't even take it doesn't even take anything it just takes a look of like an ice squint yeah just a you know what they're thinking yes and everybody knows that feeling throughout their lives whether it's work school anything you just know that that feeling where you're so

in tune with your buddy that you're like oh no oh my god and you know when you're on the set of a movie, the director is like the parent. Yeah. So he's sitting here yelling at me and Sandler like, you guys. And, but to answer your question. So my first Comedy Central Presents, I think was in 2000. And I was a kid. I was probably 22. And Sandler saw that. He was in bed with his wife and he was flipping through channels, saw Comedy Central and then watched my special and then wrote my name down. And he went into the office. And he was like, does anybody know who this kid is? And they're like, oh, that's that new kid Nick Swartson and I told jokes about my grandma in the special. So Sandler was like, well, we have this, he called my manager and tracked me down.

And they called me up and they like, Sandler wants to meet you about a movie called Grandma's Boy because he saw your special and your grandma jokes. So then I went in and met Sandler and just sat down with him and he was like, you are so good. You are a funny. I'm sorry. I overdo that impression, but I can't not. It's good.

It's good. It's an impression. You hit three thus far that have been elite. Who else did you do? He did Spade, really good. It was awesome. Sandler was awesome. And there was one more.

There was one more. Bronc. Bronc's really good. Gronks are good. Gronks not perfect, but it's getting there. Yeah. But it's Sandler, I know really. I would do that around the office at Happy Madison.

I'd walk around the halls and be like, hey, why are you doing? And Adam would be like, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'd be like, and then he's getting, and then he would punch me in the face. No. But so, so Sanders saw it. I went in, met with him, and he was awesome,

and we just shot the shit. And he's like, I have this movie called Grandma's Boy that Alan Covert, who was the lead wrote with another writer. And he's like, it's a PG-13 romantic comedy. We don't want to do that. We want to make it hardar. So they were like, just make it insane. You can literally do page one,

whatever you want and write yourself in the movie, write a part for yourself. And then I just started coming up with this world of, you know, the fucking robot guy and the monkey. And I just, it was a kid in a candy store. It's so rare that you get the leisure of being like, here you go. You've got a movie. Make it insane. It's the best. So I'm trying to like.

Did you have any experience at that point at writing in a character for a movie? The only experience I had was my friend Jamie Kennedy years before that. We were doing a gig together and he was like, I have this idea for the character I do on stage, B-Rad, the white rapper. He goes, I want to do a movie about it. And so just spitballing, I was like, oh, well, you should have like a scene like this and a scene like this and this character. And he goes, why don't you just write it? And I'm like, I don't know how to write a movie. And he's like, well, you can see something.

So then I crashed with Jamie and I got a screenwriting book. and I hand wrote a script called Suckas. And it was a dumb and dumber R-rated white rapper comedy. And we couldn't get it made. We almost got it made. And then you got a show on Warner Brothers. And then they picked up my script. And they were like, this is crazy.

It's way too crazy. So they were like, well, we're going to have somebody rewrite it. And they wrote and became Malibu's Most Wanted. So I kind of knew the structure of writing. And then with Grandma's Boy, I got a script already. So I was just doing a page one rewrite. So it was a little easier when you have a template of a structure there. And then you're just adding insanity.

So that was great. And then after that, Sander called me up about bench warmers. And then I just started working with Adam. We'll be right back after this quick break. I'm Luke Wilson. Join me each week for Film Never Lies. Since retiring from the NFL, I've had a lot of my mind. And now got my own show.

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That's the best. When we're on tour, well, we're not on a chat anymore, but when we're on tour, it would be all of us. It would be Sandler, me, Spade, Schneider, Tim Meadows, Kevin Neeland. Is Snyder still in it? Yeah. Did it kick them out yet? No. Okay, okay, okay.

Norm at the time, rest in peace. So we would always, yeah, we would always be on these threads and it was so great. Norm was the best on the threads. So I remember one time we were all excited on tour and we're like, we were in the northeast. And then we were going down to Florida. So everybody was on the thread and we're like, can't wait for Florida, super excited. And Norm's like, hey, yeah, Florida. Yeah, see you there.

And we're like, yeah, all right, we'll see you in Orlando. Norm was meeting us from L.A. and then we got to Orlando and we're at the hotel and we're like okay we're all here. Hey Norm are you here yet? And then nothing. And we're like Norm, show, are you here? And he's like, where?

And we're like Orlando. We're in Orlando. We have a show. And he goes, what? In Orlando, we have a what are you talking about? And we're like, we have a fucking show. You just said two days ago, I can't wait to see you in Orlando. It's on the thread. And he's like, now. Are you serious? And we're like, oh my God. And we're like, are you really not here? And he just forgot and didn't go. And luckily he wasn't announced, but it was still like, good God. Before you got here, we were talking about it. We were doing impressions of what Norm would say if like, I don't know how it came up, but like some big guy came in and tackled you or something. And we were saying that Norm would probably just be back, sitting back.

with like a beer in his hands say, Hey, Nick, you gotta suck his dick? I don't know where that gets. I love that. I mean, that's not bad, Julian. That's not great. Pretty good. That's really bad.

Like those little hitting, and you just did it with what you said. Like, just those like random, like, no, he wasn't paying attention. He was the best. He loved fucking with people. He loves sports, too, didn't he? He loves sports. He's a big.

Canadian, big Canada fan. Yeah, he loved to mess with Spade and stuff and it was so fun. Spade's fun to mess with. Why is Spade fun fun to mess with? Because Spade he just has like idiosyncrasies. He says

just certain things, you know and you know, Norm would just he would like to try to kiss David on the mouth or something. Or he put his arm around David. He'd be like, all right, all right, right. And he'd be like, well, what's your eye? What are you doing?

I was scared or what? And then, you know, just stuff like that. That was fun. Man. But, but yeah, that was my history with Sandler. And then through that, I met everybody else. You know, then the floodgates, especially when I started doing benchwormers and I got to know Rob and David and, you know, we cast Napoleon Dynamite.

And so that was fun writing that because it was cool. I was a big fan of David's, all those guys. So when you're writing for someone's voice, it's really cool. And David read the first draft of bench warmers, and he called me. And he was like, how did you get this right? He's like, this sounds exactly like how I talk, my style, my jokes. And I was like, yeah, I watched you guys. And people don't realize that.

Those SNL years, like, you know, Adam Sandler and David Spade, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Chris Farley, they were all on SNL. So when, you know, the show that you watched a young generation doesn't understand, like, you had powerhouses on one show. Mike Myers. I mean, guys like that were all on fucking Saturday Night Live as kids. It was crazy. What happened to Mike Myers?

I don't know. I don't know the dude. But, um. Saw him in glorious bastards the last time I ever seen them. Yeah, I think. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah, that's right. I was like the last time you really saw him.

Yeah. He's living on Austin Powers money? I guess. Maybe some love guru bucks in there too. I don't know. Yeah, I think he had some ones that didn't do that great. and I think he was probably like, I'm out or something. You know what I mean?

Because that can happen. Is there a new Shrek coming out? Oh, yeah. That's right. What am I thinking? New Shrek. Dude, the Shrek money. I forgot Shrek.

Yeah. That is massive. I heard something. I don't know if it's true. I read it. So it must be true. But Cameron Diaz, you can probably look it up. Her total time voiceover, doing voiceover for Shrek was like eight hours.

for all three movies. And she made $60 million. That's called a business woman. Dude, that is baller. And that's just your voice. You just show up like this in a booth and you just record your voice. I wish I could read. I know.

Don't you wish it could read? Because then I would try to do that kind of stuff. Get up in there and, you know, just. Yeah. You got to work on that, man. Yeah, you got to work on that. Yeah. That's my New Year's resolution.

I like that. I'm a learned to read. Which year, though? Five years from now. March. probably next year. Okay. Next year.

I'll kick it down the road. I like that. It's kind of like giving your quarterback a little extra money. Yeah. Kick it down the road. That's what the GMs always say. Ah, you just resign them. Kick it down the road.

You gotta get under the cap. Well, let's go back into time. This is a segment where we go back to the time where the game took place. We go over some of the pop culture. This game took place January 9th. Wait, let me say one thing before we do that. I want to say my affinity for Boston and Boston sports. We didn't even get into it.

A lot of people wouldn't know this. But I've always had, I love Boston. It's a great comedy town, great drinking town. Great town. One of my favorite bars, Daisy Buchanan's. Not there no more. Not there anymore. I used to party with McLevin there.

No way. Yes. And I told you the story I loved super bad. Oh yeah, that's right. You must have been on cloud nine. Cloud nine. I was like 23 years old. He's great.

Christopher Min's class. He's awesome dude. Awesome dude. But I grew up in Minnesota, born and raised, but we didn't have a basketball team. So I grew up a diehard Celtics fan because Kevin McKayle went to the University of Minnesota. So I became a lifelong Celtics fan.

And then the Patriots were so horrendous back in the day that I always kind of was like, I always feel bad for teams that don't do well. And I was always like, oh, they're cool. And I always, I hate the Yankees. So I hated the Yankees. And I loved Wade Boggs and players like that.

So I have these Boston roots. So that's kind of cool. Daisy Buchanons, man. And then Minnesota. within the span of like, you can probably look this up. I think two or three seasons we gave New England, Randy Moss, Kevin Garnett, and David Ortiz. Wow.

All of those came from Minnesota. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, I did. That's crazy. That's funny idea. Wow. How'd that work out? Sorry.

Yeah. You didn't have to add that. Sorry, Nick. How did that work out is what he added. I was bold enough to even say that that happened. The Timberwolves were around when you were a kid? No. I mean, not until later.

Came in like, because I remember KG and what's his name? Starberry on that bad boy. Oh, yeah. They had great teams. They had great teams. They just had to go against that fucking Laker team, dude, that Shaq Kobe. It was just so brutal to get past them. So you watched them, though. Yeah. You watched.

Yeah, I support the wolves. But when I was like a little, little kid, the Larry Bird, Danny Aange. I mean, era when I was a kid, that was so exciting, Kevin McHale. You ever see a game in the, The garden? Yeah. Garden's fun. Love it.

Love the garden. Great environment. It's crazy how it's changed, bro. Down there. I know. I'm glad I'm around with those stadiums were not a name of a store or something. You know what I mean? Staples.

Little Caesars. All these things. Mercedes Dome. Peptibismal Dome. Horn Hub Center. In Miami, they got to do that. They always tease it.

They've got to do it. They never, they got to do it. Do what? Miami is the point. Hornhub has tried to buy Miami Stadium a couple times. I mean, if anybody, Miami would be the most conducive to that. It would be great.

I mean, Miami just, Miami feels like you're on a porn set. It does. Everywhere you walk, it doesn't matter. You can walk into a gas station and you're like, are we about to fuck? Like, what's going on right now? What is going on right now?

I wanted to slurpy. Now this has changed. They have Uber, Uber, Uber, bang bust down there, I think. Instead of Uber XL and all those other ones, you can actually get in it. Are you serious? No, I'm just getting it. Oh, God.

See, that's where we're at this world where I wouldn't, I would believe that. That's not a bad idea. Hey, movie fans. Clip that, clip that. Let's go back into time now and go over the pop culture. This game took place January 9th, 2005. In the number one movie, Meet the Falkers.

Great comedy in the theaters. Something Nick is trying to get back to the world right now. I love those meatfalkers. movies. Yeah, they're great. Meet the parents is epic. Meet the parents. I love the story of Ben Stiller saying when they were in between takes when him and De Niro were in the car. He said that it was

way more awkward than when they were on set and supposed to be awkward with each other. He said that he's like just sitting in the car waiting for the, you know, the director to say action. He's just, they were just quietly in the car. I mean, I'm paraphrasing his story, but that was the gist of it. Were they

methodating in? De Niro might have been. I could see that, but it's like, I don't know if I was just sitting in a car with De Niro. I don't know what I would say. Now, is there a little rivalry between like the Ben Stiller movies, Sandler trees, the No, we're all friends, Rogen guys. Apatow. No, everyone's friends.

Like Apatow and Sandler were roommates back in the day. I mean, Rogan did funny people with Adam. I was in Blades of Glory with Will Ferrell. Love Blades of Glory. I did too. I did a movie called 30 Minutes or Less with me and Danny McBride and Jesse Eisenberg that Stiller produced. I mean, we're all the same. I mean, Stiller was in Billy Madison.

Or Happy Gilmore and he was in Happy Gilmore too. Yeah. And he came back and happy too. Now your back's going to hurt because you just pulled landscaping. My fingers, too. So many quotable lines from all that. I could probably quote the whole movie of Dumb and Dumber. I think that's one of the most perfect movie.

ever made. Even just the side dialogue, even just a throwaway line. Eat your burger. Or how's your burger? How's your burger? Why don't you eat up? We'll let you know. Even just that. Bills are good.

Bills are good. But even like just the point of that, a line like, how's your burger? If you read that, you're like, okay, it's how's your burger? But, you know, that delivery, that's what makes somebody special is just the intonation, the energy behind it.

That's why Jim Carrey's such a legend. Legend. Was that really him, though, at that award ceremony? Or did they get a phone? I don't know. Because he had blue eyes. I saw that. Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, Jim Carrey played Andy Kaufman. So it's like the guy that was perpetually fucking with people this whole career. So who knows? I don't know Jim well. The MTV. The MTV. The MTV Awards. Yeah.

I mean, he's alleged, dude. I love Jim Carrey. Well, it's just so fearless. He just doesn't. he's fearless and he's also he's got an elite talent with his body and face. Like that's not, you can't do that shit.

Like he can do all this crazy athletic movement stuff. Contortions and stuff like that. It's fucking crazy. Yeah, if people want to go down a dive on the internet of going on YouTube and finding Jim Carrey's early stand-up days because he used to do impressions but they were just facial.

He would morph his face into James Dean and Clint Eastwood. And the really cool thing is is he threw that whole act away. He didn't want to do that anymore and he didn't want to be that guy that did that. And so he started from scratch and did the comedy store and he would do just kind of experimental stuff

and bomb and all this stuff. But he just wasn't happy with what he was where it was going. He wanted to do what he was happy doing. Yeah. Well, that's wild. Peter Fairly spoke to my class back in film school and he told the story from Dumb and Dumber. And it was that the studio wanted

the final shot for them to get on the bus for the Hawaiian tropics. Oh, my friend's a little slow. Peter Fairley and Jim Carrey, they knew that that was the bad. They couldn't do that, but the studio wanted it. So he fairly said to Kerry, after we do the scene that we want, the shot that we want, go on your bus or go in the trailer and don't come out. Like, pretend like you're having a fit. Like, we'll be good.

And then he did that. And then they just burned the day. And then the studio forgot it. And they got the end of that they wanted. Oh, that's great. And that ending, see, that's the thing. That's what you deal with studios and network works, though, because you have to get these notes and you get pushback. And it makes you lose your mind.

So as an audience member and people that see stuff, and even in general when people are like, why aren't there more comedies? Like, Nick, why aren't you in more movies? It's so hard to get stuff made, especially now. I mean, the last 10 movies I've seen in the theaters, and people can attest to this. Every trailer is a horror movie. Every trailer's horror and gore and it's violent. and I remember a movie I just saw a couple days ago and it was all violent trailers

and somebody in the crowd just goes, are there comedies anymore? Like out loud, someone dude just mumbled it and I was like, that's what I'm trying to do. It's either horror or you got to have Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt. Well, yeah, because people... You want to sell overseas,

especially with the streamers. Everyone's in India and China. And so you have billions of people and they want that market and comedy just doesn't translate. So it's, it's, it's super frustrating, but I'm going to do my best. And then if not, I'll just move back to Key West.

Hey, nobody I'd rather have carrying the torch, man. Yeah, we got to get it back. We got to get it back. Oh, and talk about what you were saying earlier. When I was on the show, Reno 911, that aired for seven seasons, that whole show was improvised. And even the movie Reno 911 Miami, which we just had an anniversary of that, that was all improvised.

So that was the best because talk about people break. you never knew what was coming. So whatever anybody was going to say, my character, Terry, was so outlandish and insane. So my goal was to break every other cast member. That was my goal. I'm like, I'm going to try to get everybody.

And it was hard because everyone's a trained improviser. But there was one time you can see it where Christina Applegate played my wife. She was a big fan of the show. She's awesome. By the way, support her. She's going through some awful times right now. got a new book out, but support Christina. So she's playing my wife, and Lieutenant Dangle, played by Tom Lennon, is brilliant.

He pulls up to Terry and his wife. And I'm like, oh, this is my wife. And she's like, hi, I'm Ceemey. Jay is silent. And Tom's like, this is your wife? Terry, you have a wife? And I'm like, yeah. And he goes, so you guys get in the, you guys do it?

You guys have. And I go, no, when we get into the bedroom, I can't get hard and then I vomit. And he was the only time I think I got him. where he was like, okay, okay. And it's my crowning achievement. Oh, my God. Yeah. That was, those Reno 9-1, those were fun.

Those were fun. Yeah, they were aggressive. National Treasure, I loved that movie. Spanglish, I loved that movie. Yeah, that's Sandler. I love Sandler and some of his, what is it, more drama-e? Yeah.

Is that a drama-com? Yeah. That's a drom-com. Grom-com is that they call it? James Brooks, who's a legend. he did as good as it gets, which is a great movie. That was a Jack, right?

Yeah. Those are always, those were, those are the Simpsons too, right? Yeah. Million dollar baby was out. First season of Deadwood and Entourage. Entourage was a fucking... Entourage is great. All-timer.

Well, it just, I don't know if it was a great, but everyone loved it. Yeah, it was solid. All those guys, I'm good buddies with Kevin Dillon and Jerry Ferrara. They're both big sports fans. What about Matt Dillel? and something about Mary. That guy. Oh, dude. Just the retards line alone is so good.

It's like, and that's another thing that people have to realize when you do context to a line or a character, it's not somebody literally saying that. It's like a character is saying that. It's so funny how people don't get context anymore. It's like, come on, people. You got to, come on. this year the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl Peyton Manning was the MVP

Heisman trophy winner Matt Liner and the USC Trojans won that Natty There was like four days before the That was a crazy game That was the Vince Young game No no this was the next year Yeah this was Oklahoma

This was when they kicked the shit at Oklahoma It was in 2000s it's a 2004 season Oh yeah yeah that's right It plays in 2005 which I I still It always fucks us every time It fucks me up still with like school I tell everyone I graduated in 04

but that was the football season I actually graduated in 05 Right You know Sounds like you didn't graduate Oh yeah I did Let's look into that Yeah you guys assholes

So I've got a quick story One of my buddies Is she's from Texas And she's a diehard Longhorns fan And so the next year When Matt played Vince And that crazy game

Crazy game So watch the game It's historic After the game I call her up She had tickets And I go I go, hey, Roxanne, holy shit.

That game was insane. Were you freaking out? And she goes, oh, no, I missed it. And I go, what do you mean? She goes, I title guided and pregame too hard. And then I passed out my truck. And I woke up in the afternoon. And I miss how game. And I'm like, oh my God.

You missed the craziest fucking game ever. And that's another thing about drinking. It's like, I've missed not things that crazy, but I've missed so many things where I'm just like, damn it. There's so many games I've been to that I don't. I get it. Remember.

We all know that we've all been there. We've all been there. But I couldn't believe she missed that game. Oh, that's brutal. Brutal. Jackie, let's jump into this game,

hit these Green Bay Packers. Let's run through these Packers real quick. 10 and 6 won the division. Slow start, though. Lost four of the first five. Rallied, though, one six in a row came back at a top 10 offense. They're averaging 26 points per game.

Defense, though, on the other end bottom 10 23rd rank let up almost 24 a game this is we're deep in the far very here this is a 12 year of the far vera 12th year green bay so good god i mean really crazy and then he went to the vikings five years after this and that crazy the time like the timeline just sane not adding up you got you guys like donald driver you got the bubba franks of the world right i mean god job be a miller al harris green darin shop green i mean this was a ryan longwell good little era for the packers of course I'll hear a shout out.

I loved Bill of Franks. I love the big tight end. We'll be right back after this quick break. Next Monday, our 2026 IHeart podcast awards are happening live at South by Southwest. This is the biggest night in podcasting. We'll honor the very best in podcasting from the past year and celebrate the most innovative talent and creators in the industry. And the winner is creativity, knowledge, and passion will all be on full display.

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or wherever you get your podcast. Now, what do you remember of this Packers team generation? They were really annoying. It was, I, it was really tricky because Barv is one of those players that's such a gamer, you know, before he went like robbed an orphanage or sort of fuck he did. But, um, he was,

was such a gamer and we didn't want him. I didn't want him on the Vikings. It was really hard when he came over because it was like, this is a guy. We fucking hated for 15 years of just, just this kryptonite. And then he came to the bikes and we were like still not sure. And then he had that game with Greg Lewis where he threw that in the back in the end zone. DART. And then conversion, everybody was on board. But like, yeah, if people want to look that up, you don't have to, but I play with Greg Lewis. Oh, you did? He was there in my rookie year.

Every morning, like it was clockwork. He just sit in his one spot. He'd have his croissant sandwich from Duncan Kings. They're Dunkin' Donuts. Elite combo. What's up, Greg? He'd be like, what's up, Yonbo?

He'd just eat his sandwich. Yeah. Who is the packer you hated the most, Brad, Farv? Easily. Barv, for sure. I mean, I didn't love, I didn't love Driver, but Farb was at the epicenter,

he was, you know, it was Favv. It was Farrv's team. And, uh, yeah. I mean, I hated all of them, but Fav. And then Rogers fucking came along. It just, and then, you know, we've, we have like a quarterback just lottery constantly. And the Packers have lucked out with this two guys and now love. Love.

They've had three quarterbacks over the course of 30 years. 40, damn near. Yeah. I mean, that's horrifying. It's crazy. We've had so many quarterbacks. We've got four quarterbacks in one year. Last like four.

One game. I think there was a game where we had four quarterbacks. I don't think there's four quarterbacks on the roster. No, there was a game where I blacked out and went on the field and I took a snap. I took a snap. It's somewhere you can find it. I was right. When the Huck to a girl broker, she took a ACL.

Exactly. Jack, he picked down the Vikings. Let's hear about these snaps. Oh, let's get into these Vikings real quick. Head coach, Mike Tice. Shut up, Mike Tice. Looks like a football coach. He's fine.

Oh, my God. You know one thing about Mike Tice? What? He fucked it for the whole league with that ticket scandal thing. Oh, which is on the Super Bowl tickets. Because when you used to go the Super Bowl, guys used to go and you would get 12, 15 tickets.

And if you were like a no-name guy, you could make 50 grand cash, 60 grand cash, and sell your tickets. Not anymore after Mike Tice. Thanks, that whole thing. Got to ruin it for all of us, buddy. Thanks, Tice. Thanks, just make a couple bucks here.

Being personally, I was a Denny Green guy, but Mike does. Danny Green. Lost in peace, Denny Green. Amen. What alleged. Eight in 18, struggled down the stretch,

still made it into the playoffs. We got to talk about Dante Colpepper this year. Second MVP voting. Absolutely blowing out. Almost through for 5,000 yards. Dude, he was such a beast. And he had, because he looked bigger than he,

he was six four, I think. He was the same. But he was the same size as Brady. He was thick, though. He was real thick. And the dude, the dude ran.

the ball, which he ended up going out with a knee injury, obviously. But, you know, when you run the ball like that at that size. And he was, dude, that guy could pick up in this game, he picked up, he would just bust out 12-yard runs all day. Yeah, you can't tackle a guy like that. No, and then he fake the run and he hit his little running back. Remember in the flat and he went? Yeah, dude.

I mean, he, he, it's so crazy. Then they disappeared this team. Dude. And we were coming off another team that vanished was the 98 Vikings. Kings where we had Cunningham. Cunningham. And we were 15 and one. It was like, lost to the Falcons.

Lost to the Falcons. The missed field goal from Gary Anderson. Gary Anderson. And then Warren Anderson hit two. He got cut and then we picked up Morton Anderson. He's on this team. We decided to run it back with the Andersons.

Morton Anderson in the Hall of Fame. One of the few place kickers. He's not the only place kick. Well, he played like 30 years. Yeah. He played so long. Aminetary now. He played so long that he played when they actually named people Morton.

He's from Denmark. He's not a fucking name anymore. He's from Europe. What is like Gary? We're getting two Aiders and confused over here. Gary was in 98. This was Morton. This is more.

But which one's from Europe? Which one's the Danish, I think. Danish. Danish. He's from Holland? Denmark. Denmark? I don't know.

Was he born in Denmark? He could be one of those. So Morton's just like Josh and Denmark? The Great Day. He's from Denmark. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, but then fucking Gary's from South Africa.

The single bar of Gary Anderson. Are you serious? Can we pivot? No, he is. Gary Anderson is South Africa. Morton is Denmark. So you had both the Anderson's. He probably moved back there after 98.

I didn't realize. Good God. He'll show his face. Fuck, man. Before we move on to the game in the lead up, we got to talk about this boat party season. The boat party. This is the boat party season.

Lake Minnetonka, shout out. This is the season? Yes. On Lake Minotanka? Yes. In their defense, Lake Minnetonka, it's pretty great. I was just going to say, what's the scouting report on Lake Minnetonka? It's like one of our most baller lakes.

Hell yeah. It's in a really great part of town, a great part of Minnesota. And it's a party starter in the summer, man. So, yeah, it wasn't like it was in January. Yeah, we're on a boat in the summer. Rinted a couple boats, flew in some ladies. Why not, dude? Why not?

Sound like a fun time. Yeah, couple sea breezes. Yeah. Gold pepper was up in there. You had Brian McKinney in there. It's smooth. Nate Burleson. Nate Burleson. Nate Burleson.

Was Nate there? Yeah, Nate was there. Nate was there. Nate Wilson underrated, by the way. He very, he bawled out this game. He balled out this game. He balled out of Farb in this game. I mean, Nate, Nate had over 1,000 yards this season.

And Nate, Nate's great on TV. He's great. I love Nate on TV. He's great. He keeps a little swag up. Yeah. Shout out to Nate Burleson. Nate.

I like that Farv through four interceptions in this game. All time. And the Vikings were like, ooh, we could use that. how do we get that on our team fucking assholes oh man Randy was not in the bike was a pick remember

yes yes Julian I remember didn't need it well see here's what I'll do I'm going to defend his choice there because we were not really in field goal range

legit field goal range Sidney Rice was his best receiver he was getting murdered and head hunted which Sean Peyton got fucking busted for. So it was official. So I felt like Brett was getting decimated.

So I think he was like, if I can just get 10 more yards. So honestly, I don't fault him for that. And I fucking hate Sean Payton because of that because we would have won the Super Bowl that year. And I remember I was on a set with this movie Ridiculous Six, the Western was Sandler and Taylor Lawtoner is in the movie. And Taylor's friends with Sean Peyton. And he was all excited. He came to set. And he's like, hey God. my friend Sean Payton's coming to set.

And I was like, it's a joke, right? And everyone's like, oh, cool, Sean Payton. And I'm like, fuck that. I go, I am out of here. And Sam was like, wow, what's what on here? And I go, fucking that guy causes a Super Bowl with this Bounty Gate bullshit, man. Fuck that guy.

And Sam was like, I got to chill out. Too mad. And I'm like, fuck this, dude. And I walked off. I'm like, I'm not going to be around this guy. And he brought a box of saints. gear. Like, come on. I've nothing against the Saints, but that, that dude, no, no. Is that the origin of the Kevin James movie? Home team? Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. I'm not going to be

in that. Thank God. That's a hard know. Can we talk about that absurd friendship? Taylor, Lutter and Sean Payton. I know. So random. Super random. But, let's get into the game, Jackie. Oh my God. I'm done. Yeah, I'm going to lose my mind. if we keep talking. Team Edward, Team Jacob over here. Yeah, it's Team Swartson or Team Sean. That's where we moved on to. You make the fucking call on that.

Damn it. Oh my gosh. Do you run through this game real quick? We're in a chilly, chilly Lambo field. 26 out there today. I know I keep stalling. What's Lambo like to plan? Lambo's awesome.

Yeah, I've never been, but I would definitely go. It's so iconic. Yeah, it was, uh, grass is it's like a Kentucky blue long grass so you don't get like the Bermuda like the South grass it's a little slower but like it's it's it's just a it feels like you're in a museum

you know like I mean it is it literally is it is and it just you go into the town and it's just like one block of buildings and then the big ass stadium and it's not even like buildings it's like maybe six stories It's like a hotel. Like one hotel.

It's, it's, they live, breathe, die football. You feel the energy. It's kind of like when you go to Fenway or you go to Rigley. Yeah, totally. You get that just nostalgia, nostalgic feeling. Yeah, I did a casino outside of Green Bay last year. And it was my first time in Green Bay in my whole life. And I stayed downtown and I went to the stadium and I looked around and I made a video of it.

And like, whatever. And, but it was cool, man, because it is like, it's this tiny town and every house is decked in Packer stuff. And, you know, even though I dislike them, I respect the love and, you know, their whole vibe. 1,000%. Yeah. We got to run through this game.

We talked a little bit about it early. Get out to a hot start with his Mo Lewis TD. 7-0. Strike again. Coal pepper to Moss in seven plays. two TDs in quick succession. We're up 14 nothing here. Then we got a FARV pick Antoine Winfield Beast.

Getting leads to a field goal, we're up 17. Nothing. Green Bay gets on the board late in the first. Got a lot of fireworks early on in this thing. 173. Another 10 play drive-ins and above a Franks TD. We're cutting this thing, 1710. Another Farrv interception sets up a mother,

another Minnesota TD 2410 takes us into the half. Fav comes out in the third. Another pick, baby. We got three punts going back to back. another farth pick. Then Green Bay drives puts together a nine place, 78 yarder, ends in a Titi 2417. Getting a little nervous here. Get a little nervous here. At Lambo, tides are turning in a little bit.

Then it takes us to the fourth quarter, 34 yarder, gold pepper to Randy. Yep. It's up 3117. That was sick. And that's the moment, baby, that the full moon comes out at Lambo. And that would pretty much be the play that puts it away. We would in 34 or 3117. Yeah, that was a.

Take us through that play when you were watching it. What do you mean? The moon play. Oh, dude, I was, I mean, I've just blacked out. I was fucking so excited. I was freaking out screaming. I mean, it was, how do you not just lose your mind? Because that was the nail.

Logo. You know what I mean? I mean, there's still plenty of time, but you could feel that shutting them down. And then here we go. Oh, my God. Come on, Buck live a little brother. That was a disgusting display. I mean, come on.

It was so quick, too. And like, again, you could barely see. Well, yeah, I didn't even. When that happened, I didn't even think about it. I was like, oh, that's funny. I wasn't like, oh. He didn't get fine for that, did he? Dude, he got it.

Yeah, he got shit for that. 10K, 10K for that. Yeah, he got fine for that. Straight cash. Is that the straight cash homie where it came from? No, that was a different. Let me double check what that one was for. But that was, I remember Red McCombs was like, that's it.

And that was the start of getting rid of Randy Moss. And then he came back to the Vikings for kind of a second. And then went to the Titans, which is like. From the Niners. He went from the Niners. He left us, went to Minnesota. For a second. Minnesota.

And then he went to the Niners. Went to a Super Bowl with the Niners too. Went to the Super Bowl with Niners. Then he went to Tennessee. I was so bummed. He didn't get a ring. I know. I was so bummed, man.

That's a guy. I started crying when Garnett won a ring for the Celtics. And he's on the court and I think he has the trophy. And he said, this is for Minnesota. I shared this with Minnesota, whatever he said. And I was like, oh, like, such a sad. I was such a sad sports life. He went to the Titans after the Viking.

Yeah. Yeah. That was the straight cash home. It was. I'm sorry about that. That was. Yes. Oh, it was. Oh, yeah, because he paid the fine. Yeah.

Yeah, that's right. That's right. Sorry. Yeah. All time. So this gave us like, this gave us a lot. There's a lot of ramifications from this, man. This is awesome.

Yeah. What a moment in history. Dude, I've never met Randy. Randy's awesome. He seems like he's the best. He's awesome if you know him. And he's also changed a lot, I think. Just because he's done TV now.

He's kind of let his guard down a little. Yeah. he seems he seems chill. He's great on TV. He's great, man. But he was like, I only played with them for a year and a half when we traded him. But I played with them and he would bust my balls.

But he'd always like lift me up when no one was looking. Or like I had to get like the rookie, like the rookie always had to go get the food before the flight. Right. And you had to pay for it and all that. And I didn't make much money. I was a seventh round guy. and Randy would always make me go get it

and he always slide me like 400 bucks and give me the money to go get it and he always looked out for me but around people he'd be busts my ball like get out of here, I don't know when no one was looking he was like hey man just keep your hands up on that one you know he'd always like coach me up

love me up Daisy bees motherfucker go get lit go get lit go get lit yeah so man let's put a bow on this bad boy final score 31 17 Vikings win it Randy finishes with four receptions, 70 yards, two big tuddies, and they would go on to fall in the division

round. The Eagles. To the hated Philadelphia Eagles. McNabb. McNabb. They went to the Super Bowl. They would go to the Super Bowl. Lose to the pads.

You guys beat the Packers in the playoffs. You land Grandma's boy. You're writing goddamn movie the next year. This was a fucking, this was the time for you. It was a swore nation year right there. This is a swore nation year. And then fucking, yeah. Then we lose to the Eagles.

Grandma's boy. bombs in the movie theater. Aaron Rogers drafted this year. That's right. Moss gets traded to Oakland. Everything. Oh, man. Yeah. But grandma, they, that DVD bucks, baby. The DVD bucks. Shout out. Dude, and I said this before, I'm like, when we were making it and we were done with it,

and we would test the movie in the theaters and it would kill. The crowd would just go nuts. But I'm like, this isn't going to work in the theater. Like, they didn't know how to market it. It was, it was right in that gray area of the internet where Twitter wasn't there. there was no real groundswell that you could do on the internet. And it just was a weird movie. But I knew when the DVD hit that it would spread.

I mean, it's bigger than anything I've done. And I've done movies that have made hundreds of millions of dollars. And Grandma's Boy is the go-to movie for people. And so if I can get these movies off the ground, make sure people listening that, you know, like go to the theater and support them because it's so important. And a lot of people are like, why don't you make more movies at Grandma's Boy? I'm like, dude, it bomb.

movies like Hot Rod, movies like McGruber, movies like Your Highness, like if you don't see them, and I get you want to stay home with the DVD or whatever, but we can't make more if people don't get out there.

So we just will need help. Also go buy physical media too with all these streamers consolidate and you don't know anything is anywhere. Just go buy the fucking shit too. Buy DVD. I just buy some DVDs. That's why I put my specials on YouTube now.

I just don't even, I don't have any ego to be like, well, I'm not on some streamer. I'm like, yeah, just watch it. You know, it's there. Go for it. My nickname was McGruber when I had long hair from Amandola. That's right. You did

have long hair and Dolie used to call me McGrew. A McRuber. Go grab you water. That's a great one. That's a good reference. I sit there, be writing his fucking license plate down the whole time. Yeah. He would have celery stick in his ass cheeks. Yeah, he knew what he was

doing, man. All right, let's name the game and score. it is this the greatest game of all time let's score it Nick decimals are encouraged we came up with these names but if you have a name since you're in comedy and you have great writing skills

you can come up with the name of your own we came up with the Randy Moss Moon game the disgusting act game or the shut up Joe Buck game or something you want to go what about straight ass homie there it is Oh, yes.

Comedy. It's fucking great. And we found the name of my next special. Straight ass. You heard it here first. Let's go. All right. Stakes, zero to ten of this playoff game between division rivals.

Stakes, decimals encouraged, zero to ten. I don't think I understand the question. The stakes, like the playoff game. Is this a highly staked game? Is this an important game? Is this a regular season? No, like, you know, we're... The stakes of the game.

The stakes of the game. I mean, 10. 10. Yeah, we go home. Not a Super Bowl. Yeah. I mean, it's, it has to be a 10. It's 10.

Like, who would be like, no, 4.3? Nah, you know, it's like a 7.8. This is the first time the Vikings and the Packers met in the playoffs, too. Oh, that makes it a 8.2. That's crazy. That makes 8.2 for me. 8.2. Jack, what do you got?

Let's see. At 8.6, we're in the same. ballpark. At 8.1. Nice, nice. Okay. The star power of this game. Stars including who was on the field. Maybe you were at the game. Maybe you were in the building. Star power. Star power. Randy Moss. Rainy Moss. I mean, Far and Mars, dude. Two Hall of Famers. Yeah, that's pretty. Antoine Winfield loved him. Bubba Franks.

Not a ton of Hall of Famers from this game. Usually there's more from an era. I'm going to do. Hmm. I'm going to do it 7.9. 7.9. Pro score. That's a pro score. I'm going to go with a 7.7. 8.2. 8.2. That is 7.8. We're all kind of around each other.

We are. The gameplay of this 31 to 17 blowout, but. Four picks. Four picks. A lot of defense. The game play for both sides all together. The viewer. The gameplay.

How like entertaining was it? Like the Texas USC game, like that's like a 9.9. I'm game play. Oh, I see. Okay. Gameplay, I'm going to say 8.1. It's good score.

Good score. I'm going to go with gameplay 7.9. At a 7.8, we're right there, baby. 7.0. Now, whoa. This is where you can make up. The name of the game, we grade the straight

ass homie name. also the cultural impact, like how much you think of this game. This actually has a huge cultural impact. I might need to redo my score because of how great that name it, but we'll see. The butterfly flight leads the straight cast. We're naming the game. Or we're grading the name.

Wait, we're grading the names. The name that you gave it, we're going to grade it. 12. Yes. Well, never, never seen that. Ray Bork did 11 ones. He did 11. Who did?

Ray Bork. You got a little carried away. Okay. I got to go with the 9.1. That's a great. Strong, brother. And everyone remembers the fucking Rainy Moss Moon game.

Yeah. 8.4. I went too low. Was giving Rainy a little numerology. I'm up in it, maybe. I'm gonna go with a 9.5. Nice. Dude, right.

9.1. Where does this stand? We'll be right back after this quick break. Next Monday, our 2026 IHeard podcast awards are happening live at South by Southwest. Since the biggest night in podcasting. We'll honor the very best in podcasting from the past year and celebrate the most innovative talent and creators in the industry.

And the winner is... Creativity, knowledge, and passion will all be on full display. Thank you so much. IHeartRadio. Thank you to all the other nominees. You guys are awesome. Watch live next Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific free at veeps. At veeps.com or the Veeps app.

Hi, this is Joe Winterstein, host of the Spirit Daughter podcast, where we talk about astrology, natal charts, and how to step into your most vibrant life. And I just sat down with a mini driver. The Irish traveler said when I was 16, you're going to have a terrible time with men. Actor, storyteller, and unapologetic Aquarian visionary. Aquarius is all about freedom-loving and different perspectives. And I find a lot of people with strong placements in Aquarius are misunderstood. A son and Venus and Aquarius in her seventh house spark her unconventional approach to partnership.

He really has taught me to embrace people. sleeping in different rooms, on different houses and different places, but just an embracing of the isness of it all. If you're navigating your own transformation or just want to chart-side view into how a leading artist integrates astrology, creativity, and real life, this episode is a must listen. Listen to the Spirit Daughter podcast, starting on February 24th

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Excel spreadsheets, we get the average and then we put it on the board and see where it lands. It's an 8.49. It's pretty good. That is our new 28th game. It's just behind the wheelchair game. 2008 NBA finals, Game 1. He did not. He did not shoot his pants.

He did not shoot his pants. We got confirmation. Paul Pierce did not shit his pants in that game. And then just ahead of the 2003 AFC championship game, Colts versus Patriots, the Thai law three interception game against Peyton Manning. Oh, okay. Yeah.

You fought the law and the law won. That's a good spot for it. God, number one, Falcons, Patriots. I still think about that. What do you think about? Well, just like, Matt Ryan, just having to just sit with that forever.

Forever, dude. Forever. I mean, and I'm not, this isn't a diss at all. I just feel for athletes, man. I'm like, no,

it's just got to mean, as a voyeur, I'm like, God damn. Even though I get mad at people, I'm still like a human. I'm like, oof, brutal.

I mean, if you think on it on a human level it is because like we had three of that generation they never got any it was a fair world

you'd think they'd get won yeah brutal dude and like I always trip out like athletes I always get really fired up I remember I was at a premiere for Zohan in New York and this guy comes up and he goes hey man I saw the movie

it was great you're really funny and I'm like thanks man and we're at the bar and I get a drink and he's like so, you know, you know, how did you how this role come about, whatever? So we start talking and I'm like, oh, are you like an actor or something? And he's like, no, I've played football. And I'm like, oh,

do you play professionally? And he was like, yeah, I'm on the Giants. And I go, what? What's your name? And he's like, David Tyree. And I'm like, you're fucking David Tyree? This was after the whole thing. And I'm like, oh my mind was like, I lost my shit, dude. I'm like, oh my God, like, what is your life like? And he's like, yeah, I'm writing a book and blah, blah, blah.

He was super nice. But, like, blew my mind. And then he got cut the next year. He did get cut. Him and Greg Lewis are doing curling now or something. I don't know. Is Greg Lewis? I thought he was coaching.

Yeah, he's coaching. But he was curling too? No, Julian. Come on, man. No, but there is a Viking that was curling. Jared Allen. Jared Allen. Dude, Jared Allen rules.

I love Jared Allen. Yeah, he's great, man. He must have been some. a fun guy to be a fan of too. Dude, he was so fun. And just the fact that his number was like 69. Yeah. Everything.

He was just a funny fucking dude. He had the mullet. Hall of Famer. Hall of Famer. Dude, one of my prize possessions is Jared Allen headband night. And it was a Vikings headband with a mullet stone into it. And dude,

I've wore that word out many times, many times. Well, Nick, did we miss anything from this game? not really no I mean the crazy thing that we've already touched on but I think it should be really looked at is Culpeper stats compared to Farves in Lambo is fucking wild

I mean just look at the comparison of their stats it's like crazy Farber's like one for four maybe a touchdown in four picks and Culpepper had no picks and four TDs like that's wild I mean this

Pope Pepper 19 for 29 284 yards and 4 touchdowns he also had 47 rushing touchdowns Redfar of 22 for 33 216 one touchdown four picks two sacks It's crazy this Vikings In the in the seven years span

Didn't get a Super Bowl It's so depressing Because that offense I mean Nate Burleson was a really good three did they have Chris Carter still No he wasn't on this team He wasn't on that team no But he was on the 98 team was

was Nate on that team? No. Burleson was not. Carter and Moss were on that team. Well, they always had like a really good guy with Randy. Yeah. You know what I mean?

And then they had Bennett, who was a really good running back. That was a great running back. I mean, they always had good players. I know. It's. Germain Wiggins?

Oh, my God. Wiggy. He's a Boston guy. Matt Burke on this team? Matt Burke. Yep. Yeah. I know.

Well, we're going to get one. We're going to get one. I mean, never know. Not for, you know. the next 20 seasons.

I think Kevin O'Connell. When the robots are implemented. I think Kevin O'Connell is a great coach. I played with them. He knows he's a quarterback whisperer. They just got to find the right quarterback and keep Justin Jefferson happy until then. That's the key right now is Justin Jefferson.

And I think let's maybe do away with the whispering. Let's get a quarterback screamer. Let's get a little louder. I think the whisper is not working. I just think it's lame. Get out there. who doesn't yeah that's not firing anybody out quarterback whisper oh the quarterback quarterback whisper

yeah comedy so above my head the guy the comedy guys above my head just dumb athlete jock yeah it's fine he knows they prep me for this before at least he didn't ask Julian yeah usually ask comedians like what's their major like trauma yeah what's your major trauma that's a smart question good God well I mean

my mom pulled a gun out of her vagina on Christmas and blew her head off Are you happy? Are you happy? I just got over it. Sam Borell, he would always tell me comedy. You know, we, we did the show for a long time together. And he would always say, yeah, comedy. A lot of the guys have a traumatic thing that happened. Yeah, we've already covered it. I'm a Vikings fan. Everyone go check out toilet head on YouTube today. Anything else we can plug? No, I'm doing my best to get comedies back in the movie theater. So I'll be on Instagram, real Nick Swartson. I'll have updates.

And then next year I'll be back on the road doing my tour. And this is actually the real title. It's called Dear Diarrhea. So updates on my social media. Love you guys. Cheers. Thanks for having me. Thanks, Nick.

Appreciate you coming on. Wow. What a fun guest. And what a fun game to go over. The man. Scored high. Scored high. Deservingly so.

I mean, we didn't mention it. It's right before the amount. Acculate Reception. On our list. But a lot of cultural relevance. The Macular reception was a playoff game. Yeah.

In the same kind of category. But this one to this newer generation is probably known because of the moon thing. It was a where were you moment, for me at least. Where were you in Randy Moss Moon Lamo? You know what I mean? I mean, straight ass. Oh, that's awesome. The Vikings, the Vikings were the statue of the moon.

They should. They should. I'd be down. Randy deserves a statue. Randy deserves statues in multiple places. Well, legend. It's Ken. Hey, Randy Belaw is a bus, baby.

We love you, Randy. We love you, Randy. Nick was awesome. What a guy. Nick, ball knower, cool dude. He loves, he loves sports. Love him. He was a fun guest.

I can't wait to see him get comedy back in the theater. I got faith in him, man. Nobody I'd rather have doing it. Let's go, Nick. Might have to talk to his homeboy. I mean, Sandler's a streamer right now. Yeah, come on, man. But come on.

Sam Man? No, but Sam Man just had the one that, the drama, right? That got Oscar Noms, didn't he? Oh, Jay Kelly. Oh, Jay Kelly, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That wasn't a Sandler movie, though.

Noah, Noah? He's still in it. He was great in it. He was awesome in it. He was awesome in it. I didn't see it yet. It was good. It was good.

It's good. I don't like it a lot. No. What a game? Huh? Kyler making faces over here. It was all right. I had a really good premise.

I didn't think they exit. I got to watch it. I got to watch it. It's worth it. It's enough. turn around and watch it. It's worth watching. Yeah. We love you, Sam, man. Please come on the show. We love you, Sam man, come on the show.

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