Throwbacks with Matt Leinart & Jerry Ferrara - Adam Ray Drunk Texts The Rock, Lives and Dies with Seattle Sports and USC Football

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

Comedian and USC grad Adam Ray joins the show to talk about his Pacific Northwest roots and love of all things Seattle sports. He and Matt reminisce on being at USC at the same time and Jerry shares his stories of Adam bullying opponents on the basketball court. Ray also shares his top 5 Seattle athletes and does an impression or two.  Then, the guys are joined by Annie Agar to talk about Micah Parsons’ debut with the Packers and Green Bay’s chance to go 2-0 vs. the Commanders on TNF. Then it’s time for another round of trivia. Do the guys perform better than last week?  All that plus the guys debate the worst way to lose a game. Matt remembers an infamous David Garrard game winning Hail Mary against his Texans and how deflating it was to lose that way.  New episodes of Throwbacks drop every Thursday. Make sure you’re subscribed on YouTube and following on all podcast platforms. Also, make sure you’re locked in on social @ThrowbacksShow on all platforms for highlight moments, bonus content, and to engage with the guys & the Throwbacks community. (http://throwbacksshow.com/)      A big thank you to our sponsors:        Wendy’s     Wake up with Wendy’s breakfast https://www.wendys.com/breakfast       DoorDash   Win weekly with DoorDash Streaks! Order every Saturday, save up to $250 during College Football Season. Terms Apply.      Twisted Tea   Grab a Refreshing Twisted Tea Today.  https://www.twistedtea.com/locations      KaChava   Go to https://kachava.com and use code THROWBACKS for 15% off your next order      Zip Recruiter   Try FOR FREE at http://Ziprecruiter.com/Throwbacks    -00:00 Intro  -02:31 Adam Ray Joins  -11:20 Adam and Matt on USC National Championship  - 21:40 Fresh Take of the Week Presented by Wendy’s  -29:03 Adam on getting into comedy   -45:50 Adam meets Sam Darnold   -52:52 Twisted Tea Trivia  -1:05:12 How Jerry and Adam met  -1:17:28 Why Jerry decided to lose weight  -1:27:48 “Dr. Phil” counsels the guys   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So I'm in Arizona with my wife's family, and they drink, and we were hammered and doing karaoke. And I send this long voice note, my wife looks over and goes, who did you send that to? And I go, Throck, and she goes, delete it. All right, welcome to another episode of Thrui. Throwbacks. You got a good one for you today. Before we dive in, Maddie, we're going to encourage everybody. Follow us at Throwback Show on all social platforms. Throwback show on the YouTube page. Leave comments, subscribe, like, all that stuff helps us out, keeps us motivated, and keeps us doing wild interviews with people that we have coming on today. We'll talk about him in one second. We also got later on, Annie Agar, coming back for another round of twisted tea trivia. Matt, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to. have to rip it up this time around. Last week was embarrassing. Last week was embarrassing.

This week is a good one. It's someone I know personally, ladies and gentlemen. We are joined by a comedian who hails from the Pacific Northwest but attended USC. A Cal Raleigh, home run makes his day. He was there in East Rutherford, New Jersey

when his Seahawks crushed the Broncos to win their first Super Bowl. And he's still waiting, sadly. We got to have to wait a long time. For his Sonics to return to Seattle. is probably not going to happen. Once a member of the Shorecrest high school football team,

he quit as a sophomore to play Danny Zucco in his production of Greece. He's got great hair for Danny Zucco. And I personally have seen him bully grown men on the basketball court. And a lot of you know him from his amazing Dr. Phil impression

and his Joe Biden impression and 400 other impressions. By the way, from football to the arts. The football wasn't, it wasn't in his blood. We also, we went to school together. We had some great stories together at our time at USC that you can only hear on this episode.

We're talking about Adam Ray, everybody. Okay, Adam Ray, if you don't know him, you will after this episode. Odds are you do. Because like I said, you've seen him as Dr. Phil. You've seen him as Joe Biden and a hundred other things. Also played Vince McMahon, which was awesome in The Rocks TV show. What can he do? Well, we're going to see if you can do a podcast right now.

So joining us for a very, very fun sit down. Adam Ray, everybody. So, real quick, before we start, you just, Liner said you got a great voice. And you said, you just got to what? Is this real? Did you just, what did you just do?

No, I like to make up fake stories. That would be a great fake story. Dude, when I worked at Universal Studios playing Wolverine and I bring that up, people go, did you really do that? I go, why would I make that up? What a specific? Well, you're wearing full tights, full uniform.

Oh, yeah. They actually made me, my boss, made me take a three week break to get in Wolverine shape. I was like... Or, is it universal? Yes, I go, you know I'm not the real guy, right? I'm a Jew in a

spandex suit with fake claws. And she's like, I just think... And I was actually in pretty good shape. I said my freshman year at SC. I was like, this is during SC? No, this was... So I was a tour guide first, 2003, and then once I graduated in 2005,

I was like, it's actually a really fun job, but I'm making like 820 an hour doing the tour and the face characters made 23 an hour. So I was like, oh, I gotta do that. I need a face character. So, yeah. So, but I went into the, like, audition. I don't know anything about Marvel Comics.

I was like, you know, they're like, you come in. They're like, be in character. And then they ask you questions. And they're like, state your name. And I was like, Wolverine. And they're like, who are your friends? And I was like, Matt, Troy, Kevin picked me up from the airport last week. They're like, how about storming Captain America?

Because I don't know anything. I was like, yeah, they're cool. And then, uh, anyway, so it just paid more. But, um, but she made me take a break because she was like, hit the gym and like, beef up. Because the main, I was number three, Wolverine. number one was this guy named Mark Miller Jacked Mark sounds like he's jacked

Real chops Real fangs You know had a double halitosis But he was like jacked And rode a motorcycle That cool guy that walks into the breakroom Because you know the universal break room I mean it's like Island of Misfit toys

Like we'd have these company The break room meetings And they'd be like all right They're filming during the park today Or Stevens Public's here Or they're Telemundo's here And like the guy is Groucho Mark So it'd be like me next

in between Shrek and Marilyn Monroe. I'm like, this is the time to be doing acid. And then Groucho Marx would be sitting there and he raised his hand and be like, so can we, like, in character? Well, not everybody, but like, Groucho was. And I would always like bust his chops.

I got to be cool with them. And like, you know, Beetlejuice would ask a real question, but like as John, you know? Right. And then, uh, like, is lunch coming? Are you going to eat?

Totally. But he was like, the soap and the bathrooms. As Gratcho Marx and I was like, oh, man, I got to get out of this. I got to get out of here. It's what means to an end. But, but so she made me take a break to like beef up and I remember like tell my mom that she's like

I don't think you're that fat anymore and I was like I didn't know you thought I was fat to be in but good to know thanks mom so uh so I like I guess went harder at 24 hour fitness shout out by the way last one was at 24 hour they closed at 11 p.m. on a Saturday and I'm in line I get my headphones in as the one on uh sunset and highland and uh I'm walking in and I also I take my headphones out because I see some guy just going berserk and you know this is really, I guess before people started putting people's outburst online and getting dragged off airplanes. So I see him freaking out. And then he walks by me and I go, I go, I go, what's going on my man? He goes, we're the closing. It's 24 hour fitness and it's 11. And I was like, that is

I'm like, I don't think your reaction is warranted, but I'm definitely team, team crazy right now. Well, one stone night, one of my boys pointed out when I was like 17, he's like, let me ask to something. If it's 7-Eleven, why are locks on the doors? I'm like, whoa. Wow, dude. You just broke me. Like, if they're never supposed to close, why even got locks on the doors? Did we really go to the moon, man? Did we really even go?

The last time I was at 24-hour fitness in Hermosa Beach, it's probably late. It's like 8 o'clock. I'm doing the elliptical. They stay open forever for you, right? Yeah, I'm then there with about 150 people, and I get a call from my agent, and this is kind of when I'm retired. Actually, my last workout was up in Seattle for

By the way, pick Brady Quinn over me. No. I remember when you were in the running, and I was soon we're pumped about that prospect. He picked Brady Quinn over his Heisman winning championship quarterback? That's wild, dude. I didn't talk to Pete for like 10 years, too. Are you kidding me?

That was the end of it. I just said this the other day. Anyway, the point of 24 hours, I get a call for my agent, and he's like, Buffalo wants you to come out. And it was like, for his my last time put on a uniform. So I'm on the elliptical. He's like, want you to fly out tonight i'm like for what like there's a game in five days it's preseason

four and you're the elliptical a 24 hour fit i'm like i'm like i'm like this like burning like a hundred calories every two hours you're watching some like i'm watching some like hit on some hot young girl and he's like you know i've got two laptops yeah and uh and so i get there and honestly i play like four days later and the the fun part is like i learned about bill's mafios they were great the fans were great i threw three picks in eight pass attempts in the first half and that was wrap And I was at halftime. I kept my helmet on the second half. I'm like, I'm so fucking embarrassed.

I wouldn't get the fuck out of here. That's when I met Josie, my now wife at the time. That's the last time I've stepped foot at 20. So you met her in Buffalo, though. No, no, I met her here. Oh, okay. I met her like a month before. I was like ready to hang it up.

But it was like my last hurrah and I, you had to, though, right? You know who had the similar, which I, you caught passes for these guys, all those guys. Jordan Palmer had the same story like three years later. He got called. They needed an arm for the game. So they called him.

called in, he's ready to go, and literally he threw like three picks of the first half and he got cut. Don't go to Buffalo to resurrect your situation. By the way, there's not much to do in Buffalo. There really isn't. I mean, I did one comedy club there. I mean, General Mills is there. So if you like to smell of Cheerios on the freeway. Prevalent. Google Dolls, shout out. They played my wedding. They're from there. They played at your wedding. Oh, yeah. It became bucks right there. Google Dolls just fucking play your wedding. Yeah. Actually, that's not even public. I didn't even post about that because I thought that was too much of a flex. But I'm going to say here, Chris. Breaking news on throwbacks, maybe.

What do they sing? What do you mean? What are they saying? You know every lyric to every song and you're trying to play a cool. And I give up forever to touch you. Yeah. Oh yeah, good one.

And I don't want the world to see me. Yeah. Come on, man. Name. Wait, that's black balloons. Awesome, dude. Yeah, I met him at... Is that the first dance?

They did Iris for the first dance. And then he played three more songs just for... And then kind of set up the band. But yeah, so went to Seattle to commentate the Hawks Chiefs game. I want to be a broadcaster as a kid. You got the voice. You got the voice.

I mean, you know, but also I was like, I got in there and I was like, should I put on, should I put on like a guy like this? You start doing an impersonation of a voice. Or should I do Keith Jackson and be like, you know, Matt Lannert, you know, from Southern California, you know, four inches hard, you know.

So what did you get? He gave crazy stats. Go back and check the tape. We got a lot of bonner. What voice did you just go with your own style? I just one with the regular what I got in. You really have a fuck. Just tequila and weed.

dad leaving your nine and uh but here i got a little uh audio pulled up but it was awesome is steve rable has been the voice of the ceox for man so who was in there with you steve rable and this guy dave wyman he used to play it was awesome first of all i'm so there's a guy named jeffer who created the league kind of larry's right hayman for curb big seattle fan too and he did listen to his broadcast and he was like rain man with the stats and like he made 24 he went for he was calling it like it was the super ball yeah and it's preseason and thankfully i know day and Steve well enough and to feel comfy

and have rapport and be able to like interject, interrupt at one point Dave was giving some color. Rabel gives us a play-by-play. He's like, just don't step on before or after.

But, you know, I've listened to him call so many games. You know the cadence. I know when he's going to hit a period and I can jump in. I kept trying to insert

catch phrases. So like, Jake Bobo got a second touchdown and I was like, let me check my watch. Oh yeah, it's Bobo time. Or like, I go, someone open back the kitchen up because they're serving

a touchdown salad. And then Rayble will go, oh, Jesus. this. He goes, I don't know. And then I did it like three more times. And at one point, Wyman, started fill in a story. And I go, I go, Dave, yeah, shut up, dude. No one, no one cares. Anyway, so Steve, and then I started calling or whatever, but

let's hear it. All right. Then I got a question for you off of this. All right, here it is. And it's insane. You should have went, passes to the man, and boom goes to dynamite. And he's right out of bounds. Come on. You keep running down hill to the right side. That play fake. And then roll back naked boot to the left. Naked boot that you'll want it to take that somewhere

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First and 10 Strap in But that you know what's so funny I had You know I'm a cash fan Right I mean I probably I was a big college football fan

Growing up like for you dub But like it went up a notch Like I see it was because it was like Religion and it was I mean, dude, I mean, what a, what a lucky thing to be at that school at that time. Bro, it was wild. And I'm now getting to finally, like, tell you about it. I was telling Jerry, like, I could probably rap with Adam for hours on just like,

because I get asked all the time. I literally, like, the number one question is like, dude, what was it like? I'm like, what do you mean? Like, what was it like to be at USC? I'm like, for us, it sounds kind of way, but like, it just became norm. Like, we were just like, we were kids living there and we were just treated that way because that's, that's all we knew. I would be curious, because obviously the story, when you went on Edelman, who I love,

and he told that story, it was like, I didn't even know you in college, right? But we have a lot of mutual friends. What was it like for you guys just in that time? It was nuts. Bro, you based your week around football. I studied abroad in London for acting school my junior year. And I was so, I almost didn't go because I didn't want to miss being around season. And my mom was like, you got one other year, you got to go.

And then she was like, at least audition if you don't get in, then you know. And it was only four months, but still it was like, you know, I was fucking just always checking in and, and you know, what was the lot? You know, but I, you know, we, I was in the frat for sophomore through senior year, but just lived there sophomore year. And, but just like walking over to campus, tailgating. It was like, it was like, it was an event. And it was, you know, I don't think I'd been around a team, you know, hadn't the 90s Mariners run that like was electric and kind of took the city by storm. But I hadn't been in a city. especially like LA, where it was like, just dominant. And it was like everybody was all about it. And like the camaraderie. At all the time. Let me finish my story. And so there's, um, yeah, no, I'm sorry, go ahead.

Wait. No NFL teams. No NFL teams. No NFL teams. Providing some color. Yeah, yeah. You're exactly right though. It was you guys were like the main attraction in a city where there's

Disneyland and Will Smith and two girls, one, like there's everything. And so everyone was all about it. The camaraderie, it was like, I mean, dude, sports is why, always chastised my friends that don't get into sports. I'm like, it's not even about like if you didn't play. But dude, it's like, you know, there's people. I mean, my wife has gotten so into the manners

and I've gotten to like, you know, roast the team and suit up and work out of them and now gotten to like now Julio and I DM and it's like, she's way into it now and it's made us, you know, finally closer. But, no, but it's like, eight nights again. Bro, it's a cooler thing to have to when she's like,

oh, even when I was leaving to come here, She's like, oh, Mariner's on right now. They play at 10 this morning. And I was like, so I turned like, but she's telling me that. They're like, proud of it. Yeah. That's peak marriage stuff when your wife's like, you know you're going to miss the Mariners 10 a.m. first pitch.

Huge. Yeah. Not many people are watching the Mariners right now at 10 a. I'm a dog. They're on a dogger guy. They're on the run again. We're not even rivals. The season is so long, dude.

It's so. You, yeah. You all in on Cal? You're all in. All in. Yeah. I should have had. There's this great clip.

He let me borrow his bat before I took some practice swings. few deep into the outfield off our manager dan wilson and my buddy was out there taping some content and uh i give him the bat back i go if you have a monster year like MVP caliber i go this is the moment to remember that my hands touched your bat and he didn't get it and i was like what a great because he's having a historic year but um but yeah dude sce football was you know it's all anybody thought about being at the stadium first of all coliseum's just iconic yeah the everything became, like, heightened, too. It was like the horse running out at the start.

Just knowing, it was like going to see Griffey, I guess that's the best way to equate it for me, where it was like knowing that something special is going to happen every game. That was a, that's something that you can't describe as a sports fan fully where you're like, I'm just in the presence of some of the craziest talent I'll ever see.

And we were just partying our ass off together, apparently. Dude, yeah. And we were getting, and you were wearing sweatpants. And just, I was like, God, is that, what it takes, like rolling in, just so cool. I used to wear her. I think you had a big white t-shirt, and I think gray sweatpants. Dude, I did, rolling out for the night.

What is it going to dress up? All my white teas came from slossens. Do you ever go to, you wouldn't have gotten to slossom. Jewish deli? What is that? No, it's a, it's a, it's a flea market, like in the middle of Compton. Wow. So my boys would take me to slossens, and I'm like, and I'm like, fellas, I don't feel

comfortable here. Like, we're in the hood. Oh, you're not supposed to go. They're like, Maddie, you're good. You're with us. but I was also starting then so I kind of felt like oh they'll probably recognize me

you know like you're going in there I wore my SC gear but that's where I used to get my white T's we used to get our white T's our socks they sold like new era hats like for cheap and that's where we used to shop well I did get worried when you were on

Edelman's show and this is how I like I always wanted you to come on I've like done pot you and I go back and we'll get into that but I'm watching like the clip on Instagram and it's like oh I got like a liner story and you launch it's the story so I immediately go to you're nervous yeah

Well, I'm like, is this the Matt liner to a dick in college story? I'm like, oh, no, I don't know each other. So you're like, he's going to have to massage this a little bit. Oh, wait, super PG, bro. No, it was a great story. Yeah, I know what I'm like. Also, the story was PG. And even if it wasn't, I have enough, you know, savviness to not bury them.

After I was Wolverine, I was a New York cop, which was just from a 1940s cop. And I've got like this nightstick and I'm walking around. I get you. At universal. Say it again? At universal. At universal. Yeah, they still got it.

They took all the Marvel characters out. because Disney bought him. So this cop is rolling around. Again, it was fun. I like, you know, I, who did I, I used to rip it up with Stamos walked through. I'd blow my whistle. I'd go, hey, slow that's not a race, sir.

I go, Vidalse as soon as I can run out of hair gel. And he just went like, nice. And then Michael Jackson, I saw it came through one day. And try to do a bit with him, but a security got in my face real quick. And then Dave Matthews and his family came through. And I just seen him at the Hollywood Bowl than I before. And so I'm doing all these bits with his family.

And they're like, hey, copper, is it? I used to get a beer around here. I was like, there's an Irish bar, Irish pub down the street. You know, why don't you, tell the family to fuck off. You come with me, Dave. So we walked down the street

and then I'm just like, hey man, I was at the show last night. You guys ripped it. And he goes, oh shit. And he goes, can you break character? I go, dude, I don't want to fucking be here, man. Say Disney. I go, you're the man, you know?

And then he was like, oh, then we, I take him to the little pub. It was like one little spot. You can drink it up upstairs. And he's like, I feel weird asking, but do you want to drink? I go, dude, I would love nothing more than to just rip this stash off

and get hammered with you, but this is my job and money's not terrible and I don't want to wait tables. And I was like, can I at least get a picture? And what's crazy is that I just, my buddy plays sacks in the band, Jeff Coffin. And so I went out and saw him in New Hampshire for two nights and got to kind of like

talk to him for the first time and tell him that story. And he was like, I vaguely remember that. He said, remember getting walked to a pub by one of the characters. I go, that was me, man. But yeah, Edelman. I think wanted something juicy

and I was like, sorry, man. Me and Jules go way back. We trained a bunch, like out this way in the South Day. But yeah, I'm trying to think like, God, we had, I'm sure we crossed past. I mean, I'm sure you were with the A-pie was definitely a party house. So I told Jerry

so I was like, at least for the football side. I felt like I kind of, I got along with everybody, I think, but there were some frats who fucking hated us, like those guys. And we probably had a lot of dicks on our team at point Dude, there's so many juiced up young males at SCE. And by the way, Essie's a lot different now.

It's like, if you walked on campus, it's like, it's probably why we suck now, but whatever. But we used to go to like a movie, like, every training camp for their. University flagship theater. It was, it was like a Magic Johnson theater. Actually, it wasn't even that nice. It was like a Sedale Threat Theater. It was like, that's a deep guy.

It was like a, it was like, Vladi DeVots's. It was like you could smoke in there. You was, dude, it was a Yugoslavian nightmare. It was just, but it was like. house. I think you had three screens. People were definitely getting sucked off in there. It was, I went and saw half-baked, and the line was.

At the, at the university. Oh, bro, this is a great story. So it's, there's probably, I don't know, this theater holds three, 500 people. And so all these potheads are in line. And the theater, everyone's there early because every one says, we get high and we get there. And like, you know, when you get super baked, you just, your time management is bad. So everyone's there an hour before the theater even open.

So we're all in line, just high and coffee. in mouth and we're standing there and everyone was just looking at each other and it was so funny because like everyone you looked at in line was just like you just look over and just lock eyes with someone and be like you know like that be like fired it up you know and then we got in there and i'd say about 20 30 minutes into the movie the projector by the way and i'm and everyone's just you just feel yeah you can know sometimes you go to a movie like let's say you go in to see like hangover like on the opening night Thursday there's energy in the arc light or whatever it is you know your people are are making noise and and they're fired up for the film have baked it was just

like quiet dude everyone just everyone's baked out of their mind just the stonious conversation the calibrated it to peak at the right moment oh yeah every you just hear like sidebar conversations they're like yeah yeah I think about getting a new jansboard backpack and think I found a cool hiking trailer that thing well no you can bring your dad you can bring your dad how you dad zero energy no entering so the the the real catch is on fire and so about 20 minutes in everyone just watch a movie laughing I mean the energy was great for the film and then like a little fireball just like starts to trickle in the middle of the screen and and then just spreads to the whole screen.

So the whole screen catches on fire. You guys are probably like, it doesn't. Oh, we freaked the fuck out. What a good movie here. Three other strangers all went, Ha! Myself included.

Because it just was not something you anticipated on happening. And it didn't look like CGI. It looked like the theater was about to burn down. So everyone starts freaking out. Ah! And then immediately some dickhead turns the lights on. So stone eyes are cast.

You're in the dark. It's like vampires. And then the lights go on and it was another. everyone's freaking out everyone stood up people started running out of the theater because they thought like we were all going to die

I saw one guy get up to run out hilariously goes back grabs his sour patch kids no snack left behind runs out and then some guy comes down and he's like so the movie has caught on fire

we will be issuing refuns and everyone was just like and then we all went out and then he went to the 9-0 gave away some saying we went to the 9-0 which was the campus bar yeah

Okay, it's time real quick for the fresh take of the week, presented by Wendy's Wake Up with Wendy's Breakfast, which I like breakfast for dinner sometimes, Matt. You're not going to lie. Oh, absolutely. So this week we were thinking, what's a nice fresh take? Well, more importantly, I'm just going to ask it this way, Matt. What's a worse way to lose a game? Now, I come from the fan perspective. You come from the professional athlete perspective.

I feel like I'd rather, well, there's two ways. I'd rather get my butt kicked. Like a blowout. I'd rather have a blowout. I'd rather sit on the sideline, being down 35 to 7 to be like, wow. I mean, that's just, that sucks. Like, that's just what you get like, it just sucks. Then losing on a last second.

There's nothing more demoralizing than we did this. I was in Houston. We played Jacksonville Jaguars and David Garrard. Sure. Threw up a hellmerry. One of those hellmeries where all you have to do is, knock it down, right? And we were winning. We knock it down into the receiver's hands. He ends up scoring a touchdown and we lost. And we were just, I'm actually getting goosebumps

thinking about. We just were like sitting there like, do that just happen? And that's how we lost the game. There's nothing worse than that. When you're winning a game, you have it in the bag, then all of a sudden you lose on the last second. I think Jaden Daniels ended the Bears season last year what a hail mayor. I just think mentally they were done. That is a crushing way and I'm with you. The blowouts I feel, whether it's a pro athlete POV or even as a fan,

yeah, it sucks to be on the couch in the third quarter if the Knicks are down 35 and I'm like but then you watch something else. You move you move on easy. Also seeing like you go back to the Patriots Falcon Super Bowl. I've been in games like this where it's like the comeback right and you're sitting on the sideline again another example. I've been a part

a lot of these that we were up 12 against Texas in the national championship game with five minutes left and now 12 is not a 12 is not a comfortable lead but in that moment mentally I thought we're like oh the game we're like this is it back to back and then you just you just see it slip away

like the slow burn is a really really because guys really start getting tight when you start to feel like wow they're getting all the great things are starting like the momentum is changing that's where that's where the coaches come that's where that's where great coaching comes in because you got to you got to do something you got

you see all this with coaches like falcons right Kyle Shanahan like got away from the run run the ball you know in that Super Bowl get away from what because you have such a comfortable lead then all of a sudden and then you start to get a little nervous you're like oh it's 2817 what do we like then you start to second guess um I was thinking about this and there's a lot of bad ways to lose in sports one and I mean I got to be honest with you people have people have gone down scoring your own goal in a softer net. I was thinking about that.

I'm like, dude. To lose? To do that to lose a game. By the way, we've seen some bad things happen to guys who score in their own goal. Like, can you match? Because you know how important,

I mean, like overseas and all of those things? That's pretty bad. Well, it brings up a bigger conversation too. I think you're right. I think it's, and I, by the way, while you were talking,

I just watched the garage, Harold, Harry. Gosh, that is horrendous way to lose. And that's probably the worst. I still have no patience for, you know, my feelings on kickers and stuff. I have no patience for kicker lining up, a little chip shot 30-yard or wide, right.

Like the bills lost a Super Bowl like that, even though it wasn't quite a chip shot. But then you start thinking others, like combat sports, right? What's a worse? Just getting absolutely ca-oed. Well, you've definitely seen the videos on social with the cocky fighter who's like sticking his chin out,

sticking his tongue out, and he just gets knocked out, stiffens up. I will say, too, like getting chis-on-a-old, choked out. Obviously, physically, it doesn't feel good. It's got to be pretty embarrassing. You got to just, because you don't know what happened. You have to wake up and watch it later. You know, you have to wake up.

Someone has to give you a wake-up call and you have to watch on a phone. What happened? I got a funny one, dude. Ed, it doesn't probably apply to us, but gamers, what if your Wi-Fi or Internet goes out right when you're about doing the game? That's happened to me. That is the word. That makes me rage.

That's rage for me. And, yeah, even, I will say, too, just in any sport, the bad referee call. Yeah, there's a lot of great ones. What's the worst way to lose a game? Oh, yeah. Oh, what about basketball? Like a three-quarter shot, three-quarter court throw, heave, like you've seen. Usually happens in, like, high school.

You don't see that in the pros. Just, all right, you're up to guy throws it up from 70 feet and hits it ball game. Fortunately, it has not happened in, like, playoff situations. That's got to be a pretty bad way. Or a missed free throw. well miss field goal I've been a part of those as you said those those

those just make you want to punch somebody in the face that's it they just make you want to be like are you kidding me dude just make it just make it I do think I'm gonna make my I'm gonna train my kids to be field goal kickers because no long snapper bro

long snapper well my point is like if you have like there's a lot of pressure on a kicker dude think about Boswell though if you could handle that pressure like Boswell he can make a fortune now ever wanted to leave because he is reliable.

If you are a reliable kicker right now, you have a lot of power. But you can be a long snapper, play 20 years in the NFL, make a couple mill a year. I mean, you're getting hit a handful of times because you have to go cover it. Because you're a long snapper, then you're the long snapper and short snapper. So like on punt and stuff, you're actually going out to try and tackle. But dude, I feel like Adam Venetieri's dad must be really proud. Just sitting here be like, my son's made. The Hall of Fame kicker, bro.

Yeah. Yeah, so I want to, maybe Jacob Ferrar, I could follow an Adam. Your kids are going to be in the front office, dude. Fair enough. Yeah. Shout out to Wendy's. Not a bad place to be. I'm going to go have some breakfast for dinner tonight.

That's our favorite thing to do in the Ferrara house. All right, let's get back to the show. You were at USC four acting? Like, what were you kind of? I went to, I auditioned to get to the school theater. My SAT scores were like 1170 and the mean average for the- That's solid, no? I guess.

I would have tip that in a second. Bro, the mean average for my first. freshman class incoming 1520 oh god i didn't know went that high yeah so they were like 1600 i think is like 1600 yeah it means you're a agent so the um the uh or smart but a lot of agent i see that's not racist uh but so um so i go down there and i'm like i should audition for the acting school because if i get in this is what the admission guys uh told me he's to go uh if you get to the acting school they'll recommend you to the um to the school and they basically be like we're taking this guy so you have to take them so i was like okay yeah because i wanted to

like minor and business and and uh and have other things to do but if you're in the acting school you're all about it Monday through Friday you get your own class shows it's I mean I'm glad I did it because it was a way better program. So I was like I was telling you I was talking to some of your boys to get some stories but yeah every one of your boys basically said dude he's he was a grinder even in college he always wanted to entertain it was like 24-7 they were giving me like funny shit the like you did like a version of like MTV Cribs at a house or something bro yeah i just was i don't know i i yeah not even for i guess once i started to kind of figure out that i could make people laugh it wasn't the thing i like tried i never felt like i was

trying to do it it was just like it's just fallen naturally yeah even as a kid i would do i was like oh it'd be funny to impersonate this teacher or coach or and then when if and then i started to like be decent at you know the people can tell a story and or not like especially in high school. You can tell pretty quick, like, who can keep people's attention. And I just, whether I was doing plays and stuff, so I felt comfy to do that. But I, something would happen to people like, oh, dude, tell them what happened. So there's a lot of that. And then I would just be put on the spot. And then, you know, I bad groceries at Albertsons in high school. So I became friends a lot of the older kids. So that made me comfy around older kids. So then, you know what I'm

saying? Like, it all, but like, I never was like trying to be like, I'm going to be the funny guy. It was like, did you, like, because you got, you went to acting for acting. You wanted to entertain. Let's isolate that sentence. Yeah, what a great boy. And clearly Matt didn't major in communication. Yeah, my bad. You went to school for acting.

Yeah, I didn't go to class too often. Bro, Mike Williams was in. Cool management? I mean, now I gotta tell you one of my stories, my class. Short live Seahawk. Mike was in one of my classes. It was, and it was like, the first time

I was like friends with an actor. You saw him one time probably the whole semester. Maybe three or four. Yeah. But it was like, it was, I wanna say it was sex in the ancient world, or was it was, It was an English class.

But either way, he was there briefly. And I was just like, I remember jokingly, I go, I go, Mike. Biggest fucking human being of all time. Enormous. I didn't want to say 6-6 in, yeah, 240. Blood type, oh, negative pin number 4265. He was so big.

And I remember jokingly being like, yo, Mike, will you like write this paper for me? I'm like, really like, I'm just like, and he goes, man, he was like, I was going to ask you. I go, dude, I was joking. I definitely don't want you writing anything for me. And, but yeah, beast of a guy. But just being, he was so cool, and he, like, he was so generous to, like, me and a couple

of other buddies when we would ask questions about the team. And I was like, he could tell, and I'm sure you're the same way where when people fan out, you're like, oh, yeah, like, this was such a special time. So, like, let me give him a couple anecdotes. What was what I was trying to say before I couldn't spit it out was the vision to be a comedian or just something, was that in college or you just were kind of like, this is what I want to entertain for a living, right? I think so. Yeah, when did you like, kind of...

So I played all the sports in high school and then did the play freshman year and I was able to do freshman football and the play. And like I'd leave practice sometimes a little early like when we were in tech rehearsals to go do it. And my freshman coach and the acting... Head of the acting program just made it work. And then I got the sophomore year.

And like, as a kid, we would take field trips in elementary school to our high school for the productions because they were such a big part of... In Seattle, like theater is great, but like these productions were just like top top notch so when I get there I was like oh to be in these plays would be pretty cool and then sophomore year they're going to do Greece the guy who directed the freshman plays hit me up and was like I just want to make sure you auditioning because I think you'd be a great Danny zuko the only other guy auditioning is this Korean guy named Danny park

you got him you'll get him you'll get him you have a pretty good shot and um and so I was playing football and I was getting pretty jacked just you know but again a six foot Jew I'm like I'm not going pro this I'm playing for fun basketball is my sports that if I was like six four. He could play. Yeah, I mean, I mean, and I'm like, I would love to see you too, and I'm physical.

Like, I definitely cause a couple scuffles with Jerry's homies that I heard. Yeah, he told me. But you know what, dude, here's the thing. I was always like, and I'm to this day, even like my wife hates this

because on the plane, like, I don't want a citizen's arrest anybody. Let me just say that. I'm a nice guy. I'm kind. I'm puck and I pay it forward. I'll buy the coffee behind me. Yep.

I, you know, I definitely got a little bit of a kerfuffle at a wetzel's pretzels a few weekends ago because I tried to buy the pretzel for a kid behind me he had Down syndrome he took it offensively he was like

you only thing I can't buy my fucking pacto so whatever tomato tomato shit happens but so I try to not get involved with people

and like unless they're an asshole this guy was a dick to my wife on the plane I go dude you should just like walk back to your seat like we're gonna have an issue

we're not gonna have a fucking issue I was like oh man I go I've never hit a grown man who definitely buys this close at the gas station but like dude

if you can just keep and I'm trying to like kill it Diffuse it with jokes. Which is probably robbing them up more. Totally. But in basketball games, like, there's a lot of guys that want to be physical and dirty and then think they just want to get away with it.

And I'm like, so I think I was making jokes, which when you're playing hoops and you're getting like Razzed on and you don't know the new guy, but like a couple of the guys and I wish I remember their names were just down low. I put a body on a guy. I remember. Fundamentals, I would box out and I'd get bows right after it was like, oh, new guy's going to box me out. The dude was not, the dude who you kind of got into it with, like, that's not his M.O.

normal. You, you, you, oh, man, that makes me feel not great. No, you had, like, you kind of, like, could you imagine? You Rodmaned him a little bit. You almost, you did a little Dennis Rodman. I guess I did, yeah. I got under, I need to take some accountability. You were playing well, you were getting some loose balls.

I was new guy. I was trying to make a state. Is this the Beverly Hillsley? That game still goes on, by the way. Long after I'm gone, and they still play like Monday and Friday. I'm going to talk Hooper, though. I mean, we're talking Kenny Anderson. meets Nick Van Axel, meets Kendall Gill.

He's only seen the bad versions of me. J.J. Berea. That's my comp. That's my comp. We've played basketball once. We've played basketball once. How's your game? I'm pretty good. It was disappointing. It's annoying, like flicking three. Like, Molly's, left-eat. It looks like Chris Moll. I was just playing with Sammy D. Arnold. And he's got a jumper. He was great in high school. I mean, like, dude, tall, like, how do we feel about the ginger taking over the team? Awesome. I love Sammy. Couldn't love it more.

The Red Hammer? The Red Hammer. That's what you called. Yeah, we, he's a beast. We started a nickname because he started out his grandpa, right? His grandpa was the Marlboro man. That's right. He just showed me a picture of that. And his acting name was Dick Hammer. Yeah.

That was his acting name. Let's just rank great porn star names. Of all time. Dick Hammer's pretty good. My Aunt Shirley R.I.P. Up and she dated a guy in her home. Her and my uncle were married for 65 years. He got old timers.

They had to split up. Whatever. He passed. Sweet guy. She's in the home. I go, Shirley, how you doing? She's like, I've got a new boyfriend. I go, what does his?

name she goes dick i go i don't ask why you're dating him she goes oh stop that and i go what's his last name she goes she goes you're dating dick justice i go did you meet him before or after he was a gay porn star slash detective from the 40s and she goes i go i got to meet this guy she goes he can't he died six days ago that's my life i make friends and then they die great all right love you shirley all right she could never say it back you got to write a character named dick justice i mean so dick hammer dick justice at the laugh factory i did this set once where there was a whole whole group of porn stars and porn directors and I think this clip is on my IG

the guy's name was Will Pounder and I go Will Pounder I go what names weren't taking must fucker and like thinking about plugging it like what you know but Will Pounder That's a comedy porn name There's a Lena to Plug that's one Lena to plug

I guess think about I think about the porn name the way girls think about the stripper name right But stripper names have that thing where it's like your street name plus your dog name We did middle name and street name Mine's actually pretty good. For porn or for?

For porn. Yeah. Stephen Diamond. Oh, Matt, let this be your last episode because it's time to shift gears. It's time to fucking shift gear. I didn't love that. It did bother me because I just didn't love that that was your, the one time you came and you had not a great experience. I mean, I'm sure you had fun playing ball with us.

I felt bad that I had put an asterisk on our friendship. No, no, it didn't. But anything, I think it made it as a closure. The fact that you were cool about it and you were like, like, I was like, all right, Jare's the man because I was like, definitely like, that was not, I should have kept my composure. Wait, when was this?

This was on, oh, God, this was in our game. Oh, in the basketball game. We met 2014, 15? Yeah. And. Cove. With Amex Platinum, access to exclusive Amex pre-sale tickets can score you a spot track side.

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stay. Life's the trip. Make the most of it at BestWestern. Visit bestwestern.com for complete terms and conditions. I told Matt this, it's like, I don't remember how we got kidding. I don't know if you reached out or somehow, because I started my podcast. You were doing about last night with Brad, and you're like, come, like

I went to a Johnny Drama conference or, like, it was Like, the way they have, like, furry conventions was a drama convention. And everyone there was like, hey, fucking Ari, why don't you get me on CSI, Detroit? That's so funny way to do that. Which you hit me the first time with it at your show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But so, no, I, I hit you up on IG.

I don't know if you knew Doug or something, right. And there was a connection, though. There was someone we either knew or someone you had on. Somebody had you on their pod that I knew, I think. Right. So, you invited me over. And I come, and I feel like I walk in, there's you and there's Brad. You had, like, another roommate at the time.

Yeah. You're like right by like the laugh actor. Right, Laurel and Hollywood, yeah. And at one point I think you, you interviewed me for 20 minutes as Tony Danza. Is that ringing a bell? And I was like, this guy's great. These are the interviews I want to do. Yeah, dude.

You stay as Tony Danza for like 20 minutes throwing me questions. Bro, this is why like, you know, and I'm trying to, my buddy, we did this Dr. Phil sketch for the Eagles Commanders' NFC Championship game last year where I was like, you know, showing up all these books like to, you know, just word up, wordplay books for the like Jaden Daniels and and Jalen Hertz and so I'm gonna do like four or five more sketches this year for games trying to interview Sammy D as one of my characters and Sam's all about it because he's like yeah dude any chance to do something different yeah yeah normal interview like I mean this way what went wrong what do you guys need to do next week

play better and win yeah more like I'm gonna be like you know this zitted up ponytail like which I mean so Sam Darlin here so is it can you throw the ball farther because your hair is so freaking red or like what is the what's the zit fucking personation. Jeremy, just based on, Jeremy's great. In high school,

Jeremy's fucking awesome. Oh, I appreciate it. We're making a sketch show hybrid with Kimmel based on him. So stay tuned, probably calling your talents. I went to my buddy's Magic

the Gathering night. I was back home during SC and just started smoking weed and I was like, just Jones and dispensaries were not around Seattle yet and I hit him up and I was like, dude, where can I get weed? Where's the weed at?

Where's the weed at? And he's like, I'm having a magic the gathering game right now and we're getting pretty big if you want to come play. And he used a kiddo did plays with in high school. Mark Goodwin,

sweet kid, great actor, and definitely didn't seem like not a magic guy, but didn't seem like the guys that were there. The guys who were there with this character,

Jeremy I was doing, and then some. I mean, and they were getting in fights and I was trying to like understand the game, but it'd be a fly on the wall, but I'd make jokes being like,

I don't think you should do that. And the guy goes, can you, Mark, can you tell your friend that this isn't, we're not, around right now and like,

bro, it was awesome. And so Jeremy is a direct from one of the guys. I wish I could remember his name. But where it was just like. And also, I like playing characters that are, you know, everyone's fought. I like the Michael Scott, you know, looking at life through their set of goggles.

They're not bad people. They're just aloof. And they like, the Jeremy guy, it's like, I don't know, this 38 year old man boy that, that hasn't really, he hasn't never really had a job. He's like, he's not a dick, but he just is like a little probably more outspoken than he should. He's not the social skills that are acceptable.

Doesn't have enough life reps to really know, but also unabashed and, you know, we'll go out in public. He's not like a nice later-in-herment. That makes a great interview. Great interviewer. Yeah, we just had this episode with Adam Devine. I've done a few with Joel McHale. I saw.

I saw. Yeah, Devine was some fun. And Devine was like the first one to kind of like rev him up a little. But yeah, the Sammy D thing is awesome, man. I met him. Sanchez and I had a short-lived podcast. And so we met Sam through that. Yeah, it's called Fourth and Forever.

We did it where in the same studio where all the smoke happened. So Stephen Jackson, Matt Barnes, and then we were in the other corner. Is this recent? No, this was probably 2018, 2019, right before COVID. And which wasn't real. And so we get down there and we're doing the pod. And I'm like, I'll bring all these comedians. Hey, I wish you.

Come on, take the vaccine. It works. I told Aaron Rogers when I was doing the Joe Biden, Shane Gilson was doing Trump at Madison Square Garden. Aaron Rogers came out at the end This killed Tony to throw footballs And I went to him I go and I go Aaron

I go how are you doing? And he goes uh he goes oh he goes Hey man big fan Like saying I think to me And I go I go shut the fuck up I go the vaccine worse you prick Come on And then he just started laughing

And I was like Can I throw a couple footballs And he was like yeah go for it I was like dude thank you man You're the fucking man You know But uh But yeah he

He didn't They wanted us to do like more X's and O's So we were having We got Miles tell her when he was about to do Top Gun. We had, you know, Deshawn Watson pre-massage. We had fucking Jason Kelsey. We had Sammy D.

I got us Carissa. And then I had all these comics lined up. And it was going to be a real. What was fun about it is that like I was, you know, Mark was, you know, obviously all the football talk. But I'm, you know, fan, eyes of the audience and asking questions. But we had a great rapport right out of the gate. So he was like, let's do this.

And then, yes, we went to the Super Bowl and the Pro Bowl. And we were doing all this and we were really going to make it a thing. And I was all into it. because I was looking for something like that to really put all my eggs into, podcast-wise. And then Showtime Sports was like, yeah, just X's and knows. No comedy stuff.

Just have Mark go around and interview these guys. And he'll tell you, it wasn't not as good. And I would text him every, like, he had lock it on over Zoom. And I'm like, that's my boy. He didn't ask him this. He'd ask him this. He went to interview Herbert, I think, when he was at Oregon.

You'll just tee him up for the X's no. So Mark, what did you make on that? Totally. You become the setup guys? Were you sitting there, too? I wish I had this great drunk voicemail of Mark just be like, I'm not doing this show without you, man.

And it was so sweet, dude. I fucking love him. He did, dude. And I was like, he just was getting his analyst game going. And he's so good. He's great. And I was like, I'll tell you a funny Sanchez story after this.

No, I'm right. But he, but, no, pay it, please. And so he goes, I go, you got, you can't screw up your shit. You got to just, you know, keep going. And then it slowly phased out, I think, because he got busier. But Sammy met him then. And, you know, I was in Minnesota last year doing shows and went to kick it with them. And he sent out all his boys to the shows.

And I was there Thursday through. Saturday, and he had Green Bay on Sunday. I think there were four and oh at this point, and he's rolling. Yeah. And it's Friday afternoon. I go, he's 10 minutes from the club and I go, we'll come to the early show and then go home. He's like, got a crayman, got a study. And I'm just like, awesome. I mean, he could have come to the show and been home by nine. Not even. And it was, I think, a 7 p.m. early show. And so I was then pretty impressed. And he said he got his PhD in football and Sam Fran. And he just seemed different than when I met him

eight years ago. And so now just being up there this past week and going to camp and all that, That's your guy now. So it's way cool that my homies, my quarterback, which is, it sounds like a Judy Blume book. But he's just, like, dialed in, dude. And mature and poised and, like, he's also ready to be the guy. I mean, you know, like, what a different thing to be bouncing around. He thought he was going to stay in Minnesota.

But he didn't know. He's like, I'm playing to just, like, show that I can be here. But Seattle's a great. I mean, it's a good organization. Like, really, and that head coach is great. Brady Quinn loved it. Yeah, he did. He loved it.

He was there for two months, too. Wait, that sucks. Because Matt and I talk about this because we had Justin Thomas a golfer on right on the show. I'm a huge golf nut. And like the Masters was coming out. And Matt's like, so if he's like leading the Masters like going into Sunday, I could like text him. Right. I'm like, I would not text him.

And he didn't. By the way, I didn't fucking say Sunday. Or leading. I said early in like Saturday. By the way, I would have texted and be like, let's fucking go. I don't expect the response. Now you know Darnold. If I text you before a show and I'd be like, dude, let's fucking go.

go, you would be like, hell yeah. Would you text Darnold? Let's give him a call right now and see what happens. Does he pick up? Oh, I love the does he pick up here. Testing your friendship limits. And I'm gonna call Sanchez. Oh, he's calling Sam.

Wait, one at a time. Go, go. Should I call, I mean, what quarterback can I? You're the quarterback, I can call. Oh, Sam, just testing the friendship. He might be in camp or having a meeting. Might be at practice, man. Talk about practice.

Is it? Oh, yeah. What time is it? Two. What's going on right now? What's going on right now? You don't know. San Darnold

Hey, come on, man Yeah Big up, Man, what I was going to ask you was if it's while you try to

get the same I'm going to send him this picture We look up Maddie Some of them Purley whites Yeah, that's what he's missing

that on That's true He's probably not taking any reps Yeah, he We got a winner Wow Da-na-N-N-in-in-in-in-in-in-

He tried to call Darnold I said I'm going to call my boy Sanchez Oh shit! dude scottie scottie didn't we match on tinder like an hour ago

right hey what happened your pod with adam bro we'll be right back put it to the mic so you hear we're recording we're recording throwbacks right now wait mark

mark i was telling mark i was telling him when you left me the drunk voicemail being like, I'm not doing the show without you, man. I was about to tell the story when we cut your hair in camp. Hey, Mark, where are you, Panera? All right, later, brother.

Love you, love you, buddy. So the question is, say Seahawks Niners, Seahawks need the game to basically lock in a playoff spot. Are you texting Sam, darn, night before. Oh, yeah. Oh, I got no problem with, yeah.

But you got a... Or do you do like, hey, I'm going to leave him alone. He's probably in his zone. It's acquired, um, acquired, uh, skill set to know, like, you know, reading the room on that. Right. But also, what's the relationship like? He'll hit me up.

He, uh, texted me about something, comedy thing about getting into some shows with his buddy's bachelor party and then I just FaceTime and then he picked up and he was at the wedding and then we chat it for a bit. And then he's, so he's hit me up at weird times. You broke it into that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, but guess what? Like, you know, I have people hit me up sometimes, like, going out to the, he just texts back.

Like, I'm going on stage for the show. The boys just landed in Green Bay. Oh, they've got a game program. Be like, dude, I need photo. Tell them, just say fucking FaceTime me real quick, dude. You fucking liar, yeah. Uh, you liar. Say with liner. FaceTime me. With Maddie. I think with J.T. I don't know him that well, but based on that, I'd be like, let's fucking go. I think you would have been fine with it, but I just, like, my thought is always like, don't fucking bother the guy when he's locking in.

Totally. I mean, I, so yeah, I'll have friends hit me up, like, right before I go on. You're about walking on in front of thousands of people. I mean, I, you know, I'm just, yeah, I don't know. You, you, I think it's also when you don't want to do it because you don't want that, like, left on red or any sort of rejection. Oh, I crossed the line. Right?

I crossed the line. Bro, when I first started, so I played Vince McMahon on The Rock Show about his life on NBC. So it got pretty, tell me what we're doing. and uh call him duane and uh he uh you know messing with him a couple of hours ago and but it's sporadic it's not like every day it's sometimes it's a month goes by sometimes it's three times in two weeks right depending on whatever's going on or he'll match me if he saw something or whatever but he's a chill normal dude and it's at that point where i can but early on when i was doing the show and like we were voice-noting a lot and about the show and about comedy and and you know

single mom a lot of just shit where it was like oh we're like we're boys this is happening totally bromance and i'm so i'm in arizona with my wife's family and we're they're very arizona and i love them and fucking we got married down there they they drink and we were hammered and doing karaoke and in north phoenix and we're in their back patio and it's we're just going for it and i had some idea for a t-shirt for them and i sent him this long voice note my wife looks over and goes what did you just who did you send that to you just do And I go, Throck. And she goes, delete it.

I go, you can't. Too late. And, man, I mean, I wish I could play his response, but it was like. Oh, he did respond. But not for a good two and a half three weeks. And I was like, I'm going to follow up and act like I didn't send that or be like, hey, man, did you get my T-shirt idea? So thankfully, he, like, responded with a week's fucking later.

But, uh, but yeah, you got to feel it out, dude. I mean, uh, but I like cried myself on not having the, oh, I sent this thing and I got nothing. You overthink a lot of shit, though, with that. But are you guys, like, before big games? You're not, like, sitting there on your phone anyway, right? Yeah, but it wouldn't bother me. Like, if you sent me a text, like, the morning of a game,

I probably just wouldn't look at it. But it wouldn't, and I get to it after the game. Right. But it wouldn't bother me. Did you have a strict thing like that where it was, like, once I get it to the locker room? No phones are allowed, really. Now it's different, but we didn't have.

But I didn't have. But I didn't, no one was on their phone. We were locked in. We were locked in. Annie Agar coming in for week two. courtesy of Twisted Tea, grab a refreshing twisted tea today. They also sent me this very nice football, which, Matt, I don't think this is regulation, buddy. I don't know.

I mean, you just got small hands, bro. Small hands. The hands matches the height of you, which is about 5.5. 5.6, you giant. And he's still talking, Bruce, young. And Kyler Murray. I did see Bryce Young standing next to Matt at the fanatics party. And I was out.

My boy, I know. Oh, yeah. That's my, I know Bryce since he was like in the freshman in high school. That's wild. I tell you're tall, Nat, right? I tell you, six. Oh, yeah, I'm six five. Sneaky tall.

Six and my Air Force ones. Never wrong. I'm going to guess that. All right. Before, we're going to do some more twisted trivia and hopefully Matt have a better outing before though. Just want to check in, you know, with my Packer fans here. Huge week one.

Commanders Packers tonight. Yes. Your thoughts going into this Thursday night. ball game. What a great week one. A little concerned about the shortness of the week. I kind of forgot honestly that we played Thursday night this quickly. And we don't have another NFC North team for like 10 weeks. It's a little, it's great because I know that's what we struggled with last year. But I'm feeling good. Vibes are high. Micah played, what was it like 40% of the snaps and looked good. Almost every single one. It looked amazing. So I was on a Green Bay Packers pot and they

asked me what the vibes were like, what the feeling was like seeing him come on the field, you know, and I screenshot it on Twitter because seeing him in a Packer's jersey walk into the huddle, amazing. I've never experienced a thing like that before. I told somebody, I've not been engaged. I don't have kids. This is literally the best moment of my life. There's nothing better than getting off to a two and no start with a Sunday and a Thursday game. And now you have a built in by week. As a former player, if you went two and no in these two games, you are like, you don't play for another 10 days. You got a bi-week early in the season.

So it's a big one for both these teams. Yeah, a little more pressure. By the way, with Mike, you're number one. Is Michael wear number one, right? Yes, he does. Did he wear one in Dallas? Dumb question, no? No, 11, right?

11, that's right. Number one. He was 11, that's right, because he was the sticks at Penn State, which is like LeVar Arrington and all that. I got to be honest, a single-digit one look kind of fresh on him coming off. It is nice for a sick pass rusher to come in, just number one. Look how happy she is. And also, I like seeing.

Asked Jeremy Gopp what the one looked like because he saw it several times from the ground. I don't know if the audience could see this and if you're just listening to this at home. Seeing all of Annie's uniforms in the corner there and all of her various swag that she makes her amazing content with. I see a New York giant symbol. I like the, I like the wardrobe rack. By the way, there it is. That's for all the magic. All the magic happens.

Yeah. You know, somebody asked me how many I have. I know I have a jersey for every team, but I have, like, extra shirts. You know, they've sent me and stuff. So I should go through and count at some point, but it's a lot. There is a lot here. Any week one overreactions that you are believing in besides your Packers are going to win the Super Bowl? Because that might not be an overreaction. Mike McDaniel might be fired midseason.

I was brutal. I can't even believe how that Miami looked. It was so bad. And it wasn't even on Tua. They didn't, there was no point where they, you felt like they had anything to get. Like, their offense was a mess. that couldn't play defense, had no run. Like, it was the most,

it was just an atrocious. Well, they lost to one of the best quarterbacks in football. Yeah, well, they did. That's my overreaction. He made them all like one of the best, which is my maybe the worse. I'm mad I sold my stock in Daniel Jones, but the Colts version, I'm rebuying.

Daniel Jones is going to make the Pro Bowl this year. That's a great overreaction. That's not even an opportunity. That's what's going to happen because Jerry's just doomed. That's how it goes. Again, I think of it all like a script, And that's the script that would be written. Like, he goes to another team and he's freaking awesome.

Before we do twisted trivia, Matt, any concerns about your boy, Caleb, your fellow Trojan, who was, he was scrambling. He was running around. He was doing some things. But it all looked under duress. Looks a little bit more comfortable, right? Yeah. You know, first game, J.J. McCarthy, here's the story, right? Because you compare both quarterbacks.

And it was J.J. McCarthy, who's essentially a rookie, didn't play last year. And he has the pick six. and he comes back in the second half, and he just does everything you want in a young quarterback, right? Makes the plays, the locker room speech. It was just like you felt that. You know, with Caleb, what was at his 18th start or whatever? And he just, you know, there's just some throws that you just miss,

that you can't miss as a quarterback in the league. You just can't, right? I mean, the DJ Moore one at the end, of course, I understand that. It's a lot easy to say when you're watching the game from the couch. But you just look like JJ McCarthy was more prepared in that matchup. Again, it's only week one new system, Ben Johnson. The line was average at times. So it's not an overreaction.

I think we should pump the brakes. But yeah, I mean, look, he's got to be better. I think he's the first to play that. That's for sure. Even in the Vikings win, though, Annie, you got to be happy because neither of those two teams look particularly amazing. If Bears fans want to ruin their day, go watch the All-22 of Caleb Williams. Doesn't look great from what I've heard on Twitter.

It's not pretty. All right. Something else that might not be so pretty is our week to twist the trivia. But I feel like Matt and I, we might have overlooked it last week and now this week we're taking it very seriously. Well, now I just have a better, I have a better understanding of what's going on. I feel like you'll get these ones. These are good. All right. This is like a good mix of throwbacks. What do we got five?

Five, yes. Five twisted trivia questions. We are ready. One for every drink I'm going to consume tomorrow night. Okay. Absolutely. So how many twisted teas I'm going to consume? Starting with, number one, are you ready, gentlemen? Yes.

Who is the longest tenured head coach in the NFL right now currently? Mike Tomlin. Yes. Wow. Easy. Let's go. We're back. I had it.

I had it. What did you say? I said bonus if you know how many seasons. It's over 15, maybe 18. 17. 17. See, I'm trying not to do what I did last week and just shout out the first thing that pops into my head.

And in that case, I should have. Jerry's processing like Rosa Wilson over there Okay, who is the only team to never have a game End in a Tie I did not know this I mean, we have a 1 in 32 chance to get this I'll tell you, it's a team It's a not very good team

The team that you would assume has ended in a tie before Jacksonville Oh my gosh, are you kidding? No way Let's just move on to number three because Maddie Ice is on fire. That is wild. That is wild.

Okay. Jerry, you gotta chime in here anytime. Only two left-handed quarterbacks have ever won the Super Bowl. Who are they? If you don't know this, Matt, it's embarrassing. You're a left-handed quarterback.

Steve Young is one and... You don't know the answer, Jerry? I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think. Left-handed quarter... I knew Steve Young. It's like an old, it's an older quarterback, isn't it? Yep, pretty old.

I'm going to go, uh, Kenny Stabler. Yes. Wow. Matt, this is such, I don't like any. I need it, I need a twisted tea right now.

Matt, I don't know you're not Googling this. Oh, come on. I want to see hands. Yeah. I want to see hands on this. By the way,

Kenny Stabler, they used to call me the snake at USC on my cleats was written snake because our equipment guys, uh, who've been around there like, Matt, you remind me a Kenny Stabler. So he's the only other,

left-handed quarterback I could think of because I know I think we have this twisted trivia ball just to show that we're not, we have to hold it to show we're not Googling because he might be. That's a great idea. Okay, number four. Who holds the record for the most touchdowns in a single season? Okay, not throw it positionally. Sean Alexander. No.

No. Ladanian Tomlson? L-T. Yeah. L-T. Chargers legend. Okay, last part. Yeah, Sean had like 27. He had rushing, probably the most rushing touchdowns. But I think LT had a bunch of receiving touchdowns too. Yeah. By the way, I've already sealed the victory.

All right, relax. I'm closing it out for morale. And a bonus question in case there's a tie ever or anything, not that they're not that you guys probably would get there, but or like a chance for Jerry to come back or something, you know? Okay. Last question. Last defensive player to win Super Bowl MVP.

Pete. Oh, um, um, no, no, no, Vaughn Miller. Yes. Matt didn't even have to answer because he already won it. He already had a lot of it. He didn't know. That's why he didn't answer is that he did not know. It was, it was him or Malcolm Smith, but Malcolm Smith was a long time ago. The fact that Von Miller is still in the league, too, it blows my mind. You know, I really wanted to win because I was all set to throw on this twist. By the way, shout out to. Shout out to Von Miller. I got a bunch of his chicken in my freezer right now. Yeah. Yeah. I was about to throw it out. No, he studied like poultry science in college.

Yeah, he sent me, he sent me a bunch of chicken. Did he really? Yeah, shout out to Vaughn and the chicken. Like he has chickens? Yeah, he's got like a farms. He runs like a chicken farm, right? Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's his whole deal. Can you purchase such chickens?

Because I would love to get some Vaughn Miller chicken in the Farage. I'll text them to send you some. He'll probably love to send you some. What a amazing thing, isn't it? Is that where you grilled up at your house that day? Was that Von Miller chicken? No, we only would steak. That was steak.

No, that would steak. that would be such a good conversation when you're at the grill drinking a twisted tea be like yeah you guys got to try some of the Vaughn Miller chicken to be like what I'd be what what do you mean? We'll have Vaughn on the pot and all we'll just talk chicken Eddie thank you very much

you have somewhere to be tonight because the game's going to be kicking off shortly got the jersey ready I need to upgrade that oh is that Aaron Jones no I got a little packer Aaron Jones now in the bike but this way if I wear this round Chicago I get I get them from both angles.

You need a John Coon. I do. I do need a Jack Coon. You got to upgrade that though, Andy. The Aaron Jones. Mr. Fantasy. I'm injured this week. I left the game.

I'm in the tent and I'm going to screw your team up. Well, I have one with my name on the back, but yeah, I have one with my name on the back, but it's a Clay Matthews number. So it's even more outdated. I had a buddy who only wore jerseys with, like, he wore a cowboys jersey with his name. He's a comedian. He says because I don't put other men's name on my back. I'm like, wow, that's a way to pick a shirt.

Where you shouldn't just wear another man's jersey anyway, but it's fine. I feel like as a former player, like if I saw Matt in another jersey, it would look weird. How weird would it be if Matt showed up with like a Brock Birdie jersey? I would be so weird. Like that's a child. It's in he put, you know, there's one jersey that hangs in my closet. Kobe. Oh.

Kobe Bryant. Fair enough. And he's my. Yeah. And I'll wear that at night. I would see that. I can see that. That's about it though.

And if it's a different sport. Anyway, that's a whole other. Annie, we are going to see you next week. Hopefully, I'll be just as happy. Enjoy the party. Enjoy the party of life that you're having. You're some run for Annie Agar right now. All right.

All right. All right. We're going to get back to the Adam Ray interview right now. Are you comfortable FaceTiming other guys? Are you a FaceTime guy? Oh, I do. We pose that question on here. I was doing the good night challenge before it was a challenge.

It was just real life. I was just like, let's see. I'm a big face. All my boys make fun of me. That makes fun of me like, why the fuck do you face time? Matt's a FaceTime. though. No, I'm all about it. Thank you. All about it. I, uh, I'm a voice note guy. I got strengthened to voice noting.

Some people, that's great. You're good for voice notes because like you could real, yeah, voice notes play right into all your strengths. I yeah, also it's easier to do that and drive. Like I feel like it's safer too, but, um, but yeah, face time. Yeah, for sure. Right. I don't know. It's, um, it's, uh, you just get more across like a big drunk face timer. I just love that. All right, dude. Well, you got my number. So let it rip, dude. I'm going to This is your, I'm giving you a, I'm trying to, yeah, the pass. All right, all right. So you were always really great when we first met and became friends.

Like you always tell me, especially even like when I moved to New York, if you had a show in New York, then I moved to Cleveland, you come do hilarities, right? Yeah, yeah. And then I feel like I saw you, not this past, like last summer at hilarities, right? Like Rick Glassman, those guys and hanging out after the show. And I think you mentioned there, I don't know if you knew you were doing Dr. Phil in Cleveland at that point? No. No. I don't know. I thought you mentioned it there, but either way, we kept in touch. And then you, like, told me, hey, if you're in town, you want to come by, come pop on, Dr. Phil. And obviously, it starts exploding. And that's like November. You and I don't really talk regularly. So, like, months go by. And I feel like in May, like two weeks before the show, like, yo, you still good? And I went, because I had some trips somewhere. I don't know. I just didn't. I didn't put it in the phone. Let it be a lesson. You got to follow up, man, because you can't just assume people that like.

Well, so far away. Have a schedule professionally like you are gonna lock everything in. It just was so far, like for me, I really can't look past the month. Like that's just the way I am and the way even like acting has been for me.

Like you look at the month in front of you and then you go month by month. Wow. And you, but locking in a massive tour like that, you have to think months ahead. I just locked in my, I'm just gonna do theaters for the first time

January through April and then Australia stand up and then some Phil shows for probably like April May. So yeah, dude. I mean, it's like, and then down the line and then I'm like

going to Chappelle's this weekend to do some shows and talk about maybe some like crossover there for next fall so like you gotta get

way out in front of it well there's also just only so many venues and there's so many people dude and in these theaters I'm doing

they're like you know I'll finish up comedy clubs this fall and which I love and then theaters you just got to at some point when you're selling out

you got to elevate and like go to the next thing and start trying to a little bigger totally and then yeah and so well Bree was really on your side she's like we had a trip plan

like she's like you you could move it by two days and she loves you she's like you gotta Adam's not gonna come here all the time with this you gotta do it I'm like alright fuck remember I told you like buddy I don't think I can't I was understanding too man you were cool about it but you were like and because I just there's no point in jamming people up and if you can't do it I also am like

I go if Jerry can make it work he'll make it work like I trust that and you did say let me see what I can do so then I was like well the boss stepped in it was like you get Adams You gotta do it for Adam. Thank God, dude. It was so... Awesome, dude.

He ripped it. It was so fun, and it's so cool to see him, like, I don't want to give away your seat. Like, to see him backstage. Like, I'm just talking... He's fully costumed up. But, like, he's Adam... It's about two hours of getting to makeup.

He would, like, sneak in into Phil for... You could just tell he was, like, you'd sneak in for a second. He'd be Dr. Phil. Then he's back to Adam. It's like, it was really cool to see the behind the scenes of it all. And I knew it was, like, it'd be a big thing. But then when it's finally my time to come out,

I was late in the show and it's like, holy shit, there's a ton of people. And they were, 2,500 out there? They were, and they were,

they were ready for all of it. They were fired up crowds. So it was dope to see behind. I appreciate that. Bro, always. Well, you're a beast and so funny.

And also, I don't know, the live show thing is, like, once you guys start taking this on the road, it's just different, man. Yeah.

And also, again, like, you probably done a bunch of paley, Q&A things, like, that are all, that are fun in their own right,

but like, this is different. Totally. This is different. And was that the first time you busted out the Johnny drama? Because he did a full, we played entourage characters, we got a script. Check it out. It's probably on his YouTube or IG.

No, it's coming out. That one's not coming out until, I think, another month. Oh, I don't spoil it too much. But he busted out the Johnny Drama. And I've seen some Johnny Drama impersonations in my day. And I will say, you are by far up there. I even showed it to Dylan. Did you really?

I had like a little video on my phone. He's like, that's not bad, Chief. That's not bad, Chief. I don't know. would have proved it. By the way, that's fucking. We had, dude, one of the best episodes we've ever done is we had Dylan, we had, we had the entourage here in this very, and I'm out.

It's out. It came out in Laveit, in this very room. It was so sick, dude. And these, and I let these three, they just wrap for like an hour and a half. That's awesome. You just set them up with questions and, like, by the way, I was just like, it was just, fuck. You were a fan of the show, right? Oh, huge fan.

They called him Vinnie Chase? That's part of the reason why we're together is because our path, like, we both got the same-age kids and all that stuff. Wow. That's kind of how this is, this came about. Altrage, no. Same time. It was.

Same time. Oh, four. Wow. So I used to hang with, with Connolly. Not surprised. I would run into Connolly. Was the goal the place that, no. Well, that was the spot, but then what are some of the climbing?

Like, Laudeau and all those places. The old school, legendary. Maybe the last great run of LA Night. I maybe got to go to a few of those where I'd see like Nick Young and like other like, you know, Jaliel White took me to some, Swaggy P, yeah. Did you go out in Hollywood? A little bit, but again, the acting school was so demanding. I would go, like, class 9 to 6, and then rehearsal every semester, six to 10.

And then I, so when I remember the frat, I'm coming back, and then trying to have a social life. So it was like, and I didn't do stand-up until 2007. So I did a few frat parties just to kind of, I did a few up of mics in Seattle to when I got to L.A. to be like, all right, at least I've done it. So I'm not, like, nervous to start in L.A. For whatever reason, that felt intimidating. And so doing a few frat parties, like, in that. little quad at A-pie, which was like, our frat was set up, like, apartment style. So you walked in, there was a kitchen of the right, big, like, Brotherhood Room to the

left where I saw my first couple of gals, I think used double-sided deal, and then it was, I was wild. I was like, my mom was paying for this. And so with her, with her monthly dues, and she's like, how's cool? I'm like, don't worry about it. It's fine. It's fun. It's horrible.

It's horrible. I haven't seen two of anything go inside of one person. And she's like, that's out of these specific. And so then I, so. So I did it in the quad in those apartments around the bottom and then around the top, you know, and then this open air quad. And so we had these big parties and I remember just like opening for my buddy's band and everything was behind, but I had practiced like 45 minutes.

I'd rehearsed 45 minutes. I'd done stand up four times. I'm like, I'm doing 45 minutes. The band was like almost an hour late. People were waiting. Everyone's getting fucked up. So if I was a professional and like had any sort of wherewithal, it'd have been like, I'm going to do like seven to ten.

Right. Warm them up and get out of there. It was just like come with haymakers. It's what I would do now. And man, it was bad. I think I still got the video. I got two laughs making fun of bike cops and then some girl up in the top. Timely at the time, probably.

Timely, dude. It crushed. I had a great bike cop material, dude. I was texting. I'm glad you said that. Because Brandon Hans, who was a quarterback with me. But he was also, he's also Jewish. so he knew you guys had a lot of...

Aaron Wiener was our, you know, tie. He told me, he goes, dude, he goes, that guy's crushing him. But I remember seeing one of his first shows and he was so fucking bad. Yeah, might be the one. It might have been that. By the way, it was like, it was so bad.

It was so awkward. It was so bad. I felt bad for him. Yeah. You probably were 22 years old. Bro, and this is like, yeah. First of all, I even say it's not a young comics. I go, no one's, yeah.

Because, you know, you get so impatient. You don't get better when you're crushing all the time. I'm sure you can apply that to acting in sports too. right yes so if you're out there just ripping it like you get you learn from making mistakes and especially with stand-up it's such a just profession there's no replacement for the reps so when people were like looking for shortcuts even when i was like five years in i was like what i'm getting i'm getting like some good laughs on all these shows and like how do i get a regular at this club and and thankfully had a few bobby lean a few people above me to be like dude control what you

can control riding all the time getting sage time driving eight minutes to san diego uh at seven doing a spot at nine 30 driving right back and strapping on the wolvering closet at 10 a.m. That's the only path. Just doing everything and all the time and being about it, not having a plan B to take away from the plan A.

And so, so yeah, I'm sure I was terrible. But it's so funny, I remember even like seven years in a few kids, Spencer Torgan, O. Lyman, yeah, another, yeah, mutual homie.

And he was in the frat and played on the football team. And I remember seeing him like seven years in and he was like, so you're still doing comedy? That's a great question. Just because I wasn't on a fucking billboard, wasn't pushing my own cologne.

What are you doing these days? How did you do that? And like, not in a movie though are you you're you're doing it though because yeah he's just and i wouldn't take a personal because like dude when you're have no ties to the business yourself or you don't know how it works like you're you're not gonna know that like oh you're out there grinding at open mics you're working at a casting office six days a week i'm strapping on the the the clause to like and even the fake cop i was getting like improv reps because i'm like that's why i really liked being there

and doing the tour guide it was like i'm getting to perform in some avenue so i always were And then I was an acting class still and I was taking groundlings and like just trying to do everything and that's why this Phil show was such a great like unexpected use of like all these tools I've been sharpening over the years like our you know 20 years of podcasting

and 20 years of stand up and the crowd work and then you know a little modelogue up top and then the interview part of all producing all my YouTube videos you know my buddies that went to SC Kyle Mooney Beck Bennett Nick Rutherford they were on SNL for a bit it took over after The Lonely Outling guys and they always had this group and I was always one of that so I'd be trying to find people

in classes to like form a Scott start like a trip yeah have my own yeah yeah and just couldn't get people to commit so I was like no fuck it I was doing on my own and one I'll write everything and I met these kids that worked for Lucas films and J.J. Abrams doing special effects so they were like film school kids that had amazing cameras and editing and and uh they were like just pay us in dinners and coffees and we want to do comedy stuff so like they shoot all the field shows they shot the Netflix special and we've been doing videos since 2007 and uh that like elevated my game when people weren't doing a ton of videos you know so I'd always you were early on that you were early on the video quality matter and like because people we and still even to this day like

people put clips up and if the audio is not great could still go viral whatever but it does matter like I bring a guy that tapes all my stand-up sets on the road and and it makes a difference to me and I feel once you start putting high quality stuff out you should be consistency right another thing that just matters in every business it's so funny though because it's such an interesting because I think this goes across the board for every career, definitely in sports, definitely in entertainment. You know, I think I got asked yesterday on the beach from walking with my kids. It's like, so you still acting? It's like, look, I know I haven't been on a show in like three years. I know that's a long time. In reality, that's the shortest amount of time. And like,

do you want to hear about the four almost, the one that didn't get picked up? Like, similarly, it's like, which by the way is so crazy to even, that doesn't make you even more so go, Man, the fact that I was on a hit show for that long, I got one of those, which, yo, won't be the end of it. But, like, it's somewhere you have to pat yourself in the back and go, like, I got, so many people don't even get the chance to get one of those. Well, because it makes me think of bringing it all full circle. Your boy, Darnold, he pops off in Minnesota.

And, like, I'm sure you could have ran into Darnold two years ago. Be like, what is that dude still in the NFL? Like, what is he doing now? Yeah. Yeah, he's fucking grinding. And he's now with Shanahan with the night. And then he comes and blows up in Minnesota and then it's all like, oh, you're a great quarterback again. It's like he's been doing that.

The stuff that it takes to get to that point, the stuff that it takes for you to have this giant tour with Dr. Phil, like, it's, it's you at Universal. That rep is there. It's all part of it. Yeah. And yeah, I got, you're still acting. It all starts at fucking Wolverine. I might have said, like, I made so much money on Entourage. I don't need to work anymore.

Which is also not true. It's also not factually incorrect. Factually incorrect. So yeah the it is so funny those like all those like reps and all the you know I dressed up as on Craigslist for 150 bucks as Superman for a kid's birthday party got fired because you got fired off a couple of the dads that were fucked up they were making fun of my outfit I mean it was a cheapest outfit but I also just wasn't like I was just like I'm Superman like hey are you Clayton how old are you you know and and whatever and the dad just was like look at his fucking like look at his body like I was a fat adult just happier. Fat 20-year-old. Jerry is super fat too. How did you lose the, did HBO do it where there's a character or was it just you being It was me.

Oh, you look great. Going into, like, I started getting out in front of it like season. You were fun fat though, dude. It was, you made, I mean, you may, if, permission to speak freely, you made fat guys be like, all right. I do feel like that's swag. I brought the Air Force One's back. Like the baggy jean, chubby guy, Air Force One thing was my thing.

One thousand percent, dude. No, it was going like later seasons of entourage. It's all going to end. But also, like, I was unhealthy. I was, I'm only five, six, I was 205. Yeah, you hit a point. And I was 30 years old. I had a dot, you know, you take the bullshit Hollywood physical to make sure you can

go make a movie? Oh, no. They're just making sure, like, you're not dying, essentially. All they do, they look at, they make sure your heart's beating. They make sure you don't have any, uh, any, literally, I'm going to pass out and die in this office, go make a movie. This one doctor was like examining me a little too long, like, all right, let's take, let's, let's weigh you.

I'm like, you're going to fucking weigh me now. We don't do that. And the doctor was like, look, you just turn 30, you're healthy, go make your movie. But just know, like, when you get older, it's going to be a lot harder to get in shame. I just want to kind of drop that seed. And I was kind of like, that's rough. That sounds kind of, no, that sounds like a reasonable way to do it. And I just remember that night, like, Forrest Gump, like, I just started running.

And I just, and I, I could, but I ran like a half a mile and I was gas. This is before I was even playing hoop, before I started that Hoops game. Wow. And then I, but the thing that almost fucking with HBO was going. into our final season. We had 10 months in between seasons. I went from like 185 to 142. It's supposed to be a continuous season.

Like we end- Oh, no. So wasn't that the first scene when Ari said, yeah. And then Doug Allen's like, now I got to write these anorexic skinny jokes about. He had to switch his brand. Yeah, which by the way, like, you know,

like it's not like the show. No, it didn't really suffer. I think it did ultimately help the character. But it wasn't like, oh, I want to do this for the show. or I think it just was to get in shape and I got addicted to like good hobbies and and playing hoops and shit finally. That's wild.

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I'm like, that is probably the easiest way to stop any political conversation. Like, if you're at Thanksgiving dinner with like your aunt, your mom, and a political, you just launch into that. Oh, yeah. over. Yeah. Conversations over. We're all going to laugh.

We're not going to start fighting and hate each other. I got a lot of weapons to try to like diffuse or navigate. I mean, there's certain times I've been in, in conversations where you just like can't get out of it. But even like my father-in-law will like not see eye on things. It diffuses it, right? I imagine.

I mean, dude, laughter. Yeah. And it just, and it's a way to like almost kind of like, be like, let's get out. It's how I deal with the crowd work too. Yeah. During same shows, if people are, you know, I've lost my cool. You know, the last time I, you, again,

you live and you learn and now I know I'm all about and you know not to name drop again but the rock and I talked about this because he said crowd work

is why he really started dig some of the stuff I was putting up he's like that was my favorite thing to do in the ring was to fucking go off script he was all crowd oh man

which I didn't even realize yeah undoubtedly and so he was like you know you got to hit him and hug him he's like I like that when you're fucking with people

you're not you hit him and you wrap them up you're you kill what kindness you're not making them you're staying in control and he's like You got to fuck with. He always says this.

And I always think about this. He's like, you got to fuck with. He's like, we all got to be fucked with. It's kind of like what connects us, you know. But you don't have to make someone think about fucking jumping off the roof, you know? So I'm doing that with people. And sometimes people that deserve it probably have fucking, you know, taking it down.

But I, there's always a funny way to handle it is how I approach it. And so I go, I'm going to include the distraction to squash the distraction. The last time I lost my cool and learned from it was in Reno. And it was, I think, post. But Trump had just won. and I'm hitting both sides. I always say both sides, you know. I don't care.

Like, you got to, it's, for me, I'm not trying to isolate the room and there's comedy on both sides. There is comedy on both sides. So, and that's just not my MO. It's just like, it's comedy still an escape and you can touch on stuff,

but I'm not trying to, like, get, make too much of a statement. And this guy, though, was going off. Even me just mentioning, I think I was doing a bit about Melania having her like, be best campaign. And I was like, you know, Michelle Obama had, you know,

they go low, we go high. And the potheads were like, we gotta go fucking higher, man. You can go higher than that if you can. And then the be best. And then I was like, Trump must have been staying in the wings being like, you know,

you only get two syllables, bitch, and then shut the fuck up, you know. And just how scared he was and how be best people were like, yeah, wait, were there more words to that? Is there, be better?

Try your best. I think we're missing some part of that sentence. And I, and then I'd done some Michelle Obama jokes. But he heard Trump and freaked out. And they started making fun of my haircut. And I was like, all right.

So then I'm throwing it back. And he was an old. older man with an older gal probably in their late 70s early 80s and i tried to ignore it and then i just was like sir i go you know what get it all out because you probably got a couple more weeks left to live and then that kind of got like a groan from the crowd and this was a reno laugh factory like real odd shaped room yeah crowd there probably 80 people in there it's a fucking you know wednesday late show you're there for a week and uh and i just lost my cool and i like went after them in a way that just wasn't funny and i remember being like feeling so bad about it

being like, oh, like, not even like this isn't who I am, but also, you lost your cool. You at the end of the day, have control of how this goes. You can ignore it, you can deflect, you can make a quick joke. But you do need to maintain commanding of the room. The crowd is looking at you for that. So if this guy's trying to pull the rug out from under it, how are you creatively, you know, getting the room back? So let me get out to the lobby and I'm taking pictures or whatever.

And he comes up to me and he goes, he goes, I hated your show. And I was like, well, how can I go? I hate your face and fucking, fuck. off, you know, whatever. And then he goes, and your haircut sucks. I go, my mom likes it and that's all works for me, sir. I came back for more, though. That's wild. Came back for more and then reached and tried to grab my head. I grabbed his fucking all like that. And I go, sir, I've never beat up an old man at a Reno casino, but, you know, there's always a time for a first. Pulls his hand back, spits in my face, then his wife comes up, spits on the ground right around me, and then goes,

she goes go to hell to which I said I'll see you there bitch and my opener Sandy Danto shout out goes I've never seen you act like that ever in the history of our friendship and I was like I'm not proud of that

I just he goes you just told an old woman you'll see her in hell bitch and I go yeah dude not I'm not feeling great we went and got hammered saying karaoke with the locals and after that I like probably had to pit my stomach for no joke like four or five days because I just was like

again I was like I didn't handle it well like that was so not professional you know whatever it also was like your job is to be funny and your job is to entertain and like I just didn't do it and I warranted that at the end at least I put that on myself I think anytime you can do that when you're doing that

you know you also you know gain a little bit more perspective. Just don't like the physical touch though like don't touch bro in the spit that's what I was but I was pretty pumped at how quick I grabbed you were like it was Batman shit that's a rep you probably hadn't had yet right that's a rep to You have a little bit of Wolverine

Dude, you went straight I'm Wolverine Straight fucking Wolverine By the way Stop touching me Wait you want to hear a quick impression This is Batman Trying to find the G spot

Where is she? I like it I like it I know we're running out of time Are we? Want to ask you? Oh no I thought you I don't know

What's the hard out? Oh I did I just got to put an audition on tape But I'm probably not going to get it anyway Let's just keep rocking I'll read with you bro I'll read with you Oh shit

Put you on the tape So, me and Jerry, I'm going, I'm going this. What's thectomy? Oh. You had one. No. No. We need, we, we want to do it.

I have a third on the way. We want to get advice from Dr. Phil on. Okay. Real quick. Okay. We'll get to the point, man, because. I'm four kids in, man. Oh, she's three.

Well, ever heard of pulling out? Yeah. I'll buy you the condoms. I've got to, I always wear a condom when I go to bed just in case she rolls over and wants to hop on and ride that train like a quiet city DJs. but you got four, Jerry, you got two. And one on the way now. Clearly, I don't know how to pull out either.

Well, do you have a name picked out yet? No, we don't even know. We're not going to find out. I was just making small. I don't fucking care. But Matt, so four kids, so four times you went, and then it just, and then here we go. Here we go.

So, well, I want to hear the pros and cons. Being a dad with four, you love it, why, and it gets to you how. I love I love being a dad I love hanging out with them I got an 18 year old so I started young that's right I think I read about that you were around that time I was around that time I was in the locker room you were at Wolverine

while I was doing this shit yeah yeah yeah and then I got but that's got to be cool you know in hindsight you're like wow you got a buddy that gets the jokes that can watch Goonies with you and not just be like wow there's a pirate well Dr. Phil the advice you're giving me is the advice I'm giving him now let's go

We'll be right back. We'll keep right here. Wrap it up. Wrap it up. Not just with a bad story, but also with your penis. And 18 and having a penis is a wild thing in 2025. Yeah. Jerry?

Well, what would you say to a 45-year-old man who is terrified now that a third kid's on the way and is now even scared that there may be four or five? Well, first of all, I thought you were 52, but 45 is the new 502. It's a new 52. My friend Oprah says 45 is the new. 52 but but you know that bitch is made a soup and nobody bought it so you know what i don't believe everything she says but i do believe in believing in yourself jare and i think that if you wanted a third kid you knew you knew how to do it but you're going to know how to do it does that make sense sure sometimes sometimes look there's two sides to a pancake okay you play to win the game

there's no you play to win the game you know look did i bet on wally zurbiac in the 90s to score 40 points. Yeah. Am I banned from 19 different Buffalo Wild Wings in the Midwest? I don't want to talk about it. But no, I think raising a family is quite the achievement.

Four kids, do you want to double it up? You're going to go for eight? I'm done. You're going to be like the Dougher family? I need advice on whether I should get the, I should get my balls tied. Well, my wife's pressure me. She is, huh?

You can still fire off hot loads with your balls tied, right? Yeah. And sorry for my language, but apparently you got to fire off like 40 loads, 40 loads. Post. Now, let me ask you this. Can you, can you tie your balls together or you're, I guess, I was about saying to tie your penis, but you only have one penis, right? And I talk about that in my book, we've got issues.

We only have one penis, but two different ideas about how to use it, you know. My nephew, he's 10, he thinks his penis is just for peepee. He's got, he's about to learn the hard way that it's filled with blood. But there's something, so, Matt, so, okay, so four, and you want to know if you should tie your balls together. Yeah. Have you found a doctor to do it? Not yet. Well, I know Dr. Ross, so I can give you his number. Two for one, maybe. Two for one? Yeah, two for. There's a little two for, yeah. The last time I did it was at a bar mitzvah, and I wasn't asked to, so I don't know. I just kind of showed up and started cutting stuff. You want to get, where do you get it at? Out here in L.A., would you go to, like, Kuwait? Turkey, right? You know, some people go get stem cells in Mexico.

But put some horse fucking steroids. Put some horse steroids in you up your ass, yeah. Yeah. Wow. But so, okay, but the wife's pressuring. Jerry, what about your wife? She pressuring you to tie your testes? No, I think she's like, don't do it just in case.

And I'm like, that's the reason why I want to do it. Just in case. Oopsie. Oopsie, yeah. Well, we've all had our oopsie daisy moment. You've had a few, right? But, you know, I just want to tell you, Matt, believe in yourself. Wake up with the sun, go to bed with the moon.

Trust your instincts, okay? Lego, my ego and stop, drop, and roll. And, of course, if you're alone in the shower, shave your head, your back, your pussy, and your crack. We'll be right back. We'll keep her out here. My guess has been Matt Liner, 6.5. 6.5.

Doesn't matter. Ooh, nailed it. Went a free Laffy-Taffy. And the man who, the only guy who proudly says, he likes purple Powerade and yellow starburst, Jerry Ferrara. Five, six. Five, we're inverted, yeah. Is, um, have you guys seen the real, Dr. Phil?

Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah. Of course. your what is your daytime what are the what about this what's your show what's your show during the season do you even watch TV what's your show what you're filming a show

like what's on I was just asking same with this I was like do you even watch because some athletes have told me that they're like so dialed in that they don't but I just think they're like you're on planes so much you know I'm sure you like you're on the road you must be I don't know are you watching shit like when you're not as much I because you have the show prep

is probably consuming like tomorrow where and then podcast and sports stuff right I got like even, yeah, I mean, listen to some hawk stuff this morning and then, but, you know, like the big, like, what, I mean, my life got me to Love Island, which I couldn't get enough for Love Island. Oh, yeah. That's a fun husband, wife. Oh, yeah. That was a big bachelor guy. What was, what's Nick Lechay show? Love is Blind, right? Love is blind. We had Nick on and he does that show. You talk about it? Oh, yeah, and it's like, that's a dream. That's like you and your wife could be, like, hey, we're going to guest host for Nick and Vanessa on Love is Blind. How awesome would that be? bro you're just hosting you're coming in setting the table and you're getting out and you get to watch while it's happening. It's actually a great idea like or actually just have me on to like

be a therapy for them. Oh that would be great. Dude they shoot like three weeks. You should actually three weeks out of year. I know a couple of guys that are in some fucking tropical place and they're done for the year. Three weeks? Like three or four he's the greatest game. We told it. That's it. And they just show up to be like

now you guys are going to the hot tub. Intro. Hey, who likes Pete? And the reunion episode is always like, Oh, the reunion. That's where you really have to do your research. But they're just, but the researchers watch the show. Yeah.

Which is not a bad. Yeah, that, uh, there's, there's too many, though. The reality dating shows, it's like, my wife will be like, Love Island's out. And then two weeks later, love is blind returns. And then two weeks after that, my God, love is death is out. And then three days after that, Down syndrome Bucknaked, deafblind love just came out on Tooby.

And then there's too hot to handle and surviving paradise and Bachelor and Golden Bachelor. And just a tip. And don't tell my parents. And are you my, dad and Ano Island and I'm like there are too many of these shows to focus on you do you do you how do you turn it off like because you're always on because that's like like do you turn it off on fat bowl fat bull we dude that's the brain down that's it well because I run myself into the ground and then I just collapse just exhaust it's like what's like an off day I mean you grind which is

amazing Monday so I went up to Seattle to do the game and I that was a I made myself like chill I I got to be at camp the two days. I took my nephew and my folks and then went and got beers with Schneider and sat in Mike McDonald's office for two hours, just like got to know him real well. And just talk and shop, him and the de-coordinator, Aiden Dirty, or game planning for the game. And I'm just bullshit. What's cool? I mean, you guys know this too.

It's like, you know, and then I'm at camp and all these, you know, rookies and old linemen are come up to me being like, you know, Big Ben. And then they're picking my brain and then I'm picking their brain. and then so there's just a mutual respect there but I tried to make myself like not work and just be fully present in that and that was kind of like my shutdown and then and then you know some fam time

but um but you know I still had to like edit we have like 20 Dr. Phil's in the can this Cleveland show included and I'm I'm editing everything I mean I'm making all my there's a guy cutting it up but like but you still have to review I'm going through and not just trusting I'm like that with all my stand-up clips so it's like time consuming because I want to

put my name on what I'm putting out and I tried to have a few people like cut clips at one time and they just like missed a few things and they were like oh I cut this part out to make it shorter and I was like but this isn't funny if you didn't have that and like you have to do it just no way around unless you had someone who you really

just had that exact sensibility and knows you so well which is impossible because it's always I'm just like doesn't matter who like even the guys at the Phil shows you know James and Dave are we have we've been worked there for so long they really we have a good back and forth and they know what I like and don't like,

but there's even times when they'll cut something and I'll be like, gotta leave that in. And they're like, well, it's your call. I'm like, it is, leave it in. But I also love that they were like, we didn't think you needed it. I'm like, I'm glad that like you, because there are times when they make calls

where they're like, we tighten this because it needed it or we found a better shot for this. Right. We had Dr. Pimple Popper on and we had my makeup guy like do this whole crazy thing. And it was when we had Burke, Chrysler, and Mark Norman and people over came on and publishing everybody

and then we had macaroni inside of it and I took it out and ate it and Burr crash almost threw up because everybody thought it was real. I almost threw up just hearing that. But like, you know, we had, they suggested to have a fourth camera on stage to shoot that

to make it look more like, you know, handheld and stuff but the collaborative part of it is so great. But shutting it down, man, I mean, it's, you know, we're about to go to Europe for a couple weeks. I'm going to do a few shows just to kind of help pay for it.

And then I'll just try to be, but I mean, you guys can probably tested this like being married three years now when I come off the road instead of just going out immediately and doing like four spots that night which I used to always do right like maybe I'm home for two days yeah and be with her and be a person and like and chill out and then last night I did four spots and then I go to Calgary tomorrow and then and then Chappelle's and then back and then I have a week but like just picking and choosing but like I also you know 43 I like got to be better it like I've definitely run myself into the ground a few times

and I'm like oh it's not worth it you know but I only know one gear and it's like I've gotten this point going like that but just trying to sleep better eat better I don't know I feel like and I think we should dive into our final thing here Seattle Sports let's talk about your Seahawks now for a moment I know Sundays I'm sure if you don't have a show or if you're able to watch you're watching oh I'm already planning around the games I think I just saw Mark text me about I think he's on this

Steelers Seahawks game. And I thought about canceling my Sunday shows in Indy to fly there on that Sunday to go because I've also never seen a game there. And I got to know Cam Hayward. It's great. Pittsburgh is awesome. I went for the first time last year, Giant Steelers. And you go downtown, like the restaurants are great.

Awesome. The stadium's like different than any stadium. Maybe it's the yellow seats, the way it pops. Right on the water too. It was a night game. It was awesome. Now, they rock the Giants too, which is not a big accomplishment. but the stadium, I would say if you could do that.

Really? It's pretty dope. I know, I used to do that for... It's pretty dope. Just go. I know, but I know, but I got to... It's a two-show Sunday. Do you think the Seahawks could win the division?

Oh, yeah. The NFC. West. I think it's ours to lose. I'm not scared of the... I agree. I'm not scared of the Cardinals, because, uh, even though I do like Tyler Murray, and I just... Stafford and the Rams? Huh?

Stafford and the Rams. I mean, he's already talk about, like, injections in the neck and the back. Yeah, he's epitoles. He might be pregnant like Schwarzenegger engineer. And then lastly, like, do the Niners have... Niners are always a threat. Because they got the blue chipper still. I think the Niners are always a threat.

But you think it's yours to lose. It's so funny, I literally said to that to Mike McDonnell as a fan. I was just like, I go, this is R. I go, this is ours to lose. I go, who really scares it? He goes, everybody scares you. It's in the NFL. Like, it's every...

It's so hard. You can lose at any moment. Every week is hard. Yeah. It's truly why. I mean, there's so many great things about football. But, like, the fact that it is like, you can go, I think our second, the year Pete got fired the year after that

I think we were five and oh and then we lost five out of six and it was just like wow what the fuck happened but injuries and then like I've heard some stuff on the inside and just like and then the mashing up of once you start losing

I mean you can probably test this right like now people are acting outside themselves or trying to do too much or doing too little or thinking things need to change whenever they don't I mean all that that is not on paper

that is like fascinating but so you're You think it's your division to lose, but also there's a wild card spot, if nothing else, right? I mean, we got a host. NFC is a little soft. Our home record was shit last year. I was say, what was your record last year? We won 10 games last year, and we missed the playoffs because of the tie break.

The tie break with two teams. Yeah. And then we needed either Atlanta to beat Washington or Arizona to beat the Rams and both lost on the last play. I remember that. I thought the Cardinals were going to beat the Rams. I did think that was going to happen. And then who was, um, uh, you don't know. quarterback that just for the Falcons

Pennix. I mean came in and was like oh it was going to be so special. It was like wow UW guy is going to put the Hawks in the playoffs and then just came up a little short but I think they're predicting us six wins I think that's really yeah I think it's Mike's first

six wins that's you got Cooper Cups over there. Okay yeah that's a great veteran pickup they get solid I think JSN is like going to be wild I think the defense is going to be the D is sharp and I I think the running game is the best we're going to have in a long time. Yeah.

And Sammy D, I think it's just going to, he's got a cannon on the red hammer. I called him SD. I tried to, I go, SD card. I go, I go, everyone's calling that. No one's calling him that. Let's start calling him that. And, uh, I get in there. Jokely, they said, no thanks.

But, um, I haven't pitched to Sam yet. But he's got a cannon attached to that shoulder. And I think if he, if we let him cook, you know, um, was it Marquez, Val, the other Scantling. Yeah, from New Orleans, right? Yeah. Um, Tyler Lockett sucked,

but there was no way. No, they had a, yeah. Um, and then these young tight ends, AJ Barner is a beast at tight end. Um,

and there's just a lot of guys, even Jake Bobo dude, undrafted like he had two tuddies in the preseason game. Like what, the one thing I love that Mike McDonald said, we're having some beers after the game and he goes, uh, he goes,

I know, he goes, I'm not the most like, upbeat pessimistic. I go, yeah, to be honest, you're kind of a fucking voice girl,

dude. Come on. Give me some positive. He's great coach, man. He's awesome. Yeah. And he's now pumped in. He said, like, my first year was like, dude, I was trying to figure it out.

I was getting settled. It was like, untangibles, untangibles or intangibles? Intangibles. But untangibles can work too. Right about USC education. Jesus Christ. Chosenes. Untangibles.

Well, wait, uncrustables. That's it. That's what I was thinking of. And, uh, and so I, um, I was like, uh, no, you should be pumped. He goes, I fucking love this team, dude. He goes, I roasted the team last year. And, uh, you know what I say

one of the jokes I was like and it went great you know Tyler I was like I was like I'd say you look like a 12 year old but you actually or a grown ass 12 year old but you actually look like a regular ass 12 year old I go you look like you're opening for the NFL

for the games for the players intro should be Tyler Lockett wide receiver Epstein Island and that crush I did that way out of the game and then I was ripping into DK and I was like where's DK and I was going on the line and

and they were like oh shit you know because like he's kind of you know like maybe a little bit of the more intimidating guy that you don't fuck with. And so it was like, it's his birthday. I go, oh, shit, happy birthday. Go, what are you doing for your birthday? DK goes, no more jokes out of your fucking ass.

And it was like, oh, shit. So again, timing, I was like, split second to get the room back. So I just either take that or say something. So I go, well, I got 20 locked and loaded. So strap up, bitch. Yeah. And everybody was like, yeah. And then I just fucking laid it.

Is that pressure, though, when it's like your team. You're roasting your team. Yeah, but I knew it was all, it's all out of love. I wasn't. And that's what I kept saying, too. And I was like, these are all jokes. like I think I made some you know Leonard Williams

I think has five kids in a Trojan and I was like you know it's ironic something about him having five kids and not wearing using a trojan whatever but um but it was all it was all love but so Mike was like you should do it this year we're gonna figure that out because he's like

we're even tighter he's like the group is like there's no egos he goes the young guys have the right amount of confidence there's just no egos and he's like Leonard and Lawrence and like the way that people are you know and the way that they're Sammy SD card and Drew Locke are helping out Millrow.

You know, the way they're, he's like, that's such a healthy room. And he's like, everyone's just like all about it. And he goes, and I haven't had a team like this in a while. And so he was pumped for that. And that is a huge part of it. It's a huge part of it. Again, you know way better, but like as fans, right,

you always hear about the camaraderie in the locker room. And I always think about that first Red Sox World Series team, Ryan Dempster, this, you know, MLB players tell me how just tight these squads, like that squad was and and cowboy up and all that don't let us get one that comeback was and not having a play and it's like and it's kind of great that Sam like

you know made money but it's not like he's some Russ contract it's it doesn't feel like he's so on a different plane he's also not doing what Russ did and like having a different office and his own parking spot high knees on the plane I mean I still love him he's a giant now buddy so he's my he's my he's my he was in Pittsburgh when I roast

the Steelers and they told me he's just going to be the rookies and so, like, for their talent show, you know, like to do Favard Knox and all that. And I get in there, and it's everybody. Tom was there. Russ and Justin Fields right there. I was like, uh,

so now, like, way more nervous. Cam's cool as shit. He did our doctor Phil live in Pittsburgh. Yeah, he's cool. And, uh, and I was like, god damn it. But I had a Russ joke. So I was like, I'm just going to open with it

and set the tone. So I go Russ, I go here. I go Russ, dude, I'm a Seattle boy. Thanks for all the memories, dude. I'm glad you got out. You're getting a fresh start in Pittsburgh, man. They did you dirty in Denver, man. They did you dirty.

I haven't seen someone get fucked that hard on camera since Diddy's house. And right out of the gate and that everyone died. And this was right when that she was going down. That's your lead. And then I got down, I get down on the knee and I give him a dead. And I go, Russ is laughing. I go, we're fine. And I go, go, go hawks.

And, uh, yeah, but I think he's going to rip it for you guys. I do too. Well, you're talking about like the vibes, right? This is the first time for the Giants. We're talking about it in a show last week, I think. The vibes are at least. I don't know if the Giants are going to win. seven, eight games. They might still win four or five, but the, the vibes are at least high.

They're exciting. They have someone who could throw down field. There's a young quarterback in the waiting. So it's, it's been a while since the Giants had that. But I don't really give that much shit to the Giants. They give me so much joy with those two Patriot Super Bowls that like, even when things are bad and it's pretty bad. I'm like, yeah, but they still gave us 2011 in 2007. It's like, I can't really complain. Yeah, man. All right. We're going to do a little for you. Please. All-time Seattle athletes. And where do they kind of rank?

And you can go any sport. You go in and out of basketball, whatever. Mount Rushmore. You're Mount Rushmore. Seattle athletes. That's my favorite. That's like my favorite. It's got to be, yeah.

Is it really? Oh, he's. I was a baseball player. I love, I mean. Well, of course you were. Let me guess. Pitcher. No, first base.

Uh, pitcher. Throwing heat. Throwing heat. Lefty. Gas. You didn't want, you picked football over baseball, but could have maybe done. No. So I, so quick story.

I tore my shoulder up pitching at high school, my freshman year, full reconstructive at 14. So I was, I was freshman tackle, had surgery after, quit baseball, just said, were you on your path, though, to like, oh, I was gas. You were throwing a heat 14. I was all, my dad played in the minors. My brother played as all baseball. So you were like, oh, I'm going to be a. No, I was just like, I'll try football and see what happened. You were on the path for baseball.

Oh, yeah, I was, I was, I was, major leagues was my dream. That's like, you know, I told my mom, I'm going to buy you a house, I'm going to be a pitcher all that type of shit. And then I just, dude, I was devastated. I pitched to his five-year-old at his house last night. And as the kids say, in like the little league world, this kid was hitting nukes off me, bro. Not even like, oh, like he makes good contact.

Like, he's five-year-old. And by the way, whoa. They just like, they do like the Kelsey fucking bow and arrow. Oh, yeah, he hit me with the bow and arrow, too. I was like, all right. And they got my kids trying to be like, is there a T I could hit this off of? But my favorite, dude, is the kid, man.

The kid, kids number one, probably like having Jordan in Chicago. Go into the field. You went, I bought the candy bars, ate them all, fat fuck. Great shoes, too, man. He had great shoes. The video game. I was the best video game.

Ken Griffey, we voted on ours that was up there in our all-time sports game. He was on fresh prints. That's right. I mean, he just was like the guy. And the fact that he was not unanimous for the Hall of Fame is wild. Same with each row. Was he not unanimous? The kid?

Each row, by the way, that's one vote. And he talks shit to the guy, right? Oh, is awesome. It's fucking awesome. They put a seat up to it at his ceremony in Seattle. like a reserved like and Rick Riz our voice of the Mariners was like he's up there we got a seat for him

his email must have gotten lost in the mail or whatever So you go the kid one and I agree that's like universal bro I mean he's and then it's a package deal but I'm going to Kemp and Peyton because again Seattle is a man it's even tough to say what sport

if I was hard press I don't know what I would pick because the 90s for Sonic basketball was wild dude and those finals there's a good YouTube for you if you are a basketball fan I got to be chummy with Kemp and Peyton and convince them both to do a podcast

with me at a comedy club where we could smoke and drink on stage and they are loose on the plane it's oh Jared you got to watch it and tell me how you dig it after afterwards Peyton was like I mean I was killing them

but still asking good questions like interviewing but then keeping it silly and making fun of this and that and like they were rolling they got great sense of humors and we were smoking In Ken's, how long ago was this?

On 420 in Seattle. This past April. I hope you asked Peyton about his last dance. Like, yo, you were retiring out, Jordan. You remember his clip? I was just going to tire. And Jordan's like, I didn't ask that only because he's been, I tried to not ask things that they've been hit a lot.

A lot on, yeah. I didn't even go down because that's why I want to do it is they've done all these interviews that are just all the same shit of life. When Seattle basketball come back? Obviously, we talked about that a little bit, but like, this was more like, you know, do they have like a certain call? when they were giving Allie Ups and like the noises he would make

and, you know, some of these bench players we had a guy named Steve Shephyr that played at Purdue. He was 6-10, he was come off the bench to do us, but he was a fan favorite and he had like the dumb and dumber Lloyd Christmas haircut, but he was 6-10 and huge. I remember him. And we would go nuts when you'd go in the game

and they were like, Camberthus is a great clip where he's like, dude, they would, we'd send him in, even so on as the players to like fuck people up. Yeah. Like throw boat, like get fouls. Like Bill M. Beer. You needed that in the 90s.

You needed that. And he said he was an amazing practice player. And it was just, anyway. And then we were smoking. And then we finally got a little too high and I, like, wrapped it up because Kemp was fading fast. But it was great. And that's my YouTube. So, Chef was your number three?

Chef was my number three. All right. No, I'm going, I'm going Griff. I'm going Kemp Payton. Yep. Oh, man, dude. I got to throw Sue Bird in there. She's a fucking beast.

And when the soups left, she kept basketball alive in Seattle. One championship. And it's also like. unreal like such and as cool as she is kind as she is knows 90s R&B I mean and she's she's the fucking goat and a legend and and so yeah I don't know man

people there's some comics that shit on the WMBA and you know who you are and I'm like enough you did it you made all the women basketball jokes it makes you look weird and weak to make fun of it but um but she's just a beast yeah that's a great number three and and really they just put a statue up of her outside of climate pledge which rules um that's my number three and then uh you got

throw a siok in there i mean my favorite sioc was cam chancler um the beast mode obviously but like i like i like the same way you would go like oh who was your favorite muppet kermit the frog mine was ralph the dog matt hasselbeck was my favorite muppet yeah uh hasstack was great too he's great though He's great. That coin toss thing was a little tough for him. Dude, you can't, dude, that might have to throw him in there. He led you to a Super Bowl. He also was so good and he was the first guy when I,

I became a fan of the Hawks when Holmgren got there. And so Hassel back, I mean, he was a beast, dude. He was. He was a great. He's a gamer. Oh, man. Other sports, I'm not a hockey guy. I just didn't grow up with it.

So who was your Seahawk? Did you say? I think Cam. Cam, Chancellor. I mean, Beast modus is an easy pick. Cam Chancor was a fucking beast He was a beast I guess I could throw another

baseball player in there Randy Johnson I love You gotta do the big dude It was wild dude I mean it was He was so good I met him at spring training in 95 When I was 13

And a bunch of kids rushed his Ford Bronco That Tiger Stripes on it outside of Peoria The Sports Complex And everyone rushed up to his car And he rolls the window And it goes back away from the vehicle cool and everyone was like oh shit sorry sir everyone pulled back i was like and put my ball up there

so i still got a sign ball from the big unit and then i ran into him with the x games in like 2015 he was taking pictures he photographer now i see him i'm in this my buddy worked for him so i'm like back there and i'm like i'm wearing my m's hat i went to sc he went to sc and i'm like big unit man big fan you know blah spent a lot of money emotional tears and wear and tear on supporting you during the 90s man you mind if i grab a pick he's like i'd rather not man i go I got a bummer I go do mind if I ask why and he goes I don't know man

I just I don't know I don't trust you I don't know if like you might just like photoshop my head under like you know like a centaur's body or something he said that yep I go Randy Johnson you have the Adam Ray stamp of approval that I will not photoshop your head under a fucking Pegasus

or whatever the fuck you just said a dragon I'm not I'm 30 I was 32 at the time I go It's probably gonna post and say I met my hero and then I go to that happening goes yeah a lot people photoshop my head on like weird shit And I go, they can do that anyway

without this picture happening. Totally. I can just grab a picture if I had enough If I had a fucking joke by the way. Dude, if I had enough wits

I would have been like you know I'm going to do it anyway so you might as well just be, you know, kind control your expression in the picture at least. So then he goes, I'll sign your hat though

and I was like all right. I guess. She's on my hat, yeah. That's awesome. So the big unit, yeah. So Griff Peyton, Patent,

Payton, Cam, Sue, Cam, big unit, dude. I mean, there's a lot to pick from but. And they're always And then Adam Ray from, I got to pick myself from sixth grade. Till now, so current or six to ninth?

Sixth grade I peaked, dude. Six grade hoops. I had a triple double on the court. Messed around and double afterwards. I, uh, my coach called me Krispy Kreme, Abdul Jabbar. I was a fat fuck. I was quick fat. Famously, we played this all black team for the championship in this tournament.

We had no business winning. They were unreal. And I went off, dude. You just had a day. The clip, I'm going to actually send you the clip. send us we'll put it in this and uh and i went off and uh you're gonna see some of these highlights i mean my titties are just jiggling down the court were you back to the basket or you're facing up bro back to the basket i was everywhere and at the end at the end i hit this shot to like uh steal the deal

put us up six with like 12 seconds left and the coach for the other team just goes man that fat motherfucker's killing us and i'm like you can hear it just bouncing fucking titty's hit me i'm like i think he's talking about me yeah buddy that's matt you believe that that that we surely that's Chris Farley Bro Alright let me pick up mine now Don't fucking take a picture No I'm getting my

Picture You guys if you want to see mine It's very recent You just Google me You can see that I was They call me Shammu That was my nickname No

Oh dude that makes me sad Yeah it was rough Fuck dude what I mean I got Jello Jigler I had fucking penis and tits kid All right here we go I didn't have that Oh

And look at us holding the hinge Kendall Gill, look at, look at us holding it. Where's the camera? Wait, dude, throw that in there. Bro, what is the handholding liner? And then here's the, I think here's the winner, though. The handholding is the best, bro. You were so happy in that photo.

So he's got it, Kendall's got his hand out like this. I pull that up. at the Kemp Payton thing, and Peyton's like, look at your hands! Why's he holding? He was that ain't good. He can't be holding your hands like that. You're 12 years home. You can tell he was like trying to like shake, because he's like this and you're just like this. I think I just put my hand out like rock paper scissors. Dude, that's the greatest.

Oh, dude, we definitely had a same job. I think in the first round, you defeated Lion's straight up. You're the man, bro. I'm honored to be here. You're the best. Congrats on the pod. You guys are crushing it. I'll come back anytime.