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how about that? Celebrity will Picker time because in ten minutes ago or
less, probably the least Roy five minutes. We need more time for this.
I'll get some audio that I want you guys to hear because it's fascinating.
But it's time for Celebrity Picker. Each Thursday at eight am, we
do picks with Glenn's It's for me, Mike, Danny j J a Glenn
a listener out there, a celebrity, and Danny's two and a half year
old son, Malcolm. Don't forget to record him today if you can tonight.
If you have him tonight, you won't have him. I'm not gonna
have him today because we have a busy, busy afternoon of things. We
can hear his pick on Friday. Yep, we'll have to do it on
Friday. Here are your standings. The celebrities five and one, three way
tie in second place. It's the Glens. It's me Kevin, and it's
Mike's Roy and then Danny JJ and Malcolm two and four. So I'm three
and four, Yeah, Kevin, Mike and the Glens or three and three
and celebrities have been crushing it. Yeah. Joey Chestnut last week the first
celebrity to miss a pick. So what we do is we spin a will
and whatever letter it is, we try to find someone that would fit the
mold of being a guest celebrity picker Based on that letter, AC and V
have been eliminated, Mike Adams, Joey Chestnut for CE, Dick Valentine of
Electric six for V, and j J. Field. Popt me up here.
I'm ready to spin for the week four celebrity guest Picker letter. I'll
let you in this every Wednesday at nine. I think it's it's it's super
fun. The letter is b oh, the one we mentioned yesterday. Danny
Oh, can you be on Bridges? I've got it. I think it's
an old number, but I know enough people that could probably make that happen.
Let's get the request out. Yeah, I'm gonna try if we get
Leon Bridges hot, all right, Uh, let's just see Brian Baldinger.
Okay, interesting? Former Rangers manager Jeff Banister. Where's he at now?
Is he somewhere he's I don't know. Alexa Banister Accounts two. Who's Matt
Birmingham, Harrison Barnes, Okay, Harrison Barnes would be awesome. They're just
starting camp or not yet voice of the un team, Mean Green, Dave
Barnett. We could definitely get Dave Barnett. Barry Church. Love Barry Church.
I don't feel like we could get Mike Bassick. I have former Big
twelve commissioner Bob Bolsby. Who's Bryce Butler? Is he a former Cowboys cow
boy and a big golf of his Shionado? Okay? Like him? Like
him? Rick Berry? That's good? Who have JJ Barea, j Hey
j J. I like j J. Barrea there, that's pretty good.
Jeff Banster as well, Rangers PR director John Blake. That would be awesome.
Dean Blandino, but I don't think he's allowed to pick games. Sean
bass We don't think he'd be available there. Mike Okay, the Shadow,
I don't think so. I don't know the rules. Bruce Bowen from Spurs.
Who have Martellis Bennett? Okay, Marty B would be good. Marty
B. Might he goes he's retired? Yeah, I think all right,
he wheels off. He's been returned for a while. Actually I like that.
I mean, I think Leon Bridges clearly our first, our first go
at it. Bluefish. We just called blue just called Bluefish. And whoever's
working there could yeah. Uh, Chris Brassard gil Brandt breaking news. Gil
Brandt died about a month ago during free Fall two, the late great gil
Brandt. In fact, when we will remember that he died during free Fall
two. Former MAVs Greg Greg Buckner. You know, if all goes to
pot, we're gonna get Brody, our wrestling expert, on as our celebrity
picker. Okay, now this is wild, and I don't know if it's
the same number. Maybe a ringer on tomorrow, Brody. I do have
the number for Bill Burr, all right, but right now I think it's
an old number, and last time I tried it there was no response.
Former Rangers, not Steve Buzzby. I have Heisman Trophy, winner of football
legend, Tim Brown, who might He's cool, dude. I think he
would do it. Joe buck cat here he can't. Yeah, he probably
could do it. But Riquette Jean Riquet of Franklin Frankel two and four all
threes. Local comedian Brian demeris, I have two and four all threes is
the Frankeles And by the way, this segments brought to you by Rodney Anderson.
Nine. Okay, well, there's enough bees are kicked around. It's
Leon Bridges and then is it and then is it JJ Barea or is it
I don't know that I can get j J. Barrea Babelfenberg. Babe would
do it for sure. All right, we got options. We got plenty
of options here, a lot of good ones. I'll have to look through
too, because if you if your phone, Yeah, there's a lot of
bees. Sometimes the bees can go somewhere else too, Bob Ordergal that'd be
great. Heard from him in a while. So there's that. Okay,
all right, Jake, Jake, let's do the tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow
at eight we'll have the mystery celebrity guest eight o'clock and picks with Glenn's j
J. Let's do the audio bubble bath. Can we do that? I'm
not sure? I told j Alright, So the writer strikes over late night
shows, we'll be back soon. What's the actors strike is over? We
should be back to normal and hollywoo. Man. I was listening to the
Strike Forced five podcast and it's Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel,
Seth Meyers, and John Oliver and they were doing a podcast to support the
writers strike, okay, and there were whatever sponsor reads they were having done
that money was going to go to their staff. So it's kind of cool.
But man, there was so much in episode one. It was just
like a lot of bad zoom connections. It was just a lot of it
wasn't structured really at all, and it was just kind of a free for
all and it was fine, but it wasn't very good. And my friend
Nina, she told me, hey, give another shot, and I did,
and she was right, it's very good. Yeah. So I've got
a couple of things I would call them highlights, and I'll start with this.
Here's Stephen Colbert talking about the time he was asked if he wanted to
do a sponsor read and he's like, yes, I love doing voicehover stuff
because you don't have to be there. But he had to decline it.
And here's why I turned down a Budweiser campaign to be the voice which is
like the dream. I turned it down because the product was Budweiser Energy.
It was a caffeinated beer that's illegal called b which and they wanted to call
it B to the E. The ad copy was things like, you know
your friends are heading home and you're just getting started B to the E.
You know, so alone's got to get up in the morning. Not you,
because you're not going to bed B to the E. You're gonna chew
the inside of your mouth off B to the eat. And then at the
at the bottom it said please drink responsibly, And I'm like, do I
read that line too? The only way to read that line would be of
this like, you know your friends are all going home, but you're just
getting started. BE to the E. Please frank response away you're either really
please right? Okay? Oh yeah, sure enough. Looked it up.
Total fail. They actually did launch it and it did not go well.
Caffeine beers a legal speedball, dude beer. Sometimes if i'd if I do
a couple of day beers, it seems like a good idea, and then
yeah, it puts me in the tank and I'm tired. B to the
E. You're gonna chew the inside of your mouth off. All right,
Well, thank you, Kevin. All right, Mike's a roight here for
b to the EU. It's a new Budweiser energy drink. We appreciate,
thank you. No, I don't think like that. It sounds like a
terrible idea, but apparently it was. Yeah, this is the time they're
talking about. Colbert did Second City in Chicago and Jim Belushi was one of
the guys at the time, and he said, there's a time said Jim
Belushi always liked to like slap people and like dy like physical bits, but
it's really just kind of a jerk, and no one likes Jim Belushi.
And this is Kimbell sharing the story of the time Jim Belushi and mister T
nearly gott in a fight once in the early years of the show. Mister
T was my co host and Jim Belushi was the guest, and they did
not hit it off, and mister T was doing his tough guy thing and
Belushi wasn't, you know, you just go along with mister D's mister T,
you know, and Belushi was not going along with it. What resulted
was the two of them facing each other and kind of grappling a little bit,
and they were about to fight, and it became apparent to me right
away that Jim was going to be able to overpower mister T and that that
would be the end of mister T for I mean really like because mister T
is not that tall, right, He's not that tall, and he's a
good deal older. I think that. But they almost fought on the show,
and I had to like calm them down a little bit to get who
was it fault? Who would you if you were a cop who came on
the situation and had to arrest one of them? I wasn't there, and
I already know. Is that your best day as a cop if you get
called the scene and it's Jim Belushi and mister T. Is that literally like
why you became a cop? Actually did call the cops? And you know
who showed up, Ericastrada on a Motorcuse. I didn't realize that. But
when we think about it, yes, Jim Belushi way younger than mister T.
Yeah, I didn't think about mister T being short. Though that twenty
seven seconds was funnier than anything that happened on their first episode. There's no
doubt I'm just shocked at these handicappers saying Belushi is a favorite over mister T.
They said he had huge hands. He said it was evident. And
mister T is seventy one now and he's five ten. I'm taller than this
was in Second City days. This is twenty years No, he said,
this is at the He said, this is at the beginning of Kimmel's show.
So twenty years ago. Yeah, yeah, twenty years ago. Yeah,
Belushi's sixty nine, two years younger than mister T. Belushi's also,
do we have a height on him? Because if mister T's five ten and
Belus she's like six four, then this would make sense. He Belushi probably
had fifty pounds on him. Jim Belushi five eleven, okay, just a
little bit taller. Maybe mister T. Show we're not a grower, five
ten. Maybe Jim Belushi just Chicago strong, just a big old hunk of
meat. I don't care. I'm on team mister T. Right. Well,
yeah, I'm on team mister T. But like I mean, I'm
taking T side unseen in a matchup with Jim belief should give me mister T
at a plus number. Well, I am empty in the account run under
the window. Sometimes it's who's more angry. It feels like jim Blush might
have been the more angry guy. Now this is Jimmy. Kim also telling
a story about On they were kind of talking about the first weeks of their
shows, and they talked about how much of a disaster Sith Meyers had a
good note. He's like, Lauren, Michael was like, you're just going
to take your show about eighteen months until you know what your show is.
And he was talking about, now to take me six months, and sure
enough he realized, yeah, Lauren was right again, it does take about
eighteen months to even get in the flow of something here. That for sure,
right, And then we're on the nine week Player. I mean,
they're just talking about all their disaster first show stuff, and Kimmel said,
we had The Rock again twenty years ago, but the Rock week one and
the Rocks fighting with his producers about something. The first week of the show.
We had The Rock on, who at the time was mostly known as
a wrestler, but he's about to start his movie career. And it was
blizzard night on ABC. They had blizzards happening all through prime time so every
show featured a blizzard, and we decided we're gonna have blizzards on a blizzard
on our show. We got this snow machine. The show was live,
and then the Rock was The producers wanted him to come out on a sled
with a sled dog, you know, on like a sled, and he
didn't want to do it, and they had a big fight that resulted in
the Rock not being on our show for quite a lot. Sled dogs eight
hundred dollars. I guarantee you at least you gotta reverse. I gotta reverse
to that. We had Mariah Carry on my show one time, right around
Christmas. Last minute. She decides she wants me to interview her in a
sligh. Now, I will just tell you, guys, this the hardest
time to rent a sleigh in New York City, right around Christmas last minute.
How stupid is that? Can I have a sligh? No, that
does sound like a Mariah Carry last minute. I gotta be honest with you.
For the first two thirds of that audio clip, I thought that they
were running some dairy queen promotion. That is the first Blizzard I thought of
it. Yeah, yeah, Blizzard. It's weird, right, yeah,
that sounds delicious. By the way, right now a blizzards cookie blizzard was
turn it over. Let's go show me that it's sticking in there. Oh
yeah, it's so turn it back over now, fightinglicious, Stop chewing the
inside of your mouth now. They also something they used to do their show
live, which I felt like I knew that, but maybe I didn't.
Kimmel like we did it live always. Colbert was not from the era of
doing it live. But Kimmel back then, he goes, Yeah, we
did our shows live at night on the West Coast because we would know what
this what happened, you know in the world before you know that. Actually
it's three hours different than when everyone else is on and recorded. We'll go
live because it's seven o'clock for us. It's not ten thirty at night,
you know on the East Coast or eleven thirty a lot of times on these
coasts. You did not decide to stop doing it live. No, the
network decided that we needed to stop doing it live because an actor named Thomas
Jane said the word like nineteen times in a row and the sensors couldn't keep
up with it. Delay wise, and a bunch of the affiliates were upset,
even though after ten pm technically you can say or do anything you want.
That's what that's what did it. That was the end of being licked.
Yeah, I was bombed. I was very mum. We fought it,
okay, okay. So Thomas Jane, who played Mickey Mantle in HBO
sixty one, said the F word nineteen times. Oh my god. The
sensors couldn't keep up. And that takes me something that happened Monday on this
show. There was a little It was a couple of good old days nineties
cowboys references. When what's the number forty? The Cowboys fullback? When he
got in there, you remember those days when you were a fullback moves?
I remember that, like thirty years ago. Whoa dump? Jeez, How
does one get so comfortable that they just drop an F bomb. You're a
home It's like, it's not like it's a guest, it's you. I'm
embarrassed. I'm meant to say creaking. He got embarrassed. It was amazing.
We'll turn it to a dog in the corner over there. I couldn't
believe I said the he was looking at me too, and he's just kind
of side the head tilted. Just try just get making me laugh. We
were at a bar, We're at the landing just like man, you know
the moves. They always got to bring Moose into it about the fullback position
in the nineties. No, you're just so good at full back and yeah,
it's just so comfy. There's two guys at a bar. Yes,
Jeff, we heard it on the street. Everybody so good. Well,
we shouldn't do it nineteen times like Thomas Jane did. To make sure that
Kima has to pre recorded show now, Thomas Jane, the rest of development,
Yes, cameo in there. This is from episode two of this podcast
Strike Fource five and it came out about two days before the Jimmy Fallon article
from the Rolling Stone hit where there were multiple like double digit workplace compliance about
him being drunk a little bit and maybe yelling at the staff a little bit,
kind of being a douche. And see if you can tell by their
subtle jabs that Jimmy Fallon might get canceled even though I think they're just having
fun with it, but they know this article is coming. It's very clear
to be in a good way it's not about wild swings, slowly raising what
your average show is. So that I just got I just got a text
from a member of Strike Fource five. Is that the best way to do
it? I just I just got a text from a member of Strike Fource
five and it's it's from Jimmy Fallon under the code named Steve Allen. It
says, I have to go. And I assume everyone got this at the
same five real one who wants to be honest with our audience. But I
didn't know this. We're talking about show business and all. But it was
going a little long. So there's a limit. There's a limit to how
much you want to help the staff. I don't I don't know the protocol
is trying to say anything on say it for the podcast. Where are you
going, jim You just tell us where I think that we might want to
consider renaming this Asfixiating Jimmy Fallon. That is what's happening right in front of
hold of our hope we don't get down to Strike Force four. That's how
the episode ended, right when all of this. Two days later that article
hits Yeah, so they knew, Yeah, I mean, because I mean,
I mean, I listening to that, I guess I knew the article
it already happened, so when I listened to it, But it sure felt
like they knew because there's some comedy pressure on that text thread YEA for the
strike Force fause self affixiated Jimmy Fallon, he's trying to get off. Here's
the last one here. This is a great story about just Jimmy Kilmel.
They he's almost killed. And it also leads into the plot of the movie
The Joker, whichy'all saw right, Okay for the almost supo they probably know.
You can read into it if you have seen it. Kimball, When
and why did Batman Troy to kill you? We had an ice hockey game,
I think it was during the Winter Olympics, and Cuba Gooding Junior was
on a team of celebrities playing against team of superheroes from Hollywood Boulevard. These
are people, they're not actual superheroes. They dress as superheroes and they take
photographs with tourists. One of them was Batman, and we used Batman on
the show a lot. Batman used the N word on our show because he
was angry at Cuba Gooding Junior and after the show. I said he's never
on the show again, and word got back to Batman that I had personally
banned him from the show. And then the Incredible Hulk came to our building
very concerned and said, Batman just bought a gun for eighty dollars and he's
going to shoot Jimmy with it. That's a good deal. The security team
went into action and they put mug shots. They put photos up of the
guy who wanted to kill me, but the guy was wearing the Batman mask
in the photos. Okay, that's pretty awesome. Same, thanks dude,
So good. Look that all that Seth gleaned from that. It was it
was a good not bad. That's Seth. That was a Colbert, a
couple of the better one liners, and all that audio. One more.
I'm sorry, guys, he's gonna be done. This is about the Joker
and how it played out where the talk show host has the Joker on his
show and it doesn't end well for the talk show host. There is no
perfect way for a talk show to end, but I think being murdered by
Batman would put you there in some kind of television history. O. Yeah,
you guys have seen the joker. So de Niro, what do you
what do you think of our jobs? And he goes, I'm modeling them
on you. I'm modeling them on you. That's not so great. I
know how it ends for your character. And like a matter of fact,
people called me up and said, hey, maybe don't go watch that movie
because of how it ends for Genaro Genaro's character, and so I've now,
of course I only wouldn't watched that scene. I've never seen anything else in
the movie. I've only seen genuinely disturbed by that, I have to say.
Afterwards, I was like, oh, no, is this gonna be
in somebody's head now? And absolutely is in someone's head now, your head,
I mean breaking bad. People weren't thinking about Maybe they were, and
it's just happening sopranos too, but people weren't thinking about, oh acid,
you know, to get rid of bodies. People weren't thinking about that too
much. And then sure enough, fears off the show and you see a
few of these pop up, you know, people putting bodies in there in
those little containers, those blue containers, and acid washing them out. I
will do the trick as well. Things like that. How do you know
I know things. I grew up in the country. He watches British crime
all day, every day, NonStop stop. Boy, that is audio bubble.
That's about Thank you, Kevin. I think you did really good today.
I don't know, man, you've got a I think it's been a
stellar day of broadcasting for U kvoh oh. I'm taking the next two days
off, so I'll see you guys in hell. Alright, alright, hot
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