Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? This is Scott Yeager here with another
Speaker 1: edition of Challenge Accepted, my All Q and A and
Speaker 1: information Dump podcast where I get questions from you guys
Speaker 1: over at challengemaniacs dot com. I also use it as
Speaker 1: a way to state of the Union if you will, housekeeping,
Speaker 1: house cleaning, download you guys on future live shows and events,
Speaker 1: and yeah, catch up on all the news and gossip
Speaker 1: in the Challenge world while we sit here waiting patiently
Speaker 1: for any news whatsoever about the Challenge Season forty two.
Speaker 1: I will get to that as well. But this podcast
Speaker 1: brought to you by Challenge Mania Live Nashville just announced
Speaker 1: our return to Music City. You know we love to
Speaker 1: come to Nashville least once a year. Twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: will be no different, seeming like November tends to be
Speaker 1: when we get there. I know that's where we were
Speaker 1: when we were there last year. Had a great lineup.
Speaker 1: How could we possibly top this lineup with Johnny Bananas
Speaker 1: and Nannie and Amber and Davis with a surprise appearance. Well,
Speaker 1: dare I say? I think we have come close and
Speaker 1: we may have even topped it. Three first time Nashville
Speaker 1: guests Tina Bridges, Kara Maria and ct Mark Long will
Speaker 1: be co hosting alongside yours. Truly. Derek probably not going
Speaker 1: to make it to this one, as you know, him
Speaker 1: and Nicole are expecting a baby girl in September and
Speaker 1: he will still probably be on paternity leave come November.
Speaker 1: But Godfather happy to take the call. And as you know,
Speaker 1: in Nashville, we always have a open door policy and
Speaker 1: a ton of surprises. City Winery wasn't available. We love
Speaker 1: City Winery in all ages, venue, great stage, great acoustics,
Speaker 1: but they were not available this weekend that we wanted
Speaker 1: to come back to Nashville, so a blessing in disguise,
Speaker 1: we hit up our buddy Chase, a longtime friend of
Speaker 1: Derek's who is one of the men over at the
Speaker 1: top of Jelly Rolls. Good Night Nashville one of the
Speaker 1: coolest bars and establishments in Nashville. We spent a good
Speaker 1: amount of time there during the last trip there, just
Speaker 1: for fun. We went there for dinner on Friday night.
Speaker 1: We hung out there after with a lot of you
Speaker 1: guys after our show on Saturday. So some of you
Speaker 1: guys know firsthand, but those of you guys who don't
Speaker 1: it is a multi tiered establishment that has a ton
Speaker 1: of fun floors that are open throughout the day and night.
Speaker 1: They have a tattoo parlor in there. They have great food,
Speaker 1: great drinks, and they are nice enough to open up
Speaker 1: the doors of their club level to us, so it
Speaker 1: will be completely closed off to us from one to
Speaker 1: five pm on Saturday, November fourteenth. We're gonna do a
Speaker 1: live panel show. It'll be more of an abbreviated live
Speaker 1: panel show Q and A. If you've ever been to
Speaker 1: one of our events in Baltimore at Jimmy C. Food,
Speaker 1: if you've ever been to our Minnesota events at Surley Brewing,
Speaker 1: you'll see we kind of set up a reserve seating
Speaker 1: area that looks more like a concert as far as
Speaker 1: like you just have like a folding chair at your disposal,
Speaker 1: but that is your seat, and that will also get
Speaker 1: you in line for the meet and greet that will
Speaker 1: be for our Tier one tickets you will see, and
Speaker 1: then we have Tier two tickets where you'll have to
Speaker 1: wait till all those premium platinum tickets get through the
Speaker 1: meet and greet later and then we'll get to you guys.
Speaker 1: And for you guys, you'll have more standing room, high
Speaker 1: top seating, bar seating, things like that. But we're going
Speaker 1: to see how many people we can pack in there.
Speaker 1: And every single ticket will come with the meet and greet.
Speaker 1: So there are two price points. One of them has
Speaker 1: that reserve seating closer to the stage, and you guys
Speaker 1: will be the first batch of people to meet everybody.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do one streamlined line where you meet everybody
Speaker 1: all at once, so we can get you guys out
Speaker 1: of there as soon as possible. Obviously, we'll still be
Speaker 1: doing our trivia and raffle and treating it like a party,
Speaker 1: music in the background, et cetera. And then Tier two
Speaker 1: will have sort of less officially reserved seating and we
Speaker 1: will line you guys up and we will have you
Speaker 1: guys meet everyone after Wave one is done. So if
Speaker 1: you do have a heart out, if you've got to
Speaker 1: be out of there earlier than five, highly recommend get
Speaker 1: one of those platinum tickets, which brings me to my
Speaker 1: next subject, which is the very important patron pre sale
Speaker 1: for this event. I know that a lot of you
Speaker 1: guys say, wait, I have to pay to get access
Speaker 1: to get the tickets. No, technically you don't, and some
Speaker 1: of these tickets may make it to Thursday, June twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: but we do not expect that for this show and event,
Speaker 1: with this lineup, with this city, we do expect this
Speaker 1: to potentially sell out completely on on Wednesday, June twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: which is when we're doing our multi tiered pre sale
Speaker 1: over at challengemaniacs dot com. It all kicks off at
Speaker 1: eleven am Eastern with Savage level patrons, then twelve pm
Speaker 1: with Diesel level patrons, followed with two PM. That's right,
Speaker 1: there's a two hour gap between Savage and Diesel and
Speaker 1: then Maniac level patrons. Maniac is the base level that
Speaker 1: gets you all of our bonus audio and video content
Speaker 1: over there as well. That'll be two pm, and then
Speaker 1: at four pm any paid Patreon a dollar or above
Speaker 1: gets access. Now, as I said, if stuff makes it
Speaker 1: out of Wednesday, on Thursday morning, we will post a
Speaker 1: link to challenge Mania dot Live and anyone under the
Speaker 1: sun can go and get their tickets. What I will
Speaker 1: say is that if this thing sells out, and you
Speaker 1: see yourself saying to your buddy or your friend, or
Speaker 1: your neighbor or your boyfriend or your husband or your wife,
Speaker 1: man I wish we could go back in time and
Speaker 1: get those tickets. Do yourselves a favor, and you know,
Speaker 1: get what the people you guys are going with. Pull
Speaker 1: some money together, get involved in that Savage level pre
Speaker 1: sale or that Diesel level pre sale, because it will
Speaker 1: be worth your while if you're able to get those tickets,
Speaker 1: and you'll look back after and say, hey, I would
Speaker 1: have paid an extra ten twenty bucks to make sure
Speaker 1: I get those tickets. Trust me, this is not a
Speaker 1: thing we do to be money grubbing and just have
Speaker 1: you guys pay more money. This is meant to This
Speaker 1: is meant to reward the people who are our patrons
Speaker 1: year round. Okay, so people who support us year round
Speaker 1: at the Maniac or Savage or Diesel level, they deserve
Speaker 1: first access to these tickets. And that's why we do
Speaker 1: it this way. So by all means, wait, let them
Speaker 1: get their tickets and then you know, sit on your
Speaker 1: hands get them on Thursday. But for some of these
Speaker 1: shows that do sell out early and often we have
Speaker 1: a six ticket limit for this one. So let's say,
Speaker 1: you know, if all the Diesel and Savage patrons and
Speaker 1: some of those Maniac level patrons side to buy four
Speaker 1: to six each. It's going to sell out before you
Speaker 1: get your crack. And you know the same way the Knicks,
Speaker 1: for instance, on our on our championship run that I
Speaker 1: will get to in this podcast. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: they give their season ticket holders first crack at finals
Speaker 1: tickets and Eastern Conference finals tickets, and you can't go
Speaker 1: back in time and become a season ticket holder. We
Speaker 1: do allow you to sign up today or early tomorrow
Speaker 1: morning at one of those levels. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: hack if you will. You can just go sign up
Speaker 1: for the month at one of those levels, hop in
Speaker 1: the pre sale, feel free to cancel or downgrade for
Speaker 1: the next month. So we want to make sure it's fair,
Speaker 1: and trust me, we know money doesn't grow on trees,
Speaker 1: so let us know if you know, if it's ever
Speaker 1: a tough time for you. I've said this to especially
Speaker 1: our longtime patrons, but to anybody you know, because I
Speaker 1: do know these tickets do get price. You trust me,
Speaker 1: It's not free to bring all these cast members to
Speaker 1: a city near you. Hotels are expensive, flights are expensive,
Speaker 1: and spoiler alert, they don't do it for free either.
Speaker 1: But I do know these tickets are expensive, so if
Speaker 1: you're down on your luck, if you're having tough times,
Speaker 1: if you need some financial assistance, always feel free to
Speaker 1: to hit me up. You know, DM me at Scotta
Speaker 1: yegor on Instagram, you know email me challenge Madia podcast
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. I'm definitely sympathetic to this stuff,
Speaker 1: and particularly if I recognize your name as somebody who's
Speaker 1: written in questions or supported the podcast year round, I'm
Speaker 1: always happy to work with you if we can. So
Speaker 1: really excited for Nashville. That is our last show on
Speaker 1: the dockets so far towards the back end of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, but we've got a ton of stuff coming
Speaker 1: up this weekend Pacific Northwest Tour, back to back shows,
Speaker 1: similar lineups with a little bit of an extra sauce
Speaker 1: on each. This Saturday in Portland at Helium, it is
Speaker 1: me ct, Mark Long, Derek Kaczinski, and Cedric We're the
Speaker 1: ones who will be at both shows. And then on
Speaker 1: Saturday at Helium, Amber Borzochro will be joining us, reuniting
Speaker 1: with her co champion from Double AGENTCT And then we
Speaker 1: are waking up nice and early the next morning driving
Speaker 1: to Seattle, and we are doing Seattle where Unfortunately Amber
Speaker 1: will be leaving us, but we'll be picking up Kendall Shepherd,
Speaker 1: who will be really fun. Sure she has some illustrious
Speaker 1: hists that goes back years and years, decades and decades
Speaker 1: with CT and Mark and Derek as well. And then
Speaker 1: we're also getting a survivor legend. That's right. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: use the word legend because I think one of the
Speaker 1: best players to never win. She's played multiple times. You
Speaker 1: saw her recently on the edge of extinction and part
Speaker 1: of one of the most iconic tribal moments of all time.
Speaker 1: Kelly Wentworth will be joining us on Sunday as well.
Speaker 1: I know she's very excited to be there, and I
Speaker 1: know a lot of you Survivor maniacs will be excited
Speaker 1: to see her there too, So that's Sunday. GA tickets
Speaker 1: are still available for both shows. Unfortunately, I believe all
Speaker 1: the meat and greet tickets are gone for both. Feel
Speaker 1: free to check the sites, but I think it's just
Speaker 1: show only for those. After that, we're hitting some of
Speaker 1: the Midwest in July. We have a sold out show
Speaker 1: in Chicago on Saturday, that's July the eighteenth, with CT, Durrell,
Speaker 1: Mark and Derek, and we're hoping to add a lady
Speaker 1: to that, So just stay tuned. We're making some calls.
Speaker 1: So far, we've gotten a lot of no's, unavailables, things
Speaker 1: like that, but we're trying to make that lineup feel
Speaker 1: a little bit more, a little bit more diverse. And
Speaker 1: then we have the following not the following weekend, two
Speaker 1: weekends later, a sold out event at Surly Brewing Company
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, SummerSlam Weekend. Very excited for that, me, Mark, Rachel, Tina,
Speaker 1: Paulie and Brad. Really excited to see Paulie and Brad
Speaker 1: in the same room. That's gonna be dope. And like
Speaker 1: I said, those two are sold out, So shouts to
Speaker 1: everybody who got tickets to those. But July, if you're
Speaker 1: looking for an event in July, not gonna happen if
Speaker 1: you live in the area, though you're probably fairly close
Speaker 1: to Detroit. There are a few tickets left for our
Speaker 1: return to Detroit. We are not doing Wyandott. By the way,
Speaker 1: our good friend Paul Shaler may he rest in peace,
Speaker 1: would always joke that I would always call him Challenge
Speaker 1: Mania Detroit, Detroit, Detroit, But technically it was in the
Speaker 1: suburb of Wyandot at District one forty two. Well, this
Speaker 1: one's actually in downtown Detroit. I believe they call it Hockeytown.
Speaker 1: It's by the Arenas, it is downtown and it is
Speaker 1: the gorgeous new mic Drop Comedy Club. So get your
Speaker 1: tickets now. It is going to be me and Derek.
Speaker 1: Derek making his Detroit debut. We have Zach Nichols joining
Speaker 1: us once again, and boy has he'd been in the
Speaker 1: news lately. Obviously people love his podcast but can't wait
Speaker 1: to have him and Derek on stage for the first time.
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's never done our podcast. We're hoping
Speaker 1: maybe we can record one with him while we're there,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's a great guest. We'll have him for
Speaker 1: the second time. We have Tory Dial joining us alongside
Speaker 1: her rider Die Dave, so Dave and Dave, Devin and
Speaker 1: Tory will be there with us. And then we also
Speaker 1: have Isaac the Wolf. He has told me he said,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say the words he used, but
Speaker 1: basically said, do not call me by my former surname
Speaker 1: ever again. And he only goes by Isaac de Wolfe.
Speaker 1: So Isaac de wolf is there by request of Devin,
Speaker 1: he said, I have one request, give me Isaac. So
Speaker 1: we're bringing Isaac and hopefully we don't regret it. So
Speaker 1: that is August fifteenth that Mike Drop Comedy Club, get
Speaker 1: your tickets to that. September returning to Phoenix, one of
Speaker 1: our favorite spots. This is Stand Up Live. A lot
Speaker 1: of our Phoenix favorites will be there in Derek Chavez,
Speaker 1: Olivia Theo, and we are bringing Ms Carl Maria Sorbella
Speaker 1: with us for the first time. Also probably some other
Speaker 1: names that we will be announcing tickets available to that
Speaker 1: a Challenge Mania Dot Live, and then we moved our
Speaker 1: New Orleans data was supposed to be Saturday, September fifth,
Speaker 1: it is now in October. It is October the ninth, Friday,
Speaker 1: seven to ten Urban South Brewery. It's me Mark Trischelle.
Speaker 1: Who guys, if you've never met Trischelle, she is such
Speaker 1: an awesome person to talk to about anything, pop culture,
Speaker 1: anything reality TV, even show she hasn't been on, like
Speaker 1: Big Brother Survivor. She loves them. And then of course
Speaker 1: she's the Traders Champion, so maybe she can give you
Speaker 1: some advice for playing Mafia at home. Tony Rains will
Speaker 1: be there. The Champ Champ, John A. Mannion, John A. Stevens.
Speaker 1: I forget what she goes by these days. But and guys,
Speaker 1: this is an event where if you come to our
Speaker 1: events and you're sometimes you're like, oh, man, I only
Speaker 1: got a few minutes, only got a minute here, only
Speaker 1: got a selfie, you know, and some of our meet
Speaker 1: and greets can't. We can be moving things along and
Speaker 1: obviously we do the show. Sometimes you don't get a question,
Speaker 1: and this will be an intimate affair. You will have
Speaker 1: several hours with us. This is the time if you
Speaker 1: ever want to play flip cup with mar you've really
Speaker 1: wanted to get Tony to FaceTime your nephew, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to do. This is the one so New Orleans.
Speaker 1: We have not been there since I believe twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: it's been about four years. New Orleans such a great
Speaker 1: city on paper. You hear such great things about it.
Speaker 1: We heard from Shilah Buffet. It's a good time, just kidding,
Speaker 1: and we'd love to come there more often. So please
Speaker 1: help us want to and believe that we can come
Speaker 1: there more often. If you live in the Louisiana area
Speaker 1: and that day works better for you than maybe Labor
Speaker 1: Day weekend. Did. We'd love to see you on Friday,
Speaker 1: October the ninth at Urban South Brewery. Tickets a challenge
Speaker 1: Mania dot Live. Those are the only ones on sale now.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, Tomorrow, June twenty fourth is when tickets
Speaker 1: go on sale for Nashville very important presale Challenge Maniacs
Speaker 1: dot com. Join the pod squad, take part in one
Speaker 1: of those pre sales and make sure you get tickets
Speaker 1: to meet and see and hear Ce t Kara, Tina,
Speaker 1: Are you kidding Me? And Mark Long plus more. You know,
Speaker 1: we always have a lot of Nashville favorites when we
Speaker 1: come to the music city. All right, I spent the
Speaker 1: whole first segment making plugs, but that's because we have
Speaker 1: a whole lot to do and gonna come back after
Speaker 1: this break hear some words from our sponsors. If you're
Speaker 1: listening on the main feed, if you're listening at Challengemaniacs
Speaker 1: dot com, I'm just gonna hear a little bit of
Speaker 1: music and then you're gonna hear me again. Challenge accepted. Everybody.
Speaker 1: Here we go, All right, here we are back on
Speaker 1: Challenge accepted. Where I'm going to take your questions that
Speaker 1: you guys submitted over at Challenge Maniacs dot com. We
Speaker 1: are hopefully gonna be recording some more interviews soon and
Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing some of those in New York.
Speaker 1: Derek's gonna be coming up for those. We're gonna hopefully
Speaker 1: be doing some in Chicago, some in Detroit, and really
Speaker 1: keep that in person studio look and feel for you guys.
Speaker 1: I'm also hoping to get Derek here on a stream
Speaker 1: yard just to do, you know, follow up with you guys.
Speaker 1: I realize even here at challengemaniacs dot com, you guys
Speaker 1: haven't heard from us in real time in a while,
Speaker 1: and so much happens on the internet, even if not
Speaker 1: in the world of the Challenge. As we sit here
Speaker 1: in this lengthy lull that, trust me, I'm feeling like
Speaker 1: almost no lull we've had since we've started Challenge Manie.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's been just abject silence from the
Speaker 1: Challenge gods with no information whatsoever about when to expect
Speaker 1: season forty two. Look, we know they filmed it, they
Speaker 1: filmed it, They're done. It feels like by now we
Speaker 1: should have gotten an announcement the last few cycles. I
Speaker 1: believe the season has premiered towards July early August, and
Speaker 1: we would have heard about it by now. I did
Speaker 1: hear from a little birdie potentially, and obviously sometimes things
Speaker 1: change that the announcement is tentatively scheduled for mid July. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: unless they're changing form and who knows it's Paramount Plus,
Speaker 1: and unless they're going to announce that it's premiering the
Speaker 1: following week, I usually expect a bit of a month
Speaker 1: of a heads up of okay, this is when it's
Speaker 1: going to premiere. So if it's true that it's mid
Speaker 1: to maybe late July that we're hearing about it, which
Speaker 1: is last year when it premiered, probably looking at at
Speaker 1: least a month later for a premiere, which tells me
Speaker 1: mid August, late August. And that's fine. You know, we
Speaker 1: got to roll at the punches, We got to do
Speaker 1: what we got to do. But I think we're waiting
Speaker 1: for just other information, like we want to know what
Speaker 1: dates it going to drop. You know, if it is
Speaker 1: going to be exclusively on Paramount Plus, is it going
Speaker 1: to be a early morning drop like like some of
Speaker 1: those All Star seasons were where you woke up and
Speaker 1: the real maniacs had already watched it and you know,
Speaker 1: screen grabbed it to death and things like that. Or
Speaker 1: is it going to be sort of a more communal
Speaker 1: experience drop and they schedule it like Traders does and
Speaker 1: drop it at eight or nine PM. I sort of
Speaker 1: vote for that. And then, of course that premiere date
Speaker 1: is very important to us because we love to schedule
Speaker 1: events around it. We'd love to do a premiere. Last
Speaker 1: year we did a premiere that was so fun here
Speaker 1: in New York, and we'd love to do that again.
Speaker 1: And hey, I'll be honest selfishly as I said, Derek's
Speaker 1: got that baby coming in September, and the last show
Speaker 1: he's got on the Doka with us for now is
Speaker 1: is Detroit August fifteenth. And you know, I know how
Speaker 1: it is. I've had a few kids, three to be exact,
Speaker 1: and I know that as you get close to that
Speaker 1: due date, you know you want you want daddy at
Speaker 1: home just in case. You know, kids come early, kids
Speaker 1: come late, kids do not come on your schedule, And
Speaker 1: then of course there'll be the time after he's needed
Speaker 1: and things like that. So you know, I would have
Speaker 1: much rather preferred a July premiere to an August premiere.
Speaker 1: We'll see what the premiere date is. I hope it's
Speaker 1: a date that hopefully, you know, Derek can make work.
Speaker 1: But either way, it will be a date that we
Speaker 1: try to do some sort of an in person premiere party.
Speaker 1: Four And either way, we'll be covering the show the
Speaker 1: same way we always do, and that will be weekly
Speaker 1: bonus episodes, exclusive in their entirety over at challengemaniacs dot com.
Speaker 1: Fifteen dollars a week gets you our bonus episode breakdowns
Speaker 1: that go up immediately after the episode airs, which goes
Speaker 1: back to what I was saying about, you know, hoping
Speaker 1: that there's sort of a communal drop time that we
Speaker 1: can all agree on where most people are watching it
Speaker 1: around the same time. Obviously everybody, you know, their plans change,
Speaker 1: they go out for dinner, sometimes you save it for
Speaker 1: the next day. That's all finding good, But I'm really
Speaker 1: not a huge fan of like really important content dropping
Speaker 1: in the wee hours of the night at like three
Speaker 1: am Eastern twelve oh one Pacific, Like that's just you know,
Speaker 1: not ideal. And you know, it's not even limited to
Speaker 1: the challenge. I remember when back when I was really
Speaker 1: invested in Mandalorian, which you know, I kind of let
Speaker 1: that go by the wayside. I did see the movie.
Speaker 1: It was fine, didn't love it. But you know, I
Speaker 1: remember Season two has this crazy up. It's the finale
Speaker 1: of season two, and I know the statute of limitations
Speaker 1: have probably passed by, but I'll skirt around it in
Speaker 1: case anybody hasn't seen it yet. There's a huge cameo
Speaker 1: in season two, sort of an unbelievable moment to end
Speaker 1: the finale of season two, and I just remember, you know,
Speaker 1: that episode dropped in the in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: and you know, thinking, you know, do I watch it
Speaker 1: first thing in the morning? Do I watch it at night?
Speaker 1: You know, how much can I wait? Is it going
Speaker 1: to get ruined for me? And luckily a buddy of
Speaker 1: mine like gave me a heads up and was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you want to watch this as soon as possible. There's
Speaker 1: something that happens in this episode that will get ruined
Speaker 1: for you for you today, And so we did, and
Speaker 1: luckily it hadn't been ruined, and I'm glad I did so,
Speaker 1: but you know, it just you know, why do that
Speaker 1: to us? Why not put it up at a time
Speaker 1: that is that is easier to enjoy, like Game of Thrones,
Speaker 1: for instance, or what you know, House of the Dragon,
Speaker 1: which you know, I have a question here from Lauren.
Speaker 1: Did you see House of the Dragon premiere? If so,
Speaker 1: would you think didn't love it? Not gonna lie, it's
Speaker 1: a look, it's not Game of Thrones. It does the trick,
Speaker 1: I guess, but I mean such a long layoff. I
Speaker 1: remember watching the previously on of this episode and thinking, wow,
Speaker 1: I retained almost none of that. And but you know,
Speaker 1: they dropped the episode at nine o'clock, so it's you know,
Speaker 1: relatively easy to watch then. And if not, and you
Speaker 1: have to deal through the next day of spoilers, I
Speaker 1: can say that, like, you know, I think I had
Speaker 1: one thing spoiled for me yesterday on social media. It
Speaker 1: is what it is. We watched it on a day's delay.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Lauren, not loving it so far. But that
Speaker 1: could just be me a me problem. I just you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I didn't love it. I don't know
Speaker 1: much to say about it. I apologize, But what I
Speaker 1: do have a little bit to say is is, uh,
Speaker 1: since we've last spoke in the New York Knicks have
Speaker 1: become the champions of the world, which has not happened
Speaker 1: ever in my lifetime, has not happened since nineteen seventy three,
Speaker 1: And dare I say, has captivated the nation, if not
Speaker 1: the world, like well, you know, I'd imagine, Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: Spurs fans didn't love the finals, but if you're just
Speaker 1: a fan of sports and basketball especially like what an
Speaker 1: exciting I mean the run to get there after those
Speaker 1: two losses to the Hawks, they kind of steamrolled through
Speaker 1: the Calves and through the Sixers. But you know, there
Speaker 1: was there was one game against the Calves actually that
Speaker 1: I watched where there, you know, they were down a
Speaker 1: lot similar to what happened sort of on a game
Speaker 1: by game basis in the finals, and they you know,
Speaker 1: they showed that they never give up and they can
Speaker 1: come back from what seems like a deficit that would
Speaker 1: have beaten any other team in the league. That happened
Speaker 1: in the Cavs series as well. In fact, they went
Speaker 1: down two games to the Hawks in the first So
Speaker 1: just the show of perseverance from this team, such a
Speaker 1: likable team, Brunson, such a likable star. I say, it
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of like Alan Ivers and in
Speaker 1: slow motion as far as like the way he just
Speaker 1: attacks the hole and even though he's three feet shorter
Speaker 1: than everyone else, he just manages to score. And Iverson
Speaker 1: I think was like a little bit quicker and Brunson
Speaker 1: just see it's almost more impressive that he's doing it
Speaker 1: in relative slow motion. And then he gets around you know,
Speaker 1: huge defenders like like Wemby and really really physical guards
Speaker 1: like Stefan Castle and what I'll say about the Spurs
Speaker 1: because then they go on to play the Spurs in
Speaker 1: what I think was the most exciting and crazy up
Speaker 1: and down five game series ever. Like when you look
Speaker 1: at it on paper, Nickson five, Okay, they won in
Speaker 1: five games. That sounds like boring. They were losing for
Speaker 1: seventy five percent of the series, which is just absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: It's like if you wrote a movie that was scripted
Speaker 1: like that, you'd get a note from the studio that's like,
Speaker 1: no one's gonna believe this, right, Like that's like something
Speaker 1: you'd see in Airbud. Wait they come back from you know,
Speaker 1: twenty seven or whatever, and then weight they're going to
Speaker 1: do that again in the next game. That's insane. So
Speaker 1: it was just I think super fun. All eyes on
Speaker 1: the NBA. Don't even ask if I did not get
Speaker 1: to go to any of the games. Obviously I did
Speaker 1: foamo about the people who went to San Antonio and
Speaker 1: were able to kind of do that in a fairly
Speaker 1: cost efficient way. It just wasn't possible here in New York.
Speaker 1: It really wasn't. But hey, I had just as much
Speaker 1: fun watching it with my son on the couch and
Speaker 1: they would do viewing parties outside on the lawn in
Speaker 1: the area we live. We watched actually the clinching game
Speaker 1: where the Knicks won it. We were in Marco Island
Speaker 1: in Florida. We watched it down there, and so I
Speaker 1: don't know. It was just I think such an amazing
Speaker 1: experience that invigorated a lot of people. I think the
Speaker 1: NBA is going to have a huge season next year
Speaker 1: as far as interest goes. The draft just tonight, I
Speaker 1: think all eyes are going to be on that, and
Speaker 1: I think it was just such a great culmination of
Speaker 1: you have this great team that was easy to root for,
Speaker 1: because sometimes like a big city like New York, or
Speaker 1: a team like the Knicks and like the Yankees for instance,
Speaker 1: can become the bad guy to a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: non Yankee fans, non New Yorkers, the same way the
Speaker 1: Cowboys can and things like that. But the Knicks, I
Speaker 1: think people can relate to not having won since nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy three. I think people even like those blue collar
Speaker 1: Nick teams of the nineties that got to the finals,
Speaker 1: the John Starks to Patrick Ewings. Not a lot of
Speaker 1: hate able players, if you will. I think people still
Speaker 1: look fondly back on the Charles Oakley's and the Anthony
Speaker 1: Masons of the world. And I think, obviously when you
Speaker 1: go to the players on the team, Jalen Brunson being
Speaker 1: the best example of it, they're easy to root for players.
Speaker 1: Og Ananobi is an easy to root for a player, right.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of players on this team that
Speaker 1: are overly cocky, or overly showy, or feel like they're
Speaker 1: getting more money than they deserve. The fact that Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson took a one hundred million dollars pay cut to
Speaker 1: make sure that this team could reallocate some of those
Speaker 1: funds and put a better team around him. Look, I'm
Speaker 1: a Syracuse guy. I know we don't play Villanova too
Speaker 1: much anymore, but I do not I'm not inherently a
Speaker 1: Villanova fan. One of the Villanova championships they won with
Speaker 1: Brunson and co We were in the final four, ended
Speaker 1: up losing in the final four and not playing Villanova.
Speaker 1: Villanova ends up winning one of their two championships that
Speaker 1: they win with Brunson and Hart and I just or
Speaker 1: was it Brunston and Bridges and two of them one two?
Speaker 1: One of them one one? And I just so, I'm
Speaker 1: not predisposed to liking Villanova or any success that Villanova has,
Speaker 1: but that being said, the fact that these three have
Speaker 1: been together since college and one in college and now
Speaker 1: ten years later, one together on the Knicks, and honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm a Jew, so I shouldn't care about this, but
Speaker 1: that the Pope went to Villanova, Like, that's awesome. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm not, I'm predisposed to not really
Speaker 1: loving Villanova, but but like to me, that's such a
Speaker 1: cool part of this story, I think, And so just
Speaker 1: all this, I think made it one of those things
Speaker 1: where the country and the city, the city especially, but
Speaker 1: the country as a whole basketball fans at a hole
Speaker 1: were really able to get behind this team and the
Speaker 1: series and up against the perfect adversaries in what I
Speaker 1: think in a vacuum at least going into the finals.
Speaker 1: Was also a fairly likable team in the Spurs. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're rooting for the Knicks in particular, I think
Speaker 1: coming out of the series, they're not as likable Wemby especially,
Speaker 1: a lot of those fouls, a lot of you know
Speaker 1: not you know, shaking hands at the end, a lot
Speaker 1: of the sulk things like that. But I mean this
Speaker 1: happened randomly. I did not mean this to be the case,
Speaker 1: but on paper. I went to two Knicks games this year,
Speaker 1: which actually is a lot for me because, as I said,
Speaker 1: the garden is not an easy place to get into.
Speaker 1: So the first game I went to was at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season. Our our first grade parent get
Speaker 1: together was that a box at the garden. One of
Speaker 1: the parents, who has a box at the garden was
Speaker 1: very nice to have us instead of going to their apartment.
Speaker 1: The parents we got to go to the opening game
Speaker 1: against the Caves this year, so I went to the
Speaker 1: first game of the season, and then I took Brock
Speaker 1: to see them play in Brooklyn against the Nets because
Speaker 1: it's so much more affordable to go there, so that
Speaker 1: should tell you something about just how hard it is
Speaker 1: to get tickets or pay for tickets here in New
Speaker 1: York City. And this is before we won the championship.
Speaker 1: Next year is going to be even worse and harder.
Speaker 1: So I did two Knicks games this year, which for
Speaker 1: me is a lot. But I also randomly went to
Speaker 1: three Spurs games this year, all on the road. When
Speaker 1: I was in Phoenix for Olivia's baby shower, they happened
Speaker 1: to be in town playing the Suns, and so Pierre
Speaker 1: and I went to that. Then a couple of weeks later,
Speaker 1: when we were in Orlando working with the Magic, of
Speaker 1: course we were guests of the Magic, they played the
Speaker 1: Spurs as well. Wemby was hurt, but the rest of
Speaker 1: the team played. And then when we did our Sixers night,
Speaker 1: we also saw them play the Spurs, and Wemby did
Speaker 1: play at that. So I randomly saw this team three
Speaker 1: times this year. I actually put in a bet for
Speaker 1: them to win the championship back in February when they
Speaker 1: were twenty four to one. Well it was a little
Speaker 1: less than that, and then I had like a boost.
Speaker 1: It was when all these sites were doing their boosts. Ironically,
Speaker 1: this is kind of a humble brag. I had two.
Speaker 1: There were only ten dollars bets, but I had two
Speaker 1: finals futures bets that I made in February when fan
Speaker 1: Duel and Fanatics did their boosts for Finals winners, I
Speaker 1: had the Spurs and I had the Knicks, and so
Speaker 1: going into the Finals, I was kind of good either way.
Speaker 1: The Knicks ended up with the boost was sixteen to
Speaker 1: one and the Spurs would have been twenty four. Would
Speaker 1: have been twenty four to one, but obviously the Knicks
Speaker 1: prevail anyway. So I got a front row seat, not literally,
Speaker 1: but I got a good look at the Spurs throughout
Speaker 1: the year, and I mean, this team is going to
Speaker 1: win some championships, not even just because of Wemby. I
Speaker 1: mean the Stefan Castle is great. These guards, these wing
Speaker 1: plays four, they're so physical, they're great, They're good defenders,
Speaker 1: but they're also you can't leave them open like Dylan Harper,
Speaker 1: Parker Brian who didn't even play too much. Vasel Champagne
Speaker 1: like just a really great workhorse of a team that
Speaker 1: I I mean, look like, what was awesome about the
Speaker 1: Knicks getting by them this year is I think experience
Speaker 1: one out. I think tenacity won out things like that
Speaker 1: intangibles if you will. But That'spurs team when they get
Speaker 1: a couple more years of experience, and I think this
Speaker 1: finals run probably counts as like a year of experience.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if it even happens. Next year,
Speaker 1: they're gonna win some chips and and what I'll say
Speaker 1: this is right now, it's easy to say that because
Speaker 1: the Knicks won, so okay, cool but and I get
Speaker 1: that a lot of people hate Wemby. He's the big
Speaker 1: villain this, that and the other thing. But they are
Speaker 1: a team and hopefully it's the Knicks and this burs
Speaker 1: again next year. Wouldn't mind seeing him again. And it
Speaker 1: becomes this great rivalry because remember that was the last
Speaker 1: team we played in the finals was in ninety nine,
Speaker 1: was the tim And and Robinson Spurs. And so look,
Speaker 1: maybe this goes on to be a great Celtics and
Speaker 1: Lakers type rivalry in seasons to come. But man, is
Speaker 1: it like a cool feeling here in New York. And
Speaker 1: now we rode that right into the World Cup, which
Speaker 1: has been really fun and just like a really fun,
Speaker 1: fun just feeling in the air this last few weeks
Speaker 1: here in the city that I think, I mean even
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe I'm just like maybe it's just like
Speaker 1: my Twitter feed or whatever, but like I feel like
Speaker 1: it's kind of bled into the rest of the internet
Speaker 1: too and the sports world. So now all we need
Speaker 1: is the Challenge, am I right? Can we get the
Speaker 1: challenge back? But I will say, like the Challenge of
Speaker 1: it was on now would be kind of getting drowned
Speaker 1: out by the World Cup and the nix of it all.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but now we are, I think ready for
Speaker 1: the for the Challenge, So maybe that's what they're waiting for.
Speaker 1: Maybe they aren't waiting for the end of the World
Speaker 1: Cup now that I think about it. All right, another
Speaker 1: break to hear from our sponsors and we will be
Speaker 1: back finally taking your questions from challengemaniacs dot com. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go, Scott, here to take your questions from
Speaker 1: challenge at maniacs dot com. If you ever have a question,
Speaker 1: that's where you can submit them. Cm Tierney says Scott.
Speaker 1: How much of a go fund Me will it take
Speaker 1: to eliminate the quote mister apprentice impersonations. I can't have
Speaker 1: him bleeding into my safe space anymore. You guys are
Speaker 1: my escape from the real real world. Thank you and
Speaker 1: see you in Detroit. Ah Man. I feel bad because
Speaker 1: it's kind to become a tick of mine. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I I find myself saying things that are
Speaker 1: in his kind of cadence, Like I find myself saying,
Speaker 1: we love this, but like I, instead of just saying
Speaker 1: it in my voice, I will then sort of have
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that I'm saying we love the nixt but
Speaker 1: anyway out of the next you know, so I do
Speaker 1: get that I'm saying it more and more. I think
Speaker 1: the more high nuones or white claws I have, it
Speaker 1: comes out more and more. And then, of course, if
Speaker 1: you saw the roast of car Maria now that I'll
Speaker 1: say so the ros Carmeria, which I love. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'd love to get some more of your feedback on that.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a great time. Looking forward to
Speaker 1: doing more roast in the future, maybe about one a year.
Speaker 1: But obviously Carl Maria has been so kind of intrinsically
Speaker 1: linked to the Orange Men, if you will, as you
Speaker 1: called him, mister apprentice, and so I had this idea
Speaker 1: to kind of write a roast bit sort of Trump
Speaker 1: roasting her that I at first when I wrote it,
Speaker 1: was just going to do it myself because I have, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I think a decent maybe a six out
Speaker 1: of a ten Trump impression. But then I thought about it,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm not going to dress like him.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to put a wig on, like it's
Speaker 1: only going to be so good just being audible and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And the night before actually or no, the day before,
Speaker 1: around lunchtime, I got the idea, well, what if I
Speaker 1: could find somebody on cameo and they were willing to
Speaker 1: more or less read my script for Beta, maybe they
Speaker 1: can throw some of their own sauce on there. Fine,
Speaker 1: I found this guy, he's at Nola Trump on Instagram,
Speaker 1: and I found him on Cameo. I paid the extra
Speaker 1: fee to have it turned over in twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: and I sent him my script. Now, you're not allowed
Speaker 1: to send somebody a script for cameo the way that
Speaker 1: they kind of prevent that as there's a character limit
Speaker 1: on the notes you can give. So what I did
Speaker 1: was and this worked perfectly, and it's kind of a
Speaker 1: hack if you ever want to get around this for cameos.
Speaker 1: I took my script. I went into chat GPT and
Speaker 1: I kind of turned it into a graphic where it
Speaker 1: essentially looked like a graphic or a flyer that had
Speaker 1: bullet pointed my script. And then in my notes I said,
Speaker 1: please read the script exactly if you don't mind, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Whatever. Paid the extra fee, He turns it
Speaker 1: over in less than twenty four hours, gets it in
Speaker 1: time for the rows, knocks it out of the park.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought, he I do you know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to take all the credit. I take credit
Speaker 1: for kind of writing the jokes in it, but man,
Speaker 1: did he He brought an impression to it that I
Speaker 1: that is way better than mine. He dressed up like him,
Speaker 1: He looked like him, And I get, you know, CM Tierney,
Speaker 1: you guys are some people. And I know this because
Speaker 1: I read a lot of comments when we posted this,
Speaker 1: who are just they just hate the guy so much
Speaker 1: that even seeing the guy when in this kind of
Speaker 1: comedic forum bothers them. And that's fine. I get that
Speaker 1: he's you know, said and done a lot of things
Speaker 1: that makes it impossible to even enjoy comedy that involved him.
Speaker 1: But to me, like, you know, I can watch SNL
Speaker 1: and see a sketch that's poking fun at someone who
Speaker 1: I'm not personally a fan of, and I'm not like
Speaker 1: not able to enjoy it because I'm not a fan
Speaker 1: of the person that they're mocking. So I found this
Speaker 1: to be both mocking him and obviously Kara and a
Speaker 1: nice way to bleed that into the rows. So all
Speaker 1: that is to say, I will try to scale it back,
Speaker 1: but no promises, because as I said, it is a
Speaker 1: bit of a becoming a bit of a tick for me.
Speaker 1: But duly noted. And back to the impersonator, by the way,
Speaker 1: if you ever need that, I would say, definitely hit
Speaker 1: him up on social media or cameo for any of
Speaker 1: your Trump impersonator needs, because he really did knock it
Speaker 1: out of the park, and then after he did it,
Speaker 1: he said, oh my god, now I'm putting it together.
Speaker 1: Carl Maria Pauley, I'm a fan of the show. He
Speaker 1: might even come to our New Orleans event, because I
Speaker 1: believe he is based in New Orleans. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's gonna come completely dressed up and made up
Speaker 1: like Trump, but I think he is going to come
Speaker 1: say hi. So could not give him more of a
Speaker 1: five star review Nola Trump, he really knocked it out
Speaker 1: of the park, and I just you know, again, I
Speaker 1: look to each their own if if you hate the
Speaker 1: guy that much, which if you've listened to this podcast
Speaker 1: since we've started, I am not a fan, but I
Speaker 1: do think there's a difference between being able to make
Speaker 1: fun of someone or joke about them or impersonate them
Speaker 1: and it not be like an endorsement of them. But
Speaker 1: I do get, as you're saying, Cmtirny, that you're looking
Speaker 1: for sort of an escape and even hearing his voice
Speaker 1: in impersonation for him is triggering to you. So I apologize.
Speaker 1: Here's the flip side of that, though, Chrissy writes in
Speaker 1: says voice acting request, can you give us a generic
Speaker 1: Trump voice insult that I can clip and send to
Speaker 1: my friends every time they're experiencing self doubt so that
Speaker 1: they so they can tell that inner voice to fuck
Speaker 1: write off something like you'll never pull this off. You're
Speaker 1: a total loser. It's sad, really Okay, So CM Tierney,
Speaker 1: maybe fast forward fifteen seconds, but here you go, chrisy
Speaker 1: By by request, you'll never pull this off. You're a
Speaker 1: total loser. It's sad. Really, it's sad. I talk to
Speaker 1: you friend, Chrissy. Chrissy. Chrissy is quite the friend because
Speaker 1: Chrissy knows it's sad. You're a loser, you'll never get
Speaker 1: it together. Well, prove Chrissy wrong. Can you do that
Speaker 1: for me? I don't know. See, it's not even that
Speaker 1: perfect all the time. That's why I also wanted to
Speaker 1: have the impersonator do it, because I felt like it
Speaker 1: was a lot of copy for me to get to
Speaker 1: while nailing the impression. So, you know, Bill says, if
Speaker 1: you could relive any calendar year of pro wrestling for
Speaker 1: the first time, which year would you choose? You'd be
Speaker 1: able to attend those live events, watch pay per views,
Speaker 1: weekly shows, et cetera, like it is happening again for
Speaker 1: the first time. All right, So a couple of answers
Speaker 1: here that I'll use separately because I want to be
Speaker 1: specific ages during the year, all right, because my favorite
Speaker 1: year of wrestling in a vacuum is nineteen ninety two. Okay.
Speaker 1: But and while it would be fascinating to relive nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety two as an adult, to maybe was like sort
Speaker 1: of plugged into the dirt sheets and stuff, which of
Speaker 1: course weren't readily available back then. But what I really
Speaker 1: loved about nineteen ninety two was the suspension of disbelief
Speaker 1: that I had as a seven year old when I
Speaker 1: lived through nineteen ninety two. Now, even to this day,
Speaker 1: it contains two of my favorite events of all time,
Speaker 1: My two favorite WWF events ever a Royal Rumble nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety two, which I think to this day is the
Speaker 1: best single hour and fifteen minutes of wrestling you can
Speaker 1: watch if you want to go back and just live
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety two and see who's who of that
Speaker 1: year and those stars at the top of w WF
Speaker 1: ending of course with Rick Flair winning the thing, but
Speaker 1: it's got sid and Hogan and Slaughter and Piper and
Speaker 1: HBK and Bulldog and Texas Tornado and you know, Macho,
Speaker 1: and it's just an amazing who's who Undertaker. It's great
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two Royal Rumble, and then SummerSlam nineteen ninety two,
Speaker 1: which took place at Wimbley Stadium and was just an
Speaker 1: amazing event that ended with an IC title match Bulldog
Speaker 1: and Brett. You've heard me talk about that before. I
Speaker 1: love that too, so to be able to just go
Speaker 1: to those two and buy all the merch by all
Speaker 1: the Summer Slam ninety two merch which I've gotten on
Speaker 1: eBay over the years, will be able to just buy
Speaker 1: it there and hang on to it. Hopefully I'd do
Speaker 1: ninety two. But I'd almost want to relive it as
Speaker 1: a kid. So I'd want to relive it as like
Speaker 1: a kid who was able to go to all that
Speaker 1: stuff and have good seats and stuff. But I'm somewhere
Speaker 1: between seven and thirteen or whatever. And then also to
Speaker 1: just pick a different year as well, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: somewhere in that attitude era where WCW and WWF were
Speaker 1: really kicking austin three sixteen and WWF and WO and WCW.
Speaker 1: But I'd want to relive that as a teenager, you know,
Speaker 1: as a you know, late middle school, early high school,
Speaker 1: giving the finger on the playground, stunning people in the hallway,
Speaker 1: telling teachers to suck it kind of kid. But also
Speaker 1: again have the like brock lesnar Guy seats or whatever
Speaker 1: you know, would be cool. By the way, man, for
Speaker 1: anyone who's listening to this, who knows who Brocklesner Guy is, man,
Speaker 1: is that guy absolutely cringe. By the way, he's good
Speaker 1: friends with Frank the Clown, and so I see he's
Speaker 1: like getting involved in indie shows now and things like that.
Speaker 1: And first of all, maybe I'm just a little jealou.
Speaker 1: He has the great seats for all the shows, but
Speaker 1: anytime he does something super cringe, I just text for
Speaker 1: the clown. I'm like, check your boy. Here. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to another break and come back and take
Speaker 1: more of your questions from challengemaniacs dot com because this
Speaker 1: is challenge accepted. All right, here we go more of
Speaker 1: your questions from Challenge Maniacs dot com. April says, if
Speaker 1: you could cast a good Guys Versus Badasses aka Inferno
Speaker 1: two with new people for more of the worlds to
Speaker 1: current who to choose top three males, top three females
Speaker 1: each So good guys. Sorry, when I hear good guys,
Speaker 1: I think of a few recent names. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: think Jeremy Jearemy's kind of the epitome of a good guy. Right.
Speaker 1: I think Cedric, who we're gonna have this weekend in
Speaker 1: both Portland and in Seattle. He feels like a good guy.
Speaker 1: Go back a little further. I think Jos kind of
Speaker 1: comes off as a good guy if you will, So
Speaker 1: I'll go those with my three guys. I think those
Speaker 1: are pretty interesting names there. Obviously, when it comes to OG's,
Speaker 1: I'll throw in some of those. I think Derek is
Speaker 1: sort of the epitome of a good guy. I think
Speaker 1: Brad is sort of the epitome of a good guy
Speaker 1: when it comes to the ogs, and maybe Durell. You
Speaker 1: know those those feel like good guys if you will.
Speaker 1: Now let's go badasses. I'm gonna go females after. But
Speaker 1: bad asses, uh so sort of sit a little vindictive, maybe,
Speaker 1: whether it's on the strategy end or the fighting end
Speaker 1: or whatever. I think Will is kind of maybe a
Speaker 1: badass when it comes to the newer guys, maybe Will
Speaker 1: is more of that uh, maybe that got that edge
Speaker 1: to them that those other guys I mentioned don't have turbo.
Speaker 1: I would throw in there, I think, and uh, and
Speaker 1: maybe THEO. I think THEO is kind of on the cusp,
Speaker 1: And I'll throw Paulie in there as well. I think
Speaker 1: Paulie is kind of the epitome of badass, even if
Speaker 1: some of you guys hate the guy. But that's kind
Speaker 1: of where I'm going with it as well. O g wise,
Speaker 1: I think badass, you gotta go West, you gotta go Johnny,
Speaker 1: and then throw ct in there as well. And then
Speaker 1: on the female end, so newer females who I think
Speaker 1: are are good guys. So let's start with the badasses,
Speaker 1: because I think that's almost easier with some of the
Speaker 1: females here badasses, I think. Now here's the thing. So
Speaker 1: there's two names that kind of jumped out of me
Speaker 1: first as badass, but I think it's sort of in
Speaker 1: the ivy beholder. I think they could probably be put
Speaker 1: on both teams, which maybe says maybe they wouldn't be
Speaker 1: good for either. But Olivia and Nourice I think are
Speaker 1: sort of you could kind of plug in place them
Speaker 1: depending on who you ask. Are they a badass? Are
Speaker 1: they a good guy? She's she's sort of disliked by
Speaker 1: a segment of the Challenge fans, but I think Michelle
Speaker 1: is sort of the utmost good guy. So I put
Speaker 1: Michelle on the good guys, but on the badass flip side,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Sydney. I think badass a good guy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Adrianne. I think she's sort of the
Speaker 1: epitome of a of a good guy. Mikayla, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put on the badass end Avive is an OG good
Speaker 1: guy for sure. I think Toy I'm gonna she's an OG,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna put her in good guy. Let's think
Speaker 1: of one more here. New Amber I think is definitely
Speaker 1: a good guy. And then uh in og badass. You
Speaker 1: gotta go, Ashley Mitchell, you gotta go Amber, I mean
Speaker 1: not Amber, you gotta go Amanda as well. So there's
Speaker 1: some answers there for you. Ben says, have you ever
Speaker 1: watched Australian Survivor? In my opinion, miles better than American Survivor,
Speaker 1: although hard to find online, worth it once you do,
Speaker 1: gameplay so much better. It's more like classic American Survivor. Look,
Speaker 1: I hear this from everyone what you just said. There
Speaker 1: hard to find online. That's what gets in my way.
Speaker 1: I need to be able to easily like pick up
Speaker 1: and click it where I left off and things like that.
Speaker 1: So if it's not on a streamer where I can
Speaker 1: just be like constantly like picking it up, and if
Speaker 1: it's on like you know, daily motion or YouTube or
Speaker 1: whatever where it keeps getting you know, I have to
Speaker 1: start over or find this or there are different you know,
Speaker 1: aspect ratios. That's enough to prevent me from watching it.
Speaker 1: So I will say it's hard for me to get
Speaker 1: into it. I've always wanted to go back and watch
Speaker 1: Grayson Waller season. For those of guys don't know, Grayson
Speaker 1: Waller started on Survivor Australia. I've wanted to do that.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, my family is currently rewatching Rob sister
Speaker 1: Nino's first episode of Survivor. Lindsay's watching with Brock and
Speaker 1: it's amazing how different of a show was back then.
Speaker 1: There's like nudity, and Lindsay even said like they picked
Speaker 1: it because it's Rob season, but like that, ironically, it's
Speaker 1: a terrible season to be watching with your with your
Speaker 1: seven year old bad Bobby says, with Jordan's champ camp
Speaker 1: and Lee Roy's run tell that five K. Have you
Speaker 1: guys thought about doing live interactive events? Okay, so we
Speaker 1: do some. I mean so we obviously do Chicago Bowls.
Speaker 1: We've done bowling events where you do get to bowl
Speaker 1: alongside us. That's obviously something that we have at our disposal.
Speaker 1: Looks for a relationship with Bolero, which is great. We
Speaker 1: did an event at up Down in Nashville one of
Speaker 1: the times where you guys got to play some kind
Speaker 1: of whether they were video games or tabletop games and
Speaker 1: things like that. But as far as the really physical
Speaker 1: stuff where you're you're essentially like running a tough mutter
Speaker 1: or this or that whatever, No, that's actually not something
Speaker 1: that interests me on a wide scale of like having
Speaker 1: you guys be able to do I mean, look, stuff
Speaker 1: like trivia things like that. Maybe some sort of a
Speaker 1: stage version of Traders kind of thing. Whatever. Fine, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe not maybe that, but the physical I mean no,
Speaker 1: it's just like, you know, when Jordan's started doing champ Camp,
Speaker 1: I could not have been less jealous of something. Although
Speaker 1: I am so happy for him, proud of him, and
Speaker 1: I think it's really badass, it's just not the thing
Speaker 1: that I would be good at or would want to
Speaker 1: be responsible for, you know, just the added just I
Speaker 1: mean all the added work, all the added labor, and
Speaker 1: the fact that then it comes down to all the
Speaker 1: added sort of things that come with doing something that's
Speaker 1: physical on that wide of a scale where you have
Speaker 1: a lot of quote unquote no offense, regular folks taking
Speaker 1: part in physical activity, so and then run tell that.
Speaker 1: Look I again, I'm super happy for Leroy and I
Speaker 1: think he's, you know, such a great entrepreneur already, he's
Speaker 1: got one down. If you saw pictures from that, look
Speaker 1: like it did really well. You know, I hope to
Speaker 1: attend one or two. I'm an elliptical guy. I can't,
Speaker 1: you know, I for whatever reason, it's like I'm not
Speaker 1: a big outdoor runner. You know, things start bouncing around
Speaker 1: in my pockets. I can never get comfortable this, that
Speaker 1: and the other thing. But I do about a five
Speaker 1: k on the elliptical every day, which again I know
Speaker 1: is not the same running is way better for you.
Speaker 1: But that's also, you know, something I love that he's
Speaker 1: doing because it's just again like another thing that we
Speaker 1: are not necessarily looking to provide. I will tease though,
Speaker 1: that Mark and I are and have been working on
Speaker 1: something that is not quite this. This isn't something that
Speaker 1: that the bad Bobbies of the world would be able
Speaker 1: to participate in, and this would be more in line
Speaker 1: with what we do as far as ticketed events that
Speaker 1: you'd be able to attend, but it would be more
Speaker 1: of a physical presentation than the average kind of Q
Speaker 1: and a presentation, and it's something we're working on that
Speaker 1: we're hoping to start teasing soon. We shot some content
Speaker 1: for it recently, just to kind of, you know, put
Speaker 1: some information, get people excited about it, and then hopefully
Speaker 1: within the next year so we might be able to
Speaker 1: put one on. But that would still be more you
Speaker 1: guys buying tickets, showing up and watching people from TV
Speaker 1: shows doing stuff. But instead of just us talking about
Speaker 1: the show, maybe we're doing a little bit of the
Speaker 1: show in front of you. So stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1: I think that's something that you guys might really enjoy.
Speaker 1: All right? Next question is this one is in memory
Speaker 1: and in honor of the great evil Paul, who of
Speaker 1: course is no longer with us, but totally would have
Speaker 1: written in this question, he says. Scott thoughts on her
Speaker 1: niece's comment recently or not even recently? You're a month
Speaker 1: ago was when this episode dropped, but recently her comments
Speaker 1: about her and Travis Kelcey got the Internet in a tizzy,
Speaker 1: many folks claiming that she made it up. What say you?
Speaker 1: All right, So I will touch on this. I want
Speaker 1: to be respectful of a niece's privacy, but I also
Speaker 1: kind of want to stand up for her because I
Speaker 1: think sadly she's getting it from both ends. She's got
Speaker 1: the Swifties on one side not loving her because in
Speaker 1: addition to what she kind of alluded to with her
Speaker 1: and Travis Kelcey's passed you, I believe said she doesn't
Speaker 1: like Taylor Swift. Look you know me, I love Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: I did a whole podcast, Taylor Mania on her. I
Speaker 1: went to see her live. I am a swiftye. My
Speaker 1: daughter's room as I believe, four signed Taylor album covers
Speaker 1: on the wall, So I will never say a bad
Speaker 1: word about her. I think she's great. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: she said that again a month ago. Two months ago
Speaker 1: is actually when we recorded it. We dropped it I
Speaker 1: believe at the end of May on Patreon and then
Speaker 1: made it to the feed I think June first, and
Speaker 1: then finally, for whatever reason, someone whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: John Ryan, or whether it's or whether it's Pink Rose
Speaker 1: or somebody posted it where it got on enough people's
Speaker 1: radar where the Swifties found it and they started ripping
Speaker 1: her a new one. And then sadly it felt like
Speaker 1: the the challenge people were also not necessarily on her
Speaker 1: side either, and we're kind of picking her apart and
Speaker 1: making jokes at her expense and questioning the validity of
Speaker 1: her statement. Now here's what I will say. I also saw,
Speaker 1: by the way I will stick up for her in
Speaker 1: this regard. I saw like a very just fake fabricated
Speaker 1: statement about someone claiming to be a sports journalist who
Speaker 1: interviewed her at an All Star game. She's never been
Speaker 1: to an All Star games, so that's a lie, and
Speaker 1: that the person randomly asked her about Taylor and Travis,
Speaker 1: and that she had said she had never met either
Speaker 1: one of them. Here's what I said. Here's what I
Speaker 1: will say. This is my two cents, and you can
Speaker 1: choose whether or not you want to believe me. Okay,
Speaker 1: I will tell you for certain that long before he
Speaker 1: and Taylor were ever a thing or were even rumored
Speaker 1: to be together, or he even like reached out to
Speaker 1: her via his podcast or whatever he had did, showed
Speaker 1: up to her show whatever, back when he and so
Speaker 1: this was around. I mean, this would have been twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one or earlier. Okay, back when he was you
Speaker 1: gotta remember before her and before the podcast, and he
Speaker 1: was a tight end who I believe at that time
Speaker 1: had not even won the Super Bowl yet, right, so,
Speaker 1: and no offense to you casual listeners, but I think
Speaker 1: you can all agree that unless you're like a fantasy
Speaker 1: football junkie or somebody who gambles a lot, which you
Speaker 1: couldn't even gamble in most states back then, not many
Speaker 1: people are aware of like tight ends who even a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl tight end like, they're not household names. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's not a good looking guy, but at
Speaker 1: the time he wasn't even necessarily one of the thirty
Speaker 1: most famous people in the league. Okay, and all the
Speaker 1: way back then, she said something similar to me that
Speaker 1: what she says on the podcast, so it you know,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't like for cloud or likes or clicks
Speaker 1: or whatever. She never said it on an episode. She
Speaker 1: said it. We were like out to dinner or we
Speaker 1: were out after a show or something like that, and
Speaker 1: she said it, and I probably asked a follo up
Speaker 1: question or two and that was it. And I didn't
Speaker 1: question it at all, because remember, so take the oh
Speaker 1: she's from the challenge out of it and whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just say she's a random woman who you know,
Speaker 1: lives in Philadelphia, who if you remember what her career
Speaker 1: was before or even simultaneously while doing the challenge in
Speaker 1: years past. Was Okay, think of how believable this sounds, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, wouldn't you wouldn't you say that it is
Speaker 1: very likely that a NFL tight end, by the way,
Speaker 1: who is not one of the most thirty richest or
Speaker 1: famous or more sought after players or superstars or celebrities
Speaker 1: in the league, who could probably navigate through life pretty
Speaker 1: easily showing up places and not even having pictures taken
Speaker 1: of them whatever, And maybe he has frequented a club
Speaker 1: or a bar to whatever. Don't you think that over
Speaker 1: the course of their life and career these people have
Speaker 1: slept with like hundreds and hundreds of women, Like I'm
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just just hear that sentence and tell
Speaker 1: me if that sounds fake or false, right, Okay, So
Speaker 1: when I tell you that for a fact, in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one or before I was told this, that this
Speaker 1: happened and in which and again this is pre him
Speaker 1: being the most famous fiance in the world, it didn't
Speaker 1: sound weird or even noteworthy at all, Like it sounded
Speaker 1: like a you know, like I mean, you hear stories
Speaker 1: all the time of random person X, happened asleep with
Speaker 1: random athlete or random person be and and again. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it jumps out of you, like when you hear about
Speaker 1: your show and Leonardo Kapri, You're like, wow, Leonardo kaeper whatever.
Speaker 1: But again when you hear the story, you're like, Okay, believable. Fine,
Speaker 1: this didn't sound unbelievable in the slightest the first time
Speaker 1: I heard it. Now, in the defense of the swift
Speaker 1: army and in defense of anyone hearing this for the
Speaker 1: first time in twenty twenty six, when he is a
Speaker 1: marrying the most famous and wealthy musician in the world,
Speaker 1: he has a huge successful podcast, and he is on
Speaker 1: paper probably would feel like one of the most sought
Speaker 1: after coveted men in the world. Right. I get that
Speaker 1: hearing this now you would question the validity or why
Speaker 1: would he sleep with any random women, let alone whomever? Right,
Speaker 1: But you have to remember that this is not when
Speaker 1: this happened. This happened long ago, long before I even
Speaker 1: heard about it, which was long before he even met her,
Speaker 1: which is way back when it not only felt like
Speaker 1: a believable story, but was and is a very believable
Speaker 1: story that if you're asking me, definitely happened. Now, Should
Speaker 1: she have chosen her words a little wiselier or wiser
Speaker 1: and maybe not disparaged Taylor? Yes, because, as I said,
Speaker 1: I love Taylor, so any swift he's are listening, I'm
Speaker 1: one of you. But also I think that now that
Speaker 1: information is going to feel and breathe a little differently
Speaker 1: and have people a questioning the validity or even just
Speaker 1: the people who love them as a couple and are
Speaker 1: excited to see them. I apparently get married in a
Speaker 1: month or two. Here, they don't even want to hear
Speaker 1: you talking about that or claiming that. So that's why
Speaker 1: I think there are so many people who are up
Speaker 1: in arms about it, are mad at her about it,
Speaker 1: for saying it, for doing it, and for in any
Speaker 1: way tainting the lovely legacy of this newly married couple.
Speaker 1: But I guarantee you there are a hundred other women
Speaker 1: who could probably say something similar and probably have or
Speaker 1: do on podcasts, and I'm sure they're treated similarly. So anyway,
Speaker 1: you know, we offer her a little bit. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, yeah, not a group of people I
Speaker 1: want to have against me and cover your ears cm
Speaker 1: Tyranny because we love Taylor. We love Taylor Swift, No,
Speaker 1: we really do. I do love Taylor Swift and they're
Speaker 1: a great couple. But before they were a couple, they
Speaker 1: were two single people. Then, let's be honest, probably gone
Speaker 1: around so especially him, who was a middling tight end
Speaker 1: for several years of his life, who I'm sure traveled
Speaker 1: to many a city and had many of fun evening
Speaker 1: and you know, those women should should feel proud about
Speaker 1: having done that, especially after you know, when you see
Speaker 1: who he's become professionally, you know, socially, and obviously now he's,
Speaker 1: like I said, one of the most famous beyonces in
Speaker 1: the world. All Right, one more break, we'll come back
Speaker 1: with some more questions and then we'll get out of here.
Speaker 1: All right, last segment here on challenge Excepted Mary says,
Speaker 1: what movies have you liked so far this year? Scott?
Speaker 1: Have you seen Backrooms or Obsession? Okay, I have not
Speaker 1: seen Obsession yet. I wish I'd gone to see that.
Speaker 1: When I was in Sacramento. I had some time to
Speaker 1: kill on Sunday morning, and I went to see back rooms.
Speaker 1: And here's what I'll say about back rooms. I love
Speaker 1: it as a thing, right, I love it as like
Speaker 1: this sign of that, like you know, a viral internet
Speaker 1: campaign turned you know, YouTube thing can turn into a
Speaker 1: movie that stars a couple of reputable actors. But they
Speaker 1: let the guy who was you know, inexperienced on the
Speaker 1: big screen, but you know, very talented make the movie
Speaker 1: and then it comes out and swinging and makes three
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars or whatever it did. I love that.
Speaker 1: Love that for you guys, love that for who's gonna
Speaker 1: go see the ten sequels. The movie itself was not
Speaker 1: for me. It just doesn't come together in a way
Speaker 1: that makes enough sense for me. There's no twist, And
Speaker 1: while I appreciated sort of the filmmaking and the suspense
Speaker 1: and aspects of the performance and stuff, just not enough
Speaker 1: there for me to love it and like it and
Speaker 1: want more of it. But I totally respect the marketing
Speaker 1: and the you know. And similarly similarly so for Obsession,
Speaker 1: which I haven't even seen yet, but I hear because
Speaker 1: I've heard it described as sort of a romantic comedy
Speaker 1: disguised as a thriller horror movie, probably more of my alley.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to seeing that at some point.
Speaker 1: I did just recently see Disclosure Day, which you know,
Speaker 1: big Spielberg guy, didn't love it, didn't hate it, but
Speaker 1: did not love it. Went to a few movies at
Speaker 1: Tribeca Film Festival, which to me is more for the
Speaker 1: experience and getting to go to the premieres and see
Speaker 1: the cast and crew and things like that. Finally met
Speaker 1: Robert DeNiro. That was awesome. One of the movies I
Speaker 1: really liked that I saw is a movie I'd been
Speaker 1: hearing about for going on I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: years now, but at least a year that Mark Maren
Speaker 1: would constantly refer to on his podcast. So for those
Speaker 1: of you guys don't know Mark Maron, who is a
Speaker 1: stand up comedian who ironically is playing Helium this weekend
Speaker 1: and is there I think Friday and Saturday night, So
Speaker 1: if you're a Maren fan, I think it's sold out,
Speaker 1: but he's there after our show, so you can go
Speaker 1: to us on Saturday and then stay and see Mark.
Speaker 1: But he filmed this movie in the last few years
Speaker 1: that he had referred to on the podcast. It would
Speaker 1: always kind of like shorthand the log line about an
Speaker 1: actor who finds out he has terminal cancer and he's
Speaker 1: like kind of such an egotistical sleeves ball that the
Speaker 1: first thing on his mind is that he wants to
Speaker 1: make sure that he'll be in the Immamorium at the
Speaker 1: next Academy Awards, and his career is more TV based
Speaker 1: and things like that, and so he makes it sort
Speaker 1: of his last dying wish and mission to make sure
Speaker 1: he gets in the Immamorium, which is a very sort
Speaker 1: of self righteous mission to go on, but it's very
Speaker 1: funny while written. It's written by the former head writer
Speaker 1: of the David Letterman Show. Got some great performances, some
Speaker 1: great cameos. He has an a strange daughter that he
Speaker 1: reconnects with along the way, and then there becomes kind
Speaker 1: of the turmoil of whether he wants to get the
Speaker 1: treatment to stick around long enough to get to know
Speaker 1: her more, or whether he wants to make sure he
Speaker 1: dies before March so he can get in the Immemorium segment.
Speaker 1: And there's a scene with him and Sharon Stone that
Speaker 1: he would always talk about in the podcast about how
Speaker 1: he wasn't quite getting there and then she said something
Speaker 1: powerful to him that helps him cry, and things like that,
Speaker 1: and so this movie that I'd been hearing about through
Speaker 1: his podcast WTF, which is no longer with us. He
Speaker 1: stopped doing the pod at the end of last year,
Speaker 1: but was one of the formidable entries into long form
Speaker 1: interview podcasts. If he asked me, and although I didn't
Speaker 1: listen to every episode when he had a big guest on,
Speaker 1: I would often listen to it, and I think it
Speaker 1: is a big gaping hole in the podcast players these days.
Speaker 1: Premiered to Tribeca, so I got to go to that
Speaker 1: and see it and meet Mark and it was great.
Speaker 1: I really liked it. So I hope it gets to
Speaker 1: a streaming platform, hopefully Netflix, HBO or something like that,
Speaker 1: and you can check it out. IM Memoriam really enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: I forget if I have podcasted since I saw it,
Speaker 1: But I, like many people enjoyed Project Hail Mary. It
Speaker 1: was a little marshiny for me. It was a little
Speaker 1: like too much like The Martian I still think the
Speaker 1: Martians better. I do love Gossling and I liked the movie,
Speaker 1: but I didn't love it as much as everybody else.
Speaker 1: And I did see Mandalorian and Grow Goo and yeah,
Speaker 1: I just not for me. I got to go with
Speaker 1: Brock and I was happy he came because he can
Speaker 1: be kind of hit or missed with wanting to see
Speaker 1: that stuff. And he liked it, which is important and
Speaker 1: hopefully it gateways him into wine and watch more Star Wars.
Speaker 1: But yeah, not. I mean definitely felt like a three
Speaker 1: episodes smush together and Jeremy Allen White as the job
Speaker 1: of the hut kid did not work for me at all,
Speaker 1: just a weird combination of voice and performance and everything
Speaker 1: like that. We did just see Toy Story five, which
Speaker 1: I liked way more than four. I saw people talking
Speaker 1: about the Ron Tomato scores. Oh it's the lowest, it
Speaker 1: was still ninety two. Whatever. Even a bad toy story
Speaker 1: is good. It's like, go what to say about Survivor?
Speaker 1: Even a bad season of Survivor is good. Even a
Speaker 1: bad toy story is good. This isn't even a bad one.
Speaker 1: This is a solid one. I recommend it as a parent,
Speaker 1: especially a parent dealing with kids who love tablets and devices.
Speaker 1: Very poignant, very good, a lot of Jesse though it's
Speaker 1: basically Jesse's movie. It is definitely Jesse's movie. Any more
Speaker 1: questions here? Oh, Troy says Scott, how does it feel
Speaker 1: to have your own TOPS card and how did it
Speaker 1: come about? Yeah, so this is I think my first
Speaker 1: time podcasting since I think formally even revealing that I
Speaker 1: was getting a first Pitch card. And then obviously the
Speaker 1: card is now out and Top Series two twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six is out. You can get packs and boxes and
Speaker 1: things in your local Target and card shops and David
Speaker 1: Adams and Steele City and things like that, and so
Speaker 1: first pitch cards there are six of them in each series.
Speaker 1: So this six there's a woman from Love on the spectrum,
Speaker 1: there's Hayden Christiansen, the aforementioned Star Wars and Darth Vader,
Speaker 1: and then Jerry Seinfeld and then Maria Taylor as one
Speaker 1: other person, and then me. So we are the six people.
Speaker 1: I am by far the least famous, I believe, definitely
Speaker 1: by far the the least famous. How might be the
Speaker 1: least famous person to ever get a first Pitch card?
Speaker 1: But man, is it a dream come true. I'm not
Speaker 1: like a professional card collector, but I do love collecting cards,
Speaker 1: and especially now with with Brock and everything like that,
Speaker 1: and so and look, and I've gotten to live vicariously
Speaker 1: through a lot of the cast members. By the way
Speaker 1: for the last few years, helping get them into Tops
Speaker 1: Allen and Ginter, which leads me to your fall up
Speaker 1: question about how it come about. So a really really
Speaker 1: good friend of mine, Keith, works at TOPS, and that
Speaker 1: is not the end all be all of this. It's
Speaker 1: not like he I mean, he's I mean, he's got
Speaker 1: a great job over there, but he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: job where he can just like, you know, get his
Speaker 1: friend's cards. Keith and I met in a very cute way,
Speaker 1: by the way, about ten years ago. I went to
Speaker 1: a Ring of Honor show here in New York City,
Speaker 1: bought a random ticket last minute on ticket Master, and
Speaker 1: I show up to the seat and this you know
Speaker 1: kid who's ten years younger than me, says, oh, you
Speaker 1: bought my ticket, and so we friends ever since. Actually,
Speaker 1: but so, uh, what what Tops does do is in
Speaker 1: their Alan Ginter line, Uh, they put not just baseball
Speaker 1: players but celebrities of you know, musicians and chefs and
Speaker 1: bands and uh, comedians and reality stars and things like that.
Speaker 1: And uh that's the line that you know, previously Johnny
Speaker 1: Bananas had been in it and TJ. Lavin had been
Speaker 1: in it, but by coming to our shows, uh, because
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, Keith's a good friend of mine.
Speaker 1: He come to a few of our shows in New York,
Speaker 1: and I believe he brought some people from the Island
Speaker 1: Ginter Line and things of that, and and and anyway,
Speaker 1: they kind of saw like, oh my god, people love
Speaker 1: this these we should get some of these people in
Speaker 1: the Alan Ginter And that's when the first year we
Speaker 1: were able to get ct and Derek in there. And
Speaker 1: then you know the next year it's like, okay, who
Speaker 1: can we go with this year? Okay, what about Wes,
Speaker 1: Carl Maria Godfather, Mark Long, Mark Long who had thrown
Speaker 1: out a first pitch. The way they do these deals
Speaker 1: at tops is like you know, when when they they
Speaker 1: they try to like tack other things on. So if
Speaker 1: you've like, you know, let's say, let's say you're getting
Speaker 1: an Allen Ginter card, but you're also in Marvel Movie
Speaker 1: and they also now have the Marvel rights, like you know,
Speaker 1: they'll kind of want to get you for both where
Speaker 1: because you know, to get you to sign the cards.
Speaker 1: Like not only do they get your like you know,
Speaker 1: likeness and name and stuff from having the overall deal
Speaker 1: with Marvel, but to get you to physically sign the cards.
Speaker 1: They need to pay you specifically as well, so you
Speaker 1: know when they are multiple uses out of people, it's great.
Speaker 1: So Mark Long last year in Series two got a
Speaker 1: first pitch card from the first pitching throughout at the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks game with us. And this year and then Michelle
Speaker 1: as well, I helped get her in there. And and
Speaker 1: when I say helped, I mean it's like they have
Speaker 1: to want the person, right, Like you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to use a name, but if I said, you know,
Speaker 1: you guys want Chet Cannon, you know, they would just
Speaker 1: say no. It wouldn't matter, right. But they have a
Speaker 1: lot of fans over there in the Fanatics office who
Speaker 1: watched these shows, not just the challenge, but you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's Traders or Survivor and things like that, and
Speaker 1: so they're interested in well as well as having these people.
Speaker 1: But they don't necessarily know the people and stuff. So
Speaker 1: I end up being that bridge to the people, and
Speaker 1: I will often pitch people that either get yeses or
Speaker 1: nos and things like that, and then am able to
Speaker 1: connect them and make it happen. And so to go
Speaker 1: back to me not be I mean, I'm not famous
Speaker 1: enough probably to have my own Allen and Ginter card,
Speaker 1: you know. And that was kind of alluded to me
Speaker 1: by my buddy, you know. But what he did say
Speaker 1: is he goes, you know, I feel like if it
Speaker 1: threw a first pitch you you might be able to
Speaker 1: get a first Pitch card. And I said, oh, interesting,
Speaker 1: And as you know, we do a lot of these games,
Speaker 1: we do a lot of first pitches. I almost exclusively
Speaker 1: have the cast members throw the first pitches, and I
Speaker 1: was not going to encroach and throw any pitches myself.
Speaker 1: But cut to around this time when I had heard, hey,
Speaker 1: if I throw out a first pitch, it's possibly get
Speaker 1: a TOPS card. In the coming weeks, we were going
Speaker 1: to be doing Pittsburgh where Derek was going to be
Speaker 1: throwing out the first pitch, and I said to my
Speaker 1: pirates contact, I said, hey, can you know more than
Speaker 1: one person throw out the first pitch the You're like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we don't care. We don't really care at all. I said, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, could Derek and I do it? Because I
Speaker 1: I thought also me and croaching on Derek's first pitch
Speaker 1: made it a lot of sense because it's now okay,
Speaker 1: the Challenge Mania hosts are doing it together. You know,
Speaker 1: I wasn't taking Tory's pitch, or I wasn't hopping on
Speaker 1: Rachel's pitch or something like that, you know. And they
Speaker 1: said fine, And I said to Derek, I said, Derek,
Speaker 1: if it's okay with you, but I'm gonna be hopping
Speaker 1: on this pitch as well, and we'll do it. We'll
Speaker 1: do it one after another, because sometimes they let you
Speaker 1: do it side by side or one after another. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they really want you to do it side by side,
Speaker 1: like Rachel and Mark just did it side by side,
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Hart and Jenalen Brunson just did him
Speaker 1: side by side. But I wanted again to be alone
Speaker 1: in this photo, knowing I would get a first pitch
Speaker 1: a card out of it potentially. So we did it
Speaker 1: back to back. So Derek got to go first, and
Speaker 1: then you know, threw Maverick in the air. I got
Speaker 1: some great pictures out of it, and then I went second. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I go to the Getty photographer there because the
Speaker 1: other important part is they have to use the official
Speaker 1: team photos for the tops cards. They have the rights
Speaker 1: to be able to use any of those, but it
Speaker 1: needs to be that. So I from my experience. Now,
Speaker 1: they usually take a couple, but I wanted options, right,
Speaker 1: So I said this photographer, I said, look, I know
Speaker 1: usually you might take a handful of photos. Can you
Speaker 1: do me a favor and just take as many photos
Speaker 1: as you would take if you worked for the FBI
Speaker 1: and you were taking photos of me handing off a
Speaker 1: mysterious envelope in a park somewhere. Because and don't even
Speaker 1: just take pictures of the pitch before, after middle during
Speaker 1: I might do some weird poses. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what they're going to be. And so yeah, I end
Speaker 1: up doing like pointing at the sky like what am
Speaker 1: I even I'm not like a god guy, right, I
Speaker 1: don't even know what I It ends up looking like
Speaker 1: I'm acknowledging Roman reigns and doing the bloodline pose, and
Speaker 1: that ended up being the photo they selected. I was
Speaker 1: I was told, you don't have the best throwing form,
Speaker 1: maybe we go with this. That of course, also my
Speaker 1: my buddy Keith, who loves mocking me, by the way,
Speaker 1: and I'll admit I don't have the best throwing form.
Speaker 1: I did throw about three hundred to four hundred pitches
Speaker 1: that day or not that day that week leading up
Speaker 1: to the first pitch to make sure I at least
Speaker 1: got it to the plate, which I did and it
Speaker 1: was caught by the by the catcher. So you know,
Speaker 1: mission accomplished there. And then mission accomplished that they were
Speaker 1: able to, you know, do the first pick card, and
Speaker 1: I was, you know, and again it's like, it's not
Speaker 1: the kind of thing that you know, I joke all
Speaker 1: the time, and I know this is a bit of
Speaker 1: an insensitive way of putting it. I joke all the
Speaker 1: time when we get to go to these games and
Speaker 1: meet these players and say play ball and throw the
Speaker 1: first pitch and get treated like world. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: a forty year old, healthy man, But I get sometimes
Speaker 1: I feel like I make a wish kid for again,
Speaker 1: lack of a My wife hates when I use that term,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of the only go to reference I
Speaker 1: have for like, these experiences are usually referred to for kids,
Speaker 1: and not even just kids, but like, you know, kids
Speaker 1: who are you know you're really trying to cheer up
Speaker 1: and so but that's how I feel like my life
Speaker 1: has become just moments like that. And so in no
Speaker 1: way is this an extension of that where it's like
Speaker 1: I'll throw this guy at bone and whatever. You know.
Speaker 1: So it it just leads me to say thank you
Speaker 1: to all you guys who listen to this podcast, who
Speaker 1: follow me on social media, who made me the quote.
Speaker 1: This is mortifying. I'm a've bit embarrassed by this, the
Speaker 1: celebrity podcaster that I am, apparently, according to the back
Speaker 1: of the card says one celebrity podcast a Scott Yeager.
Speaker 1: So hey for turning me into that, because without you guys,
Speaker 1: there would be no that. And without you guys cheering,
Speaker 1: not just for the show and Challenge Mania and the
Speaker 1: cast members, but for me when these tops reps come
Speaker 1: out to our shows. You know, without you guys doing
Speaker 1: that and making me look and feel like a star
Speaker 1: that deserves to have a card, I wouldn't have a card.
Speaker 1: So I've been out there scouring eBay for my because again,
Speaker 1: they gave me some samples, but they give me like
Speaker 1: the bass samples. They don't give me the limited addition
Speaker 1: numbered autos because those go in the packs and those
Speaker 1: are very hard to get. So my advice to anybody
Speaker 1: who wants the sky Yager card, go on eBay buy
Speaker 1: a single. The singles are cheap. Especially the base ones.
Speaker 1: Bring them to a show happy to sign them, and
Speaker 1: don't just go buying boxes and hoping you're gonna pull me.
Speaker 1: Because I ripped two boxes and I only got one.
Speaker 1: First pitch card wasn't me, it was the woman from
Speaker 1: Love on the Spectrum. So they're few and far between
Speaker 1: in the packs, and you're very unlikely to pull me
Speaker 1: that way, So don't spend hundreds of dollars trying go
Speaker 1: and just buy a single on eBay. The numbered ones
Speaker 1: can be kind of expensive, the parallels and stuff and
Speaker 1: the autos and things. I got the seven out of
Speaker 1: ten auto because my birthday is ten to seven October seventh,
Speaker 1: so I got the seven of ten parallel auto. I
Speaker 1: bought that on eBay, so I have that. But yeah, guys,
Speaker 1: love seeing the posts, Love seeing the tags, Love seeing
Speaker 1: the people have no idea who I am. Who go
Speaker 1: and find me and like feel they need to tell me.
Speaker 1: I have no idea who you are. But I just
Speaker 1: pulled your card. I'm like, awesome. So that's what's cool
Speaker 1: about having a card is that now people who don't
Speaker 1: even know me will be forced to I mean, I
Speaker 1: just think it sucks so much your ribbon backs and
Speaker 1: your your case hit ends up. You think you see
Speaker 1: a Pirates jersey. You think it's Schiens or something or
Speaker 1: Connor Griffin and it's me. But anyway, thank you guys
Speaker 1: who have had fun with it and for all the
Speaker 1: kind words. And I hope to be signing those and
Speaker 1: seeing those for years to come. Yeah, it is something
Speaker 1: that will be with me forever and we'll be here
Speaker 1: long after I'm gone, which is very cool. So I
Speaker 1: love that. Thank you guys so much. Hope to see
Speaker 1: you guys this weekend in Portland and Seattle. Midwest Tour
Speaker 1: in July sold up. Then we've got Detroit. I want
Speaker 1: to see a lot of you guys in Detroit and
Speaker 1: New Orleans. Please gott please guys, if you can find
Speaker 1: it in your heart to come to New Orleans please
Speaker 1: all right. If you want to bring a crew, if
Speaker 1: you want to bring six people, email Challenge Mania Podcast
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. I'll give you a deal. Okay,
Speaker 1: we want to get some bodies in there. But either way,
Speaker 1: we're doing it. We're coming. Money in the bank, We're
Speaker 1: coming and we will have a money time with you
Speaker 1: guys that Friday at Irvan South Brewery on October the ninth,
Speaker 1: So get your tickets a Challenge Mania dot Live and
Speaker 1: remember tomorrow Wednesday, June twenty fourth, huge pre sale Challenge
Speaker 1: Maniacs dot com, Nashville, Tennessee, November fourteenth. Hope to see
Speaker 1: you guys there as well, but make sure you take
Speaker 1: part in the patron pre sale all right, everybody, Thank
Speaker 1: you guys so much. You can hit me up at
Speaker 1: any time at Scotta Jeger on Instagram, at Shota Yeager
Speaker 1: on Twitter That's why age r Facebook dot com, slash
Speaker 1: Challenge Mania podcast and always email me at Challenge Mania
Speaker 1: Podcasts at gmail dot com. And we've got a great
Speaker 1: group chat for maniac level patrons and above. We also
Speaker 1: have a Diesel level group chat and above over at
Speaker 1: Challengemaniacs dot com. Join in on the fun everybody. We
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, and Shasta Ryan John. By the way,
Speaker 1: I know I said John Ryan before is a bit
Speaker 1: of a verbal typo. Shout to Ryan John over there.
Speaker 1: Great content man. He is rising up the ranks, really
Speaker 1: just breaking down challenging another reality Internet father fodder and
Speaker 1: doing it well, doing it and doing it and doing
Speaker 1: it well, even making his way on the brain Candy Podcast,
Speaker 1: Rufflings of Feathers over there. All right, everybody, have a
Speaker 1: great week and we'll see you soon. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: this sends your time here on challenge Mania. Take care
Speaker 1: of yourselves and hopefully you'll see in the future.