Podcast appearances and mentions of nicole brady

This week Joe, Shari, and jD pore over this week's SNL Hall of Fame episode and proclaim a Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame moment on the week's current episode of SNL. Transcript:Track 4:[0:02] Hi, I'm Thomas Senna, co-host of the SNL Hall of Fame podcast. And I'm Deremy Dove, co-host of the Bigger Than The Game podcast. Deremy and I have joined forces to create a new podcast called Pop Culture 5 to ask the question, what are the five essential things about any given pop culture topic? It could be five essential movies by an actor of our choice. Or five essential songs by a musician of our choice. We're not making a list of our personal favorites, it's the essentials. And we better do a good job of justifying our essentials because one of us will have veto power each episode. And I'm ready to tell Thomas why he's wrong. All right, Dermy. All right. Well, actually, why don't we give everyone an out-of-context peek at what we've been up to? So Pharrell was right next to me, and we looked at each other, and we were kind of like bobbing our heads. He wasn't wearing his hat. Nobody really knew he was kind of wearing. He was kind of incognito. But I had to do a double take. I'm like, that's Pharrell. and then he looked at me you just slipped that in there this big name drop here i was next to my man pharrell like whoa i never heard this everyone so join us to celebrate and discuss the essentials of pop culture listen and subscribe to pop culture 5 wherever you get your podcasts.Track 4:[1:30] Hey, it's time to gather around the water cooler to talk the SNL Hall of Fame.Track 1:[1:40] Hey, it's JD here, and I want to welcome you back to the SNL Hall of Fame water cooler. I am inside the building walking down to the lunchroom right now where we keep the water cooler to meet Shari and Joe. They are there to talk about this week's episode of the SNL Hall of Fame. As well as breaking down the path that this person will have to the Hall of Fame and ranking them as well. And then we will go through the Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame of this week's Saturday Night Live episode. It is the premiere of the 50th season. I am now in the room. I can see Joe and Shari. Shari, how are you doing?Track 2:[2:23] I'm doing excellent. Got my water bottle all filled up from the water cooler and I'm ready to chat.Track 1:[2:29] I am parched. Joe, how about you?Track 3:[2:33] I'm doing good. I am really, really excited about this particular individual that we will be discussing today.Track 1:[2:42] Yeah, it's Bob Odenkirk. Nicole Brady was featured on this episode. She was also in season four with Anna Gassire, nominating Anna Gassire. This time, it's Bob Odenkirk in the writing category. So, Shari, do you want to recap Monday's Hall of Fame episode?Track 2:[3:01] Absolutely. Well, you gave a nice little lead in, J.D. You are the best at that. Getting me prepped. So thank you. Yes, it was Thomas and Nicole. And I had forgotten who she nominated. One of my favorite, Anna Gasteyer. So hopefully Anna gets in, I hope. Yeah. And Nicole did a great job this time, just like she did that time. And Thomas, of course, the consummate conversationalist. They chatted 100 percent. They chatted quite thoroughly about Mr. Odenkirk's career. They started off with some background in the fact that they shot Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. And I didn't want to either. So sorry. But apparently they were shot in New Mexico. I didn't know that. Beth. And I guess Bob was very close with the improv community and would like just show up at things. I thought that was super cool.Track 1:[3:58] Wow.Track 2:[3:59] Thomas and Nicole both said they had never gotten a chance to catch him, but they did compliment him for having such a great relationship with the New Mexican community. So I thought that was pretty cool. And then they broke it down from the beginning to the end. Of course, they started with Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad and How We Know Bob Odenkirk Now. And then they went back in the backward time machine to when he was a young 25-year-old, just starting out. And his time at SNL, of course, they talked quite in detail about his baby, as Thomas called it, the Matt Foley, the motivational speaker. They really did a nice breakdown of that. And several other sketches, some Tom Hanks sketches that he did that I wasn't aware of. And the fact that he worked on Superfans I knew, but I didn't know about Hans and Franz. So it was quite an enlightening discussion. Very detailed and very well researched on both Thomas and Nicole's part.Track 1:[5:02] Well, that's what we expect from those people at this point. And they always deliver. So it's really great. Great. Joe, what do you feel was the thrust of the argument that Nicole made in terms of nominating and advocating for Bob Odenkirk?Track 3:[5:22] What I pulled away from that episode, she didn't really say it specifically, but I just kind of connected the dots.Track 3:[5:31] Something I noticed was he's really, Bob Odenkirk is really good at bringing out a performer's voice.Track 3:[5:41] Now, there's one sketch in particular I'm sure we'll get to that really enhances a certain performer's talent. Talent but uh another one that i learned from from the episode was uh how much he helped dana cardi uh especially with grumpy old man hans and friends now with grumpy old man now if you listen to his podcast or watch the stand-up you see that he kind of riffs and what i've noticed is he finds an attitude puts a voice to it and then riffs jokes and what i imagine what bob odeker helped do was help mold it into a solid cohesive personality so i imagine he dana had most of grumpy old man there and i imagine orton kirk uh pitching some more jokes and give it maybe you know a theme for you know the week or you know for that current um editorial what have you right you know same for Hans and Franz kind of bringing out a performer's voice and you know finding out what's funny about them you know it's this not that oh and then the McLaughlin group that's another one where it seems like it's something Dana Carvey um you know probably came up with the idea well it with but uh.Track 3:[7:07] But like I mentioned in the episode, you got Michael Conan, who are like Harvard grads, who are really good at being with political stuff. And then Odenkirk, who I don't think he went to an Ivy League school.Track 1:[7:24] He did not, no.Track 3:[7:26] Still finding that voice, like what makes McLaughlin Group funny and contributing to that as he does.Track 1:[7:34] Yeah yeah you you put it well both of you i i i think odin kirk is certainly a deserving, member of the hall of fame if you thought if you look at saturday night live this is uh he's there for the second golden age.Track 2:[7:52] And you.Track 1:[7:54] Know that's not an accident i don't think.Track 2:[7:56] What do you think sorry oh absolutely not and you know they just did episode 13 of everything you need to know about saturday night live on yes the saturday night network which i feel like we sometimes are commercial for but you know the best is the best and they're awesome and they're awesome and that is the season where mr odin kirk showed up that's right and boy what a start of a season that was Because we were talking about it before we started recording. What an amazing season that was. And the writing, writing, writing. It's all about that writing. The cast was great. Don't get me wrong. But writing, writing, writing. Smigel, Odenkirk, O'Brien. I mean, that's like a murderer's role of writing talent. Just incredible.Track 3:[8:47] And then reacting to TV and movies. I just want to pass through Carcinio that is yes and then enhancing a performer's talent so you got Dana Carvey who does a great art or, great carson almost said the other guy and then uh but mentioning but you know making fun of the carson arsenio conflict at the time so good for you youngsters uh johnny carson has been was at the time this uh he was the host for the tonight show for decades and then he finally had competition in the 90s and then the sketch was the parody of that um you know and it's an excellent perfect.Track 3:[9:34] Note for note parody of what was going on yes but and then and then uh the last thing i want to get because again i just love bob hollycock so i'm sorry if i'm you know uh but then i was just going to go to the bears and uh he this was because uh this came out of the like all of the chicago sports teams or chicago's love for sports teams in the 90s you know it was like the bulls the bears like they were all dominating and uh the bears uh is like i i still know people like this with the you know that love dicka they have the bears you know shirts they watch you know every sunday and then the thing that i want to point out is in the sketch uh it the bears show or whatever is on uh wbbms and which is a cbs affiliate but that's the affiliate that shows the bears football so like that's how accurate the sketch is that the bears show would be on the same network as the bears football oh i love that like and that's a little attention for detail that comes out of um odenkirk because both me and him are from the chicago suburbs he's from um.Track 3:[10:57] Oh it's neighbor neighbor i used to hang out in naperville and uh you know i'm shout out to burbank but like i used to hang out in naperville and um so like yeah like i could it's almost like he's in it like a college senior that is like i got you kid like i know what you're talking about out and i'll put it on tv you know so he spoke my language uh shall we you can talk now sorry no.Track 2:[11:30] Joe that's awesome and i'm not very far from chicago it's funny i'm four hours from chicago and i'm four hours from toronto so i've like i'm right.Track 3:[11:39] There you go where.Track 2:[11:40] You used to be joe and where jayden currently is.Track 1:[11:43] So what you're saying is if we ever uh if we ever do a meet and great. We'll have to do it in Michigan.Track 2:[11:50] Yeah. I'm already planning a trip to Toronto, J.D.Track 1:[11:54] It's in the old noggin.Track 2:[11:57] But anyway, I was taking some notes because I know J.D. Always asks us about who the candidate or the nominee of the week compares to as far as people who are already in the hall. And this week usually I'm a little stumped. But this week it was easy.Track 3:[12:19] Absolutely.Track 2:[12:21] Because there's two in there, and they both have similar trajectories to Bob. I'd say he's closest to Conan. Because does anybody think of Conan's work on SNL when they think of Conan first thing?Track 1:[12:35] No, not really.Track 2:[12:36] They think of late night.Track 1:[12:38] I often wonder about the Conan getting in. I often wonder, you know, what were the circumstances about that?Track 2:[12:45] I wonder as well. I'm surprised that he got in as quickly as he did. I mean, three ballots is fairly quick.Track 1:[12:52] Yeah.Track 2:[12:53] Considering it took Molly and Maya five ballots.Track 1:[12:57] And Frank and the Davis as well. Five ballots.Track 2:[13:00] Five ballots. Yep. But I see Odenkirk in a similar vein to Conan because everybody knows him because of what he's doing now. And he's so huge now. So I think that's going to possibly.Track 1:[13:15] Hinder him?Track 2:[13:16] Slip him in in a couple. Oh, get him in. Okay. Yeah. I think it's going to get him in possibly in less ballots than Conan because people are obsessed with everybody calls Saul. and Breaking Bad, at least here. I don't know about where you're at, Jamie. Oh, for sure. I've never watched either. They're not my bag, but I've heard they're terrific. And, like, I'm a librarian, and, like, the librarians are obsessed with that. Like, they love Breaking Bad. They love Better Close Home. They're always picking on me because I haven't seen either. Same with Schitt's Creek, J.D., which I know is a Canadian product. I'm always hearing about that one, too. But it's like, everyone's like, why don't you watch it? Why don't you watch it? And I just, I don't have an interest, but I think that's going to put him in, again, it's that recency bias. He's in everybody's brain, just like Conan. You can't get away from Conan. He's everywhere.Track 1:[14:09] He is ubiquitous. Yeah, absolutely. That's a great comp. That's a great comp. And it took him three ballots to get in, like you said. So, you know, anything more than that for Odenkirk would, you'd have to say would be a bit of a disappointment. Yeah.Track 3:[14:26] Yeah.Track 2:[14:26] Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think he's, and I think his sketches, he's got more sketches that were reoccurring and like super fans was huge.Track 1:[14:35] Yeah.Track 2:[14:36] Hans and Franz. He had a hand in later on, but he still had a hand in grumpy old man was very, very popular. And of course we got to talk about.Track 3:[14:45] Here we go.Track 2:[14:47] Van down by the river. I mean, come on, come on. And that's his baby. He created that at second city. So I think that gives him, I think he's going to get in and possibly even on a first ballot, maybe second.Track 1:[15:02] Wow.Track 2:[15:03] We'll see.Track 1:[15:04] Shari going out on a limb.Track 2:[15:06] That's a hot take there. That's a hot take.Track 1:[15:11] Well, where do you guys, where do you guys rank them at this point? This will be interesting this week. I think whether or not anybody has shifted from last week. So we are looking at Beck Bennett versus Shari Ohtari. sorry sherry o terry.Track 3:[15:27] Jesus jay versus.Track 1:[15:28] Garrett moore versus adam driver versus you two versus charles barkley versus bob odenkirk where do they stack up this week gang joe.Track 3:[15:40] Okay so these discussions i've been thinking about them during the week and you know my rankings have been and changing um so uh i'll go from bottom to top okay uh there's seven people number seven you two they're a great band but i don't think they contributed a lot to sarian antlion's legacy so i mean they're great when they're on but you know sure charles barkley uh he's great but snl isn't his forte okay so uh so he's better than you two um above him is adam driver he's on his way to being like a tom hanks but he's not there yet so above him is sherry o'terry who's great but like shari my midwest accent uh pointed out she just came and went she came dominated and left and then didn't do anything since.Track 3:[16:40] Beck Bennett is above that. It's above her. He's a great universal performer. Above him is Bob Odenkirk because how much he contributed to other performers. So it's almost like he was there after he left. Like his legacy was there with Motivational Speaker and The Bears. And those characters were still there. Yeah, and then Bob Harcourt was like two shows later. He had the Ben Stiller show and then Mr. Show, and they were still doing Da Bears. And then above him is Garrett Morris, and that's because he's an original cast member, and it's the least he could get as being in the SNL Hall of Fame. If you listen to that episode, you'll see how he was shortchanged, and based on his talent, And the least that he deserves is being in the ethanol hall of fame. So that's my top seven.Track 1:[17:40] How are you, Shari?Track 2:[17:41] Okay. So I take a different angle from Joe. I leave my personal box and I go to the box of the voters. How are they going to vote? I get into their brains a little bit. And I think I'm going to start at the bottom too. And Joe and I line up there. You too. it's that curse of the musical act that we talk about all the time yeah i don't even think they're gonna if they crack 10 are able to stay till next season i'll be surprised charles barkley is going to be just above them and i think he'll make get onto the next ballot but not by much garrett i agree with joe he deserves to be in the hall of fame but memories are short and i just don't think I think people remember him. I do, but I don't know how many. And I know you two do, but I don't know how many others. Same with Sherry O'Terry.Track 1:[18:35] The casual voters.Track 2:[18:37] Yeah, casual voters. Same with Sherry O'Terry. I think she's just going to be right with Garrett because, again, she came and went, and I don't know how many remember her. I think Adam is going to be right here at number three. He's very recent. He's on fire. He does not seem to be leaving the zeitgeist. He's always got something going on and he may show up this season. Who knows? Now, here's where I shook things up a little bit. This episode shook me up a little bit. I banked back down to number two. I think he's going to be just under Bob because Bob did some major sketches and he's huge right now. Whereas Beck's, what is Beck doing? I'm not exactly sure. Taking a little breather maybe and that's fine.Track 1:[19:31] He just signed for a new TV show. Him and Kyle and someone else. Oh, A.D. Bryant. There's three of them joining a TV show that's going into its second season, and I forget the name of the TV show. If you are listening and you remember, send us an email, SNLHOFWC at gmail.com. We would love to hear from you.Track 2:[19:56] Yeah, let us know the name of that show, because I want to try and track it down if it's on any of my streaming services.Track 1:[20:02] Yeah.Track 2:[20:02] But, yeah, I'm giving Bob the top slot here because he's got those great sketches. I mean, come on. Wasn't Matt Foley the number one in the countdown? Again, the Saturday Night Network did a countdown of the characters. I feel like Matt Foley was right there. Or maybe it was catchphrases. Or maybe both. Because Van Down by the River was very high up. and he's that sketch is always in the mix it's really it's you can't talk about snl without talking about that sketch and that's from the mind of bob odenkirk.Track 1:[20:39] Okay we are going to move to a new segment now that we are in the thick of snl season 50 uh there are new episodes to discuss and the angle that we're going to take in the discussion of episodes is we are going to keep Keep it Hall of Fame focused. And we are going to take a look each week. We're going to get one hit from Joe and one hit from Shari on what they think their Hall of Fame moment was for the episode and their Hall of Shame moment for the episode. Will these moments that they identify as Hall of Fame moments, will they come back in the arguments to nominate these people in the future? We'll have to wait and see. Joe. Joe. We'll start with you. Do you want to start Hall of Shame or Hall of Fame, buddy?Track 3:[21:29] I'll start Hall of Fame.Track 1:[21:31] All right.Track 3:[21:31] Because I think it's on everyone's minds, especially if they watched it recently, is the cold open. And I think everyone was looking for Saturday Night Live's reaction to what was going on in the summer. And it scratched that itch perfectly. It addressed Kamala. It addressed Trump. they addressed the cats and dogs the assassination attempts um and then they had cameos it just hit every you know uh note i don't know what phrase yeah i started the phrase i didn't know how to end it but yeah the cold open it just uh it just you know got everyone it's the only thing got everyone caught up like this is yeah we and they addressed everything from the summer uh and then And, you know, you got all the pitch perfect, you know, impressions. You know, you got Maya Rudolph.Track 3:[22:26] And then also I want to mention I was so happy to see Jim Gaffigan for two reasons. One, he was perfect. And two, like he's someone that I should have put on my list that I wanted him to host. Because it's like he's been in the zeitgeist forever. He was in the Jerry Seinfeld Pop Tarts movie. He did Pale Force with Conan. in i recommend you look it up on youtube and he's just been and he's a great comedian that's been around forever and then to see him when he came out i was like happy to see him and i'm like oh yeah we gotta he's good at the impression he's great at that too and then you know and all that stuff um so yeah it was just you know one after another so uh shari oh.Track 2:[23:11] My hall of fame moment There were so many tonight. Oh, my God. So I know that the Lonely Island is already in. But freaking Andy Samberg. I'm sorry. I never swear. Andy Samberg. I did not love him when he was on the show. I did not love him. I did not appreciate him.Track 1:[23:33] Wow.Track 2:[23:34] And now that I listen to the Lonely Island podcast with Seth Meyers and I've watched Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Do you get that? JD, are you able to watch? Have you watched Brooklyn Nine-Nine at all?Track 1:[23:45] Absolutely.Track 2:[23:46] Didn't watch it till just recently. Loved it. And now here he is, not once, but twice. He is the man. He's so funny. Okay. I'm a Jewish girl. So I really appreciated his Hanukkah joke about the White House, getting the White House ready for Christmas. I still, I mean, it's so good to see Andy. I'm just happy he showed up. I don't think it's the last we're going to see of him. He was hilarious as Doug M. Off. I know he'll be back. He and Maya have amazing chemistry. This is a Hall of Famer. I think he should be in there by himself. As well as with the Lonely Island. Because he's, I didn't appreciate him. And now I'm like, homie is so funny. And I never thought of him as an impressionist. And he often says he's not. But he nails Dog Am. I just nailed it. So, so good. So he would be my Hall of Fame.Track 1:[24:52] That's something we need to consider, because if you look, we did that honor for John Mulaney. You know, he struck out as a host, but we have him on the ballot now as a writer. And, you know, Sandberg is in with the Lonely Island as writers. Yeah. They took to the third ballot to get in, which is mind-numbing for me. Absolutely mind-blowing. They should have been first ballot. They changed the show, for heaven's sake. But to have Andy go in on his own, you know, that's, that's fascinating. I like that. And, uh, you know, so stay tuned for the draft folks. Um, we'll be, we'll be doing the season seven draft in January and, uh, maybe you'll hear from Mr. Sandberg again. All right. I hate to do this, but let's go to the hall of shame. We'll stick with Shari. Shari, was there anything in this episode that you would, um, look at with your nose pinch?Track 2:[25:51] They either hit. with the weirdness or they miss with the weirdness and uh that housewives of was it yeah yeah i was expecting more here everybody tries so hard but nobody can save it it's sort of a sinking ship and they're throwing everything at the wall and nothing is sticking um it was a a bit of a disappointment but this was i don't want to spoil for anybody who hasn't seen the episode yet but this was a stellar stellar stellar evening so you know you're not going to hit with every set so that was a little bit of a mess for me.Track 1:[26:36] All right we're going to move to joe now uh and his hall of shame pick.Track 3:[26:42] So it's the same. It's Housewives. Again, I don't want to. Well, for one, let's just point out it's a 10 to 1. And what that means is it's the last sketch of the night. It's probably going to be the shortest. But what why it's a miss for me is the Jean Smart that I know from, I think, Frasier and whatnot. She's very good at being like condescending. And so when I saw the graphic for Real Housewives, I was like, oh, OK, perfect. This is a great premise for her to be condescending. And then instead, without spoiling it, it was about something else. So it was like, she's right there. You can use her as a condescending housewife. But the sketch wasn't about that. It was about something else. And I was like, oh, but they did use her condescending, um, talent in another sketch, uh, without spoiling it. So, uh, you know, so, but that's why it was a miss. It was like, you had, you know, the talent right there, but you use, you had, you had the premise be about something else.Track 1:[27:51] So very interesting. I think that's a nice point because they, when you saw the title card and you saw the, you know, you got a sense of the premise and then you saw the lady sitting around the table, it was an impeccable, you know, it was, it was the best of the best of, of the female cohort. Right. Pretty much. Right. You're expecting a big thing. And then, you know, again, if you haven't watched the episode yet, don't listen. Um, that that's probably the best bet. Uh, but, um, uh, it was, you know, it was more about Dismukes and this physical comedy. And, um, and it, the physical comedy just didn't hit. It just didn't hit the way I thought it might because Andrew Dismukes is so talented.Track 2:[28:43] So good.Track 1:[28:45] Okay. So that gives us our, our hall of fame and hall of shame picks for this week. We'll do that again next week. When we talk about Bill Kenney nominating Danny DeVito, uh, Danny DeVito in the host category has hosted four times, I believe once with his wife, Rhea Perlman. Um, Bill Kenney, of course has been all over this show since season one. Uh, he's been part of the round tables. He's been part of nominated discussions and we expect nothing but, uh, awesomeness from, from our friend Bill.Track 2:[29:20] I'm a giant Danny DeVito fan. Like, I obsess over Taxi, and he is so great in Taxi. And he's so great in everything. And he's got this, this is another show. We were talking about shows that Shari doesn't seem to get a hold of. Everybody loves this Sunny Philadelphia.Track 1:[29:39] It's always sunny in Philadelphia, yeah.Track 2:[29:41] Thank you.Track 1:[29:41] It's been on 20 years, and I haven't seen an episode.Track 2:[29:44] Oh, that makes me feel better, J.D.Track 1:[29:46] Yeah.Track 2:[29:47] Because I just, I tried. It's just not for me.Track 1:[29:50] Okay.Track 2:[29:50] Again i do love danny he's just so so funny yeah so this is this is gonna be a fun episode because and he was enormous in the 80s oh huge like a big actor in the 80s yeah um throw mama from the train ruthless people so movies outside of his tv work uh yeah he was all over the 80s.Track 3:[30:11] He is a a multi-generational talent where Taxi, movies, he was like, he was associated with Taxi, Twins, Matilda, Sunny in Philadelphia. So, trust me, whoever you are out there, Danny DeVito is associated with something that you like and we'll talk about his connections with Saturday Night Live and such.Track 1:[30:42] Absolutely. And we're going to do that next week right here on the SNL Hall of Fame Water Cooler. On behalf of Joe and Shari, I want to wish you well and bid you adieu. We will see you next week. Until then, stay thirsty.Track 4:[31:02] Thanks for listening to the SNL Hall of Fame Water Cooler. 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This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we're joined by Mike Murray from the SNN to discuss the career and Hall of Fame candidacy of 4-time host Sir Charles Barkley. Transcript:Track 2:[0:40] Thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is a thrill to be back here at the SNL Hall of Fame on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast. My name is JD and it is a absolute wreck outside. Let me fold up this umbrella. My feet are dirty. Follow my lead. I'm going to wipe them. You know what I'm saying? Let's go inside. But before we do, the SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each Each episode, we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballot for your consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. And that's how we play the game. It's just that simple. We have a Barnburner of a show this week, Thomas is going to be joined by stat guru from the SNN, Mike Murray, to discuss the career of four-time host Charles Barkley. This should be a good one, folks. But before we get into that conversation, why don't we visit our friend Matt Ardill in his trivia corner?Track 4:[2:02] Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, I give you the Trivia Meister, Matt Ardell. Matt, how are you doing? I'm good, thanks, JD. And yourself? You know what? Any day that I get to sit here and listen to you tell me some of my favorite actor, actresses, or pop culture figures' height, then I am in a good place. Hey, it's the facts that everybody wants to know. That's right.Track 4:[2:27] Well, I've got a very tall tale for you today. Um charles sparkly uh six six uh february 20th 1963 is his birth date um he was born in leeds alabama and nicknamed sir charles the bread truck and round mound off of rebound uh he is was the first african-american born in a segregated hospital in his all-white town and one of the the first group of black kids to attend his elementary school um in high school he actually didn't make the varsity basketball team at first yeah out of here no yeah it's true he was named uh as a reserve um but he grew from five foot ten to six foot four over the summer And then he was put in a starting position the next year And he averaged 19 points and 17 rebounds per game in high school.Track 4:[3:33] He then went on to play for the Auburn Tigers in college, where he would become known for his talent of blocking shots and then dunking, often getting possession of the ball and running the full length of the court to dunk instead of pass.Track 4:[3:50] Drafted to the NBA during his final year of college, he dropped out of school to join the 76ers and was best friends with Michael Jordan. They were born three days apart with and he is also friends with Magic Johnson, who, when Magic had to retire due to his HIV diagnosis, Charles changed his number from his college number of 34 to Johnson's 32 to pay tribute to him during his last year in the NBA. He is actually the shortest player in nba history to lead the league rebounding from 86 to 87 as well as being a basketball player and tnt sports commentator he is an actor with 30 film credits produced three and was one of the writers for inside the nba he has been on shows including including the Goldberg, Modern Family, and The Simpsons, and even the Clerks TV show appearing in an animated form as himself.Track 4:[4:56] Huh. Very cool. You know, I never watched the Clerks cartoon. It's very Clerks-y. Yeah, yes. It's definitely got that Kevin Smith vibe. Well, this is very Barkley of you. So, nicely done. let's go downstairs with thomas and mike murray as they discuss more about our nominee this week charles barkley, All right.Track 3:[5:52] Matt and JD, thank you so much and welcome to another discussion about a great nominee here at the SNL Hall of Fame. A fun one, an interesting one, I would say an unorthodox nominee for the SNL Hall of Fame. Of course, we were talking about the one and only Sir Charles, Charles Barkley, today for the host category. And with me, a repeat guest, I had to bring him back, Mike Murray from the Saturday Night Network, a stats guru for Saturday Night Live. Not just a stats guru, like, I don't wanna pigeonhole Mike as just a stats guy, Because, Mike, your knowledge of SNL goes beyond stats. I think you need to get more credit. You have insights that a lot of people don't have. So it's not just in the lab and the numbers, that's a lot of it. But you have genuine, awesome knowledge and insights about the show. So I'm so happy to have you back here on the SNL Hall of Fame. Thanks, Thomas. I mean, great intro right there. What do I say?Track 3:[6:54] I'm happy to be on this show with you. I think you're one of the best SNL podcast hosts out there. So for me to be with you talking shop about basketball about snl what could be better than this so thanks for having me back yeah absolutely i hope brad and gary from the not ready for prime primetime podcast heard you just say that so we need to cut them down the pegs no they're great too my first appearance on snl hall of fame was with uh brad yeah they're no they're they're fun guys i actually got to meet them uh in person this past weekend in philadelphia oh so yeah so But I appreciate that, man. It's so good to have you back. Before we get started, we like to do the plugs up top. Why don't you tell people what you're up to this season on the Saturday Night Network? Well, big one coming up, Season 5-0. So, late September, we're going to have a new season of the show. So, that means the SNN, the Saturday Night Network, will be back in full force. So, we do three shows a week. We do a hot take show at 1 a.m. Following the broadcast. We do a Monday roundtable, and on Wednesday nights, that's my show. It's the stat show. It's called By the Numbers.Track 3:[8:06] And if you've ever been interested in the analytics side of SNL, which is a hard pitch at times, but people gravitate towards it, and it was just something that I started doing, just kind of making my own sports world about my favorite show, because my number one love in life is sports and I'm always on the reference sites and like to do comparisons and I figured why not do that for the institution that is SNL so I started doing appearances and then I started doing screen time I made an algorithm to get an output number for each person who appears on the show called the power ranking and so we covered those three numbers every week on the show and And just kind of get into like a sports radio talk show about SNL every week. So following a new episode every Wednesday, 8 p.m. Eastern, you can hear that show on the SNN. That's awesome. And the thing with analytics on your show is it leads to discussions. So it leads to insights about that week's episode or the season as a whole. So you get really just neat discussions like sports radio and I'm the same way like I always watched SNL like it was sports I'm really into like the stats part of it I was perusing like.Track 3:[9:30] Pro football reference basketball reference and baseball reference just today for one reason or another so i'm always on those sites yeah that's a normal day for me as well yeah absolutely i subscribe monthly to basketball reference so i don't get the ads so i do the football yeah.Track 3:[9:45] That's awesome so those are great sites i've been working on a uh entire history of nfl game log yeah last year i have excel spreadsheets that people would just that would blow their mind about how much of a sports nerd that i am so so we're on the we're on the same wavelength mike yeah that's why we get along so well and for sure i'm glad you mentioned that because i do even as a kid thought snl was like a sport because it's live so you know i've said before that yeah it is cool to know how much screen time like chewbacca got and star wars but like it's edited like this is live things are being cut at dress things are being cut for time live during the the show so if you don't make it on that night like that's a zero but like if you you know what if all three of your showcases make it like wouldn't you want to look back i mean this is the snl hall of fame and say those are your hall of fame episodes just like games or seasons yeah precisely and we didn't do this on purpose by the way but this is the most seamless uh.Track 3:[10:46] Segue i think that i've had in a long time uh comparing snl to sports because today's nominee charles barkley of course uh former nba player uh current well i guess that's maybe a little up in the air but he was on inside the nba for uh 24 years um but i guess now that's that's we'll see what happens heading into next season um but charles barkley known as one of the great characters in nba history even while he was still playing he was known as kind of an off the wall character um he's pretty Pretty short for his position.Track 3:[11:21] They called him the round mound of rebound. Played an aggressive style, outspoken guy.Track 3:[11:27] So people knew all about Charles Barkley. So I'm wondering, Mike, when did you take notice of Charles Barkley? And what's your basketball fandom like? Well, for me, I'm a big basketball fan, huge Celtics fan. So just got banner 18. So I have to shout that out. I think this team is going to be good for a while. But I am a Boston sports fan. so I know that things come and thank you very much and I know that these things come and they don't always work out. I have had a lot of heartbreak and a lot of triumph so very happy with the team right now but as far as Mr. Chuck there, I would say late 96 Space Jam, that was when I knew those players on the team I had all the Space Jam figurines as a kid including Charles Barkley. And so I was a little young to watch him play for the Sixers, but knew who he was. And then...Track 3:[12:27] Seeing his like post post playing career persona i wanted to start this episode with you right now by saying like is charles brockley like the funniest athlete because i was thinking about this right right before the show so i'll give you a minute to think about it but a lot of athletes have a lot of charisma like they're big they're they're like larger than life people and they have a lot of bravado and so like they have funny personalities or they say things post game that are quotable but i think charles barkley is like naturally a funny dude yeah he is do you have any nominees who would who would be at his level or or funnier than him i think ricky henderson is is one was one of the funnier athletes maybe a little before some of our listeners times but But Ricky played from like 1979 to like 2003 or something. So he's been, but he was funny with the Red Sox cup of coffee with like almost every team. It seemed like, um, but Ricky was very funny. He would speak, he would call himself Ricky. So he would say, Ricky did this or Ricky did that or whatever. Like, so, but I don't know. I think Chuck's is more intentional. John Sally. If you remember John Sally, he was an actual standup comedian. Um, one other recent person I'll throw into the mix, honestly, is Blake Griffin.Track 3:[13:46] Blake Griffin's one of the funnier athletes. Chuck and Blake Griffin are probably the two funniest athletes that I've seen in my opinion. And Blake Griffin's appearance on SNL two seasons ago in the Kim K show. Yeah, exactly. I'm halfway surprised he never hosted, but I don't know. He took classes at the Groundlings and stuff, so Blake was real serious about it. Yeah, but Chuck's just naturally funny. It seems like he doesn't even have to try. like you think like that's part of what draws people to him as an snl host is just sort of like some sort of natural humor like what is it that's made him such like a beloved figure in our community well i think it's kind of what i said is that there there might be a divide sometimes between the sports world and the theater slash comedy world and so when you see somebody who's willing to play for the other team which is maybe the team that we're on on this podcast of being comedy commentators slash analysts, and to see somebody come over to that side, and the fact that he's come back. I mean, we're going to talk about his shows, but he's hosted four times now.Track 3:[14:51] Which is i i would consider a record for an athlete unless you count the rock as an athlete which i feel like he already is more of an actor coming from wwf first appearance like i count as an athlete appearance yeah but he was promoting his wrestling it was like he was like almost there as the rock and gimmick so i can maybe count that yeah so i mean he the rock is a five-timer but uh chuck is right behind at four and so to answer your question i feel like people are so you can say this about sports politics comedy anything like that people are always embracing somebody who's embracing them so i think that charles barkley the willingness to come back i mean he was coming off an n uh nba mvp season right so he was the reigning mvp i mean michael Jordan hosted in I think 91 and then he went on to be MVP but Charles Barkley reigning MVP we saw like uh Tom Brady and Eli Manning like they came off a Super Bowl win um Travis Kelsey more recently but so Barkley was the reigning MVP came in you know it's we're gonna talk about the show do that that show so we'll get into in a second but coming back three more times and just you He's not a trained comedian, but having a blast. I feel like the cast always liked working with him. We'll talk about some of the sketches that he appeared in that they wrote for him.Track 3:[16:17] He was just so game. I think people in the SNL community and comedy just are down for somebody to hop over the fence.Track 3:[16:25] That's such a good point. Somebody from another world really embracing our world of SNL. That's a really good point. That's a really quick way to endear yourself to our community as a quote-unquote outsider.Track 3:[16:39] So yeah, no, I think that's such a good point. I always get stuck too on just the concept of athletes in general as hosts and how people feel about that. So you as a huge SNL fan, what do you think about athletes in general as hosts of the show? Honestly, I love it. Not because I'm a sports fan. And that does help because usually I know the person before they host, whereas maybe people were watching one night and JJ Watt was on the screen and they were saying, who the hell is this guy? So that helps that I know the people, but...Track 3:[17:11] I think one of the best things about SNL, and you can quote me on this, is having not just comedians host the show. I think that it would be a great show if every week it was a hot stand-up or someone promoting a comedy movie that's coming out. But having other areas of entertainment come in is the beauty of the show. So we don't get it every season. We don't, of course, get it multiple times a year but when we see somebody like that come in it just brings us a certain energy it might not make for the funniest show or the most memorable sketch that's okay with me though it's a fun ride and it's something new and different and that's all i want from snl no matter what yeah i think i tend to get surprised in some ways i'm always skeptical going in they announced an athlete and i think in my mind i'm going to watch the episode and.Track 3:[18:08] And suffer from like i'll be embarrassed for them and i hate feeling that way i hate seeing somebody on screen and i'm like feeling embarrassed for them so i in my mind i'm automatically like gloom and doom like oh no how is this gonna go travis kelsey's hosting how's this gonna go but i always tend to be pleasantly surprised i think like remember there's a low bar but it's always like some sort of a different energy i think when athletes host totally and i love low bar snl i won't lie like a lot of times i go in to a titan of the show and i get let down a little bit so when someone comes in that i've literally like an actor or actress i've never heard of and they impress me like that's great and same with athletes yeah so we've had athletes from all major sports that that i can remember even hockey we've had one hockey player that i I remember. Only one, right? Yeah. Only one hockey player. The great one, yeah. Yeah, the great one hosted, Wayne Gretzky. So yeah, so we've been, I think it's pretty cool, the times that we do see a pro athlete host. We're in for a wild ride. And we just had an Olympics on NBC.Track 3:[19:17] So, Simone Biles. Maybe Simone, exactly. Come on down. Victory lap. Following Michael Phelps' footsteps as an Olympian. Nancy Kerrigan. Nancy Kerrigan, yeah. Yeah, so do I do remember maybe both of those episodes were a little rough? Michael Phelps, I think, is pretty good. Was it good? Okay, I haven't watched him in a long time. Michael Phelps, Space Olympics alone can get that up to a C. Okay, I think I need to go back and re-watch. Maybe I'll re-watch Phelps' episode if Simone Biles ends up hosting.Track 3:[19:50] Yeah, good call. I'll be proved wrong. So, as far as Charles Barkley, a little bit of sports nerd background before he hosted his first episode. Um he hosted in september of 93 it was the season premiere so if you're a basketball player you're gonna host probably in the first two or three episodes because the way the season works if you're not hosting one of those first three episodes you're just not hosting that season so every basketball player that we've seen they'll get like the season premiere early on unless they're retired or something like that so he hosted in september of 93 by that point as you you mentioned like charles was probably considered the second best player in the league behind michael jordan won that mvp in 93 led the suns to the nba finals the summer prior the leading scorer on the dream team it wasn't michael jordan it's charles barkley that was the leading score and arguably the the dominant personality on that dream team so like couple all.Track 3:[20:48] Of that with his personality i think it did make sense for him to host snl in 93 so again uh season 19 episode one notable because of musical guest nirvana uh appeared then that was their second time on the show um right away mike like really memorable monologue and a really memorable in my opinion snl moment from a lot of people's childhoods uh in that monologue with a certain like children's character yeah i mean first of all i watched the show last night the 93 is first show and how young he sounds because keenan thompson has now done an impression of charles brockley 22 times.Track 3:[21:31] On snl and so you know you're used to that cadence of the impression from keenan and of course if you watch inside the nba and you know charles brockley well you can do an impression yourself kind of like a christopher walken type of person everybody can do with charles brockley and say you know that's terrible whatever um he sounds so young and he doesn't really get too much live screen time because the monologue is dedicated to a pre-taped segment of him playing one-on-one with barney the.Track 3:[22:00] Purple dinosaur yeah yeah and he's like elbowing barney uh in the face and dunking on him and uh doing all that stuff and i think it was a play so i think around this time barkley had some ads where he said i am not a role model so that was a being he's like i'm not a role model parents are role models so he had this whole thing of like you need to be role models to your kids because i'm not so maybe it was kind of a play off of that like another i guess barney's considered like maybe with kids role model i'm gonna push barney around and elbow him in the head and all of that so that was yeah really memorable you're right though chuck um didn't really get a they didn't give him a lot to do in the monologue which is probably smart they don't know they you know i think jordan was a little rough maybe like he had a good episode but then jordan as a host was a little stiff so maybe that the expectations they don't want to give the athlete a ton in the monologue i'm guessing yeah for sure and overall that night he appeared in seven out of the 14 segments not including the musical performance intros um and i will say i think the best part of the show was nirvana so i was gonna shout out the first time i listened to snl hall of fame thomas senna the man himself was the guest talking about nirvana so had to shout that out. So yeah, Nirvana was really memorable in this episode. Is there something, a sketch or anything?Track 3:[23:28] Sticks out as far as charles barkley and his first time here on the show goes, definitely the one that seemed like they could use him and you know we'll talk about his later shows where they put him front and center but the first episode which like i mentioned there are like a handful of segments you know have to show of course including cold open and we can update that he did not appear and was the steward smalley daily affirmations because they just kind of let him be himself, even though they did call him Charles B., who plays for the Phoenix S's. So that got a laugh out of me. And Muggsy Bogues comes on, and he joins the sketch. And it's a classic Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley sketch, but it seemed like he was comfortable with that. So I guess since you're the best basketball player in the world, then I guess I guess you've won a lot of championships. Well, actually I never won the championship.Track 3:[24:36] And Charles, how do you feel about not having won, you know, a championship? Fine, it's no big deal.Track 3:[24:48] But they did right after that or a couple sketches later do the uh big and tall black store, and you know charles brockley was like you know front to you know straight to camera mugsy also appears in that one so i'll shout those ones out as like a a soft launch of charles brockley's comedic career yeah i definitely think that daily affirmation stood out to me as well i jordan had done a daily affirmation with store smallie and his hosting gig two years prior. So it was really funny. It was almost a callback to Jordan without saying his name because Charles said that he referred to himself as the best basketball player in the world. And then I love Stewart's response. He's like, well, if you're the best basketball player in the world, then I guess you've won a lot of championships. And so that's like Charles laughing at himself. As we saw post-career, him and Shaq, they're always kind of giving Charles grief for never winning a title. So I think that showed that Charles can laugh at himself when Muggsy was sharing his feelings to Charles. You could tell Charles was having fun with it and it's kind of starting to break a little bit. So I definitely dug that daily affirmation with Stuart Smalley. Charles Barkley's big, tall, and black men's stores. I like that they just gave Charles something to do like straight to camera, like something solo, just to like give him his kind of showcase like it's just Charles. When you're Charles Barkley, shopping for clothes is never easy. Too small?Track 3:[26:15] Too short? Not black enough. That's why I started my chain, Charles Barkley Big, Tall, and Black Men Stories. You see, ordinary black men have been able to always dress in style. Now big and tall and black men can too. Kind of a fun concept. He's not taking himself too seriously. So those are really two good pulls as far as showcasing his personality goes. Yeah, for sure. Those are the two that stood out for me. He did do the donkey basketball camp at the end of the show, which was funny if for no other reason that we have Charles Barkley, 6'6", on a donkey. I think they didn't make the donkey hold the entire weight of the round amount of rebound. I was sitting there wondering, too. I'm like, is that donkey okay?Track 3:[27:11] But the donkey does lose it a little bit. It's a classic SNL live animal moment where everyone in the house and on set is laughing. That was a good way to end that show. Is it Tim Meadows' donkey that just starts walking away? Way yeah i think yeah there's like i think four donkeys on set yeah yeah and i think uh it's probably an old comedy rule that just like a group of people sitting on donkeys is just a funny visual they recreated it there was the political sitting on my donkey political talk show that they did uh in the late 90s that that was really funny and i think just that visual of people sitting on donkeys like time-tested classic and i'm a huge fan of donkeys i think that they're very underrated, underrated animal in general yeah that's a hot take here donkeys are underrated i like it yeah i would love to have a pet donkey i mean he'd probably live in the house yeah they don't name enough sports teams after donkeys as well also true maybe hot take as well uh yeah so i think that this this first one was just kind of testing charles's comfort level um like i said giving they They gave him like one straight to camera. He was in a gap sketch. So he's in like a recurring along with Stuart Smalley, another recurring character.Track 3:[28:30] So like a decent, like kind of endearing for a current NBA player to be doing something like that. And very similar to what you mentioned about The Rock's first show. Just kind of testing the waters. And also because like, yeah, the gap sketch. And we also got to keep in mind, this is season 19. So this is that fourth season with the Farley, Spade, Sandler, Meadows, Schneider, that group. So the viewers at home are kind of expecting these sketches, and they're fitting in Charles Broccoli to them. So with the Gap sketch, he comes in at the very end, it's fantastic.Track 3:[29:09] He comes in and drag and it's like a punchline. And then Rob Schneider, out of Africa, you can put your weed in this. He comes in at the end as the police officer. So it's kind of just like, okay, the sketch could have been for anybody. Let's put Chuck in at the end. And that's okay with me because much like the Rock show, it was like a WWF promo show. So this was kind of just, let's have some fun with Charles Broccoli on set. It's always funny to see somebody who's much taller or much different than the cast so that's fine with me yeah he was around he was 30 years old he was still in the league for seven more years yeah good shape he was in good shape by the way like you know i think that that was his most slim as an nba player too because he was maybe a little chubby in philadelphia sometimes but like 93 charles barkley like in skinny guy in good shape so it was back in the time too like the The conventional thinking, it seemed, especially on SNL, was if you're a big macho guy, you're going to win people over if you dress in drag. That was the whole thing. If we got an action star, an athlete, we put them in a dress or something like that, and it's going to get laughed. So I think they leaned into that a lot around that time period, especially. Yeah, and that was for sure popular at that era.Track 3:[30:31] Look at the Gap sketch. It's Sandler, it's Spade. They did that a few times. That was the fourth time they did that. So they had already been doing those characters. So to have, you know, okay, let's bring in the big NBA player to join them. It's, you know, low-hanging fruit for the show at that point. September of 93, first hosting gig. Pretty fun. It took a while for them to bring him back. He retired from basketball in the year 2000, but it took another 10 years almost for Chuck to come back. So it was season 35 episode 11 january of 2010 and again like some some more nba themed stuff he's involved in uh recurring sketches of the time so he's playing with this cast of 2010 and kind of getting involved in in their sketches and their nonsense and this this one might have like maybe in my opinion maybe his best performance in a sketch out of his four times um just a little teaser, but is anything in his second hosting appearance that kind of sticks out to you? Well, this one, notable now, you know, he's 46 years old, the episode was delayed, 35 minutes because of the Cowboys-Eagles.Track 3:[31:50] NFC wildcard game, Cowboys won, and they referenced that in the monologue because they're delayed. Now it's not Saturday Night Live, it's early Sunday morning live at this point.Track 3:[32:02] And it was funny, he did, I will point out, I have to point this out, he did cite some SNL stats in the monologue. He made fun of the show because they had had almost no black hosts for a long stretch.Track 3:[32:15] And he does call out Dwayne Johnson as being partially black to count him in those stats. So whenever I hear a host do some stats, I have to mention that. But for that, he gets to be in a whole new playground. Ground and now we're in 2010 so we're in this maybe third golden age um of snl with sudeikis wig sandberg you know it's near the end of that era probably because you know they came in 0506 but he gets to be in a mcgruber so he gets a three-part run pre-tape and i'll just start with that because or durell yeah durell it's daryl so i'll start with that because it's it's fun to have um you know we had betty white come after this show and she did a mcgruber as well and another sketch we'll talk about i'm sure but that was uh i'll start with that one i mean the mcgruber is racist as a concept was just funny anyway but to have charles barkley there made it way funnier in my opinion okay don't worry gang and when i say gang i'm not insinuating that anyone here is a crip or a blood or in any other black gang or white gang whites could have gangs too right durell it's daryl shown up but look if there's one thing i've learned from the sensitivity training classes that i was forced to go to is that regardless of the color of our skin we can all work together 10 seconds mcgruber okay uh biggie hammer that screw you got it mcgruber Okay, Durrell, respectfully.Track 3:[33:45] Hand me that pen. Which pen? That one, right there.Track 3:[33:48] I can't tell which one you're pointing at. Be more specific. That one, the African-American pen. What? Sorry, the Negro pen? The Negro-American pen? Just call it a black pen. Oh, so now... Just seeing the steps by the end, MacGruber had gone to some sort of counseling or racial sensitivity training.Track 3:[34:07] And he's just, like, he pretends to be Zen, But then at the end, the racist nature of MacGruber just comes out again. But Charles is just like, you could tell. I think this is a good reason why he's so endearing is because watching him in this sketch, it seems like he gets the humor. He gets why this is funny. He gets the show. Part of him understands what's happening in the MacGruber sketch and why it's funny. So I can kind of get the sense that Charles has a good sense of humor and knows why this is funny. Totally. and to go off a point you mentioned earlier about why he's a funny athlete is the self-deprecation because mm-hmm.Track 3:[34:46] I can remember back then when the first video came out of his golf swing. And if you've never seen that video, it's basically, you know, like a lot of ex-athletes who get into golf and he was one of them. And his golf swing is basically him doing a backswing, coming up, pausing, and then hitting the ball. And that was shared all over the internet. You know, we're going back, this is even pre-2010, but he did do a sketch with doing that. And i think this is maybe thomas you're going to mention the sketch but his his like physical comedy that he does it the concept of the sketch is him doing other activities in the same manner of going like going in pausing and then going way too hard so i i have in my notes him putting the magnet on the fridge was my favorite moment of the show no that you know that was outstanding and he's just so good. He's really good at knowing his brand or knowing why people like him and why people think he's funny. And part of it is he knows he has a jacked up golf swing. So he leans into it.Track 3:[35:53] Might as well, right? Let's lean into it, make fun of myself. And yeah, the Haney Project, that's what that sketch was called. Like, yeah, yeah, it's just total self-deprecation. But he's like, you know, we're all laughing together. Like, we're not laughing at Charles. And like, he's laughing with us. And he really did that. He really got the swing coach. Yeah, he really did. Yeah, I've seen him swing a golf club in person right before my eyes. And it was jarring. I knew I had seen video of it, but we went to a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe every summer. So we went in 2010, maybe a few months after this episode, and we saw Charles at one of the holes. And I took video of it, and it was just a sight to behold. So it is even more jarring in person to see that swing, man. That's a great two truths and a lie or icebreaker is that I saw Charles Broccoli's golf swing in the flesh. And it scarred me for life. But yeah, Charles makes fun of it. He made fun of himself too in a sketch, the very last one, Barclays Bank. So he kind of made fun of his gambling proclivities in that one, which is a really great premise, Mike. Barclays Bank. For over 300 years, Barclays has offered products and services tailored to meet the specific needs of its customers worldwide with investment strategies that span the financial spectrum.Track 3:[37:21] Boring. Hi, I'm Charles Barkley. If you're looking for a new way to manage your money, perhaps you should try Barkley's Bank. At Barkley's Bank, it's simple. You give me your money, I promise you two things. I'm either going to double it or I'll lose it all. And that's a promise. Yep, that was the other one I wanted to mention because of this quote alone. Give me your money, I promise you two things. I'm either going to double it or lose it all. that's a promise and then he only asked what two questions to them.Track 3:[37:54] Yeah uh what's your favorite color right and then okay i think they said you know blue or something and then they said uh what what about between red and black just between red and black yeah so yeah he he did take outside things that if if you've never heard of charles barkley they're funny but if you if you're familiar with what makes him funny even at his own expense he leaned into it so i think the second show is what makes him a returning host for three and four but also just solidifies him as like this guy can do this he would have been just a one-time host that we would remember like oh yeah i remember when charles barkley hosted in 93 but but his run on tnt and just him building up.Track 3:[38:40] His brand and everything and i think yeah you're right the second hosting gig was like okay i think we have a mainstay because this guy just kind of like gets it he's like down to clown and and that's what a lot of this show is about but my honestly like low-key my favorite barkley sketch i think he's the best in in the first sketch of the night it's an old it's a game show sketch called real quotes the next famous line is from the film a few good men it's famously delivered by jack nicholson and the line is you can't handle my privates incorrect be that as it may you cannot handle them so keep your hand to yourself no one was asking you can never be too safe reg it's an old snl trope of a game show with bad contestants they're asking them to like finish movie quotes and they're giving the the wrong quotes of course and they're frustrating bill haters the as the game show host but Charles has like, Pretty good comedic delivery in this one probably his best delivery out of the four episodes that he's hosted like this was a, Kind of impressive by Chuck. I liked his sketch and I liked his performance.Track 3:[39:52] I literally had that, Thomas, in my notes. Chuck's line delivery kills, I think, the best timing he's shown on the show. Yeah. No, it's really great. Who was the other contestant? I forget. Was it Kristen? It was Wig, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It was just the two of them. Just the two of them and then Bill as, of course, the game show. Yeah, Bill Hader, Kristen Wig, and Chuck. Yeah, Chuck played really well off of Bill and Kristen. That was impressive. When I doubted Chuck's like performances and sketches, his sketch comedy ability, which I mean, let's be honest, he's not as far as hosts go and like hosts that we especially we've talked about on this show. He's not the classic going to knock it out of the park with my performance in a sketch. But this one really impressed me. So I'm glad you highlighted it, too. Yeah, for sure. Sure. I mean, I have one more, and I just feel like it's worth mentioning because of this sketch's area in the SNL universe, which is Scared Straight. And I just wanted to show the list of people that he's come after and before, which are the prisoners that play alongside Kenan's character. We all know the sketch. We have the three youths there being scared straight by Jason Sudeikis' police officer. They bring Kenan in to scare them and make the raunchiest jokes of the night.Track 3:[41:14] And it was Tracy Morgan, Taylor Swift, Betty White, Zach Galifianakis, and Lindsay Lohan. So I mentioned Betty White did a MacGruber this season as well. So Charles Barkley, and this is maybe not a highlight for Chuck, but he's having a blast. and it's a sketch notorious for breaking, so you can't blame the guy, but I have to highlight that one. All right, now, my name is Lorenzo McIntosh. And I'm his dad, Marvin. But you can call us the Ken Griffiths because whether you get junior or senior, we gonna knock your ass out the park. That's right. Now, what are they in here for? You know what? Let me guess. Cannibalism. Good guess, son. What are you kidding? That's a horrible guess. No, we caught these kids hanging around the abandoned rail yard. Trespassing, huh?Track 3:[42:03] That's where it starts next thing you know it's rabies show me a pop rabies he's following taylor swift and cornrows that legacy you know that's that's a hell of a legacy to live up to yeah charles is up for the challenge uh so probably a very loose episode a very fun loose episode um again theme nobody's gonna accuse chuck of being like this amazing sketch performer this amazing app, but he has this like charisma about him. People want him back, and they got him back two seasons later. It didn't take 16 years. It only took two years to bring him back. Season 37, episode 11, January of 2012. As soon as he appeared on screen, I was like, has he lost weight? He looks a little more slim, but then that's what his monologue was about. So it wasn't just in my imagination. Yeah, he said he lost 38 pounds.Track 3:[43:01] Yeah, he was glued to the cue cards, though. That was one of my big observations. Like, oh man, Chuck, this is your third time and you're like really glued to those cue cards still. And the button on the monologue didn't hit with the audience. Yeah. He makes a joke to the audience that they all look like turkey legs to him. Like he wants to eat the audience because he's been so hungry on his weight loss journey. The point is Weight Watchers work for me. I feel great. except for one thing. I am so hungry. I am starving.Track 3:[43:36] So please forgive me if I eat one of you tonight. Y'all all look like turkey legs to me, especially you. But we have a great show for you tonight. A turkey leg named Kelly Clarkson is here. I'm going to cover her in butter and gobble her up. So stick around. We'll be right back.Track 3:[43:56] But yeah, he's lovable. That's part of his charm is he could just make a make a totally dead joke and and we'll hear crickets but uh so the first sketch kind of funny like i always kind of like when uh when the host is being impersonated in a sketch that they're doing so charles playing shack keenan playing charles barkley how many times did you say keenan impersonates 22 22 times wow and once in front of chuck maybe it was yeah or no twice did he because in one of his monologues i think he asked keenan to do his impersonation yeah he does as as himself as keenan pops out in that show okay or the other show yeah so so do you think like um starting with the sports sketch because i always wonder like non-sports fans like what they think are they going to get some of these references or anything so inside they do an inside the nba sketch like him like again truck playing shack and keenan playing charles like how do you think something like that goes over with kind of the general snl crowd I always think that's risk-reward, and you can't please everybody. They'll have younger actors, actresses, parody their own shows come in that I haven't seen the show, but...Track 3:[45:09] Jokes per page. If it works, it works. But it also would be an entirely missed opportunity if you didn't try to exploit that audience because you're hoping that they joined the audience just for tonight and hopefully they'll stay for next week. So he did it inside the NBA in the second episode we didn't mention but with Andy Sandberg playing a make-a-wish kid as a commentator. So this third one is an actual true inside the NBA because it's the panel. Now, Elyse, get your predictions for the late game. I have a prediction. I'm the great Chakradummas. Who's giving them all these props? I will predict that Charles Barkley's going to be fat again. He'll be so fat, he'll star in Fat Free Willy 2.Track 3:[45:58] First of all, dummy, there was already a Free Willy 2. But I'd rather be in Free Willy 2 than Kazam 1. What you know yeah we have keenan playing charles brockley and him being shack which.Track 3:[46:14] His like hair and makeup were just hilarious yeah it kind of didn't look like shack it didn't look like shack at all he was totally game to make go on and make fun of shack yeah on snl yeah i bet i bet they they showed the clip on inside the nba after that and they all had a laugh but uh yeah Yeah, I like seeing them start with something like that.Track 3:[46:36] Definitely, yeah. I mean, this is when you see somebody who's known to the audience for one thing, you want to give them that one thing. So no problems with me and as somebody who watches inside the NBA and knows that panel, that show itself is funny. So you just watch it, you'll get laughs. Of course, it's funnier if you're an NBA follower, but like those guys on that stage are funny so it's not like taking a political sketch that's not funny and trying to punch it up like those people are funny so if you haven't seen it then they are referencing comedy outside the show uh is there another segment or sketch that really like was a highlight for you in this episode yeah there were there were probably two other ones and i wanted to highlight the joanne's coming out sketch because we mentioned the 90s trope of with men in drag. Then we had a big era with Kate Adi-Cecilie of women in drag, especially in politics, playing Republican politicians and stuff. But this is a case where Charles Broccoli played small and it really worked because the timing with the other cast members was really, really good. And the sketch never really escalated.Track 3:[47:53] Which normally is not a great thing, but the fact that Charles Barkley, who's a big, large man, as a woman, announcing to the friend group that she's a lesbian, you'd think that it would have been more exploited and kind of like, ha-ha about that, but it was played pretty serious, and there was a moment with Vanessa Bayer. But what about that time we took that outdoor shower together? You never once looked down. I'm not attracted to you.Track 3:[48:25] Really? Is there something I need to fix? Yes. And there's no other line after that. They move the scene along. So just, yes. So I think a moment like that, we're going to talk about, is he Hall of Fame worthy?Track 3:[48:41] There are moments in his career at SNL that I like to highlight as this guy can do it. And that's a moment because he could have broke. They could have added a keenan crutch line after that to highlight the humor but they didn't they let charles brockley just go yes very very subtle very low key very good delivery and does uh was it paul britain who who you got the kind of like the the good funny visual of like paul britain's shortened stature standing next to chuck and and so there's like some good visuals yep he was the boyfriend of joanne yeah yeah yeah so yeah joanne's announcement uh i that one stood out to me but i have a feeling you're about to say um my favorite from the night but i don't know we'll see if we're on the same wavelength here well also fred armisen that sketches says you're gonna be a great lesbian very heartfelt yeah it just totally matter of fact not played for or anything else besides just that, you're going to be a great lesbian, is I would say... We're talking about Paul Britton. Are you teeing me up here? Yep. Okay, all right. Lord Windermere, which is one of four Paul Britton recurring sketches...Track 3:[50:00] And this like hit for me more now, especially knowing the history of the cup of coffee that Paul Britton had on the show who left to me, you know, mid season. That's a character that I don't think is, has that been covered on a podcast? No, there would be no reason. We certainly haven't covered Paul Britton here. Like, like Paul Britton, someone who's like just kind of slipped through the cracks of SNL history. Honestly, totally. Totally. You want to tell the folks at home what Lord Windermere is? Who he is? The premise of the sketch is Jason Sudeikis plays this guy who's hosting his friends to watch the football game. And his daughter's boyfriend is coming by. And he's this aristocratic, dainty, dressed in... What would you describe it?Track 3:[50:57] It's all very Baroque. Baroque. you have like uh bill hater as his footman playing a tiny harpsichord yeah yeah like very jaunting around the maypole you know feather in the cap knickers on yes yes yes exactly so he's this just like goofy character uh he he wants everybody to call him lord windermere i think his name's something else uh they call him a different name but he wants to be called lord windermere and he um he demands sweets that's his favorite thing he he's always wanting sweets he likes tickle fights uh so he's just like a little odd character created by paul britain did he only do it twice yeah that was it yeah and i remember both of them clearly like lord windermere is something that like was etched into etched into my mind and this was a really great When I love Charles, because everybody in the room was just kind of put off by Lord Windermere. They didn't know what to think, and I thought it was a little weird. But Charles immediately buys in and was taken with Lord Windermere. So I love that, and I love how Charles played it. I know a riddle, but I shan't tell us all unless you can pinch my bottom. But you'll have to catch me first. I'm on it. Get that button over here. Bring that little... How about you hear that riddle? For the love of God, Garrett, piss that bottle. I'm crying.Track 3:[52:19] Oh, man, this is the best night of my life. I love the little Lord. He's just a regular Joe. A regular Joe? And that's also the nature of that sketch, is Sudeikis is the girlfriend's dad, and he loves him. He loves him, yeah. Already, that's the premise of the sketch, is you think, the trope of meeting your girlfriend's father is going to be tough. It's going to be some machismo and some nervousness. It's that this little guy prancing around and Sudeikis can't get enough of it. And so Barkley plays as the extension of him. You've got to pinch his bottom.Track 3:[53:00] I'll have a riddle for you, but I won't tell you unless you pinch my bottom. And he starts running around. and like Barkley wants in on that so the other two you know Sandberg and like they're just trying to watch the game but yeah Barkley's all in he's all in I love when Barkley says uh I want to hold him just like just as a matter of fact that like gave me a nice like real genuine laugh and Chuck's just like I want to hold him and he's so Paul Britton's so small that he could and Sudeik is just yelling at Andy Sandberg who's his son why don't you go get Lord Windermere some sweets just the whole is this chaos like uh this and what's the other paul britain that i like sex ed is another yeah that was his one that he did the most that i love that one so that that's if anything he's known for it's that but this one is a hidden gem because is it the greatest sketch ever no but it has a joke and it hits you with it and you i like it and most importantly i think chuck is like genuinely good in this sketch too and trying his hardest i think out of all the sketches he's been in to not break yeah that's surprising because it seems like once per episode that that he'll start breaking but it didn't happen in lord windermere that's kind of that's kind of crazy it seemed like he again he knew why this was funny and he's just down to clown.Track 3:[54:20] Because, yeah, at one point he does hold Paul Britton, Lord Windermere. And, of course, you have large NBA star Charles Barkley holding this small man. And Charles Barkley is doing everything he can to not just lose it. That was the highlight of the episode for me in terms of I think it was just the best sketch. And it was Charles' best performance in a sketch. Nice. I'm glad you liked that one. Yeah, I know. It was great.Track 3:[54:45] Absolutely. Love Lord Windermere. um yeah not not much else like they had one where he played a character called the dong father in the 17th annual adult video awards is basically the whole sketch was just the in memoriam at these uh adult video awards but yeah i mean snl uh obviously liked him he had a fun episode again a very loose atmosphere there in 8h that night six years later charles is back for more uh season 43 episode 14 his fourth and most recent appearance so it's been going on seven years now six or seven years since he's been on there is actually you know what especially like the run at the end i thought was really good like uh but what first stood out to you with this episode this one is fresh in my mind for sure i i have to say the previous one we just talked about a friend of mine went to that taping and so I texted him this morning because he was at the after party and I said what did you remember from Chuck at the after party and because he told me a couple months ago I had no idea I'd be talking about Charles with you tonight and he just said that he sat at the bar the whole after party and was surrounded by models.Track 3:[55:59] And they were doing tequila shots all night and Charles Broccoli kept telling them I have to be in New Orleans tomorrow or cover a Pelicans-Mavericks game.Track 3:[56:11] And that just played out the whole after party. So a little inside baseball, but shout out to Dylan for the story. The season 43 one. This one is interesting because they lean a little political in this one, right? A little bit, yeah. There's a couple concepts that charles brockley seems very game with but it's because of the lebron james shut up and dribble controversy when he spoke out about something and you know he got that comment about like just play basketball and that was a big thing going on in the whole sports world you know this is around kaepernick time kneeling for the anthem and so he says and it's a perfect chuck Chuck quote, I've been saying whatever the hell I want for 30 years. I'm hosting SNL for the fourth time for no reason. That was his tee-up was like for that more politically charged episode for the fourth when his previous three were mostly silliness. He does that. They do a Me Too style sketch with the Grabby Awards, where it's all about actors who are handsy on set and giving unwanted massages and stuff. And the male co-host is Beck Bennett, and he gets replaced by Chris Redd, who gets replaced by Luke Knoll.Track 3:[57:33] Charles Broccoli plays Tim Franklin, who's wearing not a Time's Up pin, but a Tim's Up pin. Oh, gosh. And then there's one other one I'll say is the Ned's Roach Away. Do you want to talk about that one? Yeah, yeah. So Charles plays a guy named Ned. He's the pitch man for his product, Ned's Roach Away. And it is very socially kind of aware sketch. So he gives basically, quote unquote, good roaches guns to take care of the bad roaches. So forget about those sprees. Roaches just drink that stuff up like tequila. You might as well put it in a piñata and throw those roaches a party. But with Ned's Roach Away, the party's over.Track 3:[58:16] Now, some people might say, but Ned, when gun-carrying roaches just add to my problem, that's so dumb it makes me mad. My bed and scissors make sure only the best high-character, guard-fearing roaches can carry guns. It's time to go to church. And none of my roaches are gay. And for really bad problems, you need Ned's Roach Away Max with Bubstock. There's like commentary on the discourse after there's a mass shooting like a good guy with a gun could have taken care of it and so that's like the the play on that which i found interesting because charles i mean charles will speak on politics a little bit but i've never really seen him get involved with something so like politically heavy in its message uh like something like that because something like ned's roach way like had did have like a clear perspective and voice i think, and it was a funny sketch it was all like animated little roaches holding AR-15s and the people in the house would be going about their day where they would hear just these gunshots going off as in the good roaches are shooting the bad ones, and they hit you with the button at the end that Ned's Roach Away is NRA.Track 3:[59:30] Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I admit, like, I kicked myself. I was like, I should have picked up on that immediately. Then at the end, I was like, oh, come on. You've got to be more of an astute viewer of SNL than that. So, I was kicking myself, like, after that. Yeah, that one I completely forgot about. So, you know, maybe in the consciousness at the time, you have these, like, three in a row political type of things. Or at least like socially social issues and then he had that pre-tape in the can that they had which was actually funny but the next one was was the homework hotline yeah him playing off mikey day who has a striking resemblance to like jim henson as the puppeteer i think his name is bobo was the puppet and it's all just sexual innuendo that he's hooking up with the puppet which i think has been been done but it was funny with Charles Barkley like literally having to carry that sketch it's really just him and a puppet and like callers coming in and he has to play oblivious at first and then he's like gets wise to it and he's like hang up on them so yeah there was a third one though as far as like like social conscious kind of sketch what was it kind of in a conversation.Track 3:[1:00:46] Probably even still but especially at the time he was in a sketch with Alex Rodriguez and then Keenan playing a former football player and the sketch is basically about how harmful the effects were of playing football yeah so they're asking the CTE conversation yeah exactly so they're talking about like Charles is talking about how hard basketball is how grueling it is and then Alex is saying how grueling baseball is and then Keenan's like obviously affected by CTE so that's like kind of saying something too like these sketches are kind of getting involved in a lot of like the discourse that was happening and yet they found a way for charles barkley to be a good player in all of them we talked about at least i did earlier about him kind of just being shoehorned in for a laugh in the earlier ones where he's leading these sketches and they're hitting so maybe it's a commentary about modern snl and he happened to be the host but he did a good job with it yeah yeah agreed um i said that there was a good run at the end. And the last three sketches of the night were probably like, I think the three best in my opinion. So, so they, like the beginning was like, wow, they're kind of going there with a lot of these topics. But then the last three, which as of now are the last three sketches he's done on SNL, Hump or Dump, which was Charles, it was a dark sketch. Like I was kind of a little surprised by that, Mike. Right. It's like the, the classic dating show sketch, but...Track 3:[1:02:13] All the commentary just comes back to, you know, rule of three, Charles Brockley is the third contestant. And he just keeps doubling, tripling down. If you don't pick me, I'm going to kill myself. That was the joke of the sketch. And they ran with it and made it funny. Nah, girl, you pick me because I'm Twitter verified and I always send you home in an Uber pool. Ooh, color me intrigued. And Doug? Let me put this plainly, Amanda. If you don't pick me, I'm going to kill myself.Track 3:[1:02:45] I'm sorry. I don't think I heard you right. Yeah, you did. I'm going to kill myself. I came to win, and I'm putting all my chips on the table. Hey, come on, man. That's not cool. I mean, you can't put that on her. If you're battling depression right now, we can get you some help. I'm not depressed. This is a game show. I want to win. Is he allowed to do this? No, of course not. Because he was just saying it so matter-of-factly, like, oh, that's just what I'm going to do. And then his justification was like, he's in it to win it or something. So, like, that was his strategy. Yep. That was completely strategic. Maybe they put that in there to soften the blow a little bit. Exactly. Yeah. I think he turned to Chris Redd and Chris Redd says, oh, I'll kill myself. And he goes, well, how are you going to do it? He's like, I don't know. He's like, see? This guy. this guy doesn't know he doesn't know he's never thought about it he's not he's just bluffing yeah.Track 3:[1:03:42] And like charles yeah he was kind of like straight face pretty decent characterization, of somebody like this so uh i think yeah i think that was a fun one by chuck the next one the construction workers one might be my favorite sketch that charles was in though he's part of the ensemble but just as an overall sketch it might have been my favorite one that he was was involved with like across all four it's up there all right i want to hear your commentary on it then, Okay, so the basically like these construction workers get into a conversation about what they would wear if they were women. And so I think Beck's the only one that's kind of resistant. Well, all of them are kind of they're kind of like put dipping their toe in the water of the conversation.Track 3:[1:04:21] And then all of a sudden, like the three of other ones, including Chuck kind of get more into it. And Beck's still trying to fight it. But I just love how they ramp up like the escalation is them kind of saying like, Yeah, I've kind of wondered what you know, if I was to dress elegantly, like what would I wear? Woman what i would wear and then it turns into them like having specific ideas of what they would wear and what would look good on them and everything so i just love the escalation i thought they handled this very delicately and very in a clever way so i was like all bored with this sketch come on guys let's eat roast beef sandwiches and talk about the girls we'd like to date around with huh come on we do that every day today we're exploring new avenues you You know, sometimes when I watch the Oscars on the red carpet, I'm like, how would I wow them if I were a nominated actress? I don't know, right? I think I'd wear a gown that had a large peekaboo hole in the back. I'd put a backwards necklace with a little pendant that comes around and floats in the middle. I don't know. I'm just spitballing.Track 3:[1:05:22] Yeah, this is definitely his ensemble piece because it's hard to make a pro athlete or a former pro athlete fit in the cast.Track 3:[1:05:34] Usually, we've seen it recently with a really hot host and they make fun of, or comment on how hot they are. A really tall host, let's talk about how tall they are. This one was just like Charles, one of the guys.Track 3:[1:05:48] And so, he was able to service the sketch more than comment on, hey, Charles Broccoli's on SNL. Like, isn't that funny? That's true. Yeah, that's a really great point. And he added to it. And again, it was good timing. And Chuck didn't always have that, you know. But I think in this sketch, it was just like he added to the tone, I guess. He struck the right tone for what the sketch was asking for. Whether it was by accident or not. but like he he totally like fit in it was like his true again yeah it's just his ensemble piece that he pulled his own weight in this ensemble piece yeah and this might be a thread that we're getting to tonight but it's the idea that charles barkley is not a comedically talented individual he is a funny individual for sure but gets comedy and we've seen trained actors famous people on the show who are in funny sketches and i don't know if they get it so the fact that he is involved and like i said servicing that idea we want to talk hall of fame in the night here like that's something that would you know edge him over to your to your ballot if you want to vote for him is that he is bolstering this, not a passenger.Track 3:[1:07:12] As many hosts are in good sketches. Yeah, yeah, agreed. And then the night ends in a totally fun way. Maybe his most fun sketch that he's been in in SNL, Last Call, one of those great Kate and Kenan sketches. Sheila Sauvage. Sheila Sauvage, yeah. Just Charles has the right amount of awkward energy for this to work, I think yeah and that's something that I don't know if we've we've hit on hard enough tonight is his charisma is so good like he's such a likable person, If you dig into his backstory, he had a tough childhood. He really was, like Thomas said, top of the night. He was short for his position. He was a rebound king. He didn't make his team. All these different aspects of him, but he's a super likable guy. So when you put him, this could ultimately be, if he never hosts again, his final SNL sketch, and you have him paired with Kate McKinnon, last call of course 10 to 1 sketch and it's everything you could want it to be, i gotta be honest when i first saw you tonight i thought hell no but now i'm not thinking because i'm drunk and of all the men in here you're the only man in here.Track 3:[1:08:34] Let's go back to my place and do missionary huh that's where you try to teach me english until you get frustrated and leave the country.Track 3:[1:08:43] I'd rather do the reverse cowgirl. That's why I put your cowboy hat over your face and walk you out back until you fall out the window. You're bad, man. You're bad. My favorite part, like the showstoppers, and they put those things from the dentist that they put in your mouth to keep your mouth open. Because their lips are in the way. Yeah. He and Kate just start kissing, and of course you always get the fu

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Transcript:[0:42] All right, thank you so much, Doug Donats. It is great to be back with you all once again in the hallowed halls here at the SNL Hall of Fame.My name is JD and it's my pleasure to welcome you inside, but before doing so, reminding you to please wipe your feet.We keep this place spick and span.The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and weadd them to the ballot for your consideration.Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall.That's right. This is a forever game.We do this forever. We are joined by a first -time guest today.It's going to be pretty thrilling, uh, to listen to Thomas in conversation with Nicole Brady, who is a morning news anchor out of Denver, uh, for the ABC affiliate, uh, we'rethrilled to have her here.And, uh, we're also thrilled to be joined by our friend, Matt Ardill to talk about Ana Gasteyer.Track 3:[2:00] Hey, Jamie. Thanks. Uh, I am really excited. Love this performer.One of my favorite sketches is by her. Really? Probably can't guess which.Track 2:[2:10] I'm not even gonna try.Track 3:[2:12] That's right, sweaty balls.Track 2:[2:14] Oh, I should have guessed that.Track 3:[2:15] Who doesn't love a good sweaty ball?Track 2:[2:17] Right.Track 3:[2:17] They're salty and very, very glistening.Track 2:[2:22] Good God, man.Track 3:[2:24] Okay, I will stop with that. But yeah, so Anna Gasteier, Height 5 '5", born May 4th, 1967.She was a political brat. She was born in Washington, D .C.To her mom, an artist, and her dad was a political lobbyist who later went on to become the mayor of New Mexico City, the mayor of the New Mexico City of Corrales.She grew up on Capitol Hill, and one of her friends growing up was Jimmy Carter's daughter Amy.[3:03] For much of her childhood, she actually wore an eye patch, and she has said that she believes that influenced her to become a comedian, because, you know, all of ourgrowing up as a kid with the health thing, a lot of the times, that's how we react to it. I know I did.That's how I dealt with my epilepsy.Now, she later attended Northwestern University as a music major and graduated from Northwestern University of Communications with a Bachelor in Speech, Theatre,and Performance Studies.While at Northwestern, she was part of Paul Worshauer's improv comedy Meow before going on to join the Groundlings.Before getting into acting, she worked as a temp, switchboard operator, and a hostess, like many people having to toil away in those really crummy jobs before hitting theirbig break.She is a trained violinist and a singer who draws heavily from jazz influences.She even has recorded a Christmas album called Sugar and Booze, because let's honest, that is the core of Christmas.The joy of man and sugar and booze.[4:30] She's a trained violinist and a singer drawing heavily from jazz influences.In fact, she has even recorded a Christmas album called Sugar and Booze, because what says Christmas more than sugar and booze?And, you know, family strife.She has 86 acting roles, three producer roles, and two writing roles.She's a former groundling who performed in small roles in Seinfeld, Party of Five, Frasier, and many more roles as a working actor.Her first acting role was actually, you know, talk about starting at the top, she was a patron of a soup restaurant on the show Seinfeld.[5:23] After leaving SNL, she actually found success on Broadway way, and has had starring roles in Wicked and the Three Penny Opera, as well as a voice actor on showsincluding Bob's Burgers.She's also published a cookbook called Cooking with Anagasteyer, Recipes and Delicious Dishes Celebrating the Season.That really sounds like something that would come in a sweaty ball sack.Now, she's said her favorite spices are cinnamon and smoked paprika, and as a philanthropist, she has done work to support Broadway Cares, Equity Fights AIDS, andhelped support Planned Parenthood.Track 4:[6:33] Yes, J .D. Matt, that was awesome. Thank you so much.Today, we are talking about a wonderful cast member from the late 90s and early 2000s.And my guest today, I have the honor of welcoming my favorite news anchor in the United States, my friend, someone who's witnessed me do hours of karaoke in a wholelifetime ago.I want to welcome Nicole Brady to the podcast. Nicole, How are you?I'm great, Tom. Thank you. You are my favorite radio slash podcast broadcaster of all time from the days when we used to toss to you for traffic in Albuquerque.[7:17] Yes. And now moving up doing way more fun things, I guess, getting to talk about Saturday Night Live.I love talking to SNL. I love doing traffic too.Back in the day, in the mid 2000s, Nicole was a news anchor in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I did traffic for a radio station, so I would do traffic for the TV station, andwe had a lot of fun times, as much fun as you could have at 6 a .m.Talking about the traffic on television, but it was a great time, I loved those days. Yes, it was.It's crazy to think how long it's been.Sometimes it seems like a different lifetime ago, like you said, and then we're both still involved in it, And I know you were always really into broadcasting and comedyand so was I and so I'm glad we're both still talking about this stuff.This is wonderful. It's all coming together. You have to remind me.What was your go -to song when we would go to karaoke?Oh, good. Great question. Did I have a go -to?God, my husband, as you remember, certainly would have had. He brought the house down. His go -to.[8:27] What do I like? I don't know. No, gosh, Tom, you put me on the spot.I was all prepared to talk about SNL and not my own karaoke history.Oh, I did Marvin Gaye. I think you had the privilege of watching me do Marvin Gaye and probably Careless Whisper, Total Eclipse of the Heart.Maybe I have a memory of that. Yes, yes.Those are good ones. Yes. No, my husband used to like to do I'm Just a Gigolo.I don't know if you remember that one. Yep, that's right. He always liked that.We did a good David Lee Roth.Yeah, yeah, the David Lee Roth version.Yes, I know we would do some duets. I think sometimes we used to like to do the Pogues Fairytale of New York.Yeah. Deep cut for karaoke. I think people appreciated that.[9:15] Yeah. So, uh, got to get. We have I have not been in a like publicly performed karaoke in a while now.We've done some at home, but, you know, we've got kids. Because they are getting into it, so.Yeah, I think I'm retired as well. Yeah, you're retired. I don't want to.My wife hasn't seen that side of me, so I don't want to, like, embarrass her too much out in public. Oh, I know.It's one of… Yes. It was before we were recording, like, every moment of our lives all the time, so sometimes that's a good thing. Exactly.[9:44] And so I know you're a big comedy fan. Yes.We've talked a lot of comedy in the past, and I want to know, like, what's your history with watching Saturday Night Live?I started watching Saturday Night Live in 1992 when I was about 12, and I know that because it was the election year.And so it was when Dana Carvey was doing George Bush and Ross Perot, and Phil Hartman was doing Bill Clinton, and they would have their debates on TV.And my parents were fans of SNL, and I guess that was the year they just felt I was old enough and would let me stay up to watch it.But I specifically remember it being that year because of the election.So sometime around that 92 season, I would have started watching it and just loved it.I mean, never missed it ever since.As a child, at least through the 90s, I would never miss it.From there on, I remember that season would have been, you know, like we said, Dana Carvey and Wayne's World and Mike Myers and.[10:51] You I think Adam Sandler and Chris Farley and David Spade and those guys were getting in there in those years.So those are kind of some of my favorite, favorite years.And then of course, I think at some point in the 90s, you could probably start watching all the old episodes on Comedy Central when that came out.So then I went back and watched the old ones from the 80s and 70s and have pretty much watched it ever since.But the 90s, I was so excited when you told me that I would get to talk about it on a gas dyer because that was like the time that, you know, such an impressionable time inlife. And those were always my favorites.Yeah, people around were about the same age and people around our general age range.Yeah, that was those were our cast, the Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Phil Hartman, Comedy Central and VH1 used to show.Yeah, it was both of them. Yeah. So like, so we got a, we were lucky enough to go be able to go back and watch from the 70s and on on those two networks.Yeah, yeah, that was great.[11:56] Similar experiences, like I said as a lot of people in our general age rate age range do and I believe you've done a little sketch And improv, but I remember whatgoing to watch you and Albuquerque do a little bit Another thing that yeah, so I've retired from that.But yes, okay We did Brian my husband and I took improv classes in Albuquerque together and then performed a little bit Yeah, I it was not the best but I always admit.[12:26] Some of those guys, some of the people we worked with were awesome and hilarious and they still perform in Albuquerque at the Box Theater.So for your listeners there, they're amazing and awesome.And so we continue to go watch them a lot. But we have since sort of retired from that.But of course I always really appreciated the difficulty of improv or sketch comedy and how difficult it is to make it funny.So, I've always loved, you know, whenever we've gone to New York, Chicago, LA, we go to the improv clubs, we go to the Ground League, Second City, where most ofthe SNL casts have come from. I mean, we love all that stuff.Yeah. I mean, as someone who's dipped your toe in that, try to put it in perspective.Like what does it take to make sketches work at such a high level like Anna did and other SNL performers did? Like, what all goes into that from your perspective?[13:18] That's a great question. From my limited perspective on that, I always love it when I watch an SNL sketch that I can feel was something that someone just sort ofimprovised or came up with and then they just ran with it.And sometimes I feel like the best sketches are the ones that are kind of goofy.They don't really seem grounded in anything topical or like an idea that someone wrote down on paper, but rather more of just sort of someone just getting up there andacting.And maybe it started as a sketch they were trying, but it ran with something and went some other direction.[13:58] And I feel like I'm sure that has to happen all the time, I'm sure.So, you know, the writers are obviously extremely important to the show, but I also think that sometimes just those characters and those actors can probably just take someof those sketches in different directions.So both are really important. I think writing good comedy is way more difficult than I would even know because that timing, it's just so hard to nail.And I think we all know there are some really awful SNL sketches in the history of the show that just do not work. That's the fun of being an SNL fan, though I think a lotof times it's seeing the bad ones because there's plenty.It's hard, yeah. But then there are brilliant ones that stay with us forever.I don't know if you're like me, I always like the ones at the end of the show, like the 10 to 1 sketches, just the oddball, let's try this out and see if it sticks.Those are always a lot of my go -to SNL sketches for the weirdo ones.Sometimes those were the best in the whole episode because they were just like the end of the show, almost got cut probably.[15:02] Sometimes those are the gems. Yeah, definitely. So it's our topic today is on a gas tire.She was on the show from 1996 to 2002 that was an era that immediately followed a time when the show was actually in genuine trouble Season 20 the show was introuble, They always use the headline like Saturday Night Dead, but this is a time when that was almost gonna come true I think the humor Nicole was a little more crass.Maybe not as clever before Ana got there.Ana got there in season 22, so maybe a season before Ana got there, they were starting to whip themselves into shape a little bit.But it was honestly like very much a boys club at SNL around that time.And she's often grouped with Sherry Oteri and Molly Shannon for good reason. They were great.So I mean, how cool was it from your perspective to be able to see like such talented women help to get the show back on good footing? Thank you for watching.[15:59] Yeah, that's a great question and something I thought about a lot preparing for this.I don't know that I would have appreciated it as much as a teenager watching it.But you know, now looking back over even more time, I mean, wow.So by the time Anna Gasteyer was on the show, it had already been on for over 20 years.It's been even longer now since she was a cast member on that, or just as long.And so, when you look over all that history now, you can still really only point to, I mean, such a small group of women versus the group of men who would have gainedfame and be household names from that show. And there are a lot more women now.But she was really, like you said, Anna Gasteyer, Cheri O'Teary, Molly Shannon were kind of the first ones in the 90s.They had had, you know, really only a few before that, that I think I even looked through the history and there was one season where I think Julia Sweeney was the onlymain player and not a featured player, but one of the main cast members. She's the only woman.[17:02] And so, and there were always women in there, featured players, things like that.But just to kind of go from those, like you said, that boys club of maybe Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Farley, those guys who were kind of, you know, taking theshow in a different direction, like you said, to this newer era of really, really great actors and tight, you know, tight sketches and characters and more equal balance betweenthe actors, more of an ensemble, I guess you'd say.That was pretty cool. And it's definitely noticeable now if you were to go back and look through those years again, how remarkable that change was from kind of the guyswho wanted to be the funniest person, you know, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, David Spade, they were stand -ups, they were hilarious.I mean, I loved those years, don't get me wrong.But then you get into the years where it's not the people, but it's the sketches that you remember. It's the delicious dish, the NPR sketch with Ana Gasteyer, or thecheerleaders, or Molly Shannon as...[18:12] Mary Catherine Gallagher, yes. So you have those years that come in, and it's more about these sketches.And Will Ferrell, as brilliant and amazing as he is, I think I've read other people say this, too.I mean, it was all about the sketch partner there, too, and he always made whoever he was with look amazing, too.And so it was never really about him being this standout star from that era, even though, in hindsight, he was.He was absolutely one of the most brilliant stars ever come from the show, but everyone looked good during those years.[18:47] And I think the women, you know, it was really the first time in a long time you'd seen fully female -led sketches, in some of those instances that I mentioned withthe NPR ladies there, or some of Anna Gastera's characters that we'll talk about more when she did The View, where she would play different characters on that, and SherryOtero was Barbara Walters.And so you really we started to see a lot more women -led sketches during that time.Yeah, that was such a pivotal point as far as that goes. We had Jan Hooks.She was probably the most memorable a few years before then, but even she, like that perspective, she wasn't always able to, or maybe allowed, I don't know, but she didn'talways give the perspective quite like Anna and Sherry and Molly did.Jan Hooks served different roles in a lot of sketches. A good example, I think, of that trio ago.And that dynamic to me was there was a sketch from October of 98.The three of them played hosts on MSNBC.They were discussing the Hillary and Bill Clinton's marriage.And it went from like a semi -serious news program to a slumber party.Do you think Hillary Clinton is pretty?She is definitely pretty. Oh, come on, that left -wing feminist propaganda.She's not that cute. She has a very pretty face.Sharon hmm well not to sound like the president or anything, but it really depends on how you define pretty I mean.[20:14] She's not like model pretty you know But like on a scale of one to ten if one was like the crypt keeper and ten was like Jennifer Love Hewitt I'd say she's like a youknow like a sixth or a seventh.Oh come on Yeah, I think Hillary's the kind of pretty where like if you didn't know her she wouldn't catch your eye But if she was your friend you'd be like oh, she's totallypretty You know?[20:36] Something like that you might see in the late 70s with Gilda and Jane and Lorraine Newman, but something like that we hadn't seen.To me, we hadn't seen something like that in a long time. Lucy Lawless was playing a legal expert who got in on the fun.So just to see that perspective of like, we're serious news people.Now it's a slumber party because that's, you know, that was commentary on how the Clinton scandal was being covered around that time. And that was just such a greatexample to me of that perspective and how the three of them played really well together.I loved seeing some, revisiting some of the commentary on Bill Clinton that they had during that time. That was fun.So we could get into some of those sketches and characters.What's like maybe the first, one of the first ones that comes to your mind when you're thinking of Anna Gasteyer?A couple. I mean, one of the first ones that comes to mind is the, I mean, I loved Delicious Dish NPR, they nailed that so well and I remember, because I would drive toschool at that time, so I do remember listening to NPR and they were so spot on with how those hosts talked.Now, Terry, the days are getting longer and the mercury is rising.It sure is, Margaret Jo, and that can only mean one thing, summer. summer.[22:02] Now, one of my favorite things about summer is that you can have your meals outside.That is neat. Yeah, it's fun Because it's warm it's warm outside.Yeah Summer's my favorite season same here because it's hotter than the rest of the year Yeah, it sure is. It's neat, isn't it? It's fun.It's neat. It's neat Good timing Compared to how most of us listen to the radio and the shock jocks and whoever that you listen to the radio You know back back then andstill today to some extent.I don't really was part of a morning zoo myself Kind of a little bit on ko BFM.I was yeah exactly part of something like that Exactly you have that stuff and then and then so NPR was just so different and they just nailed that and even you know Theywere so funny with their soft -spoken and their comments to each other and just it's hilarious. It's hilarious.They just were so spot -on and and then of course they had just the funniest topics and guests I mean the sweaty balls with Alec Baldwin is a Christmas classic.Tell us about your balls Pete.Well over at Seasons Eatings we have balls for every taste. Popcorn balls, cheese balls, rum balls, you name it.Wow. My mouth's watering just thinking about those balls.[23:28] It's been years since I've seen any balls.Would you like to see my balls now? Yeah. Whip them out.That just is one of those that's in pop culture now that's, you know, if you say that term, people know what you're talking about. Usually.And, um, and then they, you know, I watched, I rewatched an episode with John Goodman on there that, um, that cracked me up.Uh, so the guests that they would get on what they would get the hosts, hosts to do in there.So funny. Uh, so I, I loved that one. Something about the delicious dish.What really stood out to me was just how it takes a lot of confidence to do something so quiet to do material that quiet. Like, it was very quiet, understated, even before allthe innuendo would start.Like, with the sweaty balls, Alec Baldwin didn't get on screen for like two and a half minutes.[24:25] And sometimes that's an entire sketch. So, Anna and Molly Shannon had to carry the sketch with an understated, quiet kind of tone.And that takes a lot of skill. That takes a lot of confidence in the material and the performance to not shout something from the rooftops like that. Does that make sense?I 100 % agree. I mean, when you watch those again, you realize how just, yeah, it's not, it doesn't come out, and it is slow. They're longer sketches.And I don't know what the average time for sketches, if it has grown shorter or longer or whatever over time, but just to let something just kind of settle in like that and relyon the characters, I mean, And that must have been a lot of trust that the show, that the producers, that Lorne Michaels had in those actors because, I mean, they werebeloved.I mean, people loved SNL at that time for Molly Shannon and Sherry O 'Terry and Anna Gasteyer.I mean, the women were a huge part of the show's success at the time.And so I think they hit on something at that time where just being funny and kind of doing pop culture references and things like that really, really just worked at the time.[25:40] Yeah, and even though the material is quiet like what stood out to me too about watching Anna perform a little subtle thing I guess that she Made the sketch work.She doesn't play it as bored.Even though the material is quiet. You never think that she's bored Talking in the sketch like her facial expression is key.She knew the right tone to carry She always has like a smile like an excited smile on her face, even though her delivery is very dry I don't know if you know this, but thereare a lot of different kinds of ice.You're absolutely right. There's cubed ice. Crushed ice. Cracked ice. Shaved ice.Shaved ice. I didn't know ice could grow a beard.[26:28] That's funny.[26:32] Did you just think of that right now? No, I thought of it last night and wrote it down.If she broke in this in these sketches, they would die like they wouldn't work Like there's some sketches where it's fun to see them break something like this It would justtotally ruin all the comedy So that's something about honest performance that just struck me rewatching these was just she carried the perfect perfect tone I don't know thatshe ever broke that I remember seeing I mean and yeah, you know, I I don't know that that group really was known for that, but I mean, they took it seriously to the extentthat, I mean, it was hilarious.They were zany and wild and out there, but in the performance of it, it was all business there, and just great acting and comedic timing and really getting into thosecharacters.I mean, I you know, it's fun because I can't even I just can't even picture on a gas tower ever Breaking up or laughing during a sketch and oh not really Jimmy Fallon'sdepartment in Horatio that was kind that started a lot with Jimmy Fallon for sure, Yeah, yeah You know and but you know, no one was gonna be the one who's throwing itoff kind of in those cases and so yeah, you're right like that would have just to laugh or just throw something else in would have thrown off that sketch, but.[27:59] Sketches just classic good time.Yeah, good times good time So, so yeah delicious dish awesome.What's what's the other what's another one that you're gonna mention?So, you know, so much of Anna Gasteyer is like a duo, obviously, so pairing her with Will Ferrell for the cult.When life's little emergencies come at you, try a little CPR, cardiopulmonary refunctation.One, two, three, four.[28:45] I mean.[28:49] That was when I was in school still. And so you had the Bobby Culp and Marty, Bobby and Marty Culp coming on and doing school assemblies, playing theseridiculous songs, committing to it fully.Now that's kind of what I meant to say earlier is they just committed so fully that that's really what I meant when I say serious.They were just so committed to those characters.And it was hysterical. I loved those sketches when they would come on and I think some of it was being a high school student at the time and being able to relate to theseridiculous adults coming on stage to talk about.Drugs or things and singing these ridiculous songs.You know, I think Ana Gaster actually has a very nice voice in real life.She's a great singer, you know, she's a trained singer.I think she did Wicked and she's done like musicals like on stage.Yeah, okay. She's very, very good. And I think the sketches partly worked because she's such a good singer.[29:56] Probably, probably. People kind of added to it. You know, you can exactly.It's not horrible to listen to, by any means.It's just funny, because they're just so out there and wild.And I love that one, because with both Anna Gasteyer and Will Ferrell, I just feel like they work together so well.They might have played off each other so well.[30:22] You know, again, I imagine there was probably some improv in a lot of the rehearsals for those.Yeah, I think so. The two of them and Paula Pell helped them write this.So I think the three of them did a lot of improv there at the office and yeah, what a fun, fun sketch.I used to perk up, like when these would come on, I just always wondered what songs they would sing.Yes, exactly. During the medley, like, yeah, what are we going to get?A lot of the times it was like a, yeah, it was a hip hop song with subjective lyrics, Baby Got Back, something like that, which I think was one of our karaoke songs to behonest with you. So it kind of fits, but.Yeah, that sounds about right. Yeah, exactly, those great 90s songs.[31:02] So, you know, that was amazing. I loved her as Martha Stewart and Celine Dion, so we can talk about both of those.I mean, so obviously we talked about some pairings that she had as a solo kind of performer.Obviously, Anna Gasteyer could hold a whole sketch on her own.I recently, I was reading in getting ready for this that I just googled on a guest star, Martha Stewart, hoping to find a clip.And of course I did, but I was reading that she credited the topless Martha Stewart Thanksgiving clip with preserving her job there.She said in an interview that that was when she knew she wouldn't get fired from the show because it just was such a hit. And it was.That has come up in a lot of the holiday specials, of course, over the years.So it's one of the sketches that I'm a Martha Stewart impressions, and it cracks me up every time.Hi there, I'm Martha Stewart.It's my favorite time of year.[32:08] Sleigh rides, caroling, and waffle, these are just some of the things that remind us all of Christmas.She's so deadpan in a way, and dry, like you said, similar to some of her other characters, but just hilarious with, you know, just a black bar over her top there.[32:33] And yeah, the whole thing, it's just so brave.And she's just, you know, really out there bearing all on her own out there.But Martha Stewart was brilliant.Again, kind of like NPR, it just nailed the...Absurdity of of her in some ways of that that character of having this homemaker like that on tv kind of and so that was that i just always loved martha stewart around thattime martha stewart that was before she went to prison yes so she wasn't she was just thought it's just kind of cookie cutter no pun intended uh boring kind of lady on tv sothat's where a lot of the comedy and then afterward, she has a little more, she's best friends with Snoop Dogg now, and she's been in jail.But back then, in 1997 or 98, she had just this square, dry persona. So, it was even funnier.Back then, everybody saw Martha Stewart topless with a black bar covering her, and it was like such an opposite of how we viewed Martha Stewart.Oh, yeah. Scandalous, kind of. Yeah, exactly.And that shoulder shimmy at the end that she does. She's like the perfect like capper to that sketch. It was wonderful.She had two other really good ones that I liked.[33:50] If anybody hasn't seen these, go look them up. It's a St. Patrick's Day sketch with when she played Martha Stewart. It was like a little edgier persona.Again, in that St. Patrick's Day sketch, it's kind of played against type as far as what we know about Martha Stewart.Kind of reveal the sort of dark personality underneath all of that.There's a Halloween sketch that's really funny. she's giving tips on pranks.[34:41] Smell. Eggs are a great way to make a lasting impression. A robin's egg splatters in a prism of harvest colors.And apparently it has to do with, like she mentions her ex -husband and there's a lot of like funny bitterness, something unhinged underneath the surface that Anna does agood job I think of letting out in small bits.I think to me too, Nicole, when I see really good comedic actors, like Phil Hartman used to do this really well, is where he would play it straight and have a straightdelivery, but you can tell there was something really unhinged below the surface.Is that something that you've noticed with some sketch performers?Yes, I think you're right.They are not letting on how ridiculous this could get, I think, in some ways. I think you're right.That in the Martha Stewart example, exactly.She's still... she's committed to playing it so...Straight and of course when in Saturday Night Live as when they bring back characters as they do over the years we've seen so many recurring characters so you have topush it a little further each time and make it a little different each time and so I think in those later sketches, when it got darker or just sillier you still have to stay fullycommitted.[36:02] To just kind of the seriousness of the character and it just makes it funnier.So I certainly think that that's true, especially of those recurring characters on the show.Yeah. The character that she played really big though, and we were going to talk about, was Celine Dion. Yes.Which I loved her as Celine Dion because that was when Titanic came out.And that song, My Heart Will Go On, was everywhere.You could not escape it. And she was, and so, you know, people had a love -hate relationship with Celine Dion.And she was hilarious. I mean, you know, the accent wasn't exactly spot on, but it was just, it was just hilarious.You look beautiful, and I can't believe your album has sold 10 million copies.Actually, it was only three million. Oh, that's right! My album has sold 10 million copies!I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Would you do the honor of singing me one of your It songs?I would be happy to. Hey, what about me? Oh, I'm so sorry, Shaina!Would you do me the honor of listening to Mariah sing?[37:17] Total caricature in that case, and just probably one of the bigger, like you said, more zany roles that she did was Celine Dion, on and just, I am the best singer in thewhole world.I mean, she just made it bigger and better and I always loved it when she would do that one.Something I love about impressions, you may agree, is to me it's not enough to sound like the person exactly.That's fine, it's more of like a parlor trick or something to sound exactly like someone. There needs to be a viewpoint, a take about that person.And I think Ana Gasteyer had one here with Celine Dion, the bragging about herself, often in like a passive aggressive sort of way.[38:04] And liking the spotlight on her, pushing Mariah Carey, played by Shari O 'Kerry away from her.I think Ana really found a take on Celine Dion and not just a, here's an impression of Celine Dion. Yes.Yeah, absolutely. That's such a great point about impressions.Because it is impressive when someone can do a really spot -on voice.I could watch the greats, Dana Carvey, do impressions all day.Not that he doesn't also do a take. I mean, he does. But some of the funnier ones are the ones that are not, you know, they don't necessarily look like the person exactly.They're not dead on, but they just take it and run with it.And yeah, she definitely hit on that sort of love -hate relationship that we had with Celine Dion. Yeah, you had to be there in the 90s to get that fool like Celine DionEverywhere as you mentioned.Yes In our faces all the time. I don't know if you had a chance to Rewatch any of the Cinder Calhoun sketches. That was an interesting one the Lilith Faire stand -up.Yeah Yeah, so when did you discover that you were funny?Um, actually, uh, it's funny story I was backstage with Tracy Chapman at the random acts of kindness tour a couple years back And she was kind of down, sort of in anemotional K -hole of sorts, you know.[39:31] And I really wanted to lift her spirit, so we decided to, you know, just take a ride down to the juice tent.[39:38] And so we get in her car, and I just turned to her and said, You got a fast car.[39:48] We practically peed our pants, we were laughing so hard. That was not one that I knew her as well for, and so that was kind of fun.I watched that, the one she did with Sarah McLaughlin, and you know, but again, it was very 90s during that era of female musicians, Lilith Fair.[40:12] It takes you back to those years, definitely, with like, you know, Lisa Loeb and the style that of so many of those 90s singers that was really fun to reminisce about.Yeah, her pronunciation of like Latino and Latina, just like the real kind of try hard sort of thing that we saw in the 90s that Sarah McLachlan won.It's like a Thanksgiving song. It's like a, I don't know, semi Thanksgiving classic on SNL, based it in blood. Yes.It's just such a -[41:23] Yeah, such a good take on that type of person. Yeah, that political stance that was popular and yeah, exactly.It was very true to the time.Did you get a chance to watch the sketch that I sent you for a specific reason?It was the Miami News Morning Edition one? Yes, I did.Alright, so this was one where it was in season 27, Anna Gasteyer was in and she plays a news anchor along with Will Ferrell and some stuff goes wrong in the studio.So I'm curious like watching this sketch as a news anchor, how would you handle some of this stuff?So like one of the things is at first they start with no chairs.So they're just like super short behind the news desk.Like what would happen if you just showed up to work and there's like no chair behind the desk? I don't know.I don't know that we often show up with no chairs, but they're all over the place. But different people sit in them so they're down really low or they're up really high.We definitely have that problem where you can't adjust it and so we're there trying to bounce on the chair to get it to go down because it's been raised all the way up.Someone's doing a countdown for you, you have like five seconds and you're still trying to adjust the chair. Yeah, and I'm sitting there trying to get my chair down.[42:38] I mean honestly, this is not a story that would entertain I'm sure most of your listeners, but we have had the biggest battle over chairs in the newsroom I'm currentlyin that I won't even get into it.It became a thing where we were on the mornings, we kept seeing these emails back and forth between some of the talent in the daytime and the chairs, complaining aboutthe chairs and the guy who's in charge of the chairs working to get better chairs and we just laughed like what is the problem?Just get us some chairs that work.[43:10] It really is ridiculous.Is some of the things that are so true to a real newsroom, whenever SNL has made fun of news, and I love when they make fun of news, of course, they are dead on with somuch of it.I mean, so much is kind of a cliche that the anchors have egos.[43:36] And what's going on when you're not supposed to be on camera, when you think you're not on camera, but the camera pops up.And so in that, in that, when you sent me the nine news morning morning show, it's just like that.It's like, it's like people who are trying to be really friendly because it's a morning show as you and you, you, you were part of a morning show, you know how it is. Andyou're trying to just kind of.Keep things, you know, happy and then things are going wrong, like the tape goes wrong.And you have to think that's kind of the some of the origins of Ron Burgundy with Will Ferrell. Yeah, that's a good point.Wow, I didn't even think of that. That's probably like a really good point.I mean, I've heard he based it on an actual old anchor in, you know, somewhere where he lived growing up.And I'm sure there were many inspirations. But, You know, you start to see in those old 90s news sketches that hint of Will Ferrell, that arrogance and…, Jim Collins Therewas that wake up and smile where it basically turned into Lord of the Flies because the teleprompter went out. Lauren Ruffin Exactly.[44:41] The teleprompter, you know, the tape guy's not there. They keep playing the wrong tape.They show Will Ferrell like picking his nose in one spot.I mean, I've been caught on camera where you think it's supposed to go to the other guy and it comes to you and I think I've never been caught picking my nose.Eating a sandwich? I think so. Shana Gasteyer eats a sandwich when she's off camera. Have you ever eaten a sandwich, Nicole?Okay, so yes, I have been caught with food in my mouth.[45:10] So not too many times but I've been caught with having taken a bite of something and it comes back to you sooner than you thought and I honestly I think the lasttime it happened to me.So a few years ago, but I, it wasn't like gum or something where I could just kind of spit it out real quick.I just had to say, I just had to finish chewing it.[45:32] This is great. You're going to go viral one of these days. I know.I know. I guess I sometimes I wonder if they don't go, if no one's calling and complaining, does that mean no one's really watching?I'm sure no one really needed to see me finish chewing and but, but, but no, that all of that stuff really, really happens, you know, and in the real world, you roll with it, andyou don't necessarily comment on it.I love in that particular one, you sent me someone has written lines into on a gas tires copy that she's reading that are not that are just ridiculous.The world's oceans may hold the secret to curing breast cancer.Recent studies at Johns Hopkins University have shown that plankton holds a certain enzyme that makes boobie cancer go bye -bye.So, bye -bye boobie cancer.I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Some very unprofessional writing once again.It just snuck right by me.I would never say boobie cancer. We, we are, we are indeed having a rough time here. It's like a child wrote, wrote the copy.[46:42] And he says like, what, what? I wouldn't say, no, I didn't, I don't know who wrote this. I wouldn't say that.And so, so they, they hype, they play up the egos.I mean, obviously, I would like to think most of us real news anchors read our stuff beforehand and would catch anything like that.And some of those would never happen to us, but they love to play up that the anchors are just really people who are there reading a teleprompter and anything that comesup on it.So, no, I… There was also a stray dog in the studio. And the stray dog… What would you do if there was a stray dog that just walked into your shot? Well, there was!Steve Stucker in Albuquerque did have his dogs in the studio. You're right.Did one of them ever go loose? Did you have any problems with those dogs in studio? We had, so a few that I remember, one time one of the, he, those dogs, Steve was adog trainer as well and had his dogs really well trained.But one time, maybe it was a newer one, pooped in front of the news director's office.Right in front of her office, like he knew. And she banned dogs for like the rest of the summer.She said we were going to have the dog days of summer, or the no dog days of summer.And Steve's dogs, who are always there on Fridays, were banned.Of course, in the end he won and they came back. And people love the dogs.[48:07] They were good dogs, but they would sleep. They would just kind of lay down anywhere in the studio.So you'd be walking over to do another shot at another camera and you're stepping over one of them. I don't remember all their names.[48:22] They were well behaved, but Steve would get some other animals and groups to bring on animals sometimes.And I remember a bird that someone brought on once that would not stop squawking and it, it was doing it while we had gone on to the serious news.And this bird is still squawking. I think I might have that on tape somewhere, but it was a, I mean, that was an SNL moment.That was a true, like, there is a bird squawking through our newscast right now and you would have to see it to believe it and I just, yeah, so I'm going to, I'll have to go digup some old stuff and see if I can share some of that.I've gotten old enough now where we can start to share our old stuff and it's funny now and it's not.At the time I remember I was a young, I was still pretty young.I thought it was horrible. I just couldn't believe our serious newscast was being disrupted by this bird.But now I think I would just laugh at it.I love news hijinks and I think SNL captures it so well. Anna was really great in this sketch, how she handled all the disturbances in the studio.Again, season 27, that was episode 12.Everybody should go check that out. But were there any other performances or anything like that, that we kind of glossed over? And Nicole, as far as On a Gas Tire goes?[49:51] I actually had never seen this one live, but I watched her do Dr. Laura.And that was a really funny one that comes up in her Best Of series that you can watch on YouTube.Cedric, hello. Oh, hi, Dr. Laura. I just want to say that I'm honored to talk to you.[50:07] And well, I'm my kid's dad. Appreciate it. Don't have time for it.What's your question? Oh.Well, my new wife's parents. New wife. Hm. New wife. What happened to the old wife, huh?Did we just sort of trade her in for a new model, which started making a knocking sound? Well, actually she died.But my new in -laws are very. I guess we're only concerned with the new wife's parents. I guess when old wifey died, the rest of her family just went down with the ship.What's your question?Um, I was wondering if I should... No, no, no. Wonder is a brand of bread. Don't wonder.Ask. My mother -in -law was actually a big Dr. Laura fan, so I'm pretty familiar with Dr.Laura and her style of advice over the radio.And she was just hilarious, just so mean to the callers.And I thought, wow, that was great. I mean, just again, just taking a current figure in the media and in pop culture that some people would have been, you know, I wouldn'thave probably been aware of her back then, so that's probably why I kind of missed the sketch.But nowadays that just really, that had me cracking up.And then, so yeah, that's another thing. Some of these are funnier on rewatch because now you really process the people in the news at the time and the characters.Like I was saying, I really thought it was hilarious watching The View again and what they said about the Bill Clinton situation with Monica Lewinsky and those things.[51:30] So Anna Gasteyer, I saw she played Joy Behar on The View. She also would play a guest star at times.And so that was really funny. And again, just all female driven.It's just it's the women of the show just carrying the biggest kind of stories of the day that SNL, you know, would have had very high up in the in the show.And and they were just they just nailed it.Yeah, yeah, that was so good. If those events had happened, I think in maybe season 20, like towards the end of the Sandler and Farley years, I don't know that I would trustthem to handle it so well.And with such clever with such clever takes behind it, I think it would have been real heavy handed if they even touched on it at all.And to me, to me, I think we're so just so thankful that we have people like on a gas dire who were on the cast to take on some of this material and some of these people inthe news and in pop culture, like she did and like the rest of the cast did. I think it's for the better.I mean, that transition from the mid 90s to like Anna Gasteyer, Will Ferrell and them, I think it was a transition that was so much for the better.And like, basically, she was part of a cast that saved the show, essentially.Mm -hmm, yeah, absolutely. I mean, as you said, that was one of the years that they were really looking at ending it and feeling it had run its course.[52:54] And that really, like you said, it kind of got them back to tighter sketches.You had said it had become a boys' club, but it had become kind of, you know, a little raunchier maybe, whereas the Anna Gasteyer era of SNL got it back to what I wouldsay was, I mean, in some ways cleaner.There was still a lot of great, like, innuendo. And, I mean, we talked about Martha Stewart topless, like there was, uh, there were great moments like that, that pushed theenvelope.[53:25] In a way that I think was just smarter. It was more intelligent and higher level.And so if it was, if there was a new window, if there was some, some crassness to any of it, it was definitely done in a way more intelligent way.And, and I mean, I think that was a period of time where in those subsequent years you saw Tina Fey come in and new writers, you know, and a female writer.And I mean, Paula Pell had been there, like you said. And, and so you, You did have a lot of great females behind the camera as well that were starting to craft some of thisstuff.But maybe it was those women who really had an influence on how the show's direction started to change.And I think those actors that they had at that time, a lot of them were from the Groundlings. Yeah. I think Anna's a Groundling.Yeah. Yeah. Anna was a Groundling. And Terry O 'Terry, Will Ferrell, I think Chris Kattan. And some of them were from that style where I know it was very, characterswere really important.So they had great characters they could do. Sketch writing was really important, crafting these really good sketches.And so the show just kind of got tighter again to the point where you have these characters that are breaking out and people are dressing up as the cheerleaders forHalloween or doing.[54:50] SNL became sort of that cultural touchstone again, that it has been at times in its history, but not all times.And that was definitely a time. I mean, my late years of high school was a time when everyone I knew knew some of those sketches from SNL. They knew thecheerleaders.They knew the delicious dish. They knew the NPR characters.They knew Molly Shannon as Mary Catherine Gallagher. I mean, everyone knew what was going on on SNL.And you know, an interesting tidbit too that I found was that when Colin Quinn was leaving Weekend Update, Anna Gasteyer and Chris Parnell actually auditioned to bethe new co -anchors on Weekend Update.Tina and Jimmy ultimately got the jobs, but Anna and Chris Parnell actually auditioned.So we almost lived in a world in which Anna Gasteyer was a Weekend Update anchor.I think that would have been pretty natural fit. Could you see Anna doing that?Yes, I think her and Chris Parnell, both, I think together would have been a great team on that.You know, he's kind of similar in that he committed, you know, a lot of dry characters, a lot of straight faced in some ways, but kind of zany underneath and, and thenewscaster worked really well for that because they had to be serious.[56:11] Facing a little bit, but with just this ridiculousness to it all.I think they would have been, that would have been awesome.It's too bad we can't have an alternate world where we saw what that would have looked like, but.They should release the tapes. SNL, release the audition tapes. We need to see them.I would love to see that. Yes, yeah, that would have been awesome.[56:32] But Anna Gastar, I was, you know, it's unfortunate. that I've not seen her subsequent work as much.I know, of course, she was in like Mean Girls, the movie, and was funny in that.She did a lot of like, she really did a lot of just mom roles, the wife in scenes.I mean, SNL has always had the people they had to turn to to be the straight man or the mom, the dad, those characters.And so if you could stand out in those, I felt like that showed some real talent. And she always did.She always, you know, she has a unique look to some extent.I was looking at how old she was when she was on the show, and I think she wouldn't have even been 30 yet when she started, and so early 30s for those years.And I'm thinking, wow, I mean, she could play this range.I think she always seemed maybe a little older than she was, and just could play those roles so well.There are actually another sketch I really enjoyed re -watching that I remembered was this, it's called The Dysfunctional Family.Was it Sarah Michelle Gellar? Was that the name of it? It was Sarah Michelle Gellar. Okay, yeah. Uh -huh.[57:49] And Will Ferrell just gets, you know, just so angry. Will you stop interrupting me?You know? And they're eating really loud with their forks. Yeah, she's the perfect mom in that, too.She is. Did you pick up my dry cleaning? It's not ready until Thursday.I thought you said it would be ready today. No, it's going to be ready Thursday.[58:12] Well, you know I have that meeting tomorrow. Well, I'm sorry.I wish you weren't a liar.I didn't lie, Ted. I just wish you weren't a liar.I wish you wouldn't call me a liar. Don't raise your voice at me.I am not raising my voice.You do not talk to me like that. I hate you. I hate you. I said you don't talk to me like that. I work too hard to deal with these stuff.I work too hard. I am a division manager in charge of 29 people.Shut up, bitch. I drive a Dodge Stratus![58:46] It's hilarious, it just, Will Ferrell alone though couldn't have carried it.It had, you know, it was her reaction and that made it such a perfect sketch because she again, didn't break character, held her own against Will Ferrell, a giant, and thenAnd then the two of them together, they're just so funny because she is kind of apologizing.And then finally it kind of all hell breaks loose. But I mean, it's just so funny.It was just such a perfect example of those sketches that I loved during that time that were really just kind of, you know, it's three people at a dinner table. Yeah, slice oflife.Those are some of my favorites. When you get the one character who's over the top, the others have to, and if they keep it together, I mean, that is just as funny in someways as when you get to see the few where they kind of crack up.But I love just thinking, like, how hard would it be to be in a room with Will Ferrell becoming, unhinged at the dinner table and not just start laughing? And that, yeah.But yeah, those are—that was a really fun one to watch. I just, um, I, I, so kind of backwards to what I was, I, where I was going with that was she, she, she's played some,I know she's been in some roles since.And I think even as show, I do remember that, um, about auto American auto.[1:00:15] Yeah. Yeah. I watched a few episodes. Um, it was pretty funny.I don't know. I just got so busy.I, I, but I would, would like to go back to it, but it had a lot of promise from what I saw.Okay. I'll have to check that out because I've every time that I've seen her in a interview since any any SNL reunions things like that she's awesome I think she is so funnyand and I noticed as I was rewatching Seinfeld recently as I told you I was watching the old 90s I'm really into the 90s nostalgia right now she was in the Snoop Naziepisode.[1:00:51] I had forgotten that too, I recently re -watched the Snoop Nazi episode for another project that I'm working on, but like, yeah, I had to, I was like the LeonardoDiCaprio meme from once upon a time in Hollywood pointing at the TV, like on a gas tire, there she is.That was a fun little treat.It is. It is. So just kind of probably the career beginnings, getting a little guest spot on that, getting and kicked out of the restaurant by the soup Nazi.Yeah. And so, yeah, so that, you know, I think she's had some success since the show and I'm glad for it and I would love to see her more.I would love to see her and Sherry O 'Terry and Molly Shannon reunited somehow. Right?Yeah. Yeah, that would be so much fun. We see Molly Shannon here and there.Sherry O 'Terry's been off the radar quite a bit over the years.Yeah. but that would be so much fun to see them back.Ana came back for the Betty White episode to do Delicious Dish.I thought that was great.Yes, yes, I do, I know. And I loved it when they brought back the old sketches like that in recent years.[1:02:05] That's fun, that's all, honestly, that's still one of my favorite things now, watching SNL is when they bring back someone older.I'm really glad people from all eras still come back on the show and that they'll reprise their old characters that we all remember when they do come back on.Yeah, yeah, I love that too.So now's the point in the show where we kind of, or you kind of summarize as the guest, just a little summary, convincing voters as to why they should consider voting forAnna Gasteyer for the SNL Hall of Fame.I think a lot of it has to do with what we talked about with being a groundbreaking female cast member, coming onto the show after a decade or more of...Male -dominated stars on the show and sketches that usually were centered around maybe the male lead character, where the women were often supporting players.[1:03:09] And so for that reason alone, I mean, just being part of just really, really, when you look at the main cast list from that era, it was those three that we've talkedabout, Onagas, Dyer, Sherry O'Terry, and Molly Shannon, who

The 2023 American Tabletop Awards were just announced, and as brand-spanking-new committee members, we at Going Analog of course wanted to chat about these elite games -- with two of the judges themselves, Nicole Brady of SAHM Reviews and Eric Yurko of What's Eric Playing? Listen to hear our thoughts! Timeline: 2:45 - ATTA nomination process. 10:15 - Early Gamers. 17:40 - Casual Games. 32:18 - Strategy Games. 47:02 - Complex Games.  

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Happy Friday folks! Some fun was had in todays show, a special edition of "If Steve Ruled the World" father's day edition! Plus, democratic strategist, Joe Zepecki is in studio to discuss the January 6th hearings, and Dr. Nicole Brady provides a message for men! Tune in and enjoy!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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In this episode of Break Free B2B Marketing, Nicole Brady of SAHM Reviews sat down with our own Nick Nelson to explore the importance of empathy in reaching your niche, building audience and trust using empathy, remote work and distance learning, how marketers can make content fun, and more. Find more in the accompanying article from Nicole and Nick's conversation here: https://www.toprankblog.com/2021/03/break-free-b2b-marketing-nicole-bradford/ Read our State of B2B Influencer Marketing Research Report at: http://2020.influencermarketingreport.com #B2BMarketing #BreakFreeB2B

It's getting familial up in here! This week Vanessa Brady Dunn and Nicole Brady, two actual sisters, face off to find out who has A Vague Idea about SISTERS. We're talking about Sister Cities, Pleiades, Sister Wives, and more. Plus we find out who wins a sisterly battle in the Thunderdome, and how Vanessa and Nicole would RECAST Sister, Sister. You ARE seeing double! There are 4 sisters! (Actually 2.) Like our theme song, go listen to Michael J. O'Connor's other music (it's all amazing): http://michaeljoconnor.bandcamp.comCheck out #ILookLikeAnEngineer: https://www.colorado.edu/engineering/ilooklikeanengineer-campaignAnd get some local news via Denver7: https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ 

We are back from the depths of quarantine. Nicole Brady and Jayson talk about what has been going on with the show the past two months as well as predictions from then and for the future. They also talk about a Harvard professor's assertion that you aren’t more likely to catch the virus in an airplane than anywhere else. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.    Contact: 303-832-0217 or DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@Gmail.com Jayson: twitter.com/Denver7Traffic or www.facebook.com/JaysonLuberTrafficGuy  Nicole: twitter.com/NicoleDenver7   Production Notes: Open music: jazzyfrenchy by Bensound Close music: Latché Swing by Hungaria   iTunes:https://apple.co/2fgLX8u iHeart: https://ihr.fm/2LVBvoc Podbean: https://bit.ly/2JbBiec

Sitting in again as co-host is Nicole Brady. What is the future of parking? We invited Dan Roarty, President and COO of Arrive. Arrive describes itself as the leading provider of solutions for the last-mile of mobility. They power the apps ParkWhiz and BestParking allowing people to find and book parking spots. We debunk several winter driving hacks put out by AllState Insurance. Could it be the end of the drive as fast as you want autobahn? More cities are partnering with Waze to help drivers navigate trouble spots in their cities. Some very smart scientists think they can change truck exhaust into liquid fuel. And another reason to own a dash cam, getting out of a ticket. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.    Contact: 303-832-0217 or DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@Gmail.com Jayson: twitter.com/Denver7Traffic or www.facebook.com/JaysonLuberTrafficGuy  Nicole: www.twitter.com/NicoleDenver7     Production Notes: Open music: jazzyfrenchy by Bensound Close music: Latché Swing by Hungaria   iTunes:https://apple.co/2fgLX8u iHeart: https://ihr.fm/2LVBvoc Podbean: https://bit.ly/2JbBiec

 It is a short episode today with guest co-host Nicole Brady. Is there a secret meaning when someone flushes the toilet on an airplane twice? Kids are wrecking airplane bathroom rolls of toilet paper all in the name of a funny video. Would you like to know where the kids are on the plane before you buy your seat? Florida man doesn’t like these scooters. And where do you draw the line when it comes to changing the colors of the traditional crosswalk? All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.    Contact: 303-832-0217 or DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@Gmail.com Jayson: twitter.com/Denver7Traffic or www.facebook.com/JaysonLuberTrafficGuy  Joseph: twitter.com/josephdenver7   Production Notes: Open music: jazzyfrenchy by Bensound Close music: Latché Swing by Hungaria   iTunes:https://apple.co/2fgLX8u iHeart: https://ihr.fm/2LVBvoc Podbean: https://bit.ly/2JbBiec

If you weren’t sure, those electric scooters are vehicles and you can get a DUI for riding one while drunk. We have the moment the first woman in Albuquerque earned a scooter DUI. FinanceBuzz looked at why some airports are more expensive to fly from than others. We talk about the list as well as living the RV life with editor Becca Jenkins. Guest host Nicole Brady looked at the favorite new safety features in cars and the safest cities in the nation to drive around. Plus the story of Kevin Bacon, Saved By The Bell and traffic circles causing tornadoes. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.    Contact: DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@Gmail.com Jayson: twitter.com/Denver7Traffic or www.facebook.com/JaysonLuberTrafficGuy  Nicole:https://twitter.com/nicoledenver7 FinanceBuzz: https://financebuzz.com/us-airport-cost-rankings   Production Notes: Open music: jazzyfrenchy by Bensound Close music: Latché Swing by Hungaria

Today I welcome guest co-host Nicole Brady to the show to talk transportation. There are some stiff fines for some common offenses in Wales, UK. The Tampa airport is now allowing you to visit their shops and restaurants behind the secure area but there may be a hidden bonus some may take advantage of. I speak with the connected vehicle company Geotab about their latest survey looking at the commute times between vehicle drivers and transit riders. The findings are quite surprising. And we open the Driving You Crazy mailbag. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.   Contact: DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@Gmail.com Jayson: twitter.com/Denver7Traffic or www.facebook.com/JaysonLuberTrafficGuy Nicole: https://twitter.com/nicoledenver7 or https://www.facebook.com/nicolebradyDenver/ Geotab study: https://www.geotab.com/time-to-commute/   Production Notes: Open music: jazzyfrenchy by Bensound Close music: Latché Swing by Hungaria

Guest host Nicole Brady joins the show today to talk about a story of an elderly couple who hasn’t driven their car for three years because they can’t get an airbag replacement. Jayson has some thoughts about the 2019 Denver Auto show. Potholes are horrible this time of year and one man in Texas was so fed up with his city not fixing them he did it himself. Congestion pricing is coming to New York City. Would you pay $230 a month to drive into the city? What town is next? Also from New York, the horse drawn carriages are now off 59th Street and in the park. That will solve that problem that didn’t need fixing. And we are going for a new world record after hearing what two guys in Boston did to earn one. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.   Contact: DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@Gmail.com Jayson: twitter.com/Denver7Traffic or www.facebook.com/JaysonLuberTrafficGuy Nicole: twitter.com/NicoleDenver7 or /www.facebook.com/NicoleBradyDenver/   Production Notes: Open music: jazzyfrenchy by Bensound Close music: Latché Swing by Hungaria

Guest co-host Nicole Brady sits in this week. Imagine getting on your plane and there isn’t a seat where you are supposed to sit down. How the airline explains this fiasco. It is a bad thing to drive past a police chief at 140 mph. How did a bird get on this plane? And why not drink wine from a Pringles can? All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.   Contact: DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@Gmail.com Jayson: twitter.com/Denver7Traffic or www.facebook.com/JaysonLuberTrafficGuy Joseph: twitter.com/josephdenver7   Production Notes: Open music: jazzyfrenchy by Bensound Music into first break: Music out of first break: Close music: Latché Swing by Hungaria

Special guest host today, Nicole Brady is sitting in for Joseph. The kiki challenge outside of cars has now turned into the baby shark do,do challenge involving kids. How can one driver get 42 speeding tickets. Airports are very dirty, especially around the security area. Is it time to get a subscription car? And we answer a question from the mail bag about turning left on red. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.   Contact: DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@Gmail.com Jayson: twitter.com/Denver7Traffic or www.facebook.com/JaysonLuberTrafficGuy Joseph: twitter.com/josephdenver7 Production Notes: Open music: jazzyfrenchy by Bensound Close music: Latché Swing by Hungaria

The President is once again railing against the NY Times for the news that White House counsel Don McGahn is cooperating extensively with Robert Mueller's investigation. McGahn's testimony is particularly important because he was involved in many of the events being investigated and is setting up the mind-set of the President during his decisions.  Ginger Gibson, Political reporter for Reuters joins us for this and more on the security clearance revolt around John Brennan. Next, school is back in session, but some kids are still getting an extra day off.  One of Colorado's largest school districts is switching over to a 4-day school week. Officials say that it is a cost cutting measure and the district can save upwards of $1 million. Nicole Brady, Anchor and reporter for Denver 7 joins us to talk about what the new school week looks like and if more districts in the country might be turning to this new schedule. Finally, as more states are legalizing marijuana for both medicinal and recreational uses, a new job industry is blooming. Ohio, set to open its doors to medical marijuana sales later this year are already looking for budtender, bud trimmers, cannabis chefs, and master growers.  Randy Tucker, reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, joins us for how much you can make in these jobs and the type of credentials you might need.   Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

With co-host Joseph Peters on sick leave, Denver7 anchor Nicole Brady fills in this week. Nicole and Jayson talk about minor crashes that happened to them this week. They also ask the question, is it better to park front in or back in. Also, how young is too young to ride the public bus and the best places in the world from a man who visited every country on the globe. All that and more on the Driving You Crazy Podcast.   Contact: DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@Gmail.com Jayson: twitter.com/Denver7Traffic or www.facebook.com/JaysonLuberTrafficGuy Joseph: twitter.com/josephdenver7   Production Notes: Open music: jazzyfrenchy by Bensound Music into first break: Paper Planes by Durden ft Airtone Music out of first break: This Small Town by Scott Jacobs Close music: Latch Swing by Hungaria

  Ransomware is devastating if it get in your computer but what if it could shut down your car? Manspreading is the scourge of the Spanish public transportation system. It cost more than ever to deal with bike related injuries. A higher speed limit is coming to Nevada. And some residents are so fed up with speeding they built their own speed bumps out of rocks. All that and a special guest appearance by our number one fan Nicole Brady on this edition of the Driving You Crazy Podcast.   Contact: DrivingYouCrazyPodcast@Gmail.com Jayson - twitter.com/Denver7Traffic or www.facebook.com/JaysonLuberTrafficGuy Joseph: twitter.com/josephdenver7   Production Notes: Open music: jazzyfrenchy by Bensound Music into first break: I Dare You by Little Glass Men Music out of first break: Gone Away by Cullah Close music: Latch Swing by Hungaria  

This week on Mom Talk Radio, Gabriella Wilday, Co-Founder of No Fuss Lunch, asks ‘Do we really know what our kids schools are serving?’. Spotlight on Moms features Nicole Brady of SAHMReviews.com. Dr. Michael Ready, Director of The Headache Clinic at Scott and White, talks migraines, what causes them and how to treat them. Dr. Marla Vannucci, Associate Professor at the Adler School of Professional Psychology and Licensed Clinical Psychologist, shares how college transitions affect the whole family. Julia Cameron, artist and author of The Artist’s Way, shares tips raising creative children.

This week on Mom Talk Radio, former family law attorney and blogger at TripletsInTribeca.com, Notoya Green shares preschool prep tips for toddlers. Dishing on Dinner features Nicole Brady of SAHMReviews.com. Internet Safety Expert and owner of OvernightGeek.com, Jesse Weinberger, shares tips for helping your children avoid online sexual predators. Dr. Liz Matheis, licensed Clinical Psychologist and certified School Psychologist, talks overscheduling kids. Dr. Edward Moody, president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD), shares tips for preventing and treating mouth and tooth injuries in kids.

This week on Mom Talk Radio, Dr. Aimee Shunney, licensed Naturopathic Doctor, shares the role nutrition plays in emotional health. Dishing on Dinner features Nicole Brady of SAHMReviews.com. Children’s health advocate and author of Making Healthy Choices – A Story to Inspire Fit, Weight-Wise Kids, Merilee Kern, shares tips for helping your children maintain healthy lifestyles . Certified drug and alcohol counselor, Rayne Golay, shares tips for identifying signs of abuse or neglect. Susan Catchings, certified Nurse Practitioner, discusses battling head lice.