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Ready to Transform Your Reality With A Powerful Mind? Join host NaRon Tillman on Walk in Victory as he and guest Marc Von Musser, former Director of Coaching for Tony Robbins, unlock the secrets to achieving greatness through mindset transformation. This episode explores inspiring stories of individuals like David Goggins and Spud Webb, who overcame immense challenges through mental resilience, proving the power of a positive mindset. Discover the importance of setting a desired goal, consistent effort, and harnessing your internal power to navigate life's hurdles. Marc also shares insights from his personal experiences and recommends influential books for self-improvement. Plus, just as Marc and NaRon emphasize the importance of a powerful mindset for achieving your goals, we believe in creating a comfortable and supportive environment for your personal growth journey. That's why we're proud to partner with Cozy Earth, offering premium bedding and loungewear designed to enhance your well-being and promote restful sleep – essential for cultivating a powerful mind. Visit cozyearth.com and use our exclusive code VICTORY1 to enjoy an incredible 40% off.Key Takeaways:The power of mindset in achieving greatness.Inspiring stories of overcoming challenges through mental resilience (David Goggins, Spud Webb).The importance of setting a desired goal and consistent effort.Harnessing your internal power to navigate life's hurdles.Practical insights for self-improvement and personal transformation.Timestamps:00:00 Introduction to the Podcast00:59 The Power of Mindset03:28 Overcoming Sales Call Anxiety06:36 The Success and Failure Cycle07:42 David Goggins: A Story of Resilience16:01 Personal Reflections and Overcoming Adversity18:00 The Power of Belief: Spud Webb's Journey21:26 Overcoming Adversity: The Oprah Example22:16 Lessons from a Tough Childhood23:29 Selling Cable in the Projects25:46 The Power of Positive Energy26:33 Finding Purpose and Inspiration26:53 The Journey to Higher Education28:44 The Impact of a Mentor36:23 Books That Inspire Success39:21 Final Thoughts and EncouragementCall to Action:Want to be a guest on Walk In Victory? Send NaRon Tillman a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/walkinvictoryBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/walk-in-victory--4078479/support.

0:04 ... Ross welcomes everyone to the show and introduces his co-hosts. 0:34 ... Episode #144 is dedicated to the Thunder and Cavs, who lead their respective conferences with 44 wins at the break. 0:47 ... Ross live BetOnLine commercial read 1:20 ... For our YouTube viewers, Bruce is rocking an All-Star hat from the 1996 All Star game in San Antonio where he first crossed paths with future colleague and lifetime pal Tim Legler, who won the Long Distance Shootout that year. 2:09 ... Ross begins his recap of All Star Weekend and Bruce's initial thought is that he wished he had binge watched "The Landman" on Paramount Plus instead of another boring All-Star weekend. 3:13 ... World B was similarly unimpressed with the gimmicks the league tried.  If the players don't care, the event will always disappoint. 4:14 ... Bruce wonders if the trade deadline should move closer to All-Star weekend to help juice up interest, but World B offers a good reason why that may not be viable.  Ross points out that Damian Lillard had some valid points about player fatigue being a factor in why the game lacks intensity. 6:52 ... Ross recaps the Rising Stars competition and feels that one of the good parts of the weekend was seeing younger guys and G-League players get some exposure.  World B agrees and Bruce says a prime example of that was Stephon Castle of the Spurs, who made a major impact in his events. 9:14 ... Ross mentions rookie Reed Shepherd and wonders if we overhyped him.  Bruce thinks he may be a late bloomer and World B points out how young he is.  World B adds that Houston COULD have drafted Castle and must be kicking themselves over that move. 11:28 ... Ross transitions to the Skills Competition which featured controversy involving an attempt by the Spurs duo of Chris Paul and Victor Wembanyama to exploit a loophole in the rules to gain an unfair advantage.  Bruce isn't buying that it was Wemby's idea as he thinks Chris Paul instigated it and made the young dude take the heat for it. 13:58 ... Bruce wonders if these shenanigans chip away at the credibility of the sport. 15:07 ... Tyler Herro beat Buddy Hield in the Long Distance Shootout and the guys discuss how Herro has played through many distractions in Miami and is doing so well. 18:06 ... Mac McClung dominated the Dunk Contest with a variety of cool slams.  Bruce wants to give McClung the "Woody Harrelson White Men CAN Jump Award" as he was reminded of other undersized winners from years past like Spud Webb and Nate Robinson.  World B thinks the dunk over the car was one of the best dunks ever. 21:50 ... Ross recaps the championship game and Bruce highlights Steph Curry's two showstopping shots that won him the MVP Award.  Ross asks World B if the All Star game should have a new gimmick like a 4 of 5 point shot?  World B thinks matchup between Teams from the USA and an International team would help drive interest and players effort. 26:03 ... Preseason prediction recaps ... Bruce starts out with his choice of Stephon Castle as his preseason rookie of the year pick and explains how his big weekend at the All Star game makes him the leader in the clubhouse.  World B whips through some picks he made and says Jalen Williams would win Most Improved Player.  Ross agrees but Bruce likes Cade Cunningham to win the award. 30:37 ... Bruce had Shai Gilgeous Alexander as his MVP pick and he's pretty certain that SGA will win with Nikola Jokic second and Giannis third.  World B thinks SGA is deserving but still makes a great case for Joker. 32:58 ... Ross with a gratuitous cheap shot at World B's Orlando Magic team.  Bruce praises the brutal coldness of the comment.  But Ross's MVP choice of Luka Doncic will not be happening. 34:15 ... The Coach of the Year race?  Ross says Kenny Atkinson will win even though his preseason pick was Jamahl Moseley.  Bruce liked Ime Udoka prior to the season but feels Atkinson will win it.  World B agrees but also gives some flowers to Ty Lue of the Clippers.  Bruce and Ross give a little bit of love to JB Bickerstaff in Detroit who has done a tremendous job with a young team. 39:05 ... Ross tees up the OKC vs Boston finals prediction ... Bruce still likes the Celtics to win it, but they have certainly lacked consistency this season.  Ross shared this prediction but World B liked Minnesota to come out of the west and play Boston. 41:59 ... Ross begins the discussion on second half predictions and Bruce feels like Minnesota could get themselves on a roll as they begin a stretch of 7 out of their next 9 games on the road.  If they can go 6-3, they may be ready to go into the next gear. 43:12 ... World B with some startling facts about Boston's starters and what isn't clicking.  He adds that Cleveland is for real and points out the Cavs have some tough matchups with the Knicks coming up. 46:53 ... Ross predicts the Suns will miss the playoffs entirely, which is shocking considering who is on their team.  But they have a brutal schedule and Bradley Beal is injured and morale around the team seems low. 48:42 ... Bruce chimes in Denver, whom he expects to peak at the right time.  But he does not fully trust Memphis because when Ja Morant plays, they have a much lower winning percentage than they do when he is out of the lineup. 50:22 ... Ross wraps it up and says goodbye. TRT 50:38                        

In this episode I host Spud Webb who is the President of the Texas Legends in the G-League. The Legends are the affiliate of the Dallas Mavericks. Spud played in the NBA and won the Dunk Contest as well.

Decimotercer programa dedicado a la temporada 1985-86 de la NBA en el que continuamos el repaso de la fase regular de todos los equipos. En este analizamos a los Atlanta Hawks; tanto las expectativas como el desarrollo del curso, los movimientos en la plantilla, el ataque y la defensa, los jugadores, las estadísticas individuales y colectivas, y algunas curiosidades. Tras la mala campaña anterior, Dominique Wilkins lideró al equipo a la cuarta posición de la Conferencia Este. Cuando regresó de su lesión, Doc Rivers rindió también de manera excelente. Kevin Willis y Randy Wittman fueron los otros dos jugadores importantes. El entrenador, Mike Fratello, obtuvo lo máximo de la plantilla, incluidos los secundarios: Cliff Levingston, Tree Rollins, Eddie Johnson y Johnny Davis (estos dos últimos protagonistas del traspaso que sacó al primero de la franquicia). El rookie que se supone que debió ayudar más, Jon Koncak, no lo hizo; en cambio, Spud Webb aportó bastante desde el banquillo. Antoine Carr se lesionó y pasó inadvertido. Hablamos sobre todo lo anterior y mucho más. ------ Contacto y redes: - iVoox (Era baloncesto): https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-era-baloncesto_sq_f1687000_1.html - XLS con todos los audios: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k9YiJkMkIMwONwX1onZZTBHBffYVtnlgT2oBebypG0A - Twitter: @erabaloncesto - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@erabaloncesto - Blog: https://erabaloncesto.home.blog - erabaloncesto@gmail.com ------ Sintonía: - Cornflowers (Dee Yan-Key): freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/Vacation_Days/01-Dee_Yan-Key-Cornflowers ------ Creado y presentado por José Manuel Gómez y Manuel Álvarez López. Publicado el 13 de octubre de 2024.

In this episode, we sit down with NBA Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins to discuss his incredible basketball journey, including his time with USA Basketball and the Dream Team. Dominique shares his thoughts on the evolution of the NBA, his toughest opponents, and the life lessons he's learned both on and off the court. We also talk about mentorship, the importance of strong leadership, and how to live a life by design.Stay Connected with Jeff: Instagram: instagram.com/jeffreymendez_papiTikTok: www.tiktok.com/@live.life.by.designLearn more about Studio 168: studio168p.com

Cuarto programa dedicado a la temporada 1985-86 de la NBA. Analizamos el draft de 1985 que metió en la liga muchos jugadores de calidad: Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Chris Mullin, Joe Dumars, Detlef Schrempf, Terry Porter, Charles Oakley, A. C. Green, Xavier McDaniel, Hot Rod Williams, Benoit Benjamin, Manute Bol, Spud Webb y otros. También hacemos nuestros redrafts. ------ Contacto y redes: - iVoox (Era baloncesto): https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-era-baloncesto_sq_f1687000_1.html - XLS con todos los audios: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k9YiJkMkIMwONwX1onZZTBHBffYVtnlgT2oBebypG0A - Twitter: @erabaloncesto - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@erabaloncesto - Blog: https://erabaloncesto.home.blog - erabaloncesto@gmail.com ------ Sintonía: - Cornflowers (Dee Yan-Key): freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/Vacation_Days/01-Dee_Yan-Key-Cornflowers ------ Creado y presentado por José Manuel Gómez y Manuel Álvarez López. Publicado el 11 de agosto de 2024.

In this edition of Throwback Hoops we spoke about the NBL grand final, USA trip, NBA news, NCAA champs, NBL1 and much more! Please make sure you LIKE and SUBSCRIBE! 0:00 Kick Off 1:54 Throwback Jerseys for the week- Spud Webb, Norm Powell and Bruno Fernando 9:20 NBL news- Tassie are the champs and where to next for Tassie and United 20:33 NBA news- Celtics big lead, play in teams and playoff seeding, 27:51 Quick hits- NCAA winners, Zach Edey prospects, HOF, Malachi (Evil DiVincenzo) 50 point explosion, NBL1 and more! 41:33- Classic Packs!- NBA Panini Contenders 2021-22 48:32 Outro Please sit back and enjoy and spread the word about Throwback Hoops. Much love Rob and Woody V

This week on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast we're joined by the delightful Victoria Franco to discuss the bona fidas of writer John Mulaney. Transcrlpt: [0:41] Oh my goodness gracious me, oh my, it is my privilege to be joining you onceagain this week in the SNL Hall of Fame.The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair where each episode we take adeep 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 the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrinedfor perpetuity in the hall.And that's how we play the game.It's just that easy. But before we get to voting, we need to discuss our nominee.And before we discuss our nominee, we need to speak with our friend Matt Ardillin his minutiae minute corner.What do you say we wander over there and see what old Matty is up to?Track 3[1:39] Hey, JD, how are you doing? I am parched, and I just had an enjoyable sip ofwater, which has cleaned up the old pipes.Yeah, nature soda, I've heard it called. Nature soda, I like it.Yeah. I heard somebody say they won't drink water because fish have sex in it.I i think that's a fair you know i i canunderstand that but um you know run it through enoughpurifiers it should be fine i mean i'm ai'm a water fiend i drink like four liters a day oh it's yeah it's good forthe body that's right that's why i'm so uh uh easy on the eyes yeah you areyou are ripped are ripped right speaking of ripped this week we've got john,Yeah, back again.Um, so I did make the effort of finding new trivia, so it should be a long timelistener listeners. It should be interesting.Track 3[2:45] Um, uh, height six foot, uh, one of the taller, uh, uh, contestants for, or nominees actually.Yeah. Yeah. Born August 26th, 1982. Yeah.He has 28 writing credits, 42 actor credits, 13 producer credits.I have to say, when I saw him in The Bear, it blew me away. It was really intense.Did not expect that. So he's got a lot of good acting chops.He's released five stand-up specials and his Sack Lunch Bunch Kids special.Grew up in Chicago, child of a law professor, mother Ellen, and attorney fatherCharles Charles Chip W. Mulaney.Never mess with a chip. Anybody who's got Chip as a nickname, that's trouble.Track 3[3:35] But he's descended from a lot of political go-getters.He's descended from the mayor of Salem and has congressmen on both sides of his family.Track 3[3:49] So, yeah, he's got a good pedigree.His maternal grandmother, Carolyn Stanton, and Seth Meyers' mother,Hillary Meyers, performed together at a hospital benefit show called Pills aPoppin'. That's some foreshadowing.And it was directed by Tommy Toon when they were 19 years old.So there is some deep family connections going on there.Yeah. So he attended Georgetown University, and as most people know,with Nick. role where he studied English literature.He decided he wanted to go to show into show business at the age of five afterwatching a lifestyle program, uh, about Ricky Ricardo, uh, which is the mostJohn Mulaney thing I have ever read.Um, like if anybody's going to set their life goals by watching Ricky Ricardo,that would be John Mulaney.Yeah. From that point, he started doing sketches for friends and family whenever given a chance and,And he was pushed, actually, by his high school teacher to pursue his love of comedy.He actually almost had the role, well, he almost auditioned for the role ofKevin McAllister in Home Alone, but his parents wouldn't let him.Track 3[5:07] That is wild. Yeah, that would have been a very interesting and different Home Alone movie.Track 3[5:14] I can only imagine what 10-year-old John Mulaney would have brought to the game.Um so instead he juststarted hanging around the museum of broadcasting communications until hegot to go to university uh that when hejoined an improv group uh which is wherehe met kroll and mike berbiglia uh whotook him on tour uh during his uh daysand that's how he lost his stage fright he's had his own showwith mulaney uh his own show mulaney healso appeared as himself on jim gaffigan's sitcom wherehe portrayed his jim gaffigan'snemesis as himself and he'staken roles in chip and dale spider-man cartoons ofspider-ham which you know perfect casting no notes.Track 3[5:59] His first late night gig was writing for conanuh but he's also takenon writing roles for seth myers uhas and has also written for the academy awards and theemmys he has had a couple couple of brushes withbroadway first uh bringing a special kid gorgeousto radio city music hall and then bringingoh hello the sketch from the cruel show tobeing a broadway show where they just hadrandom famous people showing up he's also released an album the top part whichis just him telling anecdotes which i need to listen to now yeah i don't knowabout that but it's just like him telling anecdotes and stories sign me up yeahbut uh his esoteric sense of humor has has led him to many projects.Track 3[6:44] Including contributing to Seth Meyers parody show documentary now.Track 3[6:48] And he is in fact a super fan of law and order.Welcome to my.Track 4[7:16] Of flour All right, JD and Matt, thank you so much. Yes, we are here.Another episode of the SNL Hall of Fame. I'm so excited about this one.This is an interesting one. We're talking about somebody who's already beenon the ballot since season one, but in a different capacity.We're kind of reorganizing our thoughts when it comes to this person.We're reframing his Hall of Fame candidacy and his role on SNL.So I'm talking about John Mulaney, who's been on the ballot as a host in previous times.We decided, let's talk about him as a writer, because that was his starting point on SNL.So we're talking John Mulaney as a writer today on the SNL Hall of Fame,and joining me to do that, a previous guest.You may have heard her on the Amy Poehler episode that we did.You may have heard her on one of the end of season roundtables where she didsuch a great job expressing her opinions that we always love to hear about.And you've probably heard her on the SNN, our buddies over at the Saturday Night Network.I'm talking about Victoria Fronzo is joining me today to chat about John Mulaney.Track 4[8:39] Victoria, how's it going? Doing well. I'm very excited to talk about the oneand only John Mulaney. I feel like we have similarities in, you know, being.Track 4[8:50] From chicago and the comedy scene i cansee that and you're one of my few guests there's ahandful of guests but you're one of my few guests who i've actually kind ofbeen able to hang out with in person so alot of us in the snl community know each other just by doing podcasts and onlinebut we've actually got to hang out in chicago so that was that was wonderfuland you're a very funny person so i can kind of see those similarities as wellyes i i took i took thomas to the best It's the best empanada place in Chicago. It's so good.Yeah. It's delicious. We had empanadas. I got an horchata. I walked around Chicago.It was a good time. Yes.I'm going to plug Cafe Tola. Always support a Latina-owned business in Chicago.So Cafe Tola is one of the best empanada places in the city of Chicago.Yeah. Yeah. It was awesome. Great recommendation.Track 4[9:41] So you're living in Chicago right now. You're living the sketch comedy dream.Dream? Like, what have you been up to over the last few months or so?Oh, man. So I am, I, you know, moved back to Chicago last year from Detroit.I'm back at the Second City.I finished the conservatory slash grad review program, which was really awesome.And now I'm getting ready for my own SNL showcase because I am an SNL scholarat the Second City, which justmeans that Saturday Night Live pays for my classes and training there.And at the end of it, we get to put together whether a showcase that is SNL-likeand that it's sketches and solo pieces.And yeah, that's open to the public. So if you're around, feel free to come.I'm also just doing some writing and performing on the side too.Track 4[10:28] Yeah, if you're in Chicago, that sounds like an awesome deal.Go support Victoria and go support these SNL scholars and what they're doingover there at Second City in Chicago.It's such a cool thing. If I live closer, I would have already attended.I think I missed it by a week as well when I was up there last.Yeah, you should just, I don't know.Track 4[10:48] Rearrange your whole life and come back to Chicago. No excuse is she saying? Yes.We have, I mean, the SNL scholars are four of us.One of them quite literally flew across the world to be here from Austria.So it's a nice blend of folks that we've got in the cast.Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm excited to hear how it goes.And, again, if anybody's in the area, please go check it out.Go check out Victoria there at Second City.Somebody who probably is an influence to a lot of Second City folks,I'm sure you included, is our topic today, John Mulaney.He's a stand-up by trade. He auditioned to be a cast member for SNL.He auditioned at the same time as Nick Kroll, Donald Glover,Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, who obviously ended up getting it.Mulaney did not get the cast member job, but he ended up being offered a writingjob, which he immediately accepted.So he was a writer from 2009 to 2012.So going from auditioning to be a cast member to getting a writing job,that's not a bad deal, Victoria.I would certainly take that. I don't know about you. I would.I would take a janitor job at SNL, to be honest with you.Yeah, yeah. Yeah, if they offered me the janitor job, if they offered me whateverpage, I always wanted to be, I should have started young and tried to be a page.I know. Even then, though, it's so hard.Track 4[12:16] It's easier if you're in New York City and had connections to NBC to be a page.Yeah, and I think NBC and SNL made the right choice.Mulaney probably would have been a pretty decent cast member.Remember, he would have added his own flair, but we got the chance to reallyenjoy his writing stuff and his work as a writer.So I want to talk about his stand-up, Victoria. Are you a fan of Mulaney's stand-up?I am. So to be completely honest.It's going to shock some people here. I didn't really know about John Mulaney up until 2019.I had no idea who he was, and I've always been an SNL fan.I never went deep, though, into learning who the writers were or whatnot.But a friend of mine told me, you know, there's this guy.He just released a special on Netflix. He's so up your alley.And I go, what's his name? She goes, you don't know who that is?It's an SNL writer, John Mulaney. And I go, I have no idea who that is.Track 4[13:22] And watched his stand-up. And I don't want to say fell in love because that's inappropriate.But I did come to love his comedy very much.I'm a little bit in love with Mulaney and his comedy. So you could say fellin love. I think that's somewhat appropriate.I just don't, you know, he's got a partner. He does. I don't want to be disrespectful.He's a dad now. It's a little murky.Yeah, he's a full papa now.Yeah, so you fell in love with the stand-up material. What was it about thematerial that really grabbed you?I loved that he was weird.Or not weird, but he could find the weird in everyday things and make it funny.And not only that, you know, not to say he's a clean comedian by chance, but he...He's smart about his comedy, if that makes sense.He's smart and strategic versus, you know, going blue, as we say in comedy,to lean in as a crutch, which was really refreshing.Track 4[14:27] I think his stand-ups changed a little bit, and that's totally fair.And as it should, like as you grow and change, so should your content.I didn't expect it to stay the same, but even now with baby Jay,after everything that's happened the last couple of years, it's still really funny to me.And I love that he's kind of poked fun at his likability. And I think that's what it is.He's likable even in this new chapter of his life.Track 4[14:53] I think he has this specific relatability, if that makes sense.That's what I point about. He focuses on hyper-specific things,I think, his specific observations, but he makes them relatable,whether it's, I know that conceptthat he's talking about, or I've also observed that specific thing.I think Mulaney's always been so good at that. I think it does show up in his sketch work as well.You brought up a really good point, too, with Working Blue and his choice.I mean, he's not a clean comic. I mean, he does curse, but it's for effect.If he curses it's for a reason he's notjust using the f word as some sort of verbal pauselike a lot of comedians do it's uhmulaney's very strategic about it and he's he'svery strategic about his comedy in general victoria that's what i love abouta lot of his stand-up is i feel like one of my really funny friends is talkingto me and telling me a story so he makes it conversational but you can telland appreciate the craft that went into it at the same time It's a really neat,delicate balance that Mulaney strikes, I think.Track 4[16:03] You know, male comics, not all, of course, I'm not going to generalize them,but some of them, and quite a few of them, tend to play the D-bag role in their stand-up, right?And that can be funny at times, and I'm not opposed to it. I'll watch any type of comedy.I'll never say no, unless they're incredibly problematic or outwardly horrible.But that's what differentiated him. him he wasn't playing a bro he wasn't youknow womanizing he wasn't you know he didn't he never really punches down inhis comedy which is something i think is admirable too in a takeaway,yeah he punches a lot of times he punches at himself he like punches inward and especially.Track 4[16:51] Laterally yeah he punches laterally like a t-rex like you i think you shouldhave seen victoria on on camera she was punching and it looked like she waslike a t-rex arms punching laterally that's what and that's how i punch in reallife so don't mess oh no don't ever fight please,begging you um yeah noyou're right and he's very he's self-deprecating but not in an annoying kindof way it's like a lot of comedians are self-deprecating like all right it kindof comes off as fake like you're making fun of yourself but do you really believeit i think mulaney i believe it especially with baby j you mentioned baby jhis most recent special when he was talking Talking about his intervention,I think that was so great.It was self-deprecating, but it was like honest.And he was almost making fun of other people, but it would go back to him.And it was, I think Baby J was a, we've seen it throughout his comedy.Kid Gorgeous is one of my favorite stand-up specials of all time. Yes.That's from like 2018, around the time maybe that you get. That was the first one I watched.Yeah, okay. Maybe, yeah, Kid Gorgeous was the special. and I think that's oneof my favorite all-time stand-up specials by anybody and you could just seehis voice in that just it shines through and I think you could see.Track 4[18:10] On SNL, that comedic voice of Mulaney's show up on his work on SNL.I mean, would you say that that's correct? He has a stamp on his sketches. That's Mulaney. Yeah.Yeah, I was going to say in preparation for this, I've come to realize a lotof my favorite stuff on SNL written by Mulaney.Yeah. Or stuff that I'm laughing out loud. I'm like, oh, that's really funny.That's tied to Mulaney. but I do want to go back to his stand-up.I just want to shout out a joke he did.It's the McDonald's joke. I think it's from The Comeback Kid.He and his family are on a road trip, and they see the golden arches,and they start chanting, McDonald's, McDonald's, McDonald's.And my dad pulled into the drive-thru, and we started cheering.And then he ordered one black coffee for himself.Track 4[19:08] And kept driving.And you know, as mad as that made me as a little kid, in retrospect,that is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my entire life.How perfect is that?He had a vanload of little kids, and he got black coffee, the one thing fromMcDonald's no child could enjoy.Yeah, and now in my family, my parents watch thatwith me every time we see a mcdonald's even though wedon't necessarily go to eat from mcdonald's anymore we chant mcdonald's so yeahit's something like that no that's perfect but something like that that's sospecific that that you know happened to him or whatever but it's so relatableat the same time like you just you understand that family dynamic,that he's talking about uh there was something from kid gorgeous uh one of myfavorite bits is when he was comparing Trump to a horse loose in a hospital.This guy being the president, it's like there's a horse loose in a hospital.Track 4[20:16] It's like there's a horse loose in a hospital.I think eventually everything's going to be okay, but I have no idea what's going to happen next.And neither do any of you, andneither do your parents, because there's a horse loose in the hospital.It's never happened before.No one knows what the horse is going to do next. Least of all the horse,he's never been in a hospital before.He's as confused as you are. That's a fantastic imagery, perfect metaphor, perfect beats.Like, I think that's one of the better bits of any comedian I've seen,like, in the last 10 years.And that's the perfect way to describe him.Because last week, I watched Kid Gorgeous again. And I was just like,yeah, no, that holds true. Yeah.Track 4[21:07] Yeah, no, it's a perfect, yeah, it's a perfect way to describe that president.Yeah, pretty much, yeah. And it's so Mulaney, too.It's such a Mulaney way to describe his presidency as well. That's what I love.Like, some of my favorite comedians, he's just, like, hyper-specific voice.We did another writer, Julio Torres, recently on the SNL Hall of Fame,and he's another one where it's just like I would watch a sketch,and that's Julio Torres' voice. I watched something from Mulaney,and that's Mulaney's perspective and his voice.So I think that's just a mark of a really great writer is nothing generic.It's your stamp on it. And I'm glad I have you on here today.I want to take advantage of like your training and your knowledge and everythingjust for sketch writing in general.Victoria, like as a viewer of sketch comedy and somebody who takes part in sketchcomedy, who works in it. What are some things you look for in good sketch writing?Oh, man.Track 4[22:09] Obviously, it's subjective and everyone's everyone's different.I love what I love callbacks to something.So if you're watching a full show, this only mostly pertains to stage or theatercomedy versus, you know, an SNL type show.But when they do something in the like in an earlier sketch and then they callit back, it's called a runner.You know there are all these ties i really love that because that's it'sa smart way to put the show together and create somewhat ofa theme in terms of sketch ijust love when there's a character with a purpose right andthere's a character who's who the other characters in the sketch complimentthem and this is something we were talking talking about before we went livehere everyone in that sketch serves a purpose and it's not just they're justthere to fill space and and let this main character be weird.We talked about Herb Welch.Track 4[23:06] We know this is about Herb Welch, but every character from the anchor at thestudio to the people he's interviewing, they all compliment him,and they serve a purpose to show something,a characteristic about that person, if that makes sense. I don't know if I'mdescribing that accurately.Yeah, no, it's almost where, Where even if a character on screen is nonsensical,it has to be grounded in something.Correct. That's what I want to say, grounded. Yeah, it has to be grounded in something.And the people that you mentioned, like the supporting characters,serve as the characters who maybe ground whatever's happening.Yes. Either to highlight the absurdity or whatever. But you're right.Good sketch writing, I think, nothing should be throwaway.Track 4[23:55] And I think that's, was that something like that you, what we're getting attoo is just, you know, like you said, like the grounding aspect,but also like no, like an economy of words in a way.Like you have to use the three minutes that you have like wisely and efficiently.Yes. And I like when things are succinct and to the point versus drawn out and we don't get it.Or I like what you said about throw away. way.Sometimes, a lot of times, I should say, sketches don't need those extra linesthat you think they need, right, to justify.You know, a character doesn't have to say, hi, mom and dad.We should be able to know that just based on, we need to start in the middle of that.Or of like, well, thanks for coming to my wine and cheese night.We're going to do X, Y, Z. It's just start in the middle of the scene.We get, like, we see the wine, we see the cheese, you know what I mean?I mean, it doesn't have to be about the wine and cheese.That's, you know, just a random situation, just an example.I don't know. And I just – my favorite thing about Mulaney is that he's kind of bold, too.I don't think a lot of people would be making the same jokes that he was making. I don't know.That's also to say I don't think he would make the same jokes as he did 10,12, 13, 14 years ago either.Track 4[25:21] Times have changed. But, you know, I think he did a good job of,I don't know, I like sometimes fearless comedy.And I'm not saying that as an excuse to be a jerk, right? Right, there's a difference.Yeah, there's a difference. You should never be a jerk and, you know,make cheap shots and, you know, make marginalized people the butt of the joke.That's not what I'm saying at all. But, you know, don't be so afraid to talkabout the things that are just real life and are real to those groups or, you know what I mean?Track 4[25:55] Yeah. Yeah, and I think we saw a lot of that show up, of course,and the thing that sticks out to me and you and probably every SNL fan withMulaney is a lot of those things that you just mentioned showed up in Stefan,which Mulaney wrote with Bill Hader.And that was the best thing, I think, that almost pretty much anybody has ever done on SNL.This is one of my personal favorite things ever on SNL. yeah andi think with stefan melanie's verygood at what you just mentioned victoria's showingon her notebook she has a stefan sticker soobviously a fan of stefan buti think melanie's good at referencing things that seem very specific butare oddly relatable in stefan he's very good about not punchingdown at marginalized people but still making jokes involving marginalizedpeople in a lot of ways so talk about victoria liketalk about stefan just in general like what do you want want to say about thisawesome piece of art and something ifailed to mention again i did not doa good job of explaining why i find in a sketch butspecificity specificity is that a word that's very much a word and you did agood job there you go thank you english is my second language as i like to jokeum no but he has specifics that make it incredibly weird and and stefan right um.Track 4[27:17] Um, you know, I don't, I can, I don't know that I can describe some of the things,you know, Stefan would say, again, I don't think we'd be making the same jokes today,which is fair and fine and understandable, but you know, I don't want to saythe word, but he was talking about real life suitcases where they wear,where they wear people, but he used the M word.Yes. And like, I think it was likelayering clothes on and putting on rollerblades. And you know what I mean?Just like how stupid, you know, that's just like a stupid, funny joke.Um, yeah, that imagery.Yeah. The, the imagery of it is fun. And I love the game between Stefan and Seth of.Track 4[28:02] No, we're looking for suggestions for, you know, a Midwestern family or anybody who's not you.I got it already. Okay. New York's hottest club is Bush.This club has everything. Ghosts. Good. Banjos. Carl Palladino.A stuck-up kitten who won't sign autographs.Furcles. Oh, do I want to know? Yes, you do. So furcles are? Fat urcles. Right.Of course they are. Sure. Sure they are.And after you've been with one of those guys, you'll ask yourself, did I do that?Track 4[28:47] Stefan. Just these like weird, random, yet very specific things that don't necessarilyfit together that are under the same roof at whatever club is.It was just, yeah, it was a nice blend of weird but specific.And, you know, I think it worked for Stefan.Yeah, I absolutely agree. One of my favorite jokes that he did is Stefan.The cast is a special guest. Have you heard of Blackula, the black Dracula? Yes.Well, they have a Jewish Dracula. Oh, what's his name? Sidney Applebaum.Track 4[29:33] Sidney Applebaum. Jewish. Jewish Dracula.Sidney. It's that misdirection, that funny misdirection. I could totally tellMulaney was sitting there like, I gotta do some sort of misdirection jokes.You think he's obviously going to do a play, like blackula isa play on black dracula he says jewish dracula there'sgonna be a play on that but it's just a jewish name andthat's totally mulaney's sense of humor and iappreciate that and also the game of i i uh idon't know if you and i've ever talked about breaking before in insketches first of all okay so how do you feel justin general like about breaking i think there's a time and place you know ifyou're just breaking right off the bat it's not not funny if you're doing itexcessively it's not funny it just depends and maybe like for example debbiedowner what worked for that sketch was that everyone was breaking constantly,but that was like a joint yeah this is funny and ridiculous and we're you knowthe fact they couldn't get through it was funny to us but if it's a single personwho's just breaking and it doesn't seem genuine.Track 4[30:51] They kind of ruined it. Yeah. Yeah. I think with Stefan, to me,it did seem genuine. As the audience, we started kind of knowing the game thatMulaney was playing with Bill Hader in there.So Mulaney would change the cue cards.He would change the punchlines to some of the jokes.And so when Bill, as Stefan, was reading the joke, that could have been thefirst time that he was reading that specific punchline.Even though they did it in dress i think between dress and air milani wouldhe would have punch lines like multiple versions of apunch line of a joke so he would just switch out punch linesbetween dress and air so that'd be the first time that we saw bill reading thatjoke so i think in breaking in that case yes it's funny there's like a funnygame it's part of this bit or whatever and it's something that with debbie downeri think the first time they did it was natural and that's That's why it was a classic.And then they tried to recreate it and it wasn't the same.And they found the magic with Stefan being able to recreate the game of breaking.And I don't know how they did it. They weren't able to recreate it.And Debbie Downer, Lisa from Temecula recently, I don't think they've been able to recreate that.But with Stefan, millennium hater managed to recreate breaking and make it seem authentic every time.Like, I wonder why that is, Victoria, what's the difference?Track 4[32:17] Well, it's probably because every single thing Stefan says is he's a firecracker.You don't know what he's going to say, and he doesn't know what he's going to say.And I think why that's getting a laugh is that those folks in studio are also seeing that.They're seeing the switch or whatever. But I think it works for them because.Track 4[32:39] The nature of Stefan is so out there and wild and weird that he's not a relatable character.He's not saying the run-of-the-mill things of, oh, my favorite breakfast is pancakes with bacon.He's saying some very weird things.And to say them in person, out loud, in front of an audience is kind of,you know, like, what am I saying? I do that too sometimes.His favorite breakfast would be like uppers and regret. Or something like that. I don't know.Yeah. And I mean, I've gotten my breaking under control. But I've broken on stage.Yeah. And it's just funny because I'm, and to me, what's making it funny iswe've been rehearsing this.And we've got the joke. And, you know, we've, whatever.But now we're sharing this with other people who are not comedians.Track 4[33:37] And we don't know how they're going to react to what we know is ridiculous andI'm going to say it and hope for the best.You know what I mean? Yeah. Part of the breaking is that we're now saying thisin front of people who we don't know.We don't know what they're going to say, how they're going to react to it essentially.Yeah. Yeah, that's a really neat perspective on breaking, I guess from a performer's side of it.I think, yeah, just as long as it doesn't feel forced or – Yes,I think that's what I – you're better at words today than I am,but that's what I meant of when you're solo or you start breaking off the bat or whatever it is.If it just doesn't seem genuine, if you're not actually laughing,you're just doing it to deflect or try to make this funnier or trying to be funny by breaking –.Track 4[34:27] I don't think it works. I think people will notice that. And if you're genuinelybreaking, people will laugh with you and not at you.Yeah, essentially, Mulaney's a magician when it comes to this because he wasable to make it seem authentic and part of the game and everything like that with Stefan.So Stefan, by the way, on the Saturday Night Network's character countdown,I believe he was number one. I was on that episode.Yeah, he was number one. Do you agree with Stefan? Like, could you see him beingnumber one in a character countdown?It's 49 years of history, I know. But what do you think of that?I'm trying to think of, well, okay, hold on. I was going to say,who else would be number one?But I really love some of Kristen Wiig's characters, too. But Stefan being numberone is a fair assessment.That kind of makes sense, right? Yeah. Because there are no diminishing returns, too.So I think that's another thing about good sketch writing. writingis if you keep writing the samefor the same character and how are the returnson it with Stefan I don't think Victoria there was diminishing returnson Stefan it might have gotten better honestly so that as a sketch writer andsomebody who appreciates sketch like how that that's such a sometimes a rarething not to see diminishing returns for a recurring character no that's completelyaccurate it's a fair assessment I was like unless you're doing.Track 4[35:52] A specific show about those same characters butyeah no it's i thinkthat's one thing that stefan got the sameamount of laughs if not even more laughs every time he heshowed up yeah and that's just great writing andgreat performance by bill of course bill hater yep amazing performerbut that's just like the team like millennia bill just such a wonderful teamuh so stefan on yeah we love victoria has a step on sticker on her notebookso we we all love step on uh something that that i've always loved very relatablething of forgetting people's names,uh so it's presented in a fun way by millennia so millennia's behind the what'sthat name sketches so victoria these are these get me every time i think hedid three of them But all three were just fantastic.You know, like a relatable premise. I love these. What did you think of what's that name?Track 4[36:50] It's interesting. So I have a very millennial slash Gen Z take on this.So there are people that will follow me and I follow them back on Instagram.And we have our names on Instagram.But I won't know their real name, but I know their Instagram name. Oh, no.And, for example, this literally happened last night where there's this personwho's – I've met them in person, and we follow each other on Instagram,but I forgot their real name. Is it me?Did you forget my name? Tim.Track 4[37:31] No his name is thomas everybody his name is thomas itsays it in the top top left cornerhere um no but there's a person that iran into and i forgot his real nameand i was about to call him hisinstagram handle but i think it'sjust again it's a very funny premise i thinkthat's a great take on how to present this versus doinga real life like relationship sketchif that makes sense yeah you know i love that they putit in game format and not just hey we're at a hot dog stand and i don't knowyour name and what kind of game can we play within the sketch i love that theformat of it is a game show yeah i think game show sketches get a bad rap likepeople say oh oh, another game show sketch.But I think that it's format. Like the format of a game show is ripe to presentjokes, to present situations.Track 4[38:28] I think it just gets a bad rap. But to me, it being a game show sketch in andof itself, I don't think it's a bad thing. It's just about execution.Just like with any of this stuff, it's about the execution. I agree with youthat it was a good idea to make this a game show.And, of course, Bill Hader, like arguably one of the best game show hosts in SNL history.You can make him a game show host with anything. Yeah. Knock it out of the park.I know your whole family. Your son Avi loves Outer Space. What's my name?Track 4[39:01] Carl? Audience, what's that name? Norman.Norman the doorman. Oh, I'm so sorry.Say hi to the wife for me. I'm sorry, what's that? that, say hi to my wife.Yeah, OK, I'll take the bus out to Forest Hills Cemetery and tell her that you say hello.Track 4[39:24] God, what the hell kind of show is this? It's What's That Name?The interactions between Hader and the contestants, he was like,Bill Hader was antagonistic.He's like the sadistic game show host. He was like, I know you forget names,and I'm doing this on purpose to put you in this position.So uh yeah the the first onethey did was uh season 36 episode 9uh it was mulaney he he co-wrote thesewith uh simon rich who he collaborated collaborated with a lot and merica sawyerso there's like his writing partners a lot of the time on the show and he collaboratedwith them on what's that name it was like paul rudd vanessa bear keenan comesout as uh the doorman and paul rudd's trying to remember the name it's norman the doorman like Like,how easy is it to remember that name?So these are just, like, lovely, lovely sketches.He did it, too, when he came back to host as well.Track 4[40:23] Yeah, I thought that was very funny. Keena was like, I know your son,and he loves outer space. What's my name?And, yeah, it was very, very funny. I love that one and the one with Mulaneyand Cecily, that the women were, you know, executives in part.Like, you know, they were high-ranking in their workplaces, so shout-out tothat, and not just making them stay-at-home moms or whatever it is.Mulaney and Simon Rich and Marika Sawyer lifting up women.Yes. In the What's That Name sketch. Bonus points.Yeah. For the SNL Hall of Fame if you lift up women.Yeah. You have to.In this economy, you have to. In this economy, that's just, yeah.Bonus points for the SNL Hall of Fame candidacy. So What's That Name?I know just a fan favorite that Mulaney was behind along with Marika Sawyer and Simon Rich.Track 4[41:22] Something that's very Mulaney specific to me it's a funny observation aboutLifetime movies and Mulaney's done this in his stand up not specifically aboutLifetime movies but he's talked about what like Law and Order,and made funny observations about that recently at the Academy Awards he hada whole thing about Field of Dreams that was great.Shout out Field of Dreams what a good movie what a good movie.It's a little absurd though in a lot of ways that Mulaney I mean,yeah, he did that for, um, what's funny is that Field of Dreams and the Fugitive,which he, which he described.Oh, I forgot what standup special it was. Like.Two movies my family loved watching together growing up, and he described them so ridiculous.It was funny. Ridiculous but accurate, but it was very funny.Yeah, in a loving way. He's so good about taking just the grinding at the heartof what makes something its essence, the essence of what makes something sillyand ridiculous, and really highlighting that stuff.So he did a sketch in season 37. He wrote a sketch called What's Wrong with Tanya.Okay, let's go over the rules. a lifetime movie Tanya will walk out and you'llhave 15 seconds to guess what's wrong with her. There's nothing wrong with her!Yes, yes there is.Let's bring out our first Tanya.Track 4[42:49] All right, mothers, what is wrong with Tanya?Tanya! Tanya! Tanya! Oh my God, look at me! Tanya! Tanya! Tanya!Mary Jo Beth Jojo! Tanya! You've been going to those parties where girls dooral sex for bracelets! That's right!Track 4[43:08] That's right! Of course, Bill Hader again, playing a villainous kind of host.It was a very specific observation about Lifetime movies, Victoria.And I don't know if you've watched a lot of Lifetime movies,but this was painfully accurate i was gonna ask you if you've watched any andif you go back to this they have the old logo.Track 4[43:29] Which is just incredible like that logobrought up a lot of memories from being a young girlwatching lifetime i feel like i was home growing up like being home sick andwhen the price is right was done i'd be flipping channels and maybe somethingridiculous on lifetime would be on and And he would kind of suck me in for like15 to 20 minutes. But I know the beats.So I know the beats of those movies.I know that what was portrayed in the What's Wrong with Tanya sketch is completelyaccurate. He got the archetypes just right.Yes. Yeah, I love the contestants all being the same thing. Yeah.Just like what, the nosy neighbor kind of?Yeah, and they all kind of look like Martha Stewart. Stewart.You're right. I didn't pick up on that. Yeah, they were just,it was the same person in different font.Like, each contestant, like, they were all blonde, they were all wearing thesame shades of pink and cream, same personality.It was, and I'm like, yeah, that's, those are the people watching Lifetime. And maybe even...Even some of the characters in Lifetime movies. You're right.Yeah, he also is poking fun at the viewers of these movies as well.I can definitely see that. My favorite part is when Andy Samberg comes out.Track 4[44:49] But it can happen to a boy. So you thought. All right, mothers,what's wrong with boy Tanya?Tanya. Oh, no. Boy Tanya. What's wrong with boy Tanya? Boy Tanya.Boy Tanya. Boy Tanya. Major William. Tanya, you're a secret stripper. No.Tanya you're pregnant what no come on tanya your english teacher caught youcheating so he made you take naked pictures and now they're online and it'sgiving you an eating disorder and also you can't read.Track 4[45:25] I don't know calling him boy tanya is justsuch like a mulaney like chef's kiss kind of touch tome and guessing that he's pregnant like yeahand then bill hater's like what no and then they justgotta move on yeah and like saidwhat was it what was ended up happening with him somethingabout seeing something that left him with an eatingdisorder or something yeah he had an eating disorder and something yeah i'llyeah i'll go i'll go play back but i'll go play back for sure yeah but thatwas just such such great beats in this though the winning contestant does thethe lightning round while the other two contestants watch while pretending to rake leaves.That's like such a specific observation that, that he threw into this.It's so perfect. It's so, I'm going to say this a lot.It's so Mulaney. This whole thing. I love at the end, um, he grabs her.She's like, you're hurting me. Who's going to believe you?Yeah. You're not, you're not going anywhere. You'll never leave me.And those are classic lifetime movie. Yeah.Track 4[46:27] Lines yeah mulaney again so goodabout mining for the specificity insomething and really highlighting it andthe absurdity that comes with it that's like that'swhy i love mulaney truth be told he's myfavorite working comedian right now like stand-up wisebecause of these little things because ofthe way he structures things and observes things and andpresents thing so he Mulaney is my favoritestand-up comedian right now he has the championship beltfor me wow I don'tknow if that's that's a that's a big claim it's abig claim I know I stand by it you standup by it no oh geez somethingelse that I stand by thishappened happened actually uh when he washosting but it was such a millennia thing oneof the one of my favorite sketches of the pastfew years and i don't know i haven't really talked to a ton of people aboutthis one um and i think you said you watched it it's the monkey judge one yesfrom season 47 i think that this is like to me this almost structurally is likea perfect sketch Your Honor,it is obvious that you're favoring the defense. That is ridiculous.Your Honor, I love Judge.Track 4[47:53] I love you. I love Judge.You are baby. Judge, love baby. Bring Judge, baby. Judge, love you. Judge, favor defense.Oh, come on. Yeah, we move to request a new judge.Are you suggesting that I'm not competent? confident tango made these piecesmatch sure it was a bit of trial and error but i did it i won the juice.Track 4[48:23] You don't have to think it's like a perfect sketch but what did you what wereyour impressions of it well one i want someone to love me as much as you lovejohn mulaney my goodness no that was a very very funny sketch.And I think, again, something we've been saying and will continue to say aboutJohn Mulaney are, it's this attention to detail and picking up on everyday things and those,little details of the everyday things and bringing them up and presenting them to us, right?Oh, yeah. A lot of it's like, oh, yeah, I never thought about that.It's a lot of what I think when I watch and listen to his stuff.It's like, oh, yeah, that's exactly what they do.You know, talking about how, you know, in this sketch, oh, he's smiling.No, he's just like showing his teeth to assert dominance.Like those specific details or, you know, blue shape, blah, blah, blah.Track 4[49:24] Just pointing out those specific things is what works for him.And it's very smart, right? Yeah.He's able to describe those things that I wouldn't be able to describe.Yeah. A lot of people wouldn't. And he has a great way of, again,pulling the very minute and blowing it up to make it funny.And I think that's what worked in this sketch. And it was about monkeys, right?We all have seen monkeys. monkeys but he but he wasable to one personify that that monkeyand also you know put infront of us how monkeys act and what that wouldlook like in a in a courtroom essentially yeah it'salmost like i had when i was done watching the sketch i had justfinished watching like a documentary on monkeys because i felt likei learned so much but it was also veryfunny just funny acute observations like when hewas when melissa via senor she played the character that thatgot injured by uh by somebody's petmonkey and she was talkingabout they asked her the question like what kind of hat were youwearing and she's like i usually wear a bucket hat but i was wearing a differenthat and then as the monkey judge he's like so let me get this straight you approachthis person as a completely different shape and you expect or you approach thismonkey as a completely different shape and you expected him to be just be coolabout that like yeah like No, that's so funny.Track 4[50:49] So was this a new hat? Well, I usually wear an orange bucket hat,but I was wearing a green baseball cap.Track 4[50:56] Yeah. Which is, you know. You thought the monkey would just be cool with this?You were completely different. Yeah.Track 4[51:02] That's fair. He gets mad at Keenan. He's like, I will now throw sand at you to show dominance.And he like tossed sand at him. like this yeah it was just soagain very mulaney to have likethe behavioral traits of a monkey but presentthem as very human in acourtroom setting i don't know i was like blownaway by this sketch when i saw it i thought it was so smartand i thought the structure was great shout out simon rich and please don'tdestroy who also were helped with this but this is a recent recent sketch itwas from season 40 it was two seasons ago season 47 yeah i'm just like i wasjust like really honestly blown away by like the writing of this sketch,so what else would you like to bring up victoria i've already i expressed mylove for monkey judge so i think i'd like kind of tap out on that and spareeverybody my complete like maybe we'll do a bonus one an hour and a half episodeof me just breaking down monkey judge but is there anything else from melanie that you want to bring up,I feel like we're going to have to bring up one of the musicals,either Diner Lobster or Bodega Bathroom. I think that's kind of essential.Which one? Okay, which one's your favorite out of the musicals?And we'll talk about that one.Bodega Bathroom. Hey man, do you have a bathroom?Track 4[52:24] A what? A bathroom, like a bathroomI could use? Dude, did you just ask to use a bathroom in a bodega?I mean, what? Who cares? It's an emergency.Would you like the key to the bathroom? Charlie, yo, if you do this,I don't think we can be friends anymore, man.Dude, relax. It's just a bathroom. I'm sure it's fine. It's a cinder block, bro.And so it shall be. Oh, Bodega Cat! Show this man to the bathroom.I never watched Les Mis, so... Me neither.Really? Really? Yeah, I'm not really. We had to kind of read it,I think, in high school. Was it Les Mis? Yeah.Yeah. But I never, I don't really remember it. But I felt like I remembered it.Like, it still felt familiar, them doing Les Mis in this sketch.I'm going to tell you how uncultured I am right now, Thomas.I don't even really know what Les Mis is about. Something about French.French war. A French something happened.You don't have to sell me on you being uncultured, Victoria.I already know. So it's fine.So Thomas, I like your humor because it's nonchalant and you don't need to try hard.Like you just slip it in and it's part of your everyday like speech.And I don't know if you've intended it this way, but I'm taking that as a compliment.It is. It is a compliment.Track 4[53:51] Thank you, Victoria. Because you don't shift your tone. You just say it as you would anything else.That's the Mulaney you think about me. I don't know. Yeah. I just have to thinktwice. I'm like, did he? No, this is a joke. Yeah.Which makes it funnier. No, we can talk about Bodega Bathroom.Yeah. Yeah. So remind us what the beats, kind of the beats of Bodega Bathroom.So one, I want to shout out that I don't see Pete Davidson as a musical type guy.I can't see him, you know, watching Anything Goes, Kinky Boots, Wicked.I can't see him watching those things. But I don't know him.I don't know him personally.I've only met him once for a solid second and a half on his 21st birthday, I should tell you.And his 21st birthday was nine years ago. So I do not know Pete Davidson.I just know what the media has told me. And they're not telling me much here.Nonetheless, I love that he's in, he's the center.Track 4[54:58] Both of these pieces, the diner lobster and bodega bathroom, is just a weird fit.But essentially, Pete Davidson asked the bodega owner to use the bathroom,which then sets off a musical chain of events, revealing a secret.As all these musical sketches do, he did five in a row.From seasons 43 to 47, he hosted five times, and this was like a staple of these episodes.Episodes so uh so yeah bodega bathroom colinjost and gary richardson it'sworth a close oh that was a colin jost yeah colinwell wow one of the stories about these musicals isthat mulaney and jost when they were both onthe writing staff they tried to get diner lobsteron in like 2010 or somethinglike a long time ago and they could just.Track 4[55:50] Never get it on for whatever reason i think mulaney maybe said thatit didn't play well uh at the pitch meetingor whatever so it never got past that leveluh but when mulaney hosted heand jost were like yeah we got to get this on let's try toget diner lobster let's do it so that's what that's likethe genesis of these musical sketches was them trying toget diner lobster on when they were writers and itdidn't happen so yeah so jost isdefinitely like huge part of these as well iwas gonna say i did not know that yeah that's agood surprise you he's not he's not justa pretty punchable face oh yeah wellhe dubbed himself that so he did his words not minethat's on him yeah um no ii didn't know that that was i just thought ithought john mulaney loved musicals ithink he does i think he has the spirit of atheater kid does that make sense yes likehe was very even in his stand-up he's very he speaks to the back of the audiencehe's very dramatic in his presentation and it's very theatrical yes so thisdoesn't surprise me that he would want to do theater musical based based sketches.I also, so I'm not a huge musical girly myself. Like I love some musicals.I did musicals in high school.Track 4[57:16] Or was at least part of them. But I do try to put musicals on stage.Track 4[57:24] I try to do musical style stuff. I don't know. We'll talk about that later another day. But yeah.Yeah. Harnessing your John Mulaney energy with that.I'm consistently harnessing the John Mulaney energy. That's good energy to be harnessed.This is like a celebration. This is a loose kind of episode,I suppose, because it fits john mulaney it's very uhjust a very celebratory i likei feel when i did that when i went and did research and notresearch when i reached rewatch stuff for this itjust always it just put me in a good mood it put me in like a greatheadspace because just mulaney has thatability he has that touch and that's whyyou know we we've gone through herb welch coach stefan what's that name someof the one-off stuff like like monkey judge the great great monkey judge uhwhat's wrong with tanya mentioned his musicals like that's a quite the hall of fame.Track 4[58:24] Resume wouldn't you say victoria like if youwere a writer on snl would you not be proud to have all ofthat on your resume absolutely i think there'salso a component here in that this boygot range like he has it's avariety of stuff you know stefan is astandalone character that they've done some they've puthim in a sketch or two but then he was a stand-up youknow a recurring character you know uh gameshows musicals andthen of course your your average sketches thatyou're putting on here on on the on the showi think it speaks to the varietythat he brings even though it's aMulaney style sketch and you can tell whenhe's you know had a part in it he still brings somea few different things to the table and Ithink that's really impressive and I qualifies him for the hallof fame and not only that you know peoplelove John Mulaney even if they're not watching SNL they'rewatching his stand-up or they know about him orthey know that he's had an impact on SNL through his writing and they can tellyou anyone can tell you hey John Mulaney did this they're very aware too he'sa likable person and I know he you know says likability is a jail but I think.Track 4[59:47] Just calling it out. He's been through a few things in the last couple years.And I commend him for getting back up on his feet.And I don't know his journey well enough to judge and I'm not going to I wouldnever I would never be able to judge a situation like that.But I think he's done an excellent job of reclaiming himself and his comedyand kind of reintroducing himself to the world as, hey, I'm not this perfect,you know, button up guy, I do have some flaws.And I think he shows that in Baby J. But even in Baby J., though it was differentfrom his past work, was still funny and still called out those details and thespecifics and, you know, the mundane things.And he was able to do it in his own way.And people, I think, just appreciate that about him.And there's no, he really is the comeback kid, is what I'll say.And I think his his work speaks for itself.Even if you didn't know his name, you know, his sketches, you know,everyone knows who Stefan is. Stefan is a beloved.I think Stefan in and of itself qualifies him for, for the hall of fame.Track 2[1:01:12] So there's that. Victoria, Thomas, you really brought it. You left it all out there.And I got to say, I'm going to be shocked if Mulaney doesn't make it into the hall one way or another.He's going to be on the ballot in two categories this time, which is unprecedented here in the hall.Now, I want to circle back on something Victoria talked about right toward theend when she mentioned Stefan. And we are going to listen to a Stefan sketch now.This is Trademark, Hater, and Mulaney.They play off each other and feed one another so well.And Stefan, like Victoria mentioned, is beloved at this point.He's probably a top 10 maybe even top 5 character I forget what the SNN cameup with when they did characters but he's got to be right up there,so let me not dilly dally any further and let's get to Stefan on Weekend Update.Track 5[1:02:26] It's Christmas time in New York which means millions of tourists will be comingto see what holiday magic the Big Apple has to offer.Here with some tips on where you and your children should go is our city correspondent, Stefan.Hi. Hi. Hi, Stefan. It's an exciting time, isn't it? I know,right? So many Republican candidates. Who do you pick?Okay, so, Stefan, a lot of families are making their way to Manhattan to havesome holiday fun. Are there any places you can recommend?Yes, yes, yes, yes. If you're looking to get festive with your family,I've got the perfect place for you. New York's hottest club is Hay.Built from the bucket li

On this episode of the podcast we talked about Robert Stack and Unsolved Mysteries, the iconic 1998 home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, Lara Croft and the Epic Tomb Raider franchise, GoldenEye 007(No OddJob and the mult player mode), Larry Bird cooking today's NBA, Spud Webb's vertical, some awesome listerner topics and a ton more! Email: SuperRetroPod@gmail.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/superretropodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@superretropodVideo episodes available at YouTube!

The Mavericks are the hottest team in the NBA at 13-2 in their last 15 games. TV and radio analyst Brian Dameris joins Marc Stein in studio to talk about all the reasons behind Dallas' second-half surge, what playoff matchups are the most likely and, of course, Luka Dončić's MVP campaign. Also: Dallas native and Texas Legends president of basketball operations Spud Webb joins the show to preview NC State vs. Purdue in the men's Final Four. 

NBA Dunk Contest Champion Spud Webb Joins the Show! - April 5th, 3:30 p.m.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Can't knock the hustle like a post-NBA All-Star Weekend episode of #ckth2things with the one and only West Philly Hippie. Aka: Two things. Two questions. And one prediction. Amongst others, today's topics include: QUESTION 1: With global NFL viewership on the rise and player “load-management” now at an all-time high, is the NBA slipping? Lack of Competitiveness in NBA All-Star Weekend The NBA All-Star game lacked a competitive edge and defensive hustle (to say the least) NBA player priorities have shifted — with today being more focused on personal well-being and protecting personal brands (Why can't more people just Be Like Mike) There's some heat directed at LeBron James for his role in this decline of competitiveness across the league (LeBron is a trendsetter, but perhaps not always for the best things) Decline in NBA All-Star Weekend Quality Comparing recent All-Star showdowns to the glory days of fierce competition (Detroit's Bad Boys were a thing of beauty) Adam Silver's got some calls to make to address this dip in quality and excitement (Aka David Stern was an OG) Fans feeling let down by the current setup and performance, hoping for some changes to up the ante (Remember when the NBA was “Fantastic” primetime viewing?) QUESTION 2: How does the NBA fix the slam dunk contest — and All-Star weekend as a whole? Suggestions to Improve NBA All-Star Weekend Let's tie those All-Star game outcomes to home-court advantage in the NBA Finals, give 'em some skin in the game (in addition to cutting people a check) Sweeten the pot with extra cash incentives to get the players more hype (Call Google) Getting nostalgic thinking about those jaw-dropping moments in the Dunk Contests of old, we need to bring that back (Spud Webb stand up) Impact of LeBron James on the NBA and Player Mindset Gotta give props to LeBron for his off-court efforts and the positive impact on communities (Big respect, obviously) There's talk about how his influence might be affecting the league's competitiveness and player loyalty (Aka lightening-rod LeBron) We're seeing some shifts in player control and loyalty, thanks to LeBron's influence and the changing NBA landscape (Player empowerment like whoa) PREDICTION: NBA's MVP award, Defensive Player of the Year and the NBA Finals NBA Season Awards Predictions Andre is calling Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Luka Dončić as potential MVP contenders this season (Aka young guns on the rise) Keep an eye on rookie Victor Wembanyama for Defensive Player of the Year, he's making waves (Aka 10 block triple-doubles) And when it comes to the NBA Finals, my money's on the LA Clippers and Boston Celtics locking horns (#gobiggreen) NBA Playoffs Predictions and Team Analysis Let's get real about the Philadelphia 76ers' playoff prospects, it's gonna be tough (There's always next year) Looking at the LA Clippers as strong contenders for the Western Conference crown (If only they were still in San Diego) Don't sleep on underdog teams like the New York Knicks and Minnesota Timberwolves; they might just surprise us (Because Anthony Edwards is a beast) As always, big ups and much respect to Andre for bringing the energy and sharing the knowledge. Tap into the ⁠West Philly Hippie and ⁠The Good Ole Days Sports⁠ podcast for more expert analysis. Cheers and enjoy.

In this special edition of Throwback Hoops guest host Lala joined us and we spoke about some of our favourite moments and shows of the first 99 episodes including Michelle Timms, Andrew Gaze and Leigh Ellis as well as sharing some stories about how the show started and more! Please make sure you LIKE and SUBSCRIBE! Video Chapters 0:00 Kick Off 1:00 Throwback Jerseys for the week- Vince Carter, Ricky Grace, Dominique Wilkins, Spud Webb and Gary Payton 10:00 Episode 100 celebration! We look back at some of our favourite episodes including Michelle Timms, Andrew Gaze and Leigh Ellis and share a few stories of how the show came together 36:58 Classic Packs- 2021-22 NBA Hoops 44:30 Outro with a shoutout to all guests that have appeared on the show and special message from Emily! Thanks for everyone's support throughout our first 100 episodes and we can't wait to do the next 100 episodes! Much love Rob and Woody V

We're joined by Sam Junqua of FC Dallas before the Today Game, where Harrison Ford, Leon Bridges, and Spud Webb are all candidates!

Nobody expected to see Spud Webb's name in the 1986 NBA Dunk Contest. He was only 5'6, the shortest player in NBA history at the time. But in the span of about 40 minutes, he became the most popular player in the league.CREDITSRick Loayza: Head researcher, writer, and voiceJacob Loayza: Editor, producer, and publisher MUSIC"80's Synthwave" by MokkaMusic & Synthetic Pleasures"Horizons" by Roa SPORTS HISTORY NETWORKsportshistorynetwork.comsportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/basketball-history-101/ FACEBOOKm.facebook.com/Basketball-History-101-103801581493027/ BUSINESS CONTACTbballhistory101@gmail.com

The podcast makes its first visit to the state of Nebraska. UIAAA Connection #118 – Nate Larsen, CMAA, State Coordinator for the Nebraska State Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association is now available. Nate, a life-long Nebraskan, takes us on his journey through athletics in the Cornhusker State. Currently the AD at Loganview, he will be moving to O'Neill high school next fall. His work in assisting the NSIAAA to begin a state cohort is intriguing. You will want to listen to this episode just to hear about the Spud Webb basketball league. Please Listen, Learn and Share! You can subscribe to UIAAA TV on YouTube! This podcast is also available on Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Breaker, Castbox, Google Podcast, iHeartradio, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Sticher and YouTube.

In this episode of Sports the NEMO Way we bring the top 5 Atlanta Hawks to the table for discussion. 

My brush with celebrity at Five Guys, Lebron overtakes Kareem but does that make him the GOAT? Michael Irvin in trouble again, Aaron Rodgers in the dark but that's a good thing so leave the man alone, Tony Romo in denial, Steelers player says Big Ben's ego cost them a Super Bowl, Gamecocks announce $1 billion improvement to stadium including toilets & electricity, did Lenny Dykstra blackmail umpires? Dawn Staley hits back hard at crybaby Geno Auriemma, Hawks fall. Come for comparing LBJ to MJ & others, stay for Terry Bradshaw on Kyler Murray, Braves news, memories of Pistol Pete & Sweet Lou & Spud Webb & old Alexander Memorial Coliseum, Jack Nicholson nuts up, Yankees exchange families, Parkay vs Butter, shark bite victim surfer stands her ground or water, remembering Gerald Williams, & prisoners using ballgame to escape. petedavis.buzzsprout.com 

It's February, which means it's the month of love! We're getting started with the 1995 romantic comedy Forget Paris starring Billy Crystal and Debra Winger as Mickey and Ellen. In this tale of love, travel, and basketball, a group of friends tells the newest member of their group the whirlwind tale of the romance between an NBA referee and an American-born Parisian airline executive and how a lost dead body kickstarted a romance that spans almost a decade. Costarring Julie Kavner, Joe Mantegna, Richard Masur, Cathy Moriarty, and a slew of mid-90s NBA stars, Forget Paris will have you laughing, scratching your head, and suspending disbelief!Sit back, relax, and listen to the Plotaholics discuss Forget Paris!Support the show

Listen in as I sit down for a chat with LaGrange College Women's Basketball Coach, Jasen Jonus. Jasen is the husband of a former player of mine, and coaching the same program that I was once fortunate to be a part of, so it was a real treat to talk with him. Topics include the underrated career of Spud Webb, the importance of personal balance and routine, how to manage our perspectives while trying to make an impact, and how we can better serve our players, students, and young people in today's environment. Thanks for listening!

Some stuff I remember from this week: We open the most influential athlete conversation up again with some viewer input. When was the last time you heard someone talk about Spud Webb? Sister wives is a crazy show and "plural marriage" is a crazy concept, though we can't argue with the heaven logic. We do a deep dive into polygamy's history to figure out what the deal is and get no closer to figuring out what the deal is. Eventually we realize that polygamy is a lot like pimpin, bottom bitches and all.....and more! Thanks for listening, don't forget to like/subscribe/follow/whatever you do wherever you're doing it We're on Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok, YouTube, Spotify and just about everywhere else you. get your stuff. Tell yo friends!

The shortest player in the NBA, Spud Webb was a dunking superstar. He had no limits, how? Download the Streaking app to hyper-charge your personal growth and development, track your streaks, and celebrate with streakers all over the world. You can also follow Jeff and Talan on the Streaking App @JefferyDowns @TalanDavid

Former NBAer Spud Webb joins the show and gets into an interesting conversation with Harp over who is the best Maverick of all time.

the cover of the new issue of Time Magazine declares “INTO THE METAVERSE : The Next Digital Era Will Change Everything”, to which I can only say I sure as fuck hope so because the current digital era BLOWS.  I had a series of meetings with a gang of Austin tech pencil necks who devised a scheme in which this show would jettison the tired, played-out podcast/mixcloud format and it's triple digit (at best) listenership in favor of making me the resident DJ on Roblox. I was totally prepped for this paradigm shift (sorry Mox) but when they showed me the prototype of my avatar, it was a dead fucking ringer for Chuck Colson. I gave them specific, detailed instructions that I was supposed to look like a more bad ass version of Darryl Porter (you know, like in real life) and they thoroughly botched the job.   To make matters worse, I'm in no position to take legal action before this bogus, virtual-me starts spinning at Roblox. My entire portfolio went down faster than Tim Weatherspoon thanks to some ill-advised Web 3.0 investments, but I have a pretty good explanation.  As anyone who really knows me will attest, I frequently fall asleep when anyone other than me is talking, and the entire time I was being pitched on Web 3.0, I groggily thought they were talking about WEBB 3.0 (ie. cloning Spud Webb, which still seems like a terrific idea that any intelligent person would invest in). Maybe I should've realized something was off as they weren't calling it SPUD 3.0 (again, this sounds more appealing) but I don't know how much listening to other people you reasonably expect me to do before I pass out.   Anyway, please try to enjoy this week's show despite everything I've been through. Thank you. 

Braves drop 2 of 3 to Mets, Kenley Jansen back, JT Realmuto tells Canada where to stick their clot shot, Blue Jays fire skipper, SEC wants to stay at 16 teams, former Michigan coach dies, Bedlam Game in jeopardy, Wake Forest cheating scandal, Red China apologist Lebron James hating America again in other news it's Wednesday, Gronk really retired, what killed Marion Barber III, who will win The Open, Pete's Tweets, This Day in Sports History, bdays you share w/ famous athletes. Come for more Heinz jokes, stay for stealing 1st base, Spud Webb, drowning at sea, & Brian McCann: Hero. petedavis.buzzsprout.com *Show Note* There's a comma between Spud Webb & drowning at sea, don't want to alarm anyone, he's alive and dunking 

Episode 113 has everything: Lange One, Doxa, the new Oris PPX caliber 400, whisky, whiskey, vermouth, dogs, Jurassic Park action figures, We're Back references. The only thing this episode doesn't have is Spud Webb. In all seriousness, Spence, SPANGLER!, and Buzz had the opportunity to chat with Analog Shift founder James Lamdin to talk watches. Our buddy Cory from Method Vermouth provided the introduction, and this episode does not disappoint. One of the pre-eminent watch nerds, James is well versed in everything from Lange to, of course, Doxa. We chat about the new ceramic Doxa Army, the recent opening of the Cincinnati Watches of Switzerland location (which includes Analog Shift) and the exciting journey that James is continuing on. It is funny how this hobby has brought us together with some excellent people, and James is no exception to this. We go down several rabbit holes, but knowing our listeners (all 16! of you) this one is going to great. Enjoy!

This week on Library Rap, Tim talks to Chicago MC, Defcee about his new album with Boathouse, For All Debts Public and Private. Defcee also discusses his role as a school teacher, the faults of the school system has influenced his writing. Tim and Defcee talk children's mental health post pandemic and society's role to help them, racism in the United States, Jay Z's “Where I'm From” and how it's a perfect song to use in the classroom, artists he's worked with, Bobby Bonilla Day and who are the Michael Jordan, Kobe, Vince Carter, Spud Webb and Brent Barry of Rap.

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches or donate to this ministry, please visit Mosaicboston.com. God, we thank you for these words that we just sang. Not just that we can sing them but that we can know that they are true. We see death and decay all around us. We need resurrection in our world, in our country, in our church, in our hearts, Lord. Jesus Christ, you are our living hope, you are the resurrection and the life. We just marvel at what a great and awesome and merciful God that you are. So Lord, we pray for those who are suffering. And we pray for those who are lost, that we are reminded then for many of us, this is the closest to hell that we will ever be. And yet, for some, this is the closest to heaven they could ever hope for. But you Lord have made a way to change that through your Son, through the gospel. So we just cry out for peace but we also out for revival, Lord. That we want to see you raise the dead, bring new life to those who are lost and dead in their sins, Lord. And we know that you can do it, you've done it and we praise you for that. God, right now I just ask for grace as we preach your word this morning, we pray that you would speak to us through this amazing text written by the Apostle Paul and we ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. All right. So if you are just joining us, we have been working our way through the Book of Romans. We're in chapter 2 and I'm going to be just looking at a small passage today. It's a small passage but it has a really big idea and that's one of those ideas you just kind of have to chew on. And it's a simple idea, it's simple but the implications of it are massive, they're huge. And the big idea is just simply this, that things are not as they ought to be. Now that statement isn't very shocking or profound, most of us would say, "Yeah, obviously things are not as they ought to be." I mean, how many of us, when we turn on the news, we think, "Wow. Things are so great, I can't even imagine them getting any better." Where you turn on the news and you think, "Wow, ..." I'm moving my mic pack. So cringe, this is worse than that episode of the Ringer... What's going on here? I'm going to move this down. There we go. Obviously, things are not as they ought to be. And Paul's big idea, the case that he's been trying to make for these first couple of chapters is just simply that, that creation is not blessed, it is cursed, that people are under God's wrath, that the world is not filled with the glory of God as it ought to be, it is filled with sin and death and decay. And it's not just that, that is it's that we all know it intuitively, we just know. We know this is true and yet we deny it, we suppress it and at the same time we don't want to face the truth so we suppress the truth because as much as we know that things are not as they ought to be, we also know that we ourselves are not as we ought to be and that scares us. And so we ignore it, we deny it, we rationalize it away and just try to pretend that this is normal. Quick example from this week, Thursday morning, I was having one of those days where I just couldn't wake up, right? You get out of bed and you're not fully awake, you're not really asleep, eyes are just kind of halfway open. Groggy, that's the word for it. I was groggy. And I get up, every morning we make the kids breakfast, I don't eat breakfast, I'm one of those intermittent fasting type people. So I make breakfast, we sit down and Kelly and the kids, they eat breakfast and as they're eating, I read scripture, we read through books of the Bible together. So they eat, I read and then we pray together. And then it's time to like, "Okay, hurry up. You've got to go get dressed, we've got to get ready for school." And so the kids run off, they get ready, go to get dressed and as they're getting dressed, I usually pack their bags. So every day they take a lunch, they take a water bottle and they take a snack to school with them. I pack them up a little snack in one of those Ziploc bags. And so I did that. I packed their bags, we walk them to school, we both work from home so we walk back home and go about our day. Later that day, I go into the kitchen, I open the pantry and I see laying there on the shelf is our son Owen's snack in his Ziploc bag. I was so out of it, I packed it up and then I just set it down and left it there and didn't put it in his bag. And I felt terrible, he's probably hangry, we're going to get a call from the principal, he's going to get in trouble and I felt terrible. But there's nothing really I could do about it so I just went back to work, forgot about it, put it out of my mind. Anyways, later that night we're sitting at dinner, we're talking, we're eating and all of a sudden Owen pipes up and he says, "Oh, hey dad, I wanted to say thank you so much for that boatload of Oreos you gave me and my snack today." I was like, "Wait, back that boat up. What are you talking about?" Here's the backstory. Tuesday night, we had community group, my wife and our daughter, Nora baked a cake and they crumbled Oreos all over the top and they took the rest of them, and there was a lot of them, and they put him in one of those big oversize Ziploc bags... You know where this is going? So that day 20, 25 of them, I don't know, it was this big and it was packed full. He opens up his backpack at snack time and he eats them all. Actually he said he saved a couple for lunch because he started to get a stomach ache, he couldn't quite power through those last few. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, "What were you thinking?" We don't do sugar in our house very much and I was like, "What would make you think that I would intentionally give you a massive bag of Oreos for your snack?" He's like, "I know, right? It didn't seem right but I jus ate them anyway." And the point is, things are not as they ought to be, we just go with it. This is us. That truth is obvious but it's also inconvenient. And so we know things are wrong, we do them anyway, we just go with it, we go with the flow and that's the problem. But the bigger problem is that the consequences of our wrongness and of the wrongness around us is a lot bigger than the consequences of a 10 year old eating 25 Oreos in one sitting. That had some pretty big consequences as well, I'm sure. But as truly as there are laws of gravity and physics governing the tangible things around us, there are laws of truth and justice and morality governing our hearts and souls and we all know it intuitively. We also know that we are in violation of those laws. We don't want to face the reality of those laws, we don't want to face the reality that we know that what goes up must come down. So instead of facing the truth, we suppress the truth because deep down we're terrified of the truth. We know what's gone up, our sin, our iniquity, our rebellion and we know what is coming down is judgment. If you have your Bibles open up to Romans, Chapter Two, we're going to be looking at verses 11 through 16 today. And the three points that we're going to be talking about during the sermon is number one, we need to face the reality of the law and its giver. Number two, we need to face the reality of our guilt and shame. And then three, we need to face the reality of our judge and our defender. So if you have your Bibles, Romans Chapter Two, starting in Verse 11, the words are also going to be up here on the screen. The Apostle Paul writes this, "For God shows no partiality. For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when Gentiles, who do not have the law by nature do with the requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. This is the reading of God's word for us this morning. Point number one is that we need to face the reality of the law and its givers. So real quick, Paul's train of thought here is that number one, there is a divine and impartial judge. Number two, everyone knows what is right. Number three, no one has done what is right. And number four, therefore we are all going to stand justly condemned and without excuse, that's his basic argument. But within this argument lies the proof that this argument is true. The Jews knew it was true and even he says the Gentiles who did not have the law, that's everyone else, they know it is true as well. And so first of all, Paul was writing to Jews in Rome. And the Jews knew the reality of the law and its giver personally, right? Because their entire history as a people had been wrapped up in this God who had clearly and miraculously revealed him self to them. Now you see that all throughout all the Old Testament, that Israel's God revealed himself as the God of truth and grace, law and order, justice and mercy. That Israel's God is the one who had delivered them out of slavery in Egypt with undeniable signs and wonders. He gave them his word, he gave them his law, he had written it on tablets of stone and brought them into the Promised Land. The Jews knew the law and the Jews knew the giver of the law personally. And the problem was they didn't keep the law or obey the giver, they didn't love the Lord, their God with all of their heart, soul, mind and strength, they didn't love their neighbor as their self. And so Paul says in the second half of Verse 12 that, "All who have sinned under the law," that's the Jewish people, "Will be judged by the law. For it is not just the hearers of the law who are righteous before God but the doers of the law who will be justified." That the Jews, they knew the reality of the law, they knew God the giver of the law, the problem was that, that law couldn't save them because they couldn't keep it. All they could do was reveal how guilty they were, reveal how desperately they needed mercy from God. And so Paul was writing to Jews but at the same time, Paul was writing to Gentiles in Rome. And the Gentiles, they did not have the law, they didn't have the history, the culture, they didn't have the miracles, they didn't have the personal relationship, the first hand encounters with God that the Jewish people had. And so the question that some might wonder then is, "Okay, on account of their ignorance, is God just going to let them off the hook? How can God judge them according to a law that they don't have, that they don't know?" And this is where things get really trippy and deep. The Gentiles did not have the advantage of having the law written in tablets of stone but Paul says, "Hold on. That's true. But their actions prove that they'll along with every other human being on the planet actually have the work of that law written on their hearts." That everyone, even if a person never reads the Hebrew scriptures, never hears the 10 Commandments, is never told of Israel's God, they still have the work of that law written on their hearts, their actions, their consciences, they bear witness to what the law requires, that deep down they all know how they ought to live but they don't. And so Paul says of the Gentiles in Verse 14, "For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they don't have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears a witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them." If you've never read CS Lewis, Mere Christianity, read it. Get it, read it, that's your homework, chew on it, it's a dense book, you've got to take the time to process through what he's writing. But Lewis takes the theology of Romans 2:15, this idea that the law is written on every human heart. He takes that theology and he presents a case, a full fledged, philosophical apologetic for why this is just undeniably true. I was trying to think of a good illustration to give here and I couldn't think of anything better than just say what he says in his book. And so I'm just going to read a couple paragraphs, you can go read the rest of it on your own. But the premise is just this, God's moral law is written on our hearts, everyone intuitively knows it and we prove this every time we instinctively appeal to it. And so this is what Lewis writes in his first chapter of Mere Christianity he says, "Everyone has heard people quarreling. Sometimes it sounds funny and sometimes it sounds merely unpleasant but however it sounds, I believe we can learn something very important from listening to the kind of things they say because they say things like this. 'Well, how would you like it if anyone did the same to you?' 'That's my seat, I was there first.' 'Leave him alone, he isn't doing you any harm.' 'Why should you shove in first?' 'Hey, give me a bit of your orange, I gave you a bit of mine.' 'Come on, you promised.' People say things like that every day, educated people as well as uneducated and children as well as grownups." "Now what interests me about all of these remarks is that the man who makes diem is not merely saying that the other man's behavior does not happen to please him. He is appealing to some kind of standard of behavior which he expects the other man to know about. And the other man very seldom replies, 'Well, to hell with your standard.' Nearly always he tries to make out that what has been doing does not really go against the standard or that if it does there's some special excuse. He pretends there's some special reason in this particular case why the person who took the seat for should not keep it or that things were quite different when he was given the bit of orange or that something has turned up which lets him off keeping his promise." "It looks, in fact, very much as if both parties had in mind some kind of law or rule of fair play or decent behavior or morality or whatever you want to call it, about which they really agreed. And they have. If they had not, they might, of course, fight like animals but they cannot quarrel in the human sense of the word. Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you had some sort of agreement as to what right and wrong are just as there would be no sense in saying that a footballer has committed to foul unless there was some agreement about the rules of football." And so the big idea is that there is this law, we all know it, we all appeal to it but more than that, we didn't make it, this is not something we came up with ourselves, it transcends us. It's a law that transcends individuals and cultures and time, that it's not just true for you or true for me, it's just simply true, transcendently true. And if this is true, we get to ask if there's this transcendent truth, where did that come from? If there's a transcendent moral law, there has to be a transcendent moral law giver. This is why Psalm 14 Verse One, the Psalmist writes that, "It is the fool who says in his heart that there is no God." That it is irrational to deny the reality of a moral God if we just sit down and think about it. If we're afraid to face that reality, if we're afraid to face the of the law and its giver, it's not because the idea is untrue, it's because the idea is uncomfortable. That facing the reality of God, that forces us to face the uncomfortable reality of our own guilt and shame. And that brings us to point number two, that we're all guilty. Verse 12, he says, "For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law and those who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. But it's not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God but the doers of the law who will be justified." And there's none who have done, who have perfectly upheld the law. People in general, they don't object to the idea of a good and just God, we understand that without that existence would be hell. We want justice, we want God to be good and bring justice to stop evil, we want those things and we instinctively cry out for justice every time we are personally wronged. See the problem people have is not with that so much as we want God to be just, we just don't want him to be just towards us. We want justice for others but deep down we know that we're deserving of judgment ourselves. Lewis mentioned this briefly in the passage but have you ever noticed, then you get caught in moral violation, violation of this law that we're talking about, that the impulse is not to deny the law, the impulse is to pass the blame. And this began at the very beginning with Adam and Eve in the garden, right? God comes to Adam and calls Adam to give an account and Adam didn't say, "Well, yeah. But God your rules weren't fair." No, he says, "Yeah, but it wasn't my fault. It was that woman that you gave me, it was her fault and you gave her to me so it's kind of your fault. But it's definitely not my fault." And we do this, right? "Yeah, I lied but everybody lies." "Yeah, I stole but not as much as that person over there." "Yeah, I'm bad but you're no better." "Yeah, I did X, Y and Z but I'm only human." I see how foolish that is, in what human courtroom would that defense stand up? "Okay judge, let me just say, I totally murdered that guy. Yep. My bad. I'm only human. Also, it's just one guy, he was kind of annoying, it's not like I'm Hitler." Why do we always go there? Where do we get this idea that the best standard for judgment should be comparing ourselves to the worst person in history, right? The measuring stick of morality is not Hitler's wickedness, the measuring stick of morality is God's holiness. And we acknowledge that. We see that no one even comes close to measuring up. We all fall short. Take a moment here to brag about some glory days, remember Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite? "Back in '82, I could throw a pig skin a quarter of a mile. I bet I could throw a football over the mountains." That's where we're going to go right now. Back in '82, I was born in '82, but back in '98, believe this or don't, I could dunk a volleyball. On a good day, with no one guarding me, at the right angle, give me a few tries, I could even dunk a girl's basketball. I could never quite dunk a men's basketball. The reason this is a big deal, I'm five foot seven and a half. That was a big deal for me for those couple years that I could accomplish it. I was always living in the shadow of Spud Webb, remember him? He was five foot seven and not a half and he won the '86 NBA Dunk Competition, that was always looming over my head. And then you had Muggsy Bogues, he was five foot three in the NBA and he could dunk. But at least for me, small town, Midwest Dutch boy, that was a big deal. I could dunk a girl's basketball, I could dunk a volleyball, I could jump. We're all jumping and some of us can jump higher than others. And we're looking this way and we're looking that way and we're thinking, "Hey, as long as I can jump higher than some of these other chumps around me, then I'm must be doing okay." We measure ourself against the standard of our peers and then we feel justified so long as we're at least somewhat average. And I know some of you and I know that you can jump and from a human perspective, your vertical is impressive but from God's perspective, looking down on earth, he's not impressed with any of our attempts to jump up to the heavens. I'm not talking about adding a few inches or even a few feet to our vertical jump, even the best of us, even those of us who can dunk a girl's basketball at five foot seven and a half, it's like, "Yeah, you've got light years to go before you hit the mark." Romans 3:23 says, "For there's no distinction for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." See the standard is not to see who can just do the least amount of evil, the goal is not even to see who can do the most amount of good, the goal is perfection, the goal is holiness, the goal is the glory of God. This is what we were created for and anything less falls short. And now I know what some of you might be thinking, you might be thinking like, "I can't believe that, that standard is just too high." And I get that. And so for the sake of the argument, then I would just ask you to ask yourself, if that is not the standard, then what is the standard? We know there's a standard. If you're going to be a law to yourself, as Paul talks about the Gentiles being a law to themself, are you even able to measure up to your own expectations of yourself or to the people around you for that matter? If you believe that honesty is better than deception, have you ever told a lie? If you believe that fidelity is better than betrayal, have you ever broken a promise? Have you ever let down your friends, your family, your spouse? If you believe that love is better than hate, have you ever been angry with a person in your heart? Can you really say that you are as you believe that you ought to be, without guilt and without shame? There's none of us who can. Just to put it into perspective, what if I told you... I sent this meme out in the newsletter yesterday? What if I told you that Morpheus never actually says the words, "What if I told you," in The Matrix? That's not the point but the point is this, what if I told you that all of your life you've been hooked up to The Matrix or the metaverse? How about that? And what if I told you that our good old friend Mark Zuckerberg, he has been secretly recording every moment of your life, your actions, what you do in private, your thoughts, your inner dialogue, all of it? I know this sermon's going to get shadowbanned under Facebook for this but whatever. And what if I told you that we've got your life on tape right now, up here on the screens, we're all going to pop some popcorn and we're going to just at least watch the highlight reel of all of the darkest moments of your life together? Could one confidently say, "Go ahead. I've got nothing to hide, I'm not ashamed, I am guiltless, I am fully as I ought to be." Or would you say, "Why on earth did I ever open a Facebook account?" We know. And we're not going to watch the tape of your life, don't worry, but Jesus has and he's seen it all. I'm going to hit pause and we're going to come back to that in just a moment because there's something else here that I want to deal with in this text. Because sometimes you maybe have heard, some people will use this text to suggest that Paul is teaching that people who have never heard the gospel can still be saved by their good deeds by keeping the law that is written on their hearts. And that might sound comforting at first, it's actually the opposite of what Paul is teaching here. What Paul is saying is that even those who never hear the gospel, never read the Bible, they have the law of God written on their hearts but instead of keeping it, they break it, none can keep it and so all of us, whether Jews Gentiles alike, we're all guilty, we're all without excuse. That's the big idea. Now, can a sovereign God intervene and save a person? Yeah. That happened with the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus. He wasn't sitting in a church service, God just beamed him and said, "You're mine, I'm saving you, get up and go, I'm going to tell you what to do." And we've had, it's not common but we've had people come to Mosaic, they're like, "I grew up Muslim and Jesus came to me in a dream and said, you need to become a Christian and go to church." And they listened and they obeyed, they got baptized, they got saved. God can do that. Yeah. But scripture shows us that, that is the exception, that is not the rule. The rule, the application and where we're going to see Paul go with this train of thought as we move through the book is that the gospel is the power of God to salvation, that the name of Jesus Christ, there is no other name given under heaven by which men must be saved and so therefore there is an urgency to preach the gospel to anyone, to everyone who will listen and to take this message to the ends of the Earth. That's the application. Now, the reason that some might want to twist this text to say otherwise is because on the surface that doesn't seem fair, right? From a human perspective, it doesn't seem fair that some would never get the chance to hear the gospel. Now here's the problem. Where did we get this idea that the gospel was fair if the gospel is not fair? It is not fair that the holy, innocent, pure, spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ would suffer and die for the wicked, depraved, sinful, rebellious enemies of God, that is not fair. So questioning the fairness of salvation is not where you want to start. Of course, it's not fair and praise God it's not fair, if it was fair that would mean that we all just go straight to hell right now, that would be fair. The question we should ask is not, why doesn't God just save everyone? The question we should ask is, why would God choose to save anyone at all and do so at such a tremendous cost to himself? He had to sacrifice everything that which he most loved and cherished in order to save us. And it wasn't because of anything good in us that deserved it, it was only because of him. It was because of his divine goodness, patience, kindness, mercy, compassion and love. And so this theme will probably come up some more as we work through Romans, we'll be it into it more detailed as we go. But for now we just see that the big idea is this, that everyone has the law written on their hearts and so therefore we are all guilty and without excuse because none of us have kept that law, none of us have measured up to that mark, none of us has lived up to that standard. Except for one person and that person was Jesus Christ, that God the law giver took on flesh, entered human history to become the law keeper so he could stand in the place of us who were the law breakers. And this brings us to the final point that we must face the reality of the law and its giver, we must face the reality of our guilt and our shame but the only way that we can do this with any sense of confidence and hope is by facing the reality of our judge and our defender and that's Jesus Christ. And so let me just start by saying Jesus is coming soon, maybe in our lifetime, but if not, I mean, the most any of us have is 70 years or so, soon we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. And this should either be our greatest source of hope and joy in this life or our greatest source of misery and terror because you will either stand before the judge alone and without defense or you will stand there with Jesus Christ, who is your defense. And Jesus will judge the world in righteousness and praise God for that because without that heaven would become hell. The promise of Christ's return is the promise that even though things are not as they ought to be right now, a day is coming when that will no longer be true. The promise of Christ's return is that a day is coming when everything that is done in secret will be brought into the light. And it doesn't matter who you are, man, woman, Jew, Gentile, rich, poor, slave, free, you will give an account and when the judge sits on his throne, he will show no partiality. That's where Paul began. That Jesus will judge the world in his righteousness but he will also defend the church with his righteousness as well. And now whether that is true for you personally, then it depends on what you do with Jesus Christ right now. And before we talk about what you need to do with Jesus right now, I want to remind you about what Jesus did for us back then. And Paul writing to the church in Ephesus in the first chapter of Ephesians. He says, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love, he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved." Before the creation of the world and God saw everything that would to ever be, not just the metaverse, the entire universe, all of human history, he saw it all. And Jesus watched the movie of your life, past, present, future, every word, every thought, every action he saw it all. He saw the avatar, the facade, the shell of your outer life, he saw beyond your attempts to cover your guilt and your shame and he peered deep into the darkness of your soul. He watched that movie and as the credits began to roll, he stood up and he said, "I still love you and I have chosen you and you are my beloved. And though you have not been faithful and you fully deserve to die, I will not leave you or forsake you. I will make you mine." And Jesus looked at his bride, the church and he said, "I will take the nails of her iniquity into my own hands and feet. I will carry her sorrows and wash away her tears. I will be raised up on her cross to publicly bear the nakedness of her shame. I will pay her debt with my blood. I will take her punishment with my body. I will go through hell to give her heaven. I will die and she will live. I will bear her sin so that she can wear my righteousness. I will be wrapped in the linens of her death and buried in her tomb so that she can be born anew of my spirit and wrapped in the love of my father. And I will rise from the grave and ascend to the hand of my father and prepare a place for her where she will never be separated from my love and where everything will always be exactly as it ought to be." That is the hope of the gospel and what have we done to deserve this? Absolutely nothing. What do we do to receive this? We simply repent, turn from our sin, our idolatry, from constantly trying to justify ourselves, surrender and believe. Find our justification in the Lord Jesus Christ, trust him with everything and know that he will be our judge but he can also be our defender. Cry out to God, put your faith in Christ and the promise of scripture is that you will be saved. I'm going to close by reading a couple passages from scripture and then we're going to respond and worship together. Hebrew 4:14 says this, "Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession for we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. And let us confidence drawn near a throne of grace that we may receive the mercy and find grace to help in time of need." And Romans 5:1-2 says, "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him, we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God." If you would like to learn more about what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ or if you've made a decision to surrender your life to him today, we would love to talk with you and pray with you. Please come up, talk to us after the service. If you mark on your connection card, we'll follow up with you this week but we would love to follow up and just pray with you and just celebrate that decision. Right now, I'm going to pray and then we're going to rejoice in the hope of the glory of God and worship him together. Let's pray. Father I ask that you would just stir our hearts to be just speechless and amazed by your mercy. God, give us a vision of your glory, of your majesty that allows us to grasp the glimpse, the depth of our depravity, not to crush us but to open our eyes to the gravity of the sacrifice that you made, of the blessing that has been offered to us through your son, Jesus Christ. God, teach us to live in a manner worthy of this good news, humble, joyful, confident, bold and always grateful for who you are and for all that you have done for us. God, I pray that your gospel would not return void but that even now that if there are any here today who walked in as strangers and enemies of God, that they would walk out in a newness of life, adopted by your grace, regenerated by your holy spirit, united with your son and help them to find their place in the body of your church. We thank you for Jesus, we pray all of this in his beautiful and powerful name and we worship you now together. Amen.

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches or donate to this ministry, please visit Mosaicboston.com.God, we thank you for these words that we just sang. Not just that we can sing them but that we can know that they are true. We see death and decay all around us. We need resurrection in our world, in our country, in our church, in our hearts, Lord. Jesus Christ, you are our living hope, you are the resurrection and the life. We just marvel at what a great and awesome and merciful God that you are. So Lord, we pray for those who are suffering. And we pray for those who are lost, that we are reminded then for many of us, this is the closest to hell that we will ever be. And yet, for some, this is the closest to heaven they could ever hope for. But you Lord have made a way to change that through your Son, through the gospel.So we just cry out for peace but we also out for revival, Lord. That we want to see you raise the dead, bring new life to those who are lost and dead in their sins, Lord. And we know that you can do it, you've done it and we praise you for that. God, right now I just ask for grace as we preach your word this morning, we pray that you would speak to us through this amazing text written by the Apostle Paul and we ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.All right. So if you are just joining us, we have been working our way through the Book of Romans. We're in chapter 2 and I'm going to be just looking at a small passage today. It's a small passage but it has a really big idea and that's one of those ideas you just kind of have to chew on. And it's a simple idea, it's simple but the implications of it are massive, they're huge. And the big idea is just simply this, that things are not as they ought to be. Now that statement isn't very shocking or profound, most of us would say, "Yeah, obviously things are not as they ought to be." I mean, how many of us, when we turn on the news, we think, "Wow. Things are so great, I can't even imagine them getting any better." Where you turn on the news and you think, "Wow, ..." I'm moving my mic pack. So cringe, this is worse than that episode of the Ringer... What's going on here? I'm going to move this down. There we go.Obviously, things are not as they ought to be. And Paul's big idea, the case that he's been trying to make for these first couple of chapters is just simply that, that creation is not blessed, it is cursed, that people are under God's wrath, that the world is not filled with the glory of God as it ought to be, it is filled with sin and death and decay. And it's not just that, that is it's that we all know it intuitively, we just know. We know this is true and yet we deny it, we suppress it and at the same time we don't want to face the truth so we suppress the truth because as much as we know that things are not as they ought to be, we also know that we ourselves are not as we ought to be and that scares us.And so we ignore it, we deny it, we rationalize it away and just try to pretend that this is normal. Quick example from this week, Thursday morning, I was having one of those days where I just couldn't wake up, right? You get out of bed and you're not fully awake, you're not really asleep, eyes are just kind of halfway open. Groggy, that's the word for it. I was groggy. And I get up, every morning we make the kids breakfast, I don't eat breakfast, I'm one of those intermittent fasting type people. So I make breakfast, we sit down and Kelly and the kids, they eat breakfast and as they're eating, I read scripture, we read through books of the Bible together. So they eat, I read and then we pray together.And then it's time to like, "Okay, hurry up. You've got to go get dressed, we've got to get ready for school." And so the kids run off, they get ready, go to get dressed and as they're getting dressed, I usually pack their bags. So every day they take a lunch, they take a water bottle and they take a snack to school with them. I pack them up a little snack in one of those Ziploc bags. And so I did that. I packed their bags, we walk them to school, we both work from home so we walk back home and go about our day. Later that day, I go into the kitchen, I open the pantry and I see laying there on the shelf is our son Owen's snack in his Ziploc bag. I was so out of it, I packed it up and then I just set it down and left it there and didn't put it in his bag.And I felt terrible, he's probably hangry, we're going to get a call from the principal, he's going to get in trouble and I felt terrible. But there's nothing really I could do about it so I just went back to work, forgot about it, put it out of my mind. Anyways, later that night we're sitting at dinner, we're talking, we're eating and all of a sudden Owen pipes up and he says, "Oh, hey dad, I wanted to say thank you so much for that boatload of Oreos you gave me and my snack today." I was like, "Wait, back that boat up. What are you talking about?" Here's the backstory. Tuesday night, we had community group, my wife and our daughter, Nora baked a cake and they crumbled Oreos all over the top and they took the rest of them, and there was a lot of them, and they put him in one of those big oversize Ziploc bags... You know where this is going?So that day 20, 25 of them, I don't know, it was this big and it was packed full. He opens up his backpack at snack time and he eats them all. Actually he said he saved a couple for lunch because he started to get a stomach ache, he couldn't quite power through those last few. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, "What were you thinking?" We don't do sugar in our house very much and I was like, "What would make you think that I would intentionally give you a massive bag of Oreos for your snack?" He's like, "I know, right? It didn't seem right but I jus ate them anyway." And the point is, things are not as they ought to be, we just go with it. This is us. That truth is obvious but it's also inconvenient. And so we know things are wrong, we do them anyway, we just go with it, we go with the flow and that's the problem.But the bigger problem is that the consequences of our wrongness and of the wrongness around us is a lot bigger than the consequences of a 10 year old eating 25 Oreos in one sitting. That had some pretty big consequences as well, I'm sure. But as truly as there are laws of gravity and physics governing the tangible things around us, there are laws of truth and justice and morality governing our hearts and souls and we all know it intuitively. We also know that we are in violation of those laws. We don't want to face the reality of those laws, we don't want to face the reality that we know that what goes up must come down. So instead of facing the truth, we suppress the truth because deep down we're terrified of the truth. We know what's gone up, our sin, our iniquity, our rebellion and we know what is coming down is judgment.If you have your Bibles open up to Romans, Chapter Two, we're going to be looking at verses 11 through 16 today. And the three points that we're going to be talking about during the sermon is number one, we need to face the reality of the law and its giver. Number two, we need to face the reality of our guilt and shame. And then three, we need to face the reality of our judge and our defender. So if you have your Bibles, Romans Chapter Two, starting in Verse 11, the words are also going to be up here on the screen.The Apostle Paul writes this, "For God shows no partiality. For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when Gentiles, who do not have the law by nature do with the requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.This is the reading of God's word for us this morning. Point number one is that we need to face the reality of the law and its givers. So real quick, Paul's train of thought here is that number one, there is a divine and impartial judge. Number two, everyone knows what is right. Number three, no one has done what is right. And number four, therefore we are all going to stand justly condemned and without excuse, that's his basic argument. But within this argument lies the proof that this argument is true. The Jews knew it was true and even he says the Gentiles who did not have the law, that's everyone else, they know it is true as well.And so first of all, Paul was writing to Jews in Rome. And the Jews knew the reality of the law and its giver personally, right? Because their entire history as a people had been wrapped up in this God who had clearly and miraculously revealed him self to them. Now you see that all throughout all the Old Testament, that Israel's God revealed himself as the God of truth and grace, law and order, justice and mercy. That Israel's God is the one who had delivered them out of slavery in Egypt with undeniable signs and wonders. He gave them his word, he gave them his law, he had written it on tablets of stone and brought them into the Promised Land. The Jews knew the law and the Jews knew the giver of the law personally.And the problem was they didn't keep the law or obey the giver, they didn't love the Lord, their God with all of their heart, soul, mind and strength, they didn't love their neighbor as their self. And so Paul says in the second half of Verse 12 that, "All who have sinned under the law," that's the Jewish people, "Will be judged by the law. For it is not just the hearers of the law who are righteous before God but the doers of the law who will be justified." That the Jews, they knew the reality of the law, they knew God the giver of the law, the problem was that, that law couldn't save them because they couldn't keep it. All they could do was reveal how guilty they were, reveal how desperately they needed mercy from God.And so Paul was writing to Jews but at the same time, Paul was writing to Gentiles in Rome. And the Gentiles, they did not have the law, they didn't have the history, the culture, they didn't have the miracles, they didn't have the personal relationship, the first hand encounters with God that the Jewish people had. And so the question that some might wonder then is, "Okay, on account of their ignorance, is God just going to let them off the hook? How can God judge them according to a law that they don't have, that they don't know?"And this is where things get really trippy and deep. The Gentiles did not have the advantage of having the law written in tablets of stone but Paul says, "Hold on. That's true. But their actions prove that they'll along with every other human being on the planet actually have the work of that law written on their hearts." That everyone, even if a person never reads the Hebrew scriptures, never hears the 10 Commandments, is never told of Israel's God, they still have the work of that law written on their hearts, their actions, their consciences, they bear witness to what the law requires, that deep down they all know how they ought to live but they don't. And so Paul says of the Gentiles in Verse 14, "For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they don't have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears a witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them."If you've never read CS Lewis, Mere Christianity, read it. Get it, read it, that's your homework, chew on it, it's a dense book, you've got to take the time to process through what he's writing. But Lewis takes the theology of Romans 2:15, this idea that the law is written on every human heart. He takes that theology and he presents a case, a full fledged, philosophical apologetic for why this is just undeniably true. I was trying to think of a good illustration to give here and I couldn't think of anything better than just say what he says in his book. And so I'm just going to read a couple paragraphs, you can go read the rest of it on your own. But the premise is just this, God's moral law is written on our hearts, everyone intuitively knows it and we prove this every time we instinctively appeal to it.And so this is what Lewis writes in his first chapter of Mere Christianity he says, "Everyone has heard people quarreling. Sometimes it sounds funny and sometimes it sounds merely unpleasant but however it sounds, I believe we can learn something very important from listening to the kind of things they say because they say things like this. 'Well, how would you like it if anyone did the same to you?' 'That's my seat, I was there first.' 'Leave him alone, he isn't doing you any harm.' 'Why should you shove in first?' 'Hey, give me a bit of your orange, I gave you a bit of mine.' 'Come on, you promised.' People say things like that every day, educated people as well as uneducated and children as well as grownups.""Now what interests me about all of these remarks is that the man who makes diem is not merely saying that the other man's behavior does not happen to please him. He is appealing to some kind of standard of behavior which he expects the other man to know about. And the other man very seldom replies, 'Well, to hell with your standard.' Nearly always he tries to make out that what has been doing does not really go against the standard or that if it does there's some special excuse. He pretends there's some special reason in this particular case why the person who took the seat for should not keep it or that things were quite different when he was given the bit of orange or that something has turned up which lets him off keeping his promise.""It looks, in fact, very much as if both parties had in mind some kind of law or rule of fair play or decent behavior or morality or whatever you want to call it, about which they really agreed. And they have. If they had not, they might, of course, fight like animals but they cannot quarrel in the human sense of the word. Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you had some sort of agreement as to what right and wrong are just as there would be no sense in saying that a footballer has committed to foul unless there was some agreement about the rules of football."And so the big idea is that there is this law, we all know it, we all appeal to it but more than that, we didn't make it, this is not something we came up with ourselves, it transcends us. It's a law that transcends individuals and cultures and time, that it's not just true for you or true for me, it's just simply true, transcendently true. And if this is true, we get to ask if there's this transcendent truth, where did that come from? If there's a transcendent moral law, there has to be a transcendent moral law giver. This is why Psalm 14 Verse One, the Psalmist writes that, "It is the fool who says in his heart that there is no God." That it is irrational to deny the reality of a moral God if we just sit down and think about it. If we're afraid to face that reality, if we're afraid to face the of the law and its giver, it's not because the idea is untrue, it's because the idea is uncomfortable. That facing the reality of God, that forces us to face the uncomfortable reality of our own guilt and shame.And that brings us to point number two, that we're all guilty. Verse 12, he says, "For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law and those who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. But it's not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God but the doers of the law who will be justified." And there's none who have done, who have perfectly upheld the law. People in general, they don't object to the idea of a good and just God, we understand that without that existence would be hell. We want justice, we want God to be good and bring justice to stop evil, we want those things and we instinctively cry out for justice every time we are personally wronged.See the problem people have is not with that so much as we want God to be just, we just don't want him to be just towards us. We want justice for others but deep down we know that we're deserving of judgment ourselves. Lewis mentioned this briefly in the passage but have you ever noticed, then you get caught in moral violation, violation of this law that we're talking about, that the impulse is not to deny the law, the impulse is to pass the blame. And this began at the very beginning with Adam and Eve in the garden, right? God comes to Adam and calls Adam to give an account and Adam didn't say, "Well, yeah. But God your rules weren't fair." No, he says, "Yeah, but it wasn't my fault. It was that woman that you gave me, it was her fault and you gave her to me so it's kind of your fault. But it's definitely not my fault."And we do this, right? "Yeah, I lied but everybody lies." "Yeah, I stole but not as much as that person over there." "Yeah, I'm bad but you're no better." "Yeah, I did X, Y and Z but I'm only human." I see how foolish that is, in what human courtroom would that defense stand up? "Okay judge, let me just say, I totally murdered that guy. Yep. My bad. I'm only human. Also, it's just one guy, he was kind of annoying, it's not like I'm Hitler." Why do we always go there? Where do we get this idea that the best standard for judgment should be comparing ourselves to the worst person in history, right? The measuring stick of morality is not Hitler's wickedness, the measuring stick of morality is God's holiness.And we acknowledge that. We see that no one even comes close to measuring up. We all fall short. Take a moment here to brag about some glory days, remember Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite? "Back in '82, I could throw a pig skin a quarter of a mile. I bet I could throw a football over the mountains." That's where we're going to go right now. Back in '82, I was born in '82, but back in '98, believe this or don't, I could dunk a volleyball. On a good day, with no one guarding me, at the right angle, give me a few tries, I could even dunk a girl's basketball. I could never quite dunk a men's basketball. The reason this is a big deal, I'm five foot seven and a half. That was a big deal for me for those couple years that I could accomplish it.I was always living in the shadow of Spud Webb, remember him? He was five foot seven and not a half and he won the '86 NBA Dunk Competition, that was always looming over my head. And then you had Muggsy Bogues, he was five foot three in the NBA and he could dunk. But at least for me, small town, Midwest Dutch boy, that was a big deal. I could dunk a girl's basketball, I could dunk a volleyball, I could jump. We're all jumping and some of us can jump higher than others. And we're looking this way and we're looking that way and we're thinking, "Hey, as long as I can jump higher than some of these other chumps around me, then I'm must be doing okay." We measure ourself against the standard of our peers and then we feel justified so long as we're at least somewhat average.And I know some of you and I know that you can jump and from a human perspective, your vertical is impressive but from God's perspective, looking down on earth, he's not impressed with any of our attempts to jump up to the heavens. I'm not talking about adding a few inches or even a few feet to our vertical jump, even the best of us, even those of us who can dunk a girl's basketball at five foot seven and a half, it's like, "Yeah, you've got light years to go before you hit the mark." Romans 3:23 says, "For there's no distinction for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." See the standard is not to see who can just do the least amount of evil, the goal is not even to see who can do the most amount of good, the goal is perfection, the goal is holiness, the goal is the glory of God. This is what we were created for and anything less falls short.And now I know what some of you might be thinking, you might be thinking like, "I can't believe that, that standard is just too high." And I get that. And so for the sake of the argument, then I would just ask you to ask yourself, if that is not the standard, then what is the standard? We know there's a standard. If you're going to be a law to yourself, as Paul talks about the Gentiles being a law to themself, are you even able to measure up to your own expectations of yourself or to the people around you for that matter? If you believe that honesty is better than deception, have you ever told a lie? If you believe that fidelity is better than betrayal, have you ever broken a promise? Have you ever let down your friends, your family, your spouse? If you believe that love is better than hate, have you ever been angry with a person in your heart? Can you really say that you are as you believe that you ought to be, without guilt and without shame? There's none of us who can.Just to put it into perspective, what if I told you... I sent this meme out in the newsletter yesterday? What if I told you that Morpheus never actually says the words, "What if I told you," in The Matrix? That's not the point but the point is this, what if I told you that all of your life you've been hooked up to The Matrix or the metaverse? How about that? And what if I told you that our good old friend Mark Zuckerberg, he has been secretly recording every moment of your life, your actions, what you do in private, your thoughts, your inner dialogue, all of it? I know this sermon's going to get shadowbanned under Facebook for this but whatever. And what if I told you that we've got your life on tape right now, up here on the screens, we're all going to pop some popcorn and we're going to just at least watch the highlight reel of all of the darkest moments of your life together?Could one confidently say, "Go ahead. I've got nothing to hide, I'm not ashamed, I am guiltless, I am fully as I ought to be." Or would you say, "Why on earth did I ever open a Facebook account?" We know. And we're not going to watch the tape of your life, don't worry, but Jesus has and he's seen it all. I'm going to hit pause and we're going to come back to that in just a moment because there's something else here that I want to deal with in this text. Because sometimes you maybe have heard, some people will use this text to suggest that Paul is teaching that people who have never heard the gospel can still be saved by their good deeds by keeping the law that is written on their hearts. And that might sound comforting at first, it's actually the opposite of what Paul is teaching here.What Paul is saying is that even those who never hear the gospel, never read the Bible, they have the law of God written on their hearts but instead of keeping it, they break it, none can keep it and so all of us, whether Jews Gentiles alike, we're all guilty, we're all without excuse. That's the big idea. Now, can a sovereign God intervene and save a person? Yeah. That happened with the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus. He wasn't sitting in a church service, God just beamed him and said, "You're mine, I'm saving you, get up and go, I'm going to tell you what to do." And we've had, it's not common but we've had people come to Mosaic, they're like, "I grew up Muslim and Jesus came to me in a dream and said, you need to become a Christian and go to church." And they listened and they obeyed, they got baptized, they got saved.God can do that. Yeah. But scripture shows us that, that is the exception, that is not the rule. The rule, the application and where we're going to see Paul go with this train of thought as we move through the book is that the gospel is the power of God to salvation, that the name of Jesus Christ, there is no other name given under heaven by which men must be saved and so therefore there is an urgency to preach the gospel to anyone, to everyone who will listen and to take this message to the ends of the Earth. That's the application. Now, the reason that some might want to twist this text to say otherwise is because on the surface that doesn't seem fair, right? From a human perspective, it doesn't seem fair that some would never get the chance to hear the gospel.Now here's the problem. Where did we get this idea that the gospel was fair if the gospel is not fair? It is not fair that the holy, innocent, pure, spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ would suffer and die for the wicked, depraved, sinful, rebellious enemies of God, that is not fair. So questioning the fairness of salvation is not where you want to start. Of course, it's not fair and praise God it's not fair, if it was fair that would mean that we all just go straight to hell right now, that would be fair. The question we should ask is not, why doesn't God just save everyone? The question we should ask is, why would God choose to save anyone at all and do so at such a tremendous cost to himself? He had to sacrifice everything that which he most loved and cherished in order to save us. And it wasn't because of anything good in us that deserved it, it was only because of him. It was because of his divine goodness, patience, kindness, mercy, compassion and love.And so this theme will probably come up some more as we work through Romans, we'll be it into it more detailed as we go. But for now we just see that the big idea is this, that everyone has the law written on their hearts and so therefore we are all guilty and without excuse because none of us have kept that law, none of us have measured up to that mark, none of us has lived up to that standard. Except for one person and that person was Jesus Christ, that God the law giver took on flesh, entered human history to become the law keeper so he could stand in the place of us who were the law breakers.And this brings us to the final point that we must face the reality of the law and its giver, we must face the reality of our guilt and our shame but the only way that we can do this with any sense of confidence and hope is by facing the reality of our judge and our defender and that's Jesus Christ. And so let me just start by saying Jesus is coming soon, maybe in our lifetime, but if not, I mean, the most any of us have is 70 years or so, soon we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. And this should either be our greatest source of hope and joy in this life or our greatest source of misery and terror because you will either stand before the judge alone and without defense or you will stand there with Jesus Christ, who is your defense.And Jesus will judge the world in righteousness and praise God for that because without that heaven would become hell. The promise of Christ's return is the promise that even though things are not as they ought to be right now, a day is coming when that will no longer be true. The promise of Christ's return is that a day is coming when everything that is done in secret will be brought into the light. And it doesn't matter who you are, man, woman, Jew, Gentile, rich, poor, slave, free, you will give an account and when the judge sits on his throne, he will show no partiality. That's where Paul began. That Jesus will judge the world in his righteousness but he will also defend the church with his righteousness as well. And now whether that is true for you personally, then it depends on what you do with Jesus Christ right now. And before we talk about what you need to do with Jesus right now, I want to remind you about what Jesus did for us back then.And Paul writing to the church in Ephesus in the first chapter of Ephesians. He says, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love, he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved."Before the creation of the world and God saw everything that would to ever be, not just the metaverse, the entire universe, all of human history, he saw it all. And Jesus watched the movie of your life, past, present, future, every word, every thought, every action he saw it all. He saw the avatar, the facade, the shell of your outer life, he saw beyond your attempts to cover your guilt and your shame and he peered deep into the darkness of your soul. He watched that movie and as the credits began to roll, he stood up and he said, "I still love you and I have chosen you and you are my beloved. And though you have not been faithful and you fully deserve to die, I will not leave you or forsake you. I will make you mine."And Jesus looked at his bride, the church and he said, "I will take the nails of her iniquity into my own hands and feet. I will carry her sorrows and wash away her tears. I will be raised up on her cross to publicly bear the nakedness of her shame. I will pay her debt with my blood. I will take her punishment with my body. I will go through hell to give her heaven. I will die and she will live. I will bear her sin so that she can wear my righteousness. I will be wrapped in the linens of her death and buried in her tomb so that she can be born anew of my spirit and wrapped in the love of my father. And I will rise from the grave and ascend to the hand of my father and prepare a place for her where she will never be separated from my love and where everything will always be exactly as it ought to be."That is the hope of the gospel and what have we done to deserve this? Absolutely nothing. What do we do to receive this? We simply repent, turn from our sin, our idolatry, from constantly trying to justify ourselves, surrender and believe. Find our justification in the Lord Jesus Christ, trust him with everything and know that he will be our judge but he can also be our defender. Cry out to God, put your faith in Christ and the promise of scripture is that you will be saved. I'm going to close by reading a couple passages from scripture and then we're going to respond and worship together.Hebrew 4:14 says this, "Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession for we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. And let us confidence drawn near a throne of grace that we may receive the mercy and find grace to help in time of need."And Romans 5:1-2 says, "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him, we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God."If you would like to learn more about what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ or if you've made a decision to surrender your life to him today, we would love to talk with you and pray with you. Please come up, talk to us after the service. If you mark on your connection card, we'll follow up with you this week but we would love to follow up and just pray with you and just celebrate that decision. Right now, I'm going to pray and then we're going to rejoice in the hope of the glory of God and worship him together. Let's pray.Father I ask that you would just stir our hearts to be just speechless and amazed by your mercy. God, give us a vision of your glory, of your majesty that allows us to grasp the glimpse, the depth of our depravity, not to crush us but to open our eyes to the gravity of the sacrifice that you made, of the blessing that has been offered to us through your son, Jesus Christ. God, teach us to live in a manner worthy of this good news, humble, joyful, confident, bold and always grateful for who you are and for all that you have done for us. God, I pray that your gospel would not return void but that even now that if there are any here today who walked in as strangers and enemies of God, that they would walk out in a newness of life, adopted by your grace, regenerated by your holy spirit, united with your son and help them to find their place in the body of your church. We thank you for Jesus, we pray all of this in his beautiful and powerful name and we worship you now together. Amen.

To support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Prices increase and a partial paywall activates on March 14. Organizations can email skiing@substack.com or reply to this email to add multiple users on one account.The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Spot and Mountain Gazette - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch.WhoAndrew Halmi, General Manager of Mount Pleasant of Edinboro, PennsylvaniaRecorded onMarch 1, 2022Why I interviewed himCold and hilly, with the Appalachian spine slashing southwest-to-northeast across the map, Pennsylvania is a monster ski state, with 28 lift-served mountains. Most of these are bunched across the southern tier, in Vailville from Seven Springs to Roundtop, or along the eastern border with New Jersey, from Spring Mountain up to Elk.And then there’s Mount Pleasant, drifting alone in the state’s far northwest corner, hundreds of miles and hours of driving from the next-closest in-state ski areas. It’s like one of those nature documentaries with a drone floating over the lone baby buffalo standing apart from the herd, bunched and snorting about the quality of this year’s grass crop. You look for the circling wolves or lions and wait for the poor thing to be transformed into lunch. It’s isn’t entirely clear how any other outcome is possible.But Mount Pleasant is the Spud Webb of Pennsylvania skiing, the unassuming 5’6” kid who wins the NBA Slam Dunk Contest (that actually happened). The ski area is, first of all, well-positioned, seated less than 17 miles off the shores of the Lake Eerie snow factory. The ski area often leads the state in snowfall, with up to 200 inches in a bomber year. Again, this is in Pennsylvania. Every ski area in the Poconos combined doesn’t get 200 inches some years.Second, while it’s separated from its in-state ski-area homeboys by at least three hours of highway, Mount Pleasant is quite well-positioned from a business point of view. Eerie, population 97,000-ish, is just 20 miles away. The county has around 270,000 residents altogether. Other than Peek’n Peak, stationed 32 miles away across the New York state line, Mount Pleasant has those skiers all to itself.But neither of those things is the essential ingredient to Mount Pleasant’s improbable survival amid the graveyard of lost ski areas haunting Pennsylvania’s mountains. Cliché alert: the secret is the people. Launched as a notion in the 70s and crushed by the snow droughts and changing economy of the 80s, Mount Pleasant hung on through the 90s, barely solvent as a ski club running on the clunky machinery of faded decades. When the current owners bought the joint in the mid-2000s, it was a time machine at best and a hospice patient at worst, waiting to be guided toward the light.Since then, the place has punched its way out of the grave, and it’s now a thriving little ski area, with a modern triple chair and improving snowmaking. The owners, Doug and Laura Sinsabaugh, are local school teachers who have poured every dollar of profit back into the ski area. They have invested millions and, according to Halmi, never put a cent in their own pockets. They’ve shown remarkable resilience and ingenuity, installing the chairlift – which came used from Granite Peak, Wisconsin – themselves and slowly, methodically upgrading the snowmaking plant.The place still has a long way to go. Only half the trails have snowmaking. The lodge – a repurposed dairy barn – is perhaps the most remarkable building in Northeast skiing, but it’s roughly the size of an F-350 truckbed. The beginner area is still served by a J-bar that makes the VCR look like a miracle of modern machinery.Improvements for all of these elements are underway, as we discuss in the podcast. Last year’s Covid-driven outdoor boom accelerated Mount Pleasant’s renaissance, re-introducing the little ski area to a jaded local population who had, not unfairly, dismissed it as a relic. When they showed up in 2021 for their first visit in seven or 10 or 15 years, they found the formerly problematic T-bar sitting in a pile in the parking lot and a glimmering chairlift staggering up the incline and a place with a spark and a future. It’s really an incredible story, and I’m as excited to share this one as any I’ve ever recorded.What we talked aboutMount Pleasant’s strong Instagram account; I told Halmi to get Mount Pleasant onto Twitter and then he got it onto Twitter so give the joint a follow; how hard it is for someone who works at a ski area to ski sometimes; Mount Pleasant in its member-owned, ragtag days under the Mountain View name; how close the ski area came to not opening for the 2020-21 ski season and how that season re-ignited Mount Pleasant’s business; when and why the ski area failed and what resurrected it; puttering through 28-day operating seasons; the couple who saved the ski area and hauled it into modernity; “this was as close as you could get to starting a ski area from scratch”; why the owners have returned 100 percent of the ski area’s profit back into rebuilding it; Pennsylvania as a ski state; why Mount Pleasant survived as so many small ski areas across the state went extinct; the Lone Ranger of Pennsylvania skiing; the enormous challenge of moving a used triple chair from Granite Peak, Wisconsin, to Mount Pleasant; how a team of people from a ski area that had never had a chairlift demolished their old T-bar and installed a new lift over the course of one offseason; getting the lift towers installed with a crew of “three or four,” and without a helicopter; oops the chairs arrived with no safety bars; the vagaries of safety-bar cultures across the United States; how the chairlift changed the character and energy of the ski area; pouring one out for the T-bar; how many people you can get on a single T-bar; where the old T-bar is today and the inventive way Mount Pleasant may repurpose it; what kind of chairlift Mount Pleasant would like next and where that would go; the other upgrades that have to happen before a new chair is a possibility; how much it costs to install snowmaking on a single trail; how the ski area’s beginner area could evolve; why Mount Pleasant has a carpet lift sitting in its parking lot; yes there is such a thing as 200 inches of snow in a single Pennsylvania ski season; the mountain’s long-term snowmaking plans; Mount Pleasant’s threaded-through-the-forest trail network and border-to-border ski philosophy; why the ski area has minimal terrain park features and whether that could change; what happened to the old Minute Man trail and whether it could ever come back into the trail network; how Mount Pleasant managed to stay open seven nights per week in a challenging labor market; what would happen to the ski area were it to change its operating schedule after its season-pass sale; what happened when Vail moved into nearby Ohio; Mount Pleasant’s unique baselodge; whether we could see Mount Pleasant on the Indy Pass or any other pass coalitions; and season passes.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewSmall ski areas, I think, are having a moment. I don’t have any data to prove that, but everywhere I look, megapass burnout it palpable. I love the rambling adventure of big ski areas. The sport could not be mainstream without them. But that doesn’t mean that a big ski area is the best ski area for every ski day. Sometimes a slowpoke day through the slowpoke woods is all you need. You don’t have to fight for your life to find a parking spot or line up for the chairlift or buy a Rice Krispy Treat. You just ski. It’s a different enough kind of skiing that it feels like a different sport altogether.There’s a bit of a positive feedback loop going on here. Skiers – especially skiers with kids – seek out an experience that isn’t defined by Times-Square-on-New-Year’s-Eve crowds. They find little back-of-the-woods bumps like Mount Pleasant or Maple Ski Ridge, New York or Whaleback, New Hampshire. They like it. They tell their friends. The incremental revenue generated from this word-of-mouth uptick in visits goes straight back into the mountain. A place like Mount Pleasant trades a Roman-era T-bar for a modern chairlift. That baseline experience in place, its future becomes more certain, and all of skiing benefits from a healthier beginner mountain.Mount Pleasant is pretty much exactly all of this. It’s just big enough to not bore a seasoned skier while remaining approachable enough for someone who’s never clicked in. It’s not an easy balance to achieve. Halmi, the owners, everyone involved with this place have accomplished something pretty cool: saved a dying ski area without a huge airdrop of cash. It’s a story that others who want to do the same could surely benefit from hearing.Why you should ski Mount Pleasant of EdinboroI said this to Halmi on the podcast, and I’ll repeat it here: I liked Mount Pleasant a lot more than I was expecting to. Not that I thought I would dislike it. I am a huge fan of small ski areas. But many of them, admirable as their mission is, are not super compelling from a terrain point of view, with a clear-cut hillside stripped of the deadly obstacles (read: trees), that their first-timer clientele may have a habit of smashing into.What I found was a neat little trail system woven through the woods. It’s a layout that encourages exploration and find-your-own lines inventiveness. I’ll admit I hit it after a storm cycle, when the snow stood deep in the trees and the old T-bar line was skiable. That did favorably color my impression of the place – snow makes everything better. But the overall trail-management approach resonated with me in a way that’s rare for sub-400-vertical-foot ski areas. It felt like a ski area run by skiers, which is not as universal as you may suppose.It also just feels cool to be there. The dairy barn/lodge alone would be an attraction even if you had no interest in anything above it. The fact that the ski area not only still has, but still uses a 1976 Tucker Sno-Cat is one of the raddest things in America (the mountain also has modern groomers). The place bristles with life and energy, a real kids-and-families joint materializing out of the Pennsylvania backroads.The place has some quirks. The steepest part of the main slope is near the bottom – a nightmare for a beginner’s-oriented hill. If you follow the abandoned T-bar all the way down, you find yourself on the far side of the tubing hill, and it’s an adventure in poling, a ride up the J-bar, and a duck-walk back up to the chairlift to find your way home. But it’s all part of the adventure, and all part of the character of this fabulous little ski area. It feels well-loved and well-cared-for, and that is clear the minute you arrive.More Mount Pleasant of EdinboroLift Blog’s inventory of Mount Pleasant’s lift fleetHistoric Mount Pleasant trailmaps on skimap.orgMount Pleasant season passesA trailmap and brochure from Mount Pleasant’s inaugural season, 1970-71:Here’s a photo of the lodge prior to its conversion from a dairy barn:The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Prices increase and a partial paywall goes up on March 14. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

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What makes a great cold caller? Our guest today on Market Dominance Guys, James Thornburg, Enterprise IT Strategist at Bridgepointe Technologies, defines the characteristics of a great cold caller as someone who puts in the hard work by having lots of conversations  — and also has a little charisma. James uses humor and ConnectAndSell's Lightning platform to connect to his prospects, and then shares his cold calls on LinkedIn for all to learn from — or be entertained by. Our hosts, Chris Beall and Corey Frank, are enthusiastic listeners, each touting the entertainment and educational value James provides with his cold-calling triumphs as well as his train wrecks. Listen in as these three sales guys discuss James Thornburg's ability to “pivot to a chuckle” on this Market Dominance Guys' episode, “Is Cold Calling a Form of Slapstick?” About Our Guest James Thornburg is the Enterprise IT Strategist at Bridgepointe Technologies, which offers a service that helps design IT or telecom projects for their clients and includes selecting the right supplier at the right price with no extra cost to their customers. ----more---- Here is the complete transcript to this episode. Announcer (00:06): Welcome to another episode with The Market Dominance Guys, a program about the innovators, idealists and the entrepreneurs who thrive and die in the high-stakes world of building a startup company. We explore the cookbooks, guidebooks and magic beans needed to grow your business. What makes a great cold caller? Our guest today on Market Dominance Guys, James Thornburg Enterprise IT Strategists at Bridgepointe Technologies defines the characteristics of a great cold caller as someone who puts in the hard work by having lots of conversations and also has a little charisma. James uses humor and ConnectAndSell's lightning platform to connect to his prospects and then shares his cold calls on LinkedIn for all to learn from. Or be entertained by. Our hosts, Chris Beall and Corey Frank, are enthusiastic listeners. Each touting the entertainment and educational value James provides with his cold calling triumphs as well as his train wrecks. Listen in as these three guys discuss James Thornburg's ability to pivot to a chuckle. On this Market Dominance Guys episode, is cold calling a form of slapstick? Corey Frank (01:16): Welcome to another episode of The Market Dominance Guys with Corey Frank and the prince [inaudible 00:01:22] and the prognosticator of all things sales, Chris Beall, my fabulous co-host here. So good afternoon, Chris. Chris Beall (01:30): Hey. Good to be here, Corey. Nice to see you. You look good. Corey Frank (01:33): Yeah, thank you. I think it's the lighting, it's all in the lighting with the black. Black, I heard, is slimming. I probably need to wear all black. But listen, we're in the presence of some royalty here. It's been a long time coming because we've talked about James several episodes. James, if you're one of our seven listeners, you know that your name has come up a number of times in some of the earlier episodes. So we have with us today, not only a titan of technology, the prince of pastures ... You're a farmer, you're a homesteader. But we have the one and only, the king of the cold call, James Thornburg with us. So welcome, James, to The Market Dominance Guys. James Thornburg (02:10): Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Yeah. Corey Frank (02:12): Absolutely. So are you currently in the throne room? Is that what you call the cold call room you're in right now? James Thornburg (02:16): Yes, it's my basement downstairs. Chris Beall (02:21): James, I love your plain white background. It's so good. James Thornburg (02:24): It's great. For my calls, I've been using the Zoom background. We have some new branding here at Bridgepointe, but yeah, I like just the gray. Corey Frank (02:32): Yeah. Yeah. So James, we've been following you for a while, and obviously, you and Chris have known each other for a while, we've known each other for a few years. I've heckled and commented you on many a LinkedIn post. But you're the king of the cold call, you're not the earl of email or you're not the lord of LinkedIn, you chose the cold call as the channel of dominance for your business here at Bridgepointe. It's one of the principles at Bridgepointe. How come, in your sales career, why cold call versus ... Isn't email easier? Isn't LinkedIn easier? But you chose to have dominion as the king in probably one of the channels that most folks would shun. So why, for you, is the cold call king? James Thornburg (03:13): Well, I mean, I wasn't making a lot of calls for a lot of my career. I mean, when I first got out of college, I was making cold calls. I was selling insurance and I got into selling wireless phones and things like that for Nextel. So I was sitting the phones quite a bit then. And then I got into The Channel, and The Channel, you really just leveraged network relationships. And so I used those individuals to open up doors for me. And I did quite well when I was at my former company, Single Path, I was there for almost 12 years. And for about eight or nine of those years, I focused on working with networking partners and that's how I got introduced to opportunities. But things started to dry up, partnerships that I had before, they were acquired. Some of them were making so much money they just weren't active in terms of opening up opportunities and my pipeline was suffering because of it. So I started looking to figure out, hey, how am I going to net new opportunities? And I was thinking about it this weekend, I'm like, I don't even know how I got introduced to ConnectAndSell. I don't know if it was, I was Googling or whatever, but landed on ConnectAndSell and at that point I was reborn cold caller. And it kind of opened my eyes that, hey, I can open up a lot of opportunities using this platform and making dials. And then that put me in a position, I was at Single Path for about a year, year and a half on ConnectAndSell, using it as a full-time sales rep. And then I saw ConnectAndSell as my vehicle to basically start out. To go out on my own. That's basically what I did about two years ago. Corey Frank (04:50): Got you. Yeah, I think you and Ryan [inaudible 00:04:53] are birds of a feather there, that you put yourself out there. You both put yourself out there. And I think you pioneered this trend, James, that a lot of us can sit in the cheap seats, guys like me, and I can critique a call here and there. Chris and I certainly do our share of it. And we do our share of cold calls, certainly Chris is out there, he'll do it on stage. But James, you have a unique perspective that you actually do it on LinkedIn Live, you'll record your calls occasionally, and put them out there. Good, bad, ugly, warts and all. How'd you get started on that? What kind of crazy guy would do that and be that glutton for punishment? To put yourself so publicly out there? James Thornburg (05:28): I had a leased office in downtown Kalamazoo. I was still working at my former employer. The room was about four by seven with no windows, and I think it was in the middle of February, and I was bored one day. I was making these calls and I'm like, "Hey, why don't I just start recording these calls?" And I was like, "That was pretty funny about the VP of Technology that told me he was a teller." And so then I posted it on LinkedIn and got some traction and people seemed to be interested. And that's kind of where it started in terms of the videos for LinkedIn. Corey Frank (06:02): What do you think about that, Chris? I mean he certainly, as the CEO of his own company there, his own practice, James, he puts himself out there. You talked a lot about CEOs needing to do that, put themselves out there and do a certain amount of cold calls. I think James has certainly taken it to a different level. But what's your thoughts on that? Chris Beall (06:19): Well, I mean, James, what you've done at a different level is you're funny. And I actually think that that contrast between what people think about cold calling, which is the movies, the boiler rooms, the intensity, the screaming, all that stuff. And then we watch you and it's like, the very best part, to me, is that the camera is there for you. We're there. And you look at us and you use us. I mean, that's what fun. It's like, we're in the call because your feelings about it, especially that anticipation thing you do. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this might go, it might go. It's like, oh boom. And that, I think, is a completely new thing. Everybody's got different style, right? So Shane Mahey does his thing while he's along the banks of the Thames and he's making calls. And that's very much like calls. It's cool, but after, it's like making calls. Your stuff is not just cool, your stuff is funny. And I don't know, you don't think of yourself as a funny guy, I think. Right? James Thornburg (07:28): Not really. I mean, I'm trying to be funny today but it's not really working [crosstalk 00:07:32]. Trying to come up with something witty. Corey Frank (07:37): Great try. Great try. Chris Beall (07:38): Well, it's the thing that you do with the camera that I just think it's great. It's like, we're there. Because cold calling has this funny quality. Each call is an adventure, where you don't know what's going to happen. And somebody once asked me, some really intelligent person said, "Gosh, Chris, you seem to like sports, sporting events, more than most people who sport your particular mathematical inclinations." I think they said something about IQ or some nonsense like that. It's like, why? It's like, because I don't know how it's going to turn out. You get sucked into the little soap opera that is ... Or whatever, a game of some sort. Whatever it happens to. And every cold call is that kind of game. Even though it's not oppositional with this person, when we're there with you, I feel like we, the audience, are getting that sense of why the conversation ... And I'll make a distinction. Cold calls and cold conversations are two different things. If you had to cold call, you wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. Cold calling means not talking to anybody for an hour. That's crazy. Making cold conversations are pretty fun, if you're ready for the adventure. For us watching you, it's pure fun. Because we're not the ones who are dealing with the negative side, other than we get to deal with how you deal with it, which is funny. James Thornburg (08:59): Yeah. I mean it's fun to watch somebody get hung up on. Chris Beall (09:02): Who knew? Is it slapstick? That's a question. Is watching cold calling a form slapstick, where we don't have that much of that anymore, but are we getting a little Lucille Ball in there or whatever? A little Charlie Chaplin, I don't know. Corey Frank (09:18): I don't know. I think it's a little bit of schadenfreude, right? I mean, you see somebody else get his butt kicked. And you have a lot of good calls, a lot of successful calls. I think everybody wants to watch it for the train wrecks. And it does ... I know when I watch him, James, I feel like, wow, that was really clever. You start off with a joke, you're just very unassuming. You're not supplicative, you don't lose your status, but you really have this attitude where, "Listen, I'm a human, I'm looking for another human connection. And can we dispense with all the roles and all the accouterments of your title and role and just make a connection because you picked up the phone and I'm on the other end. And let's see if we have something that can benefit each other." And that's just very raw and authentic. Doing so many, and doing so many publicly, and certainly doing so many at scale, because you're the artisan of the ConnectAndSell weapon. What have you learned in cold calling? Because you said, most of your career, you didn't necessarily have to do it. And then you have just had probably more cold calls in the last couple of years, probably more than 99% of sales professionals in the B2B world, so what have you learned from this channel and from the reception that you get from decision levels? Decision level buyers? James Thornburg (10:40): Well, I mean it's really worked for my industry. Our offering, or what we do, is somewhat nuanced. I mean, we're helping IT leaders buy technology and it's hard to articulate that through any other medium. When you're able to have a conversation with somebody, it's easier to explain to them. Because like I said, I mean, what we do is somewhat nuanced, the concept is foreign to probably 90% of the people that we talk to. And I refer to it as speed dialing, ConnectAndSell. Just even using a power dialer or some manual dialing, then your power dialer. I mean, the challenge is, is that you're dealing with a lot of that minutia of cold calling, which is the reason why no one wants to make any calls. So to be able to just press a button and have some conversations. People think I work hard. I mean, it's a lazy way to do it. It makes things easier. You're just having conversations. Do you have the courage to press that button and talk to somebody? And if you don't, then what are doing in sales? And so, when you look at early on, I mean my pitch has evolved and things of that nature. I mean, people have a lot of opinions about the pitch, the openers and things of that nature, but gotten a lot better in terms of the tonality. Just my conversions are a lot higher and that's due to having a lot of at bats. Having a lot of conversations, you get better and better. I think people miss out on that. Everybody wants to talk about the conversions and things of that nature, but it's also, how do we make these reps better more quickly? And the way that you're going to be able to do that is more conversations. I don't know if that answered your question. Corey Frank (12:18): No, you really have to get frequent before you get good, is what I hear you saying. And you've been able to condense 20 years of cold calling, that most of us had to come up through the ranks using old rotary phones, and you've been able to condense it in the last two and a half years or so with a ConnectAndSell type of weapon, it sounds like. James Thornburg (12:36): Listen, I'm a little old school too. I didn't use a rotary phone, but I had index cards. Corey Frank (12:41): Sure. Sure. James Thornburg (12:43): I had index cards and I was writing on that, that was my follow-up. Corey Frank (12:46): Yeah, yeah. Right. With the volume of calls that you've made, and Chris and I would be interested in knowing, okay, because you had such a very tight learning curve over ... Not that you've never made cold calls, but I'm saying in this type of volume over the last 24, 36 months or so at volume, what doesn't work at a cold call? You say a lot of folks will say, "James, I have some opinions on your opener and I have opinions on X and Y and Z." Okay, well you do it at scale. So, in your opinion, what have you learned that doesn't work in a cold call, that you probably see a lot of folks still doing? James Thornburg (14:06): I don't know if I can answer that. I don't have strong opinions about openers, technique, and things of that nature. I don't like the, how are you, though. As the opener. I don't think that's a very good idea. But I think if you have the right tonality and it doesn't sound like you're reading off of some type of script, and you're putting in the work, you're going to have success. But I can't really pinpoint something that doesn't work in cold calling. I mean, what are your thoughts? Chris Beall (14:34): I've got some. I have ideas of what does work. So my two favorite people to listen to, having actual cold calls, are you and Cheryl Turner. And the reason is, both of you have the ability to pivot to a chuckle better than any other people out there. You're light enough with the situation that it's like, you've done the hard work, you've pushed the button, now you're going to be light with this person and let it roll and talk to them. And when something kind of funny comes up, or they challenge you in some way, that the best answer isn't to fight them, it's to laugh. Like the one the other day where the guy basically says something about being retired or whatever. And you go, "Well, we get these lists from these list providers and blah, blah, blah," and it was funny. I mean, it was funny but it was also like, it's not funny like me against you kind of funny. It's funny like, we're all in this together kind of funny. Like life is funny, kind of funny. And you and Cheryl both do it and you do it like ... I was with Helen a couple of weeks ago and we were going through a bunch of Cheryl's calls and listening to them. Because Helen has an interest in trying ConnectAndSell in a very special kind of way, with a huge, huge company out there that she might be calling into. And this is new to her. And she asked, "Well, what really makes it work?" And I said, "Let's go listen to Cheryl and listen to James. And I will break this down for you like I'm Howard Cosell, it's Ali/Frazier. I'm going to take you through this punch by punch. And I'm going to redirect your eyes from the gloves down to their feet so you can see what they're really doing." And what was so interesting was that EQ, on the spot, that it takes to laugh with somebody. I actually think that is the most interesting thing that both of you do. And it's spectacular. James Thornburg (16:33): Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It's just- Chris Beall (16:37): You think things are funny. James Thornburg (16:38): People get so upset about it, about cold calls and things of that nature. And it's just, I don't know. I mean, there's a lot of other problems in the world. I mean, somebody calling you and everything and it's just like ... I mean, even the retired people. Sometimes I got to leave them with a joke because it's like, hey, you're retired. You're mad that I called you, I know that you get calls, but it's like, hey, lighten up a little bit. Let me leave you with a joke. And then I leave them with the five cold caller joke. Chris Beall (17:03): Yeah. I don't know if everybody knows the joke, but could you give us the joke? I mean, let's have Corey be all pissed off at you. Corey, you're retired, right? Or you're pretty much retired, as far as I can tell. James Thornburg (17:15): Corey, Corey. Hey, listen, let me at least leave you with a joke. What do you call five cold callers at the bottom of the ocean? Corey Frank (17:25): I don't know, James, what do you call five cold callers at the bottom of the ocean? James Thornburg (17:28): A good start. Corey Frank (17:31): That's right. See? And you made a human connection, right? Chris Beall (17:36): By the way, let me make a technical point there. This is something that our friend Chris Boss would call tactical empathy. Show the other person you see the world through their eyes, what do they think if they could think clearly about five cold callers at the bottom of the ocean? They'd think it's a good start, right? So some of these things, they sound very natural because they are. James, Cheryl, these people are true geniuses at this. Corey Frank (18:02): Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Chris Beall (18:04): Henry [inaudible 00:18:05] is now converting at 40%. And he's a guy you wouldn't have thought was a natural, but he's picked up a whole bunch of things from Cheryl. He works closely with Cheryl and some magic is going on. If Scott Webb, the 75.9% converter, he just sounds like he's your friend who knows you, who's calling you, and really thinks it's a good idea for you that we should have a meeting. And by the way, I got to go. So he's out of there, I got to. "Hey, I got call. I'll shoot you something." Boom. Done. So these folks all have something in common, which is, in the ring, so to speak, they're relaxed. They're excited and want something to happen, but still relaxed enough to laugh and make these simple-looking moves, that I know as an expert on this, are not that simple to master. Corey Frank (18:58): What do you guys think? Is that nature? Is it nurture? Is it is a little bit of Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption, where he only gets parole once he doesn't give a crap anymore? And it's that attitude, it's tough to teach somebody right out of school that ... It's not apathy. Like you said, it's more ... Because I'm not losing my status. It's very cool in the pocket. Is that something that's taught or is that something that can be learned? [crosstalk 00:19:25] Chris Beall (19:26): Did you have to learn it? Did you just fall into it? James Thornburg (19:31): I'd say repetition and personality. I mean, there is a little personality element to it. And I don't know how teachable that is. Chris Beall (19:40): I don't either. It's like being tall for basketball, you could be Spud Webb and you can be great, but there were never 30 Spud Webbs in the league. James Thornburg (19:53): I mean, I don't think you have to be a James Thornburg and have my personality. I mean, people bring different gifts to the game. And mine just happens to be hard work and maybe a little bit of charisma. Chris Beall (20:05): And more chickens. Corey Frank (20:07): Maybe it is. The homesteader lifestyle has certainly, probably contributes to the mellow nature, the connection, empathy. We screenplay the uh's and the um's in our screenplays that we use for outbound calling. And we got a lot of folks who say, "Doesn't that make you sound unsure? Does that make you sound like, don't know what you're talking about? And if you're talking with a C-Level or director level, they're going to go ..." It's like, no, makes you sound human. Chris and I talked about this last time, never trust a person who doesn't walk around with a little bit of a limp. And so, we screenplay that in. And I think that the brilliance of the 27 seconds is that, even if I don't have this high emotional intelligence, off the chart like you do, or Cheryl or Scott, that at least is a little bit of a verbal crutch to help get you there. That 27 seconds.              It's not, can I have a minute? 27 seconds. Chris was talking to me, we call it the playful curious. Can James come out and play? That's what we teach, that's what they teach in the flight school at ConnectAndSell, that is the perfect encapsulation of how to think. What the director's notes for the actor are on the screenplay. Playful curious, can James come out and play? That's how you say that in 27 seconds. And even if I blew the other part, I'm at least going to buy myself another few seconds by saying that. And you're a big advocate of the 27 seconds, certainly, James [inaudible 00:21:36]. James Thornburg (21:36): I'd be interested in Chris's opinion. I mean, how much of it is the call? I'd say it's 90% of the call. If they buy into the 27 seconds, they buy you more time, then you can tell your story and hopefully get some more information or book a meeting or get a follow-up, right? Chris Beall (21:51): Yeah, it's funny. Today I was talking with Donny Crawford about this and we were going pretty deep on this question of, what's the purpose of the cold call? And I pointed out to him, Donny, a great conversion rate is 10%. So that means 90% of the purpose is what happens when you don't convert? And he kind of stopped and he went, huh? He said, "Yeah, we get into that, don't we? That the purpose is to get the meeting." It's like, no, the outcome is to get the meeting when that's the right thing for both parties. Which is more often than you might think. But the purpose is to establish trust, and the caveat is, don't blow it. Once you've established trust in that first seven seconds, don't blow it. Because you're going to talk to this person later. They're in a cohort, it's called people who answer the phone. They're yours to talk with, over and over, 11/12 of them are in market right now. Now James sells something that's very nuanced. At ConnectAndSell, we sell something that's anti-nuanced but isn't in a category either. You can't go up to somebody and say, "Hey, you know what? I got something that's going to get you 10 times more conversations and you're going to love it." And they're going to go, "Wow, really? Here's my checkbook." They're going to go, "Huh, you're either an idiot or a charlatan. I don't know if I want to stick around to find out which." That's how it works and that was Cheryl's response to me in a test drive. I thought the guy was an idiot or a charlatan. She went off and used it, came back in 10 minutes and said, "I was wrong. You may well be an idiot and charlatan, we'll establish that later. But this stuff works, man." So I think that the whole game is at the beginning. When you look at it one way, 100% of cold calls succeed if you get that person to trust you and you don't blow it. And James, you never blow it. I never hear you blow it. Now, maybe you deep [crosstalk 00:23:48]. James Thornburg (23:47): I show the videos of the ones that I'm not blowing. Chris Beall (23:54): Well, people blow it. It's easy to blow it. You want to blow it, sell to them. Corey Frank (23:59): Yeah. Chris Beall (23:59): I get you to trust me, and then I sell to you, I'm kind of toast. Corey Frank (24:03): Yeah. I thought we were friends, what are you doing selling to me? Chris Beall (24:05): Exactly. Exactly. I love Scott Webb's point of view is, he says, "When I insist somebody take the meeting, my internal image is that I'm putting my hand out and slapping him in the chest and pulling them back so they don't step in front of a speeding bus. That's how I feel about that person. I'm saying them from something they didn't see, which is the disaster of not attending a meeting in which I'm going to teach them valuable stuff." Corey Frank (24:34): So he emotes that intent? Chris Beall (24:37): Yes. Yeah, we had a discussion once where he called me and said, "My mindset's wrong, I'm going to fix it." And he was converting 35%. And so he calls me back an hour later and says, "I fixed it. Five for five." And he's dragging that 35% tail into a 75.9% conversions. So he still got that statistical, that big hunk of bad back there, which he thinks is bad. And the rest of us go, "Woo, woo, that's pretty exciting." But it was a mindset change where he said, "You know what? I have an ethical obligation to this person, to make sure they come to this meeting, to learn what they don't even know can be learned. And I am going to satisfy that obligation by insisting they attend with me. That they take it. And if all I get is the verbal, and I just send them an invite, that's progress compared to no verbal. So I'm going to get the verbal, even if it doesn't have a date on it, and I'll send them an invite for something." I tell you what, the numbers don't lie. Corey Frank (25:35): Yeah, for sure. Announcer (25:37): Selling a big idea to a skeptical customer, investor, or partner is one of the hardest jobs in business. So when it's time to really go big, you need to use an uncommon methodology to gain attention, frame your thoughts, and employ successful sequencing that is fresh enough to convince others that your ideas will truly change their world. 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The latest episode of 1-ON-1 with Basketball Network featured Walt aka. 'The Wizard' Williams. Selected as the 7th pick in the 1992 NBA Draft by the Sacramento Kings, Walt ended up having a very solid 11-year NBA career, averaging well over double digits while playing with some of the best players in the game. 00:14 Story behind his nickname “The Wizard” 02:03 UMD & becoming certain he was headed to the Pros 07:47 Len Bias, co-writing ‘Lessons from Lenny', Len's legacy 10:20 Len Bias vs. Michael Jordan 14:04 Welcome to the NBA moment, Sacramento Kings era 17:56 Playing heavy minutes as a Rookie 19:09 Sophomore year in Sacramento 20:58 Preseason game vs. the Bulls, trash-talking with MJ 23:49 Spud Webb story 25:49 Miami Heat, Pat Riley crazy practice story 30:19 Dominating MJ in 96/97 & MJ returning the favor 33:36 How do you guard Jordan? 36:45 1997 All-Star 3pt shootout, regret not playing in today's 3pt environment 38:45 T-Mac rookie hazing, story from practice & amazing work ethic 42:42 T-Mac and Vince what-if 44:32 Portland years, most talented and close-knit team in his career 47:45 Arvydas Sabonis, generational talent 50:34 Houston years, Sir Charles, Hakeem Olajuwon in practice, Rudy Tomjanovich 55:18 '03 last year in Dallas, conference finals, retirement 59:01 Life after basketball: NBA clients & advice to rookies coming into the league 1:03:44 Quick fire questions --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/basketball-network/support

He beat Dominique Wilkins in the Slam Dunk contest- while standing at only 5 feet 6 inches!! Today- we get to talk to Spud Webb about that Dunk Contest- and playing against everyone from Dr. J, Magic, Jordan and many more. Enjoy and thanks for listening!

On Tuesday's show, the guys discuss another Yankee loss and whether or not we should've seen this coming. Plus, Don debuts some excellent rap lyrics but also gets confused by Spud Webb.

Former Atlanta Hawks PG Spud Webb talks about why Nate McMillan has been able to have success as the Hawks coach, why Trae Young is so fun to watch, and why he liked the hire of Jason Kidd by the Mavericks.

Brad Townsend on the Mavs wrestling control of Round 1; Spud Webb on what he's seen in first two games and his unforgettable career; Big time tennis returns to the region in the form of the Dallas Open.

In this episode, Doug talks with Iona Assistant Tom Abatemarco about his path into a five decade career in coaching with Jim Valvano at Iona College, working under the legendary Lou Carnesecca, Maryland's Lefty Driesell, recruiting Dell Curry to Virginia Tech, re-joining Valavano at NC State, his '83 title run memories, recruiting Spud Webb, and Spencer Dinwiddie. Make sure you download, rate and subscribe here to get the latest All Ball Podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

In this episode, Doug talks with Iona Assistant Tom Abatemarco about his path into a five decade career in coaching with Jim Valvano at Iona College, working under the legendary Lou Carnesecca, Maryland's Lefty Driesell, recruiting Dell Curry to Virginia Tech, re-joining Valavano at NC State, his '83 title run memories, recruiting Spud Webb, and Spencer Dinwiddie. Make sure you download, rate and subscribe here to get the latest All Ball Podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

In this episode, Doug talks with Iona Assistant Tom Abatemarco about his path into a five decade career in coaching with Jim Valvano at Iona College, working under the legendary Lou Carnesecca, Maryland's Lefty Driesell, recruiting Dell Curry to Virginia Tech, re-joining Valavano at NC State, his '83 title run memories, recruiting Spud Webb, and Spencer Dinwiddie. Make sure you download, rate and subscribe here to get the latest All Ball Podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

On the 37th episode of “Great Dane Nation,” Morten is joined by Atlanta Hawks legend and Basketball Hall of Fame forward Dominique Wilkins, as we get ready for the 2021 NBA Playoffs (12:42 – 27:06). But first, he checks in with TommyFreezePops (Tom Carroll), where the guys take a look at the 2021 NFL schedule, focusing on three of their favorite matchups on the slate – Tom Brady’s return to New England in week 4 (01:40), QB storylines aplenty for Packers vs. Saints in week 1 (04:20), and the Browns opening their season on the road in Kansas City for an AFC Divisional Round rematch (07:16).We then move to our interview with Dominique, where he discusses a wide array of topics: why he refused to play for the team that drafted him, the Utah Jazz (14:31); the age he realized he could be a dominant force in the game of basketball (15:32); looking up to Dr. J, and the advice he got from his childhood idol (16:26); how he got the nickname “Human Highlight Reel” (17:26); why “home cooking” may have robbed him of a 1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest win (18:23); why he never practiced his dunk contest dunks ahead of time (19:22); the two players he thinks are the best dunkers in today’s NBA (20:33); what he looks for when he judges the NBA Dunk Contest (20:47); this week’s edition of “The Name Game,” with thoughts on Trae Young, Randy Wittman, Doc Rivers, Gregg Popovich, Red Auerbach, Moses Malone, Spud Webb, Sidney Moncrief, Mark Jackson and David Robinson (21:23); and how special it was for him to get a statue outside the arena in Atlanta (26:05).Then, TommyFreezePops is joined by Kevin Rogers for his weekly check-in with the experts from VegasInsider.com (38:01 – 45:44). The guys preview the first round of the NBA Playoffs, focusing on three key matchups – Boston taking on the heavily favored Brooklyn Nets (39:22); the MVP front-runner taking on a playoff darling, as Jokic and the Nuggets take on Lillard and the Blazers (41:19); and the Knicks making their return to the postseason as they take on Trae Young and the Hawks (43:00).Finally, we close things out with Morten’s “Game Winner” – a weekly segment where Morten monologues his biggest takeaway of the week. This week, Morten talks about Memorial Day – coming up in a few weeks – and why it’s so important to honor our military (45:44).

Former Sacramento Kings and Atlanta Hawks star Spud Webb is my guest today.  Not only is he a former star of the game, he's also been a friend for over 30 years.  We talk stories of old and Spud's playing days as well as catch up on what he's doing today in Dallas.  Not one to mince words, you'll also get his perspective on today's players vs players from 20-30 years back.  You may be surprised at what he has to say.  But the biggest surprise comes when you hear his accomplishments and scratch you head as to how a guy only 5'6" could have been so competitive in a league of players over a foot taller.  Not to mention that slam dunk capability of his too.  He also has an opinion on that as well.  Join us.  I think you're going to have some laughs. 

April 3, 2021 | The Hockey Betting Podcast PROGRAMMING NOTE: OUR NEXT EPISODE WILL PUBLISH ON TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2021 Thanks to WineRack, birthday boy Cam Stewart arrives ready to wine things up and talk NHL betting odds and picks with Brian Blessing on a special Saturday, April 3, 2021 episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. In addition to the NHL betting card for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, later in this episode the guys dive into a deeper discussion about which teams are contenders for the final Stanley Cup playoff spots, which teams will look to sell before the trade deadline, and an opportunity of a lifetime for the Ottawa Senators. Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for all of Brian and Cam's hockey betting insights, NHL handicapping strategies, and some laughs along the way. Saturday, April 3, 2021 NHL Betting Lines, Analysis, Picks Pittsburgh Penguins at Boston Bruins After getting trounced by the Pens on Thursday, the Boston Bruins have opened as a (-120) favourite for a Saturday afternoon rematch in Beantown. The guys have a lively discussion about this NHL match-up to lead off the episode. Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for the details. Detroit Red Wings at Tampa Bay Lightning The defending Stanley Cup champs are a Spud Webb-short (-400) wager to beat the struggling Detroit Red Wings. Are the Red Wings booking golf tee times on this trip? Hear what the guys are thinking about the total on this NHL game when you listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. Chicago Blackhawks at Nashville Predators Las Vegas oddsmakers expect low-scoring hockey on Saturday, and Nashville Predators vs Chicago Blackhawks is no exception, handicapped at O/U (5.5) with a (-125) money line on host favourites Nashville. Brian and Cam consider the teams current forms. Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for the guys' insights on this NHL match-up. Columbus Blue Jackets at Florida Panthers The Columbus Blue Jackets owned the Florida Panthers in a March series at Nationwide Arena. Will the Cats (-150) fare better in Miami? The guys wonder if the oddsmakers are sleep walking - hear this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast to hear all of Brian and Cam's NHL odds insights, picks predictions and gambling humour. Ottawa Senators at Montreal Canadiens Montreal is a (+105) puck line wager against visiting Ottawa for an NHL faceoff with a falling (6) goal total. The last game didn't go so well for the Sens, but the guys consider the angles on this NHL match-up. Hear this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for the complete conversation. Philadelphia at New York Islanders Philadelphia is not in playoff position despite 17 wins on the season. Can the defensively porous Flyers gain ground against the second-place Isles? The guys consider how the current form of the Flyers is "trash". Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast to hear all of Brian and Cam's hockey betting strategies, handicapping angles and free NHL picks. New York Rangers at Buffalo Sabres   The Buffalo Sabres opened as a (+225) host-underdog vs the New York Rangers, but the number is shrinking as NHL speculators ponder another potential start from Linus Ullmark. Brian and Cam take a look at a "horrible, horrible" line hung on this match-up. Hear the guys debate this NHL game on this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. Dallas Stars at Carolina Hurricanes Dallas snapped a three-game skid by beating Nashville 4-1 on Thursday, but the Stars are still a (+135) road underdog in Carolina. Brian has trust issues, and Cam dwells on Dallas recent form. Hear this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast to hear how the guys handicap this NHL game. St. Louis Blues at Colorado Avalanche Given a 3-2 outcome from the clubs' previous meeting, will Cam and Brian lean over (5.5) for the next Mile High faceoff? Cam and Brian discuss the merits of the various angles to play after Friday's result. Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast to hear the guys hash out their pick. Minnesota Wild at Las Vegas Golden Knights Brian and Cam tout the amazing highlight-reel saves by Cam Talbot in the previous match-up between these teams. Will the Wild continue to own the Golden Knights? The guys read between the betting lines to see what oddsmakers think about this NHL match-up. Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for the guys' discussion on this NHL game. San Jose Sharks at Los Angeles Kings Two clubs badly in need of points meet in SoCal with the L.A. Kings a lengthening (-120) favourite. Cam and Brian are reading each other's mail, but will they find ripped up betting tickets in their envelopes? The guys take a look at Saturday's rematch while Friday's result remains unknown at the time of taping. Hear the guys take on this match-up on this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. Sunday April 4, 2021 NHL Betting Lines, Analysis, Picks Detroit Red Wings at Tampa Bay Lightning Tampa Bay isn't quite as pricey for the Sunday rematch, with a (-375) favourites' line in an expected mismatch with a (5.5) total. Brian discusses his dreams of NHL betting strategies while Cam explains his remedy to shootout losses. Hear the guys discuss this NHL match-up on this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. Washington Capitals at New Jersey Devils  David Puddy's pals are (+128) underdogs vs Alex Ovechkin and the visiting Washington Capitals. Hear the guys take on this game on this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. Columbus Blue Jackets at Florida Panthers  Will Brian Blessing apply his totals-system on another pair of back-to-back games? Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast to hear how the guys are considering this match-up. Dallas Stars at Carolina Hurricanes   The Carolina Hurricanes open as (-159) favourites for the second of two weekend faceoffs in Raleigh. Cam wonders about the total. Hear the guys debate the play on this game when you listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. Toronto Maple Leafs at Calgary Flames  Despite the contrast of Toronto (-155) in first place and Calgary in sixth, the NHL North Division rivals have split their last four meetings. Cam calls out the Flames as they head into the trade deadline. Will the Flames go down in Flames and fire sale their stars? Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast and hear the guys' opinions on this NHL match-up. Arizona Coyotes at Anaheim Ducks One of only two Sunday faceoffs to offer an early total line (5.5), the Arizona Coyotes at Anaheim Ducks rematch follows a 4-2 Coyotes win in which Yankee defenceman Jordan Gross posted three assists. If Arizona puts on their big boys pants, Cam thinks they find a way to beat the Ducks. Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast to hear all of Brian and Cam's handicapping insights, NHL betting picks, and laughs. Monday April 5, 2021 NHL Betting Lines, Analysis, Picks The guys take a look at Monday's NHL card since the next episode will be released on Tuesday. Cam and Brian look ahead far into the future and give their predictions and leans to begin the new week on the NHL schedule. Brian and Cam discuss goalie issues and how covid cancellations may help some teams stay alive a little longer. Cam discusses penalties, special teams and the over. Is Minnesota going to show up at home when they meet Colorado on Monday, or will they be fed their lunch through a tube? Revenge is on Cam's mind while Brian considers a Tkachuk/Tkachuk dream pairing if Ottawa plays their cards right. Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast to hear all of Brian and Cam's colourful odds analysis, NHL insights and free hockey picks. Edmonton Oilers at Montreal Canadiens Ottawa Senators at Winnipeg Jets Philadelphia Eagles at Boston Bruins Colorado Avalanche at Minnesota Wild Las Vegas Golden Knights at St. Louis Blues Toronto Maples Leafs at Calgary Flames Arizona Coyotes at Los Angeles Kings  Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for all of Brian and Cam's hockey betting strategies, NHL handicapping angles and free NHL picks.

March 8, 2021 | The Hockey Betting Podcast EPISODE RECAP: Drama and surprises have ruled yet another NHL week, but on this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast, Brian and Cam were able to forecast some of the plot twists as usual. Montreal's Monday moneyline was as mistaken as Brian predicted, after Thatcher Demko's 29 saves led Vancouver to another upset victory at home. Philly underscored Cam and Brian's unflattering view of Buffalo when the Flyers came back from an early deficit to conquer the Sabres 5-4 in a shoot-out. Winnipeg cashed-in for Cam with a 4-3 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, and Detroit couldn't follow up a noble 2nd period vs Tampa Bay on Wednesday night, more evidence that the Red Wings would lose an AEW "Losers Leave Town" match or at least get relegated out of the Premier League like Fulham. Is Tony Khan in the market for an NHL franchise? Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. ORIGINAL ARTICLE: It’s the March 8th, 2021 episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast with Brian Blessing and Cam Stewart as they take look ahead at the NHL betting lines for tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday. Along with free NHL picks, learn whether show tunes from "Oklahoma" will replace The Hockey Betting Podcast's theme music and whether dating and handicapping NHL games at the same time counts as a "correlated parlay" And who is “Joey Daccord” and does he say “How you doin’?” on this episode? Cam and Brian have a lot to say on a Monday, so join the guys for all of the hockey betting strategy, laughs, and free NHL picks on this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. Monday, March 8, 2021 NHL Betting Lines, Analysis, Picks Las Vegas Golden Knights at Minnesota Wild Brian dishes on injured Golden Knight skaters Mark Stone and Alex Pietrangelo. The guys include Flower in a discussion of top Vezina Trophy candidates, but Brian has a contrary lean on the O/U. Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for Brian and Cam’s take on this NHL match-up. Ottawa Senators at Edmonton Oilers The Oilers are a (+100) puck line bet. Cam thinks Ottawa was lucky to avert a hosing from the referees vs Calgary, but tonight could be another story. Hear this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for the details. Arizona Coyotes at Colorado Avalanche Will a Kempuer vs Grubauer match-up prevent Avs-Coyotes from going over (5.5)? Cam offers a pointed critique of both teams, and Brian makes a prop betting pick on the opening 20 minutes. Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for Brian and Cam’s NHL betting lines analysis and handicapping on this NHL game. Montreal Canadiens at Vancouver Canucks Thatcher "Tootsie Roll" Demko and the Vancouver Canucks get a (+130) price at home, while Montreal's moneyline has enough juice to supply a grade-school cafeteria. Hear more from Brian and Cam on today's episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. Los Angeles Kings at Anaheim Ducks There's early line movement toward the Kings (-120) but Brian's already has his prediction. Tune-in to hear the guys debate a goal-total pick on the Kings' short-haul visit on this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. St. Louis Blues at San Jose Sharks With the Blue Note a (-155) favourite. Cam takes an unforgiving look at San Jose's defence pairings. Does the return of Vlad Tarasenko make St. Louis a high-side totals winner? Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for Brian and Cam’s betting tips on this NHL match-up. Tuesday, March 9, 2021 NHL Betting Lines, Analysis, Picks New York Rangers at Pittsburgh Penguins Putin's political stroke in North America is hotly debated, but we all agree that old Vlad knows how to affect NHL betting outcomes. Hear more from Brian and Cam on New York's lineup for Tuesday's faceoff and their free NHL picks. Buffalo Sabres at Philadelphia Flyers Cam Stewart showers the Sabres with shame, but can Philadelphia justify a Spud Webb-short moneyline? Brian has a new plan for betting Buffalo games. Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for the Sabres walk of shame, and Brian and Cam’s strategy for betting on this NHL match-up. Nashville Predators at Carolina Hurricanes Nashville's goaltending is lousy, but are the Predators playing more aggressive hockey as a result? Cam has a puck line and a parlay bet in mind. Hear this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for the details. New Jersey Devils at Washington Capitals The guys weigh in on Tom Wilson's suspension with the Caps favoured at (-205). Is there a double-standard for NHL snipers who throw dirty checks? Listen to The Hockey Betting Podcast to hear the discussion. Boston Bruins at New York Islanders Respect for an underdog doesn't mean they shouldn't be one. Find out who the true favourite is for an even-odds faceoff on this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. Florida Panthers at Columbus Blue Jackets Florida is anything from a (-132) favourite to a (+125) dog depending on your sportsbook. Hear today's episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast to get Cam and Brian's NHL betting insights as the Blue Jackets visit the Panthers. Winnipeg Jets at Toronto Maple Leafs The Maple Leafs are drawing action on a (-190) moneyline, but Cam has his eye on a couple of underdog bets. Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for all of Brian and Cam’s NHL betting strategies, laughs and free picks. Tampa Bay Lightning at Detroit Red Wings Cam thinks a mix of TV wrestling and soccer rules could fix some of the NHL's problems. Red Wing faithful, be forewarned! For the record, today's podcast is safe listening for those in all other fan bases. Hear the damage assessment and the guys’ take on this match-up on this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. Chicago Blackhawks at Dallas Stars Listen to The Hockey Betting Podcast for a strong pick on a nice price out of Sin City on the Stars-Blackhawks contest. Wednesday, March 10, 2021 NHL Betting Lines, Analysis, Picks Las Vegas Golden Knights at Minnesota Wild The guys take advantage of the NHL schedule to recap a season-long angle on 2021's portly pile of rematches. Hear this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for the details. Montreal Canadiens at Vancouver Canucks Will the Habs be the next victim of a gorgeous (and distracting) trip westward? Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for the conversation and the prediction. Los Angeles Kings at Anaheim Ducks The Ducks appear to be floating close to the Kings in the standings, but L.A. can take advantage of two games-in-hand with a solid road performance. Hear this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for the details. Ottawa Senators at Edmonton Oilers Take a deeper dive on "rematch rules" for NHL gamblers with today's episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast. Arizona Coyotes at Colorado Avalanche Psychology comes to the forefront as Brian Blessing suggests another NHL-wide betting angle. Listen to this episode of The Hockey Betting Podcast for all of Brian and Cam’s hockey betting insights, NHL betting odds analysis and free NHL picks.

¡Dale ❤️ en iVoox para apoyar a esta sección! Puedes escuchar todos los Documentales NBA disponibles en esta lista de reproducción https://www.ivoox.com/documentales-nba_bk_list_8155857_1.html Narrado y dirigido por Iván Rodríguez, la persona tras el canal de Mini Documentales y Reportajes NBA en español LA MAGIA DEL BASKET. Puedes seguirle en YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/LaMagiaDelBasket), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/lamagiadelbasket/) y Twitter (https://twitter.com/magiadelbaskety). Hablando de NBA es un podcast de NBA presentado por @JaviMendozaNBA. Debates, entrevistas y opinión, sobre la mejor liga de baloncesto del mundo. Además, en Hablando de NBA podrás estar al tanto de todo lo que pasa en la NBA gracias al podcast despertador #CaféNBA, un podcast que se emite cada mañana de lunes, miércoles y viernes, y que te trae todas las noticias y rumores de la NBA. También tenemos un podcast de Fantasy NBA, tenemos historias NBA en la sección Documentales NBA y Cuentos NBA, y mucho más. ¿Te lo vas a perder? Suscríbete a este podcast en iVoox para escuchar los episodios completos. - Twitter https://twitter.com/JaviMendozaNBA - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/javimendozanba/ - Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/javimendozanba Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Welcome to A Toast To The A-Town! Episode 6 Featuring Former Atlanta Hawk Spud Webb Join Andre Aldridge every week for the latest on the Atlanta Hawks, high profile interviews & more! Twitter: @Voceroy Presented by The Basketball Podcast Network thebasketballpodcastnetwork.com

FEBRUARY 8 -- ELECTIONS: Madison destroys Pinckney in 1808; INVENTION/PATENTS: 1883 Louis Waterman begins experiment in making fountain pen, 1898 John Sherman (envelope and gumming macine), 1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock; 1986 Spud Webb wins Slam Dunk Contest in NBA All-Star Game

Muggsy, Charles, Earl, and Ashley talk NBA hot topics, answer some fan questions, rapid fire questions, and react to some iconic NBA plays. They are joined by this week’s guests: 5X NBA champion and Jordan teammate Ron Harper and 1986 Slam Dunk Winner and one of the shortest players in the NBA, Spud Webb. Spud, Ron, and the OGs discuss the NBA bubble, The Last Dance, reflect on some historic basketball moments on and off the court and everything in between. 

Jared interviews DFW hoops legend Spud Webb about his tough upbringing, dealing with the doubters and the uphill battle due to his size, the slam dunk contest, free throw shooting, and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brad shares with us the challenges and setbacks he has endured in his professional rugby career and how they have shaped him into becoming an All Black. He talks about how missing out on the Otago squad effectively helped him get a Super Rugby contract with the Chiefs, being told he was too small to be pro, how the basketball great Spud Webb inspired him, dealing with the horrific injury of breaking his femur, scarfie life in Dunedin, his love of grassroots rugby and so much more.

Surprise, we’re listening to Drake. Alex is a lot like Spud Webb in a lot of ways. We got Pizza Scratch the pool shark. Introducing Choam. Fighting beach nightlife. A little pasta talk. A regular old variety show for you this week. Enjoy! Check out our ONLINE STORE. And check out our Patreon page!

Sports Movie Minute: Space Jam Edition. The podcast where we discuss the movie Space Jam minute by minute. In this episode, we talk about farting... a LOT. Like, an unacceptable amount. And Kayla tells a story about how her older sister got kicked out of the car for farting too much.Marvin the Martian, Spud Webb, how old do men have to be before they stop thinking farting is funny? Cover art by the super-talented Anneliese Nappa who you can visit at www.anneliesenappa.comFollow us on Instagram and on Twitter at @SportsMovieMin or email us at sportsmovieminute@gmail.com

Spud Webb joins the Weekly Pass to discuss NBA Playoffs and his 1986 Slam Dunk Contest win Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He might've been one of the shortest players ever in the NBA, but Spud Webb didn't let that stop him in the 1986 Slam Dunk Contest. Spud talks to Art about the years of work that went into defeating teammate Dominique Wilkins that year. Plus, he discusses the importance of having good people around you as you get ready for retirement. Need a coach to help you in that next stage of your life? Reach out to us online at www.artofmoneyradio.com.

Rejecting the Screen goes ISO with Kevin Willis, one of the longest tenured players in NBA history. The 1992 NBA All-Star talks about the remarkable amount of weight he's bench pressing at 57-years old, his relationship with David Stern, remembering Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady as rookies, and playing in MTV's Rock N' Jock Game with Leonardo DiCaprio. Kevin explains what it was like to play alongside some of the greatest players of all-time during over 20 seasons in the NBA and tells fascinating stories, including how Magic Johnson helped recruit him to Michigan State, finding out he made the 1992 NBA All-Star Game, and how he celebrated winning the 2003 NBA Championship. -- How much is Kevin Willis bench pressing now? (1:00) Memories of the famous 1984 NBA Draft (2:30) Relationship with David Stern (6:00) Impact of the dress code (12:30) The Hawks first charter flights (14:15) The dunking exploits of Dominique Wilkins and Spud Webb (16:45) "The Tall Boys" rap, Hugs Not Drugs (19:30) Bob Weiss questioning Kevin's decision-making (21:00) Looking back at Game 7 of the 1988 Eastern Conf. Semifinals (24:15) What Kevin thought of Jon Koncak's infamous contract (26:30) Playing with "rage" and how Hakeem Olajuwon helped change his mindset (30:00) Kevin's All-Back Alley Team (35:45) Why he started wearing elbow pads (36:45) Finding out he made the 1992 NBA All-Star Game (38:15) How Kevin ended up at Michigan State & Magic Johnson's part in his recruitment (42:00) Getting traded 2 games into the 1994 season (45:45) Signing with the Spurs (50:15) Celebrating a Spurs title by playing paintball (53:00) Providing Tim Duncan with clothing (54:00) What makes Gregg Popovich special (54:30) Nights out with Dominique Wilkins (59:15) Playing in 1992 Rock N' Jock Game with Leonardo DiCaprio & other celebs (1:01:15) Advice for someone looking to up their fashion game (1:02:00) Best player ever to wear a size 13 shoe (1:03:15) Having Charles Barkley as a teammate (1:04:00) Post players who talked the most trash (1:05:45) Playing with Vince Carter & Tracy McGrady in Toronto (1:07:30) Who he'd want to reject the screen and go iso in a must-win situation (1:10:00) -- Please subscribe to the podcast, rate, review and share with your friends! Rejecting the Screen is part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Follow Noah on Twitter @NoahCoslov and Adam @NaismithLives Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you knew nothing about Jason Zucker except that he was a professional athlete, born in Newport Beach, CA, and grew in Las Vegas, Nevada, what sport would you think he played? Maybe he is on the PGA tour? He kind of looks like a baseball player maybe he plays in the MLB? Or maybe he is the Las Vegas version of Spud Webb! Based on where he is from the last sport you would think of is Ice Hockey. But it is Ice Hockey. He is a left-winger for the Minnesota Wild in the NHL. Zucker was drafted in the second round(59th overall) of the 2010 NHL Draft by Wild. This is how he got here. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/linklete/support

Atlanta's own up and coming rapper, CLUU, stops by #BEFORETHEFAME to talk about his brand new Single, “Spud Webb,” challenges he faces being a new artist, and what separates his music from the rest of Atlanta's music scene. Social Media: @CLUUFR @itsportiaterrae @DJiceberg @DJicebergcom

On this episode, the fellas talk about Cardi B drugging and robbing men. They discuss rappers that don't have a passion for the game and if Biggie and Pac would be legends if they didn't die. Other topics include Jussie Smollett's dropped charges, Gronkowski and McGregor retiring, how Spud Webb got to the NBA, and an embarrassing news team. Also why do white people love Mountain Dew? babiesnbeyond.shop Promo Code: LORPODCAST18 www.cainesounds.com www.thebeautyofthebubbles.com

Tommy has a Wall O’ Comedy and is no Ric Flair (0:55)/ A Tommy is born (Tommy hates “A Star is Born”) (3:00)/ Bradley Cooper, we remember where you came from (4:20)/ Tommy is a headlining comedian now (6:01)/ The highlight of champions (8:20)/ achieving dreams (9:01)/ “I don’t want to be famous”(13:00)/ Tree names (21:02)/ Randy is a magnet now (22:29)/ Officer Cupid - OkCupid has made Randy a moderator - OkStupid (25:05)/ Spud Webb shoes (27:00)/ hey Czech Republic, we see you (29:00)/ ASMR millionaire stars on YouTube (34:02)/ quality question: why would any man not wear a belt? (39:00)/ MRS on Livestream for the Cure, on the Epic Film Guys Podcast, and Randy on the Rob and Slim show (46:14)/ All men are cheaters and other enlightening Facebook comments (48:45)/ Men are made of X, Y, and cheater cheater pumpkin eater chromosomes (52:51)/ Missed connections: Seen that dagger on my cheek and happy endings. (54:37)   Visit the Patreon page at Patreon.com/MiserableRetailSlave and get access to exclusive content! Call The Miserable Hotline!!! (810) 328-3826 "LIKE" us on the Facebook, would ya? Even better, come join our closed Facebook crew and enjoy the insanity. Just search “Miserable Retail Slave” on the Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/832006570279942/ Leave us a 5-star, positive iTunes review...that would be so kind of you! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miserableretailslavepodcast Follow Randy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mretailslave Intro: “Hard Times” by Dan “D-Boy” Amboy Check out his music: https://soundcloud.com/dan-amboy You should most definitely subscribe to the show if you dig what you hear: If you like that iTunes, point your Internet right here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/miserable-retail-slave/id527775275?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/miserable-retail-slave If you enjoy grabbing your pods using something else: http://miserableretailslave.libsyn.com/rss Meet the voices behind all of the idiocy. Randy juggles two jobs and is the miserable retail slave of the two. He lives outside beautiful Flint, MI, USA and struggles with being a lazy, yet overworked dreamer and a struggling, but barely trying writer. Tommy also lives outside Flint, MI with The Beloved and his two step daughters. He's a stand up comedian and a man of questionable common sense. Check out his stand up dates and plan a trip to throw tomatoes at http://tomethompson.com

For NBA All-Star Weekend, the guys rank the top brand performances all-time in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest.

3x NBA Slam Dunk Contest Champ and 11 year NBA vet Nate Robinson joins the pod this week to talk about the World’s Most Famous Arena, Madison Square Garden (2:55), hooping with energy and passion in NYC (4:30), molding his game after MJ, Deion Sanders and Allen Iverson (5:45), his son (6:50), the Seattle SuperSonics (8:20), making the most of opportunities (9:00), the infamous Knicks teams from 2005-2010 (11:50), favorite memory with the Knicks (16:00), playing alongside KG, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Rondo, etc with the Celtics in 2010 (18:10), playing with Durant, Westbrook and Harden for OKC in 2011 (20:10), the incredible run with the Chicago Bulls in 2012 (21:00), Bulls-Nets, Game 4 (23:45), the NBA Slam Dunk Contest (27:50), dunking over Spud Webb, Dwight Howard ("KryptoNATE"), the reverse 180° off the backboard slam (29:30), staying in shape, strength training (32:15), trying out for the Seattle Seahawks (34:30), all-natural gym bag deodorizer, Slam It In The Bag (36:00), the NBA trade deadline (38:20), reaction to the Porzingis trade (42:30), the heist of the Sonics from Seattle (43:00), the best dunker (44:30), the best trash-talker and a funny Gary Payton story (45:10)—ENJOY!SLAM IT IN THE BAGwww.slamitinthebag.comLove the show? Got a fantasy hoops question? Deep dive you wanna hear? Let us know! Web: OnTheLinePodcast.comEmail: onthelinepod@gmail.comTwitter: twitter.com/ontheline_podInstagram: instagram.com/onthelinepodiTunes: apple.co/2G9K1cbStitcher: stitcher.com/s?fid=342861Spotify: spoti.fi/2T7ZmjY

Esta semana toca otro menú muy completo: - Noticias: Las noches de Klay y Rose, el desastre de los Cavs, el posible fichaje Laker y mucho más. - Termómetro: Repasamos las dos conferencias destacando a los equipos y jugadores más calientes y fríos. - Píldoras Sonoras: Angel Castillo nos habla del heroico Spud Webb. - Batido Hoops: Jorge Alvaro y Francesc nos traen la actualidad de las ligas Hoops. - Café Villa y Comentarios de los Oyentes y más: Pasamos por nuestra página de Facebook para tomarnos un café con los Villa.  Seguimos por los comentarios de Ivoox, Twitter, iTunes y comentarios@raciondenba.com. Más información en raciondenba.com. Ración de NBA es un programa que trata el baloncesto NBA en español poniendo énfasis en los jugadores hispanos. Nuestra web: raciondenba.com . Mandar preguntas/comentarios: comentarios@raciondenba.com. Publicamos avisos por Twitter al publicar los episodios para que sepáis cuando podéis ir a descargarlos: - Twitter - Chechu: @astrochechu - Twitter - Javier: @Racion_de_NBA_J Música: Ración de NBA - Limit de Folio en Blanco (Jaime Murillo) Black Samba – Juanitos  Everything is Getting Turned - Gethere Extracto de "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" Dance It, Dance All - The Easton Ellises Slow - While ( https://www.jamendo.com/track/1576193/slow ) Irresistable - Sweet N Juicy (  Sweet N Juicy-Irresistable-Mar 2018-LIVE ) Waitin´- Betsy Olson

Four-time NBA All-Star, All-NBA (1993) and Dream Team II (1994) member, Mark Price. Mark Price rose to basketball prominence from humble beginnings. He starred at Enid High School in Oklahoma, breaking many records; serendipitously, equaling feats set by his famous father, Denny, decades earlier. After high school, Mark played four years with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. To this day, his name is littered throughout the record books. As a freshman, he led the ACC in scoring (20.3 ppg) – an outstanding achievement, given the depth of talent in the conference. Prior to his sophomore campaign, he was a member of Team USA’s gold-medal winning squad at the 1983 Pan-American Games in Venezuela. Mark, and fellow teammate, John Salley, were named team co-captains as sophomores. As a junior, Mark led his team to a 27-8 record. Tech won the ACC Championship, Price was named Tournament MVP and also won (1985) ACC Player of the Year. Georgia Tech advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, before finally bowing out to the Patrick Ewing-led Georgetown Hoyas. Mark left Georgia Tech as the only player in school history to lead the team in scoring all four seasons. Mark was selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the 1986 NBA Draft, before being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers. We discuss Price’s transition from college to the pros, plus, how the Cavaliers franchise went from ‘cadavers’ to contenders in just two seasons. Mark breaks down each season in Cleveland and we touch on memorable moments from throughout his fantastic tenure with the Cavaliers, culminating with the team’s run to the 1992 NBA Eastern Conference Finals, where they met the Chicago Bulls – one of Mark’s five post-season series’ versus Chicago. Mark also talks about his trade from Cleveland to the Golden State Warriors and his season in Washington where he was teammates with his brother, Brent Price. Mark’s last season was spent in Orlando. We conclude the conversation by discussing Mark’s journey on the sidelines, where he has a wealth of experience in a multitude of roles; most recently (September, 2018), where he was named an assistant coach for the Denver Nuggets. This is a strong contender for my favourite episode of the show yet. Links discussed (include): * Mark’s (1983) Team USA wins gold at the Pan-American Games * Mark recalls his historic 1989 Playoffs series versus Chicago * Mark returns from a possible career-ending injury * Dream Team II destroys all-comers; wins 1994 World Champs * Price joins Denver Nuggets as an assistant coach   People mentioned in this episode, include: Craig Ehlo, Brad Daugherty, Ron Harper, Larry Bird, Drazen Petrovic, Lenny Wilkens, Mike Fratello, Wayman Tisdale, Chris Mullin, Spud Webb, Johnny Dawkins, Wayne Embry, Nate McMillan, Jim McIlvaine & Kenny Smith.   Editor's note: sign-up for my monthly newsletter - receive exclusive details on upcoming podcast episodes and future, high-profile guests to appear on the show. I appreciate all feedback, FB Page 'Likes' and iTunes ratings / reviews. Follow: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Subscribe: iTunes | Android | Spotify | Stitcher | Newsletter Feedback: e-mail (audio welcome) | Voicemail

Canton and his dad talk about Spud Webb, Muggsy Bogues, and incoming NEC POY standing 5 foot 5, Junior Robinson.

Live from the patio of the American Ale House in Hagerstown, MD. The warm weather is here & the podcast crew kicks with with a lively crowd. It all gets talked up -  from a Texas stalker on the pink sands of Bermuda to Chris blowing up appliances to Lebron vs. Jordan vs. 'Magic' Johnson vs. Spud Webb to white Russians & drugs. Tekesha brings the peace & Tereance brings the knowledge, while Jay, Shae & Chris bring the laughter. Nothing but good times...

Q1. O Oklahoma City Thunder perdeu em casa para o Utah Jazz no Jogo 2, e agora vai precisar vencer pelo menos uma vez em Salt Lake City se quiser chegar às semifinais do Oeste. Q2. Poucas vezes a performance de um jogador nos playoffs foi mais decepcionante do que a de Karl-Anthony Towns nas duas derrotas iniciais do Minnesota Timberwolves para o Houston Rockets. INTERVALO No quadro “Máquina do Tempo” vamos retornar até o dia 19 de abril de 1986, quando o calouro do Atlanta Hawks, Spud Webb, quebrou um recorde da NBA que permanece em vigor até os dias de hoje. Q3. Em meio aos Playoffs 2018, o técnico do San Antonio Spurs, Gregg Popovich está tendo que lidar com o falecimento de sua esposa, Erin, com a qual estava casado há quatro décadas. Q4. Existe a possibilidade de que Kristaps Porzingis não dispute toda a temporada 2018-19 para se recuperar plenamente da lesão sofrida no joelho esquerdo e isso pode ter desdobramentos bem indigestos para o New York Knicks. (Episódio 72)

Honorable Mention All-American (1983) and NBA veteran, Roy Hinson. Roy Hinson calls himself a “late bloomer”. His underlying talent – matched with his height – didn’t lay dormant for long. As a senior, his sudden impact on the hardwood helped steer Franklin Township High School to a 25-2 senior season, culminating in the Sectional Championship Game. Roy details the decision making behind his choice to attend Rutgers University, where he became a standout and future Hall of Fame player. Not only did Roy make post-season tournaments in his junior and senior seasons, he also had the opportunity to fly to Europe, twice, representing Team USA (1981 World University Games) and an All-Star squad (1982 National Invitational Tournament tour). Our conversation covers a wide range of topics. We discuss Roy’s early years in the NBA, his appearance in the 1986 Slam Dunk Contest, his trade to Philadelphia – and later, New Jersey, his home state – and the injury concerns that ultimately forced him into an early retirement. The conversation concludes with discussion about Roy’s role at the NBA Players Association, the 2018 NBA All-Star Weekend / Legends Brunch and terrific insight into the reasoning behind the jersey numbers that Roy wore throughout his career. Links discussed (include): * Cleveland clinch playoffs berth; despite terrible start to season * 1986 Slam Dunk Contest People mentioned in this episode, include: George Karl, World B. Free, Julius Erving, Kevin McHale, Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael Jordan, Billy Cunningham, Spud Webb, Maurice Lucas, John Bagley & Ralph Sampson.   Editor's note: sign-up for the monthly newsletter - receive exclusive details on upcoming podcast episodes and future, high-profile guests to appear on the show. I appreciate all feedback, FB Page 'Likes' and iTunes ratings / reviews. Follow: Facebook | Twitter | Google+ Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Newsletter | RSS | Website Feedback: e-mail (audio welcome) | Voicemail

TR and Nate return and Dave Flaherty calls in to discuss the Miami Heat. Karen calls in with her weekly pick and reveals which host she has a crush on. Bobby Blaze Smedley joins the show and tells old basketball stories about Spud Webb. Be sure to listen in next week to find out who won the "Battle of the Beards."

This Week’s Guest: Pat Grady Pat Grady, Co-Owner, Founder of RhinoFish Media joined me to chat on my podcast, This is Affiliate Marketing with Shawn Collins. Episode 53 I wanted to learn more about the real Pat, so I asked him a variety of questions I figured he had not been asked in previous interviews. We discussed... Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand Kiteboarding Serving in the U.S. Navy Spud Webb Links from this episode Pat on Facebook Pat on Instagram Pat on LinkedIn Spud Webb slam dunking Manute Bol and Spud Webb Spud Webb Tweet Thank you for listening Please leave a comment or feel free to contact me. And if you enjoyed this episode of This is Affiliate Marketing with Shawn Collins, please share it.

Do you remember the day that you became? On this episode Russell talks about the moment he became a wrestler and how he felt and how that relates to the moment he became a marketer. Here are some of the cool things to listen for in this episode: Why Russell nearly became a basketball player instead of a wrestler and what changed his mind. What the four or five things Russell believes he is down to core. And why as humans, we are constantly in search of good feelings and how they shape our lives. So listen below to hear about the moment Russell became a wrestler, and the moment he became an internet marketer. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, good morning. This is Russell Brunson and welcome to Marketing In Your Car. Sorry I'm stuttering, I'm actually on the freeway right now. Normally I do these things closer to my house so it's a little less chaotic. But this morning I had to get up early. And I didn't get to bed last night until almost 2 o'clock. Because we got Wynter Jones is in town and a couple of other people. So I have a good excuse to pull all nights, working on funnels. So we did last night and then I had to get up this morning because we had a film shoot at 6:30 at this amazing location we found down in Nampa, Idaho. It's kind of out in the ghetto and then you walk through the door and it's this amazing building with stone walls, Christmas lights hanging from the ceiling, it's amazing. A bunch of people who work for Disney, a bunch of animators in there, so it's a bunch of super creatives….whoa, crap. I'm on the freeway, some people stopping. Anyway, all these amazing creative people in there that are building, I don't know, movies and animations and stuff like that, a whole bunch of Macs, and smart people. It was really, really cool. So we filmed something in the basement there for Mark Joyner when we filmed his episode for Funnel Hacker TV, which is coming soon. We filmed in the basement because it was this really creepy, nasty basement. We filmed the sales video for Mind Control Marketing there and it turned out so cool. But I remember I was like, “Oh that upstairs was so cool. Someday I want to film in there.” So we were filming the book promo video for Expert Secrets and that's where we decided to film it at. So that's what we were doing this morning. We got there super early and we were trying to film before anybody woke up. And the crazy thing, I went to bed almost 2 o'clock and my alarm went off at 5:15 and I had two alarms, just in case I slept through them both. Anyway, at 5:45 I sat up and I was like, “What?” both of my alarms had turned off. I was like, “Oh my gosh.” So I had a freak out. I had to run and get ready and shower. I'm doing a juice fast this week, and luckily I didn't have time to eat because I couldn't eat. But I jumped in the car and raced down here, and I was a couple of minutes late. Then the guy who I guess Brandon said that he forgot to RSVP until we were actually coming. So the dude didn't show up. So Brandon's calling him at 6 in the morning. Luckily one of the employees showed up early and got us in. So we got in there and started filming and…..sorry, I'm pulling off the freeway exit right now. So we started filming and we only have like 30 minutes before their entire staff and team showed up for work. So we had to go fast. So we get everything set up, anyway, it turned out really cool. I'm excited to see what, how it all turns out. So you guys will see it soon on Expertsecrets.com, when the book is all done. But that's what's happening. I'm heading back from there. I'm super tired, so I might go home and take a nap for a little bit. Because we have another long day today of amazing stuff we're building out. Not only are we trying to get the Expert Secrets funnel done this week, we're also trying to get Super Funnel, Exit Funnel and a whole bunch of other cool things that all tie together for the whole launch. That's a story for another day. But that's kind of what's happening. So I had a message I wanted to share with you guys today because I thought it was interesting. I recorded a video yesterday, and I don't know about you but I, in Expert Secrets I talk about how everybody needs to build an index of stories you're going to have. You never know when you're going to use them and how you're going to use them. So a lot of times this podcast is a testing ground for me to tell a story. Then I tell stories at the office and I tell stories when I speak and in a million different places. It's funny, Brandon who has been filming me every day for the last two years, he was like, “dude that was a new story, I've never heard that one before.” I was like, “Really, I've never told that. It's been in my inventory of stories forever.” But apparently I never told it. So it was basically a story about the day that I became a wrestler. When I was growing up my dad was a wrestler, but I was going to be a basketball player, because that's what short, white guys do is we become basketball players. So every day I practiced basketball, and I knew that's what I was going to do and be. I don't want anything else besides being a basketball player. So that was kind of my, what I thought my future was going to be. And then my dad though, was a wrestler growing up and I guess I had wrestled for a year or two when I was, I don't know, 5 or 6 years old. But apparently my parents said I hated it. So I dropped out of it and was never going to do it again. But then, lo and behold, in 8th grade as I'm pursuing my basketball career, it was bad because I remember Spud Webb back then, was a little short guy who was shorter than me, but he could dunk. I was like, “If Spud Webb can dunk, then I can dunk.” And I never, I got taller than Spud Webb, but I still couldn't dunk. But that's a story for another day. Anyway, I thought I was going to be a basketball player, but one of my buddies two doors down from me, he went to wrestling practice and came home and started to tell my dad, “I went to wrestling practice today.” And my dad was like, “What? There's wrestling practice here? I'm a wrestler and my son's going to be a wrestler.”  So that was kind of what happened. Sorry, I'm driving and doing three things and I keep dropping everything. So not what I should be doing. If you guys were watching, I'd probably be getting yelled at by someone. Anyway, so my dad was like, “We need to go to wrestling practice.” And he tried to get me to. I was like, “No, dad. I'm a basketball player. I'm not going to wrestle. Come on now. There's no wrestling in the NBA, how am I going to do this?” Finally my dad forced me to go to wrestling because he's like, “Nope, we're wrestlers in this family.” I was like, “What? I don't want to wrestle.” But he kind of made me go. That was 8th grade. So 8th grade I did wrestling and I kind of liked it but I was like, it's not basketball, come on now. So I just told my dad, “I'll wrestle right now but…” and the way school worked in Utah for me, 9th grade was basically junior high and 10th grade was high school. 9th grade had started and I was like, “Well, I'll do wrestling in 9th grade. But my sophomore year I'm going out for the basketball team because I'm a basketball player.” And he's like, “Okay, whatever.” So 9th grade I started wrestling and I start liking it, but not loving it. I remember my very first wrestle off, and the way wrestling works, it's kind of cool, it's not like the coach picks who's going to be first tier or second tier, all that kind of stuff. You wrestle and whoever wins, wins. So they line up all the weight classes, there's like 5 or 6 people in my weight class and then you have a wrestle off. So you wrestle everybody else to see if you're going to be first string, second string, third string. So there's one dude who is really good, he was varsity, then there was a JV guy and a couple of other guys and then there was me. So we all got to wrestle and the guy who had been JV the year before, I had him in a wrestling match and I was like, I had no plans of winning. I just thought, he's a high school kid, he's a man for crying out loud. I'm a little kid. Anyway, we wrestled and I beat him. And the coach is like, “Congratulations, you're going to be JV this week.” And I'm like, “What?” and he's like, “Yeah, you're going to wrestle in a tournament.” I'm like, “Are you kidding me?” So I go home and tell my parents. I'm like, “I beat the guy in the wrestle off.” My dad's like, “What?” and I'm like, “Yeah, I'm going to be wrestling this week.” And he was all excited obviously and told my mom and told, you know, everybody. Fast forward now a couple of days, it was the wrestling tournament, we were wrestling Bingham High School. I remember we get to weigh-ins and I'm a little tiny, skinny 130 lb kid at the time. So I get on the scale and you know, you strip down to your tighty-whities and you step on the scale and look at your weight. And then the guy who I'm wrestling gets on the scale, he steps up and I look at him and the dude had a mustache. I don't know about you, but to this day I can't grow a mustache. I'm not still not quite manly enough to do that. He had a mustache, and again this is in high school. I was like, “Are you kidding me? I'm a little kid. This guy in a mustache is going to destroy me.” I was so scared. So I remember after weigh-ins, we're getting warmed up and I see my dad and I'm like, “Dad, the guy I'm wrestling has a mustache.” And my dad's like, “What does that matter?” I'm like, “I don't know but he's like a real man Dad. I can't grow a mustache.” Anyway, I go out there for this match. I go out there I'm wrestling, I'm going through the whole match, I'm wrestling this guy and I don't remember much about the match. All I remember is at the end I won. I stood up and I shook his hands and I remember looking at him in the face and I was like, “I just beat a dude who's got a mustache.” And then the ref raised my hand. As soon as I raised my hand, my head went up and I look at the audience, it's the bleachers, and in the bleachers there's two people, my mom and my dad. My dad's standing up clapping and that day I became a wrestler. I was like, this is the greatest feeling I have ever felt ever. I never got that from basketball, never got it from anything else. I'm a wrestler, that day I became a wrestler. I was thinking about that. I was like, different parts of our life we identify with different things. For over a decade of my life, I was a wrestler. I still am in my mind. I identify with that, that's who I am. At my core, there's a few things I am, I'm a wrestler, I'm a Mormon, I'm a dad, I'm a husband, there's a couple of things and I'm an internet marketer. There are things, four or five things I really self identify and each of those situations, I know the day that I became that person. I know the day I became a wrestler. I know the day that I became a Mormon. I know the day that I became an internet marketer. And it's when you have that experience and you're just like, “Dang, that feeling, I never want to lose that feeling again. That was the greatest feeling in the world for me.” For my business, I remember when it was. I got online and I was trying all these things, you've probably heard my back story a million times. I was trying thing after thing after thing and all sorts of stuff and nothing was working. I remember the very first time I created something and put it out there and somebody bought it. And it was $20 and the $20 came to my Paypal account and I was like, “Dang.” I remember coming home and telling my wife, I had a Paypal credit card at the time. We had no money in the Paypal account, but i had a Paypal credit card. Someone bought and we had $20, and for me as a college kid, $20 was insane. I came home and told Collette, “We made our first sale.” And she's like, “What? You made a sale?” I'm like, “Yeah, someone paid us $20” and we were so excited we went out to dinner that night. And we used my Paypal credit card and paid for dinner. I mean, it wasn't a fancy place, probably Burger King or something, that is my favorite restaurant. But we went to Burger King or something and I think we went to a dollar movie. But it was like, I earned this. This is something, because at that point, my parents had supported me my whole life. My, I had Summer jobs, but I was wrestling all the time, so I never had a real job. Then I got married, my beautiful wife supported me. She was doing two jobs. For the first time in my life, I had created something that made money. That night, that dinner, that was mine. That was my gift to her. I created something that paid for that dinner. It paid for that movie. That night is when I became an internet marketer. I had that feeling. I love this feeling. I never want it to leave. I want that for the rest of my life.  And then I became obsessed and passionate about it. So for you, I'm curious. I want you to think about it and hopefully it'll be fun for you to go back and think, but what was the day, think about whatever it is your business is, the thing that you're so passionate about giving and serving and sharing with people. What was the day that you became that person? That you became a wrestler, that you became a marketer, that you became a fitness coach, that you became whatever it is for you. What was the day that that happened? I want you to think about that, and that's my gift for you today. Because as I thought about it yesterday I was just like, what a cool experience. It's just cool. I hope that this gives you a minute to remember that time for you and enjoy it. Because that feeling is what drives you now. You had that feeling once and you want it again and again and again. I want you to remember that because it was interesting, when Tony Robbins came to Funnel Hacking Live he talked about why we do things and it all came down to basically we do things, everything for humans is about a feeling. We want that feeling. We want to feel good, we want to feel loved, but it's a feeling. That's why we do everything. That's why people turn to drugs, to try to get the feeling. That's why people turn to love, they want that feeling. That's why people turn to all, it's all about feelings. Sometimes we have a feeling and that's what drives stuff, but forget about it. We don't think about it, we don't….just remembering that feeling of me getting my hand raised yesterday, it was, it felt good. You forget about that. We're always racing for the next good feeling, but sometimes if you stop back and just think about the feeling you had, the day you became who you are, because that's the feeling you're chasing after every single day. That's honestly a feeling I chased for 12 years of my life while I was wrestling. That feeling of raising my hand and looking in the stands and seeing my dad, that was the feeling. That's why I woke up super early in the morning, that's why I stayed up late at night. That's why I cut weight week in and week out, day in and day out for years. It's the reason I got my eyes cut open. I had stitches, I had blood, the reason I sacrificed my body, my time, my energy, my effort, my everything, is because of that feeling. I wanted that again. So what's cool about us, as humans, we'll stop and remember we can get that feeling again. So today I want you guys to sit back and I want you to remember that feeling. And that's my gift to you. Just enjoy it for a little bit, before you go chasing it again, because it's there and you can remember it and you can bring it back. So I hope that helps you guys, it felt good for me today. Hopefully it felt good for you as well. And that's all I got. I'm almost back to the office, I'm going to let you guys go. Appreciate you all, have an amazing day, and talk to you guys soon. Bye everybody.

Do you remember the day that you became? On this episode Russell talks about the moment he became a wrestler and how he felt and how that relates to the moment he became a marketer. Here are some of the cool things to listen for in this episode: Why Russell nearly became a basketball player instead of a wrestler and what changed his mind. What the four or five things Russell believes he is down to core. And why as humans, we are constantly in search of good feelings and how they shape our lives. So listen below to hear about the moment Russell became a wrestler, and the moment he became an internet marketer. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, good morning. This is Russell Brunson and welcome to Marketing In Your Car. Sorry I’m stuttering, I’m actually on the freeway right now. Normally I do these things closer to my house so it’s a little less chaotic. But this morning I had to get up early. And I didn’t get to bed last night until almost 2 o’clock. Because we got Wynter Jones is in town and a couple of other people. So I have a good excuse to pull all nights, working on funnels. So we did last night and then I had to get up this morning because we had a film shoot at 6:30 at this amazing location we found down in Nampa, Idaho. It’s kind of out in the ghetto and then you walk through the door and it’s this amazing building with stone walls, Christmas lights hanging from the ceiling, it’s amazing. A bunch of people who work for Disney, a bunch of animators in there, so it’s a bunch of super creatives….whoa, crap. I’m on the freeway, some people stopping. Anyway, all these amazing creative people in there that are building, I don’t know, movies and animations and stuff like that, a whole bunch of Macs, and smart people. It was really, really cool. So we filmed something in the basement there for Mark Joyner when we filmed his episode for Funnel Hacker TV, which is coming soon. We filmed in the basement because it was this really creepy, nasty basement. We filmed the sales video for Mind Control Marketing there and it turned out so cool. But I remember I was like, “Oh that upstairs was so cool. Someday I want to film in there.” So we were filming the book promo video for Expert Secrets and that’s where we decided to film it at. So that’s what we were doing this morning. We got there super early and we were trying to film before anybody woke up. And the crazy thing, I went to bed almost 2 o’clock and my alarm went off at 5:15 and I had two alarms, just in case I slept through them both. Anyway, at 5:45 I sat up and I was like, “What?” both of my alarms had turned off. I was like, “Oh my gosh.” So I had a freak out. I had to run and get ready and shower. I’m doing a juice fast this week, and luckily I didn’t have time to eat because I couldn’t eat. But I jumped in the car and raced down here, and I was a couple of minutes late. Then the guy who I guess Brandon said that he forgot to RSVP until we were actually coming. So the dude didn’t show up. So Brandon’s calling him at 6 in the morning. Luckily one of the employees showed up early and got us in. So we got in there and started filming and…..sorry, I’m pulling off the freeway exit right now. So we started filming and we only have like 30 minutes before their entire staff and team showed up for work. So we had to go fast. So we get everything set up, anyway, it turned out really cool. I’m excited to see what, how it all turns out. So you guys will see it soon on Expertsecrets.com, when the book is all done. But that’s what’s happening. I’m heading back from there. I’m super tired, so I might go home and take a nap for a little bit. Because we have another long day today of amazing stuff we’re building out. Not only are we trying to get the Expert Secrets funnel done this week, we’re also trying to get Super Funnel, Exit Funnel and a whole bunch of other cool things that all tie together for the whole launch. That’s a story for another day. But that’s kind of what’s happening. So I had a message I wanted to share with you guys today because I thought it was interesting. I recorded a video yesterday, and I don’t know about you but I, in Expert Secrets I talk about how everybody needs to build an index of stories you’re going to have. You never know when you’re going to use them and how you’re going to use them. So a lot of times this podcast is a testing ground for me to tell a story. Then I tell stories at the office and I tell stories when I speak and in a million different places. It’s funny, Brandon who has been filming me every day for the last two years, he was like, “dude that was a new story, I’ve never heard that one before.” I was like, “Really, I’ve never told that. It’s been in my inventory of stories forever.” But apparently I never told it. So it was basically a story about the day that I became a wrestler. When I was growing up my dad was a wrestler, but I was going to be a basketball player, because that’s what short, white guys do is we become basketball players. So every day I practiced basketball, and I knew that’s what I was going to do and be. I don’t want anything else besides being a basketball player. So that was kind of my, what I thought my future was going to be. And then my dad though, was a wrestler growing up and I guess I had wrestled for a year or two when I was, I don’t know, 5 or 6 years old. But apparently my parents said I hated it. So I dropped out of it and was never going to do it again. But then, lo and behold, in 8th grade as I’m pursuing my basketball career, it was bad because I remember Spud Webb back then, was a little short guy who was shorter than me, but he could dunk. I was like, “If Spud Webb can dunk, then I can dunk.” And I never, I got taller than Spud Webb, but I still couldn’t dunk. But that’s a story for another day. Anyway, I thought I was going to be a basketball player, but one of my buddies two doors down from me, he went to wrestling practice and came home and started to tell my dad, “I went to wrestling practice today.” And my dad was like, “What? There’s wrestling practice here? I’m a wrestler and my son’s going to be a wrestler.”  So that was kind of what happened. Sorry, I’m driving and doing three things and I keep dropping everything. So not what I should be doing. If you guys were watching, I’d probably be getting yelled at by someone. Anyway, so my dad was like, “We need to go to wrestling practice.” And he tried to get me to. I was like, “No, dad. I’m a basketball player. I’m not going to wrestle. Come on now. There’s no wrestling in the NBA, how am I going to do this?” Finally my dad forced me to go to wrestling because he’s like, “Nope, we’re wrestlers in this family.” I was like, “What? I don’t want to wrestle.” But he kind of made me go. That was 8th grade. So 8th grade I did wrestling and I kind of liked it but I was like, it’s not basketball, come on now. So I just told my dad, “I’ll wrestle right now but…” and the way school worked in Utah for me, 9th grade was basically junior high and 10th grade was high school. 9th grade had started and I was like, “Well, I’ll do wrestling in 9th grade. But my sophomore year I’m going out for the basketball team because I’m a basketball player.” And he’s like, “Okay, whatever.” So 9th grade I started wrestling and I start liking it, but not loving it. I remember my very first wrestle off, and the way wrestling works, it’s kind of cool, it’s not like the coach picks who’s going to be first tier or second tier, all that kind of stuff. You wrestle and whoever wins, wins. So they line up all the weight classes, there’s like 5 or 6 people in my weight class and then you have a wrestle off. So you wrestle everybody else to see if you’re going to be first string, second string, third string. So there’s one dude who is really good, he was varsity, then there was a JV guy and a couple of other guys and then there was me. So we all got to wrestle and the guy who had been JV the year before, I had him in a wrestling match and I was like, I had no plans of winning. I just thought, he’s a high school kid, he’s a man for crying out loud. I’m a little kid. Anyway, we wrestled and I beat him. And the coach is like, “Congratulations, you’re going to be JV this week.” And I’m like, “What?” and he’s like, “Yeah, you’re going to wrestle in a tournament.” I’m like, “Are you kidding me?” So I go home and tell my parents. I’m like, “I beat the guy in the wrestle off.” My dad’s like, “What?” and I’m like, “Yeah, I’m going to be wrestling this week.” And he was all excited obviously and told my mom and told, you know, everybody. Fast forward now a couple of days, it was the wrestling tournament, we were wrestling Bingham High School. I remember we get to weigh-ins and I’m a little tiny, skinny 130 lb kid at the time. So I get on the scale and you know, you strip down to your tighty-whities and you step on the scale and look at your weight. And then the guy who I’m wrestling gets on the scale, he steps up and I look at him and the dude had a mustache. I don’t know about you, but to this day I can’t grow a mustache. I’m not still not quite manly enough to do that. He had a mustache, and again this is in high school. I was like, “Are you kidding me? I’m a little kid. This guy in a mustache is going to destroy me.” I was so scared. So I remember after weigh-ins, we’re getting warmed up and I see my dad and I’m like, “Dad, the guy I’m wrestling has a mustache.” And my dad’s like, “What does that matter?” I’m like, “I don’t know but he’s like a real man Dad. I can’t grow a mustache.” Anyway, I go out there for this match. I go out there I’m wrestling, I’m going through the whole match, I’m wrestling this guy and I don’t remember much about the match. All I remember is at the end I won. I stood up and I shook his hands and I remember looking at him in the face and I was like, “I just beat a dude who’s got a mustache.” And then the ref raised my hand. As soon as I raised my hand, my head went up and I look at the audience, it’s the bleachers, and in the bleachers there’s two people, my mom and my dad. My dad’s standing up clapping and that day I became a wrestler. I was like, this is the greatest feeling I have ever felt ever. I never got that from basketball, never got it from anything else. I’m a wrestler, that day I became a wrestler. I was thinking about that. I was like, different parts of our life we identify with different things. For over a decade of my life, I was a wrestler. I still am in my mind. I identify with that, that’s who I am. At my core, there’s a few things I am, I’m a wrestler, I’m a Mormon, I’m a dad, I’m a husband, there’s a couple of things and I’m an internet marketer. There are things, four or five things I really self identify and each of those situations, I know the day that I became that person. I know the day I became a wrestler. I know the day that I became a Mormon. I know the day that I became an internet marketer. And it’s when you have that experience and you’re just like, “Dang, that feeling, I never want to lose that feeling again. That was the greatest feeling in the world for me.” For my business, I remember when it was. I got online and I was trying all these things, you’ve probably heard my back story a million times. I was trying thing after thing after thing and all sorts of stuff and nothing was working. I remember the very first time I created something and put it out there and somebody bought it. And it was $20 and the $20 came to my Paypal account and I was like, “Dang.” I remember coming home and telling my wife, I had a Paypal credit card at the time. We had no money in the Paypal account, but i had a Paypal credit card. Someone bought and we had $20, and for me as a college kid, $20 was insane. I came home and told Collette, “We made our first sale.” And she’s like, “What? You made a sale?” I’m like, “Yeah, someone paid us $20” and we were so excited we went out to dinner that night. And we used my Paypal credit card and paid for dinner. I mean, it wasn’t a fancy place, probably Burger King or something, that is my favorite restaurant. But we went to Burger King or something and I think we went to a dollar movie. But it was like, I earned this. This is something, because at that point, my parents had supported me my whole life. My, I had Summer jobs, but I was wrestling all the time, so I never had a real job. Then I got married, my beautiful wife supported me. She was doing two jobs. For the first time in my life, I had created something that made money. That night, that dinner, that was mine. That was my gift to her. I created something that paid for that dinner. It paid for that movie. That night is when I became an internet marketer. I had that feeling. I love this feeling. I never want it to leave. I want that for the rest of my life.  And then I became obsessed and passionate about it. So for you, I’m curious. I want you to think about it and hopefully it’ll be fun for you to go back and think, but what was the day, think about whatever it is your business is, the thing that you’re so passionate about giving and serving and sharing with people. What was the day that you became that person? That you became a wrestler, that you became a marketer, that you became a fitness coach, that you became whatever it is for you. What was the day that that happened? I want you to think about that, and that’s my gift for you today. Because as I thought about it yesterday I was just like, what a cool experience. It’s just cool. I hope that this gives you a minute to remember that time for you and enjoy it. Because that feeling is what drives you now. You had that feeling once and you want it again and again and again. I want you to remember that because it was interesting, when Tony Robbins came to Funnel Hacking Live he talked about why we do things and it all came down to basically we do things, everything for humans is about a feeling. We want that feeling. We want to feel good, we want to feel loved, but it’s a feeling. That’s why we do everything. That’s why people turn to drugs, to try to get the feeling. That’s why people turn to love, they want that feeling. That’s why people turn to all, it’s all about feelings. Sometimes we have a feeling and that’s what drives stuff, but forget about it. We don’t think about it, we don’t….just remembering that feeling of me getting my hand raised yesterday, it was, it felt good. You forget about that. We’re always racing for the next good feeling, but sometimes if you stop back and just think about the feeling you had, the day you became who you are, because that’s the feeling you’re chasing after every single day. That’s honestly a feeling I chased for 12 years of my life while I was wrestling. That feeling of raising my hand and looking in the stands and seeing my dad, that was the feeling. That’s why I woke up super early in the morning, that’s why I stayed up late at night. That’s why I cut weight week in and week out, day in and day out for years. It’s the reason I got my eyes cut open. I had stitches, I had blood, the reason I sacrificed my body, my time, my energy, my effort, my everything, is because of that feeling. I wanted that again. So what’s cool about us, as humans, we’ll stop and remember we can get that feeling again. So today I want you guys to sit back and I want you to remember that feeling. And that’s my gift to you. Just enjoy it for a little bit, before you go chasing it again, because it’s there and you can remember it and you can bring it back. So I hope that helps you guys, it felt good for me today. Hopefully it felt good for you as well. And that’s all I got. I’m almost back to the office, I’m going to let you guys go. Appreciate you all, have an amazing day, and talk to you guys soon. Bye everybody.

This minute starts with Ricky setting Ray up for a scare and ends with Ricky carrying a chair.  Jeff and Chris discuss Ray taking his ball and going home, scoring your Jeopardy at home and Carol making a sex joke.  We also discuss former NBA star Spud Webb. https://archive.org/download/Min25/min%2025.mp3

In this episode: 1. Spud Webb 2. A Hero's Welcome 3. Back From the Future 4. Over and Over and Over... 5. The Boom Boom Mindset

Diamonds, a newborn baby, Spud Webb, dynamite…and even Tattoo from Fantasy Island. Big things can come in small packages. One of these things is the second “Pillar of Authority Marketing” known as micro-specialization. Basically, micro-specialization is about offering  a very specific service to a very  specific sub-niche in your market, instead of trying to be the answer to everyone’s problem. People […] The post Focus on Less to Influence More appeared first on Authority Alchemy | Authority Marketing Tactics.

Adam & Aaron celebrate the 30th anniversary of Michael Jordan's second season in the National Basketball Association. This episode covers: - Off-season news, notes and quotes - 1985 NBA Draft - Chicago Bulls 1985-86 training camp and preseason games - Insightful minutiae, all but lost to the annals of basketball history We're back with a new series. Starting mid-June, 1985, we discuss a wide array of interesting topics and happenings, from the NBA's off-season. We chat about the Chicago Bulls' moves to sign a new head coach, in the wake of Kevin Loughery's firing. We cover the 1985 NBA Draft and the multitude of deals that Chicago made, to secure Charles Oakley's arrival and the team's future. You'll learn about the 'Schlitz Malt Liquor Summer Basketball League', hosted at Chicago State University, in late June and early July, 1985. Professional players who took part, included Michael Jordan, Isiah Thomas, Reggie Theus, Terry Cummings, Orlando Woolridge & Maurice Cheeks. We also talk about the burgeoning career of (Washington Bullets draftee) Manute Bol. The Chicago Tribune ran a great feature on Bol, covering his then-stint with the United States Basketball League, where he was averaging an astonishing 12 blocks per game. In late July, 1985, the University of Illinois at Chicago, hosted an NBA Rookie Summer League, featuring the Bulls, Hawks, Cavaliers, Pistons, Pacers & Bucks. The teams played a series of exhibitions, open to the public. Players involved - referred to as rookies, free agents and fringe pros - included Spud Webb, Joe Dumars, Kevin Willis, Tony Campbell, Ron Anderson, Antoine Carr, Terence Stansbury & Randy Breuer. To encourage camaraderie and team unity, the Bulls held their (1985-86) preseason training camp at Beloit College, Wisconsin. Aside from basketball, Michael Jordan served as an honorary official (coin toss) at the Beloit-Cornell football game. We detail the Bulls' interest in (free agent) Kyle Macy and the formerly-retired Billy McKinney. Plus, Spencer Haywood made a comeback attempt - attending training camp with the Pistons - two seasons removed from his last NBA game. We recap Chicago's 1985-86 preseason games. They were the only team without a win. We detail the Bulls' interest in (free agent) Kyle Macy and the formerly-retired Billy McKinney. Plus, Spencer Haywood made a comeback attempt - attending training camp with the Pistons - two seasons removed from his last NBA game. To round out the episode, we talk about the Bulls' trade for George Gervin, on the eve of the regular season. That deal had ramifications - for more than one reason. This episode begins our coverage of the 1985-86 NBA season. If you enjoy the content, please share it with your friends! For context, here's our 30-episode series, exploring Michael Jordan's rookie campaign. Others mentioned in this episode, include: Mike Dunleavy, Quintin Dailey, Dave Corzine, Wes Matthews & Adrian Branch. Editor's note: sign-up for my monthly newsletter - receive exclusive details on upcoming podcast episodes and future, high-profile guests to appear on the show. Show notes | I appreciate all feedback, FB Page 'Likes' and iTunes ratings / reviews. Follow: Facebook | Twitter | Google+ Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Newsletter | RSS | Website Support Adam via Amazon: click-through and purchase any item (store-wide – within 24 hours) - it helps support the podcast – importantly, at no additional cost to you. Thanks. Feedback: e-mail (audio welcome) | Voicemail

Peter Dinklage, Spud Webb, Napoleon. Being short is only 2/3's bad. You get all kinds of benefits, you can befriend a mouse, have a cookie as a meal, or suck on genitals quicker than others. See Short People do have a reason to live. So eat shit Randy Newman. With Andrew Short & Frank Zemel

Welcome to the party!! We're celebrating our 100th episode in fine style by taking a look back at some of our show's craziest and funniest moments! You'll hear sound bites from many of our awesome guests including Academy Award-winner, Mo'Nique, 1986 Slam Dunk Champ, Spud Webb and others. It's been a fun ride ever since we aired our first episode on September 7th 2008, but the best is yet to come! Join us for a celebration like no other! The Breakdown -- For Hoops Talk, The Way It Should Be!!!! Dave Mendonca | Audley Stephenson | NBA | Comedy | Basketball

On this jampacked episode of the Buckscast, We have on former NBA slam dunk contest winner Spud Webb, Alex Kennedy from hoopsworld.com, Daniel Artest who is the brother of Ron Artest and also Michael O'Neal who is the brother of Mitch Richmond and the cousin of Shaq. We also talk about the latest Bucks games that have been played since the last episode.