Greatest Sports Couples

do you think I was going to do like a bit. No, I just thought you were like my husband, c J. Toladano, and then I was going to like run on stage and wave to the crowd. Oh interesting. Um uh, Happy anniversary, Happy anniversary. Wow. Today we are recording on December four, our anniversary. Also, um, the same day that a American tragedy happened. You don't need to bring that up, Well, no one's no one's brought it up, but you I saw a lot of people on the internet bringing it up,

not tying to our wedding. But I do feel like I'm not going to say what it is, but I just want you to know that we know pick that date. We did not We did not know. We knew maybe midway through, but you know, I mean, it's just like you can't, but Deposit was down everything. Yeah, I mean, very very serious and but you know it's, um, it's a special day for us. And yeah, and well I remember a year ago, so that that that means that

this podcast is about a year old. That's all I mean. Essentially, this is the anniversary episode of this podcast of For some reason, I heart radio. Wonderful company had nothing but great experiences were like, hey, do you and do you and Megan want to do a sports podcast together? Which so a lot of people are like, whoa, yeah, no brainer, but I think they it was more like do you in c yes, okay, wow, I was I didn't want to speak in my you know and their person um,

but yeah they wanted. Your name was brought up and then somehow someone was like, yeah, she has a husband who also works in sports and love sports. Maybe because it's my heart and you and I are hearts start together. Yeah that's why. That's the business behind it. It just dawned on me. But my heart is so like sweet sounding, yeah, very very sweet sounding in a very sweet company. Everyone we work with. Again, we shot him out as well as we can hurt um. But yeah, it's it's been a.

It's been a good year. We've had a lot of great guests, um, and listen, the podcast has had a really lovely, happy fine. Yes, well we didn't know that what three months into it, equipment would be showing up at our house and that we would you know, because we were going to just show up the studio through every other week and behind the scene we had all these photos. I was like, going through photostore, I'm like, oh my god, we're just meeting at a neutral site

taking photos with our arms wrapped around people. Um. But yeah, it is. It's our when your wedding anniversary and our podcasting anniversary, it's not easy. As I've heard, Um, your first year of marriage is supposedly very very tough. Um. And I think probably creating a podcast at the same

time adds to it. And then I think probably probably being locked in your home, just the two of you, with no chance for outside anything probably makes it harder than two Yes, So what we're trying to say is on our anniversary day, we are telling you all we have survived. We've overcame so many odds. Not to pat ourselves on the back, but we do appreciate everyone listening because it's yeah. I think people warned us. People your reps.

Maybe we're like, you know, maybe you're dating. I met with a friend who hosts a podcast with their partner and was like, what should I do? What should we do? And you and I have broken every boundary that shefled me. Um to do. I'm more saying what we've been through to be like, hey, listen, in five years, if we get divorced, I don't really want you. I don't really want anyone to bring it up. Okay, I just I feel like, no, it's fine. I mean anyone to bring

it up. People can bring it up. I mean because totally kidding. I'm just saying, you know, some great picks should not be erased because no relationship didn't work. No picks erased. And I have high, high hopes. Do you ever worry that not just our marriage has sucked you up in a way that you have yet to even know yet, not even like it's I'm worse than I thought I would. But like there's just things like I was thinking about today how the super Bowl is such

a massive weekend for sex workers. Um, and I'm talking about the sex workers who are consentually being there willingly not being brought there against the will not being tricked

and stolen it. These are you know, there are sex workers that fly in from across the globe to go to is it Houston this year, to go to wherever it is try and make a bunch of money in that weekend and and sort of like you know, it would be the bartending equivalent of like St. Patrick's Day, and now that this year, those sex workers they're just not going to have that there. So there's and that's something it's like, oh, I wouldn't even there's not a

stimulus check for that. Should there be? Yeah, absolutely we should. Then they can they can get unemployment the same way that like you or I do care and that absolutely yes, But I am not Super Bowl sex worker. But there's I think there's all of these other things about even my own self and maybe I'm thinking about the Super Bowl sex workers because I don't want to go inside me yet. Um of these things that like we don't

even know what course of course. I mean only like after the first few months of this, and they were like, you know you can if you're in a pod or like we were. We did like I got a projector and we I think I had a couple of close friends over who I knew were like, you know, being saved about this whole thing, and we still wore masks and like sat apart and we were watching the game outside on the projector, and it was like, these are friends I would see every day or play basketball with,

or do comedy with, and we couldn't talk. The conversations

were odd. I mean, I wonder if even if we go back and listen to some of these episodes, if there's like a weird couple like warm warming up to these people, it's like hey, like one, it's like they're coming on a podcast of ours, but two we literally haven't seen these people from Yeah, I really love small talk um, and so Small Talks obviously taken a hit because it is it's weird now to like it's just a vocal tick to be like hey how are you? And and hey how are you? Is is like pretty

loaded now. I do think when positive for me personally, I am a better comedian on Zoom than I am in person, and I am more annoyed a husband in the other room. No, I'm just kidding. I support everything you do, but our home has become a studio, and yeah, I'm contributing to that as well. I've I've left a job, I've started. I've left House of Highlights, Bleach Report, and I've started a company and I'm yelling about sports in my office. I mean, I I started a new job.

We've got some fortune cranking in this house. They don't even know it. Yeah, neither does the world. Neither does my checkbook know that it's fortunate. Okay, but anyway, I don't want to talk about pandemics. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I do. I do want to because the listeners they seem again so thankful and like everyone who's been tweeting at us, like so ideas and like really got some message.

We really don't get mean messages anymore. I think are even our mean reviews have ceased, Which is what if if if you if you are listening to a podcast and you don't like it, you actually don't have to leave a review. You can just not listen to it, you know, just saying I'm just saying, okay, well you

had you were, you were conditioning. I just I think, like the one thing, regardless of whether they think we're funny or not, the device of this podcast and premises this podcast is like a fun um it's a fun thing to do. Like couples that listen to it, they go, oh yeah, let's like sit here and have a glass of wine and we'll think of like the greatest or the goats of certain categories. Like it's a fun exercise to like think of these things and not suit our

own horn. You and I have shared a lot of like the great like great sports moments together, you know. And I think, um again on our anniversary, and I wanted this to get to um mushy um because there are hardcore sports fans listening, but sports has really been such a huge part of our relationship. Um from I was trying to think today, what like the first maybe official sports thing we did together was, and and it's funny. It was a Clippers game did not go well. Uh yeah.

I think we were just tired and like what we were doing is like yeah, so for the for the listeners who don't really know us, So it was a Clippers game. I think I was still like trying to impress you. And it was also like I was just showing up an a town for like a week and then leaving to go back to me boyfriend. Yeah, and um, our friend who was a guest on the show, Jen Statsky, her and her husband offered these tickets to us. And here's the thing. Sometimes you go to a game and

you could care less about you know who's playing. I think it was Clippers Sons and everybody was hurt. Everyone was hurt. Yeah, and it was just like I had a cold. Yeah, you had a cold, and yeah, just we just didn't want to sit through it, so we left. We took on our Instagram and I maybe I'll post a picture. It's a very cute picture of us trying on Clippers hats. Was like, we are not Clippers fans. Did we buy anything? Um? No, I mean I think I may. It was considering, Um, I wasn't the hardcore

Lakers fan yet that I was today? Who we are? Right? Lebron wasn't even here yet, And if you were asking me then who I liked more, it would have been the Clippers. Our relations and Chip has lasted longer than your Lakers fandom. Yeah, I wonder I will I was gonna say, I wonder which one you've spent more money on?

But I do think it's me, Yeah, than the Lakers. Um. Now, I do think one of my like I keep going into sad regrets is that like maybe maybe we could have been at an NBA Finals game, maybe we could have gone to a World Series game or even been in like a bar watching it, but we may never know, so I would just like to imagine, since we'll never know, that, like we absolutely would have been at a finals game

and we would have been at the World Series. And I'm just it's like that year when I was working for the NFL and I went to the Super Bowl, but they didn't give me tickets to the game, and I just kept talking about how I went to the super Bowl but not to the actual Super Bowl. This is going to be my like drunk narrative going forward. I would have I would have probably thrown out the first pitch at the World Series. So you choose to say your greatest sort of thing is that we didn't

we missed out. No, no, No. One of my favorite sports memories, um, I loved going to that Dodgers game where we took our friends and a former former guest Mike Joyce and his wife Lauren Joyce, And yeah, I think Dodgers Stadium can convince people to move a place. I also loved that time at the Dodgers game when

I got thrown out. You got and we've talked about this on the podcast for you got thrown out because I had a weed bend that you made me pretend that I didn't know what it now it worked, yeah, but they didn't throw you. They came for me. I mean I was the one who got caught with he had on. It was a security guard who had on those zip away cargo shorts pants things, and he acted the way people who wear those act. And so sometimes you don't like when I get like, I don't pop

off at people. But do you think my behavior towards him was correct? Um? There is no correct or preference wise. I wish you didn't, but I think you're going to be like, no, in that situation, you were right. No, there is no These people you don't know what he had gone? What about her? What about your neighbor who I made unblock our drive away? Yeah? But am I right there? Yeah? Absolutely, yes, he needs to be taught a lesson. A guy keeps parking in blocking our driveway anyways,

So Dodgers games, yes, we miss that. We've got a Super Bowls together. We have gone to one thing. I mean, now that you bring up regrets, I am so bummed that we're not gonna be going to Indianapolis this upcoming March or February for the freaking All Star Game. So basically we just need to stay together until then. I'm sure we will be okay. You always keep talking about it. We got just now I'm worried. In three I'm gonna be like I think over me. But I know the

All Star Game is in Indie next year. Yeah maybe. Um. One of my least favorite sports outings we went to was set up to be the greatest one, which was my dad's band was playing at a Cults game. Your mom was in town because we had just had my bridal shower O the Bridle Shower, and then I picked my bridle shower weekend in Indianapolis because they were inducting Dwite Freey into the Ring of Honor, basically just retiring

his jersey. And the Cults lost this last season to the Dolphins, who were like one in twelve at that point, I mean, something so bad and we looked, as I say we cot the Cults played terribly. My parents were bothering me. Who was the quarterback? That was yer Brian Foyer. Yeah, so basically I arranged my bridle shower, which is a big is a big day in a woman life around watching Brian Hoyer lose to a one in twelve Dolphins team, I enjoyed it, though I had a I had a

blast one year. Dad crushed it, knucklehead. They were like, I was impressed. Walked in there playing at the entrance. People have to walk by to see him. He's rocking out. And then we your parents have killer seats behind the end zone. Is at the home No, because it's where the opposing team it's their top. Because I'm always like fuck, yeah, no, I don't know. I don't I don't um it seems like you do. No no, no, no, no no no. Usually I actually stand up and doing he's got he's

he's a look runk right like that. I have more like doing sort of like aesthetic rating. But we saw my old classmate, not classmate, alumni, my brother's classmate, Bob Sanders, and he's jacked, aren't you sad? Bob Sanders had to see that game too, because he won one. He'll probably be in the Hall of Fame. Maybe. No, well, I wonder if it's like comedy, if like we go back to Shook Ago and we do a show and all the comics are not funny and you're like, we're laughing.

We'd be laughing in the back of the room and like drinking. So you think that's like Peyton. It's like it's like whenever they cut to a player in the box and they don't care, they don't give a shit about the game. They're rubbing elbows with the owner. Like it's got to be embarrassing. No, I think that better. I'm embarrassed for the like Brian Hoyer and for the players that doesn't represent the cults. Okay, well, I was sad that all these legends were in attendance and they

I mean, it's bomb it's bombing. You're like jfl Yeah, sure maybe, but still lovely time. I'm trying to think if there's any other Really, I think one of my most favorite was last Christmas going to Lakers Clippers on Christmas Day. That was the first time I ever went to an NBA Christmas Day. No, actually I had been before, sorry with a past lover um and it's it's just fun. It's really l a and fun. And we were in a suite that we got there so early people thought

perhaps we had paid for the week. Um, and then we were the last people to leave and brought our friend former guestles a trigger on my friend Mins. Your friend Minks showed up who used to work there and played Kauai and all my videos. Him and his manager came up. I just I do love holiday whether even if it's like Thanksgiving. I feel like sports still has like a fun kitchiness with the holidays that really like makes me smile. No. Yeah, and and we'll see how

this NBA Christmas feels. But I mean it's strange. It's kind of it's like this whole NBA season feels kind of weird coming up, like preseasons having I've been watching games. I'm excited for certain things that are happening, but like this one seems out of urgency, Like I know, the bubble, the bubble I just happened. Successful awesome. NBA is really great, but like now reports are coming out and that we're

like we're like really shifting gears here. But um, yeah, the NBA starting Christmas around Christmas this year is it's kind of it's kind of leaving a weird taste in my mouth. I mean, on a professional level, I was doing a free YouTube show in our backyard that celebrated the NBA bubble, and then I stopped when the NBA bubble stopped. And I'm not ready to go back to doing my free YouTube show. So I know that the NBA players are not ready to go down. Yeah, and

then yeah, I know it's gonna happen. And mark my words, when because I already saw that, I've never heard you be so ominous. Well, I just saw this last night that in like the past couple of days, we've been

getting all the vaccine news, like vaccine has landed. Like Also, there's a really funny video I retweeted it today where there's footage of medical workers wheeling boxes of the vaccine and and someone who quote retweeted it was like, uh, this looks like when they cut to the Larry O'Brian like the tunnels, and then someone put the ESPN on the NBA theme behind it, and it's the greatest video ever.

But um, what I'm worried about is that again, like the NBA's image Adam Silver like they've crushed it in these like terrible times. So hockey. Last night, I saw a bunch of people say, so hockey is paying a private company to vaccinate their players, which is a kind of a huge fuck you to a lot of like to the world kind of And I don't see how the thing is like almost you kind of have to. I just think it means I don't think it's that different than the NBA and the NHL, who also successfully

created these cities, basically, these bubbled cities. What we're learning is the NHL and the NBA, they just they care to send the money to take care of their employees because their employees are a part of a trillion dollar industry. So is it fucked up for the NHL to be doing that. I mean, we live in a capitalist society. Would I prefer that go to someone in my family who's immuno compromise, for sure? But would I also want whoever is the owner of the family member who is

immuno compromised to do that for them? Yeah, like Adam Silver the NHL, I don't know who the man is. I think he went to Cornell and my dad knows who you. Um, they're just they're willing to spend the money because they have the money. Does Amazon have the money to vaccinate employees? Yes, they do. That's just not something they're going to spend money on. Yeah, I mean it's just a sad like we just go, Yeah, everyone's doing exactly what they are who we thought they are

type of thing, like and yeah, it's a bummer. But you know, I hope since this vaccine is coming out and like, maybe do you care about the NHL that much? Like, yeah, people do. That's actually I kind of want to get it. I wanted to get into it this season because they've been vaccinated and you want to see if they break down on the because my mom was in Vegas and she has all this Veiggest Nights wine. She has nights. I mean it's usually when there's like a wine like that,

they'll pick a red in a white. It'll be like a Peano Garriggio and a Peino Noir the Vegas Nights. They've got a whole selection. But you know, they went to the Stanley Cup the first year, yes, and was incredible. Yeah, that is like an underrated sports story. Um and I watched four those games and they're awesome. Anyways, so the vaccines coming out, and I'm like, yeah, maybe we'll get to go to a Lakers Finals game this year, which would be cool. Um, okay, so that was that was

a lot of conversation Memory Lane. Yeah, it is our anniversary. That also was a little braggadocious. What oh, I see what you're wearing. Um, well, just like look at all these things I've been to. Yeah, but but I just wanted to remind people that that's a lot of our relationship and why we host this podcast together. Like, I don't want people to think it's braggadocious, because my agents did get us a lot of those things. When you see my c J. It was a joke about how

that's like the least aware thing ever you don't have agents. Yeah, so my agents did get us those Christmas, and I got you and your dad to the super Bowl that first year's years I was working at the NFL. You are my agent, So we are we're kind of a sports couple and so thus you probably saw the title of this podcast, We're going to talk greatest sports couples, And we don't have a guess because we're a sports couple and it's our anniversary and we don't want to

spend it with anyone else. We actually we would be fine too, but it does seem strange to have someone's zoom with a married couple in the same place on their anniversary and it's not sort of like a we want a third type thing. I'm trying to I was trying to think earlier, like who would be that, who would be down for that to be our third? Yeah?

Or like who would we even be comfortable with? No not sexual Podcastually, I thought you meant because when I'm saying like we're looking for a third, I feel like it's understood that that's like threesome talk. I know that's what you're thinking. But I was like, actually, like realistically, podcast wise, Lisa, Lisa would have loved it, but you know, three times or a couple or those like a sports

couple of sports couple. Okay, so let's let's just let's just start who Megan is your number three pick for greatest sports couples? And you know, let's let's make the rules as we go, because there's a few here. I'm like, they're no longer together. Yeah, yeah, I enjoyed that moment in time. I think I'm gonna say Steffi Graff and andre Agassy. I mean Stefi Graff like still holds records. They both were just at the top of their sport, and I think it's really fun that their sport happens

to be the same sport like I do. Like when it's like soccer and soccer and volleyball and volleyball, like there is just something sort of like movie about it. And they're still together, they have children together. I think that Steffie has been like very instrumental in andre agassies like book and him like being able to talk about and explore the funked up stuff that happened to him in his life. And we don't really they're not They're not a couple that's like out everywhere. Like I don't

think they go to the sps like there. They just start wherever they are being rich and raising their kids and so not seeing them, especially now that it's like you're retired, when it's like retired athletes, it's like, okay, we can really only you can bet a commercial, you can be a commentator, but like, do we need to have every single thing reminding us that you used to play? No, so part of what I like about them is they seem humble, but I mean humble and just the way

of we don't have to see them a lot. Yeah, I remember, I think it was them. But as a kid, my concept of like married couples, I was like, of course, that's how like one of the greatest male tennis players and greatest female tennis players they're dating or they're married. That's how the world works. The best in your field, you then marry your um, you know, the opposite gender. Uh. I mean that was me as you know, Catholic growing up.

But I was like, oh, this makes sense and this is how it's gonna worry in Then it was clear, but that is kind of what we did. We're both comedians that we got married. Um So Sepi one twenty two Grand slams, right, Agassi one eight. So together they have thirty Grand slams and they both have one Olympic gold medals and they're still together. They're still together to chill.

Two children are do they play tennis? Um? I don't know, like my instinct with me to say no, because andre Agassi was like kind of forced by his dad and they had like a really fucked up dynamic. So I feel like Andre would be like, just do whatever you want. God, how many of those stories do we have on this podcast? Forced by a parent to become incredible? I know? And sometimes it works, Like Andre Agassi is a success story in that sense. He became the athlete his father wanted

him to be. Was he on meth and addicted to drugs and had to go down like a really tough, difficult path, Yes, And I do think that's also his father's fault. Yeah. And there's yeah, there's a plenty of stories where that did not work. Okay, should I go? Yeah, I'm gonna go. They're not together anymore. But it was an interesting one. Aaron Rodgers and dani Ka Patrick, it was it was one I saw a posy personal stands. It was a very public one. It was do you

think on purpose? Um? I do think. I don't think in the way that you're asking. I don't. I just I don't know. Um. I think they just both are public people, and you know, his relationship with Olivia Munn

was public. Like, I just think if you're a star quarterback and you're dating literally anyone that has an IMDb, it's gonna be like, Yeah, well, I mean that one was always interesting to me because we talked about these players, who are you know, he's considered one of the greatest quarterbacks I feel like, or at least currently, and having a partner who understands that, who understands the spotlight and

the pressure like that one made total sense to me. Um, both like very attractive people, and yeah, it was it was just but it was just there was something kind of off about it. And I've already feel like awful like evaluating their relationship. But like you said him in Olivia mun Republic, I mean, Jordan Rogers relationship is more public. They're just that they're they're just boys that are in the public. Yeah. So did you this is honest question,

did you think that they would last? I really did. Yeah, that's the That's the thing is I always thought like they were weird, like both in weird enough situations, or I really thought they would because of I think I thought even if they fell out of love or like it was strained, that they both felt like it was a good business decision. Um. And so that's kind of why I thought it would last. They both had really crazy schedules and a lot of shared interests outside of sports.

I guess I was gonna say golf, that's sports. Um, but they Yeah, it seemed like, oh, these are two people who really do understand the most stressful things about each other's lives. That I was surprised when they broke up. Yeah, yeah, Okay, well those were our third picks. Why don't we take a break and we'll be right back with the rest of our picks. Are greatest sports couples. All right, and we are back. Um, how are you feeling about these picks? We're gonna do him as we go. I'm feeling good.

My next one, Um, I think I'm I'm kind of bending the rules a little bit. All right, I'm excited. I'm gonna say, Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade. See, I saw that one in Yeah, I felt like there was enough to pick from that we could we love that. Of course, I just like my love for them, That's what I'm saying. She played a cheerleader in a film, you know, Like Giselle is obviously very very talented, but she is like a model and done other stuff too. I'm sure. I'm sure she has a line or whatever.

But Gabrielle Union to me, like eels athletic, and like they're always like working out together, Like there's a post to them. They're in commercials working out together. And she did play an athlete in a film. And so that's why I'm allowing myself to pick this because like my love for them is so strong that it overcomes the fact that they're not actually allowed in this picking. No. Yeah, and she and I think she's pretty like out there with like fitness and stuff. So yeah, definitely, Like how

how old is she? I got to look this up because it is astonishing that you're like, oh, she has to be an athlete the way she So she is forty eight years old. If you're listening to this right now, do yourself a favor. Google what Gabrielle Union looks right, looks like right now, which she pops up all the time. But it's like Instagram, she has a great Instagram. She

forty years old. Yeah. See when I hear that that, I'm like, did she give birth to you know, Like I don't know why my For some reason, I have this like need to know how everyone's child was brought into the world. It is insane and it comes from real housewives because there was a woman on the show, Adrian Malouf actually whose family owned the kings Um and Brandy Landville like exposed that she used a surrogate and it was like this like there was like a lawsuit.

It was just like a huge deal, and at the end of it was like who cares? Like who, She's a mega, mega billionaire, that is something that was available to her, So like who the fun cares? But i think because it became this like huge plotline that that my brain thinks that like is something to be known when it's literally no one's business but the two people creating the child, I'm not gonna get involved in that.

I'm just I'm just like forty eight Well not because it's like she very well may have I don't know, she may be public about it. But I'm like, I'm also just fascinating cause I'm like, damn, maybe women are having children like up until they're forty six, forty seven years old, and that just is like it feels like inc I just feel like Dwyane Wade and get real union. If anyone is going to defy science, it's yes, And so maybe that's why I'm allowing her to doesn feel

like she defies science. Remember that HDTV show that they watched of their's where they like, weren't they redoing a house somewhere? Like he just he seems to I don't know. I love their love and so I'm making an exception. No, I think that's totally because yeah, I was like, bringing on cheerleading. We've obviously watched here someone. I watched some of it, and that is an incredibly demanding sport, even if you're acting in it. Yes, like you're an athlete,

and she looks incredible. She has to be an athlete in some ways. Uma for allowing it. I mean, what if I didn't, I guess I would just say, like Zack and Julie my second sorry, I'm sorry. That's who I would have said then, And it's such you know what this so this is this is one that comes up on a lot of lists and it is boring. But I'm like I said to myself, if no one says this, we're just getting get people replying what about

Zach and Julie arts? Because she is I think she's considered the like number one soccer player in the world. She's definitely like a star. And he's definitely a badass. And so I want to talk about this because so when we were again that Super Bowl that we had mentioned before, we were at it was the Eagles Patriots one. And what happens is is like from my line of work is we have to go and find those viral

videos that are like trending. In the viral video that was trending, I think was her finding out that the Eagles were going to the Super Bowl and she was abroad. Yeah, she was abroad. And then that's like the stories where did you know she is one of the greatest soccer players of all time? It's like this, this truly does

show a major flaw in sports. Yeah, and like this is isn't this doesn't matter, But I'm just saying it as like how could we It's like she's really hot, Like the U S women's national team is like so cool and so hot and so good. We should know everything about them, and we should have known everything about

them pre the Eagles going to the Super No. See, that's the thing is like I'm mad that I knew who zach Ertz was and I didn't know who Julie Arts was until that moment happened and I like, you know, we had to post these videos like curating the best in social and it was like, oh man, we're really milking this when we had no fucking clue and we should have And and he I think part of the reason that we do really like them as a couple he is they are like woke, right, Like I didn't

know that. No. I think zach Ertz has like maybe he didn't want to go to the white I don't know. He they are like woke. And he has also done a lot of like she's better than me, like she's the athlete, and so that is something that endears them to the public, that makes them more like in our eyes. I mean, yeah, any confirmation that she's woke is that the fact that she was on that women's national team. So yeah, But I mean you, I don't know. Sometimes

you see a white football player and you worry. Yeah, you do worry, and you're like, how do they survive in the locker room? But then it's it is interesting to like the type of Like my theory is baseball players all married their high school like Christian girlfriends, and so like if the girl you fell in love with in high school is a great athlete, then she'll be an athlete. But like football players, basketball players, they do tend to like find love in college or like Roger

Federer and his wife they met at the Olympics. Like it's like there's I don't think there's gonna be any baseball players on this list because it's like they don't they don't tend to marry strong female athletes. Well, we could say an honorable mention right now is if we're gonna talk Gabrielle Union and d Wade, maybe Justin Verlander in Kate Upton, but what what what? What did she play? I bet she played sports, but she was like a

sports illustrated swimsuit model. I mean, listen, this topic is hard to do too because if people aren't still together, it's feel anymore. No they are, but I'm saying like we're not picking, like, okay, now I have you've broken it. The only reason why I got because okay, then I'm taking Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union out love you guys, you mention, and now I'm doing Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio. Is that who she was with? Because I was trying to think of like what is an old version of this.

They obviously did not wind up together. Listen, we're not going to disrespect d Wade and Gabrielle. They're staying on. We don't have to talk justin Verlando and Kate Upton. I would like to add Joe DiMaggio or Marilyn and Rose not an athlete. Shoot, well that's the thing. They didn't that women be athletes, so like ten years ago. No, but she is an athlete if if you think about the hours she had to put in as an actress, and you know, as a kid in growing up, you know, like,

I don't know, I cannot believe. I thought Marilyn in my mind, I was like, oh, Marilyn Monroe, the famous athlete. When this podcast is all said, and then someone archives all the greatest picks and then like you scroll through it and you see Marilyn Monroe was picked in an episode. Okay, Tom Thibodeaux, I'll never live that day. Okay, So Zack and and Julie let me find out what woke thing he did? Um? Okay, well, so I want to give a maybe I will do and I don't know, I mean,

I guess that wasn't the honorable mention. Yeah, there's a lot of soccer couples, a lot of whether it's both of them or it's like one of them, like Drew Holiday and Lauren Cheney. I mean they're just they're They're great. The whole Holiday family is so incredible. I love the holidays. I'm so happy we still have a holiday, right Pasers, Yes, the Pacers do. Um. They resigned him, so yeah, this this story was remember because he was going through tough time.

The para married in July thirteen and Welcome the first shot. In September. Cheney had found out a few months into pregnancy that she had a benign brain tumor, which was removed after she gave birth Holiday to go leave of absence during the beginning of the Pelicans done sixteen seventeen season to take care of his family. So it's like again like they talked about these basketball players, they would do anything like but he left and to take care

of his wife. And yeah, I always thought Drew and now he's in Milwaukee, and yeah, I wish him the best. I think that he could be the missing piece for the Bucks in their title approach. Um zach Ertz got mad Um he said that like Trump was like doing bullshit, and Fox News was all on bullshit after like the canceled trip, so they never went yeah, I don't know. Okay, well let's take a break and then we'll be back with our number one picks and wrap this thing up

and we are back. Thank you again. I keep thanking everyone for listening to us because we don't have a guest, and I feel bad. Um, but I think I'm getting some good conversations. What's going on. I think I'm getting Chris Long and zach Ertz confused. Chris Long is very very woke, and this isn't the episode to be talking about the woke white We're gonna do the greatest woke white dudes and the NFL. Yeah, Chris Long is awesome. Um, but maybe maybe zach ERTs got mad at Fox News.

The legal scene was pretty great, So great a man celebrated by eating poop off the ground when they won. You got to stop talking about that. Only you and Jamal past guest Jamal Johnson knows that story. Okay, So we're at our number one picks. What we usually do is we do honorable mentions, and now that we don't have a guest Megan. Megan does her tradition. I don't even know if I've ever talked about this where I'm like, maybe we should reconsider the honorable mentions because you definitely

take a lot of people life with less. Well, you know, what I've been trying to do recently is just do like people that only I would pick. I have made a conscious effort to change that. C J. What are some other things that you had to change based on audience criticism? People said, it sounds like I didn't love you maybe in that particular moment. Not that she didn't love me, but maybe I annoyed her that day, or maybe I was. You don't annoy me, that's the difference.

That's a lie. But you really don't annoy me. Well, that's insane. I said tell my niece the other day that I grew up being the most annoying person ever, and she definitely doesn't want that on her back. Mine was pretty annoying, and my life's worked out. I'm still annoying. We've embraced our annoyingness and like crafted it into a stand up act. It's really really weird. Okay, I'm first h Yeah, let's well let's go back and forth with some honorable mentions. Oh okay, um, Zach and Juliet Arts.

That was my second pick. Um, Like, I really do struggle too to fill out this category really well, we're looking. So we talked about and I know I'm simply saying this to hear your opinion on him again. J J. Watt and Khalia O. Hi, I'm good. They seem like a nice couple. They're always, you know, really gloating about each other on on their social media. I'm good. Okay, what about this one? Not together anymore? Jay Cutler and no, she's not not athletes an athlete? Um, who are you

going to say? You kind of perked up there? Wait, wasn't Lindsay Vaughan with some Lindsey Vaughn And I like that? Yeah, So I didn't know if you were going to do that as a as a number one pick. But that's yeah, they're a great couple. I don't know if these two are still together. Mia Hamm and no, Mark Garciapara, No way they're still together, are they? I didn't know they were interesting. I just didn't know they were together. How about this one? Maybe we talked about Cheryl Miller has

the go. But Diana Trossi and her teammate Penny Taylor are together. They're married. I didn't know that there were teammates. I didn't even consider this, but maybe they're like my number one, because to marry a teammate is incredible altimate teammate. Um, you're my teammates. So she is the assistant coach of the Mercury. Oh that's wild. But the three time, the three time w NBA champions. Welcome to son in March. And you know where my brain is going. Where where

did that baby come from? Well? Obviously, yeah, something they did that, I know. I just really I'm very into baby logistics and I need to release it. It's something I'm going to work on. The baby shows up and just be happy the baby's there, all right? What any other honorable mentions before we do our number one? Pick Um, Christie, I'm Gucci was married to an NHL player. He's not an NHL player anymore. He will not be getting the vaccine. I had one. Oh my wait, no, is that my

number one? Sorry? We're we're kind of just scrolling through lists here because we wanted to do this on the fly. Oh I wanted to say a Rod and j Lo for the same as an honorable mention, for the same reason that Gabrielle unions and she was a Dancing is a sport. Isn't break dancing in the Olympics? Now? Are you saying break dancing because she was a fly girl?

She's just say what world class day? Yeah no, no, no no, I'm just saying, like dancing is a sport because break dancing is in the Olympics, and she's been a part of the super Bowl. Right. Oh yeah, So a Rod and j Lo are at the top, like not at the top, but like they're up there in honor. Think Simone Biles is with a Texans player. Okay, that's the thing, Like a lot of these people don't fully like, like they don't really unless it's like superstars. I just

imagine all athletes are married to. Like, if you're like a B list athlete, you're married to another B list athlete. So let me ask you this, not that someone bials, she's a list. Could you have married you yourself, married someone outside of comedy and sports? Yeah? I think so, what what would they occupation? Well, you know that I always thought that I was attracted to chefs, but they're like something I would consider them and like they're the craziest.

They're athletes, they have athlete mindsets. Okay, well now you're just like asking me to pick someone who's like not like a roofer. There's like, how would roofers on love Island all the time? Okay, roof I'm from mental How do you think that ruffer would would feel if you're like, hey, I have to go out of town. I see what you're doing. Well no, no, I'm You're like, you're lucky

you found because I'm the only one of them. Because I'm wondering because we see like all these athletes are dating other athletes or people who have like these very like committed professions. Yeah, but it's a lot harder for a female comedian to be able to find love outside of these certain industries. And a male comedian can marry a teacher, a stay at home mom, but CEO, they

would hate the comedians lifestyle. That No, we know, we know men that are married to like very successful, cool women that are not in a creative field, and that's just it doesn't really men. Men are very frightened and sad and scared okay, all right, what I'm saying, all right, you ready for your number one pick? Okay, So I was going to pick super and Megan Rippino recently engaged. Congratulations, I thought they were married. That's how much love they

have between them. Um and yeah, they're just they are both at the top, top top, top, top top. So it's like a plus list, a plus list hot, so hottie too, hottie, cool clothes. It seemed very very supportive, loving. I loved seeing Megan in the w n B A bubble. They really like. They had a talk show during a lot of this pandemic over i G Live. They Yeah, they light up, they light up a screen. Yeah. No,

they are a team. They they have taken on, you know, social activism, they've Yeah, they support each other publicly at all their events. They Yeah, they're just like such a badass couple. They dress cool, they look cool. Um, they do amazing things for the world. Yeah. Yeah, they use their platform the way it's supposed to be used. And yeah they're hard to top right now. Yeah, thank you, So that's good. I mean, I mean, if you weren't

done talking, I'm done. I'm done. I don't want to get too riled up about two women on my heteronormative universary day. Um so my number one pick. It is kind of boring now they say it. I don't think it's boring. I just saw a photo of them in their gorgeous and I remember they came up in our honor when we went kayaking. Yeah, it was like it was like a real Hawaiian boat. So you know lair

in Hamilton's. I think I'm saying that right. And when I first lost a bunch of weight, I followed his core training program and Gabrielle Reese again, two people who are like the Michael Jordan's of their sport, and they're together and I've heard they live happily in Hawaii. I'm trying to think someone there's a celebrity who like hangs out with them for a few months out of the year.

I also think that they made money in some like it may just be real estate, but they seem like they're like real, real real set financially and they've decided to just be in MAUI. Yeah, I think I had a Gabrielle Reese poster gte you a summer saying unders one. Oh yeah, I feel like you probably had a Gabby Reese one. Yeah, I mean just volleyball player bodies are and I mean surfers these. This is like, you see this couple and if they weren't famous, you'd be mad

at them. That's the kind of like, they're really a really beautiful couple. What do their kids look like? I don't know, look it up. Well, I don't know if we can go searching for how hot someone's kids are, no and not hot and just be like, I just want to know what their offspring looks like. And it's it's two sports that like complement each other, Like I think a volleyball is very beachy. Obviously surfing is beachy.

It seems like even if they were not these like star star star athletes, they probably could have just like run into each other on a beach somewhere and fallen in love in a way that you and I would never have fallen in love. We can't. We wouldn't have met on a beach like they met on a beach. We met at a Chicago open mic. You know, does it say they're how they met? That's what I'm looking at.

I'm trying to see how they met. No, it doesn't say yeah, we just seem like, yeah, they met on a beach somehow, or like at an event, like I don't think I've ever seen Laird Hamilton's with a shirt on, and but like, I don't know if we need to I'm annoy idea. Man. Now I'm looking at theirs. They have multiple homes. This is their pool and MAUI. Sorry for the This is an article from Ocean Home mag if anyone wants to look it up. But they look like they have a perfect life. There's definitely like a

Hawaii crew. And I think um Obama's part of it. I think Jim Carrey is part of the Oprah where it's like we just go to Hawaii, um because we're all really think like when you I love watching celebrity interviews and then they are like and You're like, yes, guys in l A's getting coffee, is walking down you know Ventura. But he realistically lives in Hawaii nine months out of the year. They like, Yeah, it's just insane. That's probably why they're a couple that's lasted the test

of time. Yeah, I think of you and I were in Hawaii. I don't know if i'd be bringing up this divorce in five years. Well, um, yeah, you know that's a joke. I'm sorry you like stopped for a second. I was trying to think of what I was gonna say. I was gonna I I wanted to say. I wanted to start bragging about how we canceled our trip to Hawaii.

I beg, yeah, we were supposed to go to Hawaii, and then I was alerted to an article that um, Hawaiians, like true native Hawaiians, did not want us coming, and so we didn't go. So if you see people going, they're worse than us. And yes we can afford it, but we are benefiting from not going to Hawaii. Like it is a very big deal that we're not going. Yeah, it's a lot of money to spend to then go like sit in a hotel room and wonder if you're

sucking up an entire ecosystem. So anyone who's traveling during this time to hawaiire these tropical vacations, no' a listener of ours, please, like just don't post it. Like, if you're gonna go, you're sucked up. But if you're going to go and post it, you're really fucked. Yeah, it's a nice sentiment to end on. I think it's a great sentiment, and we're I'm so happy, you know, despite the difficulty and not even like difficulties sounds like a

harsh word, uh, to hosting this podcast together. It's been such a wonderful experience. I think it's gone better than we could have expected. And I love you very much, and um, yeah, it's just it's such a nice bonus that we're able to work together. I get to thank you, honey. I get really happy when we finish or just after our podcast and our guests will texted like that was

really fun. Um, And and that's it's it's a year that struggles to find fun and doing it and talking about sports with you and our friends has been really really fun. So thank you guys for listening. Happy anniversary to you, Happy anniversary to you. Thank you for for listening to this podcast over the last year. We know, like we've just been having our comedian friends on and it's been awesome. Hopefully you guys enjoyed and you found

some great new comedians to listen to. But also like we have some awesome guests coming up from all all walks of life. I do have something special to plug this week. My Comedy Central half hour in its entirety is now available on YouTube, but only until like January four. I think it's just a month, so you can watch it for free. This is It's behind It's being released from behind the Wall, and it's something that I'm super

proud of. It was a few years ago. There's a ton of sports jokes on it, so many sports jokes. I almost got fired from the NFL. But I love it and I would love for you guys to watch it. It's really only twenty minutes without commercials. So gathering YouTube. Gather the kids around, Yeah, gather the kids around. Sorry I cut you off. That's totally fine. It's on It's on YouTube, and then you can find me at Megan Gaily.

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