The After the Horn crew closes out the year with a special “Hot Ones” edition, testing their limits through a lineup of increasingly fiery wings while diving into Denver and national sports. Along the way, they debate the best teams and players in sports today, make the case for Nikola Jokic and Shohei Ohtani as generational icons, and reflect on what greatness really looks like across eras. The heat eventually gives way to unforgettable storytelling, including candid memories of Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, and the writers and broadcasters who shaped sports media. It’s a loose, hilarious, and surprisingly thoughtful end-of-year episode you don’t want to miss.
To wrap up the year, After the Horn takes on a Hot Ones–style wing challenge, pushing through rising Scoville levels while talking sports, media, and memories. The conversation moves from Denver’s place on the national sports stage to why Nikola Jokic and Shohei Ohtani stand apart as once-in-a-generation talents. From there, the episode turns reflective, with personal stories about legendary athletes, the risks of meeting your heroes, and the writers and broadcasters who influenced generations of fans. As the heat peaks, the stories get even better, making this a fitting, free-flowing finale that blends laughs, insight, and classic After the Horn chemistry.
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Tom Green
Hey, hey, as we wrap up 2025, it's a very special after the Horn, the Hot Ones edition.
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Tom Green
And with that, welcome to After the Horn, the Hot Ones edition. We're going to get to the wings and to Woody and Ron and Natasha in just a second. But first, fellas, you like the new furniture? Our friends at Furniture Row set us up nicely.
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Ron Zappolo
Very nice.
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Tom Green
So we're going to get chicken wings and sauce all over.
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Ron Zappolo
And I'm going we're going to ruin these chairs right away.
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Tom Green
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Tom Green
Woody came up with a great idea.
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Ron Zappolo
Well, we'll we'll debate that later.
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Tom Green
Woody, what was your great idea.
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Woody Paige
That we would be doing a copy of a famous, TV show that's been on the air for years, and years. And I like wings, both of you guys like that. And we thought the end of the year that what we do is we try ten different hot sauces.
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Tom Green
Increasing in heat.
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Natasha
Official hot ones challenge.
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Woody Paige
Yes. And we'll see who can last the longest and who can get through this.
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Tom Green
And just to.
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Woody Paige
Because there.
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Tom Green
Are two things that matter here. The Scoville rating is we learned a way. You learn how hot something is. It's rated. And the other one is an enthusiasm rating, which Ron is just below zero one.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah. I'm, I'm not big into spices. I like my stuff kind of plain and mild, but as I'm going to go with the flow, I'm a big career. Was quite like my career. Plain mild. Did not say anything.
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Tom Green
Our friends, from right next door here from Walters, pizzeria and public house. And they have, now almost almost six locations. They have five right now. They're opening up A61 soon and soon in Highlands Ranch.
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Ron Zappolo
And we appreciate.
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Tom Green
That. But they are the ones who have delivered the wings to us. But as far as the sauces that make our wings hotter and hotter throughout the show today, Natasha has acquired the Hot Ones pack. The heck's going on over there?
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Natasha
Well, we've got our ten sauces, so we'll go through. I'll tell you what the name of it is and your Scoville, and then you'll answer a question while you or try to answer a question. You're going to get hotter and hotter. So we'll see how far.
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Tom Green
This is our special holiday edition. The crowd's going nuts. So what do you have there? What's number.
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Natasha
One? This one is the classic, and it's got an 1800 Scoville rating.
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Tom Green
That sounds high.
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Natasha
This is our easiest one. If you don't like this one, then it's all downhill or up.
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Tom Green
So we're going to go around the horn.
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Woody Paige
Yes.
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Tom Green
And yeah we're allowed to say around the horn.
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Woody Paige
But yeah I'm going.
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Tom Green
Around the horn here.
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Woody Paige
And we just drop a little.
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Ron Zappolo
Bit drop on there.
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Woody Paige
Yeah.
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Tom Green
So do you prefer the drumstick to the wing or the. Yes. You're in in for both.
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Woody Paige
Thank you. So I like the drumsticks.
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Ron Zappolo
When can we start? Natasha. Oh.
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Natasha
Yeah. You. I will ask you the question. So first we're going to go with again. Yeah, 100%. Go for it. I want to make it difficult when you answer me.
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Ron Zappolo
You know what? That's fine. But that's about hot enough.
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Natasha
I think I'm out.
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Woody Paige
Of the bomb.
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Ron Zappolo
Well, I mean, that's okay.
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Tom Green
I like that flavor.
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Ron Zappolo
It's a little spicy for me, but. That's right.
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Woody Paige
That's a that's a good, solid, Mexican restaurant kind of hot sauce.
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Natasha
Okay, so with the easy sauce, we'll go with the easy question. Okay. Who who do you think is the best team nationally and in Denver? Any sport, any just who are you looking at who are 11 for.
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Tom Green
The avalanche right now are the show. They're the real thing. You know, we're taping this a few days in advance, so hopefully nothing's changed. But they are on a pace that's an all time pace. And hockey's a tough sport to do it, especially because when we did the show earlier this year, both Ron and Woody told me what a hot seat Jared Bednar was on.
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Tom Green
I felt otherwise, I think he's I think it's seats pretty safe right now.
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Ron Zappolo
The last two.
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Woody Paige
No, I did well.
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Natasha
These two say something different every week and counteract.
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Woody Paige
That's true. What's interesting about this is, they're not the number one sport in Denver. That would be football. It used to be in the early days, baseball. But not now. That's what I bad. Fourth, maybe behind the Colorado Rapids who are about to change their name. They're they're going to change their name and their logo and their uniforms.
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Woody Paige
Maybe they can change their look because they're not any good either.
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Tom Green
The Rapids may need to be chasing the summit, soon to be the most popular soccer team in Colorado.
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Woody Paige
Absolutely. And, hockey nationally in North America is that is a third sport. Maybe even people have said behind car racing, automobile racing.
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Tom Green
You're from the South. You can go there.
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Woody Paige
Professional wrestling. But the avalanche are on a record pace. They this could be we go back to Patrick Wall. And I do think you did say this that this team didn't have a Patrick. Well it's got to Patrick was almost to woods.
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Tom Green
The wood brothers to woods.
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Ron Zappolo
I don't know if.
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Tom Green
You go with the.
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Ron Zappolo
Avalanche though going with the Avs. Definitely. And I'm also going nationally. I'm going to go with the two time defending world champion Los Angeles Dodgers. Yeah, I don't like the fact that money being what it is, they're the best team national.
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Tom Green
Injury tax they just paid.
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Ron Zappolo
Yes I'm.
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Tom Green
69.
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Ron Zappolo
You know it's almost not fair though how they can sign Ohtani. And somehow he defers 98% of his salary. And they figure out a way to get that on the hate.
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Tom Green
When people are smart.
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Ron Zappolo
Like but if we're not talking about money, we're just talking about teams and success. The Dodgers for the last two years have been the best team.
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Tom Green
What do you got? What's on deck.
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Natasha
Here? Okay. Well we're going to go with Little Dick's big flavor.
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Ron Zappolo
So little Dick's.
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Natasha
I think I think that's probably going to win best name from what I can.
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Tom Green
What's the Scoville on this.
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Natasha
Scoville for this one is going to be 69, 100. So that's going to be a big jump.
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Ron Zappolo
A lot of double entendres with this particular sauce.
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Woody Paige
I think this is little Dick's, sports Park and it. Yeah, I like Dick's.
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Tom Green
Sporting Goods park.
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Woody Paige
Yeah. Oh, okay.
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Natasha
So, okay, so you guys mentioned a couple of good players. Is there anybody again, same same question. Just honing in a little bit more. Best player. Favorite player. Not in Denver and nationally.
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Tom Green
We're so lucky in Denver I mean jeez.
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Natasha
I know as far as nuggets.
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Tom Green
Mediocre.
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Ron Zappolo
Just going to be a big one.
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Tom Green
This chicken wing or this question right here.
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Woody Paige
Oh that's great.
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Tom Green
You know your kitchen McKinnon are both. Well they're the best. And they're really playing like the best.
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Ron Zappolo
Not to I told you I don't like spices.
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Woody Paige
That's high. No it's not. That's hot.
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Tom Green
Totally different flavor though. Totally different rack.
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Ron Zappolo
Wholly different flavor. It's got some room in two in I'm still alive.
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Tom Green
This is ghost pepper and Pepper.
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Woody Paige
Good time. I thought the pair.
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Natasha
That I have faith in yourselves. You thought you were going to be out, so.
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Ron Zappolo
I thought I already be out. I'm still alive, but I'm. I'm on intensive care right now.
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Woody Paige
Jokic may end up being the best player in the history of the NBA, so I would have to put him at the top of the list in Denver. He is just past Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for a for the most assists in the history of the league by a center. He will ultimately be first or second in triple doubles.
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Woody Paige
He's averaging a triple double this season. He is the best athlete and would have to go on your Mount Rushmore already. Yeah. In Colorado, the John Elway Todd Helton. If you want to say that it's your Joe Sakic who's going to probably be replaced ultimately if he plays here for his entire career and plays 12, 13, 14 years.
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Woody Paige
McKinnon.
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Tom Green
Yeah.
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Woody Paige
So we building.
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Tom Green
On that Mount Rushmore, they're taking down cars. Matt. Suey. Like, how do you do that? Is it a makeover? You take the old guy.
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Woody Paige
Arenado probably comes off the list for maybe most money that's been made by two teams. Right. I think that, and good.
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Ron Zappolo
Mind.
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Woody Paige
Nationally.
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Ron Zappolo
That's yours. Is that mine?
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Woody Paige
My pick is Ohtani.
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Tom Green
Yeah.
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Woody Paige
We're talking about the Dodgers.
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Ron Zappolo
You just took the words. You just took my thunder. I'm with you. Yo. Locally. Ohtani in a landslide. Nationally. We've never seen anything like it.
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Tom Green
So now we haven't seen.
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Woody Paige
Anything like either one of them.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah.
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Woody Paige
Really haven't. And isn't. You know, it's interesting that they were not born in this country. Yeah. I didn't grow up. They came in here as immigrants, if you will, and look what they've accomplished. Sports now in this country are international. Have always been. Yeah. Hockey. Baseball is becoming more and more, infused with Asian players. We just saw another player come in the Rockies didn't make a run at him.
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Tom Green
And basketball's got the top 5 or 6 players in the NBA from other countries.
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Woody Paige
The MVP's for the last, what, seven years? Yeah. Been. Yep. Foreign born players. But those two I think I mean yeah Joker here and Ohtani.
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Tom Green
Now sign and I'll cosine. What's next. What are we looking at. Because because Ron is really digging number one and two.
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Ron Zappolo
Good pace here which I'm very proud of.
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Natasha
You. Right.
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Woody Paige
Yeah. You're hanging I'm proud of you. You're hanging in there. I have a feeling.
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Natasha
I know none of you have really had to reach for anything. We know.
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Ron Zappolo
Well, I've had a few gulps of water, but I'm okay.
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Tom Green
I'm still waiting for my.
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Natasha
Dream or any.
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Tom Green
Of that. My vodka tonic would be nice, but.
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Ron Zappolo
I didn't know they offered those. Well, I brought the makers on the rocks. That might help me at this point.
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Woody Paige
Okay, because we could do that. Because you might.
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Ron Zappolo
That I.
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Woody Paige
Would dig around and you.
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Ron Zappolo
Might want to have a maker's on the rocks right now if they have anything.
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Tom Green
My guess is, oh, with the butter, you know.
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Ron Zappolo
Well, it's pretty close. There's a little bourbon there.
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Woody Paige
Yeah.
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Natasha
Take a shot.
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Ron Zappolo
You got any ideas back there? Give me it. You got a cocktail glass, cocktail glass, ice and a little bit of that. I'll go.
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Tom Green
For that. I just committed the sin. I got away with that. Do I touch my.
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Natasha
Oh, yeah. Don't. Don't want to.
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Ron Zappolo
Drink and lick on.
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Tom Green
No.
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Natasha
On this.
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Woody Paige
Podcast. Yeah, it's a podcast. What are they.
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Tom Green
Going to do?
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Woody Paige
What are the rules. And and if I do not.
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Tom Green
Get a doctor your salary isn't.
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Ron Zappolo
They fight isn't it.
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Woody Paige
Yeah.
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Natasha
I mean would you you've eaten spicy wings on channel four, you know, and you see the.
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Ron Zappolo
Name you wings on channel four. Channel nine or Fox.
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Tom Green
Which one's this one.
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Natasha
That's okay. So now we're going to do Neil's.
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Woody Paige
Oh my God look at that.
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Tom Green
You're such.
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Ron Zappolo
A sweetheart. Now we're good. All right you guys carry on. I've got. And she gave me the big.
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Natasha
Block and I've linked.
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Woody Paige
The.
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Ron Zappolo
Big rock.
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Natasha
Honestly.
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Ron Zappolo
What kind of bourbon do we have here.
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Natasha
When feel included?
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Ron Zappolo
Breckenridge five. I've actually.
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Woody Paige
Had. I think it's okay. That's distilled right down the street.
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Ron Zappolo
It is distilled right down the street. I know those those guys are good.
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Tom Green
Well, we'd like to thank them, too.
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Ron Zappolo
To the holidays, all of you.
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Tom Green
Cheers.
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Natasha
Cheers.
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Ron Zappolo
Forever. My new.
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Woody Paige
Friend. 2000.
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Ron Zappolo
Two old friends.
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Natasha
Look. Got a holiday cheer to all.
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Ron Zappolo
I don't know if I can.
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Natasha
Get my.
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Ron Zappolo
Friend.
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Woody Paige
Okay, what is the next meal?
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Natasha
Real deal. Another big jump to 17,000.
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Tom Green
17,000.
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Natasha
Good. Smoked onion. That'll be interesting.
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Ron Zappolo
I can't put smoked onion with Kentucky bourbon.
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Natasha
Okay, it's worth a try.
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Tom Green
It's worth a.
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Woody Paige
Try. Come in. Skip. Skip is our partner. Why don't you have a wing? Are you having a week?
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Natasha
I think you.
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Ron Zappolo
Natasha, are you joining me?
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Natasha
I am, I think you're not. I don't get to do wings. Well.
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Woody Paige
You get to do.
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Tom Green
Those vegetarian going.
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Ron Zappolo
Downhill quickly, isn't.
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Woody Paige
It?
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Natasha
I could eat your parents.
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Tom Green
All right, so this is the real.
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Ron Zappolo
Deal day drinking game.
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Tom Green
He's really pouring it on.
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Natasha
I like to working with you guys. I mean, I always go home now.
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Ron Zappolo
What are we got to do?
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Tom Green
The real deal.
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Natasha
18,000, 17,000, 17,000. May as well.
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Woody Paige
The wings are good. We start with the wings are real.
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Ron Zappolo
The wings are excellent.
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Tom Green
Walter's wings are not.
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Natasha
I don't know, touched on their little bit. Shirts. And they provide.
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Tom Green
It. Yes. Walters.
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Natasha
So as we all know, being the best player does not necessarily mean you're the most fun to watch.
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Ron Zappolo
That's not bad.
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Woody Paige
That's good.
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Ron Zappolo
That's why I meal.
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Woody Paige
The.
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Tom Green
Old smoked onion hot sauce. Nice.
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Natasha
Not bad. So we actually different question so far are we thinking that all these celebrities are being dramatic when they're crying and sweating and losing it? I know we're only on the third one, but I'm sweating.
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Ron Zappolo
It's only because the wings spice and a bourbon that's got me.
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Natasha
So there you go. I know I got the little.
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Tom Green
I don't feel the jump. This is supposed to be quite a bit higher on the Scoville.
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Ron Zappolo
Didn't seem like it, but.
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Tom Green
Neil smoked onions is really good.
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Ron Zappolo
I actually think they're pretty good.
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Woody Paige
Yeah. You're also getting accustomed to it.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah, maybe that's it. I'm going to go home and have a.
00;14;00;27 - 00;14;01;10
Tom Green
Another.
00;14;01;10 - 00;14;04;21
Woody Paige
Bourbon plus.
00;14;04;24 - 00;14;05;11
Woody Paige
You got one.
00;14;05;12 - 00;14;09;08
Natasha
It is the holidays. Don't on the real hot.
00;14;09;11 - 00;14;11;23
Ron Zappolo
I don't have to drink alone. You two clowns are leaving.
00;14;11;27 - 00;14;13;22
Woody Paige
No, I'm waiting for mine.
00;14;13;24 - 00;14;15;27
Ron Zappolo
Are you waiting for your. What do you needs? One.
00;14;15;28 - 00;14;16;12
Tom Green
What about.
00;14;16;13 - 00;14;17;15
Woody Paige
Tom? I am a bourbon.
00;14;17;15 - 00;14;19;14
Ron Zappolo
Drinker, I saw mine, we got to have.
00;14;19;14 - 00;14;22;09
Woody Paige
A and I. I've been to Breckenridge.
00;14;22;11 - 00;14;26;21
Tom Green
Matter of fact, many times. Matter of fact. Let's get rid of these window. Let's start judging bourbon.
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Natasha
I think my figure maybe that's next year.
00;14;29;09 - 00;14;31;26
Woody Paige
Forget the way this drink.
00;14;31;29 - 00;14;35;18
Ron Zappolo
This a better show. If we have a cocktail drinking?
00;14;35;20 - 00;14;36;16
Natasha
Yep. Exactly.
00;14;36;16 - 00;14;37;20
Tom Green
You always think it's better.
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Ron Zappolo
I'm going to go home. My wife's going to say, well, how was it today? And I'm gonna.
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Woody Paige
Good. Is that what you're gonna say? The police officer all the way home?
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Ron Zappolo
Well, you know what? Somebody is going to be a designated driver. Well, no, I'll be fine. Oh, I don't have far to go. One drink, you one drink does not, what would the what would the blood.
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Woody Paige
18,000 Scoville. Well.
00;14;59;16 - 00;15;01;03
Ron Zappolo
Maybe after nine wings.
00;15;01;05 - 00;15;03;16
Tom Green
The Scoville effect can really be dramatic.
00;15;03;17 - 00;15;04;27
Woody Paige
Yeah.
00;15;05;00 - 00;15;09;06
Ron Zappolo
You know, I was going to go smoke a cigar after this, but I might not.
00;15;09;07 - 00;15;10;16
Woody Paige
He's going to get more wings.
00;15;10;18 - 00;15;12;01
Tom Green
This is our whole night.
00;15;12;03 - 00;15;14;29
Natasha
Too easy on you guys. I'm just going to go ahead. We're we're going to. Oh, no.
00;15;14;29 - 00;15;16;11
Ron Zappolo
No no, don't go too. Don't go.
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Natasha
Jump. Number four.
00;15;17;17 - 00;15;18;14
Ron Zappolo
Is a question by.
00;15;18;14 - 00;15;23;29
Natasha
The way. Well I it was just going to be about who your favorite player is because you know maybe the who's the most fun.
00;15;24;01 - 00;15;24;23
Ron Zappolo
Man drink and.
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Woody Paige
You you know like.
00;15;26;13 - 00;15;31;03
Ron Zappolo
Wouldn't it be better if we just sat. Yeah. Drank an eight, talked about whatever we want to talk.
00;15;31;03 - 00;15;32;24
Tom Green
I think Alfred and C.J. are trying that.
00;15;32;29 - 00;15;37;00
Ron Zappolo
You know, they they don't do it better than us. But we've got two milkshakes. We can.
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Woody Paige
Get it. Let me change the question. This what? We can discuss. Who was in your life, your favorite player, your Red Sox.
00;15;45;21 - 00;15;52;09
Ron Zappolo
That is a great question. And off the top of my head, I'm going to go with Ted Williams.
00;15;52;12 - 00;15;59;15
Tom Green
See, I think your boy's heart is really important. So I was I got to see mantle play when I was growing up in New York.
00;15;59;15 - 00;16;00;16
Ron Zappolo
See your favorite?
00;16;00;18 - 00;16;25;16
Tom Green
Well, he was my first hero. Yeah, right. But but he was at the end when I saw him. I saw personally the old broken down mantle, but loved what he had. Bent. Yeah. I loved studying what he'd been. So I would say my true favorite player that I saw in his prime would have been Willis Reed. And then my secret one was to all the stars on the Yankees in those early, late 70s.
00;16;25;18 - 00;16;30;11
Tom Green
I, like the guy was quiet, did nothing but hit, and it was Chris Chambliss.
00;16;30;14 - 00;16;34;25
Ron Zappolo
Chris Love Chambliss. And, look at this. Hey, what do you guys get you guys?
00;16;34;26 - 00;16;35;18
Natasha
That's funny.
00;16;35;18 - 00;16;36;29
Woody Paige
Exactly.
00;16;37;01 - 00;16;39;18
Ron Zappolo
Now merry Christmas.
00;16;39;21 - 00;16;42;20
Woody Paige
Happy new year. Happy days.
00;16;42;22 - 00;16;43;20
Tom Green
Woodrow.
00;16;43;22 - 00;16;45;22
Natasha
Good year so far.
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Tom Green
All right, I'll.
00;16;46;11 - 00;16;47;15
Ron Zappolo
Give you one more. Two for.
00;16;47;15 - 00;16;49;00
Tom Green
Me. Well, let's get rid of these wings.
00;16;49;06 - 00;17;04;23
Ron Zappolo
Yeah, like, let's get rid of the wings. Oh, no. Of mine. Mine. You made a great point. Because Ted Williams, I was really young when he was. I saw the tail tail end of him. But growing up in Boston for me, because he was only a couple years older than me, Tony.
00;17;04;23 - 00;17;07;01
Tom Green
Conigliaro, that could have been story.
00;17;07;03 - 00;17;12;07
Ron Zappolo
Yeah, yeah, I know a lot of people would know that name, but he would have been one of the greatest players of all time.
00;17;12;07 - 00;17;33;13
Woody Paige
Woody I had two as a child, and partially that had to do with late well as a into my teenage years because that I was exposed to television sports. I wasn't as a kid, because, I listened to the Cardinals, radio. Yeah. And so stand the man. Mutual.
00;17;33;16 - 00;17;35;28
Ron Zappolo
Yep. I was going to pick Stan the Man.
00;17;36;04 - 00;17;41;22
Woody Paige
But I've got two others. Bob Cousy. Oh, I just loved him.
00;17;41;27 - 00;17;44;10
Ron Zappolo
Still alive and still doing well.
00;17;44;14 - 00;17;44;24
Woody Paige
Yeah.
00;17;44;24 - 00;17;45;07
Ron Zappolo
And yes.
00;17;45;12 - 00;17;46;27
Woody Paige
Met him in one of the nicest.
00;17;46;28 - 00;17;48;20
Tom Green
Yep. He is. It's all you ever hear.
00;17;48;20 - 00;17;51;11
Ron Zappolo
Yeah. He's like 97 years old.
00;17;51;13 - 00;17;58;12
Woody Paige
Now I got a Mickey mantle story and I'll keep it short. But I did idolize Mickey Mantle. Switch hitter.
00;17;58;13 - 00;17;59;07
Tom Green
Yeah.
00;17;59;10 - 00;18;08;08
Woody Paige
All the athletic talent in the world. And so he came out with a book. The mic.
00;18;08;15 - 00;18;09;18
Tom Green
Yeah.
00;18;09;20 - 00;18;14;11
Woody Paige
And there was a bookstore in Denver, in University Hills.
00;18;14;11 - 00;18;15;24
Tom Green
I was there, brought him in.
00;18;15;24 - 00;18;49;10
Woody Paige
Yep. I promoted it on radio that I idolized Mickey Mantle as a kid. I didn't get to see him play in person, that he was coming to town to promote this bestselling book. And the crowd was I promoted for weeks and weeks, actually, because we were going to be the only, place where he appeared. And on the show we were doing a remote, and he had friends that were out on Billy Martin was his closest.
00;18;49;10 - 00;18;50;21
Tom Green
Yeah. Billy and Whitey and.
00;18;50;21 - 00;19;06;15
Woody Paige
Billy Martin managed here and became a fan of, a motel restaurant that was on West Colfax, right. So he was going to go there for lunch and have lunch with the guy.
00;19;06;22 - 00;19;09;26
Tom Green
Eddie Bowen's pigeon whistle or something. But,
00;19;09;28 - 00;19;13;13
Woody Paige
So Mickey comes and there's 5000 people in that mall. If you were one.
00;19;13;13 - 00;19;16;05
Tom Green
Of them, I was there. No, I was there with the TV crew. Yeah, it.
00;19;16;05 - 00;19;43;28
Woody Paige
Was the biggest turnout other than Dallas, which was his hometown. And the idea, which had everybody agreed on the guy who brought him in from the the bookstore, was that he would do an hour with me and he would sign books for everybody that came out there. Well, Mickey arrived and had had a strong breakfast, I'll put it that way.
00;19;44;05 - 00;20;02;03
Woody Paige
He had been drinking. He was a bad drinker, and that was known throughout his life. And Mickey looked at the crowd and he said, I'm not signing books for all those people. I could hear him out of there. He was with his rep and he was talking to the bookstore owner, and he said, I'm not doing an hour on the radio.
00;20;02;03 - 00;20;20;17
Woody Paige
I'm not doing an hour. I'll do five minutes, you know, sign 20 books or something. And I said, well, you know, you agree dollars. And so he said, he came through. And I said, you know, you're supposed to do an hour, we can do a half hour, and I won't do any commercials, and we'll go through it. And he said, fuck you.
00;20;20;19 - 00;20;22;03
Woody Paige
This is a guy, right?
00;20;22;05 - 00;20;22;14
Ron Zappolo
Idolize.
00;20;22;20 - 00;20;45;25
Woody Paige
And he said, fuck you. And you didn't say my name, or he didn't shake my hand or anything. And he went back through the crowd. And so the crowd now is going to into what's going on. And, and if you were there and he said to the guy, you know, I'm going to lunch, I don't have. Which meant he was going drinking and he said, oh, science books and give me some and I'll send them back to you or something.
00;20;45;27 - 00;21;10;07
Woody Paige
And so the guy went over there and said, you know, we paid you like $10,000 to come in or something, and I'm going on the air with my introduction music, and I'm going to say, Mickey Mantle, who I've been telling you for weeks, I idolized as a kid who just told me, go, fuck yeah, yeah, do something I can't do physically to myself.
00;21;10;09 - 00;21;32;22
Woody Paige
And I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do because these people have come out to here on the radio to meet him, to get at the book side. And something happened. To this day, I still don't know what happened. And I'm saying, well, you know, here's what he page and we're on Qube where I was, and, Mickey Mantle was supposed to spend the next hour and there's about 5000 people here at the mall, and it's packed and everything.
00;21;32;22 - 00;21;49;02
Woody Paige
And I'm about to say, and Mickey's not going to do anything. The crowd open like the Red sea. It parted. Mickey said down, and he said, what a page. Let's spend an hour talking and afterward, and, whatever. They sweeten the pot or the guy said.
00;21;49;05 - 00;21;49;26
Ron Zappolo
Somebody did.
00;21;49;26 - 00;22;08;09
Woody Paige
Something happen and I didn't take a commercial break, you know, and people I said, the moment I take a commercial break, he's going to be out of here. Yeah, it'd be out of the mall. And so, he did talk to me for like, 40 minutes straight, and then he got up and said, what do you. It's been a pleasure to talk to you.
00;22;08;09 - 00;22;28;07
Woody Paige
I want to sign all these books for all these people. And the agreement was made that everybody signed a book. They would send them, they got their address, and they'd send him that. He was going to sign, like, 100 books and get out of there. And I went, man, Bob, I'd met Bob Cousy, who was the nicest guy in the world, and I met Mickey Mantle, who was.
00;22;28;10 - 00;22;30;23
Ron Zappolo
It's the worst thing about meeting your heroes.
00;22;30;28 - 00;22;33;05
Tom Green
They come in all stripes. They just, like, really do.
00;22;33;05 - 00;22;44;19
Ron Zappolo
And, you know, I did a half hour interview show for 15 years on Fox, and there were 3 or 4 people that I was so excited to interview. And it.
00;22;44;19 - 00;22;47;08
Tom Green
Wasn't there. It wasn't. Yeah, there you go. You got to see.
00;22;47;08 - 00;22;52;13
Ron Zappolo
I thought, well, okay. And they turned out to be great, but I got a question for you. You threw out one.
00;22;52;15 - 00;22;55;18
Natasha
Hold on. If we're doing another question, you got to do another dab. Go right.
00;22;55;18 - 00;22;56;20
Ron Zappolo
One more dab. We're getting out.
00;22;56;20 - 00;22;58;03
Natasha
Of the talent.
00;22;58;05 - 00;22;59;13
Ron Zappolo
Here's the.
00;22;59;16 - 00;23;00;02
Natasha
One's.
00;23;00;09 - 00;23;01;00
Ron Zappolo
For you.
00;23;01;02 - 00;23;02;02
Natasha
36,000.
00;23;02;03 - 00;23;02;21
Woody Paige
Here's your way.
00;23;02;22 - 00;23;04;19
Tom Green
Oh, double.
00;23;04;22 - 00;23;06;20
Ron Zappolo
Best sportswriter of all time.
00;23;06;23 - 00;23;07;19
Woody Paige
Jim Murray.
00;23;07;21 - 00;23;17;07
Tom Green
Yeah, I think the sports, the sportswriters all say Jim Murray. What? I'd have to think about this. What he paid. Let me bottom I'm.
00;23;17;07 - 00;23;18;04
Ron Zappolo
Going to give you an answer.
00;23;18;04 - 00;23;19;04
Woody Paige
Dan Jenkins.
00;23;19;09 - 00;23;20;01
Tom Green
Yeah.
00;23;20;04 - 00;23;28;05
Ron Zappolo
And for me would be right. Oh. Thank you. I'll tell you the truth. Bill Hughes did. God rest his soul. Yeah.
00;23;28;07 - 00;23;32;18
Woody Paige
Once you're done. Bill here today was the best. No. Oh.
00;23;32;20 - 00;23;35;26
Natasha
You're. Mike. Oh, sorry. I know we're drinking wine, drinking.
00;23;35;26 - 00;23;56;08
Ron Zappolo
We're reading. And in the interview, he said it was one of those word association things. And he said, best writer. And I said J.R. Moehringer. Oh, and the next day Mr. Dipshit over here called me and said, what the fuck, J.R. Moehringer, it's me. So I would say it's Woody.
00;23;56;09 - 00;23;57;06
Tom Green
Woody.
00;23;57;09 - 00;24;08;15
Ron Zappolo
I would say of all the current, because of the current group, I think Woody and, Dan Shaughnessy are the two best in the country.
00;24;08;18 - 00;24;09;26
Woody Paige
He's one of the best.
00;24;09;29 - 00;24;31;11
Ron Zappolo
He is. But he's he's no better than you. You had the same, he had the same kind of style that you had, but you had it in a little more entertaining, funnier way. You were funnier than Shaughnessy. And I remember you once telling me this. You said. And I'm. I hope I'm not telling the story out of school.
00;24;31;14 - 00;25;03;06
Ron Zappolo
You told me you said kids was a good columnist. But the problem he has, he writes negative shit. 100% of the time. Every once in a while, you got to write something nice about somebody and always remember that he said that because every once in a while, he would write something glowingly nice about somebody and not to get modeling or sentimental, but he wrote one column about me 25 years ago, and I don't save anything from my career.
00;25;03;08 - 00;25;14;06
Ron Zappolo
If you walked into my house, you wouldn't know what I did. Yeah, but I do have one thing saved. I have his column saved, and it's framed in my office. Well, I look so thank you for that.
00;25;14;10 - 00;25;41;05
Woody Paige
I read Smith was the first Pulitzer Prize winner that was a sportswriter to New York, columnist at was, considered the best of all time. Yeah, he met some people. So this group and that owned a motel and a restaurant in North Carolina, a small town in North Carolina, decided that there were awards for all the people in sports, but not for sportswriters.
00;25;41;05 - 00;26;09;29
Woody Paige
And they read newspapers and they read the New York Times and they said, why don't we give Red Smith an award we're having come down? We'll sure have a weekend. We'll have a big celebration. Nobody comes to this town. And so they got sponsors, the local grocery store and everything, and they decided to bring Red Smith down, promoted this thing and read Smith the week of the event, told him to go fuck me.
00;26;10;01 - 00;26;10;27
Tom Green
There's a theme here.
00;26;10;27 - 00;26;13;13
Woody Paige
There's a big theme on these stories.
00;26;13;13 - 00;26;14;10
Ron Zappolo
All have a theme.
00;26;14;10 - 00;26;43;15
Woody Paige
So they said, well, who's the second best sportswriter? And a guy said, well, let's don't do that. Let's name all the best sports writers and broadcasters in every state and we'll invite them to all come Salisbury, Salisbury, North Carolina. Then you both, you guys have won those awards, and I won a bunch of them. And, so I went to Salisbury and, I went just like 20 people.
00;26;43;17 - 00;26;56;21
Woody Paige
Yeah. Oh, yeah. But they got all the attention in the whole world because Red Smith wouldn't come down there. They said, okay, we'll just do everybody will invite them, and people who are from California gets going.
00;26;56;26 - 00;27;02;22
Tom Green
They'll come get an award. Yeah. You know, I, when I was growing up, Grantland Rice was my favorite.
00;27;02;25 - 00;27;03;20
Ron Zappolo
Who's the.
00;27;03;23 - 00;27;04;21
Tom Green
I would say, you hear him?
00;27;04;21 - 00;27;05;00
Ron Zappolo
I give you.
00;27;05;00 - 00;27;18;03
Tom Green
One, I'll give you my two. The funniest guy I always thought was Rick Riley. Rick. Rick could turn of phrase. He was funnier than anybody. And, but my favorite because of the books he wrote more specifically. And his NPR work was John Feinstein.
00;27;18;05 - 00;27;19;18
Ron Zappolo
John Feinstein was.
00;27;19;20 - 00;27;29;11
Tom Green
I mean, just for the season. On the brink was an incredible book. And then he'd written some other great books, but I liked him. He's another, God rest his soul guy. We lost him this year.
00;27;29;12 - 00;27;50;25
Ron Zappolo
And you know what? To Rick Riley's point, incredibly talented guy. And I spent a ton of time with Rick in the late 70s and the early 80s. But Rick got very famous. So did Woody. But I could still call Woody a clown, and I could still talk to him. Rick got to wear. So you can stop me at any point.
00;27;50;25 - 00;28;11;05
Ron Zappolo
Okay. But you like this, don't you? Yeah, because I don't dislike Rick. And I haven't talked to Rick in God knows how long, but we all got egos. Woody's got one, too. But I could talk to Woody, and he still treated me as somebody that he had some respect.
00;28;11;05 - 00;28;15;07
Tom Green
I'm a little disappointed because I'm going to get Rick on the other Tom. Great show.
00;28;15;09 - 00;28;21;28
Ron Zappolo
Rick. Listen, Rick's good, but he. Rick got big and he's saying nothing, but I know he.
00;28;21;28 - 00;28;51;24
Woody Paige
Can say whatever. I, he worked for the boulder camera. I went to dress classes when he went to University of Colorado, and he said, I'd like to be like you. And I like your writing. So. And I had I had, used two people as, style of writing gods to me. Kurt Vonnegut, who had an incredible salary.
00;28;51;24 - 00;29;01;09
Woody Paige
Sure. And when I speak to college classes, I have no idea. He's one of the greatest writers in American history, like Mark Twain, like a.
00;29;01;11 - 00;29;03;00
Natasha
That's a high compliment.
00;29;03;03 - 00;29;38;13
Woody Paige
Yeah. And the, other was Jim Murray. And so I kind of fuzed their styles and it developed into whatever it was. And, Rick told me that he was kind of Jim Murray and me and some others. I got him a job at the Denver Post, and that's funny. So we're covering the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, and Rick had left, and gone to the Los Angeles Times as a writer, not as a columnist.
00;29;38;15 - 00;29;56;23
Woody Paige
And Jim Murray was still there. And so he got to I got to be friends with Jim Murray, which was incredible in my life. Right. And Rick got closer because he was there. And it's sometimes called his butt zone. And so we're in the bathroom at the Olympics, and I said, I'm moving to write a general column. You got to come back to Denver.
00;29;56;28 - 00;30;18;17
Woody Paige
You're home and everything. And he said, I've got an offer to go to Sports Illustrated and kind of do a column. And I said, that's ridiculous idea. You need to come home. You know, that won't work. Yeah. And I said, you'll be the columnist of the Denver Post, and I'll out of it. We get into a fight. That's where we're it's pushing and shoving fight.
00;30;18;19 - 00;30;40;03
Woody Paige
And I said, you are an idiot. You are going to go. He was going to Sports Illustrated as a writer, not as a columnist. And I said, you just disappear into the air. Another guy says, yeah, you're just a whatever. And we are pushing each other into toilet stalls and people are coming in and thinking that, you know, somebody is going to be dying at the end of this.
00;30;40;06 - 00;30;57;16
Woody Paige
Well, he goes Sports Illustrated. He becomes the most famous sportswriter in America, and so he gets elected, sportswriter of the year right in Salisbury. Yes. And he calls me, he said, would you introduce me? Hey, would you be the guy that, he went on to write a movie? Yeah.
00;30;57;19 - 00;30;58;27
Ron Zappolo
He's he had a great.
00;30;58;27 - 00;31;01;22
Woody Paige
Career and several books and, yes.
00;31;01;24 - 00;31;02;21
Ron Zappolo
He had a great career.
00;31;02;24 - 00;31;04;19
Tom Green
Missing links. Great, great book.
00;31;04;26 - 00;31;06;03
Ron Zappolo
But you know what? He's right about.
00;31;06;03 - 00;31;07;02
Woody Paige
That, I told him, but.
00;31;07;02 - 00;31;07;18
Ron Zappolo
I have part.
00;31;07;18 - 00;31;18;04
Woody Paige
Of. But what you're saying. Yeah. He's lived. He lives in Italy and, yes, in L.A., and he's in a different world. He's one of John Elway's best friends.
00;31;18;07 - 00;31;19;12
Ron Zappolo
He is an idiot.
00;31;19;14 - 00;31;42;25
Woody Paige
I said to him, what's this my belief about Rick? I said, you're doing me, but you're doing me better, a lot better. Hey, he did. He he took. Yeah. I think all writers, broadcasters, sportscasters, the guy doing,
00;31;42;28 - 00;31;47;21
Woody Paige
Doing football and baseball now replaced Vin Scully.
00;31;47;23 - 00;31;50;05
Tom Green
Joe. Joe Davis, Joe Davis.
00;31;50;07 - 00;31;52;04
Woody Paige
You can hear some.
00;31;52;04 - 00;31;53;20
Ron Zappolo
Oh, yeah.
00;31;53;22 - 00;31;55;02
Tom Green
Well, history. Yeah.
00;31;55;02 - 00;31;56;10
Woody Paige
You podcasters, I.
00;31;56;10 - 00;31;57;18
Ron Zappolo
Think in every broadcast.
00;31;57;18 - 00;32;00;06
Tom Green
Well, you grow up reading or hearing or.
00;32;00;13 - 00;32;03;26
Woody Paige
Yeah, the Broncos. You had somebody in my.
00;32;03;27 - 00;32;11;12
Ron Zappolo
I can I can tell you I had going into it my whole style was part of like Warner.
00;32;11;12 - 00;32;12;16
Woody Paige
Wolff.
00;32;12;19 - 00;32;34;00
Ron Zappolo
Maury Povich, Marv Albert, Jim Marvelous and I was were guys that I all got to know and love and I, I proudly stole a little bit. Yeah, from all of them. And then you try to when you get there and the light goes on, you know this, you try to be yourself, but you're to what do you.
00;32;34;03 - 00;32;37;02
Tom Green
Yourself as part of that is the mosaic. Because all those people you.
00;32;37;02 - 00;32;39;05
Ron Zappolo
Influenced by all of that.
00;32;39;12 - 00;32;39;24
Woody Paige
Yeah.
00;32;39;24 - 00;32;40;09
Ron Zappolo
You know.
00;32;40;10 - 00;32;41;19
Woody Paige
Who was it for you?
00;32;41;22 - 00;32;50;18
Tom Green
Well, for me, Marv Albert and Marty Glickman were the two guys because I was trying to explain to someone, did you see the thing this week where the guy, the Philadelphia Fliers announcer, got suspended?
00;32;50;18 - 00;32;51;10
Ron Zappolo
Yes.
00;32;51;12 - 00;33;09;15
Tom Green
Yeah. So. And I was laughing about I'm going, you know, so few people actually listened to games on the radio anymore. But when we were young, half the games were only on radio. So you listen to those guys. And Marty Glickman, who I later learned is great story about being on the 1936 Olympic track team and Marv Albert.
00;33;09;15 - 00;33;15;29
Tom Green
You know, I just thought he had it made. You know, he'd do the 5:00, 6:00, go to the garden, call the game, do the job.
00;33;16;00 - 00;33;19;19
Ron Zappolo
He had the job that all of us wanted.
00;33;19;19 - 00;33;25;05
Woody Paige
And and both of, you know, their history of of the three Albert brothers.
00;33;25;08 - 00;33;32;02
Tom Green
Now, by the way, is watching this show. I got a mess. I did I got a I got a message and I said, oh, we're products of his sports talents.
00;33;32;03 - 00;33;33;05
Ron Zappolo
Well, exactly.
00;33;33;12 - 00;33;55;07
Woody Paige
Al became a friend. Yeah. A friend of both of you. I he was great. He was great. He got screwed around. Really? Yeah. Here. He should have been, Yeah. Kiki bent a wooden Kiki van to. Somebody wouldn't hire him. Oh, he was saying cranky. Kiki bent away. Was going to hire Al Albert to come back to do the nuggets, and I thought that was great.
00;33;55;07 - 00;34;03;10
Woody Paige
He's going to do it on TV. And, Stan Kroc, he said, I got a guy in Utah that I can pay a third of what you're paying all.
00;34;03;11 - 00;34;36;05
Ron Zappolo
Albert. Well, that's what that was, the genius of Carl Sheer, because Carl understood how important the broadcast was and how people, received the team based on how the broadcasters, told the story to the team. And he knew that al was great, and al was great and now had a great career. And I would put when it comes to play by play guys and that and just TV guys and broadcasters in general, I'd put Al and Marv up there against just about anybody.
00;34;36;05 - 00;34;37;07
Ron Zappolo
Yeah. And Stevie and.
00;34;37;07 - 00;34;37;23
Tom Green
Now Kenny.
00;34;37;23 - 00;34;52;08
Woody Paige
People, people who don't know that they grew up in. Yeah, I want to say that, but it was one of the. Yeah. New York City Western. And they'd sit in their basement and they would recreate. Yep. With the three of them. The three brothers and the three brothers became three of the great.
00;34;52;11 - 00;35;09;20
Ron Zappolo
You know, I worked with al forever, Stay Away and channel four. And al became such a good friend back in those days and remained a friend for a long time. And he introduced me to Marv. And at that point in my life, I thought it was so cool that I knew Mark. I know you know.
00;35;09;22 - 00;35;31;11
Woody Paige
It was he lived close to me in Manhattan, and we'd go to dinner, you know, at midnight I'm going to dinner with Marv Albert. But the Jim Murray thing, amazed me that Jim Murray, said, you know, I really like your writing, kid, and I would. It's because I keep up, you know?
00;35;31;13 - 00;35;32;11
Tom Green
But also, you're.
00;35;32;14 - 00;35;33;15
Ron Zappolo
He's reading.
00;35;33;18 - 00;35;34;10
Woody Paige
Me.
00;35;34;12 - 00;35;38;27
Tom Green
Hey, before we before we get on to the next source. Because we do have to move on a little bit.
00;35;39;00 - 00;35;41;05
Ron Zappolo
Yeah, because we want to get this done in the next ten minutes.
00;35;41;11 - 00;35;43;15
Woody Paige
But but we're keeping him. He's here.
00;35;43;16 - 00;35;45;01
Tom Green
I know, I know.
00;35;45;03 - 00;35;49;29
Natasha
But that's why he's he's talking so much. He's trying to deter. He's like.
00;35;50;02 - 00;35;53;12
Tom Green
I was just sipping my bourbon over here.
00;35;53;13 - 00;35;54;06
Ron Zappolo
My bourbon.
00;35;54;07 - 00;36;14;16
Tom Green
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Tom Green
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00;36;39;10 - 00;36;43;10
Tom Green
Backslash green. All right. Are we got to get back to the sources.
00;36;43;11 - 00;36;47;14
Ron Zappolo
We can pass the sources around, but let's keep the conversation going. Let me ask you.
00;36;47;16 - 00;36;49;01
Tom Green
We have to intro the source first.
00;36;49;02 - 00;36;57;06
Natasha
And say, speaking of fives, we're on our fifth one. This is Dawson's hot sauce, apple flavored. And it's 52,050.
00;36;57;06 - 00;37;02;11
Tom Green
2000. This is named after Andre Dawson and Len Dawson.
00;37;02;13 - 00;37;05;13
Natasha
It's old world bitter side. I think that's how I describe you.
00;37;05;13 - 00;37;07;13
Woody Paige
Gave him his nickname.
00;37;07;15 - 00;37;09;16
Natasha
And when he was with that.
00;37;09;18 - 00;37;27;06
Woody Paige
With the Denver Bears, they may have been the zippers by then. And I called him and it took me a while. I was wrong, but I called him awesome. Dawson. I went, that's stupid. He got a name when he went to Chicago.
00;37;27;09 - 00;37;27;24
Ron Zappolo
The hawk.
00;37;27;24 - 00;37;30;08
Woody Paige
The hawk? Yeah. So awesome. Dawson went.
00;37;30;08 - 00;37;31;03
Ron Zappolo
Away pretty hot.
00;37;31;05 - 00;37;32;06
Woody Paige
But he was a good guy.
00;37;32;07 - 00;37;43;07
Ron Zappolo
I liked him, I liked him, too. I remember my favorite story about Andre Dawson. I'm sitting in the channel four newsroom. That's a sports office watching a Cub game, because that's all we got back then. The Braves.
00;37;43;13 - 00;37;44;09
Woody Paige
This is okay.
00;37;44;10 - 00;38;04;24
Ron Zappolo
It's a it's a little hype for me, but no. So Harry Carey is doing a Cub game. It's in the middle of the afternoon and God love him. Andre Dawson is at the plate and he's talking to Steve Stone about a restaurant that he went to last night, and that the restaurant owner died of a heart attack that night.
00;38;04;24 - 00;38;15;11
Ron Zappolo
And he goes so full of life and so stone cold dead today. Here's a ball to Dawson.
00;38;15;14 - 00;38;19;10
Woody Paige
That's like rock solid, stone cold.
00;38;19;12 - 00;38;23;11
Ron Zappolo
I got a question. I got it hot. Yeah, I'm. I'm a lightweight. So it's.
00;38;23;11 - 00;38;25;26
Tom Green
Got apple. Caraway. Yeah. Caraway. It's got.
00;38;25;26 - 00;38;29;11
Ron Zappolo
It. Right. Well see this. These are not as hot as expected that they.
00;38;29;11 - 00;38;31;03
Tom Green
Were seeds you put in like rye bread.
00;38;31;03 - 00;38;32;19
Ron Zappolo
And let me ask you a question.
00;38;32;19 - 00;38;33;07
Tom Green
Yes, sir.
00;38;33;09 - 00;38;35;10
Ron Zappolo
Present company excluded.
00;38;35;10 - 00;38;36;12
Tom Green
Oh, geez.
00;38;36;15 - 00;38;40;05
Ron Zappolo
Who's the favorite person you ever worked with?
00;38;40;07 - 00;38;48;02
Tom Green
Doug, it's Doug. Moe. Doug. Moe. Yeah, I was those two years I spent with him on the radio were were you came at a perfect time, and he's the perfect guy.
00;38;48;02 - 00;38;50;09
Ron Zappolo
I had an answer for you, and I was wrong.
00;38;50;11 - 00;38;51;13
Tom Green
Who do you think it was, Kim?
00;38;51;13 - 00;38;52;12
Ron Zappolo
Somebody you just talked to?
00;38;52;12 - 00;38;59;04
Tom Green
Yeah. Kim Christensen. Yeah. Kim. I told Kim, sadly, directly to her face that she was my second favorite.
00;38;59;04 - 00;39;07;25
Ron Zappolo
Oh, you. I watched. Who was a favorite person you ever worked with?
00;39;07;27 - 00;39;09;14
Woody Paige
That do you mean.
00;39;09;17 - 00;39;18;26
Ron Zappolo
Like. I mean, like, at the post or even before then or after then somebody who you worked with for a long time, professional writer, like.
00;39;18;26 - 00;39;20;25
Woody Paige
Working with maybe an athlete?
00;39;20;28 - 00;39;22;27
Ron Zappolo
No, no, no, I mean, a guy in our.
00;39;22;27 - 00;39;39;01
Woody Paige
Business, probably among athletes. I had the greatest relationship of anybody, really in Denver with Tim Tebow, and that's not really well known. And he and I had totally different feelings about religion, but we discussed it all the time.
00;39;39;03 - 00;39;40;15
Tom Green
I didn't know he was into religion.
00;39;40;18 - 00;39;42;23
Natasha
Was he? Yeah. Weird.
00;39;42;26 - 00;39;44;13
Tom Green
I had not I had not, you.
00;39;44;13 - 00;39;53;22
Ron Zappolo
Know, we gotta wrap this up in about 15 minutes because I gotta go to the bathroom. I'm in an age where I've gotta go more and I can't hold that. I may have to watch the show.
00;39;53;25 - 00;40;01;01
Woody Paige
Is there okay if I go to the bathroom this year? Yeah. And he just sat there. Okay. Okay, okay. Did I just.
00;40;01;03 - 00;40;08;18
Ron Zappolo
But who was beyond I mean, somebody you worked with, like another coworker or a coworker?
00;40;08;21 - 00;40;09;21
Woody Paige
Here in Denver.
00;40;09;24 - 00;40;15;11
Ron Zappolo
It doesn't have to be Denver. It could be anywhere, but probably Denver, because you spent the last 50 some odd years.
00;40;15;11 - 00;40;17;28
Natasha
Already doing it. I feel like you got to say, Tony.
00;40;18;02 - 00;40;18;27
Ron Zappolo
You could say it.
00;40;18;27 - 00;40;21;03
Tom Green
Could be Natasha sitting right next.
00;40;21;03 - 00;40;25;28
Natasha
To you. I was trying not to take it personally because he said present company excluded. So I'm like, I know I did.
00;40;25;28 - 00;40;28;24
Ron Zappolo
I want to say not because I sat with Tom.
00;40;28;27 - 00;40;35;15
Woody Paige
What I wanted to say is I'd like a little bit, hey, you know what you got? You get a little. If they could.
00;40;35;18 - 00;40;36;28
Ron Zappolo
Get a little freshener, if you.
00;40;36;29 - 00;40;39;09
Woody Paige
Were doing the show by ourselves, that everybody in there.
00;40;39;09 - 00;40;42;19
Natasha
Well, we can go ahead and give you Scotch bonnet. Jerk.
00;40;42;19 - 00;40;44;10
Tom Green
What's the scoville on that?
00;40;44;15 - 00;40;47;02
Natasha
This one is 71,000.
00;40;47;02 - 00;40;48;23
Tom Green
71,000.
00;40;48;23 - 00;40;49;16
Natasha
Yeah, that.
00;40;49;16 - 00;40;50;09
Tom Green
Sounds like a lot.
00;40;50;16 - 00;40;51;18
Ron Zappolo
Just just a little.
00;40;51;20 - 00;40;52;03
Woody Paige
Just.
00;40;52;03 - 00;40;54;06
Natasha
Oh, no. I'm feeling like none of them mean anything.
00;40;54;06 - 00;40;55;29
Tom Green
A little freshener, thank you. Ashley.
00;40;56;05 - 00;40;57;25
Woody Paige
You somebody.
00;40;57;27 - 00;41;00;26
Natasha
Actually, everybody. It's a baby. Baby, baby.
00;41;00;27 - 00;41;05;15
Woody Paige
I really enjoyed working against Bob Resnick.
00;41;05;17 - 00;41;06;08
Tom Green
Kravitz. You mean.
00;41;06;08 - 00;41;08;12
Ron Zappolo
Bob Marley? How quickly we forget.
00;41;08;15 - 00;41;10;18
Tom Green
What he grabbed. You grab that.
00;41;10;20 - 00;41;19;22
Woody Paige
He's in Indianapolis. Is he still there? Yeah. He's not with the newspaper anymore. But the story is worth telling.
00;41;19;25 - 00;41;21;11
Ron Zappolo
Is this going to be a long story?
00;41;21;11 - 00;41;22;05
Woody Paige
Because it's going.
00;41;22;05 - 00;41;23;01
Natasha
To be usually one.
00;41;23;01 - 00;41;24;19
Woody Paige
Story. Okay, short.
00;41;24;22 - 00;41;25;20
Ron Zappolo
I don't want to have to hold.
00;41;25;20 - 00;41;30;29
Natasha
It should be like I Bronco games have got a radio in the bathroom, so you can just hear what's going on.
00;41;31;02 - 00;41;34;18
Ron Zappolo
This is fun. I didn't think this would be fun, but I'm having a good time.
00;41;34;19 - 00;41;36;02
Tom Green
Yeah, the conversation like this.
00;41;36;02 - 00;41;38;28
Woody Paige
This is what we do when we're not on the air or really.
00;41;39;01 - 00;41;41;14
Ron Zappolo
We can. Before you tell the story, let me just give you mine.
00;41;41;20 - 00;41;42;23
Tom Green
We can do this every week.
00;41;42;23 - 00;41;44;23
Ron Zappolo
And Natasha will like this answer.
00;41;44;25 - 00;41;46;09
Natasha
This is. Oh, you're my camera.
00;41;46;15 - 00;41;48;13
Woody Paige
This is good. This is good. Tom.
00;41;48;13 - 00;41;49;10
Natasha
You're like.
00;41;49;13 - 00;41;50;08
Tom Green
Oh, Scotch.
00;41;50;08 - 00;41;51;16
Ron Zappolo
Bonnet. I'm sorry.
00;41;51;18 - 00;41;52;13
Tom Green
Okay. Yeah.
00;41;52;15 - 00;41;59;29
Ron Zappolo
My favorite coworker of all time. Of all time is a woman that no one knows. Her name is Serena.
00;42;00;04 - 00;42;00;26
Tom Green
I know Serena.
00;42;00;26 - 00;42;29;26
Ron Zappolo
You know Serena. I can hardly talk about her without getting emotional. She was my, producer, of my interview show on Fox, and she was. I knew her when I worked at channel nine, and then I worked closely with her at Fox. She was without question, the most important person to me. Worked incredibly hard for me, for no credit, for no nothing.
00;42;30;02 - 00;42;53;09
Ron Zappolo
And I would try to give her credit on the air. I never did a good enough job. She was as thorough she was all the things that I was not. She was organized. She was thorough. She knew how to make calls. She knew how to hound people down. She knew every week we needed a guest, any kind of special I had to do, I would always lean on her.
00;42;53;09 - 00;42;55;18
Tom Green
I love that you mentioned her. I literally, I.
00;42;55;18 - 00;42;55;27
Ron Zappolo
Was the.
00;42;55;27 - 00;43;09;12
Tom Green
Best. Always going through my photo files. Like when I came and took pictures of you. I always you as well when I take these pictures. I just found holiday pictures. Serena and I down at South Glen mall and I was looking, I got Serena, I.
00;43;09;13 - 00;43;19;29
Ron Zappolo
Mean, she was the best. And, you know, I would take her. She would go with me because she would produce all of these interviews. And she was an incredibly attractive she still is woman and.
00;43;19;29 - 00;43;20;28
Tom Green
Good shape there, by.
00;43;20;28 - 00;43;37;27
Ron Zappolo
The way. Isn't that good. So that's a you know you got to get that. And these guys would fall in love with her, you know. And they'd all been like, hey, hey, hey, hey, her husband's a photographer here. That's and you. But she was she bailed me out for the better part of 15 years.
00;43;38;00 - 00;43;39;12
Tom Green
She would be never here. Do.
00;43;39;16 - 00;43;41;16
Ron Zappolo
And I've got a million. It would be number two.
00;43;41;16 - 00;43;42;10
Natasha
Oh my goodness.
00;43;42;10 - 00;43;53;11
Ron Zappolo
She'd be number one. And she'll always be in my Hall of Fame. I will never be able to repay her for the all the work that she did for. No.
00;43;53;17 - 00;43;57;19
Tom Green
When you put her on your Mount Rushmore, you took down Jim Sylvania.
00;43;57;19 - 00;44;07;25
Ron Zappolo
I had to take down Jim Sylvania. You know, the only thing I remember about Jim selling you, I remember Buddy Martin writing a column about Selena, and he ripped him.
00;44;07;25 - 00;44;09;24
Tom Green
The shrimp and Woody were tough over there.
00;44;09;26 - 00;44;14;09
Ron Zappolo
You know, Buddy and Woody, they threw some haymakers. You and buddy were buddies.
00;44;14;11 - 00;44;38;10
Woody Paige
When you talk about work with buddy and I attended so many, sports events together, and he was the sports editor and columnist, and we would sit in at exhibition games. Hardest thing for a sports columnist is an exhibition NFL game that ends at 11:00, and your deadline. And so we would sit there and he I said, he said, what do you got?
00;44;38;12 - 00;44;57;12
Woody Paige
And I got, I got nothing, I got nothing. And I look over there and he's typing and I said, what are you doing there? And he said, well, he always on the cover of Sports Illustrated. I'm just trying to play with that. And, you know, cover curses and Sports Illustrated. He said, there's no I'm not going to do that.
00;44;57;12 - 00;45;00;21
Woody Paige
I said, I'll take the hell out of that.
00;45;00;23 - 00;45;01;13
Tom Green
I'm in.
00;45;01;16 - 00;45;03;23
Woody Paige
I'm in. They said, great. Yeah, I don't.
00;45;03;23 - 00;45;04;19
Tom Green
Have to worry anymore.
00;45;04;19 - 00;45;31;24
Woody Paige
Thank you. So we checked it. We're at Pebble Beach for US open golf tournament. We check in the hotel and it's like three. It's low. Low for story, but it's about five different things in that area around Pebble Beach. And we said, are we close? And they said, not really, but you want to be close. And I said, yeah, I'd like to be on the same floor because we'd hang out.
00;45;31;27 - 00;45;46;17
Woody Paige
And it's a Rick Riley story, too. And so, they said, here your rooms. So we're going and I'm walking to them. That's a we're on the same floor. And he said, yeah, we're on the same floor. We're different.
00;45;46;20 - 00;45;59;09
Woody Paige
Here's the Rick Raley story buddy bar tonight. You that's who I work with. Buddy and I are covering the Saint Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Braves, Milwaukee Brewers, world Series 82.
00;45;59;11 - 00;45;59;25
Ron Zappolo
Yeah.
00;45;59;25 - 00;46;22;27
Woody Paige
Okay, here's the deal. So we're in his room. It's the day of the game in Saint Louis. It's going to be the seventh game. There's a break between six. And so, he said order some rooms over. So I get potato chips and onion dip. Yeah. And it comes in. I signed it and he said, how much was it because he was sports?
00;46;23;01 - 00;46;26;06
Woody Paige
I said, $19, $90 for chips.
00;46;26;06 - 00;46;27;03
Tom Green
Nice.
00;46;27;06 - 00;46;29;09
Woody Paige
And I said I gave him a nice tip.
00;46;29;11 - 00;46;30;09
Ron Zappolo
It's what it's like.
00;46;30;11 - 00;46;34;29
Tom Green
So the Denver Post used to send two columnists to the World Series?
00;46;35;04 - 00;46;58;23
Woody Paige
Yes, because it was me, buddy. He was the sports editor. He'd say, you know, I'll go to the Good Masters every year when you're at the Masters. We're sitting there and and there's typewriters back there, not computers. Yeah. And he said, I just wrote a poem. And I said, did you write? He said, hundreds of typewriters going click, click and producing shit, shit, shit.
00;46;58;25 - 00;47;00;13
Tom Green
I was worried it was going to be one of those limericks.
00;47;00;13 - 00;47;25;18
Woody Paige
So. Yeah. So we're in there. We're eating snacks. And I get a call from Rick Rowley, who's a writer for the Denver Post, and he's interviewing Dennis Hill in Kentucky. Okay. And had retired and was, or maybe he but he had horses. And so he went down to his ranch or whatever, farm and horses. And he said, I've spent two days with Dennis.
00;47;25;18 - 00;47;45;04
Woody Paige
So is there anything else I should ask him? That you think of that I would know. And I said, well, what has been the theme? And so we talked for a few minutes and I said, when are you going back to Denver? He said, tomorrow. I said, well, we're in Saint Louis. Why don't you come to Saint Louis?
00;47;45;04 - 00;48;10;17
Woody Paige
You can stay in my room. It's the seventh game of the World Series where this true story. And he said, I could do that. I've never seen a major League baseball game. This is the Rick Rowley of. Yeah. And I said, what? Check what the. You know what it cost you more to go and I'll buddies proofs things and he calls you back and he said, if I go through Saint Louis and I stay in your room, it'll be $19.
00;48;10;20 - 00;48;19;09
Woody Paige
And I said, buddy, we could get some more snacks or we could bring Rick Rowley is.
00;48;19;15 - 00;48;20;13
Ron Zappolo
What's going to be.
00;48;20;19 - 00;48;22;07
Woody Paige
Let me see. I swear it's.
00;48;22;10 - 00;48;23;08
Tom Green
The onion dip, he.
00;48;23;08 - 00;48;41;08
Woody Paige
Said. How much it was potato chips that I give us about $22 if you count the dip. I put $3. That's what he said. Tell Rick to come here. We'll have him write the lead. Yeah. Instead of one of us writing, you can do the story. And the other one, right? Call me to both have him, and we'll both write columns where the true story.
00;48;41;15 - 00;49;03;02
Woody Paige
So he flies in. I had I change to a room that has to. I don't want him sleeping in king bed with. And we go to game and we got him a press pass and everything, and he's in the right field. Press right auxiliary. Whatever game ends, it's dark. We been in three different places and. But he said, what would you write what.
00;49;03;03 - 00;49;33;22
Woody Paige
You know. So I really, Saint Louis oh Milwaukee won the World Series. It was a six game or civic. You know, a Malky won. That's what I wrote about. And but he said, I wrote it. And we turned to Rick and said, well, what did you write? He said, man, being at my first major league game and it's a seventh game of the World Series, he said, I started my lead with it just wasn't in the cards.
00;49;33;24 - 00;49;34;18
Woody Paige
And I said.
00;49;34;20 - 00;49;35;19
Ron Zappolo
Really, you?
00;49;35;22 - 00;49;37;14
Woody Paige
You could write anything, but don't.
00;49;37;14 - 00;49;38;26
Ron Zappolo
Don't write that.
00;49;38;29 - 00;49;42;08
Woody Paige
And he said, can I? We didn't have cell phones and they did.
00;49;42;09 - 00;49;42;19
Tom Green
Yeah, yeah.
00;49;42;20 - 00;49;56;26
Woody Paige
He said, do you think we can go over to the pay phone. Yeah. He it called. And that was Rick Riley's first, first major sports of it. Yeah. Fun for him. So buddy and I were like all over the world.
00;49;56;28 - 00;49;58;22
Ron Zappolo
Hey speaking of Dennis will.
00;49;58;24 - 00;49;59;13
Natasha
Hold on.
00;49;59;14 - 00;50;00;15
Ron Zappolo
I.
00;50;00;18 - 00;50;03;29
Natasha
We got it. You know, we were talking about game seven. We to do for seven.
00;50;03;29 - 00;50;07;26
Woody Paige
You didn't need that. You got to I tried it was good. It is good.
00;50;07;28 - 00;50;09;28
Ron Zappolo
But we're getting ready to go. We haven't been that.
00;50;10;02 - 00;50;12;10
Natasha
We've only got a couple more weeks. I saw.
00;50;12;12 - 00;50;12;26
Ron Zappolo
I saw.
00;50;12;27 - 00;50;14;20
Natasha
Pepper Ninja coming out Saturday.
00;50;14;20 - 00;50;16;25
Ron Zappolo
At the nugget game and, big P looked.
00;50;16;25 - 00;50;17;14
Woody Paige
Good.
00;50;17;16 - 00;50;18;08
Tom Green
I have.
00;50;18;16 - 00;50;18;23
Woody Paige
To get.
00;50;18;25 - 00;50;20;28
Tom Green
Dan I know on the other time. Yeah, but.
00;50;20;29 - 00;50;21;11
Ron Zappolo
You got to.
00;50;21;11 - 00;50;22;13
Tom Green
Get and they.
00;50;22;19 - 00;50;22;26
Ron Zappolo
Got to.
00;50;22;26 - 00;50;24;06
Woody Paige
Get there. They just honored him.
00;50;24;14 - 00;50;27;15
Ron Zappolo
Yeah they did. He was just there. And I talked to Dan.
00;50;27;19 - 00;50;28;08
Woody Paige
Ninja.
00;50;28;09 - 00;50;29;05
Ron Zappolo
Once or twice.
00;50;29;05 - 00;50;37;13
Woody Paige
You know it's it's got an interesting name. Did you you didn't pay attention. Which is it. Ninja napalm okay. I'm not I'm.
00;50;37;14 - 00;50;41;05
Ron Zappolo
Attracted. Why don't you. You've. Come on. You have done.
00;50;41;05 - 00;50;42;25
Woody Paige
Well. I'm proud to have another drink.
00;50;42;28 - 00;50;44;25
Natasha
You don't want lime juice and curry.
00;50;44;29 - 00;50;50;02
Woody Paige
Hey. Take it. Hey, take your glass off a new partner over here. Know.
00;50;50;04 - 00;50;51;23
Natasha
Make sure your mic.
00;50;51;23 - 00;50;52;07
Ron Zappolo
Is.
00;50;52;09 - 00;50;53;13
Tom Green
The folks have furniture.
00;50;53;14 - 00;50;55;11
Woody Paige
Oh, I put it here.
00;50;55;14 - 00;50;56;19
Ron Zappolo
There you go. I can put it over you.
00;50;56;19 - 00;50;59;11
Woody Paige
I think you can get through this one. This would be the one. You.
00;50;59;12 - 00;51;06;01
Tom Green
It's just ninja napalm. I mean, how bad could it be? Thank you. All right.
00;51;06;01 - 00;51;06;12
Ron Zappolo
Let me see.
00;51;06;12 - 00;51;07;18
Natasha
Scorpion peppers.
00;51;07;18 - 00;51;12;28
Tom Green
What is the. And what is the Scoville on Ninja napalm 133,000.
00;51;13;00 - 00;51;15;10
Ron Zappolo
Come on now.
00;51;15;12 - 00;51;18;13
Woody Paige
Fuck!
00;51;18;16 - 00;51;19;27
Ron Zappolo
Jesus, God.
00;51;19;28 - 00;51;22;05
Natasha
Say that into your mic. Tell us how bad it is.
00;51;22;10 - 00;51;23;19
Woody Paige
So once.
00;51;23;19 - 00;51;24;09
Ron Zappolo
It is, I said.
00;51;24;12 - 00;51;27;00
Woody Paige
Fucking Jesus. God, what are you doing?
00;51;27;00 - 00;51;30;29
Ron Zappolo
Oh, my nose is going to run to 5:00.
00;51;31;02 - 00;51;32;18
Woody Paige
You know you're not on the.
00;51;32;18 - 00;51;34;08
Tom Green
News and it's 830.
00;51;34;10 - 00;51;36;15
Natasha
Today. Yeah. I hope you guys don't have anywhere to be.
00;51;36;17 - 00;51;57;05
Ron Zappolo
You don't watch the news now. I can't imagine doing the news. I feel like a I don't know how you feel. I feel like an old NFL player because I remember when I was doing the preseason games, I would sit on the stand on the side of, God, that's hot. I would stand on the sideline and I would, what, do you get.
00;51;57;07 - 00;51;58;29
Woody Paige
Something wrong with that?
00;51;59;01 - 00;52;11;06
Ron Zappolo
And invariably, I'd sit down on Alumni Day with a couple of guys that I knew. Oh, and they would look at me and they'd say, that's hot. I don't give a shit. I know what he's what he's done. All right.
00;52;11;08 - 00;52;12;27
Tom Green
What do you got? The late vibe.
00;52;12;28 - 00;52;33;00
Ron Zappolo
You got the late one? I'm like, that is what's left. We're got to finish the story. So I would stand there all. Thank you. I would stand there. Oh, God. And some NFL ex NFL player who I know would say, I can't believe I did that. And I go, why? Let me say it's too violent. It's too physical.
00;52;33;07 - 00;52;34;13
Tom Green
That's how you feel.
00;52;34;15 - 00;52;46;27
Ron Zappolo
And I feel that way about watching the news because I don't watch the news much. That's great. Thank you. I, I don't watch it much, but when I do watch it, I don't think I could do it for a lot of reasons.
00;52;46;27 - 00;52;48;08
Tom Green
Yeah. No, I agree, I.
00;52;48;09 - 00;52;48;20
Ron Zappolo
Don't think I.
00;52;48;20 - 00;52;55;24
Tom Green
Could. I prefer to without saying that I couldn't do it or I don't like it anymore. I think I just say I.
00;52;55;25 - 00;52;56;05
Ron Zappolo
Choose.
00;52;56;05 - 00;52;59;27
Tom Green
Not to. Well, I'm just saying, I think I just I'm glad I wrapped up when I wrapped.
00;52;59;27 - 00;53;00;18
Ron Zappolo
Up my time too.
00;53;00;18 - 00;53;01;13
Tom Green
I think it was time.
00;53;01;14 - 00;53;02;25
Ron Zappolo
But you know what? I went.
00;53;02;25 - 00;53;03;24
Tom Green
For it.
00;53;03;26 - 00;53;24;06
Ron Zappolo
Me too. And I got out earlier than you. And I just got to say, and, you know, we don't get into this much. But in this Trump era of politics, I'm not sure that I could have kept a straight face, as much as I would have needed to, to do that day in, day out weekend.
00;53;24;06 - 00;53;24;28
Tom Green
Because you really.
00;53;24;28 - 00;53;26;20
Ron Zappolo
Do know I'm about to blow my nose.
00;53;26;20 - 00;53;33;24
Tom Green
But when you are. But when you are the news anchor, you really have to almost up a cipher. You have to be. You don't let on.
00;53;33;26 - 00;53;36;14
Ron Zappolo
You don't. And I would have had a hard time.
00;53;36;14 - 00;53;48;00
Tom Green
Now everyone lets on. But it's also it's tricky because you get defined. Everyone's dying to define you as us or them. And once, as soon as you let them know you're up for them, they'll never.
00;53;48;03 - 00;54;11;01
Woody Paige
I have a question for both of you. I just watched on YouTube. It popped up bloopers by anchors, music, sacred local musicians. And there's the men and woman doing the news. They said there's been a bank robbery today, and police have supplied us with a sketch of of the.
00;54;11;03 - 00;54;12;14
Natasha
Oh, it's silly face.
00;54;12;17 - 00;54;13;02
Woody Paige
It's.
00;54;13;05 - 00;54;14;18
Tom Green
No, it's like a stick figure.
00;54;14;18 - 00;54;23;13
Woody Paige
It looks exactly like look like, looks like a male anchor. And she's laughing so much. I needed to do it.
00;54;23;15 - 00;54;31;17
Ron Zappolo
If you ever do that, though, Natasha, if you go to YouTube and just Google in their famous TV anchor bloopers.
00;54;31;17 - 00;54;39;06
Tom Green
Well, wait, there's two things I gotta say. One is I've did it for 40 plus years and never had a blooper. Never, never made any mistakes.
00;54;39;06 - 00;54;40;28
Ron Zappolo
It was, I tell you were amazing.
00;54;41;02 - 00;54;41;11
Tom Green
It was.
00;54;41;11 - 00;54;44;12
Ron Zappolo
I had about six of them there I can still find.
00;54;44;16 - 00;55;10;15
Tom Green
But you said the the crime sketch. Mike Nolan told the best story before Mike ever got to Denver. He worked in other towns, including his hometown of Buffalo and in Buffalo. There was a guy who worked at WJR, which later became GRC, I think. But the weatherman guy named Frank Benny does the early show goes out and robs a bank.
00;55;10;17 - 00;55;26;06
Tom Green
Comes back and does the Late Show. Right. So they they finally identify Frank Benny as the robber. So Frank Benny is arrested and convicted of bank robbery, apparently had gambling debts or something.
00;55;26;09 - 00;55;27;07
Woody Paige
Oh, no.
00;55;27;09 - 00;55;39;25
Tom Green
So he he is convicted of robbing a bank, which he was able to do in between shows out of desperation. Of course, Frank serves his time shortened for good behavior, does a couple years. He put him right back on the air.
00;55;39;28 - 00;55;41;13
Natasha
That's crazy.
00;55;41;20 - 00;55;45;12
Tom Green
Got a cold front coming in off Lake Erie here at the end.
00;55;45;14 - 00;55;46;23
Ron Zappolo
There's a million story, I think.
00;55;46;23 - 00;55;50;25
Woody Paige
What what do you think would be your worst? What are your worst?
00;55;50;28 - 00;55;53;19
Ron Zappolo
Oh my God I don't I don't.
00;55;53;19 - 00;55;54;02
Woody Paige
Know why you're.
00;55;54;02 - 00;56;01;25
Natasha
Talking here as we're talking about the worst. This is notoriously the bomb beyond insanity. I can't it's not my fault, but it's apparently.
00;56;01;28 - 00;56;03;11
Ron Zappolo
That last one threw me for.
00;56;03;14 - 00;56;04;07
Tom Green
This is number eight.
00;56;04;07 - 00;56;05;00
Woody Paige
So he's out.
00;56;05;00 - 00;56;06;20
Natasha
We're so close, Ron.
00;56;06;20 - 00;56;24;03
Ron Zappolo
You know, I was sitting with. I was sitting on channel four one day with Marty Aaron's when he was doing a story about Colorado. Rocky Mountain oysters called them bulls. Bulls? Yes. They came out to me to do sports, and I was I couldn't really get there. I couldn't get a handle.
00;56;24;03 - 00;56;25;03
Tom Green
That's just a pass through.
00;56;25;03 - 00;56;29;01
Woody Paige
There was a famous, woman anchor at channel four.
00;56;29;01 - 00;56;30;00
Tom Green
What's the number?
00;56;30;02 - 00;56;32;29
Natasha
Oh, McFadden. 135.
00;56;32;29 - 00;56;37;28
Ron Zappolo
Yeah, it was her. I sat with her. Yeah, I sat with everybody again.
00;56;37;28 - 00;56;38;22
Natasha
I she.
00;56;38;25 - 00;56;39;19
Tom Green
Mainly just.
00;56;39;22 - 00;56;41;24
Ron Zappolo
Loved her. She people absolutely loved.
00;56;41;27 - 00;56;46;20
Woody Paige
Oh, yeah. And she said things like she said. Well today she.
00;56;46;20 - 00;56;48;01
Ron Zappolo
Was very nice. Yeah.
00;56;48;01 - 00;56;49;19
Woody Paige
The douche mark.
00;56;49;22 - 00;57;12;22
Ron Zappolo
Okay. I was also sitting next to her when she said douche marks. Okay. It was me, Bob Palmer, Madeline and Larry Green. And she said, douche marks. And what I remembered about it is Bob Palmer, God rest his soul. He had his glasses on. And when she said it, he looked over at me like this.
00;57;12;24 - 00;57;21;28
Woody Paige
Oh, forgive me. And I couldn't stop. Ron, you gotta have this. This is. This is the greatest. Hi, Charles. It's.
00;57;22;00 - 00;57;24;07
Ron Zappolo
Yeah, yeah, I gotta go.
00;57;24;13 - 00;57;30;03
Natasha
That was our. Yeah. Jump. It actually doesn't go up too high and I'm good getting me. Oh, you know, I.
00;57;30;03 - 00;57;35;16
Ron Zappolo
Do remember this is the worst. That's. Tell them to be honest, it's like your hair is going to grow.
00;57;35;17 - 00;57;38;27
Tom Green
The hardest part about a blooper isn't the blooper.
00;57;38;27 - 00;57;40;02
Ron Zappolo
It's the reason. It's what.
00;57;40;02 - 00;57;41;04
Tom Green
Happens after.
00;57;41;04 - 00;57;42;03
Ron Zappolo
The like.
00;57;42;09 - 00;57;43;00
Woody Paige
You tried this?
00;57;43;01 - 00;57;45;20
Tom Green
Yeah, I just did. It's really hot. It's.
00;57;45;22 - 00;57;47;03
Woody Paige
I was you guys.
00;57;47;06 - 00;57;50;21
Natasha
I had to decide. Are you just incredibly so I can go to unaffected?
00;57;50;24 - 00;57;54;20
Ron Zappolo
I guarantee you, if they think that's hot, it's good for all of this.
00;57;54;22 - 00;57;59;11
Natasha
Okay. No time. We'll wrap it up. Only got two left. Give it back to me. That was two more. Three.
00;57;59;13 - 00;58;02;10
Ron Zappolo
Fight. Let Tom and Woody do 820.
00;58;02;10 - 00;58;03;16
Natasha
This job.
00;58;03;18 - 00;58;05;05
Woody Paige
Okay? Oh, yeah.
00;58;05;07 - 00;58;07;03
Ron Zappolo
You're right about the bloopers, I can't.
00;58;07;05 - 00;58;09;16
Tom Green
So in the old days when we used to have people in the.
00;58;09;16 - 00;58;10;18
Woody Paige
Studio but just.
00;58;10;21 - 00;58;17;16
Tom Green
Not robotic, and when the camera operators and the floor director would all fall out laughing, you knew you'd done it back.
00;58;17;20 - 00;58;19;03
Ron Zappolo
You knew you'd done it. Yeah.
00;58;19;05 - 00;58;20;19
Woody Paige
Okay.
00;58;20;22 - 00;58;21;21
Ron Zappolo
I do remember a lot.
00;58;21;23 - 00;58;22;09
Natasha
Yeah.
00;58;22;11 - 00;58;24;02
Woody Paige
I would, I didn't know you're the bomb.
00;58;24;02 - 00;58;24;27
Tom Green
You don't want to bomb?
00;58;24;27 - 00;58;31;24
Ron Zappolo
No, I don't want to know. You don't. But I do remember. I do remember douche marks. That was a that was a blast.
00;58;31;25 - 00;58;38;11
Woody Paige
So, whoever Ed Nelson, there were one of the with him, and she said, you know, what about the snow?
00;58;38;11 - 00;58;41;02
Ron Zappolo
You probably the this six. Yeah, there's a six inches.
00;58;41;02 - 00;58;43;00
Woody Paige
And was he.
00;58;43;00 - 00;58;46;08
Ron Zappolo
Did whatever it was. Yeah. But there have been a lot of.
00;58;46;08 - 00;58;52;16
Woody Paige
Oh, God. Yeah. Oh I yeah, I'm stupid myself. Lucky I died.
00;58;52;19 - 00;58;56;08
Ron Zappolo
Yeah I did I can't the literally guys I'm trying to hang with you guys.
00;58;56;10 - 00;58;57;14
Tom Green
Nine and ten left.
00;58;57;21 - 00;58;59;09
Natasha
So. Yeah. Well that was up there.
00;58;59;10 - 00;58;59;26
Woody Paige
Okay.
00;58;59;28 - 00;59;02;25
Natasha
Arbol Scorpion 820,000.
00;59;02;26 - 00;59;09;09
Ron Zappolo
We're losing cool in this quickly. We need to wrap. Yeah, yeah, we need. It's. You know what? We're way past.
00;59;09;09 - 00;59;12;21
Woody Paige
Our. No. But I was gonna tell you about Kevin story, which is?
00;59;12;26 - 00;59;13;18
Tom Green
He got it.
00;59;13;21 - 00;59;16;11
Natasha
Got a and Barrett Woodrow.
00;59;16;14 - 00;59;16;26
Woody Paige
There was a.
00;59;16;26 - 00;59;19;03
Natasha
Newspaper. He's like, if I just pretend she doesn't exist.
00;59;19;04 - 00;59;25;11
Woody Paige
A newspaper War broadcasting board. Yep. Denver. For people who missed it.
00;59;25;13 - 00;59;26;10
Ron Zappolo
It was fun.
00;59;26;12 - 00;59;45;05
Woody Paige
Kravitz and I are on the way to Brooklyn. Super Bowl in New Orleans, right? And he said, I've never been Dodge. Can you tell me some stuff about it? I said, well, I'll take you out one night. That's what he said. How about tonight? And I said, good. Yeah, we're getting there. Before the broadcast, the sun said that.
00;59;45;08 - 01;00;07;11
Woody Paige
So we leave the hotel, we go to an oyster bar, I get a 12 oysters and I pour hot sauce on it. It's, you know, thing. And he goes, boy, this is great. It's fantastic. He said, let's get a dozen more. I said, it's pretty hot and stuff. I said, okay, bring us that other hot sauce, bring that to you had that.
01;00;07;14 - 01;00;26;13
Woody Paige
Then he wants to go to a jazz club. So we're going to ask God, we drink. We got a paddle. Brian's. He gets a hurricane. He said, I like this. I'd like another beer. So then we got a, he wants to go to a strip joint. Go to strip Joy. I will tell you what happened there, but it was $170 later for him.
01;00;26;16 - 01;00;45;05
Woody Paige
And we're going up. We're going up and down Bourbon Street. And he said, we need to get some dinner. So we stop and get, you know, blackened redfish or something and pour hot chocolate on these. So we go to the place that has been using the chicory, the.
01;00;45;06 - 01;00;47;00
Tom Green
Oh, I can't remember the name, but there's.
01;00;47;02 - 01;00;49;15
Woody Paige
The cafe where Cafe demon.
01;00;49;15 - 01;00;50;16
Tom Green
Demand.
01;00;50;18 - 01;00;54;18
Woody Paige
And so we get a dozen.
01;00;54;21 - 01;01;14;29
Woody Paige
Of the donuts, and we leave, and he goes, man, it's been an incredible night. You show me all of this. So. Yeah. Okay, so we're getting a cab and we get into cab and Terry Bread coast Bradshaw comes over. Woody, can I join you to go back to hotel? Sure. Go back to hotel. I've shorten this story by an hour.
01;01;15;01 - 01;01;17;15
Woody Paige
The next day is the media day.
01;01;17;18 - 01;01;18;14
Tom Green
The circus.
01;01;18;17 - 01;01;37;16
Woody Paige
And so we go, and there's four people, 4 or 5 writers from the Denver Post and 4 or 5 writers from the Rocky Mountains. We're all there except Kravitz's Mitzi. And somebody swears Bob. Bob has been in the hospital.
01;01;37;18 - 01;01;40;08
Woody Paige
He was carried by the ambulance to. Oh.
01;01;40;10 - 01;01;42;06
Tom Green
Gary, it's Bobby and I turned.
01;01;42;09 - 01;01;49;01
Woody Paige
I turned all the guys and I said, I got my guy. Yeah, that's you. Now it's up to you guys.
01;01;49;04 - 01;01;53;09
Tom Green
So the Broncos losing 5510 was nothing. Nothing.
01;01;53;11 - 01;01;59;27
Woody Paige
He was in the hospital for a week because of the second hurricane and stuff like that.
01;01;59;29 - 01;02;04;03
Ron Zappolo
You took him to a strip club. Can I tell you my favorite my favorite show.
01;02;04;03 - 01;02;08;11
Natasha
But they ask for do they ask for one? Are you guys. I'm doing well. Yeah.
01;02;08;13 - 01;02;11;19
Woody Paige
You have the last one we have. We have two more. Tom and I.
01;02;11;19 - 01;02;13;10
Natasha
Are. I've been traveling in this. You. You were.
01;02;13;17 - 01;02;15;29
Woody Paige
Not well. Yeah. Did you try.
01;02;15;29 - 01;02;23;28
Natasha
It or not I don't. Oh, you were looking that way. I've been like that last Tom. Got it. Yeah, that one was rough.
01;02;24;00 - 01;02;29;12
Ron Zappolo
My favorite strip club story. The Houston Rockets are in town to play the everybody's.
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Woody Paige
A favorite.
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Ron Zappolo
Strip club. So my late, my late great friend Kim who has.
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Woody Paige
A nickname I want Rhonda smell it.
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Ron Zappolo
To decide that's. No we're not going to do that.
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Tom Green
That's the scorpion arbol scorpion. He's probably got another million.
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Natasha
No positive Tony. Right. And he said I know when to quit. I, I don't need to show up. I'm a.
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Woody Paige
Drug. That's not as bad as the bomb.
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Tom Green
Go ahead with your story.
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Ron Zappolo
Oh, it's a quick story. Yeah. So Kim Hughes says to me, he calls me and says, hey, let's go down and catch the Rockets Nuggets game because he was in town for something. He goes, because I want to go out with two good friends of mine. You like them? One of them is Mike broad and the other one was crazy low.
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Ron Zappolo
I said, okay, so we go to the game, so we're in the, you know, the the loading dock kind of area that Mike Nichols there and Craig ELO comes out and Mike broads comes out and they say to us, hey, do you mind if we, bring a key, you one with us? Mike? I don't give a shit.
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Ron Zappolo
Kim goes, Don don't care. So Craig, he looks at me. I didn't know it all. And he says, well, if if the king comes, we got to do what I tell him. What's so got.
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Woody Paige
Me?
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Ron Zappolo
The king comes out and Mike broad says to him, what do you want to do? And the king says, I want to see American titties. So long story short, we're at Shotgun Willie's. The four of us are having cocktails up at the bar, and Akeem Olajuwon one's got $1,000 in $10, and he's out there having a great time.
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Ron Zappolo
That's it.
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Woody Paige
I got to see both sides to play in a charity golf tournament.
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Ron Zappolo
Three of them. Really? This is going into the toilet.
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Woody Paige
Craig Borden and Craig Penrose were the top two quarterbacks of the Broncos. They're playing in the charity tournament with me. We go out and get stinking drunk the night before the tournament starts. They're sliding down the banister in the window, and they both fall in love on each other and they both get hurt.
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Woody Paige
First day of practice is when the tournament ends. They're both, like twisted. There it goes, hurting the knees and stuff. First day and Red Miller announces he's still a coach. That, we're going to start practice, training camp without our top two quarterbacks. Craig Morgan was throwing to some wide receivers of Toulouse like Greg Penrose was, you know, in California.
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Woody Paige
And he stepped off a curb right now. And I'm sitting there having to write about this feeling. I wish that would happen. So I'm writing. It's the only real lie I've ever read in my life. Regret being injured.
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Tom Green
You got to just quote the guy that I just got to go with what Red said.
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Woody Paige
So anyway, how's.
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Ron Zappolo
Craig Morton doing?
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Woody Paige
He's in California. He was responsible for. He was the one who put together the 77 celebrations this year.
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Ron Zappolo
Okay.
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Woody Paige
He works for Stanford. Cal has a fundraiser. Yeah, he's got a title of some sort. He's, Like all of us.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah. Love the. Craig's got to be better.
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Tom Green
The last report I saw was, that's. Writer had just got it.
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Ron Zappolo
Said he wasn't doing that.
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Tom Green
Well, no, the one I said, can we get.
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Woody Paige
To the.
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Tom Green
White House? I.
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Ron Zappolo
Heard he wasn't doing well, but this was when he was in North Carolina. I'm just glad to. Okay. That he's doing. Yes. Craig's got to be early to mid 80s. He say he's.
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Tom Green
Acting.
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Ron Zappolo
As it. Craig was so.
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Woody Paige
96, 1997 1977 Broncos go Super Bowl Craig Morton has had a great year for given the defense. He didn't screw up things. And so we go to New Orleans for the Super Bowl another Super Bowl north. And I said to Craig, I'm writing a book but the Broncos are trying to steal. Would you mind taking a tape recorder?
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Woody Paige
And it was besides tape recorder. And just at night.
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Ron Zappolo
Put.
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Woody Paige
And here's seven, get one two, three and just give me two minutes or something. And I'll put it in your journal from the Super Bowl in the book he said, yeah, I'll do that. Nice go. And so Super Bowl ends. He has a zero passer rating right?
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Tom Green
Right. He's been empty sacked crushed.
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Woody Paige
I mean.
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Ron Zappolo
Norris weeks came in.
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Woody Paige
And so I met with him. And I said you got my tape recorder. He said no I'm not good about the tapes or the tape was that I could do it. I said, I'll edit it. I know it was tough week for you. So I get the tape listed, he said. We've arrived in New Orleans by left guard Tom glass.
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Woody Paige
Classic. His ways to where it's three.
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Ron Zappolo
He says, and I'll probably finish the story. So I said to Craig years later, what do you mean? He goes? Tom smoked his body weight in marijuana. He weighs 203 pounds. Well, it's just not going to go. And he, And Thomas Stuckey, great guy.
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Woody Paige
He had teeth problems and he couldn't eat. And his sister was like, giving him soup through.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah. Was very intelligent.
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Woody Paige
And he said, when I saw Tom glass, this is on the tape. He says, when I saw Tom Vlasic get on a scale. Any weight? 208 pounds, they've got four. They were. What were they called? The killer?
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Ron Zappolo
That you know what it was Harvey Martin, two Ed, two tall Jones. Randy white. Randy. They were like a Hall of Fame.
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Woody Paige
And he says into the microphone in his hotel room, we got no fucking pants. And if you listen to this, Woody, don't put that in there. And so I never saw it till afterward. So they go through the week and the whole thing. And so I'm listening to it. Wednesday he goes, Tom classic is going to pass.
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Woody Paige
He said, we've got no fucking he's saying that every night. So you know what happened to Brock was a terrible game. They have never, in the history of the Super Bowl named two defensive linemen stars of the game and.
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Ron Zappolo
It's Corey Harvey. Mark the two told you yeah. You know what's bad about that? I don't know where my keys are right now. When we go. But it's a good thing. It's a good thing I can name for you the 22 star. Yeah. On that team isn't that bad because that shows I have no life. No, no, it does.
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Tom Green
For the fact.
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Ron Zappolo
That it's. And you know what's amazing? This was about a year ago. I was thinking about the 22 starters you get. And I started to write down the reserves. How many of them are no longer alive? Yeah, it's quite a few. Like Mike Moeller started at center. Paul Howard was one of the guards. I mean, you go down the list.
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Ron Zappolo
Paul Howard was in the in there. Oh wait.
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Tom Green
Another great soundbite.
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Ron Zappolo
Paul Howard popped up on him was like, God dang it. But to play.
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Tom Green
On that 77 team, you have to be now 70 and above, 70 and 80, which sadly, the toll of playing professional football.
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Ron Zappolo
Claudie minor is still around. Yeah, yeah, jumbo Andy Mauer was on the other side. Foley classic and Howard the guards. Mike Miller the center. Oldham's running glove. Boyd Brown. The tight ends. Norris bag.
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Woody Paige
And.
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Ron Zappolo
Rose Morton, Lonnie Perron, John Keyworth, Rob Lytle, Otis Armstrong I know it's bad. I know all those. It's just it's.
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Woody Paige
The backup offensive linemen. Glenn.
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Tom Green
Glenn. Hot. Lumpy.
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Ron Zappolo
But then Hyde, who I still see to this day.
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Tom Green
So I'm on the golf club. He's always out on the golf course.
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Ron Zappolo
He's had a.
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Tom Green
Stroke that his health.
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Woody Paige
Is. So to.
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Tom Green
Put.
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Woody Paige
In the locker room in New Orleans, they put the famous infamous striped socks there. Yeah, yeah. People that have no idea that this. But when they started.
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Tom Green
The vertical white, brown and yellow socks.
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Woody Paige
They put it to remind the team of its, of its origin that how bad it was. Yeah. They said, we'd like for you to wear them in pregame warmups, just as a memory to the 1960 team. Nobody. Everybody threw them in the garbage except when Hyde wore them. One guy on the team were those socks. It was Glenn Hyde.
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Woody Paige
Lumpy Glenn.
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Tom Green
Right. Personality.
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Woody Paige
His career ended right shortly after that. And you know what he became? He became a bag.
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Ron Zappolo
Became a frontier. Yeah. I've so I've kept up.
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Tom Green
With speaking of survivors, this is it.
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Natasha
Has numbers to the end. Yeah.
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Woody Paige
See if you.
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Natasha
Amount to show of the year last. What is the last job.
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Ron Zappolo
All right, Woody, for.
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Natasha
You and it's tradition. You're you're supposed to put two dabs. This is supposed to be a little extra. Okay? And it is 2,000,690.
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Tom Green
Oh, I got to call.
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Natasha
The last AB.
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Tom Green
Last Deb.
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Woody Paige
And I after. After I do this one, I'm going to start sing. Share that I've got here.
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Ron Zappolo
Is gonna.
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Woody Paige
Snow shine and I've gone.
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Ron Zappolo
Oh okay. So the 77 Broncos while we're on it. The three four defense the starting three we're.
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Woody Paige
Oh no that's a good dab.
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Ron Zappolo
Lyles Zito Barney Shavers and Reuben Carter. Can you name the three guys that played behind them that played every third series?
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Woody Paige
Brown.
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Ron Zappolo
Nope I know them. I can give them to you.
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Tom Green
John Grant.
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Ron Zappolo
Nope, a John Grant. Yeah, you did great, John Grant, who I think still lives up in evergreen. John around? Yeah. John Grant's one. One of them played in Denver for a very long time.
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Woody Paige
Well, yes.
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Natasha
Oh, it's a media.
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Woody Paige
Is the most sick. But you can't do that.
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Ron Zappolo
Make it. So how is it, Tom?
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Natasha
You could do it. Three. Go ahead.
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Ron Zappolo
One I don't want to get sick on the end of the worst.
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Tom Green
The last the ab experience. I have a hunch when it doesn't kill you right away, you know it's coming.
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Ron Zappolo
We're almost done.
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Natasha
That's it.
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Tom Green
Who were the others?
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Natasha
I was going to say. I think that's for the last. We can wrap this up.
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Ron Zappolo
The three. Okay. Barney, Lyle and Reuben were the three up front. The three behind were John Grant. Oh, Paul Smith and Bryson Manor.
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Tom Green
Bryson manor.
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Ron Zappolo
66 Bryson manor. Yep.
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Woody Paige
Oh.
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Ron Zappolo
I'm the starting linebackers. Everybody remembers Gretta Sha, Jackson, Rizzo and Swenson.
01;13;29;17 - 01;13;35;25
Ron Zappolo
Do you remember the couple that were behind them? No, I do, Larry Evans. Oh yeah. And Rob Nairn.
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Tom Green
There. Well, Larry Stick stuck around for a while.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah Larry was around, you know.
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Woody Paige
God.
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Tom Green
So what are you. This is this is your idea, you know?
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Ron Zappolo
Then we need something. Can we call it a day here?
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Natasha
It.
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Tom Green
Yes, here. But it was a rousing success.
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Ron Zappolo
I am, yeah.
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Natasha
I believe so. Thank you.
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Woody Paige
What you've just talked about has brought tears to my,
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Tom Green
And it's made my nose right.
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Ron Zappolo
Is.
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Tom Green
In my mouth.
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Ron Zappolo
Is anyone going to find this entertaining?
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Tom Green
No.
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Ron Zappolo
Also, no.
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Natasha
I certainly am.
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Tom Green
Do you remember when you used to eat stuff so you.
01;14;10;18 - 01;14;12;01
Ron Zappolo
Didn't join God?
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Tom Green
Oh, for the day.
01;14;12;26 - 01;14;13;23
Ron Zappolo
Let's call it a day.
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Natasha
That's it. Well, and these are real hot sauces. Like, there are people out there that that will eat that. My dad's one of them. I could bring this home and he'd be like, oh, great. Delicious.
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Tom Green
This is the last one, the last dab. And that's it for our hot ones. So thanks again to our friends at Walters Pizzeria and Public House by.
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Ron Zappolo
The bowling says.
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Tom Green
The wings were great before we put that.
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Ron Zappolo
The way the wings were really good.
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Tom Green
Yeah, before we did that to it. Oh, but, you know.
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Natasha
Ice creams, great Bourbons, great.
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Ron Zappolo
Bourbon, the hot sauce, ice cream in the wings.
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Woody Paige
Or you could.
01;14;46;00 - 01;14;50;13
Natasha
Put the bourbon on an ice cream.
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Tom Green
What a thanks. Thanks again to, Furniture Row for our new furniture and for their support, American financing as well, for joining on as a sponsor. We appreciate them.
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Ron Zappolo
And fairly content.
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Tom Green
I'm just trying to kind of wrap this up here.
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Ron Zappolo
It's enough. Let's get these shirts.
01;15;06;19 - 01;15;14;24
Tom Green
Let's go and, we want to thank you for enjoying our show, Carl. We'll see you next.
01;15;14;27 - 01;15;17;19
Ron Zappolo
What's President Clinton sent in the National Guard?
01;15;17;21 - 01;15;19;02
Tom Green
They're killing them. We're killing.
01;15;19;02 - 01;15;20;03
Ron Zappolo
The Patriots.
01;15;20;05 - 01;15;22;21
Woody Paige
What's good? Twice.
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Natasha
Yeah. I should be so careful. My goodness.
01;15;25;08 - 01;15;26;12
Ron Zappolo
Tom said goodbye. I got to.
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Natasha
Go. Oh. He's crying. Can we get a zoom?
01;15;27;25 - 01;15;28;26
Woody Paige
We're done, we're done.
01;15;28;26 - 01;15;30;23
Ron Zappolo
Are we done? We're done. How are y'all?
01;15;30;25 - 01;15;31;11
Woody Paige
Happy new.
01;15;31;11 - 01;16;50;26
Ron Zappolo
Year. Happy new year.
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Tom Green
I'm just trying to kind of wrap this up here.
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Ron Zappolo
It's enough. Let's get these shirts.
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Tom Green
Let's go and, we want to thank you for enjoying our show, Carl. We'll see you next.