Around the Bases: Pop Culture and Sports Podcast
Charlie and Tim met and became friends while being contestants on the FOX gameshow “We are Family!” Join them as they chat about everything popculture and sports!
Around the Bases: Pop Culture and Sports Podcast
Around the Bases 2.20: Remembering Legends While Celebrating the Present
Loss, hope, and laughter intertwine as Charlie and Tim navigate the emotional landscape of being sports and pop culture enthusiasts. The episode opens with a heartfelt tribute to Chicago Cubs legend Ryne Sandberg, who recently passed away. Charlie shares personal memories of meeting him at Cubs conventions and season ticket holder events, reflecting on how deeply this loss affects the Cubs community and fans everywhere.
What follows is a surprisingly optimistic baseball conversation as both hosts marvel at the unexpected success of their teams. With the Cubs and Mets both near the top of MLB standings, Charlie and Tim explore what it means to be cautiously hopeful while battling the superstitions that plague longtime fans. As the trade deadline approaches, they speculate about potential moves that could strengthen both teams for a serious playoff push.
The reality TV portion dives deep into Destination X's penultimate episode, analyzing the strategic blunders that led to Shane's elimination and setting up an intriguing finale between Peter, Rick, and Biggie. Tim doesn't hold back when discussing Big Brother, expressing particular frustration with recurring elder contestant behavior while both hosts dissect the gameplay and on-screen personas of contestants like Rachel Riley, Adrian, and Jimmy.
Perhaps the most wholesome segment comes when Tim admits to watching the original Happy Gilmore for the first time, leading to a joyful discussion about the sequel's successful callbacks, Easter eggs, and surprising cameos (including a cleverly disguised Eminem). Their enthusiasm perfectly captures how entertainment creates connections across generations and offers welcome escapes during challenging times.
Whether you're a sports fan processing grief, a reality TV enthusiast analyzing gameplay, or simply someone who appreciates authentic friendship, this episode demonstrates why shared cultural experiences matter. Subscribe now and join Charlie and Tim next time as they discuss their trip to Wrigley Field and break down any dramatic trade deadline moves!
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Welcome to Around the Bases the pop culture and sports podcast with your host, charlie.
Speaker 2:Seymour.
Speaker 1:And I'm Tim Sternberg. Hit it, Nick. We are back here on Around the Bases, the pop culture and sports podcast. Charlie buddy, how are you? I'm doing well, I'm doing well. How are you doing? Oh, dude, I'm sad, I'm really sad. I know you are too buddy. I hate starting to show off on a sad note, but we must talk about Rhino. Ryan Sandberg passed away yesterday. Oof.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know that's a tough one for Cub fans.
Speaker 1:Dude, I know you are especially affected. I was an 80s baseball kid, so, growing up, the greats of Cal Ripken Jr, ryan Sandberg, you know, keith Hernandez, gary Carter I mean I have to name some Mets too, but I mean Greg Maddox, I'll name Mad Dog, but you know the greats of that era and just, ah man, we've been talking about Ryan too the last couple of years, I think, uh, on a number of occasions.
Speaker 2:You specifically right yeah, I mean I we luckily got to go to like one of the pretty, probably one of the last meet and greets he had with cub season ticket holders, which was really really cool. I mean just you know him being around wrigley over the years and the Cubs conventions and all that. I mean you get feel like you've met a guy you know 15, 20 times. You feel like you kind of know him and he's always just so nice every single time and yeah, that one, this one's gonna definitely uh, hurt Cub fans and it I did hear I think, starting with tonight's game, they're going to be wearing a 23 patch the rest of the season.
Speaker 1:I love that. I love that. I've seen the tribute. I saw Ian Hatt posted a clip of him interviewing Ryan. I saw Justin Turner posted a tribute just recently.
Speaker 2:Nego posted one as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that, I love the love to legacy and I'm, I like, I love that, I love the love to legacy and, um, I'm really dude. I don't get emotional a lot, um, when celebrities pass away, but I legitimately got sad yesterday when I saw the post that he had passed. I knew that their cancer had returned. I didn't have any clue or idea that it was as progressed as it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the last week or two I think, people started to really get skeptical because anytime someone was coming to Wrigley to throw a first pitch or sing the stretch, a couple of them wore Ryan Sandberg jerseys. When the Cubs Red Sox were the national game of the week on that Saturday Night, Fox Jon Lester was there in a Sandberg Jersey against Boston. So like people were really starting to to think something was wrong. And then, barely a week later, so they must've known. And yeah, it's, he was around the team a lot this year too. He went to spring training and he's he's, you know, basically like a team ambassador.
Speaker 1:So well, you know, probably fans have another angel in the sky, as they say, and sure your grandmother's having really great conversations with him right now as we speak. You know, yeah, yeah yeah, it's tough yeah, yeah, um I, yeah, my heart goes out to his family and uh, fans, cubs, fans, especially you, and um yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Hopefully they can keep winning for him.
Speaker 1:Hopefully, at what a year of the Cubs are having for Ryan Sandberg. Um, I yeah, I just unbelievable. Uh, I yeah, just unbelievable. I think it's a good tribute, as it is right that this is a year for you guys, that you're having a year, and this is a great tribute for him. Another loss, too, for me personally is with Ozzy passing away. Ozzy Osbourne passed away too. Huge fan of his growing up, I grew up in the 80s as a metalhead. Um, really impacted me a lot. Um, that was kind of my escape was the music, the heavy metal music and, uh, ozzy was really a paramount to it. He had also parkinson's, like my dad, who passed away in 2015. So there's a lot of parallels there.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, another tough loss I don't know if I've told you this story before. I think I may have, but do you remember when ozzy and jack had that show where they basically did like? It was basically like mike rose, dirty jobs, but it was the two of them. Do you remember this? I do? Okay, well, you can pull it up on YouTube later, but there's an episode where they go Gooey duck farming. Do you know what that is? I do not.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 2:How do I describe this for a PG audience? They're basically just like shells like clams, whatever, but they look like oh, oh, yes, okay, so long story they look like an appendage of a male. You understand that.
Speaker 1:I know what a gooey duck is. Yes, okay.
Speaker 2:So actually my brother-in-law's family on his wife's side. So my sister-in-law Shina. Her family has a gooey duck farm and Ozzy and Jack did an episode on their farm.
Speaker 1:Oh my God. So they got to hang out with him, meet him.
Speaker 2:She just always raves about him. And so you can have a fun youtube episode later, but I mean way past my time very it's like uh that's like out of the tim sternberg playbook of playing basketball with alonzo morning going out to lunch with paul abdul. No problem, just a couple of things, just things.
Speaker 1:Um, there is nothing more iconic, you know, after um, his music is the osborne show in the early 2000s. I mean, you were a kid when I was out and um, shout out, you know, anytime you see the uh, the cat or something was bothering him and he would just scream and it just took me back to my. It normalized him, like my dad, my own dad, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like it was just crazy and you can't forget the infamous stretch at wrigley. I will never forget great chicago.
Speaker 1:we can wrap it all around in a circle all the time, right here on a round basis. That's what we're about. That's something. Speaking of the Cubs and I'm going to use a quote of yours from a couple of podcasts ago winning a lot of games, the Mets winning a lot of games Not bad. Mets have been back and forth in first place, with the Phillies on and off.
Speaker 2:But lately on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I'm a Yankee fan right now just saying, no, you're not. Well, they're beating the Phillies. I am.
Speaker 2:Oh, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 1:You are currently rooting for the Yankees. Currently rooting for the Yankees. Go Judge Yay.
Speaker 2:They did, they did win the other day. For you guys, which nice the mats, the bats, had a seven game win streak, which is very nice. Yes, that's our plants, and good ball again I guess so charlie knows.
Speaker 1:So charlie knows that I have been a little um removed removed because Of my fear as a Mets fan About jinxing the season. So anytime Charlie will text Me and say They've won another one, I'm like Because I don't want to say, oh yeah, we rock and then all of a sudden we lose like 10 in a row. You know what I mean and now I just put that into the universe. Different Mets teams.
Speaker 2:Different Mets teams. Different ownership. How many times have we had to have this conversation? It's a lot, and it's only been a couple seasons. So you just got to think this is the new Mets. This is the new Mets era the Cohen Mets, the Stearns.
Speaker 1:Mets think this is the new mets. This is the new mets era. The cohen mets okay. The sterns mets, the alonzo mets. Well, the alonzo mets didn't do well before, so I mean, what about last year? All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right baby steps so, speaking of cubbies, I don't know the placing. Are they in second right now? Is that what's going on?
Speaker 2:entering. Yesterday they were tied for first, and then milwaukee won the first game of the series, so currently they're one back they played a night. They could be tied.
Speaker 1:They could be two back we dislike the brewers immensely on this podcast.
Speaker 2:Sorry all the cubs, brewers, mets and blue jays. All four of them are within two games of each other for best record in baseball.
Speaker 1:That's how tight it is.
Speaker 1:Dude, let's rewind. Okay, so we're rewinding a year. Okay, I'm getting ready to go to Chicago. Or actually, yeah, I'm getting ready to go to Chicago. I just came back from Vegas. We would have never imagined we would be having this conversation a year later. Now, the Mets were on an uptick. They did the London series and they were kind of on an uptick, but still, I would have never imagined that you would have Kyle Tucker and that we would be having this conversation. The Mets and the Cubs are in a pennant race. That's insane.
Speaker 2:Mets, cubs, brewers, dodgers, all jacking for home field throughout. I mean.
Speaker 1:What and that the Braves are like how many games back? Like 13 games back, or something you keep?
Speaker 2:thinking the Braves were going to turn a corner.
Speaker 1:They'd win a few and then all of a sudden, they're back at their lowest point I never thought that you got to keep that same energy, but positive for the mets. Well, because you said, oh, ronald lacuna jr is coming back, strider's coming back. I'm like, yay, uh, sorry, no, sorry, they'll be interesting.
Speaker 2:They could be trading a few guys this week, so they're so obnoxious that team, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:I remember us being at Truist or going to and from Truist and I was wearing my full men's regalia, even though it was a Cubs game.
Speaker 2:And they're like ooh, ooh, You're kind of asking for it a little bit in that situation, aren't you? Maybe Maybe Maybe, Maybe Maybe that would be like me going to a a brewers dodgers game in full cub gear. I don't know if I could do that.
Speaker 1:I won't you would I know you, you have more. You have more confidence than me now you would wear like you would wear a subtle kind of homage shirt that maybe kind of reference the cubs, but not no it'd probably be. It'd probably be just generic baseball or maybe an otani thing, so that it's all generic. Okay, yeah, probably something like that. All right, all right, fair enough. Um, yeah, so we uh, I'm going to this weekend, we'll, we'll be at wrigley field together watching the cubs destroy the Orioles, so that'll be fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hopefully, hopefully it is dry, oh I was going to say is there something I don't know? We're not going. Hopefully it is dry, I know.
Speaker 2:Baltimore is playing a little better. But hey, maybe they'll keep trading away a few more guys before the series, so that'd be nice.
Speaker 1:I mean I like the Orioles Don't get me wrong, we've had this discussion but when they're playing the Mets or the Cubs, yeah, exactly. And I will not be wearing an Orioles t-shirt. I promise you that Erica's looking off to the side getting ready to get a t-shirt for me for that. So not happening, Do you?
Speaker 2:have an Orioles shirt.
Speaker 1:I'm sure I do. I went to Camden Yards a a couple years ago. No, no, no, no, you're good, she's like we're literally going to get it. No, no, oh, she's ready, oh, she's gonna. No, don't you, we're not wearing an oriole shirt to wrigley field. There's no way that's happening no, you wear cub shirts.
Speaker 1:You've got a cup shirt we're gonna get you cup shirts. We'll get you covered. We'll get you, we got you. I started trouble. So yeah, Erica and I are headed to Chicago tomorrow to go to the National. Can't wait to see you guys. Can't wait to see our buddy Nicholas Pepin and hang out at the game. That's going to be fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it should be fun.
Speaker 1:That's our baseball conversation. Great season I can't wait for now. We're after the all star game, we're in the home stretch. Now we're four days, three days away from the trade deadline um like like two and two and a half hours yeah, wednesday, right 5 pm.
Speaker 2:Thursday I always.
Speaker 1:I don't know why this is the second time I'm in Chicago during the trade deadline oh, that's funny, did that happen last time too? Yeah, because the national in 21 was also around the trade deadline um I was in the c2, the trade deadline. Um, I remember so in 21 there was discussion. I think it was like um, yeah, that was the hobby bias trade. That was the hobby bias trade, that was keek crow armstrong, yeah I remember that.
Speaker 2:Oh god, oh, that's a pretty good trade, pretty good trade to you, yeah, oh I thought, that's what we were talking about no, I'm self-centered, you remember, it's just all about me.
Speaker 1:Um, no, I I know pca. What a year that dude is having. Oh, my god, I have my non-pubs friends texting me about how they're fans of pca. I'm like, thanks, they're rubbing it in a little bit that he, he, was immense in the minor league system. Um, he and vientos, by the way, ironically, ironically are really, really good friends.
Speaker 2:Yes, they are.
Speaker 1:There's been some rumors about the Mets potentially trading Vientos, although yesterday he hit the Grand Slam in another home run.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and, don't worry, there probably wouldn't be a reunion with him in PCA, cause I don't think he really fits the current cup needs.
Speaker 1:So no, I don't think the Cubs have current needs that the Mets need, honestly, um the pitching is what we really do. We really need pitching Um, as, as was evidenced last night again we need pitching too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I think most. Yeah, we'll see what happens anyway. So we are one episode away tonight from the season finale of Destination X. That show is wrapping up. We're down to our final three players on Destination X up. We're down to our final three players on destination x. Um, those three players are, um, our buddy peter from, of course, the bachelor franchise and the traders did you want to talk about the previous elimination? Yes, before I tell you that it's a final three, sure right, exactly as now one to one is in um.
Speaker 1:So there was um. You see this challenge. I don't know, bro. So they go in the map room very early in the episode, right and um, I forget exactly, but they get a clue as to where they are they each got one clue and the four clues together would make sense, but each one alone wouldn't, and it was up to them whether or not they shared with people which is a very interesting development in
Speaker 1:that and and and and the way it worked, and and and previous in the previous episode, um, peter and um, I forget the guy's name. Oh my god, he no, not shane, shane, uh, they, no, not shane either. Um, the older guy, peter, and the older guy get a rick thank you, I could not think of rick's name. Uh, peter and rick get a clue at the end of, at the elimination that shows a ship's anchor. So it's a nautical clue, and so they have that little tiny advantage.
Speaker 1:And then they go into the next episode to the challenge that you just mentioned, where they're basically going and finding this chest with the clue in it and they have to kind of put it together with the other clues. But they don't know the other clues unless they work with the other people and um and then. So they're working that out. But then they have to, early on in the episode, go to the map room, which I was like really we're doing this already, and the idea was they all had to pick a destination, like they always do, but they would meet on the pier and they would find out first of all that they're in monte carlo, right is that right so they find out they're in monte carlo and so they go on a ship.
Speaker 2:They meet um, uh, they meet really, really quickly, before you get into that, before this happens. The part that I wanted to mention was they are allowed to or not allowed to share. So pick rick and peter share. Then biggie asks rick, what, what he gets, and would you want to share? Biggie tells him his clue and then rick gives him false information sharing it which comes into play after your next part, so now continue that's a very important part, isn't it?
Speaker 1:um, so the idea of this challenge now is they are they all pick a place in the map room, but now they're playing a game on the roulette wheel and there are different cards depending on what they hit and what they call, and they can get advantage of putting someone further away from where they put the dot. They could switch with somebody else, so they go through. It's basically a shuffle game of different places and where they are on the map and anything you want to add to that.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, it was. Yeah, that was pretty good. It was a roulette wheel and then they could choose whether or not to play their own piece or affect another player's piece.
Speaker 1:Yes, and so they basically did this back and forth and it ends up two rounds of it and ends up with the person who I thought would be eliminated anyway eliminated, and that is uh, shane was eliminated from the competition um, now, now let's talk about why he was eliminated.
Speaker 2:Go ahead. So there was a clear moment in the game where Shane could have very easily been safe and Biggie was the one to go home. Instead, shane gambled on the fact that him and Biggie together could maybe take out one of the other players. So instead of just protecting himself I think how Shane thought it was he didn't have a chance to win the game anyways without Biggie because he didn't really know, and that's why his guess was so off and Biggie was kind of his guiding guiding, you know, whatever you want to it. So I think he felt he was probably unlikely to win without Big E's help. So he kind of made a move, just not self-sacrifice, but basically it was a coin toss at that point. What would happen versus being a safe lock to the final three, because he could have easily moved Big E's 50 miles further away and it was over, and instead he moved him even with his own piece, and then in the end he's the one that gets eliminated.
Speaker 1:I don't understand it, bro, like I listen.
Speaker 2:I. That's. The only sense I could make of it was he felt he couldn't win it anyways against Rick or Peter without Biggie's help. But you need to go into it at the winner mindset. Yeah, I think you just played it wrong.
Speaker 1:Because I mean, listen, if I'm up against the clock, yeah, I might think I'm cooked on something, but I'm going to go at it with all heart and soul anyway, because that's what you do. You go on this competition show, you go through all the processes to get on the show, You're going to push yourself to your ultimate limit. I mean, that's, that's just my mentality of of that. If I'm going on like survivor, for example, listen, I don't care if my, my tummy is aching, I'm hungry, the, the, the, the tarantulas, the spiders are biting me, the snakes are sipping and I'm doing whatever it takes to win that freaking show, just because I just have to like, within my physical you know limitation of whatever that is, um, but yeah, I don't know, call me old school yeah, and then after shane's eliminated and they're celebrating where they are and he's showing them everything he then goes around one at a time.
Speaker 2:Hey, what was your clue?
Speaker 1:Hey what was your clue?
Speaker 2:And then it comes to Rick who then obviously says into the camera, in, like the confessional. Well, obviously now Biggie's going to know, and he's going to know, that he lied to him for the first time. Now Biggie's going to know, and he's going to know that he lied to him for the first time. Now, my only question was did he have to tell the truth?
Speaker 1:I don't think so.
Speaker 2:Could he have said out loud then, after Jeffrey Dean Morgan asked him what was in yours, could he have just repeated what he said to Biggie no-transcript.
Speaker 1:Or he could have just said I choose not to say which is guilty anyway, but you're right, he was in a pickle, he was in a big time pickle. Yeah, it was. I wonder though, so you think that's Ask a production question? Do you think that is like a precursor to something happening in the finale, where he doesn't trust him?
Speaker 2:because I think they concentrated on that 100, yeah, big yeah something's coming yeah, something's for sure is now out for blood, so so maybe biggie and peter two.
Speaker 1:There's an elimination beginning of the episode.
Speaker 2:Maybe Biggie comes to Peter and says listen, no one's going to be Rick, look at the movie, just tried to pull and it's possible. Peter then could, might have a double alliance and then, no matter what he goes, final two, whichever way he wants to go, peter could be the swing.
Speaker 1:Good, good, good good. Could Peter be winning his second reality show in a row?
Speaker 2:and then go figure what. What do we say? Oh, the first or second episode, kind of early in. Peter's a good player. You probably should get him out while you can. And here he is. Hello, now, maybe maybe the best shot to go. Final two. I don't know how the episode is going to work, if they're just going to have one winner out of three or if they're going to let down halfway through. It's only an hour long, so we'll see.
Speaker 1:But I think he's in a pretty good spot. I don't mean to stir the pot, but what do you think Josh Martinez thinks of this?
Speaker 2:That's funny.
Speaker 1:He was on so long ago. I don't even, I didn't even remember he was on it he was so non-consequential, um, apparently, uh, refusing to do other shows because they don't pay. So who knows, you know, whatever, yeah funny, um, so, yeah, exciting. I, I, really, I really enjoy destination x. I really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it definitely grew on me, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1:The last couple especially were pretty good how freaking awesome are those binoculars, the things that.
Speaker 2:That's crazy I love you in the market for a pair. I don't know what I would do with them, maybe they'll help you sleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I could use that. Actually That'd be pretty good. So we need to talk about this show too. Big Brother Woo-wee Dude. Interesting season so far. I will say. Interesting cast so far. I will say I'm going to start with with the with with my soapbox. You ready, yeah?
Speaker 2:Soapbox.
Speaker 1:Can the older players stop always going to the the, the thing where they say I don't know, we'll connect to these younger people. And I can not connect to these younger people? What the heck Stop. Do not go on a reality show. If I cannot connect to these younger people, what the heck Stop. Do not go on a reality show. If you somehow cannot connect to 20-year-olds, dude Will come on. Dude. I get so mad with that. It's a trope that is used every season with the older contestants and it gets me so angry. Like hello, I could easily like what, and then last year we had the older guy quit. It's like I don't know dude, like what the heck? Kenny and Will and what? What is this cat? What is it that?
Speaker 2:you should. You should clip that and send it to, like some of the big brother casting people is what you should.
Speaker 1:Hello, yeah, and put my name like hello, hello. What's it with the scene?
Speaker 2:and back to the future, and then a highlight reel below of all the all the other shows there you go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um dude, I mean I don't know, come on already with this.
Speaker 2:He did get up on his soapbox and have his spiel, but then the house voted 13, nothing to keep him yeah, because he's like, not a threat.
Speaker 1:What is like? He's not gonna win the game. There's no way in heaven he wins the game. I promise you that if I was to bet a be a betting man on something will is not going to win the season.
Speaker 2:The big yeah, you're right, I'm gonna agree with that. He is on the block again.
Speaker 1:He is and he's gonna. I think eventually he'll play like a middle kind of a vicky, like in the middle of the season type of thing, maybe mason. I don't think he'll even make it to jury. I think he's gonna be out in the next couple, so would you say that he's a floater floaters, grab a life vest.
Speaker 1:All right, let's, let's. Let's transition to her. Um, rachel riley, um, clearly one of charlie's favorite players this season and forever big brother. He loves rachel riley. He tells me so much about how much he loves rachel riley shaking his head no for our listeners. He's shaking his head. No, as as as firm as he can. What? What's wrong? Wrong, rachel charlie oh, I was just disagreeing with your life oh, oh, oh I've never said that never in a word, never ever no, yeah, I don't, I don't like her, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:No, she's just so full of herself.
Speaker 1:It kind of bothers me but that's exactly why she's been brought back. That's exactly why she's, she's. You're not the only one. I will say and you know, and charlotte is, this is her experience on big brother free, just free, free. Uh, does charlie's fandom?
Speaker 2:of that's true that's true.
Speaker 1:That's why I mean, I remember when her first season, like she would go after reagan. It was this contestant reagan and they would go back and forth and I was like he's annoying, um, she's annoying, and I is this like a?
Speaker 2:is this like a character she's playing almost because, as much as I didn't really care for her on traders, I don't think it was that bad.
Speaker 1:It wasn't on.
Speaker 2:Strader's long enough. That could be, and maybe it's all other bigger personalities and people versus just random, so that could be it too.
Speaker 1:This is her, completely, who she is. She ended up so in the first season she was on, she met her husband now husband Brandon, and they were like an alliance and, um, she, it's pretty much her personality, I mean I, and she's right now outside of big brother. She's very big in the casting world. Right now she's casting shows. That's what she does, so that's kind of her whole thing and she goes on all the like the big brother cruises and whatnot, and yeah, I mean I think part of it is a character, for sure, I think think you know, a lot of people go on the shows and they go.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going to make good TV and this is how I'm going to make good TV. I'm going to be bigger and I mean I honestly I would probably go the same vein a little bit, um, where you kind of that's how you get known and that's how you know they know you is. You are that bigger than life person, although I, I, I I think it misses um, a little bit of that sincerity, um, so I wouldn't be like that. I would be more sincere. I can't be fake. You know there's no way to be fake, but I think the sincere part of me would kind of lend to that character, because that's who I am. I'm not afraid to kind of say how I feel and not, I don't filter shit. So you know that kind of piece works. Um, I think that's kind of what goes into her a little bit, and and she does rough people the wrong way. Uh, rough people the wrong way. Um, she's definitely polarizing, for sure. Um, I don't think she'll last long on this particular season. Um, I don't know how you feel.
Speaker 2:I didn't. I don't think she'll last long on this particular season. Um, I don't know how you feel I didn't. I don't think so either.
Speaker 1:Except here we go another week and she's not up. That's the thing too.
Speaker 2:It's like teflon dawn people are going to put him up everyone's going to keep thinking well, as long as she's there, she's a bigger target than me speaking of big targets.
Speaker 1:What is jimmy's deal? What is jimmy's deal, though? Dude? I feel like he's playing up for the camera like this is all an act, like it's like he like literally the textbook of what I should do on tv to get noticed. Oh, boom, boom, boom. I feel like he's following a script and it's not sincere at all I will say that he probably had to.
Speaker 2:Like he, he probably set some kind of record right? Is he the first person ever to put up three people and not one of them is even voted on at the end? Can we talk about that?
Speaker 1:That's pretty epically horrific. Hoh and then to kind of pretend like it didn't go bad is kind of laughable but I mean who? Who ended up? You see it was so. Oh they, they, uh the BB accompl, who ended up, you see it was so. Oh they they uh the bb. Uh, accomplice ended up going home.
Speaker 2:I mean, okay, um I don't think it was a very. I don't even know that the bb accomplice went no no one said a word. She only told one person and she has not revealed that secret yet.
Speaker 1:No, and I don't think you know of I don't think production is going to tell them, because production wants them to kind of think that it's somebody in the house.
Speaker 2:And also already we're into the third week. Do they even care about that anymore? It seems like they don't even care about things that happen week one anymore. There's always something new going on.
Speaker 1:Did the mystery twist go out the window? Where was it last week? I didn't really kind of get it, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Wait wait, what do you mean?
Speaker 1:you know it's a whole mystery season, so like to have a mystery theme. Where? Where was the mystery?
Speaker 2:I mean last week I think the last ones was was the mystery person playing in the hoh, which was casey casey, yes yes, the comp piece.
Speaker 1:Who won it for?
Speaker 2:Keanu took him down.
Speaker 1:Again, keanu saves himself from possible eviction. He's not long for the game. He's not going to last, unless he wins every single competition there is.
Speaker 2:And then Kelly won the thing again. Oh, and then Adrian also won something else. Kelly used her power and was successful, which was pretty easy.
Speaker 1:no-transcript bro speaking of adrian, what who? What he dominated, that comp he dominated the comp, but his personality is that of a fleet, honestly let's talk about that. He dominated against amy and and will right can I, can I mimic his, his, I'm gonna mimic it, I'm gonna be a little, I'm gonna to mimic his diarroom and I'm going to win, I'm going to win this competition. They don't know what's coming. They don't know, almost like he's.
Speaker 2:Was he wrong? No, but.
Speaker 1:Dude. But I'm saying I'm like what is going on right now? He's trying too hard. It almost it feels like I don't know, like I don't know. Oh man, I love you Adrian, he's probably going to win the game. Say that at this point. But yeah, I love you Adrian. So we go into another week. I probably will miss this week altogether, being in Chicago and not really kind of keeping up, probably watching on Paramount.
Speaker 2:But we'll see right now we could watch it Sunday after the game yeah, we could watch it at your place.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, let me see here. Hold on one second. I'm going to do a little sneak into the future. Uh, uh, no, I. Oh, that's what happens. Okay, all right, oh, you're already looking.
Speaker 2:You know now.
Speaker 1:You know what happened I didn't know until now, but okay oh no, you just had to look yay, I had to look. I didn't look until just now, so now I'm I'm aware. Okay, charlie, and I have this thing too, folks, where you know he doesn't like, he like thinks it's stupid that I look ahead and I don't think it's stupid.
Speaker 2:I just, yes, you do. I mean I've, I don't.
Speaker 1:We're not really live feed watchers I put it on once to see kind of to see interesting you know, and it was spoiled and it was, which is kind of my whole thought is, like what's the point of it?
Speaker 2:I get that it's live and everything's happening, but, like for me, I'd rather just watch it in the episodes, but that's me yeah, I think a lot of so to in the defense of the life feed watchers.
Speaker 1:A lot of it is they don't want the filtered, edited version from the network. They like to see things as they go and I kind of can you imagine survivor unedited? That would be crazy. Um, uh, live from the island that would be an interesting season to do. If they could do that, it would be the live stream Survivor. That would be interesting.
Speaker 2:And then each week the Tribal Council is live.
Speaker 1:That would be interesting, that would be.
Speaker 2:It's one of the things I haven't Some ideas.
Speaker 1:I haven't done a live season of Survivor, but that would also mean the season would be four months long. I't think they'll go for that yeah yeah, think about the season, right, you know, without it being edited, but um, uh, so or they just don't edit it like the normal season and it's still 28 days for 26 this is true, they would, that's all it would just be a jam-packed you'd watch the whole thing in four weeks. We only have two shows to talk about. That's it right now.
Speaker 2:I mean, there's also 1% Club.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you want to talk about it.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:What did you think of it?
Speaker 2:There were some interesting moments this week.
Speaker 1:Go ahead. I know what you're going to say Go ahead. Keep it appropriate, keep it appropriate. Keep it appropriate. Which one I mean there were. It was on fox and it aired, so like it did. So it's, it technically goes within the realm of this podcast. So, uh, there was an answer choice. That was interesting, yeah it was?
Speaker 2:uh, there was basically an M you had to put a letter into, like the empty symbol. There were two sets. There was basically a picture like a you're playing like a slot machine with the. You know the cherries come down, three of them the middle one was was empty and blank, and you had to pick a letter to fill in with the objects on the outside, to make a real-life word. Are you following?
Speaker 2:Yes, so, for example, the correct answer for this particular one, the furthest right picture, was a picture of a wooden log, then the middle was blank, and then there was a picture of a wooden log, then the middle was blank, and then there was a picture of a house cat on the far left. So cat and log, which the correct answer would be the letter, a catalog, catalog. And this person who decided to interpret the pictures differently, I guess is the way to say it For some reason guessed pussy bush. But there wasn't really a letter. They didn't use a letter in between, nor was it, it was a log clearly on the end their mind was clearly somewhere else.
Speaker 2:It was, it was. It was a pretty bad answer and Joel had some fun with it for multiple questions.
Speaker 1:Gotta love Joel. Joel McHale is so much better than that. How knows Walt? Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2:Did you see he also. The other thing I had mentioned in that was he took a shot at. Not a shot, it was a joke but he made a joke about a different show on Fox that's going on seasons like four and five. I don't know if you heard it, but when they came back from break he said yeah, exactly, did you hear his joke? No, can you say it. When they came back from break it's a stupid dad joke, but I laughed. It was. When they came back from break he said and I'm Joel McHale here with the host of the 1% Club and here we have a floor and a ceiling. Take that, rob.
Speaker 1:I thought it was pretty funny. Yeah, the floor is coming back with a bunch of reality stars apparently on their season, and 99 to Beat is coming. You know who's going to be on 99 to Beat coming? You know who's gonna be on 99 beat sandra from survivor, oh, really, yes, uh. And and also from big brother, um, the tommy the broadway kid, uh, for big brother. I think that's before your time too, but he's gonna be on the show. And uh, yeah, 99 to beat. Apparently there's like it's like minute to win it. But on fox, weirdly, um, um, the folks at the casting collective who cast we are family in the floor are involved in that. So, yeah, should be an interesting show. Um, let's see what else we got. That's basically it right now, right, oh, wait, no hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2:Oh, we got, we got to bring up one at least one other pop culture topic here. Okay, all right, I just want to mark the. Uh, I just want to point out the calendar, time and date. We're so. We're july 2025. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, tim sternberg just, for the first time, watched happy gilmore the original you had to go there because I wanted to talk about the second one.
Speaker 2:So it's important to note that I have seen the original probably over a hundred times easily, pretty safely, I want to say and pretty safely I want to say, and the quote nicholas pep, and I can't believe you've never watched that and I I I think I had dylan at the time, so I was like 10 or 15 minutes late to see the text and I was like you haven't seen happy gilmore, what? Go go watch the first one. It was available on netflix for like the first six days before it switches over. And he did. He watched the first one before watching the second one.
Speaker 2:So first, before we jump into the new one, because you've only seen the first one one time. So you and back to back, so you might not have noticed every single thousand easter egg as someone who's seen it a billion times, but start with the first one as a, as a first watch, which is incredible to say, like how great, it came out in 1996, right exactly you're seeing a mid-90s movie for the first time, so how great was it to experience that for the first time.
Speaker 2:It was great, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:such a freaking funny. It's classic. It is such a funny movie.
Speaker 1:There's so many things in it Like oh, ben Stellar at his prime playing the, the boss of the nursing home that he sends his grandmother to the orderly and you know that scene where he the, and this goes back to we'll reference this in two, but the scene where he's fixing her air conditioner and it goes out the window and it's the old lady. And so in two, real quick. There's a scene where he's at the cemetery and there's a tombstone with the lady with the air conditioning on top of her the entire scene was to every character that had passed, which I thought was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:And then even that scene alone was for nostalgia for the first one, because my favorite part of that whole scene was the bob barker how it perfectly shoots his hand, coming up to grab him by the neck, just like he does in the first one, and you see the bob barker gravestone right underneath. That was just so well done so amazing.
Speaker 1:The price is wrong bitch. I've seen that clip so as a game show fan and a Bob Barker, now you've had enough. I've seen that clip so many times out of context, so to see it finally in context I was like, oh I get it.
Speaker 2:I get why yeah.
Speaker 1:I honestly don't know, often don't think that sequels to movies that air up, just stream only, are necessarily great. Absolutely too, is amazing.
Speaker 2:I was pleasantly surprised. I went in with tempered expectations for the same reasons and I thought they did a pretty decent job. It's great. As much as we all didn't like. Um, there's a. I don't want to spoil too much, since it is just the first week it's been out, but there's a moment early in the movie that I think was you basically have to get over one hurdle in the movie, and that's something that happens early in it but if you think about it, from a step back.
Speaker 2:That probably needs to happen for the story to make sense. It does. So when you take that for what it is, I do think they did a pretty good job. They tied in so many Easter eggs from the first one, which I always love, they brought in so many. There were so many cameos. There were so many professional golf golfers are in it. How about oh yes, one other cameo that I don't know if everybody caught, but I was all over it and rosie's like no way.
Speaker 2:And then we looked it up and then you see it the more you look at it. But the original movie has shooter mcgavin's, his, his, his, we'll say friend, but it's more of his business colleague, who he calls to distract happy gilmore and just say jackass in his back shot. Oh yeah, to go around through the did you notice who played his son in number two? No see, it goes over unless you look.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was played by eminem oh my god, slim shady, slim shady. Oh my god, I now need to re-watch it.
Speaker 2:You need to re-look at it again and then now, knowing it, you can see it. But they did such a good job because they gave him dark hair. They put the hat on I was like I'm telling you and then it makes more sense when you think about it then. Then when they there's another moment where he gets flipped into the water and he's having a brawl with another thing that happens in the first Happy Gilmore, which is alligators.
Speaker 1:And at one point he says Detroit what?
Speaker 2:As he's fighting them, he says Detroit, what? And that's his M&M, yeah. Yeah, that's so reference right To a mile I have to watch definitely have to watch number one a couple more times because that's a movie where if you know there's not a sporting event that I want to watch, that's on and we're not like watching something and we're just I'm just flipping through the channels for something.
Speaker 1:If having the wars on I'm almost always stopping and putting it on. Yeah, that's how I am. With Back to the Future, I will say you know, for a reboot movie, a sequel, on a streaming platform, it's like very reminiscent of all their Adam Sandler movies, like it's kind of back to where he was in his prime. You know, he hasn't made the greatest movies in the last couple of years. I mean they've been okay, but that is prime Adam Sandler. You know what I'm saying? No, that is his. That's him and his daughters are in the movie with him. Of course, again, one daughter plays his actual daughter in the movie. Another plays somebody else who says, oh, you look like my daughter and it's his daughter.
Speaker 2:There's all sorts of like cameos there too. Yeah, it's, it's, it's. I think they did overall a lot of good cameos that. If you had another one that I'm sure you obviously noticed. But bad bunny becomes his new caddy and then bad bunny's cousin is played by marcello hernandez from snl.
Speaker 1:Yes, I love that. I love marcello. Marcello is a breakout star of snl last couple of seasons.
Speaker 2:I mean he's so yeah, he's, he's funny he's from miami too.
Speaker 1:He's from, uh, he did so. He did only in date, which is like these video clips in miami, where the weirdest stuff that happens in miami and marcelo hernandez was like the person in that. I mean it's so, so good, um. But yeah, I appreciate you kind of kind of poking the bear a little bit with me with saying you haven't watched happy gilmore because I am so grateful that I did.
Speaker 2:I'm so grateful there were probably a few other references in there. That like people make in like real life, that you are like oh wow, that's from heavy gilmore. Much like the the context of the fight with bob barker. Yeah, like the like the 364 more days of hockey tryouts got to toughen up. Have you ever heard anyone of that one we've used before?
Speaker 1:oh my god, they bring that back with the real golfers.
Speaker 2:He takes them there to toughen up as a huge breaking bad fan. Chubb's son is played by huel from breaking bad.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes uh went off the nail in the head but yeah, yes and the.
Speaker 2:Do you know who played his son in the second? No, that was boban, the seven foot six nba player. That's boban, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then travis kelsey was the waiter travis kelsey was pretty good, I must admit. You know I don't want to admit that, but it was pretty good. It's pretty pretty good. Um, funny stuff. You know I I, you know want to admit that, but it was pretty good. It's pretty pretty good Funny stuff. You know, just to have a good movie to laugh to is much needed. All right, folks. That is it for this week. We will be back probably in a week or two. Remember, we are different schedule now with everything going on, but we will be back as usual. Hope you stay tuned and hope you stay with us as we go down this journey. And I appreciate you, charlie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you too. It was a good one. And now, coming forward here the next few days, we could have some wild trades going on, hopefully, hopefully, both our teams make a couple moves.
Speaker 1:Mets already have made one.
Speaker 2:They hadn't made one when we did this last time. Right, that was in the last week or so. No, so yeah, hopefully we have some trades to talk about and another good week of ball by both of our teams.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, we're going to a great game on Sunday and we'll have, hopefully, a lot to talk about. Definitely, this has been Around the Bases the Pop Culture and Sports Podcast with your host. Charlie Seymour and I'm Tim Sternberg. Until next week. Go Cubs, go Bye everybody. Thank you.
