The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Jessica's Weekend Observations (feat. Kenan Thompson)

Episode Date: March 31, 2025

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Everybody have fun. I don't think we're trailing. I think we're all right. Nah. I think it. Man, what an interview, guys. I don't think we're trailing. I think we're all right. Nah. I think it's funny when you mess up, respectfully. People enjoy that. I'm in the Jess camp. Pull the curtain back.

We didn't have home court. Ultimately, the goal is to come back one-one. So we're trailing right now. The game's not over. Oh, you're giving up on the game. No. All right, they got game one, but. I think the best part of the game is still ahead of us.

Yeah. It's not over. You think it was so bad that we can't come back? The series hasn't even started yet. No, I think we're in good shape. It wasn't a great play to hit the button in the middle of his answer, and also to play a sound bite that kind of felt like he needed to be quiet.

I don't think it was the button pressing. I think it was Dominique asking Steve if he was a better golfer than anyone currently on the PGA Tour, which just befuddled him. That was interesting. He didn't know. And even about the rugby, there was a lot of moments where Steve was kind of like, what are we doing here?

I liked it though, because it was a good setup. When the button happened though, that was the moment where I was like. That's where you think you can boil it down to one. Now he feels disrespected. There's a moment, because it was all kind of bad. It's never moment where I was like. That's the only thing you can boil it down to one. Now he feels disrespected. Here's the phone, man. Cause it was all kind of bad. It's never good when I'm the one that shines in an interview.

You were great, man. That's just what no one wants. You talk about carrying the squad in that interview. Way to be accountable, Chris. You were great. I mean, I did get him to say that he would whoop Phil Mickelson's ass. That was a good one.

And then I got a bucket, and then I proceeded to turn the ball over for the rest of the quarter. We were leaning on you to take all the shots, so you're going to miss a couple, right? Which sound bite hit? I don't think we're talking enough about like, da-dum, da-dum. It was also a really bad one.

In the middle of an answer. Yeah, it wasn't the best one. It was a really bad one to go off, too. And he was a little long in the answer, which was a good answer, but it felt... There was a moment where you could see him thinking, was that purposely done? Are they telling me to get off the stage because I'm speaking too long? Hand up accountability. I blew it.

I blew the interview. I have an idea how we can get back out ahead. Love to hear it. Which is by doing weekend observations. Yeah, do it. Well done In this time for Jessica's game notes No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my girl Jess Weekend observations is presented by Miller Lite DUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM sports calendar, and we're one of the biggest podcasts in sports.

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Speaking of hell, Art Bryles, Dominique, those are the weekend observations. Woo! Excellent job. Rock-a-Five. Fight back. Quickest, quickest weekend observations we've had here in quite some time. That was really good. Thank you. I mean,

we're back even too. Dugats has really been taking his time lately. That was a run that made us feel good about ourselves headed into game two. Why are you giving up on game one? Game one, game one. We still got, we're fighting back. We lost it with the question of the follow ups to Lucy. That's not true.

Everyone believes we're still in it. You don't want to be, hey, where's the penalty box button? We don't want anybody in here who is only willing to- I'd like to see you find that button. I'll see if my microphone can pop it to it we do have a big guest finishing the show here that we could we could have a nice little comeback here oh yeah I'm great in interviews guys agreed I got your back but I appreciate it sure it is when you're like go ahead Chris ask him what you want to ask him yeah like the

variations of that that was great what you got to ask him. And the variations of that, that was great. What you got, Chris? You like try to sound cool with it, so it seems natural. Chris, what you got over there? Oh, was that what I was doing? I was trying to sound cool. I wasn't trying to sound cool. I just knew before the interview, you were like, hey, if you need me.

We're breaking down film right now. There's just certain things in your game that I don't like right now. We got to work that out. There's private comms. You're not comfortable with the private comms because your microphone will hit them. And that way, Chris can just go as opposed to,

go ahead, Chris, what you got? Or even a head nod to me, you next. I gave you the head nod and you, so. There was one time he was trying to get your, like, waving back and forth. That was when you wanted the ball back. I was next and you're like, it was me. But then he'll do this.

And then he'll do this. It's like a traffic cop. I hand up. Take the coaching. I a traffic cop. I, hand up. Blew it. I'm blew it. I appreciate the coaching. We'll get better. I appreciate that Jess came in and scored a flurry of buckets

to get us back in the game, Michael. And don't forget, Pablo confused everybody. It's also Pablo's fault. Also, Taylor deserves credit for weekend observations, because this is a place now where we lift each other up. Right? I cannot wait until the show awards. How many different ways you guys find a way

to clown me for doing terrible interviews. It's gotta be fun. I'm looking forward to it. Look man, you're 0 for 2, but you have a pretty big star joining us a little bit later in the show. And that's a great opportunity to get some positive mojo going as we try to Steal game two on the road. I'm gonna go Carlton on this because I had the big fan of our last guest So I'm just gonna go off the wing here and just oh not like in a good way

I'm talking about at the end of the game in the Fresh Prince where Carlton steals the ball off a wheel and just heaves it At the hoop so I'm telling you right now. I have no strategy going into this I'm just I'm gonna say open-ended things and... I love it. I love it. It's going to be hard to like kind of follow and track. You are, you're leading it now. We just turned it.

I got a list of questions that I'm actually interested in with our final guest. No one said who it is. Is that, are we keeping it secret on purpose? I don't understand why we're doing that. It's Keenan Thompson. You kept doing it. You started this. I was like, I'm not going to say it. Well, because Chris also said, we have a pretty good guest

coming. And like, I mean, not to nitpick, but you did cut him off there. I thought he was getting to the tees. But then he couldn't get to the tees. But I like the idea of Hawk running it. We've got to run the offense through someone else. Yeah, I think we should definitely

run offense through Hawk. I refuse. I have a question. This is me refusing to go in on punt return in the preseason game. I did not prepare to return punts. And sorry, coach, I respectfully decline. I'll see you next game.

All right. Did you play high school sports, Mike? I, no, not really. Like I played spring football one time and I wrestled briefly, but I don't know. Did they have a real ball when you played? It wasn't like Tony's workout for FIU football. We played some real spring ball.

If you're not sure if you played high school sports, you probably could. Well, I don't know. No, it's not a kind of type of situation. PE doesn't count. I think I explained the context. I went through spring, played the spring game, realized that the sport hurt.

So it's not like I lettered in it. So I don't feel like didn't. So no. It's not like I lettered in it, so I don't feel like, I'm not gonna, I feel like if I say yes, it's stolen valor. Yeah. That's why you should have said no, because it's obviously no. It was maybe though for a few weeks.

No, I wrestled for like a little bit. The idea of playing high school sports. Oh well, like if you want to get into one, my mom died, so I stopped doing that. Oh, there we go. And then, you know, the football thing hurt. This is why a simple no would have been great. Tried to.

No would have put us where we needed to be, Michael, in that one. But look at all the great content that we got out of it again. It's much like the interview with Steve Williams. We got a lot of great content out of it. So you can't look at it through just, you know, the lens of was the interview great or not. What's unfortunate is I brought my A game.

Yeah. I had a game one winning effort today as being accountable. So it was unfair of me to ask if you played high school sports because I knew the answer by how you've been conducting yourself amongst this team. Now it's like, yeah, that guy, not a team sport guy. That's not why. It wasn't. That's not why I don't consider myself a high school athlete.

It's my lack of athleticism and effectiveness when I took the field. No, there's a lot of high school athletes are not athletes. I also didn't like my coaches. Would you call wrestling a team sport? Who likes their high school coaches? I liked all the other high school coaches. Man, I wish I would have played baseball.

Padrone seemed so fun. I wasn't getting on that team though tough. No, they were just juice to the gills. Ah, she's that's when baseball was fun We got a baseball was baseball. We got a baseball story. That's about well, it's not quite cheating yet They might turn it into cheating real soon. It feels like cheating dumb the torpedo The torpedo bats? It feels like cheating. How does it feel like cheating? There's more bat. And they'll argue, they'll be like, well, it's actually the same amount of bat. I'm like, no. There's a shift in the weight.

The part of the bat that was smaller is now bigger. That's where most of the balls hit the bat. That feels like cheating. It's a bowling pin, though. To be clear, the Yankees are using a different type of bat called a torpedo bat that moves, Great name. Yeah, that moves, because it looks like a torpedo,

that moves some of the weight and mass of the bat into a place where the ball more often hits, and it's allowed them to hit, what's the number? It's like 12 home runs and nine innings or something like that. You're close. It's just ridiculous. It's clear that it's a result of the bats,

and it's not because they just all of a sudden became great baseball players. I read a story, and apparently an MIT scientist is behind all this. And we really needed to go MIT for the solution to be bigger bat? It's not a bigger bat, Mike. It still falls within the rules of the,

well, maybe the formula that they followed to still stay within the rules. It's kind of like the tush push. This is baseball's tush push. That's actually a great comp, Hawk. You had a pretty good game one effort. Thank you, thank you. He was great.

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See guarantee details at TurboTax.com slash guarantees. Don LeBretard. I took my son to the barbershop, get a haircut, and my man gave out some limp dap. Oh no. Oh damn, damn, damn. Stugats. I disowned him. I threw them right under the bus. I was like whose kid is that out here dishing out limp DAP. This is the Don LeBathard Show with the Stugats.

We got our guest here guys so we can stop talking about baseball because who wants to be in the band? Keaton Thompson is here to join us. Thank you sir. I was good with y'all. Good morning. Chillin, chillin, chillin. We're having a good time. I wanted to start with you with Morgan Wallin.

I saw him walk off the set. Who did he call the N-word and why didn't you punch him? Jeez. There he is. What happens when Dan ain't on the show? This is just anything goes, man. So I'll be clear with you, Keaton. I had an interview earlier where I interviewed

Steve Williams, Tiger's former caddy, and I did an awful thing. I asked him poor questions, and then I moved my microphone while he was answering the question, and I hit this button. While he was answering the question, it was a complete mistake.

So I'm reeling right now, Keaton. I'm reeling. And I'm like, you know what? I got a big star coming up at Keeta Thompson. I'm about to have a hell of an interview. I'm gonna start it off with a spicy question. That's right. That's mad spicy.

To answer your question, I don't know. You know, it's how he feeling, I guess. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't even realize, I don't know if he realized what he was doing. Well, Keenan's here because he's teamed up with Phantom Pharmaceuticals to raise awareness about GERD. We appreciate you Keenan. What's your connection? You know what GERD is?

Yeah, I know what it is. It's an intestinal, right? Go ahead. Yeah, it's a gastro, it stands for gastroesophageal. Reflux disease. Disease, yeah, reflux disease. Good job, everybody. But no, I personally like was suffering with acid reflux and was prescribed for quesna and I've overcome it now. So I just wanted to spread the word about that

in case anybody else might be having similar symptoms and they don't know necessarily how to approach it if the over-the-counters aren't working for you. So talk to your doctor and they might prescribe you a Vox Quesna. What are the symptoms? How did you know that you were dealing with it? The typical is like burping up acid late at night,

sleepless nights, stomach discomforts, stuff like that. Just an acid feeling in the throat. And yeah, it was starting to affect my work and stuff like that. Because if I'm not rested, you know, that's just more stress on top of stress or I, you know, would blow my voice out a lot easier. And, you know, that's just not helpful because I don't know if people really know, but before SNL comes on, I sing the warmup song. We warm up the audience or whatever, but I sing like a full song out.

And I do that twice a night and then have to do the show. So sometimes, yeah, you can hear it. You can hear that my voice is like a little horse or raspy or crackling. And a lot of that was probably due to like, you know, an acid reflux situation happening. But is it always this? I'm sorry, is it always the same song? And what song is it?

It has been the same song for a while. We've switched it up a couple times, but we keep coming back to the songs. Give me some loving. You know that song? Oh, who's that? to this song is give me some loving you know that song? Who sings that? Every thing do do do Spencer Davis group. Okay. I had that hearing you sing that reminded me of a question that we had from earlier in the show

and I would like your ruling on this. So we have a situation of this show when someone says something braggy we have a sounder that we play that, here's one. ["Look at Me Lucy"] Okay, and so that's around, we use that when someone says something braggy. And then they introduce this for no particular reason, but because they wanted to differentiate

between certain type of braggers, and I wanna know know is this okay or nah Did you hear it he put gravel in that voice right he put gravel in it and then the name thumbs up thumbs down from Kenan Thompson Yeah No LeRoy's out there. You know what I'm saying? There's no Leroy's in the world, but it definitely made me laugh. I feel like we're trying to put rules around it.

The kind of cultures that brag, that's kind of interesting. I don't think you need it. I think you're fine with the first one or whatever. Or one or the other. I don't think you need it. I think you're fine with the first one or whatever or one or the other. Yeah, I don't think you need to differentiate the two. Yeah, it's been the general consensus. What's the number one food that will send you to tummy ache city with your gird? Yeah, back in those days, it definitely was like, you know, late night pizzas and stuff like spicier marinara's or spicier kind of foods on top of like sodas like yeah when I was in my bad you know health you know diet

making choices decision making error or whatever um yeah I was drinking a lot of sodas you know eating late uh and yeah a lot of like tomatoy kind of like high acidy kind of foods basically for me. So yeah, those are all triggers that were not necessarily great without any sort of health or protection. What are the nights at SNL with the best spread? Is it after the main show? Is it the writing nights? What's the spread looking like around SNL?

Oh, the spread is fantastic every single day, man. SNL is just, oh, it's first class all the way. First class all the way, man. Talk to me slow about it. There's a lot of snacks out there. There's snacks during the table read. There's meal breaks when we have rehearsal and stuff like that.

There's a whole commissary. So you just gotta make better choices, basically. That was my kind of journey. Just make better choices. Of all the guests that you guys have had, who has been the most fun for you to work with? That's tough, you know, because like, there's so many of them that are so great. You know what I mean? Like any any old cast member that comes back to do the show is always fantastic. Tom Hanks is always incredibly delightful. Like Meryl Streep was surprisingly, like, insanely cool with everybody. Dave Chappelle has a good time.

Like, you know, Chris Rock has a good time. Like, everybody that comes... -♪ Look at me be wrong, yeah! -♪ You earned that one. Yeah, that one's starting to really be wrong. So maybe go back to him. Because that's not my name. Exactly.

That's the point. My cousin's name, but still. No, I thought your cousin was G-Roy. G-Roy and Leroy are twins, man. It is. Are you serious? I'm serious. Yes.

Leroy's. It's Stugatrush, right? Holy shit. St Yeah. G-Roy. Jesus. God. Holy shit. Stugatron's ride. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. This is what we're talking about, Kenan.

They just playing a bunch of stuff. Shout out to G-Roy and Leroy, man. That's living life. Yes. I mean, this is what the culture of black people in America is. Tell them the rest, though. Tell them how- That'm standing on business. That's standing on business.

Thank you. I'm G-Boy. That's a G, bro. Tell them how everybody else in your family's name starts with A. I don't think that that's weird. OK, so Kenan, I have. Do you have siblings, Kenan? A bunch of siblings.

And they all start with the letter A. And my parents start with A's and all of our kids start with A's. And then some of their kids also all start with A's and they think our family is strange for that. No, I just think y'all are dedicated. That's all. Y'all dedicated to the A. I'm dedicated to the A being from Atlanta so I feel you. Yeah, we both, two up, two down, piece up, two down, is that what it is?

No, you're from Ohio. It's that A town though, man. My bad, I'm still learning. Two up, two down. I don't know, keep... What is it, two up, two down? Yeah, I don't know, two up, two down. It's like a football call. I'm still learning. I got a question. It's like a football call.

All right. You are the longest running cast member in SNL history. Such a legendary show. I've been trying to hold him back. He was so excited. I was. I'm going to take over the interview. I'm so excited.

I'm going to just tell you. But now he raised me in this comedy. Get all that. You don't know how many nights. He raised me in this comedy, get all that? You don't know how many nights he just... So how do you feel about you got a chance to speak to this guy that you really respect and admire, and you just said, and he's from Atlanta, and you just said to him, two down, two up, two up.

Hey man, I ain't from the A's. I feel like we should all understand that, you know, you try to fit in, you try to find that commonality. But ushers, yeah, was pretty in the scale. You know what I'm saying? I'm just trying to get past my bad. Apologies, peace up. So just, you know.

All right, so. Two up, two down. Two up, two down. My question, Kenan, what is your favorite sketch that you've done? This is SNL or all that. Like, what is your favorite sketch of all time that you've been a part of?

Man, that's tough. Like Jeopardy? That's tough, yeah. I'm really bad at favorites. Okay. I'm not gonna go just claim that right now. What's your least favorite? Least favorite is any one of them that got cut

because that does not feel good. Yeah. But there's a lot of good ones, man. It's hard to put what's up with that over Black Jeopardy, over Scared Straight, over Super Dude, over Principal Pimpel. You know what I mean? It's just like, I have affinities for all of them.

You know what I mean? Because you're putting yourself out there. You know what I'm saying? And you want people to receive it well, so if it goes well, it's like, I'm gonna leave it there. I don't necessarily need to pick favorites. So many clients. Were there any sketches that got cut

that you're like, yo, to this day, that should have been in the show? I mean, I had one, but we definitely got our get back, and it actually went into the show, so that was good. It was this sketch called Active Jack, where it was like a PBS kind of show in the 70s about a guy that was getting kids excited about working out, and it was a long theme song, basically.

And I think the first time was Bruno Mars, so he was like, come on, kids, let's get active. And he was singing a song about doing push-ups or whatever. And then it was the 50 50 year anniversary of that show. So they were doing like a reboot or something. So then it was me as the act of Jack do a lot more tired and less. But it got cut. And then years later, Kevin Hart came in, it made it on the show. So I got that. That's dope. That's dope. My favorite sketch that I think I cut was the other

Cavaliers. It's a sports show. So the other Cavaliers was the sketch around all the other guys around LeBron when he was on that 2018 run. I'm talking like that might be my favorite sketch of all time.

And I think online it did something crazy, like 100 million views. So people also agree that that sketch was hilarious and mad that it didn't make the show. It is, like I'm laughing right now. Yeah, that was great. I think Dan has a question. What is the worst part of the life?

Of what life? Of my life? That is. That's just another thing we've been playing because Dan asked a terrible question to a NASCAR driver last week and that was the question. So we've been playing it for all asked a terrible question to a NASCAR driver last week, and that was the question, so we've been playing it for all our guests. What's part of the life?

Yeah. Gird? Life of being a famous person, or the life of having gird, or the good life of having a good life. I think they all apply. Yeah, they all apply. The worst part, I don't know.

I don't know. Like, it's hard to say. Like, that makes you feel sad, because you're actually pinpointing what the worst part, I don't know. It's hard to say. That makes you feel sad, because you're actually pinpointing what the worst part of it is. But yeah, I don't know. I'm thankful for it all, honestly,

because if it's something difficult, then it's a lesson, you know what I mean? And if it's something great, then it's a blessing. So I don't know, I'm just taking it all in stride as it comes. I'm just happy to be alive, man, because so many people aren't. If you read the news, it's almost blessing. So like, I don't know, I'm just taking it all in stride as it comes. I'm just happy to be alive, man, because so many people aren't. Like if you read the news,

it's almost like every single day we losing a legend. So I'm just glad to be here now. That's real. But you don't look any older than you did when you were in all that, which is a blessing. And that's pretty crazy. Have you ever had a celebrity? See, we back, we back.

Me and my dog, we back. Have you ever had a celebrity? See, we back. We back. Me and my dog, we back. Have you ever had a celebrity upset at how you played them on SNL? Yeah. Not necessarily confront me because they can't find me. They can't see me out here like that. Okay, that's smart. That's smart. But I definitely heard from people, you know, Steve Harvey called me in the beginning. He was like, hey, slow that down.

Slow that down. It's such an old black man way to say relax, young man. Star Jones was mad about it back in the day, you know, and I understand it, you know, because when I was younger, I was definitely a little more dismissive of how people might take my impressions of them. Just thinking that, you know, I'm just a kid. I'm just doing impressions, whatever, it's no big deal. But I've grown to understand what would upset people about being impersonated. You know, so I try to do it in a much more positive version, even if I am poking fun at them.

Were any French people upset with Pierre Escargot back in the day I don't think so. I think they just loved it because it was so silly You know what I mean? It's just a guy in his bathtub speaking fake French. That's all yeah There's definitely a couple characters from all that that you could not bring back in this day and age I think we all this is a few of them Yeah, I'm sure there's several things that haven't aged well, you know what I mean? But in the moment, it is what it is.

Part of the game. I don't personally go out in malice. I usually go out in fun, basically. So in that fun, I feel like if we step on a toe, it's more so accidental than anything. Yeah, that's comedy. I also love your Kendrick Perkins impersonation. I think that is the best in all of sports comedy.

And it actually baffles me that that's not Kendrick every time I hear it first before I see it on the screen. Thank you. Shout out to Kendrick, man. He's such a good dude. And yeah, he's been very supportive of the impression, you know, the whole time. So it's just fun to have those people that have those audible things.

So when I start doing it, you know, people know who it is right away. It's just a lot of fun. I think the athletes and people in sports media aren't like Steve Harvey level celebrities. So we excited. Like it's all good, baby. Stephen A, I feel like is excited

when he get with someone that personate him, Kintrick, I'm sure is also excited. Cause it's like, oh yeah, it's all good baby. I feel like it's excited when he get with someone impersonate him Kendrick I'm sure it's also excited because it's like oh, yeah, it's always funny. It's like oh shit They they actually do be watching this day I'm like damn Kendrick got in the personation lesson now I gotta get my but you have my bag the Keating could probably help us with this when you're figuring out impersonations. I Assume you're looking for something distinct, but I feel like, I'm looking at you, Hawk,

like I don't know what the- You don't think I got enough there? No, it's not that you don't got enough, but Kedrick Perkins obviously has very distinct matters of speaking. Well, you know what he's talking about. I was on with him a couple weeks ago, and he was doing exactly, it took everything in me, Keenan. Not to laugh, because my man was talking about what his grandmama told him.

And I was like, man, you know, now you're doing an impersonation of a man doing an impersonation. 100%. And I mean, it's a mixed bag of both of those things. Like, what I feel like I can do, like, vocal-wise, and then also what's the immediate register for the audience to

know who I'm doing and when and why basically. Can I add so is there when you were going figuring out Kendrick Perkins as a character I guess I was wondering how do you even determine that this is something that you want a caricature because it wasn't as if it was like so he's so in the news that you like we got to do something about this. When do you notice, was you just watching Sports Center or did someone or Stephen just watching ESPN or did someone mention it to you?

How did it come to be? Yeah, no, I mean, I've been on Kendrick Perkins for years, you know what I'm saying? But it just takes a while for him to get onto the radar of everybody else. So like, by the time I do it, people know who I'm doing. Like I remember I did Steve Harvey on SNL when he still had hair and the audience didn't really know who he was yet like that. And he wasn't just like, you know, in the house, you know,

he just wasn't in the living room necessarily on a daily basis like he is on Family Feud. So once he got on Family Feud and everybody knew who he was and everybody could see what kind of a big character that he naturally is, you know, like I was able to do it, you know, there's just kind of like that perfect storm of awareness basically. I'm gonna work on my Hawke impersonation. No, I already did it. I did it earlier. I'm down for it. No, I already did it. I did it earlier. Two up, two down.

And where is Dan? Do you know where Dan is? No one knows where Dan is, man. Dan running around here. You know, I decided to come here. Yeah, he in LA running around doing foolishness. Stu gots not here either. We're not even sure if Stu is still alive.

Wade sees Stu in forever. It's chaos out here, brother. Keenan, I have a question. What would you have said, like, you're blessed to have this really long career in entertainment. But if I pulled you aside on the set of all that, and I said, 25 years from now, you're going to be doing interview hits on behalf of Gerd,

anything that worked out for you? Yeah, I mean, I would first ask you, why are you standing? Why do you feel like you need to be the one to stand up? But yeah, no, I mean, I'm out here speaking on GERD to try to tell others. So I would definitely be fine with that if my younger would be like, oh, you're out on talk shows in the future talking about GERD.

It's like, why? It's like, well, you actually had it and overcame it, and you wanted to share your thoughts on that with other people that might be suffering as well, and not know. I'd be like, oh, OK, It's like, well, you actually had it and overcame it and you wanted to share your thoughts on that with other people that might be suffering as well and not know. I'd be like, oh, okay, that's cool. Incredible, incredible dismount. Way to crossover off the backboard.

It's the pros do. That's why he's one of the greats. Thank you so much, Kenan. Give it up. Kenan Thompson. One of my favorites of all time. We appreciate it. Thank you so much, Kenan, for coming in

and making at least one of my interviews go well. Thank you, sir. Hey, man, I hope that the rest of them do, but you never know. Yeah, they got you. Two up, two down, Keenan. Two up, two down, always. My boy.

All right, see you then. Oh, man, that was so much fun. I knew it would be. You were great, man. Thank you. I was excited, bro. I just, you know. This is like when Jason Tatum thinks he's gonna be the MVP, but Jalen Marr like, nah, bruh.

I had came in here all hype, was like, yeah, I'm a cook today, but really? Just rode the back of the 40 under 40, 50 under 40, all the lists of Andrew Hawkins. I don't know a lot, right? But I know what I know. So there's no prep. When Kenan Thompson comes on,

I don't know about you, everyone knows, listen, I don't know everything. And if I don't know, I have no problem telling you that. But when Kenan comes in, oh, I am a PhD level at Kenan Thompson sketches. That was textbook on how not to start an interview. Yeah, it was pretty bad. But I also thought I closed it poorly.

The Morgan Wallen. It was a good. It was a bad point. I thought that was really funny. Yeah, I thought so too. It's funny, but it's just a little jarring when that's the first words he hears. I try to be too comfortable at the end, too.

I just wanted to say gird. It's just a funny thing. I understand it's an inflictioniction and he went serious with it and then called me out for standing. Number one, he says first off. Which he was right about by the way. Why are you dealing with standing? Definitely standing, hand up, that's on me.

We might get aggregated now since he, you know, you asked him about it, getting aggregating all the trades, maybe they're gonna pick up on his answer. Yeah, it was a pretty smart question. I mean, the N-word thing, like, I was just, yeah, like, very of the moment right now, I walked off the set. He came in hot, at the end.

What happened there, then we might have been aggregated, but then it became very clear that no one should listen to this thing. We're trying to get our newsie clip, and it's just like, well, thanks, thanks, Dominique. Also, he was next to, like, a very loud AC vent. Or he was on an a very loud AC vent. Or he was on an airplane.

That's a pretty boss move. To do an interview from an airplane? Yeah. Or the AC vent. I said two up, two down. Listen, we don't come out. Every shot you shoot isn't gonna go in. Do we find out the score now or in the post game?

Well, we gave up an empty net goal there. Wow. Oh, we're playing hockey now post game? Well, we gave up an empty net goal there. Wow. Oh, we're playing hockey now. Oh, wow, we definitely lost. I thought we were playing hockey the whole time. We went hockey with names and everything. Yeah, we went down by two, and now we gave up the empty netter.

I thought we were playing baseball. That's, I think, a big issue with how we're scoring this is because we're not even on the same sport. That was our issue the entire time. I don't think the Kean interview went bad, though. I thought that was a good interview. No, by comparison to the earlier interviews, yes. That was one of the good ones, I guess.

It also may just be me being excited to talk to Kenan Thompson. I thought it was great. I was excited, too. Obviously, I'll prepare better for interviews in the future. I apologize. Hand up. I'm going to go serious right now in order to make Mike uncomfortable

because no matter what, the best part was when he ducked on Mike and Mike was standing up, tried to smile like he felt good, but it was uncomfortable. Yeah, I have my regrets there. I was just trying to, you know. It was a funny question. About Gerd.

It was, but also he had Gerd, so he was kinda like, he played it down the middle, but when you like, inD, so he was kind of like, he played it down the middle, but when you like in retrospect, after he started to answer you, I'm like, oh, okay, I can see where you did take that, Greg. I wanted to ask, is it a double-edged sword to be afflicted with something so fun to say? Yeah.

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