Baseball Opening Day w/ Matthew McConaughey's Giant Head
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Gregg "Opie" Hughes
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Timestamps:00:00 – Ron’s free luxury curb couch & haunted chair from Astoria
08:45 – Singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” for Opening Day
12:30 – National Waffle Day is a 500-year Swedish mistake
18:20 – Popeye spinach myth, potato chips born from spite, Doritos from Disney leftovers
35:15 – Why baseball tickets are now insane ($400 for a family at Citi Field)
48:50 – Why kids today aren’t into baseball like we were
57:40 – Ron’s crazy state ID photo that killed his Mets security guard gig
1:05:00 – Matthew McConaughey on Jay Leno (that giant head + backstage margaritas)
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| 0:00.0 | fucking couch and it's from the neighbors and it's are you serious you have a really uh all right |
| 0:06.4 | well uh we start with that i guess so rham was talking about how he has a really really nice |
| 0:10.7 | couch in his wood paddling basement apartment and a story of queens look at that beauty it's gorgeous |
| 0:17.6 | dude it's like a he didn't have to go uh he didn't have to go couch shopping for three, four hours with his family yesterday. He'd know what he did. He found that on the streets of Queens. My neighbor, I, first of all, I know the people. My neighbor, they're, they're very wealthy, you know, by the way, all the houses, all the houses here are, you know, $2 million houses. Yeah. They, they were, they bought a new couch like you did. They went couch owning. Right. And they got and they put this one out. Yeah. Gorgeous. No, it's the Cadillac of couches. It's, it's like sitting in a Cadillac. It's a nice fine. |
| 0:57.0 | You know, um, and it said no bedbugs. |
| 1:01.6 | I got, I got some roots still in me from my college days when I was scraping. |
| 1:06.3 | Well, I scraped all the way from, uh, when I left my parents house at 18 until I don't know, like 30. |
| 1:07.2 | I was scraping hard, Rod, scraping hard. |
| 1:10.4 | And in my neighborhood, you know, there's so many |
| 1:13.5 | rich bitches. They throw out brand new stuff all the time. And you see the pickers. They come. |
| 1:18.8 | They know what date is. I forget it. Let's say it's a Wednesday. And one street near me is just |
| 1:24.1 | packed with like old mattresses. Some mattresses still in the plastic, by the way, |
| 1:28.9 | still in the plastic, for whatever reason they never used it. |
| 1:31.9 | Office furniture, lamps and lights and couches and chairs and tables. |
| 1:38.6 | And man, when I'm walking doggie with my wife, I'm like, oh my God, |
| 1:43.3 | and she's like, now. I'm like, but, but, but, but, but, but we can get some good stuff. We can shop right here on the streets of New York. Okay. Just back in the day, really fast. I was, uh, I was a fraternity guy. And every year we would go up early to Geneseo, and we would just drive up and down the streets up and down the streets |
| 2:01.3 | and Geneseo and we would find all our furniture for our rooms. Yep. The living room. |
| 2:06.1 | Every once in a while you got bedbugs or something, but that's the price you pay for free stuff. |
| 2:11.5 | No, you're actually, if you put furniture out, it's the law. You have to, you're supposed to say, you're supposed to put a sign out saying bed bugs or no bed bugs. Honestly, you are. Yeah. And you're also, when you put your mattress out, it's the law, you have to cover it in plastic. Yeah. And by the way, I got to correct you, we did not find a couch yesterday. You know, when you got a family of four trying to find a new couch, |
| 2:35.8 | bro, I just want what's, I think it's just called a C couch. It's a C couch. It's the letter C, |
| 2:42.5 | nice, comfortable, loungy. And my daughter wants one of those couches where everyone's in an |
| 2:50.6 | airline pilot seat. You know, the couches where everyone's in an airline pilot seat. |
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