Episode 137 - "One Shining Moment" Origin Story & World's Third Smartest Person
Mitch Unfiltered
Mitch Levy
5.0 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
RUNDOWN
The guys are together again and wish they could just pick up and move to Arizona. Then, they chat about Mitch's favorite sports day of the year, Joe Musgrove's no-hitter, and open the listener mailbag. Three fantastic guests beginning with musician David Barrett, television writer & genius Rick Rosner, and a return of PGA golfer Ken Green. Later, Mitch and Scott check off their laundry list of other topics including the Friends reunion show, the LA Dodgers ring ceremony, and pricy sports memorabilia.
GUESTS
- David Barrett | One Shining Moment songwriter
- Rick Rosner | TV writer & world’s third highest IQ ranking
- Ken Green | Former PGA golfer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 | The Soden family is back from spring break in Arizona and both he and Mitch imagine moving down there for year-round sunshine.
17:59 | Masters Sunday just wrapped up with Hideki Matsuyama hanging on to his lead in the final holes.
25:35 | Joe Musgrove tossed the first no-hitter in Padres history on Friday and could barely hold in his enormous quantity of water during the game.
26:46 | Episode 136 generated tons of emails from the Mitch Unfiltered listeners on a variety of topics.
43:05 | GUEST: David Barrett checks in to recall his inspiration to write the classic song One Shining Moment which has become a staple in college basketball for over three decades.
1:08:13 | GUEST: Rick Rosner shares his unique story that led to his role as a writer for The Jimmy Kimmel Show, a controversial appearance on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and the distinction as third smartest person.
1:33:53 | GUEST: Ken Green swings by for reaction to Hideki Matsuyama's victory in the 2021 Masters.
1:57:00 | The announcement for a Friends reunion was leaked by Matthew Perry aka Chandler.
1:59:23 | Dodgers players received their World Series rings and an introduction by their childhood baseball hero.
2:04:18 | A Babe Ruth handwritten letter to his mistress is up for auction for a cool quarter million.
2:07:05 | RIP Prince Philip and DMX...as everyone knows were longtime buds.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Episode 137 I'm pleased to report he's in front of me and he's not on a computer somewhere in Arizona |
| 0:07.2 | Well, yeah, you're not probably pleased report. Oh boy boy. Do I love me to Arizona? You and I both yet you two |
| 0:13.8 | Yeah, oh |
| 0:15.3 | The problem is it tricks me into thinking it summer every time I walk out slide on my gay summer. It's July |
| 0:20.2 | What's wrong with June July August September here? |
| 0:25.9 | Yep October November December January February March April May May there the answer like that the answer |
| 0:32.7 | That is nothing why isn't everybody |
| 0:35.2 | No, because none of us can afford to do it. Yeah, I mean you have to have two places to live |
| 0:39.0 | And yeah, you got to kind of maintain it in your own |
| 0:40.7 | Oh, Scottsdale. Oh Scottsdale's great. You didn't go to Scottsdale. You're about an hour from Scottsdale |
| 0:45.6 | I stayed about a 45 minutes north, but I went to Scottsdale to watch the the national championship |
| 0:50.4 | Oh, and then we went to a place called the sugar bowl and it's hop in there's a lot of Scottsdale. I really mean |
| 0:56.4 | I love Phoenix. I don't think I know Scottsdale well enough. Yeah, to be able to say that I love Scottsdale |
| 1:02.2 | But I know that that's what people say. Yeah, it's like a love Scottsdale. Well, it's like a cool little subber about |
| 1:07.1 | Side of Phoenix. It's like Bellevue, isn't it? It's a kind of yeah, there's restaurants and bars |
| 1:11.6 | Why you're getting choked up about this and I understand why I |
| 1:15.0 | Why don't you come back? I went to go play basketball at this court. We discovered last time in Scottsdale |
| 1:19.7 | It's like an outdoor lights are on it's 90 degrees and 9 o'clock at night now you could never live in Scottsdale or Arizona |
| 1:26.3 | All year round |
| 1:27.8 | Right the heat would get what gets to you more the rain and yuckiness here. Oh, yeah, I've been or the 120 during the summer every day |
| 1:37.3 | There I've been bitching about the weather my wife so sick of hearing about I've lived here my whole life and I'm just I'm so |
| 1:42.1 | I'm the one who should be bitching about the weather not you I'm over it. Yeah, but I've had more of it. Yeah, I'm done |
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