Jimmy "Jomboy" O'Brien: Celebrating Baseball

Literally! With Rob Lowe

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Rob is in his happy place talking baseball with Jomboy! Baseball commentator and content creator Jimmy "Jomboy" O'Brien, who has amassed over one billion total views on his Jomboy Media channel, joins Rob Lowe to discuss the 2024 World Series, the secret to effective lip-reading, baseball’s return to the center of culture, how Jomboy Media combined backyard baseball with reality television to create the Warehouse Games, the passing of baseball icon Fernando Valenzuela, and much more. Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at 323-570-4551. Your question could get featured on the show! Note: this interview was recorded on 10/24/2024.

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0:00.0	It is a shitty warehouse in Jersey City.
0:03.0	Like we dressed up the inside, the outside.
0:05.0	It's like when you arrive, you're, where are we?
0:09.0	That's great. Hey everybody welcome to literally today is one in honor of my favorite thing
0:30.4	baseball and the World Series. We have the Yankees, we have the Dodgers, the biggest
0:38.6	teams on the biggest stage. In honor of that, I have my favorite sports, I don't know you to describe it, personality,
0:47.6	entrepreneur James O'Brien from John Boy Media. John Boy is the coolest place to go for you can go to the YouTube channel.
0:57.8	They've got 44 Podcast 20 YouTube channels.
1:01.1	He's famous for doing the lip reading breakdowns of umpires arguing and nobody
1:08.6	knows baseball better and makes it more fun or accessible than the guys at John Boy. And for those of you who do not like
1:17.1	sports, I apologize, but this one's for me. And we are sitting down for this just before game one of the World Series.
1:25.6	It's the perfect time to talk baseball. I forgot my Dodger hat in the car I'm bum. I thought you're not going to go with
1:41.2	the MLB hat. No, because I am not agnostic.
1:46.0	Okay.
1:47.0	I am not agnostic to what is what is about to transpire.
1:51.0	It either. How... is about to transpire. Me neither.
1:54.0	How excited are you that we have come to this moment, Dodgers, Yankees? Very excited and then as soon as first pitch is thrown I'm going to be very nervous for, you know, a long time.
2:09.0	Well then we'll go nerves and then hopefully we'll go back up to excitement, you know, because we're going to swing the opposite ways or I'm going to go just wild, just sadness.
2:18.4	Yeah, I find, I turn to my son Matthew who's, he's almost, I mean he's equally as obsessed as I am and he's like during the game he just goes, it's not fun.
2:31.1	Because there's an element of it when you're such a fan of your team and so much is at stake.
2:38.7	You're like, part of it isn't, like I wouldn't describe it as fun. It's something great, but I'm not sure it's fun
2:46.1	Yeah, I always try to figure that one out because I people are like you're so stressed and we do our live watch parties and I'm always saying no this is what I like even
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