Ben's ass, I took some heat from our first episode for saying that I didn't think that you,

I don't know whether I said you didn't have a good sense of humor or whether you weren't

yourself a funny person.

And people said that I was being mean to you by people we mean my mom

I gave her your number but now we have proof of concept because we were going to bring

for our first episode Conan O'Brien a comedian but because the United States Olympic team won the gold medal in hockey,

you a sports freak, a jock, are jazzed about this and you want to give them Al Michaels first because

Al Michaels is the guy

who called the Miracle on Ice, the 1980, which we talk all about in the episode.

Al Michaels is the eternal present. The guy's, the guy's an octogenarian and he's at the center

of everything. We'd be nuts not to ride that mule. This is, I, I, I, but your, your wish is my command.

And we should also point out to listeners that this was recorded before that stirring victory,

or otherwise the interview would have been peppered with the USA chance that you previously heard

from Professor Sass.

1980 was on my eighth birthday.

The next Olympics was 46 years to the day on my birthday.

Last time I worked better because it wasn't on a Sunday.

This one was tough because we had to watch before church.

And then during the sudden death moment, we were driving

to church and tried to pretend we weren't checking our phones. This is a parable. This is a, this is

afraid in the book that this will be a vivid scene. I feel this will be a very vivid scene in the

book. I'm getting another L. Michael's tattoo. That's all I have to say. All right. Well, maybe he's

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