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Fun hypothetical: Who would be the top celebrities that would show up to a Wizards NBA finals game?
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00:00And Tobe sitting in for Jeeps.
00:0190 minutes.
00:02You know what?
00:02That's not true.
00:03Less than that.
00:04It's not 90 minutes.
00:05It's probably 75 minutes if I'm being real, right?
00:07Not even that, really, because it's 5-0-4.
00:0970 minutes.
00:1170 minutes.
00:1270 minutes.
00:13Okay?
00:14Who's counting, though?
00:14Well, you know, I'm trying to be real with everybody.
00:17It's good time for sport.
00:19So usually this is the dry period, and it is because there's a dearth of NFL news.
00:23We're just like on Brandon Ingram Instagram watch.
00:26Brandon Ingram, I'm sure.
00:27Why am I watching Brandon Ingram's Instagram?
00:30You really care what he's up to these days?
00:32What's Brandon Ingram up to?
00:33Are there any lanky small forwards that are posting?
00:36Good Lord.
00:37I can't.
00:38All right.
00:39We're doing Brandon Iyuk Instagram watch.
00:41I try not to.
00:42You'll notice we haven't talked about that very much.
00:44I'm not interested.
00:45I don't care where he geolocated his post from.
00:48I don't care.
00:49I don't care.
00:50I can't do it.
00:50And they offer him, frankly.
00:51There are actual sporting events taking place.
00:53College World Series is underway.
00:55This West Virginia story is awesome.
00:57They're beating Troy 7-5 in the ninth.
01:00World Cup is happening.
01:01Team USA plays tonight.
01:02NBA finals are happening.
01:03We're doing sport.
01:04That's how we're doing it.
01:07So the Knicks are in the finals.
01:10That's going well for them.
01:11You may have heard.
01:11They're up three games to one.
01:13Sir, the thing I was thinking of is, you know about this in L.A., and you know about this
01:18bit in New York, right, where fans, celebrity fans, it's like, yeah, you're real fans, but
01:25it's also, I'm not going to get the chance to miss being seen and being on the court.
01:30Of course.
01:30Because we've got our share here in D.C. as well.
01:35It's not the same.
01:36It's not Hollywood A-listers.
01:38It's not like Leo sitting next to Jack Nicholson or whatever in L.A., and it's not Jerry Seinfeld
01:43and Larry David hanging out next to each other in New York.
01:46It's not Chris Rock, Spike Lee, the whole nine.
01:49But we've got some pretty good level celebs in town as well, or at least guys that might
01:55come back for it, even if they don't live here full-time, who would be our celebs sitting
02:02courtside where there's a pause in the action of Mike Breen pans over, the camera pans over,
02:07Mike Breen shouts out, this guy, there's Jimmy Fallon, there's Timothy Shallow, man, blah,
02:11blah, blah, blah.
02:11Here's this dude.
02:12Who would be our crew?
02:14Who would be in our group of, like, 10 to 12 celebs that you would see on camera all
02:19the time?
02:19Yeah, it's tough because, you know, how many of them are fans of the local teams?
02:24Because generally you'd like them to be, you know, generally you're thinking Wizards,
02:27right?
02:28I mean, because that's the one where it's the most prominent.
02:30Easy to see.
02:30Yeah.
02:30So let's say the Wizards are in the finals.
02:32Again, don't laugh.
02:33Stop laughing.
02:35In this hypothetical, the Washington Wizards are in the NBA finals.
02:39And everyone...
02:40No!
02:41I said no!
02:44No!
02:46It's a fun hypothetical.
02:48Don't be a jerk about a studio audience.
02:50All right?
02:51Okay, but try it one more time.
02:53In this hypothetical, the Washington Wizards are on the NBA finals.
02:59I mean...
03:02And it's the one with the claps, too.
03:03Yeah.
03:04You know what I mean?
03:04That's tough.
03:04That's the harder one.
03:06That's the harsher one.
03:07Where it's a guy...
03:08It's so crazy and stupid.
03:10Yeah.
03:10All right.
03:11But I think your first thought, you're thinking Wale, right?
03:15I mean, that's got to be top of mind.
03:17First name.
03:18Um, and then I'm trying to think outside of that.
03:21Dave Chappelle?
03:22See, this is where I was going.
03:23There are a bunch of guys and gals that don't live here now, but they're very D.C. area.
03:29The first one is Chappelle.
03:31Yeah.
03:31I mean, you would think that he'd be there, right?
03:33He's someone that's prominent.
03:35I mean, someone that's been embraced by this local community recently, is an athlete currently.
03:39Francis Tiafoe is probably going to be there.
03:41He's a well-enough known name.
03:44And then you start to get into maybe just former athletes from the area.
03:47I mean, there's still other celebrities, but it's not quite the A-list of a New York, but
03:52it's still a good list.
03:54Here are a couple others that I thought of, and I want your calls.
03:56800-636-1067.
03:58You get to nominate one person that's going to sit on our star row.
04:02So far, I think let's cap it at how many?
04:05You want to cap it at 12?
04:07That's about the number of, like, prominent celebs that are there.
04:10So far, I think we've got consensus on Chappelle.
04:13Yep, Chappelle.
04:13Yes, all agreed.
04:15Strober, show of hands.
04:16Show me your hands, Strobes.
04:18That's one.
04:18That's two.
04:19That's Darius.
04:20Chappelle.
04:20Chappelle is in our group of 12.
04:23We throw another one at you.
04:25Jon Bernthal.
04:26The Punisher.
04:27Yes.
04:28Right?
04:28He's in a bunch of stuff.
04:30He's a really good actor.
04:31He went to Sidwell.
04:33He played catcher on a fall baseball team I was on.
04:36We played for Coach Beatrice.
04:38He was the catcher during a perfect game in fall baseball.
04:42I played second base.
04:43Who played short that day?
04:44Michael Block played short.
04:45Michael Block's a pretty good player, but he went to Sidwell, and that's where the coach
04:49coached at Sidwell.
04:50There's probably another guy who could have played shortstop then.
04:52This guy was an All-Met player, and he went on to have a really good college career at
04:56GW, and he hosts an afternoon drive show in D.C.
04:58What's that, Darius?
04:59I mean, I can't let you just drop the word Sidwell multiple times and you don't do the bit.
05:06Come on.
05:07Now, to be clear, I'm not talking about my daughters, even though they did.
05:13I'm talking about the Bernthal family.
05:15A couple prominent guys, two are businessmen, and one conducts business in film where he
05:20throw chops some MFers whenever they step to.
05:24There you go.
05:24It's not as good as Grant's.
05:27It's not as good as Grant's, Darius.
05:28You're going to embarrass me like that?
05:30But they go to Sidwell, Prince.
05:33I think Bernthal definitely gets a seat there.
05:35Do we agree on Bernthal?
05:38One, two, three, four.
05:39The panel says Universal.
05:40Yes.
05:40I got John Bernthal on a seat.
05:42Slick Vic Ferreira text as well.
05:43So that's five.
05:44And Vic is in on Bernthal?
05:45Yeah.
05:46So he texted me as well.
05:47Vic is in on Bernthal.
05:48There we go.
05:49All right.
05:49That's two.
05:50I got another nominee.
05:54Now, you guys don't know her well enough, and her post, the big thing she's done, the
06:01biggest thing she's done, a lot of guys kind of stopped after that.
06:05She has had massive roles in really successful TV shows and has a nice little role in Marvel
06:16these days.
06:19Julia Louis Dreyfus went to Houlton Arms School.
06:23That's D.C. area's own Julia Louis Dreyfus.
06:26That's Seinfeld.
06:27That's V.
06:27Yeah.
06:28That's what's her name in Marvel, Darius?
06:30She made Bob.
06:33She is.
06:34She goes by Val.
06:35Val.
06:35Valentina.
06:35Valentina.
06:36Thank you very much.
06:38They basically, her experiment turned on her, and Bob is sentry, and that's bad.
06:43You pretty much can't let him be sentry because then he turns into the void, and it's
06:46a whole thing.
06:47Yeah.
06:48I mean, 100%.
06:49I had no idea she had ties here.
06:51Julia Louis Dreyfus all in favor.
06:53100%.
06:54The panel agrees.
06:55I'm on fire over here.
06:57Julia.
06:58Louise.
06:59Louis.
07:02Louis.
07:02Julia Dreyfus.
07:03Yep.
07:04Julia Louis.
07:05Dreyfus.
07:06All right.
07:06Is Wale on there?
07:08I feel like he is.
07:09Or is he kind of on the edge?
07:12I think we could vote.
07:13Wale's not on the edge.
07:14It's the first name I thought of.
07:16Yeah.
07:16Oh, Wale.
07:17Right?
07:17And he's the one, I mean, it'd be wrong not to have him on the list.
07:20He's the one that most prominently claims most of our teams.
07:24Yes, and he's a fan.
07:25Yeah.
07:25This is not me knocking Wale.
07:27I'm thinking of this.
07:29Camera pans to Wale.
07:30Anyway, I'm in Sandusky, Ohio.
07:36Do I know?
07:38Maybe not.
07:39Do I know who John Bernthal is?
07:41Yes.
07:42Do I know who Julia Louis-Dreyfus is?
07:43Yes.
07:44I sure as bleep know who Dave Chappelle is.
07:45Yeah, of course.
07:46See what I'm saying?
07:47Yeah, I mean, he's probably closer to 12th than he is to first, but I think he deserves a spot.
07:51Can we say, let's leave him as a nominee.
07:53Yeah, let's keep going.
07:54I'm going to put Wale down there, all right?
07:56800-636-1067.
07:58I don't want to take everyone's suggestions, but I have a couple more on my own.
08:03Martin Lawrence.
08:05Martin Lawrence is DC area suburb.
08:08I believe he's from Landover or kind of points close in.
08:13Wildly successful comedic actor.
08:16His show Martin ran forever, where he played multiple characters.
08:20Successful actor after that.
08:22Everything from Blue Streak to movies with Will Smith.
08:27Bad Boys, Bad Boys 2, Bad Boys 7, Bad Boys Fast and Furious, whatever.
08:33A lot of that stuff.
08:34Martin Lawrence, pretty famous.
08:36Martin Lawrence.
08:37100%.
08:38Martin Lawrence is in.
08:38Nomination.
08:39Hands up for Martin Lawrence.
08:40I got one.
08:41100%.
08:41I got two.
08:42I got three.
08:43I got four.
08:43Come on.
08:43Everybody knows Martin Lawrence.
08:44Everyone knows Martin Lawrence, right?
08:46All right.
08:47Last one.
08:49Nomination.
08:50Before I take your calls.
08:50800-636-1067.
08:53This one, I might lose some of the young people.
08:58Dave Grohl.
09:00Dave Grohl.
09:02Drummer for Nirvana.
09:04Frontman for Foo Fighters.
09:06Basically, Springfield slash Falls Church.
09:09DC area.
09:11Dave Grohl.
09:12Pretty famous.
09:14But again, doing the same deal.
09:16The test.
09:17Somebody in Topeka, Kansas.
09:20Camera pans to Dave Grohl.
09:22Do they know before the little chyron comes up?
09:24I know Dave Grohl, but I'm a man of a certain age.
09:27Yeah.
09:28I know the Foo Fighters.
09:30Yeah.
09:30I don't know Dave Grohl.
09:32Dave Grohl's going to be tough for me to get in there.
09:34Let's leave him as a nominee.
09:35I don't sense a lot of support for Dave Grohl.
09:37I support Dave Grohl, but I'm fully aware that it might not pass the young person test.
09:42All right.
09:43800-636-1067.
09:45Let's go to Doyle in Richmond.
09:47We're taking nominees for our celebrity sightings at a Wizards Finals appearance that has not
09:52happened since before I was born.
09:54Hopefully it happens soon.
09:55Hopefully it happens soon.
09:56Doyle, Richmond, who you got?
09:59I have Pat Sajak.
10:02That's a good one.
10:03Boom.
10:03He goes to National Games.
10:04Yep.
10:05Throw him in.
10:05That was a guy.
10:06Thank you very much, Doyle.
10:07That's a good one.
10:08He was on my list.
10:09I didn't want to take it from everybody.
10:10I think Pat Sajak, instantly recognizable.
10:14Everybody knows him.
10:15Pat Sajak all in favor?
10:17Yes.
10:18100%.
10:19I got four.
10:19Strobes, what show did Pat Sajak host?
10:22I don't know.
10:23You've got to be kidding me.
10:28How does he not know Pat Sajak?
10:30Because he's a young person.
10:31I'm not that much older than him, and I know Pat Sajak.
10:34I know you do, Tobes, and this is going to sting a little bit.
10:37You're going to come to realize, as you get older and older, young people don't know anything.
10:42And in addition to not knowing anything, they think nothing before them happened.
10:47I mean, what in the world?
10:49Yeah.
10:49No, I know this show.
10:50I just didn't realize he was the one that hosted it.
10:53Pat Sajak and Vanna White?
10:55You didn't hear that a million times?
10:56What do you mean, Strobes?
11:00I mean what I mean.
11:02I didn't know he was the one that hosted it.
11:04You've heard of the show, but didn't know he hosted the show?
11:07Yeah, I didn't know the name of the person who hosted it.
11:09I know the name.
11:10I know the show.
11:11What's the show?
11:12Wheel of Fortune.
11:13I mean, you just looked it up, obviously.
11:14Yeah.
11:15It never occurred to you that he was the host?
11:16No.
11:17Like, if I'd asked you for a million dollars, who hosts Wheel of Fortune?
11:20I would have known.
11:21You wouldn't have known?
11:22No.
11:22I mean, you hear Pat Sajak a million times watching that show.
11:26I grew up watching it all the time.
11:27Everybody didn't.
11:28Everybody did.
11:29Man.
11:30Let's go to John in La Plata.
11:34John, celebrity at the Hypothetical Wizards Finals.
11:39All right.
11:39I got Dutch Todd, Wolf Blitzer, Genuine, and Honorable Mention.
11:48Of course, Grave Dan, you got to be there.
11:50No, but John, don't do it.
11:52That's very sweet of you.
11:53Can you imagine the camera pans to me?
11:56No.
11:57Wrong.
11:58That would be a terrible use of camera time.
12:00And look, here's Danny Ruye.
12:02But see, that's the first thing people think of.
12:04It's like, because these guys are correspondents, or they're doing the nightly news.
12:07See Teasy, a.k.a.
12:09Chuck Todd, and Wolf Blitzer.
12:11Yeah, they're recognizable.
12:14Yeah.
12:15Everyone knows who they are, but is that the juice?
12:18Is that the star power?
12:19I mean, it's in D.C., so there's going to be a little bit of that mixed in naturally, just
12:25because of the area.
12:26But it's not going to be as fun as Martin Lawrence or Dave Chappelle.
12:29So, he said one other, who was the other name that he said before Grant and Annie?
12:33I'm blanking.
12:34He said Chuck Todd, Wolf Blitzer.
12:36I missed the other one.
12:37Yeah, there's somebody else.
12:38He said Francis Tiafoe.
12:41Now, Tiafoe is another very interesting name here.
12:45Do enough people know that guy?
12:47I think he's starting to grow.
12:49If you're in tennis, you know.
12:50I think he's starting to grow because he's had enough where he's the last American in
12:53a major, and so a lot of people get behind Francis Tiafoe.
12:57So, I think his fame has grown enough that it's no longer just a, oh, he's a fun DMV guy.
13:02I think it's grown to enough that people nationally would know Tiafoe, because he's one of the
13:07top American players.
13:08Now, I know tennis isn't that popular of a sport, compared to Lee.
13:11Because there aren't that many great Americans.
13:12But I do think that Tiafoe would be recognizable.
13:16So, I have seen him on television a couple times, and I've had to go, who's that?
13:23And you've been annoyed at me, and you said it's Tiafoe.
13:26And I went, oh, crap, that's right.
13:29So, that one's tough for me.
13:31Again, I'm not knocking any of these guys.
13:33These are all more accomplished people than me.
13:35But we've already got Chappelle, Bernthal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Martin Lawrence, and Pat
13:40Sajak.
13:41Does Tiafoe sound like the sixth guy on that list to you guys?
13:46Do you see what I'm saying?
13:47Yeah.
13:47I mean, well, it's tough.
13:48Because if we're going athletes, I mean, you've got to go back to 80s and 90s skins.
13:53Sugar Ray Leonard.
13:54Yeah.
13:54Then we start going down a different road.
13:57All right.
13:57I'm ready.
13:58Do you want to...
13:58Let's vote on Tiafoe.
14:00Is Tiafoe part of our group of 12?
14:02Hands.
14:03How many do we have already?
14:04Five?
14:04We have five.
14:08I don't know if I can, because I could think of two or three skins that should be on above
14:11him.
14:12Tiaris, Darius, hands down.
14:13Strober, hands down.
14:15And now Toby, hands down.
14:16Tiafoe didn't make it.
14:17That's tough.
14:18That's tough, by the way.
14:19So much more accomplished than all of us.
14:20And now we're telling him he can't be on our celebrity list?
14:22He can be in the Tate McRae, Hailey Bieber suite that gets shown later on.
14:26Yeah, you could be in the suite, Francis.
14:28Yeah.
14:28You've earned it.
14:29Again, you're excellent.
14:30And you're awesome.
14:31I'm a Tiafoe fan.
14:32Not a big enough fan to recognize you on television every time you're on, unless there's a little
14:36car on.
14:36Next time he wins, when he wins a slam, whichever one's next, when he wins a slam, he can tell
14:41us to shut up and he can sit courtside.
14:43Yeah.
14:43Strobes.
14:44I feel like I have a strong candidate, but the hypothetical, because we're at a Wizards
14:47game, might make him not able to be part of this list.
14:52Could Kevin Durant be part of the list because of the Wizards game?
14:55Yeah.
14:55This is a tough question.
14:56Is he wearing a Wizards uniform?
14:57Here's what I'm going to do.
14:59I don't count Walt Clyde Frazier, for example.
15:02I don't count Willis Reed, or I don't count some of the other former Knicks grits.
15:04Bill Bradley's up there.
15:06Now, he's also a senator, but I don't count those guys.
15:09They're dignitaries and they're team-related, even though Durant's not, because he famously
15:13said, no, when they were like, will you take a meeting?
15:15And he was like, no.
15:16They're like, really?
15:17He's like, yeah, I've stopped calling.
15:18Lose my number.
15:19Leave me alone.
15:19Yeah.
15:20And they're like, great.
15:21We'll just sign Andrew Nicholson.
15:23That's the same.
15:24Hey, is John Mahimi available?
15:26Of course he is.
15:27He definitely is.
15:27Here's four years.
15:29Anyway.
15:31Ernie Grunfeld was the GM for years after that.
15:33By the way, I'm not bitter about it still.
15:36These are good nominees.
15:37I have a couple more.
15:38You guys have some good ones on the phone, too.
15:39800-636-1067.
15:41I think we have to say, no basketball players count on this list.
15:47They're welcome.
15:48KD can absolutely come to my finals.
15:51If I'm in the finals, everybody's welcome to come.
15:53But he's not going to count on our star list.
15:56Does that make sense, Stropes?
15:57We're going to separate that list a little bit.
16:00KD, superstar, Hall of Famer, one of the greatest basketball players to come out of this region.
16:04And how are we doing athletes, period?
16:06Like, you can have football players there?
16:07Now, this is where we get into an interesting place.
16:10That's something that's worth discussing.
16:11Because Alex Ovechkin, too?
16:13Alex Ovechkin, too.
16:14I mean, he has to be there.
16:16He's a celeb.
16:17800-636-1067.
16:18Somebody drops off.
16:20We're trying to be like New York.
16:21Not in the, like, throw eggs at players.
16:23And not in the, like, trash public property kind of thing.
16:27But we're in the finals.
16:28We're coming up with who our celebrities are that are getting shown on television.
16:32We've got a working list.
16:33We're taking a total of 12.
16:35We've got five.
16:36Your call's next.
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