Intro I'm snapping jcks and cashing checks bro you know I want ass I want to drive a Range Rover drive a Range Rover so all that's some so they wanted him to lean into it more so we had to re-shoot that scene so when we did Adam Scott who you know is his brother in it and I'm kind of Adam's henchman right I'm just his muscle you know just screaming anything he says I'm backing up and so he's like he's like hey this is the C Wine Mixer you know you mess with my that's where I make my nut for the year you mess with my nut I'm gonna you know kill you or whatever I'm sitting there going I'm foaming at the mouth because I want to kill Will's character Brennan you know and just because you know my boss is mad at him or whatever you know and so I'm like I'm Le like literally making motions mimick so whenever he got done saying something I just gow and so it made will just die laughing because he was like what the and and so so then will being very gracious like we you got to keep just keep doing that and so I kept yelling pal and and will was like why does he keep doing that you know but it was again things we find in the moment improvised [Music] [Music] things oh man rob rle man we are obviously you know we're we're huge fans Rob Riggle Joins The Show of you um moose and I go a while back with you through the Kansas City days that was the start of title town which is now Kansas City title town of sports and I will you guys were the Leading Edge of that of that wave I said that 14 and 15 started everything but I mean what they're doing on that football field right now is incredible yeah it's special it's special I was going to ask you too so like everybody has like their story of a playoff game of a Super Bowl like I was throwing a party I was here you got to have one I saw the one you did with Edelman you were climbing a a mountain during the game or something like that but you got to have some kind of Super Bowl St you know I the the thing was I just never even knew if we were going to get a Super Bowl in my lifetime right and so when we got it you know it was everything like that first year 2020 when when we got the Super Bowl I was like okay I scrambled for every ticket I could get I scrambled for every hotel room you know I had the the family the sister I had nieces like but everybody was coming cuz you just you never take him for granted I didn't know if we'd ever get back said that old damn Maro thing was like I'll be back next year nope right so you know I was like I I don't know if we'll ever be back here so I I'm take everybody's coming and that was the biggest party the one down in Miami you know I'm a Miami guy that hit deep you didn't have to go you did not have to throw in the Marino combat right there well I was no bad for him because he was one of the greatest of all time and he got to his the Super Bowl what his rookie year yeah right and and so he was of course he's like with this team and the way I'm slinging it we'll be back you would think right and then nothing happened so that's that to me was the biggest warning ever take nothing for granted when you're there you got to maximize it and enjoy it because you just never you never know kind of goes back to 14 and 15 with us like 14 14 I I went out to a game three in San Francisco yep uh and because I I was filming a movie up in Alaska and I came back from Alaska to Seattle down to San Francisco just to see the game CU I knew I wasn't going to be able to get back to Kansas City for any of the games but I had to see you guys in the world World Series I had to see the Royals in the World Series and I could I could I managed to scrap some tickets uh to this that got game three and just because I didn't know I never knew you know you don't know if you guys are going back or not yeah we had to buy all the tickets it ended up playing for free out there but it was literally playing for free you got me like six tickets there was like a family list a friends list and like Mo said we were basically playing for free I mean these things are like $2,000 $3,000 a ticket we're just like we're doing it mention the California taxes are so bad yeah you said it they ate me alive out there they terrible it's ter it's well I'm uh I'm doing uh I'm doing Barkley it's terrible it's terrible it's terrible speaking of the Barkley thing man you were just talking about you got some road trips coming up we always see you on the Fox NFL show doing the football thing for a little while seems like you're having a blast man I see you in the golf tournaments all the time so Life's good right now for Rob rle huh yeah I no complaints I mean I I like to complain but I should have no no reason to uh I'm I'm lucky I'm blessed I get to work I get to do what I love you know uh and you know how good that feels when you get to do what you love to the greatest gift of all time so I'm just thrilled every day that I get to keep working yes because you know I I understand life life is very simple you know you you you work hard you get your time on the stage and then everybody tells you go f off and so uh I want but I want to stay on that stage as long as they'll have me you know I'll ride the the the bull as long long as it'll have me it'll it'll Buck me off at some point I'm fine but uh I I'm so lucky now that I get to keep working so I'm I'm very blessed what I love about all these stories that you're sharing Sports see football baseball golf like where did this love for sports come from oh just from my youth I mean Sports was everything um and I grew up here in Kansas City so it was all it wasn't you know everybody specializes now you know I live out in California and all all the kids in the neighborhood they specialize at like in fifth grade fourth grade they're specializing I'm like come on SO for for us growing up it was seasonal it was football basketball baseball Golf and swimming in the summer and by swimming I just mean around in the pool going off the high dives doing gainers off the high dive trying to impress people girls specifically it never worked got triceps but yeah exactly work L just hold myself it's cool just Sun then uh uh but yeah so so it was always seasonal and and you never thought about specializing until maybe you were a senior or a junior in high school but even then you still played the other sports yeah you know and I thought I always thought it made you a better athlete when I was when I was in Little League I bet you guys this way different for you guys I played 10 games 10 games in Little League it it wasn't a long season I didn't even know about at that time I didn't do aou my family wasn't in baseball growing up clubs or all I didn't do that stuff it was just I play 10 games of the little league and moved on to the next sport in the next season and it's like you play 80 games a year but I feel bad for the parents too like these parents they sign themselves up for hell on Earth they're they're doing every free minute they have is on the road in holiday ends at some Sports plex you know 500 miles from where they live and they're just pouring money out pouring money out and Hey listen if the kids are great and they're excelling and it's fun and you know the rewards are there then yeah absolutely worth it great it's the same thing as own a lake house or whatever it's where you get your rewards of but it just seemed like it seems really hard it seems really brutal on everybody oh yeah it's insane yeah we're going through that right now I got a seven-year-old and six-year-old and like everyone's like let's do Club let's do this I'm like let's just have fun and play play the sports that's it and like enjoy what we're doing hanging out with friends so and that's what's so crazy about what we got going on now so obviously planing days are over we started the digging deep podcast here Anthony moose Justin so we're learning now about the youth sports and what's going on with youth sports and it's like man like you said the specialization like you hear about kids first of all kids are committing to college when they're in their freshman year of of high school kids are getting up at 5: in the morning to go to the gym before school starts which I couldn't even imagine doing but what's fun it's not like are you you got to be miserable every day as a kid right exactly but what we're doing now which is cool is and you get one childhood by the way one childhood and it doesn't come back sorry but that pisses me off sometimes when I I'm like you only get that one force that on there you know cuz once it's gone it's gone forever I'm sorry I interrupted your train of thought please that was great cuz I was just Reminiscing on that first time and only get that one first time I tell you what but for players former players Anthony moose and I and now to not be playing to do what we're doing now kind of taking a step back trying to help kids trying to help young big Leaguers young professionals whatever is it's so cool because it's a different light and you know I know you've been in the acting game now you're on the prod production side but for for these young guys out there what I love is like you got to grind man you have to put your head down and get after it and if anybody knows about grinding it is you man like looking at your journey from the the service the Marines like for everything you did to be where you're at now and when I turn the TV on and see you at Taho in a golf tournament it's like man rob deserves this so you got to you got to elaborate on some of that because man what an impressive journey of Road it was for you thanks man that means a lot coming from you I appreciate that uh no I agree I get I get young people I get former service members I get a lot of people just like you guys do you you know come seek you out your advice um and what they're really asking me if I you know if I pin them down they want the hack you know they want the hack how do I do it without having to do it how do I how do I get what you got but I don't want to put in 10 years how do I do it in two years or maybe just a year if I'm being honest you know you're like I hear you and that's fine it's human nature to seek out the path of least resistance so I don't put heavy judgment on that but you have to recognize it and you have to say Okay so I understand that you want that path everybody does yeah but you're doing yourself a disservice because I could slap a black belt on you and tell every you walk around telling everybody you're a black belt and everybody's gonna look at you and they're going to see you in your ghee and you're GNA see the black belt and be like geez I don't know but as soon as you get in a fight you're gonna get your ass kicked toast right so you gotta get your white get your yellow get your orange get your green get your blue get your brown and and earn it right earn it and then when you have that black BT you step out there now you're a different character now you're ready just like when you were coming up playing ball right you had to get in your your reps you had to get in your time you have to grind you have to do the work yes there is no hack for it uh and I understand I understand cuz I wanted it too when I'm when you know when you're young you want it now now now and you feel like life is running away from you and you're like I everybody you know I'm going to be 30 it makes me laugh now because I'm like why was I in such a panic you know like the time is it's be a little patient let it come to you a little bit and if you're doing the work if you're doing what you should be doing uh it'll happen yes it will happen it's the process it's the process you and and nobody wants to hear that none of the none of the people that are trying to make it happen they don't want to hear that they want the breaks now they want and listen for some people they get them early some people they get them late some people whatever but you the one thing you can't Dodge or avoid is the work no and something when we first came up I talk about this all the time we first came up to the big leagues the new thing was the strength training working out and taking that into the off season so you're not coming to spring training to get in shape you're going in the off season getting in shape coming to spring so that process and that development so sua a new thing now in Embracing The Boredom of Consistency baseball is the mental side of the game So Justin's a process and development coach and it's someone that a lot of big-time players in the league rely on him to call to start dialogue to start that whole entire thing so for you this is something here in Rob's process the belts going all the way up you got to love what he's saying it's so true so I was with the Cleveland Browns one year and uh there was a player who was in the corner doing some weird stretching some just on his leg his muscle and I asked him I'm like what are you doing he goes I'm embracing the boredom of consistency and it was just a powerful message and he goes and we got into this conversation about greatness and he goes a lot of people aren't willing to embrace the boredom of consistency they want the wins they want the Super Bowls you see everyone's highlights but they don't know that these Elite Professionals in any domain are doing the little things that everybody else hates to do and and they hate it too but they know they must do it in order to reap the reward rewards later on and so Overcoming Difficult Times my question for all all of you is as you embrac the bord of consistency in your careers what what was your incentive like what pushed you through those difficult times this guy Embraces the boredom of consistency I was like I'm ready to I'm ready to right now I don't know why though it's like now you say like that I'm kind of like damn why do I like being so consistently boring in a sense but like it's it is a boring process I guess to do the same things every day but when you see the end goal in your head and that's the way you think you're going to get there or know you're going to get there it becomes enjoyable I don't find that boring I find it like I'm going to get there by doing it this way I need to be consistent and then also too there's a skill set differential too you guys are you were much better players coming out of high school than I was coming out of college I had to be I had to do something different or something else that made me be the best I could be and my way of doing that was being consistent being first guy in last guy out type thing just working the hard as hard as I can and worst case scenario I don't get where I want to be but I put it all in I kind of hate the saying like leave it all out there but it's true you can't look back and regret anything if you do that it is what it is if you don't make it but that's the way I did I've found uh and not just because of the Marines or or anything else but I have found that and I and I look I I I believe in certain little maxims you know I do believe if if you're not growing you're dying I do believe you know you need to be constantly working and improving you know against yourself not you know against anybody else but trying to improve you know all the motivational things you've ever heard right but I do find there's there you know these cliches and these things that you hear they're not just throwaways there there's truth in them real truth that you can put your feet on you know and you can build a foundation on because there those truths are there and one of them to me is you know motivation is great but it it goes it you know as soon as it gets hard that motivation will fly out the window you know discipline is the Cornerstone I think of all achievement I just think it is and the more I the more I do stuff and the more I look back on life and see where where did things go right where did things you know where do things Flatline or where did things and all the Peaks were when discipline was at its best and and that's what leads to confidence confidence comes from that discipline recently I'll give you an example example I have started to cold plunge okay I fuing hate it hate it it's so hard it's so hard when you're hovering above the water and I'm like I don't want to do this I don't want to do this you go in full nips yeah I go up to up to the neck and uh uh I hate it but I gotta say you know within a minute I'm you know it's over the Pain's over and I'm just and then the healing and all the good stuff and the anti-inflammation like then I'm I'm loving it right but God dang it it takes everything I got to get in that water but the more I do it every day every day I start to feel better about myself I start to feel more confident I start to feel like yeah you know and then it feeds on itself if I can do that I can do this every day and if I can do that every day so now you know my girlfriend's polish so I study my polish every morning you know on the on my app I do my polish every morning I do a couple readings I cold dip and then I start my day you know and that consistency makes me feel confident makes me feel good about myself and it's just the discipline it's just the discipline of doing and boy the way it sucks yeah sucks but athletes uh Marines people like i' you guys live it because you might not even realiz maybe it's just because you followed the herd but you did it every day you did the work every day and that's why you got to be at a very high level we used to get a cold plunge every single day before games after games it was miserable the worst and now like all my buddies back home they're like let's go cold plunge I'm like ah like a no I'm good like you're not going to get all the way in no I'm just going to go up to my knees like we'll figure it out later but couple things you just said right there the simple and the discipline that reminds me of conversations we had when you sent me the Phil Knight the Nike the guy that started Nike he had the list of what was going to make Nike successful and it was just 10 super simple things and then when you were telling me you were working with the military how the coach told you or not the coach the commander whatever it was whoever it was you're working with said like we don't need no raah motivational speech and that was something that I felt like he just nailed on the head yes no I completely agree and I love what you said there's a phrase people don't remember conversations they remember sentences and to have a sentence that's compressed of of baked in truth I think that's so powerful there was a to go along with you said there was an athlete I was working with and he was incredibly competent one of the best in the world but he had this Nega he kept beating up on themselves and you see that a lot with great ones they just they're It actually drives them to be better that fear of failure but it was starting to hinder performance and hinder him Keeping Receipts on Wins getting better and so what we ended up doing we came up with keeping receipts on Tiny winds and so what he did because in the moment of of pressure your mind's going to go back to to start counting audit your behavior did you do what it take to What it Took takes to be successful in this situation and so he started to write down like you said all of his little winds I slept 8 hours last night I ate healthy and he literally wrote it down and he put it in his locker and so before he went into play he would look at his receipts of all the tiny wins the private wins that he had so that would give him confidence to go and and succeed publicly to get the public wins and I thought I love what you're saying those tiny little by little a little becomes a lot that's right I agree we had uh we had Bobby Whit Jr on um our first or second round of episodes and he was telling us how after every game he sits down he journals three positive things that happened throughout the day three negative things that happen throughout the day and then he goes and reevaluates the next day and gets it going and I'm like me and moosey were thinking about three bars we were hitting up every game and this guy is just Tak another level ready ro oh man but there is something too also to that to your point there is something about not overthinking it yeah you know it you have to find a balance because you have to seek Improvement constantly seek self-improvement know yourself and seek SE self-improvement I think that's a Cornerstone uh but at the same time it's it's like when I golf if I have more than one swing thought I'm [ __ ] away that shot if I just keep it simple keep it simple stupid the kiss method right we all heard the kiss method so if I just keep it simple and just have one thought generally speaking I know how to get the club from here to here so just have that one thought and all of a sudden I start puring it a little bit better and it's just because so it is that thing where you you do have to make a focused effort and then chill yeah and focus effort and relax and enjoy the what's happening around you be present and then get get back into the focus and then so it you know there's no there's no Silver Bullet solution to any of this we you talked a lot of golfers and when golfers you ask them hey why do you walk the course when you're trying to score better than actually driving the cart and that's what they say because it gives them time they're walking up they can focus on the shot they can think boom they do it they clear it out and then you're getting close to your ball and you start dialing in some Focus again golfers are the worst to what you were saying about beating yourself up they're the worst I watch I watch on Sundays I like to watch on Sundays cuz you know and these guys are knocking it 150 out within 5T right glorious shot and you they cut back to the guy and he's like what what amazing and I I appreciate that level of you know Excellence that they want and I can I totally appreciate it but you know I hope at some point they they at least give a fist bump to their caddy and acknowledge it's pretty great shot yeah yes I we were actually talking about this about something I want I want to bring up to the group as an athlete you get hard data on if you're doing well or if you're doing poorly you know it the world knows it immediate immediate feedback tight feedback loops you can go for four go for for four score you know wins and losses in a profession like acting or profession like podcast hosting you don't get those tight feedback loops sometimes it is hard to see am I good do I suck how do I know no you don't get the immediate feedback in your experience as an actor how do you get better in that industry acting is tricky you don't get immediate feedback um you do get feedback eventually but you don't get it immediate the only people let you know art form yeah the only art form I know is a standup when I did standup I got immediate feedback I think it's the most pure art form there is it's me a microphone and an audience there's no producer there's no director there's I'm the writer and I'm the performer so either they're with me or they're not and you're either winning or you're not and they'll let you know instantly so that's pure that's a pure art form acting Nah if the crew is laughing if your fellow you know castmates are enjoying themselves or you you can tell in the moment it's like when you hit a good golf shot or I'm sure when you hit the baseball and you just you know it the it just gives and you know that's gone right yeah flush I don't know that experience very well but I I I have a couple moments with a golf and you know when you flush it right and it's just oh it's pure it's good you know that well sometimes in acting when you're had in a scene and you you really connect with someone or you really felt the moment or you feel like either you captured what you were trying to do or they did you know it and you're like well if nothing else that scene's going to be pretty great the rest of the movie you never know there's too many things involved you got the director's Vision you got the producers you got the other cast members you got the writer and you're trying to it's real Synergy when a movie works it's a miracle was was there a big time scene cuz you had some Step Brothers Memories [ __ ] epic scenes was there one you did it and you're like oh I nailed that one I cannot wait because I know I nailed that one that was be you know I had a scene in Step Brothers that got cut and it's on the DVD uh extras right it's the deleted scenes and we had the most fun doing it because it was an improv just explosion and the reason we had to re-shoot it was uh will frell's character was too passive so he in that scene he comes in and goes I want the Catalina wine mixure I think I'm ready and I'm like you think you're ready you think you're ready you ain't ready for [ __ ] you know and so I just start you know just busting his beans and and it it never stops and it heightens and it height and we just kept heightening to absurd places where at one point I have a heart attack while I'm yelling at him and I die and then I come back to life and I'm like did you see my grandmother and he's like no you see your grandmother again and Will's like it's cuz you died and I'm like what I don't know you see cuz I'm all these hardcore and it's in the deleted scenes and it was the most fun we ever I ever had in the scene because it was it was improv we were making each other laugh we we could barely get through it you know and we were finding these weird things to little tangents to go off on and everybody was just we were it was just one of those mes like everybody was cooking with gas and we had a blast cooking with gas but the thing that sucked was uh they decided after they looked at the whole movie they were like his P his character was too passive so they wanted him to be more aggressive when he came in to ask for the wine mixer so that's when I'm snapping necks and cashing checks bro you know I want I want to drive a range drive a Range Rover so all that stuff so they wanted him to lean into it more so we had to re-shoot that scene so when we did Adam Scott who you know is his brother in it and I'm kind of Adam's henchman right I'm just his muscle you know just screaming anything he says I'm backing up and so he's like he's like hey this is the C Wine mixure you know mess with my that's where I make my nut for the year you mess with my nut I'm going to you know kill you or whatever I'm sitting there going I'm foaming at the mouth cuz I want to kill Will's character Brennan you know and just because you know my boss is mad at him or whatever you know so I'm like I'm lean like literally making motions mimic so whenever he got done saying something I just go poww and so it made will just die laughing cuz he was like what the and and so so then will being very gracious like we you got to keep just keep doing that and so I kept yelling pal and and Will was like why does he keep doing that you know but it was again things we find in the moment improvise things so that ended up replacing the other but um yeah sometimes when you're improvising and having fun uh and you're playing with other people who know how to do bits and stuff it's really fun because they'll take it in great ways or they'll know like I'm the straight man here I better you know cuz if I came in and did something crazy right if you do something crazy now we're both crazy it goes to Crazy Town way too fast but if if I come in and say something crazy and you're straight you straight man you're kind of the advocate for the audience right you're the guy who's going well hold on a second I don't think you should put your balls on your you know on the drum set yeah on the drum set right you know that might be a bad idea you know you're go no trust me I do it all the time you know and then I'd be crazy and you'd be and that's kind of how it works and so if you find someone great to play with the scenes are can be hilarious and a lot of fun I think Jason bit's the best Straight Man in the business if you ever watch with the cubes last week so do you remember when that scene came out the pow pow so we in the clubhouse we love to have fun man you knew you were in there a couple times with our group so gerod Dyson man he would he would be walking around and Ned you know we call the manager skip in in the big leagues or in pro ball so Ned would be like hiding behind a corner and all of a sudden Dyson would walk around the corner and Ned would pop out and go pow right there and d one day looked down he said man skip you too old to be doing this type of [ __ ] unbelievable hey speaking of so I thought guys would have taken the opportunity remember when uh the guy popped out of the trash can the guy got po just that would have been D chance to give just a quick shoty you can't scare me like that that might have been over though that might have been it for remember the Texas hard shot player of the game we used to do so in our run right so it really started in 2014 like we said that was the Run we got the wild card game we had the crazy game against Oakland we go to La San Fran World Series all that it was such a whirlwind for all of us because moose and I we're young guys and we're all fired up after the game we got the lights are off and the player of the game pulls this light on or whatnot and all of a sudden one day we're rolling we're clinching a playoff spot then all of a sudden some guys hey we got a celebrity guest Texas heart shot of the game and all of a sudden Rob comes in and he goes pow pow me and moose are sitting here like what is happening right now D we're doing really good right now going on yes yes I remember I was at the game and somebody said you want to come in and this I was like I don't know what I'm doing they're like just flip the we're going to do a big light show just start screaming I'm down I to go in the locker room you know these guys it was the best unbelievable those times in 14 and 15 especially being around them was unbelievable that was such a special time it was unbelievable you guys were such a an amazing team and to this day I Stealing Home Story have your clip of stealing home against the Mets right uh you know when you when you made that call when you made that decision and craziest Bas decision of all time it was so pleasing to me because I'm still haunted by the question of whether or not Gordo could have made it in game seven right around in 14 that always haunts me it always bothers me we'll never know no one will ever know you know they I know they've done all kinds of stats and you know geometric you know research on it but I'm like okay we'll never know because pressure also makes you throw High throw low all you know so you just never would to know so that haunted me so when you did that it in 15 I keep that clip on honestly to it's almost like I keep Clips sometimes of like Rocky moments you know come on I mean it I really do because it meant that much to me it inspired me that much it was such a a ballsy fun but yet that's what it it was ballsy and but it was fun it was just the what baseball is to what it should be which is kind of playing with a little reckless abandon you know and rolling the dice sometimes and having some fun and putting the on the other guy and just I don't know I just I loved every aspect of it cuz even like playing poker there was it was such a poker move it was such a great oh you I'm I'm going to Triple bet you now like oh [ __ ] like here we go it's happening I got nothing but we're pushing such a special run and you guys always had that ability to to you were never out of it never out of it and that's what I loved about that that that 145 run was I I never thought you guys were out at any game ever everever that was exactly how we thought extra Tings La stuff and bold moves bold man bold moves I remember watching him running the dug I'm like no you scream no I think everybody I was screaming no all the way until he was safe and best thing do you know how many times I've seen that signal for moose in my life no do the bar that's on theb that's don't do you know what's so cool too is so we talked about mixing the sports with you know the Hollywood the celebrities and all that and now we're at a point where there's certain celebrities that are kind of the Celebrity Face of the city the state whatever it is and what's so cool about all you guys you know you Paul Jason Eric all you guys that come back every year for the big Slick game like how cool is it now not only now because you guys all have crazy schedules but you know the big slick is on there each and every year you get to go hang out with all the friends family and everyone's going to be there but not only that now you know we started the little playoff run with Kansas City and now the Chiefs it's almost like every playoff every Super Bowl you guys are kind of planning on being somewhere together because you know they're going to be in the game right yes that's so cool that is awesome absolutely and it's a blessing for us to have teams that we can root for that we can you know that we have these special moments so it's been we we've been on a hot run ever since 14 and it's been fantastic it's been it's been a decade of bliss you know uh it's been it's been wonderful so yeah no listen and by the way when the when the chiefs were 2 and 14 and I was on Fox and I still picked them every week love that it cost me it cost me a lot you know I think how how he beat me that or it doesn't matter but anyway it cost me but it doesn't matter that's right it doesn't matter because that's these are my these are my teams these are my teams got to stay with them so cool we need to get out to Sherwood Golf Passion moose is out there in Sherwood we need to get around set up around dude oh my gosh yeah we should here's the thing I'm the best member out there in the world payd is never play never go yeah and it sucks because I want to it's not that I don't want to it's just uh uh I'm I'm I'm busy but I also get mad at myself sometimes because I'm like now am I am I busy doing stupid [ __ ] or am I busy making progress I love when I make progress and I hate when I'm not I'm busy but I I'm not achieving anything right and sometimes that happens because this quidd pro quo world world we live in you know I ask a lot of favors from people to come back for big slick or to do this or to do that and of course they call in their chips you know on occasion I have to go do this or that or that and that's fine those are charity things but I just run out a lot I just don't have a lot of time to go do what I used to do but they always said to me though when you're done playing there's plenty of time for golf so true I play a lot I get to play a lot of Charity tournaments it's all baseball players it's and they're all great golfers they're all great golfers that's what we talked about there needs to be some kind of collab there with baseball and golf cuz that's a perfect match have a I'm how easy would it be to get like a Nike tour right or an or what get but get a tour just of of of former baseball players yeah that'd be like Vargas we talk about all the time so varie had Tommy John we called it the MLB tour I was on that tour as well yeah moose would get up at 6:00 in the morning on a game day and go golf somewhere so you were you were all were dedicated yeah I loved it that's awesome but it also kept me out of the bars late at night cuz I know how to wake up at 6 um bless you I when I was in the Marines I uh went to school at night um in eastern North Carolina if you're not careful you will have a big payment on a truck tattoos and Furniture you don't need probably a girlfriend that you don't need either uh and so I went to the night school and it kept me out of the bars and it it saved me a lot of Mone I remember we were talking about that at the last tournament um you were in the Marines and still would go to night school to for was it standup or acting uh no it was it was actually uh it was a master's degree in public administration okay because that's the only thing they offered down there and I was like it's good for me it keeps me out of it keeps me out of trouble what was your what was your transition period Marines to SNL Transition if you're in the Marines for 23 years when did you cross over to actually getting I mean I know you were doing it while like trying to get there so I was nine years active duty okay and so I didn't get to do anything during that so basically my all my 20s were in the that whole decade was in the active duty then uh uh I I went to the reserves and while I was in the reserves that's when I started doing comedy uh because I had more flexibility uh to do that so I get managed to get myself to New York City as my last active duty station so the last three years I was on active duty I was in New York and I was working with the Upright Citizens Brigade my my teachers were Amy polar uh Matt Walsh uh not the political commentator the the guy that on vep uh um Ian Roberts Matt besser you know and I performed with Horatio Sans and and Adam McKay and and you know all these wonderful New York you know Seth Meyers and and Will Forte and people that would come down to the UCB just to do shows and so I always felt very lucky I learned from some of the best and got to study and perform with them and kind of you know I I grinded for uh about seven years before I got my break which is about right what was your what was your break sorry not live well I got I got a couple opportun I did a bunch I did almost 20 bits uh on Conan O'Brien way back when he was on NBC when it was late night um man in the audience uh guy who wants to fight Conan uh Tarzan who speaks to animals security guard you know that can you know tell gay people you know whatever you know I just had so I was I was always the day player the bit player I always wonder if the same if like what people see as your big break is what you consider to be your big break you know my big break was satday Al yeah and I was so green I was so green compared to everybody else everybody else kind of I don't know their life was Show Business mine wasn't and it scared of you yeah no uh with the fury but I I I was very green so when I got to SNL um I you know um you know I was kind of like very gung-ho and you know teamwork teamwork right was like whatever man good luck you know I was like should we practice you guys want to rehearse you know and they were all like pound sand [ __ ] you you know so I was like all right uh gosh uh and so I had to learn you know there's a learning curve that comes along with these things and and uh and I I did and my time on SNL was short but I was I was lucky enough to go from there to The Daily Show and on The Daily Show you know I spent three three years over there um really learning a lot John Stewart was very gracious with me uh and allowed me to get more reps and get more time and and learn just kind of learn more especially about being in front of the camera and things like that but again it went down to discipline too I think because the first time I did a in studio piece I sucked because I had to read off the teleprompter well reading off teleprompter can be intimidating um and and if you've never have if you don't have any experience with it it's really intimidating and the faster you you talk the faster it Scrolls and it's this it's this self-fulfilling prophecy where you're like it's gone you know because the GU just going as fast as you're going like [ __ ] so I didn't know these things you know and so I I kind of blew the first one right and I was so embarrassed I was so upset and I could tell John was like hey man it's all right it's all good you know it'll be fine you know I was like a dad a little league or something but um uh so on my lunch breaks or on lunch we had an hour for lunch I would get the floor director and I would say hey would you mind if we went onto the into the studio and just ran old old segments and he's like yeah no problem so he would sit there with a plate and turn on the camera and the and the thing and the and have a teleprompter thing he'd eat his lunch and I would just read old segments on the camera you know and just get used to seeing it and then pausing to see you know oh okay it'll stop with me and you know and you know I'm not a smooth reader but I you know I I can read so uh uh and the thing is far away so you're kind of having to you don't want to squint and you got to be in the moment when you're doing comedy bits and you know there might be props you got to work with or things you got to do so it it took me a while to learn that and I spent my lunches doing it and and the second third time I started doing it there was a marked improvement and I think that meant something to John John appreciated the effort he appreciated the fact that I was I cared and was trying um and uh so then I think that's why he let me stick around you got be willing to do stuff other people don't want to do that's it I think you know I always talk about again all these cliches and stuff right uh extraordinary right you got to do the extra if you want to be something more than ordinary you know you want to be extraordinary so that's it you you know you got to do the extra absolutely without you know without anybody telling you to do it so how many on on Saturday Night Live how much of it are you reading off of prompters or Q cards or how much do you Q cards and it's scary as hell because because it's Q cards the the host is always in black and then every other cast member is in a different color Okay so let's say it's me Will Forte uh and Horatio sanss and um Tom Hanks Tom's in Black I would be in brown you'd be in red and you'd be in green okay and so and you only get to go one card at a time right now throughout the week you've kind of worked it through but they're always changing you know adding a joke taking things well usually after the second music act they'd come in they go the band went too long we got to cut the scene they usually just cut the whole scene and we go out for extended good nights hey thanks every body you know and then they let it roll for a long time but sometimes they're like we're doing the sketch we're doing a sketch but we had to cut it down so uh the changes are on the cards they're telling you this as you're putting on your wig or whatever as you're walking to set they're saying the changes are on the cards CH you're like what Chang what changed and they're like we had to cut some things three two you know and all of a sudden you're on and you're on live to the world not live to tape live to the world and you're just on the cards because as they go like this you discover was my line cut is it not cut and you're just searching for your color you know you know you know you're like I don't care I don't care oh there I am and you know you're trying okay what's what's the line that leads me into that it's all happening at the speed of light right and it's just boom and it's one card at a time one card at a time so you're like okay oh oh they cut that that's what they cut oh God and it's one card at a time and so it's very stressful sounds very stressful but it's also a lot of fun you know hearing hearing you describe your Pursuing Your Goals life and everything thing that you've you've you've experienced and you've done uh Steve Jobs what he say you could only connect the dots looking back what I'm very curious about now is going even your your comment in the beginning of this conversation about specialization and and like young kid specializing and talking about how being against it or not not a fan of that you are completely opposite of that you've done so many different things what was your goal setting process like were you were you ever yeah how what what success what were you chasing what how do you how did you know where you were going I'll give you my uh I never got to be on Oprah but if I ever did this was the story I was going to tell here's your Oprah moment wow Willie clipped so when I was in Flight School in the Marines I was down in Corpus Christie Texas now I had my pilot's license when I was in college so I I had you know probably 150 hours flight time and I was fine I could fly I liked flying but I had a guaranteed flight contract with the marinees so once I got through Officer canid school got through the basic school I went down to uh Pensacola went through Aviation indoctrination I was out in Corpus Christie doing primary Flight Training we're flying out over the gulf every day we're having you know formation flights aerobatics we're doing good stuff it was all fun but it wasn't my passion like when I went out to the bars at night with the guys you know I'm like What's Up Girls what's up yeah I saw a Top Gun what's up they're all over in the corner going oh man a break my I couldn't get it right today you know and they were over there and I was like these guys are pilots these guys love what they're doing and if you're flying off a ship at night you better be passionate like they are and I I wasn't passionate I liked it it's fun but I didn't it wasn't it wasn't keeping me awake at night I wasn't talking with my hands like they were all the time then somebody came and was like you got to do you got to do comedy it was a friend from college he was up in Chicago he's doing Second City he's like the stuff we did in college has a name it's called improv you got to do it man you do it better than all these guys up here you got to do it he planted the seed it got me thinking and then I started thinking about what I really wanted to do I was a theater and film major at KU I love comedy I love acting but I just never thought it was real I didn't think it was a real thing I grew up in the 80s I'm like I got to get a job you know I gotta have something steady and then of course I'm going to get married and have kids and I know what I know how life works you know I didn't believe I I didn't believe it was possible so I just didn't give it the the Credence that it that it deserved well cut to that moment Quarter Life Crisis Reflections I was that quarter life crisis I was 24 years old and I was like if I finish this flight school I'm going to be a pilot for the rest of my life that's how it's going to be I'm going to probably do my 20 plus years in the Marines and then I'll go fly for the Airlines and that's what that's it that's my that's what happens and it's a great life you know love it but I also was like but then all these other side dreams these little secrets that I never told anybody that were inside me that I wanted to be an actor and I wanted to be a comedian and I wanted to do those things they'll never ever see the light of day and I knew that at that moment so I was reading a book uh and this is back you could drive onto the beach down a corpus you know and I had a little second Lieutenant mobile brand new Ford Explorer whatever you know so I drove it down on the beach it popped the back and I was sitting there and I was reading my book and I just sat there and did the old soul searching thing right not to be too melodramatic but it you know 24 year old and I sat down and I wrote the first thing I wrote on that book cuz I hadn't quit anything in my life I said if I quit it's got to matter it's got to count so what am I going to do so the first thing I wrote was I'm going to get on Saturday Night Live in in that book okay that was September of 1994 10 years later two Wars a marriage a child uh in September of 2004 almost to the day I got on siren live so you know you write your things down you commit to them and you do them and and that's how it works you know so sorry about Oprah Achieving Your Dreams we got the clue in Rob man you you're the man you know moose and I have looked up to you for a long time hearing stories from you saying that you have highlights of us just continue to make my day man we love you man thank you so much for coming on here spending some time thanks for having me this is a great show man congratulations congratulations on this guy [Music] [Applause] n [Music] [Applause] [Music]