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Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers john oliver, awardwinning sports announcer joe buck an allnew a closer look, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening im seth meyers and this is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Well, thats good to hear. Lets get to the news. President trump on tuesday granted a ceremonial thanksgiving pardon to a turkey named corn no such luck for the turkey named cohen. Following the news yesterday that the stock markets Dow Jones Industrial average hit an alltime high of 30 thousand points, President Trump interrupted a White House Press briefing to take credit for the milestone. Dude, its because youre leaving. Thats like Harvey Weinstein taking credit for how much safer everyone feels in hollywood now. According to a new poll, 60 of voters would support president elect joe biden canceling up to 50 thousand of Student Loan Debt per person perfect for everyone who went to nyu for a week president elect joe bidens Transition Team reportedly scheduled nearly 20 meetings with federal agencies the day after the gsa formally authorized a transition of power. Thats not a lot of the meetings, said a kid doing remote learning. The cdc is reportedly considering shortening the recommended amount of quarantine time for people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus in hopes that more people will follow its guidelines. So, now, i guess, well find out if the virus responds to haggling how about just the fever and no shortness of breath . According to the latest numbers, former president Barack Obamas new memoir, a promised land, has sold more than 17. 7 million copies in its first week after being released it was so successful that now trump is thinking of writing an obama memoir according to a new survey, men with smaller penises are more likely to get promoted at work that reminds me, give it up for my new head writer ian scollins thats right a new survey says men with smaller penises are more likely to get promoted at work while men with larger penises are more likely to work as cops, firemen, plumbers and pizza guys, often on the same day. And that was the monologue we got a great show for you tonight. Our friend, john oliver, will be here and seventime emmywinning sportscaster joe buck is also joining us but before we get to all that, president elect joe biden is moving ahead with the transition and announcing cabinet picks meanwhile, the outgoing president and his gang of very bad lawyers are laying the groundwork to spend four years baselessly claiming the election was stolen from him. For more on this, its time for a closer look. One thing we know for sure about donald trump is he will never unequivocally concede. He might not even leave the white house. Theyre either going to have to open the roof like a tuna can and scrape him out with a spoon or let him stay in the lincoln bedroom because his idea for a golfthemed beatles cover band, the fab four didnt work out donald, we have to leave. But im working on some new ones hold on. A hole in one donald how about this one cant find my ball if the band was going to take off, donald, it would have happened by now. A long and winding course that is a par four oh, i like that one, donald. But the way we know trump knows the end game is near is that with a few exceptions weve barely seen or heard from him. In fact, today trump called into a fake hearing Rudy Giuliani and Pennsylvania Republicans held in a Hotel Ballroom and one of his lawyers put him on speaker, held the phone up to the mic and let him ramble incoherently about overturning the election results. I really appreciate being asked to speak, and im in the oval office right now and its very interesting to see whats going on and this was an election that we won easily so, this was a, very sad to say it, this election was rigged, and we cant let that happen we cant let it happen for our country. And this election has to be turned around, because we won pennsylvania by a lot and we won all of these swing states by a lot. If you were a republican poll watcher, you were treated like a dog. Why wouldnt they overturn an election certainly overturn it in your state, because we have other states that are just as bad, and they talk about closedcircuit television, except you couldnt see it, because the picture was so unclear, you didnt even know what they were doing they could have been playing a baseball game. So, i really appreciate it, and the country appreciates it and we have to turn the election over seth now, ive definitely done that with my grandparents, just put them on speaker so you can wander away and do chores while they complain about the lawn Bowling League theyre in this is what its going to be like for every american whose family cant travel for thanksgiving, a threehour zoom call where you spend most of the time off screen, chugging wine, going, yeah so, the recliner came. Thats great. Also, you cant tell because hes wearing a mask, but thats actually Rudy Giuliani im just kidding rudy could wear a hundred masks and youd be able to tell it was him, you know, cause hes the only one leaking seriously, its hard to describe just how pathetic this is. Trumps begging them to overturn the results of an election, but just lazily calling in on a speakerphone usually, he at least wanders out to the white house lawn to bark at reporters like an auctioneer drunk on cough syrup but after he lost the election, reporters hadnt seen trump in what felt like a record amount of time. We have not heard from the president on this. We havent heard from him at all. He hasnt taken our questions in over two weeks seth and while it didnt solve any of the problems that are engrained in our society, it was such a relief not to hear his voice. For a moment there, the whole country felt like that moment when the guy jackhammering outside your apartment all morning long finally takes a coffee break you can hear the birds again cause you can mute trump on twitter, but you cant avoid every screen on earth. Even with the sound off, watching trump was stressful its like when you see two cab drivers pulled over in the middle of the road doing this. Even without words, you know theyre not inviting each other over for thanksgiving. You bring the yams, ass [ bleep ] and you bring the stuffing, moron ill see you on thursday. Now [ bleep ] off but two weeks, two weeks for a man who clearly loves talking to cameras. I mean, whats going on . Im guessing someone has to crack open his bedroom door every day at 2 00 in the afternoon and say to a lump of blankets, mr. President , mr. President , do you want to talk to the American People today . No. We think it would be a good idea. Is covid cured . No, no, not yet. Did we win michigan . No, we lost it again today. Yeah. Maybe well win it tomorrow. Hey, can i ask you something . Sure, mr. President. Is rudy a bad lawyer . Yeah, yeah, we think so. Yeah, i think so, too. But then yesterday, the dow climbed over 30 thousand for the first time ever, which was enough for trump to throw off the duvet, pull on some pants and give a weird and totally unprompted press conference that seemed to be about nothing in particular and lasted almost exactly one minute well, thank you very much i just want to congratulate everybody. The stock market, Dow Jones Industrial average just hit 30 thousand, which is the highest in history weve never broken 30 thousand never been broken, that number thats a sacred number, 30 thousand. Nobody thought theyd ever see it and i just want to congratulate all the people within the administration that work so hard and most importantly, i want to congratulate the people of our country, because there are no people like you. Thank you very much, everybody thank you. Seth look, i know it doesnt really matter and will be forgotten immediately, but nothing hammers home the altar donald trump prays to more than him referring to the dow hitting 30 thousand as a sacred number in fact, it reminds me of my favorite hymn money money money money money still, it was so strange to see a guy that longwinded and selfobsessed keep his comments that brief that would be like turning to your uncle at thanksgiving and saying, paul, do you have anything to add about paper straws or gender pronouns . And paul says, id only like to say, this turkey is the bomb, and then you all say thanks for the fact that uncle paul finally discovered cbd gummies trump just wandered in, rambled for a minute about random stuff thats just in the news, congratulated the American People for something, and then left i guess that was his on to cincinnati moment. Trumps going to start wandering around the white house lawn in a sleeveless hoodie. But i guess thats the closest were going to get, not a concession, but a cessation of whining. The General Services administration has finally allowed the transition to move forward, and the white house has finally allowed biden to start receiving the president ial daily brief. It really feels like, in his enlarged heart, trump knows this is over, but that doesnt mean hell stop claiming it was rigged and stolen from him him and his allies, theyre trying to create a mythology for their supporters, an election trutherism that will animate their base and become canon on fox news and in the rightwing cinematic universe for years to come for example, an arizona congressman named paul gosar tweeted this week, the America First agenda is just in its infancy. There are 75 million of us also, did you know some japanese soldiers kept fighting for decades after the war . Oh, and i guess they eventually won . And thats why we all speak japanese and have beautiful gardens . Cool trivia, though. Is your social media manager the kid from Jerry Maguire there are 75 million of us also, did you know the human head weighs eight pounds incidentally, thats the guy, gosar, whose siblings appeared in a campaign ad for his democratic opponent, not just one or two of them, six of his siblings thats like if my whole family went on James Cordens thanksgiving show, which is not going to happen, dad you have a contract. Thats right, six of gosars siblings said to vote for his opponent if that happened to me, not only would i get out of politics, i would get out of the country, id move to some small island where no one has televisions, or electricity, or has ever heard of me. And even then, id probably end up getting killed by a 7yearold japanese soldier who didnt know the war was over this is basically the same scam trump and his gang of racist liars pulled with birtherism for example, trump keeps promising that this scoobydoo villain reunion is turning up evidence that will prove the election was rigged. The president again tweeted, massive voter fraud will be shown. Big voter fraud information coming out concerning georgia. Stay tuned. Why is joe biden so quickly forming a cabinet when my investigators have found hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes, enough to flip at least four states our big lawsuit, which spells out in great detail all of the ballot fraud and more, will soon be filed rigged election. Seth wait, your big lawsuit hasnt been filed yet . Then what were all those other lawsuits, practice just working out the kinks. Now remind me, who am i supposed to be talking to, the guy in the robe or the guy in the hallway with the mop . Generally speaking, if youre alleging a massive, unprecedented, coordinated plan to rig a National Election and you have the evidence to prove it, you dont file a bunch of fake lawsuits and then wait three weeks to file your big one. Hes treating court cases the way fred sanford treated heart attacks. For the kids you throw in oneoke jr the kids also, as you heard there, trump claimed his, quote, investigators, have found hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes and that he will soon be presenting that information to the world, which is exactly the same e helised for years during his racist birther crusade. He may not have been born in this country, and ill tell you what, three weeks ago, i thought he wasorn b this country. Right now, i have some real doubts people that actually have been studying it, and they cannot believe what theyre finding. You have people now down there searching, i mean, in hawaii absolutely. And they cannot believe what theyre finding. Of course, the least believable part is that trump would pay for anyone to fly to hawaii and if he did, i bet there were a ton of connections on that itinerary. Okay, i need you get to hawaii asap no, youll be taking a southwest flight to baltimore out of islip, from there its a bus to dulles and this is important, on that next flight, one of you has to pretend to be under two. I dont know how youre the investigators dont you have disguises . Trumps election trutherism is very much like his birtherism, an insane Conspiracy Theory thats also a scam to animate his base one of trumps sort of lawyers, Sidney Powell, is still claiming the late venezuelan president hugo chavez teamed up with the cia, the republican governor of georgia and a Voting Software company to steal the election as part of a vast plot to spread communism across the world what we are really dealing with here and uncovering more by the day is the massive influence of communist money through venezuela, cuba, and likely, china, in the interference with our elections here in the united states. Georgias probably going to be the first state im going to blow up, and mr. Kemp and the secretary of state need to go with it, because theyre in on the dominion scam. Hopefully, this week, we will get it ready to file sidney, whats and it will be biblical seth of course, its only biblical if the number of votes passes the sacred number of 30 thousand this is an idea so psychotic, even fox news wouldnt take it seriously, despite the fact that by their own admission, they were eager to believe it we invited Sidney Powell on this show. We would have given her the whole hour we would have given her the entire week, actually, and listened quietly the whole time at rapt attention. Thats a big story, but she never sent us any evidence, despite a lot of requests, polite requests. Not a page when we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her seth im guessing thats not the first time Sidney Powell has told someone to stop contacting her. I dont have any dalmatians, certainly not 101 of them. Now stop contacting me. Also, think about how nuts this scheme is for it to be too crazy for Tucker Carlson, the guy who, just like three weeks ago, called joe biden a hologram. Turns out, hes not, which is a bummer, because i was really looking forward to his appearance with the tupac hologram at next years coachella. But even after tucker went on his own show and said trumps lawyers couldnt provide a shred of proof for their unhinged Conspiracy Theory, fox news has continued repeating vague insinuations that the election was somehow rigged, even when they admit that joe biden won and will be the next president legal challenges continue in a number of states serious questions about vote counting, poll watcher access are outstanding. But unless the legal situation changes in a dramatic, and frankly, an unlikely manner, joe biden will be inaugurated on january 20th now, to say this does not mean i dont think that this election was rife with problems and potential fraud. I think whenever you look at this election, its become very clear to people that something is very, very wrong here people feel like something is really off with this election. We are far from done with this election the 2020 president ial election was not fair. No honest person would claim that it was fair seth but tucker, you, yourself, tried to get the evidence that it was rigged, and the person claiming to have the evidence wouldnt give it to you. All you did was ask her for proof and beg her to come on your show, and she basically filed a restraining order against you. Sidney powell treated Tucker Carlson the way you treat an ex. Keeps trying to contact you through your friends stop texting becka and jenny about my new boyfriend and stop asking me for evidence of voter fraud. The cognitive dissonance these people are capable of is truly astonishing. Theyre like scientologists. Ive eliminated all suppressive persons from my life but if youre suppressing people from your life, doesnt that make you a suppressive person . Wow, youre being a real suppressive person right now. But this is what they want they dont actually want real proof because it doesnt exist, just like trump didnt actually want real proof that Barack Obamas birth certificate was fraud, because it obviously wasnt they want to manufacture an insane Conspiracy Theory and a virulent strain of election trutherism that will exist on fox news and in rightwing facebook groups for years to come so they can galvanize their base by claiming the election was stolen from them, and that in their unhinged world view is actually trump, who won 270 electoral votes, which is, of course the sacred number seth this has been a closer look. Well be right back with john oliver hi, buddy seth hey, baby brother you know, im so sad we cant be together for the holidays this year what are you talking about . Im right there. Seth oh whats happening its okay its heinekens bestie gift ever seth whats that its a way to send your best friends the best gift ever, yourself, and a sixpack of Heineken Seth thats fantastic, but wait, you get the sixpack yours is right behind you seth oh stop doing that i just sent them. Your crew must have set them up like that. Seth well, i dont care who set them up. I just want it to stop okay, relax have a heineken. Seth you know what, i shouldnt be surprised by this anymore, but you really do have some festive clothes those arent mine you just add those with filters. Seth filters i dont understand well, thats cause youre old. Its easy. Just go to bestiegiftever. Com. Seth yeah . Theyre actually pretty great. Now ill always be with you seth hey, youre always in here i know. Cheers seth cheers i dont have to share this with these guys, do i no, seth. Theyre cardboard. Seth oh. Yeah. List early. 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Let me live my life seth we are so glad to have fred armisen leading the 8g band. I hope youre all watching moonbase 8 on sundays on showtime fred, please give me a wave if youre excited about thanksgiving and give me another wave if you think covid is a hoax [ laughter ] aw, fred, buddy. Follow the science our first guest tonight is the emmy and peabodywinning host of hbos last week tonight. You can stream the seventh season its seventh season on hbo john, im going to show you the cue card wally wrote he wrote season twice. On hbo max please welcome back to the show, our friend, john oliver. Hello, there. Seth give me that card, wally. John heard that and i want him to see i want to see the card. Seth now, again, i should have known not to say season twice, but i do want you to see. Sure. Sure, but you went full ron burgundy, and you just the only thing youre guilty of is trusting wally too much [ laughter ] seth its true and on that point, you are guilty of murder [ laughter ] seth how are you, my friend . You know, all right seth youre in, again ive talked about how jealous i am that you cracked early on yes seth to shoot your show in a void thats right. Seth and then we all came back and you stayed in the void. You love the void. I love it i love the emotional antiseptic atmosphere that this void provides it also lets nothing in. Nothing nothing from my life. Its just a completely sterile environment. Seth you did have a fantastic season finale. You blew up 2016, four years ago. Yes yes. Seth and then this year, you blew up 2020, which, arguably, deserved it more yes seth which is hard to believe. Which is why we went with a significantly bigger explosion seth and how does it go how does it come about when you were trying to figure out how to have a bigger explosion . Well, it was literally, it was just asking explosives experts, saying, how would you make this bigger . And they would kind of go, hmm, i dont know, i guess a lot of gasoline. I think that makes sense [ laughter ] im not even sure you needed to be an expert to say, just more gasoline, and thats basically it thats how explosions work seth and you but yes, we went and did that in a quarry in new york, and it was absolutely amazing it was an utterly staggering i was a little bit cocky, having done it four years ago id said to the guy, he said, look, this is going to be really big and its going to be loud. And i said, yeah, you said that four years ago and it wasnt that bad. And he looked at me with total contempt and said, yeah, this aint four years ago. [ laughter ] so, that happened, and he said, to his credit, he said, look, this is going to its going to feel very hot and then for about a second and a half, youre going to feel like youre on fire. [ laughter ] and he was right about that. And that second and a half felt long because you get to a second, you think, this definitely feels i dont have a point of reference, but this, i feel pretty on fuego right now. And then they were all really, really impressed that i didnt flinch, to the point that they were so surprised, it became actively hurtful just one after one, i cant believe it i cant believe not even they even went to the monitor afterwards, saying, look theyre gathered around, look, he didnt look, he didnt as if and i guess when you present as a coward so much, it leaves you with a lot of upside for courage, because people expect so little. [ laughter ] they were all on the i expected you to just curl up, like, in a fetal position. You didnt cry once [ laughter ] like the child we anticipate that you are inside. Seth you know, i was very impressed as well, knowing you were physically there, i was very impressed yep it was loud. I was very brave seth i think that i deserved a lollipop and i didnt even get one. [ laughter ] seth i might have i might have gone fetal, and im embarrassed to say it, if if we were about to embark on four more years of covering a Trump Presidency yes seth and we texted a little bit. Yes seth you actually got to be the first show post the election call, which was on a saturday. Yeah. Seth and you got to got do that show when we were texting, i was about to go and do rehearsal and yeah, you said to me something like, i honestly havent thought about what id do if he won. And i had not until you sent that text, i hadnt thought about it either. And it really was there is no more joyful feeling than the sound of a bullet whizzing past your ear, is there [ laughter ] seth how was it . Was it everything smells better, food tastes better, yeah seth weve talked in the past about how people will say, oh my god, the trump era, the comedy writes itself, which mmhmm. Seth neither you or i would they do [ bleep ] say that, dont they, seth [ laughter ] seth they still say [ bleep ]. They do say that. They do say that and you know, if they were trying to hurt you, it wouldnt matter as much then you would internalize, say, oh, you want to be me you said something you know distresses me. Congratulations. Its the genuine question that pisses me off far, far more, and you know its coming a lot now seth well, you do seem wellequipped for the next era, because and i mean this sincerely. Youve done such a good job of finding insanely depressing things that have nothing to do with donald trump over the years. Yeah. Theres so many of them. Seth and theres still plenty of that there are so many gigantic, systemic problems that i cannot we had, genuinely one of the happiest moments ive had this year has been the end of last week. We were talking to research and we were going through stories for the upcoming year, and there was such a smorgasbord of human misery, just a bunch of subjects that no one in their right mind would try and make comedy out of and i just felt great thinking, this is, this is look at what were going to be able to its i think thats why it feeds into how frustrating it is when people say, this must have been fun, writing for trump. Cause its basically like saying to the residents of elm street, youre going to miss freddy krueger, arent you what are you going to dream about now . I dont know, anything else [ laughter ] literally, my imagination can run the gamut of Human Experience no, im not going to miss freddy, you [ bleep ] ass [ bleep ] seth well be right back with more from john oliver woman i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Now, theres skyrizi. Things are getting clearer yeah i feel free to bare my skin, yeah thats all me. Nothing and me go hand in hand nothing on my skin thats my new plan. Nothing is everything. Woman keep your skin clearer with skyrizi. With skyrizi, 3 out of 4 people achieved 90 clearer skin at 4 months. Of those, nearly 9 out of 10 sustained it through 1 year. And skyrizi is 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. I see nothing in a different way and its my moment so i just gotta say nothing is everything. Skyrizi may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. Before treatment, your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. 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And save on amazon tablets. Plus, Free Store Pick up. Kohls. Seth welcome back to late night. Were here with john oliver. John, ive always appreciated over the years that if you text me about something weve done on the show, it is something that no one else has liked or commented on i felt that way about your longrunning adam driver bit that came to a wonderful conclusion with adam driver. Yeah. Yes. Seth can you just talk us from the beginning of it, the seeds of where it started to the conclusion of getting the real adam driver . Yeah, the seed, the initial seed was, you know, one of our writers writing a very weird joke out of absolutely nowhere and then the water on that seed was, back when we had an audience in march, feeling real resistance from the audience at the joke it felt like they about 40 enjoyed it and it logged in my head oh, lets try and do this again. So we did it as a callback a few weeks later. And they werent really happy to have it back and so, at that point, it became something of an obsession in our staff. And a few months into the bit, we kind of we broke it. One of the writers had written something kind of saying, i dont know if he even he doesnt seem like he could enjoy this one. It could be over that was as much of a ribbon as it felt we could put on it so at that point, we reached out to him and said, i dont know if you know what weve been doing. Theres no easy way into this conversation weve been making some comments about you, and would you hypothetically be interested in responding towards the end of the year . And the message came back from him saying, he has heard about it, he thinks it very strange, and hes in. So, i thought, oh, great. So, we didnt know what we were going to do, but at least we knew at that point that we had an end in sight. And yeah, as it turned out, what the end in sight was, was him calling into the show and explaining the ways in which he was going to demolish me seth it was also watching it is a real reminder that adam driver is a terrific actor. Unbelievably good i couldnt see him i was doing it i could only hear him, and it wasnt until i watched it back, you think, oh, [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] look at him look at him doing acting, as im giving him nothing back. Like, hes literally performing in front of a tennis ball. Thats the equivalent of what hes getting back from me. [ laughter ] and hes doing such good acting. Seth yeah. And at a point where it really was not required, but he was really he was really flexing muscles. He was seth yeah. It was a case and i say this as a fan of yours. When you guys were on the split screen, it was very hard to imagine anyone was watching you. [ laughter ] i cant be 100 confident it was there. It was every part of that juxtaposition is [ bleep ] brutal seth yeah. Acting ability, physically. Lets not lie. Put those two things together and it barely seems like the same species, barely seth youve come here before you were on the show before thanksgiving in the past yes seth and unfortunately, you cant be here live, so you missed getting to see the tree i know how you love stuff like trees. Yeah, i love it seth holiday trees one of the things i like the most, actually, is that are you still being tortured by that christmas music, round and round at 30 rock is that still going . Seth no, because that was for the ice skating rink so were actually, its not thats a shame. Seth its very un i always enjoyed the kind of the muffled killing spree music outside of your office for basically 3 1 2 weeks. Seth the tree got off to a bad start. Yes seth im sure you saw this photo. When it went up, it was as though they asked for, like, a discount tree cause no one was coming this year it looks better now, but i kind of wish dont you wish it was that its a huge mistake they should have left it like that i was so happy when they unveiled it and it just started wilting and stuff fell off, i thought, yes, thats right. Is it the tree we want no is it the tree we deserve . Absolutely emphatically, yes, it is they should have just hung one string with, like, lights broken seth yeah. Broken across it. Seth or put it right against 30 rock and, like, turned it around so you couldnt see the [ bleep ] side or just lent it on the ground and put a giant garbage bag half around it. [ laughter ] thats that i just think that would have been a more fun tree for no one wants a good tree right now, do they seth yeah. Do people want to live a lie . Come on. Seth yeah, it was the bad tree year, i agree congratulations, your first thanksgiving as an american citizen, john. Yes, yes. Seth im assuming its going to be a muted affair oh yeah, thats right, yeah theres not much going on. But as a new american, im already pushing the reality of what thanksgiving is about further and further down ill forget about it next year [ laughter ] seth i expect nothing less from you hey, this is no surprise, as always, its a pleasure talking to you you, too. Seth happy thanksgiving. Happy holidays thanks for being here, buddy it is a absolute pleasure see you soon maybe. Seth yeah. You know, back to quarantine. Its going to be a while i wont see you soon [ laughter ] seth you can stream the seventh season season wally of last week tonight on hbo max. [ laughter ] well be right back with joe buck i always loved you svenjannin, i never said it but. dramatic crying whoa did svenrod just die . Yeah can you do it again . Sure, sure i always loved you. Oh man. Missed it again. Alexa, rewind 10 seconds. Your happy place. Oh man. Missed it again. Find your breaking point. Then break it. 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I was, you know i dont know that i want to reveal too many secrets, but a lot of times on tv, we fake it [ laughter ] we fake being surprised, but i was. I i was told by our producer at halftime, we were doing a thursday night game, Football Game in cleveland. And i was told that i needed to hang around to watch a halftime presentation by the pro football hall of fame im standing next to troy aikman, and im thinking, okay, ive got to regurgitate all of the aikman stuff here about how great troy is and a credit to the game. And then it turns on to me and i was like, my god, what . So, yeah, i was surprised. And its cool. I mean, its a neat award. And it was nice that my mom was watching that live shes now 81 and doing great, made it through covid. Beat that down like the strong woman that she is, and she got to watch her son join her late husband in canton with that award, so that was cool. Seth well, that was the extra cool part of it is that your dad, jack buck, won this award in 1996. And obviously, you know, with a dad like that, im guessing that broadcasting was something you always wanted to do . Yeah, i think, you know, when you see a parent that loves doing what he or she does for a living and youre close to that parent my dad was my best friend, which maybe says a lot about me and why i was so lonely and didnt lose my virginity until i was 18 [ laughter ] i think i just wanted to be him. I didnt want to be anything but a broadcaster. And so, thankfully, i had a dad it was like a masters class. And i got to go to all these Different National League Cities by the time i was 12 he would take me with him. I wasnt acting like a little jerk, so he wanted me around and i was just there in it when i was a little kid, and by the time i was 21, i was doing big league baseball, and 27 doing a world series in the bronx. So, yeah, stuff came fast, but that all gets traced back to nepotism, and loving my dad. Seth and you started very young. And you know, now your voice, its impossible to think of it sounding any different than we hear it today. I mean, were all so used to it. But did you have to develop the voice that you have now . It was it was a concerted effort to not sound like i was basically jack bucks kid getting a turn at the grownups table on thanksgiving. Yeah, there were times, you know i think i used to talk kind of up here. And then the more you really work on it and it gets lower, and lower and lower. And by the time youre doing the games and by the way, i was around more Secondhand Smoke than [ laughter ] you know, a kid growing up in a casino but i mean, my dad was smoking, mike shannon, his broadcast partner was smoking, the engineer was smoking so i was ingesting all this stuff. Eventually, my voice was going to get deeper. But there were times when my voice cracked when i got excited calling a big play and i sounded like i was eight i didnt sound like i was 21 but i got through those times. And you know, once you start growing hair in different places, you know, your voice should change, and eventually, mine did seth you speaking about voice cracking, you really put yours through a workout. Back in october, i think, if i read it right, you did eight Straight Days of broadcasting in a row. I think three Football Games and three postseason baseball games. That just must have been both exhausting and thrilling its more thrilling than exhausting i actually went 14 Straight Days and then 16 out of 18 on national tv doing two different sports and bouncing back and forth. And i love it. It is tiring, but when youre doing a World Series Game or youre doing a big Football Game, or you know, whatever it is thats on your slate to do, if you cant get excited for that and put away being tired for a second, then somethings wrong. So, you know, greed is bad i think thats kind of what it gets back to its being greedy and wanting to do all that stuff and trying to maximize as much as i can while i can. Seth in your early days, it wasnt quite those highend gigs like nfl football and postseason baseball you actually called a bass Fishing Tournament found out that there were a few words that should never be in the same sentence; live, bass fishing, and television. [ laughter ] because i was interviewing people that were on different boats in different lakes around orlando, and they forgot to turn their mic on, and if they did that, then they forgot to turn their earpiece on, and im talking to them, and they cant hear me, and theyre talking back and i cant hear them i knew nothing about fishing and between the hours, oddly enough, of, i dont know what it was, 5 30 to 7 00 p. M. In the eastern time zone . The bass fish forgot to bite, so nobody caught anything and i was sitting there literally spinning my wheels for an hour and a half it was the worst hour and a half of Network Television of all time seth you i know during, again, early pandemic, when there was an absence of sports and people really feeling that, you a lot of people reached out to you to ask if they could use your voice for sort of some nonsports stuff yeah, it filled a void. It was weird, you know i was talking to my boss one night and talking about trying to stay in practice. We were joking about it. And he said, why dont you just start doing internet videos and put them out on your twitter account . Which i did. I didnt want to do viral videos and then i kind of put the call out, like, send me your best and it was a guy grilling wings on his barbecue pit. It was a family clearing out the living room furniture and making a hoop out of an old adidas box and playing 2 on 2 with a sock it was that kind of stuff. But i mean, the last time i checked, it was like over 12 million views of these things so, people were starved for something. I dont know what what itch that scratched, but it found its little home, and yeah, then it kind of morphed into into an offer from a porn site to actually put my voice on some of their fine work. [ laughter ] seth this you turned down, right . I did oh, i had my mom convinced for over 24 hours that i said yes. It was a company i dont even know what company it was and god love you, but they said the offer was seven figures, like a 1 million offer to sit like this in my office all day and put my voice to live webcam sex acts for the visually impaired seth yeah. Which, while it was very tempting, i thought might derail the rest of my career and probably life. I wonder what joe bucks porn name would be. Probably joe buck [ laughter ] seth well never figure it out. Fine, i fell into that. Look, im named after im named after a character from midnight cowboy, and kids, weve already had a fred sanford reference on this show [ laughter ] google midnight cowboy joe buck and find out what he did for a living seth yeah. And then youll think of me a lot differently. Seth thats amazing. I never put that together. You know, its interesting, were talking about the pandemic, and one of the things i found myself doing was watching old highlights of games that had outcomes that were, you know, as people do, you know, positive memories. And its interesting, because you know, sportscasters are then, you know, tied to that moment forever and i go back, whenever im feeling down, i watch 2004 alcs highlights and i think it probably is, you know, certainly in your top ten mostfamous calls, when you said, well see you later tonight on a walkoff home run that was so late that the next, you know, basically it was already the next day yes seth when you Say Something like that, you know, on an ortiz home run, are you aware in the moment, like that was a really good one um, yeah, i think the main thing is you dont really want to screw it up and im not trying to be humble about what could be considered a good call. It was kind of like a ripoff of my dads call, which i brought back again in 2011, like being a jack buck cover band and just doing his highlight calls all the time and just fitting it to the situation. But i think sometimes when its, you know, when its a home team player and in that case, it was david ortiz hitting a home run at fenway, and the place is literally shaking you just want to say a sentence that sets it up. And in this case, you know, reminds people that, oh, by the way, the next game is later tonight, because this is extra innings and its past midnight, and then just get out of the way, and let the crowd just go nuts and carry all the action. I mean, theres nothing that im going to come up with thats better than that, and thats really the way that ive tried to live my career, which has made it tough in 2020 with basically empty stadiums and no real crowd feel that are at these venues and yet, you still have to try to play to it, even though its kind of fake crowd noise in my headset and on your tv at home seth well, i think youre doing a terrific job and you know, what is familiar is so important now, especially when were engaging with sports. And so, personally for me, its been great hearing you call games across all the sports this fall and i really appreciate it and its always so great to talk to you the cowboys play the Washington Football Team thanksgiving night on fox well be right back with more late night. Shall i put her in snow mode . Nope what about offroad mode . Nah. Sport mode it is. Lets see what this baby can do. Or. We could check out that Farmers Market . No you know what . 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