Nick Bernstein

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@FirstBallotPod @PeteyMac84 I’m not proud of this…I’ve never seen it. Felt disingenuous to include any of the Tropics.

@PeteyMac84 @bernsteinnick you at least need him on the pine for 18mpg

still thinking about @bernsteinnick’s fictional movie character basketball player starting five.

@redapples @FirstBallotPod Absolutely deserving of consideration… but I have to see how he plays when someone is guarding him.

@FirstBallotPod @bernsteinnick How about one-eyed Snake Plisskin for making one of the most clutch/ridiculous shots in cinema history at the Coliseum. Shout out to Kurt Russell for also playing a hockey coach (MIRACLE), football player (BEST OF TIMES) & pro baseball in real life. twitter.com/CineySeriesRet…

@DUNKC0MP That. Is. Hilarious. 😂😂

Timeless @bernsteinnick

@FirstBallotPod I only picked four players…which means I’m suiting up.

@GotEm_Coach @DUNKC0MP @FirstBallotPod @kaj33 Me and Kareem are both aging gracefully.

@bernsteinnick @DUNKC0MP @FirstBallotPod @kaj33 I have no issues with your changing the game for athletes in comedy. I trust your pov on that more than mine for sure. I’m just saying I don’t think it’s enough. Maybe it’s because the rest of us are so much younger.

He speaks the truth. @GotEm_Coach

@DUNKC0MP @GotEm_Coach @FirstBallotPod @kaj33 I’m sure people love to repeat this dialogue and act out this scene with Kareem every time he’s at Enterprise 😂

@GotEm_Coach @bernsteinnick @FirstBallotPod @kaj33

@redapples @FirstBallotPod That is an amazing piece of info! If only @GotEm_Coach did research before the pod, he could’ve mentioned this😂😂

@FirstBallotPod @bernsteinnick Shout out to Chuck Connors. He became the first NBA player to break a backboard when he did it (with a jumpshot!) before the Celtics first ever home game. THE RIFLEMAN went on to act for 50+ years and starred in AIRPLANE 2: THE SEQUEL

NEW POD: Did you know that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, HOF NBA center, paved the way for generations of athletes in media by making a cameo as the copilot Roger Murdock in the 1980 Zucker bros. film “Airplane!”? @bernsteinnick returns to argue the case! linktr.ee/firstballothof ... 🧵

@pgags That is really kind of you to say. Thanks!

@bernsteinnick The office makeover was hilarious. You've no idea how enormously you contributed to the show from post-lockdown to the end. I get that a great sense of humor is implicit to the job, but you really elevated the show coming out from behind the camera. Gonna miss even the re-runs.

Five of my favorite episodes this week - Tonight - a post Summer break mono of chaos from Aug 2021 Tues - movie buffs sketch with Jamie Lee Curtis and Chris Pine Wed - office makeover Th - Beatles get back parody F - 500th ep from London, Take a Break Savoy, Cher Spill Your Guts

@GotEm_Coach @Lakers @kaj33 @FirstBallotPod Hurtful. Both the name calling and that you thought using the phrase “chopping that wood” was a good idea.

@bernsteinnick @Lakers @kaj33 @FirstBallotPod YOU! You do! And I gotta be honest, you’re being a bit of a glazed donut face ass yourself right now. I agree KAJ did an amazing job, at everything you mention, he just wasn’t the only person chopping that wood.

This tweet should say “Self proclaimed best @Lakers fan @GotEm_Coach doesn’t believe @kaj33 belongs in the @FirstBallotPod hall of fame”

@GotEm_Coach @Lakers @kaj33 @FirstBallotPod I offer you a scene stealing performance from an athlete comfortable enough to poke fun at himself and changed his entire public persona- the first time that happened in modern pop culture. Yet it can’t share a hall with a glazed donut face tweet. Who needs to look in the mirror?

@bernsteinnick @Lakers @kaj33 @FirstBallotPod All of YOUR points on this pod are extremely valid. They’re just not enough to get this moment into the Hall. When do you start looking in the mirror and asking yourself tough questions about your own performance?

@GotEm_Coach @Lakers @kaj33 @FirstBallotPod None of your points were valid on this pod and the only thing that is on solid ground is that I will defend @kaj33 and his ground breaking performance to my dieing day

@bernsteinnick @Lakers @kaj33 @FirstBallotPod While that may or may not be true, the point stands on solid ground!

@GotEm_Coach @Lakers @kaj33 @FirstBallotPod You definitely used a thesaurus to find the word malfeasance

@bernsteinnick @Lakers @kaj33 @FirstBallotPod This is deliberate malfeasance, you know it, I know it, and so does anyone else who’ll listen because you said you would do this on purpose to smear me

True fact, I also have a video of me (somewhere) feeding @rejectedjokes for a slam dunk (on the roof at TV City)

“Brownie salads for everyone!”

Since it’s the start of the NFL season, all this week the @latelateshow is running football episodes - Gronk, Tom Brady, Aaron Donald, and James’s folks at the Super Bowl.