On this special New Year’s Day edition of The Other Tom Green Show, Tom Green looks back at the show’s first year with Guerilla Sports, revisiting some of the most memorable conversations, laughs, and stories from 2025. From Denver sports legends and national broadcasters to comedians, storytellers, and longtime friends, this year-end episode celebrates the voices and moments that helped define the show’s inaugural run as it turns the page to 2026.
This year-end special brings together standout moments from The Other Tom Green Show in 2025, highlighting conversations with iconic figures across sports, broadcasting, and comedy. Tom revisits discussions with Ron Zappolo on the birth of Orange Crush, Karl Mecklenburg on his Hall of Fame case and legendary hits, and Scott Hastings reflecting on the rise of Nikola Jokic. The episode also features thoughtful and entertaining segments with Jenny Cavnar, Drew Goodman, Verne Lundquist, David Duval, Kim Christiansen, and comedians including Kevin Fitzgerald, Sam Adams, and Adam Cayton-Holland. The show closes by looking ahead to 2026, calling attention to the John Elway interview from After the Horn, and welcoming a new year of stories, perspective, and conversation.
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Tom Green
Hi there and Happy New Year! Welcome to another edition of the other Tom Green Show. Now I say another edition, but this is actually a very special edition in that this is going to be our look back at what we did on the show here in 2025. And there's a couple of reasons we do it like that. Well, one is we just want to reflect on our first year of doing these podcast here with Guerilla Sports.
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Tom Green
The other reason is no one's here to work. Come on, it's Happy New Year day. Everyone's just kind of grinding it out today. So what we've done is we've assembled some of our favorite clips from the year. We're going to share them with you when we come back here on the other Tom green show.
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Tom Green
So it's been an exciting endeavor, at least for me, getting to know a little bit about the world of podcasting and for me, especially exciting to invite people I've known for a long time to come out and tell us interesting stories about interesting times. So the year has been filled with all sorts of guests talking about all sorts of sports and comedy, and the like films, you name it, we've done it.
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Tom Green
But our first show, the first time I dipped my toe into the podcasting water, I knew I needed a good friend to come by. So I had my buddy Ron DiPaolo in with Ron. We talked about going way back to when he first came to town in 1977. You arrived as Orange Crush was started, but it was about to explode.
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Ron Zappolo
August 1st, 1977 came in with my eyes wide open. The Broncos had been kind of a joke nationally, right? And their first winning season was in 76. They fired Jon Ralston, their head coach. They hired Red Miller and it was one of those natural things. They just caught lightning in a bottle. Yeah, they won their first five. They went 12 and two.
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Ron Zappolo
They beat the Steelers in the playoffs. They beat the Raiders in the AFC title game. And the next thing I know I'm in New Orleans covering the Super Bowl. But the the the excitement in this city Tom I don't think has ever been matched.
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Tom Green
No. And it couldn't be I mean that that's like the first lightning in a bottle. It doesn't happen all that often.
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Ron Zappolo
Terry Fry wrote a book about it. I think it was 77. Yeah. And it's a lot of funny anecdotes in there. But, you know, as it I'm a TV sportscaster, I'm on the air. And I was so fortunate because nobody knew who I was. And being on channel four, we're doing all the games. I'm in the locker room, my profile went up because of it, and by December people are so excited.
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Ron Zappolo
And it was the real Orange Crush, right? They're sending me orange toilet seats, orange hats, orange gloves, everything. And I don't think you can replicate that years later because it was the first time.
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Tom Green
Of course, I still get to work with Ron, so that's exciting. And our other show After the Horn Call Mecklenburg, came by this year as well. Mac, of course, one of the all time favorites for Bronco fans, one of the all time greats, all time great, a Ring of Famer in Denver. But the Hall of Fame has not yet come calling.
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Tom Green
Would you like to be better recognized by the folks who do vote on the pro football?
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Karl Mecklenburg
Oh, of course I'd like to be in the Hall of Fame. There's there's guys in there I used to eat for lunch. I'm not naming anyone.
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Karl Mecklenburg
But with that guy.
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Karl Mecklenburg
But, but but truthfully, you know, it shouldn't be a negative. Yeah.
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Tom Green
Oh, it should be a positive, right?
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Karl Mecklenburg
It should gives it. I was, I was, I was, able to do all the things I was able to do with that team. It's not it's hard enough to to understand and to perform at one position in the NFL. But but I played all seven front positions and moved me around. And they put me wherever they thought the ball was going, or if it was advantageous to the to our defense.
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Karl Mecklenburg
And it wasn't my idea, it it was cut. Joe Collier if I'm not in the Hall of Fame, Joe should be in the hall. Some one of us should be involved for that, because that was pretty amazing.
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Tom Green
We also had a chance to talk with Karl about some of the more famous plays he made. I always think the most famous one was one that probably would have been expensive by today's standards, but you had the famous hit on Marcus Allen on a little swing pass, right? Flattened him at Old Mile High Stadium.
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Karl Mecklenburg
That was the first game I ever played as a linebacker in my life. Well, you made an.
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Tom Green
Impact, to say the least, but that would be a penalty now, wouldn't it? Somehow, some way. Yeah, because it looks.
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Karl Mecklenburg
Violent, right? It's a you can't hit a guy like that. That's unfair. Yeah. I've got a little 92nd highlight video that I always show before I speak, because there's people in the working world who weren't alive that. Yeah, that was playing nice to let them know. Right. And it's about $70,000 a fine. Today's game.
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Tom Green
Did you get fined much as a player?
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Karl Mecklenburg
I got fined one time. Right at the end. Used to be you could throw your arms up and just run the quarterback over, like, oh, I'm trying to slow down and. Yeah, yeah, right. At the end of my career, they they change that. And and I didn't keep up with the change. So I got busted.
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Tom Green
Always a nice visit with Karl Mecklenburg. Scott Hastings came by. Of course. We had a great chance to talk a lot about basketball. And this year's nuggets, the team that has won a championship and many people think can do so again. All those hopes are based on the big man Nikola Jokic. I asked Scott about when he first knew that yogurt was something special.
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Scott Hastings
I was fortunate, and I'll pile myself on the back here because I saw it about his late first second year. I said, dude, there's something different about him, I said. And I remember telling somebody in the as D. Maxx likes to call it the muggles, you know, the people that cover teams. I said, dude, I think he's going to be the best player to ever play here.
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Scott Hastings
Oh well, no, you can't be real. Blah blah. Legal playing a game in London 6 or 7 years ago and I'm already fired up on Joker. I'm thinking, this guy's there, you know, and I this I played against Alex and Dan and I've seen great, great players. But I'm not I'm not seeing this guy. So I want Isaiah Thomas who was at London and I said, I want you to watch this guy.
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Scott Hastings
I said, I think he's the best player the nuggets will ever have. And he reminds me of Vladi or somebody because he was a very good presence. Can't do the things. Joker.
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Tom Green
Sabonis you think of a big man.
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Scott Hastings
Who can really.
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Tom Green
Pass.
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Ron Zappolo
And we're played in London. And I talked to Isaiah at half time and he goes dude this and this. This is kind of when the world in the world of NBA was introduced, it was amazing how many NBA people and executives and everything were in the London game. And like, oh, what do you think? He goes, dude. So he he ain't Sabonis or anything.
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Ron Zappolo
He's magic. Wow he's Magic Johnson. He does stuff like Magic Johnson does.
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Tom Green
Certainly hope we'll have Scott back on the show sometime. Jenny Kavner was a visitor with us this year after her job had wrapped up with Major League Baseball this year. Now of course, the voice of the Oakland Sacramento Las Vegas A's. But Jenny, of course, herself a groundbreaking broadcaster doing things that women had not been able to do before and sharing some of what that means to her.
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Tom Green
You didn't have many to look up to, right? And that's that's fine. But you had the courage to do it and become the one that will be looked up to that has been looked up to. And I, I'm just curious as to because of the significance of your Melissa Stark moment. In fact, you even remember, you know, that that pivotal moment in your life, you know, that's you had a pretty significant moment in many young ladies lives.
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Speaker 3
Which is just mind blowing. Right? It's so humbling to be like a figure of an idea that's now obtainable for the next generation. And to me, that's what's become really important, like to have dads come up to me after that moment in 2018 and say, you have no idea. I watched a baseball game with my daughter and she was really interested.
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Speaker 3
Yeah. And that obviously, was so meaningful because I watched sports with my dad. So that was a really cool moment. But what I didn't even see develop that kind of is come more since I got this A's job is older women, women in their 60s and 70s that say, you're doing what I would have wanted to do.
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Tom Green
Of course, Jenny grew up here, got her start here with the Rockies as well. But when it comes to the Rockies, even with the seasons, they've been having these last three years, they're a story. There's struggles. The reason they can't seem to get it right. That's been a big part of the sports community in Denver. And their play by play broadcaster Drew Goodman spoke with us about what the Rockies face.
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Ron Zappolo
Well, I don't think you can get around the fact that they are in the worst place that they've ever been. And you you lost 119 games due to there's no kind of way to equivocate. The fact that that was historically one of the worst teams in the history of the sport, and it's not it didn't come out in, you know, left field, proverbial left field, as you articulated.
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Ron Zappolo
They lost, you know, 101 the prior year and 103 or whatever. It was three straight hundred loss seasons in the in the four prior season, for all you know, I think 90 plus lost seasons. What I look upon and we'll be hearing this news, I think, in the next several days or maybe a week at most, that there's a new direction in terms of the head of baseball operations.
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Ron Zappolo
And that doesn't mean it's a magic elixir. But I think that the organization finally, said we have to look outside of our walls. We have to truly look at what we've been doing and realize that it has not been successful. And, you know, to their credit, and I know some people say, well, you know, to their credit, my goodness, it's taken forever for them to arrive at this.
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Ron Zappolo
But they have and and so let's see what this next chapter brings. And again, it's not them, you know, you know, immediately turn a team that lost 119 games into a team that wins 95 next year. But I think it was the necessary step, the right step and one to look beyond their walls, to try to soar, you know, to try to figure out what we were talking about earlier.
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Ron Zappolo
Tom, it's a Rubik's cube in baseball. It is the toughest job in baseball. And I say that not because I work down there. It truly is, and it's because of the altitude. But you can't use it as an excuse. It's a reality. But now let's figure out a way we can be successful.
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Tom Green
Thanks, drew. I always like to see Drew's hairstyle. That's kind of been his hairstyle for a few years now. Kyle Keith came by and, we had the opportunity to talk about his changing hairstyles over the years as well. Now he's a close cropped guy. Whether that's voluntary or not, we we don't know. Now, you went to college up there, but I also know, I always wondered about how the the barbers were up there because I noticed your haircuts right in high school.
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Tom Green
It seemed like the mullet was the style. And that was the style.
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Ron Zappolo
Do you know how long it would take me? Oh, yeah. I mean, look at the detail.
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Tom Green
That's a lot of hair, too.
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Ron Zappolo
So I'm not totally sure what's going on there. There's a there's definitely a brush involved. And then there's a swoop.
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Tom Green
A blow dryer and.
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Ron Zappolo
You know, and the the back thing that's going on there, that is, that's someone with problems that he's going to deal with later.
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Tom Green
When you dealt with them, did.
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Ron Zappolo
You have one.
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Tom Green
Mullet? No, no, no.
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Ron Zappolo
Why?
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Tom Green
I kept cutting my hair shorter and shorter as I got older. And you? The same year.
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Ron Zappolo
I'm shorter now. It's just. Is it? It's so bad that sometimes I look and I'm like, I. There's old clips, you know, of.
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Speaker 4
When I first started with the abs were just.
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Ron Zappolo
Everything was good. Yeah.
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Speaker 4
It's when I met Dana, right? Yeah. So.
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Ron Zappolo
And now everything, it's worked, it's gotten. It's gotten.
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Tom Green
Worse. It's a lot of time, though. Things change over long periods of time. Thanks, Kiefer. Enjoy the rest of the season. One of the greats in the history of sports broadcasting was one of our guests this year, my good friend Verne Lundquist. And you know, in a few months, the Masters will roll around. He did his final Masters and had that great moment that he shared with Tiger Woods, and we had a chance to share a laugh talking about, that final handshake, your interaction with Tiger, who's not necessarily known for being a warm guy, that led to a famous photograph on your final day at Augusta working with CBS.
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Tom Green
And it's such a funny picture because Tiger, who is so legendarily focused, not noticing anything around him, did take a minute, and he came over and shook your hand and thanked you for your work for the years. But the photo is this photo.
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Ron Zappolo
That's so.
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Tom Green
That is that is the right hand of Verne Lundquist. Whereas Tiger's not a tree lover, but he he loves Verne and that was very nice of him.
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Speaker 5
Yeah, it really was. I've known Tiger's agent Mark Steinberg for a number of years, and he's. And Tiger's guy for in excess of 30, 30 years. And so, Tiger had on his Tuesday press conference and knowing that my last year. Yeah, he was asked about me and, and my relationship to Tiger and that shot and Tiger was very gracious.
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Speaker 5
He said, because of what I did and what he said, we're going to be joined at the hip together, which is, a very nice thing to hear. And so I told Mark I really wanted to thank him, and he said, well, and he had made the cut. Right. And Mark said, when he's playing 15, get out to 16.
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Speaker 5
Well, I've had back issues. They wouldn't allow me to climb the tower. Main tower. Right. 916 so but I was determined, knowing my last year, that Saturday and Sunday, I was going to be in a tower. I wasn't going to be in the content center. Right. Calling it off monitor, which I had done for four years. And so, they arranged for me to go to that flanker tower by the bunker to the right of 16.
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Speaker 5
And so Tiger was playing with an amateur, a wonderful young guy named Neil Shipley. And, so I got down when he was on 16 and, he came by and I just said, Tiger. And he leaned over and shook my hand. And there are two versions of that handshake.
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Ron Zappolo
One this one where we see you. Yeah, we're.
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Speaker 5
You know, it's. But but the other was from across the green. And Tiger went on Jimmy Fallon's show on Monday night. He was peddling a new, brand of clothing. Right. And all Fallon wanted to talk about was Tiger, you and the tree. So. Yeah.
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Tom Green
While we're talking about golf, this past year saw the Ryder Cup at Bethpage, and a lot of people were paying attention as the European team, beat the Americans here on home soil. David Duval had played in the Ryder Cup. David Duval had been a vice captain with the Ryder Cup team as well. Of course, he lives right here in Denver, so he came by before the Ryder Cup was played.
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Tom Green
Talk a little bit about his experiences playing for his country. Your match with the for Parnevik, you said there was a little tension in your match too at times. Yeah. You got on top of him early quickly.
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Speaker 6
Yeah. You know you're nervous going out. I think I was four up after seven holes and, on the eighth hole, he had roughly five feet. Six feet for par. I had about four feet similar putts. And he asked, you know, good, good. Because, you know, that happens in these matches. Right? And I looked at him.
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Speaker 6
I said, you know what? I'm pretty certain I'm going to make my own. But I sure like to see you make yours. And, he missed and I made, I went five up after eight. I think he won the 11th hole to get it back to four. And then I picked up a couple more. But, you know, when Mark James put out his lineup for that Sunday matches in it, you know obviously obviously we're going to go top heavy.
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Speaker 6
That's how you have to you and such a deficit. And we saw the what he did. It's like wow this seems like a huge tactical error because you would think he would do the exact same thing. Like they're so close to winning the Ryder Cup. Right. Get all your best players out. Don't give us a chance. You know.
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Speaker 6
And that didn't happen. And the team did exactly what needed to do.
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Tom Green
We've also had the chance this year to visit outside the world of sports. Of course. Two of my favorite guys, comedians that made time to come over here and talk about what they've been doing on stage in their lives in general, including a couple of guys who've lived in Denver all their lives, like Doctor Kevin Fitzgerald, likely the most funny veterinarian you'll ever know are you were only, what, 9 or 10 years old when the Broncos suddenly were born.
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Tom Green
So, I mean, you you got to see Denver become 1960.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah, a major league town. And, the worst uniforms in the world.
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Tom Green
Yes, the yellow and brown.
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Ron Zappolo
It was stripes longways on the socks, the vertical. Who, who, who came up with that was a nightmare. Was like it was out of a bad dream. Some left and they were. They were so bad. Well, we had Cookie Gilchrist and we had we had some good players. But you know, I think, you know, like I told you the last time in pro football that there wasn't a first down the whole game was 1967, the Broncos against the Raiders and Darrell America and you know my father was so hammered and so mad like Kev that's 30ft.
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Ron Zappolo
You know, that's you. That's ten yards. You know you could fall down four times. You're six feet tall. It's 24ft if you jumped you know it just. Yeah. So but it's all we had as all Denver had at the time.
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Tom Green
And those old bears stadium at the time.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah yeah yeah yeah. And so Oh man. And so we didn't have pro baseball or hockey, you didn't have, pro best. We had the, the bears and literally Zephyrs, you know. Right. But but so we didn't have but we didn't have anything to be really proud of. But gradually people through better, worse people discovered Denver and put it on the map.
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Ron Zappolo
And it became this sleepy little place. There was a flyover, you know.
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Tom Green
Yeah, the Broncos and Barry Faye and people like that helped build the map.
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Ron Zappolo
All of a sudden. And now I mean, now, you see, you know, the cultural things that we have here or restaurants, I mean, and there was one Chinese restaurant, you know, I mean, really, I mean, there were just things like that. And so, Denver became Denver grew up.
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Tom Green
Of course, you can catch Kevin all the time at Comedy Works and doing stand up all around town, or maybe neutering your beagle, another guy who's performing all the time, the former sportswriter turned comedian Sam Adams.
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Ron Zappolo
And I'm not a comic who goes into the audience, you know what I mean? Crowd work is not my, thing. I like to have it set prepared and perform it. But when I walk out on the stage, I do a scan, like, right away. Like, know the room. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then after a couple minutes, I'll, you know, and I've got some clips where, where I finally broke somebody down and go.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah. You laughed at that one, didn't, you know, offer a, you know, like a handshake or something. But I always try to, keep a tab on that person that doesn't laugh. I won't stand there and look directly at them, but I'll. I'll be like, oh, did I get them? Did I get them? Did I get because the audience sitting up front, they noticed too.
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Ron Zappolo
They noticed the people who were sitting there stoic, right? They know.
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Tom Green
I'll tell you who will come here tonight.
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Ron Zappolo
I'll tell you who was stoic recently. For me, I'm doing a set at the Comedy Works and Tech Center, and, and I did a bit again. Had something to do with race that, what did I say? I said, we need to have, more diversity, more black head coaches and people, you know, and then I did that pause and go in hockey because do not expect them, you know.
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Ron Zappolo
Right. And then I go, it's only been one black head coach in the history of the National Hockey League, which is true. And then I scanned and I'm like, is that Joe Sexton right there? And he was like this is like.
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Tom Green
I don't want to be the subject of this.
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Ron Zappolo
But he came out afterwards and we talked and, and and I said, Paul Girard, who was an assistant coach, the late Paul Girard, God rest his soul, was an assistant coach with the avalanche during the Stanley Cup run. And that was like Paul Girard.
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Tom Green
Also a guest this year, right around the holidays, we had a great sports fan, comedian Adam Clayton Holland, talking about what once was his love for the Rockies. So the Rockies were at one point, your favorite team you have?
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Speaker 4
Yeah.
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Tom Green
You've left. You fled.
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Speaker 4
Yeah. I'm like a lapsed Catholic for the Rockies. And I had a relationship with them. Tom. Like, I really had done some work, gotten my foot in the door, threw out an opening pitch. They, had me do some some PR stuff with them. I remember one year when they made the playoffs, so it was a long time ago.
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Speaker 4
Yeah. They had, you know, that that psych up video that they play before the game starts like this, this is baseball at altitude, blah, blah, blah. And I got to do the voiceover for that because they asked me to do that. So I didn't, I didn't, you know, I didn't take it lightly sacrificing this relationship. But at some point in the last, it's pretty much right after the Nolan Arenado trade.
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Speaker 4
Right? I just broke and I, you know, not like I'm a big figure or anything, but I just sort of publicly started, you know, attacking them or what they would do. Yeah. When I wasn't alone. And every sports journalist in town has done the same thing right at some point, the romance with the Rockies kind of soured for everyone.
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Speaker 4
And in the last 2 or 3 years, sports journalism towards the Rockies has been brutal in town. And I love it. Honest, honest. Yeah. And it does. It does feel like, I don't know, maybe we were so grateful for baseball and so new to baseball. It took even to the sports journalist two decades to ever even criticize because we were just grateful.
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Tom Green
But comedy can be one of the greatest ways in the world to be.
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Ron Zappolo
Cruel to someone, for sure, because it's a loving. You can beat.
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Tom Green
The Rockies hard with comedy if you want to.
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Speaker 4
And they need, I mean, I, I'm not on Twitter anymore because I don't like Elon Musk. So I'm on blue Sky with much less of a following. But I said, like, we're literally looking right now. Nuggets, Broncos, avalanche could all legitimately win a championship this season. A Colorado Rockies just parked my car to a steakhouse. That's that's where we're at right now.
00;23;25;27 - 00;23;47;15
Tom Green
This year here on the other Tom green show, we also had a chance to visit with my longtime on TV partner, Kim Christiansen. There's a lot to talk about with Kim, including her relationship with the The Legend of Boulder, Miss Peggy. So cuz you're your real heartbeat. Yeah. The buffs so, between, Bill McCartney.
00;23;47;17 - 00;23;48;06
Speaker 3
Yeah.
00;23;48;09 - 00;23;51;26
Tom Green
Prime and Miss Peggy. Like, who's your favorite? Oh.
00;23;51;28 - 00;24;12;24
Speaker 3
Well, you have to go with Peggy, right? 100%, because, and I. And I love them all, I don't get me wrong. And I cut my teeth on learning how to actually report on anything sports band related with McCartney and Dave Delamere, who carried me through the photographer, of course. But, Peggy, because you know what, Peggy? That that I really got to know her.
00;24;12;26 - 00;24;51;27
Speaker 3
The first real long term story I did with her was with Chris Hansen. Photographer. Genius. Yeah, brilliant. Whatever. I don't even know. He's not a photographer. He's something on next level. During the pandemic, right after her sister had passed away, her twin and how you just sometimes that is, again, the gift of this job when somebody comes into your life that just it just shows her her ability to teach us at her age about how to live, how to love, how to believe, how to support people.
00;24;51;29 - 00;25;11;10
Speaker 3
Her faith, ever her being in her presence makes you a better person. She never forgets a thing. I will bump into her and she'll say, and how is Frank doing? My dad? Yeah. And how is Tanner doing? And she knows people's names. Yeah. And she takes time to know their name.
00;25;11;11 - 00;25;20;25
Tom Green
Well, this is the same thing with you. You get these great gifts of meeting these people, but you share their stories, and you get them. You get to tell their story to people.
00;25;20;26 - 00;25;20;29
Ron Zappolo
And.
00;25;21;00 - 00;25;23;10
Tom Green
People can feel that. So.
00;25;23;13 - 00;25;33;20
Speaker 3
I'm so glad the rest of the country has discovered her. Yeah. And, I mean, I give a lot of that credit to Coach Prime. Of course, that's how they discovered her, but thank goodness they know who Peggy is.
00;25;33;22 - 00;25;51;05
Tom Green
So this year has been a lot of fun here on the other Tom green show. And we're certainly looking forward to many more great shows in the next year. But this year also saw us give birth to a new show called After the Horn, where I teamed up with two guys even older than me, Ron DiPaolo and Woody Page.
00;25;51;05 - 00;26;10;22
Tom Green
And, we, we released the show every Tuesday afternoon talking about what's going on in the world of sports. Of course, this year we had a big opportunity to sit down for an hour and change and talk with John Elway. And we hit on a lot of topics, but it was one of the most fascinating discussions that we had this year.
00;26;10;24 - 00;26;36;01
Ron Zappolo
Peyton Manning comes, he was the savior I knew. And I'm just telling you, I knew the only out for Tim Tebow. He, Peyton, was the only. Oh, yeah. He was. Yeah, exactly. But but you think they might have blown up mile high and blown up my house or, you know, I mean, if we had to have an option, you can't you can't win a first round of the playoffs.
00;26;36;03 - 00;26;55;00
Tom Green
This might be awkward for you to answer, but I always felt they had the feeling that the reason the Broncos were able to get Peyton Manning is because a guy named John Elway was there, and that meant a lot to Peyton Manning. You know, there was money, there was opportunity here, there in other places. But I get the feeling you were the difference in getting him to commit to come here.
00;26;55;03 - 00;27;11;03
Ron Zappolo
You know? Yeah. And we never really talked. He never came to me. Tell me exactly why he came with other words other than he thought it was best fit for him. And then thing is, a night in Peyton was, you know, you guys know Peyton, and he's very thorough in anything he does. I think you went to Arizona.
00;27;11;03 - 00;27;26;27
Ron Zappolo
You went to Tennessee. The only team I was really worried about was Tennessee. Yeah, me and Miami, but the only one I was really worried about was Tennessee, because obviously played college football there and whatnot. But, you know, Peyton came in and he was here for a couple days. And, you know, obviously hit it off with John Fox.
00;27;26;27 - 00;27;39;25
Ron Zappolo
It was easy to hit it off with because he's a real good guy. And then Mike McCoy and I think Peyton knew coming and talking to McCoy and what we're going to do offensively that Peyton knew here we were going to do everything he wanted to do. You know, and what he was just.
00;27;39;25 - 00;27;44;26
Tom Green
Talking to you about being a Bronco and all that. I can imagine you could have sold it, you know.
00;27;44;26 - 00;27;58;14
Ron Zappolo
Yeah. I mean, we went to church. He came in and went to Cherry Hill. Everything's and where I was and what you know, what our goals were. And it's, you know, trying to, you know, win championships. I that pretty good. Yeah. Yeah.
00;27;58;17 - 00;28;23;04
Tom Green
It's really been a great 2025. So now as we switch to 2026 we look forward to big things both from this show, the other Tom Green Show and After the Horn with Ron and Woody. We hope you'll be a part of that in 2026. Speaking of New Year's resolutions, I've got a good one for you. If you're going to be out at the airport, don't just sit year round staring at your phone, going over to Golf Den.
00;28;23;05 - 00;28;41;14
Tom Green
It's in the mezzanine of concourse A golf simulators. You can go there, have a drink, take some swings, even play an entire round at an exotic course that you might never get to see. Oh, you're at the airport. Maybe you get to go. It's really a great opportunity for you to get some swings in and just not waste your time at the airport.
00;28;41;14 - 00;29;02;10
Tom Green
You can have some fun, have some laughs, bring a friend again. It's on the mezzanine of the A concourse and you can check it out. Even book your time at their website. Or you can buy gift certificates. If you want to give the gift of golf, then you can find them@golf-den.com. Well, that's going to wrap it up for this edition.
00;29;02;10 - 00;29;15;00
Tom Green
A look back at 2025. On this first day of 2026. We're hoping you have a great year ahead, and we hope to see you back here again next week for another edition of the Other Tom Green Show. Thanks.