Let's talk about "Let's Talk Sports!"

[superglue]

This deserves its own thread. Angel wasn't aware so many clips were available on t-o.org. God bless whoever does that site! 

There's about six months' worth from 2008. I was able to download them for my phone if anyone wants the whole collection for their own personal use. I think these were shared exclusively with the person who made this site so please don't reuse (not that any of you run competing sites).

timothy-olyphant.org/?page_id=153

MP3 versions: www.dropbox.com/sh/xm7uaai8j9aysuc/AAD_3QQ4THKc-KS_tbvqJZk1a?dl=0

These are absolute gems and I have put off listening to the rest because I will cry knowing there are no more. His sense of humor absolutely kills me. I love how he jokes about the guys accused of stuff and just slightly alters it to make the non-funny very funny... he talks about the steroid accusations against Roger Clemens and says Roger denies being gay and the rape accusations against Kobe Bryant as Kobe being accused of shooting a cop... funny as hell.

Oh and when he did the "there's always been baseball" speech from Field of Dreams but replaced it with soccer... OMG. I hate myself that I was not a huge fan then with the sense to listen every day.

His rapport with Joe Escalante was great too. I love when they refer to Mrs. Oly as Mrs. Olyphantova.  The clearly high Tim calling from Puerto Rico is amazing too.

I would pay actual money for the rest of these.

[bluerain]

Thank you so much superglue! I have tried to download/record these but was met with dead air every time I tried. 

I so wish there were more of these out there. They are pure gold. Tim and Joe play off each other so well. Apparently Mrs. Olyphantova makes really good pie.   And Tim refers to the second one as "Steely Eyes". 

[angellovestim]

Yay! I am so pumped! Thanks, SG! So many Tim gems!

I would also happily pay for more!

[superglue]

You're welcome. I'm glad I discovered a Chrome extension that made downloading the MP3s easy.

The fact that such a successful actor was doing this basically for free is such a quirky, LA thing. I absolutely love it. And David Lynch doing the weather! I can't believe this isn't more famous. Of course, this was in the days before social media took over our lives... If this was going on now, it would be a national sensation.

[bluerain]

It would definitely be a national sensation if it were going on today but I don't think it would be quite the same. I think part of what makes this so great is that it was relatively unknown and obscure. Tim and Joe had the freedom to say pretty much whatever they wanted within the confines of the radio regulations since social media wasn't quite at its peak yet. I think there would be too much backlash on social media today with how offended people get over every little thing now. That and I think if it were a big sensation it would end being too gimmicky after a while. 

If I recall correctly, it was station policy that they couldn't advertise or put out press releases about the show so unless you were a listener you didn't know about it.  

[superglue]

yep, I agree it wouldn't work today. They knew it was just for a local audience tuning in and on top of it, it was for an audience who got their sense of humor. Tim probably wouldn't have been as relaxed as he was if he knew there were national/international audiences analyzing every word.

It was a great moment. I'm really envious of the listeners.

[angellovestim]

Yes! I am so happy we get to experience Tim in this way even though it’s many years later ❤️ I am going to listen to a few every morning as though it is happening live 😍
I don’t care if the sports news is old, it’s our Tim and it is
LOVELY ❤️💋💋🤗🎉🎶🎈💃🏿🍾🍷

[angellovestim]

Love love love how Tim is always so cool and fun in his talks with Joe! I just happened to be looking for Tim on YouTube and found this one!

[superglue]

I realized there were two duplicates so if anyone downloaded the files from my Dropbox, please update these:

03-06-08.mp3
06-20-08.mp3