Hour 3: Debating Eli Manning's HOF Case & Rutgers Coaching Rumors

Craig Carton (0:00)

Brother loves, brother said love, travel and salvation show.

Chris McMonigle (0:03)

Holly, holly.

Craig Carton (0:05)

I like a lot of different Neil Diamond songs.

Pete Hoffman (0:08)

I don't know that.

Craig Carton (0:09)

Forever in Blue Jeans, classic song. I think it's a shame that he is only known for one song. He's really only known, as great as he is, and he has a ton of hits. Sweet Caroline. And to his fans, people would say that's ridiculous, he's not known for one song. But it feels like in the cultural zeitgeist, right? Am I saying that right? Zeitgeist?

Zeitgeist? No, zeitgeist is something different. Yeah. Yeah. Gutzeit? Why am I not saying it right?

unknown (0:34)

Don't talk about my gut like that. That's not nice.

Pete Hoffman (0:37)

I don't know the word you're looking for. I am not a wordsmith.

Craig Carton (0:39)

There's like a cultural, like, I think I said it right the first time, now I'm not going to try it again. But culturally, he's kind of known for just Sweet Caroline.

Pete Hoffman (0:47)

I have a real question about that song, okay? Who is the, and I'm being honest, who's the first person to add the, ba ba ba, to it? Because it's not in the song.

Craig Carton (0:57)

No, someone, yeah, someone did it.

Pete Hoffman (0:59)

Somebody had to do it. So I'm curious where that originated from. I don't know. It's like a universal, it's a universal thing. I've been doing that in bars since I was 20 years old.

unknown (1:07)

Sure. It's usually an end of wedding song, right?

Craig Carton (1:11)

Sort of, yeah. Like, I worked at a catering hall. I can tell you by far, like for years in Franklin Square, I can tell you what by far the number one wedding song ender of all time is, or at least it was from 1999 to 2007?

unknown (1:28)

Shout?

Craig Carton (1:29)

2006? No. End of, end like final song.

Pete Hoffman (1:33)

Yeah. No.

Craig Carton (1:34)

Shout's the middle of the party song. They don't end with shout.

Pete Hoffman (1:36)

I won't do that?

Chris McMonigle (1:37)

No.

Zach Gelb (1:37)

Anything for love?

Craig Carton (1:38)

Nope.

Zach Gelb (1:39)

Frank Sinatra's My Way? No.

Chris McMonigle (1:41)

New York.

Craig Carton (1:43)

There are some weddings that end that way. No, it's, I had the time of my life, and I've never felt this way before.

unknown (1:55)

Is that Barry Wine?

Craig Carton (1:56)

No.

unknown (1:57)

I thought that was Swayze.

Craig Carton (1:58)

Come on.

unknown (1:58)

Come on, Pete. Can you two shut up? We have a great singer right here.

Pete Hoffman (2:02)

You guys are ruining the ball.

Zach Gelb (2:04)

Two guys roll over to the bit pair.

Pete Hoffman (2:06)

Zach, by the way, I hear C-Max sing every day.

Craig Carton (2:10)

But yes, that was a very popular last song of a wedding for a long time, at least in Long Island in the early 2000s. That was the wedding closer.

Pete Hoffman (2:20)

That was the closer.

Craig Carton (2:21)

That was the last song. What was the opener?

Pete Hoffman (2:23)

Was there an opener?

Craig Carton (2:24)

No, I mean, shout, stuff like that, like dance floor stuff. It's changed throughout the years, whatever the popular dance stuff was.

unknown (2:29)

September's always a big one.

Pete Hoffman (2:30)

September. And then the electric slide moment, right?

Chris McMonigle (2:34)

The electric slide.

Pete Hoffman (2:35)

Yeah.

Craig Carton (2:36)

Right, then they'll do that segment of dance along things with like actual...

Pete Hoffman (2:41)

Macarena.

Craig Carton (2:42)

The Macarena, that. What's the other one? There's a couple of them, but yeah, the Macarena electric slide, the Cuban shuffle.

Zach Gelb (2:50)

Did you guys, because I know your fiance's or your wife, sorry, I'm on fiance mode.

Pete Hoffman (2:54)

Can you just give me a break?

Craig Carton (2:55)

I've been...

Zach Gelb (2:56)

Yeah.

Craig Carton (2:56)

I just celebrated my 10th anniversary because I'm my fiance.

Zach Gelb (2:59)

Did they do the, what is it, the Tarantella? That, it's like the Italian dance.

Craig Carton (3:05)

Yeah, I know what you're talking about. We didn't do it, no. But I know what you're talking about. Yeah, and everyone like kind of goes, yeah.

I tell you, it was a catering hall and it was Greek. It was owned by Greek guys. And the Greek weddings are insane. Yep.

unknown (3:21)

And throwing the wedding cake and all that stuff.

Craig Carton (3:23)

They smash plates.

unknown (3:25)

Yeah.

Craig Carton (3:26)