Jack Corrigan, Jerry Schemmel talk movies, heroes and concerts

DENVER — During spring training, BSN Denver developed a Pop Culture Questionnaire; a brief set of questions that would give you some insight into the off-the-field lives of the people that make Colorado Rockies baseball happen.

We talked to Nolan Arenado, Carlos Gonzalez, and Jon Gray — among others — about their favorite movies, music, video games and fictional heroes.

Just as we decided to resurrect this concept with a vengeance, we experienced some technical difficulties (my phone decided to be a jerk) and so, unfortunately, we cannot provide you with the audio for my conversation with two very special guests; Jack Corrigan and Jerry Schemmel. Well, we could, but it would hurt your ears. (Massive shoutout to Matan Halzel for braving the dissonance and transcribing.)

The following is a full transcript of our conversation. For you regular listeners to 850 KOA, do your best to read in your head with the natural story-telling timbre and rythms and the familiar voices that so many of us have come to know and love.

And now, the BSN Denver Pop Culture Questionaire with Jack Corrigan and Jerry Schemmel:

Drew Creasman: What is your No. 2 sport?

Jack Corrigan: Football
Jerry Schemmel: Basketball

DC: What position would you play?

JC: Wide Receiver
JS: Point guard, definitely.

DC: What’s your go-to listening to music?

JC: I’m a blues aficionado from the recent guys all the way back to Robert Johnson. So, if you had my headphones on during a workout, you’d hear Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Clapton, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, the whole thing.

JS: Well mine has changed over the years, I was that Top-40 guy — that pop music in the 80s and 90s. And then I went to country for about a decade, and now all I ever really listen to is contemporary Christian music, the last 9 or 10 years that’s about it.

DC: Alright. Jack, what is the best concert you’ve ever been to?

JC: I don’t know know if I could ever just say one. As a kid still in high school, I saw The Who do Tommy when Tommy had just come out.

DC: That’s probably gotta be the best answer we’ve had on this so far

JC: Well that’s probably because I’m the oldest guy you’ve asked! And maybe the other one would be a couple of years ago at Red Rocks, B.B. King, and the Tedeschi Trucks Band. That was just a great show.

DC: Jerry?

JS: Alright this is from an old man remember this OK; Hall and Oates. They were rockin’ back in the 80s, and my wife is a huge Hall and Oates fan. We were both in college and I don’t know how we scraped the money together but we did and that was my favorite concert ever.

DC: A great show is worth it. Those are some good ones, do you have a dream concert left? Is there something still on your list if you could get to one thing you’ve never been able to?

Jack: Yeah if there was some kind of — you know unfortunately B.B. King passed away within the last year — but if you had something where you had Clapton, and Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and maybe Coco Montoya

DC: Like the all-time Crossroads right?

JC: Yeah that’s right, just some of the great Blues guitarists of all-time, that would be an ultimate.
JS: Billy Joel for me. Every time I think I got a chance to go to his concert, I can’t work it out. That’s my dream, man, I’ve got to cross that off my list.

DC: Alright. Jack, what’s your favorite movie?

JC: Again, it would probably be a tie. Just because of when it was made and how it was made, and then some of the great dialogue from a corny perspective especially from Burt Laar, I would say the Wizard of Oz. And then in a tie it would have to be The Sting, I mean the ultimate funny movie and just so well written. Those would have to be my two favorite movies.

JS: I’ve got a tie as well. A tie between Braveheart — love that movie — if I could pick one movie to watch right now it would be Braveheart … and Hoosiers. And you know exactly what’s gonna happen in Hoosiers and you know it’s gonna hit but it’s still awesome, you’re still gonna get emotional.

DC: … By chance … Does either of you play video games?

JC: No.
JS: Zero. We’re too old!

DC: Figured I would give it a shot!

DC: Finally, Who is your favorite fictional hero of all time?

JC: I’m going to have to think about this one for a second. Probably….What’s killing me now is that one of my favorite novels and I forget the principle character’s name, but the hero from The Tale of Two Cities. That would be it for me. [Sydney Carton is what we were looking for here.]

JS: For me it’s Batman. I would watch the TV show back in the 60s and 70s.

DC: Adam West Batman!

JC: That’s where he got his horrible sense of humor!

JS: It’s true. But the TV shows and the movies, they were all great.