Kenny Powers Audio Tapes
Kenny Powers
There are very few things that you can count on in life, but I would have to say that one of them is the consistency of HBO, and their ability to take a chance on a show that wouldn’t normally work out well on network TV and make it work in their format. They consistently take gambles, and most of them pay off. Even when they don’t pay off, HBO has such a good reputation that people watch them anyway! And if they don’t watch the show when it was originally aired, they surely watch it on DVD.
The most recent of these shows is Eastbound and Down, which I alluded to earlier in the Bat Fight video as being a great source of comedy. The premise is that Kenny Powers (click the link for his actual fake web site) is a washed up, foul mouthed, and morally lax baseball player who is forced to attempt a normal life after his baseball career goes south. He’s sort of like John Rocker with a mullet.
In 6 episodes of crudeness and bad language galore, we watch Kenny go through a humbling and humiliating transition from star baseball player who is washed up and overweight to overweight former baseball player coaching phy ed in his hometown. He’s still very crude and really doesn’t have many redeeming qualities.
He also still thinks very highly of himself compared to the people surrounding him every day, as evidenced in the set of motivational tapes that he listens to for motivation. The video above features the contents of these tapes.
Some great lines from Kenny Powers’ audio tape, “You’re Fucking Out, I’m Fucking In”:
“I’m the man who has the ball. I’m the man who can throw it faster than fuck.”
“That is why I’m better than everyone in the world.”
“Have you ever paid for sex? The answer is yes, I have. Several times in fact. It’s kinda cool.”
“I’ve been called a Xenophobe, but the truth is, I’m not. I honestly just feel America is the best country and all of the other countries aren’t as good. That used to be called patriotism. “