Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Welcome to another episode of Good Calls
Speaker 1: with Me Dean Blandino. Today it's a special day. This
Speaker 1: is the first time we're doing We're still social distancing,
Speaker 1: we're six ft apart, but we're doing the podcast live
Speaker 1: and then, well maybe not live, but in person. We are.
Speaker 1: We are in Travis's garage, and Travis, I've got a
Speaker 1: lot of questions right now. I'm just looking around the
Speaker 1: garage and there's so many just so many things, so
Speaker 1: many talking points, so many things. Every time I look around,
Speaker 1: I noticed something new. Um. The thing that jumped out
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader poster framed poster by the way,
Speaker 1: um from And when I looked at it, I thought
Speaker 1: it was from the seventies and you confirmed nine seventies seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a This was a gift from my brother
Speaker 1: in law. He got it at uh flea market or
Speaker 1: or a secondhand store or you know, something like a
Speaker 1: pawn shop or something like that. Um, and he gave
Speaker 1: to me as a Christmas gift. Nineteen seventy seven original
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy cheerleader poster from the movie. I think is
Speaker 1: is what this was. They did a movie, they did
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader movie, and they really I mean I
Speaker 1: remember not to see what Texas was at North Dallas
Speaker 1: forty remember that movie, but I didn't know there was
Speaker 1: a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader movie. Maybe maybe my m off
Speaker 1: off the mark there a bit with that, but I
Speaker 1: should look. But you've got I mean, you've got a
Speaker 1: a Minnesota Twins official home er hanky. Yeah, what year
Speaker 1: is that from that one? Is that one's not as old?
Speaker 1: That's like a two thousand ten piece. Let me take
Speaker 1: a look at it. I think we could do a
Speaker 1: whole show. And you've got you've got the Honda, the
Speaker 1: brand new the paper plate. Oh yeah, I just hung
Speaker 1: now of the Santa Fece Like, look what I got.
Speaker 1: That's a flag X right there, right there in the
Speaker 1: new Santa fe Oh, because you've got old school. You've
Speaker 1: got a Minnesota license, but you've got a Wyoming license.
Speaker 1: But you got New Hampshire license plate. What's that the
Speaker 1: one that's covered as Massachusetts? Massachusetts? So all of those
Speaker 1: places have connection. I've lived there or my wife, your
Speaker 1: wife is Yeah, there's a lot there. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of cowboy fans would would love to know that
Speaker 1: Dean is in I'm in the middle of cowboy cowboys
Speaker 1: stuff going on, and not just the Dallas cowboys, real
Speaker 1: cowboys like Wyoming cowboys. There's a painting. It's up over there.
Speaker 1: It's right, it's right next to oh where is it?
Speaker 1: It's right next to the couple of tennis rackets, the body,
Speaker 1: the wetsuit, and the sombrero which are all in the
Speaker 1: and the and the CD collection which are all in
Speaker 1: that corner. Do you guys ever need a Halloween costume?
Speaker 1: I have it for you. The the old leather, the
Speaker 1: old leather couch on wheels casters. You put it on
Speaker 1: four inch casters. You can wheel the bad boy in
Speaker 1: and out of the garage. Before you got here, Dean,
Speaker 1: we wheeled this bar in the bar that that that
Speaker 1: has a saying painted into the bottom of it that
Speaker 1: the best revenge is happiness. That was a quote my
Speaker 1: buddy connor Burne, who dad whose dad works for the Ravens,
Speaker 1: or work for the Ravens. Longtime pr guy there. He
Speaker 1: did this piece and he asked me to hold onto it,
Speaker 1: and then I turned it into a work bench. He
Speaker 1: was gonna come back and get the best revenge is happy,
Speaker 1: right it is? And then you've got the one gallon
Speaker 1: jug of Jamison. So I think right behind the right
Speaker 1: by Troy an Tony, I will say it's very organized, trapped.
Speaker 1: I'm very impressed. Yea, you gotta stay organized, they in
Speaker 1: order to in order to keep a pawn shop open
Speaker 1: in your garage. Yeah, this is it. I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: The audio sounds amazing. It does sound amazing. Joe's very
Speaker 1: happy because we're not no longer doing zoom. We'll see
Speaker 1: how long. Let's see what we can keep this up.
Speaker 1: I feel like what I don't want to happen is
Speaker 1: what happened in this country. Okay, we we opened up
Speaker 1: and we were like, yeah, let's go back, and everybody
Speaker 1: got crazy and everybody started, yeah you know what, We're
Speaker 1: gonna go to bars. And now we're gonna we're just
Speaker 1: gonna forget that this virus still exists. And now case
Speaker 1: of spike. And now we're pulling back and right at
Speaker 1: a time for football season, great time. Now this is awesome.
Speaker 1: Um A hundred is that right? A hundred? Thirty two
Speaker 1: days down? Um? On mind? And that feels like a
Speaker 1: lifetime ago. It feels like a lifetime ago back in
Speaker 1: January when people were like, I've noticed people at the
Speaker 1: airport wearing masks and was like, oh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: another one of these viruses before this, and and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, this is this. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: like stars or or h H N one one N
Speaker 1: one and uh and little did we know that it
Speaker 1: would complete everything. And I don't know what what are
Speaker 1: we in right now because we we went to quarantine.
Speaker 1: I feel like the first round of quarantine was like fun.
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, we're all in, We're watching Tiger King,
Speaker 1: like this is cool, Like everybody's doing oh wow, there's
Speaker 1: this like like it was like it was literally like
Speaker 1: we discovered plutonium when people started using zoom, like it
Speaker 1: hadn't been around a long time and people have been
Speaker 1: doing video conferences for a long time, and everybody was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, zoom And it was kind of cool initially,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, Okay, the summer months are coming,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get warmer. You know, we're gonna get a
Speaker 1: handle on this. Europe's opening up, Asia's opening up. We
Speaker 1: start to open up. And now I feel like we're
Speaker 1: we're right back at square one, and Europe and Asia
Speaker 1: is banning us. I'm going, we're banning each and every
Speaker 1: state is like banning other states from going. I was gonna.
Speaker 1: I booked a flight to New York about a month
Speaker 1: ago when things look good, and I had to cance
Speaker 1: so that I can't. You know, they're saying like fourteen
Speaker 1: day quarantine if you come from certain certain states. I
Speaker 1: don't know how they how they police that, but I
Speaker 1: don't feel like I'd be the one that gets caught
Speaker 1: at the airport and like, sorry, sir, you can't leave.
Speaker 1: That's been I love, I love my mom, loved my family,
Speaker 1: But fourteen days in that house with my sister and
Speaker 1: the kids and my mom would be what about your
Speaker 1: brother's either, No, my brother used to hang out of
Speaker 1: his house. That's a reality show, waiting the latent reality show.
Speaker 1: Like I can't even We'll get him back on the
Speaker 1: show if T s A wants to stop. My mom
Speaker 1: she left earlier. It was sad to see her. She
Speaker 1: got to meet her grandson today, so that was great. Oh,
Speaker 1: how was that? She loved him? He didn't think it
Speaker 1: was gonna. I didn't think it was gonna go bad.
Speaker 1: I mean she traveled to l a X. I dropped
Speaker 1: rop picked her up. It was so quiet and dead.
Speaker 1: It was weird to see it that that way. It
Speaker 1: seemed like, I think, I just want to fly just
Speaker 1: for that. Yeah. She she's like she got fight to Sacramento.
Speaker 1: I'm fine, s I book three ft Sacramento day. I
Speaker 1: just come back because I'm just like doing day trip,
Speaker 1: just just an airport trip. I'm flying the Sacramento. I
Speaker 1: want to go to Minneapolis that I love, Minneapolis St.
Speaker 1: Paul Airport, so just go. Delta does connect through there
Speaker 1: all the time. I'll just go l A to Minneapolis
Speaker 1: MSP and then come back. I got some walleye at
Speaker 1: one of the restaurants in in the Minneapolis airports, A Fish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you ordered first. First, you ordered a walleye. You might
Speaker 1: be the only person I've ever met that has ordered
Speaker 1: a walleye in a restaurant and then you ordered it
Speaker 1: at the airport. It wasn't It wasn't great, but I
Speaker 1: was excited to see it. Anyway. It wasn't great. I
Speaker 1: feel I feel like the walleyes one that you catch
Speaker 1: and then you eat that day, Like that's that kind of.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I is. It's like a fish.
Speaker 1: It's really good. I think next time you go to
Speaker 1: Whole Food seafood, you know, actually setting up a fishing
Speaker 1: trip right right here, right out of Redondo. Really we're
Speaker 1: not gonna catch I don't know, as my dad. Alright,
Speaker 1: so we are getting sports back this week. And I know, yes,
Speaker 1: MLS has been back. I get that, but when you
Speaker 1: talk about the big four in this country, um, MLS
Speaker 1: is not part of it. Baseball, right, So baseball is back.
Speaker 1: I've been watching some preseason games, spring training games, whatever
Speaker 1: the heck you want to call him. But the the
Speaker 1: the most interesting point about the baseball opening day, which
Speaker 1: is Thursday, is that that Center release about it today,
Speaker 1: Dr Fauci is going to be thrown out the first
Speaker 1: pitch at the Nats game in in d C. And
Speaker 1: I don't know, like I I like him, like I
Speaker 1: like him. I think he's got a very tough job,
Speaker 1: especially dealing with the current administration. But I just like,
Speaker 1: at one one point he is saying, we can't play sports.
Speaker 1: We gotta you know, NFL, you gotta be in a bubble. Hey, hey, Doc,
Speaker 1: you want to throw out the first pitch. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1: I'm in. You know he's gonna wear a mask, right,
Speaker 1: of course, what are the odds that he doesn't wear
Speaker 1: a mask? They were people were wearing masks. He's he's
Speaker 1: wearing a mask, throwing out the first pitch. The mask
Speaker 1: is who knows? What is that mask? Gonna look like?
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into mask. I wish like it would
Speaker 1: be amazing if he would sell advertising on the mask
Speaker 1: and and then donate it to COVID nineteen research, Like
Speaker 1: that would be gold. That should what happen? That that
Speaker 1: should absolutely happen in this capitalistic, allegedly capitalistic society. God
Speaker 1: Mary John, I'm sure there'll be a lot of pushback,
Speaker 1: like shouldn't he be working on a vaccine not throwing
Speaker 1: out the first pitch? Of course. Well, speaking of vaccines
Speaker 1: and speaking of testing, the NFL finally, UM, a lot
Speaker 1: of people, you know, we're questioning, what what has the
Speaker 1: NFL been doing for months? Right? Well, the NFL, they
Speaker 1: haven't been sitting around doing nothing, obviously, but the NFL
Speaker 1: and the NFLP agreed on daily testing. Um, at least
Speaker 1: through the first two weeks of camp. They will be
Speaker 1: able to pull back to every other day if positive
Speaker 1: UM tests are less than five percent UM, which is
Speaker 1: interesting because you think about testing every day. The cost
Speaker 1: I saw one estimate seventy five million dollars. And then
Speaker 1: the question becomes, well, if the NFL is using all
Speaker 1: these tests, what is that taking away from the general public?
Speaker 1: Is that taking away from six people? And the way
Speaker 1: that I read it was not. Because the NFL is
Speaker 1: contracting with a third party laboratory too to increase their
Speaker 1: number of tests just for the NFL. And uh, and
Speaker 1: think about that company. I think it's Biosphere Labs or
Speaker 1: something like that reference lab. That's it, Like, I want
Speaker 1: a piece of that action. The general deal says tests
Speaker 1: per day with the team d twenty per team per day. Right,
Speaker 1: so then and that's gonna be and every team is
Speaker 1: gonna is gonna have their one thirty second of that
Speaker 1: of that bill um so and that's like you imagine,
Speaker 1: do you think that's you know, when a bunch of
Speaker 1: us are at a restaurant, they're trying to figure out money,
Speaker 1: like what's okay, what's what's twenty divided by six? And
Speaker 1: they're sitting there and you know, like Jerry, Jerry just
Speaker 1: is like, wow, we only had a hundred and tantists
Speaker 1: did today? Like, dude, dude, I don't care if you
Speaker 1: only had an appetizer. When we all go out to dinner,
Speaker 1: we're splitting it like that's the rule. Like I don't
Speaker 1: care how many tests that the Jaguars had on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: We're splitting it one thirty second. Okay, don't give me that.
Speaker 1: Oh I only had drinks, then, don't come. Come, don't
Speaker 1: come to dinner. I'm a vegetarian. Don't come. Don't come
Speaker 1: to dinner. Oh you you took me to a steakhouse
Speaker 1: and I'm a vegetarian. Dude. Their sides you can get.
Speaker 1: Every steakhouse has a side for vegetarians, okay, like the
Speaker 1: cream spinach. Every steakhouse. Just get a scream spinach if
Speaker 1: you're vegan. If you're vegan, get the steam brockerate. But
Speaker 1: don't give me that ship. You're you're paying one dirty
Speaker 1: second and I don't want to don't give me the
Speaker 1: itemized bill. That's why I want to go out and
Speaker 1: groups like that. I just go big. That's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I'll have a double lobster tail with three glasses of
Speaker 1: wine or three I always get hose because I generally
Speaker 1: don't drink while I while I'm eating. I mean, either
Speaker 1: I don't like And then the bill comes and it's
Speaker 1: like this dude has had you know, eleven Martin. You
Speaker 1: know what, I don't care. If you're there and you're
Speaker 1: at the table, you're in, You're all in. We're gonna
Speaker 1: make a rule on this. Yes, the rule is group setting.
Speaker 1: You go to dinner, you're all in. If you're in.
Speaker 1: If you're in a couple of situation, then that that
Speaker 1: you divide it in half. So if there's eight people,
Speaker 1: four couples, every couple pays a quarter. That's how it works. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't give me this. You know, you start adding up
Speaker 1: about separate checks. Hate separate checks. I missed the whistle.
Speaker 1: We didn't have the whistle. Separate checks are legal if
Speaker 1: you go to dinner with me and you and they,
Speaker 1: you asked for a separate check. But you'll never get
Speaker 1: a project. I don't. It's just not gonna happen. Sorry,
Speaker 1: So it's law. We just made a new rule. The cancer.
Speaker 1: So again, this whole there was this coordinated effort on
Speaker 1: social media. What was that Sunday um Saturday when was Sunday, right,
Speaker 1: So it was Sunday we want we want to play?
Speaker 1: Right hashtag we want to play? And all these players, um,
Speaker 1: we're posting, And it was almost as if they the
Speaker 1: way they were making it come across like the NFL
Speaker 1: wasn't doing anything and they wanted to play. How is
Speaker 1: the NFL going to keep us safe? And I know
Speaker 1: if you read like the comments and you read like
Speaker 1: I get it. I get everybody's in their own situation.
Speaker 1: And if I worked at Walmart, I want the people
Speaker 1: at Walmart to keep me safe. If I worked at
Speaker 1: you know, I work at Fox Sports the studio, I
Speaker 1: I trust those people to keep us safe when we
Speaker 1: go into the studio. And if I play for an
Speaker 1: NFL team, I I expect the league and my club
Speaker 1: to keep say But the problem is that when you
Speaker 1: have a million dollar athletes that are are posting these things,
Speaker 1: you get the general public that says, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I have to go to work, I have to do
Speaker 1: these things. Don't complain about it. And I don't think
Speaker 1: they're complaining, but I just think that's how it comes
Speaker 1: across to certain people. Ultimately, the league and the NFL
Speaker 1: p A is gonna do what's best for everyone, what's
Speaker 1: best for the players, UM, the safety and ultimately playing
Speaker 1: a season. There's too much money at stake to not
Speaker 1: work together. The virus may say, like it's been saying
Speaker 1: all f you, you ain't playing. But I can't imagine
Speaker 1: if the virus doesn't say that, that it's going to
Speaker 1: be the NFL and the NFL p A preventing themselves
Speaker 1: from playing the season. And that's what it comes down to. So, UM,
Speaker 1: rookies report to camp right UM this week, the quarterbacks report,
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting to see how it all
Speaker 1: plays out, what it looks like. UM, because obviously football
Speaker 1: all it is a contact sport. Although training camp and
Speaker 1: things like that, you don't have a lot of padded
Speaker 1: practice anyway, less than than than what was in the past.
Speaker 1: And uh. And so you know, I know you're excited,
Speaker 1: Travis because you wrote it in my notes. Um, the
Speaker 1: first time you're gonna get to see Brady in the box,
Speaker 1: Like you woke up this morning you were like, Hey,
Speaker 1: camp opens, this is the first time I'm gonna see
Speaker 1: Tom Brady with the box. And then it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the first time we can see Cam Newton and Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick with the Patriots, those that haven't been like spun
Speaker 1: into like a political thing like so like everything is
Speaker 1: a political story, like everything. Cam Newton was an m
Speaker 1: v P in two thousand fifteen and he had to
Speaker 1: pay and he always he's playing on a seven million
Speaker 1: dollar contract. And and Nick Foles, who hasn't had half
Speaker 1: the career that that Cam has had, is making however
Speaker 1: many millions. It's all political. It's all Travis. We forgetting
Speaker 1: about wrong. I mean we That's my god. The other thing, Travis,
Speaker 1: and you surprised the heck out of me. I did
Speaker 1: not think we were having hard knocks. I just assumed
Speaker 1: that if we're limiting people who have access to the
Speaker 1: facility and we're creating these tears, how are we going
Speaker 1: to have camera people bringing the whole camera crew. It's
Speaker 1: what we're doing, hard knocks. Yeah, like what I mean.
Speaker 1: We saw the trailer come out on Tuesday and it's
Speaker 1: two teams rams and chargers. And but I'm I'm looking
Speaker 1: at you because I said there was no herd. Because
Speaker 1: if you and I are running the NFL, I'm on
Speaker 1: the camp. Like we both have the key. We both
Speaker 1: were in the submarine and we both have the key,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying we're not turning the key, and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: turn it. Let's go Hard Knocks. Why are we doing
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks, Travis? Is it the NFL's call or is
Speaker 1: it HBO. No, the NFL would ultimately have seen it's
Speaker 1: the NFL's call. Yeah, they would ultimately say we're not
Speaker 1: going to do it here because of a pandemic, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna limit the number of people that have access. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm guessing the testing is just gonna be
Speaker 1: the same for all those people that are showing up
Speaker 1: to those camps every day. And let's use so no,
Speaker 1: no media is allowed. We're not allowed fans, but we
Speaker 1: can the card Knocks because we want to. You have
Speaker 1: to be able to promote your your brand, like like
Speaker 1: that show is like that, I mean all it is.
Speaker 1: It's like, let's get pumped up for football. Football is
Speaker 1: coming out. Every Hard Knocks is like every year whoever's
Speaker 1: on Hard Knocks, the odds of them winning the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl changes drafted because everybody, everybody, We're going and the
Speaker 1: stories and ultimately we fall in love with these players
Speaker 1: who get cut and are never heard from again. On
Speaker 1: the NFL level, which I was talking about with my wife, like,
Speaker 1: you're not going to have those those long shot stories
Speaker 1: this year because those guys are gonna make the team
Speaker 1: because you can't even see them. Because the other note
Speaker 1: I have here is there's a report saying no preseason,
Speaker 1: no preseason game. How are those guys gonna get a
Speaker 1: look at all? Like they're not going anyway? Limit and
Speaker 1: and you might even end up limiting number. You know,
Speaker 1: who knows what the roster sizes are gonna be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty crazy. The no preseason games is really
Speaker 1: interesting because, um, you look, even with preseason games, you
Speaker 1: watched the first two or three weeks of the regular season,
Speaker 1: and it is very sloppy. It's sloppy from a playing perspective,
Speaker 1: it's sloppy from an officiating perspective. They are still because
Speaker 1: of the way the preseason has been structured. You look
Speaker 1: at the Rams, the Rams, I think it was last year,
Speaker 1: they didn't play any starters in the preseason at all.
Speaker 1: So you're you're you're ones are getting very few reps
Speaker 1: in the preseason to begin with. Now right now, no preseason,
Speaker 1: no reps for anybody. Week one, kickoff. That's the first
Speaker 1: live football that like real NFL speed. These these players
Speaker 1: are going to be exposed to. The officials have not
Speaker 1: had They just will talk about their officiating clinging. They
Speaker 1: just had it on the fifteenth to the eight team.
Speaker 1: The officials used preseason more than anybody to work out
Speaker 1: the kinks. We always told officials, okay, preseason, if you
Speaker 1: have a question in your mind, throw the flag right,
Speaker 1: and then we'll tell you. We'll tell you, you you know what,
Speaker 1: that's not a foul because it doesn't impact it doesn't
Speaker 1: impact anything. If you don't throw, we don't know where
Speaker 1: your head is, right, So lean towards throwing the flag.
Speaker 1: You can't do that in the regular season, like you
Speaker 1: can't say, well, you know, if you're not sure, just
Speaker 1: throw the flags flags right. So you're not gonna have that.
Speaker 1: And that is that those four games are so critical
Speaker 1: for the officials cruise change. Um, you know, they have
Speaker 1: to get to to kind of working together in communication.
Speaker 1: So it is week one. Hopefully we have week one
Speaker 1: and I'm fine, like good, I'm not complaining, no preseason. Fine,
Speaker 1: I'll take sloppy football over no football. Yeah, let's end
Speaker 1: things right so we can take that month, get everyone
Speaker 1: ready for week one. Yeah, and I and look and
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. It's preseason. We can
Speaker 1: sit here and we can say, Wow, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big deal, but nobody we're not. We understand why, right,
Speaker 1: we understand this is not by choice, this is necessity.
Speaker 1: And to get it, we don't want to put players
Speaker 1: at further rest. Listen that the ship show has to
Speaker 1: be as much of a ship shows is. It can't
Speaker 1: be like, oh, the NFL is just back to normal.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be just as much of a ship show
Speaker 1: as the rest of the world. It's gonna work out perfectly.
Speaker 1: It's and it's gonna be dramatic and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be it'll be good good, Like you said,
Speaker 1: lots to talk about, um the other things. So I
Speaker 1: talked about the officiating clinic. They had their virtual clinic
Speaker 1: on the eighteenth. That's what everybody's doing virtually. I was, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I was presenting the Big ten officiating clinic
Speaker 1: over the weekend, the Pack twelve Officiating clinic I presented
Speaker 1: at the the Southwestern Athletic Conference. All of these clinics,
Speaker 1: UM and I think it's been really good and and
Speaker 1: and there's been a lot of access to video and
Speaker 1: things like that, but there is no, um, there's no
Speaker 1: substitute for actually getting out there and doing it. UM.
Speaker 1: So things that they talked about at the NFL officia
Speaker 1: and clinic officials will be tested. Officials will be tested
Speaker 1: twice a week. They'll be tested on Wednesdays in their
Speaker 1: in their home city, and then they'll we tested at
Speaker 1: some point if they have a Sunday game, it looks
Speaker 1: like potentially Saturday, when they get to the city the
Speaker 1: city and get tested, then, um, these these tests are
Speaker 1: gonna have pretty quick turnarounds, so you'll know if somebody
Speaker 1: does get tested. Obviously, if you test on Wednesday and
Speaker 1: you're positive, you're gonna stay home, you're not gonna work,
Speaker 1: You're quarantining for two weeks. If you test positive on
Speaker 1: Saturday before the game, UM, that's gonna be interesting because now,
Speaker 1: especially if you've flown and you have to quarantine, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to get on a plane. So
Speaker 1: it's an officially gonna be stuck. If I live in
Speaker 1: Seattle and i'm and I go to Chicago for a
Speaker 1: game and I test positive on Saturday. Am I sitting
Speaker 1: in Chicago for fourteen days? You know that that's a big,
Speaker 1: big deal. Obviously, it is what it is, UM, and
Speaker 1: that's why all of these especially on the college side,
Speaker 1: but all of these officiating programs are looking at regionalizing
Speaker 1: their assignments. So now if you have an if you
Speaker 1: have a crew, you're gonna try to put them together
Speaker 1: based on region. Maybe they're all if you you come,
Speaker 1: you know what the Big Ten is doing. They're looking at,
Speaker 1: you know, driving distances four hours, six hours, and you
Speaker 1: try to put a crew together that is no less
Speaker 1: than six hours apart, and then you assign those games
Speaker 1: based on driving distances. Easier to do in the Big
Speaker 1: Ten than it is in the NFL, right, because in
Speaker 1: the Big Ten you have less teams and it is
Speaker 1: more regionalized. Although the Big TENNI is kind of stretched
Speaker 1: out with your East Coast teams, Rutgers, Maryland, things like that. UM,
Speaker 1: the NFL you're all over the map. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot harder. But again they've talked about that.
Speaker 1: They they they went through five official mechanics. Right, we
Speaker 1: have seven officials on the field and in the NFL,
Speaker 1: UM they're they're thinking about and reviewing. You always went
Speaker 1: six official mechanics because if you lost somebody in the
Speaker 1: middle of the game, right, somebody tore you know, um,
Speaker 1: hurt a knee, twisted an angle, that official went down.
Speaker 1: You don't have alternate officials at regular season games, so
Speaker 1: you had to work with six officials. But to go
Speaker 1: to five, that's high school. When when in the NFL
Speaker 1: was the last time they went with five? Man I saw,
Speaker 1: I was like, this was in the sixties or seventies, seventies.
Speaker 1: I think I believe in seventies seven they went to
Speaker 1: maybe if they haven't had less than seven since since
Speaker 1: the late seventies. And if you think about think about
Speaker 1: NFL players and just five officials, it will be naim.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is like. You can't You
Speaker 1: have to prepare for these things. You have to prepare
Speaker 1: for contingencies that you never ever thought were possible. Um
Speaker 1: that if you know, an official gets um comes down
Speaker 1: with you know, a positive test and maybe you know
Speaker 1: what if two or three even just if you wake
Speaker 1: up on Sunday morning and you have a cold, or
Speaker 1: you have a fever, or you have a sore throat,
Speaker 1: they're being told you don't work. Okay, you don't work
Speaker 1: so normally you have a cold. I'm gonna go out
Speaker 1: and work. I'll take some you know, remember Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: played with the flu, you know the Last Dances on
Speaker 1: Netflix now Netflix and see that mother. First it was
Speaker 1: the flu, then it was bad pizza. That that got
Speaker 1: debunked by the Utah Pizza. So he wasn't sick. Maybe
Speaker 1: he had COVID. Maybe he had COVID. He was the
Speaker 1: first COVID he was so he's so amazing that he
Speaker 1: defeated it for the entire population for twenty years and
Speaker 1: then it came back. He's all upset. I thought I
Speaker 1: killed this already. What are we doing? We're gonna take
Speaker 1: a break. All right, let's take a break on that
Speaker 1: note you since you got me fired up, Let's take
Speaker 1: a break. We come back. We'll get into um the
Speaker 1: latest on other sports returning, and uh, I want to
Speaker 1: talk some odds with Joe m all right, we're back,
Speaker 1: who calls? One thing I want to talk about just
Speaker 1: before we wrap at the NFL. The Washington Post story
Speaker 1: that came out last week about the sexual harassment and
Speaker 1: the details and and just the just the sheer number
Speaker 1: of people that were involved in that were affected by that.
Speaker 1: But the problem that I have was the way that
Speaker 1: story was hyped leading up to before it was released.
Speaker 1: It started to leak right the week prior, and it
Speaker 1: was like, this thing's coming, this is gonna be big.
Speaker 1: We're already, Washington is already in the news because of
Speaker 1: the name change, and everybody was was kind of focusing
Speaker 1: on that. And then it's like, this, something's gonna blow
Speaker 1: that out of the water. And they made it out
Speaker 1: to be this is gonna be insane, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be shocking, this is gonna be earth shattering, and people
Speaker 1: started to speculate and and they started to speculate about
Speaker 1: what this could possibly be. And it was things like
Speaker 1: Dan Snyder was paying off the officials, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Jay Gruden was sleep being with a receptionist, like all
Speaker 1: of these specific details, and people would expect have people
Speaker 1: texting me, hey, what do you know? And I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know anything, Like I have no idea. And
Speaker 1: I was like, and I can tell you that, hey,
Speaker 1: I never took a bribe from Washington, and be if
Speaker 1: they were paying officials, they need to get their money
Speaker 1: back because because they did not get a return on
Speaker 1: that investment at at all. But the problem I have
Speaker 1: with that the way it was handled, and I don't
Speaker 1: know who's at fault. I just don't know. But when
Speaker 1: the story did eventually come out, it was like you
Speaker 1: had a whole bunch of people that didn't see those
Speaker 1: type of what they would consider juicy details, and it
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, this isn't a big deal when it
Speaker 1: is a big deal, and it almost minimizes the fact
Speaker 1: that these women were were traumatized, were traumatized in this
Speaker 1: environment of sexual harassment and this negative environment. And like
Speaker 1: I said, when you do that, when you hype it
Speaker 1: up to that point, people expect like they expect, like
Speaker 1: Dan Snyder was, was, you know whatever, like these crazy things,
Speaker 1: and when you don't have those details and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: sexual harassment not a big deal, it is a big deal.
Speaker 1: And that's the problem that I have with that, that
Speaker 1: whole thing. I think people just expected it to be
Speaker 1: like Jerry Richardson from a few years back, and yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna have to sell. Dan Snyder is not
Speaker 1: gonna have to sell the team because of this, right Obviously,
Speaker 1: he's the owner. It's on his watch. Um, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a it's a bad environment. I will tell you
Speaker 1: that I am that, maybe not to that extent, but
Speaker 1: I don't care NFL. Other work environments have those elements.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just the reality situation. And and we
Speaker 1: all got to do better in that in that extent.
Speaker 1: But um, he's not gonna be forced to sell the
Speaker 1: team unless there's something specific aimed at him, and there
Speaker 1: wasn't anything specific aimed in him. But he does have
Speaker 1: to overhaul the whole environment. There were people that said
Speaker 1: that that the environment and that in that organization was
Speaker 1: not great from a lot of different aspects. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you had a couple of people in the personnel department
Speaker 1: lose their jobs in in the play by play, guy
Speaker 1: said he retired and but it's you know, and and
Speaker 1: it's sad that there was of the I guess fifteen women,
Speaker 1: only one felt comfortable enough to to come out, and
Speaker 1: you know, with her name. The other we're still whether
Speaker 1: it was you know, signing NDAs or worry of reprisal.
Speaker 1: And then that's the sad part about this whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's crazy to know that it's it's Ron Rivera at
Speaker 1: both of those places too, and he's just coming in
Speaker 1: and change the culture. And he's just yeah, and I
Speaker 1: can say, Ron Rivera is the is the one of
Speaker 1: the best people on the planet. And Ron Rivera will
Speaker 1: make changes in. Ron Rivera will not stand for that. Um,
Speaker 1: that type of behavior. So um. And Ron even said,
Speaker 1: you know, Ron's daughter works for the team, works for Washington,
Speaker 1: and he's like, you think I'm gonna allow that with anyone,
Speaker 1: but especially my daughter. So um. It's interesting, but about
Speaker 1: but the hype. It was like Joe. When Joe hypes
Speaker 1: an outfit coming into the studio any texts, he text me, oh, dude,
Speaker 1: wait to see these pants. And then he's like hype,
Speaker 1: like you think these pants are gonna be like Christmas
Speaker 1: lights and it's gonna be like a mural of of
Speaker 1: Kobe And you know, we talked about tattoos last week,
Speaker 1: and um, all these things and it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: they're they're pants that are kind of fashionable and little
Speaker 1: bit and a little bit uncomfortably tight, like they're just
Speaker 1: and and they're a little bit high water like like
Speaker 1: you're expecting, you know, to walk through a puddle. But
Speaker 1: he takes risks and we should we should get do
Speaker 1: you know what you are? You are very forward thinking
Speaker 1: when it comes to fashion and in our little studio,
Speaker 1: which again it's not a great compliment because we're not
Speaker 1: talking about fashionistas. This isn't you know, This isn't walk
Speaker 1: Away in Paris, but the runway in Paris, the fashion show.
Speaker 1: But you do you do I win best dressed in
Speaker 1: the studio? Do you win best dressed? Um? Casual? Scott's
Speaker 1: not here to defend himself, he would say he probably
Speaker 1: is wants to be into that in that conversation too,
Speaker 1: with his hats on backwards and let's yeah, Scott looks
Speaker 1: the same. Thank you for the Capri son gave me
Speaker 1: a son because it's hot in his garage. The problem
Speaker 1: I have with the Greece son is what when are
Speaker 1: we going to fix the straw When are we gonna
Speaker 1: How have they haven't? No way the second haven't they
Speaker 1: fixed it? Isn't it different? Now? Okay? So not you
Speaker 1: have an old school one. I don't know how long
Speaker 1: this been sitting in turn we're talking about right, You
Speaker 1: take the straws, you have to stick it into you
Speaker 1: have to pierce the skin of the container to get
Speaker 1: to the delicious. I think they changed the Dean well
Speaker 1: they have on the top that you pull apart. That's
Speaker 1: even harder. No, that's the way these are probably from January.
Speaker 1: They've been in the fridge out here. That'd be an
Speaker 1: interesting world like, we should do that world record. How
Speaker 1: many Caprice sons can you Pierson? Like a minute, there's
Speaker 1: gotta be three, Like literally, oh my god, he did six.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. It's this guy has it down. And then
Speaker 1: they expect, like, who's drinking Capri sons? Five year olds?
Speaker 1: And they expect five year olds have the this dexterity
Speaker 1: to put the straw. It's insane, Like how many was
Speaker 1: purposely done to help kids with their Maybe maybe not
Speaker 1: to drink eight three sons? It's that easy. Maybe they
Speaker 1: were ahead of us. Maybe highly doubt that because that
Speaker 1: would mean they'd sell less. We try to get the
Speaker 1: CEO of pre Son on the show this week. We
Speaker 1: he'sad we're onto something, so he's not retiring alright. Baseball okay,
Speaker 1: Baseball sixty games starts Thursday, give us some maj show.
Speaker 1: I think what I've been reading is the consensus right
Speaker 1: now the two best teams the dres in the in
Speaker 1: the n L and the Yankees in the ALE. I
Speaker 1: would love that being a Dodger fan hating the Yankees.
Speaker 1: I go back to the seventy eight World Series, eighty
Speaker 1: one World Series. You can go back much further than that. Um,
Speaker 1: that would be awesome, Like what what what can we
Speaker 1: what can we bet on? Yeah? So they're definitely the favorites, right,
Speaker 1: Dodgers are plus three fifty to win the World Series.
Speaker 1: Yankees are plus four fifty. Then you got Astro's Braves twins.
Speaker 1: But that is Astros Astro's plus fift that's without the
Speaker 1: signs stealing. If they were still sit stealing signs, I
Speaker 1: think that we don't. They might have as different They
Speaker 1: might have a different you know, drum or something. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe they're using a trumpet. I can tell you. I'm
Speaker 1: I am an Angels fan, but I do like the
Speaker 1: Angels at plus three thousand, really and I also I
Speaker 1: never like that. What surprises me is the twins. The
Speaker 1: Twins have been successful of regular season success, and then
Speaker 1: they run into the Yankees in this playoffs. The ship
Speaker 1: the bet but I would not, Okay, so what is
Speaker 1: that one? Two, three four five? The six. If you
Speaker 1: weren't looking at this and I told you who has
Speaker 1: the sixth best chance to win the World Series, you
Speaker 1: would not guess you would not. I wasn't looking at
Speaker 1: That's why. Thanks, thanks for this way talking about the team.
Speaker 1: Oh I thought you were talking about Twin Still no, No,
Speaker 1: the sixth is the is the Mets. Like I would
Speaker 1: not have bet this. The Mets have the sixth best chance,
Speaker 1: according to Vegas to win the World Series? Like, what
Speaker 1: are the What have the Mets done to to improve?
Speaker 1: They got to gram, they got they have a first year.
Speaker 1: Man if they are still well? It was supposed to
Speaker 1: be right. They were supposed to be Beltron and then
Speaker 1: Beltron got busted sign stealing like I've never even heard
Speaker 1: of this. Louis Rojansky like he's a former player. Um,
Speaker 1: but you go down? What okay, Joe? So where's your
Speaker 1: best value? Take off? Take the Angels out because you're
Speaker 1: an Angels family. Where's the best value? I actually like
Speaker 1: the Indians, Actually like the Indians. That plus the can
Speaker 1: you not use that? Can you just say sorry? The
Speaker 1: Cleveland Native American team? So you like the Indians, you
Speaker 1: like Cleveland? I think for the money, I think the
Speaker 1: obviously is that the best I'm saying, what's the best value.
Speaker 1: I think the Indians are the best value. But with
Speaker 1: the Angels of course, and I am saying that non biased. Um,
Speaker 1: but obviously the Dodgers, and it's it's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: the Dodgers for sure, but you know, getting sixty games
Speaker 1: season though, like if you start off, if you if
Speaker 1: you have a bad first ten games, you might be done.
Speaker 1: I do think the th was the deepest team. I
Speaker 1: think the Yankees obviously, I mean, who have who do
Speaker 1: you think has the best pitching staff in baseball? The
Speaker 1: Gnats have a good team, Like I was, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: lost friend don Um. They're bully there they want in
Speaker 1: spite of their bullpen um last year, they didn't really
Speaker 1: improve the team as much um and and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: they shouldn't that they shouldn't have beaten the Dodgers last year.
Speaker 1: I mean, if Dave Robbers doesn't let Kershaw come out
Speaker 1: for that start of the eighth inning, it's you know,
Speaker 1: you bring in my Ada and then Jansen in the
Speaker 1: ninth and whatever. But anyway, Um, look, the Yankees sign
Speaker 1: Jerichole So I think the Yankees gotta be up there.
Speaker 1: I think the Mets have have um a great staff,
Speaker 1: but Syndergard, like I said, Syndergards out with Tommy John Surgery.
Speaker 1: UM Dodgers rely on Kershaw and uh and Walker Bueller.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're in the top five. Who
Speaker 1: do they have here? Who does this? So this article
Speaker 1: says the Yankekees, Mets reds. How how dated is that?
Speaker 1: It says MLB Indians and that, And yeah, I think
Speaker 1: obviously pitching his key and in a short season, I
Speaker 1: think it's even more important. Well, the other the other
Speaker 1: thing about pitching in a short season is you know
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have pictures on on in incounts and
Speaker 1: pitch counts and things like that, so you're not gonna
Speaker 1: you know, you're not gonna limit starts. And that's where
Speaker 1: I think the Dodgers, if they're young, pictures um can
Speaker 1: can come through. I think their staff is gonna be
Speaker 1: So they got Dodgers number one, They got Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: number two, they're always sneaky good Max. Three, they got
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay three oh yeah, three, three Dodgers to and
Speaker 1: who they have the Yankees one Dodgers too, Four's at
Speaker 1: Houston and then five Cleveland. So yeah, the list I'm
Speaker 1: looking at is kind of similar. It's but it goes Gnats,
Speaker 1: Raise Reds, Cleveland, Dodgers, Yankees. But yeah, I mean, how
Speaker 1: many complete games are you gonna see from like Max
Speaker 1: shars or this year? I don't know. I think it's
Speaker 1: he's never gonna want to come out. I think the
Speaker 1: other thing is you now you have the n L
Speaker 1: d H, which is gonna which is gonna impact the
Speaker 1: pitching in the NL. I mean they haven't. You know,
Speaker 1: you always think about I like, like an automatic hour
Speaker 1: I hate, but I hate the DH because I think
Speaker 1: there's so much strategy. And you talk to managers that
Speaker 1: have managed in the American League and they're like, you
Speaker 1: just you kind of just given the lineup car and
Speaker 1: then you just sit sit back and you try not
Speaker 1: to screw it out. And when you have the picture,
Speaker 1: you have to make those you have to make those decisions.
Speaker 1: And you know, am I gonna pinch hit? Now? You know?
Speaker 1: My guys it's up, we're down one nothing. My guys
Speaker 1: throwing well, but it's in the sixth inning. I got
Speaker 1: a man on second. Take care you know, you know
Speaker 1: all of that stuff that's strategy that I really love.
Speaker 1: Gonna be huge. It is gonna be huge. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's switch to NBA. What what's Milwaukee and the Lakers?
Speaker 1: Is that? Definitely the Lakers even with the injuries of
Speaker 1: Rondo and in In brad and Bradley not coming back,
Speaker 1: and the Lakers are plus two fifty Milwauker's plus three,
Speaker 1: Clippers plus three twenty five. I'm shocked at that. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't ever take that. What's the best value? Where? Where
Speaker 1: do you like the you know who? I like? You
Speaker 1: know what? My my sneaky team and I and I'd
Speaker 1: be cleaning up. Are you like the Nuggets? You all right?
Speaker 1: You were talking about nug not the Nuggets. I mean
Speaker 1: I like Toronto plus two thousand, Utah, Baby, Utah plus
Speaker 1: six thousand, Give me to Utah, Give me to Utah,
Speaker 1: give me too. So Hunter wins you six gees. What
Speaker 1: would you do with that hypothetical betting dot com? Hypothetical
Speaker 1: dot com? Would that hypothetical six thousand? I would buy?
Speaker 1: I would I would figure out a way to improve
Speaker 1: the priest Son's straw insertion process and then be able
Speaker 1: to turn the capris on into a mask for COVID.
Speaker 1: There we go. We're gonna talk about the mass in
Speaker 1: the next break. After the next break, the Lakers box
Speaker 1: and followed very closely by the Clippers, which I'm pretty
Speaker 1: shocked about, plus the Clippers. All these are from sports
Speaker 1: dot Com, so the odds are a little different other places,
Speaker 1: but I'd take Toronto plus two thousand. Toronto was playing
Speaker 1: well before before the home shutdown. Um, and you think,
Speaker 1: obviously Kauai was such a big, big part of the
Speaker 1: winning the championship, which Joe forgot that Toronto won the
Speaker 1: championship a couple of weeks ago. He was, he was,
Speaker 1: he was, he was. He was questioning a line in
Speaker 1: a rap song. He was, he questioned the line in
Speaker 1: the right He's like, wait, they just said when the ring,
Speaker 1: Like that's that's not okay. Jason Bieber, Jason justkay Jason.
Speaker 1: I thought he was. He was questioning a lyric in
Speaker 1: a Justin Bieber song about Toronto getting a ring, and
Speaker 1: he's like, did it did the Blue Jays win the World?
Speaker 1: Hit in the head a lot? Who who did did
Speaker 1: the Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup? Was like, what
Speaker 1: it's in? Toronto won the NBA title and and I
Speaker 1: guarantee you Justin Bieber is not referencing if the Maple
Speaker 1: Leafs won the Stanley Cup. I don't think Justin Bieber
Speaker 1: is gonna it's Justin Bieber from Canada. Yeah, maybe he would,
Speaker 1: Oh maybe he would. Okay, so maybe he would reference
Speaker 1: the Maple Leafs, but it was Toronto. Um, good news
Speaker 1: from the bubble knock on wood UM, zero positive tests.
Speaker 1: I mean that's great. I mean, if if that, I
Speaker 1: mean that bodes well because I really believe that what
Speaker 1: happens with baseball and hockey and basketball is gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot to do with what what the NFL does.
Speaker 1: UM and uh so zero tests, zero positive tests with
Speaker 1: with UM NBA and no baseball was a small small number. UM,
Speaker 1: they're obviously not in in a bubble um. Interesting thing
Speaker 1: about baseball Toronto. We talked about Toronto not being able
Speaker 1: to play games in Toronto. Where are they going to
Speaker 1: play games? What's the you know, what's the latest? Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: I believe is that the kind of the front runner
Speaker 1: to share at the time I put this run down
Speaker 1: together was they were they were the front run I
Speaker 1: think Pittsburgh from a location standpoint, it is it's it's
Speaker 1: relatively close to Toronto. Um, what that means they would
Speaker 1: live in Pittsburgh. Then they would have to I don't
Speaker 1: think they're going to be traveling across the border. They
Speaker 1: would have to set up something temporary. That's tough for
Speaker 1: those players, but hey, it is what it is. You
Speaker 1: got to get through. Um, what else are you looking at?
Speaker 1: HEREC and DC coming up mid August. Whole this whole
Speaker 1: Fight Island thing is wild. Like think about the testing,
Speaker 1: the amount of testing that they're doing, brazy, you know.
Speaker 1: I think he said it's like four thousand tests per fight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've been doing. Hey, they're crushing it. And Dan, if
Speaker 1: you listen to his interviews, he's so like he just
Speaker 1: he's in low. He just jocks Abbi Dabi so much.
Speaker 1: Like they're so great. They're the most perfect place. They
Speaker 1: they're so good at everything. All right, all right, why
Speaker 1: are you? Why are you antize xenophone? Like what I
Speaker 1: don't understand? All right, well, red blooded American Dean bring
Speaker 1: the fighting back to Vegas. Well, if we can't get
Speaker 1: our ship together, then we're not gonna have anything. You
Speaker 1: don't come on, you don't even want you know, my
Speaker 1: being on this. All right, let's let's take a break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna talk about what we
Speaker 1: can do to help people see the light when it
Speaker 1: comes to wearing masks. Next on good calls. All right,
Speaker 1: we're back on good calls. Um. The next this is
Speaker 1: a question hopefully we can create a rule here, Um
Speaker 1: to wear a mask or not to wear a mask,
Speaker 1: that is the question. And this is we've gone back
Speaker 1: and forth on this, I think again because this was new,
Speaker 1: this virus people initially you know you've seen you've seen people.
Speaker 1: I mean people in Asia have warn masks for years, um,
Speaker 1: during non pandemic times, right, they just that's that's how
Speaker 1: you you prevent or you've reduced the opportunity for virus
Speaker 1: is to spread or anything anything that's sneezing, anything that
Speaker 1: gets out those particles. Um. So I think we're at
Speaker 1: a point now where everybody realizes we got to wear
Speaker 1: masks when you go out, when you're around people, wear
Speaker 1: a mask. It's not that big a deal, but obviously
Speaker 1: it is for some people. And so we want to
Speaker 1: talk about we got to give people a reason to
Speaker 1: wear a mask other than the obvious ones for your
Speaker 1: own health. And the well being of humanity. If that's
Speaker 1: not good enough for you, let's come up with some
Speaker 1: other ideas. Why wearing a mask? It's cool? Okay, So
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put on my mask, of my new
Speaker 1: mask that I got. Okay, hold on, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Well wait, how cool do I I mean you look
Speaker 1: Do you look cool when your voice doesn't sound muffled? Either,
Speaker 1: my voice doesn't sound muffled. I've got a I've got
Speaker 1: an air filter here. Okay, that's not like a ventilator
Speaker 1: anything that's changed. That's changeable now. It's to get fresh air.
Speaker 1: And it actually I'm not gonna let you wear my mask,
Speaker 1: but it has a wonderful aroma. It's like almost scented.
Speaker 1: And I looked freaking cool. That's actually not a bad idea.
Speaker 1: Like do like like essential oil and fused masks, so
Speaker 1: you're you're smelling like you could. All right, this is so.
Speaker 1: And when I walk around with this mask, I feel
Speaker 1: like a superhero, Like I literally walk around now at
Speaker 1: Santa Monica. So you're not gonna have too many opportunities
Speaker 1: to be superhero. But I like, I want some ship
Speaker 1: to go new, like I want when I went around.
Speaker 1: I want some ship to go down because I do
Speaker 1: feel like a superhero and I do feel like fighting
Speaker 1: crime with my mask on. So looking cool is definitely
Speaker 1: a positive with the mass. But you gotta get the
Speaker 1: right mask. Your Your mask is definitely I I go
Speaker 1: with the I'm zero from Mortal Koman do actually yeah
Speaker 1: or bean, I just go with the Bandanna. Um, I've
Speaker 1: been masked shamed at the seven eleven because I forgot
Speaker 1: a mask. Yeah, and I'm and I'm not one for shaming.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I hate that, but I think it calls
Speaker 1: for it. Does it calls for shaming people like if
Speaker 1: you're gonna flaunt like and make because why because I
Speaker 1: have selfish reasons to shame. Because I want football season.
Speaker 1: So it's not to have football season. We gotta have
Speaker 1: football season. So so you know, I'm anti all this stuff,
Speaker 1: but I do wear a mask, and just out of
Speaker 1: respect for others. If people are people think that it's
Speaker 1: important important, If it's important to them, I'm going to
Speaker 1: honor that and wear the mask when I'm in stores
Speaker 1: and whatnot. Personally, I think it's ridiculous. If I'm around people,
Speaker 1: I'll wear the mask. Wear a mask if I'm out.
Speaker 1: If I'm out walking on the beach, I'll just take
Speaker 1: my mask off, you know, around, put around my wrist,
Speaker 1: and I'll just continue. If there's people, I'll just put
Speaker 1: your mask on. If you're gonna go in a store mask.
Speaker 1: Apparently in Manhattan, beachs are giving tickets to people who
Speaker 1: aren't wearing masks in the street. Now, they did that
Speaker 1: in West Hollywood. They were doing good again outdoors though, Yes,
Speaker 1: just wear I tho outdoors with the safe reason. Why
Speaker 1: why not? Because everybody stopped doing it, And now we're
Speaker 1: back into this. We're back in this mode. If we
Speaker 1: want football season, just wear a mask. It's not that
Speaker 1: big a deal. I need football season, right, They tell
Speaker 1: you we don't, don't. They tell it's not. It's not
Speaker 1: like we're not violating rights here. Right you were. You
Speaker 1: didn't have to wear a seatbelt in fifties and sixties,
Speaker 1: and then you have to wear a seatbelt. Right, you weren't.
Speaker 1: You were smoking. You can smoke anywhere you want. Now
Speaker 1: you can't smoke anywhere you want. Right. You can't smoke
Speaker 1: in restaurants, you can't smoke in bars, you can't smoke
Speaker 1: in in buildings. You gotta be ten feet away from
Speaker 1: the building to smoke, So wear a mask. Okay, what
Speaker 1: are the reasons that other then you look cool? Okay,
Speaker 1: look well to help me out here, you could um.
Speaker 1: I mean there's an animity, there is annimity. You read
Speaker 1: people's eyes. You can't I can't tell if people are smiling.
Speaker 1: It is. It is tough being single. You can't really
Speaker 1: you you can't really tell what someone looks like. But
Speaker 1: I do. You do have to look at the eyes more,
Speaker 1: and I think that's important. We should look into each
Speaker 1: other's eyes more. So that's another positive. Increases, contact increases,
Speaker 1: it does. Listen, there are some people who makes more attractive.
Speaker 1: It does. What if you have bad teeth? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: see a girl and you're like, oh man, maybe not
Speaker 1: this is a good time to get But if you
Speaker 1: get to. But if you get to, you get to
Speaker 1: know her before the mask comes off, then you're already in.
Speaker 1: And then you and then you've you've you've overcome the
Speaker 1: shallow house syndrome and you've gotten to see the inside
Speaker 1: of the person because of the mask, and you might
Speaker 1: have the rest of your life living in masking. Do
Speaker 1: we have a new show for Netflix? It's a dating show,
Speaker 1: and you wear a mask. Everybody wears masks, and then
Speaker 1: you get to talk to each other, and then you
Speaker 1: pick and then you get the how's that number one?
Speaker 1: On Netflix? Right now? I don't I don't see anything.
Speaker 1: Tell anyone, Tell anyone, we gotta do that. I think
Speaker 1: that's the show. That's the show. We've got it. A
Speaker 1: lot of secrets on today's episode. What else? What other
Speaker 1: reasons wear a mask? I think we're all just excited
Speaker 1: to be around each and the mask is like a
Speaker 1: fashion statement. Joe, you're a fashion guy. I won't do it.
Speaker 1: It's a fashion statement. You can branded, you can do
Speaker 1: all kinds. I saw a guy wearing a mask just
Speaker 1: like the other day, and I wanted to days brothers.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you noticed this. Since you're
Speaker 1: paying so much attention to my fashion, I don't like
Speaker 1: wearing brands that are prolific on my on my body
Speaker 1: unless they're paying me. But you will. But but which
Speaker 1: is ironic because you will throw around a a very
Speaker 1: high level higher education, higher education, you know, institution a Yale, Harvard,
Speaker 1: I think for the wrong school on I do have
Speaker 1: a Hofstra shirt. As a matter of fact is is
Speaker 1: UM one of the greatest institutions of all Go look
Speaker 1: at look at the pullub Hostro alumni right now, travel
Speaker 1: boy famous. Where are you on this list? I don't
Speaker 1: know where I am, but pull up just some of
Speaker 1: those names. We'll have Joe put on the big screen.
Speaker 1: Here's some actors. Christopher Walking, how he yeah? Makes some
Speaker 1: movies already made, already made? Speedy Carol, James Cohn. What's up?
Speaker 1: Where's Dean blond Wiman? Katie Nolan? Alright, former Fox employee.
Speaker 1: That's right about that? How are you? Are you not upsetly?
Speaker 1: You don't make this list? This is I'm a what's what?
Speaker 1: Go to? Where car makes it? And Dean Blondino doesn't? Oh,
Speaker 1: I've been on that list. That changes. It's not football season.
Speaker 1: I'll be on that list in October. Not enough people
Speaker 1: googling you right now? Is not were he Morris? Well,
Speaker 1: we're getting deep into it now, Yeah, are you raheem?
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot of these. I don't know
Speaker 1: a lot of them. Okay, wait, there's that guy um
Speaker 1: that actor right, No, that's not him, the guy from
Speaker 1: Goonies with all the scars on his face. That's not
Speaker 1: him right. Let me just be honestly. I know one
Speaker 1: to three, four, five, six, I know six of these. No,
Speaker 1: you know more than I'm I'm looking at it. You
Speaker 1: don't know, Meredith Eaton, is you're crazy? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Look I'll tell you. I know obviously, Chris White and
Speaker 1: Marcus Colston, Speedy, Wayne Crabatt, Bertie made Off, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: know him if if it was, and Christopher Walking those
Speaker 1: are the only ones. Copez, No, he did. The Godfather
Speaker 1: got nothing. It makes great wine. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: is he the wine guy? God? Unbelievable? Is he um
Speaker 1: Nicolas Cage's uncle? Or speaking of universities, I watched um
Speaker 1: you ever see the show American Greed? Would they have
Speaker 1: watched that show? They did the they did the whole
Speaker 1: um Lori Laughlin Um the university scam getting the kids
Speaker 1: into school. I didn't realize like the extent, like like
Speaker 1: Felicity Huffman and what this guy was doing. This guy
Speaker 1: Rick um Brick Singer. So he was. He was like
Speaker 1: a failed basketball coach. Then he went into coaching kids
Speaker 1: to get ready for their their testing. Se T A
Speaker 1: c T getting into college and he did pretty well
Speaker 1: preparing kids for school, and then he started this whole scam.
Speaker 1: What he was doing and what Lori Laughlin did with
Speaker 1: her kids, her two daughters get in get into USC
Speaker 1: on on rowing scholarships, like like as an athletic, as
Speaker 1: a student athlete, and they would he would set them.
Speaker 1: They were taking fake pictures of them doing like rowing,
Speaker 1: like crew and then they would get in. They would
Speaker 1: they would there was this whole scheme and they would
Speaker 1: bribe the coach and then they would get in and
Speaker 1: they would never go on the team. They would never
Speaker 1: do anything, and they would just do it for admissions.
Speaker 1: How are the kids not being held at Calph? The
Speaker 1: kids apparently were not The kids apparently didn't they I
Speaker 1: think I think they left school because of all the attention.
Speaker 1: But apparently the kids were not in on it um.
Speaker 1: But this was like just take I don't know this road.
Speaker 1: They were paying like like six dred thousand dollars to
Speaker 1: get your kid into get the Yale. The Yelle soccer
Speaker 1: coach was in on it, and he was like four
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars split between this guy, Rick Singer and
Speaker 1: the Yelle coach and they would get him in on
Speaker 1: a scholarship and then never play insane and then they
Speaker 1: copped a plea deal, and then that's cutting into your
Speaker 1: actual scholarships you can give. It's cutting into it's cutting
Speaker 1: into kids that would actually work to get into school. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty wild. You don't, Hey, I worked my ass
Speaker 1: off to get in the hush just say it sucks
Speaker 1: because I'm still paying student loans and I'm damn near
Speaker 1: forty damn near forty almost forty and for a yearn
Speaker 1: for a year. What do we got from Brandon Blandida.
Speaker 1: I had a couple of good Brandon Blendie knows today
Speaker 1: and we can't talk about them. Why because they're yes,
Speaker 1: f W what is that not safe? Not suitable for you?
Speaker 1: Just check the boxes as explicit. I do it every time.
Speaker 1: We this is already, I mean, if you want, if
Speaker 1: you think it's you know, I had an interesting thought like,
Speaker 1: what do you think is the most underrated steak? The
Speaker 1: most underrating stake? You're gonna say the tri tip? No,
Speaker 1: I went with. I had a k I had a
Speaker 1: key bone last night. That was fantastic bone. I stink
Speaker 1: the t bone. And I think New York strips are
Speaker 1: just everyone's about the Ribby or you're either Ribby or fileg.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know what, I'm a New York strip.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm not a I'm not a I'm
Speaker 1: not a guy. That's that's the brain of Madrid. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not a state like. I don't. I'm not
Speaker 1: like I like a filet if I'm going to get
Speaker 1: a steak, but I don't like I'll have a New
Speaker 1: York I don't really eat steak. That you're like that
Speaker 1: with everything in your life. Yeah, okay, sure, you just
Speaker 1: don't want to hop on it. That's that's the well.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hop on a band. I don't
Speaker 1: never want to hop on the side of anything. Just like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, everything's cool. I don't I like everyone. When
Speaker 1: you're that cool, you don't have to worry about like
Speaker 1: a flame. You know what, Maybe I'll have a Maybe
Speaker 1: I'll have a What's no, what's the cool new one?
Speaker 1: Now it's not a new steak, but everybody's in on it.
Speaker 1: It's the flat iron. Flat Iron is the one. Everyone's
Speaker 1: it's like the new there's another one, though, steak. It's
Speaker 1: like the big one. Oh, you're talking about the Cowboy Ribby.
Speaker 1: Is it the Cowboy Ribby or there's another big, big
Speaker 1: one that everybody I keep seeing because I watch a
Speaker 1: lot of ton of food shows, like, oh, the blah
Speaker 1: blah blah steak and you could literally like kill somebody
Speaker 1: with it. Is it the cowboy? Ribbon's gotta be Google
Speaker 1: big steaks, the old just be careful. If you careful,
Speaker 1: what comes up a big steak, big steaks? Tomahawk, Tomahawk,
Speaker 1: that's the same as the cowboy every right now, the tomahawk.
Speaker 1: I was like, when did the tomahawks state come into play?
Speaker 1: It's just a ribbi with It's just a ribby with
Speaker 1: the boning. That's that's that you want to keep hearing.
Speaker 1: There's your Look at that t bone right there. Look
Speaker 1: at that thing. Looks nice. That's what I had this monitor,
Speaker 1: this monitor for the show's actually look at we get
Speaker 1: our own studio, right. But the tomahawk, that's the one
Speaker 1: everybody like, that's a helicopter, not a state. Brandon blandid Oh,
Speaker 1: this is a good because we just talked. I just
Speaker 1: talked about it this week. Habitual line step, Well, that's
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. We've talked about that. No, just the friend.
Speaker 1: I had a friend I love him, John the Greek,
Speaker 1: and he just like whenever, whenever we'd hang out and
Speaker 1: you you know, you hang out and you say things
Speaker 1: and it gets and look, we're not we're not PC,
Speaker 1: and we and we say something that's off color, we
Speaker 1: make a funny joke or and he would always take
Speaker 1: it to the next level, like for no reason, like
Speaker 1: we're having a good time and we're laughing, like the
Speaker 1: hang out with a group of girls and whatever, and
Speaker 1: then he'd like say something that was so outrageous and
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, why do you have to keep stepping
Speaker 1: over the lines? Yeah? And then they leave, like why
Speaker 1: do you have to keep stepping over lines? Like you
Speaker 1: don't have to talk about you know anal right now,
Speaker 1: it's not like that that important. What what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Every group's got one. Yeah, But to a line stepper,
Speaker 1: would you say, who's our? Who's our? Do you look
Speaker 1: around the table and you're like wondering, Well, if it's there,
Speaker 1: if it's three of us, it's Joe. But I don't
Speaker 1: think Joe's necessarily a line stepper. I think Joe, you
Speaker 1: understand where the line is depending on the here's the deal.
Speaker 1: The line moves depending on the situation, depending on the group, right,
Speaker 1: the line move, and you have to understand, of course,
Speaker 1: as a former stand up community, you have to know
Speaker 1: your audience and you have to understand where the line is.
Speaker 1: And and that's just the bottom that's that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing. Like if you if it's just
Speaker 1: a group of us and it's and it's you know,
Speaker 1: just friends and everybody's cool with each other, the line
Speaker 1: will you know it's it gets a little further out
Speaker 1: there short if you're with you just meet people, you
Speaker 1: have to you lean on the side of the line
Speaker 1: is not that far. I think there's the difference is this,
Speaker 1: there's the habitual line sever you're like, I can't bring
Speaker 1: this dude to like my company party or whatever. I can't.
Speaker 1: I think. I'm like, I'm never gonna embarrass the ship
Speaker 1: out of you, and something along those lines. You you're good,
Speaker 1: you're good. I would bring you to a company party
Speaker 1: because you're a good conversationalist. I wouldn't have to babysit you,
Speaker 1: and you're you're fun. Right. There are friends like I
Speaker 1: would not bring to a party like that because they're
Speaker 1: gonna step over a line, you know. So, yeah, the
Speaker 1: company party, I'm good. But you know, if we go
Speaker 1: to Cabo or we're else some where where, it's party time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna do something somewhat ridiculous or embarrassing, but
Speaker 1: it's kind of accepted there. But it's not you know,
Speaker 1: the Fox Christmas Party Vegas, and anything goes there, right,
Speaker 1: I'd say, I'd say we've got some we've got some
Speaker 1: Vaga stories. Yeah, I mean, but exactly. But it's it's
Speaker 1: not the habitual line stepper. Is that that everybody has
Speaker 1: one in your group. I think it's important. Let's let's
Speaker 1: do another one. Let's see what else. Checklist for like you?
Speaker 1: Checklist for like you. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: We're running low. You haven't been updating. I'm updating on
Speaker 1: my I'm not updating on that. I'll send you a
Speaker 1: new one. Here. I'll go into my I'll go into
Speaker 1: my notes, the secret notepad. See someone dancing, think they
Speaker 1: are deaf? We're having a stroke. Yeah, bad dancers? Do
Speaker 1: you want to do bad dancers? Um phenomenon survival shows.
Speaker 1: You could drop me in the desert five miles from
Speaker 1: a holiday inn, and I might not make it. That's one. No,
Speaker 1: That's what I was driving through the Arizona Desert and
Speaker 1: I was thinking about like those survival shows like bear
Speaker 1: Grills and that, and I was thinking, like there's nothing
Speaker 1: for miles and miles and miles. But I was thinking,
Speaker 1: if you dropped me five miles from a holiday inn,
Speaker 1: I still might not make it. Like that's how that's
Speaker 1: how like the amazing these guys are and how not
Speaker 1: good I am in those types of survival. Like you
Speaker 1: grew up in Wyoming, Travis, you you can build a fire? Joke?
Speaker 1: Do you think you could build a fire? Right now?
Speaker 1: With what's in this garage? Do you think you could
Speaker 1: build a fire? Yeah? I mean we're talking about electricity,
Speaker 1: so yeah, but no, I'm saying without using any kind
Speaker 1: of with two sticks and and yeah, Tom Hanks in
Speaker 1: I think if I absolutely had to, then I probably
Speaker 1: could figure it out. Certainly not my strong point, right,
Speaker 1: I can I get I guess I know. Necessity right
Speaker 1: one is Necessity is the mother of all. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: whatever you're gonna die, if you start, you'll find a way.
Speaker 1: But like when I watched when I watched Castaway, and
Speaker 1: how did he know all that ship, Like, how does
Speaker 1: he know to make the fire? That one? He worked
Speaker 1: for FedEx? Yeah, maybe he was a boy scout. I was.
Speaker 1: I was a boy scout. Like I couldn't build. Like
Speaker 1: we take a bunch of like dry wood, I'd imagine
Speaker 1: somekerosene and there's five. Yeah, I'm not great at I'm
Speaker 1: not great at that. But I also I think I
Speaker 1: could figure most things out if you have good survival skills,
Speaker 1: like just you'll figure it out. I could survive in
Speaker 1: New York City. A lot of people couldn't. From people
Speaker 1: from Waomi couldn't survive. And even if I was thirsty
Speaker 1: because in the summer, the air conditioning units, the water
Speaker 1: drips and you just get underneath and you could get
Speaker 1: some water that way. If we're talking about survival of
Speaker 1: the New York City, there's probably not gonna be a
Speaker 1: c units all over. You know, we're talking like, Okay,
Speaker 1: do you have like a plan for if here we go?
Speaker 1: Here we go? Right if there's like a world ending
Speaker 1: type I know you do, of course I do. My
Speaker 1: plan is I'm gonna go to your place. Well, you're
Speaker 1: lucky that you've got me as a friend. But if
Speaker 1: you didn't. If I wasn't your friend, then what I'd
Speaker 1: be like It literally would be like James Franco Seth
Speaker 1: Rogan and this is the end, be in my place
Speaker 1: and we'd be freaking out, and we'd be trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how to get the big jug of water
Speaker 1: in the basement without getting eaten by the demon outside.
Speaker 1: Like that would be literally, and and fucking Danny McBride
Speaker 1: would come over and cook all of our food in
Speaker 1: one in one city. See, I've got a plan for
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. But it involves tech, right,
Speaker 1: it involves having gas and water. And well you said,
Speaker 1: if if Mad Max taught us anything, you gotta have gas.
Speaker 1: Post apocalyptic world, gas is going to be king. I've
Speaker 1: got like a hundred and thirty gallons in my truck
Speaker 1: at all time. You gotta you gotta have gas, gas firearms.
Speaker 1: Speaking of what you guys know, there's an asteroid heading
Speaker 1: towards the So it's it's I just saw it's gonna
Speaker 1: get closer than the moon is it's gonna miss us
Speaker 1: on apparently. But there's also the comment that you can
Speaker 1: see on the twenty s I kind of wish it
Speaker 1: would just hit us like it's gonna miss us, gonna
Speaker 1: miss us and are we gonna see it? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you can see it. I got
Speaker 1: Did you guys see the Will Smith Jadab Smith interview?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I didn't see it. You didn't see it?
Speaker 1: So where she has this show called Red Table Talk.
Speaker 1: She brings him on the show and they start talking
Speaker 1: about marriage and how she how ad entanglement with August
Speaker 1: is the other dude. Basically, she went on on her
Speaker 1: own show to admit I think he knew before, but
Speaker 1: you haven't seen this. It's hilarious. She's like, you know,
Speaker 1: me and August, we had an entanglement. Will and I
Speaker 1: were saying. It was like it was a big thing
Speaker 1: on social last week, like Will and I had an
Speaker 1: entanglement and she kept taking tangle it. So you don't
Speaker 1: see all the memes that like Instagram with like you know,
Speaker 1: you know when you're talking about entanglements. Oh, it's because
Speaker 1: we was just like this, um, just the look on
Speaker 1: his face, just like Will Smith memes. Speaking to me,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Will Smith man. I was playing
Speaker 1: take on Me by Alha in the car and my
Speaker 1: nine year old son. LUKEA was like, oh, I know
Speaker 1: this song is from a meme and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh jees how, it's all or like a video game.
Speaker 1: Everything's from meme or TikTok or whatever. TikTok. That's the
Speaker 1: way to promote songs. Now, this has been Good Calls
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