Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandina, a production of
Speaker 1: I Her Rating. Hey, what's up. It's Dean Blandina. Welcome
Speaker 1: to another episode of Good Calls, joined by Travis Hansen
Speaker 1: and Joe Madrid. Um A little bit billy feel the
Speaker 1: energy going into this show is a little down. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's everybody. Everybody has been It's been a
Speaker 1: right has certainly in our lifetime, has been this unprecedented
Speaker 1: type year and there's been so much and looking right,
Speaker 1: life isn't always easy breezy, and it certainly hasn't been
Speaker 1: in it just you you yearn for some some sort
Speaker 1: of normalcy, and it feels like that that gets further
Speaker 1: and further away. Right, That's just, Um, we're in the
Speaker 1: in the middle of this environment that seems to be
Speaker 1: very I don't know, I don't know what the right
Speaker 1: word is, toxic, the you know, divisive, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You just it just feels like there's everybody is on
Speaker 1: edge and for for obvious reasons, and no one knows
Speaker 1: what kind of what to expect next. And uh and
Speaker 1: hopefully we can we can come out of this and
Speaker 1: we can have you know, obviously, this is a sports
Speaker 1: related show, and we'll focus on sports. And I think
Speaker 1: sports are in many ways our escape, right, but sports
Speaker 1: can't escape what's going on like this. This this impacts everything.
Speaker 1: And it's no longer I can turn on right, I
Speaker 1: can turn on a game and and and kind of
Speaker 1: lose myself and forget about the problems in the world
Speaker 1: for a couple of hours, because the problems of the
Speaker 1: world are in the middle of sports and everything else.
Speaker 1: So um, it's it's just I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just I do feel kind of down and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and you don't even have Travis to give
Speaker 1: you some cheesy quote to pick you up, because he's
Speaker 1: just Travis is the up that glass half full type guy.
Speaker 1: And I do I think what I need right now,
Speaker 1: Travis is I need a pep talk. And so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you twenty seconds to make me feel better, Okay,
Speaker 1: to go for it. In the waters flowing, man, it's
Speaker 1: gonna keep flowing down. And and we're gonna get out
Speaker 1: of this. You know, We're gonna keep climbing. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be at the top of the mountain as soon as
Speaker 1: as soon as this all passes, and and and you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna look back on this and just think, Ah,
Speaker 1: that was just the COVID nineteen. We got through it,
Speaker 1: and you know what you're I don't know what the
Speaker 1: water I don't know what the waterflall means. I don't
Speaker 1: know either to believe you're at the top of the mountain,
Speaker 1: water away from you. But I feel better. You mean,
Speaker 1: laugh and laughter is the best medicine. That's what I
Speaker 1: need right now too. You got both my kids crying,
Speaker 1: I hear, am I now so bad? What are the
Speaker 1: other six doing? I don't have I don't have eight kids.
Speaker 1: You get the other six or quiet? Um, So let's
Speaker 1: let's talk some NFL news. Some pretty some some pretty
Speaker 1: significant NFL news came out. Um. One of those deals
Speaker 1: that you I literally until they announced the fines and
Speaker 1: the punishment. I had forgotten that this was a thing.
Speaker 1: Was the Patriots for filming the at the Bengals filming
Speaker 1: the UH the sideline right, filming the Bengal sideline during
Speaker 1: a Browns game in Cleveland, And I completely forgot about it.
Speaker 1: And the NFL announced the penalties, which were the fine
Speaker 1: at one point one million dollars, a third round pick.
Speaker 1: I believe in the draft. Um. The uh, the fin
Speaker 1: which I think this will this will get a lot
Speaker 1: of I rolls around the league, is that I don't
Speaker 1: know who, but certain Patriots, um, you know, employees or
Speaker 1: whoever it may be, will have to go through NFL
Speaker 1: training on policies and guidelines. So so that, like to me,
Speaker 1: is a big eye roll because they know the guidelines
Speaker 1: and the policies. Yeah, one guy lost his job too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one guy lost his job. And this was it's such
Speaker 1: an interesting because you know, throughout the investigation and this
Speaker 1: was certainly pre COVID and everything else. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: they kind of separated this from the football operation. This
Speaker 1: was not right. This was the the in house video.
Speaker 1: This was a third party that was contracted to do, um,
Speaker 1: you know, to do your job show which which And
Speaker 1: they were focusing on an advanced scout and what an
Speaker 1: advanced scout does. And they feigned you know, they they
Speaker 1: claimed ignorance, right, they didn't know they weren't supposed to
Speaker 1: be shooting the field. Um, they didn't notify. Um, the
Speaker 1: I believe they didn't notify the Browns is what they
Speaker 1: were gonna be doing at the time. So um, and
Speaker 1: because I think I have a right, right it was
Speaker 1: the Browns were playing the Bengals in Cleveland? Was that it?
Speaker 1: And and the Patriots video group was there filming because
Speaker 1: they had the Bengals coming up? Is that the story
Speaker 1: that's confirmat let me try to find it. So Travis
Speaker 1: just confirmed that it was in Cleveland, right, It was
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, December eight, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Cincinnati a Cleveland. The
Speaker 1: Patriots had their their their video people there and this
Speaker 1: was again not associated with the football operation. But when
Speaker 1: you look at when you look at the penalties, I mean,
Speaker 1: those are those types of penalties when you start taking
Speaker 1: draft picks away. This is this this leads over into
Speaker 1: the football operation and whether you know there was no connection,
Speaker 1: whether the coaching staff or anyone um in that area
Speaker 1: knew what was going on, but it just when you
Speaker 1: when you take the history of the Patriots into consideration,
Speaker 1: it's hard to see this as an on a mistake,
Speaker 1: right you just you don't. I don't think there's anybody
Speaker 1: around the league, the other thirty one franchises that see
Speaker 1: this as just a misunderstanding. It's just they don't like
Speaker 1: I've been in there. Run out of honest mistakes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been in those competition committee meetings. I've been in
Speaker 1: and a lot of those, you know, those discussions were
Speaker 1: generated by things that the Patriots did or whatever, and
Speaker 1: then they're not Look, this is what everyone's always trying
Speaker 1: to find a loophole. That's that's just what sports are.
Speaker 1: It's an advantage. Um, you're gonna try to use the rules,
Speaker 1: you know, gain an advantage within the rules, and I
Speaker 1: think the Patriots and Coach Belichick has have been very
Speaker 1: good at that. But this is you know, it's again,
Speaker 1: it's the it's just another it's another chapter in this history.
Speaker 1: As we talk about, right, there are going to be
Speaker 1: people that when you think about this twenty year span
Speaker 1: of what the Patriots have been able to accomplish, um
Speaker 1: aside from you know, this Celtics in in the fifties
Speaker 1: and sixties, or the the u c l A. You
Speaker 1: know bass men's basketball team, like Montreal Canadians in the
Speaker 1: fifties and sixties, aside from those types of of of dynasties.
Speaker 1: This is the modern day dynasty and over a course
Speaker 1: of twenty years to accomplish what they've accomplished. But you
Speaker 1: are going to have people that are going to put
Speaker 1: a big fat asterisk on this this kind of window
Speaker 1: of time because of things like right spy Gate and
Speaker 1: the flake Gate and now this whole deal. Um, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just the reality of of of how people
Speaker 1: some people are gonna look at it. And and I
Speaker 1: don't know if does it diminish does it diminish what
Speaker 1: they've accomplished in your eyes? Does does in neither one
Speaker 1: of your eyes? Do you see this as a black
Speaker 1: eye in terms of what quite frankly in in the
Speaker 1: twenty one century is the greatest sports team accomplishment um
Speaker 1: so far? And I don't think he can argue with that,
Speaker 1: does this does this kind of put you know, kind
Speaker 1: of put it in a little bit of an asterisk there?
Speaker 1: I think any question marks No way. I think everyone's
Speaker 1: doing it. They're the only ones that have gotten caught.
Speaker 1: That that just makes me wonder they just the worst
Speaker 1: at this because they just really bad at cheating like
Speaker 1: everybody else. They they always hear the saying you're not
Speaker 1: if you're not cheating, you're not trying. So are they
Speaker 1: just the worst at cheating? So they're always getting caught.
Speaker 1: It's like now Tom Brady has taken it to Tampa
Speaker 1: with him, and now he's getting in trouble for going
Speaker 1: to the wrong person's house. He was trying to go
Speaker 1: to the offensive coordinator's house. He wasn't supposed to. He's
Speaker 1: having workouts when he's not supposed to. He's doing all
Speaker 1: these things he's not supposed to. He's like the habitual
Speaker 1: line stepper. And then he learned that. He learned that
Speaker 1: from the h h the HLS, the habitual line stepper.
Speaker 1: I just think there's so much money on the line,
Speaker 1: there's so much writing on success in the NFL. Most
Speaker 1: people are to do whatever they need to do, especially
Speaker 1: if they could say, hey, we're not hurting anybody, We're not,
Speaker 1: you know. I think I think everyone's doing it, but
Speaker 1: that could just be you know, I and I was involved.
Speaker 1: I saw it from the inside out. The flake gate
Speaker 1: was overblowned. The flake gate was blown so far out
Speaker 1: of no pun intended and exactly and it was it
Speaker 1: was a culmination of things. A lot of people around
Speaker 1: the league felt that the the NFL was was not
Speaker 1: um as hard on the Patriots for spy Gate as
Speaker 1: they should have been, And I feel like that had
Speaker 1: to play into it. Um to to hire a law
Speaker 1: firm to go through. I mean they went through every everything.
Speaker 1: They I was interviewed three times. I wasn't at the game,
Speaker 1: I wasn't involved on site. UM I was interviewed three times.
Speaker 1: They interviewed so many people, officials, everybody went through this.
Speaker 1: You know, spend millions and millions of dollars for this
Speaker 1: Wells report when it was something that teams had been
Speaker 1: doing and continue and you to do. UM quarterbacks like
Speaker 1: the football is a certain way, and they're gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna have them at the temp at the at the
Speaker 1: p s I where their quarterback is going to be comfortable.
Speaker 1: You know, Tom Brady likes it a little on the
Speaker 1: lower end, right that the p s I has to
Speaker 1: leave me two twelve and a half and thirteen and
Speaker 1: a half pounds. That's what the rule book says. So
Speaker 1: Tom Brady wanted the football closer to twelve and a half.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers wanted them closer to thirteen and a half.
Speaker 1: Personal preference. So they were going to make sure that
Speaker 1: tom Brady was comfortable and those footballs were And they
Speaker 1: used to bring the footballs to the officials and the
Speaker 1: officials would check them before the game, and they would
Speaker 1: check the p s I the air pressure, and they
Speaker 1: would tell they would say, hey, listen, don't don't put
Speaker 1: more air in these footballs. If they're compliant, don't add
Speaker 1: air to it, because you know Brady wanted it, you know,
Speaker 1: less inflated. And that's just the way it was. Um
Speaker 1: And you know, air temperature outside teams kempacks the pressure
Speaker 1: in the football. It does. You could see that in
Speaker 1: your car when you're driving, when you and you started
Speaker 1: the morning to say that those balls, you know are
Speaker 1: not going to be impacted on a cold day, it's
Speaker 1: that's you can't argue that. And it was it was
Speaker 1: something that just got blown out of proportion and it
Speaker 1: it actually could have been handled much cleaner with a
Speaker 1: fine and move on. And because look, the Patriots didn't
Speaker 1: beat the Colts whatever that was that day, forty four
Speaker 1: whatever because of the footballs. They just were the better team.
Speaker 1: And uh, I think when they catch something like that,
Speaker 1: they just have to the league has to do something
Speaker 1: or it just looks bad to the public to say, hey,
Speaker 1: that's just how it goes. People aren't going to be
Speaker 1: happy with that. Well, not with the Patriots either, because
Speaker 1: they had already had no well that was the thing.
Speaker 1: Any other team, it would not have been a big deal.
Speaker 1: They just wouldn't have been. There's so many things that
Speaker 1: are blown out of proportion in the and and then
Speaker 1: you then you get into the you know, now the
Speaker 1: pay Riots continue negative news around the Patriots, and then
Speaker 1: positive news for the Patriots. Who do they sign? They
Speaker 1: signed Cam Newton and this has been you know, this
Speaker 1: has been one of the things that have been speculated
Speaker 1: is where is Cam gonna end up? And everybody kept
Speaker 1: coming back to how cool would it be for him
Speaker 1: to end up in New England? Right Brady leaves they
Speaker 1: you know, they're they there are two quarterbacks writer Jared
Speaker 1: Stitham and and and uh Brian Hoyer, who's who's feel
Speaker 1: like this is like his fourth time with the Patriots
Speaker 1: at least, right um the So they end up signing
Speaker 1: Cam one year deal seven and a half million dollars,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. You think about Cam Newton former m
Speaker 1: v P, I'm signing for a one year deal when
Speaker 1: you have you know, I know, Richard Sherman came out
Speaker 1: and said that was ridiculous when you have some of
Speaker 1: these backup quarterbacks and some of these other quarterbacks making
Speaker 1: big money. But it just look, it's the market is
Speaker 1: what it is, right You you can only you're only
Speaker 1: gonna get paid with somebody's willing to pay. And and
Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna get paid big money. Now he goes
Speaker 1: to the Patriots and he has a big year. He's
Speaker 1: gonna get paid in one if he stays healthy. And
Speaker 1: what I love about this and what's intriguing to me,
Speaker 1: is that for twenty years paid pete Patriots say everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody that knocks Tom Brady says he was a system quarterback, right, Well, well,
Speaker 1: the bottom line is what the Patriots did for twenty years,
Speaker 1: what Belichick did, everything they did was to make Tom
Speaker 1: Brady comfortable, was because they saw him as their their
Speaker 1: biggest chance to be successful. And so we're gonna design
Speaker 1: our our our our game plan, and everything else is
Speaker 1: gonna be revolved around Tom Brady and his skill set,
Speaker 1: which is smart. You put people in position to be
Speaker 1: successful to play through their strengths. They're gonna do that
Speaker 1: for Cam Newton if he stays healthy. This could be
Speaker 1: like this is gonna be really interesting because I remember
Speaker 1: going back before pre Brady, um with the Patriots. I
Speaker 1: remember Ray Lucas. Ray Lucas who went to Rutgers, who
Speaker 1: a lot of the guys that I grew up with
Speaker 1: in Ay, we're friends with. You know, Ray Lucas had
Speaker 1: had some success with the Patriots because he was a
Speaker 1: dual threat quarterback. Didn't play that often, but when he
Speaker 1: went in, Belichick designed things that were suited to his
Speaker 1: skill set. And and I'm not comparing Ray Lucas to
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. And when people say, you know Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: Cam Newton is not a running quarterback. Cam Newton is
Speaker 1: a good quarterback when he's healthy. Like, yes, he's doing
Speaker 1: a threat because he's running for what yards in his
Speaker 1: career and he could you know, he's he's had those
Speaker 1: types of seasons. But Cam Newton healthy, Cam Newton with
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick designing a system for him, could be. It could.
Speaker 1: It's scary. It's scary to think what that could be.
Speaker 1: What could happen. He was he was good. You know
Speaker 1: your Super Bowl fifty. The dude was nasty. He just
Speaker 1: is inconsistent. Well yeah he's and I think he's like
Speaker 1: his accuracy has always been an issue. Um, you don't
Speaker 1: he doesn't have like that he he doesn't have. You
Speaker 1: think about the arm strength and your arm strength is
Speaker 1: there there, but he doesn't necessarily have the touch like
Speaker 1: a Patrick Mahomes or or some of these other quarterbacks have. UM,
Speaker 1: but he's I don't know if you've guys, if you
Speaker 1: guys have ever had the chance to see him in person.
Speaker 1: He's massive. He is. When I've been on the sideline
Speaker 1: near him, and you if you didn't, if if if
Speaker 1: you didn't see his number, you can see him next
Speaker 1: to defensive lineman and you you would you you weren't
Speaker 1: sure who the quarterback was and who the defensive line was.
Speaker 1: He is a massive, massive human being. And again it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be interesting to see. Um. You know how
Speaker 1: they design a system around him and I can't imagine,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's gonna be the starting quarterback
Speaker 1: if he's healthy. Yeah, I mean the reason the contract
Speaker 1: is look so low. It's an incentive based deal that
Speaker 1: he could get up to seven and a half millions
Speaker 1: because he's coming off an cole injury. He's coming off
Speaker 1: of a shoulder injury, and he's he's got a lot
Speaker 1: to prove and he's gonna he's gonna have the chance
Speaker 1: to compete for that starting job and probably win it
Speaker 1: over two guys. He's more talented than the crazy thing
Speaker 1: I think about with Cam Newton is I always go
Speaker 1: back to that play in the super Bowl. It's in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. I think it was like third and ten.
Speaker 1: He gets strip sacked and he doesn't dive football and
Speaker 1: and that to me, I look at that and I
Speaker 1: just go, I don't want this guy on my team.
Speaker 1: This is the super Bowl. There down six points at
Speaker 1: the time like that, That to me, is the biggest
Speaker 1: game of your career. Like that. That was my favorite player.
Speaker 1: That was my favorite place. He's always gonna be. There's
Speaker 1: knocks on him in terms of, you know, some of
Speaker 1: the way he's handled. He comes across as like kind
Speaker 1: of like pouty at times, right, especially got super Bowl.
Speaker 1: After the post game, he got a lot of flak.
Speaker 1: But guess what I mean, he just lost super Bowl
Speaker 1: and now he's got to sit up there and answer
Speaker 1: questions that maybe he felt bad because he didn't dive
Speaker 1: on that ball, So who knows what his emotions are.
Speaker 1: I love that play, travel I love that I had
Speaker 1: The biggest bet I ever made was on the Broncos
Speaker 1: and that Super Bowl. I loved that play, love cam
Speaker 1: for that. That was super Bowl super Bowl fifties. Wasn't
Speaker 1: that particularly great game? That Super Bowl was terrible. Here's
Speaker 1: my story about Super Bowl fifty. Okay, so you remember,
Speaker 1: you know, former referee, good guy, Mike Carrey, Mike carry
Speaker 1: went to CBS and did what what I do? And
Speaker 1: what prayer does? Geene started? He was yeah, and Mike, look, Mike,
Speaker 1: and Mike is a smart guy. Mike knows the rules. Um,
Speaker 1: intelligent guy. And it just it's TV is not for everybody.
Speaker 1: It's hard. It's just hard, and it just didn't suit him. Um.
Speaker 1: And so before the game, we have you know, we
Speaker 1: have production meetings with the crew and CBS and so
Speaker 1: it's it's Lance Barrow, who's a long time who's a
Speaker 1: long time you know, you know, lead lead producer for
Speaker 1: CBS on the football side. Also, this a golf great guy. Um,
Speaker 1: and uh you know, then you have you have Nansen.
Speaker 1: It was Phil Simms at the time. This was before
Speaker 1: Romo and and Mike Carrying. So you have this meeting
Speaker 1: with the officiating group and the referee and we're talking
Speaker 1: about if there's a replay review, and Mike had had
Speaker 1: a tough year and there was a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: every time Mike carry came on the air, it felt
Speaker 1: like Twitter had a field day. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: so we said, listen, you know, if there's a replay review,
Speaker 1: we will call the truck and we will let you
Speaker 1: know what we're gonna do before we do it, so
Speaker 1: then you can start talking about it, and then Mike
Speaker 1: can talk about it, and we're all on the same page,
Speaker 1: and it just it'll look good, right You'll Mike can
Speaker 1: explain it blah blah blah blah blah, unless he absolutely disagrees.
Speaker 1: But this is how we're gonna do it. So in
Speaker 1: the first quarter, I don't know if you remember, there's
Speaker 1: a there's a pass play UM ruled incomplete on the field.
Speaker 1: Panthers had the ball was the third down play. It
Speaker 1: was a huge play in the game early on because
Speaker 1: pay Panthers complete the first down that kept the pass
Speaker 1: her first down. UM, it's ruled in complete on the field,
Speaker 1: goes to review. We let it stand. It was just
Speaker 1: too close. Whatever they ruled on the field, we were
Speaker 1: gonna let's stay with it. So I have one of
Speaker 1: the guys in the replay booth as we're going through this,
Speaker 1: and we're like, okay, you know, yeah, we can't see
Speaker 1: if the ball hit the ground or not. Um, it's
Speaker 1: too close. I said, call CBS and let them know
Speaker 1: we're gonna let it stand. So never forget Jay Reid,
Speaker 1: who worked with me at the NFL still works in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Um he picks up the phone and like
Speaker 1: I hear him like, say hello to somebody, and then
Speaker 1: I hear him like not say anything, and I go
Speaker 1: and I look, I go dig tell CBS that we're
Speaker 1: gonna let it stand, and he's like, yeah, but I
Speaker 1: my carry just said that you're gonna overturn it on
Speaker 1: the air, and I'm like, what are they doing? So
Speaker 1: so we come out and we say we're on the
Speaker 1: field stands. Mike Carrey has already explained that it's going
Speaker 1: to be overturned. They never go back to him again,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't get his contract were due by CBS
Speaker 1: after that. Yeah, and that was the thing, Like we
Speaker 1: talked about it. I was like, we'll tell you what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. I don't don't say anything, and well
Speaker 1: and it was just like it was it was interesting
Speaker 1: you guys were telling him and I was telling him before,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't. So just so listeners know, that's not
Speaker 1: how it goes down when you're in studio. You don't
Speaker 1: know what the call is. Oh no, no, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Not the norm. But this was this was the spet
Speaker 1: right the Super Bowls to special right. Obviously it's a
Speaker 1: it's a different circumstance. And you know, and we've done
Speaker 1: that right the Super Bowl ast year when we had it,
Speaker 1: when Fox had it, um, you know, they were they
Speaker 1: were going to call the truck on a replay review
Speaker 1: and let and let um you know, the truck knows,
Speaker 1: so Mike would know um to you know, what to
Speaker 1: what to say. It's just it was so like, just
Speaker 1: like I just so frustrating because I was like, listen,
Speaker 1: what come on. I mean, we're trying to help here,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, don't don't don't jump the gun.
Speaker 1: But that was that was a sipoleif and Ronder there
Speaker 1: will still to this day debate me on that call.
Speaker 1: Um then and and I always tell them the same thing. Hey,
Speaker 1: if they had ruled it a catch, we would we
Speaker 1: would have stayed. It would have stayed a catch. It's
Speaker 1: a big play because then the the I think the
Speaker 1: next play or two plays later there's a strip sack
Speaker 1: and the Roncos getting the ball. So UM ended up
Speaker 1: being a big play. So UM Patriots, Cam Newton, let's
Speaker 1: switch gears and talk a little bit about college football.
Speaker 1: UM something as we think about COVID, and this is
Speaker 1: something that I don't think a lot of people understand. Right,
Speaker 1: we think about okay, players and coaches and everything else,
Speaker 1: but right there's another group out there, the officials that
Speaker 1: are gonna have to be prepared and there's gonna be
Speaker 1: protocols that they're gonna have to go through. One of
Speaker 1: the calls I was on actually on on Monday, UM
Speaker 1: was with the the football one of the football manufacturers
Speaker 1: for college football and talking about what we can do
Speaker 1: with the football's to um ensure that they are um,
Speaker 1: you know, sanitized for lack of a better term. And
Speaker 1: and and so you're going to you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: look at this. Two ways you're gonna look at this is,
Speaker 1: you know, is there a process where we can we
Speaker 1: can clean the footballs and then and then from and
Speaker 1: then secondly, a protocol is to who's handling the football's.
Speaker 1: Can we limit the number of people that are handling
Speaker 1: the footballs? And and how can we ensure that a
Speaker 1: football doesn't become contaminated. So the conversation basically there's there's
Speaker 1: three options at this point. Um, there's there's companies that
Speaker 1: that have, um, you know, a UV solution, right. UV
Speaker 1: light is supposedly the UV light is supposed to kill germs,
Speaker 1: including COVID. So you take the footballs and you put
Speaker 1: them into this box and it has UV light almost
Speaker 1: like a tanning booth for the football's. So going back
Speaker 1: to my Guido days, right, g t L. Right, if
Speaker 1: you don't know what GTL stands for, look it up, right, Travis.
Speaker 1: What does gt L stand for? Jim Tan laundry. That's right, baby,
Speaker 1: Jim Tan laundry. So case your time. So the UV light, right,
Speaker 1: you would have the footballs you would put each each
Speaker 1: team UM prepares typically you know, eight to ten footballs.
Speaker 1: The rule book says six for each game. You prepare
Speaker 1: eight to ten footballs that you're gonna use on offense. Um,
Speaker 1: so you would take you would take those footballs, have
Speaker 1: them in this UV tanning bed before the game, and
Speaker 1: then you would have to ensure that those footballs are
Speaker 1: handled by the ball people and then that ball goes outside.
Speaker 1: Because think about you know, I think you're gonna have
Speaker 1: limited people on the sideline. But when people are on
Speaker 1: the sideline and the ball goes on the sideline, what
Speaker 1: what do people do meet they pick it up right
Speaker 1: or it goes in the stands. Now, don't touch the
Speaker 1: football because if you touch that football, it's going to
Speaker 1: be contaminated and it's gonna have to go in a
Speaker 1: quarantine before it gets cleaned again. So there's a UV
Speaker 1: light option. There's a there's a basically like a hand
Speaker 1: sanitizer solution that's that's um is a probable What is
Speaker 1: that is a probable? Alcohol? Come on, Joe, you're the
Speaker 1: you're the chemist of the group. So that one, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a spray. It's a spray that you would
Speaker 1: spray on the football. It's alcohol base and it would
Speaker 1: it would you know, eliminate the chair and stuff like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it would be a spray and uh and it
Speaker 1: would dry quickly because it's alcohol based. And then you
Speaker 1: can do it that way, which will be a less
Speaker 1: expensive option. And then there's there's others that include a
Speaker 1: water based solution um which which you could you know,
Speaker 1: clean the football, and and but that would take a
Speaker 1: little bit longer. But the whole thing is when you
Speaker 1: think about football is you don't want to you don't
Speaker 1: want to to you know, change the integrity of the football,
Speaker 1: you know, making change the tackiness or the stickiness or
Speaker 1: any of that stuff. So it's gonna be interesting. It's like,
Speaker 1: these are the conversations we never thought we would be
Speaker 1: having that we're currently having. We're talking about you know,
Speaker 1: chain crews, chain crews, you know, do they have to
Speaker 1: you know, are they going to have to be tested
Speaker 1: because they're on the sideline. Are they gonna wear masks?
Speaker 1: You look at chain crews across the country. Chains are
Speaker 1: typically older people, right, so now are you gonna have
Speaker 1: to have younger people which is not necessarily a bad thing,
Speaker 1: but are you gonna have you know, these older people
Speaker 1: that are on these chain crews, that are that are
Speaker 1: in this at risk you know demographic um. So it's
Speaker 1: chain crews, it's replay officials, it's on field officials, it's
Speaker 1: all it's ball it's ball people, you know, people that
Speaker 1: are on the ball crew. Everybody that is going to
Speaker 1: have contact with a football or a player or a coach.
Speaker 1: Um is gonna have to be tested and and it's
Speaker 1: so many layers to this that it's just Um, it's
Speaker 1: a big, big hill to climb before the season. And
Speaker 1: you can let him up. You can let him know
Speaker 1: I'm available for employment. I can move them chains and
Speaker 1: I'm young. There you go, you can you can be
Speaker 1: on the chain, and I'm not scared of the COVID
Speaker 1: bro man, What do you want? Okay, Joe, So you're
Speaker 1: I'll give you the pick of the litter. You want
Speaker 1: to be on the chain crew? What do you want
Speaker 1: to be? Do you want to be the drive start guy?
Speaker 1: So the drive start guy wherever wherever the drive starts.
Speaker 1: So say it's a touchback and and Alabama gets the
Speaker 1: ball first and ten you you sit there with a
Speaker 1: stick and you stay there the entire drive. Okay, So
Speaker 1: that's the drive start guy. Do you want to be
Speaker 1: on the actual chains? Do you want to be on
Speaker 1: the front stake or the backstake? So they they spread
Speaker 1: out the ten yard chain and the front state guy,
Speaker 1: you're the guy that comes out. That's that's the real
Speaker 1: exciting one. I want to be measurement because you come
Speaker 1: out and you hand it to the official. I want
Speaker 1: to be active and on the field. Yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to be that dude. I don't want to be I
Speaker 1: want to be you want to be the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage guy. Do you want to be the guy where
Speaker 1: you're always at the line of scrimmage so wherever the
Speaker 1: ball goes, you're gonna be. No. I think I want
Speaker 1: to be the other one, the dude who who you
Speaker 1: want to be? The chain yea gets where you want
Speaker 1: to give me a real tight jersey. There's also a
Speaker 1: guy that records down that the information, the card guy
Speaker 1: down the distance the yard line. Is this real? Are
Speaker 1: you joking? You're more of like a You're more of
Speaker 1: like a paper person, like a pencil per share. You
Speaker 1: could do that? Are you serious? Is this is this
Speaker 1: all real? There's there's four dudes, there's there's like nine dudes.
Speaker 1: Since there's nine, I just female. There are some female
Speaker 1: chain crew. Um, not enough, but there are female chain crew.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's that's it's something. It's also overblown.
Speaker 1: There's just too many people to do a very simple job.
Speaker 1: Here's one more, Here's one more before we go then
Speaker 1: another story that came up on the call. Actually, um,
Speaker 1: so you remember the kick six game member over in Alabama,
Speaker 1: right famous Obviously that that's a that's a rivalry that
Speaker 1: the Iron Bowl, and and you know if you're if
Speaker 1: you're from the South, obviously you um you know all
Speaker 1: about that. But it's certainly so the kicks six game, right,
Speaker 1: that football. So the field right Alabama, Alabama, the game
Speaker 1: is tied, Alabama attempts a long field goal at the
Speaker 1: end of regulation. Um, I think it was Chris Davis
Speaker 1: who was the Auburn players in the end zone. He
Speaker 1: catches the short field goal and returns it a hundred
Speaker 1: and however many yards for touchdown to win the game.
Speaker 1: So the equipment manager. Everybody celebrating, right, and they're all
Speaker 1: throwing their helmets. So you don't think about this, but
Speaker 1: they're all throwing their helmets and the equipment manager is
Speaker 1: responsible for those helmets. So instead of celebrating, the equipment
Speaker 1: managers is talking to his assistance that we need to
Speaker 1: get eight something helmets, right with all of the fans
Speaker 1: and everybody else. And they recovered all but one of
Speaker 1: the helmets. Okay, so you think about the mayhem of
Speaker 1: what happens. But then the next thing is they got
Speaker 1: to get the football, like you have to get that football,
Speaker 1: so they recover the football and uh so the thing
Speaker 1: is right, each team uses their own footballs, so that
Speaker 1: football is actually in Alabama football, right, But Alabama is
Speaker 1: one of the there's only I think two or three
Speaker 1: teams Alabama, Georgia Tech, and I think Michigan is doing
Speaker 1: it this year that don't put their logo on the football.
Speaker 1: So that football is displayed in Auburn at the university.
Speaker 1: But people are upset because it doesn't have the script
Speaker 1: A and because that would have been But and the
Speaker 1: reason why Alabama footballs don't have the A is because
Speaker 1: they couldn't. When they had it, they couldn't keep it.
Speaker 1: People were stealing footballs because it had the Alabama. So
Speaker 1: now they just don't put the logo on because they're
Speaker 1: worried about, you know, you can't keep a football because
Speaker 1: Alabama obviously such a um, a big time program. So
Speaker 1: there's my flas are cool with the logo painted on,
Speaker 1: and it's like they're really cool. Yeah, no, they're they're
Speaker 1: they're really cool. UM And that's you know, and that's
Speaker 1: part of and and those logos. That's how the officials
Speaker 1: know there's the right football in the game. Sure, right,
Speaker 1: so because if the Patriots on offense, then we need
Speaker 1: to have a new England ball versus the Ravens on offense.
Speaker 1: And that's how they know. So, you know, it's interesting, Um,
Speaker 1: you think about all these things that go on behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. All right, let's uh, let's take a break,
Speaker 1: and when we come back, we'll we'll update on the
Speaker 1: rest of the sports world and the return to sports.
Speaker 1: It's one twenty next on Good Call. Hey, what's up.
Speaker 1: We're back on Good Call. Smooth is a little bit
Speaker 1: better since Travis gave us a pep talk, but during
Speaker 1: the break, during the break, he got us down again. Um,
Speaker 1: a lot of COVID stuff. But let's let's talk positives.
Speaker 1: Let's talk MLB returning Travis. What are kind of the details.
Speaker 1: What's the latest. Yeah, the teams are releasing sixty man rosters. Um,
Speaker 1: not everyone has gone to sixty yet, but at some point, um,
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna have to cut down. And we've
Speaker 1: kind of broke that down into thirty players the first
Speaker 1: two weeks and down to and down the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. Everyone else is on what they're calling the
Speaker 1: taxi squad. The taxi squad was an old term they
Speaker 1: used in football back and like, uh, well, how how
Speaker 1: long ago thirties or the forties or how long ago
Speaker 1: was that? Yeah, the taxi squad. That's the practice squad
Speaker 1: they but they don't call it the taxi squad anymore.
Speaker 1: It's great now. And that's and I think as you
Speaker 1: think about the sixty man rosters, one of the reasons,
Speaker 1: like some teams I know, I forgot, I forgot which
Speaker 1: team was the White Sox of the Tigers only only
Speaker 1: only listed forty four players. Because the thing is if
Speaker 1: you if you add somebody to your sixty then and
Speaker 1: then you eventually say another another team cuts a player
Speaker 1: and you want to pick that player up. Um. If
Speaker 1: you cut somebody, they have to go through waivers, um,
Speaker 1: and so any one of the other teams can pick
Speaker 1: them up before you could resign them. So I think
Speaker 1: teams are just where at that. And then, like Travis said,
Speaker 1: the first two weeks of the season, you'll have thirty
Speaker 1: players on on the active roster. Then they'll go to
Speaker 1: the next two weeks and then for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season and everybody else will be available for you know,
Speaker 1: basically call ups and things like that if you do
Speaker 1: have if if you do have people you know getting
Speaker 1: sick or testing positive. And already you know three players
Speaker 1: UM reported have opted out for UM to two players
Speaker 1: from the Nationals, Ryan Zimmerman and Joe Ross UM. You know,
Speaker 1: I know Ryan Zimmerman as UH has a newborn UM
Speaker 1: his his wife has some UM, some health issues, so
Speaker 1: obvious concerns. They're UM Michael Leak from the Diamondbacks also
Speaker 1: opting out from the seasons. So it's gonna be interesting
Speaker 1: to see you know, Ryan Zimmerman, you know, probably not
Speaker 1: right now at this point in his career a still
Speaker 1: you know, a pretty good player, but he's not I
Speaker 1: wouldn't call him the player that he once was. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting if like a you know, uh,
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger or you know somebody of that of that
Speaker 1: stature opts out. You know what the you know kind
Speaker 1: of what the pushback will be on that. Well we'll
Speaker 1: think about it too, like what what does a guy
Speaker 1: like Mike Trout or Cody Bellinger who have Mike Troud
Speaker 1: who has a huge contract, what does he have the
Speaker 1: game by playing like I'm just gonna sit this one out.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get sick. I don't want people
Speaker 1: around me to get sick. Like I'm gonna sit out
Speaker 1: and make my you know whatever X amount of millions
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make and it's not gonna hurt my reputation
Speaker 1: I gave me. I think I get that, But I
Speaker 1: also think think about you know, there's that there's if
Speaker 1: you're a competitor and you just think about what we're
Speaker 1: doing and think about everybody. And I know I certainly
Speaker 1: can only speak for myself, and I feel blessed. I'm
Speaker 1: certainly not as impacted as as others. But I want
Speaker 1: to get back to work, like I want to get
Speaker 1: back out there. I want to get back in the studio.
Speaker 1: You know. Um, I think there's a desire to to
Speaker 1: get back out and again that that sense of normalcy. Um.
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of people are gonna feel
Speaker 1: that way. And and you know that there's never look,
Speaker 1: there's no COVID or not, there's no risk free environment.
Speaker 1: Every time we every time we we step out of
Speaker 1: our bed, um, you know, we're at risk of something.
Speaker 1: And it's just that's the reality of it. And as
Speaker 1: you know, my favorite term from the twenty nineteen NFL
Speaker 1: football season, this is the world, this world we're in.
Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna go with this as the new normal,
Speaker 1: and I was just gonna jump through the now Joe
Speaker 1: doesn't like I'm reverting back to this is the world
Speaker 1: we live in. Um, you know the rule changes we
Speaker 1: talked about last week's same deal. You know the the
Speaker 1: the universal d H this year, Um, extra innings are
Speaker 1: gonna start with a runner on second. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I like the kind of the you can't argue and
Speaker 1: and and no fighting, no spitting prohibited. How how are
Speaker 1: you going to police that? I don't you know what's
Speaker 1: gonna be the penalty for that? Talking about the player,
Speaker 1: because that's like muscle memory. Man, you're you're up. I
Speaker 1: played baseball. We all played baseball. You're up, you're in
Speaker 1: the batter's box, you step out, you spit, right, that's
Speaker 1: not that you don't even think about it. Guys spit
Speaker 1: on your hands, on their hands, and you're gonna get
Speaker 1: in trouble for spitting on your own hand. Don't even
Speaker 1: think about it. So, UM, I don't know I have
Speaker 1: I would imagine they're gonna be leaning on that. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine what's the umpire gonna do. Hey, don't don't
Speaker 1: spit all right? Good? Um. I like the fact I
Speaker 1: love the three battered minimum rule in general. Um, I
Speaker 1: think that makes sense to you know, that's you know,
Speaker 1: less less pictures, less less people being you know, you know,
Speaker 1: entering the game. It's all good. Um. Any player can
Speaker 1: appear as a picture, which is a normal rule. Um.
Speaker 1: They were gonna get rid of that though. They were
Speaker 1: gonna make it so you couldn't have flip positions. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like it to it makes it fun.
Speaker 1: I like the you know, when it's eighteen one, you know,
Speaker 1: do you really want to waste an arm in the dugout,
Speaker 1: in the in the bullpen? Well, what's always some of
Speaker 1: the best baseball memories. You got the guy throwing eighty
Speaker 1: six mile an hour fastball. That's kind of fast, but
Speaker 1: he's throwing like seventy fastballs and his curveballs down to
Speaker 1: like fifty nine and you don't see that, and guys
Speaker 1: in the dug out are laughing. I would love I
Speaker 1: would love to know what the what the overall e
Speaker 1: R A is for? For you know, even just the
Speaker 1: last five years for non pictures coming because because you
Speaker 1: do see some of them like they you know, they
Speaker 1: do pretty well. They get out of the inning, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe if they give up a run or two, um,
Speaker 1: because because major league major league batters aren't used to
Speaker 1: you know, a sixty five mile per hour you know,
Speaker 1: you know, if is pitch or whatever. So um. But
Speaker 1: but I think that's I think that's interesting. You know
Speaker 1: the other things. I know, Travis, you had you had
Speaker 1: said that I guess two of the Twins coaches, um,
Speaker 1: will not be working games just because of the health
Speaker 1: concerns and and being you know a little bit older. Um,
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting to see that. Uh. You
Speaker 1: know another bit of news that I read the Blue
Speaker 1: Jays they are going to be able to play in Toronto.
Speaker 1: I know that was a concern. If they were gonna
Speaker 1: have to play in Dunedin, which is their their their
Speaker 1: spring training facility in Florida, that would have, you know,
Speaker 1: created some missues. So being able to play in Toronto
Speaker 1: will be uh, will be a positive. And obviously you
Speaker 1: know the whole border thing and and and the border
Speaker 1: still closed to Canada, um is going to be something
Speaker 1: that we have to we have to consider um switching
Speaker 1: gears to the n B A. You know, I think
Speaker 1: again we've kind of gone through what everything's gonna everything
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. The season is going to resume. UM
Speaker 1: looks like end of July. UM. So you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna have training camps coming up pretty here, pretty soon
Speaker 1: here in Orlando, starting the ninth three interes inter squad scrimmages,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna have those those seeding games which
Speaker 1: are gonna be really the first two weeks which are
Speaker 1: you're playing tournaments, um, and then the playoffs are gonna
Speaker 1: are gonna be mid August UM and uh and yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be the season, you know. The Adam
Speaker 1: Silver said on Monday, the NBA returned plan may not
Speaker 1: be for everyone. And we're already seen several players say
Speaker 1: they're not gonna they're not gonna take part in the season. Um.
Speaker 1: The Lakers Avery Avery Bradley, whose son has a respiratory illness. UH. Portland,
Speaker 1: Trevor Reza, who's was actually um spending time with his son.
Speaker 1: He's in the middle of a custody battle, so he's
Speaker 1: gonna take you know, I think, uh, some time away
Speaker 1: to spend time with his son. Uh, Davis, this one's
Speaker 1: an interesting Davis Davis pertains um from the from the
Speaker 1: Washington Wizards, who's in line for big contract news who
Speaker 1: has had injury issues, not health issues necessarily in terms
Speaker 1: of like COVID, but a c L and things like that.
Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna put at risk that big, that
Speaker 1: big next contract. So he's gonna sit out. Will we
Speaker 1: call a stein with the Mavericks. He's suspecting a child. Um,
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Cousins, who think about DeMarcus Cousins recovering from injury?
Speaker 1: Focusing on de Marcus Cousins, what was it? Joe three
Speaker 1: years ago was like you know, you you consider him
Speaker 1: a top ten player, and now he's an afterfellow. What
Speaker 1: you know, he tore his achilles he you know the
Speaker 1: first conjuries. Um, this guy was was legit, Like I
Speaker 1: remember and I played fantasy basketball. This guy was like
Speaker 1: always a top pick for big man um and uh,
Speaker 1: and now he's kind of an afterthought. And then U,
Speaker 1: I know the Nets Wilson Chandler deciding family health concerns
Speaker 1: is not gonna play. So it's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 1: see how that plays out. UM. And then the NHL.
Speaker 1: Nothing new on the NHL front. UM, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: the you're gonna have the the what is it the
Speaker 1: four team playoff tournament, UM, which will be which I
Speaker 1: think is gonna be really exciting. Training camp start to
Speaker 1: like ten UM, and then everything if if the health
Speaker 1: and safety conditions allow, then the parties UM have reached
Speaker 1: an agreement on resuming play. What the length of training
Speaker 1: camp is going to be in the start date UM
Speaker 1: is going to be determined at a future date. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of where we are right now, still still
Speaker 1: getting ready. You know, we haven't seen any any spring
Speaker 1: training or any kind of training camp yet. Right around
Speaker 1: the corner, though, it's right around the corner, UM. And
Speaker 1: obviously you know we've got golf going on the nextage
Speaker 1: other things UM so UM. You know, hopefully these things
Speaker 1: can go off and and we'll you know, we'll be
Speaker 1: able to do it safely. And uh and when we
Speaker 1: play these sports again and and and who and and
Speaker 1: if that, if that goes well the next month and
Speaker 1: a half or so goes well, I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: bode well for the NFL um and in college football,
Speaker 1: and uh, and we can we can kind of see
Speaker 1: those seasons take place and and hopefully they take place
Speaker 1: without any delay. And that would be imagine NFL and
Speaker 1: college football. You know, not there's gonna be some impact,
Speaker 1: but if they can start on time, I think that
Speaker 1: would be a win for for for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: You know, I've got a question for you. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: let's say football never comes back, what would you do
Speaker 1: for a living? If it never comes there's no more football?
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? There's no more football, all
Speaker 1: the all the balls are gone. I'd actually, you know
Speaker 1: what I would do. I would go, I would focus
Speaker 1: on I would focus on my writing, and I would
Speaker 1: go start doing stand up again. I want to see
Speaker 1: his new stand up at some point. Yeah, I've got
Speaker 1: a couple of screenplay ideas and working on a working
Speaker 1: on with a mutual friend Joe Knows. We're working on
Speaker 1: a on a scripted drama slash comedy um that revolves
Speaker 1: around football and officials. So you know, we just had
Speaker 1: had another meeting with with my agents and and our
Speaker 1: scripted group at w M E. And and hopefully we
Speaker 1: can we can make that happen, and uh, and maybe
Speaker 1: I won't have to Maybe I won't have to do
Speaker 1: rules and analysis anymore, Joe. Maybe I can just and
Speaker 1: here's a segue for after the break, Maybe I can
Speaker 1: just do my writing, my stand up and my cameos.
Speaker 1: Break Next, not Good Calls, We're going to talk how
Speaker 1: good my cameos. I'm a cameo performer of the Year.
Speaker 1: We'll go through one of my cameos next on good Calls.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back on Good Calls. We've covered sports.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna we're gonna detect into We're gonna dive
Speaker 1: into the world, the other world, the world of every
Speaker 1: every other day life, every day of life. Um, cameo.
Speaker 1: You guys are familiar with cameo. You're familiar with this app.
Speaker 1: Never used it, but I always hear about you doing it.
Speaker 1: Cameo is a it's it's ra actually that whoever that
Speaker 1: you know, they came up with a really great idea.
Speaker 1: So cameo is you can you can get and I'll
Speaker 1: I won't say celebrities because I'm on it, and but
Speaker 1: there's different levels of celebrity. I'm definitely I'm definitely not
Speaker 1: the least famous person on cameo. I can say that
Speaker 1: I should have a Cameo account. What's that? I think
Speaker 1: you should nominate Travis to have a Gavio account. Yea,
Speaker 1: so you can. You can go on and you can
Speaker 1: get your favorite some A list, some B lists, mostly
Speaker 1: C lists, some D list celebrity to send your friend,
Speaker 1: your family, whoever. It is a short video message. UM
Speaker 1: cameo takes a percentage the person doing the video gets
Speaker 1: the other the other part of it, the majority of it.
Speaker 1: So UM Cameo approached me about doing it. I thought
Speaker 1: it was a great idea. UM went online, you kind
Speaker 1: of you record a profile video and then people just
Speaker 1: request you on the app and and you know, I've
Speaker 1: gotten a bunch of requests. I charged twenty five dollars, which, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like it is a pretty fair price.
Speaker 1: And uh and but these guys Travis and Joe, no,
Speaker 1: I put my heart and soul for your dollars. You
Speaker 1: aren't getting the product. Auction value you're getting is off
Speaker 1: the charts. And I've seen other cameos that other people
Speaker 1: have done, and quite frankly, I feel like I'm you're
Speaker 1: getting more for your money with me just saying, what
Speaker 1: was that, Vince Neil? You showed us that time, right,
Speaker 1: he just like mailed it in. But that but that
Speaker 1: was amazing because he was wasted, right, and he was mumbling,
Speaker 1: and you would expect, like if I asked Vince Neil
Speaker 1: for a cameo, like that's what I'm looking for. I'm
Speaker 1: looking for a hammered Vince Neil mumbling, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show that to all my front I will say,
Speaker 1: you do, go you do, you do, do a great
Speaker 1: job on the cameos. I go well and beyond. And
Speaker 1: today I got another five star rating my my whatever,
Speaker 1: eight in a row, and UM, and I shared the
Speaker 1: video and I want you guys to watch it and
Speaker 1: critique the video and you can explain while you're watching it,
Speaker 1: explain kind of the jucks I have the If you
Speaker 1: need the storyboard, I can email you the storyboard, UM
Speaker 1: for the video. I watched it before we did this,
Speaker 1: before Joe Texas that we would do it on the show.
Speaker 1: And just watching it, like you put in the time,
Speaker 1: you put together like a power point for these guys,
Speaker 1: and you went through so the to the the guy
Speaker 1: must reach out to to have you give their draft
Speaker 1: order for their fantasy draft. Yeah, and and I was
Speaker 1: laughing when the first three guys that you named in
Speaker 1: four twelve all in that drafting order, We're all named
Speaker 1: Mike and and then and then you you finish and
Speaker 1: there's one guy who has his initials is probably his name,
Speaker 1: and you're like, these are the most boring names. It
Speaker 1: was the worst every draft order I picked. It's like
Speaker 1: you have like the Greek and Joey Walant and you know,
Speaker 1: like whatever, and this was like Tom Chris. It's just
Speaker 1: a bunch of white guys and it's the worst named
Speaker 1: a her And but yeah, So I did their draft order,
Speaker 1: and I did a power point and I and I
Speaker 1: listed the picks and I put all the mics together
Speaker 1: because I wanted all of them. I wanted there to
Speaker 1: be confusion and chaos when it got to that pick,
Speaker 1: because like, Okay, Who's is it? Mike l Is? It
Speaker 1: might be who's because you have six picks in a
Speaker 1: row with Mike and you're like, which Mike is it?
Speaker 1: And if there's a trade, yeah, you go through like, oh,
Speaker 1: if they're doing the Snake the Snake Draft, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have six Mikes that it's gonna have six, fourteen at
Speaker 1: the end of round one, and then one, two, and
Speaker 1: three at the top of round two are all gonna
Speaker 1: be Mike, And so I threw it a party bus
Speaker 1: reference like here, that's what you're getting for. So trust me,
Speaker 1: it's it's it takes time. You're not You're not gonna
Speaker 1: get you. I have four days to do it, and
Speaker 1: sometimes it takes me four days to come up with
Speaker 1: the concept, to put the script together, to get the
Speaker 1: lighting right. So but you know, you'll get it in
Speaker 1: your four day window. We should maybe do a documentary,
Speaker 1: a short documentary series on the four days to cameo
Speaker 1: with I like that for four days. That's I like that. Wow,
Speaker 1: see that's why he needs there. We did you know that?
Speaker 1: And and I think I told you guys this the
Speaker 1: super Bowl when I was at the game and I
Speaker 1: was talking to I forget what I was talking to,
Speaker 1: but uh, I was like, I got a cameo request,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I can't give this guy a
Speaker 1: at at the super Bowl on the field cameo for bucks,
Speaker 1: Like what are all the other people that I've given
Speaker 1: Like you can't, I can't do that. I'm sorry, Like
Speaker 1: I can't give you that cameo for bucks when everybody
Speaker 1: else got either the studio or my house. There should
Speaker 1: be surge charging, you know, if you're at a certain place,
Speaker 1: you should be able to charge. I should be able
Speaker 1: to say, hey, i'm at, I'm I'm at, I'm at
Speaker 1: my buddy slide stallansoun story. Who ever told you that story?
Speaker 1: I was at side. We've heard the story. Have ever
Speaker 1: told you that? Yeah? Yeah? So um, But I think
Speaker 1: that's a good Listen again, hold on, I need I
Speaker 1: need the floor for a second. You know, I love
Speaker 1: you and you're my boy, You're one of my best friends.
Speaker 1: But I have to give you a bad critiquing on
Speaker 1: this last one. There was a lot of camera shaking,
Speaker 1: the just the production. It wasn't where it usually is.
Speaker 1: It's I don't, I didn't. I don't have a tripod.
Speaker 1: Well you should, you could. You should have a gimbal?
Speaker 1: Do you want me? I do you want I have one?
Speaker 1: Do you want me to set up the tripod for
Speaker 1: the cell phone? I'll use that from now on? No, No,
Speaker 1: you should have a gimbal. What's a gimbal? You know?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm gonna I'm gonna show you what
Speaker 1: a gimble is. I think were on zoom. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like a makeshift steady camp. So it keeps your
Speaker 1: your your camera steady when it's on, like it's on
Speaker 1: a gimbal is what it's called. This thing. You see
Speaker 1: it and it just no matter what, you're always as
Speaker 1: as you move, the cameras always not swaying. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a lot of shakiness on that one. I
Speaker 1: was like, whoa, whoa, what's going on here? Yeah? But
Speaker 1: that was that. It's it's like indie documentary style filming.
Speaker 1: That's fair. It's like it's like Blair Witch. Okay, but
Speaker 1: I will say I was very impressed with the script
Speaker 1: and the power point presentation it did. It was funny.
Speaker 1: So I was like, you didn't think the cinematography was Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm used to. The writing was great, acting was great,
Speaker 1: But yeah, that that the cameraman, I have to give
Speaker 1: you a solid four and a half. All right, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fair, that's fair. I always want people to be
Speaker 1: honest with me. Another thing that I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: up is did you guys hear about Dr dre No?
Speaker 1: What happened with Dr? His wife file for divorce today,
Speaker 1: no pre nup. Dude's worth a billion dollars. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: gonna cost him bill. He's just gonna write a five
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar check being poor dude. That goes back
Speaker 1: to that goes back to the old Leddie Murphy bit
Speaker 1: about Johnny Carson and he's like, he's like Johnny Carson
Speaker 1: going to his divorce. He's like, I'm sure Johnny Carson
Speaker 1: had like three hundred million and had to give somebody
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty million because if you because if
Speaker 1: you had five dollars, you'd be upset if you had
Speaker 1: to give somebody to fifty. And he's got to give
Speaker 1: his wife a hundred and fifty million dollars. And he's like,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure she knew going in. He's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm Johnny's like, I know who you are. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a big that's a big big that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big divorce. I'm looking at some of the other
Speaker 1: guys on cameo looking at the cost. Charlie Sheens three
Speaker 1: fifty guaranteed he doesn't put the time that you put in.
Speaker 1: Should we start a fund just to rate them? That
Speaker 1: could be a bit on the show. Every week, we
Speaker 1: just rate a cameo. Let's order let's order a cameo. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's order a cameo. I'll fund I'll fund the cameo
Speaker 1: the cameo. That would be fantastic, and we can rank
Speaker 1: the cameo. That's a great idea. All right, well we'll
Speaker 1: do that. Well, then we can even start with this
Speaker 1: guy five bucks, Chris Gorham. He's an actor. See if
Speaker 1: he's on, why is Travis Hanson not on? Because nobody
Speaker 1: knows who I am? You're the Producer's a good podcast
Speaker 1: we're talking about. Oh he's been in. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I still come up. I feel like it's not even
Speaker 1: worth it. Why would he be on for five bucks
Speaker 1: because he's only he's gonna get what's seventive bucks he's
Speaker 1: getting Like he's best known for his ABC series Ugly Betty.
Speaker 1: I remember Rugly, but I don't I never watched it,
Speaker 1: but I know the show. Yeah, he's getting three seventy
Speaker 1: five cameo. It's not worth this time. Well, he's probably
Speaker 1: doing he's probably mailing in you know, he's what he
Speaker 1: probably is doing is all his are doing it just
Speaker 1: for fun. So it's like looking at one cameo, let's
Speaker 1: come up. Okay, So what we're gonna do is we're
Speaker 1: gonna I'll order the cameos will come up. We'll do
Speaker 1: a Charlie Sheen, a Chris squorum, and let's pick one
Speaker 1: more like a mid range one, and we'll see who
Speaker 1: what's the most bang for the buck the same script. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that, So we actually one
Speaker 1: in the in like the hundred. So this is gonna
Speaker 1: cost me. This is gonna cost me right to come
Speaker 1: up with this. But come on, in the middle of
Speaker 1: a pandemic, right, I'm not sure football, not sure I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have a job in the fall. But I'm spending
Speaker 1: five dred to to compare cameos bucks for Tommy Tiny Lister.
Speaker 1: Oh you know Tiny Lister is, of course from Friday
Speaker 1: the Debo Devo. Yeah, of course, you know. I actually
Speaker 1: like that, Okay, Arlie Debo and and make that list.
Speaker 1: We'll come up with us. We'll come up with a
Speaker 1: maybe we'll do like a happy Birthday. We'll come up
Speaker 1: my friend Joe, my friend Joe is having a birthday.
Speaker 1: He's been down, he's been down on his luck, lately,
Speaker 1: he's down with with everything that's going on in the world,
Speaker 1: and he really needs to pick me up. And and
Speaker 1: he is a big fan. I don't know how he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big fan of Charlie Gorn, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna come up with that and we'll see who comes
Speaker 1: up with the best cameo. Love good plan all right? Cool? Um?
Speaker 1: The other thing, you know what I was thinking about,
Speaker 1: we've we've talked about this, uh plan dancing and how
Speaker 1: white people really like plan dancing. Um, because if you
Speaker 1: if if you know, we're not allowed to I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is uh we talk about plan dancing. We have
Speaker 1: talked about plan dancing. But this you gotta be very
Speaker 1: careful about who we're saying enjoys planned dancing. Everybody good,
Speaker 1: everybody enjoys a good plan dance. I'm saying white people
Speaker 1: really gravitate to plan dancing because and we have we
Speaker 1: have video proof. If you tell us what to do,
Speaker 1: we can we can practice it. That's why on TikTok
Speaker 1: everybody's a good dancer. Oh my god, what is going everybody?
Speaker 1: Because it's a quick it's a quick snippet. You can
Speaker 1: practice it, you can get the moves down. The true
Speaker 1: indication of a good dancer is when it's not planned.
Speaker 1: Music comes on and you're just dance, You're just going,
Speaker 1: you're just dancing, just moving. That's how you know a
Speaker 1: good dancer between a good planned dancer. When you're at
Speaker 1: a bar or a club, not that any of us
Speaker 1: have been lately, or anywhere where music is playing, an
Speaker 1: outdoor festival, whatever, somebody's playing their radio loud, and you
Speaker 1: can tell who's a good dancer just in that moment,
Speaker 1: who has rhythm, who has the plan? Dancers are just
Speaker 1: that's all scripted. I agree. You know, we talked about
Speaker 1: this last summer. Plan. I've been talking about plan dancing
Speaker 1: for two summers now because of you know, to the Right,
Speaker 1: to the Right, that song every the dance floor just
Speaker 1: always gets overcrowded, and then like a good song to dance,
Speaker 1: who comes on dance floor is empty. But I didn't
Speaker 1: think about this. TikTok is really just planned dancing on
Speaker 1: an app. You just you just brought me to it.
Speaker 1: I just realized that anybody, anybody could do it. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's hard. I've done. My daughter tries to
Speaker 1: do some TikTok with me. She tries to have me
Speaker 1: to do TikTok's with her, and she's so good at
Speaker 1: it and it takes me a minute, and I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm actually a pretty good real life dancer, but
Speaker 1: I can't take her. You have been on soul Train
Speaker 1: more than once, so you guys know my dancing. I've
Speaker 1: I've won a contest we know, fifth grade Wyoming, which
Speaker 1: was probably which was probably you know, hey, a really
Speaker 1: stacked field there. Let's just say I'm better than I
Speaker 1: was then. So oh, so you've actually improved. That makes sense,
Speaker 1: you know what? I just um news brief. I just
Speaker 1: saw that the beaches are closing for Fourth of July
Speaker 1: weekend and people there, there's gonna be too many people.
Speaker 1: They close all the beaches for fourth of July. That
Speaker 1: makes sense because Fourth July is going to be a
Speaker 1: complete nobody cares and everybody's gonna So I think that
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense. Just just write the whole year off. Look,
Speaker 1: we're all, we're all healthy, we're we're all still so
Speaker 1: you know we let's where are you going? Where are
Speaker 1: you going? With the planned dancing thing? I just wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about what who's a good dancer? And who isn't.
Speaker 1: I have a theory on who's a good dancer. There's
Speaker 1: three types of dancers. Two are good, one is bad.
Speaker 1: So you have the guy who's like a really good dancer.
Speaker 1: He's you know, he could dance, so obviously he's a
Speaker 1: good dancer. Then you have the guy who's just out
Speaker 1: there having a blast, just throwing his arms around. He
Speaker 1: knows he's not a he doesn't he's not sexy. And watch.
Speaker 1: But the only bad yeah, the only bad dancer is
Speaker 1: the guy who thinks he's the good dancer, but he's
Speaker 1: not right he's doing these hip and shoulder movements. It's
Speaker 1: that guy is not a good dancer. And I know
Speaker 1: a couple of them. So that's my theory. And having
Speaker 1: fun having fun guy like no, I not, No one
Speaker 1: can fault that guy like that's fun, like any time,
Speaker 1: go with it. The one where you hold the back
Speaker 1: of your foot and whole stay weird oddly, you know.
Speaker 1: I love that guy doing the sprinkler and the guy
Speaker 1: doing the shopping cart. Those are my moves. Those are
Speaker 1: you That's why I win dance? Is that what you want?
Speaker 1: The dance contest with? Probably the sprinkler. I'm sure it
Speaker 1: was in there. I'm sure it was in there. I
Speaker 1: probably jumped over the leg. You know, you guys know
Speaker 1: that move where you hold the one leg and you
Speaker 1: jump over it like they called that the m R two.
Speaker 1: Did you know? I used to be able to do that.
Speaker 1: We we practiced that in my basement, Me and my
Speaker 1: brother and I used to be able to do the
Speaker 1: jump through the leg. The one going back over was
Speaker 1: always the one I couldn't do. I couldn't do the
Speaker 1: back when I could do the front one. That one
Speaker 1: was hard. I would go out on the limits that
Speaker 1: I probably could still do it. Well, yeah, you're so athletic.
Speaker 1: We'll put that on the when I kicked the field goal.
Speaker 1: We'll do that right after I make it my practice.
Speaker 1: I could if I just focused on that for the
Speaker 1: next couple of days, I could do it. But I don't.
Speaker 1: I've got too much other things going on. I'm jumping
Speaker 1: rope in my living room. So, speaking of good dancing,
Speaker 1: I've watched this show on the Discovery Channel about animals
Speaker 1: and so the I want you guys to think about
Speaker 1: because I was watching the show about sharks and predators,
Speaker 1: and when sharks were predators and when they were predated on,
Speaker 1: if that's a word, and it was insane, like sea
Speaker 1: lions attacking sharks, and so I made me think, like,
Speaker 1: what what's the scariest animal in the world, Like, what's
Speaker 1: the one animal that Let's come up with a list
Speaker 1: of animals and decide who's the who is the king
Speaker 1: of the hill, Who's what's the scariest animal? Animals? People
Speaker 1: love these animals, but they freaked me out. Is excuse me, horses?
Speaker 1: Horses freak me out. Yeah, you you can say that,
Speaker 1: you like camels freak you out. Don't stuff like rattlesnakes.
Speaker 1: That's scary. I'm talking about like serious scary animals. And
Speaker 1: what's the scariest I think, like grizzly bears, bears are
Speaker 1: up there? Many buffalo or scary, Like there's three water buffalo,
Speaker 1: those those water buffalo in Africa, those African buffalo, they
Speaker 1: have more the male, the male African buffalo has more
Speaker 1: testosterone than any other any other species on the planet.
Speaker 1: And you watch those things when lions, I mean they
Speaker 1: they will gore lions, they will defend their young. But
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking of because it got me thinking about
Speaker 1: sharks and sharks are scary. You know when Jaws first
Speaker 1: came out, that's one of the scariest movies. But it's
Speaker 1: in the water. You have to be in the water
Speaker 1: to go get it. You have to be in the water.
Speaker 1: So if I'm on land, a shark, I have no
Speaker 1: fear of a shark, right, if I'm if I'm in
Speaker 1: a boat, I have no fear of a shark unless
Speaker 1: it's the megalogon and and then you know, then we
Speaker 1: got problems. But I have no But it got me
Speaker 1: thinking about you know, crocodile that can be in the
Speaker 1: water and chase you down on land, right, or a
Speaker 1: hippopotamus that could be in both that that is responsible
Speaker 1: for more deaths m human deaths than any other animal
Speaker 1: in Africa. The hippopotamus. Um. You know what what other animals?
Speaker 1: The grizzly bear imagine being mall Remember the scene from
Speaker 1: The Revenant with uh with Leonardo DiCaprio. Amazing that that
Speaker 1: scene is. It makes It's like if you got malled
Speaker 1: by a bear, it felt like that was what it
Speaker 1: would look like like and he wouldn't survive. But a
Speaker 1: grizzly bear, a polar bear like that shit is crazy,
Speaker 1: not even to mention, like Travis said, the snakes or
Speaker 1: like the spiders, like like a tarantula is a scary
Speaker 1: not that they could kill you necessarily, but it's a
Speaker 1: scary scary. Oh, dude, I know which one is Number one,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, the Caucasian rattlesnake. Caucasian rattlesnake. Well, by far,
Speaker 1: the human beings are the scariest. And it hasn't been
Speaker 1: much mention of the Caucasian rattlesnake recently, rattles been caged.
Speaker 1: He's been, but I don't know, Like I was thinking,
Speaker 1: even in the in the water that the shark isn't
Speaker 1: even they were showing killer whales, dude, killer whales are
Speaker 1: crazy killer whales. They were showing killer whales working as
Speaker 1: a team. They are intelligent and they were literally they
Speaker 1: would smack the water with their their fin too, shock
Speaker 1: the shark its senses, and then eat then eat the
Speaker 1: shock the like like the stuff that they do, like
Speaker 1: the intelligence that they have. Um, it's just crazy. We
Speaker 1: need to end this quarantine. We need to end this
Speaker 1: because you're starting You're starting to go places that I'm
Speaker 1: that are starting to scare me a little bit. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, And there's a lot going on this brain.
Speaker 1: There you go, there's your segue, Brandon Blandina Wow, and
Speaker 1: and there he is. Yeah, name dropped being god damn it,
Speaker 1: we can't even talk. What was that? Name dropping? Now?
Speaker 1: Your location dropping? Oh so somebody that's like that's like
Speaker 1: on Facebook or on Twitter or on social media Instagram.
Speaker 1: It's not like you were hanging out with you know,
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise last night. That's like I went to Mastros. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like Joe waiting Mastros or you know, you know
Speaker 1: flu you know, Oh, Charles de gall The security lines
Speaker 1: of Charles de gall are so long. It's in the spring,
Speaker 1: you know. It's like it's like the location dropping is,
Speaker 1: especially on Instagram, is outrageous. Any girl that's been to
Speaker 1: catch l A has a picture of her in front
Speaker 1: of that door. And if you go to Mastro's Malibu,
Speaker 1: you you better be damn you're stopping taking a picture
Speaker 1: in front of that blue you know, the blue sign.
Speaker 1: I don't do that. You always that's all we do.
Speaker 1: Now it's like it's like, what are we This is
Speaker 1: these little snippets of it's literally it's literally one less
Speaker 1: than one percent point zero zero zero six percent of
Speaker 1: our life right that we're gonna spend at Mastros or
Speaker 1: we're gonna spend it the Eiffel Tower. We're gonna spend it.
Speaker 1: But that's what you'll see on Instagram, and that's what
Speaker 1: you'll see because we're putting our what what are our
Speaker 1: best foot what we believe to be our best foot
Speaker 1: forward and here this is our amazing life when our
Speaker 1: life is me sitting watching TV, or me sitting at
Speaker 1: my computer doing work, or me, you know, playing with
Speaker 1: my kids. Um dude, I've had a whole rant about this.
Speaker 1: I don't remember where if it was recorded or not,
Speaker 1: Probably not because I don't record stuff very often, but
Speaker 1: I remember it's like you go to mass Rows and
Speaker 1: you tag yourself in your location. Look where I'm at.
Speaker 1: You don't. I've never seen anybody tag like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: at Wendy's getting you know a double Padmart? You know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: deep Land. You know, just checked in the target, right,
Speaker 1: even targets a little bit of a people love target now.
Speaker 1: But I'm talking like like you would maybe checking the target,
Speaker 1: but you would never check in at Walmart. It's this
Speaker 1: weird socio economic thing I think we should. Walmart targets
Speaker 1: higher than Walmart. Dude, that's like a that's a that's
Speaker 1: a real thing. Just like people. Costco is like a
Speaker 1: bigger flex than than Sam's Club. We should flip the
Speaker 1: script and every time. Dude, this is Marona. What are
Speaker 1: the what are the fees? What are the what are
Speaker 1: the yearly fees? For me? Can you can? I? Can
Speaker 1: I put that on? Like I'm not on dating dating apps,
Speaker 1: but if I do go on a dating app, can
Speaker 1: I put that on my profile? I go to Costco?
Speaker 1: Just say what you would say? And have you say
Speaker 1: Costco over Sam's? I would say Costco over Sam's. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I go when I'm not when I'm not having when
Speaker 1: I'm not having dinner at Mastro's in Malibu six times,
Speaker 1: six nights a week. I'm usually shopping at Target and
Speaker 1: Costco people put Away, not Walmart and and uh Sam's Club. Target. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm telling so Sam's clubs forty five dollars annually and
Speaker 1: Costco sixty dollars. Boom. We see that's a flex. Dude,
Speaker 1: that's an extra fans. Hey, listen, I'm gonna do the
Speaker 1: ultimate flex, right, I've got a membership the year, come
Speaker 1: at me, boom. I'm telling you we should change it up.
Speaker 1: And every time we go to somewhere like very basic
Speaker 1: seven eleven grabbing, grabbing a water, the seven eleven brand,
Speaker 1: like we're I'm gonna start checking in every time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: seven eleven. You know that's how champion, that's how champion popular. Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: next week, here's the deal. This week, let's see who
Speaker 1: can come up with the best worst flex. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you've got to do it on on, let's do it on.
Speaker 1: Do you have Instagram? Travis No, Well, I once had
Speaker 1: a friend tell me I've never done anything in my
Speaker 1: life because I've never put anything online. Clearly you haven't
Speaker 1: done anything to have it. So let's see you can
Speaker 1: come up with the best worst flex. Like, all right,
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