Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey, what's up? Another episode of Good Calls,
Speaker 1: Um Dean Blandino. As always, I'm joined by the Caucasian
Speaker 1: rattle stake, Travis Hands and Travis what's up? What's up?
Speaker 1: How are you look at your beautiful backyard? And I
Speaker 1: love it. I want to come over and and sit
Speaker 1: six ft from you and have a have an adult bet.
Speaker 1: We'll set up the lawn chairs and we can and
Speaker 1: relax with the lights on. If you just like Wyoming,
Speaker 1: like you and your boys and Wyoming listening to coyotes
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Yeah, we'll get some curs light
Speaker 1: or how we say in Wyoming curs light and uh,
Speaker 1: and we'll try to start some things on fire. I
Speaker 1: like it and I like how it goes. And Joe Madrid,
Speaker 1: Joe was always keeping it, holding it down. From a
Speaker 1: technical standpoint. We couldn't do the show without him. Joe,
Speaker 1: what's up? Wow? Thank you? That's validation. I really could
Speaker 1: use that today. That's a that's a compliment. So make
Speaker 1: a note, jot jot it down that you've got to compliment.
Speaker 1: On April fourteen, at whatever time, it is right now.
Speaker 1: So alright, Travis, update US day whatever it is of quarantine.
Speaker 1: Obviously we were still in the middle of this thing.
Speaker 1: What you know, what's the latest this past week in
Speaker 1: terms of cancelations, updates, suspensions, whatever it is. What's happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some of the things that cut my I was the
Speaker 1: XFL file for bankruptcy, which is is sad to see
Speaker 1: and they pulled the plug on that altogether. It's disappointed.
Speaker 1: I really liked what what they were doing this year,
Speaker 1: and I know, I know you were heavily involved with that,
Speaker 1: so you can you can chime in if you want,
Speaker 1: or we can wait until I go through a few
Speaker 1: if you get to the Yeah, well, Vegas they're still hopeful.
Speaker 1: I got bugs flying around on mean, Vegas is still hopeful.
Speaker 1: They'll get the stadium UM built for the Raiders this season,
Speaker 1: and if they don't, they've they've started making some calls
Speaker 1: about possible places they can play. Um A story that
Speaker 1: that kind of made me sad. And seeing the the
Speaker 1: Coyotes they furloughed half of their employees, so um, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing that the team starting to shut down makes you
Speaker 1: makes you really sad that you know, maybe this is
Speaker 1: something that's gonna keep going. And they know that that's
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be any season, or their gut feeling
Speaker 1: is there's not gonna be a season. So and if
Speaker 1: if they do come back, they think that possibly there's
Speaker 1: you know, there's no chance they're gonna make any kind
Speaker 1: of playoff push or or if they pick up, they
Speaker 1: pick up. If the seedings are what they are now,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna make the playoffs. So they're just they're
Speaker 1: shutting it down. So it's sad. And yet you probably
Speaker 1: see UH more teams do that here soon and UM
Speaker 1: the NHL they're self quarantining. They've extended that and you know,
Speaker 1: talking more NHL another another two weeks essentially from the
Speaker 1: fifteenth of this month to the thirtie UM MLB man
Speaker 1: for his uh A Fox Business interview, UM talking about
Speaker 1: baseball won't return and tell the public health improves UM
Speaker 1: and then they are also uh Manford and senior staff
Speaker 1: they're taking resoot reduced pay for and uh and half
Speaker 1: of their now continue to pay their employees through May
Speaker 1: thirty one. So that's kind of that's kind of some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that I've seen. Obviously a lot going on,
Speaker 1: and you hate to hear about like furloughs and people
Speaker 1: taking pay cuts and things like that, but obviously people
Speaker 1: have to make business decisions and there's so much uncertainty
Speaker 1: and speaking you know, with with knowledge of what happened
Speaker 1: with the XFL, and this was something you know, I
Speaker 1: think as us few is like, you know, a week
Speaker 1: a weekend and a half ago, the XFL, you know,
Speaker 1: everything that was happening communicated was that they were gonna
Speaker 1: play one, and obviously they suspended for for good reason
Speaker 1: like everybody else. But the plans were let's start preparing
Speaker 1: for one. And that was like a week and a
Speaker 1: half two weeks ago, and then obviously the news that
Speaker 1: that they shut down. There was um o'liver lock the commissioner,
Speaker 1: you know, he was he was relieved of his duties first,
Speaker 1: and Oliver was the guy that you know, we all
Speaker 1: signed up you know for you know, I worked with
Speaker 1: Oliver for a long time and he was one of
Speaker 1: the reasons um that I signed on and uh and
Speaker 1: so with Oliver out of the mix, and then they
Speaker 1: made the decision. They had a conference call with with
Speaker 1: all of their staff and said they were shutting down
Speaker 1: and they were letting everybody go, and it didn't sound
Speaker 1: like I wasn't on the call, but I talked to
Speaker 1: enough people who worked it didn't sound like, um, they
Speaker 1: were going to be plans to play in one or
Speaker 1: even beyond that, which which you know, I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it from a business perspective. You know, Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon has has really put a lot of resources into this,
Speaker 1: and I know he was dedicated to this, But but
Speaker 1: who could who could prepare for something like this? Who
Speaker 1: could sit there when you're when you're creating a startup
Speaker 1: and thinking about a spring football league and say, well,
Speaker 1: we have to we have to make sure that we
Speaker 1: have a contingency in case there's a pandemic in the
Speaker 1: world shuts down. And so I don't think anybody could
Speaker 1: have prepared for this. And when you think about how
Speaker 1: the w w E has been impacted, and think about
Speaker 1: the w w E, think about all the sports, whether
Speaker 1: you want to call it sports or sports entertainment, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, think about all the things we watch in
Speaker 1: that realm. It's it's really only one that doesn't have
Speaker 1: an off season. The ww is putting on events on
Speaker 1: a weekly basis, twelve months out of the year, you know,
Speaker 1: and multiple events. You know, they do Raw and SmackDown
Speaker 1: every week they do they do you know, SummerSlam and
Speaker 1: WrestleMania and all these other events. There's no offseason, and
Speaker 1: they obviously, you know, I think they made a business
Speaker 1: decision at look, what what's more important at this point
Speaker 1: in the future of the w w E or keeping
Speaker 1: the xfl afloat. And again, I don't know if that
Speaker 1: ultimately was why they made the decision, but I can
Speaker 1: just speculate that that had something to do with it,
Speaker 1: because right now, yeah, they're still putting on events. They
Speaker 1: still had WrestleMania, but it's not the same when you
Speaker 1: don't have those full arenas and you can't do it
Speaker 1: to the extent that they're used to doing it. So,
Speaker 1: you know, to me, it's like he had to make
Speaker 1: a decision, you know, the future of w w E
Speaker 1: or keeping the xfl afloat, And to me, I would
Speaker 1: make the same decision. It sucks because you had, you know,
Speaker 1: from players who who this was there, you know, probably
Speaker 1: their last opportunity to get back to the NFL, or
Speaker 1: to ever make it to the NFL full time employees.
Speaker 1: That that left other jobs to go work for the
Speaker 1: XFL because they believed in it. Uh And and you know,
Speaker 1: official is that that were there, all of these people,
Speaker 1: and what the biggest shames that it was working. You know,
Speaker 1: people liked it and it had a bright future. I
Speaker 1: really believe that. And it just takes something so extraordinary
Speaker 1: to to end it like this, and to end it abruptly,
Speaker 1: and and it's just you know, everyone I talked to,
Speaker 1: I talked to Oliver Luck and Sam Schwartztein, who was
Speaker 1: was a big part on the football operation side, and
Speaker 1: the big the one biggest emotion is just sadness. You know,
Speaker 1: they're just sad that it couldn't continue. And uh and again,
Speaker 1: and I know, you know, it's not just the XFL.
Speaker 1: So many people are being impacted that by this right
Speaker 1: now outside of the sports world, and uh and again,
Speaker 1: it's just so extraordinary and it's so um something that
Speaker 1: we just got to continue to work through and hope
Speaker 1: that you know, this ends sooner rather than later and
Speaker 1: we can get to you know, everybody back to work
Speaker 1: and back to what they're used to doing and and
Speaker 1: see what the new normal looks like. So, you know,
Speaker 1: again from an XFL standpoint, it sucks, but um, it
Speaker 1: is what it is, and you know, who knows what
Speaker 1: will happen down the line at that point. Um, you
Speaker 1: mentioned Vegas. You know I read that that there's if
Speaker 1: the Vegas stadium, if the NFL season starts on time
Speaker 1: in the Vegas stadium, isn't isn't ready that they're they're
Speaker 1: looking at other They're looking at potentially San Diego, Phoenix.
Speaker 1: I think there was one other city. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember, but there there was definitely talk of
Speaker 1: three potential neutral sites that Vegas could play home games
Speaker 1: at UM in lieu of having the new stadium in Vegas. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it's again so much uncertainty and uh and we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to, you know, kind of work through it. And
Speaker 1: uh and I see Joe, Is that Steve? Is that
Speaker 1: Steve waving at us D? Thank you? I didn't realice
Speaker 1: so he was, Joe, be careful. He was less than
Speaker 1: six feet from you. Come on, he's across the man,
Speaker 1: He's across the street. But somehow he's in here right now.
Speaker 1: Rating my first, let's stick with sports. Travis talk to
Speaker 1: me talking of the w w E. Interesting developments in Florida.
Speaker 1: What what is that about. Yeah, so they deemed they
Speaker 1: in Florida, they deemed the w w E as an
Speaker 1: essential service. So they're gonna return to live programming. Um,
Speaker 1: they had been doing tapes programmings. So yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: that's because of the the economic factor involved. That's that's
Speaker 1: deemed necessary and essential essential business. So they're coming coming
Speaker 1: back with live programming. You know, it's an interesting as
Speaker 1: we think about state governments and how the federal government
Speaker 1: is is you know, involved in all this because the
Speaker 1: states obviously have you know, different different restrictions in places.
Speaker 1: Having more states are gonna you know, are gonna take
Speaker 1: that lead and make other things because you think about
Speaker 1: the economy and getting everything working again. Obviously, Look, the
Speaker 1: w w w E is not an essential business. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's just not. No, you know, like I can we
Speaker 1: it all live and breathe and and and spend the
Speaker 1: rest of our lives without the w w E unlike
Speaker 1: you know, hospitals and healthcare and all of that. But
Speaker 1: that's an economic decision, and it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: how many more states take that lead, because again, you know,
Speaker 1: every state has been impacted differently, and um, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's so like nothing in our lifetime has been like this,
Speaker 1: and so it's just, for lack of a better term,
Speaker 1: it's fascinating to see how this all plays out. But
Speaker 1: hopefully again, you know, back to Rob Manfred from the MLB,
Speaker 1: I think most people are taking the stance, whether it's
Speaker 1: college football, the NFL, you know, the other professional sports
Speaker 1: leagues that when it's safe in terms of the public,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to get out and and interact
Speaker 1: with each other, that's when I think we'll start to
Speaker 1: see um sports come back and and these professional leagues
Speaker 1: start going again. And I think that's obviously the right approach.
Speaker 1: And uh and so it's really you know, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: The other thing that that just it's fascinating. We talked
Speaker 1: about it a couple of weeks ago, this eye racing,
Speaker 1: and I know Foxes is big into this, and they're
Speaker 1: showing these virtual races with drivers um you know, in
Speaker 1: their homes with you know, they're they're driving their their
Speaker 1: steering wheel connected to their computer. But this is this
Speaker 1: is it's virtual racing, but this is having some real
Speaker 1: life implications because we've had two drivers Bubba people, Bubble Wallace,
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, rage course the race because
Speaker 1: he gets into a virtual crash and he's piste and
Speaker 1: he quits. He loses a couple of sponsors. And then
Speaker 1: just over the weekend, Kyle Lawson drops the N word
Speaker 1: in the middle of a race and he suspended indefinitely.
Speaker 1: This is if I'm a NASCAR driver right now, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing these rtual racist because I'm gonna lose
Speaker 1: my virtual job if something goes wrong. It's crazy to
Speaker 1: think in the middle of a pandemic, somebody and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you watched it or you saw what happened,
Speaker 1: it's didn't see it, but I gotta check it out.
Speaker 1: I don't think he realized. But the reaction of the
Speaker 1: other drivers was like, dude, you just we heard that.
Speaker 1: They were like yeah, They're like you know that everybody
Speaker 1: could hear this right right. It's like that feeling like hey,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Why are you even saying that?
Speaker 1: But be like that's like you know you have you
Speaker 1: ever like in accord setting, have you ever meant to
Speaker 1: to it's a it's a mass male And have you
Speaker 1: ever like just wanted to reply to one person? You replied,
Speaker 1: all is that you know that because that's the type
Speaker 1: of thing and you say something completely idiotic and then
Speaker 1: and that's what the reaction was, like, dude, we can
Speaker 1: hear that, Like, what the f is going on? So
Speaker 1: it is I'm telling you man to get to get
Speaker 1: in trouble during a pandemic and do something stupid. It's
Speaker 1: just it's gotta be I mean, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what he's feeling like right now,
Speaker 1: but it can't be very good. Um. And then, Travis,
Speaker 1: you mentioned talk to me about Taiwanese baseball. What's happening
Speaker 1: there that sounds so interesting? But I saw a story
Speaker 1: that they they're gonna start up their games again and
Speaker 1: in the stands there they have mannequins and cardboard cutouts,
Speaker 1: and I saw some of the pictures from this. They
Speaker 1: have uh yeah, the the fans, the fans I use
Speaker 1: hand quotes here, have masks on and they're sitting in
Speaker 1: the stands and they're all kind of in different sections.
Speaker 1: And then you have so there's cheerleaders in Taiwanese baseball,
Speaker 1: So then you have the cheerleaders posing with the standout
Speaker 1: or with the mannequins. No I swear it's it's great.
Speaker 1: You gotta gotta look like building those mannequins like it
Speaker 1: would be like I want to. I guarantee you if
Speaker 1: I was building those mannequins, you know, you know who
Speaker 1: would be one of the mannequins, right, and he'd be
Speaker 1: in every set. Who Who's been Who's been invading our world?
Speaker 1: And our guy Wood would would be in every section.
Speaker 1: He'd be eating a hot dog. He'd be waving you know,
Speaker 1: the big the big finger, you know, all the foam
Speaker 1: finger would would be everywhere if I were doing this,
Speaker 1: if I were doing the cardboard cutouts. So but it's
Speaker 1: good to see in other parts of the world. You know,
Speaker 1: I read that there's places, you know, the Czech Republic,
Speaker 1: there's other places that are starting to loosen some of
Speaker 1: these restrictions. So social distancing is working. We just gotta
Speaker 1: stay the course, stay home unless you absolutely have to
Speaker 1: get out there. And uh and again thank you to
Speaker 1: all of the first responders, the health workers, the doctors,
Speaker 1: the nurses, everybody, the people that are working in grocery stores.
Speaker 1: That I talked to a high school official who you know,
Speaker 1: I started mentoring and uh, you know he's working obviously
Speaker 1: high school. He can't work. You know, he does baseball,
Speaker 1: he does football, and he works in the grocery store.
Speaker 1: And he just tells me that, you know, it's stressful,
Speaker 1: and to everyone out there that's doing that so that
Speaker 1: we can sit at home and uh and the worst
Speaker 1: thing that we got to deal with is boredom. That
Speaker 1: we can get the necessities that we need. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, and UH and again I hope
Speaker 1: we get you know, get through this sooner rather than later. Um.
Speaker 1: And then Cleveland Brown's uniforms, Travis, what's that all about? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they announced that they're gonna unveil their new uniforms on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and the first wave of sales they're gonna donate all
Speaker 1: that to UH COVID nineteen and and it is the Browns.
Speaker 1: So you know, I wish you wish it would be
Speaker 1: you know, if it was like the Patriots or the Packers,
Speaker 1: we might get a little more for COVID research. The Browns,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like where are the Browns in terms
Speaker 1: of the thirty two? Like if you have to pick
Speaker 1: one team to say, the sales of this jersey, would
Speaker 1: you know is going to help? You know? Solve this issue.
Speaker 1: What team would it pay? Jop It would be the
Speaker 1: Cowboys with that, sorry he said, Joe. Yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: forget about Cowboys. Let's say who's number two. I'd say
Speaker 1: um Raiders. Their fans are pretty hardcore. Or no, actually,
Speaker 1: now I'd go Steelers, Steelers, Steelers right there, I think
Speaker 1: the Bucks. I think the Bucks should jump on board
Speaker 1: with this and just all the all the Tom Brady
Speaker 1: sales should go to COVID Research. I agree. Although Tom
Speaker 1: is like Tom stot stupid, He's a pretty savvy businessman.
Speaker 1: He I know he's trying to let copyright a couple
Speaker 1: of things like Tampa Bay Brady or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: Tompa Tampa Bay and Tampa Brady like like Tompa Bay
Speaker 1: sounds like something I don't know, like in in Southeast Asia,
Speaker 1: something I don't know. That's weird. I think the question
Speaker 1: is all right, so this is the other city? Is
Speaker 1: Salt Lake in Utah? That would be cool to the Raiders.
Speaker 1: That was the other one. Who's gonna raise more money
Speaker 1: for COVID is It's gonna be uh deansos or the
Speaker 1: Brown Jersey sales. I have every one of my cameos everyone,
Speaker 1: public service announcement. Every one of my cameos right now,
Speaker 1: I charge twenty five dollars of cameo, which if you
Speaker 1: go on cameo and you look at bargain people Joe Travis,
Speaker 1: who are some of these people that are charging like
Speaker 1: to pop are not worth two in the work you
Speaker 1: are getting. Look at my ratings. I am on a
Speaker 1: five star streak for it. Maybe the best value on
Speaker 1: the internet right now. I'm just saying I put a
Speaker 1: lot of time and effort into it. There's props, there's soundtracks,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that go into this. For bucks,
Speaker 1: it's worth trust me, And it's gonna go to COVID Research. Um.
Speaker 1: I usually give it to uh, you know, some other charities,
Speaker 1: but right now, obviously that's gonna be first and foremost. Um,
Speaker 1: So hit me up cameo and and I'm also available.
Speaker 1: You know. I just had a I had a zoom
Speaker 1: call with a couple of guys that I met, you know,
Speaker 1: through cameo. I did their draft order for their fantasy
Speaker 1: football draft. Had a had a call with them last week,
Speaker 1: a zoom call. Um, I've got to come up with
Speaker 1: one of the guy's names in the league. His name
Speaker 1: was more than a feeling, okay, and I completely nixed
Speaker 1: that name because it's so like, that's like you look
Speaker 1: up on Google, you know, funny fantasy football names. So
Speaker 1: he he can no longer be more than a feeling feeling.
Speaker 1: And I told him I was going to rename his team.
Speaker 1: So we got to think about a good name for
Speaker 1: this guy's team. And I'm trying to get just some information.
Speaker 1: His name is John. He's a Vikings fan. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try to come up with and I need someone
Speaker 1: put from you guys on on renaming his fantasy football
Speaker 1: team because he I will not let him go into
Speaker 1: the season with more than a feeling. Great player I like,
Speaker 1: I like, but I don't want to name I don't
Speaker 1: want to name my team after him. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's take a break and uh and
Speaker 1: when we come back, we're gonna talk a little NFL competition,
Speaker 1: commit the update, college football rules update and uh and
Speaker 1: we'll get into that next on good calls. All right,
Speaker 1: we're back on big calls obviously. You know the next
Speaker 1: when you think about big events sports wise, during this time,
Speaker 1: what we be in you know, the NHL season would
Speaker 1: be coming to a close, NBA not soon after that, Um,
Speaker 1: not too far after that, we'd have baseball, you know,
Speaker 1: middle of you know, starting to get into you know,
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks of the season. But the NFL
Speaker 1: Draft right April has been the NFL has really done
Speaker 1: a great job of the offseason. Marquee event has been
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft. And obviously this has been impacted, like
Speaker 1: everything else by quarantine and what's happening around the country
Speaker 1: and around the world. So, Travis, what's the latest on
Speaker 1: the draft? What is the draft gonna look like? Sound like,
Speaker 1: where is it taking place? Walk us through what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So it's obviously not gonna be in Vegas like everyone
Speaker 1: had hope. Uh, you know, that's that's been news for
Speaker 1: a while. Um, it's you're gonna see the commissioner from
Speaker 1: his basement announcing the first round picks, which will be
Speaker 1: really cool. Um, you've got fifty eight different prospects. With
Speaker 1: what's called like a draft kit, which is essentially a camera.
Speaker 1: They're probably gonna be skyping with the productions that are
Speaker 1: gonna be out of Bristol, Um where NFL Network and
Speaker 1: ESPN are gonna be UM taking part in a joint
Speaker 1: broadcast of of the the event. You're gonna see it
Speaker 1: on ESPN and NFL network, Like I said, also another
Speaker 1: version on ABC where they've where they've done things a
Speaker 1: little more interactive with fans on UH on the network
Speaker 1: level for them UM and it's Uh. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty cool though. I think you're gonna you're
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of stuff. Um. You have you
Speaker 1: have mel kiper Still, you have Daniel Jeremiah who does
Speaker 1: a great job for anfil network. You're gonna see a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of great people talk about talk
Speaker 1: about these athletes, and it's it's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great show. I think they'll they'll they'll combine
Speaker 1: their their thoughts and put it all in as a
Speaker 1: night as a nice show. I'm excited for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. You know, you think about the draft and
Speaker 1: think about a normal draft, it's a lot of just
Speaker 1: you know, popp and circumstance with the players. What do
Speaker 1: you end up seeing. Yeah, you get to see the
Speaker 1: players that are there with their families, they're sitting in
Speaker 1: a green room. There's always some drama, somebody drops like
Speaker 1: an Aaron Rodgers and now we're showing him. But really
Speaker 1: the meat and potatoes of the draft is the analysis,
Speaker 1: right and we can still do that. We can steal
Speaker 1: here from you know, mel kiper and and and all
Speaker 1: of these, all of these you know, college football and
Speaker 1: draft experts, and it's the game film and showing highlights.
Speaker 1: And I don't think we're gonna miss a lot of that.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see more of it, obviously. And
Speaker 1: then with these draft kids you mentioned, you know, and
Speaker 1: talked to a lot of my former colleagues at the
Speaker 1: NFL and the I T department. They were putting together
Speaker 1: these draft kick kits and sending them out to you know,
Speaker 1: the draft picks you know that, you know, the people
Speaker 1: that they anticipate and setting them up at home and
Speaker 1: going through this process. So I think the draft, I
Speaker 1: think it's people are gonna really like it. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be you know, obviously not ideal and under
Speaker 1: not ideal circumstances, I think it's gonna be the best
Speaker 1: potential scenario. Um. One of the things I did read
Speaker 1: is is what's funny is they're saying that they don't
Speaker 1: want so the draft pick at home and obviously you
Speaker 1: know this is a big moment for them, and so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have family and friends. But the NFL is saying,
Speaker 1: don't have more than six people in the shop. So
Speaker 1: so what is the over under on draft picks that
Speaker 1: get You know, somebody's uncle or somebody's cousin has been
Speaker 1: waiting for this and they're gonna jump in the shot.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be one guy that just has eighteen people
Speaker 1: in the shot, and people are gonna lose their minds
Speaker 1: because these guys they've been waiting and whoever it is
Speaker 1: is wants to be in that shot. And I guarantee
Speaker 1: you somebody's gonna sneak in when they're only supposed to
Speaker 1: have six in the shot, without a doubt that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You think about what happened with Dak Prescott in over
Speaker 1: the weekend and him having a birthday party, and they
Speaker 1: said there was upwards of thirty people there. So you
Speaker 1: know for a fact, these guys are gonna have their
Speaker 1: said Dak met with the cowboys and he said it
Speaker 1: was six people or something or seven people. He said
Speaker 1: it was less than so I get I'm sure that
Speaker 1: it was less than ten again, and what's there was
Speaker 1: a buffet. It looked like it was enough for thirty people.
Speaker 1: That and I'm sure Zeke is one too because he
Speaker 1: has a good track record of it was there. So
Speaker 1: and the thing is what's interesting, and this has been
Speaker 1: something and this has been a point of contention around
Speaker 1: the league. And you talk to gms and and and
Speaker 1: everything else. Um, then the NFL is strict on this.
Speaker 1: You are not. They are saying you cannot be the
Speaker 1: head coach and the GM, even if they live next
Speaker 1: door to each other, cannot be in the same home.
Speaker 1: If you don't cohabitate, you can't be in the same home.
Speaker 1: So and this was asked. They had conference calls, they
Speaker 1: had memos, everything, and this was asked by a club, Hey,
Speaker 1: can Jerry and Stephen Jones be in the same in
Speaker 1: the same home. And the answer was no, they don't
Speaker 1: live together. They can't be in the same home. So
Speaker 1: every coach will have a set up, the GM will
Speaker 1: have a set up, the you know, the player personnel,
Speaker 1: all of those will have their set ups, but they
Speaker 1: cannot be in what they normally have, that draft room
Speaker 1: where everybody's together, and they will have they'll have secure
Speaker 1: lines for for trades. They'll have a secure line um
Speaker 1: to get the pick in and and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to how you know, because you think about just
Speaker 1: technology and things. You know what if somebody's internet goes
Speaker 1: out at their home, you know what if if they're
Speaker 1: sitting there, what happens then? Are they Is it like
Speaker 1: a fantasy football draft where somebody cuts out and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we gotta wait for draft back. You know, he's gotta
Speaker 1: he's gotta play. It's gonna restart his router. So Bradford,
Speaker 1: you're imagining, I don't want to drafty brad You're imagining, like,
Speaker 1: you know who, who would be the funniest coach? Like
Speaker 1: if Bill Belichick? Can you imagine him in his basement
Speaker 1: on his hands and knees like I'm plugging his router
Speaker 1: and plugging in fact in the photo, the I T
Speaker 1: guy he can make his draft pick. It's so like
Speaker 1: you just think about these different things. It's just so unusual.
Speaker 1: I think, again, Yeah, so are you gonna be on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys party bus for the draft? He's not allowed. No,
Speaker 1: But I have a serious question though I did see
Speaker 1: a story about a mock draft they're gonna have. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like a similar like NFC football mock
Speaker 1: draft that they're gonna Do you have any more details
Speaker 1: on that? I I don't have a lot of details
Speaker 1: on that. Um. You know, you think about a mock draft,
Speaker 1: it's again, it's just so bizarre. And the thing these
Speaker 1: teams are so secretive and they're so detective over their
Speaker 1: own stuff, and so this whole set up and it's
Speaker 1: gonna take more, you know, just collaboration and different things. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't think the draft presentation it's really gonna suffer
Speaker 1: that much, you know, I really don't. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be cool. Like we're gonna get to see Roger
Speaker 1: Goodell's basement, you know, like what is that? Does he
Speaker 1: have a pool table people there? Before? I've never been.
Speaker 1: I've never been to his home in Bronxville. Um, but
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be you're in his basement, Like just
Speaker 1: that's cool on its own. Or seeing these you know,
Speaker 1: seeing Joe Burrow in his own environment and seeing you know,
Speaker 1: and if we get cameras to see some of these clubs,
Speaker 1: and and and and and you know, these these coaches,
Speaker 1: these gms, and so that's just kind of cool. And
Speaker 1: and so I think I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: cool experience. Uh and uh. And we'll just see how
Speaker 1: it plays out. We'll see how it how it runs,
Speaker 1: and if it runs as smoothly as when it happens
Speaker 1: with everybody. I always watched the draft for the fashion.
Speaker 1: I hope these guys are gonna get all dressed up
Speaker 1: like they usually do. Yeah, that's a good point. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna be as dressed up. I
Speaker 1: really don't they're gonna be like I don't think if
Speaker 1: I would get you know, I don't think I would
Speaker 1: break out the you know, the five thousand dollar you
Speaker 1: go boss or whatever it is to sit in my
Speaker 1: living room with you know, with my family. But who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe somebody will do something creative and uh and we'll
Speaker 1: get like the rest of us, which sweatpant combo I
Speaker 1: wear today? You know? Oh man, I try to. I've
Speaker 1: been having these zoom calls with with Replay officials and
Speaker 1: that's the only thing that that allowed that makes me
Speaker 1: change my outfit every because I don't want them to
Speaker 1: see me in the same outfit. But other than that,
Speaker 1: what are you're rocking right now? Are you going velvet
Speaker 1: right now? Is that? Just? Does that? Velt it? But
Speaker 1: it's nice. This is actually one of my better Um
Speaker 1: had this today on the meetings. It's um, I forget
Speaker 1: what prayer it is, but it's uh, it's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's a it's not cashmir, but it's something.
Speaker 1: Another thing I'm looking enough about your sweatshirt. Another thing
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to in the draft is these feature
Speaker 1: departments for these networks. They'll they'll have features we didn't
Speaker 1: mention that they've been working, you know, tirelessly on getting
Speaker 1: these features cut and they did a ton of stuff
Speaker 1: that combine and they always get an opportunity to sit
Speaker 1: down with all those athletes at that at that event,
Speaker 1: and they put together amazing things so we can get
Speaker 1: to know these players. And I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 1: that as well. Yeah, I think I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be cool. I really do. I think we're gonna see
Speaker 1: stuff that we're not used to seeing, and uh, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be pretty cool. I'm glad they're doing it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I know some teams are you know they're
Speaker 1: not happy about necessarily how it's being done. But look again,
Speaker 1: I keep saying, it's extraordinary circumstances, so we just gotta,
Speaker 1: you know, try to try to work through it. Um.
Speaker 1: That being said, let's talk a little bit about you know,
Speaker 1: the Competition Committee update. The plan is um to uh
Speaker 1: you know, they had another long call. Obviously they can't
Speaker 1: meet in person. The plan is to vote on these
Speaker 1: proposals at the May meeting, which is middle to the
Speaker 1: end of May. UM And really the interesting thing, look,
Speaker 1: here's the bottom line, UM replay the replay rule from
Speaker 1: last year. The Competition Committee was nine oh against reproposing it.
Speaker 1: And that is unprecedented. Never in my experience, and I've
Speaker 1: been involved with the NFL since, and I've talked to people,
Speaker 1: my mentor Joel Busser, he is the NFL's historian. We've talked,
Speaker 1: if not every day, every other day, and never in
Speaker 1: his recollection has a one year rule change gone in
Speaker 1: one year and the next year the Competition Committee was
Speaker 1: unity unanimously against putting it back up for a vote.
Speaker 1: That's how bad that rule failed. Okay, and I think
Speaker 1: we all saw the writing on the wall initially, how
Speaker 1: it went in, how it was applied throughout the season,
Speaker 1: and to think about thirty one to one, okay, that
Speaker 1: it passed prior to the two thousand nineteen season to
Speaker 1: nine oh nine members of the Competition Committee member nine
Speaker 1: oh unanimous, not even to put it up for another vote. Okay.
Speaker 1: That is an epic, epic failure. When you talk about
Speaker 1: that rule and where does that leave us? It leaves
Speaker 1: us with if nothing else gets implemented. And there are
Speaker 1: two proposals from the Chargers and the Ravens involving a
Speaker 1: a booth umpire and and a senior technology advisor that
Speaker 1: can both use video to help the on field officials.
Speaker 1: Competition Committee has has come in and said they want
Speaker 1: to table those proposals and study them more. So. That
Speaker 1: means if we if we start a season and passing
Speaker 1: affairs for review is out and there's no star sky judge,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, we are back in
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen with no recourse to fix the flagrant,
Speaker 1: egregious error that that like the one that occurred in
Speaker 1: the two eighteen NFC Championship game. I can't imagine coaches, fans,
Speaker 1: media being okay with that. I mean what do you
Speaker 1: guys think. I don't, I don't think ahead. Well, the
Speaker 1: first thing I want to say is, who's the one
Speaker 1: coach that voted against it? You know? Um that was?
Speaker 1: It wasn't So it's not a coach necessarily the time.
Speaker 1: Coaches don't have a vote as an owner. So Mike
Speaker 1: Brown from the Bengals. And I give Mike Brown credit
Speaker 1: because Mike Brown has been philosophically opposed to replay since
Speaker 1: its inception in nineteen eighty six, and he has not
Speaker 1: backed off that stance, and he was the one owner
Speaker 1: that voted against it. Well, you know he's doing Do
Speaker 1: you know why he does it that way? What's that?
Speaker 1: Have you ever talked to him? You don't have any
Speaker 1: idea why he does it that? Just there there's there's
Speaker 1: a general for people and this. You know, you can
Speaker 1: say old school or there's there's this thought process that
Speaker 1: replay creates more issues than it fixes, that that it's
Speaker 1: a never ending it's a never ending cycle, that it's
Speaker 1: only going to expand and expand and expand, and where
Speaker 1: does it end? And that was the fear when we
Speaker 1: put it back in. We had a very small subset
Speaker 1: of plays. But you look at the number of reviewable
Speaker 1: plays in nineteen ninety nine compared to two thousand nineteen,
Speaker 1: and it's like tripled. And the number of stoppages has
Speaker 1: more than doubled, and the number of time taken and
Speaker 1: replay reviews has doubled. All of these things because and
Speaker 1: obviously technology as a driver. More technology, the more the
Speaker 1: fans could see at home and can see when they
Speaker 1: watch wherever they watch, it doesn't make any sense that
Speaker 1: the officials and the officiating department can't use that same
Speaker 1: technology to get calls right. But that's always been the concern,
Speaker 1: where does it end? And I think this has been
Speaker 1: a great lesson because we were always when I was
Speaker 1: part of that competition committee, they were always hesitant to
Speaker 1: make subjective calls like passing unferrents were reviewable. And I
Speaker 1: don't think they were all this. I don't think all
Speaker 1: of them were fully on board with the concept going
Speaker 1: into But I think what happened in the NFC Championship game,
Speaker 1: the push, the impetus, it was too much to to
Speaker 1: to not do it, and uh, but I think they're
Speaker 1: they're head seeing their fears were realized in how it
Speaker 1: was applied in two thousand, nineteen. That dude's doing the
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor walk. He's like, yeah, he's like I told
Speaker 1: you he's doing he's doing the cans. He's walking through
Speaker 1: through the draft like this in his basement. Told you guys,
Speaker 1: I'm mean he's again, he's old school, but you know,
Speaker 1: give him credit. He's stuck to his guns. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know he's the one. And you look at thirty
Speaker 1: one clubs. It was crazy. Everybody was behind it and
Speaker 1: it just didn't work. It did not work. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it can't work, but the way it was
Speaker 1: applied last year, it just wasn't gonna work. And we
Speaker 1: saw it. We saw it play out week in a
Speaker 1: week out. Um. But again, it's gonna be really interesting.
Speaker 1: I don't know many coaches that will be able to
Speaker 1: sit there and say, you're gonna go into a season
Speaker 1: with no no mechanism in place to prevent that that
Speaker 1: catastrophic in changing state. It's uh, you know again, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. Let's let's switch gears. Let's talk college
Speaker 1: football and uh and so the college football rules change
Speaker 1: proposals are in. There's one last step. It's called prop
Speaker 1: It's the playing Rules Oversight path. This is made up
Speaker 1: of mostly commissioners from the different conferences UM, different different
Speaker 1: people from whether it's a d S and different from
Speaker 1: different institutions, and they have the they have the final
Speaker 1: yes no vote on these rules changes. When you think
Speaker 1: about the rules changes and this will happen, UM supposed
Speaker 1: to happen April sixteenth, it got pushed back a week,
Speaker 1: and so I think it's gonna happen maybe April twenty three,
Speaker 1: not exactly sure if that's the date, but somewhere in
Speaker 1: that range. UM. A couple of things. The targeting, if
Speaker 1: you get if you get disqualified for targeting, the player
Speaker 1: no longer has to leave the field and go to
Speaker 1: the locker room. So the player can stay on the
Speaker 1: bench be with his teammates, but he obviously can't go
Speaker 1: back in the game. So they'll they'll take his helmet.
Speaker 1: The officials will know that number thirty two, whoever it is,
Speaker 1: can't go back in the game. I expect that to pass.
Speaker 1: I think when you're talking about these are kids, right,
Speaker 1: you're talking about college kids, to go especially on the road,
Speaker 1: and go sit in a locker room and empty visiting
Speaker 1: team locker room. If you just cost your team fifteen
Speaker 1: yards and you're out of the game. That's tough for anyone,
Speaker 1: especially in eighteen year old kids. So to be able
Speaker 1: to be on your sideline with your teammates, that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. It eliminates that that kind of walk of
Speaker 1: shame going to the locker room, and I think that's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, going to pass. The other thing is officials jurisdiction. Previously,
Speaker 1: the officials prior to kick off sixty minutes prior to kickoff,
Speaker 1: their jurisdiction kicked in. That's when pregame warm started. So
Speaker 1: officials could technically throw a flag front sportsmanlike conduct or
Speaker 1: personal foul starting with sixty minutes prior to kickoff, and
Speaker 1: obviously you could have ejections and you could have fifteen
Speaker 1: yard penalties on the opening kickoff. Now, after some things
Speaker 1: that happened last year where players getting into it during
Speaker 1: pregame well before the sixty minutes, the officials jurisdiction will
Speaker 1: start ninety minutes prior to kickoff, and so the officials
Speaker 1: will be not the entire crew, but there will be
Speaker 1: at least three officials out on the field ninety minutes
Speaker 1: prior to kickoff. To monitor what's happening, and they will
Speaker 1: have the ability to penalize players and eject players prior
Speaker 1: to the in UM. The other one, this involves player numbering.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys are aware of. Because
Speaker 1: college rosters are so much bigger, there's no limit to
Speaker 1: the number of players that you can have on on
Speaker 1: a roster, no limit by rule. UM. There are teams
Speaker 1: that have multiple players with the same number. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you could have if you look at a flip a
Speaker 1: flip guard which has a flip chart that has all
Speaker 1: of the team, you know, the names, the numbers where
Speaker 1: they're from. There are some teams that have four number five.
Speaker 1: There are some teams that have you know, three, number eighty,
Speaker 1: and this can get their rules in place where they
Speaker 1: can't play in the game at the same time, they
Speaker 1: can't play the same position during the same game. But
Speaker 1: this becomes really hard. It becomes hard to scout when
Speaker 1: teams are trying to scout their upcoming opponents, which number
Speaker 1: five is that? And it becomes hard on the officials
Speaker 1: because if you have two players number five, which player
Speaker 1: committed the penalty? Are we going to potentially eject the
Speaker 1: wrong player? UM? So the rule is no more than
Speaker 1: two members may be assigned or where the same jersey numbers.
Speaker 1: Before there was no limit, you could have five number fives.
Speaker 1: Now you can have a maximum of two number five,
Speaker 1: And so that's gonna be I would imagine that would pass. Um.
Speaker 1: Other than that, you know, really not a lot in
Speaker 1: terms of of changing. The one that I think you
Speaker 1: know is it's more of a guideline. But there's no
Speaker 1: limit in terms of replay reviews and the college. There's
Speaker 1: no time limit. In the NFL, you have sixty seconds
Speaker 1: to make a decision. In college, it's indefinite. UM. So
Speaker 1: what the college whole book will say next year is
Speaker 1: that it's not again, it's not a strict rule where
Speaker 1: you shut it off at two minutes, but the expectation
Speaker 1: and the recommended guideline is that a replay review should
Speaker 1: take no longer than two minutes. So at two minutes,
Speaker 1: the recommendation is if you haven't made a decision, you
Speaker 1: have to make a decision. Most of the time, if
Speaker 1: you go two minutes and you haven't made the decision,
Speaker 1: your decision is made. You don't have enough to change
Speaker 1: the call in the field. Let it stand. So two
Speaker 1: minutes is going to be a guideline for replay reviews. UM.
Speaker 1: And so that's really it from in terms of college football.
Speaker 1: Not a ton of rules changes. I think that's good.
Speaker 1: I think there won't be a ton on the NFL side,
Speaker 1: And that's good, especially with a shortened shortened off season,
Speaker 1: like we are going to have a shortened off season.
Speaker 1: Who knows when the season's gonna our and and so
Speaker 1: if you change a bunch of rules, it's everybody's playing
Speaker 1: catch up and UH, and it's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 1: uh to see how it all plays out. So the
Speaker 1: NFL is gonna do virtual off season programs. UM. But
Speaker 1: a question I had for you, what what was the penalty?
Speaker 1: If you have I know you probably see it a
Speaker 1: lot of like special teams that guys aren't used to
Speaker 1: being on this field at the same time, UM, with
Speaker 1: the same number for the team is a fifteen yard penalty?
Speaker 1: You know it was a five yard penalty for the
Speaker 1: legal substitution, and now you know there were other rules
Speaker 1: in place. UM. But again, now there'll be something. Teams
Speaker 1: won't even be able to assign more than two numbers
Speaker 1: because if you look one team, if you it was interesting.
Speaker 1: During the meetings, they show owed a couple of flip
Speaker 1: charts and one Michigan. It was it was insane how
Speaker 1: many duplicate numbers they have. And it's not just specific
Speaker 1: to Michigan, but they were just one of the examples
Speaker 1: that was used. And one of the things that that
Speaker 1: I don't know if many people realize, but coaches when
Speaker 1: they recruit, one of the biggest things is numbers. These players,
Speaker 1: they must the number that they want. Digits, single digit
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest things. And when college what
Speaker 1: what I like, it's cool about colleges. You could have
Speaker 1: a two d eighty pound defensive end wearing a single digit, right.
Speaker 1: You don't see that in the NFL because they have
Speaker 1: restrictions on numbers. Defensive linemen can't wear single digits. But
Speaker 1: so they are promising as a recruit, they're promising five
Speaker 1: number fives and that's how they're getting these kids. So
Speaker 1: this will impact recruiting. UM, so it does have real,
Speaker 1: you know, significant implications. But again, and it's just it's
Speaker 1: crazy to think about all these things. In the discussion,
Speaker 1: in the rules committee discussion, I'll throw this out to you,
Speaker 1: what do you what do you guys think because one
Speaker 1: of the solutions was what if we went over what
Speaker 1: if we went to three digits? So so think about this,
Speaker 1: think about this holding number hundred and thirty two on
Speaker 1: the offense, repeat second down? What what? What do you
Speaker 1: That was one of the things that was discussed is
Speaker 1: that what do you think about that? It's just kind
Speaker 1: of comical to me, Like it's I don't think it's
Speaker 1: necessary to figure stuf to oulse out. How do they
Speaker 1: have to dress? Oh? Some teams have over hundred. Oh
Speaker 1: I didn't know. Okay, well then yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: have to do that. And the other the other thing
Speaker 1: is they will they are going to add zero, so
Speaker 1: you are going to add zero as another number. And
Speaker 1: the other thing that they talked about is adding zero one,
Speaker 1: zero two, zero three, zero four. What do you think
Speaker 1: Like if I said, hey, Joe, you're the stud tight
Speaker 1: end from Pomona High School, I want you to come
Speaker 1: to SC and you can have any number you want.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give you zero seven. Would that be Would
Speaker 1: that be interesting to you? What do you think? Whatever
Speaker 1: you're gonna give me a you're gonna get me to
Speaker 1: the NFL. That's my that's my question. You want to
Speaker 1: get to the NFL. You know you don't care about numbers,
Speaker 1: So so that's the thing with the numbers again. Rule
Speaker 1: change process will be hopefully over for both college and
Speaker 1: NFL when we get through May and uh, and then
Speaker 1: we'll kind of see we'll have, you know, an update
Speaker 1: at that point and we'll see how will you know what?
Speaker 1: I did have one question about I had one question
Speaker 1: about the rules. So when the guys get booted and
Speaker 1: they have to take their hell and off, and do
Speaker 1: they need to put on a skirt and some pom
Speaker 1: poms as well? Boom by a road today? Wow this
Speaker 1: guy tonight. Okay, on that note, let's go to a break,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna talk about how Joe's hoping and
Speaker 1: social distancing because not well, basically coming up next on
Speaker 1: big Calls. Come on, that was good. All right, we're
Speaker 1: back on good Calls and uh. File segment of the show,
Speaker 1: Travis was just Joe, I don't know we're During the break,
Speaker 1: Travis was explained to me again the hardships him and
Speaker 1: he threw the he threw the you didn't experience this,
Speaker 1: but I'm experienced in this. Currently in his eight children
Speaker 1: in that having a newborn and a toddler, and how
Speaker 1: hard it is because his toddler just wants to be
Speaker 1: with him because he's so lovable and obviously has the newborn.
Speaker 1: So again, really tough Travis, you know, with with his
Speaker 1: eight kids. I have two kids. I have two kids.
Speaker 1: But yeah, maybe maybe I'm a little dramatic about it,
Speaker 1: but I'm just in it. That's why trying to makesation.
Speaker 1: You've got a big change, big change in your life.
Speaker 1: You know, we were doing the thing where Travis's life
Speaker 1: before COVID nineteen and during COVID nineteen and it hadn't
Speaker 1: really changed. But walk us through your day today and
Speaker 1: let's see how different it is. I'm back to work,
Speaker 1: working from home. I'm waking up instead of just doing
Speaker 1: bottles with the kid and and taking the toddler. I'm working.
Speaker 1: I'm working. I got working on a Speak for Yourself
Speaker 1: for Fox Sports one and FS one. We uh, I'm
Speaker 1: working with the talent, working with the guests and getting
Speaker 1: things all set up for that show throughout the day,
Speaker 1: and we're making live TV again. It's it's it's and
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's great to be back in
Speaker 1: the mix. But I missed the days of you know,
Speaker 1: just hanging out in the driveway drawn solar systems and dinosaurs.
Speaker 1: But I am, I am, and I'm saying this in
Speaker 1: the best way possible. I'm happy that your life has
Speaker 1: not been impacted one way whatsoever other than COVID nineteen.
Speaker 1: Like you are still like you're sitting in your beautiful backyard,
Speaker 1: the backdrop everything, loving life and just and just living
Speaker 1: it up with. Absolutely fortunate to still have a job.
Speaker 1: You know, there's so many people that don't have jobs,
Speaker 1: and we feel for those folks, and and I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm blessed to have a job, that's for sure. That's it.
Speaker 1: So that being said, Tiger King. Okay, Fox had a
Speaker 1: special this week TMZ Fox aired at TMZ investigated Tiger King.
Speaker 1: So I I recorded it, I watched it. I took notes. Um, Joe,
Speaker 1: I don't think you said you didn't see it yet, Travis,
Speaker 1: you saw it. I was Look, it was interesting. It
Speaker 1: wasn't There was no Joe exotic because obviously he's in jail.
Speaker 1: There was no Carol Baskin. So for me, if you
Speaker 1: take out those two, it's not that great. It was
Speaker 1: more of it was Harvey Levin from TMZ narrating it,
Speaker 1: and they talked to a lot of people. Um, but
Speaker 1: I want to take out my notes because I want
Speaker 1: to make sure I don't miss anything, because there was
Speaker 1: a couple of things that jumped out. The first thing
Speaker 1: that jumped out was James Garrettson. Okay, So remember James
Speaker 1: Garretson was the guy on the jet ski. He's got
Speaker 1: a new haircut, He's got a much slicker haircut. And
Speaker 1: they interview him on the jet ski again his phone.
Speaker 1: He's holding his phone in the middle of wherever he
Speaker 1: is on his jet ski. So they like calling him
Speaker 1: out of the blue and there like hey, James, like,
Speaker 1: oh wait, let me just let me just stop and
Speaker 1: do this FaceTime interview on the jet ski. For thing.
Speaker 1: You know, I could have did the show on my
Speaker 1: jet ski. I'm here. That would have been amazing. So
Speaker 1: the other thing, the other thing that jumped out next
Speaker 1: week is this the comment Joe Exotic was brought up
Speaker 1: on charges of animal cruelty and the idea was that
Speaker 1: he killed tigers and and so I don't know who
Speaker 1: said it, but they were defending him and it was
Speaker 1: one of his one of his former colleagues, and they said, look,
Speaker 1: you know he euthanized animals. And I wrote it down.
Speaker 1: I took a note. The comment was, animals get sick,
Speaker 1: animals get bit by water moccasins. Yeah, what who? Where? Wait?
Speaker 1: Where are these animals getting bit by what? That's so specific?
Speaker 1: Another sick horse, Bessie got bit by water moccasins. He
Speaker 1: got throwed down? What actual direct quote, animals get sick?
Speaker 1: And remember by wakas So that note. Okay. So the
Speaker 1: Tampa Police, the Tampa sheriff Department has re opened the case,
Speaker 1: the Don Lewis case, the disappearance. Okay, and I feel
Speaker 1: like this is a not a great use of resources
Speaker 1: right now. And they're interviewing the cop or whoever he is.
Speaker 1: That's the sheriff, it's the sheriff riff. That guy was amazing,
Speaker 1: he said, he the fact, And I wrote this down.
Speaker 1: He said, he said, Joe exotic, he's like twenty guilty
Speaker 1: of murder. But it's not he's not really like it's
Speaker 1: a very flimsy case guilty of murder. How do you
Speaker 1: even engage that? Like? How And they are now investigating
Speaker 1: the disappearance of donal Lewis and they're looking into Carole
Speaker 1: basket forty years later. The craziest thing about that, that storyline,
Speaker 1: they kind of just brushed over it and that that
Speaker 1: was all is. My question about that was she doesn't
Speaker 1: seem very concerned about trying to find the guy, like
Speaker 1: she just wants to I didn't do it. I didn't
Speaker 1: do it. I don't know worries that, but I didn't
Speaker 1: do it. Like she didn't care about finding it. No
Speaker 1: O j about to find the killers. He's still still looking.
Speaker 1: So the other thing the lawyer, so his Don Lewis's
Speaker 1: lawyer was amazing. They're interviewing him and he keep he
Speaker 1: kept referring to the street. Did you hear that word
Speaker 1: on the street? The street people are saying this, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, two, are the street people? Who are you
Speaker 1: talking to in the street. He's like, that's all I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say. But what I'm hearing from in the street
Speaker 1: is look what what? What street people are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Like you're an old lawyer. Like this old white lawyer
Speaker 1: that's talking to the street is talking like that was hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's like he's got an online poll going or something.
Speaker 1: Right now. Then they went to my man, Doc Antele.
Speaker 1: I love Doc Andel. Doc Antel is now is still
Speaker 1: defending himself that he doesn't have a harem. He's like, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't have a harem. I was married twenty five
Speaker 1: years ago. I know, my wife died in a car
Speaker 1: crash and I've been single ever since. And I've got girlfriends.
Speaker 1: I lived by myself. All my girlfriends know about each other.
Speaker 1: They're all cool with it. So basically, Doc Andel doesn't
Speaker 1: have a harem. But he's just a player, So don't
Speaker 1: hate the player, hate the game, like Doc Handel is
Speaker 1: the man. So that that that was the thing. Then
Speaker 1: then they started interviewing like Nancy Grace is on it,
Speaker 1: Like Nancy Grace is chiming in about Carol Baskin, about
Speaker 1: Joe Exotic. And my favorite was Jeff Corwin. You remember
Speaker 1: Jeff Corwin. Jeff Corwin is like one of those like
Speaker 1: crocodile you know, the crocodile Hunter, like feature guys. He
Speaker 1: has a big show. So Jeff Corman's chiming in just
Speaker 1: about did you notice the amazing pewter statue behind him
Speaker 1: in his lounge of the guy on the horse, Like
Speaker 1: these are the things that I'll go back and watch
Speaker 1: Jeff corry and he's got this amazing statue of a
Speaker 1: guy on a horse right behind him, and that's all
Speaker 1: I could look at. Like I couldn't. I didn't know
Speaker 1: what Jeff Corryan was saying, but I can look at
Speaker 1: was his horse. Dr Phil waved, Wait, wait in on
Speaker 1: on Joe Exotics, you know, he's a he's an ultimate
Speaker 1: narcissist and all of these things. But my favorite was
Speaker 1: Travis Barker from Blame On two. That's that was Travis
Speaker 1: Barker basically said, and this is a direct quote, Joe
Speaker 1: Exotic is like Scarface. He's you know, the score of
Speaker 1: the story of scar Scarface is just like Joe Exotic.
Speaker 1: It's relatable. How is the story of scar Face relatable
Speaker 1: to anybody that's not a murdering drug dealer from Cuban? Like,
Speaker 1: where is that? How do you come up with how
Speaker 1: do you connect those two? Travis away with that? Travis,
Speaker 1: can you relate with scar Face? Joke? We relaring with
Speaker 1: scar Face. Joe Exotic is like the scar face of
Speaker 1: big cattle owners. No, the other guy, the real Cuban guy,
Speaker 1: the cocaine guy. That's the real scar face of Big Cattle,
Speaker 1: because he is scarface movie of him, right, And so
Speaker 1: the only thing that I'm thinking of is the amount
Speaker 1: of popularity. And look, this is TMZ just trying to
Speaker 1: get in on it. Is how many network executives are
Speaker 1: meeting zoom meetings today, going, you gotta find me the
Speaker 1: next Tigers that Tiger King, like you have to find
Speaker 1: me the next openly gay mullet wearing firearm firearm like
Speaker 1: glowing up ship. You know, crazy person that runs a
Speaker 1: roadside zoo in Middle America that has an arch enemy
Speaker 1: who's a crazy woman who also has a zoo, who
Speaker 1: killed her ex husband and feder to the Tigers. Find
Speaker 1: me that go how is that even? How is that
Speaker 1: even happening? It's Tiger King. We haven't seen the last
Speaker 1: of it. They did say. They kept saying, the Peter
Speaker 1: lawyer kept saying that they are investigating. Um, you know
Speaker 1: they're still investigating. Even Jeff Low made an appearance. Your boy,
Speaker 1: Jeff Love, He made an appearance. He had a couple
Speaker 1: of interviews, him and his wife. Not really no lot there.
Speaker 1: Did you see their nanny? Yeah, he's been posting pictures. Goodness,
Speaker 1: you knew he was gonna you knew he was gonna
Speaker 1: be on like bumble or whatever, trying to find nanny.
Speaker 1: So we haven't seen the last a Tiger King. The
Speaker 1: Peter lawyers said that they're still investigating. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: Jeff Jeff Low said he hasn't been investigated, but who knows.
Speaker 1: Joe's Exotic still appealing. We'll see what happens, all right.
Speaker 1: Moving on, best is that a tiger best COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: Internet content? What's the latest work? I've got one? I
Speaker 1: think I've got one. You've got one. If you don't
Speaker 1: have one, no I do. It's the Tiger King? Is
Speaker 1: is um what's his name? We just talked about him.
Speaker 1: The douchebag guy is Jeff Low? The husband? Have you
Speaker 1: seen Jeff? Yeah. So somebody posted a picture of Carol
Speaker 1: Baskin's first husband and said the idea was floated that
Speaker 1: Carol basket hired Jeff Low to screw over Joe Exotic,
Speaker 1: and it's Jeff Low is her first husband, And now
Speaker 1: the person can't stop thinking about it, and I agree,
Speaker 1: it's very The similarity is definitely there, dude. They look
Speaker 1: the same eyes and everything that picture, that picture did
Speaker 1: look the same but watching that special last night, it
Speaker 1: didn't look like the guy. I don't know, but many
Speaker 1: years have passed, right, there's been a couple of new
Speaker 1: of our guy would like did the Easter Bunny one?
Speaker 1: Was good? I thought that was a good one. How
Speaker 1: do when this Wood jump the shark? That's a great question.
Speaker 1: I think when when COVID ends so you can go
Speaker 1: back to work, you think, what is gonna last throughout COVID?
Speaker 1: I mean, would and COVID are. It's like one of
Speaker 1: those things that's so funny because it's so played out.
Speaker 1: But I think Wood and COVID are just they're they're
Speaker 1: kind of there. You know, they're sympatico. When you think
Speaker 1: of COVID, you think of Wood. Somebody say, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: have made it without him, We wouldn't have made it
Speaker 1: through this, right. He's definitely He's definitely united people. He's
Speaker 1: brought people together. Um, And you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: we've seen the last of Wood, but but I do
Speaker 1: think at some point, you know, at some point we're
Speaker 1: gonna just become like immune to it, like if you
Speaker 1: watch not crazy shit, like you just become immune to it.
Speaker 1: Like when I first started at the NFL. I used
Speaker 1: to put together. I used to edit videos, and one
Speaker 1: of the videos I would do is I would keep
Speaker 1: track of all the major injuries every week and I
Speaker 1: would put together that real and so I would see
Speaker 1: broken legs, compound fractures, all of these injuries, and after
Speaker 1: a while, it was like it didn't bother me. So
Speaker 1: you were going through all the footage that the broadcast
Speaker 1: networks don't show, don't show, and I would put that
Speaker 1: together and categorize it by injury. And I became so
Speaker 1: immune to it, and any time I saw somebody break
Speaker 1: a leg or dislocate an elbow, I was like, cool,
Speaker 1: And I think. I think eventually we're all gonna be
Speaker 1: immune to the shock value of big black. You know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna go away and we're all just gonna like,
Speaker 1: oh another big black, Okay, cool dude. I can't even
Speaker 1: watch a guy roll his ankle in basketball. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you did that job. Yeah, no, it was easy,
Speaker 1: and you just get immune to it. Um. The other
Speaker 1: thing that came up, this was amazing. So I got
Speaker 1: a notification from Shasanne. You know, she's an everybody knows
Speaker 1: she's an. We talked about you know when a drunk
Speaker 1: Jasam works out. So I got a notification. If you
Speaker 1: don't know what She'sam is. Jasam is an app that
Speaker 1: you can get. It's a great app. You hear a song,
Speaker 1: you don't know what the song is, you tap a button.
Speaker 1: She's Ane listens to it. It tells you the name
Speaker 1: of the song. You can download it then too iTunes whatever.
Speaker 1: It is great apt. I got a notice okay yesterday
Speaker 1: that we finally found it. I'm reading this. We couldn't
Speaker 1: find your Shazam earlier, so we tried again. They found
Speaker 1: the song. The first time I shazamed it was March eighteen.
Speaker 1: I got this message yesterday on April thirt Have they
Speaker 1: been looking the entire time? They had their best people
Speaker 1: on it? Have they had there? But they're like, Blend,
Speaker 1: you don't needs this song. To me, that is the
Speaker 1: greatest customer service. Because I forgotten, like it's three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: like I completely forgot about it, like completely forgot about Mexico.
Speaker 1: I'm not still thinking about Shazam from three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: But when it popped up, I could not have been
Speaker 1: more excited. Like it's like finding twenty dollars in your pocket,
Speaker 1: you know, from pair of pants that you forgotten, you know,
Speaker 1: you put it in there, And so I was so
Speaker 1: a free shazam. That's how I looked at it. So
Speaker 1: I hope this isn't just so. This name of the
Speaker 1: song was like some some classical song. It was the
Speaker 1: symphony number seven Angel of Light by the Helsinki Philharmonic.
Speaker 1: I don't even know when I was listening to that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I was watching TV or watching
Speaker 1: something and I heard the song and I liked it.
Speaker 1: So now I got it. All right, Let's let's do
Speaker 1: Brandon Blandino Joe and then we'll wrap it up. Hurry up.
Speaker 1: I gotta got a tub of peanut butter half faith
Speaker 1: waiting for me. Did you get another tub? So good,
Speaker 1: I've got three of them. I'm still eating cheesecake for
Speaker 1: my birthday that I made. Dude, I'm so jealous about that.
Speaker 1: Like that looks you know what I did. I actually
Speaker 1: went and got American dream cone and through a through
Speaker 1: a scoop of peanut butter in it. Not the shame,
Speaker 1: it's not the same, but it was pretty dawn good.
Speaker 1: Here we go. The shame the cop car can't get
Speaker 1: out of the back childlocks? Question? Mark, Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: can't get out of a cop car. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been in the back of a cop car? You can't
Speaker 1: just get out? Do they? Is it childlocks? Is they?
Speaker 1: Do they get How does that work? Why don't you
Speaker 1: tell us when you were too? It doesn't matter, But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, is that do they have do they
Speaker 1: have a button? Or are they manufact that way that
Speaker 1: they can't open from the inside. I would imagine it's probably,
Speaker 1: I would imagine it's the same technology. So yes, so
Speaker 1: it's just childlocks, basically, rump. So if he if if
Speaker 1: you know, if it's his buddies in the back, you
Speaker 1: don't you take the childlocks off? If it's a perp,
Speaker 1: you leave the childlock song. I mean, I'm not a cop,
Speaker 1: but I mean I could ask a couple of friends,
Speaker 1: but I think, all right, like, why wouldn't you Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't Joe leave us? Leave? Leave us? Some comments? If
Speaker 1: you know anybody that's a cop, you know, is it childlocks?
Speaker 1: Is special? Are they built that way? Inquiring minds wanted,
Speaker 1: I'd be willing to bet that it is just childlocks.
Speaker 1: It would work exactly the same. Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Its true solved. Joe solved it. Next time you're getting
Speaker 1: into a back seat of a police all you gotta
Speaker 1: do is hit that hit that button. Make sure you Meanwhile, Joe, seriously,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. I oh, look, if you're listening
Speaker 1: to the show, the audio quality is not what we're
Speaker 1: used to. Obviously, with social distancing, we can't be in
Speaker 1: the same room. We're trying our best with some technical troubleshooting.
Speaker 1: Um so again, appreciate you guys listening to the show.
Speaker 1: The audio. Once we're done, you know, with this quarantine,
Speaker 1: we'll get back to normal. The audio will uh you know, improve.
Speaker 1: And Joe is doing a fantastic job. This is two
Speaker 1: compliments in the same show. Joe, so I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: puke and uh and that he said, wait, but even
Speaker 1: Tom Brady had Internet issues is with his interview with
Speaker 1: Howard Stern, and he blamed it on Derek Jeter because
Speaker 1: he's living in Teter. So Jeter has crappy internet and
Speaker 1: is the square foot mansion. I'm gonna have to tattoo
Speaker 1: this date on my on my arm or something too.
Speaker 1: Compliment Day Special Day. All right, let's go cue the music.
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