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Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of The Tailgate presented
Speaker 1: by Continental Diamond. My old friend Dan Soder. You might
Speaker 1: know him from his endless amount of comedy specials. You
Speaker 1: might know him from the Showtime show Billions. You may
Speaker 1: know him as the voice of the NFL's Top one
Speaker 1: hundred plays on NFL Network. Diehard Niners fan, also childhood
Speaker 1: friend of Mike McDaniel. This is a really fun episode.
Speaker 1: I think you guys are gonna love it. Please give
Speaker 1: us a rating and a review. If you like the show,
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Everybody Condo, Tom Data.
Speaker 2: Go, We gotta go.
Speaker 1: Thank go time joining me on today's program. This is
Speaker 1: a fun one. You know, well, you don't know if
Speaker 1: you're listening. I was about to say, you know, when
Speaker 1: you do comedy festivals, But what a stupid thing to
Speaker 1: say to people who aren't comedians. When you do comedy
Speaker 1: festivals as a comedian, you get a chance to see
Speaker 1: people you haven't seen in one hundred years, and it's
Speaker 1: it turns into this unique bond, Like that's how I
Speaker 1: feel on this show. It's Dan Soder. Yeah, every time
Speaker 1: I see you, I get so excited. Yeah, almost like
Speaker 1: I want to wrap my arms around you and not
Speaker 1: let you leave. So this I don't know how this
Speaker 1: episode's gonna go, but it's nice to see you. Man.
Speaker 2: It's gonna go the distance, and it's great seeing you
Speaker 2: because it is comedy becomes adult summer camp, so your
Speaker 2: friends you only see at summer camp. You know, comics
Speaker 2: are on the road every weekend, but in different cities.
Speaker 2: So when you are when you happen to be in
Speaker 2: a city with another comic that you're friends with, that's incredible.
Speaker 2: And then the second thing is comedy festivals, where you're like,
Speaker 2: we have so much to talk about.
Speaker 1: What's happening?
Speaker 2: Yeah, A lot of times you just picked back up
Speaker 2: from when you saw each other last. So when you
Speaker 2: reached out to me and you were like, hey, do
Speaker 2: you want to come talk about the forty nine ers,
Speaker 2: which A I always do and B you're like, dude,
Speaker 2: come on my podcast, I was like, one hundred percent
Speaker 2: I would love to do that. A meeting of two worlds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and our main goal here, like I will do
Speaker 1: my best not to unravel this thing into a two
Speaker 1: hour you know, mutual ted talk. Let's start. Let's start
Speaker 1: Niners here, because you are you're a die hard, lifelong
Speaker 1: Niners fan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, first piece of clothing I was put in was
Speaker 2: a forty nine Ers onesie.
Speaker 1: And it's just that's my question because you grew up
Speaker 1: in Colorado.
Speaker 2: Well, I was born in Hartford. My dad, my parents,
Speaker 2: my dad specifically is from the Bay Area. My mom
Speaker 2: is from Fresno. They met in San Francisco and were
Speaker 2: married there and lived there for years. And then my
Speaker 2: mom worked for ETNA and she got transferred to Hartford,
Speaker 2: Connecticut because that's where their home office is. That's where
Speaker 2: I was born. And then my mom got her her
Speaker 2: whole family is from originally from Colorado, and she's an
Speaker 2: opportunity to go be transferred to Denver and she was like, oh, Dan,
Speaker 2: I'll have cousins and stuff like that around. So we
Speaker 2: moved to Denver when I was five, but I was
Speaker 2: locked in as a forty nine Ers fan. There was
Speaker 2: like I was born in eighty three, so I missed
Speaker 2: the eighty one Super Bowl. But I you know, you're
Speaker 2: born in the eighties to the forty nine ers, you're
Speaker 2: a forty nine Er fan. There's just yeah, And then
Speaker 2: it went through. You know, I was always a forty
Speaker 2: nine Ers fan. But the thing that really makes it
Speaker 2: set in stone is and you know this, and every
Speaker 2: NFL team fan knows this, except maybe a young Patriots fan.
Speaker 2: The lean years are what make you a diehard fan,
Speaker 2: the least years where you know, after Eddie de Barbolo
Speaker 2: Junior had to sell the team to the York family,
Speaker 2: his sister and her husband.
Speaker 1: Pause right there, Let's take a moment and do something
Speaker 1: that I never get to do with anyone. Let's and
Speaker 1: I know there's some stuff at the end there that
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't need to like get it. But
Speaker 1: like Eddie de Bartolo Junior is the pre eminent example
Speaker 1: of good. Like the way that guy he introduced giving
Speaker 1: players their own rooms, like all that, Like the way
Speaker 1: he treated players.
Speaker 2: I could argue greatest stoner in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 2: He I yeah, he bought the team. He's from Youngstown, Ohio.
Speaker 2: Bought the team for a million dollars from his dad,
Speaker 2: and then that was nineteen seventy eight. I believe he
Speaker 2: bought the team nineteen seventy nine. He brings in Bill Walsh,
Speaker 2: they draft Joe Montana. By nineteen eighty one, their Super
Speaker 2: Bowl champions, and then they go on a run until
Speaker 2: he honestly he sold the team, I believe in Like
Speaker 2: I might be wrong about the actual year, but it
Speaker 2: was around two three and the forty nine ers were
Speaker 2: winning a division every year, almost every year, and almost
Speaker 2: every year in the NFC Championship game. So it was
Speaker 2: a question of you know, you go from Bill Walsh
Speaker 2: to George Seffert, you stay good. But then you go
Speaker 2: George Seffert to Mooch to Steve Mariucci and you stay good.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, that's that's ownership. That's just keeping a culture.
Speaker 2: And the thing that I love about Adea Bartolow Junior,
Speaker 2: every single player, I think it's every single player from
Speaker 2: his tenure as owner that's became a Hall of Famer,
Speaker 2: has had him and duck them into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: That's nuts.
Speaker 1: That's the crazy thing. And what a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't know is, and I'm not saying it was his
Speaker 1: personal Yoda, but when Robert Kraft was buying the Patriots.
Speaker 1: He went to Di Bartolow and was like, like, so
Speaker 1: this this way of treating players, like to Bartolo, the
Speaker 1: whole thing, standing in the hallway, greeting the players after
Speaker 1: the game, knowing their families, spending this different sort of time,
Speaker 1: I think makes you want to play for him exactly.
Speaker 1: And he just built this culture. But it's interesting that
Speaker 1: you grew up like you were real little when they
Speaker 1: were on that amazing run. So you probably have a
Speaker 1: couple memories. Yeah, But then like there's that core moment
Speaker 1: of sports fandom, you know, like thirteen to eighteen where
Speaker 1: the world is different.
Speaker 2: But again still fine. Forty nine Ers wonted. The last
Speaker 2: time the forty nine Ers won in Super Bowl, I
Speaker 2: was eleven. It was nineteen ninety four in Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was the seventy fifth anniversary season. We beat the
Speaker 2: Chargers in the Super Bowl, and then the next year
Speaker 2: NFC Championship lose to the Cowboys in ninety five, and
Speaker 2: then we go through the Green Bay Brett Farv the
Speaker 2: early Brett fav years, which you guys saw them turn around.
Speaker 2: When Holmgren, again a former forty nine Er guy, goes
Speaker 2: Coast yep and turns the West Coast offense with Brett Farvre.
Speaker 2: So then I hate the Packers from ninety six to
Speaker 2: ninety nine, but we get the we get the taroll
Speaker 2: Owens catch, we get like you know, there's still moments.
Speaker 2: The last great moment I remember of the forty nine
Speaker 2: Ers being like the old like when they were running
Speaker 2: on fumes of gas, which a lot of people don't remember.
Speaker 2: This was in the playoffs. The forty nine Ers came
Speaker 2: back with Jeff Garcia against the New York Giants. We
Speaker 2: were down like seventeen.
Speaker 1: Is this the taroll Owens crying moment?
Speaker 2: No, that was the Packers. That was that was That
Speaker 2: was the Packers. Yeah, okay, that was a wild card
Speaker 2: game against the Packers in ninety eight. That was still
Speaker 2: Steve Young. But later turn of the century, Oh, I
Speaker 2: think it's two. The forty might be one. Two. The
Speaker 2: forty nine Ers beat the Giants on this massive comeback
Speaker 2: win in the playoffs, and then that was it. We
Speaker 2: lost to somebody, and then it was like, I think
Speaker 2: we lost to the Rams. Were the greatest show on turf.
Speaker 2: And then it got real dark, and then it got
Speaker 2: real bad. It got I got it got.
Speaker 1: Real, but not for that long all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: That I disagree. I disagree. Your eight years is a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 1: Stop, dude, I will not do this with you. Well,
Speaker 1: I will not do this with you.
Speaker 2: Here's the analogy I always make growing up a forty
Speaker 2: nine Ers fan in the eighties and nineties foot NFL wise,
Speaker 2: I grew up riches and then we found out my
Speaker 2: dad had been a part of a Ponzi scheme, and
Speaker 2: we lost everything for eight years. I mean we lost everything,
Speaker 2: We lost the house, we had to go live with family.
Speaker 2: And then you get this like business idea that your
Speaker 2: dad invests in that gets you money again, and you
Speaker 2: got horriball and you've got three seasons of going. You
Speaker 2: go to a super Bowl, you go to three NFC
Speaker 2: Championship games, and you're like, we're back on top, baby,
Speaker 2: and then you find out that was a Ponzi scheme,
Speaker 2: and then you lose it for three more years and
Speaker 2: you're like, what's going on? And then Kyle Shanahan was like,
Speaker 2: all right, I'm gonna put your family, you know, And
Speaker 2: then now we're back in the mix where you're kind
Speaker 2: of like you don't trust the wealth but it's nice
Speaker 2: to be back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, it must be really hard to have
Speaker 1: been rich a bunch of different times. Right, thirty years.
Speaker 2: And I realized I'm talking to a Vikings fan after
Speaker 2: you guys went ow and four in the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: in the seventies and eighties and they haven't been back since.
Speaker 2: If the forty nine Ers win a Super Bowl this year,
Speaker 2: it will be one of those things where I'm like,
Speaker 2: I am I can rest. Yeah, I would cheer for
Speaker 2: the Vikings. I'll tell you the four teams I would
Speaker 2: cheer for, which surprisingly they just beat us. I would
Speaker 2: cheer for the Browns. Sure, I would cheer for the Vikings.
Speaker 2: Sure I would cheer for the Lions. And then, of course,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna cheer for him regardless of the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 2: because of Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 1: I can't budge off of how I'm feeling watching you
Speaker 1: describe your hardship, and it's interesting. But you're right, But
Speaker 1: it's like to watch one of the things. When I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this episode, I wanted to I had
Speaker 1: written down. I was like, I should ask him how
Speaker 1: great it feels to have Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch.
Speaker 1: But just then listening to you say that, I want
Speaker 1: to set your apartment on fire. So but it is,
Speaker 1: it is wild you there's those rare moments. I felt it.
Speaker 1: In ninety eight, Oh my.
Speaker 2: God, your guys's team was the best team in the NFL.
Speaker 2: And you know I told you about growing up in Colorado.
Speaker 2: My uncle, my dad's half brother, had Bronco season tickets
Speaker 2: and he had no one to go with. And I'm
Speaker 2: a massive NFL fan, so I would go to these
Speaker 2: Bronco games and it kind of got me a little
Speaker 2: bit for a while to be like, oh, I like
Speaker 2: the Broncos. It's fun watching John Elway. And then when
Speaker 2: Mike Shanahan came over from the Niners he was ro
Speaker 2: coordinator and left after that Super Bowl and came to
Speaker 2: the Broncos, I had more of an ind of like, okay,
Speaker 2: go Broncos. But I was at the nineteen ninety eight
Speaker 2: AFC Championship game my uncle, and I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 2: when you guys lost to the Falcons, there was a
Speaker 2: and I mean this in anyone that was at Mile
Speaker 2: High Stadium will tell you this. There was a collective
Speaker 2: sigh of like, okay, if the if the Broncos win today,
Speaker 2: they'll win the Super Bowl. Like there was that like, oh,
Speaker 2: if everyone knew in Mile High Stadium that the Vikings
Speaker 2: were the best team in the NFL. The nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: eight Vikings were the best team that year.
Speaker 1: And I feel like right now your your team is
Speaker 1: living in one of those moments I don't want to
Speaker 1: put I don't know where your superstitions lie. I don't
Speaker 1: want to put a lot.
Speaker 2: I mean recently, it's yeah, it's been so hard. Last
Speaker 2: season's NFC Championship game was so heartbreaking that you're like,
Speaker 2: I don't even know if superstitions are real anymore. Now
Speaker 2: it's just like I'm like a war torn guy where
Speaker 2: I'm just like, yeah, bring it whatever brother is.
Speaker 1: And I can't. I can't believe I'm gonna give this
Speaker 1: to you, but I believe it in my heart it
Speaker 1: will be. If you guys do win the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: this year, that journey not for all of them. I'm
Speaker 1: investing in you, my friend, who I care about. Sure
Speaker 1: that that personal journey of eleven years old when we
Speaker 1: won our last one and then getting too experience because
Speaker 1: I think every sports fan I know, oh, it's not possible.
Speaker 1: The world isn't magic. I think every die hard sports
Speaker 1: fan should get to experience their team winning a title
Speaker 1: when they're in their youth and a title when they're
Speaker 1: an adult. That would be sports world perfection to experience that.
Speaker 2: Now, you gotta understand. When I moved to Denver, there
Speaker 2: was a lot going on my family. My dad ended
Speaker 2: up moving back to San Francisco. My mom raised me
Speaker 2: in Denver. When I was ten years old, I made
Speaker 2: the choice to become a Denver Nuggets fan. I was like,
Speaker 2: you know what. The Golden State Warriors were our team
Speaker 2: I did. They traded away Tim Hardaway. I didn't like that.
Speaker 2: I didn't run. I didn't like run. Tmcbing broken up,
Speaker 2: so I was like, you know what, I love the
Speaker 2: new They just switched the logo of the Nuggets to
Speaker 2: the Mountain. Yes, we had Matumbo, we had Lafonzo Ellis.
Speaker 2: There was like a lot of people and I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to choose the Denver Nuggets because I don't
Speaker 2: have any other Denver teams. I didn't like the Rockies.
Speaker 2: They're in the same division as the San Francisco Giants,
Speaker 2: So I was like, I'm love the Nuggets one of
Speaker 2: the most painful decisions I've made, because then I watched
Speaker 2: the Nuggets be mid and terrible for so many years,
Speaker 2: and then I watched the Warriors explode. And you have
Speaker 2: to understand my dad's family. My grandmother specifically stayed a
Speaker 2: Warriors fan. Everyone loved the Dubs. You would be in
Speaker 2: the Bay Area and everyone's like, oh, the Warriors, They're unbelievable.
Speaker 2: They're never gonna lose, and they would always kind of
Speaker 2: beat up on the Nuggets, and I was like, damn,
Speaker 2: But the Nuggets winning the championship this year felt so
Speaker 2: surreal because you were like, I never thought it was
Speaker 2: gonna happen. That being said, I do believe if the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers won the Super Bowl, I would become
Speaker 2: very emotional. I think I think that would I I
Speaker 2: was happy when the Nuggets won. I do believe when
Speaker 2: you have your team, like your team, you can have
Speaker 2: several teams in a city you like, but you always
Speaker 2: have one that you're like, it's your favorite child. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you're like, this is this means the world to me.
Speaker 2: Twenty nineteen to get into Mike McDaniel, I was very
Speaker 2: lucky when Kyle Shanahan took when Kyle Shanahan took the
Speaker 2: head coaching job after losing to the Patriots in the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl with the Atlanta Falcons. When the forty nine
Speaker 2: Ers named John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan head coach GM,
Speaker 2: I was like, great. Then I get the text from McDaniel.
Speaker 2: I'm a forty nine er. I was like, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, head coach of the Dolphins, is a I
Speaker 1: would say, childhood friend, lifelong friend. You described it how
Speaker 1: you want.
Speaker 2: He described it in a way that I never that
Speaker 2: I was really touched by. When I went to a
Speaker 2: practice in Miami, this training camp, he introduced me to
Speaker 2: one of the coaches is his oldest friend. And I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, man, that's so nice. I was like,
Speaker 2: that's great. It made me feel old as hell, but
Speaker 2: it also was like, yeah, that's so nice.
Speaker 1: Are sweet?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's one of my and he is. He's one
Speaker 2: of my oldest friends that I have and I grew
Speaker 2: up you know he If you know the story of
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel, him and his mom lived in Greeley, Colorado,
Speaker 2: where the Broncos had training camp. He met he lost
Speaker 2: a hat at practice because he used to go get interviews.
Speaker 2: A man that worked for the Broncos organization went and
Speaker 2: bought him the same hat as a Charlotte Hornet's hat
Speaker 2: at the mall and then gave it to him. He
Speaker 2: went home told his mom about it. His mom wanted
Speaker 2: to meet the guy. They met, They hit it off,
Speaker 2: They dated, got married. Gary, his stepfather, who worked for
Speaker 2: the Broncos, moved Mike and his mom down to They
Speaker 2: lived in unincorporated Arapo County aka Centennial. I lived in Aurora,
Speaker 2: which is it's the same, and they Mike and I
Speaker 2: became friends in seventh grade and became very close in
Speaker 2: seventh and eighth and ninth grade, and then have remained
Speaker 2: friends till now. You know, well, And.
Speaker 1: The wild thing about it is, and I know you've
Speaker 1: said this to me before, is you guys as because
Speaker 1: when you're that age, you're like twelve thirteen, you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a I'm gonna be a comedian, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be a football coach, and everybody okay, and then
Speaker 1: you are, well, you know.
Speaker 2: What's funny is that it's like when you make when
Speaker 2: you make statements like that as a kid, you have
Speaker 2: to be willing for it to not fall exactly what
Speaker 2: it was, because I believe what it was was he
Speaker 2: was going to play in the NFL. I was going
Speaker 2: to be the biggest comedian in the world. And you're like,
Speaker 2: then you scale those down to size and you go like,
Speaker 2: what about great head coach and successful, great career comedian.
Speaker 2: You know, you're like, let's bring those down a notch.
Speaker 2: Let's just chill out on Because when you're in seventh grade,
Speaker 2: you're like, I'm going to be the president and also
Speaker 2: be the heavyweight champ of the WWE. And then you're like,
Speaker 2: chill out, dog, why don't you become a VP of
Speaker 2: Merrill Lynch and do pretty well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm what I I'm gonna wind up running the
Speaker 1: wrestling event at the VFW. That's how it lands for you.
Speaker 2: Know, I got a backyard match where a guy's gonna
Speaker 2: get set on fire. That's where I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1: The thing that I noticed a lot about because I've
Speaker 1: kind of existed in this world at ESPN and here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you run into a lot of athletes who would love
Speaker 1: to be stand up comedians, and you run into a
Speaker 1: lot of stand up comedians are like, I feel like
Speaker 1: I would just be really good at being an athlete,
Speaker 1: Like is there do you guys have that that shared
Speaker 1: like back and forth like loving and kind of living
Speaker 1: through each other a little bit.
Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, one hundred percent. One hundred percent.
Speaker 1: He's so funny.
Speaker 2: He's he's so funny. And what's what's crazy is in
Speaker 2: the offseason he like loves stand up comedy, Like he
Speaker 2: like loves it, Like I'll send him I sent him
Speaker 2: Joe Lists Special on YouTube, like I'll send him people
Speaker 2: that maybe I'm like, oh, I think you would love
Speaker 2: this dude, you know, and he'll be like because he's
Speaker 2: up at two forty five. Yeah, and he busts his
Speaker 2: hump the whole time. But I know there's times where
Speaker 2: he's like he texted me before we went out. We
Speaker 2: went down to Miami last year for the Browns game,
Speaker 2: and I get a text from him at like four
Speaker 2: in the morning. He's like, Hey, you're HBO special is
Speaker 2: playing right now. I'm watching it, and You're like you
Speaker 2: aren't you prepping for the Browns?
Speaker 1: You know, ready for this?
Speaker 2: Yeah. He's like, well, I've seen the special. I just
Speaker 2: there's a couple of bits I want to see and
Speaker 2: then I'm gonna go back and you're like, oh, that's awesome,
Speaker 2: And there's what he's done for me is I don't know.
Speaker 2: I knew. I knew I was an athletic by the
Speaker 2: time I hit high school. But what I did realize
Speaker 2: with Mike was like I view football sometimes through the
Speaker 2: lens of like what what he's explained to me. It
Speaker 2: gets interesting in different ways. It's not just like the
Speaker 2: collective like let's go team, everybody's everybody's great and everybody
Speaker 2: on that side's bad. You just kind of realize all
Speaker 2: the intrapersonal relationships and like who's been affected by who
Speaker 2: and and how like, you know, he did a fun
Speaker 2: thing for the forty nine ers. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I'm speaking out of school on this, but I love
Speaker 2: that he did this. One season with the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: He told me he would take a play from the
Speaker 2: team they were playing the next week, and he would
Speaker 2: run it once in a game so that when they
Speaker 2: were watching film, they'd be like, is that our play?
Speaker 2: He would just do that to mess with them, just
Speaker 2: strictly to mess with them. He'd be like, we're gonna
Speaker 2: run it once and then you know that was it,
Speaker 2: and that's it's so funny. That's him being so funny
Speaker 2: through like his you know what he does, but he is.
Speaker 2: People ask all the time, They're like, is that really
Speaker 2: who he is? I'm like, dude, that is him and
Speaker 2: those press conferences and him on the sidelines when he's
Speaker 2: miked up, that's one hundred percent Mike.
Speaker 1: I have Ben Leeber played for the Chargers and the
Speaker 1: Vikings made a very large mistake by befriending me. We've
Speaker 1: gotten very close and so the same thing where you
Speaker 1: just learn more about the behind the scenes aspects and
Speaker 1: the on the field stuff where you're like, oh, like
Speaker 1: you go, don't check it down. He's like, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? You're an idiot. That's not how football works.
Speaker 1: So you learn all this different stuff.
Speaker 2: I remember the first conversation having that with Mike. My
Speaker 2: friend Chad Harder and I go to all the games.
Speaker 2: Chad and I grew up with Mike friends in high school,
Speaker 2: and Chad and I were living together in Tucson. This
Speaker 2: is after I graduated from U of A. I was
Speaker 2: still doing stand up. He was punting at the University
Speaker 2: of Northern Colorado and it came down to Tucson to
Speaker 2: stay in shape for audition, for auditions. For it.
Speaker 1: Let's go with aud audition.
Speaker 2: He had a football audition. That's such a lame showbiz terms.
Speaker 1: But hey, damn, will you come help me with my lines?
Speaker 2: I need to dude. He kicked the punt one time.
Speaker 2: You know how punters can make it go over or
Speaker 2: they can make it drop. So I didn't know they
Speaker 2: could do that. And I was helping him with one
Speaker 2: of his auditions, but he punted the ball and we
Speaker 2: were just at like this high school football field in Tucson,
Speaker 2: and I'm like I put a cigarette down to catch it,
Speaker 2: and h dude, the ball. The ball went up and
Speaker 2: then came down right on my face. I mean, just
Speaker 2: zero down. And we're like, well, that's it for the day.
Speaker 2: We're not going to run lines anymore. You just busted
Speaker 2: my face.
Speaker 1: When I was working at ESPN and we were like
Speaker 1: I desperately wanted the Vikings to just built a new facility,
Speaker 1: and I was just like I just need to just
Speaker 1: get me in the building, just get me. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what I pitched some dumb shit, Like hey, what
Speaker 1: if I did? They were like, we get it, we
Speaker 1: love you, just go do it. And so one of
Speaker 1: the things I did is it is basically letting me
Speaker 1: loose in the facility. Was they put me in pads
Speaker 1: and I was going to catch a punt, dude. I
Speaker 1: from that moment on, I was like whatever, somebody could
Speaker 1: not even catch the ball, and like it's it's a
Speaker 1: very difficult task. It is a terrifying task. I don't terrify.
Speaker 2: But I remember McDaniel called us. He was in Houston
Speaker 2: with Kubiak okay, and we were like asking him who
Speaker 2: are they going to draft? It was like Vince Young,
Speaker 2: Mattliner at Jay Cutler, it was that draft, Reggie Bush.
Speaker 2: It was like unbelievable. And we were like there were
Speaker 2: the number one pick. We're like, who are you guys
Speaker 2: gonna take? Who are you gonna take? This was day
Speaker 2: of the draft. The draft is already in. Apparently they
Speaker 2: had already like they knew they had already contacted him.
Speaker 2: But McDaniel was like Mario Williams and we were like who.
Speaker 2: He's like Mario Williams from NCI State and we're like,
Speaker 2: who is that guy? Why would you do that? We
Speaker 2: were like calling him out, being like that's stupid. You
Speaker 2: should draft Bush, you should draft Vince Young or whatever. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: it was just the way his mind was. He was like, well,
Speaker 2: Kubiak explained it to us, when you're playing Peyton Manning
Speaker 2: twice a year, you need someone that's going to get
Speaker 2: in his face and disrupt him from destroying your team.
Speaker 2: And you're like, okay, So now when people make draft decisions,
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, they clearly know something. They're clear they're
Speaker 2: not just doing it to be like this will piss
Speaker 2: the fan base off. They're like drafting for a reason.
Speaker 2: But I remember him telling us that that was like
Speaker 2: the first moment of us learning from him of like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: you like, you guys know way more than we did.
Speaker 2: And he was like, you just want to keep it
Speaker 2: to that. And that's always how it's been where it's like,
Speaker 2: that's not my business. But man, I love I love
Speaker 2: hearing him talk about it, and whenever I see him,
Speaker 2: you know, during the season or offseason, it's always interesting
Speaker 2: to hear him talk his business.
Speaker 1: And I think you're I think you deserve a fair
Speaker 1: amount of credit for the amount of chill with which
Speaker 1: you've handled yourself because I've seen pictures and I would
Speaker 1: have known if somebody, like if something had gone awry,
Speaker 1: and like, let me tell you this. My best friend
Speaker 1: from childhood runs a restaurant inside a hotel that you've
Speaker 1: never heard of, and whenever I go there, I act
Speaker 1: unruly like I He's like this, sigh, you can't come
Speaker 1: to my job. He's like, you can't just walk in
Speaker 1: the kitchen. The fact that you have maintained your composure
Speaker 1: on the field, like I've seen you on the field
Speaker 1: of the sideline of Dolphins games before the game and
Speaker 1: you have it together, and I believe you deserve a
Speaker 1: lot of credit for that.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just I'm it genuinely is one of
Speaker 2: those things where no matter what happens, it's it's still
Speaker 2: surreal to this day. And the best part is he's
Speaker 2: just warming up. Like the best part is he's.
Speaker 1: Just like, that's what I was gonna get at is
Speaker 1: and we'll get back to let's get back to Niners
Speaker 1: I got but we also have to talk about I
Speaker 1: believe you were at the Broncos game, weren't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was at seventy I was at seventy
Speaker 2: to twenty.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna discuss that, and that's a part of
Speaker 1: this question here. Like it's hard to even put it
Speaker 1: into words, but he's this culmination of everything that's been
Speaker 1: happening in the league, like the the modern offenses and
Speaker 1: the way with which these young head coaches are changing
Speaker 1: the game. It's like he came around and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to explain, like you explain it in a in a
Speaker 1: stand up way. Right, you have a bunch of people
Speaker 1: doing a certain thing, and all of a sudden, one
Speaker 1: guy You're like, oh, none of us could do it.
Speaker 1: It's he's the like, yeah, it's Jimmy Parto's crowd work, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's He's He's just doing this thing that I think
Speaker 1: five years from now, ten years from now, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be like, this dude changed the entire league. Like he's
Speaker 1: running plays his old boss is running the next week,
Speaker 1: he's like pulling schemes out and then the best coaches
Speaker 1: in the league are like, what's up, Okay, we'll do that.
Speaker 2: He actually showed me that. He actually showed me that.
Speaker 2: I went down to the to the Dolphins Broncos game.
Speaker 2: Katie and I went down there a little early because
Speaker 2: Katie was doing Levatard and then we were gonna hang out.
Speaker 2: But we got in Thursday and McDaniel's you know, wife,
Speaker 2: Katie was She was like, well, why don't you guys
Speaker 2: come over and watch the game? It was forty nine
Speaker 2: Ers Giants, and so I wore my Niner stuff over there,
Speaker 2: and it was it was like, you know, McDaniel was like, oh,
Speaker 2: cool shirt, and you're like, yeah, I still love him.
Speaker 2: I was like, I know you, but you left. Katie
Speaker 2: even said that, she goes, he's the one that left.
Speaker 2: You should you shouldn't feel bad. But what was interesting
Speaker 2: was like seeing kind of him watch his old team
Speaker 2: and assess certain things that maybe that me or you
Speaker 2: would never pick up on on a team. But what
Speaker 2: I really realized was is that, like he's a culmination
Speaker 2: of your You absolutely nailed it where the NFL is going.
Speaker 2: But I think a lot of credit has to go
Speaker 2: not only to Kyle Shanahan, but to Mike Shanahan. Yes,
Speaker 2: I think Mike Shanahan coached in a way where he
Speaker 2: let his assistance, He let his coordinators have their own personality,
Speaker 2: be themselves. They didn't have to be this like exact
Speaker 2: replica of what a coach should be. And I think
Speaker 2: that paid off of because when you look back to
Speaker 2: those those Washington coaches, that Washington coaching.
Speaker 1: Still that that staff is dominating the league.
Speaker 2: It's insane. You got Kyle, you have Mike, you have
Speaker 2: Matt lafleur, you have.
Speaker 1: Our guy, Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell McVeigh. There's like guys where you're just like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: that clearly all that's like when you know, and this
Speaker 2: is this will link back to comedy, when you see
Speaker 2: a group. We always talk about the Boston group that
Speaker 2: came up to New York in the nineties. That was
Speaker 2: Bill Bird, Dane Cook, Patrise O'Neill, Bobby Kelly, Al del
Speaker 2: Benny and all those guys, and you're like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: that made sense because they come in these like groups.
Speaker 2: And I think it happens in groups, and I think
Speaker 2: people have been talking about it for years now, especially
Speaker 2: with McVeagh and Shanahan and the success they've had, and
Speaker 2: then Lafleur in the success he was having in Green Bay.
Speaker 2: And it was interesting because I was kind of sitting
Speaker 2: back being like McDaniel's coming. You can give of all
Speaker 2: the credit you want, but I know, the second McDaniel
Speaker 2: gets a shot, he's coming. That guy has been ready
Speaker 2: for this, that guy has helped out so much, and
Speaker 2: in San Francisco, which I obviously loved, but it just
Speaker 2: was a matter of time. It was a matter of
Speaker 2: time before he got his chance. And to see him
Speaker 2: last year do well and kind of turn around to
Speaker 2: and make Miami, you know, a threat in the AFC East.
Speaker 2: And then when I got to go down there in
Speaker 2: the off season when I was at the Daniel Beach
Speaker 2: improv and they were in training camp and I went.
Speaker 2: I got to see him before practice and talk to
Speaker 2: him after practice, and I asked him. I was just like,
Speaker 2: how you feeling. He's like, I'm comfortable, And I was like,
Speaker 2: that's going to mean that's going to mean so much
Speaker 2: because McDaniel, you know, like a good comic, McDaniel knows
Speaker 2: where do, what he needs to improve and how to
Speaker 2: improve it. And I think when they went and got
Speaker 2: Vic Fangio, a former forty nine er decordinator, former Bronco
Speaker 2: head coach, to kind of control the defense, I think
Speaker 2: it has kind of made McDaniel go into sicico mode
Speaker 2: where he's like, now I can run all these crazy
Speaker 2: plays and I can put all these people in and
Speaker 2: you know he's also Italian. The thing that's overlooked about
Speaker 2: McDaniel that no one talks about is how insane of
Speaker 2: a talent evaluator he is. Because now everyone's talking about
Speaker 2: a chain and you're like, yeah, he's been doing that
Speaker 2: for years. He did it in Washington, he did it
Speaker 2: in Atlanta, he did it in San Francisco, and now
Speaker 2: he's doing it in Miami where he knows kind of
Speaker 2: what he needs out of a play or Raheem Moster
Speaker 2: killing It is one of my favorite things because after
Speaker 2: the NFC Championship game in twenty nineteen at McDaniel, I
Speaker 2: went which I got to go do and got to
Speaker 2: go on the field with him after they beat the Packers.
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable. We were at his house and I
Speaker 2: was asking him about Raheem Moster because I saw him
Speaker 2: have a moment with Mostert down on the field, and
Speaker 2: I was like, what did you tell him? And he
Speaker 2: was like, I just told him. I always knew this
Speaker 2: is who he was. I always knew this is what
Speaker 2: he was capable of, and I just wanted to give
Speaker 2: him credit for how hard he worked knowing that he
Speaker 2: knew that and saw it out, because there was just
Speaker 2: this really emotional moment and you were like, that is insane.
Speaker 2: But then McDaniel tells me, He's like, I've wanted Mostert
Speaker 2: since he was an undrafted free agent and when I
Speaker 2: was in Atlanta. He's like, I've been trying to get
Speaker 2: Mostert on my squad since the Falcons, and then now
Speaker 2: he here, he is in Miami, and you know, you kind.
Speaker 1: Of have got eleven touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you got Moster, you got a chan and
Speaker 2: Jeff Wilson Junior, another guy that McDaniel saw in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: If McDaniel and I aren't friends, there'd probably be a
Speaker 2: part of me that's a little upset because when he
Speaker 2: left San Francisco, he knew who to take. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: knew who to bring with him to build up this team,
Speaker 2: and it was like so cool to see it. I'm
Speaker 2: so proud of the guy, and I'm very excited for
Speaker 2: the Sunday night football game against the Eagles because after
Speaker 2: they broke brock Perty's elbow, I've just wanted revenge on
Speaker 2: the Eagles by any means.
Speaker 1: Necessary, even if it comes via your friend coaching the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Hey, dude, sometimes you got to have a friend beat
Speaker 2: up your bully.
Speaker 1: If you can't, you got to get it where you
Speaker 1: can get it.
Speaker 2: And you know what, December third is a while away,
Speaker 2: but I'm excited for December third, Niners at Eagles.
Speaker 1: I think he's the king of maximizing what's available. Like
Speaker 1: it's like he looks at what's available to him, the resources.
Speaker 1: It's like all that crazy shit he did with Trent
Speaker 1: Williams pulling Trent Williams out, and people don't realize that
Speaker 1: was him. That was him. And so watching what he's
Speaker 1: doing down there with the guys he has, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just incredible.
Speaker 2: I'll give you the example of the playoff game last
Speaker 2: year Dolphins at Bills. He had Skyler Thompson and we
Speaker 2: stayed Chad and I stayed at the hotel connected to him,
Speaker 2: you know, And he came in and messed with us
Speaker 2: before he went to the stadium, and I was like,
Speaker 2: how you feeling, and he goes, I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 2: The first half of the week, I was like a
Speaker 2: little filled with anxiety and panic because I have my
Speaker 2: third string quarterback against arguably the best team in the AFC,
Speaker 2: and then it just clicked, Oh man, this is fun,
Speaker 2: this is fun. And then they go down seventeen, they
Speaker 2: come back, they almost beat the Bills in Buffalo with
Speaker 2: a third string quarterback, and it was like watching him
Speaker 2: and his attitude has helped me with comedy, just be like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah. Sometimes you got to realize, like this is
Speaker 2: all fun. We're all playing with house money, and sometimes
Speaker 2: you forget that if you have a job you love,
Speaker 2: sometimes you get so down and out about tiny things
Speaker 2: that you forget the big picture and you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is great, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's it's absolutely because you I find that all the time.
Speaker 1: We're like, oh my god, the flight or the show,
Speaker 1: like whatever it is, dog or dog.
Speaker 2: Shit in Rochester, that's where I'm going this weekend, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, no one's gonna show up. And then you
Speaker 2: go You're like, oh, this this is the best job.
Speaker 1: In the world. I get to go, I get to
Speaker 1: go have fun.
Speaker 2: I get to go be a silly boy for five
Speaker 2: shows and pay rent. Like that's fine, I'm fine with.
Speaker 1: That this weekend. Here's here's the problem this. I warned
Speaker 1: everybody there was a reason I put a warning on
Speaker 1: the front of this show is because I knew what
Speaker 1: we were capable of. So let's talk. Let's talk Niners Vikings.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about your current team,
Speaker 1: but the one moment I have to ask you about, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because in those dark years, you know, in the Abyss,
Speaker 1: when you were right. I think it was right before.
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people I know Huntsberger
Speaker 1: and other people are like, they talk about the Singletary
Speaker 1: years as though they were years they spent a lot
Speaker 1: on a mountain.
Speaker 2: Can't win with them, can't win with them? I love it, dude, Singletary.
Speaker 2: Singletary does not get enough credit for his talent evaluation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for building the roster that Harbaugh ran.
Speaker 2: With him and Mike Nolan mm hmm. Not my future
Speaker 2: father in law, but the former head coach of the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers went out and got pieces that Harball
Speaker 2: was able to come in and kind of with Vic Fangio,
Speaker 2: put in a pile and go like Oh Navarro, Bowman,
Speaker 2: Patrick Willis, Dante Whitner, all these guys that could go.
Speaker 2: Justin Smith getting him from the Bengals, drafting a young
Speaker 2: Alden Smith, getting all these guys that you were like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, oh my god, we're winning. Like it
Speaker 2: wasn't like like Kyle Shanahan, it was zero to eight.
Speaker 2: First season, you put in Jimmy G. He rips five. Okay,
Speaker 2: Jimmy G's the real deal. Let's give him a huge contract,
Speaker 2: and that kind of built that was able to carry them.
Speaker 2: Moment with Harbaugh, it was literally he came in and
Speaker 2: we started winning and no one expected it. Yeah, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, Frank Gore is running well with under
Speaker 2: Greg Roman's offense and Alex Smith is a game manager
Speaker 2: and he's doing really well, but this defense is just
Speaker 2: killing people and just shutting people down. That was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, we're oh my god, oh my god,
Speaker 2: we're back. Week one. The first game Harbaugh one was
Speaker 2: against the Seahawks, who had just kind of had us
Speaker 2: for like since since the divisions had been realigned. It
Speaker 2: was just like the Seahawks had had our number. And
Speaker 2: then you just come in and you beat Pete Carroll
Speaker 2: for the first and you're like, all right, let's go.
Speaker 2: And it was just that kind of thing. It must
Speaker 2: have felt the same way you guys did when you
Speaker 2: got Farv.
Speaker 1: And so now let's bring all worlds together. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: right before you guys went on that run and built
Speaker 1: we had it is what we felt like because we
Speaker 1: had Adrian Peterson. We had we had gotten Steve Hutchison,
Speaker 1: probably the most underrated sign in maybe the last three
Speaker 1: forty years in the NFL. We put a Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer at left guard. You have this unbelievable defense that
Speaker 1: doesn't allow anyone to get a hundred years.
Speaker 2: By the way, you guys took him from Seattle.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, we helped you out of the.
Speaker 2: Reason Sean Alexander fell off.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, and so and then you stacked Farv
Speaker 1: on top of it. But everybody kind of forgets that.
Speaker 1: The first couple games of the far season we won,
Speaker 1: we were playing okay, but it just didn't look right.
Speaker 1: And no matter how many people want to deny it,
Speaker 1: there were people that were like, is this the right decision?
Speaker 1: And then you came to Minnesota.
Speaker 2: I got I remember that game and it was a
Speaker 2: it was a fight, and it was like, okay, we're
Speaker 2: in it. I remember it because it was before Sunday ticket.
Speaker 2: I was at a bar and I was still drinking
Speaker 2: and Farve hit your tight end in the back of
Speaker 2: the end zone.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even a tight end. It was it was
Speaker 1: Greg greg Lewis. No, it was a guy that we'd
Speaker 1: we had signed I think that week Greg Lewis. It
Speaker 1: was far Greg Lewis, and it was it was You're right,
Speaker 1: it was back of the end zone. It was toe touch.
Speaker 2: I remember being in the bar being like, that wasn't
Speaker 2: a catch. I remember screaming that at the TV, being like,
Speaker 2: that's not No.
Speaker 1: One thought it was a catch. No, Like we all
Speaker 1: got excited, but we're like, well, here comes the replay
Speaker 1: to ruin it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. I remember that run and then I
Speaker 2: think you guys were the favorite against the Saints, right.
Speaker 1: Don't want to do it. I'd like to move on.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to talk about the happiness that was
Speaker 1: that moment.
Speaker 2: It was one of the greatest MC Championship games of
Speaker 2: all time. I'm sorry, it just was. It was like
Speaker 2: no dog in the fight. I watched that game at
Speaker 2: a bar with Joe List and Nate Bargetzi and we
Speaker 2: sat there watching it and Nate this is how it
Speaker 2: always worked back in the day, when we were all
Speaker 2: out drinking. I would sit in the middle, and inevitably
Speaker 2: Nate would find a point and Joe would find a
Speaker 2: point and they would argue about it and I would
Speaker 2: have to sit there like a referee and break it up.
Speaker 2: But I remember, I think it was I think it
Speaker 2: was Nate that was like, this is the greatest NYC
Speaker 2: Championship game of all time. And then it just started
Speaker 2: a conversation where you know.
Speaker 1: We never feel that way here because of the pain
Speaker 1: associated with it, But if you're able to step away
Speaker 1: from it and you go all these turnovers, all this
Speaker 1: crazy back and forth, they drive, they drive down. I've
Speaker 1: said this on the show before. When Farv through that
Speaker 1: that pass to Sidney Rice on the last drive and
Speaker 1: he took it off the field, I made you're not
Speaker 1: gonna understand this with your lineage. But I had this
Speaker 1: moment where I literally in my head, I didn't verbalize it.
Speaker 1: I was like, we're going to the super Bowl, yeah,
Speaker 1: and and then to get to twelve minute.
Speaker 2: I just I'm gonna tell you right now. I had
Speaker 2: that same exact feeling when my beautiful fiance got me
Speaker 2: tickets to the twenty nineteen Super Bowl forty nine Ers
Speaker 2: Chiefs Oh we were up by ten. I really was, like,
Speaker 2: I think McDaniel's about to win a super Bowl. By
Speaker 2: the way, just for future reference, I will never in
Speaker 2: my life say McDaniel's gonna win a Super Bowl until
Speaker 2: there is zero on the clock and they are lifting
Speaker 2: him up because twice now sigh, twice Falcons versus the
Speaker 2: Patriots in the first half. At the halftime, I go, cool,
Speaker 2: McDaniel's gonna get a ring. Patriots came back, Chiefs Niners.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying. So You're never hearing that out of
Speaker 2: me until it happens, and until I know the game
Speaker 2: is over and the confetti is until he is in
Speaker 2: a shower of confetti, will I that's the next time
Speaker 2: I will say that.
Speaker 1: That's welcome to the psyche of a Vikings fan. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that is That is how we live all
Speaker 1: the time and forever.
Speaker 2: I mean, especially with ninety eight and then yeah, the
Speaker 2: nine NFC Championship game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't, I don't. We can talk about well,
Speaker 1: we'll just keep moving. Let's talk about we were at
Speaker 1: Montreal together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about if we're at Montreal together. And I
Speaker 1: I like you said to me, like someday I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be the voice of the NFL Network's top one hundred
Speaker 1: players that have been like, hey, guys, you know Dan
Speaker 1: is insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's out of my mind.
Speaker 1: That's insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. I owed all to former NFL Films
Speaker 2: producer Paul Manusky. I probably butchered his last name, but
Speaker 2: I just know him as Paul he is. He no
Speaker 2: longer works in NFL films, which is a crime. It
Speaker 2: truly is a crime, because he was one of the
Speaker 2: best producers I've ever worked with on anything. And he
Speaker 2: was a fan of the Bonfire on Sirius XM, which
Speaker 2: is still Monday through Thursday five to seven pm with
Speaker 2: Big Jafferson and Robert Kelly. I'll still plug the show.
Speaker 2: Serious Serious XM Faction Talk one oh three. He was like, hey, Man,
Speaker 2: would you have any interest in doing some like voiceover
Speaker 2: for NFL films? And I was like, that's all I've
Speaker 2: ever wanted to do. I would love to do that.
Speaker 2: Besides comedy, all I've ever wanted to do was those
Speaker 2: recap videos where you're like and the forty nine ers
Speaker 2: knew that that they would be different from the rest,
Speaker 2: and he said, listen, we're doing NF Top one hundred
Speaker 2: for NFL Films. It's gonna be on NFL network, which
Speaker 2: you want to do it? And I was like, yeah, dude,
Speaker 2: that sounds so good. He's like, well, we got Wendell
Speaker 2: Pierce from the Wire doing like the longer stuff, but
Speaker 2: we need someone that's like intermitted, like in between those.
Speaker 2: We need you. And I was like, sign me up.
Speaker 2: And I've been doing it for seven seasons now. Yeah.
Speaker 2: What's crazy is now I find out the list and
Speaker 2: I tell McDaniel how many dolphins got on it. Now
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm going to tell you who's on it
Speaker 2: and where they're at so you can tell them because
Speaker 2: so they'll know before. But my friend Chad Hard, who
Speaker 2: I brought up, was sitting at home watching it. This
Speaker 2: is like twenty and sixteen, twenty seventeen, and there's a
Speaker 2: clip where I talk about the Davonte Freeman and this
Speaker 2: is when he was with the Falcons, and I go like,
Speaker 2: number thirty two's Davonte Freeman, whose ability to get away
Speaker 2: from the and then it cuts to McDaniel coaching up
Speaker 2: Davonta Freeman on the Falcons and Chad sent me and mcdanie,
Speaker 2: you know the clip and he's like, it goes from
Speaker 2: SODA's voice over to you coaching. He was like, I
Speaker 2: was freaking out in my house and You're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's awesome. That's like the coolest one.
Speaker 1: That's like, that's the pinnacle moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the moment where you're like, that's insane
Speaker 2: that one of our buddies is at home and he
Speaker 2: hears me do the voiceover into a clip of McDaniel coaching,
Speaker 2: and you're like, come on, dude, come.
Speaker 1: On, let's talk. Let's and well, you got to get off.
Speaker 1: I know you got to get off here, but let's
Speaker 1: close with your lovely fiance. Yes, who I care about
Speaker 1: A great deal.
Speaker 2: I mean you guys, but you guys came through the
Speaker 2: mud together doing Snapchat sports. I know about your guys'
Speaker 2: time and the suck at ESPN.
Speaker 1: I always thought I was a hard worker, and I
Speaker 1: remember the first day at ESPN, I did the night show.
Speaker 1: She did the morning show, and I walked in from
Speaker 1: essentially my shift, and she was sitting like show long
Speaker 1: put out. Her show had gone out hours ago. She
Speaker 1: was sitting on the floor of a mutual friend, the
Speaker 1: incredible Steve Bray band.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love Steve Brayband and shout out Ashley Brayband
Speaker 2: and Ashley.
Speaker 1: Both of them were Ashley, both of them incredibly skilled
Speaker 1: at ESPN.
Speaker 2: Ashley was ended up being Katie's producer on Always Late
Speaker 2: and Steve is now with the WWE.
Speaker 1: Which is, yeah, that's a big win for you. And
Speaker 1: so the I remember she was sitting on the floor
Speaker 1: like just ripping ideas, and I, you know, it was
Speaker 1: like when you walk into a green room and you
Speaker 1: see like and I always knew she was talented and
Speaker 1: I was a fan of hers, and I was excited
Speaker 1: to meet her. But you know when you walk into
Speaker 1: a green room and you're like, oh, is Chappelle in
Speaker 1: there just working on his bits before the show, and
Speaker 1: you're like, god, damn it. You're like, I am gonna
Speaker 1: have to work, dude. She's so good.
Speaker 2: I opened for Ali Wong at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas,
Speaker 2: And this is right after Baby Cobra came out, and
Speaker 2: I've known ally for a while and I opened for
Speaker 2: Ali and she rips it like absolutely destroys. And then
Speaker 2: after the show, I'm like, oh, you want to hang out?
Speaker 2: And she just goes and listens to the show and
Speaker 2: tries to add tags to the bits because she was
Speaker 2: doing a second show and I was like, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't work hard. I don't work hard at all.
Speaker 2: And you know what's funny is Katie's That is absolutely
Speaker 2: Katie's personality. She is one of the hardest workers I know,
Speaker 2: Like she is like a She's got like the mindset
Speaker 2: of a hunting dog where you're like, give her a
Speaker 2: smell and she'll just she'll just go after it. Like
Speaker 2: she's on Celebrity Jeopardy right now. She just advanced to
Speaker 2: the semifinal.
Speaker 1: She is Rosie Perez. I know you, I know you,
Speaker 1: I know you said that, But like anybody who's seen
Speaker 1: herund there, You're like, what is happening? How is she
Speaker 1: this good at it?
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you right now, if you're in the
Speaker 2: semifinals of Celebrity Jeopardy, get ready because I watch her
Speaker 2: study and I'm like, You're gonna body, everybody. She's just
Speaker 2: like her. Katie's Jeopardy training montage is clubber Lang and
Speaker 2: Rocky three, where like all the other celebrities are at like,
Speaker 2: you know, like a golden gym, like barely they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I love this, and then Katy's like, em, she's just
Speaker 2: doing pull ups just like nails. It's wild. I'm watching
Speaker 2: your study. I'm like, she's gonna body everybody in this
Speaker 2: Celebrity Jeopardy semifinal coming up.
Speaker 1: It's a weird spot for you, because I know, the
Speaker 1: thing that is cool about my house is I'm the
Speaker 1: funniest guy in it, undisputedly.
Speaker 2: There's been moments where she says stuff where I go like,
Speaker 2: you know, that's like a full bit, right, and she's like, oh.
Speaker 1: It's wild. We did this thing where she like it
Speaker 1: was we were doing fake brackets. Yeah, right, fake brackets
Speaker 1: for March Madness, and you know, we walked in to
Speaker 1: start filming and it was one of those things where
Speaker 1: everyone every response she had and everything she said, I
Speaker 1: was like, should I be a comic? Is that what
Speaker 1: I should do with my life? Yeah, I'd probably be
Speaker 1: a teacher from now on. She was so funny.
Speaker 2: Oh she's hilarious, and it's it's like one of the
Speaker 2: greatest things is finding someone like her to be in
Speaker 2: love with. That I'm just like, oh, you're the you.
Speaker 2: Just every day she makes me laugh and away room
Speaker 2: I'm like, this is the best. This just rules, this
Speaker 2: is and also you'll enjoy this because you know her
Speaker 2: one final McDaniel story. I knew he was leaving the
Speaker 2: Niners right through him and his wife. I kind of
Speaker 2: knew that they were going to explore him being a
Speaker 2: head coach. And he was in the kitchen and Katie goes,
Speaker 2: I go, I think McDaniel's leaving the Niners, and she goes, oh,
Speaker 2: that's so awesome. Just don't end up in the AFC
Speaker 2: East because she's a Pats fan. And I was like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And then he got hired by the Dolphins and Katie goes,
Speaker 2: no Dolphins stuff, no Dolphin stuff in this house, and
Speaker 2: I was like, all right. And so i've over the
Speaker 2: past two seasons, I've able to begin in three items
Speaker 2: of merch. I have a T shirt, a sweatshirt, and
Speaker 2: I just ordered a new sweatshirt because it's really cool.
Speaker 2: But at the we were talking about the Broncos Dolphins game.
Speaker 2: That felt so good to watch because I remember when
Speaker 2: McDaniel knew he was going to leave the forty nine ers,
Speaker 2: the Broncos wanted nothing to do with him, no interview,
Speaker 2: and he was a ball boy there. He was like,
Speaker 2: it made the most sense for h him to go
Speaker 2: back and turn that organization around, and they didn't. And
Speaker 2: then he hung seventy seventy and then he took a knee.
Speaker 2: He still showed grace even though he had the knife
Speaker 2: at their throat and he removed it. I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it. I told my clup line after the game,
Speaker 2: I wrote, Broncos, that's gonna be the best breakfast they've
Speaker 2: ever had in their lives. Then they put the gun
Speaker 2: to the to the liquor store guy said, I was like,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be the best breakfast. You just save them,
Speaker 2: you know, advanced Joseph, that's gonna be the best breakfast
Speaker 2: of his life. But yeah, it's insane. It's like, but
Speaker 2: forty nine ers Vikings, I know we got to go.
Speaker 2: I love Kirk Cousins. I love him. I know how
Speaker 2: good he is because of how much McDaniel and shanahan
Speaker 2: have talked about him and his time in Washington and
Speaker 2: how much they enjoyed coaching him, and how great he is.
Speaker 2: Like there's always that rumor that Cousins that shanahan or
Speaker 2: McDaniel are gonna go for cousins. I think that's a
Speaker 2: sign that you got a keeper right there, when you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: this guy stays even killed. Even with your record right now,
Speaker 2: I don't you guys are still a threat. You're still
Speaker 2: a threat. I think there's a lot of parts of
Speaker 2: the Vikings team that's like have been building over years,
Speaker 2: and I think similar to the Lions, I think the
Speaker 2: Vikings are kind of that upnext mentality. I think the
Speaker 2: Bears are in disarray. I think the Packers are. They
Speaker 2: have to do that reset like they did after.
Speaker 1: Cut them down, cut him down, and.
Speaker 2: It's like that Monday night football game is gonna It's
Speaker 2: gonna be interesting to see how the forty nine ers
Speaker 2: respond after losing to the Browns and how comfortable the
Speaker 2: Vikings are just in general, playing a very good team,
Speaker 2: playing a very solid team.
Speaker 1: It's going to be It's always some fans want, you know,
Speaker 1: stack w's that's the point. Get the best, get the
Speaker 1: best you know place you can in the postseason, then
Speaker 1: see what happens. But I always love the moments when
Speaker 1: you get to see where your current version of your
Speaker 1: team team stacks up against the best team or one
Speaker 1: of the best teams in the league. It's one of
Speaker 1: those moments. So I think it's gonna be really fun.
Speaker 2: And I think this is like, this is the part
Speaker 2: of having a good team that should make you nervous,
Speaker 2: but it's also kind of a cool thing where you're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: they're coming for it every Vikings an Vikings are going
Speaker 2: to show up and really try to take the Niners
Speaker 2: out because the Niners, I mean, I saw what it
Speaker 2: did for the Browns. They've had a whole week of like,
Speaker 2: we beat the Niners, and you're like, so it meant
Speaker 2: it means a lot for teams to beat the forty
Speaker 2: nine ers right now. So I'm just hoping that doesn't.
Speaker 1: Happen last thing we do. I know you're gonna hate it.
Speaker 1: I need a score prediction.
Speaker 2: I love you, and I want you to know that
Speaker 2: before I say this, I love you.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be thirty one fourteen forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. I also love you, and I did think
Speaker 1: the Vikings defense would show up a little better than
Speaker 1: you're thinking, because I thought it would be Niners fourteen,
Speaker 1: Vikings one hundred and thirty eight. Dan, It's nice to
Speaker 1: have you, buddy, I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It will be close. It will be close till the
Speaker 2: third quarter, and then the forty nine ers will find
Speaker 2: a way to pull away. That's that's what I think totally.
Speaker 1: I don't care about that at all. It's my show.
Speaker 1: The show's over.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Buddy, Sigh, you rule, dude. I'll talk to soon,
Speaker 2: Letter Bud.
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