WEBVTT - The Vikings Tailgate: Dan Soder & His Friendship With Coach Mike McDaniel | SF | Episode 25 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:05.960 An award winning family owned business with exceptional diamonds, engagement rings, jewelry, 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:10.600 and time pieces. Continental Diamond is the jeweler Minnesota Adores 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.200 in Saint Louis Park or online at continentaldiamond dot com. 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.320 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of The Tailgate presented 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:24.160 by Continental Diamond. My old friend Dan Soder. You might 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:28.520 know him from his endless amount of comedy specials. You 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.520 might know him from the Showtime show Billions. You may 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.800 know him as the voice of the NFL's Top one 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:40.159 hundred plays on NFL Network. Diehard Niners fan, also childhood 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:44.199 friend of Mike McDaniel. This is a really fun episode. 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.800 I think you guys are gonna love it. Please give 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.680 us a rating and a review. If you like the show, 0:00:51.240 --> 0:01:00.160 enjoy it. Everybody Condo, Tom Data. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:00:58.800 Go, We gotta go. 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:10.039 Thank go time joining me on today's program. This is 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.360 a fun one. You know, well, you don't know if 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:13.959 you're listening. I was about to say, you know, when 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.920 you do comedy festivals, But what a stupid thing to 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.600 say to people who aren't comedians. When you do comedy 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.640 festivals as a comedian, you get a chance to see 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.399 people you haven't seen in one hundred years, and it's 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.200 it turns into this unique bond, Like that's how I 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.240 feel on this show. It's Dan Soder. Yeah, every time 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:37.080 I see you, I get so excited. Yeah, almost like 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.400 I want to wrap my arms around you and not 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.440 let you leave. So this I don't know how this 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.039 episode's gonna go, but it's nice to see you. Man. 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:45.840 It's gonna go the distance, and it's great seeing you 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:50.640 because it is comedy becomes adult summer camp, so your 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.320 friends you only see at summer camp. You know, comics 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.320 are on the road every weekend, but in different cities. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:56.920 So when you are when you happen to be in 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.000 a city with another comic that you're friends with, that's incredible. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.480 And then the second thing is comedy festivals, where you're like, 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:05.080 we have so much to talk about. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:06.120 What's happening? 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.640 Yeah, A lot of times you just picked back up 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.920 from when you saw each other last. So when you 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:12.680 reached out to me and you were like, hey, do 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.200 you want to come talk about the forty nine ers, 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.079 which A I always do and B you're like, dude, 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:18.639 come on my podcast, I was like, one hundred percent 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.320 I would love to do that. A meeting of two worlds. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.760 Yeah, and our main goal here, like I will do 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.480 my best not to unravel this thing into a two 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.840 hour you know, mutual ted talk. Let's start. Let's start 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.400 Niners here, because you are you're a die hard, lifelong 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:35.480 Niners fan. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.480 Yeah, first piece of clothing I was put in was 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:38.760 a forty nine Ers onesie. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.720 And it's just that's my question because you grew up 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:41.320 in Colorado. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.360 Well, I was born in Hartford. My dad, my parents, 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.480 my dad specifically is from the Bay Area. My mom 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.280 is from Fresno. They met in San Francisco and were 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.400 married there and lived there for years. And then my 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.400 mom worked for ETNA and she got transferred to Hartford, 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.000 Connecticut because that's where their home office is. That's where 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.239 I was born. And then my mom got her her 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.040 whole family is from originally from Colorado, and she's an 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.919 opportunity to go be transferred to Denver and she was like, oh, Dan, 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.799 I'll have cousins and stuff like that around. So we 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.120 moved to Denver when I was five, but I was 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.000 locked in as a forty nine Ers fan. There was 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.680 like I was born in eighty three, so I missed 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.200 the eighty one Super Bowl. But I you know, you're 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.040 born in the eighties to the forty nine ers, you're 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.440 a forty nine Er fan. There's just yeah, And then 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.079 it went through. You know, I was always a forty 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.120 nine Ers fan. But the thing that really makes it 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.160 set in stone is and you know this, and every 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.880 NFL team fan knows this, except maybe a young Patriots fan. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:46.119 The lean years are what make you a diehard fan, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.080 the least years where you know, after Eddie de Barbolo 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.560 Junior had to sell the team to the York family, 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.080 his sister and her husband. 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.120 Pause right there, Let's take a moment and do something 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.720 that I never get to do with anyone. Let's and 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.920 I know there's some stuff at the end there that 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.080 I'm not I don't need to like get it. But 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:09.600 like Eddie de Bartolo Junior is the pre eminent example 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.760 of good. Like the way that guy he introduced giving 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.240 players their own rooms, like all that, Like the way 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:16.440 he treated players. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.120 I could argue greatest stoner in the history of the NFL. 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:23.279 He I yeah, he bought the team. He's from Youngstown, Ohio. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.520 Bought the team for a million dollars from his dad, 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:31.320 and then that was nineteen seventy eight. I believe he 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.279 bought the team nineteen seventy nine. He brings in Bill Walsh, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.599 they draft Joe Montana. By nineteen eighty one, their Super 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.360 Bowl champions, and then they go on a run until 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.120 he honestly he sold the team, I believe in Like 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.279 I might be wrong about the actual year, but it 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.800 was around two three and the forty nine ers were 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.360 winning a division every year, almost every year, and almost 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.680 every year in the NFC Championship game. So it was 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.760 a question of you know, you go from Bill Walsh 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.640 to George Seffert, you stay good. But then you go 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.040 George Seffert to Mooch to Steve Mariucci and you stay good. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.719 It's like, well, that's that's ownership. That's just keeping a culture. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.359 And the thing that I love about Adea Bartolow Junior, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.360 every single player, I think it's every single player from 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.600 his tenure as owner that's became a Hall of Famer, 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.360 has had him and duck them into the Hall of Fame. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:25.320 That's nuts. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.679 That's the crazy thing. And what a lot of people 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.320 don't know is, and I'm not saying it was his 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.720 personal Yoda, but when Robert Kraft was buying the Patriots. 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.960 He went to Di Bartolow and was like, like, so 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.760 this this way of treating players, like to Bartolo, the 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.920 whole thing, standing in the hallway, greeting the players after 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.080 the game, knowing their families, spending this different sort of time, 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.400 I think makes you want to play for him exactly. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.599 And he just built this culture. But it's interesting that 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.120 you grew up like you were real little when they 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.200 were on that amazing run. So you probably have a 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.160 couple memories. Yeah, But then like there's that core moment 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:07.520 of sports fandom, you know, like thirteen to eighteen where 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.240 the world is different. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.680 But again still fine. Forty nine Ers wonted. The last 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.200 time the forty nine Ers won in Super Bowl, I 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.240 was eleven. It was nineteen ninety four in Okay. Yeah, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.360 it was the seventy fifth anniversary season. We beat the 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:23.400 Chargers in the Super Bowl, and then the next year 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.600 NFC Championship lose to the Cowboys in ninety five, and 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.960 then we go through the Green Bay Brett Farv the 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.120 early Brett fav years, which you guys saw them turn around. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:37.040 When Holmgren, again a former forty nine Er guy, goes 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.040 Coast yep and turns the West Coast offense with Brett Farvre. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.400 So then I hate the Packers from ninety six to 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.200 ninety nine, but we get the we get the taroll 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:50.400 Owens catch, we get like you know, there's still moments. 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.920 The last great moment I remember of the forty nine 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.000 Ers being like the old like when they were running 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.800 on fumes of gas, which a lot of people don't remember. 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:04.200 This was in the playoffs. The forty nine Ers came 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.360 back with Jeff Garcia against the New York Giants. We 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:08.800 were down like seventeen. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.080 Is this the taroll Owens crying moment? 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.400 No, that was the Packers. That was that was That 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.120 was the Packers. Yeah, okay, that was a wild card 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.320 game against the Packers in ninety eight. That was still 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.120 Steve Young. But later turn of the century, Oh, I 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.800 think it's two. The forty might be one. Two. The 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.120 forty nine Ers beat the Giants on this massive comeback 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.000 win in the playoffs, and then that was it. We 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.000 lost to somebody, and then it was like, I think 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.480 we lost to the Rams. Were the greatest show on turf. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.560 And then it got real dark, and then it got 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.679 real bad. It got I got it got. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.160 Real, but not for that long all of a sudden. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.520 That I disagree. I disagree. Your eight years is a 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:47.200 long time. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.840 Stop, dude, I will not do this with you. Well, 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:51.640 I will not do this with you. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.920 Here's the analogy I always make growing up a forty 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.720 nine Ers fan in the eighties and nineties foot NFL wise, 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.600 I grew up riches and then we found out my 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.520 dad had been a part of a Ponzi scheme, and 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.360 we lost everything for eight years. I mean we lost everything, 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.760 We lost the house, we had to go live with family. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:16.160 And then you get this like business idea that your 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.440 dad invests in that gets you money again, and you 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.640 got horriball and you've got three seasons of going. You 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.239 go to a super Bowl, you go to three NFC 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.840 Championship games, and you're like, we're back on top, baby, 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.360 and then you find out that was a Ponzi scheme, 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.520 and then you lose it for three more years and 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.200 you're like, what's going on? And then Kyle Shanahan was like, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.120 all right, I'm gonna put your family, you know, And 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.080 then now we're back in the mix where you're kind 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.680 of like you don't trust the wealth but it's nice 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:41.319 to be back. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.800 Yeah, you're right, it must be really hard to have 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:49.439 been rich a bunch of different times. Right, thirty years. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.199 And I realized I'm talking to a Vikings fan after 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:52.880 you guys went ow and four in the Super Bowl 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.680 in the seventies and eighties and they haven't been back since. 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.040 If the forty nine Ers win a Super Bowl this year, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.520 it will be one of those things where I'm like, 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.120 I am I can rest. Yeah, I would cheer for 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.640 the Vikings. I'll tell you the four teams I would 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.400 cheer for, which surprisingly they just beat us. I would 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.120 cheer for the Browns. Sure, I would cheer for the Vikings. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.120 Sure I would cheer for the Lions. And then, of course, 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.480 I mean, I'm gonna cheer for him regardless of the Miami Dolphins, 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:20.480 because of Mike McDaniel. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:25.240 I can't budge off of how I'm feeling watching you 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:32.200 describe your hardship, and it's interesting. But you're right, But 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.560 it's like to watch one of the things. When I 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.719 was thinking about this episode, I wanted to I had 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.079 written down. I was like, I should ask him how 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:44.800 great it feels to have Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch. 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:46.960 But just then listening to you say that, I want 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:51.920 to set your apartment on fire. So but it is, 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:56.560 it is wild you there's those rare moments. I felt it. 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.920 In ninety eight, Oh my. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.960 God, your guys's team was the best team in the NFL. 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.720 And you know I told you about growing up in Colorado. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:12.800 My uncle, my dad's half brother, had Bronco season tickets 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.720 and he had no one to go with. And I'm 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.719 a massive NFL fan, so I would go to these 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.120 Bronco games and it kind of got me a little 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.280 bit for a while to be like, oh, I like 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.280 the Broncos. It's fun watching John Elway. And then when 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.360 Mike Shanahan came over from the Niners he was ro 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.080 coordinator and left after that Super Bowl and came to 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.880 the Broncos, I had more of an ind of like, okay, 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:40.400 go Broncos. But I was at the nineteen ninety eight 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:47.200 AFC Championship game my uncle, and I'll tell you right now, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.640 when you guys lost to the Falcons, there was a 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.199 and I mean this in anyone that was at Mile 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.640 High Stadium will tell you this. There was a collective 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:03.680 sigh of like, okay, if the if the Broncos win today, 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.199 they'll win the Super Bowl. Like there was that like, oh, 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.200 if everyone knew in Mile High Stadium that the Vikings 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.959 were the best team in the NFL. The nineteen ninety 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.480 eight Vikings were the best team that year. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.080 And I feel like right now your your team is 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:19.679 living in one of those moments I don't want to 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.280 put I don't know where your superstitions lie. I don't 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:23.040 want to put a lot. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.240 I mean recently, it's yeah, it's been so hard. Last 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.000 season's NFC Championship game was so heartbreaking that you're like, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.320 I don't even know if superstitions are real anymore. Now 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.280 it's just like I'm like a war torn guy where 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.080 I'm just like, yeah, bring it whatever brother is. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.280 And I can't. I can't believe I'm gonna give this 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.840 to you, but I believe it in my heart it 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.480 will be. If you guys do win the Super Bowl 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.520 this year, that journey not for all of them. I'm 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.640 investing in you, my friend, who I care about. Sure 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.600 that that personal journey of eleven years old when we 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.800 won our last one and then getting too experience because 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.079 I think every sports fan I know, oh, it's not possible. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.439 The world isn't magic. I think every die hard sports 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:09.840 fan should get to experience their team winning a title 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.800 when they're in their youth and a title when they're 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:18.160 an adult. That would be sports world perfection to experience that. 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.760 Now, you gotta understand. When I moved to Denver, there 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:23.959 was a lot going on my family. My dad ended 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.160 up moving back to San Francisco. My mom raised me 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.040 in Denver. When I was ten years old, I made 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.880 the choice to become a Denver Nuggets fan. I was like, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.040 you know what. The Golden State Warriors were our team 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.160 I did. They traded away Tim Hardaway. I didn't like that. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.880 I didn't run. I didn't like run. Tmcbing broken up, 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:42.600 so I was like, you know what, I love the 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.680 new They just switched the logo of the Nuggets to 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.959 the Mountain. Yes, we had Matumbo, we had Lafonzo Ellis. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:50.600 There was like a lot of people and I was like, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.680 I'm going to choose the Denver Nuggets because I don't 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.040 have any other Denver teams. I didn't like the Rockies. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.160 They're in the same division as the San Francisco Giants, 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.960 So I was like, I'm love the Nuggets one of 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.720 the most painful decisions I've made, because then I watched 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:10.240 the Nuggets be mid and terrible for so many years, 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.000 and then I watched the Warriors explode. And you have 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.360 to understand my dad's family. My grandmother specifically stayed a 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.440 Warriors fan. Everyone loved the Dubs. You would be in 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.559 the Bay Area and everyone's like, oh, the Warriors, They're unbelievable. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.400 They're never gonna lose, and they would always kind of 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.520 beat up on the Nuggets, and I was like, damn, 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.960 But the Nuggets winning the championship this year felt so 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.400 surreal because you were like, I never thought it was 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.960 gonna happen. That being said, I do believe if the 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.080 forty nine ers won the Super Bowl, I would become 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:45.920 very emotional. I think I think that would I I 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.360 was happy when the Nuggets won. I do believe when 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:53.840 you have your team, like your team, you can have 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.240 several teams in a city you like, but you always 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.400 have one that you're like, it's your favorite child. Yeah, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.480 and you're like, this is this means the world to me. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:06.480 Twenty nineteen to get into Mike McDaniel, I was very 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.839 lucky when Kyle Shanahan took when Kyle Shanahan took the 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.160 head coaching job after losing to the Patriots in the 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.000 Super Bowl with the Atlanta Falcons. When the forty nine 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.439 Ers named John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan head coach GM, 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.160 I was like, great. Then I get the text from McDaniel. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.880 I'm a forty nine er. I was like, this is unbelievable. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.360 Mike McDaniel, head coach of the Dolphins, is a I 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:32.800 would say, childhood friend, lifelong friend. You described it how 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:33.120 you want. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:34.920 He described it in a way that I never that 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.200 I was really touched by. When I went to a 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:41.400 practice in Miami, this training camp, he introduced me to 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.040 one of the coaches is his oldest friend. And I 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.840 was like, oh, man, that's so nice. I was like, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:48.560 that's great. It made me feel old as hell, but 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.960 it also was like, yeah, that's so nice. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:52.280 Are sweet? 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:53.880 Yeah, he's one of my and he is. He's one 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:58.080 of my oldest friends that I have and I grew 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.800 up you know he If you know the story of 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.280 Mike McDaniel, him and his mom lived in Greeley, Colorado, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.880 where the Broncos had training camp. He met he lost 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.280 a hat at practice because he used to go get interviews. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.440 A man that worked for the Broncos organization went and 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.560 bought him the same hat as a Charlotte Hornet's hat 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.560 at the mall and then gave it to him. He 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.400 went home told his mom about it. His mom wanted 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.640 to meet the guy. They met, They hit it off, 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:29.280 They dated, got married. Gary, his stepfather, who worked for 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.280 the Broncos, moved Mike and his mom down to They 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:38.000 lived in unincorporated Arapo County aka Centennial. I lived in Aurora, 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:42.280 which is it's the same, and they Mike and I 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.840 became friends in seventh grade and became very close in 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.720 seventh and eighth and ninth grade, and then have remained 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.520 friends till now. You know, well, And. 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.560 The wild thing about it is, and I know you've 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.360 said this to me before, is you guys as because 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.800 when you're that age, you're like twelve thirteen, you're like, 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.200 I'm gonna be a I'm gonna be a comedian, I'm 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.600 gonna be a football coach, and everybody okay, and then 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:06.240 you are, well, you know. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.400 What's funny is that it's like when you make when 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.840 you make statements like that as a kid, you have 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.920 to be willing for it to not fall exactly what 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.960 it was, because I believe what it was was he 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.040 was going to play in the NFL. I was going 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.480 to be the biggest comedian in the world. And you're like, 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.200 then you scale those down to size and you go like, 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:33.800 what about great head coach and successful, great career comedian. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.320 You know, you're like, let's bring those down a notch. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.680 Let's just chill out on Because when you're in seventh grade, 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.280 you're like, I'm going to be the president and also 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.240 be the heavyweight champ of the WWE. And then you're like, 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.920 chill out, dog, why don't you become a VP of 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.320 Merrill Lynch and do pretty well? 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.520 Yeah, I'm what I I'm gonna wind up running the 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.920 wrestling event at the VFW. That's how it lands for you. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.760 Know, I got a backyard match where a guy's gonna 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.680 get set on fire. That's where I'm gonna be. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.960 The thing that I noticed a lot about because I've 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.200 kind of existed in this world at ESPN and here, Yeah, 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.840 you run into a lot of athletes who would love 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.320 to be stand up comedians, and you run into a 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.119 lot of stand up comedians are like, I feel like 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.320 I would just be really good at being an athlete, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.520 Like is there do you guys have that that shared 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.200 like back and forth like loving and kind of living 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:22.360 through each other a little bit. 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.560 Oh? Absolutely, one hundred percent. One hundred percent. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:25.320 He's so funny. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.520 He's he's so funny. And what's what's crazy is in 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.040 the offseason he like loves stand up comedy, Like he 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.840 like loves it, Like I'll send him I sent him 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.160 Joe Lists Special on YouTube, like I'll send him people 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.480 that maybe I'm like, oh, I think you would love 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.719 this dude, you know, and he'll be like because he's 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.439 up at two forty five. Yeah, and he busts his 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.080 hump the whole time. But I know there's times where 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.600 he's like he texted me before we went out. We 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.800 went down to Miami last year for the Browns game, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.000 and I get a text from him at like four 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.399 in the morning. He's like, Hey, you're HBO special is 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.200 playing right now. I'm watching it, and You're like you 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:03.640 aren't you prepping for the Browns? 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:05.800 You know, ready for this? 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:07.800 Yeah. He's like, well, I've seen the special. I just 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:09.040 there's a couple of bits I want to see and 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.320 then I'm gonna go back and you're like, oh, that's awesome, 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.840 And there's what he's done for me is I don't know. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:15.560 I knew. I knew I was an athletic by the 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.119 time I hit high school. But what I did realize 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.159 with Mike was like I view football sometimes through the 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.959 lens of like what what he's explained to me. It 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.000 gets interesting in different ways. It's not just like the 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:33.240 collective like let's go team, everybody's everybody's great and everybody 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.600 on that side's bad. You just kind of realize all 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.359 the intrapersonal relationships and like who's been affected by who 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.880 and and how like, you know, he did a fun 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:44.600 thing for the forty nine ers. I don't know if 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.560 I'm speaking out of school on this, but I love 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.959 that he did this. One season with the forty nine ers. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.480 He told me he would take a play from the 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.400 team they were playing the next week, and he would 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.320 run it once in a game so that when they 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.000 were watching film, they'd be like, is that our play? 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.240 He would just do that to mess with them, just 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:06.840 strictly to mess with them. He'd be like, we're gonna 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.120 run it once and then you know that was it, 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:13.000 and that's it's so funny. That's him being so funny 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.480 through like his you know what he does, but he is. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:18.880 People ask all the time, They're like, is that really 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.840 who he is? I'm like, dude, that is him and 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:22.960 those press conferences and him on the sidelines when he's 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:24.159 miked up, that's one hundred percent Mike. 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.639 I have Ben Leeber played for the Chargers and the 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:34.320 Vikings made a very large mistake by befriending me. We've 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.679 gotten very close and so the same thing where you 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:40.560 just learn more about the behind the scenes aspects and 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.639 the on the field stuff where you're like, oh, like 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.600 you go, don't check it down. He's like, what are 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.840 you talking about? You're an idiot. That's not how football works. 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.720 So you learn all this different stuff. 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.199 I remember the first conversation having that with Mike. My 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.320 friend Chad Harder and I go to all the games. 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.639 Chad and I grew up with Mike friends in high school, 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.479 and Chad and I were living together in Tucson. This 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.040 is after I graduated from U of A. I was 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.800 still doing stand up. He was punting at the University 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.320 of Northern Colorado and it came down to Tucson to 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:14.960 stay in shape for audition, for auditions. For it. 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.360 Let's go with aud audition. 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:22.520 He had a football audition. That's such a lame showbiz terms. 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.760 But hey, damn, will you come help me with my lines? 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:27.240 I need to dude. He kicked the punt one time. 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:29.800 You know how punters can make it go over or 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.199 they can make it drop. So I didn't know they 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.360 could do that. And I was helping him with one 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:39.800 of his auditions, but he punted the ball and we 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.159 were just at like this high school football field in Tucson, 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.119 and I'm like I put a cigarette down to catch it, 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:50.320 and h dude, the ball. The ball went up and 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:52.960 then came down right on my face. I mean, just 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.080 zero down. And we're like, well, that's it for the day. 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.640 We're not going to run lines anymore. You just busted 0:20:58.680 --> 0:20:59.200 my face. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.719 When I was working at ESPN and we were like 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.760 I desperately wanted the Vikings to just built a new facility, 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:07.080 and I was just like I just need to just 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:09.440 get me in the building, just get me. I can't 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.760 remember what I pitched some dumb shit, Like hey, what 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.000 if I did? They were like, we get it, we 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:19.040 love you, just go do it. And so one of 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:21.040 the things I did is it is basically letting me 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.080 loose in the facility. Was they put me in pads 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:25.639 and I was going to catch a punt, dude. I 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.560 from that moment on, I was like whatever, somebody could 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:32.639 not even catch the ball, and like it's it's a 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:36.480 very difficult task. It is a terrifying task. I don't terrify. 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:40.560 But I remember McDaniel called us. He was in Houston 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:46.360 with Kubiak okay, and we were like asking him who 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:48.120 are they going to draft? It was like Vince Young, 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:51.520 Mattliner at Jay Cutler, it was that draft, Reggie Bush. 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:53.800 It was like unbelievable. And we were like there were 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:55.560 the number one pick. We're like, who are you guys 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.040 gonna take? Who are you gonna take? This was day 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:00.199 of the draft. The draft is already in. Apparently they 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:02.600 had already like they knew they had already contacted him. 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:07.160 But McDaniel was like Mario Williams and we were like who. 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:10.320 He's like Mario Williams from NCI State and we're like, 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:13.439 who is that guy? Why would you do that? We 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:15.560 were like calling him out, being like that's stupid. You 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:19.840 should draft Bush, you should draft Vince Young or whatever. Yeah, well, 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:21.560 it was just the way his mind was. He was like, well, 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:24.439 Kubiak explained it to us, when you're playing Peyton Manning 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:26.440 twice a year, you need someone that's going to get 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:28.960 in his face and disrupt him from destroying your team. 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:33.400 And you're like, okay, So now when people make draft decisions, 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:36.440 I'm like, well, they clearly know something. They're clear they're 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:38.120 not just doing it to be like this will piss 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:40.879 the fan base off. They're like drafting for a reason. 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:42.760 But I remember him telling us that that was like 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:45.960 the first moment of us learning from him of like, oh, okay, 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:49.400 you like, you guys know way more than we did. 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:50.919 And he was like, you just want to keep it 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:53.800 to that. And that's always how it's been where it's like, 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:57.040 that's not my business. But man, I love I love 0:22:57.080 --> 0:23:00.720 hearing him talk about it, and whenever I see him, 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:03.439 you know, during the season or offseason, it's always interesting 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:05.240 to hear him talk his business. 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:09.240 And I think you're I think you deserve a fair 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:12.720 amount of credit for the amount of chill with which 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:16.160 you've handled yourself because I've seen pictures and I would 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:18.800 have known if somebody, like if something had gone awry, 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:21.840 and like, let me tell you this. My best friend 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:27.920 from childhood runs a restaurant inside a hotel that you've 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:31.280 never heard of, and whenever I go there, I act 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:35.680 unruly like I He's like this, sigh, you can't come 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:37.280 to my job. He's like, you can't just walk in 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:42.720 the kitchen. The fact that you have maintained your composure 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:44.879 on the field, like I've seen you on the field 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:47.800 of the sideline of Dolphins games before the game and 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:50.159 you have it together, and I believe you deserve a 0:23:50.160 --> 0:23:50.920 lot of credit for that. 0:23:51.359 --> 0:23:53.720 I mean, it's just I'm it genuinely is one of 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:57.240 those things where no matter what happens, it's it's still 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:00.240 surreal to this day. And the best part is he's 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:02.880 just warming up. Like the best part is he's. 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:04.960 Just like, that's what I was gonna get at is 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:06.960 and we'll get back to let's get back to Niners 0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:08.879 I got but we also have to talk about I 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:10.800 believe you were at the Broncos game, weren't you. 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:13.560 Yeah, yeah, I was at seventy I was at seventy 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:14.080 to twenty. 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:16.480 So we're gonna discuss that, and that's a part of 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:19.520 this question here. Like it's hard to even put it 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:24.360 into words, but he's this culmination of everything that's been 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:28.000 happening in the league, like the the modern offenses and 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:30.600 the way with which these young head coaches are changing 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:34.639 the game. It's like he came around and I'm trying 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:37.199 to explain, like you explain it in a in a 0:24:37.240 --> 0:24:39.880 stand up way. Right, you have a bunch of people 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:41.800 doing a certain thing, and all of a sudden, one 0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:43.720 guy You're like, oh, none of us could do it. 0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:48.680 It's he's the like, yeah, it's Jimmy Parto's crowd work, right, Yeah, 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:51.400 it's He's He's just doing this thing that I think 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:53.400 five years from now, ten years from now, you're gonna 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:56.600 be like, this dude changed the entire league. Like he's 0:24:56.680 --> 0:25:00.520 running plays his old boss is running the next week, 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:03.000 he's like pulling schemes out and then the best coaches 0:25:03.040 --> 0:25:05.000 in the league are like, what's up, Okay, we'll do that. 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:07.240 He actually showed me that. He actually showed me that. 0:25:07.400 --> 0:25:10.000 I went down to the to the Dolphins Broncos game. 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:12.640 Katie and I went down there a little early because 0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:15.160 Katie was doing Levatard and then we were gonna hang out. 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:18.560 But we got in Thursday and McDaniel's you know, wife, 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:20.520 Katie was She was like, well, why don't you guys 0:25:20.520 --> 0:25:22.000 come over and watch the game? It was forty nine 0:25:22.080 --> 0:25:24.680 Ers Giants, and so I wore my Niner stuff over there, 0:25:25.160 --> 0:25:29.640 and it was it was like, you know, McDaniel was like, oh, 0:25:29.640 --> 0:25:31.880 cool shirt, and you're like, yeah, I still love him. 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:34.840 I was like, I know you, but you left. Katie 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:36.520 even said that, she goes, he's the one that left. 0:25:36.920 --> 0:25:39.720 You should you shouldn't feel bad. But what was interesting 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:43.920 was like seeing kind of him watch his old team 0:25:44.760 --> 0:25:49.959 and assess certain things that maybe that me or you 0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:52.479 would never pick up on on a team. But what 0:25:52.520 --> 0:25:56.120 I really realized was is that, like he's a culmination 0:25:56.600 --> 0:26:00.200 of your You absolutely nailed it where the NFL is going. 0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:03.360 But I think a lot of credit has to go 0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:07.640 not only to Kyle Shanahan, but to Mike Shanahan. Yes, 0:26:07.680 --> 0:26:11.720 I think Mike Shanahan coached in a way where he 0:26:11.960 --> 0:26:18.280 let his assistance, He let his coordinators have their own personality, 0:26:18.520 --> 0:26:22.600 be themselves. They didn't have to be this like exact 0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:26.480 replica of what a coach should be. And I think 0:26:26.520 --> 0:26:28.479 that paid off of because when you look back to 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:31.920 those those Washington coaches, that Washington coaching. 0:26:31.640 --> 0:26:34.000 Still that that staff is dominating the league. 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:37.080 It's insane. You got Kyle, you have Mike, you have 0:26:37.760 --> 0:26:39.360 Matt lafleur, you have. 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:41.760 Our guy, Kevin O'Connell. 0:26:41.400 --> 0:26:46.000 Kevin O'Connell McVeigh. There's like guys where you're just like, oh, well, 0:26:46.040 --> 0:26:48.480 that clearly all that's like when you know, and this 0:26:48.520 --> 0:26:50.720 is this will link back to comedy, when you see 0:26:50.760 --> 0:26:53.640 a group. We always talk about the Boston group that 0:26:53.680 --> 0:26:55.480 came up to New York in the nineties. That was 0:26:55.520 --> 0:26:59.120 Bill Bird, Dane Cook, Patrise O'Neill, Bobby Kelly, Al del 0:26:59.200 --> 0:27:01.880 Benny and all those guys, and you're like, oh, well, 0:27:01.920 --> 0:27:04.160 that made sense because they come in these like groups. 0:27:04.200 --> 0:27:06.639 And I think it happens in groups, and I think 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:09.919 people have been talking about it for years now, especially 0:27:10.000 --> 0:27:13.040 with McVeagh and Shanahan and the success they've had, and 0:27:13.080 --> 0:27:15.880 then Lafleur in the success he was having in Green Bay. 0:27:16.560 --> 0:27:19.399 And it was interesting because I was kind of sitting 0:27:19.440 --> 0:27:24.399 back being like McDaniel's coming. You can give of all 0:27:24.400 --> 0:27:26.960 the credit you want, but I know, the second McDaniel 0:27:27.000 --> 0:27:30.919 gets a shot, he's coming. That guy has been ready 0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:34.399 for this, that guy has helped out so much, and 0:27:34.440 --> 0:27:38.800 in San Francisco, which I obviously loved, but it just 0:27:38.920 --> 0:27:40.919 was a matter of time. It was a matter of 0:27:40.960 --> 0:27:43.880 time before he got his chance. And to see him 0:27:44.000 --> 0:27:49.440 last year do well and kind of turn around to 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:53.479 and make Miami, you know, a threat in the AFC East. 0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:55.600 And then when I got to go down there in 0:27:55.680 --> 0:27:57.760 the off season when I was at the Daniel Beach 0:27:57.880 --> 0:27:59.920 improv and they were in training camp and I went. 0:28:00.000 --> 0:28:02.560 I got to see him before practice and talk to 0:28:02.640 --> 0:28:04.840 him after practice, and I asked him. I was just like, 0:28:04.880 --> 0:28:07.199 how you feeling. He's like, I'm comfortable, And I was like, 0:28:07.280 --> 0:28:09.960 that's going to mean that's going to mean so much 0:28:10.359 --> 0:28:16.320 because McDaniel, you know, like a good comic, McDaniel knows 0:28:17.480 --> 0:28:20.280 where do, what he needs to improve and how to 0:28:20.359 --> 0:28:22.280 improve it. And I think when they went and got 0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:26.640 Vic Fangio, a former forty nine er decordinator, former Bronco 0:28:26.720 --> 0:28:29.760 head coach, to kind of control the defense, I think 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:32.320 it has kind of made McDaniel go into sicico mode 0:28:32.359 --> 0:28:34.400 where he's like, now I can run all these crazy 0:28:34.400 --> 0:28:37.200 plays and I can put all these people in and 0:28:37.440 --> 0:28:40.920 you know he's also Italian. The thing that's overlooked about 0:28:40.960 --> 0:28:43.640 McDaniel that no one talks about is how insane of 0:28:43.680 --> 0:28:47.360 a talent evaluator he is. Because now everyone's talking about 0:28:47.360 --> 0:28:50.360 a chain and you're like, yeah, he's been doing that 0:28:50.480 --> 0:28:53.040 for years. He did it in Washington, he did it 0:28:53.080 --> 0:28:55.760 in Atlanta, he did it in San Francisco, and now 0:28:55.800 --> 0:28:58.640 he's doing it in Miami where he knows kind of 0:28:58.640 --> 0:29:00.880 what he needs out of a play or Raheem Moster 0:29:01.360 --> 0:29:04.600 killing It is one of my favorite things because after 0:29:04.600 --> 0:29:08.880 the NFC Championship game in twenty nineteen at McDaniel, I 0:29:08.880 --> 0:29:10.400 went which I got to go do and got to 0:29:10.400 --> 0:29:12.240 go on the field with him after they beat the Packers. 0:29:12.400 --> 0:29:15.120 It was unbelievable. We were at his house and I 0:29:15.120 --> 0:29:17.200 was asking him about Raheem Moster because I saw him 0:29:17.200 --> 0:29:20.560 have a moment with Mostert down on the field, and 0:29:20.600 --> 0:29:22.080 I was like, what did you tell him? And he 0:29:22.160 --> 0:29:24.800 was like, I just told him. I always knew this 0:29:24.840 --> 0:29:27.120 is who he was. I always knew this is what 0:29:27.160 --> 0:29:29.680 he was capable of, and I just wanted to give 0:29:29.760 --> 0:29:32.200 him credit for how hard he worked knowing that he 0:29:32.320 --> 0:29:34.680 knew that and saw it out, because there was just 0:29:34.720 --> 0:29:37.400 this really emotional moment and you were like, that is insane. 0:29:37.680 --> 0:29:40.160 But then McDaniel tells me, He's like, I've wanted Mostert 0:29:40.320 --> 0:29:42.000 since he was an undrafted free agent and when I 0:29:42.080 --> 0:29:43.880 was in Atlanta. He's like, I've been trying to get 0:29:43.880 --> 0:29:47.360 Mostert on my squad since the Falcons, and then now 0:29:47.400 --> 0:29:50.040 he here, he is in Miami, and you know, you kind. 0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:51.600 Of have got eleven touchdowns. 0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:53.680 Yeah, but you got Moster, you got a chan and 0:29:53.760 --> 0:29:58.320 Jeff Wilson Junior, another guy that McDaniel saw in San Francisco. 0:29:58.960 --> 0:30:02.000 If McDaniel and I aren't friends, there'd probably be a 0:30:02.040 --> 0:30:03.760 part of me that's a little upset because when he 0:30:03.800 --> 0:30:06.120 left San Francisco, he knew who to take. Yeah, he 0:30:06.200 --> 0:30:09.200 knew who to bring with him to build up this team, 0:30:09.440 --> 0:30:12.240 and it was like so cool to see it. I'm 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:15.240 so proud of the guy, and I'm very excited for 0:30:15.280 --> 0:30:19.160 the Sunday night football game against the Eagles because after 0:30:19.200 --> 0:30:22.040 they broke brock Perty's elbow, I've just wanted revenge on 0:30:22.080 --> 0:30:23.800 the Eagles by any means. 0:30:23.480 --> 0:30:28.000 Necessary, even if it comes via your friend coaching the Dolphins. 0:30:28.200 --> 0:30:30.080 Hey, dude, sometimes you got to have a friend beat 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:30.640 up your bully. 0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:32.320 If you can't, you got to get it where you 0:30:32.320 --> 0:30:32.840 can get it. 0:30:32.920 --> 0:30:34.960 And you know what, December third is a while away, 0:30:34.960 --> 0:30:37.400 but I'm excited for December third, Niners at Eagles. 0:30:37.640 --> 0:30:42.200 I think he's the king of maximizing what's available. Like 0:30:42.240 --> 0:30:45.440 it's like he looks at what's available to him, the resources. 0:30:45.440 --> 0:30:47.360 It's like all that crazy shit he did with Trent 0:30:47.400 --> 0:30:50.640 Williams pulling Trent Williams out, and people don't realize that 0:30:50.760 --> 0:30:54.280 was him. That was him. And so watching what he's 0:30:54.320 --> 0:30:57.360 doing down there with the guys he has, it's just 0:30:57.760 --> 0:30:58.719 it's just incredible. 0:30:58.840 --> 0:31:01.720 I'll give you the example of the playoff game last 0:31:01.800 --> 0:31:05.360 year Dolphins at Bills. He had Skyler Thompson and we 0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:09.560 stayed Chad and I stayed at the hotel connected to him, 0:31:09.920 --> 0:31:12.200 you know, And he came in and messed with us 0:31:12.280 --> 0:31:14.880 before he went to the stadium, and I was like, 0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:17.480 how you feeling, and he goes, I'm gonna be honest. 0:31:18.200 --> 0:31:20.080 The first half of the week, I was like a 0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:23.880 little filled with anxiety and panic because I have my 0:31:23.920 --> 0:31:27.960 third string quarterback against arguably the best team in the AFC, 0:31:28.400 --> 0:31:30.720 and then it just clicked, Oh man, this is fun, 0:31:31.440 --> 0:31:34.560 this is fun. And then they go down seventeen, they 0:31:34.600 --> 0:31:38.000 come back, they almost beat the Bills in Buffalo with 0:31:38.120 --> 0:31:42.200 a third string quarterback, and it was like watching him 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:48.200 and his attitude has helped me with comedy, just be like, 0:31:48.280 --> 0:31:50.040 oh yeah. Sometimes you got to realize, like this is 0:31:50.080 --> 0:31:54.240 all fun. We're all playing with house money, and sometimes 0:31:54.240 --> 0:31:56.040 you forget that if you have a job you love, 0:31:56.400 --> 0:32:00.000 sometimes you get so down and out about tiny things 0:32:00.240 --> 0:32:01.800 that you forget the big picture and you're like, oh, 0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:03.640 this is great, this is unbelievable. 0:32:03.920 --> 0:32:06.240 It's it's absolutely because you I find that all the time. 0:32:06.280 --> 0:32:08.480 We're like, oh my god, the flight or the show, 0:32:08.600 --> 0:32:11.560 like whatever it is, dog or dog. 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:13.560 Shit in Rochester, that's where I'm going this weekend, and 0:32:13.560 --> 0:32:15.800 I'm like, no one's gonna show up. And then you 0:32:15.840 --> 0:32:17.520 go You're like, oh, this this is the best job. 0:32:17.320 --> 0:32:18.640 In the world. I get to go, I get to 0:32:18.680 --> 0:32:19.480 go have fun. 0:32:19.480 --> 0:32:21.320 I get to go be a silly boy for five 0:32:21.400 --> 0:32:25.520 shows and pay rent. Like that's fine, I'm fine with. 0:32:25.480 --> 0:32:28.960 That this weekend. Here's here's the problem this. I warned 0:32:28.960 --> 0:32:31.080 everybody there was a reason I put a warning on 0:32:31.120 --> 0:32:34.000 the front of this show is because I knew what 0:32:34.080 --> 0:32:38.240 we were capable of. So let's talk. Let's talk Niners Vikings. 0:32:38.440 --> 0:32:38.720 Uh. 0:32:38.800 --> 0:32:40.840 I want to talk a little bit about your current team, 0:32:40.920 --> 0:32:44.240 but the one moment I have to ask you about, Yeah, 0:32:44.760 --> 0:32:49.280 because in those dark years, you know, in the Abyss, 0:32:49.360 --> 0:32:51.360 when you were right. I think it was right before. 0:32:51.760 --> 0:32:53.840 And I know a lot of people I know Huntsberger 0:32:53.880 --> 0:32:57.000 and other people are like, they talk about the Singletary 0:32:57.120 --> 0:32:59.959 years as though they were years they spent a lot 0:33:00.320 --> 0:33:00.920 on a mountain. 0:33:01.360 --> 0:33:05.400 Can't win with them, can't win with them? I love it, dude, Singletary. 0:33:05.800 --> 0:33:11.120 Singletary does not get enough credit for his talent evaluation. 0:33:11.320 --> 0:33:13.920 Yeah, for building the roster that Harbaugh ran. 0:33:13.880 --> 0:33:17.640 With him and Mike Nolan mm hmm. Not my future 0:33:17.640 --> 0:33:20.240 father in law, but the former head coach of the 0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:26.000 forty nine ers went out and got pieces that Harball 0:33:26.080 --> 0:33:29.000 was able to come in and kind of with Vic Fangio, 0:33:29.120 --> 0:33:31.280 put in a pile and go like Oh Navarro, Bowman, 0:33:31.360 --> 0:33:35.760 Patrick Willis, Dante Whitner, all these guys that could go. 0:33:37.280 --> 0:33:41.040 Justin Smith getting him from the Bengals, drafting a young 0:33:41.080 --> 0:33:44.720 Alden Smith, getting all these guys that you were like, 0:33:44.840 --> 0:33:47.480 oh my god, oh my god, we're winning. Like it 0:33:47.560 --> 0:33:50.760 wasn't like like Kyle Shanahan, it was zero to eight. 0:33:50.920 --> 0:33:54.000 First season, you put in Jimmy G. He rips five. Okay, 0:33:54.120 --> 0:33:56.760 Jimmy G's the real deal. Let's give him a huge contract, 0:33:57.000 --> 0:33:59.719 and that kind of built that was able to carry them. 0:33:59.720 --> 0:34:03.520 Moment with Harbaugh, it was literally he came in and 0:34:03.560 --> 0:34:07.880 we started winning and no one expected it. Yeah, all 0:34:07.920 --> 0:34:10.680 of a sudden, Frank Gore is running well with under 0:34:10.719 --> 0:34:13.600 Greg Roman's offense and Alex Smith is a game manager 0:34:13.840 --> 0:34:16.880 and he's doing really well, but this defense is just 0:34:17.120 --> 0:34:21.239 killing people and just shutting people down. That was like, 0:34:21.360 --> 0:34:23.279 oh my god, we're oh my god, oh my god, 0:34:23.320 --> 0:34:26.000 we're back. Week one. The first game Harbaugh one was 0:34:26.200 --> 0:34:29.120 against the Seahawks, who had just kind of had us 0:34:29.160 --> 0:34:32.960 for like since since the divisions had been realigned. It 0:34:33.040 --> 0:34:35.080 was just like the Seahawks had had our number. And 0:34:35.120 --> 0:34:37.040 then you just come in and you beat Pete Carroll 0:34:37.080 --> 0:34:38.640 for the first and you're like, all right, let's go. 0:34:39.000 --> 0:34:41.120 And it was just that kind of thing. It must 0:34:41.120 --> 0:34:43.080 have felt the same way you guys did when you 0:34:43.200 --> 0:34:44.600 got Farv. 0:34:45.040 --> 0:34:48.360 And so now let's bring all worlds together. Yeah, because 0:34:48.520 --> 0:34:50.800 right before you guys went on that run and built 0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:52.799 we had it is what we felt like because we 0:34:52.840 --> 0:34:56.239 had Adrian Peterson. We had we had gotten Steve Hutchison, 0:34:56.600 --> 0:34:59.960 probably the most underrated sign in maybe the last three 0:35:00.160 --> 0:35:02.400 forty years in the NFL. We put a Hall of 0:35:02.440 --> 0:35:05.480 Famer at left guard. You have this unbelievable defense that 0:35:05.520 --> 0:35:07.279 doesn't allow anyone to get a hundred years. 0:35:07.400 --> 0:35:09.360 By the way, you guys took him from Seattle. 0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:10.759 Yes, sir, we helped you out of the. 0:35:10.760 --> 0:35:12.439 Reason Sean Alexander fell off. 0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:16.400 Yes, that's right, and so and then you stacked Farv 0:35:16.440 --> 0:35:18.719 on top of it. But everybody kind of forgets that. 0:35:18.800 --> 0:35:21.759 The first couple games of the far season we won, 0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:25.719 we were playing okay, but it just didn't look right. 0:35:26.000 --> 0:35:28.000 And no matter how many people want to deny it, 0:35:28.040 --> 0:35:30.800 there were people that were like, is this the right decision? 0:35:31.520 --> 0:35:34.080 And then you came to Minnesota. 0:35:34.440 --> 0:35:36.560 I got I remember that game and it was a 0:35:36.760 --> 0:35:39.919 it was a fight, and it was like, okay, we're 0:35:39.960 --> 0:35:42.960 in it. I remember it because it was before Sunday ticket. 0:35:43.280 --> 0:35:46.000 I was at a bar and I was still drinking 0:35:46.440 --> 0:35:49.440 and Farve hit your tight end in the back of 0:35:49.480 --> 0:35:50.360 the end zone. 0:35:50.600 --> 0:35:53.080 It wasn't even a tight end. It was it was 0:35:53.200 --> 0:35:56.080 Greg greg Lewis. No, it was a guy that we'd 0:35:56.400 --> 0:35:59.640 we had signed I think that week Greg Lewis. It 0:35:59.680 --> 0:36:02.960 was far Greg Lewis, and it was it was You're right, 0:36:03.000 --> 0:36:05.320 it was back of the end zone. It was toe touch. 0:36:05.520 --> 0:36:07.160 I remember being in the bar being like, that wasn't 0:36:07.160 --> 0:36:10.000 a catch. I remember screaming that at the TV, being like, 0:36:10.200 --> 0:36:10.879 that's not No. 0:36:10.840 --> 0:36:12.719 One thought it was a catch. No, Like we all 0:36:12.760 --> 0:36:15.080 got excited, but we're like, well, here comes the replay 0:36:15.120 --> 0:36:15.719 to ruin it. 0:36:16.000 --> 0:36:18.840 Oh my god. I remember that run and then I 0:36:18.880 --> 0:36:21.640 think you guys were the favorite against the Saints, right. 0:36:21.960 --> 0:36:24.160 Don't want to do it. I'd like to move on. 0:36:24.719 --> 0:36:29.200 I just wanted to talk about the happiness that was 0:36:29.239 --> 0:36:29.640 that moment. 0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:31.560 It was one of the greatest MC Championship games of 0:36:31.600 --> 0:36:33.920 all time. I'm sorry, it just was. It was like 0:36:34.719 --> 0:36:37.440 no dog in the fight. I watched that game at 0:36:37.440 --> 0:36:40.080 a bar with Joe List and Nate Bargetzi and we 0:36:40.160 --> 0:36:44.000 sat there watching it and Nate this is how it 0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:45.680 always worked back in the day, when we were all 0:36:45.719 --> 0:36:49.200 out drinking. I would sit in the middle, and inevitably 0:36:49.320 --> 0:36:51.400 Nate would find a point and Joe would find a 0:36:51.400 --> 0:36:54.040 point and they would argue about it and I would 0:36:54.080 --> 0:36:56.759 have to sit there like a referee and break it up. 0:36:57.280 --> 0:37:00.719 But I remember, I think it was I think it 0:37:00.760 --> 0:37:02.560 was Nate that was like, this is the greatest NYC 0:37:02.719 --> 0:37:04.960 Championship game of all time. And then it just started 0:37:05.000 --> 0:37:06.359 a conversation where you know. 0:37:06.480 --> 0:37:08.680 We never feel that way here because of the pain 0:37:08.760 --> 0:37:10.959 associated with it, But if you're able to step away 0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:13.400 from it and you go all these turnovers, all this 0:37:13.520 --> 0:37:17.520 crazy back and forth, they drive, they drive down. I've 0:37:17.520 --> 0:37:20.360 said this on the show before. When Farv through that 0:37:20.360 --> 0:37:22.880 that pass to Sidney Rice on the last drive and 0:37:22.920 --> 0:37:25.160 he took it off the field, I made you're not 0:37:25.160 --> 0:37:30.279 gonna understand this with your lineage. But I had this 0:37:30.360 --> 0:37:33.200 moment where I literally in my head, I didn't verbalize it. 0:37:33.200 --> 0:37:35.800 I was like, we're going to the super Bowl, yeah, 0:37:35.880 --> 0:37:38.719 and and then to get to twelve minute. 0:37:38.440 --> 0:37:40.520 I just I'm gonna tell you right now. I had 0:37:40.520 --> 0:37:44.480 that same exact feeling when my beautiful fiance got me 0:37:44.520 --> 0:37:47.480 tickets to the twenty nineteen Super Bowl forty nine Ers 0:37:47.560 --> 0:37:51.319 Chiefs Oh we were up by ten. I really was, like, 0:37:51.880 --> 0:37:54.040 I think McDaniel's about to win a super Bowl. By 0:37:54.040 --> 0:37:57.799 the way, just for future reference, I will never in 0:37:57.840 --> 0:38:03.600 my life say McDaniel's gonna win a Super Bowl until 0:38:03.680 --> 0:38:06.120 there is zero on the clock and they are lifting 0:38:06.160 --> 0:38:11.040 him up because twice now sigh, twice Falcons versus the 0:38:11.040 --> 0:38:15.840 Patriots in the first half. At the halftime, I go, cool, 0:38:15.920 --> 0:38:22.160 McDaniel's gonna get a ring. Patriots came back, Chiefs Niners. 0:38:22.400 --> 0:38:24.640 I'm not saying. So You're never hearing that out of 0:38:24.719 --> 0:38:27.799 me until it happens, and until I know the game 0:38:27.920 --> 0:38:30.640 is over and the confetti is until he is in 0:38:30.719 --> 0:38:33.960 a shower of confetti, will I that's the next time 0:38:34.000 --> 0:38:34.960 I will say that. 0:38:34.960 --> 0:38:37.399 That's welcome to the psyche of a Vikings fan. Oh 0:38:37.480 --> 0:38:39.879 my god, that is That is how we live all 0:38:39.920 --> 0:38:41.920 the time and forever. 0:38:42.239 --> 0:38:44.600 I mean, especially with ninety eight and then yeah, the 0:38:44.920 --> 0:38:46.560 nine NFC Championship game. 0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:49.759 Yeah, I can't, I don't. We can talk about well, 0:38:49.960 --> 0:38:52.400 we'll just keep moving. Let's talk about we were at 0:38:52.440 --> 0:38:53.640 Montreal together. 0:38:53.520 --> 0:38:54.560 Yeah, twenty eleven. 0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:59.160 Let's talk about if we're at Montreal together. And I 0:38:59.160 --> 0:39:01.520 I like you said to me, like someday I'm gonna 0:39:01.520 --> 0:39:03.920 be the voice of the NFL Network's top one hundred 0:39:03.920 --> 0:39:05.759 players that have been like, hey, guys, you know Dan 0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:06.960 is insane. 0:39:07.320 --> 0:39:08.839 Yeah, he's out of my mind. 0:39:09.120 --> 0:39:10.160 That's insane. 0:39:10.440 --> 0:39:14.560 Yeah, it was. I owed all to former NFL Films 0:39:14.560 --> 0:39:17.600 producer Paul Manusky. I probably butchered his last name, but 0:39:17.640 --> 0:39:19.759 I just know him as Paul he is. He no 0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:21.960 longer works in NFL films, which is a crime. It 0:39:22.000 --> 0:39:24.320 truly is a crime, because he was one of the 0:39:24.400 --> 0:39:28.000 best producers I've ever worked with on anything. And he 0:39:28.040 --> 0:39:30.960 was a fan of the Bonfire on Sirius XM, which 0:39:31.000 --> 0:39:33.920 is still Monday through Thursday five to seven pm with 0:39:33.920 --> 0:39:36.439 Big Jafferson and Robert Kelly. I'll still plug the show. 0:39:36.880 --> 0:39:42.040 Serious Serious XM Faction Talk one oh three. He was like, hey, Man, 0:39:42.040 --> 0:39:44.360 would you have any interest in doing some like voiceover 0:39:44.400 --> 0:39:46.279 for NFL films? And I was like, that's all I've 0:39:46.280 --> 0:39:48.359 ever wanted to do. I would love to do that. 0:39:48.520 --> 0:39:50.799 Besides comedy, all I've ever wanted to do was those 0:39:50.840 --> 0:39:53.719 recap videos where you're like and the forty nine ers 0:39:53.800 --> 0:39:57.160 knew that that they would be different from the rest, 0:39:57.880 --> 0:40:01.000 and he said, listen, we're doing NF Top one hundred 0:40:01.000 --> 0:40:03.239 for NFL Films. It's gonna be on NFL network, which 0:40:03.320 --> 0:40:05.560 you want to do it? And I was like, yeah, dude, 0:40:05.600 --> 0:40:08.000 that sounds so good. He's like, well, we got Wendell 0:40:08.080 --> 0:40:11.239 Pierce from the Wire doing like the longer stuff, but 0:40:11.320 --> 0:40:15.160 we need someone that's like intermitted, like in between those. 0:40:15.200 --> 0:40:16.919 We need you. And I was like, sign me up. 0:40:17.200 --> 0:40:20.879 And I've been doing it for seven seasons now. Yeah. 0:40:21.200 --> 0:40:25.160 What's crazy is now I find out the list and 0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:28.120 I tell McDaniel how many dolphins got on it. Now 0:40:28.200 --> 0:40:29.640 I'm like, I'm going to tell you who's on it 0:40:29.680 --> 0:40:31.440 and where they're at so you can tell them because 0:40:31.440 --> 0:40:34.879 so they'll know before. But my friend Chad Hard, who 0:40:34.920 --> 0:40:37.920 I brought up, was sitting at home watching it. This 0:40:38.080 --> 0:40:41.799 is like twenty and sixteen, twenty seventeen, and there's a 0:40:41.840 --> 0:40:44.640 clip where I talk about the Davonte Freeman and this 0:40:44.719 --> 0:40:47.160 is when he was with the Falcons, and I go like, 0:40:47.719 --> 0:40:51.720 number thirty two's Davonte Freeman, whose ability to get away 0:40:51.719 --> 0:40:55.480 from the and then it cuts to McDaniel coaching up 0:40:55.560 --> 0:41:00.000 Davonta Freeman on the Falcons and Chad sent me and mcdanie, 0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:02.080 you know the clip and he's like, it goes from 0:41:02.160 --> 0:41:04.920 SODA's voice over to you coaching. He was like, I 0:41:05.000 --> 0:41:07.160 was freaking out in my house and You're like, yeah, 0:41:07.200 --> 0:41:08.960 that's awesome. That's like the coolest one. 0:41:09.280 --> 0:41:10.960 That's like, that's the pinnacle moment. 0:41:11.160 --> 0:41:13.000 Yeah, that was the moment where you're like, that's insane 0:41:13.000 --> 0:41:15.080 that one of our buddies is at home and he 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:18.480 hears me do the voiceover into a clip of McDaniel coaching, 0:41:18.520 --> 0:41:20.320 and you're like, come on, dude, come. 0:41:20.160 --> 0:41:22.719 On, let's talk. Let's and well, you got to get off. 0:41:22.760 --> 0:41:24.160 I know you got to get off here, but let's 0:41:24.160 --> 0:41:31.440 close with your lovely fiance. Yes, who I care about 0:41:31.440 --> 0:41:32.000 A great deal. 0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:33.640 I mean you guys, but you guys came through the 0:41:33.680 --> 0:41:37.080 mud together doing Snapchat sports. I know about your guys' 0:41:37.200 --> 0:41:39.360 time and the suck at ESPN. 0:41:39.760 --> 0:41:41.440 I always thought I was a hard worker, and I 0:41:41.440 --> 0:41:45.200 remember the first day at ESPN, I did the night show. 0:41:45.239 --> 0:41:47.680 She did the morning show, and I walked in from 0:41:47.880 --> 0:41:53.000 essentially my shift, and she was sitting like show long 0:41:53.120 --> 0:41:55.480 put out. Her show had gone out hours ago. She 0:41:55.719 --> 0:41:59.360 was sitting on the floor of a mutual friend, the 0:41:59.400 --> 0:42:00.800 incredible Steve Bray band. 0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:04.240 Yeah, I love Steve Brayband and shout out Ashley Brayband 0:42:04.560 --> 0:42:05.200 and Ashley. 0:42:05.200 --> 0:42:08.600 Both of them were Ashley, both of them incredibly skilled 0:42:08.600 --> 0:42:09.320 at ESPN. 0:42:09.560 --> 0:42:13.040 Ashley was ended up being Katie's producer on Always Late 0:42:13.239 --> 0:42:16.400 and Steve is now with the WWE. 0:42:16.200 --> 0:42:18.960 Which is, yeah, that's a big win for you. And 0:42:19.040 --> 0:42:22.240 so the I remember she was sitting on the floor 0:42:22.280 --> 0:42:25.440 like just ripping ideas, and I, you know, it was 0:42:25.440 --> 0:42:27.640 like when you walk into a green room and you 0:42:27.840 --> 0:42:30.279 see like and I always knew she was talented and 0:42:30.320 --> 0:42:32.400 I was a fan of hers, and I was excited 0:42:32.400 --> 0:42:34.200 to meet her. But you know when you walk into 0:42:34.200 --> 0:42:36.960 a green room and you're like, oh, is Chappelle in 0:42:37.000 --> 0:42:39.560 there just working on his bits before the show, and 0:42:39.600 --> 0:42:41.359 you're like, god, damn it. You're like, I am gonna 0:42:41.400 --> 0:42:44.840 have to work, dude. She's so good. 0:42:45.160 --> 0:42:48.760 I opened for Ali Wong at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas, 0:42:49.080 --> 0:42:51.480 And this is right after Baby Cobra came out, and 0:42:51.600 --> 0:42:54.200 I've known ally for a while and I opened for 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:58.160 Ali and she rips it like absolutely destroys. And then 0:42:58.239 --> 0:43:00.520 after the show, I'm like, oh, you want to hang out? 0:43:00.560 --> 0:43:02.759 And she just goes and listens to the show and 0:43:02.800 --> 0:43:05.759 tries to add tags to the bits because she was 0:43:05.800 --> 0:43:08.040 doing a second show and I was like, yeah, I don't. 0:43:08.120 --> 0:43:10.279 I don't work hard. I don't work hard at all. 0:43:10.760 --> 0:43:13.520 And you know what's funny is Katie's That is absolutely 0:43:13.600 --> 0:43:15.920 Katie's personality. She is one of the hardest workers I know, 0:43:16.200 --> 0:43:19.320 Like she is like a She's got like the mindset 0:43:19.320 --> 0:43:21.480 of a hunting dog where you're like, give her a 0:43:21.520 --> 0:43:24.960 smell and she'll just she'll just go after it. Like 0:43:25.239 --> 0:43:28.080 she's on Celebrity Jeopardy right now. She just advanced to 0:43:28.120 --> 0:43:28.879 the semifinal. 0:43:29.200 --> 0:43:31.400 She is Rosie Perez. I know you, I know you, 0:43:31.480 --> 0:43:33.560 I know you said that, But like anybody who's seen 0:43:33.560 --> 0:43:35.960 herund there, You're like, what is happening? How is she 0:43:36.160 --> 0:43:37.080 this good at it? 0:43:37.200 --> 0:43:38.560 And I'm telling you right now, if you're in the 0:43:38.600 --> 0:43:41.839 semifinals of Celebrity Jeopardy, get ready because I watch her 0:43:41.880 --> 0:43:46.120 study and I'm like, You're gonna body, everybody. She's just 0:43:46.160 --> 0:43:50.840 like her. Katie's Jeopardy training montage is clubber Lang and 0:43:50.960 --> 0:43:54.000 Rocky three, where like all the other celebrities are at like, 0:43:54.239 --> 0:43:57.080 you know, like a golden gym, like barely they're like, oh, 0:43:57.160 --> 0:44:01.040 I love this, and then Katy's like, em, she's just 0:44:01.080 --> 0:44:04.600 doing pull ups just like nails. It's wild. I'm watching 0:44:04.640 --> 0:44:06.799 your study. I'm like, she's gonna body everybody in this 0:44:07.120 --> 0:44:09.040 Celebrity Jeopardy semifinal coming up. 0:44:09.560 --> 0:44:12.400 It's a weird spot for you, because I know, the 0:44:12.480 --> 0:44:15.400 thing that is cool about my house is I'm the 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:17.400 funniest guy in it, undisputedly. 0:44:17.480 --> 0:44:19.440 There's been moments where she says stuff where I go like, 0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:23.360 you know, that's like a full bit, right, and she's like, oh. 0:44:23.239 --> 0:44:27.960 It's wild. We did this thing where she like it 0:44:28.000 --> 0:44:31.919 was we were doing fake brackets. Yeah, right, fake brackets 0:44:31.960 --> 0:44:36.360 for March Madness, and you know, we walked in to 0:44:36.440 --> 0:44:38.479 start filming and it was one of those things where 0:44:38.520 --> 0:44:41.960 everyone every response she had and everything she said, I 0:44:42.000 --> 0:44:44.880 was like, should I be a comic? Is that what 0:44:44.920 --> 0:44:47.319 I should do with my life? Yeah, I'd probably be 0:44:47.360 --> 0:44:49.760 a teacher from now on. She was so funny. 0:44:49.840 --> 0:44:53.200 Oh she's hilarious, and it's it's like one of the 0:44:53.239 --> 0:44:56.480 greatest things is finding someone like her to be in 0:44:56.520 --> 0:44:58.360 love with. That I'm just like, oh, you're the you. 0:44:58.480 --> 0:45:00.640 Just every day she makes me laugh and away room 0:45:00.640 --> 0:45:03.040 I'm like, this is the best. This just rules, this 0:45:03.200 --> 0:45:06.160 is and also you'll enjoy this because you know her 0:45:06.600 --> 0:45:09.960 one final McDaniel story. I knew he was leaving the 0:45:10.040 --> 0:45:13.560 Niners right through him and his wife. I kind of 0:45:13.640 --> 0:45:15.600 knew that they were going to explore him being a 0:45:15.640 --> 0:45:19.719 head coach. And he was in the kitchen and Katie goes, 0:45:19.760 --> 0:45:22.879 I go, I think McDaniel's leaving the Niners, and she goes, oh, 0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:25.520 that's so awesome. Just don't end up in the AFC 0:45:25.560 --> 0:45:29.200 East because she's a Pats fan. And I was like, yeah, yeah. 0:45:29.239 --> 0:45:31.759 And then he got hired by the Dolphins and Katie goes, 0:45:31.920 --> 0:45:34.440 no Dolphins stuff, no Dolphin stuff in this house, and 0:45:34.480 --> 0:45:36.600 I was like, all right. And so i've over the 0:45:36.640 --> 0:45:39.200 past two seasons, I've able to begin in three items 0:45:39.200 --> 0:45:41.799 of merch. I have a T shirt, a sweatshirt, and 0:45:41.800 --> 0:45:44.040 I just ordered a new sweatshirt because it's really cool. 0:45:44.880 --> 0:45:48.560 But at the we were talking about the Broncos Dolphins game. 0:45:49.880 --> 0:45:52.560 That felt so good to watch because I remember when 0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:54.640 McDaniel knew he was going to leave the forty nine ers, 0:45:54.680 --> 0:45:57.800 the Broncos wanted nothing to do with him, no interview, 0:45:58.080 --> 0:45:59.920 and he was a ball boy there. He was like, 0:46:00.239 --> 0:46:02.319 it made the most sense for h him to go 0:46:02.400 --> 0:46:05.680 back and turn that organization around, and they didn't. And 0:46:05.719 --> 0:46:10.240 then he hung seventy seventy and then he took a knee. 0:46:10.719 --> 0:46:14.920 He still showed grace even though he had the knife 0:46:14.920 --> 0:46:17.839 at their throat and he removed it. I love it. 0:46:18.040 --> 0:46:21.279 I love it. I told my clup line after the game, 0:46:21.360 --> 0:46:23.960 I wrote, Broncos, that's gonna be the best breakfast they've 0:46:24.000 --> 0:46:26.680 ever had in their lives. Then they put the gun 0:46:26.719 --> 0:46:29.480 to the to the liquor store guy said, I was like, 0:46:29.800 --> 0:46:31.919 that's gonna be the best breakfast. You just save them, 0:46:32.400 --> 0:46:34.840 you know, advanced Joseph, that's gonna be the best breakfast 0:46:34.840 --> 0:46:38.560 of his life. But yeah, it's insane. It's like, but 0:46:38.800 --> 0:46:40.879 forty nine ers Vikings, I know we got to go. 0:46:41.920 --> 0:46:45.839 I love Kirk Cousins. I love him. I know how 0:46:45.880 --> 0:46:48.759 good he is because of how much McDaniel and shanahan 0:46:48.800 --> 0:46:51.680 have talked about him and his time in Washington and 0:46:51.719 --> 0:46:55.319 how much they enjoyed coaching him, and how great he is. 0:46:55.360 --> 0:46:58.520 Like there's always that rumor that Cousins that shanahan or 0:46:58.560 --> 0:47:00.960 McDaniel are gonna go for cousins. I think that's a 0:47:01.040 --> 0:47:03.839 sign that you got a keeper right there, when you're like, oh, 0:47:03.920 --> 0:47:07.560 this guy stays even killed. Even with your record right now, 0:47:08.040 --> 0:47:10.439 I don't you guys are still a threat. You're still 0:47:10.480 --> 0:47:12.640 a threat. I think there's a lot of parts of 0:47:12.680 --> 0:47:15.560 the Vikings team that's like have been building over years, 0:47:15.719 --> 0:47:18.799 and I think similar to the Lions, I think the 0:47:18.880 --> 0:47:21.279 Vikings are kind of that upnext mentality. I think the 0:47:21.320 --> 0:47:24.759 Bears are in disarray. I think the Packers are. They 0:47:24.840 --> 0:47:26.720 have to do that reset like they did after. 0:47:26.600 --> 0:47:29.560 Cut them down, cut him down, and. 0:47:29.400 --> 0:47:32.200 It's like that Monday night football game is gonna It's 0:47:32.239 --> 0:47:33.799 gonna be interesting to see how the forty nine ers 0:47:33.920 --> 0:47:37.839 respond after losing to the Browns and how comfortable the 0:47:37.920 --> 0:47:42.120 Vikings are just in general, playing a very good team, 0:47:42.160 --> 0:47:45.160 playing a very solid team. 0:47:45.480 --> 0:47:48.960 It's going to be It's always some fans want, you know, 0:47:49.480 --> 0:47:52.080 stack w's that's the point. Get the best, get the 0:47:52.080 --> 0:47:54.040 best you know place you can in the postseason, then 0:47:54.080 --> 0:47:57.040 see what happens. But I always love the moments when 0:47:57.080 --> 0:47:59.759 you get to see where your current version of your 0:47:59.800 --> 0:48:02.160 team team stacks up against the best team or one 0:48:02.200 --> 0:48:04.040 of the best teams in the league. It's one of 0:48:04.080 --> 0:48:06.840 those moments. So I think it's gonna be really fun. 0:48:07.080 --> 0:48:09.719 And I think this is like, this is the part 0:48:09.800 --> 0:48:12.960 of having a good team that should make you nervous, 0:48:12.960 --> 0:48:15.960 but it's also kind of a cool thing where you're like, yeah, man, 0:48:15.960 --> 0:48:18.680 they're coming for it every Vikings an Vikings are going 0:48:18.719 --> 0:48:20.520 to show up and really try to take the Niners 0:48:20.520 --> 0:48:22.600 out because the Niners, I mean, I saw what it 0:48:22.640 --> 0:48:25.719 did for the Browns. They've had a whole week of like, 0:48:25.760 --> 0:48:27.759 we beat the Niners, and you're like, so it meant 0:48:27.760 --> 0:48:29.319 it means a lot for teams to beat the forty 0:48:29.400 --> 0:48:31.799 nine ers right now. So I'm just hoping that doesn't. 0:48:31.560 --> 0:48:33.920 Happen last thing we do. I know you're gonna hate it. 0:48:34.320 --> 0:48:35.520 I need a score prediction. 0:48:36.280 --> 0:48:38.239 I love you, and I want you to know that 0:48:38.280 --> 0:48:40.960 before I say this, I love you. 0:48:41.560 --> 0:48:41.920 Okay. 0:48:42.000 --> 0:48:46.240 I think it's gonna be thirty one fourteen forty nine ers. 0:48:46.480 --> 0:48:50.080 That's interesting. I also love you, and I did think 0:48:50.360 --> 0:48:52.400 the Vikings defense would show up a little better than 0:48:52.400 --> 0:48:55.160 you're thinking, because I thought it would be Niners fourteen, 0:48:55.840 --> 0:49:00.160 Vikings one hundred and thirty eight. Dan, It's nice to 0:49:00.160 --> 0:49:01.440 have you, buddy, I'm saying. 0:49:01.239 --> 0:49:03.000 It will be close. It will be close till the 0:49:03.040 --> 0:49:04.600 third quarter, and then the forty nine ers will find 0:49:04.600 --> 0:49:07.080 a way to pull away. That's that's what I think totally. 0:49:07.120 --> 0:49:09.000 I don't care about that at all. It's my show. 0:49:09.040 --> 0:49:09.759 The show's over. 0:49:11.239 --> 0:49:14.200 Thanks, Buddy, Sigh, you rule, dude. I'll talk to soon, 0:49:14.680 --> 0:49:15.200 Letter Bud. 0:49:16.239 --> 0:49:19.000 Thanks again to the great Dan Soda for joining the 0:49:19.000 --> 0:49:22.680 show tonight, and thank you to our sponsor Continental Diamond. 0:49:22.880 --> 0:49:26.480 Be sure to like, subscribe, and download the podcast anywhere 0:49:26.520 --> 0:49:28.719 you listen to your favorite shows, and we will see 0:49:28.760 --> 0:49:32.240 you all again next week. 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