Speaker 1: The game is over, New York Jet the world. You
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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Official New York Jets podcast, a
Speaker 1: Jets three sixty production. What's Up Everybody Ethan Greenberg and
Speaker 1: Eric Allen here in the Official Jets podcast studios. So
Speaker 1: this is what happened. We had an interview where we
Speaker 1: sat down, should I say, with President of the New
Speaker 1: York Jets and Neil Glass, who is a big podcast fan.
Speaker 1: By the way, Yes, he's probably listening to this right now.
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying our podcast. No, he loved all podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we talked about podcasts a lot a lot of times
Speaker 1: in office. And so with a three game homestand coming
Speaker 1: up Broncos on Sunday, the Colts the week after, and
Speaker 1: the Vikings the following week before the Jets finally get
Speaker 1: on the road in the month of October, is we
Speaker 1: figured should repurpose this interview because we actually spoke to
Speaker 1: Neil leading up to the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: was the Brown's game preview, So the lead on that
Speaker 1: is a little dated, but the information with Neil was
Speaker 1: really good because we touched on a number of subjects.
Speaker 1: And since we're heading into this homestand we gotta play this,
Speaker 1: the information is very timely impertinent because we talked about
Speaker 1: mobile parking, mobile ticketing initiatives at these next three home games,
Speaker 1: and uniforms, the whole uniform spoiler alerting. Uh, we talked
Speaker 1: about uniforms. Yeah, we talked about a whole lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's his, his entertainment preferences. But like we were
Speaker 1: talking about before, his he's a fan of podcast and
Speaker 1: he knows what's up, whether it's books, movies, TV shows. Uh.
Speaker 1: Really enjoy or time with Neil, even away from the podcast.
Speaker 1: But he came in the studios and he was happy
Speaker 1: to give us some time. So that's cool, right, And
Speaker 1: not not only did we talk about initiatives, well not,
Speaker 1: we also talked about you know what a what is
Speaker 1: a day in the life of the president of the
Speaker 1: New York Jets and a little bit. Yeah, so we
Speaker 1: talked about a whole lot. So, without further ado, this
Speaker 1: is our sit down with Neil Klatt. All right, there
Speaker 1: is a very special time on the Official Jets podcast.
Speaker 1: You know, e A and I are always here. Now
Speaker 1: we have Neil Glatt, the president of the New York Jets,
Speaker 1: in the studio. Thank you for coming, No, thanks for
Speaker 1: having me. It's great to be here. Well, you are
Speaker 1: a loyal listener. It is overdue for us to have
Speaker 1: you on the podcast. Neil, you're a president of the
Speaker 1: Jets for more than six years. His time flown by.
Speaker 1: It does fly, it does fly. But it's great to
Speaker 1: be part of the Jets. It's great to deal with
Speaker 1: Jet fans. They are terrific, they're loyal. Uh and UH,
Speaker 1: every game is different, every season is different. So no
Speaker 1: days or all. What is for people that don't know?
Speaker 1: As you started out in the league, so what what
Speaker 1: was intriguing to you about going from a league perspective
Speaker 1: to a team perspective. So I think at the league
Speaker 1: you're dealing with a lot of league level strategic issues
Speaker 1: that implicate all thirty two clubs. When you come to
Speaker 1: uh the Jets, or come to an individual team, you're
Speaker 1: all in. It's one team. It's all about winning on
Speaker 1: the football field. I spend more of my time thinking
Speaker 1: about how do we enhance the fan experience and how
Speaker 1: do how do we do great things off the field. Uh,
Speaker 1: And it's just being part of a small, nimble group
Speaker 1: the league experience was terrific and fantastic, and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: trade it for anything. Those issues are big, broad issues,
Speaker 1: and you read about a lot of those in the
Speaker 1: paper as well as what you read about at the Jets.
Speaker 1: But for me, it was the opportunity to be part
Speaker 1: of the organization that Woody Johnson already built and hopefully
Speaker 1: contribute in some way. Just for fans that don't know
Speaker 1: you talked about that you're thinking about ways to enhance
Speaker 1: the fan of experience, Well, what what is the day
Speaker 1: in the life of Neo Glatt in the office life?
Speaker 1: Every day really is different. Um, We're in a business
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of uh intensity to the business.
Speaker 1: Fans are incredibly engaged. So it could be after a game,
Speaker 1: you could be dealing with things that went well on
Speaker 1: game day, things that didn't go well. How do we
Speaker 1: address it so by the next game. If there was
Speaker 1: something that happened uh at the stadium that you want
Speaker 1: to improve upon, If there was something on the scoreboard
Speaker 1: that a feature that worked, well, let's do more of it.
Speaker 1: If there was something that we didn't think we got this,
Speaker 1: the fan reaction wanting well, let's let's let's think about it.
Speaker 1: So after a game, there's always a lot of recaps
Speaker 1: and strategizing and planning. Uh, it could be something that
Speaker 1: is in the media. It could be something involving working
Speaker 1: with the players on a community relations issue, so you
Speaker 1: really don't know. It could be a sponsor is looking
Speaker 1: to activate in a different way. So the great thing is, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it keeps it extreme incredibly exciting. Is the variety. Um,
Speaker 1: but it is a singular focus on winning football games.
Speaker 1: Anyway that we focusing on the business, I can help
Speaker 1: the football team and then obviously the fans, well you
Speaker 1: you keep us on point. And I always tell folks
Speaker 1: about this because when you have an opportunity to meet
Speaker 1: Neil and maybe express concern or also express hope or
Speaker 1: optimism or happiness with something that's going on, Neil always
Speaker 1: relays things on two people within an organization. So with
Speaker 1: that being said, if somebody comes up to you and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I saw something at the stadium that didn't
Speaker 1: look right, you follow up immediately with within whatever department
Speaker 1: you have to reach. You have that personal interaction, and
Speaker 1: I think that's a great quality to have because you
Speaker 1: don't let it go either. Anytime you speak to you said,
Speaker 1: I've been this, I'm going into my seventh season. I've
Speaker 1: been at the Jets over six years. Uh. When I
Speaker 1: came in, it was impressive how much people cared. And
Speaker 1: so if if you see people who work for the
Speaker 1: Jets on game day or at an event throughout the
Speaker 1: year and they hear something from a fan or a
Speaker 1: business part and that's not working, well, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: say it's not my job. Uh. And that and that
Speaker 1: starts with me. If there's something that we can do better,
Speaker 1: we're going to try and do better. We will follow
Speaker 1: up on it. We have uh you know, every three
Speaker 1: to six months, we'll have a fan of what we
Speaker 1: call a fan Advisory Board, will invite anywhere from twenty
Speaker 1: to fifty fans. Usually we'll do it here at the
Speaker 1: at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center. Often they'll have
Speaker 1: a chance they'll be an impromptu stop by by by
Speaker 1: coach Bowls or or or by Mike mcagnet. So they
Speaker 1: get a little bit of of fun football stuff. But
Speaker 1: we're really it's serious business for us at that fan
Speaker 1: advisory board. We really want their feedback on what's working.
Speaker 1: What's not working, and you'll see, including me, everyone's taking notes, um,
Speaker 1: because we certainly want to get their perspective on what's
Speaker 1: working and what's not working and UH, and those conversations
Speaker 1: are critically important. And what they don't see after that
Speaker 1: meeting is there will be a number of follow up
Speaker 1: meetings where we're just going through it to do list
Speaker 1: and a checklist based on what that fan. And speaking
Speaker 1: of that, you just came out of a meeting where
Speaker 1: you guys did Basically you're after action report of what
Speaker 1: happened at the season opener, and we do that after
Speaker 1: every game and can't leave me do it after every event.
Speaker 1: So when we finished training camp, what worked well at
Speaker 1: training camp, what worked well at Green and White? And
Speaker 1: then what would you do differently next year? Because the
Speaker 1: season is fast and furious, the offseason fast and furious.
Speaker 1: So if you don't really take that time when it's
Speaker 1: fresh in your mind on how do we improve, sometimes
Speaker 1: that gets lost in translation. Come next year when you're
Speaker 1: ready to do it again. You have such a before
Speaker 1: we jump topics here, I think you have a really
Speaker 1: unique perspective now after six seasons here and then fifteen
Speaker 1: at the least so you're talking about just kind of
Speaker 1: what goes on through your head on our game days
Speaker 1: at MetLife Stadium. Well, I want to know is when
Speaker 1: you're on the road, are you looking at what different
Speaker 1: stadiums and organizations due to potentially and it's the fan
Speaker 1: experience Like you talked about before, like how how do
Speaker 1: you take in a game? Not at MetLife Stadium, It's
Speaker 1: exactly what you said. We are looking at what they
Speaker 1: are doing, so what kind of music are they playing
Speaker 1: before and during the game. We will look at what
Speaker 1: their concession offerings are. We will look at their prices
Speaker 1: to see how we compare to their prices. We have
Speaker 1: a new initiative that we call our Bump fifty fifty
Speaker 1: where fans can buy essentially raffle tickets and when some
Speaker 1: jackpots well the choit's done a great job of that.
Speaker 1: So we were out in Detroit, that was something we
Speaker 1: kept our eye on. So for us, the great thing
Speaker 1: is everyone competes in the NFL pretty intensively on the field,
Speaker 1: but off the field, it's pretty collaborative organization and so
Speaker 1: clubs all want to get better. We want to get better.
Speaker 1: So if they're working on something, uh, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: out there and ask a lot of questions and look around. Similarly,
Speaker 1: we rolled that when we rolled out our rewards program
Speaker 1: and our digital ticketing solutions four or five years ago,
Speaker 1: every club that came in was asking us how it went.
Speaker 1: We gave them tours. Uh, and you know, we're happy
Speaker 1: to help other clubs in the league similar to the
Speaker 1: way they're helping us. All Right, So much to get
Speaker 1: to because we got to talk about what's new on
Speaker 1: game day at Mentley Stadium. If you're our Jets fan,
Speaker 1: are you're gonna be attending Jets game this season? And
Speaker 1: we want to talk about the new uniforms. But first
Speaker 1: we gotta ask about Christopher Johnson. Whatdy Johnson? Of course
Speaker 1: serving as the US and bestor Great Britain in Northern Ireland.
Speaker 1: What has Christopher been like? It's the CEO and your
Speaker 1: interactions been like with him? For people on the outside,
Speaker 1: they see Christopher and he's a likable sort, but you
Speaker 1: have an intimate knowledge. It's his passion. I think the
Speaker 1: fans have heard from him and seeing his passion for
Speaker 1: football but also his passion for the fan experience. So
Speaker 1: Christophers out in the parking lots a lot similar to
Speaker 1: our fan advisory board, He's talking to fans constantly and
Speaker 1: similar to us taking notes when fans raise issues, he
Speaker 1: will act upon it either directly or share that with
Speaker 1: others in the organization and get us going on it.
Speaker 1: It's been a fairly smooth transition. Uh. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a terrific person, and you know first and foremost, but
Speaker 1: as somebody to work for, you can have a conversation
Speaker 1: with him, you can problem solve with him, and so, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, nothing but kudos in praise. He's on top
Speaker 1: of a number of things organizationally, but also he's also
Speaker 1: into the latest workouts and a sharp dresser. Christopher Johnson Yetta,
Speaker 1: he gotta get a lot of He's got a lot
Speaker 1: of passions, um and in terms of a lot of
Speaker 1: things we're doing with the players, in terms of off
Speaker 1: the field issues, he's developed a great rapport with the
Speaker 1: players and so we're working with them on a number
Speaker 1: of social initiatives and other community initiatives, and Chris's leadership
Speaker 1: in that area has been terrific. There was a great
Speaker 1: photo last week of Christopher down on one knee and
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams down on one knee and those two just
Speaker 1: talk in at PRAC. This is pretty cool. Actually, before that,
Speaker 1: Christopher Johnson as the team was stretching, he was on
Speaker 1: one of the bikes. He was getting to workout and
Speaker 1: while watching practice, he's putting pressure on all of us. Exactly. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we've talked about game day a little bit. Here
Speaker 1: is just to dive into it is, if you're going
Speaker 1: to the Jets game this year, what is new about
Speaker 1: the eighteen season? From the experienced standpoint summer, subtle um,
Speaker 1: but more dramatic. So a couple of years ago, we
Speaker 1: put out what we call pilot Vision. So we understand
Speaker 1: that fans are coming out, they want to see the
Speaker 1: action on the field. They want to see the highlights
Speaker 1: and the replays of the game that's going on. But
Speaker 1: we then have pilot vision. They also want stats. They
Speaker 1: also want to see the out of town scores. They
Speaker 1: also want to see the red zone from time to time.
Speaker 1: So how we program that. We're always trying to think
Speaker 1: what is the fan today? How do they want to
Speaker 1: consume the game when they come out to the stadium.
Speaker 1: But it's different. You have eighty thousand people out there.
Speaker 1: Some want to be on their smartphones, a lot others don't.
Speaker 1: Some grew up, you know, sitting in an upper deck
Speaker 1: listening on a transistor radio. Others don't know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about when I mentioned a transistor radio. So you
Speaker 1: try and strike that balance. And uh so, a lot
Speaker 1: of it is the scoreboard features, so those are those
Speaker 1: are new and different this year. We're also doing uh
Speaker 1: some different things with music. Um so we announced probably
Speaker 1: about a month ago, we have a partnership with Deaf
Speaker 1: Jam Recordings and they're great partners. So that's you said
Speaker 1: mentioned the stadium, So the runout song was done by
Speaker 1: some of their artists and so that's been a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. We in fact had Marcus May and Jamal
Speaker 1: Adams going to the studio with with Jada kiss Um
Speaker 1: and they were working on some some music opportunities together
Speaker 1: and what we call our hype videos. So when we
Speaker 1: get videos out on social media and Instagram and the
Speaker 1: like on a Friday before a game, a lot of
Speaker 1: that's going to involve Deaf Jam Recording. And I'm in
Speaker 1: the studio of Jets three sixty Productions, so a lot
Speaker 1: of that's produced by by the excellent guys and women
Speaker 1: in this organization who produced that content, including the two
Speaker 1: of you. So that's that's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We also are having a kid today coming up on
Speaker 1: October seven against the Broncos, and so we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of fun things for the kids, including w
Speaker 1: W E and they bring some of their superstars out
Speaker 1: and their terrific entertainers and there are a lot of
Speaker 1: fun and we had the miss at our what we
Speaker 1: call our up front where we kind of introduced a
Speaker 1: lot of our our new events and new activities, and
Speaker 1: the last one our game against the Vikings. We're doing
Speaker 1: some things with Marble and so that's obviously an amazing
Speaker 1: entertainment company and we're thrilled to be working with them.
Speaker 1: So the first number of people coming in the building
Speaker 1: and get a bobblehead coincidentally, maybe not that coincidentally, we're
Speaker 1: playing the Vikings, so it's kind of going to be
Speaker 1: holed versus four Okay, so we're doing a little bit
Speaker 1: of that. So we we spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: thinking about we know what the action on the field is,
Speaker 1: what people really care about, but anything we can do
Speaker 1: just have a little bit more fun when you come out.
Speaker 1: We we we know people investing a lot of their time,
Speaker 1: so we we try and get creative and some of
Speaker 1: that we do on our own, and some of that
Speaker 1: is doing with some of the great partners that I
Speaker 1: just mentioned. There are a ton of exciting um game
Speaker 1: day themes for the Jets throughout the two thousand and
Speaker 1: eighteen season. What is the genesis in the new uniforms?
Speaker 1: Everybody's asking the genesis of the uniform? Why, like the
Speaker 1: hottest button it is? And we have the man himself.
Speaker 1: It starts with uh, Woody Johnson and his vision for
Speaker 1: wanting to do something different with the uniform and so, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he put together a working group internally but
Speaker 1: working closely with people at the league who have worked
Speaker 1: through a number of uniform changes over the past x years.
Speaker 1: And so this is years in the making. This is
Speaker 1: years in the making and also working with Bikey and
Speaker 1: they do terrific work. And uh, it's a real iteritive process.
Speaker 1: I mean it's been it really has been years in
Speaker 1: the making, and it's looking at everything for all kinds
Speaker 1: of different designs, all different kind of logos and other
Speaker 1: things that might go on the uniform and uniform changes
Speaker 1: are subjective. Uh. Ownership loved it. Um Some of the
Speaker 1: people on the you know, on the football side who
Speaker 1: have seen it love it. And but hopefully the fans
Speaker 1: will love it. And so it'll probably be officially launched
Speaker 1: in March. Um and we're gonna try and make a
Speaker 1: little bit of hoopla out of that. Um Uh. Again
Speaker 1: it's subjective, so just one man's opinion, but that I
Speaker 1: think the fans will like it. I do think you're
Speaker 1: gonna see the Jets go through basically all their uniform
Speaker 1: combinations here in two thousand and eighteen. Because you've already
Speaker 1: seen the all white with the white face masks against
Speaker 1: the Detroit lines. You're going all white. Bet we know
Speaker 1: of that. We got I think it's the great Dapes mask.
Speaker 1: Also for the cold scam. Yeah yeah. And we had
Speaker 1: the green out like we mentioned against the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 1: the traditional green and white against the Miami Dolphins for
Speaker 1: the home opener. I know we'll see the green pants
Speaker 1: and the green Out's gonna have the color Rush uniforms.
Speaker 1: So the knee the one that we originally was rolled
Speaker 1: out on Thursday nights that pop. I think we played
Speaker 1: against the Bills a couple of times with that Um,
Speaker 1: those decisions, you know, are really made by coach. Interestingly,
Speaker 1: it's a coach, you know. I think he's always trying
Speaker 1: to anticipate what's what's the best kind of coach. He's
Speaker 1: got a lot, He's got his little private label down there.
Speaker 1: He's got the hands. Sometimes I see coach on the
Speaker 1: slide that we gotta get that, you know, we got
Speaker 1: we gotta get that to fans, we gotta get that
Speaker 1: to other people in the building. He has some great stuff.
Speaker 1: He's watching the press conferences and you know, he always
Speaker 1: comes up to me, he says, Yep, coach got a
Speaker 1: new label today. Yeah, yeah, people are asking me about
Speaker 1: We respect his style. Yeah, we like it, and so
Speaker 1: I think he'll have I think he'll have a lot
Speaker 1: of fun with the new uniform. Also, we gotta go off, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta go off the field. And we know you're
Speaker 1: big into movies, into TV shows. So for fans that
Speaker 1: don't know, one, what is your favorite all time TV
Speaker 1: show and movie? And two is well, what are you look?
Speaker 1: What are you watching now? My all time favorite TV
Speaker 1: show it probably a Seinfeld. Um, do you still watch
Speaker 1: it in syndication? Watch it every night? Well? I do
Speaker 1: I actually record him and then I watch him in bulk,
Speaker 1: you know, at the times and uh, you know, so
Speaker 1: I might be watching not a jet game of sporting event.
Speaker 1: I'll pause it for a little bit and go watch
Speaker 1: an episode and and then come back and catch up
Speaker 1: on the game. What was your conversations like with Larry
Speaker 1: David when he came around? You know, just listen he
Speaker 1: you can just see the brilliance. Honestly, you can see
Speaker 1: the creativity. He is laid back, relaxed, um and he's
Speaker 1: actually he's an enormous jet fan. Yeah, but he's funny.
Speaker 1: He was very impressed with how clean the launch area downstairs,
Speaker 1: and you could just see he'd be you know, he's
Speaker 1: one of those guys. Pull up, pull up a seat
Speaker 1: and you'll you'll enjoy yourself. Yeah. What about what about
Speaker 1: the movie? The movie, uh, Gladiator? Gladiator is probably that's
Speaker 1: one of those movies. Whenever it's on, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: get sucking for a half hour. What's been on a
Speaker 1: lot lately? As Good Fellas? You kind of see kind
Speaker 1: of my my demo at work here, but kind of
Speaker 1: good action oriented. Are you a big Russell Crow fan?
Speaker 1: I like Russell Crow. Yeah, Yeah, he's great. And Gladiator. Yeah, Gladiator.
Speaker 1: I actually saw both of those movies for the first
Speaker 1: time like two years ago. Behind the April. Yeah it's great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little history, little dramatization, good action, get you ready
Speaker 1: to run through a wall, kind of every emotional state
Speaker 1: you can get. Okay, how about streaming series? Me? Sometimes, Neil,
Speaker 1: we'll go on a plane and you'll catch up on
Speaker 1: something and you'll get into a series. What's some of
Speaker 1: the coach that some of the coaches will recommend some
Speaker 1: shows at times? This summer, I did Sneaky Pete. Okay,
Speaker 1: this series I'm waiting to come back in October? Is
Speaker 1: ray Don? Yeah, you're gonna. I've always seen a couple
Speaker 1: of Right the game, So it's Green's top shows that Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's a real gentleman. And he's the voice of
Speaker 1: Hot Knocks. Yes, so he among others. But he's got
Speaker 1: a lot of the HBO sports stuff and when you
Speaker 1: hear his voice, it's one of those great voices. It is,
Speaker 1: So what were you about? Yeah? What what do you guys? Streaming?
Speaker 1: I'm always kind of what what could mean? What what
Speaker 1: can we stream? In the off season when I kind
Speaker 1: of gets in the busy season. I think I've told
Speaker 1: you about this before his Peaky Blinders Netflix. A big
Speaker 1: Peaky Blinders fan. That your culture, that's like ninth turn
Speaker 1: of the century British, you know none of this pretty
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. He's like our Sam Donald here. He's an
Speaker 1: old soul, right, I hear great things about that. I'm
Speaker 1: all in on Peaky Blinders. Um. I watched in college
Speaker 1: The Sopranos, and I like that a lot. Believe it
Speaker 1: or not. I have not done the entire Sopranos, and
Speaker 1: I've kind of probably seen a season and a half.
Speaker 1: Of people have said to me, I wish I could
Speaker 1: replicate watching it again when you get the chance to
Speaker 1: watch it. So I'm looking forward. I asked him about
Speaker 1: that ending when he started mentioned but we'll have to
Speaker 1: I did see the last episode. What was your thought?
Speaker 1: So I just saw the diner scene, and I don't
Speaker 1: I didn't know enough. I didn't have the same investment
Speaker 1: yet because I didn't commit the number of years to
Speaker 1: the show yet. Neil, let's bring a full circle. Come
Speaker 1: back to the Jets here. You talked about it. It's
Speaker 1: all about what happens on the field, and we're trying
Speaker 1: to enhance that. Um, do you like what you're seeing
Speaker 1: as far as this team coming together, having some young pieces,
Speaker 1: drafting a quarterback was performed well early on in his
Speaker 1: career and Sam Donald and you you're set up salary
Speaker 1: cap wise. I believe Mike has said it. You get
Speaker 1: the most cap room so you have the financial flexibility
Speaker 1: following this season, we think about some young pieces on defense,
Speaker 1: whether that p Jamal Adams or Leonard Williams or Darren
Speaker 1: Lee an offensively quincy and noone went back and yeah,
Speaker 1: do you like what you're seeing out of this team
Speaker 1: and the way, uh it's set up for the future.
Speaker 1: I'm always an optimist, Um, but absolutely, Um, you know
Speaker 1: you saw some of that potential on Monday night and uh,
Speaker 1: you know you've certainly got a lot of turnovers and
Speaker 1: and and and got you know, some breaks, but it
Speaker 1: was outstanding. Um. And you see, uh, when that team
Speaker 1: can play and the talent that they have. And to
Speaker 1: your point, Um, the coaches are only making guys better
Speaker 1: and uh, we have a little bit more cap room
Speaker 1: this year. If it's not spent this year, then it
Speaker 1: rolls over to next year. And then then Mike and
Speaker 1: his team sitting down with coach Bowls can prioritize how
Speaker 1: do they continue to upgrade the roster. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to an exciting season, and and the
Speaker 1: fans that we've spoken to, uh you know, similarly share
Speaker 1: that sentiment. This was awesome. Appreciate. Thank you, guys. Another
Speaker 1: thank you to Neil Glad for sitting down with his Gladiator,
Speaker 1: favorite movie of all time. Okay, I have something I'm
Speaker 1: in here, oh because I think I kind of faked it,
Speaker 1: and I want to be an authentic and juine first.
Speaker 1: This is like, this is like a confession to Kneel
Speaker 1: because you know he's gonna listen. I've never seen Gladiator
Speaker 1: from beginning to add I've seen parts, But is it
Speaker 1: like it was on TV and you've seen parts and yes,
Speaker 1: of course, Well I was in the movie theater. I
Speaker 1: didn't know if it was left to get a pepsie
Speaker 1: in a popcorn. I just didn't come back. I didn't
Speaker 1: know if it was it was on HBO or something,
Speaker 1: and you all, you can only watch an hour before
Speaker 1: you have to go do something. But you're saying that
Speaker 1: it was on TV. This is exactly what I was saying. Though,
Speaker 1: is that you can't watch it when it's a TV
Speaker 1: movie because there are so many commercials in the movie
Speaker 1: is so long that you're gonna sit there like an
Speaker 1: all day affair and you're not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: fully take in the impact of it. I feel extremely
Speaker 1: guilty about this because I have seen bits and pieces.
Speaker 1: I just haven't seen it wire to wire, and that
Speaker 1: is not right. It is okay, So have you seen
Speaker 1: the end or is it a cliffhanger? Like have you
Speaker 1: seen the beginning? I've just seen parts like fighting scenes
Speaker 1: and it scenes when he's coming out and he's getting
Speaker 1: all fired up and stuff like that. Listen, I gotta
Speaker 1: see it. Okay, by the time you listen to the podcast,
Speaker 1: you will have e a will have watched glad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when all have a full review, I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna all Neil a book. I think I think that
Speaker 1: you Jet Nation a book report or a movie movie report. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and movie review. But so so jets play Sunday when Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of big things happen at the stadium. Well,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say you only have Friday and Saturday
Speaker 1: now or a week day. But you gotta watch it
Speaker 1: on Friday or Saturday. Yeah, I'll probably watched on Saturday
Speaker 1: when I'm not watching college football, but that's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to sneak that in. Maybe maybe you should do
Speaker 1: a Friday night because you know, I like to watch
Speaker 1: my college football on Saturday. So the big things to
Speaker 1: remember here are Denver is this weekend, and uh, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some w w E superstars out of this game,
Speaker 1: I know that for sure. Then the following week, the
Speaker 1: Jets are honoring the Super Bowl three team. Dozens of
Speaker 1: members from that sixty eight championship team will be back
Speaker 1: at MetLife Stadium. Uh, and that will be cool because
Speaker 1: obviously the Jets are playing the Colts, the team they
Speaker 1: beat sixteen and seven on January twelfth, nineteen sixty nine. Seventeen,
Speaker 1: well probably an eighteen or eighteen and a half point
Speaker 1: underdog that day again that changed the football world. And
Speaker 1: then the final week, I'm excited about this matchup between
Speaker 1: four and the Vikings. I'm all about that. I'm a
Speaker 1: little conflicted because Thoor to me is Noah synderguard of
Speaker 1: the New York Mets. Because that's a lot of Jacks
Speaker 1: fans are Mets fans. Yeah, I know, but but that's
Speaker 1: why it's conflicting because if you're going Thor as the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings and representing the Vikings, I would I'm that's
Speaker 1: all it's listening to me because because because that's an
Speaker 1: enemy on Sunday, but it's it's a it's an ally, okay,
Speaker 1: But for me, there's people in the world named Ethan Arthur. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so so it is the Hulkster versus Thor's that right? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: green big guy ripping apart. Okay, I like that, So
Speaker 1: I gotta I think giving out baboheads. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: something that you should have listened. Yeah, we should have
Speaker 1: listened to the interview. Again. I want, I want with
Speaker 1: ever than giving out because I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: Yeah that Nieces would like that. A lot of cool
Speaker 1: things going on with the Jets. Time to get a
Speaker 1: victory and and start this home stand off. Right all right,
Speaker 1: that's all we have here on the Official jetz Podcast.
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