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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas, coming to from a city
Speaker 1: filled with heroes and funkers. Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and
Speaker 1: Greg Rosetal. What is up, boys? Hey Dan? Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got that bunker live. We're all about it. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: pumped to be heading to the owners meetings tomorrow. Finally,
Speaker 1: here are Big Friday. We got those flights booked a
Speaker 1: few weeks back. We are heading to where is it?
Speaker 1: Palm Beach. Palm Beach would have been nice, would have
Speaker 1: been fun. We would have had our opportunity to sit
Speaker 1: down with multiple head coaches and we would have done
Speaker 1: our fun speed round. There would have been house music
Speaker 1: involved and would have made certain coaches uncomfortable. And yet
Speaker 1: it's all wiped away because that's that's what happens now
Speaker 1: in society. Things that were supposed to happen now no
Speaker 1: longer happen. For example, the president of the Baltimore Ravens name.
Speaker 1: This is a good quiz for you, Greg. I know
Speaker 1: you're really plugged in on the movers and shakers of
Speaker 1: the league. The president of the Ravens is named I
Speaker 1: saw this news item earlier, so it Dick cass right.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have gotten it. That mama's
Speaker 1: son it is, it's the son of Mama cass Is.
Speaker 1: He expects the coronavirus uh in COVID nineteen to lead
Speaker 1: to the cancelation of all offseason activities, which makes sense.
Speaker 1: It seems like we're heading toward It's been a very
Speaker 1: different march uh, and it's unlikely to change or things
Speaker 1: will continue to change, I should say, as the springtime continues,
Speaker 1: and at least that's where it's heading. Great name Dick
Speaker 1: cass I guess like great named Dix is just going
Speaker 1: around right now because Dick Pound, uh, the the famous
Speaker 1: Olympian was kind of the guy who broke the Olympics
Speaker 1: are being canceled. One of the great names Dick Pound.
Speaker 1: By the way, just the other day on Twitter, Um,
Speaker 1: Dick Trickle, I believe Greg your son is into racing.
Speaker 1: A racing man, Dick Trickle. I'm not sure that's was.
Speaker 1: Was that his birth name that found sounds confounding to me,
Speaker 1: but he was trending in Los Angeles area. Twitter circles
Speaker 1: for some reason, I don't know why I didn't investigate further.
Speaker 1: He was in a book that Walker got out of
Speaker 1: the library that were was called like Great Racing Crashes
Speaker 1: And as we're going through the book, like the surprise
Speaker 1: ending is like seven people die. So this is a
Speaker 1: great book for a five year old, good children's book.
Speaker 1: Chris Wesling. Uh, the stock markets gains for the third
Speaker 1: consecutive day, So I imagine that that stabilizes your portfolio.
Speaker 1: What portfolio? I have no portfolio. I cashed in my
Speaker 1: four oh one K when I moved to Tybee and
Speaker 1: it has not recovered. Well, I will say, Dan, you
Speaker 1: and I we were on a text thread with someone
Speaker 1: way bless. You don't have a portfolio. Shocking, I know, Dan,
Speaker 1: We were on a thread last night with some of
Speaker 1: your longtime friends where we and I actually brought this
Speaker 1: home to Simone to talk to her about it. Just
Speaker 1: sort of said, we came up with an investment plan
Speaker 1: and we can hatch this down. Robe. You don't share
Speaker 1: great investment strategies. Um, this industry which is about to explode. Uh,
Speaker 1: we have a beat on this and we you know,
Speaker 1: if someone really wants to get in hit us up
Speaker 1: d M. Maybe maybe they don't know the idea. So
Speaker 1: you're saying if you want to okay, So if they
Speaker 1: want to follow us blindly, because if they if we
Speaker 1: give them the idea, they have to buy in. Well, no,
Speaker 1: it's I'm talking about people with with trench and you know,
Speaker 1: capital capital to come. Why do you say it here?
Speaker 1: If nothing else just to save the last minute of
Speaker 1: the podcast. Absolutely not. They only it's it's connected to
Speaker 1: the industry that is always on the cutting edge and
Speaker 1: ahead of the curve in finding ways to monetize things.
Speaker 1: And we said we have a billion dollar idea and
Speaker 1: we're going to continue that will be a percolation, uh,
Speaker 1: will continue to develop that during the COVID nineteen outbreak. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and in a part of humanity, the human experience that
Speaker 1: is not about to go away UH anytime soon. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of hustlers out there right now. I saw
Speaker 1: a sign up like on a telephone pole nearby that
Speaker 1: said like I want to work out while social distancing
Speaker 1: and it was like, you know, call this number and
Speaker 1: it's like a you know, a personal trainer who's trying
Speaker 1: to do a FaceTime workouts. So people out there, they're
Speaker 1: just trying to make some money. I saw one thing
Speaker 1: Erica could use. It was the video of a woman
Speaker 1: and a man um believe they were in a relationship
Speaker 1: of some sort with a dog and a harness, where
Speaker 1: they from a second story balcony lowered the dog down
Speaker 1: to the alleyway behind their apartment, allowed the dog to
Speaker 1: walk around for five or six minut it's and do
Speaker 1: what it needs to do, and then lifted it back
Speaker 1: up and its harness into the apartment and it's I thought,
Speaker 1: maybe of Thor slashed Toto, that you could do the Thor.
Speaker 1: You could do this with him or her. It's a
Speaker 1: male animal. Do you think the dog enjoys that process
Speaker 1: getting out of the house? I mean maybe not being
Speaker 1: the lowering might be all right, but bringing the dog
Speaker 1: back up might might not be so good for the dog. Well,
Speaker 1: in a in a body harness, that was my question too.
Speaker 1: It seemed cruel, but its it did it was it
Speaker 1: was wagging its tail sort of. We don't want to
Speaker 1: spread more false information, so just don't put your dog
Speaker 1: in a body harness, Like, just don't anything we say here,
Speaker 1: just do not do Okay, let's get into what's happening
Speaker 1: in the NFL. It has actually officially started slowing down,
Speaker 1: and it has slowed down in a big way. The
Speaker 1: curve has been flattened in the NFL in terms of
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. But there's certain items that we
Speaker 1: will hit and then, um, one thing I wanted to
Speaker 1: touch on here is everybody that has reached out to
Speaker 1: us on Twitter or the subreddit or however marks my
Speaker 1: Space page and said thank you, thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: for going five days a week for the past two weeks. Um, well,
Speaker 1: there's a way you can, um thank us that will
Speaker 1: be helpful to us. Head on over to iTunes and
Speaker 1: leave five stars and a review. That would be nice.
Speaker 1: That's that's all we need in terms of payment. And
Speaker 1: to Greg's point, maybe you know, five thousand dollars while
Speaker 1: you're at it, I mean, just you know, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of worthy things you could be giving to
Speaker 1: right now. Why not us? So that doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: it's too much it we'll read it. We'll read a
Speaker 1: few reviews at the end of the show. But let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's hit some news. My wife is on a soft reboot.
Speaker 1: How is Emily. Emily is going on. She's I would say,
Speaker 1: no longer in soft reboot out of bed uh, mostly
Speaker 1: back to herself. So we are humming along once again
Speaker 1: as a family union unit and not a moment too soon.
Speaker 1: I should add, that's great good news. Yes, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get into it. We'll start West. I want to
Speaker 1: tee you up on this one. Rap Sheet rap Sheet
Speaker 1: reports of the Cowboys and quarterback Dak Prescott have re
Speaker 1: engaged long term talks. Here's more from rap Report. Sources
Speaker 1: say the two sides are communicating and would like to
Speaker 1: work out a deal. With a contract this complex, there
Speaker 1: are so many details it's difficult to gauge where it stands,
Speaker 1: but they are working and rap rap Report added that
Speaker 1: there's no rush here, but they looks like if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys get their way, if Prescott gets his way, he's
Speaker 1: playing on a long term deal and there's another mega
Speaker 1: contract on the books for that office. Yeah. My analysis
Speaker 1: of this is that I'm happy rap Sheet has a
Speaker 1: job and that he's good at it. But the football
Speaker 1: industry should maybe hire the standard for what is news
Speaker 1: and we're talking about a contract. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that really fits into NFL networks definition of news or
Speaker 1: anyone's definition of news. M hmm, well it fit into ours.
Speaker 1: We just started the show with it. You could have
Speaker 1: just shot it down before we started. I will be
Speaker 1: impressed if you guys have some serious analysis of this,
Speaker 1: because I have nothing to go on. West. Let's throw
Speaker 1: it to you this way. I mean you're the one,
Speaker 1: you're sort of the flag bearer on this. Uh. You
Speaker 1: know network quirk that if it's the Cowboys, um it leads.
Speaker 1: If it bleeds, it leads, if it's the Cowboys, it
Speaker 1: leads at NFL network, and you know if you if
Speaker 1: why not My one concern when they talk about no rush,
Speaker 1: how about rush, because this feels like it could be
Speaker 1: it's we get one of these every year, if not
Speaker 1: to the most ponderous um daily updated news to or
Speaker 1: from now until like two days before week one when
Speaker 1: they extend Dak Prescott and everyone's running through the city
Speaker 1: streets with a bunch of banners and flags like tell us,
Speaker 1: then I don't need to hear about it till then.
Speaker 1: It's always the Cowboys too. It feels like there's always
Speaker 1: some type of contract drama that we need to be
Speaker 1: um plugged. In on twenty four hours a day, seven
Speaker 1: days a week. It's gonna get done. Dack's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: They'll figure it out. How about this, You want to
Speaker 1: put a moratorium on Dak talk until the contract's done.
Speaker 1: I would say it's in general, all contract talk until
Speaker 1: it's done. Got We've got four months to go here,
Speaker 1: we got five months to go. They might push back
Speaker 1: that deadline for him to sign this thing. We've been
Speaker 1: talking about this contract for how long, I don't know,
Speaker 1: eighteen months. I feel like there's a decent chance we'll
Speaker 1: be having like the Kirk Cousins Dak Prescott conversation in
Speaker 1: the regular season if there is a regular season hubba
Speaker 1: uh and other rap sheet reporting during this suddenly quiet
Speaker 1: time on the calendar. The Cincinnati Bengals are open to
Speaker 1: keeping Andy Dalton for the season. Rappaport said all options
Speaker 1: are still on the table. Um Before free agency started,
Speaker 1: I wrote a piece on the I think it was
Speaker 1: like fifteen veteran quarterbacks with some level of intrigue around
Speaker 1: them or doubt or UH questions around them, and under
Speaker 1: worst case scenario for Dalton, I wrote that the Bengals
Speaker 1: do something very bangley, which is just keep Dalton as
Speaker 1: a quote uncourt mentor and straight up takeaway a year
Speaker 1: of his prime. Uh, just because that's what the Bengals do.
Speaker 1: And now there's a real report that that could happen.
Speaker 1: Come on, Cincinnati, do what's right. It might be his
Speaker 1: best chance at making seventeen and a half million dollars,
Speaker 1: which he's set to make right now. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: any other team considering paying Andy Dalton that. But maybe
Speaker 1: and he doesn't play for the money, greg and he
Speaker 1: plays for the nine and seven. But maybe Mike on
Speaker 1: is looking at what's happening in the world. He's very
Speaker 1: conservative in general. They heck, they started John Kittna over
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer for sixteen full games when they drafted him
Speaker 1: number one overall, and in a situation where maybe they're
Speaker 1: not practicing until August, they actually think just keep them.
Speaker 1: See what happens. He's probably gonna be the backup, but
Speaker 1: not bad to have him there. Like if Jacoby Brissett
Speaker 1: is gonna make sixteen million dollars to be a backup,
Speaker 1: I guess it's not that crazy for any Dalton to
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, I think the Bengals are the only
Speaker 1: team that would pay Andy Dalton seventeen million right now.
Speaker 1: I think that is true. And I think the Bengals
Speaker 1: may also see uh, their former offensive coordinator Jake Ruden
Speaker 1: now running the offense down in Jacksonville, and assume that
Speaker 1: he wants Dalton and there's stances you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: pay to get him. We're not just gonna let him
Speaker 1: go to the free agent market. I will say, like,
Speaker 1: there is this other scenario where it's a bit depressing
Speaker 1: if he stays in Cincinnati is a backup. But the
Speaker 1: first football moment that came to mind, because I think
Speaker 1: he Andy Dalton deserves like a truly special Bengals moment
Speaker 1: is let's say Joe Burrow comes in and does sort
Speaker 1: of the Tom Brady uh, and everyone's comparing him to
Speaker 1: Tom Brady in all these different ways, and say the
Speaker 1: Bengals like sneak into the playoffs, win a divisional round game,
Speaker 1: get to the a f C Championship for some reason
Speaker 1: or not. I'm not I know West's laughing at that. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying there there is a parallel here where
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, the sort of disgrace starter um comes in
Speaker 1: the same way that Drew Bledsoe did when Tom Brady
Speaker 1: got hurt. Well, I mean he is a bit disgraced.
Speaker 1: It's not he's not being celebrated. They're trying to trade
Speaker 1: him off. The roster came in, Drew Bledsoe came in
Speaker 1: for an injured Tom Brady and won that a f
Speaker 1: C championship. You go back and look at that game.
Speaker 1: At the end of that game, like everyone from like
Speaker 1: Robert Craft to Bill Belichick to every Patriots teammate were
Speaker 1: like pumping their fists and so happy for Drew Bledsoe.
Speaker 1: I would not mind Andy Dalton being on this roster
Speaker 1: and having one ultra heroic moment before they just give
Speaker 1: it to Joe Burrow for nineteen more years. M hm.
Speaker 1: That might be the nicest thing you've ever said about
Speaker 1: any Dalton. Well, I don't think it's a bad idea.
Speaker 1: And this and I hate hitting on this again. It's
Speaker 1: like it's not a great year to be a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 1: Like you're not gonna even be with your teammates until
Speaker 1: like four hours before Week one. So it's like, is
Speaker 1: it so bad to keep a trusty veteran around, Like
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to find some other backup. Who will
Speaker 1: that be? Dan does not agree. He's he's smirking and
Speaker 1: like drinking his iced tea. Have fun with you a
Speaker 1: little iced too. I have not. I have not bought
Speaker 1: into the theory yet that no teams are gonna have
Speaker 1: a chance to compete here because of missed offseason workouts.
Speaker 1: But not compete, it's just more. Would you acknowledge that
Speaker 1: it's a more complex situation for a rookie quarterback to
Speaker 1: come into than other years or is it just business
Speaker 1: as usual. We'll see you in like August. I think
Speaker 1: there's something to that. But the last time I heard
Speaker 1: this argument, I believe its two thousand and eleven. After
Speaker 1: the lockout, people said rookies were gonna be behind the
Speaker 1: eight bow, and then Cam Newton came in, had an
Speaker 1: awful training camp, and then broke about every rookie passing
Speaker 1: record in the books. Yeah, well, maybe it goes great,
Speaker 1: but I mean I don't I'm not sure I trust
Speaker 1: the Bengals organization to figure that's out the same way.
Speaker 1: That's all people forget Drew bled so that through two
Speaker 1: interceptions in that game, and then went behind Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: back to try to get his job back for the
Speaker 1: Super Well he also had he led them to a
Speaker 1: quick score also when they won the game. So who
Speaker 1: cares about some of the other business they won? They
Speaker 1: used to win. Uh. Speaking of the Patriots, Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: the former Patriots quarterback. Oh hey, Walkers, you can't hear anything.
Speaker 1: Give him my headphone. That will just encourage him. We got, like,
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit to go here to say hello. Okay,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, the former Patriots quarterback who was signed with
Speaker 1: the Buccaneer officially last week. Uh. You may remember a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago that Brady tried and failed to
Speaker 1: trademark Tom Terrific. Uh, after angry Tom Seaver fans got
Speaker 1: fired up. Well, he's back at it again. He is
Speaker 1: attempting to trademark t B times like multiply signed t B.
Speaker 1: The day that he signed officially with the Bucks March twentie,
Speaker 1: he filed he filed an application for the trademark. I
Speaker 1: really hope this works out for Tom, because I've never
Speaker 1: heard anything quite as catchy as TV times. TV sounds
Speaker 1: like it sounds like you've caught something. Uh to me,
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound positive. Well, also like and as you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not a quote unquote math guy. But
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be TV plus TV? Like, why, what's what? What?
Speaker 1: Why we multiplying? Well, wouldn't it be TV squared? Well,
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be multiplying, but it at least would look better. Mark,
Speaker 1: I agree, TV Squared. At least it feels like it
Speaker 1: has a you know, a catchy Uh, it looks cooler.
Speaker 1: TV times TV just does look terrible. But why again,
Speaker 1: why is it multiplied? Well, your question, it's actually when
Speaker 1: you apply math to something that's not mathematical. So I don't.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's confusing at its core. The first one
Speaker 1: of these athletes athletics trademark things I but I remember
Speaker 1: goes back to pat Riley and the three pete and
Speaker 1: I was I was reading something the other day. Wes Matthews,
Speaker 1: a backup point guard on that team, actually came up
Speaker 1: with three pete. Pat Riley cut him after the first
Speaker 1: two titles. He went to the c b A. The
Speaker 1: Lakers did not win their third title, but Wes Matthews
Speaker 1: won the c BA title and he said, stick it, Riley,
Speaker 1: I'm the only one who three pet and he stole
Speaker 1: my trademark. It's pretty good. Um. Anyway, good luck to
Speaker 1: you Tom on that. By the way, has anyone checked
Speaker 1: in on Julian Edelman? I texted him because that's more
Speaker 1: than just like buddies. That was his father figure slash
Speaker 1: best friends slash life partner. And now they're separated. And
Speaker 1: I feel like Julian is a type of dude that
Speaker 1: might be maybe like a drift to a point that
Speaker 1: he's inconsolvable. He the Patriots do need some cap rim maybe, uh,
Speaker 1: maybe swing a trade send Jewels down there. Well, crazier
Speaker 1: things have happened. Uh. In other quarterback news, the Shaun Watson,
Speaker 1: this is something to keep an eye on as the
Speaker 1: news slows down. We've all been wondering about how Watson
Speaker 1: feels about Bill O'Brien's decision, uh to send off his
Speaker 1: all Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins for fifty cents on
Speaker 1: the dollar. Uh, he had I believe one. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's spoken out, but he's had some tweets. Initially,
Speaker 1: the tweets were pretty much bland and weren't creating any drama.
Speaker 1: But lately, you know, they're starting to enter enter that
Speaker 1: dig zone. Stefan dig zone where it's a little bit
Speaker 1: cryptic and you're wondering what's going on. Here's one from March.
Speaker 1: When was that that yesterday? Don't deal with the lies
Speaker 1: and the frauds. That's why I don't get involved. What's
Speaker 1: up part that one? Mark um Well, I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, I wish I had a hot take on this.
Speaker 1: I think he's probably just a tad disgruntled, but it
Speaker 1: could have been something to happen to him locally. He
Speaker 1: feels like someone that I sort of a bro and
Speaker 1: maybe he got beaten like at a pool halled by
Speaker 1: some bros, like an underground pool game in this Corona
Speaker 1: uh world. But that's as deep as I can go.
Speaker 1: I'm sure someone else has a better explanation of the tweet,
Speaker 1: which is probably entirely unnecessary. I don't know why he
Speaker 1: needed to write that. So it's like an underground pool
Speaker 1: hall that that doesn't fear COVID nineteen and they're just
Speaker 1: shooting shooting stick. I would imagine there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: like sort of and maybe Erica can confirm this, like
Speaker 1: sort of masshole types that are just like, I'm bigger
Speaker 1: than this disease. And like I'll continue to like drink
Speaker 1: like bud Heavies and play pool. You just say that's me. No,
Speaker 1: I'm saying you can confirm it that's true if it's
Speaker 1: in like like Dorchester or whatever. If like that's what's
Speaker 1: the Greg is looking at me like I I don't
Speaker 1: understand Massachusetts, Greg, So I don't know. I never can
Speaker 1: explain if he lived in Boston. Here's another tweet. I
Speaker 1: don't know how I'm gonna make it out of here.
Speaker 1: Clean can't even keep track of who plays for the
Speaker 1: other team. Iconic Duo's rip and split at the seams
Speaker 1: Shaun Watson. Yeah, he's saying everybody's going he doesn't even
Speaker 1: know who's Who's who? I mean, that's that's a Drake lyric,
Speaker 1: which is a you know, Stefan Digg's type of move
Speaker 1: to to use the lyric to to express your tweel M.
Speaker 1: So he's in his feelings like Drake. Here's one more
Speaker 1: from yesterday. Never take advice from a person who don't
Speaker 1: love you. You gotta walk light, gotta stay above water.
Speaker 1: M feels like a lyric too. Well. I'm not say
Speaker 1: it doesn't need to be an original composition to to
Speaker 1: kind of represent his feelings. You know, he might relate
Speaker 1: to the lyric West break it down. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's okay to separate love and advice. For instance, you
Speaker 1: may have a great teacher in your life, some kind
Speaker 1: of mentor there may not be a love relationship there,
Speaker 1: but advice can still work. That tweet makes me think
Speaker 1: this really isn't about Bill O'Brien necessarily. This feels like
Speaker 1: a little more personal. They're ripping up the iconic duo.
Speaker 1: I was that was a little closer to the to
Speaker 1: the DeAndre Hopkins idea. I think that might actually be
Speaker 1: a lyric from y F. N. Lucci's He's pretty good.
Speaker 1: He's doing some good stuff right now. See you've got Google. Huh,
Speaker 1: we've got actual football news. Uh so there you go.
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is doing some digsy stuff. What was that West,
Speaker 1: We've got actual football news. Let's hear it. Rap sheet
Speaker 1: reporting former Vikings cornerback Xavier Rhods signing a one year
Speaker 1: deal with the Colts. Okay, so Rhodes has uh really
Speaker 1: fallen off last year led to his release, uh stand
Speaker 1: out at one point, now gets a chance to resurrect
Speaker 1: himself in indeed do we like that signing? Well, not
Speaker 1: the way he's played the last couple of years. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit perplexing that they would release Pierre de Sire,
Speaker 1: who then the Jets picked up, because the Jets pick
Speaker 1: up every Colts cornerback release. That's a rule. Now, um
Speaker 1: that's in their entire Cornerback corps in New York. But
Speaker 1: um so I'm guessing the cults just wanted size there.
Speaker 1: Other than that, it's hard to explain. Probably not for
Speaker 1: much money. We don't have the money details. It's just
Speaker 1: like a shot in the dark. But yes, he was,
Speaker 1: he was playing very I just I noticed something that
Speaker 1: our producer Um did. It was humorous to me. If
Speaker 1: you're watching the video version of this, well you do.
Speaker 1: I was just making a funny Dorchester move. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of downsides of not being in the
Speaker 1: same room together when we do the podcast, and one
Speaker 1: of them is like looking at like the faces of you,
Speaker 1: like horrified when you make a point that you don't like,
Speaker 1: or or the people not paying any attention or like
Speaker 1: all of that. It's just totally, i have to say it,
Speaker 1: totally glazed over. Prior to hearing the laughter, and then
Speaker 1: I woke up again around the NFL coming to you
Speaker 1: daily during the coronavirus. Hey, Cody Lattimore got a job.
Speaker 1: The Redskins signed the wide out formally of the Giants. Wow,
Speaker 1: he's hung around for six years. Uh, and now he
Speaker 1: gives the Redskins a little bit of depth coming off
Speaker 1: a career high three hundred receiving yards last season. You
Speaker 1: might be the second best receiver on that roster. Now
Speaker 1: hell yeah, who a week that he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be there and demand that management trade him like every
Speaker 1: other Redskins player. Oh takedown. Speaking of that region, trouble
Speaker 1: in for the newlyweds, Michael Brocker's and the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: the athletics Jeff Zribiak, Oh, speaking in which Wes I
Speaker 1: did some research, and I believe you're right about the
Speaker 1: New York Post Media columnist Andrew Marshandy. That's just my
Speaker 1: you know, as I've stated multiple times before, I was
Speaker 1: the French club president in high school. When I see
Speaker 1: I'm Marshaun, you know, it's it's gotta be Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's you gotta lock it in. The Ravens have not
Speaker 1: announced that the signing of Michael Brocker's because of his
Speaker 1: physical red flag here. He signed a three year, thirty
Speaker 1: million dollar deal last week, but the ankle injury that
Speaker 1: Brockers suffered last year UM put the Ravens raised the
Speaker 1: red flag high enough to delay the signing. UM. It
Speaker 1: should be noted that Zribiac believes the deal will still happen,
Speaker 1: but it is not done, so that is something to
Speaker 1: keep in mind. We might see some teams pulling out
Speaker 1: a deal. There's another one with the Jaguars. They're no
Speaker 1: longer doing a deal with Dark Quest in Ourds. Supposedly
Speaker 1: that's not related to the physical, but this weird situation
Speaker 1: that they're in. You could imagine just people backing out
Speaker 1: of contracts now because of the physicals. And I'm surprised
Speaker 1: there aren't more of these situations to be it's that
Speaker 1: this is sort of the only health related one that
Speaker 1: we've seen in this situation. UM. Back to Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: a second, Does anybody else get a feeling that there's
Speaker 1: at least an outside chance that he he never signs
Speaker 1: that second contract with the Texans and all this meddling
Speaker 1: from O'Brien and the fallout of all this creates a
Speaker 1: toxic situation where Deshaun Watson potentially hit the market via
Speaker 1: trade or free agency. That would be pretty wild. I
Speaker 1: see where you're going with that. The franchise tag just
Speaker 1: makes it so hard for any quarterback to escape. Bill
Speaker 1: O'Brien could do anything. At this point. You would think
Speaker 1: that the ownership would step in and just make a
Speaker 1: choice Watson over O'Brien at that point. But I am
Speaker 1: not putting anything past Bill O'Brien um trying to get
Speaker 1: a massive deal for Deshaun Watson. You wouldn't think would
Speaker 1: be this offseason. But I mean if Watson ever was available,
Speaker 1: you know, imagine what you you could get. And you
Speaker 1: know O'Brien, if nothing else has shown us, he don't care.
Speaker 1: He's gonna do whatever you like if you get on
Speaker 1: his wrong side and he has a chance to well,
Speaker 1: I mean, what kind of trade market and obviously getting
Speaker 1: ahead of myself now, but what kind of trade market
Speaker 1: would Deshaun Watson have? Uh? Three first round picks? I
Speaker 1: mean we're talking about a franchise level star quarterback and
Speaker 1: is not even in his mid twenties. I could see
Speaker 1: Bill Obion going crazy. He is like that old Bill
Speaker 1: Simmons is um, uh the Tyson zone where anything you
Speaker 1: see in the news on Mike Tyson this was years ago, Um,
Speaker 1: you would believe it. With Bill O'Brien, it's kind of
Speaker 1: the O'Brien zone now where anything you somebody could say
Speaker 1: something about Bill O'Brien's personnel maneuvers and you just kind
Speaker 1: of believe it. On phase value. Yeah, at the rate
Speaker 1: they're going down there, he could be half owner of
Speaker 1: the team in a couple of years. I mean with
Speaker 1: with Ryan Mallett is a starting quarterback on a second
Speaker 1: you know, on a career comeback journey. And finally in
Speaker 1: the news, good news, Sean Payton has recovered from the
Speaker 1: coronavirus and he urges people to quote be smart. New Orleans, Greg,
Speaker 1: you're your land during college is really getting hit hard
Speaker 1: right now Louisiana. The numbers are doubling and tripling, and uh,
Speaker 1: Peyton is an example of how anybody can get this.
Speaker 1: There's a multimillionaire living behind castle walls and a moat
Speaker 1: and he got the coronavirus, so a little he's back
Speaker 1: to normally, he's he's back to himself. But he is
Speaker 1: the first NFL figure to be connected to the coronavirus,
Speaker 1: and I can guarant damn to you he won't be
Speaker 1: the last. Yeah, it's sad. New Orleans like has a
Speaker 1: lot of issues that would make them susceptible. Marti grad
Speaker 1: just happened. It's like the most it's such a condensed city. Um,
Speaker 1: it's such a get tourism, so people are just coming
Speaker 1: in and out all the time. And when it also
Speaker 1: makes me worry about, you know, the future of New
Speaker 1: Orleans because they're gonna get hit, uh, particularly particularly art.
Speaker 1: But hey, like, if there's a government, um that I
Speaker 1: trust to really hook it up, it's Louisiana. There was
Speaker 1: a video I saw yesterday of Bourbon Street, which, like
Speaker 1: so many major city streets throughout the country are you know,
Speaker 1: it's deserted and the rats and the mice have taken
Speaker 1: back over and they're just openly running around in the streets.
Speaker 1: They're kind of like what it's like when you have
Speaker 1: kids in your house. The kids have taken over and
Speaker 1: they're having the time of their lives. Well, rats, you've
Speaker 1: you've rats appropriate at such a voluminous level that throughout
Speaker 1: history humans have tried to eradicate them and it's not
Speaker 1: until the last few years that this company, these two
Speaker 1: female scientists in Arizona, came up with a drug that
Speaker 1: you can give to rats and stop the pro creation.
Speaker 1: So we might finally win the war on rats if
Speaker 1: this drug becomes affordable. Wow, way to go, female scientists.
Speaker 1: Do we want to get rid of the rats? I
Speaker 1: guess so? Yeah? These Yeah, this war has been going
Speaker 1: on for thousands of years. I mean, why do you
Speaker 1: think cats were domesticated? They always beat they always beat
Speaker 1: humanity before COVID nineteen came has taken their big swing. Uh.
Speaker 1: There was of course the famous uh plague, the bubonic plague,
Speaker 1: that was all about the rats, right, that was like
Speaker 1: the mcale um clotheslines Kurt Rambis of the humans versus
Speaker 1: rat They're a fierce rival. Absolutely absolutely any other rat
Speaker 1: takes from anyone. I don't I don't know why you
Speaker 1: mentioned cats. Why cats exist. I'm not quite certain why
Speaker 1: we need them, but I'd extend that to rats, to
Speaker 1: go the rats. But then, but so remove rats and
Speaker 1: remove cats, and we've we this this cycle that is needless,
Speaker 1: is uh not part of our experience anymore? Vermin will
Speaker 1: fill the vacuum. I don't. I don't like I don't
Speaker 1: love cats. I'm allergic to them. But I know say
Speaker 1: cat people out there, they love the felines, So I
Speaker 1: don't see any reason why they should be wiped off
Speaker 1: the face of the earth Mark. Let me ask you
Speaker 1: this quit. Out of ten cat people that you could
Speaker 1: pick at random, how many of them would you trust? Day? Wow,
Speaker 1: I we had cat Colleen and Gonzo are cat people? Well,
Speaker 1: they're the one out of ten that I believe. They
Speaker 1: essentially run a zoo over there at this point, John, Colleen,
Speaker 1: they're like the tiger king Queen um all right? Check
Speaker 1: out by the way, John Gonzalez wrote a banger on
Speaker 1: the Ringer about Once upon a Time in Hollywood. Rick Dalton,
Speaker 1: the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio, all the movies and
Speaker 1: TV shows that he is. Power is flickering in my
Speaker 1: garages could be the end. What happens if we if
Speaker 1: power goes away? What happens if the grid shuts down? Well,
Speaker 1: then the riots start. There's been no yeah, there's been
Speaker 1: no indication of that. We've got some good internet lately,
Speaker 1: some good uh some good power With dis Gonzo article
Speaker 1: which was anyway, he wrote, Yes, he wrote about it.
Speaker 1: I think he It was essentially a countdown of the
Speaker 1: best Dalton projects that get referenced in the film Once
Speaker 1: Upon a Time in Hollywood and John, as we learned
Speaker 1: the last time we ever had a social gathering in
Speaker 1: our lives maybe ever, when we hung out with John
Speaker 1: and Colleen and Lakisha Um right before things went crazy. Uh.
Speaker 1: He had revealed that, or Colleen had revealed that John
Speaker 1: had watched Once upon a Time in Hollywood multiple times
Speaker 1: I'm talking a half dozen, maybe closer to a ten
Speaker 1: times and was just buying it over and over again
Speaker 1: on the cable box rental platform. Renting kept to the
Speaker 1: point Colleen's like John, I mean, you're killing me over here.
Speaker 1: So Colleen finally just gets him the Blu Ray. And
Speaker 1: so if you're looking for if you love that movie, uh,
Speaker 1: the way I know Mark loved it the way I
Speaker 1: loved it. Read that piece did a great job with it.
Speaker 1: He was the right person to write that, um Blue
Speaker 1: rays popping off. Bro it is it's got well, it's
Speaker 1: got still got the special features going for it, the
Speaker 1: commentary tracks and a movie like Once upon a Time.
Speaker 1: I think they have extended see I don't know who
Speaker 1: cares Sean Payton is okay? Good? Anything else in the
Speaker 1: news that I'm missing here? I think we confered everything.
Speaker 1: Did I get that? I get the Cody let Tody
Speaker 1: Lattimore got Cody got Do you guys know that Cody
Speaker 1: Lattimore at three D yards last year? Um? All right,
Speaker 1: let me read a couple of iTunes reviews again. It's
Speaker 1: all we ask for. If you're happy that we've been
Speaker 1: coming to you every day during this calamity, Uh, then uh,
Speaker 1: just pay us back by leaving us five star review
Speaker 1: and a review any review you like. Do you guys
Speaker 1: want to hear a favorable one or critical one from
Speaker 1: the audience? One of each? Yeah, a little both. Let's
Speaker 1: start with critical, group of humble, start with critical. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get it over with. Okay, here we go, Losers
Speaker 1: one star by Nude Nude Dude and nude is spelled
Speaker 1: an O O D dude d O O D. First
Speaker 1: time I listened to this podcast, these dudes start talking
Speaker 1: about how no one recognizes them out in public, but
Speaker 1: when they do, they don't want anyone to say anything
Speaker 1: to them. Then they start going on about the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: So maybe there's good episodes, but the first couple of
Speaker 1: minutes of listening to this group of individuals, they were annoying.
Speaker 1: Get over yourselves, talk about football, not your sad life.
Speaker 1: Not a long not a long time listener. I'm gathering
Speaker 1: not very far off either. The first five minutes are
Speaker 1: just like a like kind of a challenge. You know,
Speaker 1: some some novels put in a really difficult first chapter,
Speaker 1: just like if you can get over that hump, you'll
Speaker 1: enjoy the rest exactly. All right, here we go now
Speaker 1: favorable one six stars from heck yeah, Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for five shows a week. Very entertaining and excellent analysis.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for five shows a week. Five
Speaker 1: stars for saving my sanity. I sincerely appreciate all your
Speaker 1: hard work, and I hope you are all safe during
Speaker 1: the crisis. Thank you so much for five stars a week. Well,
Speaker 1: that's very nice. I'm happy to see that our sad,
Speaker 1: pathetic lives could entertain someone. Alright, the bad ones are funnier,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna read another one of those. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like the I like the negative ones. Uh too much?
Speaker 1: Off topic? One star, Tony d. These guys joke around,
Speaker 1: go go please, How about revive your television career while
Speaker 1: you're at it. Tony Danze has had a tremendous career.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that what's he doing right now? He's
Speaker 1: he's probably in hiding, trying not to get the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: The best mark. It's funny because I'm trying to read
Speaker 1: this review and it's playing right into one of his criticisms.
Speaker 1: These guys joke around and make fun of people, which
Speaker 1: is not funny. They typically they typically cut each other
Speaker 1: off and impossible to follow as they jump all over
Speaker 1: the place. Maybe you'll like it. I didn't. I have
Speaker 1: not found any fault with any of these reviews so far.
Speaker 1: Uh here's another one. Not bad? Is the title one star? Well, listen,
Speaker 1: you idiot, dark dude. If it's not bad, give us
Speaker 1: two or three stars out of five full decent podcast.
Speaker 1: The more I listened, sadly, the more I dislike each
Speaker 1: person on on their mark, with a K being the
Speaker 1: most tolerable. Seems like most of the quote analysis closed
Speaker 1: quote these guys do isn't watching or studying NFL. I'd
Speaker 1: like better if didn't have favorite teams. You all aren't funny,
Speaker 1: your jokes are terrible, most overrated podcast. I've ever listened
Speaker 1: to straight garbage with three slammers, and yet the title
Speaker 1: of the post is not bad. It's headline writing there.
Speaker 1: Uh that was ugh. Um alright, so there's a lot
Speaker 1: of positive ones, there's some negative ones. We have four thousand,
Speaker 1: seven six ratings right now. Let's try to get to
Speaker 1: five thousands audience, five thousand ratings on iTunes by this
Speaker 1: time next week. There's the challenge out to please help
Speaker 1: us out because it does make a difference in um,
Speaker 1: certain metrics and how they judge how a podcast is doing,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I might keep us employed. Let's
Speaker 1: be honest, everything everything's up in the air right now.
Speaker 1: And if you leave less than five stars, not just
Speaker 1: for our podcast, but if you go to the trouble
Speaker 1: of logging onto iTunes or or on your phone and
Speaker 1: leaving less than five stars, you are a bad person
Speaker 1: for any podcast you you're I'm not saying there's like
Speaker 1: an afterlife and you'll be punished there. You know, now
Speaker 1: you're a bad person. I'm gonna locate nude dude and
Speaker 1: he is going to be punished. What are you gonna
Speaker 1: do with him? TBD? I mean you have to find
Speaker 1: out who it is, to find out how big the
Speaker 1: person is. Then you you know, you think he wrote
Speaker 1: there he wasn't the oh he wasn't the first one.
Speaker 1: But but not have a positive review. Yeah, it looks
Speaker 1: like he signed up just to leave that review. He
Speaker 1: has not left any other reviews. So let me check
Speaker 1: out dark dude. Let's see what he's here. Great five stars.
Speaker 1: The Ross Tucker podcast gets five stars. Great? What wait?
Speaker 1: He has five stars for every other podcast. Colin Cowherd
Speaker 1: five stars, Jim Rome five stars. D A is that?
Speaker 1: Damon Amadelara? Our old NFL films friend five stars? And
Speaker 1: then our podcast one star? Not bad though not bad,
Speaker 1: not bad at all. All Right, your mom's not bad.
Speaker 1: You're jokes doing funny? Got him say, oh, that's that's
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm talking about, clown troll um, all right,
Speaker 1: before we go, coronavirus. Straight up, it's a thing. It's
Speaker 1: popping off. It's a lot of trubs and uh. In
Speaker 1: these times where human existence is challenged and we're all um,
Speaker 1: you know, battening down the hatchets as it were. What
Speaker 1: are some pleasures of life that you've uncovered since life
Speaker 1: has changed? Ricky Hollywood, I like you to get us
Speaker 1: going on this. Yeah. So I think a couple of
Speaker 1: things that have been really getting me through is obviously Netflix,
Speaker 1: like just TV in general. I've been watching Love Island,
Speaker 1: which is a sort of reality spinoff of of multiple
Speaker 1: people being dropped into a house to separate and find love.
Speaker 1: But there's like challenge, it's crazy, it's wild. Um so
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I really love Tiger King. I've been
Speaker 1: reading a little bit, and I think it's really important
Speaker 1: to find time for yourself. You know, that's not just
Speaker 1: sitting around waiting all day like sort of I put
Speaker 1: aside a little bit of time for me. I like
Speaker 1: that and like that. Yes, Tiger King West, I know
Speaker 1: you're watching it too, And no spoilers because I just
Speaker 1: finished episode three Emily and I. It is bonkers and
Speaker 1: riveting and I'm always surprised when certain stories I completely
Speaker 1: missed that don't f with Cats Netflix series, same thing.
Speaker 1: I totally missed that when it was in the news cycle,
Speaker 1: and this one I was totally plugged on. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of like see of your pants on a roller
Speaker 1: coaster with these insane people. Yeah, kish and I just
Speaker 1: finished it last Night right about the point where you
Speaker 1: are after like three episodes. I compared it to competing
Speaker 1: cat cults. It was like Manson Families, but instead of
Speaker 1: LSD and Belladonna, it was just brainwashed people messing with
Speaker 1: exotic wildcats. And it gets worse. It gets the show
Speaker 1: gets better, but the things that the people do on
Speaker 1: the show get worse and more imaginative and creative, and
Speaker 1: it just goes in a thousand different Every time a
Speaker 1: weirder person comes on the screen, another weirder person trumps
Speaker 1: that person in the next saying it's just it's mind blowing.
Speaker 1: Just to be clear, my anti cat commentary from before,
Speaker 1: UH does not put me into one. I do not
Speaker 1: desire or approve of these cults with whatever they're doing
Speaker 1: to cat bodies. They're making a TV series based off
Speaker 1: the characters, and Kate McKinnon is going to play the
Speaker 1: crazy cat Lady. It's not for her to get out
Speaker 1: of SNL. Yeah, she's next step um West. Since UH,
Speaker 1: you were talking about the Tiger King, what about what
Speaker 1: about you pleasures? Pleasures? I've been right reading a ton
Speaker 1: um at one point a lot of Muhammad Ali, who
Speaker 1: just fascinating beautiful man. Um. Lately, a lot of Lakers
Speaker 1: and Celtics rivalry UM been going down the wormhole of
Speaker 1: like um, demagogues, gurus, brainwashing uh, megal megal maniacs um
Speaker 1: that worm mole uh. And then when the Tiger King
Speaker 1: is right there, it fits right in with all that.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that was the inspiration. The inspiration
Speaker 1: may may have come at the highest levels of our government,
Speaker 1: but um. Also on a on a better note, are
Speaker 1: neighbors next door. Good old Lynette and Rick have been
Speaker 1: throwing like happy hours every day at five o'clock when
Speaker 1: the sun's out, so the neighbors will come and bring
Speaker 1: a lawn chair and sit like eight feet apart, have
Speaker 1: some drinks and just chat for an hour or two. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's nice. That's a good job by us. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me that you would find a community element
Speaker 1: in times like these. Yeah, it's I blame myself for
Speaker 1: not getting to know the neighbors better before we were
Speaker 1: shut in. M You know, your your neighbors is better
Speaker 1: than anyone I know even before this shutting, just for
Speaker 1: my limited uh interactions with you and them, you man
Speaker 1: of the people. Now we extend it to the whole
Speaker 1: neighborhood instead of just the people next door. West is
Speaker 1: a bit. He's big on the more the merrier and
Speaker 1: if there's a social gathering, he doesn't really care who
Speaker 1: comes over. Just come on over. There's a difference between
Speaker 1: me and him. But I kind of I'm I'm jealous
Speaker 1: that you have that ability to not care who's around
Speaker 1: because for me, for instance, I only feel like I
Speaker 1: could be myself around people that I know, but you
Speaker 1: are not that. And Um, I think it's a positive
Speaker 1: trait that you have. Thank you. Sometimes I I wonder
Speaker 1: if I should be more like you. So that's good
Speaker 1: to hear. Some somewhere out there there's someone with the
Speaker 1: middle bowl of porridge that is just perfect social person.
Speaker 1: What about you, greg Um? I've been reading a decent amount.
Speaker 1: I love this book Leaving the Attacho Station from by
Speaker 1: Ben Lerner's probably like the best book, funniest book I've
Speaker 1: read in six or seven months. I like the David
Speaker 1: Chang Show on Netflix. He has such an interesting mine
Speaker 1: for how he thinks about food. They get into some
Speaker 1: like crazy big topics, but if you love food and
Speaker 1: like man, they spent a lot of money on that show,
Speaker 1: like He'll go to India for like five minutes of
Speaker 1: the show. I'm like, like, what is the budget on
Speaker 1: this show? You are on seven continents for one fifty
Speaker 1: minute episode. But it's really good. I uh also shout
Speaker 1: out to just like walking around your neighborhood. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it's an underrated uh activity all year round,
Speaker 1: and now I see the people are the people are
Speaker 1: getting into it now because you have no other choice
Speaker 1: with the kids, just just walking. Walking is good. It's
Speaker 1: been keeping humanity going for hundreds of years. David is
Speaker 1: doing a good job attempting to fill that void left
Speaker 1: by Anthony Bourdain's death. Like a guy that's well traveled
Speaker 1: and loves to taste different food and meet different people.
Speaker 1: That's like a that's a good lane to be and
Speaker 1: I feel like and yet totally his own personality, Like
Speaker 1: I love like I that show and I and you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't eat what they're cooking, but I I love
Speaker 1: the adventure and the conversation and some of the weirder
Speaker 1: elements that pop up in the in what they discussed.
Speaker 1: I think of you a lot, Mark whenever they're just
Speaker 1: like cranking out some like intense like it's all the
Speaker 1: you always make a joke it's like, oh, what did
Speaker 1: you just have like a bull's head or like a
Speaker 1: lamb's testicle, But they really are eating that on that show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I always thought Bourdain had the coolest job in the world.
Speaker 1: That was the one I was most jealous of. You
Speaker 1: get to meet so many fascinating people, you get to
Speaker 1: see so many cultures, eat the food. Just so many
Speaker 1: memorable nights that I got to have where they're pure
Speaker 1: moments for sure. Um, I am revisiting some things that
Speaker 1: I loved that I, you know, otherwise didn't think I
Speaker 1: had time to revisit. So I'm rewatching thirty Rock right now,
Speaker 1: which is, to me one of the greatest sitcoms of
Speaker 1: all time, and in fact, I think it's in the
Speaker 1: conversation for best sitcom of the two thousand's, And um,
Speaker 1: it's also very interesting as a rewatch because, um, I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of things would fly that they
Speaker 1: joke about the type of humor that's used in a
Speaker 1: show that came out in two thousand six and ran
Speaker 1: to like two thousand twelve. It's things have changed about
Speaker 1: what's acceptable is in terms of humor, and this was
Speaker 1: on a broadcast network. Uh. So it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a reminder of how the world is always changing.
Speaker 1: But that's it's excellent. I so I wanted to across
Speaker 1: my mind again. It's been sitting on my bookshelf for
Speaker 1: many years. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallas. I'm just
Speaker 1: not ready for it. I was thinking about reading it. Instead.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read a book that I just had delivered. Uh.
Speaker 1: Speaking of greatest sitcoms of the two thousand's The Office. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a whole retrospective of the series, uh, The American Office.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm reading that. And last night I found myself
Speaker 1: with a couple of hours to kill before bed and
Speaker 1: my wife had gone to sleep. Ready, this is a
Speaker 1: good time just to bingeh on stuff that you have
Speaker 1: you loved, like I said, and has disappeared from your mind,
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden phil that you got
Speaker 1: time to fill. So I rewatched Jerry McGuire for the
Speaker 1: first time last night in about fifteen years. What a
Speaker 1: perfect movie. Oh my god. And Cameron Crow, Uh that guy.
Speaker 1: Things went sideways in the last ten years or so,
Speaker 1: but Cameron Crow's run, Um that he went on from
Speaker 1: about eighty nine too, from a anything and then to
Speaker 1: almost Famous in two thousand, Um incredible, And I thought
Speaker 1: Jerry McGuire was his best movie. Let's not forget Fast
Speaker 1: Times at Richmond High. Last time's yep, um back in
Speaker 1: I guess eighty three or so, so he I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he kind of gets slept on because his
Speaker 1: last few movies have been terrible. But Jerry McGuire is awesome.
Speaker 1: And if you're like a sports fan, I remember seeing
Speaker 1: that movie in the theater when it came out in
Speaker 1: nine and thinking briefly that I wanted to be a
Speaker 1: sports agent because it just seemed like the coolest and
Speaker 1: then um watching it again because there's so much like
Speaker 1: quote unquote inside baseball stuff, it is kind of cool
Speaker 1: that that's kind of we work in that sphere, that
Speaker 1: behind the scenes sports sphere. My sixteen year old self
Speaker 1: would be very excited to know that I ended up
Speaker 1: working for a job where I worked behind the scenes
Speaker 1: and I'm at league events and I'm in that mix
Speaker 1: just like Jerry was, even if he was an agent.
Speaker 1: And I am not putting out a show that got
Speaker 1: one star from nude dude. I mean, it's it's everything
Speaker 1: you could have imagine. And finally, Mark, what are you doing,
Speaker 1: uh for your pleasure center? I kind of look like
Speaker 1: one thing. I I love to same with you guys,
Speaker 1: like watch shows and read and all this stuff, but
Speaker 1: I'm not great at it when unless I'm kind of alone.
Speaker 1: And I I went into this very concerned about frankly
Speaker 1: or like the the overall upkeep of our home and
Speaker 1: family during this And I don't mean from a coronavirus,
Speaker 1: but more from a how is anyone not going to
Speaker 1: come out of this without basically nuclear bombing one another?
Speaker 1: And it's to my pleasure, it's been the opposite. Um,
Speaker 1: it took a couple of days. But this whole homeschooling thing,
Speaker 1: I mean, our kids have a lot of they're at
Speaker 1: the age where they're getting like three or four hours
Speaker 1: of homework a day, and I thought that was just
Speaker 1: going to drive me crazy. And what I learned and
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be um like syrupy about it
Speaker 1: at all, but it's like I I kind of like
Speaker 1: my kids have been going through these grades and you'll
Speaker 1: find it out with your own when they get up
Speaker 1: into second, third, fourth grade that like you just see
Speaker 1: them at the beginning of the day and the end
Speaker 1: and you don't really know what they're up to for
Speaker 1: the most part. But like going through with Coulton specifically
Speaker 1: each day his work and learning about how he learns
Speaker 1: and what he's um, what he's into and what makes
Speaker 1: him excited and how good he's doing at certain subjects.
Speaker 1: Like I kind of think this was something that is
Speaker 1: a dad that I needed. Now I'll leave it there
Speaker 1: at that because it's been like much better than I think. Um,
Speaker 1: something that I really have enjoyed is uh, which is
Speaker 1: a little eerie, but driving around l a with like
Speaker 1: you might look stare down Supulvata Boulevard and there's like
Speaker 1: one car and it's like I'll drive on the left
Speaker 1: side for five minutes because also again there's no cops anywhere,
Speaker 1: and it's like weaving and doing what I want to
Speaker 1: do and kind of drive like in a totally formless matter. Um,
Speaker 1: I there's a jungle gym in our yard that no
Speaker 1: one's climbed on because they're too big now, And I
Speaker 1: just climbed up to the top of that and like
Speaker 1: fell asleep for fifteen minutes and got like a semi
Speaker 1: sun tan it's like I don't really need to be anywhere.
Speaker 1: I kind of him warming up to this whole thing.
Speaker 1: I've talked to my parents every day, which I hadn't
Speaker 1: done that for years and years. It's like there is
Speaker 1: this like I'm on all these text threads with friends
Speaker 1: and reconnection and I'm kind of over the busy schedule
Speaker 1: that we had before and the concept of having no
Speaker 1: idea what is uh coming up next was scaring me
Speaker 1: a little bit before. Now I'm kind of like, I
Speaker 1: don't love it, but it's like, all right, maybe this
Speaker 1: is some of this is a little bit better. And
Speaker 1: also the New Pope on HBO, I think is the
Speaker 1: follow up to The Young Pope is an incredible show
Speaker 1: and it's not for everyone, but I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: Do you have it on good already that there are
Speaker 1: no police officers out when you're doing all the insane,
Speaker 1: especially in our part of town where you cut through
Speaker 1: like Venice, Washington, Spulvida and you're in like hot spots,
Speaker 1: like I just see cops everywhere, And I was kind
Speaker 1: of trained to just stay in your lane literally on
Speaker 1: a road. Now I'm like, I don't do well, I know,
Speaker 1: but it's like there's no car around me. It's like
Speaker 1: I can well, it's perfect for me. It's perfect for me.
Speaker 1: But it's like I just it's like I just feel
Speaker 1: that we it's if it could turn lawless, but I
Speaker 1: don't see any policeman I in anything that I'm up to,
Speaker 1: and I enjoy that and I'm just taking advantage of
Speaker 1: that human freedom. It's like you live in the middle
Speaker 1: of a field in another country. It's nice. Well, I
Speaker 1: was super on board with all this stuff about your kids.
Speaker 1: Not so much about the driving thing, um, but spot
Speaker 1: on about spending all this extra time with our kids,
Speaker 1: which one day we're going to um, not be able
Speaker 1: to spend any time with them. So the fact that
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, the fates have intervened and we get
Speaker 1: to spend all day with them every day. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit annoying, um when you kinda are in it.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the night, Emily and I
Speaker 1: have had talks about that that it's pretty cool also
Speaker 1: to be able to spend all this time with them,
Speaker 1: especially when they're this young. Yep, because they won't be
Speaker 1: young forever. I'm trying to wrap up Emily for number three,
Speaker 1: but she doesn't want it, So you need a COVID baby.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably gonna be a big thing. There'll
Speaker 1: be a whole generation of like c nineteen babies. I
Speaker 1: always tell Hank, I always tell a handsome Hank that
Speaker 1: you know having he has three healthy, wonderful children, But
Speaker 1: it should have never went with three because his life
Speaker 1: is constantly underwater at home. Um, because it's just so
Speaker 1: much damn children running around, so many damn children running around.
Speaker 1: But then once his second kid, your second kid starts
Speaker 1: to get a little older, I'm getting that, you know
Speaker 1: that kick like I want another baby around. But the
Speaker 1: wife has a pretty big saying that. Unfortunately, Handsome Hank
Speaker 1: is making his rounds in the neighborhood. We've got like
Speaker 1: three or four drop by in the past week or two.
Speaker 1: He brought his new puppy over. Mm. Yeah, because he
Speaker 1: needs You're supposed to not be hanging out with anyone west.
Speaker 1: He knocks on the door. He knocks on the door.
Speaker 1: Then he goes back down to the driveway and stands
Speaker 1: out there about ten feet away and waits, waits for
Speaker 1: me to come out. Beautiful. He's brought a specific British
Speaker 1: strain of c. Nineteen over who introduced you to so alright,
Speaker 1: people calling it see nineteen Now, Well, I mean, if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say the word forty times a day,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just shorten it. From the makers of r G.
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