Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of
Speaker 1: I Her Ratio. Hey, what's up. Welcome to another episode
Speaker 1: of Good Call. I'm Dean Blandino. Let's get right into
Speaker 1: it today as always, Travis Hanson, Joe Madrid, and our
Speaker 1: friend of the show, Scott's Tamill joining us. Scott's got
Speaker 1: a lot of opinions. He's got a word count, so
Speaker 1: we just gotta keep track. Travis. You're you're in charge
Speaker 1: of keeping Scott in in in check. Okay, it's just
Speaker 1: nothing different than being in studio then it is. But
Speaker 1: I like that Scott's very opinionated and he's knowledgeable on
Speaker 1: actually a lot more topics than you and Joe are,
Speaker 1: so absolutely like Joe, Joe has a certain wheelhouse. Travis,
Speaker 1: you have a certain wheelhouse. Um, Joe's gonna Joe knows,
Speaker 1: you know, the sports game in world. He knows m
Speaker 1: m a um. Maybe maybe a little bit about sports. Travis.
Speaker 1: You're you're kind of you know, horse riding and all
Speaker 1: of that outdoor stuff from myoming and Scott can cover
Speaker 1: everything else. The history of the world is what I covered.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what I just heard. It's more
Speaker 1: about why woman, we'll talk about later. I just heard
Speaker 1: Joe's not knows all the badass stuff, and those guys
Speaker 1: know all the Joe Joe knows. Joe knows about electric cars.
Speaker 1: This is true. Meanwhile, Joe, I don't know. I saw
Speaker 1: the I saw the the electric car. Porsche has an
Speaker 1: electric car now that takes the take on or something.
Speaker 1: Have you seen that? The Model X blows it out
Speaker 1: of the water for half the price. Don't even get
Speaker 1: me started. Don't even get me started. The Model X
Speaker 1: blows it out of the water for half the price.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I saw one and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: that looks nice. I think that it's nice looking, but
Speaker 1: it's performance wise not even close. Yeah, who works the car?
Speaker 1: That looks nice? Now, I'm just I'm nursed, Like for me,
Speaker 1: it's not with something the hood. Give it five years
Speaker 1: and they might maybe be able to sniff us. Maybe.
Speaker 1: All right, fair enough, all right, let's get into obviously,
Speaker 1: um a lot going on right now in the sports world,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it doesn't involve the actual playing
Speaker 1: of games or getting back to playing games with with
Speaker 1: obviously with COVID nineteen. But the thing, the kind of
Speaker 1: thing that jumped out was what we see it what
Speaker 1: feels like a real see change and a real reversal
Speaker 1: in terms of the NFL's approach as it pertains to UM,
Speaker 1: the national anthem, Colin Kaepernicks things like that, and this
Speaker 1: let's start with let's start with Drew Brees. You know
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, I think anyone that has been and I've
Speaker 1: been lucky enough to spend time with him, actually got
Speaker 1: to talk to him before the Super Bowl on the field,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, an unbelievable guy, super nice guy.
Speaker 1: You can't find someone that's more respected in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. And he made some comments that that I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people felt, Mr Mark Um, you know,
Speaker 1: regarding his thoughts on the flag and how he wouldn't
Speaker 1: agree with people taking a knee because of his backgrounds
Speaker 1: and his grandfathers fought for this country. And there was
Speaker 1: a lot of backlash for Drew speaking his opinion. UM.
Speaker 1: This led to him apologizing UM teammates works that players
Speaker 1: were uh kind of up in arms. Felt felt like
Speaker 1: the comments Mr Mark this is it's tough, Like I
Speaker 1: think it's I think for me, yes, considering everything that
Speaker 1: is happening for for for Drew to come on and
Speaker 1: talk about the flag, it just it was almost dismissive
Speaker 1: of the issues that that that not not are just
Speaker 1: taking place now that have been taken place and seemed
Speaker 1: to have been brought to light, um even and further
Speaker 1: because of the George Floyd situation, and obviously that's that
Speaker 1: you know what happened there, and it just kind of
Speaker 1: it kind of missed the point for me, It missed
Speaker 1: the point about what you know, it's not about the flag.
Speaker 1: It's not about I think that's been the missing the
Speaker 1: missing deal in all of this is that that what
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick did, at least for me, it wasn't He
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to disrespect the flag. He was trying to
Speaker 1: bring attention to something that's happening in this country, that's
Speaker 1: been happening in this country. And that was um, you know,
Speaker 1: his his approach to it. And he felt after talking
Speaker 1: to Nate Boyer, who who is a former Army Green Beret,
Speaker 1: rather than sit, Nate recommended that he kneel and that
Speaker 1: would be less they will be seen as less disrespectful
Speaker 1: to to you know, armed forces, better veterans and people
Speaker 1: that are currently serving and people that have family members.
Speaker 1: So it's just a it's a really interesting time right now.
Speaker 1: And and at least the silver lining and all this
Speaker 1: is that we're having these conversation and we're having uncomfortable conversations.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure it was uncomfortable for Drew Brees, but
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, I don't know what you
Speaker 1: guys think in terms of of of how that was
Speaker 1: the was the fallout warranted and and kind of where
Speaker 1: do we go from here? Oh, the first and I
Speaker 1: think it definitely was warranted. Four years ago he made
Speaker 1: these similar kind of comments, threw breeze it and then
Speaker 1: it was, you know, for whatever reason, it was okay.
Speaker 1: But now it's too many people have got on board,
Speaker 1: and too much momentum has has has finally, you know,
Speaker 1: come up with his comments again this time. You know,
Speaker 1: the first time it was it was ignorant. In the
Speaker 1: second time, it just seems like it was blatant. And
Speaker 1: he's smarter than that. I think he just needs to
Speaker 1: stay away from that. But the apologies are are great,
Speaker 1: and it seems like now we've got the conversation rolling
Speaker 1: in the right direction to see change. And I'm I'm
Speaker 1: happy about that that's that's the most conviction I've ever
Speaker 1: heard from Travis and since I've known him. What did
Speaker 1: you have a thing with Drew Brees? Did Grea to
Speaker 1: do something to you? No? I actually I've worked this
Speaker 1: charity events before, I have friends and would be like
Speaker 1: addict to you, because that's what it sounds like. No,
Speaker 1: he wasn't. But it's just to me, the timing was
Speaker 1: so bad. He just needed to think about what he
Speaker 1: was going to say, and and he did and he
Speaker 1: didn't and it and it was just disappointing to me
Speaker 1: because he's done so much good for for the league
Speaker 1: and for himself and for charitable donations and things that
Speaker 1: he's done since like you know, his character is just
Speaker 1: you didn't think about it and that's just the time.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the thing it's like. But that's
Speaker 1: that gets me to a bigger question too. Is someone
Speaker 1: like that that probably does more in his community or
Speaker 1: does more for charity than all of us combine um
Speaker 1: and that all that more than most people who walk
Speaker 1: around in America ever think about doing in their lifetimes.
Speaker 1: He probably does more in a year. And and are
Speaker 1: we in this environment where one fault one this step,
Speaker 1: whether it's social media or something that we say, does
Speaker 1: that care down all the good that that person has done?
Speaker 1: Can we be Can we be judged on our best
Speaker 1: and worst moment? You know, like like does that tear
Speaker 1: down everything? And now people are gonna see Drew Brees
Speaker 1: in a certain light? Is that fair? I don't think
Speaker 1: it's fair. He's he'll he'll recover. I mean, people will
Speaker 1: forget about it. I think Travis is dead on them.
Speaker 1: Like the timing is just really bad. And as being
Speaker 1: a friend of a sea level celebrity, my friend Shane
Speaker 1: phaz and I always make sure that you know, I was,
Speaker 1: you know always. I think it was a bad move
Speaker 1: for his friends, his agent, his manager to even let
Speaker 1: that come out. It was how do you not pre
Speaker 1: you know, give him the before then and say hey, dude,
Speaker 1: stay away from this as far as you want to
Speaker 1: get away. I don't think there was. I don't think
Speaker 1: it was. It was an intentional like in terms of
Speaker 1: coming from a bad place. But sometimes you just have
Speaker 1: to understand right now, especially um for for white people,
Speaker 1: you know, it's we have to listen and we have
Speaker 1: to educate ourselves. Um, continue to educate ourselves. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: before we start throwing opinions around and just really start
Speaker 1: to listen and start to you know, we can affect
Speaker 1: change in a lot of different ways. And making those
Speaker 1: sets of comments, I think sometimes that's that's the whole
Speaker 1: the whole shole movement back a little bit, and I
Speaker 1: think that's one of the issues. I think you brought
Speaker 1: up a good point, but it goes as far as
Speaker 1: like what is cancel culture and things like that. But
Speaker 1: what is important to remember is that he's such a
Speaker 1: pillar of the community, which is why it's almost worse
Speaker 1: than if it was just, you know, a different person,
Speaker 1: because I'm going to refer to a friend of mine.
Speaker 1: He is a African American guy. He's from Mississippi, is
Speaker 1: named Carl Targe. He is a very funny after comedian writer.
Speaker 1: He is from that area, and he made he tweeted
Speaker 1: is out, which I think is absolutely true, which is
Speaker 1: you know, New Orleans is six black African Americans. You know,
Speaker 1: that's one of the blackest cities in America. People worship
Speaker 1: Drew Breeze there and the team is a huge source
Speaker 1: of pride. Obviously, they've brought hope to the city in
Speaker 1: the past as well. So when you want to talk
Speaker 1: about reading the room, you know at this call it
Speaker 1: whatever you want, these heightened emotions or just like a
Speaker 1: focal point on race in America to make that statement
Speaker 1: when he did, and as Travis said, he's repeating something
Speaker 1: he said in the past. It's like whatever you think
Speaker 1: he truly believes. It is one of those like, yeah,
Speaker 1: publicist things. It's like read the room, my friends, like
Speaker 1: what are you doing right now? And that's also why, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a black city, so you need to remember
Speaker 1: that even though you're a pillar of the community, you
Speaker 1: also lected you know, so uh and it's worth sorry,
Speaker 1: his words carry more weight. I mean there there's yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no question. And I think that's a good point, um,
Speaker 1: because this this is again, this is a guy, like
Speaker 1: you said, repeating something firmly believed that and and and
Speaker 1: hopefully in all of this. And that's the thing about
Speaker 1: cancel culture. And that's the thing. We we can't continue
Speaker 1: the dialogue and we can't affect change if we're we're
Speaker 1: we're just once somebody does something takes the misstep, we're
Speaker 1: just forgetting about it. Because we all have different opinions,
Speaker 1: we all have to exchange those opinions. And then and
Speaker 1: then he came out and he apologized. And if it
Speaker 1: sounds like obviously he's see here and if that's if
Speaker 1: that's somebody's mind, who has been, who has been? I
Speaker 1: won't say change necessarily because you don't know what, but
Speaker 1: at least he's been. He sees the issue with making
Speaker 1: that statement, and he's going to change the way he
Speaker 1: approaches things. That's one more person. And then we just
Speaker 1: continue down that path. So we have to have the
Speaker 1: freedom and at least the ability to exchange those ideas
Speaker 1: and have that that uncomfortable conversation um in order to
Speaker 1: make you know, make the changes that are not sssari
Speaker 1: Well and his teammates responded, you know, both negatively. But
Speaker 1: then when he you know, he afterwards he made it
Speaker 1: apology because multiple apologies, and his teammates are like, hey,
Speaker 1: he's listening. So yeah, it's just now it's working together
Speaker 1: and moving forward. It's not like his teammates are. They
Speaker 1: seem to have acknowledged, you know, his sincerity. So you know,
Speaker 1: we just gotta wait and beat And if you see
Speaker 1: in these locker rooms, there's there's so many uncomfortable conversations
Speaker 1: that these guys have that we never get to see
Speaker 1: as outsiders working in the media or in different jobs.
Speaker 1: You know, our fans listen in the show. I've been
Speaker 1: I've been in the locker rooms as as a PR intern,
Speaker 1: you know, way back in the day with the Vikings,
Speaker 1: and you hear conversation with things that are thrown out there.
Speaker 1: This is years and years ago that you you would
Speaker 1: be very uncomfortable if you if you heard them. And
Speaker 1: there's a private conversations, which which is great because then
Speaker 1: they're talking about it. So I'm really curious and anxious
Speaker 1: to see and hopefully here about some of the things
Speaker 1: that go on in the locker rooms, you know, going
Speaker 1: forward when when the teams do get back to the
Speaker 1: how many times and I agree, and how many times
Speaker 1: we we have we have that environment, like there are
Speaker 1: times when we're in the studio and the group of
Speaker 1: us and think about over the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: the groups that we've had, especially if it's you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it's Friday night and and it's it's one college
Speaker 1: game and we have more of an opportunity to talk
Speaker 1: think about the people we've had in the room. You know,
Speaker 1: whether it's myself, Joe You, Travis Scott, Adan, Mike Davis,
Speaker 1: African American, Genita African American. The conversations that we've had
Speaker 1: about rape and different things, I mean those some of
Speaker 1: those conversations have been uncomfortable, but they're necessary, right, They're
Speaker 1: necessary because this is what's happening, you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: a locker room, whether it's somebody's job, whether it's it's
Speaker 1: it's interacting with people on a daily basis. Those are
Speaker 1: the conversations we have to have. We need. Me as
Speaker 1: a white man, I need to see other people's perspective.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I can't have another person's experience. I do
Speaker 1: have my own, but I have to be able to
Speaker 1: open my eyes and see what other people go through
Speaker 1: and try to try to find some common ground and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't recognize that because I didn't experience that,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I can't dismiss it,
Speaker 1: and I can't just and it's no longer good enough
Speaker 1: to just say, well, you know, I'm not racist, and
Speaker 1: I treat people. I treat people based on their character,
Speaker 1: So I'm good. Now what what? What? What really has
Speaker 1: to happen, is we have to take the next step
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, that's good, but we have to now
Speaker 1: have conversations. We have to we have to, you know,
Speaker 1: if we have children, raise our children the right way,
Speaker 1: have conversations with our with our people who are close
Speaker 1: to us, talk to people from different backgrounds and different
Speaker 1: and different races, and kind of figure it out because
Speaker 1: because this has been happening for a long time and
Speaker 1: we still haven't seen the changes that that are necessary,
Speaker 1: and maybe this is the maybe this is the the
Speaker 1: key moment in time. It feels like, it feels like
Speaker 1: is a year that people are going to remember for
Speaker 1: a long long time and hopefully it's it's it's a positive,
Speaker 1: not a negative. I think it just comes down to
Speaker 1: being locked up and all of it just finally coming
Speaker 1: out and everyone. I think I think it comes down
Speaker 1: to us lacking empathy as a society. That's really what
Speaker 1: it is, to be quite honest, We're just empathy and
Speaker 1: empathy and compassionate, all those things. Um And I think
Speaker 1: it really what it really boils down to, Dean is
Speaker 1: there are good calls and there are bad calls, and
Speaker 1: Drew happen to make a bad call, and this is
Speaker 1: all about and a couple of bad calls ruined the bunch, right,
Speaker 1: Maybe that is that how it comes pretty much how
Speaker 1: it goes. Let's nice, nice segue, Joe, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the So the NFL kind of did it about face
Speaker 1: and it and it came from and this is such
Speaker 1: an interesting story. UM NFL employees. UM kind of reached
Speaker 1: out Brendan Mentor, I don't know. I don't know Brendon.
Speaker 1: I worked in the NFL, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: he started after I left, so I don't know him.
Speaker 1: UM kind of reached out to started with Michael Thomas,
Speaker 1: I believe from the same and uh, and reached out
Speaker 1: about doing a video. You know not this is not
Speaker 1: sanctioned by the league. This was something that that he
Speaker 1: and I think another another employee came up with and
Speaker 1: they and I think we lost student this video where
Speaker 1: it's it's got's the stake Juan Barkley, Barkley and and
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry and Michael Thomas and and talking about you know,
Speaker 1: you know, bringing attension and speaking you know that they
Speaker 1: are George George Floyd as well, and this was not
Speaker 1: something went kind of behind the you know, such a
Speaker 1: high the league, but obviously an important issue. Then they
Speaker 1: presented it to the higher ups of the NFL how
Speaker 1: to zoom call, and it led to Roger Goodell coming
Speaker 1: out and saying that the league got it wrong in
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen. That's a big, big deal and
Speaker 1: that is that is Um, you know, I've been in
Speaker 1: that office. I know how it works. And uh and
Speaker 1: and so when you speak out a lot of times, um,
Speaker 1: there are repercussions. And this was this was really a courageous,
Speaker 1: a courgeous deal and uh and it seems to have
Speaker 1: have shifted some some some thoughts stuff in that league office,
Speaker 1: which is which is a positive. So um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's again courageous and hopefully hopefully this is
Speaker 1: the start of the league really working with the players
Speaker 1: and letting the players, um, you know, voice their opinions
Speaker 1: and hopefully since some serious change can happen. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think we all saw that Goodell video around the same
Speaker 1: time and just started texting at to different people and
Speaker 1: and to him for him to say that they were wrong,
Speaker 1: it's it's just huge and it's great. We're seeing change now,
Speaker 1: I think. But the bottom line is, I mean, ultimately,
Speaker 1: do we do we think Colin Kaepernick is gonna get
Speaker 1: signed by a team? I don't know. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think so. But I don't know if that's even
Speaker 1: really the issue. I think what his his purpose was
Speaker 1: to get this message out and and unfortunately it took
Speaker 1: too long for this message to come out. Had to
Speaker 1: come out in twenty sixteen or seventeen, maybe his skills
Speaker 1: would have diminished. But now he's thirty two and he
Speaker 1: hasn't played in four years. I think when there's a
Speaker 1: guy like when there's a guy like Cam Newton out there,
Speaker 1: but it was probably better younger like, but go down
Speaker 1: the roster, go down the roster, go down, back up,
Speaker 1: go go down to two and three, you know, even
Speaker 1: even just to have even just to be in training
Speaker 1: camp Colin, I don't care if he could have at
Speaker 1: least three or four years, Colin Kaepernick should be on
Speaker 1: a rock. I mean, you can't argue that. The argument
Speaker 1: that he does is look at look at the players
Speaker 1: that NFL rosters right now, and and that there are
Speaker 1: some people there's some people that are gonna say, I
Speaker 1: don't care what Roger Goodell says, until Colin Kaepernick gets
Speaker 1: signed by a team that not that on CBS this morning,
Speaker 1: said that he's like he wants to see Kaepernick Signdon
Speaker 1: wants to see change there and that's why that's how good?
Speaker 1: Oh I think, you know, I still think a lot
Speaker 1: of teams are afraid of stepping in there and signing it.
Speaker 1: And and you know, there's just I I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna end up on a team. And and if
Speaker 1: I might just sent a little I thought the good
Speaker 1: Dell's statement, well good. It's just kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's important symbolically for the league to kind of come forward,
Speaker 1: but it's like too little, too late, you know, like
Speaker 1: the player testimonial was powerful, But for me on the cynic,
Speaker 1: I was just like, well, it's react like yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just kind of like alright, well wow, very cool if
Speaker 1: you don't but you like, you know, like you're saying, also,
Speaker 1: we gotta see action on this, because otherwise it's just
Speaker 1: empty words. It's it's it's the equivalent of when Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones took a knee with the team and it's like, wow, okay,
Speaker 1: so he did that one. Well, things are good now
Speaker 1: they're not that we need. That's that and that's exactly.
Speaker 1: And now it's time for the transition to actions. Like
Speaker 1: I get it and all of the you know, the
Speaker 1: social media stuff and and everything else. And I think
Speaker 1: that's that's raising awareness and solidarity and everything else. But
Speaker 1: at some point, like I can't, I can't just I
Speaker 1: can't just post write a black rectangle on my Instagram
Speaker 1: page and feel like I've done something. It has to
Speaker 1: go beyond that, right and and and you know it's
Speaker 1: we have to continue to have these conversations and and
Speaker 1: effect change. Um, I can tell you right now in
Speaker 1: regard to Kaepernick, he's um nine to one dog to
Speaker 1: get signed this year. Yeah, that's pretty good. Actually, I
Speaker 1: don't know, think about think about a team. Okay, this,
Speaker 1: this is the conversation that's happening. Okay, if we sign him,
Speaker 1: there are gonna be some people that say, we only
Speaker 1: signed him, we were bowed to external pressure and we
Speaker 1: put him on a we put him on a roster. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: he let's say he's just not you know, he's not
Speaker 1: cutting it and he's not panning out, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: cut him. There's gonna be backlash. There, there's gonna be backlash. Look,
Speaker 1: the reality is I see this stuff around the country,
Speaker 1: and I'm amazed because I don't feel that way. But
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't stick my head in the stand
Speaker 1: and and and think that there aren't racist people out there,
Speaker 1: and there aren't people that aren't going to watch the
Speaker 1: NFL because someone's signed con CAPERNI. There will be. I
Speaker 1: think the smartest thing to do would be to sign him,
Speaker 1: especially i'd sign him right this second. I think it'd
Speaker 1: be a really intelligent move. Well, I think those teams
Speaker 1: have to, like, there's no question he belongs in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He belongs in the NFL in two thousand sixteen. Um.
Speaker 1: But again there's there's, for lack of a better term,
Speaker 1: baggage that comes with it. And that's what. But the
Speaker 1: thing is, like MATTHEWM. Jenkins said and others, Roger Goodell
Speaker 1: can say all everything he wants, they can release all
Speaker 1: the statements they want, but until their their actions are
Speaker 1: what what's going to prove that they're serious about this?
Speaker 1: And and that's then that's ultimately what it's going to
Speaker 1: come down. Yeah, right now be a good time for
Speaker 1: someone to sign him, so they could you know, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a meet circus around it, no matter what happens,
Speaker 1: when it happened, if it happened. But right now with
Speaker 1: the you know the ability that to be zoom called,
Speaker 1: do zoom calls and not have to be in front
Speaker 1: of media, but you have to think it. Even at
Speaker 1: training camp, there's gonna be a huge, huge gathering to
Speaker 1: talk to him. And I think, but but time, but
Speaker 1: time would yet I think it'd be smart sign Now,
Speaker 1: I think he's smart from a PR perspective, but I
Speaker 1: think he's just a good enough player to play in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And especially when you look at the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: who are succeeding. Now, yeah, the still in the league
Speaker 1: is a that's the thing. The talent, the talent you
Speaker 1: can't are if you're liking exactly. And so that he
Speaker 1: couldn't provide value to a team as a backup quarterback,
Speaker 1: you can't argue um that he wouldn't. And and that's
Speaker 1: what I think. Ultimately it's gonna come down to um.
Speaker 1: And also also real quick, the people who say they're
Speaker 1: gonna stop watching the NFL, they said that a few
Speaker 1: years ago, nine percent of people will still watch. They
Speaker 1: don't it's football. I don't disagree with that necessarily, but
Speaker 1: remember the ratings did drop. There was you know, and
Speaker 1: I know it was you know, the ructions was part
Speaker 1: of it and all of that. You know, We've we've
Speaker 1: got an election year coming up. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: I I don't I don't disagree that people are gonna watch,
Speaker 1: but but don't be like naive to the ignorant that
Speaker 1: takes place in this country and and the kind of
Speaker 1: some of the people and the way they they perceived
Speaker 1: some of this stuff that's happening around the country. It's
Speaker 1: it's scary sometimes. UM. All right, So then just shifting
Speaker 1: gears before we take a break. So the league opposite
Speaker 1: and out of memo protocols, the player return the club facilities. UM.
Speaker 1: Some teams are returning coaches. I talked to UM some
Speaker 1: coaches and some people on coaching staffs around the league,
Speaker 1: so they are back in the building. It does feel
Speaker 1: like though, the more people I talked to this this
Speaker 1: kind of feels like more of a pr that, hey, look,
Speaker 1: you know, our coaches are back in the building. Things
Speaker 1: are things are returning to normal. Whereas the coaches and
Speaker 1: people that I talked to said they were getting more
Speaker 1: done from home because they were zoom meetings. They can't,
Speaker 1: you know, they can't have the players and be on
Speaker 1: the practice field right now. So the zoom meetings have
Speaker 1: been productive. Everybody's been able to communicate. And the other
Speaker 1: thing that's changed is now they're in their office at
Speaker 1: the facility still having zoom meets. Like they're not together
Speaker 1: in a in a in a linebacker room or in
Speaker 1: a in a defensive back rooms having meetings. They're they're
Speaker 1: doing it through zoom and uh, and they're doing it
Speaker 1: based on the protocols and and you know, you come
Speaker 1: into the facility, you're getting you have to fill out
Speaker 1: a questionnaire when you get up in the morning. In
Speaker 1: terms of things like I had to fill out I
Speaker 1: went to a dent my dentist depointment last week. I
Speaker 1: had to fill out a questionnaire. Have I had any sense?
Speaker 1: Have I had a call? I? Have I had a
Speaker 1: fever in the last fourteen days? All those things. Then
Speaker 1: they get their temperature taken. I got my temperature taken
Speaker 1: at the at the dentist. I was ninety seven point
Speaker 1: eight and they let me say, um, I was wearing
Speaker 1: a face mask. They're gonna have to wear a face mask,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to wear face masks, face covering
Speaker 1: throughout their day in the facility, and they're in their
Speaker 1: office doing zoom calls. So um, it's interesting to see
Speaker 1: how how this plays out because a lot of people
Speaker 1: I talked to you said they were being just productive
Speaker 1: at home because everything is virtual right now anyway, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, But it seems like it's just like a
Speaker 1: symbolic like we're getting back to work, and I think
Speaker 1: there's and look, I'm not an arguing with that. I
Speaker 1: like the positivity. I like the optimism. I think we need,
Speaker 1: you know, we need positive right now. And so um,
Speaker 1: you know, I I know, I don't think it's bad.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think. I just don't call it
Speaker 1: what it is, you know. And and the thing is like,
Speaker 1: I still don't know. I don't know what to believe.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what with with COVID,
Speaker 1: the you know, the World Health Organization, they make a
Speaker 1: statement that if you're asymptomatic, that it's very rare that
Speaker 1: you would transmit the disease. And then so that headline
Speaker 1: goes out and everybody out, Oh it was a sham.
Speaker 1: It was a farest. We shut down the economy, we
Speaker 1: shut down businesses, and it was all a lie. And
Speaker 1: then they kind of walked back and and the doctor
Speaker 1: that made the comments, and well, I was just to
Speaker 1: answer a question. And now I've read that it's six
Speaker 1: percent of asymptomatic people can transmit what Somebody please help
Speaker 1: me because I don't know what is going on right
Speaker 1: now with COVID, no comment. I have no idea what's
Speaker 1: going on with it either. I've settled into working from home,
Speaker 1: so out of this it's like I've enjoyed it. So
Speaker 1: I get to spend more time with my family. That
Speaker 1: did you know? So thankfully, thankfully, no one I know
Speaker 1: has it or gotten it. But you have eight kids,
Speaker 1: so you have time with them. They're they're in an
Speaker 1: impressionable age. I don't know how you did. Three wives.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do it. I know they
Speaker 1: have I have two shildren, one wife guy, But I
Speaker 1: don't know. If doctor didn't help me. You you know
Speaker 1: a lot of about this. What what what should we
Speaker 1: be doing right now? Should be? So? Should we want
Speaker 1: Joe doesn't want a social distance? Should we still be
Speaker 1: social distancing? With all. I mean, I look, I get
Speaker 1: it with all the protests, I think the peaceful protests
Speaker 1: and everything else, but we're in the middle of a pandemic.
Speaker 1: This has to have some impacts. I think I think
Speaker 1: it will have some impact. But I think also we're
Speaker 1: seeing cases rise in states that have that reopened a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. I think we just, you know, you
Speaker 1: just have to play it by ear as far as
Speaker 1: like you know, no one is and expert on this
Speaker 1: is a new thing we're dealing with. So I'm I'm
Speaker 1: all for you know, we're trying to reopen, so trying
Speaker 1: it back into like you know, NFL, NBA like training
Speaker 1: facilities are reopening. But you just gotta be careful. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's all you can say. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I know you guys have said this in previous episodes too,
Speaker 1: but I it's hard to foresee, like the NFL season
Speaker 1: may start on time, but it's hard to to imagine
Speaker 1: even a half build stadium point until we know more
Speaker 1: and we're learning new stuff every day, so hopefully we
Speaker 1: get we get it figured out here, all right, So
Speaker 1: like that seems like a good time to take a break,
Speaker 1: let return it thank you. All right, let's take a break,
Speaker 1: and when we come back in the bottom, we're gonna
Speaker 1: give updates on all of our professional sports. When will
Speaker 1: we see professional sports back in America? Next? Unger calls
Speaker 1: all right, we'll back on this call. And I just
Speaker 1: want to I just want to mention the dedication that
Speaker 1: Joe Madrid has to this show. Um, he he is.
Speaker 1: We're recording this show and he has other things going on.
Speaker 1: He's about to he's about to put his boat in
Speaker 1: the water. Um, he's down. I don't the way you are,
Speaker 1: Joe somewhere in Arizona, and uh. And he took your
Speaker 1: time out of your day of voting and water sports
Speaker 1: to join us for good. And appreciate that. Of course,
Speaker 1: I appreciate. Appreciate you guys moving the time up a
Speaker 1: little bit so I could catch sunset. Thank you, m
Speaker 1: beautiful sunset. So let's let's kind of run through. We
Speaker 1: talked NFL, NBA, Um, so we gotta we got a
Speaker 1: firm return date of July thirty one, right now, So
Speaker 1: teams will start their respect, respect and training camps on
Speaker 1: the thirtieth. Then they're gonna report to the stan Wide
Speaker 1: World of Sports Complex in Orlando and UH and then
Speaker 1: seasons start July. One tentative NBA Finals date has them
Speaker 1: starting September thirty. So some clarity now in the NBA
Speaker 1: season starting to crystallize. I think. I think one of
Speaker 1: the only questions for me is, you know, I kind
Speaker 1: of feel for teams with the better records that earned
Speaker 1: what would normally be home court advantage, because now forgetting
Speaker 1: home court advantages out the window at this point. And
Speaker 1: so I understand that's that's the reality of it, but
Speaker 1: you just kind of, I don't know, is there an asterisk,
Speaker 1: you know with the season. I think all of the
Speaker 1: seasons could have an asterisk. But at least I'm I'm
Speaker 1: really happy that we've got a date, we've got a
Speaker 1: location and UH and like we talked about last week, right,
Speaker 1: twenty two teams UM and UH I will go from there.
Speaker 1: So this whole year has an asterisk, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like like, oh yeah, it's kind of all right, So yeah,
Speaker 1: ask for us some everything twenty is it's got a
Speaker 1: lot of calling on UM, NHL depends on who when
Speaker 1: that there's an asterisk. I think NHL teams UM, you know,
Speaker 1: are the reopened their rinks the facilities. As part of
Speaker 1: Phase two, they can start the voluntary workouts. Uh. Several
Speaker 1: teams opened up this week. Small workouts and training camps
Speaker 1: are not going to start before July tenth. We talked
Speaker 1: about the the right to the four teams playoff format,
Speaker 1: which I think is going to be super cool and
Speaker 1: excited about that. My Rangers are are are in it.
Speaker 1: So we haven't had a little rabbit that playoffs for
Speaker 1: my Rangers in a while. So I'm happy. And and
Speaker 1: so because I think NBA, NHL, NFL, I'm pretty uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: college football, you know, I think has a bigger hurdle.
Speaker 1: But like I said, you know, the feedback that I'm
Speaker 1: getting and I think, um even the n p A
Speaker 1: has has alluded to this is that we may end
Speaker 1: up with a shortened season. We may end up with
Speaker 1: the delayed season. Um, but I think we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a season. It's gonna look different, uh, depending on where
Speaker 1: you are around the country. Uh. And and and then
Speaker 1: certainly the CFP UM they're planning on playing on schedule.
Speaker 1: The championship game is January eleven one in Miami. Anybody's
Speaker 1: interested in uh in joining me in Miami. I will
Speaker 1: I'm taking uh, I'm taking requests for the trip. UM.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think I think NBA, NHL, college football, UM, NFL.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling like, at least better than not that we're
Speaker 1: gonna play right baseball. I don't feel that way. And
Speaker 1: and baseball. What what scaring me about baseball? The owners
Speaker 1: and the players can't agree. And you know this last
Speaker 1: proposal UM where where the the owners proposed to seventy
Speaker 1: six games season with co rated salary. They're still considering
Speaker 1: that a pay cut, a second pay cut that the
Speaker 1: players have already agreed to one, and the saying that's
Speaker 1: just backward. I don't know where they play baseball this ship.
Speaker 1: That is disappointing, Like they missed their their their window
Speaker 1: of opportunities to play games. You have Korean Baseball going on,
Speaker 1: you have UM, you have the CPVL going on, and
Speaker 1: and they just missed a time where they could be
Speaker 1: the only game on. And it's not it's it's it's
Speaker 1: most you know, you're mainly it's mainly an outdoor sport
Speaker 1: for the most part. You know, yeah, you do have
Speaker 1: an indoor stadius, but it's not a bolt of hockey.
Speaker 1: Basketball and football and baseball baseball is the least contact
Speaker 1: right you you you're not, it's it's to me, it's
Speaker 1: the easiest sport to to to you know, mandate and
Speaker 1: work for social distancing guidelines. Uh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I I it's disappointing. I kind of get I get
Speaker 1: where the players are coming from. I can see what
Speaker 1: the owners is talking about. But figure it out, you know,
Speaker 1: because because this, this to me feels like we're not
Speaker 1: We're gonna lose the season here and this is gonna
Speaker 1: be would be the second time, um, you know, in
Speaker 1: in addition to where we don't have a World Series,
Speaker 1: you know we don't we just don't finish the baseball team,
Speaker 1: this one never youve got started. Uh, And it would
Speaker 1: be it would be a real shame because you know,
Speaker 1: this is baseball. Obviously, I think football has certainly passed
Speaker 1: has passed it in terms of popularity, and but baseball
Speaker 1: is really when you think of the history of this
Speaker 1: country in the fabric, it's it's intertwined, and it would
Speaker 1: be it will be sad to not have a baseball season,
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. I hear the Houston
Speaker 1: Astros are pulling for a new season. No, the Astros,
Speaker 1: you know they they they win big. You know, the
Speaker 1: Astros were We're gonna be at People have long memories,
Speaker 1: you know. So when baseball does come back, the Astros
Speaker 1: will get there. I just don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: be as intense because if everything that's happened, but he
Speaker 1: definitely won baseball to come back, a shortened season would
Speaker 1: be so offome all the games. It means so much.
Speaker 1: And think about like a September, you know, we September
Speaker 1: where we have NBA Finals going on, potentially NFL Final
Speaker 1: going on, you have baseball going to the end like
Speaker 1: an independant rate in college football and NFL like it
Speaker 1: just it sounds so so amazing. It would be pretty Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no good news from the baseball thing right now.
Speaker 1: It does feel like if they can't figure this out
Speaker 1: by like the end of the month, that it's just off,
Speaker 1: they're just going to cant the LEAs. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: would be and obviously that has ramifications and people. You know,
Speaker 1: there are people that work in these stadiums, there are
Speaker 1: people that rely on the outside of the players. You know,
Speaker 1: most players, hopefully you know, they're at a point where
Speaker 1: where they can they could sustain a lot of season,
Speaker 1: but there's there's other people that really can't. And uh,
Speaker 1: and it would just be unfortunate. What would be the
Speaker 1: long term effects? It hasn't not the first time that
Speaker 1: has happened, but uh, you know, it's just it just
Speaker 1: feels like they gotta they gotta find some common ground
Speaker 1: and make this and make this happen because to me,
Speaker 1: like you said, they're playing baseball around and around the world,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know Korean Baseball League like you said.
Speaker 1: And the interesting thing about the Korean Full League. The
Speaker 1: fun thing that I saw I saw a picture online
Speaker 1: where they put stuffed animals in the crowd and and
Speaker 1: I think that would be hilarious, Like I think we
Speaker 1: should be. Why aren't we doing that, you know, for
Speaker 1: for NASCAR and golf events and everything else, Um, we
Speaker 1: putting stuff to animals. I know they got in trouble
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago for putting other kind of
Speaker 1: dolls in the end the stands. But if we could
Speaker 1: avoid that and just put you know, stetti bears and
Speaker 1: some rabbits and things like that, I think that's hilarious. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that that's the update. UM, some positive news
Speaker 1: in terms of NBA, NHL, UM college football. Still we
Speaker 1: still have some runaway so we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 1: For baseball. It's it's kind of teetering on the brink
Speaker 1: right now. And it's like he said, Travis, we don't
Speaker 1: get something done, you know, at least some headways. You know,
Speaker 1: by the end of the bus, it's gonna be hard
Speaker 1: for them to uh, you know, to get to get
Speaker 1: it going and uh and finish any time of the season,
Speaker 1: which would which would suck. Yeah, we don't want that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh, let's take a break. When we
Speaker 1: come back. Are we gonna have We're gonna stuffed animals
Speaker 1: in the crowd and we're gonna have stay crowding on
Speaker 1: NFL broadcast that some other items when we come back
Speaker 1: on Good Call. Alright, we're back on Good Call. And
Speaker 1: this seems to be something that broadcasters and obviously you
Speaker 1: know we worked Fox four. Then they're talking about doing
Speaker 1: and actually implementing in different areas fake crowd noise. So
Speaker 1: NFL broadcast partners considering using fake crowd noise if that's
Speaker 1: one is using fake crowd noise. UM in Bundisligo, which
Speaker 1: is the German UH soccer League. UM NBA considering NBA
Speaker 1: two K sounds for crowd noise. Sports is working with
Speaker 1: the A Sports DEFA division to create UM specific crowd
Speaker 1: chants and noises. What what do we did that would
Speaker 1: you what? Would you wanted to keep crowd noise or
Speaker 1: would you want to it's possible just have silence and
Speaker 1: touch more of what the players are saying, or or
Speaker 1: both as possible. What do you guys think? I want
Speaker 1: to see. I want to see no no no audio.
Speaker 1: I want to see no fake crowd noise. I want
Speaker 1: to see what it sounds like being there close to
Speaker 1: the action as possible. I just feel like there's you know,
Speaker 1: there's obviously smarter people in me out there making the
Speaker 1: decision to put this stuff in. But I think it's
Speaker 1: just kind of a journalistic integrity type thing, like we
Speaker 1: don't want to put you fake stuff out there. We
Speaker 1: hear about fake news. Why K crowd noise? Like I said,
Speaker 1: let's just have the natural sound of the game, and
Speaker 1: maybe you'll have to turn down the mics every so often,
Speaker 1: probably more often than than you do. Now you get
Speaker 1: the older standards of practices, people involved, they'll have to
Speaker 1: have their mute button ready. I think it's cool. Like
Speaker 1: with the UFC, I think it really it kind of
Speaker 1: changes it and it's it's it's interesting to hear more
Speaker 1: of of what's actually happening in the event. I don't
Speaker 1: like the crowd noise being pumped in and like, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do when when you're a home team
Speaker 1: you get to control how loud it goes when you want, Like,
Speaker 1: I think it creates a false advantage. Yeah, what one
Speaker 1: thing I'm unclear are they going to pump it into
Speaker 1: the stadium. Also, because I believe the boom died to broadcast.
Speaker 1: It's just for the people watching, Like they're not playing
Speaker 1: crowd noise and chance in the stadium, so it's just
Speaker 1: for the fan experience. I think believe the broadcast right Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: y um. Because yeah, like I've watched Bundest League at highlights,
Speaker 1: it's they're putting in like you know, when a goal
Speaker 1: is scored, people go crazy, but the people, like the
Speaker 1: players in the stadium if not being broadcast into the stage. See,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that's going through the speakers and stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: a little split, you know, because It's like I remember
Speaker 1: a few years ago when I worked in the highlights
Speaker 1: department of Box Sports, I had to cover a really
Speaker 1: long range delayed baseball game. So at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, there was maybe forty people at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1: Still it was like one am. So hearing the crack
Speaker 1: of the bat like echo and hearing like yelling from
Speaker 1: the dugouts is cool, But I think I don't. I
Speaker 1: couldn't tell if I thought it was cool because it
Speaker 1: was a novelty. I don't know what I want to watch,
Speaker 1: you know, all NFL season with just you know, hearing
Speaker 1: just kind of yelling and stuff. I don't know. Because
Speaker 1: I'm so trained to have crowd noise, it is a
Speaker 1: little weird when it's not there. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: would be weird. I think we're weird without crowd noise.
Speaker 1: I think it's um. I think there's probably ways to
Speaker 1: do it where it can feel natural and um. But
Speaker 1: I I guess enough to experience that I know, right,
Speaker 1: didn't the NBA. The NBA did an experiment. I know
Speaker 1: it wasn't without crowd noise, but they didn't play any
Speaker 1: like like artificial noise. No no to watch an NBA game, right,
Speaker 1: there's music during the game, there's you know, all of
Speaker 1: these things, a lot of electronic enhancement, and they they
Speaker 1: didn't play anything because they wanted to give the fans
Speaker 1: just the pure experience of just watching the game without
Speaker 1: all the extra bells and whistles. And everyone hated it,
Speaker 1: Like the players hated it. The fans hated it. They
Speaker 1: did that mad Gard and they did um and they
Speaker 1: were just like people went crazy. And that's why I think, like,
Speaker 1: you know, watching that, Yeah, UFC is interesting. Um. I
Speaker 1: think it's it's you know, you do have if you've
Speaker 1: watched The Ultimate Fighter, you kind of have been exposed
Speaker 1: to a little bit. But I don't know, like those
Speaker 1: big sports. I haven't watched any of the Bundesliga games,
Speaker 1: so I'm not sure. I just want to watch for
Speaker 1: myself and and and figure it out how they're using
Speaker 1: this crowd. Definitely yeah, um, speaking of UFC, big card
Speaker 1: USC two fifty, I believe is that crazy or what
Speaker 1: I mean? I remember UFC one and with with voice
Speaker 1: Gracy and but two fifty, Um, Amanda nunyez. It's it's
Speaker 1: did you guys see the fight? Joe? I know you watched. Um,
Speaker 1: I have to question jo and beyond it, you versus
Speaker 1: Amanda Nunaz in a fight, and then the rules usc
Speaker 1: rules five rounds, five minute rounds. Who is how old
Speaker 1: am I? How long do I have to train for
Speaker 1: this fight? Right now? Right now? I'm giving you six
Speaker 1: I'm giving you six weeks to train to fight Amanda
Speaker 1: una Um. I'd say I'm an underdog. She's bad, definitely
Speaker 1: pretty big underdog. She's no joke. But but but I'm
Speaker 1: I'm she would kick I'm seventy pounds heavier than That's
Speaker 1: a huge deal. I don't care, all right, we have
Speaker 1: an advantage though, yes, yes, of course it's an advantage
Speaker 1: double your size. I still I think she's I think
Speaker 1: she's is Definitely she's the greatest female combat sports you know,
Speaker 1: fighter of all time. I mean she's nasty, that girl.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, she's good man, she's real good. All right,
Speaker 1: what what what would would you be? The underdog? What
Speaker 1: would be I'd probably be like, um, giving my weight
Speaker 1: we're talking about probably no, no, not that big. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking like you probably get like plus five hundred on me,
Speaker 1: and I'd say, bat me, dude, I've you know, I've
Speaker 1: got I've got to I've got to, really, I've gotta
Speaker 1: warrior spirit, your warrior spirit up off the ground. That's fine.
Speaker 1: You know what you did on Fight Island. I want
Speaker 1: more information about I'm intrigued. I've never been to Dubai.
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued. Dana White. You Dana White, you wildly after
Speaker 1: you got me hooked? Man, I am in and then
Speaker 1: the other. The other UFC news is how many times
Speaker 1: does Comma McGregor retire again? Is that? Is that? Is that?
Speaker 1: What happened? At least this is number three? What's what's
Speaker 1: the what's next for Connor? If this is real retirement?
Speaker 1: Does he does he fight Floyd again? Make it? Make
Speaker 1: another eighty million? Um? Does the the you know, I
Speaker 1: know he's been very successful. Look his what is it?
Speaker 1: It's proper twelve brand has done unbelievably well. The guy
Speaker 1: never has to work again. I get it. It's a
Speaker 1: combat for the stuff you put your through, your body,
Speaker 1: your body through the mental aspect of its training, weight,
Speaker 1: cutting all of it. That is not an easy way
Speaker 1: to make a living. So if he wants to retire,
Speaker 1: that's great, more power to him. He he's made his
Speaker 1: he's made his life and future generations of his family's
Speaker 1: life that much easier. Um, with how he's done. But
Speaker 1: then stick to it, man, because I can't like this
Speaker 1: is like Brett Farve. How many times the Brett Farve
Speaker 1: retire and then come back and this and that, And
Speaker 1: he's saying he's going stick to it. And also but
Speaker 1: don't be don't say there's no big fights down there, right,
Speaker 1: there's big fights for him, don't don't And he blocked
Speaker 1: exactly well, well he beat Travis. Remember the horse riding.
Speaker 1: You stick the horse riding. We'll handle the m M
Speaker 1: and stuff. But the thing is you can't there there
Speaker 1: and and look this. The UFC is better with McGregor.
Speaker 1: I would say they need him, but he is by
Speaker 1: far the biggest draw. It's a different environment when he's fighting. Um,
Speaker 1: the sport is bigger when Connor McGregor is involved, and
Speaker 1: he brings more attention to it. That that crickles down
Speaker 1: to all the fighters on the roster. But it's just
Speaker 1: that it feels like an interesting time with the UFC
Speaker 1: right out because he's John Jones. UM. A lot of
Speaker 1: these other nadias they're not there, they're not retiring, right,
Speaker 1: he's gone. So Judo's retiring because they're not making the
Speaker 1: money other than McGregor and some of the top guys.
Speaker 1: They feel like they're not getting the cut of the
Speaker 1: tie that they deserve, you know, and they can't make
Speaker 1: these fights. Um. You know, they wanted to make the
Speaker 1: fight with mathmdal and retired. He quit too. He asked
Speaker 1: for take a deal for him to fight Usman. So
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be Gilbert Ferns. This feels like that
Speaker 1: McGregor does retire, the USC will survive. But you start
Speaker 1: losing these guys, you know, a John Jones, a mos Medal, Nadias,
Speaker 1: You've got Nick Das out there that hasn't fought. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, these guys jumped to jump to a competing
Speaker 1: you know, a competing uh, you know organization like Bellator.
Speaker 1: That could be a big deal. And I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: Gilbert Burns, you heard it here first. Gilbert Burns will
Speaker 1: win that fight. He is nasty. It'll be you know,
Speaker 1: I like both of those guys. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a good fight. I certainly could see Gilbert Berns
Speaker 1: winning that fight. Um, it was not the beast, so
Speaker 1: I don't know what the line is, but but I
Speaker 1: would take I would take Burns all day because he's
Speaker 1: such a no name, so the line will be affected.
Speaker 1: I would jump all over that he's nasty. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: there you go. I did say at the start of
Speaker 1: the show that Joe has a couple of a couple
Speaker 1: of things that he that he knows about. M m
Speaker 1: A would be one. Um Travis, you sent me this.
Speaker 1: I think this is fascinating. I had no idea that
Speaker 1: this was taking place, and if I did, I would
Speaker 1: have been out there. You mean, the rest of us
Speaker 1: would have been a modern day team of boonies as
Speaker 1: far as Pan had buried a treasure in the rockies,
Speaker 1: one million dollars and worth of like what gold and
Speaker 1: jewelry and and it apparently was found over the weekend.
Speaker 1: You you sent me the story. What's the deal? I
Speaker 1: heard it was too so in two thousands ten. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what what do you say, Joe? I heard it was
Speaker 1: two million dollars with the golden jewelry. Yeah, it could
Speaker 1: have a value of two million dollars now because it
Speaker 1: was buried in two thousands ten. Um so before a
Speaker 1: Span was an art collector and in New Mexico, and
Speaker 1: he found out he had Sydney cancer and he thought
Speaker 1: he was gonna die. So he put together this, this
Speaker 1: bronze chest full of collectibles and gold and all kinds
Speaker 1: of different things worth like a million dollars or two
Speaker 1: millions somewhere in there. And he in his memoirs he
Speaker 1: wrote a poem where he hid this in the rocky
Speaker 1: mountains somewhere. And people have been searching for us for
Speaker 1: the last ten years. And someone supposed we founded on Sunday,
Speaker 1: which is amazing because this thing has been you know,
Speaker 1: people have quit their jobs, people have died looking for this,
Speaker 1: Like he's been sued by multiple people because they put
Speaker 1: their lives in jeopardy because of it. Oh, come on,
Speaker 1: and you you made the us the risk. I know
Speaker 1: you knew the risk, but he was in He's an
Speaker 1: eighty nine year old man. He said, even he could
Speaker 1: go get it. So it wasn't it wasn't something that
Speaker 1: you needed. How did I not know about this? You
Speaker 1: I followed the sports about five or six years. I
Speaker 1: probably I probably knew about for five or six years.
Speaker 1: But we could have been searching for this. We could
Speaker 1: have been and I think we've got if you think
Speaker 1: about the goonies, I don't. We've got a team here.
Speaker 1: We we could have been out there, we could have
Speaker 1: been finding this. Um. But yeah, I think that's so cool.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see what, you know, how they found it?
Speaker 1: Were there were there booby traps, like like when he
Speaker 1: doesn't want found it doesn't want to be named. Okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. You know why where's our taxes? Bro?
Speaker 1: I either I would. I would like a gold challenge
Speaker 1: to the I R S. You know, here, here's your
Speaker 1: here's your third present, or whatever the heck it is. Um.
Speaker 1: But I think that's hilarious. I think that's so cool. UM.
Speaker 1: And I wish like I could get to the point
Speaker 1: where I could have a treasure and on and on
Speaker 1: my deathbed, I kind of hide it somewhere and have
Speaker 1: people look for it as my legacy. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a great marketing scheme to sell more of his books.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's genius to me. It would have been
Speaker 1: marginius if there was no treasure like yours. You uh,
Speaker 1: either way before it came out after on Sunday and
Speaker 1: said he's like kind of kind of glad it's over.
Speaker 1: But you know, sad that that that the search is
Speaker 1: over as well. So he is he's still alive. He's
Speaker 1: still alive. Yeah, he beat he beat the kidney cancer
Speaker 1: and now he's still alive. Yeah. So the story when
Speaker 1: he buried it, when he had cancer he thought he
Speaker 1: was going to pass and then he beat it became
Speaker 1: this big and so it took ten years and of
Speaker 1: course you would have think would not be the year
Speaker 1: anything like that good would happen. But obviously no, I'm interested.
Speaker 1: I think the dude doesn't want his name disclosed because
Speaker 1: there was like multiple like helicopter rescues, and you know
Speaker 1: a few people died it. He's probably like, hey, all
Speaker 1: the helicopter bill is probably gonna go to him. The
Speaker 1: guy that found it. A great cynical thoughts on this.
Speaker 1: That guy is just a treasure hunter. He found it. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's a cool story. I have nothing wrong with.
Speaker 1: The cops actually called him and said, can you take it,
Speaker 1: like stop doing Scots like Scott's like I just stopped
Speaker 1: back from the rocky five years. We've been going every
Speaker 1: every day. I mean, you figure, if you spend five
Speaker 1: years looking and you find it, you're still like you're
Speaker 1: still making a couple hundred grand a year. All right,
Speaker 1: speaking of a treasure and people searching for treasure. What's
Speaker 1: the deal with Vegas? Joe? Can you go? What asional?
Speaker 1: What's the deal with Vegas? I want to go? But
Speaker 1: what is my trips gonna look like? Can I go
Speaker 1: to restaurants? Can I go to shows? Can I go gamble? What? What?
Speaker 1: What does it look like? You deaf on league gamble?
Speaker 1: You could definitely go to restaurants. I don't know about
Speaker 1: the shows yet. I'm assuming they're open. I'm going. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm going on Friday, so I'll be there later this
Speaker 1: week and I'll be able to report back next week.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it for work, Yeah, report back because we
Speaker 1: definitely Luca, my my oldest um for the listeners, nine
Speaker 1: years old. We've been planning wanting to go to Vegas,
Speaker 1: try some different restaurants. Um, he wants to, you know,
Speaker 1: hit the crap table and but you know, maybe hit
Speaker 1: the Rhino. But I just need to know. I just
Speaker 1: need to know what, you know what, what's happening before
Speaker 1: you know what? Dean s sense a good friend and
Speaker 1: I love Luca like like he's my own. I'm going
Speaker 1: to do all that for you guys, and let you
Speaker 1: know how it goes. I'll give a full report. I
Speaker 1: do know that the crap tables, I believe they're minimum
Speaker 1: or maximum six people. Now there's plexiglass all over like
Speaker 1: the black jack tables, and I just can't wait, Like
Speaker 1: how long is it going to take for some me
Speaker 1: just put a fifth through one of those things because
Speaker 1: the dealer hit a sixteen and got a five or whatever.
Speaker 1: Like it's just I gotta go, just to see this
Speaker 1: madness that is Vegas. Even more pictures too. I would
Speaker 1: love to see it. You got it? Anything to you, Scott? Alright?
Speaker 1: And now I've got it. I've got a I came
Speaker 1: across a ridiculous, ridiculous sports trivia stat, like a stat
Speaker 1: that would be a great sports trivia question, and so
Speaker 1: I kind of I didn't believe it, and it's true.
Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna give you guys three I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you, guys, which one is true? Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you three different scenarios stats related. You'll understand what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. One of them is true, the other
Speaker 1: two are false. You have to guess which one is true, Okay.
Speaker 1: So so here, here's the here's the three things. Um,
Speaker 1: Madison bomb Gardner has more multi home money games than Babor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the first stack. Okay, second stack. Manu Bole hit
Speaker 1: more three pointers in one game in his career than
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr did. And then the last that Peyton Hillis.
Speaker 1: You remember Peyton Hillis. He had a couple of good
Speaker 1: years with the Broncos. Peyton Hillis has more three touchdown
Speaker 1: games in his career than Eric Dickerson. I'm one of those,
Speaker 1: is true. Hellis is true. Peyton Hillis is true. He
Speaker 1: was my guy. Don't me to a fantasy title. Fantasy title.
Speaker 1: Peyton Hillis. I'm a champ because of Peton Hillis so
Speaker 1: Joseph's Peyton Hillis is true? Travis, what I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Madison Bumgarner in the multi home run There is
Speaker 1: no way that one's not right. There's no way that
Speaker 1: one's right. But then the god Steve per One was
Speaker 1: Manu pal had what was it? Meat manual Is hitting
Speaker 1: more threes in a game and a single game than
Speaker 1: seker in their careers. Single game records in single game
Speaker 1: number was higher than Steve Kurve. Well all I'll say,
Speaker 1: is I know there is that one game where he
Speaker 1: hit like five three I believe in a row. Uh,
Speaker 1: what's your answer? Maybe it was five, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: just go with that, and then all of us have
Speaker 1: a different one. Yeah, I mean that one right now.
Speaker 1: There's no way Travis wins. Absolutely no way. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: worried about. I actually think the manupal and then the
Speaker 1: home run one might be those two. Okay, so I'll
Speaker 1: give you. I'll give you the two that are false first, Okay,
Speaker 1: so Joe's right, Madison bomb Gartner, Dave Ruth one is
Speaker 1: not is not correct, okay, Okay. The other one that's
Speaker 1: is Peyton Hills game manew Bowl hits six three pointers
Speaker 1: in one game, okay, And Steve Kerr's best and Steve
Speaker 1: kurb has the highest percentage career or something ridiculous like
Speaker 1: top three career and Steve Kerr's highest in the game
Speaker 1: of five new poll actually has. That's awesome for the
Speaker 1: listeners if you want to know, I was like that,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I didn't know that game that
Speaker 1: Scott was referring to. But I mean, I can see,
Speaker 1: you know, one game, but I knew there was no
Speaker 1: way favorite, the favorite thing is right. But if for
Speaker 1: the listeners, if anybody wants to know what Travis looks like,
Speaker 1: he kind of looks like Steve Kerr. He does. He
Speaker 1: does look like Steve Kurr of Steve Yeah, he has
Speaker 1: Steve kurt He definitely has Steve kurve um um. I
Speaker 1: could have known that that would have been the answer,
Speaker 1: because that's the only thing that's like NBA is like
Speaker 1: in the news right now, no one's really talking about
Speaker 1: like NFL that. They're definitely not talking about baseball. Everyone
Speaker 1: go to YouTube. I think Maneul was on the bullets
Speaker 1: at the time he did it. Maybe he wasn't, but
Speaker 1: his his shooting strokes is like a catapult, pulling gas
Speaker 1: and then launching. Remember that, I remember that. But you
Speaker 1: would have thought you would have thought so Steve Kerr
Speaker 1: would have happened those on those Bowls teams he would
Speaker 1: add more than five around for him to get all
Speaker 1: those shots. Oh yeah, because the other guy, because the
Speaker 1: other guy, the other guy was that one dude, that
Speaker 1: one guy that wore the asshole would have been running around. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: if that's of course making his teammates feel bad and
Speaker 1: not letting Steve Kurb beat the note ball on a
Speaker 1: three point context and I just want to let you know, Um,
Speaker 1: a mad and Unions is eight. Okay, I'm six, So
Speaker 1: it's a hundred pounds and the significant reach difference. So
Speaker 1: I'm just she's gonna throw that out there. I'm still
Speaker 1: putting my money on her. I don't blame you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll put it on her. Fine, all right, Brandon Blend,
Speaker 1: you know, call guy over he does a dance or
Speaker 1: shuffle on the way. What the fun was that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Seriously have you ever experienced that? Of course? Like what
Speaker 1: if you ever any one of you guys, guarantee Travis,
Speaker 1: you if I see you anywhere, like if we're at
Speaker 1: a bar whenever we're able to go to bars and
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, and I walk in and hey, Travis,
Speaker 1: you like to do like a dance shuffle over to me?
Speaker 1: We're no longer friends, friendship, no guarantee you have your
Speaker 1: experienced that. Have you experienced that that? That seems like
Speaker 1: a Carrera thing? Would definitely that? Yeah, definitely good Scott,
Speaker 1: good call. He would come over and he would do
Speaker 1: like the shuffle and then give you like an uncomfortably
Speaker 1: long hub, like it would your shoulder rub the shoulder rub.
Speaker 1: Where do their weird shuffle like off off beat? Like
Speaker 1: what like there's no music a hunter kind of like
Speaker 1: you're in a conga line, but no one else is there. Meanwhile, meanwhile,
Speaker 1: that's a great segue. Thursdays one watch the show What's
Speaker 1: they Called Travis With with Chris Mars The home game
Speaker 1: The Home Game me verse Carrera in a trivia contest.
Speaker 1: It airs Thursday. I'm not gonna tell you what happened,
Speaker 1: but you gotta watch. I can't wait see it. I
Speaker 1: must see TV, must be TV. All right, Since you've
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