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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL podcast can't even get on NFL

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Speaker 1: network in a pandemic. We welcome to another edition of

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Speaker 1: the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hanzas

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Speaker 1: and I'm coming to you from a city in a

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Speaker 1: world filled with heroes and Bunker's Mark Seessler, Chris Westling

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Speaker 1: and Greg Rostal. What's up boys, Hey Dn, and we

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Speaker 1: have one more hero to introduce. Hit It Ricky. He's

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Speaker 1: He's the host for Sky Sports DV Inside the Huddle podcast.

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Speaker 1: He was a barefoot kicker and tight end for the

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Speaker 1: Kent Exiles football team. Used to play catch in the

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Speaker 1: storeroom at the NFL Europe office, wearing the head of

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Speaker 1: the Scottish Claymore's mascot while doing it. He didn't try

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Speaker 1: honey for the first time until two thousand and eight. Weirdo.

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Speaker 1: He supports Liverpool and he is the host of the

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Speaker 1: brand spanking new Neil Reynolds podcast Ladies and Gentlemen Neil

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Speaker 1: Reynolds on intro. Welc that's any around the animal body?

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Speaker 1: Thank you an anthem? Yeah, that will came from That

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Speaker 1: will came from Handsome Hank right, all that information, I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't reveal my sources ever, true journalists. Very good,

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Speaker 1: very good, thanks for having me, guys. I mean, let's

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Speaker 1: start with the honey thing. Come on, yeah, what's up

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Speaker 1: with the honey now? He said, Now, my source said

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Speaker 1: even if that's true, honey, two thousand and eight, that's

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Speaker 1: a disgrace. Yeah, I am. I do have a very

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Speaker 1: very bland palette. And exactly what you do with really

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Speaker 1: really leaning into these cultural stereotypes. And I was at

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Speaker 1: NFL UK and myself and who I'm guessing is your source,

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Speaker 1: Dan Handsome, Hank Henry Hodgson. We were kind of known

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Speaker 1: for making outlandish predictions and guarantees around NFL Europe games,

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Speaker 1: around NFL games. I think I made some stupid guarantee

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Speaker 1: which I failed on. And the forfeit was to do

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Speaker 1: like a bush Tucker trial like you see in the

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Speaker 1: I'm a Celebrity Show the jungle. I had to eat

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Speaker 1: I've never eaten cottage cheese, and I never I would

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Speaker 1: And I've thought about that probably once a day since,

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Speaker 1: like that's a texture thing. I look at cottage cheese

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Speaker 1: have been LinkedIn Gockway. Um West as this guy, um

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Speaker 1: that type of player that that a team that doesn't

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Speaker 1: get him is gonna be kicking themselves for having that opportunity,

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00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 1: uh and not taking advantage of it. At this time,

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00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: I think the two the two strengths of his his game.

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Speaker 1: What he's bringing the free agency. That that are most

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Speaker 1: attractive are his age. I don't think he's even twenty

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Speaker 1: five years old yet, and the fact that he comes

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Speaker 1: off the edge and creates turnovers. The quarterback often doesn't

434
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Speaker 1: see him coming. It leads to a lot of strip sacks,

435
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 1: and I think those kinds of pass rushers are worth more.

436
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Speaker 1: That's why he's getting a lot of love from from

437
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Speaker 1: interested teams. And finally, in the news, here's something we

438
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 1: had been tracking. Uh, Tom Brady, he's number twelve. He

439
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 1: always has been number twelve. Signs with the Bucks, who

440
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 1: just so happened to have a young star wide receiver

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Speaker 1: named Chris Godwin who also wears number twelve. Perfect setup

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Speaker 1: for Godwin, who has Brady over a barrel obviously, uh

443
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Speaker 1: financially however, wanted to make this thing work, well, guess what.

444
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:07,199
Speaker 1: Godwin instead decided that he just gave the number away

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Speaker 1: to Tom terrific quote unquote, Um Godwin, it will now

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00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 1: be number fourteen moving forward, Brady twelve, No transaction, no compensation,

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00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: just Godwin being a good guy. I guess so that

448
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: you know that that that closes out that storyline, Neil,

449
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: I feel like when you have leverage over us for

450
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Speaker 1: certain things. You would not be as kind as Chris

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Speaker 1: Godwin was. No, I feel like that's an opportunity missed,

452
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 1: not even not even give me. I feel like there's

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Speaker 1: a million dollars at least, and not even to a charity,

454
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Speaker 1: like give it to me in my pocket. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Chris Godwin had an opportunity that's never coming again. It's

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Speaker 1: TB twelve, it's Tom Brady. Um. Yeah, I feel I'm disappointed.

457
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 1: It's gonna get Brady is going to give him something

458
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: in the end when they meet up, he'll be He'll

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Speaker 1: get something. That's the that's kind of guy that Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady is. Yeah. Dan mentioned ler a pickup truck. Yeah.

461
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 1: Dan mentioned that Brady was not folded over a barrel.

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00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: I would definitely fold Tom Brady over a barrel and

463
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 1: get as much as you can. Um you've got you know,

464
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin, how how long will the career girl on

465
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: get some of this um TV twelve quarterback money and

466
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 1: ensure that your children and nephews and nieces and other

467
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: offspring that we don't know about don't work ever again.

468
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 1: And I'll just add that I'm very happy that Brady

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Speaker 1: is still number twelve. Hate it when iconic players changed

470
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Speaker 1: their number. I mean, what what was worse than Michael

471
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Speaker 1: Jordan's coming back to the NBA. And I know there

472
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: were a circumstances involved with his father, and but when

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Speaker 1: he was number forty five instead of the iconic twenty three. Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's the reason an NBA team from Orlando knocked him

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00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,919
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs that year. And you can't convince

476
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Speaker 1: me otherwise, Kobe, Kobe, that number was retired. He had

477
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Speaker 1: to officially petition the NBA to get twenty three back

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Speaker 1: again after Nick Aaron Anderson embarrassed him. Oh boy, can

479
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: we cut through the red tape? Though? It's Michael Jordan

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00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: getting his own number back? And uh, you know Kobe

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00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,199
Speaker 1: Bryant got arrest his soul Uh going from eight to

482
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Speaker 1: twenty four? Or is it eight? I can't remember. Uh.

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00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: Let's let's calm down with all this stuff. Stick with

484
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: the number that you became famous with. We all like

485
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: it that that way. Come on now, end of rant.

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Speaker 1: I mean that is that's gonna it's not gonna be

487
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: a popular take out there. UM. I hope you're ready

488
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: to deal with the backlash. It's gonna be some serious fallout.

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00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: That's what's happening in the news. Neil. You know, I

490
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 1: know you want to hang up right now, and you

491
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 1: could because you have an easy out here where this

492
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 1: is Transatlantic, there's the world is on fire. And if

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00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: you were to magically disconnect right now, uh and say

494
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 1: that technical difficulties brought up premature and to your appearance

495
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 1: on today's episode, you know we would have to take

496
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: you at your word. So this is your chance to

497
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: get out now if you'd like to. I feel like

498
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: that's some kind of challenge. I'm gonna stick around. All right. Well,

499
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: then why don't we put the great Neil Reynolds on

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00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: the hot seat. And before we do, Mark, can you

501
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: remind uh listeners or teach listeners about what Neil has

502
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: done to us when we've been on his show in

503
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,199
Speaker 1: the past. Yeah, I mean not only just on you know,

504
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: one show, but in multiple platforms, be it in recorded

505
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,400
Speaker 1: fashion or in one occurrence in front of a live audience.

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00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: I am not sure more than a certain percentage knew

507
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: who we were, and uh Neil was just frying us

508
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 1: with um some on point questions about not only our

509
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: professional opinions, but our personal lives, and so it would

510
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: be wrong of us not to go down both roads

511
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: and multiple other roads with Neil and make him feel

512
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: the heat. I know that his face is warming up

513
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: with that glass of rose. You know he's feeling good.

514
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: But we can change the vibe if we need to. Yeah,

515
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 1: And I also remember Mark at the Super Bowl when

516
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: you and I did a segment on Sky Sports from

517
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: Radio Row. I remember him peppering you pretty hard with

518
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: some Brown's bits where he was just taking trying to

519
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: take the brown bits on sky Sports. Well, there was

520
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 1: that down I actually I've completely missed the handoff here.

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00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: You know our initial um, we were thrown by Neil

522
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 1: and some other people onto a very ultra serious Sky

523
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: news hit where um, and this was not sports, but

524
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 1: it was like news professionals quizzin us about Colin Kaepernick's

525
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: entanglement with society, and we did not fare well. Yeah,

526
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: it's revenge, It's revenge time. Let's Mark. I don't think

527
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: I was even in the building when you were doing something.

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00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: It's undecided to blame at this point. You accountability, Neil accountability. Um,

529
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: all right, let's do it. And and Mark, I'll I

530
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: know you have a couple as well. Let's cueue it up, Ricky.

531
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: Let let us put Neil get his butt a little hot,

532
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: right now, Let's roll question number one. And not all

533
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: these gonna be killers, Neil. Some are just questions, and

534
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: I want your honest, uh take on it. Number one,

535
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: would you give up your right pinky toe for an

536
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: NFL team in London? Yes? Well, hang on, hang on?

537
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: What I fall over? Is that the one that gives

538
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: you balance? All right? Well, all right, you asked too

539
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: many questions, so I'm upgrading it to the big toe.

540
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna do it. Yes, wow, very good. Number

541
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: two of all the x NFL players Sky Sports has

542
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: paid as analysts, who is the one individual that made

543
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: you think to yourself? Wow? So we're basically paying this

544
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: guy to go on holiday in Europe? Johnny Mitchell? Who

545
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 1: he gave you an answer? And actually the pre thing

546
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: that when I met Johnny Mitchell to talk about coming

547
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: on Sky he beat into his burger and spilled barbecue

548
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: sau sold down himself and time. Neil, I'm I'm involved

549
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: with the new Neil Reynolds podcast and you and you

550
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: just skewer Johnny Mitchell in a conversation we had, so

551
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: there's a little tease for for my appearance on the

552
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,959
Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds podcast. Mark hit him with a question, Well,

553
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. You know, I think we're

554
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: in a period where it's already starting to get buzzy that, um,

555
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: you know, celebrities not doing well, they're attempting to, you know,

556
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: make us feel good from their remote kingdoms and palaces

557
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: and like eighteen sing kitchens celebrities. At some point we

558
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: will be eating celebrities. That this goes on and on.

559
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: What celebrity would you choose to if you had to

560
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: eat the body of a celebrity, Give me a name,

561
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: male or female or child? M Can I go abrote

562
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: Brian celebrity? I don't know if he would be considered

563
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,719
Speaker 1: a ultra celebrity. I'm talking like you could just with

564
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: a spoon and knife carve up and eat. Um. That's

565
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: a tough one. That is a tough one. Um, I'm

566
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: gonna go. I'm gonna go. Donald Trump cooked big answer,

567
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: big answer. During your during your bachelor days in London,

568
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: did you ever hit the town with Henry Hodgson Ak

569
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: A handsome Hank AK, vice President of International NFL media

570
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: as your wingman Hank of course, one of the great

571
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: swordsmen in the history of your homeland. No, because you

572
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: when you're when you're well. I was happily married by

573
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: them when I met him. But also, you don't go

574
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: out with somebody who's better looking than you, who looks

575
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: like they've been chiseled out of rock, who got shoulders

576
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: about eight foot wide. So no, I gave him. I

577
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: gave him a wide berth. We didn't see that, so

578
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: we did. During NFL Europe training camps, we would spend

579
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: our nights. Everyone would go out on the town and

580
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: me and Hen we would sit in our office and

581
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: play Madden against each other online coaching mode. How sad?

582
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: Is that? Very very sad? Actually, Mark hit him up

583
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: with another one. All right, scale up. We know we

584
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: have a we have a large UK audience and European audience,

585
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: and you're someone they know and they trust your opinion.

586
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: On a scale of wonder one hundred, how much do

587
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: you trust Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth Part two, two

588
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: point question, I'm gonna give a solid sort of eighty three.

589
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not aware of the political climate, so

590
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that's not surprising. That's how most feel. I

591
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: think that's a good thing. That's a good great right

592
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: Desert Island for six weeks. Who do you choose as

593
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: a companion your wonderful wife Julie or your boyhood hero

594
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: Dan Marino. Ah, now, my wife Julie is that? Does

595
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: Dan Marino listen to the podcast? I don't think Dan

596
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: Marino listens to the NFL podcast. Now, Okay, what I'm

597
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: gonna say is they say you should never meet your heroes,

598
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: and it's true. Oh interesting, I would love more if

599
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: you have it. Actually, I grew up hating Joe Montana

600
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: and idolizing Dan Marino because Montana be Marino. In Super

601
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: Bowl nineteen, I worked with both of them on stage

602
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: at the fan rallies in Trofaugar Square. We did big

603
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: sit down interviews for like thirty minutes with each of them.

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00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: Give me Montana every day of the week. Montana was like,

605
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: you can ask me whatever you like. Dan Marino backstage, Well,

606
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna ask me. You're not gonna make me look stupid.

607
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: And Dan just chill out. I'm here for you. I'm

608
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: going to make you look good. We're gonna ask you

609
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: the questions to give you the answers. He couldn't have

610
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: been more nervous about going on stage, or not nervous,

611
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: more untrusting. Um, So yeah, that yeah, I was destroyed.

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00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: Sorry piotherapy, Mark, Do you have any others? One last one?

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00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: I like to ask our guests. You know, you've you've

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00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: You've done a lot of work with the group. You know,

615
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: all of us individually and in a in a collective sense,

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00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: which one, and I want an honest answer, do you

617
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: respect the most? Um? I think it's I think market

618
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: it's going to be you because of the way you

619
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: handled this whole coronavirus thing, you know, getting getting yourself

620
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: some separate digs. I've actually bought the house next door

621
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: and I've evicted the lady next door. She's living on

622
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: the street. And it's all inspired by you, Mark, because

623
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: I just gave yourself that space. And I was like,

624
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 1: that's a man who takes no prisoners. He's just gonna

625
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: You've got the kids at Hope. Now I'm going I'm

626
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: gonna be over there then, And so that's sorry. It's

627
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: it's you, Mark, And I think it should be you

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Speaker 1: because I know I listened to the pod so many

629
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Speaker 1: other people that come on this podcast, you know they

630
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 1: don't respect you. Let's be honest, right, that feels entirely

631
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: genuine to thank you. You've flattened the curve a little

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00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: bit on that front. And uh, you know, I give

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Speaker 1: you props for what I what I assumed to be

634
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: a very honest answer right there. And and by the way,

635
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: why that's all Stregor had to say. Way a bet

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Speaker 1: with Marks Banana Crusade to find someone to respect him

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Speaker 1: for a year now. Whoever asked the question who do

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Speaker 1: you respect the most? Just say that, guys, you can

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Speaker 1: get out of the question. Well, been Twitter messaging me

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Speaker 1: as well while we while we're on there, we are

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Speaker 1: so know who Neo respects the least. Um. But that

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Speaker 1: that's related to the last time someone called in to

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Speaker 1: this podcast from London and that was someone was me

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Speaker 1: And finally last question that was a little loaded as well,

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Speaker 1: that was some some hot but we said it was

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Speaker 1: a hot seat. Greg. I'm actually worried. Let me just

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Speaker 1: say I'm worried about you, Greg, because this situation with

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Speaker 1: coronavirus is getting worse by the day and soon you're

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Speaker 1: only gonna be able to go to the beach twice

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Speaker 1: a day, and finally, Niel's got singers on the hot seat. Finally.

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Speaker 1: Some listeners may be surprised to learn the national sport

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Speaker 1: of England is not soccer but cricket. In thirty seconds

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Speaker 1: or less, please explain the rules of that deeply esoteric game.

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Speaker 1: So you someone takes a big run up, they walk

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Speaker 1: fifty paces back, they run up, they throw the ball,

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Speaker 1: you kind of bat it in front of you, and

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Speaker 1: then they pick up and they run back and they

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Speaker 1: do the same for five days and then most of

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Speaker 1: the time it ends in a time. Wow. I'm not

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Speaker 1: like Henry Holston. I'm not big on cricket into it.

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Speaker 1: He supports Liverpool ladies and gentlemen. You're off, You're off

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Speaker 1: the hot seat. But it's intact. Are we still friend?

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Speaker 1: I mean you you've been waiting for a title for

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Speaker 1: Liverpool for thirty years and then the season ends right

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Speaker 1: right as you're about to win it. Thanks. Greg's pretty rough.

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Speaker 1: That's a pretty that's a pretty rough, like cursed sports story.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's more important things in the world,

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Speaker 1: but there I don't know if there's anything quite like

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Speaker 1: that that you're two games away from winning your first

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Speaker 1: title in thirty years and then the seasons over. What

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Speaker 1: about Greg with the sneaky flex there that I'm plugged

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Speaker 1: in on the Premier League? What's going on in the standings.

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Speaker 1: It's it's not a FlexE about the most that's a

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Speaker 1: nice time about you, Greggy. It was a flex and

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Speaker 1: a little twist of the knife that Liverpool gonna get

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Speaker 1: robbed at the title when the twenty five points clear. It.

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Speaker 1: I had three Vodkas last night and stumbled across on

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Speaker 1: YouTube the nineteen eighties six St. Louis Open, uh p

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Speaker 1: b A the Pro Bowlers Association, what a what a showdown?

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Speaker 1: And a young twenty three year old Pete Webber, uh

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Speaker 1: he he just he dominated and uh really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: That's where we're at in society. Neil. You've said it all.

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Speaker 1: You said it all, you did it, and I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what that British sensibility. I want to tell you something.

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Speaker 1: I didn't really know any Brits personally until I met

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Speaker 1: your good friend and former colleague Hank. The thing about

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Speaker 1: you guys, you people, is that you're very it's unvarnished

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Speaker 1: your takes. You're not afraid to rub rub people the

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Speaker 1: wrong way, to ruffle some feathers. And that's why you're

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Speaker 1: an ideal guy for the hot seat. Just now. You

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Speaker 1: just you just call like it is and you're not

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Speaker 1: afraid what it what it does in the carnate you

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Speaker 1: leave in the wake. I'm college. I appreciate that, and

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Speaker 1: I think you guys must have some of that deep

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Speaker 1: in your owns as well, because I know how popular

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Speaker 1: you you guys have to come over here and um,

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Speaker 1: I think you're you're the tone you strike on on

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Speaker 1: your pod, um it appeals to the British fans. That's

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Speaker 1: why we wanted to get you on sky Sports. And

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Speaker 1: you're talking to me specifically right now. Just your cameras

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Speaker 1: the one that I'm seeing, so I'm logging done. Um again.

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Speaker 1: We are part of the sky Sports NFL team every

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Speaker 1: year and hopefully that will continue depending on how contract

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Speaker 1: talks go with Neil and his people. Also, Neil of

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Speaker 1: course has the Neil Reynolds podcast launching tomorrow, So if

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Speaker 1: you're a fan of our show, uh, and I know

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Speaker 1: we have a lot of UK listeners, check it out.

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Speaker 1: If you're on this side of the pond, check it

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Speaker 1: out because Neil obviously has put a lot of effort

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Speaker 1: into it, and he's a grinder and he's very talented,

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Speaker 1: and we're happy to have this relationship with you, Neil.

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Speaker 1: So now get back to your wine, get back to

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Speaker 1: Julie and UH and good luck getting through this absurd

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Speaker 1: situation we all find ourselves in right now. Thank you, guys,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me. All rights signing off for the

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Speaker 1: Quiet Storm, the mail Man, the Old Boss Ricky Hollywood,

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Speaker 1: and the great Neil Reynolds who loves Honey Until Thursday,