Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. What's Up Dean Blandino? Another episode of
Speaker 1: Good Calls, Episode twenty seven, as always sitting next to me,
Speaker 1: my producer, Travis Hansen. You're gonna ask me a question,
Speaker 1: so I don't feel so. I'm gonna ask you that hat? What?
Speaker 1: How do you wear it? It's a quick silver hat.
Speaker 1: It looks like the leaked Los Angeles Rams logo. They
Speaker 1: only could be so lucky that their logo would be
Speaker 1: this cool. It's you We audio Joe Madrid, Joe. Are
Speaker 1: you aware We're gonna get to Joe in a second?
Speaker 1: Are you wear the leaked Los Angeles ramslong not has
Speaker 1: not gone over very well. The the the initial reaction
Speaker 1: has not been positive. It looks kind of it looks
Speaker 1: more chargerish than ramish um, and it's it's kind of like,
Speaker 1: I guess supposed to be a wave. I don't kind
Speaker 1: of looks like a wave, and it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: a horn. Here's my theory. Here's my theory is that
Speaker 1: the the the NFL creative people leaked the photo because
Speaker 1: they were thinking about it. They leaked it intentionally to
Speaker 1: get some feedback, and if the feedback was positive, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go with it. If the feedback is what it is,
Speaker 1: which is currently not positive, then they'll just say we
Speaker 1: we didn't that, that wasn't us. That's not us. I
Speaker 1: don't think I've seen anything positive about it. There hasn't
Speaker 1: been any positive feed regarding it. It's interesting. It look
Speaker 1: it almost looks like if they took the two teams
Speaker 1: and try to make one logo. It's it's I think,
Speaker 1: just go back the old rams, like the old Rams
Speaker 1: held away in the old school. Let's go back to that.
Speaker 1: Let's go Chargers, powder Blue and and call it a day.
Speaker 1: But that's just me. Joe. Joe is back. Joe took
Speaker 1: so Joe needed a little reset time. Joe wanted. He's
Speaker 1: had a tough season. He's he's worked really hard. He's
Speaker 1: looking at the logo. He worked really hard this year
Speaker 1: and he um, and we're gonna get to how we
Speaker 1: have someone replacing you in the studio by the way. Um.
Speaker 1: But but he worked really hard this year and he
Speaker 1: needs a little arn our. So he went to Costa Rica.
Speaker 1: How is Costa Rica? Joe was Costa Rica was amazing,
Speaker 1: So much fun. I've never been. I've never been, so
Speaker 1: you know, based on your Instagram stories, it looked like
Speaker 1: you were you know, there was a lot of um
Speaker 1: me times, some meditation, there was you were you you
Speaker 1: actually you found a jiu jitsu gym and you were
Speaker 1: able to practice chi kickboxing, some surfing, did some you know,
Speaker 1: hiking up to the waterfalls, drank just a little bit,
Speaker 1: just a little bit, just a little partying, little partying. Um,
Speaker 1: what is the what is the kind of the setup?
Speaker 1: Like where you were, you were staying in a hotel,
Speaker 1: You're staying villaver BnB right on like right on the ocean.
Speaker 1: What are prices to get houses and stuff down so cheap?
Speaker 1: Like I got a week in a really nice modern
Speaker 1: place right on the water ocean view for my bead
Speaker 1: bucks for the week. I feel like I feel like
Speaker 1: travel right now. Coronavirus is definitely impacting prices, and you
Speaker 1: probably um getting that well, I do think. Look, Joe's
Speaker 1: Joe's a half glass, uh glass, half full type of guy.
Speaker 1: So he's looking at the palm to um it is.
Speaker 1: It certainly is impacting travel and and um, but I'm
Speaker 1: glad to see you at a nice time glad to
Speaker 1: see your back in one piece. We were working. We
Speaker 1: were working as usual, going right from college NFL to XFL,
Speaker 1: and and we actually had our first XFL officiating controversy
Speaker 1: this past weekend. And so just kind of breaking it down,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. Um, so the end of the Seattle Houston game,
Speaker 1: and I think we anticis debated. Look, the timing rules
Speaker 1: are different, and Houston had a first down I think,
Speaker 1: with like one thirteen on the clock and Seattle was
Speaker 1: out of time outs, which normally in college in the NFL,
Speaker 1: you could run out the clock and take a knee. Um,
Speaker 1: in the XFL you can't. And it just it really
Speaker 1: underscored the the uniqueness of the rule and what you
Speaker 1: do have to do some different things because you can't
Speaker 1: just take a knee. So what they did was they
Speaker 1: took a knee first down, second down, third down. So
Speaker 1: now on fourth down, they're they're snapping the ball with
Speaker 1: about four seconds left and p J. Walker, the quarterback Walker,
Speaker 1: he takes the snap and takes a knee on fourth down,
Speaker 1: and there's two seconds on the clock. The clock operator,
Speaker 1: let's time expire, and there really should have been two
Speaker 1: seconds on the clock, and they weren't. They were at
Speaker 1: like their own twenty three yard line, and and so
Speaker 1: it's Seattle should have, should have and traveled is doing
Speaker 1: the thing that I hate. I absolutely hate it, because
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell he's doing, and he's
Speaker 1: taking his computer and he's churning it towards me, and
Speaker 1: he's like trying to do sign language and point it.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're trying to tell me, and
Speaker 1: you're breaking my my train of thought. So stop it
Speaker 1: focused focused anyway, I thought. So anyway, games should have
Speaker 1: been stopped and they should have put time back on
Speaker 1: the clock. And so we're in the studio and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to call the replay booth and they're not picking up,
Speaker 1: and Travis knows like trying. I was kind of frantic
Speaker 1: at that point, almost as bad as you were. Just there, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: And by the time we were we were able to
Speaker 1: communicate with the replay booth. Look, they just missed it.
Speaker 1: We missed it, um And by that time the teams
Speaker 1: have left the field and it was gonna be I
Speaker 1: made the decision at that point with the communication that
Speaker 1: we had in place, it was going to be a big,
Speaker 1: big deal. To try to get these teams back out
Speaker 1: for one play. Um, and I thought that would be
Speaker 1: more of a kind of like looked at as more
Speaker 1: of a this discombobulated effort, and I didn't want that
Speaker 1: to be what people took away from it. And so look,
Speaker 1: game over, we blew it and we'll deal with it.
Speaker 1: And that's ultimately what happened. And the XFL put out
Speaker 1: a statement which I think people were were pretty like
Speaker 1: the response to this statement was was over the general publish.
Speaker 1: Yeah you so the XFL we put out a statement
Speaker 1: and crafted this statement that hey, look here's what happened,
Speaker 1: here's what should have happened. We made a mistake, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, we regret the error. The officiarty supervisor unfortunately
Speaker 1: will be reassigned. And and that was it, and and
Speaker 1: it kind of put the whole deal to bed. And
Speaker 1: people said, okay that you know, we appreciate that you
Speaker 1: you owned up to it and and we can move
Speaker 1: Vaughan and and there was a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: the social media and again that's it's part of the deal.
Speaker 1: Obviously people are gonna say, well, I wish the NFL
Speaker 1: would do that. And one guy, actually one guy actually
Speaker 1: tweeted me, Hey, Dean Blandino and his goons can learn
Speaker 1: something from the XFL. I was like, I was this part.
Speaker 1: I was part of this whole deal. So how do
Speaker 1: you think they should handle that last two seconds? Well,
Speaker 1: if the teams are already gone off the field and everything,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do bring everyone back, which which
Speaker 1: was an option and I've been a part of that,
Speaker 1: and that's what was going through my mind. Like I
Speaker 1: remember there was a game in in Foxboro, the old
Speaker 1: you know, before they went to Gillette, and it was
Speaker 1: it was um they brought they brought the teams back
Speaker 1: out after they reversed a call or replay, got involved
Speaker 1: on something at the end of the game. It took
Speaker 1: him like almost a half hour to get everybody back
Speaker 1: and it was just a complete shit show. And that
Speaker 1: was what was going through my mind and saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: how are we even going to accomplished this? And the
Speaker 1: officials were in the locker room, it was just you know, look,
Speaker 1: we missed it, we blew it, and we've got to
Speaker 1: be better and we'll learn from it. And it's just
Speaker 1: it's just one of those things. And as long as
Speaker 1: you know, as long as you you're involved in officiating,
Speaker 1: there's going to be some controversy. There's going to be
Speaker 1: some issue that comes up. And uh, you know, it
Speaker 1: was interesting just just walking through it and obviously just
Speaker 1: trying to put some you know, we do have communication
Speaker 1: in place from me in the in the I'm in
Speaker 1: the l A, the Fox Sports studio. We do have communication. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we're going to add another layer so we don't get
Speaker 1: into a situation where I can't communicate, especially at the
Speaker 1: end of the game. Was going to be my new job.
Speaker 1: No I'm the other layer. No, you're not the other layer.
Speaker 1: But but it did. I was. It was interesting. I
Speaker 1: was talking to I have a one of my mentors
Speaker 1: um at the NFL is a man named Joel Busser.
Speaker 1: And Joel was the head of player personnelity the NFL
Speaker 1: Office for a long long time and then was pretty
Speaker 1: much the lead on the Competition Committee from the league
Speaker 1: office standpoint. And uh, and I've known him. I started
Speaker 1: at the League office when I was twenty three, and
Speaker 1: Joel took me under his wing, and I've learned so
Speaker 1: much from him. And I was talking to him about
Speaker 1: what happened and just kind of asking his advice, and
Speaker 1: he told me about a play in a in a NFL.
Speaker 1: I think it was a playoff game, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was like in the fifties where the fifties or
Speaker 1: sixties where it was fourth down and the team on
Speaker 1: offense was behind, and they threw a pass into the
Speaker 1: end zone and a fan was on the field knocked
Speaker 1: the pass down, like ran out to the field, knocked
Speaker 1: the pass down and kept running and nobody picked it up,
Speaker 1: like nobody realized that it was a fan. And because
Speaker 1: back then, he said, the security was not the same
Speaker 1: where fans would be on the field, not in the
Speaker 1: playing field, but on the physical field, like you know,
Speaker 1: out of bounds. And this guy just ran on the field,
Speaker 1: knocked down the pass, kept running and no one realized
Speaker 1: it till the next day when the coaches were watching
Speaker 1: their you know, sixteen millimeter game film, and I said,
Speaker 1: could you imagine that happening today, Like, you know, imagine
Speaker 1: like Chiefs Patriots playoff game and it's fourth down and
Speaker 1: Brady drops back to throw and and Edelman's wide opening
Speaker 1: some fan in like a Chief jersey, like the fan
Speaker 1: dressed up like Andy Reid, like comes down pass down, insane.
Speaker 1: It happened. It happened. I looked it up. It says
Speaker 1: November three. It was a Patriots game at AFL game
Speaker 1: at Nickerson Field in Boston versus the Dallas Texans. That's insane.
Speaker 1: What does it say. It's just it's aid fan ran
Speaker 1: on the field, um joins Patriots defense. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: Maybe you should turn your laptop so I'm not doing
Speaker 1: that good. That's why you have the laptop in front
Speaker 1: of you. You take some initiative, Travis. You have the laptop,
Speaker 1: you have all you have, all of the world's information
Speaker 1: at your fingertips. Take some initiaip I thought I was
Speaker 1: just going to share it with you while you were talking,
Speaker 1: to give you the time and the plays, like I
Speaker 1: was giving the play by play before. So it says
Speaker 1: the man in the trench coat ran into the end
Speaker 1: of the trench coat, so he knew like he was
Speaker 1: trying to he he was clearly trying to blend in
Speaker 1: because that's what you do on a football field and
Speaker 1: a trench cut. He said, he made the final play
Speaker 1: of the game. That's so good. He was wearing a
Speaker 1: trench cut like that's like the dude, he's talking to
Speaker 1: his friends. He's like, dude, don't ever see why because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna whear the trench coat. Oh, the trench coat.
Speaker 1: He just blend in. You just blend in, and he
Speaker 1: just I guess back then though, in the sixties, maybe
Speaker 1: like the security personnel had trench coats. Maybe that's how
Speaker 1: he blend in. What I love is looking at old
Speaker 1: NFL films footage of like the Steelers games of the seventies,
Speaker 1: and he had like the station wagon, the wood penal
Speaker 1: station parked on the side of the field. It's so amazing.
Speaker 1: I I really wish we could go back any more
Speaker 1: cars on this, Like just like how about like bringing
Speaker 1: the guy smoking a cigarette on the bench, like just
Speaker 1: just puffing away on the bed, like I don't care,
Speaker 1: Like look, I don't smoking kids, smoking is not good
Speaker 1: for you, but it does look cool, like it it
Speaker 1: clearly that some of those pictures look pretty damn cool,
Speaker 1: like of of you know, a guy in the locker
Speaker 1: room or you know, on the bench smoking it. That
Speaker 1: was back when it was l right, it was it
Speaker 1: was cool, cool cigarettes. That was the whole point. Like
Speaker 1: I never ever, like I'll tell my boys like don't
Speaker 1: don't not smoke because it's not cool. Here's a picture
Speaker 1: of a long after after eighteen years of smoking. Here's
Speaker 1: why you don't smoke. Or those commercials, they did a
Speaker 1: great job. Remember those commercials with the anti smoking commercials
Speaker 1: with a guy like that that is yes, like show
Speaker 1: that that will stop me from smoking? Like that? Just
Speaker 1: play that at bars to when guys drinking and your
Speaker 1: inhibitions are down a bit and you want to go
Speaker 1: have a dart out in the parking lot. So what
Speaker 1: we did, though, we did we did realize that I
Speaker 1: took my son, my nine year old son, Luca, to
Speaker 1: the studio on Sunday and he was running the video.
Speaker 1: And we realized that of the two people that did
Speaker 1: it before Janita, who listening before Joe? What's up, Genita,
Speaker 1: if you're listening and Joe does it now that Luca
Speaker 1: is far and away better than both of you, Like
Speaker 1: far and away better than both of you. Like he's
Speaker 1: not good. He's not as good at getting water free,
Speaker 1: not as good as getting water. Here's Joe, you have him,
Speaker 1: You have him your light years ahead of him getting
Speaker 1: water because he would get water from me and he
Speaker 1: would put stuff in it. He put like creamer and
Speaker 1: like trying to play a joke on me. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: loved the water machine. The water. He loves a water machine.
Speaker 1: But he wouldn't just bring me water. He would put
Speaker 1: stuff in it because he thinks he's funny. And how
Speaker 1: many bottles have we saved at this point? Did anyone check?
Speaker 1: I haven't checked in one got to be in the
Speaker 1: half a mill, I don't know. But somebody jacked my
Speaker 1: water bottle. Oh the nerve. Somebody jacked it on Saturday
Speaker 1: the first week with my initials on it. With all
Speaker 1: the coronavirus stuff that you're going to steal a water bottle,
Speaker 1: it seems like a weird time. Meanwhile, the in d C,
Speaker 1: have you seen the d so they're talking about XFL
Speaker 1: have you that's a cool tradition. And when you talk
Speaker 1: about traditions and what people like happen organically, d C
Speaker 1: now has this super cool tradition. Now I know they've
Speaker 1: only had like three home games, but it's called then
Speaker 1: So they take the beer cups and they build it
Speaker 1: throughout the game to see how long they can make it.
Speaker 1: Here our commissioner took a cup and and it was
Speaker 1: great though, because because we can hear that video. It's
Speaker 1: so cool. But it was funny because I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: name names, but one of our one of our on
Speaker 1: air talent, during the break, they were showing it and
Speaker 1: they were they were getting ready to show it on
Speaker 1: the air, and one of our on the towns like, yeah,
Speaker 1: spreading coronavirus once couple of times. But so let's talk
Speaker 1: about what the statement said, because Joe doesn't know what
Speaker 1: the statement said because he didn't see that, and see
Speaker 1: if he likes what could possibly happen with the last
Speaker 1: two seconds of that game, Well, the statement didn't, so
Speaker 1: one of the discussions, so we were discussing, okay, let's
Speaker 1: put out a statement. Um, let's own up to it.
Speaker 1: But one of the discussion points was, you know Seattle
Speaker 1: in Houston play in week ten of the regular season,
Speaker 1: so do you do you play the last two seconds
Speaker 1: the last two seconds of the game before. That's not
Speaker 1: a bad idea. It was definitely discussed. I don't know
Speaker 1: if ultimately that's going to happen, but I think definitely,
Speaker 1: I think it was definitely discussed, and so it would
Speaker 1: be it would be interesting to have that, to have
Speaker 1: that that conversation and see how that's gonna go. Can
Speaker 1: I say something about the play calling at the end, Yes, Travis,
Speaker 1: you can. Here's the thing, it's a podcast. You can
Speaker 1: have whatever. You can say whatever you want, Travis say it.
Speaker 1: Houston's playing was awful. Okay, So here's I went back.
Speaker 1: I went back and watched the tape, the TV copy,
Speaker 1: and here's what. And I think it was just please
Speaker 1: don't turn it towards I think the timing, the timing
Speaker 1: rules are still everybody's still getting used to them. You
Speaker 1: can never remember the the head coach or the play caller.
Speaker 1: Can what are you doing? Really, you're really distracting me.
Speaker 1: Stop cup snake. Okay, stop the Caucasian rattle snake needs
Speaker 1: to stop any time we're talking snakes, you know. Like, so,
Speaker 1: the the play caller, and June Jones, who's the head
Speaker 1: coach of Houston, is the play caller. He can communicate
Speaker 1: with the quarterback and all scale position players at any point.
Speaker 1: So if you watch the TV copy, he's trying to
Speaker 1: tell p J Walker to throw the ball away. He's
Speaker 1: just before the snap. He says, throw it over their bench,
Speaker 1: throw it over their bench, And obviously p J didn't either,
Speaker 1: didn't hear it or didn't process it because he just
Speaker 1: took a knee, But Joan June did tell him it
Speaker 1: was late. But he did tell him because what you
Speaker 1: do in that situation. Watch the Super Bowl. What did
Speaker 1: the Chiefs do at the end of the game when
Speaker 1: they're trying to run out, run out the clock? My
Speaker 1: homes just run and ran out and just threw it
Speaker 1: as far as he as he needed to throw it.
Speaker 1: And that's what And I'll do it tape this week
Speaker 1: for the coaches. I do want every week for the
Speaker 1: coaching steps. And I'll show you know a couple of examples. Hey, look,
Speaker 1: I know the rules are different. I know we're all
Speaker 1: getting used to them. No excuse on the officiating side.
Speaker 1: We gotta make sure we get it. But we want
Speaker 1: to avoid this situation altogether. Here's what you can do.
Speaker 1: You could even you could take the snap, drop back,
Speaker 1: let time expire, and then just spike the ball on
Speaker 1: the ground. It's intentional grounding, but it doesn't extend the game.
Speaker 1: The game's still over. So you can do all of
Speaker 1: those things versus taking a knee and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to run out the clock and not and and
Speaker 1: and risking having time on the clock. So interesting situation. Um,
Speaker 1: let's go to a break. We come back, we're shift gears.
Speaker 1: We'll talk NFL, c b A, NFL rules change proposals,
Speaker 1: next on good calls. All right, we're back, good calls.
Speaker 1: Let's shift gears. Let's go to NFL. Obviously, the big
Speaker 1: thing right now is the c b A. It is
Speaker 1: out for a vote. Um, and and I wish you
Speaker 1: let the music go a little longer. I really like
Speaker 1: the hearer want to listen to the podcast. Just put it.
Speaker 1: Don't you have it in your phone? You can listen
Speaker 1: to it. Go work out and listen to the to
Speaker 1: the music. We were We were also talking about how
Speaker 1: shitty an audio guy you were, because you don't we
Speaker 1: have we have how many sound effects and he never
Speaker 1: uses them? We have a total looks like eight over there.
Speaker 1: Every time there's a whistle opportunity, you miss it. Every
Speaker 1: time there's like I don't know what what what? Other
Speaker 1: if they're impromptu jokes, how am I supposed to know
Speaker 1: when to hit the buttom anyway? All right, so the
Speaker 1: cb A vote, it's out for a vote. What seems
Speaker 1: to be the deal and they just extended it. Why
Speaker 1: did they say just extended it. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: interesting deal is not done when I don't Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the extension was about. But now I
Speaker 1: think it's extended through Saturday. Is that I thought I
Speaker 1: heard Monday? Can you pull that up, Travis? You have
Speaker 1: the computer, just turn it towards him and you don't
Speaker 1: turn it toward But what seems to me, what why,
Speaker 1: I guess, seems to be that this this deal, there's
Speaker 1: in the NFL, right, there's the haves and the have mores,
Speaker 1: I guess, and and so what the whether it's six
Speaker 1: of the players who are on a minimum salary, that
Speaker 1: this deal is really good for that core group of players.
Speaker 1: You know that that those minimum salaries are going to
Speaker 1: get a big bump, that all of those things for
Speaker 1: that core group of players, this is this seems to
Speaker 1: be a good deal. Whereas the you know that whatever
Speaker 1: it is, whatever that number is of your superstar players,
Speaker 1: this deal is not as good. And I think what
Speaker 1: the consensus is, and that's what the negotiating committee from
Speaker 1: the NFL p A side did was there. They're they're
Speaker 1: trying to get a deal that's going to help the
Speaker 1: largest percentage of their membership and uh. And so if
Speaker 1: I would have to guess, my guess would be that
Speaker 1: this deal is going to pass. They only have to
Speaker 1: get they only have to get plus one and uh
Speaker 1: and so I would imagine that this would pass because
Speaker 1: of the deal being positive for that core group of players. Um,
Speaker 1: but you are going to have a very loud minority
Speaker 1: of players like you're you know, even whether Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: just spoken out about it and some others who have
Speaker 1: spoken out about it. But I do think that the
Speaker 1: core group of players that ultimately will carry the day.
Speaker 1: Those guys carry more weight because they're kind of the
Speaker 1: bigger names. No, I mean, you get one vote. So
Speaker 1: if there's if there's two thousand players in the league,
Speaker 1: then there's two thousand votes and everybody gets one vote
Speaker 1: and uh, and that's how it works. That seems to
Speaker 1: make a whole lot of sense. Maybe the United States
Speaker 1: government should should do that. Attention. I don't know what
Speaker 1: Travis is looking up like he's trying to solve the
Speaker 1: uh A can aligebra problem over here in his computer.
Speaker 1: What what are you looking at, Drews. We're just looking
Speaker 1: at We were just looking for the for the date.
Speaker 1: I was just waiting for you guys to finish, to
Speaker 1: jump in. You just speak, all right, let's go to
Speaker 1: let's go to do the playing rules proposals. So I
Speaker 1: have in front of me the playing rule proposals for
Speaker 1: that are submitted by the clubs, So teams can submit
Speaker 1: playing rule proposals. These will get discussed the competition committees
Speaker 1: meeting on on beginning on March twenty one down in Florida, Naples, Florida.
Speaker 1: And then the league meeting will start on the twenty nine.
Speaker 1: That's when they'll have more discussions and then they'll actually
Speaker 1: vote on on any of these proposals that make it,
Speaker 1: that don't that don't get withdrawn. So the first proposal
Speaker 1: I have is from Philadelphia. This this is an expansion
Speaker 1: or an edit to the blindside block rule. And uh
Speaker 1: and so what this what this does is it changes
Speaker 1: the language to say that, uh, it's a FOULVA player
Speaker 1: initiates a block when his path is toward a parallel
Speaker 1: to his own end line and makes forcible contact with
Speaker 1: his former shoulder to an opponent who cannot reasonably expect
Speaker 1: such contact. And uh, and so what this does is
Speaker 1: it it it makes it. It makes it a little
Speaker 1: less um, it makes a little broader. And this is
Speaker 1: more or less the College rule. The College rule says
Speaker 1: that that when a player can anticipate that contact, then
Speaker 1: it's a blind side blog and the NFL has tried
Speaker 1: to create a more of a black and white rule
Speaker 1: where this makes it. It adds an element of discretion
Speaker 1: on the officials part to say, Okay, that player can
Speaker 1: reasonably expect that contact in that posture, in that position.
Speaker 1: This player can't. And I think you go back to
Speaker 1: the block in the in the Texans Bills playoff game
Speaker 1: where it was I think it was Cody Parker, the
Speaker 1: Bills offensive lineman. It was a big play in the game,
Speaker 1: got penalized for a blind side block and then they
Speaker 1: moved out of field goal range fifteen yards and a
Speaker 1: lot of people felt like that defender in that position
Speaker 1: should have been able to expect that contact and it
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been a fact. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: this language does. So that's that's playing rule proposal one
Speaker 1: playing rule proposal too. It just makes the change from
Speaker 1: last year that UM any try is automatically review you will,
Speaker 1: But last year that was a one year change Um.
Speaker 1: This just makes it makes it a permanent rule which
Speaker 1: will pass. UM. This one's interesting. This is a playing
Speaker 1: Real proposal Number three. This is an alternative to the
Speaker 1: onside kick. Basically, what this says is that a team
Speaker 1: can can elect to retain to possession no more than
Speaker 1: two times during the game, and you can notify the
Speaker 1: referee that you're going to forego a kickoff or a
Speaker 1: safety kick, and the ball will be placed at the
Speaker 1: twenty five yard line and you got one play and
Speaker 1: it's a fourth and fifteen. Basically, this is kind of
Speaker 1: the same thing the Broncos. This is basically what the Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is what the Broncos proposed last year. This is
Speaker 1: what the the Alliance of American Football had a similar
Speaker 1: It was a fourth and twelve play from the twenty eight.
Speaker 1: So this is getting rid of the onsete kick and
Speaker 1: making a fourth and fifteen the way that you retain possession. Um,
Speaker 1: Joe's got a quizzical look, Joe, what what's your what's
Speaker 1: your thought on that? I'm just thinking, I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to understand what you're saying. So maybe if you had
Speaker 1: put your phone down earlier and you list into the
Speaker 1: whole conversation is not even on the table. Did you
Speaker 1: lose in Costa Rica? So, oh god, if he did
Speaker 1: lose my wallet, actually yeah, but that he's not nearly
Speaker 1: as upset if he would lose his phone. Forget it.
Speaker 1: So what this does is it takes the onside kick out.
Speaker 1: You can go for a fourth and fifteen. I don't
Speaker 1: think this really, I don't think this has a chance.
Speaker 1: I think you look at the onside kick um this
Speaker 1: past season and it was, you know, up over ten
Speaker 1: percent in terms of success rate on the expected on side,
Speaker 1: and I think the league is comfortable with that. I
Speaker 1: just this is a I'm not gonna say gimmick because
Speaker 1: it's still a football play, but it it does. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a big departure from what we're used to
Speaker 1: and and I know the onside kick is is not
Speaker 1: an easy play to execute. You know, you do have
Speaker 1: safety concerns, but their safety concerns on every play. But this,
Speaker 1: this is a proposal. Um. I think putting a cap
Speaker 1: on it it too, makes it a little less gimmicky
Speaker 1: because then it's like you're not up twenty eight points
Speaker 1: with two minutes to go, and now all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he's a team scores and they're able to do
Speaker 1: it three times in a row. On you are the
Speaker 1: statistics about statistics about the same converting it fo Yeah,
Speaker 1: the fourth and fifteen that's where you that's where you
Speaker 1: kind of you would want it to be a distance
Speaker 1: that is is you know, in the same area, same
Speaker 1: ballpark as the onset kick conversion. So you know, a
Speaker 1: fourth and fifteen play is probably a ten eleven percent play.
Speaker 1: It's not a it's not a it's not a very
Speaker 1: high percentage that you're converting on on on fourth and fifteen.
Speaker 1: I think it's cool just to kind of that they're
Speaker 1: looking at just changing a couple of things. You know,
Speaker 1: i'd love to seat in the preseason. Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 1: I think that you could. And what happens in these
Speaker 1: and what happens in this process is the competition can
Speaker 1: be discusses it and then a team can elect to
Speaker 1: withdraw the proposal, or the competition committee could take the proposal,
Speaker 1: um edit it and propose it themselves, or they could say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna withdraw it and we're gonna test it in
Speaker 1: the preseason. All of that's on the table. So I
Speaker 1: think that's Uh, that's something that that you will you
Speaker 1: may see. This next playing rule proposal is very interesting.
Speaker 1: This is overtime. And we've talked about overtime and getting
Speaker 1: away from the from the the coin toss, and so
Speaker 1: what this does is it says if the score is
Speaker 1: tied at the end of regulation um of any game,
Speaker 1: that the team that scored the that scored more touchdowns
Speaker 1: during regulation um will basically get the get the choice.
Speaker 1: So if you scored more touchdowns than your opponent, you
Speaker 1: get the choice. UM. And if the teams scored saying,
Speaker 1: then we go to a coin toss. So this is
Speaker 1: this is this is trying to take the the chance
Speaker 1: out of it and saying you earned this opportunity like that. UM,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of I I get it. I get the idea. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it adds another layer, it adds Okay, now
Speaker 1: we gotta keep trying. The city had two touchdowns that
Speaker 1: you know, the Rams had three. Whatever it is to me.
Speaker 1: The on to see the solve is and look, when
Speaker 1: you're home, you get the choice. When you're on the road,
Speaker 1: you don't. End of the story, you get eight home games,
Speaker 1: you get eight on the road. In the playoffs or
Speaker 1: you know, who knows now if we're going to seventeen,
Speaker 1: but if in the postseason you earn home field advantage,
Speaker 1: and so you get so the home team gets the
Speaker 1: choice to start the game and in overtime, and that's
Speaker 1: that's your So that's how I see it. I get it.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think the numbers necessarily it's very
Speaker 1: it's a very small percentage of of games that end
Speaker 1: with the team winning the toss and scoring touchdown on
Speaker 1: the first drive. It's it's probably um maybe even less
Speaker 1: than that in recent recent years. But I don't think that.
Speaker 1: You know, the argument about the chance of the coin
Speaker 1: tols is not going away. Both teams having possession, you know,
Speaker 1: that's not going away. I still like sudden death, and
Speaker 1: I and I, you know, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: if we should get into some kind of a statistic
Speaker 1: goal um area to kind of figure it out. The
Speaker 1: other part of this proposal is to go back to
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes in regular season over time, so go from
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen, which is interesting because they went from
Speaker 1: fifteen to ten for um safety reasons, and now to
Speaker 1: go back to fifteen, you're saying, okay, the safety isn't
Speaker 1: as important as both teams getting a possession, So that's interesting. UM.
Speaker 1: And the next one, this is kind of a starting
Speaker 1: the game clock. So after this two minute warning of
Speaker 1: the first half and after five minutes inside five minutes
Speaker 1: of the second half, UM, the clock starts on the
Speaker 1: snap after a penalty, whether it's decline or accepted. And
Speaker 1: this is this is a proposal from Miami. They they
Speaker 1: would say that the defense could elect to have the
Speaker 1: game clocks start on the ready for play. And so
Speaker 1: what this what this is is the offense is behind,
Speaker 1: they out of time outs, we're inside five minutes of
Speaker 1: the four worth quarter, and there's a penalty on the offense. Well,
Speaker 1: they gain a time out in that situation because the
Speaker 1: clock is going to start on the snap. Well, the
Speaker 1: counter to that, as a team isn't going to intentionally
Speaker 1: foul during a down, They're not gonna hold to stop
Speaker 1: the clock because any game that you get is going
Speaker 1: to get negate and you're gonna lose ten yards. But
Speaker 1: it does accidentally happen and work out for the offense
Speaker 1: where they gained that advantage. So I get where Miami's
Speaker 1: coming from. And UH, and it's interesting because why that
Speaker 1: rule is why why do you think why do you
Speaker 1: think the game clock? Let's see how let's see let's
Speaker 1: tell how smart you are both of you? And I
Speaker 1: know and I already know there's different levels of intelligence
Speaker 1: in this room. And um and and funny comedy. That
Speaker 1: might have been the best line, the best time, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, Yes, that might have been the best line,
Speaker 1: the best timing that Travis has had since I've known him.
Speaker 1: That was That's the funniest thing he's ever said. That's
Speaker 1: up there. So it's the most intentionally funny thing he
Speaker 1: said that. He said some pretty unintentionally funny things. Um,
Speaker 1: so why does why does inside two and inside five?
Speaker 1: Does the clock start on the snap after a penalty?
Speaker 1: Why do you think the NFL put that rule in?
Speaker 1: And that rule has been in for a long time.
Speaker 1: Is that when um out of bounce stops the clock? Correct?
Speaker 1: Same thing? Yeah, so that's why. Yeah, to not give Actually,
Speaker 1: what's the reasons? What's the reason not extra to give
Speaker 1: no extra time outs to the offense? Right, no extra
Speaker 1: time outs? No, No, that's what it does. It stops
Speaker 1: the clock and it and it and it starts on
Speaker 1: the snap outside two minutes outside five. If there's a
Speaker 1: running play and there's a hold, the clock stops to
Speaker 1: enforce the hold, and then the clock starts on the
Speaker 1: ready for play because it was running and the foul
Speaker 1: is the only reason that stopped the clock. Once we
Speaker 1: get inside two or inside five five, whether it was
Speaker 1: running or not, it's always gonna start on the snap.
Speaker 1: There are exceptions ten second runoff things like that, so
Speaker 1: it's always going to start on the snap. So the
Speaker 1: offense that's ahead, they can't run forty seconds off the
Speaker 1: game flock. It's gonna start on the snap. So the
Speaker 1: defense same thing. Um. The reason is it conserves plays
Speaker 1: in those in those time frames, and those time frames
Speaker 1: are typically when the offense is trying to score points
Speaker 1: there behind. It promotes closer games, that promotes more exciting finishes.
Speaker 1: When you can serve plays in those in that two
Speaker 1: in that five window, it provides the offense and opportunity
Speaker 1: to come back, and it creates closer games. That's the reason. Okay,
Speaker 1: moving on, I have a question for you. Did anyone
Speaker 1: propose anything to stop that um debacle that happened in
Speaker 1: that paper? They're gonna they're gonna propose a they're gonna
Speaker 1: propose a role to make that on sportsmanlike UM. Last
Speaker 1: two proposals before we take a break. So this is interesting.
Speaker 1: Baltimore and l A Chargers have posed two different concepts
Speaker 1: and this concept is a sky judge concept. So the
Speaker 1: first concept is there are eight officials on the crew.
Speaker 1: So right now we have seven on field. This is
Speaker 1: adding an eighth official, and the eighth official will will
Speaker 1: be um in in a in a booth and have
Speaker 1: the ability um to create an officiating advisor's position somewhere
Speaker 1: else other than the playing field, has full communication to
Speaker 1: the on field officials and has access to a television
Speaker 1: monitor and can just and can look at all the angles.
Speaker 1: So in essence, an eighth member of the crew that
Speaker 1: can help in essence, the same thing the XFL is doing.
Speaker 1: And then the other one. This just really it just
Speaker 1: creates UM. They're just calling it different. They're calling it
Speaker 1: the Senior Technology Advisor to the referee. Okay, let's see
Speaker 1: how good you guys are. What's the acronym. It's the
Speaker 1: Senior Technology Advisor to the Referee to the referee Star Star.
Speaker 1: There you go, referee. So this star is also is
Speaker 1: is located and replay booth has access to the video technology,
Speaker 1: can hear what the officials are doing and can help
Speaker 1: out in different areas game administration, possession um, location of
Speaker 1: the football in relation to a boundary line or the
Speaker 1: goal line. Uh so interesting teams are they want to
Speaker 1: see some form of a video official and uh and
Speaker 1: I think this will be a very interesting conversation as
Speaker 1: the Competition Committee meets. I'm curious as to where they
Speaker 1: land on this. Who are those people going to be
Speaker 1: Ultimately what responsibilities will they have? You know, the XFL
Speaker 1: we've we've kind of carved out players, safety throughout the
Speaker 1: game and in the last five minutes of the game, anything.
Speaker 1: And it'll be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Speaker 1: But those are proposed proposals by Baltimore and the Chargers.
Speaker 1: So and the next league meeting is I see March
Speaker 1: eighteenth is the lead meetings on the twenty nine. I
Speaker 1: said that earlier you weren't listening, but you probably you
Speaker 1: were setting up your joke. You were just waiting, you
Speaker 1: waiting for that joke. All right, let's uh, let's take
Speaker 1: a break and we come back. We're gonna go inside
Speaker 1: the cube. We've got a couple of things coming up
Speaker 1: and uh, oh yeah, we're gonna talk a little uh
Speaker 1: we're talking a little food coming up next on food calls.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back on good calls. Ian Blandino and
Speaker 1: crew were I made a I made a comment earlier
Speaker 1: that there's different levels of intelligence in this room, and
Speaker 1: there are we're all we're all like there's we all
Speaker 1: have good things and bad things about us about us
Speaker 1: Summer you know more, you know, intelligent than others. Travis
Speaker 1: has a lot of street smarts. But we decided, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're very competitive and we've had this ongoing thing about
Speaker 1: who has the best uber rating. Pretty sure I do
Speaker 1: at this point, and a tastress next to Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: there's no asterisks. So you're rating is you're rating, and
Speaker 1: it's an indication of of of who you are as
Speaker 1: a person, by the way. So we decided that we
Speaker 1: were gonna we're gonna we're all gonna take a wonder
Speaker 1: like exam and we'll reveal we'll do it in the
Speaker 1: next week or two and we'll reveal the scores. Now,
Speaker 1: the wonder Like that's a cognitive exam that that the
Speaker 1: NFL has been using for draft eligible players, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of like, okay, if if it's it's it's a
Speaker 1: lot of you have to work through problems, analytical problems
Speaker 1: like if Bobby has three apples and Sarah has six apples,
Speaker 1: and and Marcia has eight apples and blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah how many apples you know whatever, It's not
Speaker 1: that simple, but it's definitely needs scratch paper for Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got to work through some some some problems. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna do a wonder like test. We're gonna see
Speaker 1: who who has the highest i Q. It was funny
Speaker 1: because one of the things having a nine year old
Speaker 1: you kind of learned some of the lingo um that
Speaker 1: is going around. I'm sure Joe you've experienced this. Your
Speaker 1: kids are you know, in that same age range. And um,
Speaker 1: the Travis's kids just keep him up at night. And
Speaker 1: so Luca, Luca had he was in the studio and
Speaker 1: Travis we had that you know, we have that snack
Speaker 1: table in the back and Travis was like, oh, the
Speaker 1: snacks are loaded, and Luca was like spring loaded. So
Speaker 1: so that's like loaded. That's another level, Like it's another
Speaker 1: that's that's like you're on a whole another level loaded
Speaker 1: and spring loaded. So now Joe, the next time you
Speaker 1: have a little too much to drink, I'm gonna double chat.
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you loaded or are you spring loaded?
Speaker 1: And then the other thing he keeps saying is like
Speaker 1: there's like, if you do something really smart, he's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a two Q move, And if you do something
Speaker 1: really dumb, he's like, oh, that's a zero i Q move.
Speaker 1: And me and Travis are like trying to figure out
Speaker 1: like where we kind of we live in that. Like
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm probably probably in that that's a
Speaker 1: seven the i Q move, you know Joe's and that
Speaker 1: probably in that same range. So you do you do
Speaker 1: pick up the lingo? We did. We had a couple
Speaker 1: of things Travis. So Travis is, I don't know how
Speaker 1: we got on the conversation, but he's do you realize
Speaker 1: Travis likes to sharpen his knives? Okay, were we were
Speaker 1: talking about something inappropriate? I'm pretty sure involving someone who
Speaker 1: tweeted some his uh stockpiling of items he bought at Costco,
Speaker 1: and we were talking about sharpening knives. So o J
Speaker 1: tweeted about so O J tweeted about going to Costco
Speaker 1: and then of course the color comments and Twitter. He
Speaker 1: has to know, like he's trolling the world, like he
Speaker 1: has to know the comments people are gonna make when
Speaker 1: he when he posts that page wearing the mask and
Speaker 1: everything skind of coronavirus and the comments like like, you know,
Speaker 1: my favorite, my favorite, my favorite line was that the
Speaker 1: chances of you killing me are greater than the dying coronavirus.
Speaker 1: So obviously, then we went to we we got on
Speaker 1: the sharpening knives conversation, like you do, and Travis starts
Speaker 1: telling us that he sharpens his knives before using them,
Speaker 1: and he's like, you know, if I'm gonna, if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna like cut grapes, I sharpened my knife and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't think you need to sharpen your
Speaker 1: knife before you're cutting a grape, Like why are you
Speaker 1: do you need the razor sharp edge to cut a grape? Well,
Speaker 1: I was talking about cutting grapes and tomatoes and anything
Speaker 1: with like a harder outside and a softer inside, And
Speaker 1: I'm cutting grapes for my daughter who's a toddler, who
Speaker 1: like grapes are the pediatricians are always talking about how
Speaker 1: grapes are like the worst thing for kids to eat
Speaker 1: because they're you know, they can choke on them. You cut.
Speaker 1: I agree, So when my kids were that age, you
Speaker 1: cut the grapes. But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sitting
Speaker 1: there doing my hans O sword. You've got to sharpen
Speaker 1: the knife so you can can kill. I could sharp
Speaker 1: I could go kill the crazy eight e eight. It's like,
Speaker 1: what the heck did you just scare me? I like
Speaker 1: having a ship in his background, Like he scares the
Speaker 1: get out of me. Like, there's definitely there's one. There's
Speaker 1: definitely there's definitely somebody some that he's sharp with cats. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's sharpening knives before he cuts grapes. What's wrong with knives? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but okay, jumping subjects. Can we get
Speaker 1: a little picture of him? Just I'll take a picture.
Speaker 1: I'll have my wife take it. We we tried, Joe.
Speaker 1: You were here for that when we tried the Popeye's
Speaker 1: chicken sandwich, right, you were. I was a chicken fetcher.
Speaker 1: We we we sent Scott out to check us another
Speaker 1: chicken sandwich, which, in my opinion, was just not as good.
Speaker 1: I will, I won't go back. It was the KFC
Speaker 1: doughnut glazed donut chicken sandwich. That's it was not good.
Speaker 1: That's fair food. Yeah, I was gonna say it was
Speaker 1: something you get it to State Fair and I just
Speaker 1: didn't like. I didn't like the combination. I didn't like.
Speaker 1: I was just not not happy with it. And uh,
Speaker 1: and so don't KFC. It's not gonna last long KFC
Speaker 1: and talk about our own about the same company. We
Speaker 1: should be banning both. Now we're out. I haven't been
Speaker 1: a Taco bell since they eliminated the double decker taco
Speaker 1: And now the chicken out of the bucket was good.
Speaker 1: It was good. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: The chicken was good. But now Popeyes is better, so
Speaker 1: we'll go to We'll go to Popeyes from now. Um
Speaker 1: we did. Then we did get on the conversation of
Speaker 1: like how who was the first person that decided that
Speaker 1: I saw a lobster? Was like that's gonna be good?
Speaker 1: Like who and who was the first person? Like if
Speaker 1: we melt butter and basically a large insect, like it's
Speaker 1: it's it's like, I getassity, I get it. I know,
Speaker 1: we live in this world where I can go like
Speaker 1: I can go to the supermarket and get whatever I want.
Speaker 1: I get it. But who was like saw that thing
Speaker 1: and was like, that's gonna be good. Are you a
Speaker 1: lobster fan? I do like lobster. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: have to have lobster, but I'll rather do steak with
Speaker 1: shrimp over steak and love. I think lobster is a
Speaker 1: little overrated personally. I'm with you on that. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's like I think it's good. Like if if
Speaker 1: I'm at a restaurant there's like a lobster option and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, that'd be good to get it, like
Speaker 1: a lobster towel, but I just find it. You know,
Speaker 1: they used to, like in Maine and New Hampshire, like
Speaker 1: where there's a big lobster population, that they didn't it
Speaker 1: wasn't always like this fancy food. They used to feed
Speaker 1: it to the prisoners at the at the prisons, like
Speaker 1: that's what they used to eating the print and could
Speaker 1: you imagine like the prisoners like, don't don't tell anybody
Speaker 1: likes again again not again. I think one guys like
Speaker 1: this is amazing. Shut why you exactly. Can you get
Speaker 1: one of those little nets that goes around the lemon
Speaker 1: because the seeds keep falling. Um okay. I saw in
Speaker 1: the story from the bangor Daily News Banger Main that
Speaker 1: it was consumed briefly by the royal and aristocratic families
Speaker 1: of France and the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then it was so plentiful that they use it
Speaker 1: as garden fertilizer and uh in the Northeast at one point.
Speaker 1: And then that's around the stay. But the lobster population
Speaker 1: like just like they're like loving it. There's and then
Speaker 1: and then like somebody, oh these are Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: oh we but we taste so good. Like it's not
Speaker 1: gonna it's not gonna work. So the mid nineteenth century
Speaker 1: when it became popular with the New Yorkers and Bostonians,
Speaker 1: so it was like a Northeast thing obviously, Okay, all right, good,
Speaker 1: what's and what's you're taking a lobster roll? I like
Speaker 1: a lobster roll. Lobster roll is good because I just
Speaker 1: like the whole, like the bread is always really good
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, I like it. I like it hot.
Speaker 1: Though never really got into a bunch of spicy hotter
Speaker 1: like piping hot temperature. No, you know what. You know
Speaker 1: what is one of the greatest things on the planet
Speaker 1: is if you go to like Boston or you go
Speaker 1: to even San Francisco, they have it. You get a
Speaker 1: clam chat in the bread bowl with tabasco. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: can we find that here? Can we get that? Got
Speaker 1: the bread bull New England clam chowder it's it's not
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. And the tabasco, Oh my god, the
Speaker 1: mouth is watering. And there's not too far from your place.
Speaker 1: VNS makes a pretty good clam chowder, and you could
Speaker 1: just get a bread bull. Get a bread bull. You
Speaker 1: gotta stay away from those Remember that picked that video
Speaker 1: we're looking at on this weekend? Oh god, it's it's
Speaker 1: a guy at one of those buffets with the ladle
Speaker 1: just drinking soup and then he puts it back and
Speaker 1: walk puts it back. And if I saw that, I
Speaker 1: literally would have beat like, are you kidding me? I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't even have to make a rule because it
Speaker 1: should have already be known, but that guy breaking the
Speaker 1: rule exactly. Finally, boom. We were talking about other weird
Speaker 1: things that people eat and we're talking like people still
Speaker 1: eat squirrels like where you live, like people like that.
Speaker 1: Insects are a great source of protein, like people eat
Speaker 1: bugs all every insects. Yeah, I mean when you're a kid,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean like since you coming to Vault,
Speaker 1: like like I haven't had no, I really haven't been
Speaker 1: anywhere that that's like you know, like crickets on a
Speaker 1: set or something like I've never happened. Was at the
Speaker 1: night market in China? Yeah, I would try. Did you
Speaker 1: put a scorpion down? No? I didn't touch any of
Speaker 1: stuff because they said if you should stay away from
Speaker 1: the grease if you're you're not used to eating that,
Speaker 1: because I guess it can be you know, it's reused
Speaker 1: all the time. So like a friend who's from China,
Speaker 1: she's like, yeah, you guys probably should stay away from that.
Speaker 1: I don't think your stomach should be only handle it.
Speaker 1: I didn't touch it. Do you look like a guy
Speaker 1: with a week's stomach? I can see, Travis, Does this
Speaker 1: have gluten in it? That's I'm telling you glue. I
Speaker 1: still think people in l A are more scared of
Speaker 1: gluten than they are the coronavirus. It's still it's still higher.
Speaker 1: We should put a pole out right. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: let's this is this is a new thing we want
Speaker 1: to try. Okay, so try this, Joe. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you a copy just so you can read along. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't read the script yet. Okay, But Travis, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do an audition Travis, this is this is either movie
Speaker 1: he hasn't Yeah, you can pass that down. Movie. He
Speaker 1: hasn't seen a movie he's seen a long time ago. Okay.
Speaker 1: So Travis is coming in for an audition. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do the read with him. He's gonna be one character.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be another. I'll read with him. Now you
Speaker 1: are auditioning for the part. I'm gonna give you a background.
Speaker 1: So the movie is the movie are auditioning for is
Speaker 1: Good Fellas? Okay with Travis thinks he's watched he's seen
Speaker 1: it years and years ago, unlike the rest of the
Speaker 1: world who's watching it. I was going to watch it
Speaker 1: because it just popped up on Amazon Prime, but it
Speaker 1: was too loud with my son's exactly, there's too much curses.
Speaker 1: So so I'm gonna give you a little background. You're
Speaker 1: reading Good Fellas, this is a this is a a
Speaker 1: mob movie. Okay, this is gonna be a definitely, definitely
Speaker 1: smartin Scorcesey is the director. You're reading one of your
Speaker 1: favorites of Travis. You're at an audition. Who comes in
Speaker 1: and starts talking to in Alright, I'm done. In this scene,
Speaker 1: you're playing You're playing Tommy. Okay, Tommy and Henry are
Speaker 1: having a conversation in a restaurant. Tommy has just told
Speaker 1: a very funny story. Okay, Tommy is is a very
Speaker 1: funny guy. He's just told a very funny story. I'm Henry. Okay.
Speaker 1: My lines are in black, your lines are in red. Okay,
Speaker 1: You're you're Tommy. You're a you're a bloodthirsty killer for
Speaker 1: the mob, but you're you're a kind of a lovable
Speaker 1: bloodthirsty killer. Okay, alright, alright, You're Italian, Italian American. You're
Speaker 1: you're kind of got a little bit of a Napoleon complex.
Speaker 1: You're a little bit shorter in stature. Okay, you're a
Speaker 1: little bit off. You're a little bit off. You're not
Speaker 1: all there. Okay, all right, you're Tommy, I'm Henry. All right,
Speaker 1: here goes. You're a pistol. You're really funny, You're really funny.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? I'm funny? It's funny? You know
Speaker 1: it's a good story. It's funny. You're a fun do
Speaker 1: you guy? What do you mean? You mean the way
Speaker 1: I talk? What? It's just? You know, you're just funny.
Speaker 1: It's funny, the way you tell the story and everything funny?
Speaker 1: How funny? What's funny about it? Tommy? You got it
Speaker 1: all wrong? Oh, Anthony, he's a big boy. He knows
Speaker 1: what he said? What did What did you say? Funny? How? Just? What? Just?
Speaker 1: You know? You're funny? You mean, let me understand this,
Speaker 1: because you know, maybe it's me. I'm a little fucked up. Maybe,
Speaker 1: but I'm funny. How I mean like I'm a clown.
Speaker 1: I moves you, I make you laugh. I'm here to
Speaker 1: fucking amuse you. What do you mean funny? Funny? How?
Speaker 1: How am I funny? You have a worst actor I've
Speaker 1: ever seen? Just you know how you tell the story? What? No, No,
Speaker 1: I don't know you said it? How do I know?
Speaker 1: You said? I'm funny? How the funk am I funny?
Speaker 1: What the funk is funny about me? Tell me? Tell
Speaker 1: me what's funny, Get the funk out of here. Tommy,
Speaker 1: you motherfucker almost had him. I almost had him. He's stuttering, tricky.
Speaker 1: Frankie was he's shaken. I wonder about you sometimes, Henry,
Speaker 1: you may fold under questioning cut. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's if it's his bad acting or his complete unability
Speaker 1: to read that's the issue. Oh my god, that's so.
Speaker 1: That's one of the that's a that's an iconic scene
Speaker 1: in American movie history, and you just set it back
Speaker 1: like a hundred years. It's amazing. You did good. Um,
Speaker 1: you did good. You know what plays that character? Was that? Um?
Speaker 1: He said, well, well, Joe's gonna Joe's the guy that
Speaker 1: just read before you was this this actor? His name
Speaker 1: is Joe Pesci. He's going to get the part. Travis,
Speaker 1: you're not getting the part. But is it because I'm Norwegian? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do that list ways against the Normandy.
Speaker 1: Tweet me if you watch and tweet me movie scenes
Speaker 1: you want Travis to audition for. Treat me. Tweet me
Speaker 1: what roles you want him to audition for. He hasn't
Speaker 1: seen a lot of movies, so let me know, let
Speaker 1: me know. Let's go Brandon Blandino, and then we'll wrap
Speaker 1: it up just saying I never came to l A
Speaker 1: looking to be an actor, underwear model, underwear model, porn star. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but all right, here we go. Weed dealers are no
Speaker 1: longer drug dealers? Do they even have jobs? Okay? So yeah,
Speaker 1: well what is a weed dealer? Like if you if
Speaker 1: you remember the guy like yet a weed dealer? Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: yet a guy that you know in New York it
Speaker 1: was just now Yeah, so they can't do the guys
Speaker 1: or the girls whoever they are who sell weed, what
Speaker 1: are they? I think they still do it. They call
Speaker 1: themselves doctors. Now they go into like growing and now
Speaker 1: they they're still like I guess, is there still a
Speaker 1: illegal weed? Like can do it? Old school? Can you
Speaker 1: still have the guys show up? He probably they probably
Speaker 1: just expand their product line. I would think, I don't
Speaker 1: to include other things. Yeah, I don't imagine. Okay, I
Speaker 1: just that that's not like even like that's just a
Speaker 1: legitimate question. There's apps now you just get on like
Speaker 1: just bring it to your house, med men and all
Speaker 1: that and all that stuff. But is that is the
Speaker 1: guy that's still kind of the dime bad guy? Is
Speaker 1: he still a guy. I would imagine they're still around
Speaker 1: at some level. I don't know, because well, for a
Speaker 1: while because you had to get like a medical card
Speaker 1: or something. Now I think it's just wide open. Right here,
Speaker 1: I got another one. This one's actually funny. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be great at pooling Cabo. Lean over to a
Speaker 1: black guy, white people, am I right, showed him a
Speaker 1: picture of Travis. Should be the rest of it, so
Speaker 1: that actually happens to that. So we were in Cabo
Speaker 1: and with a group of people and a group of
Speaker 1: white people and Joe and our friend Steve and these
Speaker 1: other people, and they were like having the time of
Speaker 1: their lives, like dancing. Joe had like a bandana around
Speaker 1: his head that said, like what like sex machine or
Speaker 1: something sex machine like dancing being completely like ridiculous, and
Speaker 1: and I was like having a nice time, was taking that.
Speaker 1: I was taking nap, having a nice time under my umbrella.
Speaker 1: And there was this really cool couple that we met
Speaker 1: that had had, you know, the chairs next to us,
Speaker 1: and we were talking to them, and then and the
Speaker 1: one dude, he's a black guy, and I like watching him,
Speaker 1: and I just leaned over to him, and white people
Speaker 1: am I right? And he just knew exactly what I
Speaker 1: was talking about because it was just like, you know,
Speaker 1: there was maybe like three or four black people in
Speaker 1: the entire pool area and it was just white people
Speaker 1: doing white people ship and it was just like that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. It was fun. I had a great time.
Speaker 1: It was a good time. Everyone knows you had a
Speaker 1: great time. We'll go back to Cabo yeah again. All right,
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