WEBVTT - Looking Ahead to the 2022 NFL Season with Andrew Brandt 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:08.560 From the King of Sports Books comes the Key Sports 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:18.919 podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jerry 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:28.600 Ferrara and Olivia Harlan Decker. Let's get a go in. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.920 Welcome to Unleashed, And you know, all is right in 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:35.199 the world because Tom Brady is back in camp. So 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.600 there was some speculation Tom Brady was on the Masked Singer. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.320 Do you buy that one at all? I love that 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.839 conspiracy theory. You know, in the past that wouldn't have 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.479 bought it, But I don't know. He's so he's you know, 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.920 he's like a social media guy. Now he's got all this. 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.040 I do kind of buy it, although that would be 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.040 bad for the Mass Singer if that secret got out, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.560 be good for them. If he actually was on the show, 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.800 I'm kind of buying that. All the loss a tough 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.920 reason to miss camp. I liked it better when he 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.680 was just paid leave, I'm going on vacation. I don't 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.039 like it as much if he was like, oh, I 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.640 took ten days off to go on the Masked Singer. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:13.920 I know. But the whole thing is just shady. I 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:15.800 wish you would just say what it is. Because the 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.400 team said it was pre planned that Tom Brady was 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.760 gonna miss eleven days of practice. But I'm not buying 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.640 the vacation story, which NFL player, Even if you are 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.679 Tom Brady decides to take a vacation in August, you 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.319 just you don't do that. But the craziest Tom Brady 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.279 news that broke even after that, is when Dana White, 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.000 did you see this? I worked to put that deal 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:41.360 together for Brady and Grown to come to the Raiders, 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.399 and it was almost a done deal, and at the 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.640 last minute, Gruden blew the deal up and said that 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:54.800 he didn't want him, and he broke loose. It was 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:58.360 crazy and and and Brady was already looking at houses 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.720 and it wasn't being Jeff. The Gronk was coming. So 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.800 last they just would have had Brady and Gronk the 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.880 year that the Bucks won the Super Bowl, except Bruden 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.000 blew the deal. All the whole thing is so shady. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.239 But gron confirmed it, confirmed it. And what I want 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.720 to know is that was one of the best kept 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.600 secrets in all of the NFL, because you know, no 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.560 one in the media reported that ever. I know, like 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.320 the Raiders at one point, I think we're definitely listed 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:30.080 as a team before he went to Tampa. So cheers. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.360 I guess to all the insiders at the Raiders and 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.480 Brady's camp because I never got leaked to my knowledge. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.400 And then I love Dana White just exposing it all casually. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.240 I watched that clip a hundred times. I couldn't believe, Like, 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:45.080 that's the guy I think I want to go to 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.000 dinner with because I feel like he'll tell you everything 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:51.760 because he just doesn't care. Oh that's a great. Okay, 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.680 Let's let's play this game. You can pick three people 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.520 in pro sports. Let's say you can sit and have 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.200 a drink with, go to dinner with. Dana White's one 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.880 of yours. Give me two others. Dana White for sure. Yeah, 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.600 because like I said, I feel like Dana White will 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.919 just tell you stuff because like the kids filter, I 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.799 think he's in that like I don't really care territory, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.560 what you think if I break secrets another one? You know, 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.160 I would have said Jeter up until the captain came out, 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.320 And now I feel like I know too much. I'm 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.200 gonna tee up, you know what. I I kind of 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.800 want to maybe man tie tail because I want to 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:28.720 talk more about what we're seeing on Netflix. And then 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:33.480 uh yeah, and then I mean selfishly my favorite boxer 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.120 of all time. He's no longer here. I would have 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.119 picked because we didn't say alive or dead. I would 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.560 have picked the Turro Gaddy, one of my favorite fighters 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.320 of all time, and I would have loved to have 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.080 gotten some stories from him. Okay, I want to throw 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.720 one another name in the ring. How about Antonio Brown. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.920 We talked a lot about him last week. But wouldn't 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.560 he be a good dinner date? I think so. You 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.080 definitely would be entertained, you know, But I think I 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.120 think Dana White is definitely on my is my number 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.160 one right now, just because man, what a bomb he 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.440 drop cash? Really crazy crazy. No, that was good. You 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.120 mentioned the Man Tito doc. It is so good. I 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.040 was texting you this weekend. You've got to watch it 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:13.640 because I I was flabbergasted watching how it played out. 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.320 And I've got a couple issues with the doc, but 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.400 I want to save that for our Unleashed segment that's 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.159 coming up. But you know, we've got a really good 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.120 guest this week. Are you excited for this one? Oh? Yeah, no, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.440 I'm ready. Well, it's because we're really start digging into 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.320 the football. So I'm ready. Yeah, And this is the 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.560 guy you want to talk to. It's Andrew Brandt. He's 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.920 seen it all. He's the sports illustrated writer, former Green 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.880 Bay Packers, exact NFL business analyst. It's gonna be great 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.239 to pick his brain leading up to the season, especially 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.040 with stuff that have to do with salary cap and 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.560 contracts and free agents still, and boy, we got a 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.080 lot to get with him on that. But I'm just 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.160 glad that you're sitting in your seat. I'm the one 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.719 who was racing here after my baby's doctor appointment, but 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.520 you were the one with the busier weekend. Tell me 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.839 about the charity golf tournament. Tell me all about that. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.240 Who do you see there? Yeah, I'm paying for it 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.240 today because you know, weekend awake golfing. My wife's like 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.480 these two kids, Now, what's your name on it? Ready 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.960 waiting for you. You can't be hungover with kids. I've 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.520 learned that. Oh yeah it was. It was in Detroit. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.360 It was the j R. L A, the Jalen Rose 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.480 Leadership Academy. You know, he built the school literally, Like 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.599 he's accomplished so much in his playing career, in his 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.560 post playing career, and this is arguably one of his 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.880 greatest accomplishments. So I got invited through an old friend, 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.040 fellow Nick fan, Ben Lyons and Olivia. I feel like 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.280 I failed you. I feel like I failed you on 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.080 something because you know, we're doing this show and like 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.160 and you know you're you're a real journalist and I'm 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.080 trying to keep up. I had a moment to do 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:44.159 some journalism and I completely choked. They were introducing all 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.520 the celebrities that were playing in the golf event. It 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.520 was at Detroit Country Club, Beautiful Club, and it's like, 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.840 you know, Calvin Johnson, and there's Droit Bell. I don't 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.400 know if you remember Joy Bell, one of the last fullbacks. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.640 I actually remember all these great like Detroit Midwestern legends 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:01.720 in Houston. So we had some knicks love and they 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.440 called me up and you go shake hands with Jalen Rose, 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.640 and Jalen, being who he is and being super savvy, 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.040 sees me smiles, which some He's like, hey, Scott Perry's 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.359 here playing. We're about to introduce him next, and I 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.640 walked away. I'm like, oh, so they introduced Scott Perry. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.440 I've met him, like once or twice comes out saying 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.240 little everyone. And I shook hands at Scott Perry and 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:22.760 I'm looking. I'm like, this is my moment. I could 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.360 ask him right now, what's going on for real with 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.440 Donovan Mitchell? And I looked him in the eyes and 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.479 I went, how you doing? Mr Perry? Get to see you? 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.080 And I put my head down. I looked at my 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.400 shoes and he kept it moving. I mean, he wasn't 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.400 gonna tell me anything. Anyway. I could have asked a 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:45.360 hard question. We sent you out there. I mean, if 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.360 you got per diem, I'd be really mad because then 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.440 you'd be actually working. You can't get per diem from 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.400 bet MGM, did you? No? I did not. Bet MGM 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.760 was a prominent sponsor there, especially at the night before party. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.200 Was really cool at the top golf sweep. But yeah, 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.839 I I journalistically, I failed you, and I feel bad. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.880 But yeah, I couldn't sneak in any question. I just 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:09.840 I just didn't feel like it was appropriate, and I 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.600 got I got nervous. I choked. I'll tell you what 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.640 you do in that situation. You kind of you you 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.040 chuck me up and then you ask, but then you 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:19.560 make it sound like, you know, you're not gonna do 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.720 anything with this information, and then you get on the 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.840 mic and that's when you say an unnamed source in 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.920 the front office told me that's what you did, so 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.400 you don't have to out him. You know. It was 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:35.120 even so bad every time he like looked at his phone, 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.320 I was kind of I was sidling up. I just 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.320 wanted to be like, who's who's texting you? Is that 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.240 is that Danny Age? Is that Leon wrote? Who who 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.320 just emailed you? What's going on? Is that Fournier? So 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.640 failed you? But it was all in all great event. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.720 Came in third place on the golf. It's hard to 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.560 imagine that Calvin Johnson was a wide receiver. It's insane. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.840 He's like one of the biggest human beings I've ever seen. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.040 I shook his hand and like I think my hand 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.160 like went up to like his thinking it's like my 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.720 forearm just huge, dude. And yeah, I don't think anyone 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:06.440 could have stopped him in the red zone. That would 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.160 have been a good picture. Your hands side by side, 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.960 that would have been a good picture. Yeah. Well, I'm 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.480 going back up to Detroit next week for another golf tournament, 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.800 which might cost me my marriage and Calvin Johnson is 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.200 slated to play so maybe I'll do that picture next 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.920 week and ask him to come on the show. I'd 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.920 love to have him on the show. Oh that I 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.560 already did. I did so joistically, I failed you. But 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.520 podcast sidekick wise, I definitely invited a lot of people 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.920 on the podcast. There you go, There you go. Well, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.679 speaking of your New York fandom and Scott Perry and 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.800 all that, but I always wonder this about people from 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.600 New York. And first of all, as someone who grew 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.439 up in the midwest, New York to me is just 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.360 like I'm so confused with the Burroughs. I'm so confused 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.960 with all of the schools there. There's like a million 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.520 I don't want to say lower tier schools, but you 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.319 know what I mean, like Division two, Division three schools. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.240 But like your college football fandom probably doesn't run too deep. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.920 And we are coming up on week zero, the biggest 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.040 game of course being Northwestern in Nebraska. They're playing in Ireland. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.600 I don't really understand that that could have been my 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.840 unleashed but I want to still talk about man titeo. 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.600 But college football does it mean much to you? Do 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.719 you care I do care. Ironically, I definitely care from 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.280 a sports gambling perspective. I think it's it's probably even 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.439 more enjoyable than maybe throwing a few bets than the NFL, 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.720 because it truly is madness. But I'm speaking to all 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.000 the New York City kids. It is tough when it 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:33.000 comes to college sports. Even with basketball. St. John's was 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.040 sort of okay when I was coming up, but in 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:40.720 the nineties, Rutgers wasn't quite good yet. Syracuse like six 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.120 hours away. I feel like I'm closer to Ohio State 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:47.480 than Syracuse. Distance was so yeah. I I I've always 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.800 said my collegiate sports teams are up for grabs. I'm 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.480 a free agent. I never took to the USC or 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.080 u c l A when I was in l A 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.200 sou And obviously my in laws are trying to get 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.960 me to Ohio State. And maybe that's what I just 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.839 do because I live here now. But it's really hard 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:09.400 to really care about college sports outside just being a 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.560 sportsman because I have no loyalty zero and I didn't 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.679 really go to a big time college or any college. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.360 Yeah you didn't go to any college. I did go 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.880 to a community college for like a year, I was burned. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:21.640 I moved to l A when I was nineteen. I 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:26.880 was done nineteen. Hey, okay, this actually lends itself exactly 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.200 to my Entourage question. You know, every week for those 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.360 who are just tuning in, I am watching Entourage for 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.160 the first time and loving it, absolutely loving it. And 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.680 I think I'm watching with a little bit more interest 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.680 because I have you to talk to every week and 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.720 I can ask you all the behind the scenes stuff, 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.240 which is a lot of fun. So my first question is, 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.520 now that I'm getting deeper and more invested in the show, 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.079 did you audition? Did you know these guys before the show? 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:53.840 I did not. I did not know any of them. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.240 I was twenty three years old. I was bouncing around 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.800 from show to show. I met Kevin Dillon at one 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.760 of the early I auditioned like twenty five times. I 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.640 met him at one of the early auditions, and I 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.120 was a fan of his from you know, Platoon and 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.640 The Doors. Kevin Dillon has been acting since he was seventeen. Obviously, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.360 his brother Matt Dillon tremendous actor. So no, I just 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.679 it was the old process of the old way it 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.319 was done, and it all leads up to this network 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.680 test in front of HBO, and I kind of almost choked. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.360 It actually was Mark Wahlberg who snapped me out of it. 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.080 I was I did my first run of auditions in 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:30.800 front of the network and that wasn't very good. And 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:32.559 he came out and motioned for me. I had never 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.440 met Wahlberg at this point, and he whispered. He was like, 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:36.920 I just want to let you know you're kind of 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.439 blowing it right now. And I'm like I am. He's 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.440 like yeah, like you know that moment where everyone says, 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.679 this is your time, this is your time. So it was. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.160 It was the greatest wake up call and and luckily 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:48.800 I ended up getting the part. No, I didn't know 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.280 any of those guys. That's a great story. Oh my god. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.520 Did you ever tell him how much that meant to you? 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.520 Oh yeah, And he claims that He's like, I did 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:00.880 I did that and like, you know, you don't act 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.240 like you He's like no, He's like he just thought 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.080 I was really nervous. So he's saying he didn't want 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.120 to see me lose out because I was just nervous. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.640 Oh god, Oh that's great. Okay, I have another question. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.480 When they're smoking weed on the show, are they actually 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.840 smoking weed? I am the perfect person to answer this 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.600 question because it was my character who was always smoking 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.240 or rolling the weed, you know, whenever there's a scene 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.760 not Sometimes it's written in that we're smoking. Sometimes it's not. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.000 But all actors, even if you're not, even if you 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.240 don't have a lot of lines, you ask for like business, 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.680 meaning like give me an activity while I'm here, so 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.840 I'm not just standing here waiting for these guys to talk. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.160 My move was always I'm gonna smoke a joint or 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.040 light or roll a blunt or something. So no, you 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.360 don't smoke real weed on the show because a lot 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.400 of times those scenes are at like seven thirty in 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.360 the morning and you have a whole fifteen hour day 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.240 ahead of view. There is this herbal tobacco which is 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.960 not harmful, so they say, obviously it does not get 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.480 you stone, but it looks green and it burns exactly 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:05.480 like we does. So herbal tobacco. Okay, that that's good 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.040 to know. So anytime you see that most of the time, 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.880 I mean all of the time, most of the time 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.959 on the record. Okay. Another question, why is your character 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.160 named Turtle? I don't think that's been told yet as 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.640 never explained, never explained. I used to always ask Doug 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.400 Allen in the early years. My question was always what's 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:30.960 Turtle's real name? And he always said, well, we'll reveal 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.480 it in season eight. I don't know yet, and probably 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.360 thinking we never get to season eight. We did get 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.360 the season eight, so his name, his real name, does 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:42.120 come out. I want room before you never explained why Turtle, 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.000 but I did forget to tell Levi on Bell a 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:49.200 story that's connected to Entourage and Adrian Peterson. Adrian Peterson, 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.880 as you will see, did a cameo in Entourage playing himself, 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.719 and I met him and I walked up and very 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.560 very nice guy and shook his hand, and it is 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.080 like a vice gript. It is the firmest handshake I've 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.920 ever encountered in my life. We have crew members, big 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.960 burly teamsters and and grips with these big meat hook 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.959 for hands. He was breaking hands left and right, and 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.080 they want to warn Levian Bell like he you know 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.880 obviously you know he's strong, he's got hand. I mean, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.640 it was the firmst handshake. It actually hurt. I had 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.840 to like, I had to like bite down not to 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:31.680 like whimper. So anyway bigger than Calvin Johnson's handshake, not bigger, strongernger, 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:37.040 just just hurt. It just hurt. Oh my god. Okay. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:38.760 In my last question, you should see my notes here 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.720 on my phone as I'm watching Entourage, and keep in 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.840 mind I'm usually giving the baby a bottle and typing 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:46.840 this out. Do they really smoke weed? Exhausting? Okay, So 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.440 that's my Entourage questions for the week. Next week, all 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.080 of more for you because I've got my long flight 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.360 to London and I'm gonna download a bunch of episodes. 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:58.320 I'm excited. All right, Okay, let's get to our unleash 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:06.320 because I've got to talk about this out. He said, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.680 you're what one episode in of the man Tito Doc. Yeah, 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.160 I'm like ten, I'm ten minutes into the episode two 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.960 of the Netflix Dock and what do you think so far? 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.600 You know, it's funny. Obviously we all know the story. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.840 I remember it very well. But it just shows you 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:25.040 how much your perception and memory changes thirteen years later, 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.680 or have it. Like I remember in the moment it 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.720 was this guy's in on it, what a fraud? I 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.360 remember that being the story and I'm not saying that's 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.360 what I believed, but I did remember not having sympathy, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.880 not as much sympathy for him on that end of it. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.960 I didn't know his grandmother passing was obviously real and devastating, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.160 but watching that first episode, I just felt bad for 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.440 the guy. You know. Yeah, And so here's the thing. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.840 The dead Spin article that broke it, and here's what 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:57.120 the doc kind of left out. They implied initially that 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.920 Manti was in on it, and they kind of glazed 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.479 over that in the documentary. There wasn't the best reporting. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.000 It was amazing reporting because they got the scoop when 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.120 everyone else just accepted it. And as people in the media, 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.600 it was a great check, a great lesson to be, like, 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.760 just don't assume everything is fact. In fact, I've heard 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.720 one person say, I forget it's a famous quote. They say, ah, 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.320 even question your mother. Assume your own mother will lie 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.480 to you. And if you're a good reporter, and this 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.880 everyone accepted. It was the storyline of the season. Of course, 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.320 he was a Heisman finalist, went to the National Championship, 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.880 all this, but Dead's been even had a quote in 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:37.000 there that an unnamed source was sure that Manti was 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.040 in on it and that just that's just you can't 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:41.360 do that. You can't do it. And a lot of 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.840 people ran with that. And then you can tell so 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.240 the times. You know, this was ten years ago on 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.360 the Katie Kirk special and she asked are you gay? 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.040 And you know, he's laughing like, no, no, I'm I'm not, 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.320 you know, definitely not. And he's sitting there with his 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.360 parents and it's so awkward and it's so dated because 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.840 I don't think that question would be asked now. No, 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.560 And I'm sorry I laughed at that statement that you made. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.520 The reason why I'm laughing is an unnamed source said 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.240 that they're eighty procedure. I'm just reminded of Paul Rutting 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.360 an anchor man when he's like sixty of the time 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.560 it works every time. Oh my gosh, that's such a 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.720 misleading thing. Yeah, I definitely don't know if that question 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.560 gets asked. Definitely in the second episode when they kind 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.959 of pulled the hole where she pulled, you know, oh, 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.560 like I'm still alive, when his girlfriend was saying, no, 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.560 I'm still alive. I'm on the run. That's so I'm like, 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.840 you gotta all right, what's going on here? You gotta 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:37.640 know now something's badly wrong. So yeah, I mean, it's 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.720 just such a joke, and I think it's it's really sad, because, 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.280 no doubt about it, Man, Tito is a victim in this. 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.959 And anyone who thinks, oh, come on, you never met her, 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.840 blah blah, keep in mind this kid. He's the oldest 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.160 of seven kids from an island in a very tight 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:57.120 knit Latter Day Saints community where everything was church and football. 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.119 They were very poor. He couldn't fly to California go 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.640 meet this girl. Stanford because it's a private school. Never 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.639 had to release the records that a student of that 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.639 name even went there, because remember he said she was 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.520 from Stanford, like all this stuff. I feel so badly 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.040 from Antito in this, and I think his career was 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.359 drastically affected, and I wish he could sue, honestly, but 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.439 I don't think they could prove that his draft stock 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.840 tumbled so much because of this. But you certainly could 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.119 look at his performance in the National Championship Game and 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.679 you're gonna get this. I don't want to spoil too much, 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.040 but just as you get to this part of the 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:38.000 story is a lot happens right before this National Championship game, 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.520 and it just so clearly affects him on the field, 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.200 which then so clearly affected his draft. It's just it's horrible, 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.840 And honestly, I think the documentary because they wanted to 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:53.280 get the other side of the cat fisher Ranaya Tuyasa Sopo, 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.800 who was now a transgender woman. They wanted to get 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.679 her take, and you know, I bet they promised kind 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:01.880 of a would pro quo, We'll we'll tell your side 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.280 of the story here and be fair. But just as 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.520 I was watching it, I think they went a little 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.600 easy on Rhania now Nya, because I just think it's 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:14.119 criminal what this person did to Manteo and and his family, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.400 and he just fell so prey to this. And that's 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:21.040 my take. I'm standing behind it. I felt so angry 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.359 watching it, so I'm curious, as you keep going what 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:25.760 you think I just was. I do remember too, when 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.879 he was thinking about coming out junior year and to 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.879 go in the NFL draft. Watching the documentary now, I 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.160 was like, oh, if you just went pro after your June, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.679 you know, his whole life would have been And you 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.960 know he is married now with a kid, and he 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:41.280 made a couple of stops in the NFL. I believe 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:45.359 last year he didn't play anywhere. I think twenty I 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.199 think he was with the Chargers. But oh, it's just 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.320 I was so sick watching this that, you know, regardless 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:55.679 of Rhania now Naya's journey and you know, all of 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.239 that is fantastic, and I'm so glad that Manti has 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.199 forgiveness in his heart. It just so it makes me 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:02.760 so mad that he was such a victim and so 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.760 many people made fun of him, ridiculed him, and that 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:10.360 he lost millions because of what this person did to him, 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.240 and that he was too trusting and really just naive. 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:18.520