Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of The Day Pash Podcast. We
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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers. Our guest today is comedian Frank
Speaker 1: Caliendo A J. Green into the end zone for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: AJ Green just too strong, put it out there, let
Speaker 1: him go get it. That's exactly what A J. Green did.
Speaker 1: Frank has a unique bond with the Cardinals. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get into that. But of course we are going to
Speaker 1: span the globe of impressions, ranging from Jack Nicholson, Charles Barkley,
Speaker 1: Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Bill Walton, and Ron Wolfley. So
Speaker 1: let's get right into it. Here's Frank Kelliendo The Day
Speaker 1: Pash Podcast. Basin audience, Are you ready for this? Are
Speaker 1: you ready for the Passpod? What they should have called
Speaker 1: It's the Passion Pod, Dave's Passion Project, That's what it
Speaker 1: should have been called. I don't even let you start
Speaker 1: the intern of your own show. We're off the rails.
Speaker 1: We just started, just like when you're broadcast with either
Speaker 1: of your partners. Yes, I know it is this. I
Speaker 1: should have known this was coming. Do they ever do that?
Speaker 1: Do they? I am interviewing you on your podcast? Did
Speaker 1: they ever did? The guys? Because they don't. They're professional enough,
Speaker 1: not like me, but they'll they don't start being themselves
Speaker 1: until they let you set things? Is that for the
Speaker 1: most part? Wolf? Yes? Bill is Bill. I mean you've
Speaker 1: been around Bill, You've known Bill forever. He's liked that
Speaker 1: off the air as well as on. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: just yeah, because it feels like they don't They don't
Speaker 1: mess with you and make your life difficult until did
Speaker 1: you draw a really short straw? Is that what happened?
Speaker 1: Is that in your broadcast career, they like Pash can
Speaker 1: handle it. I think with Bill definitely. I don't know Wolf,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't know what I was getting into with Wolf.
Speaker 1: I knew he was unique. Bill. I kind of knew
Speaker 1: because I actually did some NBA games with Bill my
Speaker 1: first year on the NBA in two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: He still to this day does not remember that. He claims,
Speaker 1: I don't know was that ESPN. It was at ESPN,
Speaker 1: and I don't Bill wasn't like as crazy then. He
Speaker 1: was still different. Like we grew up watching him on
Speaker 1: NBC with Snapper, him and Snapper Jones going at it.
Speaker 1: And my friend Tom Tilbert used to work with him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tilbert and I worked with Tilbert too the first year
Speaker 1: and Tilbert and Bill were both you know Tilber. It's
Speaker 1: interesting too. Yeah, he's not as wild as Bill. There's
Speaker 1: no end. Yeah, he's like halfway to But the thing
Speaker 1: Tolber Tom Tolbert for peace on about sixty seven, played
Speaker 1: what with Charlotte? Is that? Where he played in college?
Speaker 1: Played the NBA for a while. Yeah, and uh, just
Speaker 1: a banger, just a banger down low. I know. I'm
Speaker 1: stuck in Wolf trying to do well to how great
Speaker 1: is that? Bring it back? Enjoy who I am? Figure
Speaker 1: it out? Enjoying this's the Earth rotates on its axis.
Speaker 1: But he was the one who got me saying, oh
Speaker 1: dead lab shrim Like he would be talking about you know,
Speaker 1: John Stockton and Carl Malone could be on the court
Speaker 1: and he'd be like, Howard Eisley is the best player
Speaker 1: on the court right now, Like you're going, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Oh? Yeah, what he compares. He'll take
Speaker 1: like just a random player and say that's that's Isaiah Thomas,
Speaker 1: that's Magic Johnson. You know, just I think one time
Speaker 1: he said, Bill he's on the bench right now. I know. Uh,
Speaker 1: Eric Piatkowski he said should replace Jerry West as the
Speaker 1: logo that one time. Um, well, I want to get
Speaker 1: Frank end all of this, but I did. Let's start
Speaker 1: because you live. Not only do you live in Arizona,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give out your address, but you
Speaker 1: live very close to the Cardinals facility and you've been
Speaker 1: connected to the team for a while. So give me
Speaker 1: your thoughts first and foremost on four and OZH. I'm cautious.
Speaker 1: I'm cautious with everything because I'm also you know, John Gruden,
Speaker 1: who's a friend of mine, who's become a pretty close
Speaker 1: friend of mine with the Raiders, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: to tell you what, man, it was a tremendous loss.
Speaker 1: Last night, we got a good what you call moral victory. No,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about sending something to Derek Carr because
Speaker 1: I didn't text him any motivation this week. But usually
Speaker 1: I'll send him something like, Derek, do something good this week. Man,
Speaker 1: I didn't do something. Does he enjoy that? He's never
Speaker 1: texted back, so no, he no, he's great. I actually said,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I keep bothering you with this stuff. He's no,
Speaker 1: He's like, no, keep it coming. It's actually working. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's the reason they were three and oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I was saying, and then they lost that.
Speaker 1: But Derek are and Gruden. That goes back to it.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you this to talk about how to
Speaker 1: get into the Cardinals thing. But that goes back to
Speaker 1: the first time I ever met or not met John.
Speaker 1: But the first time ever did Gruden makeup with Gruden
Speaker 1: was at a quarterback camp in Florida and Derek Carr
Speaker 1: was the QB one that week or whatever, so he
Speaker 1: was It was his birthday too, so we were singing
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, man. Blown out the candles for young Derek Carr. Man,
Speaker 1: what a great I did a speaking engagement with Derek
Speaker 1: Carr when he was at Fresno State. Okay, what a
Speaker 1: great super see why people following indibly incredibly nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and people who say he's not a good leader don't
Speaker 1: know anything about him. He's just quiet to the press.
Speaker 1: He's just a different time. So as far as with
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, what happened there was there's a broadcaster who
Speaker 1: also works NFL Network now, lant Zerline in Houston, and
Speaker 1: his dad coached the line here with the Cardinals, Larry Zerline,
Speaker 1: and he said, hey, do you want to get you know,
Speaker 1: Steve Cime's a fan of yours. And I'd forgotten come
Speaker 1: had gone to see me in North Carolina at a
Speaker 1: place called Charlie Good Nights in Raleigh. And I didn't
Speaker 1: even remember all this, but um, they invited me out
Speaker 1: to come, you know, take a look at the you know,
Speaker 1: just hang out for a few minutes or something like that.
Speaker 1: And I did, and want you to bring my son whatever.
Speaker 1: And then when they were doing what was the Amazon
Speaker 1: show called All or Nothing? And I didn't have a
Speaker 1: ba impression. I had nothing, but I just had a hat.
Speaker 1: I got a hat when I got here and I
Speaker 1: threw on a pair of glasses and I just started swearing.
Speaker 1: So I started was doing Gruden and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: He was still in broadcasting at the time. I go
Speaker 1: up there. I talked to the team and it's going
Speaker 1: pretty well. But then I put it can I swear
Speaker 1: on this or do you bleep it out? Or what
Speaker 1: do you do on your podcast? So, because I don't
Speaker 1: normally swear that much, but I just wanted you to weep.
Speaker 1: So I put on the hat, I put on the glasses,
Speaker 1: and because it was BA I just got up there.
Speaker 1: I put it on and then looked at the team
Speaker 1: and went, what the for you guys doing out there? Man?
Speaker 1: That was the worst bunch of I've ever seen in
Speaker 1: my entire laugh Get to get to get your heads
Speaker 1: in the game, man. And I didn't even really have
Speaker 1: that much of the oppression. That just the look and
Speaker 1: Larry stood up, Fitzgerald and everybody was like a standing ovation.
Speaker 1: They went crazy, you know, And since then, you know,
Speaker 1: you never know when something like that's gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: work or not. It's tough when you're going to people
Speaker 1: think that because you do comedy and they see you
Speaker 1: do it on TV or they hear you on a
Speaker 1: podcast or something that they think you could just do
Speaker 1: it anywhere. You go into an NFL locker room, that's
Speaker 1: totally different. You're not part of the group, you're not
Speaker 1: part of the team. It's a little bit easier when
Speaker 1: you're inside and you've been through the trenches and you've
Speaker 1: done this kind of stuff and there's camaraderie. Right If
Speaker 1: somebody comes back to speak to the team, they're like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this guy was in the league for ten years. You know,
Speaker 1: he's won a couple of Super Bowls. He knows what
Speaker 1: it takes it, you know. I mean, I'm nussed. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm some goofy little court jester come in there. So
Speaker 1: when you can do something that connects with the guys,
Speaker 1: you know, when I do that with the Raiders, I've
Speaker 1: done I've spoken of the Raiders twice and they won
Speaker 1: both games, and one was against the Cardinals a few
Speaker 1: years Hey, what's up with that? I'm I'm a mercenary.
Speaker 1: I'm a mercenary whatever whatever was needed. You know that
Speaker 1: that they were they were playing terribly. That was a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and I remember going they were
Speaker 1: here in town and that was a that was an
Speaker 1: inseason game, a regular season game, and you just you
Speaker 1: could feel, you know, you're here, Gruten just swearing from
Speaker 1: the other room, and its knock gunn wood if you're
Speaker 1: with me, and there maybe a knock or two. I
Speaker 1: mean it was it was a down time and uh
Speaker 1: and they won that game. And uh, He's like, I'm
Speaker 1: sending you a game ball man, Like you're not sending
Speaker 1: me a game ball. Three weeks later, I get a
Speaker 1: game ball, you know, spray painted with everything. I'm like,
Speaker 1: all these linemen go through life and no matter who
Speaker 1: they are, somebody somebody, some people never get a game boat.
Speaker 1: I have two. Now I have two, sending you another
Speaker 1: game ball man. So so let me tell you that.
Speaker 1: The other part of it is so then I coached
Speaker 1: flag football and Carson come won of one of Steve's
Speaker 1: kids was on the team. He played with my son
Speaker 1: for a little bit, so uh and he would even
Speaker 1: text Scruten. He's, you know, during the game, a picture
Speaker 1: of me. I remember, I had a backpack on, and
Speaker 1: Crud's like, they're not gonna win an f and game
Speaker 1: with that guy coach. So um, you know, it's funny,
Speaker 1: how you see, because you don't think about the relationships
Speaker 1: that go on in you know, within professional sports. You
Speaker 1: think this GM probably hates this year. But they can't.
Speaker 1: They can't. They have to be friends, right, because then
Speaker 1: they can make deals when if you don't like somebody,
Speaker 1: you're not making a deal them. And there's I get
Speaker 1: this feeling by just a few of the gems that
Speaker 1: I've met and some of the you know, some of
Speaker 1: the exacts that you know, there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: people on the outside looking how could they make that trade?
Speaker 1: That's the stupidest trade I've ever seen. But sometimes they
Speaker 1: position it's like, well, you do it this time and
Speaker 1: then we'll figure something out in the There's a lot
Speaker 1: of that kind of stuff, but the the the end
Speaker 1: result might be something different because you don't know who's
Speaker 1: gonna last. Were sure. So there's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: trust between these guys and making deals and things like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, so, is it true that you called Steve
Speaker 1: Kim on Draft Day as John Gruden from like a
Speaker 1: different number? No, that was the Yahoo Sports took that.
Speaker 1: It was my own number, And I texted him, you
Speaker 1: know the memos thing in the app. It's like it's hey,
Speaker 1: it's John Man. What do you say we trade, make
Speaker 1: a good trade. Uh. I don't remember who it was,
Speaker 1: but it's like, well trade up to number three, you
Speaker 1: trade for this, and then we're all everybody's happy, man, okay.
Speaker 1: And that got out. I think it was Dad Patrick
Speaker 1: or something like that that I took because Steve called in.
Speaker 1: Steve called in and he was talking about it. But
Speaker 1: people only heard parts of it that I called him
Speaker 1: as John Gruden and then they made up the rest
Speaker 1: of the story that became like national news. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it was huge. Look that's what I remember, right as
Speaker 1: far as I knew, you actually called yeah my dad.
Speaker 1: My dad was texting me. I can't believe he messed
Speaker 1: up the draft, you know, you know I didn't he
Speaker 1: knew it was me. I would not mess with a
Speaker 1: friend in that situation and do that type of thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, something similar happened. Uh what was that? What
Speaker 1: was the other thing that just happened recently? Oh? You
Speaker 1: know the people blew it down for board jj Wat.
Speaker 1: I texted jj Wat it's like, you should come here.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like, because I've known him for years,
Speaker 1: he and his brothers all came out. I remember him
Speaker 1: making fun of me because they had. I was really
Speaker 1: working on getting in shape at the time and I
Speaker 1: was jogging a ton and I bought these shoes. I'm
Speaker 1: five six, and I don't try to hide that, you know,
Speaker 1: I am. This is what except for the heels you
Speaker 1: have on today. Well, the shoes I was wearing literally
Speaker 1: had like a They were Runners shoes that I got
Speaker 1: at the store right down the street here from the facility.
Speaker 1: And they were an inch inch and a half high
Speaker 1: that are like Runners shoes that are really soft. And
Speaker 1: JJ looked down as Susan was really compensating. There aren't
Speaker 1: and his brother and I googled his brothers because they
Speaker 1: were still in college and even high school, I think,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you're the tight end and he
Speaker 1: was like in JJ's like what you're You've been googling.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, a little bit. You gotta know who's
Speaker 1: coming in because they were. We snuck JJ Watt into
Speaker 1: the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee and nobody knew he was there.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good at the you know, he was well,
Speaker 1: he was playing with Houston at the time, obviously. And
Speaker 1: I'm from Madison, you're from Waukeshaw, Walkershaw outside Milwaukee. And
Speaker 1: JJ's from Peawaukee, right, which is Wakashaw County, which is one,
Speaker 1: you know one you know, so you guys had that connection.
Speaker 1: And then so he was with the Texans and you
Speaker 1: he was back in Wisconsin and you were performing there
Speaker 1: and you, yeah, he was just in town and I
Speaker 1: tweeted at him something and he was following me, and
Speaker 1: then I DMed him and then maybe we exchanged numbers
Speaker 1: or something like that. And you know, the more famous
Speaker 1: somebody is, the harder it is to get them to
Speaker 1: go somewhere or nail something down. Like I've been around
Speaker 1: some super super famous people and they're like, I'll try
Speaker 1: to get there, I'll try to get there, and then
Speaker 1: you just go they're not gonna come. And he was
Speaker 1: one that did end up showing up. It's it's one
Speaker 1: of those that's uh. I remember saying to him. I'm like,
Speaker 1: we're talking about Lebron and how Lebron was the most famous,
Speaker 1: you know, probably the number one basketball player in the world,
Speaker 1: and this is right, JJ's big, but he's not, you know.
Speaker 1: But I mean JJ was not to where he was
Speaker 1: even that he was almost to the pinnacle being one
Speaker 1: of the faces of the NFL, but he wasn't quite
Speaker 1: there yet. And we're talking. I'm like, you're famous, but
Speaker 1: you're you know where I'm doing. You're you're not the
Speaker 1: face of the NFL. And like another year later too,
Speaker 1: he was just the face of the NFL. But I
Speaker 1: remember I was wearing a I was wearing an Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers jersey, and uh, it was just so funny. It's
Speaker 1: like nice jersey. You know, he's just messing with me
Speaker 1: and stuff like what do you want me to do?
Speaker 1: Let me change, mister. So you so you started comedy?
Speaker 1: How Because you and I have talked, I didn't realize
Speaker 1: you were like a great basketball player. Well that's because
Speaker 1: I wasn't really well you just well you told me
Speaker 1: you were. No, I wasn't great, but my friend played
Speaker 1: like Junior Olympic basketball and something that. So I was
Speaker 1: around a lot of the basketball players. But I wasn't
Speaker 1: a great basketball player. So how did you start in comedy?
Speaker 1: Because so when I was growing up in Madison, I
Speaker 1: wanted to be a stand up comedian and I would
Speaker 1: go I had a friend who performed This was at
Speaker 1: age sixteen, so junior in high school, who would perform
Speaker 1: at one of the comedy clubs in downtown Madison, and
Speaker 1: on Tuesday night said have an open mic night, and
Speaker 1: he would get me in there st St. State on
Speaker 1: State Street in Madison. I was, first of all, was terrible.
Speaker 1: I think it was a funny business at the time,
Speaker 1: funny business, comedy club. I can't remember anyway, I was terrible,
Speaker 1: terrible now I could see. Yeah, and so that's way
Speaker 1: too dry. Way to go be a broadcast or just
Speaker 1: go do something else. But how did you start? Because
Speaker 1: it has to be one of the hardest businesses to
Speaker 1: succeed in. You've been relevant as a comedian four in
Speaker 1: and out twenty years though. Plus that's hard to do. Man. Well,
Speaker 1: a lot of it's because I stick my nose in sports.
Speaker 1: If there wasn't, sports probably be a little bit different
Speaker 1: of a story because it's hard to do sports comedy
Speaker 1: because when I don't think of myself as a sports comedian,
Speaker 1: but people are like footy is sports comedian, or you're
Speaker 1: great sports, and like it just happens to be one
Speaker 1: of the things they do. And the reasons because it's
Speaker 1: so funny to do analysts and you take them in
Speaker 1: everyday situations and just do what they do in broadcasting. UM.
Speaker 1: So I went to school for broadcast journalism University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: I actually went to Parkside for a year, which is
Speaker 1: in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and I was going to play baseball there.
Speaker 1: But I was like, ah, you know, I'm never gonna
Speaker 1: get anywhere playing baseball. It's a vision two and a
Speaker 1: couple of my friends ended up even getting drafted and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But then I I went, I transferred,
Speaker 1: I endered the transfer portal. I went over to uh
Speaker 1: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and went to school for broadcast journalism.
Speaker 1: So I went and got that degree. And while I
Speaker 1: was doing that, I went up I went to a
Speaker 1: comedy sports class, which is, you know, improv comedy games.
Speaker 1: And they're like these voices you do, you should do
Speaker 1: stand up and I was like, I'll try it. It
Speaker 1: does that mean I'm not very good at this improv thing?
Speaker 1: They're like, well, it's just we could see the toolbox
Speaker 1: that you have that you could use, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: as opposed to baseball player, I was a zero tool player.
Speaker 1: Was it comedy sports? Because I tried that as well.
Speaker 1: The comedy sports was the improv yet a group so
Speaker 1: it was very tough, very difficult. Yeah, you have to
Speaker 1: you have to learn how to play the games, and
Speaker 1: it's there's a thing called yeah. And so you take
Speaker 1: what you don't see people in unless they're like super
Speaker 1: high level and they know each other. You don't see
Speaker 1: people asking questions in improv. They just take whatever's given
Speaker 1: to them and they say yes, whether it's out loud
Speaker 1: or you know, internally, and they agree to it and
Speaker 1: then move on. So it moves. It always moves the
Speaker 1: scene forward, and that's one of the things that makes
Speaker 1: it work. So I did that a little bit, and
Speaker 1: then I went started doing stand up and the stand
Speaker 1: up thing just started to click. I was actually I
Speaker 1: actually injured my back. I missed like months of school
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and then I got away from
Speaker 1: stand up. I graduated, and then I got back out
Speaker 1: there and I just started working right away and then
Speaker 1: got on the college circuit. And in the meantime, I'd
Speaker 1: learned a bunch of different impressions that I worked on
Speaker 1: the maddened thing when I was doing the John Madden thing.
Speaker 1: That's what really took off, because nobody was doing stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Nobody would have, you know, a sports impression.
Speaker 1: They go to a comedy club, you know, here's a
Speaker 1: guy when he but just contacts and he could see better,
Speaker 1: you know, and then people would be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you sound like and I listen to my old John
Speaker 1: Mann and sound like here's a guy. I'm like, it's
Speaker 1: just so bad, and people are like, it sounds exactly like.
Speaker 1: But then, you know, you become more like the person
Speaker 1: and you try to say the things that they say
Speaker 1: and say them the way that they say them, and
Speaker 1: then you add you add the then you add the
Speaker 1: thing that makes them a character. Yeah, because there are
Speaker 1: people that do dead on impressions better than me. They
Speaker 1: are quite a few, Like I've seen here, these people
Speaker 1: that are in the industry that are sound alikes. I've
Speaker 1: never really wanted to be a sound like. No, it's
Speaker 1: it's more of a parody, but it is you sound
Speaker 1: enough alike. But it is more Yeah, it's more fun,
Speaker 1: and it's more fun. It becomes a character that you've created,
Speaker 1: as opposed to when you do it dead on impression,
Speaker 1: all you can do is scenes that somebody has to
Speaker 1: be incredibly well written. I'm not that good of a writer,
Speaker 1: so uh, it's I just like to blow them up
Speaker 1: and make them sillier and bigger. I think I recall
Speaker 1: the story of Gruden getting upset initially or he wasn't well,
Speaker 1: I don't, yeah, I think people are always What happens
Speaker 1: is that people are always worried it's going to hurt
Speaker 1: their bottom line. So they're worried that Madison Avenue is
Speaker 1: going to see them and not want to do commercials
Speaker 1: with them or something. What happens is the opposite that
Speaker 1: once you find a take for a person, they the advertisers,
Speaker 1: start watching what you do and then they write the
Speaker 1: commercials for your take on the person. So um, for example, Gruden,
Speaker 1: he would text me, you know, three o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: which I think is lunch for him. What time you
Speaker 1: get up one am? Then what time you go to bed?
Speaker 1: Five pm? And he would takes me, I just got
Speaker 1: done doing a commercial where they had me doing impersonation
Speaker 1: you man, and I was too scared to ask him
Speaker 1: what that meant. But I think it was the one
Speaker 1: where he's talking to the tire and they probably said,
Speaker 1: be bigger, be more like Caliendo doing the impression of them,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, that's that's it. Becomes a good thing.
Speaker 1: Barkley said that too. He's like, they I end up
Speaker 1: making more money because people here, people like you doing
Speaker 1: this stuff. That's what when they hear it, they know
Speaker 1: what to write. It's very very good. So those things,
Speaker 1: those work and it works in their favor. But people
Speaker 1: who are in sports, they get weirded out about it
Speaker 1: because a lot of times they're put on pedestals, especially coaches.
Speaker 1: Coaches are put on pedestals and they listen. The guys
Speaker 1: lives around the you know, dependent upon the coaches and
Speaker 1: trusting that they can, you know, do their job. So
Speaker 1: you know, when you're alignment you I mean, it's dangerous.
Speaker 1: So you got to have somebody you can look up
Speaker 1: to and stuff like that. You can't have somebody you know.
Speaker 1: They make fun, but again it's the brother the brotherhood
Speaker 1: and the camaraderie where they can make fun of guys,
Speaker 1: but you'll be careful with that kind of stuff. And
Speaker 1: I think there's a little bit of that in the
Speaker 1: sports stuff. People get weirded out that, hey, you're you know,
Speaker 1: don't make fun of you know, don't make fun of me.
Speaker 1: I gotta have these guys listen to me. I gotta
Speaker 1: be a leader of men. Is there anybody that ever gets, like,
Speaker 1: really upset with you? Has anybody ever said, hey, don't
Speaker 1: do that anymore? Have you ever had yourself? Nobody has
Speaker 1: ever talked to me. But sometimes people won't look me
Speaker 1: in the eye. It's ridiculous. I don't get it. And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give a name, but you could
Speaker 1: probably figure it out. Who graz is that? See? Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't Jim Rome? Wait, where'd you get that from? Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't he? Like? I would love it? Like if you
Speaker 1: say it's it's the pedestal, it's the pedestal. A lot
Speaker 1: of you know, clones. He believes that, you know, people
Speaker 1: are looking up to him. I think I've never I've
Speaker 1: never talked to him. I think he's great. I've never
Speaker 1: talked to him. No, I was looking the other way. Now,
Speaker 1: you know it's I've never I wanted to because I
Speaker 1: listen when I was driving around doing colleges when I
Speaker 1: first started that. You just listen for things on the
Speaker 1: radio that this is in the early two thousands, late
Speaker 1: nineteen nineties, early two thousands. You just listen to it
Speaker 1: for shows that at the time, we're on every stage
Speaker 1: wherever you went. That could be in the middle of
Speaker 1: Virginia and Rome would be on, or I'd be driving
Speaker 1: in North Carolina or Texas, Jim Rome would be on somewhere.
Speaker 1: So you look listen for a familiar voice when you're
Speaker 1: out there on the road all by yourself. Um, but no,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know people that Madden hated me
Speaker 1: until I met him. So I have the same agent
Speaker 1: that John Mann has, Sandy Montec, who used to charkh
Speaker 1: and he used to travel with Madden. He was like
Speaker 1: on the Madden bus for all those years and went
Speaker 1: from being like a stats guy basically to like one
Speaker 1: of the top agents in the business. And I was
Speaker 1: asking I told him that I was going to have
Speaker 1: you on. And so I know Frank from probably those
Speaker 1: initial well the meetings with John. Yeah, the way that
Speaker 1: I only met John Madden once, I only met him once.
Speaker 1: And I tell the story my actor that he was
Speaker 1: he was. It was at the Super Bowl in Dallas, Texas,
Speaker 1: the Four Seasons Hotel, and Um, I was working to
Speaker 1: Fox at the time, and he was standing in the
Speaker 1: lobby and Jimmy Johnson standing next to him, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: and he was talking that Madden was talking to kids,
Speaker 1: so I didn't want to bother him. I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is probably his family, it's grandkids. I don't want my
Speaker 1: mother and I'm I say to Jimmy, I'm like, can
Speaker 1: you believe him? This closet? To John Manzi, what you
Speaker 1: have met him? And he taps Madden on the shoulder
Speaker 1: and he's like, what is it in the look on
Speaker 1: his face? Saw him? He was like when Shaggy and
Speaker 1: Scooby see the bad guy pop into the barrel like
Speaker 1: Zinks like, hey, school, let's get out of here. Row.
Speaker 1: But I made his grandkids laugh and it was like
Speaker 1: a light bulb went on over his hands, like I
Speaker 1: get it now, you know. And I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: can I have my father in law was there and
Speaker 1: my kids and can they get pictures? And he saw
Speaker 1: that I didn't dislike him. I grew up listening to John.
Speaker 1: There's been nobody ever better at that than him. And
Speaker 1: what people don't understand when they listen to a broadcast
Speaker 1: is how hard it is. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: take anything away from you as a play by play guy,
Speaker 1: but the color analyst is it's very difficult because you
Speaker 1: have to have you have to. You have to have
Speaker 1: a very short memory. It's almost like a quarterback. You
Speaker 1: can't use last week's game and stories that you used
Speaker 1: in last week's game, as you can tell that same thing.
Speaker 1: You might have to say the same stuff. You may
Speaker 1: have to talk about the same types of things you've
Speaker 1: talked about a thousand times because it's a different audience
Speaker 1: that's coming in. And if you don't hit those moments,
Speaker 1: you look like you don't know what you're talking about
Speaker 1: and you look like you're not hitting on a point
Speaker 1: of the game. Right. Um, I saw somebody putting out
Speaker 1: you know, memes of things that are always said, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, um, you know stories that you always hear
Speaker 1: about the players or God, I can't. That's one of
Speaker 1: my problems is I have zero recall ability for names.
Speaker 1: You would think with an impression, you know, when you
Speaker 1: do a bunch of places, you remember the names of people.
Speaker 1: I have none of it. No, I oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: my brain you think Walton's bad. I'm just going, what's
Speaker 1: his name with the beard? Looks like Connor McGregor, m
Speaker 1: a quarterback? Harvard, Oh, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick. It's that's
Speaker 1: the story. It's always Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard. He's
Speaker 1: a hard he's smart, he went. You know, you hear
Speaker 1: that every game, and there's a reason because they some
Speaker 1: of us are watching all the games. But that's not
Speaker 1: who the main fan is, right, The main fan is
Speaker 1: watching their team. They watch a game a week. So
Speaker 1: you have to hit on some of these things when
Speaker 1: that's the opposing player. I get people all the time
Speaker 1: on Twitter firery back of me, like, man, are we
Speaker 1: gonna hear again about this? I'm like, well, you know
Speaker 1: you've got a right because I think usually they measure
Speaker 1: things based on like ten to twelve minute segments. You
Speaker 1: have a new audience basically every every ten to twelve minutes,
Speaker 1: so you have to repeat your stories. You did a
Speaker 1: game with Bill and I are a portion of a
Speaker 1: game with Bill Walton. I'm going to stay there in
Speaker 1: the whole game. And Bill wanted me too. I wish
Speaker 1: you would have too. It was great. I didn't want
Speaker 1: me out of there because we had to talk about basketball.
Speaker 1: You guys never talk about basketball. I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was like I think maybe a ten minute sad.
Speaker 1: It was a big game, as like Oregon it went viral.
Speaker 1: I'm went miniviral. I know, so you've experienced that being
Speaker 1: in that chair. Even though you were in there to
Speaker 1: impersonate Bill, you were also analyzing, well, yeah, a little
Speaker 1: probably actually did the game, talked about the game more
Speaker 1: than Yeah he was remember what you said. He's like,
Speaker 1: this is the most Bills ever talked about the game,
Speaker 1: because he was actually trying to bring it back to
Speaker 1: more about the game. Because I was going off on
Speaker 1: crazy tangent. I'd actually done like a little bit of
Speaker 1: tried to do a little bit of color analysis or
Speaker 1: a yeah, um in games years and years ago. I
Speaker 1: remember it was a Cub's Cardinals game that I tried
Speaker 1: to do something. I was like, I don't know, when
Speaker 1: did you hear that? That's coming out of my stomach? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was okay. That was like a like like uh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say gas bubble. That was like
Speaker 1: a gurgle that came from my sternum. Is that POSSI
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was an impersonation or just
Speaker 1: here wolf is in there based and onions. That sounded
Speaker 1: frog like. So that that that that is what happens
Speaker 1: to your health when you keep doing Ron Wolfle, I
Speaker 1: guess that was something, but that was that was like,
Speaker 1: that was guttural. If I remember, there's like a gas
Speaker 1: bubble in the middle of it. Might be having a
Speaker 1: heart attack right now like the super fans like dear
Speaker 1: sweet happened? What's happening? All right? There's still more I
Speaker 1: want to get to about this, but we haven't talked
Speaker 1: about anything yet. We haven't. This has been like twenty
Speaker 1: two minutes. So Jim M A hundred, our producer, came
Speaker 1: up with this idea where we take some of the
Speaker 1: calls from the game this past Sunday, the win over
Speaker 1: the rams where I'm talking and then wolf talk. So
Speaker 1: it's a play by play call and an analysis. Since
Speaker 1: you were just talking about what it's like to broadcast
Speaker 1: a game, and we want you to do it with
Speaker 1: different impressions. We'll start with one name and I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna throw out another name, okay, and you transition as
Speaker 1: we go. So the first one you got the copy there, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: first one is a Byron Murphy interception. Okay, So why
Speaker 1: don't we start that as Let's start it as Robert
Speaker 1: Downey Junior. Okay, So second in three nine minutes ago
Speaker 1: in the first when you're doing rumber Danny Junior. By
Speaker 1: the way, you've got to sound like you're burping halfway
Speaker 1: through every sentence. Maybe that gurgle will come back. It's
Speaker 1: a fake handoff rolling right. Is Stafford looking back to
Speaker 1: the left, throwing a deep ball farside for the show
Speaker 1: on Jackson, and it's picked off inside the fifteen yard line. Alpacino,
Speaker 1: it's Byron Murphy. He's tackled around the twelve. Byron Murphy,
Speaker 1: the NFC defensive player of the week. We had two
Speaker 1: picks last week, gets one here on Stafford in the
Speaker 1: first quarter. Okay, so now this is Wolf talking to
Speaker 1: do it first as Wolf. Oh, Byron Murphy bated Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford to throw that ball and then broke on the ball. One.
Speaker 1: An unbelievable play from Byron Murphy, and slowly it's starting
Speaker 1: to turn into Jesse the body Ventura bated Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: to throw it, all right, and the bay Sinonian are
Speaker 1: you bugging me? All right? And then I have one
Speaker 1: line after that. Let's do that line as shock man.
Speaker 1: Murphy's playing like a pro bowler. The first month of
Speaker 1: the season. It's pretty good. Okay, that's that's so good.
Speaker 1: All right, we need to come up with we need
Speaker 1: to find like ten more of these. All right. So
Speaker 1: here is aj Green forty one yard touchdown catch against
Speaker 1: the Rams. Let's start that off as Bruce Arians Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about dead at Murray and shot guns snapped
Speaker 1: the Kyler at a tiny little short set. See I
Speaker 1: did that. That's a nice little call, that short set
Speaker 1: by the little man right there. They doing a great
Speaker 1: word played by Dave Pass who knew he had it
Speaker 1: in him back there in Madison, Wisconsin. Moving it right
Speaker 1: a little bit little bit. You see what he does there,
Speaker 1: short set, little bit now throwing deep fireside and is
Speaker 1: pulled in into five yard All right, hold on, I
Speaker 1: gotta grab myself a crown royal. Here. I have a
Speaker 1: little sipping dippy, little sipping dippy and dada oops, dude,
Speaker 1: Dipper Ruins finished the call as Jack Nicholson by his
Speaker 1: five yard line by a J. Green into the end
Speaker 1: zone for the touchdown. J Green just too strong, too big,
Speaker 1: too athletic. Okay, now is Wolf to Tracy Morgan. What
Speaker 1: a great read by Kyler Murray to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: You got a scarecrow woman stick? Hold on, say that again,
Speaker 1: but say it is Morgan Freeman. What a great read
Speaker 1: by Kyler Murray. To throw the ball. You've got a
Speaker 1: scarecrow on a stick. Put it out there, let him
Speaker 1: go get it. That's exactly what A J. Green did. Okay?
Speaker 1: What does scarecrow on a stick mean? What does that mean? So? Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's gonna be like the scarecrow Wolf said, Wolf
Speaker 1: said scarecrow? All right, But that's what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out is what where his mind is? Is he
Speaker 1: in the middle of the poppies and the Wizard of Oz?
Speaker 1: What's happening? What is going on your basinonians? What is happening?
Speaker 1: Just don't throw water on him? All right? So can
Speaker 1: you say you've got a scarecrow on a stick one
Speaker 1: more time? In reference to A. J. Green? But can
Speaker 1: you do it as Liam Neeson? Let let's get there
Speaker 1: on a great read by Kyler Murray. To throw the ball.
Speaker 1: You've got a scarecrow on a stick, Put it out there,
Speaker 1: let him go get it. That's exactly what A J.
Speaker 1: Green did. My head, yeah, those are those all kind
Speaker 1: of work, all right. How about let's do a little
Speaker 1: play by play as u some analysts. So let's do
Speaker 1: me on the Max Williams fourteen yard touchdown catch. Let's
Speaker 1: start doing that as mel Kiper talk about tremendous snap snapped,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, tiny little athletic ability, high risk in high reward.
Speaker 1: Do things you don't see in each other. Free step drop.
Speaker 1: I'm adding things because I get back to the copyright here.
Speaker 1: Free step dropped, the tiny little steps, tiny little Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray taking a little steps the place over hold on.
Speaker 1: We're doing this a slow motion. Actually, this what's going
Speaker 1: on inside of my head. Free step drop loops it
Speaker 1: deep through the middle of the end his own Max
Speaker 1: Williams double accident and the ex single s in the
Speaker 1: Williams hangs it. He's a hit touchdown Williams over the middle,
Speaker 1: got popped. But Kyler Murray with a beautiful touchdown throwing.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, the Cardinals are back
Speaker 1: in front. Okay, let's do uh. Wolfe's response as John Madden,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, what are you gonna do when
Speaker 1: when Max Williams runs the seam on you want a
Speaker 1: great read by Kyler Murray. I mean, that's Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: just being Kyler Murray. Right there, he saw what do
Speaker 1: you need to do? And boom, he just made that happen.
Speaker 1: All right? Can you do that again? Like the what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do when Max Williams runs the seam
Speaker 1: on you? But can you do that? As? Who have
Speaker 1: we not done yet? Do you want to do? Let's
Speaker 1: do let's do pick one? How about bella chick? What
Speaker 1: are you gonna do when Max Williams runs the seam
Speaker 1: on you? I'm want a great read by Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: I'm ecstatic right now. This is I'm just blowing my tom.
Speaker 1: That's all right? How about um? Can we do Nance
Speaker 1: and Roma on one of these? Jim's gonna coach Jim.
Speaker 1: What's going on here? It's incredible? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: And Max Williams runs a seam on you? What a
Speaker 1: great read? But Kyler muris coming, It's here, It's gonna
Speaker 1: be toe is he here? We go? Jump Tony all
Speaker 1: they really say. I guess Nance likes the somebody was
Speaker 1: talking to him about it because I can only do
Speaker 1: Jim Nance, Jim Nance. That that's closer, Jim Nance. It's
Speaker 1: hard to do. Yeah, Yeah, he's got that because he's
Speaker 1: got that beautiful and he's got such he paints pictures
Speaker 1: with the language, but mine always turns into Adam West.
Speaker 1: I'll be like Jim Nance along with my pal Tony
Speaker 1: Romo to the bat Cave, Robin. You know, it's always
Speaker 1: when you do Pat sum Roll the thing I and
Speaker 1: I want you to do Pat. The thing I appreciate
Speaker 1: about your Pat some roll is you call a game
Speaker 1: as Pat some roll, like he would call a game like,
Speaker 1: which would never be allowed today. You could never like
Speaker 1: no matter where you work, and you have like seventy
Speaker 1: jobs no matter where you or could you say to
Speaker 1: the ten to the five touchdown, there's no way that's
Speaker 1: the whole call. Like you've got it, like they want
Speaker 1: you an executive, be like fill some fill some air.
Speaker 1: You know Chris Berman once he said to me, goes, Hey,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you know what day? What do you do? Whenever
Speaker 1: you move? You don't ever stop talking? Babe by b
Speaker 1: b b B big bi bib your facial the facial
Speaker 1: expressions that you do. Wait, but it's always comes jazz
Speaker 1: Gat made a bat made it. So would you believe
Speaker 1: if I told you that? Uh? First of all, when
Speaker 1: did you, Uh meet Bill Walton? When did When did you?
Speaker 1: I did an event in San Diego, I don't remember
Speaker 1: what remember what it was for, maybe a charity event,
Speaker 1: and Bill was there um and I said, and the
Speaker 1: people were like, hey, you can do the Bill impression.
Speaker 1: But you know he's here and his back is sore,
Speaker 1: and Uh. I was like, well it's not I don't
Speaker 1: do these things to be mean. I do it to
Speaker 1: be silly. I think he'll get it, So I start
Speaker 1: going to the Bill. I remember being at Berkeley blanched
Speaker 1: a beard not connecting on my face. I could smell colors,
Speaker 1: I could feel sounds. Has there ever been a player
Speaker 1: better than left Shrimp? Yeah, like six hundred thousand. But
Speaker 1: then from the back I see a guy waving and
Speaker 1: towel hilarious. Continue this from the rest of the show.
Speaker 1: That's what you have to do, unbelieved. So he totally
Speaker 1: got he had fun with it. I also saw him
Speaker 1: at I think I'm pretty sure he was at UM.
Speaker 1: Jim Gray had a birthday party in Vegas and it
Speaker 1: was the most famous group of sports people I'd ever
Speaker 1: seen in one room at the same time. Did you
Speaker 1: see who Jim Gray had? The two people he had
Speaker 1: with him at his Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Larry
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald yeah, and Mike Tyson. Yeah. That's like two ends
Speaker 1: of the spectrum of this personnel. But those are that
Speaker 1: Jim has the greatest rolodex. And this was even better
Speaker 1: because in the audience was Larry King, doctor Jay Muhammad,
Speaker 1: ali U, Bill Walton, and there were a couple I mean,
Speaker 1: but it was so and Jordan was supposed to be there,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they could get him away from
Speaker 1: the tables. I mean it was I'm not even joking, Okay, No,
Speaker 1: they were like they were a crazy I mean, it
Speaker 1: was unbelievable the people that were there. So somebody, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say the name because I don't know that
Speaker 1: I should, but somebody wrote a book. And there's actually
Speaker 1: two books now called the Bill Walton Mysteries, and they
Speaker 1: are it is a so apparently Bill and I after
Speaker 1: we call games, we solve crimes. There's one set in
Speaker 1: I think Seattle and the other ones in Maui. And
Speaker 1: so this first one here is called hold On Bill
Speaker 1: Walton Mysteries, Friend of the Devil. If you may have
Speaker 1: to read a page or two in some different voices.
Speaker 1: Does he have are there parts where he's actually speaking
Speaker 1: or well, oh yeah, and there's there's he has Bill
Speaker 1: like in the book the character drinking beer, but Bill
Speaker 1: only drinks water. I'm serious, like Bill water and hot
Speaker 1: water and more water and bring water. I'm in pharmaceuticals Bill,
Speaker 1: That's what I said. I say, but it's weird. It's
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out. I'm totally springing this on
Speaker 1: your left. Yeah. I was just trying to think if
Speaker 1: there was a spot where, you know, if you read it.
Speaker 1: I tried to shake hands with Fiddle, but he didn't notice.
Speaker 1: It was clear something was wrong. He said he couldn't
Speaker 1: talk with the other people around, so we brought him
Speaker 1: to our dressing room. I'm not sure if that's Bill
Speaker 1: even talking at this point. It doesn't matter anyway. I
Speaker 1: didn't know if you yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: we could read as Robert Dane Junior do the same
Speaker 1: type of thing before. It's you know you do that.
Speaker 1: We do all the avengers, I mean pharmaceuticals Bill. That's
Speaker 1: what I said, Tony, I'm doing the all Avengers. I'll
Speaker 1: try to shake hands with Field book. He uh, you
Speaker 1: didn't notice. Thanks thor what are we doing now, Tracy?
Speaker 1: That's what I'm going to clear something was wrong. He
Speaker 1: said he couldn't talk with the other people, so we
Speaker 1: went and brought him to our dressing room. Roch stephen A,
Speaker 1: that's a classic like thing that old school impressions would do,
Speaker 1: introduced the next guy. Stephen A thought the knoleum floor,
Speaker 1: the fluorescent ceiling, likes, what made made inards inards with
Speaker 1: with a with a with a hyphen. Why would we
Speaker 1: do that? At that point in the book of the
Speaker 1: Arena feels surprisingly school like. Talk about it. We walked
Speaker 1: past frame pictures documenting key Arena's pass, Glori's pictures, Sean Kemp,
Speaker 1: Garrett Peyton, and other members of the legendary Nanda's SuperSonics,
Speaker 1: various musical luminaries that performed here um luckily for me
Speaker 1: or lucky for me. They were labeled Prince Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana, McLemore,
Speaker 1: and Pearl jam Very good, very good, try my best right.
Speaker 1: I just figured when this is so great, because I
Speaker 1: imagine just you be shaggy and you ask, Hey, Bill,
Speaker 1: would you do it for one scooby snack? So you go, Hey, Bill,
Speaker 1: Would you do it for one Scooby snacks? Is Bill?
Speaker 1: Would you do it for one Scoobies? No way, Bill?
Speaker 1: Would you do it for two Scooby second? Not a chance?
Speaker 1: Like would you do it for three Scooby snacks and
Speaker 1: a tripled Egger salami sandwich? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
Speaker 1: yeah and a glass of water to bring it all down?
Speaker 1: All he ever has this water? Now he might be
Speaker 1: doing something else outside, but at least at dinner. So
Speaker 1: before we get out here, give me your thoughts on
Speaker 1: four oh for the Cardinals. Yeah, listen, I'm I'm I'm enthusiastic,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to get too enthusiastic because I
Speaker 1: always feel like I'm the one in the universe that
Speaker 1: if I get too on board and too gung ho
Speaker 1: for somebody, that I'm going to tilt the scale and
Speaker 1: make it go backwards. So I think I think it's great.
Speaker 1: It's you wouldn't. Why would you want to be anything
Speaker 1: but four No? Especially in the division they're in to
Speaker 1: beat the Rams is huge. The thing I worry about
Speaker 1: is Kyler needs his legs and his arm right if
Speaker 1: one of those things goes down, like if you if
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has a sore leg, you don't really worry
Speaker 1: about it because he doesn't move that much anyways. It's
Speaker 1: like you can do that. Kyler needs that whole package,
Speaker 1: and as small as he is, you're worry about him getting,
Speaker 1: you know, smashed. Now he seems to be eluding people
Speaker 1: incredibly well. And the baseball players like he and Russell
Speaker 1: will have that ability to slide and anticipate when they
Speaker 1: need to slide. You look at somebody like Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: he looks more like a basketball point guard out there
Speaker 1: with some of the moves he does, and he takes
Speaker 1: some hits, he gets smashed. Kyler's trying not to get hit,
Speaker 1: and I think Lamar's trying to do that same thing.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, the baseball players have a little
Speaker 1: bit more of that ability to get down. If you
Speaker 1: look at a guy um Herbert, like the just the
Speaker 1: sheer size and bone structure of a guy like Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert or Matthew Stafford, you know, I've met somebody. I've
Speaker 1: never met Herbert, but Stafford. I did a thing at
Speaker 1: the super Bowl in uh Indianapolis years ago. And Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: he was only like his third year in the leaguers.
Speaker 1: But he's a monster. Here I shook hand. I remember
Speaker 1: shaking hands with Boomer Asiason and his hands look were
Speaker 1: like the hands of alignment. These are not normal sized
Speaker 1: human Aiman's massive, Like if people didn't know that he
Speaker 1: was a quarterback. You because of the things about Troy
Speaker 1: is he's a block all the way down. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a dapper human being. He looks like a model,
Speaker 1: but he's he's just a thick human being. He's like
Speaker 1: a i'd say tree trunk, but that's gonna make you
Speaker 1: think of a somebody shorter. But he's he's like a
Speaker 1: full on tree. He's like the tree and the you know,
Speaker 1: the hair is the branches, I guess, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: you see some of these people and they you can
Speaker 1: understand why they can take the hits. Russell Wilson is
Speaker 1: not a small you know, you compare a guy like
Speaker 1: Kyler and Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson's a thick human being,
Speaker 1: bigger shoulders, bigger hands. He almost looks like a weightlift.
Speaker 1: Although if you look at kyler lower body pretty yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not a weak guy by any means. But I
Speaker 1: I think this year, um listen, I'm root I'm rooting
Speaker 1: for them because I like being friends with a GM
Speaker 1: first of all, and Steve keep the job for a
Speaker 1: long time. Um, I think that defensively, you know, they
Speaker 1: get after it this year. They feel more like a
Speaker 1: team I feel like, and I think that's JJ Watt.
Speaker 1: I think that's uh from I only I don't hear much.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't ask a lot of questions of
Speaker 1: Steve and stuff like that, and I don't think he'd
Speaker 1: give me a lot of answers to information I bond anyways. Um,
Speaker 1: but the feeling I get that is that JJ that's
Speaker 1: a big part. And I've even heard you guys on
Speaker 1: the broadcast say that JJ Watts brought in to be
Speaker 1: a team guy. And I think that's you know, that
Speaker 1: guy's just an animal and when people that's infectious. When
Speaker 1: you've got guys on your team that like that, that
Speaker 1: never stopped, the motor never stops. Uh. You know, what
Speaker 1: do they say in the NFL? You know, there's all sports.
Speaker 1: There are people that play the game because they have
Speaker 1: to play the game and it gives them a good check.
Speaker 1: And there are people that play the game you have
Speaker 1: to when it's something when they draft somebody. That's why
Speaker 1: they say, you have to love the game. It's a
Speaker 1: hard game. It's a very difficult game because the next
Speaker 1: day you have to wake up and deal with just
Speaker 1: how we long you should say. You go into a
Speaker 1: closet and it's like somebody can beat you with a
Speaker 1: baseball bat for two hours, and then you got to
Speaker 1: come out of the closet and h and deal with that.
Speaker 1: And that's when they wanted to add the game. He's like,
Speaker 1: that's why players didn't want to add. You got to
Speaker 1: do a seventeenth game. I remember how he talking about
Speaker 1: that five or six years ago, and that was that
Speaker 1: was his analogy about him. I even been ten years
Speaker 1: ago at this point, but that was his analogy because
Speaker 1: I was saying, why is one game so much bigger?
Speaker 1: He goes, you don't understand the stuff that people go
Speaker 1: through in these games just to get back to play
Speaker 1: the next week, right, And that's why the fact that
Speaker 1: Cardinals are four and oh it's great right now, they're
Speaker 1: the only unbeaten team in the NFL. But we've got
Speaker 1: to waste and there's gonna be adverse and there's gonna
Speaker 1: be losses and injuries play. Yeah, you know DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: Some of the stuff that that man does, the pivoting
Speaker 1: that he does, what he will make a catch, make
Speaker 1: a step, pivot, do a reverse pivot that I don't
Speaker 1: see many people like. He's got moves that that aren't
Speaker 1: like anything anybody else does. He's one of the best
Speaker 1: route runners in history at the league. Right There's just
Speaker 1: things he yet and not just for yet the route
Speaker 1: and after the after the catch, the weird things that
Speaker 1: he will do that you a man. You know, when
Speaker 1: you watch somebody make a cut, they're usually making a
Speaker 1: cut while going forward. He will actually stop and pivot
Speaker 1: and turn around and you're going, I don't think I've
Speaker 1: seen anybody do that. I mean aj Green J Green
Speaker 1: has been a huge addition to the team this year.
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk making big catches, and then Rondel Moore. I
Speaker 1: mean it's like Kyler Murray throwing almost to Kyler Murray somepint.
Speaker 1: That's that's fun. I mean, they're just fun to watch offensively.
Speaker 1: I don't know what what people are gonna do to
Speaker 1: figure out how to stop them, because there it's it's listen.
Speaker 1: I don't want to compare them directly to the Chiefs
Speaker 1: because you know, Mahomes was at and Mahomes a struggling
Speaker 1: right now even but you know when he had all
Speaker 1: his weapons, especially two years ago. Who do you stop?
Speaker 1: Can you do? Patrick Mahomes? Yeah, man, I think that's
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good one. And it comes from people
Speaker 1: say Kermit the Frog. It's more Fozzy Bear's in there.
Speaker 1: But hey man, I think that's pretty good. To your point, though,
Speaker 1: there are some things that Kyler can do that Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes can't, and there have been there are flaws on
Speaker 1: that Chief's team yet two consecutive Super Bowl appearances. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying is the Cardinals certainly have flaws. There are
Speaker 1: things they need to clean up. But if Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: keeps playing like this, the ascension that he is on
Speaker 1: right now, if he continues to play like this, I
Speaker 1: worry about a young guy getting too big of a head.
Speaker 1: Because he's so good it's hard to you start to
Speaker 1: feel like you're invincible. I worry about that. My only
Speaker 1: thought on that was my point on the ascension is
Speaker 1: if he keeps going like this, I think the sky's
Speaker 1: the limit you can cover up any I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's what he can do because I name another guy
Speaker 1: and maybe Russell Wilson, although Russell Wilson is not as
Speaker 1: he's not quite as quick, but he's quick. I remember,
Speaker 1: you know, watching them just give the Seahawks, just give
Speaker 1: fits to the Cardinals with you know, you just you
Speaker 1: think Russell Wilson's about to be tackled. He runs three
Speaker 1: different directions and then his eyes are up the field.
Speaker 1: That's the thing about Kyler, tiny little kind of Marie.
Speaker 1: That's the thing about Kyler is his eyes stay up
Speaker 1: the field. He's not looking to run. He can, he
Speaker 1: can navigate. It's like he's playing a video game. I
Speaker 1: know they say that, you know, video game play, but
Speaker 1: it's like he's looking at the screen in front of
Speaker 1: him and he's just he's playing it and while he's
Speaker 1: watching everything in front of him, and he will make
Speaker 1: the moves and he's watching things develop. You can't cover.
Speaker 1: You cannot cover DeAndre Hopkins, h Aj Greene, Rondelle Moore
Speaker 1: and Christian Kirk for a long scene. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're hitting tight end. That's why I said to you, hey,
Speaker 1: end of the season, bring Fits back and have him
Speaker 1: run some tight end rounds and you laughed at me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, why not why would you not bring
Speaker 1: fits back near the end of the season. I didn't
Speaker 1: say it wouldn't bring him back. I'm not sure he
Speaker 1: wants to come back. Well he listen, if if it's
Speaker 1: a chance to get a Super Bowl, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: i'd look at that. I don't know why you wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you maybe you can convince him. I'll talk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just think I brought jj wan here. But I
Speaker 1: mean you look at I mean, who how are you
Speaker 1: going to keep those guys covered? That's the thing about Kyler,
Speaker 1: And I say, you know, he moves around so much,
Speaker 1: he finds the open guys. Who else can do that
Speaker 1: at that level? I don't know. I don't think Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson can can do that. I think Lamar Jackson his
Speaker 1: head goes down and sometimes he keeps it up and
Speaker 1: he makes a good, a decent throw. Kyler is looking
Speaker 1: for the throw the whole time. His legs are spinning
Speaker 1: like the roadrunner. Man. That was a little grutin there.
Speaker 1: See you know, tell you what, man, they just have
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I'll bet there are some times
Speaker 1: where you don't even realize it where you, as Frank
Speaker 1: Caliando becomes one of your characters. Well everything, it's not
Speaker 1: it's it's I think it's I think it's actually the
Speaker 1: reverse that there's a piece of me and every character
Speaker 1: that I do, and uh, they kind of do meld.
Speaker 1: But it's it's a thing where people will hear I'll
Speaker 1: be like, you sound like Jack Nicholson. I'm just that's
Speaker 1: because I'm just talking at this that was actually Belichick.
Speaker 1: Is if I'm a little quieter like this, it's Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: And then if you're just doing a little this, it's Jack.
Speaker 1: And if you force it that a little bit more
Speaker 1: becomes John gruten Man. Again the facial and this is
Speaker 1: an audio podcast, but the facial expressions are spider too.
Speaker 1: Why banana cream pie man? All right, lastly, tell everybody
Speaker 1: all the stuff you're doing. What you got coming up
Speaker 1: where we can check out all of your great stuff,
Speaker 1: uh kaliandocast uh caliendocast dot com, uh Frank onstage dot
Speaker 1: com for all the live dates. Um, and that's about it.
Speaker 1: I've got a few other things that are in the hopper,
Speaker 1: so to speak, but um, nothing right now that I'm
Speaker 1: able to talk about I'm not coming, ok, not gonna
Speaker 1: be in the Phoenix area anytime soon. I know people
Speaker 1: listen to you all over the universe. Oh yeah, but hey,
Speaker 1: you're apparently our biggest fan. You're you're retweeting and liking
Speaker 1: like every past pod. I'm the one who tries to
Speaker 1: make you forty five cents extra week uh in downloads? Um, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I we're friends. I think it's appry to help out,
Speaker 1: you know, people that help me out and are are
Speaker 1: there when I'm doing something. I think it's great to
Speaker 1: to reciprocate that. But I'm trying to think, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm going to Irvine, I'm gonna do I'm doing just
Speaker 1: a couple of shows in Irvine and Oxnyard in California
Speaker 1: at the end of the month, like I said Frank
Speaker 1: onstage dot com for that. And there's there's some other
Speaker 1: TV stuff that is real close right now that it
Speaker 1: might be happening soon. So let's see what goes on
Speaker 1: with when you know and it's public, let us know
Speaker 1: so we can make sure to yeah and definitely put
Speaker 1: it out there. Any other impressions that you're working on,
Speaker 1: like people that you've never done that you're starting to
Speaker 1: kind of practice to always. I mean, that's all there's.
Speaker 1: You know, I was doing a little bit of a
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell. You know. The thing is I'm rooting for
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell because it's tough in that line, but it
Speaker 1: ended up sounding kind of like super Dave but or
Speaker 1: Matt fully the motivational speaker. You know, We're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna knock it. We're gonna knock there. Uh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: knock their knee caps off, and we get their kneecaps
Speaker 1: cut off, We're gonna bring them back up. We're gonna
Speaker 1: knock them down again. You know. So it's that, but
Speaker 1: it's fun to make them more characters. Um, you know, Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think if there's anybody else really the
Speaker 1: little bits here and there, I'm kind of and I'm
Speaker 1: thirty percent to figuring out Peyton Manning And it comes
Speaker 1: for the world from the word weird. He said weird.
Speaker 1: He said, I can't do it right now, probably because
Speaker 1: I'm too hyped up. But uh, but he's like, you like,
Speaker 1: what's that's kind of weird? Kind of weird. It's in there.
Speaker 1: He's like, what was that sweater you're word it's kind
Speaker 1: of weird. I can't get it right now. It's kind
Speaker 1: of weird. Yeah, it's I gotta bubble in my throat's
Speaker 1: probably that gurgle trying to come back. Uh well, listen, man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming in to do this and uh,
Speaker 1: thanks again. Man. You're you're the best at what you
Speaker 1: do and you're so true and I want you to
Speaker 1: come on anytime you want. I'd love to come back
Speaker 1: any the podcast that I do. You know, it's me
Speaker 1: and John Holmberg, who's local here and uh, he's brilliant,
Speaker 1: He's unbelievable and the like he's he's he's like me
Speaker 1: if I didn't have a sense if if if I
Speaker 1: didn't censor myself constantly. So can you close this out
Speaker 1: with like whoever you want saying? Um, thanks for listening
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