Speaker 1: The nick Ki Gliser Podcast. Nick Glaser here, I am
Speaker 1: welcome to the Nicky Glaiser Podcast. We are live from
Speaker 1: the Big Game.
Speaker 2: That's right, the Big Game, Big Game.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can say what it is,
Speaker 1: Yes we can.
Speaker 3: I think I can, But you guys, can.
Speaker 1: You tell us what we're live from. This is Dan
Speaker 1: Hans is from the podcast Around the NFL.
Speaker 2: You can't say NFL, yes, it can't be the big League.
Speaker 1: One of my dear friends from early on in my life,
Speaker 1: early on in my career. We've been friends, maybe almost
Speaker 1: going on twenty years, let's round up to twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: fifteen years I've known this man and he is the
Speaker 1: host of or Around the NFL. He's here for as
Speaker 1: our first guest today.
Speaker 2: That's right, hopefully one of many.
Speaker 3: Right, You're not legally cleared for Around the NFL. So
Speaker 3: in the vicinity of football.
Speaker 1: Podcast, Dan hanss. What's up?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 3: II So awesome to see you guys and and Nikki. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we said it when you were on our podcast Home
Speaker 3: and Home. Yeah, full circle moment, because we do go
Speaker 3: way back.
Speaker 1: We go so far back because I was Brian to
Speaker 1: just catch you up with how I know Dan. I
Speaker 1: was a fan of Dan's best friend Bob, because Bob
Speaker 1: I loved Best Week Ever. That's on VACH one. Course,
Speaker 1: when I was in college, Bob did the VH one
Speaker 1: blog for Best Week Ever, and he was one of
Speaker 1: the biggest bloggers there there were.
Speaker 2: I remember that my blog is poop.
Speaker 3: He had.
Speaker 1: Poop was what he had, and so he put his
Speaker 1: aim screen name on there. I put it on my
Speaker 1: buddy list, just as like a college kid who was
Speaker 1: a fan of this writing of this guy. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he only had a picture of himself from behind, and
Speaker 1: I was like, what does this guy look like? So
Speaker 1: one night I was drunk, though, and I saw him
Speaker 1: sign on and I amed him and I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan, and then we became friends. I was
Speaker 1: in Kansas, he was in New York. I finally went
Speaker 1: to New York to go visit and I met him,
Speaker 1: and then I don't know if I met you on
Speaker 1: that trip, but then I met all of his friends,
Speaker 1: and you were one of those friends. And eventually Dan
Speaker 1: moved to LA when I was already there friends with
Speaker 1: Bob and all these guys. Bob ended up as the
Speaker 1: head writer on Not Safe, which Brian, you worked on Oh.
Speaker 2: Is that Bob Mob?
Speaker 3: Oh that's my best friend since nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, and you released the feature film Yes, falk
Speaker 2: of Dudes, Yes.
Speaker 1: Dudes and uh yeah, and Dan, I have a memory.
Speaker 1: Did you ever play rock band? That was like during
Speaker 1: the rock band we were like obsessed.
Speaker 3: With It was a very if you were twenty something
Speaker 3: in the late oughts and you had the ability to
Speaker 3: purchase that and have the system, you played it all
Speaker 3: the time. Where what so doroky? I think everyone stopped
Speaker 3: when they realized, like how ridiculous it was ultimately that
Speaker 3: you're holding fake instruments playing video games like Go Learn.
Speaker 1: Really sea on everyone.
Speaker 3: You're spending the amount of time that we were spending
Speaker 3: playing that game.
Speaker 5: Because yeah, we could have been in a real band. Yeah,
Speaker 5: well you could say about any game. You could be like,
Speaker 5: why are you playing Call of Duty? Get a real gun?
Speaker 5: Go to a rock wells.
Speaker 1: People always say that because I'm back into guitar hero
Speaker 1: it's come back around. Remember when we thing we used
Speaker 1: to say you know what's back? What were we say?
Speaker 1: You know what's coming back?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: We would see like groovy baby, like we would always
Speaker 1: bring back. It's back back rock band, Guitar Hero. Tempo
Speaker 1: based games are back. My boyfriend got me Guitar Hero
Speaker 1: for Christmas because we just it was in the lobby
Speaker 1: of a hotel that we were staying at. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we had so much fun just playing one song, and
Speaker 1: so he got it for me for Christmas. We are
Speaker 1: legit addicted again. It is so fun and I just
Speaker 1: don't I can't believe it fell off. We've got all
Speaker 1: the games Pigs, warp pigs. Yeah, I'm all these new songs.
Speaker 1: Do you know what song I just learned through Guitar
Speaker 1: Hero two thousand and eight whatever game this was that
Speaker 1: I never was into at the time, but it's like
Speaker 1: my favorite song right now. I'm really embarrassed. No, okay,
Speaker 1: you can get you can get it, Okay. It was
Speaker 1: like I'm not I'm just gonna give it to you.
Speaker 1: Killing in the name.
Speaker 3: Of oh right, it's so yeah, yeah, is that the
Speaker 3: fuck you? You can't do it? I won't do what you
Speaker 3: tell me song? I won't do what you That was
Speaker 3: a great song to go like off to yes and
Speaker 3: that I think And you play guitar and you're an
Speaker 3: actual musician, do you get a you get a similar
Speaker 3: rush when you you would hit the chords in the.
Speaker 1: Better rush in the video game. You really feel like
Speaker 1: you're in it and you feel and and it will
Speaker 1: mute the sound if you miss the thing you feel.
Speaker 5: Like and you won't laser sound.
Speaker 1: It really feels good and I love it and and
Speaker 1: I really recommend people getting back into it. I really
Speaker 1: want it to be so big again that they start making,
Speaker 1: you know, versions or a guitar hero.
Speaker 3: I was trying to be cool there, but the more
Speaker 3: I think about it, we were so into it and
Speaker 3: there was camaraderie to it like there was. We had
Speaker 3: the whole setup.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: We had the drum kit, two guitars, and the mic
Speaker 3: with the mic stand. It was like, first of all
Speaker 3: guys near it's hied this when other people are out,
Speaker 3: when they would come out, we would have a good
Speaker 3: time party.
Speaker 1: I remember Dan you famously, and I have used this
Speaker 1: term for so long after it in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: I want to say I'd just become friends with Amy Schumer.
Speaker 1: In the past year. Amy Schumer and I share a birthday.
Speaker 1: She was in town in LA during our birthday and
Speaker 1: the only place I knew to have a birthday party.
Speaker 1: Was the house that Dan lived in with all these guys.
Speaker 1: It was they lived across the street from Lindsay Lohan
Speaker 1: during her lesbian days.
Speaker 2: Oh those are the best days.
Speaker 1: It's up on El Centro if you're El el Contento. Sorry.
Speaker 1: And it was so big, it was so nice. I
Speaker 1: never I still don't know anyone with a houseless nice Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never got.
Speaker 3: Now that I live in is probably a quarter of
Speaker 3: the subsis.
Speaker 1: It was so nice. And so you guys threw a
Speaker 1: party for me and Amy for are conjoined birthdays. We
Speaker 1: had so many people there. I remember, you know, Eric
Speaker 1: Andre was there.
Speaker 2: Eric Andrey has been to my house.
Speaker 5: I didn't get to ask him about it when he
Speaker 5: was on the podcast.
Speaker 1: The story was we were having Eric Andry on the
Speaker 1: podcast and Brian was like, oh, I've got a great
Speaker 1: Eric Andre story. I can't wait to have him on
Speaker 1: and give me a little like teaser, a little old
Speaker 1: spoiler what happened. He's like, I'll just tell you the
Speaker 1: whole thing. I looked out my window one day down
Speaker 1: at the pool area. Eric Andrey is down there and
Speaker 1: I go, so what and he goes, that's it. You're
Speaker 1: not going to bring that up. He says, well, maybe
Speaker 1: there will be some context.
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk to him about it, see what
Speaker 2: his experience.
Speaker 1: He got nothing with that, But I will say this
Speaker 1: party was crazy and the next day I think people
Speaker 1: had to be kicked out. There was some fighting, there
Speaker 1: was just drunkenness. There's puking, there was stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But the next day Dan, for me, it was the
Speaker 1: first time I'd ever heard this term. And you know
Speaker 1: what I'm going to say, right, I actually don't so Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: still in the blank, Nikki, you're friends with a lot
Speaker 1: of blank starts with a J. There were too, but
Speaker 1: not dude. It is a is a creature that you
Speaker 1: would find in the Southwest scavenging running about.
Speaker 3: Uh, I could.
Speaker 1: Start with a jay. I don't know. No jackals, Oh,
Speaker 1: jack jackals is a term used.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: I remember laughing so hard and being so embarrassed that
Speaker 1: I had so many jackal friends. But I was so
Speaker 1: delighted that that was a term that uh.
Speaker 3: That you there were a lot of jackals. But I
Speaker 3: look back, I I have thought about that party before,
Speaker 3: because you know, you blew up after that, and Amy
Speaker 3: was just blowing up or about to blow up to
Speaker 3: you at that point, And I was like, how many
Speaker 3: actually like big time like comedy people were at that
Speaker 3: party that you know later became more well known. Yeah,
Speaker 3: probably pretty I think that was like a place to
Speaker 3: be that night, and how are good nights?
Speaker 1: It's good nights. But now we're here at the.
Speaker 3: Now all the fund's gone. Now we're left with reality.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're past the hump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're we're in this. So if you haven't heard
Speaker 1: the hum of a bunch of people behind us, that
Speaker 1: is we're in an area.
Speaker 5: What is this center at Mandalay Bay in the MGM world.
Speaker 5: This is the super Bowl Media Day, which happens one
Speaker 5: day before the Super Bowl every year as part of
Speaker 5: a huge week of media events. And nobody from the
Speaker 5: actual teams that are playing in the.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl is here today. They're all practicing.
Speaker 1: They were here a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, prior to today, they were here a lot.
Speaker 3: Now I feel weird. There's some information to clarify on that,
Speaker 3: you guys. I mean it's not quite media Day. Actually, Uh,
Speaker 3: there was media night opening at at like in a
Speaker 3: basketball arena, and now this is every radio show, every
Speaker 3: TV show, radio row it's.
Speaker 2: And it's not part of the Media Day franchise.
Speaker 3: No, that has now been spun out into its own universe. Okay,
Speaker 3: they do it at it at the basketball arena, but
Speaker 3: this is where everyone comes for the week and all
Speaker 3: the guests bunnel through here and you have to to
Speaker 3: do interviews. You guys might be doing something today where
Speaker 3: it's like before you actually can have a human conversations
Speaker 3: like so, why do you like Bounty howels so much?
Speaker 3: And then they go into a you know, twenty minute
Speaker 3: really a prepared statements together.
Speaker 1: Yes, there were. I was offered some and walking by
Speaker 1: and someone just was like, they go, do you want this?
Speaker 1: And it was like, is that a napkin? And it
Speaker 1: was a Bounty napkin? But they go, no, it's chicken wings.
Speaker 1: And I go, I'm vegan and they go, we have celery.
Speaker 3: You haven't lived until, like Kirk Cousins tells you, I
Speaker 3: can't throw a party with chicken wings unless I have
Speaker 3: my Bounty paper towels.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, all right, Kirk, yeah.
Speaker 3: I know that about it.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I went on a media tour I was
Speaker 1: doing it. I did a spot for some kind of
Speaker 1: gum tried it and Denteene or something way back when
Speaker 1: and just did a just a series of online commercials
Speaker 1: and then they had me do like a media day
Speaker 1: to go talk about those commercials. And I didn't know
Speaker 1: what it would really be. But one of those one
Speaker 1: of those interviews ended up being in the Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: documentary because I was doing so I sat down with
Speaker 1: this guy and he's like, tell us about what do
Speaker 1: you think about Taylor Swift. It was a BuzzFeed got
Speaker 1: one off thing and I just mouthed off, and then
Speaker 1: that ended up being in her documentary. Like Calamity, it
Speaker 1: was because of and I had really bad pits saints
Speaker 1: during it, and I thought it was like such a
Speaker 1: nothing interview, so I was just kind of making fun.
Speaker 1: I was like, you guys, I am pit sained out.
Speaker 1: So I did the whole interview like bent over like
Speaker 1: this because I called it out initially and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is so bad. So I was like doing the
Speaker 1: interview literally like this. So I'm like, she just has
Speaker 1: too many model friends. She's too like I was just
Speaker 1: so the clip I just look ridiculous, as I should
Speaker 1: because I shouldn't have done that. But this is a
Speaker 1: lesson Dan. I don't know if you are like a
Speaker 1: little bit tight lipped about maybe your opinions about some
Speaker 1: things when it comes to like a TV show you
Speaker 1: watch or a movie you watch. But I just saw
Speaker 1: a clip of Tina Feye this morning talking to less
Speaker 1: Culture Echas, which is a podcast on the iHeart Network
Speaker 1: the Big Money Players, which were a part of. She
Speaker 1: was talking to them about how you got You can't
Speaker 1: have opinions about things anymore if you want to be
Speaker 1: one of those if you want to be a taste maker,
Speaker 1: you can't go off about saltburn because you might work
Speaker 1: with someone who made saltburn. And then Io from I
Speaker 1: don't know her last name, she was in the Bear.
Speaker 1: She did snl and and mouthed off about j low.
Speaker 1: Did you see that she talked about jail She is
Speaker 1: now eating crow because she said those things. And I
Speaker 1: was just like, I have so many things to haunt
Speaker 1: me in the future if I work with impressive people,
Speaker 1: because I do have opinions about things, and so you
Speaker 1: just have to get like you have to just not
Speaker 1: talk anymore about what you really know.
Speaker 5: What you do, you say whatever you want? Well get Yeah,
Speaker 5: I guess you're right if you might work with them
Speaker 5: in the future, but like.
Speaker 1: You could work with anyone in the future, you could
Speaker 1: host s and l with anyone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, well what if you say something negatively about
Speaker 5: a football player?
Speaker 3: We had we had a memorable thing for us when
Speaker 3: we were kind of the podcast was getting going, we
Speaker 3: were starting to get an overseas following. We're like, oh,
Speaker 3: we can actually maybe go to London and have a
Speaker 3: trip and maybe do a live show. We were so
Speaker 3: excited about it. Yeah, and then we we had a
Speaker 3: It was a wretched boss. He was He was just
Speaker 3: mean jackal the very the term in the dictionary would
Speaker 3: be right next to him, this person anyway, so we did, uh,
Speaker 3: we did kind of like a bit on the show
Speaker 3: making fun of JJ Watts's new clothing. Want Wow, I
Speaker 3: even dip my voice because like, I hope he doesn't
Speaker 3: hear it. In trouble again, you're like inadvertently cracked. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and his manager heard it and like put it up
Speaker 3: the flag, hold NFL and this boss said, you know what,
Speaker 3: You're not going to London now, and then had someone
Speaker 3: from the desk do a transcription of the podcast and
Speaker 3: basically read it out to us like we were little boys. Now,
Speaker 3: it's not exactly what you're saying, but that's in general,
Speaker 3: especially when what you do with podcasts, like you're just
Speaker 3: speaking like off the cuff and you kind of end
Speaker 3: up parking yourself in dangerous culs to sacks, like people will.
Speaker 1: Hear it like there's something And that's what I think
Speaker 1: the joy the appeal is of a podcast is it
Speaker 1: feels so personal. It feels like you're kind of in
Speaker 1: the room with people. Fly on the wall listening club. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have like one podcast that's like has a pay
Speaker 1: well behind it and that's where we really talk some ship.
Speaker 3: But it's nobody can ever like put that No they
Speaker 3: could behind it.
Speaker 5: I don't think that JJ Watts agent could afford the
Speaker 5: five dollars to find that information.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's but then if you just if you
Speaker 1: just like everything, So, yeah, you got to fix some
Speaker 1: things that you don't like. But I'm also willing to
Speaker 1: admit that I I don't keep I can. I can
Speaker 1: change my opinion about things very quickly, Like Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: had a total turnaround. I was really annoyed with when
Speaker 1: he made the Friendship bracelet and got all those headlines
Speaker 1: about making the French place. I thought it was a yeah,
Speaker 1: because I didn't know who he was. I didn't know
Speaker 1: his intent, and I didn't know he actually wanted to
Speaker 1: date her, and like was a fan and was going
Speaker 1: to the show as a fan. And then I did
Speaker 1: a whole one eighty because not only did I think
Speaker 1: that was so tacky at first and so lame, and like,
Speaker 1: who do you think you are that she would even
Speaker 1: meet you after a show? She doesn't meet anyone. She
Speaker 1: has a preserver voice. She's doing three sold out shows
Speaker 1: where she was three and a half hours of singing constantly.
Speaker 1: She's not on the sidelines ever, She's the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And you are like, she didn't get to meet me afterwards,
Speaker 1: it's not fair. I was like everything about this I hate,
Speaker 1: Like why do you think she would ever meet you?
Speaker 1: And then she ends up dating him and I remember
Speaker 1: the rumors and I was like no, because I've been
Speaker 1: so vocal about how annoying that was. But then I
Speaker 1: totally turned around because he he pursued her hard, and
Speaker 1: you know, like that is actually the cool thing about
Speaker 1: it is that he had the confidence and.
Speaker 5: The like a white man in the fifty five, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he just went after it didn't let.
Speaker 3: Out like Don Draper courting the substitute teacher, and like
Speaker 3: it was just he was gonna make it happen. He
Speaker 3: was so driven by it.
Speaker 1: Yes, and he I just thought it was cute and
Speaker 1: he wasn't scared to look stupid. I thought, I thought
Speaker 1: at first it was like I want to look cool.
Speaker 1: But the truth was he was not scared to look stupid,
Speaker 1: and that such an attractive thing and really only something
Speaker 1: that someone who's so successful like that can do.
Speaker 3: I think there was a strategy there too, like he
Speaker 3: kind of because this is a guy that's his whole life.
Speaker 3: It's been green lights he's and he deserves it. He's
Speaker 3: a charismatic, good looking guy, star athlete.
Speaker 2: He got problems in high school, he did he did well,
Speaker 2: he had well.
Speaker 3: I know he in college at Cincinnati, I know he had.
Speaker 2: Some he almost got cut from the team and then
Speaker 2: his brother stuff and whoa.
Speaker 3: But but I think the aw shucks thing was a
Speaker 3: new a new one in his playbook because Taylor was bigger.
Speaker 3: And one thing I want to say, does it because
Speaker 3: I like the pairing too, and I think it's authentic
Speaker 3: and I hope they go the distance. Do you ever
Speaker 3: think about the old tweets?
Speaker 2: Thought Travis tweets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can we talk about the tweets just a little bit. Okay,
Speaker 3: so we swept under the rug.
Speaker 1: Now we really forgot about them, and sometimes we get referenced.
Speaker 1: I'm aware squirrel, the way he spelled squirrel gets referenced
Speaker 1: a lot of.
Speaker 3: Smart, like sophisticated.
Speaker 2: He spelled squirrel wrong.
Speaker 1: You know, she doesn't fuck a rut, she doesn't mince words,
Speaker 1: she doesn't. Yes, it's and his tweets are. I just
Speaker 1: think back. They were ten years ago and he was
Speaker 1: just probably getting a little bit of a following. He
Speaker 1: was excited about it, and it was a different time
Speaker 1: where we would we would be like, hey, I'm about
Speaker 1: to eat a sandwich, like we would just that kind
Speaker 1: of suff But now we look back and we go,
Speaker 1: that's so mundane. Why would you tell people?
Speaker 2: Now you got a video it write it.
Speaker 3: It's a wild spelling though of squirrel, just wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. I think there's a w in it.
Speaker 2: He really couldn't figure.
Speaker 1: Out it was real.
Speaker 3: It's really it wasn't dropping an r it's it was
Speaker 3: a little bit more.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and some of those yeah, I think he
Speaker 1: made fun of some people in those but I don't
Speaker 1: think there was a single person who didn't make a
Speaker 1: fat joke.
Speaker 3: Sure ten years ago, I don't. I'm saying it's not
Speaker 3: a deal breaker for me, but I do think about
Speaker 3: it sometimes.
Speaker 1: How could you not? How could you not? And how
Speaker 1: could she not?
Speaker 5: And but Travis Kelcey is not going out there trying
Speaker 5: to say that he's some kind of academic genius. So
Speaker 5: it's like he's a football player, like can't spell squirrel?
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 1: You got to ask, like, what's your favorite song of hers?
Speaker 1: And like, okay, so you don't know. You probably don't
Speaker 1: know our discography, but I know I am. You were
Speaker 1: dating Taylor Swift. Okay, So if you were answering that
Speaker 1: question about someone who everyone knows is your girlfriend, what
Speaker 1: would you say, Like, what is the kind of song
Speaker 1: you would pick to say the answer?
Speaker 3: I would go with like a romantic deeper.
Speaker 1: Cut, right, exactly, you go with a deeper cut.
Speaker 3: I'd pick one that's not connected to one of her
Speaker 3: past loves you. That's be strategic about it. Yeah, tough.
Speaker 1: He went with Anti Hero, which.
Speaker 3: I think is little service.
Speaker 1: It might be his favorite song. So maybe it just
Speaker 1: might be the truth, but it's a little lazy. It's
Speaker 1: like when I I was working with the Backstreet Boys,
Speaker 1: and I am so sad about this moment. It was
Speaker 1: two Decembers ago, but then Nick Carter got in some
Speaker 1: trouble and they shelved the Christmas special. Oh bummer, there
Speaker 1: was a resurfacing of some kind of incident that happened
Speaker 1: with him twenty years prior, and they go, we can't
Speaker 1: all wrong, yeah, real Jackalie, And so they shelved it.
Speaker 1: But I was They asked me, we were doing like
Speaker 1: just a we were improving this scene, and they were like,
Speaker 1: and I was pretending to be a huge fan, but
Speaker 1: I'm not or whatever, and they go, what's your favorite song?
Speaker 1: And I really wanted to, like think of a good one,
Speaker 1: but I I just was like, Backstreets show me the
Speaker 1: meaning of being lonely. Like it's just it's so embarrassing
Speaker 1: to say the thing that everyone knows. And I thought
Speaker 1: he could have come up with a better one than that.
Speaker 1: But maybe that really is his favorite song, anti Hero.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, but what I do
Speaker 1: know is that Brian and I belong here today. I
Speaker 1: was thinking, as I have a trouble feeling like why,
Speaker 1: I keep saying why am I here? Because I don't.
Speaker 1: I just learned about football this year, and I've been
Speaker 1: kind of like scared of it beforehand, and I feel
Speaker 1: out of place, and I still do. But Brian reminded
Speaker 1: me that we have a podcast where he is a
Speaker 1: huge football fan and I'm the biggest swiftie and this
Speaker 1: is really the culmination of those two things.
Speaker 5: We've been talking about football all year. The fact that
Speaker 5: a super Bowl pretty good, so it did work out.
Speaker 5: I don't know why I'm here, but it makes sense
Speaker 5: that you're here.
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm so glad you're here. You need to
Speaker 1: be here for my spine.
Speaker 3: To help you. Nikki, this will make you feel better, please.
Speaker 3: Zire Franklin is a great deep cut jersey to wear
Speaker 3: what he's wearing right now. Yeah, so that shows that
Speaker 3: gives you legitimacy. Is like, Oh, if Franklin.
Speaker 2: Jersey, that's right.
Speaker 5: If Zire Franklin didn't get injured for one game this year,
Speaker 5: he would have been the leading tackler in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Respond to that, I'm saying, that's great, Like he could
Speaker 3: have went with a bait. He could have went with
Speaker 3: an Andrew luck Old Jersey or Eton Manning Marvin Harrison,
Speaker 3: but going deep cut up of a linebacker. That shows
Speaker 3: that you're with somebody that knows ball. So everybody, because
Speaker 3: I get imposter syndrome here too, because it's basically everybody
Speaker 3: in my industry that knows more than me about football
Speaker 3: is all here at the same time.
Speaker 2: So just like, all right, whatever, Now, how do they
Speaker 2: know more than you about football?
Speaker 1: Like just in terms of like.
Speaker 3: Such a well, we were talking about it on another show.
Speaker 2: He's only around the NFL.
Speaker 3: They're in the NFL, right in the vicinity of football, right, Sorry,
Speaker 3: But no, like the football, the sport is so nuanced
Speaker 3: that even people like me who follow it, unless you
Speaker 3: really have an eye for it and you're like a
Speaker 3: tape dog and really dig into the newsha of it,
Speaker 3: it's kind of a gate there's a little gatekeeper to it.
Speaker 3: And I'm not one of those people. I like the
Speaker 3: game for the storylines and I just drive the conversation
Speaker 3: and I love football and I can't wait for Sunday.
Speaker 3: But there's different levels to knowing the game, which is
Speaker 3: why how intimidating could be for someone from the outside
Speaker 3: to try to learn the game. I guess there's so
Speaker 3: much so advanced.
Speaker 1: It's like learning Mandarin. I really don't and you look
Speaker 1: around you go, how many How can so many people
Speaker 1: understand this? It really confounds me. But it's nice to
Speaker 1: hear that there's different tiers and that you also feel intimidating.
Speaker 1: I think it's exactly like it is to be a
Speaker 1: swiftye because there are some Swifties that are very familiar
Speaker 1: with her work and they go, I don't want to
Speaker 1: go to Aras because it's I don't know every word
Speaker 1: to that song. I don't know all the I didn't
Speaker 1: memorize the Cruel Summer Bridge, I don't belong. But it's like, no,
Speaker 1: we can all get along.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The NFL wants more fans, so they're happy that they're going.
Speaker 3: To be okay.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be okay. Dan Hanss, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for being here with us to start out this. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's real. It really feels good, very fun, a.
Speaker 3: Friend here, happy to be here, and just to show
Speaker 3: my Swift bono fides. Yeah, Delicate is my favorite Taylor
Speaker 3: Swift song.
Speaker 1: That's wine it's top five. It's it's one of the
Speaker 1: best ever. Have you seen the music video?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh I love the.
Speaker 1: Video, one of our best videos ever. Okay, well, this
Speaker 1: is a great way to end this segment. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Dan hanss from around the NFL listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast. I was on it this today, so I
Speaker 1: take about that episode and we'll be right back after this.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back. It's then Eglazer podcast. We're here
Speaker 1: live from the super Bowl a couple of days before it,
Speaker 1: and we have two special guests. I'm sure they have
Speaker 1: no idea what they're on right now that you're just
Speaker 1: making the rounds, but I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: We're huge fans of the Nicky Glazer podcast. They listen
Speaker 2: every week.
Speaker 1: Been saying that they are the co hosts of the
Speaker 1: Second Act podcast on the NFL podcast Network. It is
Speaker 1: Charles you know Tellman and Roman Harper. Thank you you guys.
Speaker 3: We like to clap for people.
Speaker 6: Sorry, it's because words matter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my thing.
Speaker 1: Hand handwords matter, you know what.
Speaker 7: Let me just go ahead and say it. Because Nikki,
Speaker 7: I'm a big fan of yours. I watch you all
Speaker 7: the time on YouTube. I think you hilarious. You talk
Speaker 7: about I said it things you talk about and you
Speaker 7: own it. I think it is absolutely and you think.
Speaker 1: It's a brain disorder that I'm able to do that
Speaker 1: because people go people are shocked by the things I
Speaker 1: say and I and I don't know why that it
Speaker 1: doesn't register me that it's shocking sometimes, but I really
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 3: I'm looking I'm looking at you in real life. I'm like,
Speaker 3: tean really do all.
Speaker 1: That people don't.
Speaker 3: I'm looking like.
Speaker 1: I'm not like a I'm not like very promiscuous, but
Speaker 1: because I I'm not outside of a relationship and and
Speaker 1: when I'm not drinking and I haven't drink for eleven years,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I've got some history of that stuff, and
Speaker 1: I just when I have done it, the naughty stuff,
Speaker 1: I'm paying attention so that I can talk about it
Speaker 1: as if and then the way I talk about it,
Speaker 1: it's it could be one time I've done it, but
Speaker 1: in the way that I talk about it, it sounds like, oh,
Speaker 1: she must do this all the time. But I'm just
Speaker 1: paying attention during that one time that could have really
Speaker 1: only had sex one time and made four specials about that.
Speaker 8: An episode I need to listen to. Yeah, tell me,
Speaker 8: you gotta tell me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do roast and then I do
Speaker 1: I have comedy specials.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, just I want to hear them from the dirt.
Speaker 8: Oh I got you episode two, season three?
Speaker 1: You need the time stamp?
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah right.
Speaker 1: How are you guys doing? How's this day for you?
Speaker 6: We've been pretty chilling right now.
Speaker 3: Yesterday was they they?
Speaker 6: Yeah, they got us good. Yesterday. We must have did
Speaker 6: about eight or nine podcasts.
Speaker 8: Oh jesus, we were cracking them things out like like
Speaker 8: a like a curveyor bell back.
Speaker 3: In the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how long you been doing second act for just
Speaker 2: our second season?
Speaker 3: Second season?
Speaker 6: This is my third season? Is his second season?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 7: It wasn't that good that first year, so they needed me.
Speaker 7: So I completely upgraded him and uh good now and.
Speaker 1: His friends from before the podcast.
Speaker 6: No to I literally just met him this year.
Speaker 5: Wait, wheren't you guys teammates?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, your teammates on the Panthers.
Speaker 8: So I made him better when I went to that
Speaker 8: team because we went to the super Bowl that year.
Speaker 6: When I got there, That is I upgraded him.
Speaker 3: That is true.
Speaker 7: I would say this though, is real funny because he
Speaker 7: and I first met it like this Christian conference, like
Speaker 7: way way back in and he thought I was way older,
Speaker 7: and he still thinks.
Speaker 6: I wonder why, but clearly I'm not.
Speaker 3: I mean, just look at it.
Speaker 6: It is good luck because like you just like someone's grandfather.
Speaker 6: Right now, you got a turn neck on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are wearing a turtle night. This is cold
Speaker 1: in here, though it's cold in Vegas. Yes, it is
Speaker 1: very but you have great You have gray.
Speaker 3: Hair, yeah, and I've had it since I was young.
Speaker 1: So that's I just heard that. Someone to me to
Speaker 1: ask you about it, and I was like, does he
Speaker 1: really want to talk about that? But I want to
Speaker 1: talk about it. When did you get great hair?
Speaker 7: So I got my first gray hair when I was
Speaker 7: going into the eighth grade.
Speaker 3: My Barbara told and.
Speaker 7: He was you know, I was always told if you
Speaker 7: cut it out grade, you know, like two of.
Speaker 2: Them grow social studies.
Speaker 3: Really And so then as I.
Speaker 7: Got older and I played more ball, I got you know,
Speaker 7: got to the league.
Speaker 3: Everybody's like, you're ever gonna die your hair?
Speaker 7: I'm like, I can't die because the people that know
Speaker 7: me would feel like.
Speaker 3: Men, oh you didn't got appear and changed on them.
Speaker 8: How much did I try to give you when I
Speaker 8: used to try to pay him thousands of dollars of
Speaker 8: dies hair And he was like.
Speaker 3: I can't. I just can't do it. I can't do it.
Speaker 6: I was like, I will give you five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: I love to have something for Halloween.
Speaker 9: Just for Halloween.
Speaker 8: I'll give you five g's right now, room and de
Speaker 8: your hair black Beijing.
Speaker 3: And it wasn't even long. He's like, dude, do it
Speaker 3: for like two or three days. I'm like no.
Speaker 6: He was like, I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I can't do it because it's just too much upkeep.
Speaker 1: But you are just who you are and you've never
Speaker 1: had shame but it, and it makes you more confident
Speaker 1: to be a guy that gray hair and has no
Speaker 1: problem with it and isn't trying to deny it. It's
Speaker 1: like the coolest look you can.
Speaker 6: Have it is you blend in with your coat.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Graham Blue are running your family to have great hair,
Speaker 1: though you.
Speaker 7: Know and all honestly, I yes and no, but like
Speaker 7: my mom dies her hair, but I think she's like,
Speaker 7: all great, I'm sorry, she don't count.
Speaker 3: She don't cont moms don't count.
Speaker 2: Don't count what you're doing.
Speaker 7: My dad too, he's got great but like they're older,
Speaker 7: so they're supposed to. But yeah, I got it way
Speaker 7: earlier than everybody else.
Speaker 6: He was just a stressful kid.
Speaker 1: That's what it is.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Did you did you guys become friends on the team
Speaker 1: and like you can be friends with everyone on your team.
Speaker 1: Did you guys gravitate towards each other and like, was
Speaker 1: there a moment where you're like, oh, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be my dude?
Speaker 8: Uh well, we had met at po we met this
Speaker 8: Christian commerce, you met at poys.
Speaker 3: Then l I was probably twenty seven, I was probably.
Speaker 2: Are already in the league. In the league, it's not
Speaker 2: like a kid's thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we we hang out, kick it whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we weren't like cool like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So then fast forward twenty fifteen, I'm there.
Speaker 8: I'm like, oh yeah, rooms there, and then we just
Speaker 8: kind of we were the two oldest DB's in the room. Sure,
Speaker 8: we were too old, so I think complete. I think
Speaker 8: for that was why we I think bonded the most.
Speaker 8: We were the two oldest guys in the room.
Speaker 7: And then Peanuts, the guy in the room, and he's
Speaker 7: such a professional now, but in a meeting room session,
Speaker 7: like he's the worst because he like if he's something
Speaker 7: crosses his mind or somebody does something weird, he just
Speaker 7: blurt stuff.
Speaker 6: Out in the version of you, and so he's like
Speaker 6: it's just bad.
Speaker 7: Like coach is saying something really serious is like positive
Speaker 7: and like all this motivational stuff and Peanuts like just
Speaker 7: something like just random out of left field, just totally.
Speaker 7: It was just like all the time, I'm like peanut, Like, dude,
Speaker 7: that was under your breath.
Speaker 6: No, I say it very loud.
Speaker 1: You get in trouble, No, I.
Speaker 6: Don't get in No, I don't.
Speaker 1: And everyone they appreciate that.
Speaker 3: And they laugh, they do.
Speaker 7: He brought a fake alligator and like scared all the
Speaker 7: coaches one time. He like put it in Rob Ferris
Speaker 7: Frankster big time, yeah, big time.
Speaker 1: Of these pranks that are like you're planning months in advanced,
Speaker 1: weeks in advance, or are you someone that's little of
Speaker 1: this guy right now?
Speaker 6: A little bit of both.
Speaker 1: Into this bush or whatever, a little bit of what's
Speaker 1: a recent one that you're kind of proud of draft.
Speaker 6: I brought Hank with me. Hank is my rattlesnake and
Speaker 6: I brought him with Draft. I have a video. I'll
Speaker 6: show you.
Speaker 1: You can have a Yeah, I got its.
Speaker 6: Not real, id.
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 6: I had it in my room at Draft. We was
Speaker 6: in Kansas City room.
Speaker 3: Walks in the room.
Speaker 8: I got my camera all strategically set up.
Speaker 6: And he opens the door and he was like ant.
Speaker 3: Because he like you in here? Oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I ended up.
Speaker 1: You go because the snake was like right there in
Speaker 1: the kind of the rest of your hair turned grave
Speaker 1: being so scared. But do people have like fear around
Speaker 1: you because they know that you can bring that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff? Like have you ever scarred someone?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 8: I have scarred someone. Biz, I apologize if I tell
Speaker 8: this story. My neighbor back in like six she was
Speaker 8: getting ready to get in her uh she was. She
Speaker 8: started her car and it was like, I don't know,
Speaker 8: negative ten out in January when we're going to Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like five am.
Speaker 3: She's going to the city.
Speaker 2: I'm walking mynakes in her car. No.
Speaker 3: No, I got in the backseat of her car.
Speaker 8: Oh, I got it, I got it. Yeah, I got
Speaker 8: in a I got in the backseat of her car.
Speaker 8: And then she got in the car and I jumped
Speaker 8: out of the back seat. Was like, ah, she was shaking,
Speaker 8: literally like she had a seizure or something like.
Speaker 6: She was shaking shaking. Yeah, all day, and I didn't
Speaker 6: learn my lesson.
Speaker 3: I kept it going.
Speaker 8: So the next day she got smart, she got hold
Speaker 8: on you did it again. Oh so she was like
Speaker 8: twenty two. She had good lungs, she was good. She
Speaker 8: had a good heart. Yeah, she could take it. She
Speaker 8: had a good heart. So the next day she she
Speaker 8: was like, screwed. I'm just gonna get in my car cold.
Speaker 8: She didn't care. Yeah, she takes her key, sticks it
Speaker 8: in the door, and I ran up behind her. I
Speaker 8: put my hand over her mouth and I said, I
Speaker 8: put my hand over her mouth, and I said give
Speaker 8: me your money.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, she could have killed you.
Speaker 3: No she didn't. She did she Oh she paid.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 8: She was like, oh huh, I don't even think she smoked.
Speaker 6: She smoked a cigarette after that day. Oh my god,
Speaker 6: she's a chain smoker. Now she's a chain smoker.
Speaker 3: This is bad.
Speaker 2: Hey, Now she's gonna get set up for real. Someone's
Speaker 2: gonna pull her.
Speaker 5: She like, is it Tillman, Yeah, she's gonna go oh,
Speaker 5: be very afraid.
Speaker 6: Yes I have.
Speaker 8: And he almost got punched when he got me. Oh yeah,
Speaker 8: you can scare me, but just don't touch me when
Speaker 8: you scare me, because I'm I'm like, whoa, Okay, it's
Speaker 8: a prank.
Speaker 3: You got me?
Speaker 6: Ha ha he he.
Speaker 1: What is the peanut punch? We've been told about that.
Speaker 6: The peanut punch is just a.
Speaker 7: How would you describe it, bro, It's a maneuver that
Speaker 7: that Peanut kind of perfected as playing football, where guys
Speaker 7: when they're they're taught to hold the ball high and tight.
Speaker 7: Peanut learned a way to just like, even though I'm
Speaker 7: trying to tackle the ball, tackle the ball carrier, I
Speaker 7: just punched the ball and and like most people you
Speaker 7: talk to like strip at it or rip at it
Speaker 7: or come from different ways, Peanut just punched it, like
Speaker 7: right down and it just goes straight down.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: People use this, oh you.
Speaker 7: People reference it every week in football all over It
Speaker 7: was him.
Speaker 5: If you watch football any weekend of the year, Peanut
Speaker 5: Tillman will be a referenced at some point.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it's really cool.
Speaker 7: And look, I didn't realize it until you know, he
Speaker 7: became my teammate and he's great with his hands. He's
Speaker 7: always doing different hand hand combat, different things, really good
Speaker 7: with getting off blocks and using his hands. And so
Speaker 7: our dB coach is like, look, I've been around Peanut.
Speaker 7: You guys just got to keep running to the ball. He's
Speaker 7: just gonna punch the ball out. We never know what
Speaker 7: is going to happen. These guys are always trying to
Speaker 7: protect it. But he just he's just really good. Just
Speaker 7: just whenever he's around, just run.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 7: And it never failt not all that, but it's contagious.
Speaker 7: So he starts doing it, then everybody else just starts
Speaker 7: trying it, you know, like, oh, it's this opportunity. Paulsy like,
Speaker 7: oh this is a chance you could just just punch
Speaker 7: at the ball, And so everybody practices and the next you.
Speaker 2: Know, but not everyone's as good at it.
Speaker 3: No, he's mastered. He's way better than everybody else.
Speaker 1: God, that is what an accomplishment.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's pretty cool to invent. You basically invented
Speaker 5: a new move in the NFL that's now coined after you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty amazing. I mean, how many people have that?
Speaker 1: I'm so I don't I wouldn't know that.
Speaker 5: I mean the brotherly shove, which is basically Jason Kelsey's move.
Speaker 2: It's not named after him though, no, no, yeah, but
Speaker 2: you got the peanut punch. It's named after you.
Speaker 7: Completely named after him, and it's not even great examples
Speaker 7: of peanut punches, but people just say anytime the ball
Speaker 7: comes out, oh, it's just.
Speaker 1: That, and know and Tillman who created that. So great
Speaker 1: to meet you, guys, Thank you so much for being
Speaker 1: on the podcast. Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Who are you guys taking for the game? Who you
Speaker 3: guys picking?
Speaker 1: I'm swift, so I want my girl to be happy.
Speaker 3: Can I just say this?
Speaker 7: I think I think Travis Kelsey's is the best she's
Speaker 7: gonna ever do I think she just go ahead just.
Speaker 3: Get it over with, have a baby?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's over.
Speaker 3: I think so too people. I tell people this year.
Speaker 6: Like, no, I agree, he ain't gonna find better.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's gonna find better.
Speaker 6: I don't six five swaggy swaggy brother.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, he can dance.
Speaker 1: Wrap it up too.
Speaker 3: Yeah like that.
Speaker 1: I love that, tell exactly as I am. All right,
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for being here. Check out
Speaker 1: their podcast. It's called the Second Ax Podcast. You guys
Speaker 1: are hilarious and so fun. Thank you what for doing.
Speaker 3: We're not better than you though, thank you.
Speaker 6: We'll be right back, Season two, episode three.
Speaker 1: Right, we're back live from the Super Bowl Niki Lazer Podcast,
Speaker 1: and we have with us. I'm so excited because I
Speaker 1: get really intimidated by uh sports players, and these guys
Speaker 1: are they do not play They might play sports recreations.
Speaker 1: I've intimidated in a different way, but one that I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit knowledgeable about. Our I'd like to think
Speaker 1: I am. We have the Avila Brothers with us. Who
Speaker 1: are there? You're performing in the halftime show with Usher?
Speaker 9: Yes, what we're performing and we also have produced this.
Speaker 1: You have to produce the half show with jay Z
Speaker 1: too as well. Right, isn't he produced?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, Okay, so he's been on one Zoom Call.
Speaker 1: His name's on it. That's so cool. So can you
Speaker 1: just to give us a little background about you guys,
Speaker 1: because I'm sorry I wasn't really familiar but until now,
Speaker 1: but your big deals? Tell us how you got started, how.
Speaker 2: You got how will fare?
Speaker 9: We're sort of a sort of yeah you are, So
Speaker 9: we're songwriters and producers and we've been working with Usher
Speaker 9: for about twenty years now. My god, we were introduced
Speaker 9: to Usher through Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis, who which
Speaker 9: were are? We call them our musical godfathers, and uh,
Speaker 9: you know, we've had a great run here in Vegas.
Speaker 9: We did the Caesar's Palace residency. We then moved over
Speaker 9: to Park MGM, and I think that's kind of been
Speaker 9: the tail of the tape of how we have ended
Speaker 9: up here at Super Bowl. And so super Bowl four
Speaker 9: months into the process.
Speaker 1: Of four months ago is when you found out you
Speaker 1: were doing it, or just that's when you decided.
Speaker 9: To start, when the will started turning, you know, pencil
Speaker 9: to paper, set list songs and all that, and so
Speaker 9: it's been intense, but uh, you know, we're beyond grateful
Speaker 9: and aestatic to be here. And oh my god, shout
Speaker 9: out to that Chief shirt. You're right a diehard Chief
Speaker 9: Chiefs fans. So we're Cali boys.
Speaker 3: We were.
Speaker 9: My father was a huge Montana fan and so when
Speaker 9: Montana left the forty nine Ers and went to the Chiefs,
Speaker 9: we followed him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so it's like it's the forty nine Ers
Speaker 4: and Chiefs it's like, what, you know, we don't hate
Speaker 4: on the Niners, but like we're cheese fans and we're
Speaker 4: not Locker Hopper, so we we just we're not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you guys gonna.
Speaker 1: Be able to enjoy the show though, because you or
Speaker 1: after the halftime show? Is it going to be like
Speaker 1: a release and then you can enjoy the game.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do the best we can.
Speaker 9: You know, we got TVs and set up in our area,
Speaker 9: but you know, we thought, you know, maybe we can
Speaker 9: sneak away and get in there, you know, get close
Speaker 9: to the seat or something. But I think we're gonna
Speaker 9: be so focused on halftime.
Speaker 1: How's it looking. Are you so excited we're coming to
Speaker 1: whips Masks?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I can't wait.
Speaker 3: We're coming. It's amazing.
Speaker 4: And you know, I was watching you know, ESPN earlier
Speaker 4: and you know all the first taking all that stuff,
Speaker 4: and it's like the Chiefs are the underdogs and it's like,
Speaker 4: come on, guys, like they've been there a wild times
Speaker 4: and you've seen how they've been able to pivot from
Speaker 4: the postseason versus now like where they're at now in
Speaker 4: the playoffs now super Bowl.
Speaker 3: It's like the fact that.
Speaker 2: Their dogs is crazy. I mean, how could you against
Speaker 2: Mahomes in any circumstances. He just always wins.
Speaker 3: He's a winner.
Speaker 4: And you know, I think the crazy thing for us is,
Speaker 4: like last year, we were trying to figure out if
Speaker 4: we're going to go to the Phoenix and watch a
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. So I did one of those like kind
Speaker 4: of one foot in, one foot out, and Little John
Speaker 4: was performing at Gronkowski's casino pool party. And just to
Speaker 4: think we were there last year and now we're going
Speaker 4: to be on stage and producing the show and being
Speaker 4: in it, and we got our parents coming, our kids
Speaker 4: are coming in. I love your shirt because my daughter
Speaker 4: is a massive Taylor Swift fan. So she's a Swifty
Speaker 4: for sure. She's like, knows where she was born, all
Speaker 4: the songs and mom's name, you know, all those YouTube trivia.
Speaker 4: She's got it down cool. So her birthday in December
Speaker 4: was like a Swifty party. So I'm glad she's going
Speaker 4: to be here.
Speaker 1: My son, she's going to get to be four.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I mean.
Speaker 4: I attribute like our journey in music and how powerful
Speaker 4: music and how great me music has been to us
Speaker 4: to where we're at now, and it's that's that part
Speaker 4: of It is really truly exciting, like walking around here
Speaker 4: and you know we were introduced to you guys. It's
Speaker 4: like we're ihearted. It's like, oh, I think I've heard
Speaker 4: of you guys. Meet you guys. It's like it's a
Speaker 4: tribute to how powerful music is. And that's just the
Speaker 4: real the realness of being on the ground and being
Speaker 4: here and a part of the experience.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's not the Grammys.
Speaker 4: We love the Grammys. That represents, you know, music at
Speaker 4: a high level, but there's nothing like the super Bowl
Speaker 4: in the halftime show on Earth. And as Mexican Americans
Speaker 4: would be like, yeah, we're producing it and we're there.
Speaker 4: It's it's a testament to how powerful your dreams can
Speaker 4: take you and how powerful hard work is and where
Speaker 4: your gift.
Speaker 1: Can Where are we standing right now though, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: two days out. It's Friday, The game is Sunday, the
Speaker 1: show is Sunday. Do you have more rehearsal time or there?
Speaker 1: Are you? Is it locked in place? What you're doing?
Speaker 1: I actually know the editor, the editor who edited my
Speaker 1: special is editing the super Bowl halftime show. The director
Speaker 1: of the superwl Hopton Show, Hamish Hamilton was my director
Speaker 1: in front of him, but he was telling me, you know,
Speaker 1: the rehearsals like this is. This has been going for
Speaker 1: four months to prepare for this. It's the biggest show.
Speaker 1: Where do you is there still tweaks to be.
Speaker 4: Made before it is even answers. I stopped looking at
Speaker 4: my phone and I just asked him out, what are
Speaker 4: we doing today? Because it's been crazy, so you know he's.
Speaker 9: Been I'm just gonna say, it's not even about that.
Speaker 9: It's at the end of the day. As creatives, it's perfection.
Speaker 9: It's the process of perfection.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 9: When we started this thing, we had two targets we
Speaker 9: wanted to hit, and that's Prince and Michael Jackson. Yeah,
Speaker 9: that's where we want to be and we want to
Speaker 9: make sure we land in between those two names.
Speaker 1: So we're going to get it terrain and I know.
Speaker 4: So we had a conversation with God, but the stadiums closed.
Speaker 9: That's yeah, so that's the.
Speaker 3: Bar for us.
Speaker 2: You feel competitive with other halftime shows and yeah.
Speaker 9: You got to love me this is you know, and
Speaker 9: I always tell people like Usher is a musical athlete,
Speaker 9: you know, the process of that He's taken throughout the
Speaker 9: years to maintain his his his his knees and his
Speaker 9: and his movement and his flexibility and his voice, his voice.
Speaker 2: You know, he's a true man.
Speaker 3: He's a true student of the craft.
Speaker 9: And I think when you're around somebody like that that
Speaker 9: represents greatness, it spills over into other departments. And I
Speaker 9: think that's what also feels our inspiration, is by looking
Speaker 9: at how much of a student he is of music
Speaker 9: and the greats that he constantly studies. And so yes,
Speaker 9: it's like yo, it's it's it's balls to the wall,
Speaker 9: it's it's all or nothing.
Speaker 1: Is he someone that is uh? Is he very calm
Speaker 1: within all of this because he's just been doing it
Speaker 1: for so long? Is this something obviously matters enormously to him,
Speaker 1: But is this something that he's just like, Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is I belong.
Speaker 4: He's a he's a racquetball and a racquetball room. That
Speaker 4: thing that ball is just like pain really yeah, yeah, everywhere.
Speaker 4: You know, there's so many parts and elements of him
Speaker 4: as a creator that he just he just he don't sleep.
Speaker 3: It's all in his DNA.
Speaker 2: He's just built for it.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 9: I like what Rihanna said, I saw a really dope
Speaker 9: clip of Rihanna when they're asking her about you know,
Speaker 9: Usher and the super Bowl and and to her point,
Speaker 9: it's it's really what he was built for. He was
Speaker 9: built for that.
Speaker 1: Really, that's what it feels like. Yeah, this is his
Speaker 1: moment that's been a long time coming, and I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be. There's just so many Usher songs
Speaker 1: that you know, you know, but you don't remember that
Speaker 1: you know till you hear him. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be one of those moments where culturally we're just like
Speaker 1: people that are like, what's this going to be? They
Speaker 1: know every freaking song he's going to blow us away
Speaker 1: with dancing. He's going to look so timeless, so youthful,
Speaker 1: but also like youthful but with the experience behind it too.
Speaker 1: I think it's just gonna I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be such a perfect He's just a perfect person to
Speaker 1: do it, and it's I know he's gonna I know
Speaker 1: he's gonna kill it.
Speaker 9: And I think too, you know, what he's going to
Speaker 9: represent is something that we don't see a lot of
Speaker 9: anymore in entertainment, right, Somebody that we know is going
Speaker 9: to sing inky Yes, asshole, yes, and and the true
Speaker 9: element of entertainment. You know, he represents that. That's that's
Speaker 9: his claw. And so you know when you get to
Speaker 9: put that, you know on a microscope, which is the
Speaker 9: super Bowl stage, I mean it's I think it's going
Speaker 9: to inspire even new fans, and.
Speaker 2: That's our goal right to take.
Speaker 4: Like absolutely, we talked about it, like not everybody that's
Speaker 4: watching the Super Bowl is an Usher fan, and our
Speaker 4: goal was to to give the viewers an experience that
Speaker 4: allows him to embrace him in a way that he's
Speaker 4: never been embraced to be and to create new fans.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I should. I want to look at his followers
Speaker 1: before and after because there's going to be a gigantic
Speaker 1: because people are just who don't know are going to
Speaker 1: find out and people who are just young and have
Speaker 1: never known. It's going to be awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't even think about that, Like that's a
Speaker 4: great defining kind of like bar just to like see
Speaker 4: you know where he's at now, I'm going to actually
Speaker 4: do that.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good thing too, because people are
Speaker 1: going to lose their minds about it. I just know
Speaker 1: it's gonna wake some people up that haven't either been
Speaker 1: sleeping on him for a decade or so since you know,
Speaker 1: he was culturally everywhere. And then the new generation of
Speaker 1: people who've never you know, are too young to have
Speaker 1: known what he when he was really like peaking. He's peaking.
Speaker 1: He's gonna peak again. It's just it's so it's so exciting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great moment for Yeah, well I'm.
Speaker 1: So excited for you guys. What's your what's what's how
Speaker 1: what's your self care journey up until Sunday? Are you
Speaker 1: gonna do anything?
Speaker 9: Focus? You know, focus and one enjoy the process, you know,
Speaker 9: because sometimes as creatives you get sowing the weeds on
Speaker 9: it that you wake up the next day after it's done.
Speaker 9: It's like, oh man, I didn't get to really absorb it.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, you know I'm like to do That's
Speaker 4: like god, man, put your phone down and and now
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, everywhere, like just being here, the energy here,
Speaker 4: like I mean of you guys, like it's like cool.
Speaker 4: But I literally went to bed about four o'clock in
Speaker 4: the morning. We had a we had an incredible event
Speaker 4: just for the dancers and the whole production staff. And
Speaker 4: then at Okay, we got to hit this and just
Speaker 4: to be here. It's like, I'm glad I haven't had
Speaker 4: my first yet. I'm taking this.
Speaker 2: It sounds like you doing a really good job appreciating the.
Speaker 1: Moment about you guys tomorrow and celebrating for you when
Speaker 1: it's finally over, because I know that relief of something
Speaker 1: you worked so hard and when it's finally done, like
Speaker 1: you're gonna have the best second half.
Speaker 3: Of the game.
Speaker 4: Think about the Super Bowl halftime shows, right, you have to.
Speaker 4: You can go back to YouTube and always look at
Speaker 4: it and view it over and over again.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be like always, you know, can't wait. Congratulations,
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, Thank you for having Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys are incredibly funn thank you for taking the time
Speaker 1: and go Casey right right, We'll be back up to
Speaker 1: this final thought.
Speaker 2: That's pretty surreal, pretty surreal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you like losing your mind? You keep looking around.
Speaker 5: There's people I keep looking around going that's blah blah blah,
Speaker 5: and I don't know who that is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Roger ask you and I don't know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's exciting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Benedict Falafalon, Yeah, there's a Yeah, Steve Smith is
Speaker 5: doing interviews behind us Steve Smith one of the greatest
Speaker 5: wide receivers in NFL history, and he's also a personality,
Speaker 5: a halftime post guy.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know I know him from that.
Speaker 5: He was interviewing Bijeon Robinson, who was the number one
Speaker 5: running back draft pick in last year's draft on the
Speaker 5: Atlanta Falcons, and he also has his own brand of mustard,
Speaker 5: a Dijon from Bijeon.
Speaker 2: It had been fun to talk to him about that.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll get him on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have one more show to do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we have one more show to do still, but yeah,
Speaker 5: it's it's pretty well. And then Ali has her fantasy
Speaker 5: football trophy.
Speaker 1: Brian's wife is here.
Speaker 2: My wife is here with us.
Speaker 1: She won the time in ten years.
Speaker 2: It's an over ten years, over ten years.
Speaker 1: Her family has a fantasy football league and she won,
Speaker 1: and she has a trophy that she won.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: When you win, you get it.
Speaker 5: You get to have the trophy for the year, like
Speaker 5: the Stanley Cup. It's it's passed around. I've won twice.
Speaker 5: I've only been her league. Yeah, I came the first
Speaker 5: year I joined it. I want joined the family won
Speaker 5: the league in the first year, and then one again
Speaker 5: two years later. But list year it was terrible. But
Speaker 5: we have this trophy and they're all from Chicago and
Speaker 5: their Chicago Bears fans. And so her brother, who is
Speaker 5: the commissioner of the league, has been going around getting
Speaker 5: signatures of Chicago athletes. That's a thing in fantasy football.
Speaker 5: The person who runs the league called.
Speaker 1: The commission I see why people do it. You get
Speaker 1: to be called commissioner, an amazing title to have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're my microphone's going there.
Speaker 2: One of the Avila brothers, the unscrewed it, unscrewed it
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Anyway, so he's going around getting signatures from people. He's
Speaker 5: gotten Scottie Pippin, He's gotten Matt Forte he was a Bear.
Speaker 5: He's gotten Brian Urlacker, who's a famous Bear. And so
Speaker 5: now Ali was like, I'm going to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5: I bet you I can get some signatures of Bears.
Speaker 5: And she also just happened to win the league this year,
Speaker 5: so she has the trophy.
Speaker 1: She had the trophy center and it was two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars to ship.
Speaker 5: She had to get it shipped overnight in order to
Speaker 5: get it here in time for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: And she carried it in and I go, what's that.
Speaker 1: She was like so embarrassed, and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: that's so cool. And so she got it signed by Peanut.
Speaker 2: She got it signed by Peana Tillman, who is a
Speaker 2: legendary Chicago Bears defensive player. Amazing, and then she got it's.
Speaker 5: Signed by DJ Moore, who's the number one wide receiver
Speaker 5: on the Bears.
Speaker 2: She's over, She's losing her mind.
Speaker 1: She keeps saying, why am I here? I can't believe
Speaker 1: I'm here, And I'm like, no, this makes sense that
Speaker 1: you're here more than you should be here, more than anyone.
Speaker 2: She's a fan, yes, yeah, she's.
Speaker 1: So excited and yeah, it's it's nice to be around
Speaker 1: her energy. Yeah, she's like it's like she's at a
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift concert with like, yeah, how excited she is
Speaker 1: about everything.
Speaker 5: That's how it is in life with me. It's just like,
Speaker 5: I'm just like not happy with anything, and she's she's
Speaker 5: she's delighted. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Does she ever get like sad and pissed off and
Speaker 1: like really moody and like oh yeah, really okay, so
Speaker 1: she can be a little bit okay irritated and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and she gets irritated, she'll like start yelling and
Speaker 5: pounding her fists. Good, she makes a noise and I go,
Speaker 5: what's the matter. She'll make a really loud noise. You
Speaker 5: won't even realize she makes a lot of noises.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, that's good. And you know what. I make
Speaker 1: noises too, and it's it's usually to get people to go,
Speaker 1: what's wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that's what I you know, that's how I feel.
Speaker 2: And I bring it up to her all the time.
Speaker 2: It's like, are you.
Speaker 5: Like when people generally make noises and stuff like that,
Speaker 5: they don't even realize it that subconsciously they just want
Speaker 5: someone to come by and like give.
Speaker 3: Them a hug.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's going on totally.
Speaker 2: They want people to know how much they're suffering.
Speaker 1: Yes, I've started asking for hugs recently. Yes, because it's
Speaker 1: just just let's get let's get to what I want
Speaker 1: to do. Let's get to what I need.
Speaker 2: To get all the what's going on, Yes.
Speaker 1: Hug, let's just get get to the hug. Yeah's help
Speaker 1: they so do people need to hug more. I just
Speaker 1: hugged one of the Veala. I hugged the Villa brothers
Speaker 1: on the way in before the interviews start. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then on the way out we went for a handshake,
Speaker 1: and I felt like our relationship crumble during that interview. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's weird to know what to go in for.
Speaker 1: And especially as a woman that wears makeup, all I
Speaker 1: think about is how I'm going to get makeup on
Speaker 1: their shirt. I was on Dan Han's's his shirt. I
Speaker 1: saw my makeup on his shirt and he has no
Speaker 1: idea because he doesn't know to look for it because
Speaker 1: he's But men should know took for that.
Speaker 2: If they, if they, If you touch a woman.
Speaker 1: Touch a woman who looks better than you think her
Speaker 1: to look in that moment, you're going to have a
Speaker 1: scuff of tan on your shoulder blade.
Speaker 2: Didn't you have that joke about sleeping on your pillow
Speaker 2: and then you'd wake up and then there's like.
Speaker 1: A it looks like your pillow case had gone through
Speaker 1: a color run the night before. There's like colors on it.
Speaker 1: You didn't even know we're in makeup. Yeah, so we are.
Speaker 1: We're waiting on more guests. We'll see what happens. We
Speaker 1: have another show to do.
Speaker 5: We're at the radio row, but we're also in Las Vegas,
Speaker 5: and I have to say I forgot how much I
Speaker 5: love Vegas. Amazing, I love gambling. I talk about this
Speaker 5: all the time. Why would I not.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be after the apocalypse.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll have to be all.
Speaker 1: Inside people like robots. Things just curated perfectly. I hope
Speaker 1: this is what it's like.
Speaker 2: I mean that would be the best case in the
Speaker 2: best case scenario. Yes, worst case scenario. But so before
Speaker 2: we came on for this episode, I wanted to gamble
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yes you did, and with the encourage it, yeah, we
Speaker 1: were like I wanted to watch you gamble. I feel
Speaker 1: safe for watching it. I want to I want to
Speaker 1: be a part of it. But I don't know the
Speaker 1: rules about watching it either. I felt like bad being
Speaker 1: behind you.
Speaker 5: Oh, everyone loves everyone loves an audience. An audience okay, yes, okay,
Speaker 5: people feel so cool because you feel like a king.
Speaker 5: You did because when you just you don't have to
Speaker 5: say hit, you don't have to say stay. You just
Speaker 5: make a hand movement and then the.
Speaker 1: Person does what you will day No, to hit, tap
Speaker 1: is to hit.
Speaker 2: I was playing.
Speaker 5: This is a blackjack, So you're playing blackjack. Taps to
Speaker 5: hit and you can just do.
Speaker 1: Like, no, no, you wave your hand over it.
Speaker 2: If they don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you don't want anything, and then you don't
Speaker 5: even have to say you want to split, you just
Speaker 5: split the You just put your money.
Speaker 1: The people are adding up these numbers so quickly. Well,
Speaker 1: some of them are watching the guy next to you.
Speaker 1: He's getting a two, a four, a seven like.
Speaker 2: That guy seemed like a pro.
Speaker 1: It was really hard for me to compute all that.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a complete idiot.
Speaker 5: He was playing one hundred dollars chips too. He wasn't
Speaker 5: messing around.
Speaker 1: Oh he wasn't.
Speaker 5: Okay, I wanted to gamble a little bit. I even asked,
Speaker 5: I said, do you do you want to watch me gamble?
Speaker 1: Yeah? At fifteen minutes to kill Yep, that was exactly
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do.
Speaker 5: And I was trying to find a blackjack table, and
Speaker 5: the only blackjack tables available were fifty dollars minimum. I know,
Speaker 5: so I was like to do it, so I was
Speaker 5: fear pressured into doing it. I was looking for five
Speaker 5: or ten dollars lost.
Speaker 1: Immediately I was like out.
Speaker 5: I gave three hundred dollars to the to the woman,
Speaker 5: to the woman, the woman, she's a deal with the dealer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the female dealer, the.
Speaker 5: Female well first man, Yeah, I gave three hundred dollars,
Speaker 5: I got that's that's fifty. That's six hands. I could
Speaker 5: lose all my money in six hands, which would go
Speaker 5: by so fast, so fast, and then my first three
Speaker 5: hands I lost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was I'm looking back, I'm like, this.
Speaker 1: Is what really doesn't give a fuck? She goes. She
Speaker 1: was like, it doesn't matter to me. I'm just like
Speaker 1: watching because it's not my money, and I go, aren't
Speaker 1: you married? Isn't this your money too? But she just
Speaker 1: didn't care. She had a little bag of the trophy
Speaker 1: in it. She was happy to watch.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: It was crazy how quickly you can just lose all
Speaker 2: your money.
Speaker 1: It's so fast. But it was so fun. But then
Speaker 1: you got back.
Speaker 2: I was wondering.
Speaker 5: I was like, this is even gonna last to fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5: We need to kill I'm gonna lose all my money.
Speaker 5: You have ten minutes.
Speaker 1: We were getting to the point where I was like,
Speaker 1: we have to be there in five minutes, and you
Speaker 1: were still trying to get it back, and I'm like, Brian,
Speaker 1: five minute warning.
Speaker 5: I started doubling my bets instead of fifty, I did
Speaker 5: one hundred. Yeah, and then I my last hand. What yeah,
Speaker 5: my last hand. I got aces and I split them
Speaker 5: and I won the hand.
Speaker 2: It's from Zara, that's right.
Speaker 5: And I wound up with three hundred and forty five dollars,
Speaker 5: so forty five dollars up and did you so far?
Speaker 5: And I wound up with three fifty. I tipped five
Speaker 5: dollars because the dealer helped me once I said hit.
Speaker 5: You said you don't want to do that, yeah, and
Speaker 5: I said, okay, that's really helpful.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: She They do that, you know, because they want to.
Speaker 1: Get to show you five dollars if it's wrong.
Speaker 2: If it's wrong, then they have to give you five
Speaker 2: dollars you wish. Yeah, no, they'll take your money with no.
Speaker 1: I totally get how it could be addictive, and I
Speaker 1: kind of want to go gamble now.
Speaker 2: Well that's the thing.
Speaker 5: Afterwards, even though I won, I feel good terrible. I
Speaker 5: felt like I had just gotten over the.
Speaker 1: Flu because it was so anxiety inducing.
Speaker 2: He went through so much anxiety. It's nothing like it.
Speaker 1: If you had just been pranked by Peanut Tilney.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Well, I really do think he has scarred that woman
Speaker 1: for life. You see protecting the card in her car,
Speaker 1: and then he did it again by wrapping his hands
Speaker 1: around her when she was going to like she thought
Speaker 1: she was gonna die twice in one day, and the
Speaker 1: second time she thought she probably thought it was one
Speaker 1: hundred percent not him because she thought he wouldn't do
Speaker 1: this twice.
Speaker 2: It's that's on her. That's on her. I was just
Speaker 2: pranked yesterday in the same spot, and now someone's houlding
Speaker 2: me up my own driveway. I mean, I think.
Speaker 1: I don't want I don't like franking. I wouldn't I would.
Speaker 1: He would be out of my life. If I were her,
Speaker 1: I would have moved away from him. She was his neighbor.
Speaker 1: But that was such a fun show. We have another
Speaker 1: one coming up right after this one, so stay tuned
Speaker 1: for that. It's Brian Frangie and Nikki Glazer live from
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. See you next time.