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Speaker 2: something to Matt Damon or you just let Matt Damon be?

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Speaker 2: Of course, as a fellow celebrity, I'm joking. I know

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Speaker 2: But then Damon looked at me and gave me the nod,

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Speaker 1: That friendship never materialized either.

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Speaker 2: Hi. My name is Peter Schrager and I am so

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Speaker 2: juiced every day I get to wake up.

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Speaker 3: Hi, everybody, and welcome to Off the Beat. Get it.

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Speaker 3: I just said it, Off the Beat. It is me

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Speaker 3: as always your host, Brian I. Gartner, and today football

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Speaker 3: fans rejoice, but also fans of really good, interesting people.

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Speaker 3: You rejoice as well, because we have a spectacular guest

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Speaker 3: who knows just about everything and everybody involved with the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Peter Schrager, NFL Insider joins us on the podcast Today.

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Speaker 3: He is a brilliant analyst and a sideline reporter. He's

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Speaker 3: also a podcast host. He's a best selling author, he's

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Speaker 3: an Emmy winner, and well, I'm proud to say a

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Speaker 3: friend of mine. His show Good Morning Football, three hours

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Speaker 3: the best if you want to keep up with NFL news.

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Speaker 3: You can also see him on Fox NFL Kickoff on

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Speaker 3: anywhere there's Peter, you know it's going to be gold.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to keep you waiting any longer. One

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Speaker 1: Bubble and Squeak. I love it.

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Speaker 3: Bubble and Squeakna.

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Speaker 1: Bubble and Squeak.

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Speaker 2: I cook it every month, left over.

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Speaker 1: From the night before.

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Speaker 3: Peter. Yes, yes, what is happening?

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Speaker 1: Oh man, you look great? How are you on the course?

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Speaker 1: Right now?

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Speaker 3: Where are you? I'm not on the course, but you

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Speaker 3: are definitely getting vacation. Brian It I am here from

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Speaker 3: beautiful hilton Head Island.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's so good. So much miniature and the regular kind.

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Speaker 3: That's right. I think we're doing miniature golf this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Big family reunion. It sounds like I'm doing a commercial

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Speaker 3: for it. My parents live here in hilton Head Island.

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Speaker 3: My parents retired down here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we we are doing our I think it's our

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Speaker 1: I don't know the family reunion people. That's not what

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Speaker 3: We've never done it. We got a huge house. We're

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Speaker 3: They crawled into a crab hole and they got it

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Speaker 3: Tell me about little Peter.

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Speaker 3: Was not little Peter. No, tell me about little Peter.

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Speaker 1: That conversation would be quite short.

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Speaker 3: Brun were sports? Were you into sports?

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Speaker 2: I was diehard, Like I was the kid that would

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Speaker 2: You're either Eagles fans, right Jets fans, or Giants fans.

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Speaker 1: I played basketball and soccer as a kid.

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Speaker 3: But you early on you thought you were going to

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Speaker 2: I went to Emory in Atlanta, which I've told you before,

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Speaker 1: That's what I was.

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Speaker 2: I went to a school to have So I showed

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Speaker 3: Wow, Now I can't remember if I've told you this

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Speaker 3: at Emory University. My sister went there. I didn't know this, yes,

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Speaker 2: I mean, how cool is your dad for understanding that?

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Speaker 2: But wouldn't he just say, like Emory is a top

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Speaker 2: and Rendez Barber, and I swear my hit must have

441
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 2: been like when they went to me like, so, Peter,

442
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,040
Speaker 2: what do you think I abdo bab bit of abitah

443
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 2: bit of about and in the green room, I'm like,

444
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 2: I'm like, so, Randy, do you remember when like you

445
00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,400
Speaker 2: like faked, pulled down your pants and like Joe Buck

446
00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:32,120
Speaker 2: went nuts and like Randy Moss is like yes, So anyway,

447
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,000
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff never gets old. But now I'm

448
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 2: you know, I speak to Mahomes now or I speak

449
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 2: to Josh Allen.

450
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,680
Speaker 1: Now, I'm fifteen years older than these guys.

451
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:42,880
Speaker 2: Not the same as it was maybe ten fifteen years

452
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 2: ago from me when I was talking to the guys

453
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 2: that that I just wasn't of right.

454
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Speaker 3: You have said before, speaking of Randy Moss, that your

455
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:56,280
Speaker 3: most unusual job related incident was fishing with Randy for

456
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Speaker 3: three days on Big Bear Lake.

457
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Speaker 1: The greatest assignment ever in the history of sports.

458
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 3: So this was what were you filming this?

459
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 2: Yes, this is The producer's name was Michael Bloom. And

460
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 2: Michael had this idea and said, Okay, we've got this

461
00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 2: new football studio crew. We're going to be unrolling, and

462
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 2: they don't know each other that well. Obviously Moss and

463
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:17,119
Speaker 2: Erlacker probably know each other.

464
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:17,959
Speaker 1: Ronde knows it.

465
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Speaker 2: The other guy was Joel Clatt, who now calls college football.

466
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Speaker 2: Let's do a preview show. But Randy's greatest passion is

467
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Speaker 2: not football. Randy Moss's greatest passion is fishing.

468
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're.

469
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,399
Speaker 2: Gonna play to Randy and say, okay, right, So we

470
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 2: went to Big Bear Lake. I consider myself Northeast city

471
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,400
Speaker 2: guy everything I had never fished in my life. And

472
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 2: the show was and I think it was like an

473
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Speaker 2: hour long NFL football preview that might have ran once

474
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 2: on FS one at three am in the morning, you know,

475
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 2: one of those deals. But if you find the footage,

476
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 2: probably the greatest piece of footage ever out there Randy Moss, myself,

477
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,679
Speaker 2: Brian r Lacker, and Joel Clatt on a boat fishing,

478
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Speaker 2: talking about football, and Randy's hauling in huge fish. I mean,

479
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 2: Randy casts out a line, reels it in and it's

480
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 2: like bringing back like you know, twenty eight inch this

481
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 2: and and this and he you know, this is the

482
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 2: kind of fish that it is.

483
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 1: And then and what's the word like a magledon. You

484
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 1: ever heard of a magledon? Is that the word? Like,

485
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: it's like it's like monster from the sea. I don't know.

486
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's his shark. That's his shark. Right, is a

487
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 3: real shark?

488
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 1: I don't even know.

489
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Speaker 2: I asked Randy because I was like, I'm gonna jump

490
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Speaker 2: in the water, and this big bear like I don't

491
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,360
Speaker 2: give a crap, I'm gonna go jump. So I dive

492
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Speaker 2: in and I'm like, Randy, come in and this I

493
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 2: just met Randy Moss and he's like, no, no, no, no, no no.

494
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Speaker 2: I saw a documentary on the what is the word

495
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Speaker 2: a magledon? Is that what it's called?

496
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's the movie with the make right the

497
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 3: Man with Ray Wilson by the Shark, Right, That's all

498
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 3: I can think of, Is that what you're talking about.

499
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Speaker 1: Randy's just refusing to go in. We'll not go in

500
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Speaker 1: the water, and I'm like, you know, He's like, I

501
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:47,159
Speaker 1: know how to swim. I just thought that I don

502
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:48,639
Speaker 1: want want to swim. I just I'm not gonna know.

503
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Speaker 1: The Magledon's are out there and I'm like this is

504
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 1: all on film. I'm like, this is incredible. Randy Moss

505
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: refusing to jump out of the boat.

506
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 2: But it's experiences like that where I'm like, that's the

507
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,040
Speaker 2: greatest I would That's like, you know, you pay he

508
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 2: guy's paying auctions crazy money to have a dinner with

509
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 2: Randy Moss. I got to go fishing for three days

510
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 2: with them, and Randy was incredible and we've been good

511
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 2: friends ever since.

512
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Speaker 3: Twenty thirteen, same year, you win your first Sports Emmy

513
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 3: for Inside the NFL on Showtime. What was the story?

514
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was again young but coming up in the business,

515
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 2: and I hit it off with a guy named Pete Radovich,

516
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 2: who at the time was at CBS, but also was

517
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 2: bringing NFL's Greatest show, Inside the NFL from HBO to Showtime,

518
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 2: and they rebooted it with a new crew and it

519
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 2: was James Brown, Chris Collinsworth, Phil Simms, and they brought

520
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 2: me on as what was known as an editorial contributor,

521
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 2: so very little airtime, but if Sims needed, Hey, Schreker,

522
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 2: what's the latest with Cam Newton and Carolina? Like, what's

523
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 2: going on over there? I was filling him in off camera,

524
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,959
Speaker 2: or if it was the Packers are playing the Saints

525
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 2: this week? Can someone you know tell me what Brett

526
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 2: Farre's record was against the Saints when he played there,

527
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 2: Like that kind of stuff, right, But that season in

528
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen was the start of like social media really

529
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 2: taking a big role. And I wasn't a huge social

530
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,160
Speaker 2: media guy, but they would bring me on for a

531
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 2: for a segment and I would read tweets about the show,

532
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 2: kind of like Jimmy Kimmel's mean two yeah tweets, and

533
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 2: it was always just shitting on collins Worth and Sims

534
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,640
Speaker 2: and like those guys would respond and we had such

535
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,199
Speaker 2: a good time. And then sure enough I get this

536
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 2: invite to go to the Emmys as part of the crew.

537
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,919
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, like you know again, this has

538
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 2: pinched me stuff. We go and we win Best Weekly Show,

539
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 2: and to this day it's one of the coolest moments

540
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 2: I got to be there. We won, We were freaking out,

541
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 2: and then like six months later, a trophy shows up

542
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 2: at my studio apartment or one bedroom apartment, and it's

543
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 2: the biggest thing in my apartment. It's like that in

544
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 2: a you know, empty gallon of milk and some beer cans,

545
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 2: and my wife's like, who are.

546
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: We gonna put that thing?

547
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 3: I'm like I don't know, but we're we're outing it,

548
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 3: we're keeping it, We're keeping it. Also in twenty thirteen,

549
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 3: you put on your writers hat Strength of a Champion

550
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 3: with O Jay Brigatt's tell me a little bit about

551
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 3: one why that story needed to be told and why

552
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 3: you I.

553
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 2: Wrote a book in twenty eleven with Victor Cruz from

554
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 2: the Giants. Now, Victor Cruz had this big breakout season,

555
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl. So local kid from Patterson, New Jersey.

556
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 2: I spent three months kind of with Victor with an

557
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 2: open recorder, and I just like, tell me your life story.

558
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 2: And it was incredible. And this book came on the

559
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 2: heels of the Giants winning a Super Bowl, Victor Cruz

560
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 2: being the hottest guy in sports, right, and it's sort

561
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 2: of number like something on the best seller's list. We

562
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 2: had a New York Times bestseller And that was my

563
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 2: first book out of the gates. And I wrote it

564
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 2: with Victor and I was like, so, so at that point,

565
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 2: I've got this publishing company and want you to write

566
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 2: what do you want to write?

567
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, what do you want to write?

568
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: Go write a book on whatever, Like let's go.

569
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 2: And I had been really touched by a story from

570
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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl Ravens the following year, and the story

571
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 2: was they had this player who used to play for

572
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 2: the Ravens back in the early two thousands who was

573
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 2: suffering from als and his name was Oj Brigance, and

574
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 2: Oj was working for the Ravens when the diagnosis came

575
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Speaker 2: in and obviously it rocked his world, it rocked his

576
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 2: wife Chandra's world, it rocked everyone's world, and in a

577
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 2: lot of situations you'd imagine, Okay, he's gonna take some

578
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 2: time away. But the Ravens continued to employ Oj, and

579
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 2: as his diagnosis would go from one year to two

580
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 2: years to three years, he would eventually lose the ability

581
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 2: to speak, he'd eventually be able to lose.

582
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: The ability to walk. And Oj would have this motorized

583
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 1: vehicle that he would take to the building every single

584
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: day with assistants from nurses, and he was able to

585
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: talk to the players through a machine where he would

586
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: use his eyes to type out words on a machine

587
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: and then an automated voice would go to them, well,

588
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: sure enough, OJ is in the building and he's you know.

589
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 1: Ray Lewis would talk to him for hours.

590
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 2: Every day, and Ed Reid would rally around him, and

591
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 2: the Ravens go on this incredible miracle super Bowl run

592
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 2: where Joe Flacco goes into Indian Apple Or goes into

593
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 2: New England and beats Tom Brady, goes into Denver and

594
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 2: beats Peyton Manning and they go on this great super

595
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 2: Bowl run and the story of the season is incredible.

596
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 2: But I wanted to tell the story from OJ's eyes,

597
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 2: so we wrote this book and it's it's with Oj

598
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 2: Bergants And although the Victor Cruz one is the best seller,

599
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 2: the OJ book is truly one of my most I

600
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 2: guess my gift, like to his family and to him,

601
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 2: but also what was something I'm most proud of. And

602
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's sold many copies, to be honest,

603
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 2: and it wasn't a bestseller. It didn't get a ton

604
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 2: of you know, love on the list and all that stuff,

605
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 2: but that book meant everything to me and Oj to

606
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 2: this day in twenty twenty three, that was ten years.

607
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Speaker 1: Ago, is still alive, Jesus.

608
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 2: Suffering from als and I still correspond with him and

609
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 2: his wife Chandra, and it's and he still goes to

610
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 2: the Ravens facility.

611
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: It's incredible stuff.

612
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 3: Well, I tell you something, Uh, you're going to sell

613
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 3: another copy. I you know, in doing this research talking

614
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 3: to you, I just found out about this book and

615
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 3: looked into him a little bit. You know. It's weird,

616
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 3: you know, the relationships that you have through this business,

617
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 3: you know, and as you know, I have similar relationships

618
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: with weird people that you would never expect. If there

619
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 3: is a team still currently and I used to tell

620
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 3: him all the time that I hate more than any

621
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 3: team in the world, it's the San Francisco forty nine ers.

622
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 3: I mean, I just but I had a relationship with

623
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Speaker 3: Dwight Clark, who also suffered from ALS and unfortunately succumbed

624
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 3: to it. And watching that happen, that disease, it's just horrible.

625
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 3: I mean, there's just no other word to say, just horrible.

626
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 3: And I'm going to ask you, because I'm ignorant, is

627
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 3: there a connection? Do you think?

628
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: I don't know the scientifically, they haven't put the connection together.

629
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: And there's between football obviously, Yeah, there's.

630
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 2: Millions of people who suffer from ALS that didn't play football.

631
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 2: If anything, these gentlemen Steve Gleeson, Dwight Clark, O J. Brigance,

632
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 2: the fact they have these platforms to write books. Gleason

633
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 2: wrote an amazing book. Dwight Clark was maybe the greatest

634
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 2: ambassador for you know, what could possibly be done towards research.

635
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 2: The fact that they have these platforms and these fan

636
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 2: bases and these teams, it could be, you know, a blessing.

637
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 2: And they're truly the ones who are serving raising awareness

638
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 2: around ALS because I didn't know much about the disease.

639
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 2: It's the strength that these families have, especially when these

640
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 2: men are in their thirties and forties and these women

641
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 2: are going through it.

642
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: I know I don't and you and I have a

643
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: lot of fun.

644
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 2: Together, but this is like a very serious topic to

645
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 2: me and thinking I'm very passionate about and having written

646
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 2: this book, it changed me in a lot of ways.

647
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 2: And watching OJ's strength, you put it in perspective what

648
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 2: they're going through when I start complaining about whatever I

649
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 2: got in my day to day.

650
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, strength of a champion. I am going out myself

651
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 3: and read it and I encourage anyone who doesn't know

652
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 3: about ALS. It sounds like an amazing story check that

653
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 3: out as well. In twenty sixteen August the first of

654
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Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, Oh, We're like this is the anniversary right

655
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Speaker 3: right now when we're recording this. Good Morning Football premieres

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Speaker 3: on the NFL network. You have been on Good Morning

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Speaker 3: Football since its inception. How do you deal with the schedule?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so our show air seven to ten am every

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Speaker 2: day during football season, not during football season, when the

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Speaker 2: furthest thing you're thinking about is football season. We are

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Speaker 2: on the NFL network every morning and they I think

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Speaker 2: a fellow actor friend of yours, Paul Rudd, said it

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Speaker 2: best he was on our show. I like your show

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Speaker 2: because it's not the news in the morning, and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: thank you, because that's it's just light, it's fun and

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Speaker 2: it's football. And Brian, we have been so blessed and

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Speaker 2: fortunate to have you not only on as a guest,

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Speaker 2: but you served as a host for several days on

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Speaker 2: our show and did an outstanding job.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Peter. I have to tell you, and this

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Speaker 3: is not this is not a joke. I've said this

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Speaker 3: to other people, not publicly. If it wasn't for the schedule,

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Speaker 3: I might try to come for your job.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I get it to come for your job.

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Speaker 3: I love doing it. It's so much fun. But guys,

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Speaker 3: this is not so. I mean part of it is

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Speaker 3: admittedly that I'm West Coast, so my body and my

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Speaker 3: brain is on the West Coast. It's hard to to

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Speaker 3: change that. But it's like four thirty or five in

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Speaker 3: the morning, you're on before in the coast, you're up

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Speaker 3: at four in the morning, and while you're doing I'll

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Speaker 3: just put it this way, while you're doing your morning routine,

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Speaker 3: whatever that may be, filling the blank in your head,

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Speaker 3: whatever your morning routine is, you are on a conference

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Speaker 3: call where the entire show is being talked about the

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Speaker 3: first day when I was hosting it, I was afraid

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Speaker 3: of getting in the elevator. Now, I guess the elevators

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Speaker 3: work really well there in New York and you don't

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Speaker 3: have to get off the phone. And I mean like

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Speaker 3: you are on the phone on a conference call, walking

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Speaker 3: through every segment of the show as you're getting ready,

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Speaker 3: as you're coming down the elevator. And again the first

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Speaker 3: day that the drivers know it, they they pick you

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Speaker 3: up in the morning because it's really early and you

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Speaker 3: got to go through the thing. It's down World Trade Center.

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Speaker 3: They like know what I'm They open the car door.

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Speaker 3: They don't say a word. They know that you're on

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Speaker 3: this conference call. It's the call, it's our Bible and

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Speaker 3: you and you, And basically what happens to give you

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Speaker 3: a perspective is they're like, okay, everybody, that's it. We'll

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Speaker 3: see you guys soon. And start at seven and you

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Speaker 3: hang up and remarkably, you're outside of the building and

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Speaker 3: then you you walk in the building and go up

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Speaker 3: and you know, get a little makeup.

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Speaker 1: It's a wild routine.

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Speaker 3: It's up before you're.

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Speaker 2: Up before thirty in the morning. You're on this call

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Speaker 2: at five thirty in the morning, you're in makeup chair.

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Speaker 2: By six thirty in the morning, you're getting dressed, and

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Speaker 2: all the while you got to think of someone to

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Speaker 2: say for three hours. But Brian, I don't I imagine

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Speaker 2: a lot of the listeners of this podcast probably aren't.

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Speaker 1: Everyday Good morning football.

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Speaker 2: My biggest thing that I preach people because I meet

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Speaker 2: people all the time and they're like, we do I do, Oh,

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Speaker 2: I do the football show on NFL Network, the morning Show,

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Speaker 2: And they go, oh, I'm not a football fan. You don't

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Speaker 2: have to be a football You do our show, our

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Speaker 2: show with entertainment. So my colleague Kyle Brandt is hysterical.

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Speaker 2: Jamie Erdall, our host is wonderful. Jason mccordy, a former player,

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Speaker 2: has more pop culture references than any of us.

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Speaker 1: Like it is, it is about what's like we've spent

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Speaker 1: so much time time.

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Speaker 2: I interviewed Aaron Rodgers this past weekend and I asked

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Speaker 2: him about Oppenheimer, and he had seen it and he

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Speaker 2: had thoughts. We spent more time talking about that than

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Speaker 2: Rogers and the Jets, Like Rogers' thoughts on Oppenheimer is

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Speaker 2: where we focus. So it is a fun show. There's trivia,

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Speaker 2: there's games, there's all sorts of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So it gets tough.

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Speaker 2: In May and June, and again it's all relative. It's

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Speaker 2: my dream job, so I'm happy. But when there's literally

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Speaker 2: no football news and they're like, all right, for three hours,

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Speaker 2: go fill the air with hypathetically, you have to just

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Speaker 2: realize that, Okay, you're putting the work in now, this

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Speaker 2: is why they pay it. And then once football season comes,

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Speaker 2: the stories are kind of easier to talk about.

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Speaker 3: What do you think is changed the most in the

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Speaker 3: NFL in your time? Let's just say on Good Morning Football. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the last decade.

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Speaker 2: I think the players have a lot more power even

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Speaker 2: in the last decade than they did in the previous one.

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Speaker 2: And it's not because of the collective bargaining agreement. I

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Speaker 2: think it's because of the rise of a the way

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Speaker 2: society is moving towards maybe some marginalized voices more than

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Speaker 2: it's been in decades past, but more so the free

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Speaker 2: access at they have to social media, to Instagram, to

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Speaker 2: a platform where if a player has something he wants

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Speaker 2: to voice about his team, or about the league, or

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Speaker 2: about society in general, they don't need to call a

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Speaker 2: press conference and invite reporters, they don't need a podium.

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Speaker 2: They can go on TikTok and do it and it's

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Speaker 2: gonna have the same exact impact. So I think the

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Speaker 2: player of voice has gotten a lot louder, And whether

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Speaker 2: that's a threat to the NFL or not, it's the

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Speaker 2: way that things are going in the world, and we

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Speaker 2: have to listen to those voices because they have a platform,

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Speaker 2: just as the league does and the owners who put

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Speaker 2: together the game.

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Speaker 3: Do you still love the sport as much as you

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Speaker 3: did when you were a kid.

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Speaker 2: My gosh, dude, I get jaded a lot. And when

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Speaker 2: you find me Week eleven, Week twelve, and I've been.

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Speaker 2: I fly to la every weekend for Fox and I

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Speaker 2: do their studio show from New York, and it's brutal,

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Speaker 2: and I'll I'll sometimes be in a miserable mood and

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Speaker 2: it's cold in New York and someone spits on me

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Speaker 2: on the subway and you know, a car drives by

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Speaker 2: and there's a subway puddle or does a big puddle

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Speaker 2: of ring. But I was at Jets camp over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: It was the first time I've been at a football

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Speaker 2: event since probably the combine of the draft whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: And I was on the field and this sounds so cheesy,

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Speaker 2: so you know, roll your eyes whatever. I've been doing

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Speaker 2: this twenty years. But the grass was just freshly cut.

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Speaker 2: The guys are coming out, everyone's got their the best

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Speaker 2: shape that they've been in a year. And Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 2: comes out, and the Jets fans, who are drunk with

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Speaker 2: optimism right now, are chanting Aaron Rogers and I look

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Speaker 2: to my producer, Christine, and I'm like, it's not the

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Speaker 2: best job in the world. I get to do this

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Speaker 2: for a living, so yes, I love it. Everyone always

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Speaker 2: asks me, like, what's your favorite? The Super Bowl? To me,

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Speaker 2: once a year. If you can go at any time,

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Speaker 2: you must go. It's the greatest spectacle and it never

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Speaker 2: gets old. During the national anthem this year, I was

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Speaker 2: ten feet behind Chris Stapleton and I shed a tear

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Speaker 2: because I was like, this is the most beautiful thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm here for it.

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Speaker 2: Somehow, in my amazing dreams, I am on the field

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Speaker 2: for the Super Bowl National Anthem and I get to

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Speaker 2: talk about the game, and at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: that's my job as providing for my family. So yes,

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Speaker 2: I love it so much and I love the stories,

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Speaker 2: and it hasn't gotten old.

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Speaker 3: Before we dive into football a little more. You also

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Speaker 3: do cover some other sports from time to time, the

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Speaker 3: NBA Olympics. What's your favorite thing to cover besides the NFL.

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Speaker 2: I love the NBA playoffs and I love the NBA

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Speaker 2: playoffs when the Knicks are like a team that's willing

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Speaker 2: to be talked about on television, like it's been dead

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Speaker 2: for twenty years in New York with basketball nets haven't

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Speaker 2: been good. This past spring was really cool. I got

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Speaker 2: to go to a few games. I am not a

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Speaker 2: celebrity so on celebrity row, but you better believe my

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Speaker 2: eyes are like, wait a second, that's Hanka's area. Okay,

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Speaker 2: wait Saron Rodgers, Oh wait, that's Jessica Alba.

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Speaker 1: Oh is that turtle from Entourage? Yes? It is, like

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Speaker 1: it's so cool.

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Speaker 2: When New York is alive and it brings out the

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Speaker 2: audience because I missed that in my twenties and thirties.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't a thing. But it's like the Laker games,

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Speaker 2: like it feels like an event.

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Speaker 1: So I love that. I love when the Knicks are relevant.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's so funny. There was a period

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Speaker 3: of time where I was in New York a lot, yeah,

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Speaker 3: and the people at MSG were just really big fans

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Speaker 3: of the office. And I met a person I'm not

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Speaker 3: going to give his name out, I want that name

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Speaker 3: came out up to me and was like, whenever you

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Speaker 3: want to come now. Sometimes people say this as how yeah, yeah, whatever,

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Speaker 3: but I that's you know, I was there a lot,

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Speaker 3: so I was like, yeah, I would, you know, love

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Speaker 3: to go to a Knicks game and went and yet

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Speaker 3: there is kind of that MSG down there. Find a

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Speaker 3: Yankees hat and put on the Yankees hat and it's like,

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Speaker 3: suddenly you are New York. I don't know, it's a

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Speaker 3: weird I can't even describe mysteria. Oh bizarre.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like it's the only show in town.

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Speaker 2: It's a Broadway adjacent building, it's the Madison Square Guard

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Speaker 2: and you know, Spike Lee is still there, and like

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Speaker 2: for years it was Woody Allen and Matthew Modine and

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Speaker 2: like you had like just institutions at these Knicks games.

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Speaker 2: And then to think, okay, it's coming back with today's

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Speaker 2: like today's guys and today's gals that are relevant.

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Speaker 1: It's cool. It felt like an event.

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Speaker 2: So from a basketball standpoint, yeah, I love covering the

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Speaker 2: NBA playoffs, but to me, going to the NBA playoffs

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Speaker 2: this past spring, that had a really cool feel. And

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Speaker 2: if you want to pass along that guy's name after

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Speaker 2: the podcast, that's great because I'm the schmuck buying tickets

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Speaker 2: for three hundred dollars and sitting in the rafters and

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Speaker 2: screaming on the top of my lungside.

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Speaker 1: That's Emily Radakowski down there.

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Speaker 3: I've kind of asked this once, but I'm going to

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Speaker 3: ask it in a different way. I mean, look, you've

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Speaker 3: written for tons of publications ESPN, Fox, Sports, GQ, Esquire,

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Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Are you a

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Speaker 3: writer or do you prefer broadcast?

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Speaker 2: I am a writer, that is where because everything that

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Speaker 2: I'm doing on the show, it comes from my writing skills.

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Speaker 2: Am I writing background? And how I'm presenting things and

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Speaker 2: how I'm interviewing people. It's the writing side of it. Broadcaster, sure,

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Speaker 2: But to me writer first, second, third, fourth, TV Guy fifth.

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Speaker 3: Your conversation with Aaron Rodgers got quite a bit of

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Speaker 3: press the last few days. Tell me about that. How

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Speaker 3: was he? Does it seem like in a good mood?

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Speaker 1: Can I show you something? I know this isn't on

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Speaker 1: video for some of but I want to show you this.

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Speaker 3: No, that's all right. Oh this is a jersey, a

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Speaker 3: Rogers eight jersey. Did he give it to your Jubi? Oh?

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Speaker 2: We didn't give it to me. A purchase was made.

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Speaker 2: That's a gift I'm going to give to my friend

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Speaker 2: for his birthday. But I'll tell you what. I have

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Speaker 2: the Rogers Jets jersey in my hand. Here's the deal.

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Speaker 2: I'll give you the longest short of it. Sean Payton

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Speaker 2: is a friend of mine and a former Fox Sports colleague,

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Speaker 2: but a long time renegated of the league who was

869
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 2: coach of the Saints, And he came out a couple

870
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 2: of days earlier and in so many words, said, the

871
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,760
Speaker 2: previous coach of the Denver Broncos is named Nathaniel Hackett,

872
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 2: and he says, I don't know Nathaniel Hackett, but this

873
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 2: coaching job that he did was an embarrassment. And to

874
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 2: sum it up, he really aired it out on the

875
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 2: former coach of the Broncos. As Sean Payton is starting

876
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 2: a second chapter with the Broncos, Nathaniel Hackett is one

877
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 2: of Aaron Rodgers' closest friends and is now the offensive

878
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 2: coordinator for the New York Jets. So Rogers hadn't spoken

879
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 2: since Sean Payton made his comments. And you know, Aaron

880
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 2: Rodgers doesn't do interviews with everybody. He'll do them with you,

881
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 2: He'll do him with Pat McAfee. I think in the

882
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 2: past he's done stuff with the guys at Barstool. And

883
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,280
Speaker 2: part of my take, Pete Holmes did a very famous

884
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 2: interview with him once and Rodgers, as you know, is

885
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 2: one of the most authentic, curious, intelligent athletes he will

886
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 2: ever come across. But he isn't fans of everybody, and

887
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 2: if he ain't a fan of yours, he ain't given

888
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 2: me the time of day. I didn't know where I

889
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 2: stood with Rodgers. I'm on the show every single day.

890
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 2: I give objective analysis. I think he's one of the

891
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 2: greatest players of all time.

892
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever talked to.

893
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 2: Anything negative about But I didn't know if He's gonna

894
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 2: grant me an interview. But I've always appreciated his independence

895
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 2: and his curiosity about the world. So the practice ends,

896
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 2: he's not any interviews, and I'm on the NFL network

897
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 2: from there, and I give him that look and I'm like, yeah,

898
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,399
Speaker 2: do you think maybe, and he's giving me the nod,

899
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 2: like all right, I'm gonna come over.

900
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:32,919
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, this is the interview. I'm gonna

901
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: get it. I'm gonna get it.

902
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 2: And then Jason Garrett, the former coach of the Cowboys,

903
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 2: literally from Mars. I didn't see him coming from anywhere.

904
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 2: I didn't know he was at practice, walks right in

905
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 2: front of me and starts talking to Rogers and they

906
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 2: have like a twenty minute conversation, and.

907
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, there goes my interview with Rodgers.

908
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 2: There's no way he's gonna do a twenty minute conversation

909
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 2: with Jason Garrett, fellow quarterback, fellow guy who played in

910
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 2: the league for twenty years coaching the league.

911
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: They went through each other, they had great battles against Outher.

912
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 2: There's no way Rogers is gonna finish that and then

913
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 2: give me the time day Still, sure enough, finishes with Garrett,

914
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 2: comes over, taps me up. And I did something that Brian,

915
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 2: I think you'd appreciate. When I interviewed Aaron Rodgers. I

916
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 2: didn't come right away and say, all right, so, what

917
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 2: are your thoughts on the Sean Payton comments.

918
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 3: Yes, I saw by the way.

919
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: I started off with how you like in New York.

920
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 2: I saw you at the Tony's Broadway and he said,

921
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 2: I've seen Wicked and I saw Back to the Future

922
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 2: and he said it's a mussy and I'm like, this

923
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 2: isn't the We're not talking about parade or you know,

924
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 2: Sydney Bluestein's window here, We're talking about Back to the Future,

925
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,399
Speaker 2: the musical, and I'm all right. And then we talked

926
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 2: about Oppenheimer a little bit. He gives me his favorite

927
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 2: Christopher Nolan movie, which is prestige. Now you can tell you, Rogers,

928
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,399
Speaker 2: you know this. He could hang in any crew, any

929
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 2: Hollywood crew, any New York crew, and talk movies.

930
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: He's a cinephile. The guy loves film.

931
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:54,399
Speaker 2: He shows up to the Tony's not to be seen,

932
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 2: but because he loves live musical theater. Like this is

933
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 2: that kind of guy. And then I ease into football.

934
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 2: And then I just said this, and I think this

935
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 2: is a good question for any journalist out there. You

936
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 2: don't just give him a yes or no, and you

937
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 2: don't say talk about I said, we saw the Sean

938
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 2: Payton comments. Those are in the past. Why don't you

939
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 2: tell the audience about your coach, Nathaniel Hackett, And Rogers

940
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 2: started off talking about how Hackett is arguably the greatest

941
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,280
Speaker 2: coach he's ever had. He's one of his dearest friends,

942
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:26,399
Speaker 2: he's a family man, he is a lifelong coach, and

943
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 2: then he took it himself and gave the quote of

944
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 2: the summer and basically said, Sean Payton should keep my

945
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 2: coach's name out of his mouth.

946
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: And that's like Will Smith talking. I'll like, keep my

947
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,280
Speaker 1: coach's name out of your mouth. And that went crazy

948
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 1: and viral.

949
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,800
Speaker 2: And you know, fortunate enough for my vanity and my ego,

950
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 2: I'm in the shot when he says it, I'm the

951
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 2: one asking him. So ESPN had to show my mug

952
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,399
Speaker 2: for two days, and I take that.

953
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: That's free publicity for me.

954
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 2: But we finished it up and Rogers and I tapped

955
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 2: it up and I'm like, gosh, that was that was awesome.

956
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 2: That's awesome when you get a guy like that and

957
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 2: he's candid and he can talk as much as he

958
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 2: wants or as little as he wants, but he gives

959
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 2: you the time and the effort and defends his guy

960
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 2: and I loved it.

961
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 3: Well. You know, he and I have spent quite a

962
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 3: bit of time together. He seems to me to be

963
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:20,720
Speaker 3: in a very good mood. He seems to be very happy,

964
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 3: very positive. I believe he said I don't have to

965
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 3: pretend to be a journalist, so don't quote me on this.

966
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 3: I believe he was at every but two of the

967
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 3: off season practices and seems to be enjoying his new teammates. One, two,

968
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,479
Speaker 3: three or four. Where do the Jets finish this year?

969
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 2: I don't want to spoil it. I'm feeling I'm feeling

970
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 2: really bullish on the Jets.

971
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: I don't want to.

972
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 2: I gotta do all sorts of predictions and we're coming

973
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 2: up with that. Yeah, I don't know if they win

974
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 2: the regular season title of the division. The Buccaneers didn't

975
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 2: win the regular season crown in the NFC South the

976
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 2: year that they won the Super Bowl. It happens time

977
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 2: and time again. It just he had to get the time.

978
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 2: I don't think there's gonna be a long adjustment period

979
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 2: for Rogers. And if you're listening at home, you're like, well,

980
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 2: didn't Brady go to a new team and win right away?

981
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 2: And didn't Matthew Stafford. They both did, and they were

982
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 2: playing with coaches they'd never met before. He and Hackett,

983
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 2: this coach that he's with, He's won two MVPs with

984
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 2: this guy. He and Allen Lazard, they have a long history.

985
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 2: Randall Cobb was there when I was there on Sunday

986
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 2: and Brian, I'm.

987
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: Like, Coby's on this team.

988
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 2: I've almost forgot that Cobby's on this team. Like Rogers

989
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 2: not only is coming, he's coming with his boys and

990
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 2: with his coach. I don't think it's gonna be a

991
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 2: long adjustment period. The schedule is tough, and it's questions

992
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 2: about the offensive line, and their defense is untested. But

993
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 2: I'm not counting out an angry, angry Aaron Rodgers. And

994
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 2: when I say angry, I don't mean he's got a

995
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 2: bad soul right now. I just think he's got a

996
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 2: chip on his shoulder. He wants to prove some things.

997
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know the last time something like this happened,

998
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:48,919
Speaker 3: I think he won two MVPs in a row.

999
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:50,839
Speaker 1: Yep, and they drafted Jordan Love.

1000
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 3: You said it, not me. Yeah, it'd be very interesting.

1001
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 3: Your favorite team in the NFC this year. I know

1002
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 3: you're still putting it together or for your exclusive announcements

1003
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:03,359
Speaker 3: on Good Morning Football, but.

1004
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 1: The world is waiting.

1005
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 2: But NFC, I'm going to go to I don't I

1006
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 2: don't know where your loyalties lie with the Packers without

1007
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 2: Rogers there, but I'm gonna go with one of their rivals.

1008
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 2: I'm going to say the Detroit Lions of the team,

1009
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 2: and I know everyone's hot on them right now on

1010
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 2: a title since fifty seven. They got a really good

1011
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:22,760
Speaker 2: young team, a really good offensive coordinator and Ben Johnson.

1012
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,879
Speaker 2: I always here's if you want to get the keys

1013
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 2: to the puzzle here. I always the last five years,

1014
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 2: I very humbly have predicted the right Superworld champion for

1015
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 2: the season. I'm not saying the Lions are gonna win.

1016
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 2: I always look at offensive teams and offensive coaches and

1017
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 2: I think this Ben Johnson, who's the offensive coordinator of

1018
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 2: the Lions, is a whiz kid. He's thirty seven years old,

1019
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 2: and what they were doing at the end of season

1020
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 2: last year was revolutionary stuff. I think they pick up

1021
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 2: right where they left off. I think the Lions are

1022
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 2: going to be significantly better than they've ever been before.

1023
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 2: And I think they might be talking you know NFC title.

1024
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: That good interesting.

1025
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 3: So you're a believer even though they start. I mean,

1026
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 3: I have to tell you, I was shocked that they

1027
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 3: open the season at Kansas City.

1028
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: It's the ultimate honor, right, it is the league. The

1029
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: league could pick any team.

1030
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 2: To play the Chiefs, and they chose the Detroit Lions,

1031
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 2: the team that everyone on Thanksgiving is like, oh, really,

1032
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:11,240
Speaker 2: we got to watch the Lions.

1033
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: The League chose them this year.

1034
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 3: In the morning game, the morning game when you're ever

1035
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 3: one on, no one's too drunk yet, the game is

1036
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 3: coming on and it's the Lions. And against the Bears

1037
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 3: or somebody.

1038
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,879
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trubisky versus the Lions thirteen years in a row.

1039
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, interesting anybody else?

1040
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the Niners and Eagles are step ahead

1041
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 2: of everybody and they're going to bring it right back.

1042
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 2: I think those are the three power teams of the

1043
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 2: NFC and the rest is a wide open. I really

1044
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 2: do see the Lions in that conversation.

1045
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting. The forty nine ers just called

1046
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 3: me yesterday about trying out for their quarterback position.

1047
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if you might be the healthiest.

1048
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 3: I don't know if I don't know if you heard

1049
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 3: they were, They've been.

1050
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: They've been right now, they say block.

1051
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 2: I mean, we're doing this on August August first, whatever

1052
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 2: we're doing. This rock party is apparently healthy. But if

1053
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 2: you watched football, the Niners quarterback position is as cursed

1054
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 2: as any position in sports.

1055
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be an interesting year. AFC teams, other

1056
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 3: AFC teams.

1057
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 2: Gosh, isn't it great this year? So the NFC is

1058
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 2: kind of weird this year. There's not a lot of

1059
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 2: power teams. It could be anybody's. The AFC is so loaded.

1060
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 2: There's three heavies obviously the Bengals, the Bills, and the

1061
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 2: Super Bowl champion Chiefs. I'm gonna put two more teams

1062
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:25,879
Speaker 2: that I think are going to be really good this year.

1063
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 2: I think the Jets are gonna be really good this year.

1064
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 2: And then the other team that I think is going

1065
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 2: to be excellent that I haven't heard a lot of

1066
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 2: buzz on is the LA Chargers, and every year we

1067
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 2: hear that. But I think Justin Herbert this is his

1068
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 2: coming out party. I love again the Keys to the

1069
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 2: Puzzle offensive coaches. They just hired Kellen Moore from the Cowboys,

1070
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 2: who was there the last few years. He's the offensive coordinator.

1071
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 2: He's gonna be working with Justin Herbert, and they've got

1072
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 2: a bunch of skyscrapers at receiver. I think the Chargers

1073
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 2: are going to be really good this year, might actually

1074
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 2: be better.

1075
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: Than the Chiefs in the AFC West. Wow, I'm talking.

1076
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 2: Look, you don't get paid like I get paid the

1077
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 2: big bucks without making a big.

1078
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 3: Are you pick? Are you picking the Chargers to win

1079
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 3: the West?

1080
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:05,280
Speaker 1: I might? I might? Interesting?

1081
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 3: Wow? Uh you mentioned it before? You do your five

1082
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,879
Speaker 3: mornings at Good Morning Football in New York. You get

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00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 3: on a plane every week to go to l A

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00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 3: want Why do they need you in LA.

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00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: That's a great question. That's a great question.

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00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,760
Speaker 2: I just signed an extension, so I'm not going anytime

1087
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 2: soon where I'm not but there. Look you're hearing me

1088
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 2: on this podcast. You're like, this guy must have a

1089
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 2: lot of caffeine. The argument is that my presence in studio. Uh,

1090
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 2: I'm a I'm a catalyst. I bring energy, I bring uh,

1091
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 2: I bring juice. So I love doing it and that

1092
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 2: show is a really fun crew. And you know it's

1093
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 2: Carisa Thompson who does the Amazon show as well the

1094
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,359
Speaker 2: pregame show, but Michael Vick, Charles Woods, and we had

1095
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,280
Speaker 2: Sean Payton for years and we're going to be adding

1096
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 2: someone new. It hasn't been announced yet.

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00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: But like, I love it when I'm there and I

1098
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: love doing.

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00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 2: It and my job is to kind of give you

1100
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,239
Speaker 2: the insights but also bus chops a little bit.

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00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,240
Speaker 1: But you're right in a in a zoom world.

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00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 2: It was one year COVID where I was doing it remotely,

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00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 2: and I'll be honest, I wasn't as good as I

1104
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 2: am when I'm in studio, Like I was like doing

1105
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 2: it from like outer space. The producers are like, you're

1106
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 2: much better in studiom, Like I get it, and I

1107
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 2: understand it. And yet, gosh, when I'm sitting there at

1108
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 2: the Delta gate and they're like it's actually a ninety

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00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 2: minute delay, and I'm looking around and someone's asking me

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00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 2: who they should start on their fantasy team, There's nothing

1111
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 2: I would love more than seeing my catch.

1112
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:27,359
Speaker 3: Oh well, the new season is coming. Your time is

1113
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 3: heating up. The busiest man in football is I mean,

1114
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:32,839
Speaker 3: the Giants are going to be good. The Giants are

1115
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 3: going to be.

1116
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: Interesting, relevant, relevant, if nothing else.

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00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 3: I'm so excited. I can't wait to come back on

1118
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:41,919
Speaker 3: your program at some point.

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00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 2: Can I also plug my podcast, which, Oh you gotta

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00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 2: have you on. It's called It's really Good, and it's

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00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 2: called The Season, and I'm so proud of it, and

1122
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:53,479
Speaker 2: I want you on soon.

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00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:58,359
Speaker 3: The Season, I hear it is very very successful. Now,

1124
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 3: you had Flying Coach with Sean McVay that was also

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00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 3: very successful, talking about your relationship with Sean McVay. But yes,

1126
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:09,320
Speaker 3: now the season, how do you find the time?

1127
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 1: That one is like that one?

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00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 2: So I'm not a part of an ensemble crew on

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00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,439
Speaker 2: two different shows, but that one is like my deal.

1130
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 2: So it's like my chance to do my own thing.

1131
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 2: And I think you could probably appreciate that. Where hey,

1132
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:24,439
Speaker 2: I'm not just NFL and Center. I also haven't I listen.

1133
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:26,359
Speaker 2: I look at your podcast guests, and you know I've

1134
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 2: been listening to your podcast Back to the Office ones, yes,

1135
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 2: And it's you bring in everybody, and you connect with everybody,

1136
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 2: and you and I are kindred spirits in that way,

1137
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 2: and that I'm not just talking to football players and gms.

1138
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 2: I'm talking to actors, comedians and talking to people who

1139
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 2: are difference makers.

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00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:41,919
Speaker 1: And it's had a lot.

1141
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 2: Of success and some of the most highest listened episodes

1142
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,280
Speaker 2: are from people who aren't necessarily in the football world.

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00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 2: So right, really proud of it. And where do I

1144
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 2: find the time? You find the time?

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00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:53,720
Speaker 3: You know that you find the time the season Peter

1146
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 3: Scheger available wherever you hear your podcast. You're also you

1147
00:53:58,600 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 3: have another job.

1148
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,959
Speaker 1: By the way, do you like this, I'm just showing

1149
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 1: it your book and.

1150
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 3: You've got my book right there. Welcome to Dunner mifflind

1151
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 3: love it.

1152
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: It's a coffee table.

1153
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, although I think I gave it to you,

1154
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 3: so I didn't that was free. You also you have

1155
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 3: another job, John Krasinski stalker. Now you and John are neighbors.

1156
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:22,359
Speaker 2: I I live a block away from the dude, and

1157
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 2: I know him as Jim from the office.

1158
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 1: Obviously, this is pre Jack Ryan, this is pre everything.

1159
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 2: And I and I run sometimes when you know, I'm

1160
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 2: after the show and ever, and I've seen him walking

1161
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 2: his dog and I want to go up to him

1162
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:37,439
Speaker 2: and not fanboycause I have no interest in being a fan.

1163
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 2: I just want to be like I'm Brian's boy, like

1164
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:43,240
Speaker 2: Brian's my guy, like we have a connection. But I've

1165
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 2: got too much respect for him. And you know, he's

1166
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 2: a Brooklyn Heights resident, and we don't mess with Brooklyn

1167
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 2: Heights residence like Vegas you don't, or whatever, fight club like,

1168
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:51,719
Speaker 2: we don't.

1169
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:52,359
Speaker 1: You don't do that.

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00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 2: It's just it's understood. When Daniel Craig walks by, you

1171
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 2: don't say, oh my god, I love you. And James

1172
00:54:58,040 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 2: Bond like you just kind of let him buy and

1173
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 2: you not. So we are quote unquote neighbors. I don't

1174
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 2: think he knows how exist well.

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00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 3: He is a sports fan, so you might be surprised

1176
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 3: about that. You have my permission to go tell him.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you.

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00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,759
Speaker 2: I'll give you a good one there for me. I

1179
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:17,360
Speaker 2: wanted to, but I didn't want to go off to

1180
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 2: him at all. I felt like it was weird by

1181
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 2: the way he's jacked. He's a great looking guy, Like

1182
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:24,399
Speaker 2: there is nothing that's very plastic looking. Man.

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00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 3: He is very sexy.

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00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 1: I was at the local coffee shop.

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00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:29,719
Speaker 2: There's a coffee shop called Joe Coffee which is in

1186
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 2: our hood, and like everyone goes through there, and Matt

1187
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 2: Damon was in there and he had a Boston Red

1188
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:39,239
Speaker 2: Sox hat and I'm like, all right, do you say

1189
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 2: something to Matt Damon or you just let Matt Damon be.

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00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:45,359
Speaker 2: Of course, as a fellow celebrity, I'm joking. I know,

1191
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 2: you don't bother him. You let him be. But then

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00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 2: Damon looked at me and gave me the nod, and

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00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 2: I think he knew who I was and I was

1194
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 2: about to engage, and then he was gone out of

1195
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:55,719
Speaker 2: my life forever.

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00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 1: So that friendship never materialized either.

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00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:04,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, he gave you the nod, like like you know

1198
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 2: who you are?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what that's what you do. You

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00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:11,479
Speaker 3: just not you just do the nod.

1201
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 1: I loved you in I love you in rounders like

1202
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,720
Speaker 1: I was given a real good reference.

1203
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 3: Goodwill Hunting. Yeah, I have loved you since Goodwill Hunting. Listen.

1204
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 3: It's so great to see you. Thank you so much.

1205
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 3: We're gonna I'm gonna be on the podcast. I'm also

1206
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 3: gonna come back at Are.

1207
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: You in New York any tom soon? Are you in

1208
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 1: the city.

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00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 3: I'm sure that I am so I will uh, I

1210
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 3: will let you know and to be continued, congratulations on

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00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 3: all the success and uh yeah, I look, by the way,

1212
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 3: don't be don't be afraid to text when you have

1213
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,439
Speaker 3: that insider information. It makes me look smart, you know.

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00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:48,919
Speaker 1: I will.

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00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 2: Jamiir Gibbs, that's your fantasy sleeper of the year. He's

1216
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 2: a first round pick from the Detroit Lions. They're gonna

1217
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 2: use him like Deebo Samuel's used in San Francisco. That

1218
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 2: is a That is your fantasy tip, Jamiir Gibbs. And

1219
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 2: on that note, Brian, I'll say farewell. Look, honestly, you're

1220
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 2: one of my favorite guys. You've been so kind to

1221
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 2: me and I'm so honored to be on the podcast.

1222
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 2: I listen every week so means a lot.

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00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 3: I appreciate you. Thank you so much, Jamiir Gibbs, all

1224
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 3: of you listening, this is going to help me win

1225
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 3: the Office Fantasy League. All right, thank you, my friend,

1226
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 3: Thank you, buddy, Peter as always great talking to you

1227
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 3: on my show this time. I'll see you on yours

1228
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:44,600
Speaker 3: very soon. And I hope at maybe a game or

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00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 3: five this season, maybe up in Green Bay, who knows,

1230
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 3: maybe New York, Vegas, LA. The choices are limitless. And

1231
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 3: to everyone listening, thank you. If you like what you hear,

1232
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:01,040
Speaker 3: would you please do me a favor and review us

1233
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 3: on the Old Apple Podcasts and follow us on Instagram

1234
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 3: at Off the Beat. And if you want to hear more,

1235
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 3: well just come back next week because I'll be here

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00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 3: I hope you will as well. Until then, everybody, have

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Speaker 3: a great week. Off the Beat is hosted and executive

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00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 3: produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside our executive producer Ling Lee.

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00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 3: Our senior producer is Diego Tapia. Our producers are Liz Hayes,

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00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 3: Hannah Harris, and Emily Carr. Our talent producer is Ryan

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00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 3: Papa Zachary, and our intern is Thomas Olsen. Our theme

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Speaker 3: song Bubble and Squeak. Performed by the one and only

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Speaker 3: creed brat