Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey, what's up? Dean Blandina another episode
Speaker 1: of Good Calls. As always, I am joined not in person,
Speaker 1: but virtually by the Caucasian Rattlesnake, the one and only
Speaker 1: Travis Hands and Travis, what's up? What's happening? Man? In
Speaker 1: my backyard, hanging out, you know, by myself, which is
Speaker 1: kind of normal, but it's having a man kang. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Joe? Joe on audio? What's happening? Joe, what's
Speaker 1: going on? Man? Just sitting here in my living room zooming?
Speaker 1: You guys, we are we are doing We're doing trying
Speaker 1: something new. We're doing a zoom meeting. UM, like everybody's
Speaker 1: doing zoom or or some kind of virtual video conference
Speaker 1: right now. UM for those of you obviously you can't see,
Speaker 1: but Joe, I appreciate your background, your virtual background, which
Speaker 1: is the Cowboys Party US UM, which you know, brings
Speaker 1: back a lot of good memories. Travis sitting outside enjoying
Speaker 1: the sunshine, and I'm in my I'm in my lounge,
Speaker 1: just just hanging out. But I want to start the
Speaker 1: show again. This is the world has changed, it continues
Speaker 1: to evolve, and and we just you know, this is
Speaker 1: day we've I think we determined this is day seven
Speaker 1: for of of our calendar. We we felt like last
Speaker 1: Monday that everything really changed. And now we're at you know,
Speaker 1: in California, we have to stay at a home mandate.
Speaker 1: You have, uh, every you know, I've seen so many statistics.
Speaker 1: I try not to stay tuned, you know, tuned with
Speaker 1: the news and things like that. But but obviously day seven,
Speaker 1: one full week of the coronavirus and and staying at
Speaker 1: home and social distancing and everything else. Travis, give us
Speaker 1: an update on what's happened in the last seven days
Speaker 1: in terms of just the sports world. You know, what's
Speaker 1: been postponed, what's been canceled, what's happening. Yeah, So, so
Speaker 1: as of now, the NFL Draft will uh will not
Speaker 1: be taking place in Las Vegas. You're gonna do it
Speaker 1: from a TV studio probably NFL network, I would think
Speaker 1: here in l A. Um, the NFL League meeting for
Speaker 1: March was canceled. Um, they were doing a virtual call
Speaker 1: for the Competition Committee. You can probably touch on that
Speaker 1: later as well as these other NFL things. UM, the
Speaker 1: big one in the Olympic world. They've postponed the Tokyo Games,
Speaker 1: but they'll talk. They're talking about doing that now in
Speaker 1: one likely. Um, the XFL it's officially canceled, so we
Speaker 1: won't see the UH the end of the season there,
Speaker 1: we won't get to see if Houston can can finish
Speaker 1: out undefeated. Um. We can talk about the XFL more
Speaker 1: later as well. And UH, and then the spelling B
Speaker 1: has been postponed, so we won't see the kids. A
Speaker 1: lot of videos will not be will not be seen
Speaker 1: in the excited kid getting very excited spelling you know,
Speaker 1: combabile ishas or whatever whatever crazy word is that that uh,
Speaker 1: that they spell better better, better spellers than I ever
Speaker 1: was or ever will be. I got knocked out of
Speaker 1: the spelling being. I'll never forget fourth grade spelling B.
Speaker 1: I was. There was like three of us left, and
Speaker 1: I got knocked out on occurrence? Can you spell? Can
Speaker 1: you either you spell occurrence? Of course? Yeah? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think so. Of course you're you're forty, Joe, I was
Speaker 1: in fourth grade. Go spell it O C C you
Speaker 1: are m hmm A n C. Oh my god, you
Speaker 1: that's not even that's not even like I was clan
Speaker 1: c or Z Travis. Can you spell it occurrence O
Speaker 1: C C you R E n C E Curren? Is
Speaker 1: that not right? I do not feel I do not
Speaker 1: feel bad about about locy spelt getting defeated in that
Speaker 1: in that thing. I'm gonna pop it up for you.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can see it, but that's
Speaker 1: that's how it spelled. Can you see it to R
Speaker 1: E n C. Now you made fun of me? Oh,
Speaker 1: of course, I got knocked out in first grade to parachute.
Speaker 1: Well you are you are the least. Joe's wearing a
Speaker 1: Harvard T shirt and he cannot look less like somebody
Speaker 1: that went to Harvard. I know we've told the story
Speaker 1: about the guy that confronted him in a bar in
Speaker 1: Hermosa Beach about wearing the Harvard shirt and literally knew
Speaker 1: pointed Joe out, was like that guy didn't go to
Speaker 1: Harvard and called him out on it. And it was
Speaker 1: an amazing conversation and I know we I know we did.
Speaker 1: I don't know what episode it was, but we talked
Speaker 1: about that. Joe's comeback was you're wearing Calvin Klein? Are you?
Speaker 1: You're not Calvin Klein. It was Classic. Alright, so obviously
Speaker 1: Olympics postponed. That's huge one you think about. And and
Speaker 1: again we we understand that there are bigger issues going
Speaker 1: on with this virus and everything else, but we're talking
Speaker 1: about sports, and we're gonna talk about how the sports
Speaker 1: are impacted. Um, you talk about an athlete, think about
Speaker 1: an Olympic athlete that everything is structured and scheduled, and
Speaker 1: I am, I am getting ready. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: at peak performance on this date because I've been training
Speaker 1: for four years and now it gets pushed back a year.
Speaker 1: That's insane, that's crazy to think that, Like, how do
Speaker 1: you how do you even like, what do you do
Speaker 1: at that point? Like what what? How do you even? Travis?
Speaker 1: You you you know you ran track, you did you
Speaker 1: did Olympic style Olympic style events, Um, like what do
Speaker 1: you do there? I mean, I can't speak for Olympians
Speaker 1: because I'm not that good or anything, but I I
Speaker 1: definitely It's it's tough too because you mentioned you don't
Speaker 1: know a date when it's gonna happen, like, so these
Speaker 1: guys don't have the target goal of when they need
Speaker 1: to be athlete performance. So I mean, at this point
Speaker 1: you just try to keep your your your fitness levels
Speaker 1: and and your nutrition at at uh, you know what
Speaker 1: they would be. You know, when the Olympics was gonna
Speaker 1: happen here shortly, and it's uh, it's it's tough. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's a great question. I mean, when I
Speaker 1: was in college, you and I was, I would just
Speaker 1: I just have to not drink beer for a couple
Speaker 1: of days before a meat and then and then I'd
Speaker 1: be good. So well, I'm sure, I'm sure there's a
Speaker 1: lot of lips that aren't aren't following that regiment. But
Speaker 1: you appreciate you. We appreciate your insight. Travis, thanks for
Speaker 1: thanks for I was a national champion in the triple chump.
Speaker 1: Did you guys know this? Travis? I said, That's why
Speaker 1: I asked you the question. I closed the question to you.
Speaker 1: Joe maybe didn't know. I did not know. So there
Speaker 1: you go. Joe's just Joe's just sitting there here. Joe's
Speaker 1: like I was more of an academic. I went to Harvard.
Speaker 1: You know, I was the national champion in the in
Speaker 1: the academic world. Never been a national champion. So n
Speaker 1: F a draft, Okay, look, the the NFL Draft has
Speaker 1: become a very big event. It's kind of like the
Speaker 1: Really you think about the NFL, right, the super Bowl
Speaker 1: is is the the the ultimate event in terms of
Speaker 1: the the NFL season and even the American sports landscape.
Speaker 1: The NFL Draft has become the off season super Bowl
Speaker 1: for the NFL. And we're not going to see that
Speaker 1: level obviously of of the the hoop lust surrounding it.
Speaker 1: But but in terms of having the draft, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have the draft and it's not gonna it's not gonna
Speaker 1: affect how the draft takes place in terms of being
Speaker 1: able to pick players and being able to communicate. You remember,
Speaker 1: I mean I've seen old pictures and I've heard stories
Speaker 1: Peter Rose tell the the drafts back and you know
Speaker 1: the sixties and the seventies. I mean they were just
Speaker 1: in a border and they were they get a call
Speaker 1: with the draft pick and they've write it on a chalkboard.
Speaker 1: So so the draft itself will go off and uh,
Speaker 1: and that will happen. It's like you said, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be in a television studio, NFL network makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. Who knows how it's gonna look. But but
Speaker 1: I think what really is is being affected is how
Speaker 1: these teams compare for the draft. And we know right
Speaker 1: now they would be going to pro days and they'd
Speaker 1: be having players come in with physicals and and doing
Speaker 1: all these other things that they can't do. And uh
Speaker 1: and so obviously, you know, there's a lot of work
Speaker 1: prior to just this past you know time frame where
Speaker 1: where we've kind of been in this in this self
Speaker 1: isolation or social distancing, whatever you wanna call it, but
Speaker 1: it really has impacted the time leading up to the draft.
Speaker 1: And I think that's where the teams are really having
Speaker 1: to overcome some hurdles and even just having players you
Speaker 1: can't you know, having having your facility open and and
Speaker 1: and you have players that live in the area that
Speaker 1: are coming into work out. How do we even manage that?
Speaker 1: So so I think the NFL has not felt anything
Speaker 1: compared to the NBA, NHL Baseball even pushing their season
Speaker 1: back because it is the offseason. But like you said,
Speaker 1: the NFL, the lead meeting was canceled that was set
Speaker 1: to take place next week down in Florida. They're having
Speaker 1: Competition committee meetings actually actually Monday and Tuesday this week.
Speaker 1: They're doing that via video conference and and and you know, electronically,
Speaker 1: but there aren't gonna have There's never be any votes
Speaker 1: or anything on rules changes until the May meeting. The
Speaker 1: league always has a meeting in March, and they have
Speaker 1: a meeting in May, middle of May, middle third week
Speaker 1: of May, and that's where the hopefully that's where all
Speaker 1: of these rules changes and everything, all the other league
Speaker 1: business will get taken care of in May. So that's
Speaker 1: kind of where we are right now. Do you think,
Speaker 1: given what's going on with the economy, do you think
Speaker 1: this will impact what rookie salaries like what they get
Speaker 1: paid or is that pretty much? I mean, they just
Speaker 1: got the CBA done, so that's that's set in stone.
Speaker 1: That's this is not going to impact. It's interesting I
Speaker 1: read an article that the NBA players may start to
Speaker 1: lose um game checks because obviously not playing NFL, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit different their contracts. There's something called forced majure,
Speaker 1: which which is in a contract. UM it's it's a typical.
Speaker 1: It's typical language which means if there is something that
Speaker 1: interrupts the normal operation of business, uh an act of God,
Speaker 1: which this would fall under, you know, something where you
Speaker 1: can't you can't continue to operate normally, then the company
Speaker 1: the NFL has, the NBA has the ability to to
Speaker 1: suspend um contracts, not pay out contracts. So I don't
Speaker 1: know all the legal ease, but I know that you know,
Speaker 1: what I read was the NBA does does have force
Speaker 1: majure language. NFL does not, So I don't I don't
Speaker 1: see that being impacted. I know the league is now
Speaker 1: going to focus on these network deals. And look, the
Speaker 1: reality is is this is gonna end at some point,
Speaker 1: and and we're gonna get back to, you know, a
Speaker 1: new normal, and I don't think it's gonna be. It
Speaker 1: can't be, it can't be the same. We we have
Speaker 1: to change the way we do things um based on this,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna get back to playing sports and playing
Speaker 1: games and all that stuff. And uh, and so I
Speaker 1: don't know how you know, won't affect salaries and things
Speaker 1: like that in terms of the NFL, but who knows
Speaker 1: network deals everything else. It's gonna be interesting to see
Speaker 1: how it plays out over the next you know. However,
Speaker 1: how however many weeks or months or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: speaking of deals at the free agency, Doug nice Segue
Speaker 1: a great job, So the quarterback carousel we've seen, right,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I made a great prediction last week. I said,
Speaker 1: I said Tom Brady would be going back to the Patriots.
Speaker 1: That worked out well. The next day they announced, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, well look I thought he was going back
Speaker 1: to the Patriots. I was like, how's like, listen, it's
Speaker 1: come on, You're you're an icon in New England. Stay,
Speaker 1: maybe win another Super Bowl. But obviously Tom had other
Speaker 1: had other head other plans, and uh, he's a buck
Speaker 1: now right. Philip Rivers went to the Colts. I liked
Speaker 1: Philip Philip Rivers and you've seen the video of him
Speaker 1: on the toilet. He is definitely on the toilet. He's
Speaker 1: clearly in the bathroom. So he posts a video on
Speaker 1: social media of him like welcoming the you know, the
Speaker 1: new fans in Indianapolis and all that, and he's and
Speaker 1: he's he's not standing and he's in the bathroom. So
Speaker 1: I don't know what other seats you have in your bathroom,
Speaker 1: but I know there's only one seat in my bathroom. Okay.
Speaker 1: Have a feeling that Philip Rivers is a lot like
Speaker 1: I am when it comes to like this coronavirus staying
Speaker 1: at home thing. But we can get into that later.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that later, but I know he does.
Speaker 1: The Philip Rivers have like nine kids, so that might
Speaker 1: be place in the house that that he has quiet,
Speaker 1: Yes and quiet. So right Teddy Bridgewater to the Panthers,
Speaker 1: I think, what do what do we think? Are the
Speaker 1: Bucks now a super Bowl favorite? No? No, but they'll
Speaker 1: contend for their division. I don't even think they're favorite
Speaker 1: in their division, but they'll contend it. It's interesting because
Speaker 1: I don't like I I would agree like I don't
Speaker 1: see Temple all of a sudden now being the odds
Speaker 1: on favorite to win the Super Bowl because when you
Speaker 1: think about Jamis Winston, I mean the guy guy did
Speaker 1: throw for five thousand yards. The guy threw for over
Speaker 1: thirty touchdowns. Obviously, he threw for thirty interceptions, he created,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of turnovers. Brady's not going to
Speaker 1: do that. You know you're gonna get, you know, even
Speaker 1: though he's on the downside of his career. I would
Speaker 1: imagine you're gonna get somewhere near you know, seven touchdowns
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get. You'd be shocked if he throws
Speaker 1: more than ten interceptions and Uh, and so I'm excited
Speaker 1: when you talk about the coach. Bruce arians could not
Speaker 1: be more different in terms of just his his persona,
Speaker 1: at least his public persona and how he interacts with
Speaker 1: people than Belichick. And I love both of them. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, Bill has this sneaky sense of humor. Bruce
Speaker 1: is just more in your face. And Uh, they're both
Speaker 1: obviously great coaches. They both they both won Super Bowls. Um,
Speaker 1: you know Bruce as a as an assistant coach. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see that dynamic now in
Speaker 1: Tampa with those two working together. And he's got some weapons. Um,
Speaker 1: he's got more weapons in Tampa than he had in
Speaker 1: New England in terms of receivers. I mean you think
Speaker 1: about Mike Evans and uh, and who was the guy Gobwin? Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, they've they've got they've got weapons there. But
Speaker 1: I'm more interested to see what's gonna happen in New England.
Speaker 1: Like totally thirteen straight a f C East titles. I
Speaker 1: gotta say to me, this is the year if Buffalo
Speaker 1: for Miami, for the Jets, somebody's gonna step up, and
Speaker 1: my my money's on Buffalo. Somebody's gonna do it this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got Stefon Diggs recently, and I think that's a
Speaker 1: huge weapon for for Josh Allen and the Bills. And
Speaker 1: it's I think the Dolphins are really setting up for
Speaker 1: probably a couple of years from now to contend for
Speaker 1: that um. But yeah, I think the Bills that might
Speaker 1: be that might be a hot take for Dean and
Speaker 1: and we'll see how that one plays out. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: let's see the other couple of Todd Gurley did the Falcons.
Speaker 1: I like that move for Atlanta. I think it was
Speaker 1: a low risk move, a one year deal if Gurley girl.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's got the you know, you always it always
Speaker 1: worries me when you hear like arthritic condition in the knee,
Speaker 1: you know that, especially talk about a running back or
Speaker 1: any professional athlete. But I think Gurley still has some
Speaker 1: some gas in his tank. And Atlanta, you know, they
Speaker 1: haven't been obviously haven't been the same since they blew
Speaker 1: that lead in the Super Bowl. But the core group
Speaker 1: is still there, you know, Dan Quinn is still there.
Speaker 1: I think that could be an under the radar move
Speaker 1: UM Byron Jones to the Dolphins. And and now that's
Speaker 1: interesting because now the two right, the two highest paid
Speaker 1: cornerbacks in the league around Miami. See how that plays out.
Speaker 1: I just think Miami, Miami's gotta figure out what they're
Speaker 1: doing at the quarterback position totally. You know, you keep
Speaker 1: hearing them linked to TWA in the draft. Um, I'd
Speaker 1: be interested to see how that plays out. You know,
Speaker 1: they didn't make the trade for Josh Rosen last year. Um,
Speaker 1: poor Josh Rosen. It just doesn't seem like he can
Speaker 1: get a real a real shake and a real you know,
Speaker 1: he's there in Arizona for one year. They don't have
Speaker 1: a great team, new coaching staff. Number one pick, they
Speaker 1: take Kyler Murray. Rosen gets shipped out, gets you know,
Speaker 1: the Fitzpatrick you know the Fitzpatrick effect. Wherever that guy
Speaker 1: is you fellow Harvard guy, Joe he uh, you know,
Speaker 1: now he's he's the starter. So who knows. We'll see.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting when we get back to playing
Speaker 1: and how all these free agent moves. Cam Newton, where's
Speaker 1: Cam Newton gonna end up? Where's Jamie's gonna end up?
Speaker 1: You know, well, what we're what are we doing? Um?
Speaker 1: In terms of like these guys, these are big name
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and uh, and they don't have jobs right now,
Speaker 1: and then be interesting to see if they have starting
Speaker 1: jobs when the season does get started. Um Ram's logo
Speaker 1: what do we Think? It was finally released and it
Speaker 1: got leaked several weeks ago, and it was leaked. It
Speaker 1: was not, it was not. It didn't go over very well,
Speaker 1: and it was almost like it's like Joe when Joe
Speaker 1: wants to tell us something about you know, and I started,
Speaker 1: I like these pants. I bought these pants. What do
Speaker 1: you think? What do you think? And he just like
Speaker 1: shows it to us like a little and just a little,
Speaker 1: like show me a picture on his phone. Do you
Speaker 1: think these pants? I just bottom. He's there about six
Speaker 1: pairs of them, but these pants. He's waiting for us
Speaker 1: to be like, oh those are nice, Oh those are horrible,
Speaker 1: And then he then he returns to six if we
Speaker 1: say they're horrible. I feel like a little bit of
Speaker 1: that happened with the Rams. Look when I saw it.
Speaker 1: When I saw it, I was like, this looks better.
Speaker 1: Like they did some some shading of the of the
Speaker 1: yellows and and I think I think it looks better.
Speaker 1: I like the tweet. The tweet looks more like the
Speaker 1: old school Rams, the eighties seventies, that kind of that
Speaker 1: yellow and blue, that kind of color scheme, and I like,
Speaker 1: I like, I like where they're going with that. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, let's uh, let's take a break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna talk a little x ffel and
Speaker 1: we're awful. We're gonna find out what Travis did today
Speaker 1: next on all Right, we're back on good Calls. Travis
Speaker 1: is David saying Joe during the break brought up a
Speaker 1: point and I want Joe, I want you to elaborate
Speaker 1: on this. And you're you're you're a feelings guy. You're
Speaker 1: one of the guys that you wear your heart on
Speaker 1: your sleeve. And now you've just you've been quiet this
Speaker 1: whole thing. I know social distancing is in acting you
Speaker 1: more than Travis and I for sure. But you said,
Speaker 1: it just feels weird talking about sports right now. It does.
Speaker 1: It feels it feels weird. There's so much going on
Speaker 1: and uh, and there's so little sports going on. I
Speaker 1: almost just like there's not. It just feels awkward talking
Speaker 1: about anything to do with sports when you know you
Speaker 1: can't you have to line up at six in the
Speaker 1: morning to get some toilet paper. It's it's it's weird.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like that right there. What Joe just
Speaker 1: said is gonna be Look whatever, this is all over
Speaker 1: and everything is like we're in the clear. We're gonna
Speaker 1: start and in five years from now, ten years from now,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell stories like Joe just said. I remember
Speaker 1: twenty we had six AM. I was online every day
Speaker 1: to get toilet paper. Like we're we're gonna tell those stories.
Speaker 1: And I think about we we us our group, like,
Speaker 1: while our life has changed and it's different, I consider
Speaker 1: myself very lucky and and I'm sure you guys do too,
Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, I'm healthy, my my people,
Speaker 1: the people closest to me are healthy. I'm able to continue,
Speaker 1: you know, working and things like that. And uh. And
Speaker 1: I just think that while we have to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: and acknowledge that the world is changing and it does
Speaker 1: feel weird, we we need an outlet, right We got
Speaker 1: to talk about we got to talk about something. I mean,
Speaker 1: I we just you know, to be to We're in
Speaker 1: the middle of March madness right now. We're in the
Speaker 1: middle of what should be one of the one of
Speaker 1: the best times in sports, and we got nothing and
Speaker 1: and everything. You watch the news and you can hear
Speaker 1: these talking heads and it's everything is doomsday, doomsday, doomsday,
Speaker 1: And you know, we're gonna come out of this, and
Speaker 1: we we need to stay positive, you know, and and
Speaker 1: and I know I can say that because I have
Speaker 1: the days at home and I'm not I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about toilet paper per se. You know, I've been preaching
Speaker 1: of a day for a long time and I look
Speaker 1: like a hero now right. I'm just saying, Hey, I
Speaker 1: didn't even install them, but they're they're they're here. So
Speaker 1: everywhere that XFL obviously the XFL um the season is done,
Speaker 1: and you know, with what's going on, it's just unfortunate.
Speaker 1: I've been involved in two spring football leagues the last
Speaker 1: two years, and I can't get I can't get to
Speaker 1: I can't even get to the end of a regular season. Obviously,
Speaker 1: completely different circumstances. This the XFL to me and I definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, Travish you were more involved than Joe because
Speaker 1: we worked together throughout the season. Was an overwhelming success.
Speaker 1: From a personal standpoint, just the people that I work with,
Speaker 1: from from Vince McMahon, Oliver Luck, Sam Schwartztein, Doug Whalley,
Speaker 1: the entire football operations group, all of our officials, my
Speaker 1: officiattion provisers, everybody. It was such a great time and
Speaker 1: such a great opportunity and everything was first class and
Speaker 1: I and I feel like the league and the and
Speaker 1: the season was a great success. Obviously not didn't end
Speaker 1: the way I think people would have liked, but um,
Speaker 1: I just thought it was. It was a great success,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited about the future of the league. And
Speaker 1: then we've already started planning for year two and uh,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited where it could go. Yeah. I had
Speaker 1: a conversation with a buddy today on the phone and
Speaker 1: he was talking about how he was just it was
Speaker 1: gaining the XFL was gaining all this momentum and and
Speaker 1: the storylines are starting to build with p J. Walker
Speaker 1: and the Roughnecks being undefeated, and the people were starting
Speaker 1: to notice the production quality of these games on television
Speaker 1: and they were getting fans and and it's just, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's sad to see that it came to an end
Speaker 1: like it did, because I think it was still it
Speaker 1: was starting to gain some momentum. It did seemed like
Speaker 1: it was doing really well. That sucks really bad timing
Speaker 1: for the old XFL. Thanks Joe. Can you elaborate on that.
Speaker 1: I just just socially speaking, like people were talking about
Speaker 1: it more than you know, than any any other time
Speaker 1: by the other one, any other league that wasn't the NFL.
Speaker 1: JO watch twenty minutes of of XFL football year, and
Speaker 1: they were. And it was an exciting twenty minutes, was
Speaker 1: it not? It was fantastic. I was a fan, So
Speaker 1: there you go. Uh, you know, you talk about the
Speaker 1: season and look, XFL a lot of and I and
Speaker 1: I and I went through with the Alliance of American Football,
Speaker 1: and there was all these horror stories of players not
Speaker 1: getting paid and getting kicked out of hotels and and
Speaker 1: and all these things. And I know that the Alliance,
Speaker 1: I think the people behind it eventually they did the
Speaker 1: right thing and they did pay out um as much
Speaker 1: as they could, especially to the players and the people
Speaker 1: that that that you know, we're we're working for their
Speaker 1: their club. But the XFL is paying out all their
Speaker 1: players for their full contracts. XFL players are similar to
Speaker 1: XFL employees, and uh, and so they're gonna be paid
Speaker 1: out and and now they're free, they're free to UH
Speaker 1: to sign with the NFL clubs. We saw p J. Walker,
Speaker 1: the the the who was the odds on favorite for
Speaker 1: M v P. And we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna
Speaker 1: give those awards out in a second. Um has has
Speaker 1: signed with the Panthers and his old coach, Matt Rule
Speaker 1: coach to the Temple and UH. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: the XFL has done everything right, and I'm excited about
Speaker 1: the future. I'm excited about the partnership of Fox and ESPN.
Speaker 1: The production, the production value was was off the charts.
Speaker 1: I mean it was as good as your NFL and
Speaker 1: your college your top college broadcasts. And and I'm excited.
Speaker 1: You think about the rules changes and what worked. The
Speaker 1: kickoff obviously worked. Less than six percent of kickoffs resulted
Speaker 1: in touchbacks. You didn't have those high speed collisions. We
Speaker 1: had big returns. The the average drive start was right
Speaker 1: around the thirty yard line. That's significant when you when
Speaker 1: you're trying to promote offense and things like that. And
Speaker 1: and the goal was to keep the return in the game,
Speaker 1: limit those those high impact collisions and UH and help
Speaker 1: the offenses and and it worked, and you think about
Speaker 1: the access that we had. Sometimes we had too much access.
Speaker 1: I mean when when you have guys dropping f bombs
Speaker 1: and coming off the field and the sideline reporters talking
Speaker 1: to them, and and we're behind the scenes and we're
Speaker 1: watching the replay official work through their process and talk
Speaker 1: to the referee and the coach talk to the player,
Speaker 1: and Matt mcgloyin saying we have to blow up the whole,
Speaker 1: the whole playbook and and and the whole the whole,
Speaker 1: the whole game plan at halftime. It's the access was
Speaker 1: something I think fans are really really enjoyed and and
Speaker 1: I think it's only gonna get better as as we
Speaker 1: get into year two and beyond. So um, I'm really
Speaker 1: excited about about the future. Like we said, let's give
Speaker 1: out some awards. Travis Joe, I know you didn't you
Speaker 1: You can just agree. I watched twenty minutes of a game.
Speaker 1: I obviously know who's the best player in the league, clearly,
Speaker 1: Who m v P? Who is your m v P? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a it's an easy one. It's p J. Walker.
Speaker 1: And he was the guy who kind of stole all
Speaker 1: the headlines every week and and he was making plays.
Speaker 1: Kind of looked like Russell Wilson out there, scrambling around,
Speaker 1: making throws on the run, going to his left, throwing downfield.
Speaker 1: He had, Uh, he had had a great, great little
Speaker 1: half season. And and I'm excited to see him, um
Speaker 1: go into Carolina now and possibly compete for that backup job.
Speaker 1: And I think I think they're gonna have Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: there and he's not going to be a starter, but
Speaker 1: hopefully he can compete and be a backup and we
Speaker 1: can see him on the field at some point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nic Nic the um he was the most exciting player.
Speaker 1: He was the most talked about player. He was the
Speaker 1: guy that that when you watch you know, you wanted
Speaker 1: to see the roughnecks. You wanted to see him. Um
Speaker 1: fifteen touchdowns, four in interceptions. He I think he had
Speaker 1: three rushing touchdowns and uh, and he the guy made
Speaker 1: a lot of highlight, real type plays and and and
Speaker 1: it was really you know, it was really a runaway
Speaker 1: for him as the m v P. And if he
Speaker 1: would have just continued down the path he was going,
Speaker 1: it would have it would have came to fruition. And
Speaker 1: and like like you, Travis, I'm excited to see him.
Speaker 1: I want to see him obviously if you know, he'll
Speaker 1: get some if he if he stays with the Panthers,
Speaker 1: he'll get some snaps in the preseason. I'd love to
Speaker 1: see him against NFL defenses. He's been in the NFL before.
Speaker 1: He was with the Colts, um and with both Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck and Jacoby Brissette and uh and obviously didn't play,
Speaker 1: but but has NFL experience. But I'm excited to see him.
Speaker 1: UM coach of the Year, who Who's and this could
Speaker 1: be it could be a sweep, Travis, Who's your coach
Speaker 1: of the year? So I I see where you're going
Speaker 1: with that one. I'm not gonna go June Jones, the
Speaker 1: coach of the Houston coach. I'm gonna go with Jonathan
Speaker 1: Hayes in St. Louis. I thought he did some really
Speaker 1: cool things there and he hadn't had head coaching experience,
Speaker 1: Um June Jones. June Jones has and he came in
Speaker 1: there and I thought, I thought he you know, they
Speaker 1: were really innovative and did different things on offense, and
Speaker 1: I liked the way he ran that franchise and I
Speaker 1: wanted to see more from from that team. I liked
Speaker 1: what he did. Any relation to William May says, you
Speaker 1: hit it, but that's your that's your your contribution to
Speaker 1: this discussion that Joe don't have to either use the
Speaker 1: restroom or something. I got the coach of the year.
Speaker 1: I'm the team of the year for sure. So I
Speaker 1: and and Travis, I agree with everything you're saying. And
Speaker 1: I and I and I thought, having not had a
Speaker 1: head coaching experience, I liked what St. Louis was doing.
Speaker 1: I liked, you know, especially what they were doing in
Speaker 1: special teams, their game plan, everything else. Um, I just
Speaker 1: think it's tough when you add the Roughnecks for five
Speaker 1: and our and uh and it's tough to go against
Speaker 1: that that in terms of the production. And they were
Speaker 1: by far and a A. You know, as the season
Speaker 1: started started out early, we thought maybe d C was
Speaker 1: that was the top team. They were two and oh
Speaker 1: and card L Jones was playing really well and Pep
Speaker 1: Hamilton's a great coach, and and then we and then
Speaker 1: and then it was okay, Dallas is starting to wake
Speaker 1: up a little bit, and and there you know, Landry,
Speaker 1: they got Landry Jones back. But but all along it
Speaker 1: was it was Houston was the top team and uh
Speaker 1: and I think you have to you have to give
Speaker 1: credit to the coaching staff, and obviously June Jones um
Speaker 1: was was a big part of that. He's been an
Speaker 1: innovative coach for a long time on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. So he's he's my head coach of
Speaker 1: the year. And then your team of the year, Travis,
Speaker 1: who do you think? Five? And oh, I think you
Speaker 1: gotta crown him the Roughnecks from Houston and and I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's hard to argue when you haven't lost
Speaker 1: the game that that you would be the team of
Speaker 1: the year, not be the team of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they're the unofficials certainly the regular season champion
Speaker 1: and uh and so again I agree, um the but
Speaker 1: we did, actually we did pick different teams because you
Speaker 1: you your team of the year is the Houston Roughneck.
Speaker 1: My team of the years the Houston That was the
Speaker 1: best I've That was a great job, buddy, that was good.
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't even have to whisper. You know
Speaker 1: you're gonna do one of those therapists I do when
Speaker 1: I can think of it, I do. I try to
Speaker 1: take the long island away and I try to. Now
Speaker 1: I have to wish you Houston. It is better the
Speaker 1: first time. We'll just plug that in. Now it's got
Speaker 1: me all long, alright, So XFL before we go to break,
Speaker 1: I want to I want to introduce a new segment.
Speaker 1: And so today we're gonna talk about UM. I want
Speaker 1: Travis to tell us what he did today from from
Speaker 1: this point, right from when he woke up to this point,
Speaker 1: and Joe, you and I are going to decide if
Speaker 1: the coronavirus didn't exist, would his day have been that
Speaker 1: much different? Okay, it sounds like a great, great segment. Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got up at six am with my my son,
Speaker 1: gave a bottle, and my wife's back to running so
Speaker 1: she she doesn't feel like herself unless she's out running.
Speaker 1: So she went for a run this morning, came back showered.
Speaker 1: I showered after that, showered before two o'clock, which is rare,
Speaker 1: um since I've been on this fraternity leave, and a
Speaker 1: k a UM lockdown safer at home for the coronavirus UM.
Speaker 1: And then I went outside with my my daughter and
Speaker 1: drew on the driveway with sidewalk shalk. Um. So go ahead, guys,
Speaker 1: what do you think? So Joe to tell me if
Speaker 1: his day would be any different without the coronavirus. Absolutely not,
Speaker 1: not one bit, no, exactly same like not not nothing like,
Speaker 1: he has not been affected at all, nothing like. He
Speaker 1: would be the same, and he would be so like
Speaker 1: and I could just see him being standard white guy
Speaker 1: the whole day, like, honey, I can't believe he's six
Speaker 1: hours and oh, you're going for a run. I'm really
Speaker 1: excited that you're going for a run, like just getting
Speaker 1: out there. Not that you need to nothing, you need
Speaker 1: to do anything. You're perfect the way you are. This
Speaker 1: isn't me giving you a peloton for Christmas and being
Speaker 1: like that you gotta get back in shape. I just
Speaker 1: love that you're getting out, you're being healthy. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stay here and we're gonna I'm gonna play and we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna play, you know, draw some things with
Speaker 1: the chalk, and then I think the guys want to
Speaker 1: do the podcast later, so you know, those crazy guys.
Speaker 1: And it was like that's pretty much it. That was
Speaker 1: it perfect. Okay, so we're gonna we're gonna keep doing
Speaker 1: this until the day change something. It's gonna not gonna change.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna change. Well it wasn't a toilet paper.
Speaker 1: That'll be the change. Oh yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: We're out of toilet paper. All right, we come back.
Speaker 1: We're gonna, we're gonna go. I want to know what
Speaker 1: we're watching. I want to know what we're eating, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna talk a little bit more about
Speaker 1: how this virus is affected in our lives. Next. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we're back on good calls, hearing about Travis's
Speaker 1: exciting day. Let's let's get into, you know, mother exciting topics.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. It is I am, I am.
Speaker 1: It is affecting me in terms of I'm now I'm
Speaker 1: you guys know, I'm very sarcastic. I'm even more sarcastic.
Speaker 1: I was inside all weekend with my boys, about nine
Speaker 1: year old and a five year old, and and you
Speaker 1: so cal My five year old he I forget what
Speaker 1: morning it was, but he got himself a bowl of
Speaker 1: cereal and he poured himself milk, and he did it
Speaker 1: all by himself. And he came to me and said, look, Daddy,
Speaker 1: I poured the milk all by myself. And I was
Speaker 1: just like I just responded like, oh yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: And I responded in a way that I would respond
Speaker 1: to Joe when he tells me something about his tesla,
Speaker 1: like this same. And I was like, That's when I knew.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, nope, let's go. Let's let's
Speaker 1: this is this is the one of the two people
Speaker 1: that that are the north stars in your life. You
Speaker 1: can't be that sarcastic to them. And uh. And so
Speaker 1: that said, what what are we watching now? I know, look, Netflix, Hulu,
Speaker 1: every Amazon Prime. We've got a lot of more free time.
Speaker 1: We're inside, we can't be outside. What, Travis, what are
Speaker 1: you watching the last couple of things that you watch?
Speaker 1: Give me some recommendations. I'm still on board with This
Speaker 1: is Us. It's my It's my. Uh, don't you gotta
Speaker 1: watch something that makes you feel good and and good? Family? Fund?
Speaker 1: Why this is Us? Every time? I don't, I've I've
Speaker 1: watched like one episode every preview trailer. I seeport it's
Speaker 1: like crying, it's said and people are dying and sick.
Speaker 1: Why would you watch that? Now? It's it's a feel
Speaker 1: good show. If you watch it, it's got love and
Speaker 1: it's got like good messages and how to be a
Speaker 1: good dad, and it's like it's sweet, but it's it's
Speaker 1: my breakaway from other things that I'm watching. Like the
Speaker 1: other things I'm watching are just finished on Netflix season four.
Speaker 1: Better call Saul. What you guys haven't watched? It's amazing. Um.
Speaker 1: I watched Lost Girls, which takes place on Long Island,
Speaker 1: which is not It is not a good feel good story.
Speaker 1: It's about a girl whose prostitute who goes missing and
Speaker 1: her mom doesn't give up on trying to find her. Um,
Speaker 1: and then I'm watching it's scripted. Um, yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: a documentary, right, Yeah, it's a pretty Yeah, it's based
Speaker 1: on true, true, true events. Maybe you remember it. Probably
Speaker 1: that's why it brings about Okay, so what am I watching?
Speaker 1: I I just started so and one of you, I
Speaker 1: don't care who it is, one of you has to
Speaker 1: start watching. I've started rewatching. I rewatched the first three
Speaker 1: seasons of vander Pump Rules on Bravo and one of them, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a reality show on Bravo and they've got
Speaker 1: it on Hulu. I watched the first rewatch the first
Speaker 1: three seasons. It's it's everything that a reality show should
Speaker 1: be and it's amazing and one of you have to
Speaker 1: watch it. So, and the new season still going on.
Speaker 1: There's a new episode every Tuesday. Um, so I watched that.
Speaker 1: I just started. And Joe, I've come up with a
Speaker 1: new nickname for you. This is great. I've never had
Speaker 1: a name watching the first two episodes and you guys,
Speaker 1: now this, I'm mandating you have to watch and we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it next week. It's called Tiger King
Speaker 1: and it's on Netflix. Have you heard of it? Okay, good,
Speaker 1: you have to watch it. It's about it's about these
Speaker 1: it's a big cat. It's these people that are into
Speaker 1: electing big cats, tires, lions, Okay. And the main character
Speaker 1: and it's a real show. It's a real like real people.
Speaker 1: It's not scripted, real animals, real animals, the whole deal.
Speaker 1: And the main character is this guy and his name
Speaker 1: is Joe Exotic, and that is you are now Joe Exotic.
Speaker 1: So I will not refer to you as anything other
Speaker 1: than Joe Exotic. Joe, E j E. You're now Joe Exotic.
Speaker 1: You have to watch. I'm not really sure how to
Speaker 1: take this because I haven't seen the show, and now
Speaker 1: I have to watch it. Just because of that, you
Speaker 1: have to watch it. Okay, well, well, obviously your name
Speaker 1: is Joe. His name is Joe, so there's the connection
Speaker 1: X Baby Joe X. I'm not saying that you're necessarily
Speaker 1: remind me of Joe exotic, but your your new name
Speaker 1: is joe'sot. Please, please, please, anybody's listening to watch and
Speaker 1: watch watch this show. It's unbelievable, and there's a new
Speaker 1: I've got. There's a girl in the show who is
Speaker 1: who has surpassed Amendez in my mind? Oh wow, he
Speaker 1: is the new Ramendez. How is this possible? He gets
Speaker 1: her arm hitten off by a tighter and and basically
Speaker 1: they're like, you're gonna You're it's gonna be reconstructive surgery
Speaker 1: to save the arm or amputated. And she's like amputated
Speaker 1: and she's back at work five days later. Oh my gosh, insane.
Speaker 1: Wasn't there a story like that? A football player had
Speaker 1: Ronnie lot right, that was his pinky? Close enough? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like, peaky, What else am I gonna lift when
Speaker 1: I'm taking a drink? Watch watch Tiger King Um the
Speaker 1: other thing that I'm watching. I rewatched the first season
Speaker 1: of What We Do in the Shadows and that please
Speaker 1: watch it the new season starting April fifteen. That's on FX.
Speaker 1: You can also watch it on Hulu. It's about a
Speaker 1: group of vampires that live in modern day and they
Speaker 1: live in Staten Island. They lived together and it's based
Speaker 1: on a movie same premise took place in New Zealand.
Speaker 1: All right, what are you watching, Joe? And I know
Speaker 1: you're not a big watch TV guy, but now you've
Speaker 1: got to be doing something. I did watch Love Is Blind.
Speaker 1: I thought it was terrible. I thought it, um, you know,
Speaker 1: it minimized marriage and minimized the you know, true true
Speaker 1: marriage people getting married after six weeks or whatever. I
Speaker 1: think it's ridiculous. The whole idea is that they don't
Speaker 1: see each other, so there's no physical It's all supposed
Speaker 1: to be like emotional. Well yeah they don't. You have
Speaker 1: to propose by just like talking in a room. And
Speaker 1: then they go off to you know, some exotic place
Speaker 1: in Cancoon and then they get to meet one another
Speaker 1: and hang out, um, and then they decide if they
Speaker 1: want to actually get married or not. Two of them
Speaker 1: get married, and I think even after a year they
Speaker 1: were still together. So I mean, that's great, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't a fan. There are some terrible people on there. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then I started watching that show. Well, if Dean
Speaker 1: mandates that you have to no, you don't have to
Speaker 1: watch Love His Bun, you have to watch Tiger King.
Speaker 1: And then I just started watching this show called One
Speaker 1: Hundred Humans. Pretty interesting. It's like a social experiment. They
Speaker 1: take a hundred people, they do all these different social experiments.
Speaker 1: Pretty cool. Like I'm into stuff like that. I love
Speaker 1: social experiments about they take them and make them sit inside.
Speaker 1: You can't go out and can't do anything. This we're
Speaker 1: having that experiment now in a worldwide basis. There's there's
Speaker 1: certain things and as it's funny because I'm watching the
Speaker 1: show and there's a hundred people in one room, right
Speaker 1: they're all like the subject right to see that again,
Speaker 1: I know I'm watching it, just going God, I'd kill
Speaker 1: to be with a hundred people right now, like we
Speaker 1: could dance and we could like here's the other thing.
Speaker 1: And again, not to not to minimize what's happening, but
Speaker 1: this will be a thing. I guarantee you three years
Speaker 1: from now, four years from now, whatever it is. People
Speaker 1: are going to be in a crowded place and they're
Speaker 1: gonna take a selfie and they're gonna go miss the
Speaker 1: Corona or miss the miss the whatever, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be like them waiting online or them that's that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a thing. I'm telling that's a good call. I
Speaker 1: agree to see what I did there. So that's what
Speaker 1: I'm watching. What I gotta say one other I'm watching
Speaker 1: um Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu with three s Witherspoon
Speaker 1: with ree s withersphen It's great. You guys should check
Speaker 1: it out. Three episodes and I keep seeing the I
Speaker 1: keep seeing the thing for when I log in when
Speaker 1: I go on Hulu, they've got to drama. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch Tiger Tiger King first and then I'll watch that.
Speaker 1: All right? Did you guys have to watch Tiger King? What? Um? Okay?
Speaker 1: What are we eating? So? Um? Anybody still? Ye? Has
Speaker 1: anybody ventured into that world? Or what? Oh? Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: been doing. So I went and bought a bunch of food,
Speaker 1: and like the mini Prepper in me, froze a bunch
Speaker 1: of food and then I refused to eat it because
Speaker 1: I could still order take out. So I've been ordering
Speaker 1: takeout like every day. That's actually interesting strategy because who
Speaker 1: knows if if we won't be able to get stuff,
Speaker 1: So as long as we can get take out, we
Speaker 1: want to keep the fridge stock. Well, it's that and
Speaker 1: it's also like supporting small business. I try to order
Speaker 1: from a small business, you know, and have it delivered
Speaker 1: here because those guys are they're hurting right now. Small
Speaker 1: businesses are hurting man, really really bad. Um. I'm really
Speaker 1: curious to see if Jim's are gonna be able to
Speaker 1: stay open, Like if they go too three months without
Speaker 1: any membership fees, that's that's tough. I don't know how
Speaker 1: they're going to survive it. So I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: to support these little businesses in my town. Um, and
Speaker 1: save myself a bunch of frozen meat in case it
Speaker 1: really gets bad. I probably shouldn't say that my home's
Speaker 1: gonna get rated now. Oh cool, I again again. Um
Speaker 1: along the lines of me not really changing much of
Speaker 1: my life. I never ate much take out. We always
Speaker 1: made food at home. I when when sports started getting canceled,
Speaker 1: I started going to the store and getting a bunch
Speaker 1: of food and so We've just been making food at home.
Speaker 1: I've been making cheese and like chicken anche a Latta's.
Speaker 1: And you realize that there's a pandemic. Do you realize
Speaker 1: what's happening outside of your little Do you realize what's
Speaker 1: going on around the world. I do, and just said
Speaker 1: that's going on. It's saying, hey, these are great, honey.
Speaker 1: How is the hots of Have you guys had any
Speaker 1: like crazy grocery store experiences or anything like any of
Speaker 1: that weird stuff the lines. I haven't been back to
Speaker 1: a grocery store, and in almost two weeks now, I
Speaker 1: think that March tent was the last time I went
Speaker 1: to the grocery store. Yeah, I haven't been to a
Speaker 1: grocery store. You guys, then you don't really know what's
Speaker 1: going on. It's I've seen I've seen, I know, Trader Joe's,
Speaker 1: Whole Foods. It's like there's a limit of people that
Speaker 1: can be in the store once and then everybody one
Speaker 1: person leaves, another person comes in. So I was thinking,
Speaker 1: could could it? What is it like a nightclub where
Speaker 1: if I show up with a bunch of like six
Speaker 1: hot chicks, will they let me into let me into
Speaker 1: this Trader Joe's. That's so funny that dude kidding, you're
Speaker 1: gonna find funk it. Let's go to Whole Food just
Speaker 1: like but yeah, we get it. I know what's going on.
Speaker 1: Legitimately feels that way. Like I was talking to this
Speaker 1: girl yesterday and I'm like, oh, my friend manages the
Speaker 1: Trader Joe's, I might be able to get in front
Speaker 1: of the line privileges. And she's like, that's like the
Speaker 1: new that's a new flex right there. I don't want
Speaker 1: to know somebody that works at a nightclub. I want
Speaker 1: to know somebody that works at Bristol Farms on will
Speaker 1: That's what I want to know because I miss it. Yo,
Speaker 1: you guys got any toilet paper in the back? I
Speaker 1: just I'm randomly like I'll just stopping. There's just TVs
Speaker 1: near my place, and if i'm I'll go out for
Speaker 1: a walk. I'll go out for like a nightly walk
Speaker 1: just to get at some aeron and I like go
Speaker 1: in there and just cruse the cleaning aisle and just
Speaker 1: see if maybe they found a box in the back,
Speaker 1: you know that somewhere of disinfecting wipes or something. So
Speaker 1: so I was at Costco yesterday, and there's like it's
Speaker 1: like Disney, like a ride at Disneyland. They've got you know,
Speaker 1: barriers that block you off, and they got signs to
Speaker 1: say we have this, we don't have this. It's it
Speaker 1: feels like I remember back in high school when they
Speaker 1: would talk about like, you know, when Russia was uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like communism and how you could you have
Speaker 1: a stand in line for a loaf of bread or whatever.
Speaker 1: It feels it almost feels that way. It's a trip.
Speaker 1: It's pretty it's pretty wild, but you know, this is Look,
Speaker 1: this is what we gotta do. Hopefully we can curb
Speaker 1: curb the spread and we can get back to to
Speaker 1: some some new normal at some point. What what's the
Speaker 1: what what was the best coronavirus internet content you saw
Speaker 1: last week? I don't mind, I'll go first. I don't
Speaker 1: mine too. I saw a couple of players from the Kings,
Speaker 1: the Llie Kings. If you guys didn't see this one,
Speaker 1: it's alex Um I have followed delivers a roll of
Speaker 1: toilet paper to his teammate Jeff carter Um with a drone.
Speaker 1: He he had this like thermos, he had this little thermis.
Speaker 1: He dropped the toilet paper in there, and so you
Speaker 1: see down in her her most of beach here in California,
Speaker 1: and you see it dropping down and then he like
Speaker 1: reaches in pulls it out, and then he flies off
Speaker 1: with the drone. It's pretty cool. Um. Jeff's wife put
Speaker 1: that out on on Twitter. Um, so that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Get the toilet paper, right, Joe. Of course, guys got
Speaker 1: a drone. Guy's got toilet paper to spare unbelievable. So
Speaker 1: is that a is that? Is that a great assist? Oh?
Speaker 1: You got it? You gotta give me, you gotta give
Speaker 1: me a you know another one? I got another one. Okay, go,
Speaker 1: hopefully no one goes top shelf. The first one was better,
Speaker 1: all right? I saw one. Did you see the one
Speaker 1: of the guys saying, the coronavirus is here. You either
Speaker 1: A have to be stuck in your home with your
Speaker 1: wife and kids for six weeks or B. The guy
Speaker 1: was B pick B. I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: like those types of jokes going around. It's definitely there's
Speaker 1: definitely the coronavirus has taken on its own humor like
Speaker 1: it's taken on its own. The one that I can't
Speaker 1: stop laughing. And I know it's it's an old joke too,
Speaker 1: and I know they've done it in different settings. Is
Speaker 1: the guy he's got a real thick like country accent,
Speaker 1: and he's and he's he's just you don't see him,
Speaker 1: but he's shooting. He's shooting the camera towards like hiss,
Speaker 1: like a barn or something. Right, Yeah, And he's talking
Speaker 1: about that some crackhead came out and she she was
Speaker 1: like surprised him, and she said that she would give
Speaker 1: him a blow job and a doughnut for some toilet paper.
Speaker 1: And he's explaining the story, and then he's saying where
Speaker 1: she went? And you see his hand with half and
Speaker 1: eating donut, going, I think she went over there just
Speaker 1: war young she because she's getting crazy. I would crying.
Speaker 1: I was crying. Did you see this one? Yeah? Did
Speaker 1: you see this one? The the pooh and people and Piglet.
Speaker 1: I can't see it because your background's basically they're walking
Speaker 1: next to each other and and and it says, back
Speaker 1: the funk up piglet, they're too close to each other.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that, what is the is I sent you
Speaker 1: guys a link? Is the lap dance Dead? Is that?
Speaker 1: That's what My question was, is it because there was
Speaker 1: there's a strip club in Portland's that shut down and
Speaker 1: I hit our strip clubs still open? Like have to
Speaker 1: think they all would have been close already anyway. They
Speaker 1: have to be shut down. So but they're doing like
Speaker 1: you can like like take out or delivery for lap dances,
Speaker 1: because that's still Are we still comfortable that like with
Speaker 1: this thing going around? Is this still I don't think. Okay, Joe,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Even ask you the question, No, I
Speaker 1: don't want to answer. This one ends, corona ends, and
Speaker 1: we're how how long after the end day do you
Speaker 1: get your first laughter. I'm not a lap dance guy.
Speaker 1: If you were, Um, I don't know, man, I'm not really,
Speaker 1: I'm not terrified of the disease. So I'll go right away. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm in. You're right, yeah, one, especially once it ends.
Speaker 1: How about you, I'm not I'm not a big lap
Speaker 1: dance guy. Well, I said the same thing, So you
Speaker 1: have to answer. I mean, oh, I wouldn't. I don't
Speaker 1: be problem with it. I'd go like I said, I
Speaker 1: think right now, it's it's the spread. We gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta limit the spread so that people that are compromised
Speaker 1: people that are at risk. Um, we don't over we
Speaker 1: don't overwhelm the health care system in this country. I
Speaker 1: think those are the things. What about Travis, I know
Speaker 1: what it is and and I won't be getting one
Speaker 1: anytime soon. All Right. The look that the virus terrifies me.
Speaker 1: Travis would never admit it anyway. Okay, let's let's before
Speaker 1: we wrap up here, Travis, I just emailed you a script.
Speaker 1: Oh god, you're you're gonna audition again? Okay, Well, Hollywood,
Speaker 1: I think it's since they're shut down for a coronavirus.
Speaker 1: That's probably why I haven't got any calls for real auditions.
Speaker 1: This is fantastic because now we have video. This this
Speaker 1: is gonna be your so so I'm gonna give you Travis.
Speaker 1: You're you're reading the movie is called Titanic, and okay,
Speaker 1: you're reading the part of Jack. Jack and Rose have
Speaker 1: fallen in love on the Titanic. Rose on me. Roses
Speaker 1: a blue blood. Roses comes from you know, comes from
Speaker 1: like a higher class. Jack is more of a Jack
Speaker 1: is a is a wonderfully talented artist, but he's kind
Speaker 1: of a lower class. Okay. Rose is engaged to be
Speaker 1: married to this this. I don't know. He's like aristocrat.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he's an asshole. And Jack and
Speaker 1: Rose on love on the Titanic like you do. And um,
Speaker 1: this is the scene where they're both the Titanic. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you remember with the Titanic song it
Speaker 1: hit an Iceberg and I have seen this movie. Okay,
Speaker 1: but you they are now clinging to life and clinging
Speaker 1: to a door in the frigid waters of the of
Speaker 1: the North Atlantic. And uh and this is their final
Speaker 1: scene together. Okay, so I'll be I'll be reading. Is
Speaker 1: Rose You're you're reading? Is the for the part of Jack? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I've always wanted this role. Here we go, it's getting quiet.
Speaker 1: Just a few more minutes. It'll take them a while
Speaker 1: to get the boats organized. I don't know about you
Speaker 1: watching him, watching him so much better. I don't know
Speaker 1: about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded
Speaker 1: letter to the White Star Line about all of this.
Speaker 1: I No, don't say your goodbyes. Rose, don't you give up,
Speaker 1: don't do it. I'm so cold. You're gonna get out
Speaker 1: of this. You're gonna go on, and you're you're gonna
Speaker 1: make babies and watch them grow, and you're gonna die
Speaker 1: an old lady warm in your bed. Not here, not
Speaker 1: not this night. Do you understand me. I'm cold in
Speaker 1: the water here. Come on, guys, stop, I can't feel
Speaker 1: my body. Ro Rose, Listen to me. Winning that ticket
Speaker 1: was the best thing that ever happened to me. It
Speaker 1: brought me to you. I'm thankful, Rose, I'm thankful. You
Speaker 1: must do me this honor. Promise me you will survive.
Speaker 1: You will never give up, no matter what happens, no
Speaker 1: matter how hopeless, promised me, And never let go of
Speaker 1: that promise. I promise, never let go. I promise I
Speaker 1: will never let go Jack, I'll never let go. Scene
Speaker 1: the one I didn't realize that. I didn't realize that
Speaker 1: Jack kind of stuttering. I was crazy and I was coraled. Travis,
Speaker 1: you might actually get this part. I don't. We've had
Speaker 1: some pretty strong readings. Um there's one, you know, this
Speaker 1: one young actor. We think, we think a lot of him,
Speaker 1: Leo in r with Gaprio. But we really like your
Speaker 1: reading and we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna definitely contact you.
Speaker 1: If it's not for this role, it's that role is
Speaker 1: coming the role don't call you, You'll call me. The
Speaker 1: role you were born to play is out there, Travis,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna find it. If we have to go
Speaker 1: through every iconic movie scene cinema, we're gonna find it. Well,
Speaker 1: Hollywood's on freeze right now. But once they're back in
Speaker 1: the office is I'm gonna get my phone's gonna be blow.
Speaker 1: Know you're putting together one hell of a of a
Speaker 1: highlight row right, Yes you are. All right, let's bring
Speaker 1: up Landino and get out of here. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: I have to I have to go with this one.
Speaker 1: Just considering times. Can I get a drum roll, Travis,
Speaker 1: I don't have the proper drum roll boarder nice. I'm
Speaker 1: closing elevators onto people like a motherfucker right now. That's
Speaker 1: the one you guys made fun of me when things
Speaker 1: were normal, because I like kind of I'm kind of
Speaker 1: a jerk when it comes to this, and I don't
Speaker 1: like other people in the elevator. So I like, if
Speaker 1: somebody's coming and they're like, hold the door, and I'll
Speaker 1: like pretend I'm pressing open and I'm pressing clothes and
Speaker 1: I'm showing that down. Everybody's doing that now everybody's doing that. Now,
Speaker 1: if you are in an elevator and somebody, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? Travis? If you have to be in an
Speaker 1: elevator right now and somebody's coming towards the elevator, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Do you want them to show? You know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you right now. I'm gonna cover my
Speaker 1: face like this, just like my guy on my shirt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am closing elevator doors. I don't even I'm not
Speaker 1: getting in with anybody. Add percent, you guys made fun
Speaker 1: of me, and now you see that's a good you know,
Speaker 1: it's a funny. Since that first time we had that
Speaker 1: Brandon Blandino, I've started saying funckt and just closing the door.
Speaker 1: I used to like stick my arm. They're almost lose
Speaker 1: my arm trying to help people get in. Now I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, what if Dean does it, screw it, they
Speaker 1: can wait another minute, three minutes? What there? Even if
Speaker 1: it wasn't for the virus, then you've got to sit
Speaker 1: there and it's like awkward, and oh I love I
Speaker 1: love that awkwardness and elevators it's so like what do
Speaker 1: you which which what direction do you look at? An
Speaker 1: elevator with other people. I was turned round. If if
Speaker 1: you don't look at your phone, which were you looking?
Speaker 1: I look at the people. I talked to him, especially
Speaker 1: in Vegas, that's weird. Always always start up a conversation.
Speaker 1: And then my favorite thing is as as people start
Speaker 1: leaving the elevator and it's you and the last person,
Speaker 1: and I always go, We're finally alone and riding the
Speaker 1: elevator all day. Alright. On that note, creepy Joe Joe exotic.
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