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Speaker 1: know you're very nervous because the Raiders have a playoff
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, night. I know you're very concerned about that,
Speaker 1: because you know, the Raiders are the kind of team
Speaker 1: that will go on a run and win the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl unless they're not. Yeah. Well, it's it's been quite
Speaker 1: a ride the past few weeks because ever since that
Speaker 1: COVID game in Cleveland, it seems like they've been playing
Speaker 1: a playoff game every single week. I'm now, what one, two, three,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the fourth Raiders playoff game. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: and that would be the first if if they actually
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. Derek Carr, who will who will end
Speaker 1: one of the great streaks of utility having never started
Speaker 1: a playoff game exactly. He should have started that game
Speaker 1: in Texas in but of course that's the famous year
Speaker 1: It's broke, It's broke, Well that was that was one
Speaker 1: of the worst playoff games of all time, dude, because
Speaker 1: we had what was the quarterback's name, Ben oh Well,
Speaker 1: I remember that the Texans played that tall guy brock Oswi. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with con was a Cook, Connor Cook, the third string
Speaker 1: His name popped up he had That game against the
Speaker 1: Texans for Connor Cook was one of the five worst
Speaker 1: games ever ever for an NFL quarterback. I mean, they
Speaker 1: brought it up because Ben Roethlisberger in the Monday night
Speaker 1: game was horrific and it's I'm still annoyed by the
Speaker 1: media coverage on ESPN. He was going out and puking
Speaker 1: on the field, and they didn't want to mention it.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to bring it up because it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be his night. But it was like, my god,
Speaker 1: it was one of the worst games I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: tearing at the end. All that matters is the w Yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not all that matters. There's there's more that matters.
Speaker 1: There's a few things that matter. But it was like
Speaker 1: it was just total there's crickets, NonStop crickets, and it
Speaker 1: was like, come on, please shut play, and they wouldn't
Speaker 1: shut up, not they just kept going on and on,
Speaker 1: and it was just like Ben Roethlisberger. Look, he walked
Speaker 1: off the field. Ben Roethlisberger went in the locker room. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think he sat on the bench on one of
Speaker 1: those heaters in that nice Oh, it's so wonderful, it's
Speaker 1: so wait a minute, Ben just took a dump at halftime.
Speaker 1: I know. That's very very impressive, very very impresient anyway,
Speaker 1: So I thought on this. I was away for for
Speaker 1: a little while and John Madden passed away, and if
Speaker 1: I had been at my catbird Seed, I would have
Speaker 1: done a proper tribute. I would have done a monologue.
Speaker 1: I would have done you know. You know, we did
Speaker 1: the six lines, and uh, I couldn't do any of
Speaker 1: that because I was away. And I feel like when
Speaker 1: you when you come back, you know, you want to
Speaker 1: start fresh, and so I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: do it. So I wanted to. I'm sure you have
Speaker 1: some John Madden story. A raider guy. I'm not a
Speaker 1: raider guy. I know Madden was before your time, but
Speaker 1: you you grew up in Northern California and Madden has
Speaker 1: been a staple of Northern California and all that. So
Speaker 1: I I only have one vague passing reference where I
Speaker 1: was in the same presence of of John Madden. And
Speaker 1: and then I thought we'd place some of his Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame speech because I thought that really sums up
Speaker 1: the essay of John Mann. Plus I wanted to hear
Speaker 1: it again, so you know, why not? Right, that's perfect?
Speaker 1: And now, did you have any run ins with John Madden?
Speaker 1: I met him briefly. It was years ago when I
Speaker 1: was working in Northern California and I got to take
Speaker 1: part in a Raiders Raider at event in Alameda, Raider
Speaker 1: at Yats and they had some Raider legends involved at
Speaker 1: the Raider facility and John Madden showed up. He was
Speaker 1: bigger than any of the other legends, because the dude
Speaker 1: was bigger than life. I got to shake his hand
Speaker 1: very briefly. He was very nice to everybody. But it's
Speaker 1: not like I got to sit down and talk to
Speaker 1: the guy. But man, just the presents like you felt
Speaker 1: him walk into the room. And I know we've heard
Speaker 1: so many stories over the past couple of weeks, but
Speaker 1: it is true. When everybody kept saying he was larger
Speaker 1: than life and humble, I just can't say it any
Speaker 1: better than that. Yeah, and I never got the chance
Speaker 1: to to meet Madden. I met most of the people
Speaker 1: that I kind of grew up in idolized, with very
Speaker 1: few exceptions, but Madden is on that list. When I
Speaker 1: was a kid, my dad took me to a ram
Speaker 1: Fort game and it was at the Big A and
Speaker 1: the Madden Cruiser was was parked out in front, and
Speaker 1: this is like a big deal. Uh. I mean because
Speaker 1: I remember hearing about the Madden Cruise the days before
Speaker 1: social media, and I've never seen really a photo of it.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, eventually Madden at down the line.
Speaker 1: It was like a moving billboard. They had like corporate
Speaker 1: sponsors for the Madden Cruiser and they put big logo
Speaker 1: for out Back Steakhouse on it. But but it's actually
Speaker 1: before those days, and I remember being a kid. I'm
Speaker 1: such a nerd. I'm at the Big a I'm gonna
Speaker 1: Ram game, you know, a long time ago. The Niners
Speaker 1: are still the dynasty of the NFL, and the Rams
Speaker 1: where their arrival. But they rarely beat them. They've usually
Speaker 1: beat them. They beat them in in Candlestick. They did
Speaker 1: better in Candlestick than they did at the Big But anyway,
Speaker 1: I at the game, and I still remember I have
Speaker 1: vague memories of the game, but I remember the Madden Cruiser.
Speaker 1: Seeing it in the parking lot, I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is the great John Madden. And as a kid,
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, John Matt. Everything this guy
Speaker 1: said and it was just like John Matt, I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, and it was it was a big to
Speaker 1: do and all that, so I remember that, And unfortunately,
Speaker 1: when I got in the media business, I only covered
Speaker 1: a few NFL games in San Diego when I was
Speaker 1: working down there with the Chargers, and then I had
Speaker 1: a hook up for while. I had a hook up
Speaker 1: where I could go to any Charger game I wanted,
Speaker 1: but Madden rarely did the Chargers and uh. And then
Speaker 1: I remember when the Raiders moved back to Oakland. I
Speaker 1: went and covered a game, but the Raiders game or two,
Speaker 1: but the Raiders weren't very good, and he wasn't doing
Speaker 1: Oakland Raider games, so I never and the NFL was
Speaker 1: gone for the first twenty years. By the time the
Speaker 1: NFL came back, Madden was no longer broadcast, so that
Speaker 1: was it. You know. Watching the documentary, one of the
Speaker 1: many things that stood out was how he basically started
Speaker 1: NFL on Fox pretty they were able to talk him
Speaker 1: into it, and then everybody followed him over to Fox.
Speaker 1: You know, they were known for what married with children
Speaker 1: and the Simpsons, and then suddenly he gave them instant credibility. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when Madden answers the falle that's and he actually
Speaker 1: takes the call from from Fox. I mean that that
Speaker 1: was huge because I remember in those days, Fox was
Speaker 1: the outsider. It was ABC, CBS, NBC some combination of that.
Speaker 1: And then nobody even considered Fox legitimate and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: and people were goofing on them when they got the
Speaker 1: NFL deal. They're like, yo, this is not gonna last.
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna watch the NFL on Fox and what is
Speaker 1: and and and all the remember they had the robot
Speaker 1: thing that they tossed out there and which they still
Speaker 1: have by the way. Um and yeah, Madden was was huge,
Speaker 1: and remember him in pat Some are all uh and
Speaker 1: it was like the perfect combination because Madden wouldn't shut
Speaker 1: up and some are all rarely said anything, so it
Speaker 1: was like it was perfect where Madden would say, handoff Emmett,
Speaker 1: touchdown Cowboys, you know, it would be like a seventy
Speaker 1: yard run and yeah, exactly. And then but the rest
Speaker 1: of the time was just John Madden waxing poetic. And
Speaker 1: I went back, I don't know if you fell in
Speaker 1: this rabbit hole when Madden passed away. I went back
Speaker 1: on the YouTube and I fell down a rabbit hole
Speaker 1: and people were like, what are you doing? What are
Speaker 1: you doing? Swamp? It was the YouTube swamp. Actually, I
Speaker 1: was like, I wasn't there, and uh, but I watched
Speaker 1: like a thirty minute clip. It was. It was all
Speaker 1: highlights of John Madden, and like some of the stuff
Speaker 1: I remembered, a lot of it I didn't remember. And
Speaker 1: then I watched another one, and then another one popped
Speaker 1: up and I ended up. I probably spent I had
Speaker 1: nothing else to do because I've been sick, but I
Speaker 1: probably spent two hours watching John Madden highlights and I
Speaker 1: loved every second of it. That was great. Did you
Speaker 1: see the clip where it was Madden's very first time
Speaker 1: on camera with Pat summer All? I saw the one
Speaker 1: he was he originally were with Costas. There was a
Speaker 1: clip I saw with Costas. I didn't see the first
Speaker 1: Summer All one. I saw the one where he there
Speaker 1: was a pigeon at RFK Stadium in Washington and he
Speaker 1: did like to play by play and and that whole thing.
Speaker 1: But there were so many amazing, amazing calls and uh.
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing about Madden, like everywhere he went.
Speaker 1: You know remember that that the book you know, how
Speaker 1: to Win friends and Influence people? That was Maddie, right.
Speaker 1: He loved everybody and he remembered he took time out
Speaker 1: of his schedule to ask questions and get to know people.
Speaker 1: And that's the kind of stuff people will remember. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna remember all the xs and ohs and
Speaker 1: all the other nonsense, but that's the kind of stuff
Speaker 1: that actually touches people's lives where they're like, wow, that's
Speaker 1: a big deal. I spent half of my childhood in
Speaker 1: southern California and the other half in northern California. And
Speaker 1: as loved as Madden was worldwide, he got even more
Speaker 1: love in the Bay Area because obviously that's where he
Speaker 1: hailed from. Um, he lived in Pleasanton, and he was
Speaker 1: he was also attached to Daily City. And so where's
Speaker 1: where is Pleasanton? For those for those that haven't been,
Speaker 1: I've been to the Bay Area, But for those outside, like,
Speaker 1: where is that close to? Because that's not that well
Speaker 1: known past Livermore on your way to San Jose. On
Speaker 1: the way you got to know the way to San Jose. Yeah,
Speaker 1: right before Fremont is Pleasanton and it's it is very beautiful,
Speaker 1: well before the drought, green rolling hill and uh and
Speaker 1: very beautiful homes up in the hills. I could see
Speaker 1: why he chose that part of the Bay Area to live. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you would hear lots of stories about him
Speaker 1: there in the Bay Area, and he would hop on
Speaker 1: some Bay Area radio stations from time to time. So
Speaker 1: as a kid, I remember hearing him on local radio
Speaker 1: stations in the Bay doing Collins. Yeah. I think he
Speaker 1: did that even up until a year ago or so.
Speaker 1: I think he was still calling in, like on the
Speaker 1: news station to give an NFL update or something like that.
Speaker 1: You might remember there were some stations who carried the
Speaker 1: Madden Minute. Yeah, I do remember that, a syndicated John
Speaker 1: Madden radio vignette. Did they do those still those radio
Speaker 1: vignettes or is that like a stone age? I remember
Speaker 1: Bob Costas did it, uh? I Paul Harvey. Paul Harvey.
Speaker 1: I worked with a guy that replaced Howard Cosell. He
Speaker 1: did a like a little three minute speaking of sport,
Speaker 1: Howard coast Sell, the old you know, nineteen seventies, sixties broadcaster.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think they do that though, do they? Well?
Speaker 1: I know Dan Patrick does one. Really, Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about anybody else in the sports world.
Speaker 1: It's a good point though, Yeah, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: lost art, but it was a cool touch on radio
Speaker 1: stations when we were a kid, because it was something like,
Speaker 1: I remember our AM radio stations would all carry the
Speaker 1: Paul Harvey syndication. Oh well, Paul Harvey was huge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the most listened to guy in radio. So
Speaker 1: even if they didn't have Paul Harvey on their station,
Speaker 1: they could still have a touch of his personality by
Speaker 1: carrying his little syndicated clips. And now you're going to
Speaker 1: know the rest of the story. Paul Harvey, good Day's
Speaker 1: got a sound like him with my voice all oh man.
Speaker 1: The other thing about Madden, I know, the sort of
Speaker 1: Tommy lived in the same house in Fullerton that he
Speaker 1: bought when he originally became, you know, somewhat well known
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers. He bought a home in the Fullerton
Speaker 1: area in Orange County, and I believe he lived there
Speaker 1: the same house until he died. I wondered, Madden made
Speaker 1: a lot of money, like a ton of money doing TV.
Speaker 1: I did he did he live in the same house?
Speaker 1: You know, if he moved around or lived in the
Speaker 1: same basic house that he bought when he first became
Speaker 1: with the Raiders back in the day. That's a good question.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about that. Yeah, I mean I bet
Speaker 1: he probably did. Madden seems like the kind of guy
Speaker 1: that will be like, all right, I like this area,
Speaker 1: I like this house. I got two kids, and the
Speaker 1: house is big enough, so I'm not gonna move around.
Speaker 1: And plus the fact that John Madden was able to
Speaker 1: pull off not flying and and reached the very top broadcasting.
Speaker 1: And you know, Dan and I I've obviously experienced this.
Speaker 1: If if you're not at a certain level, they will
Speaker 1: not do anything for you. Uh, in terms of bending
Speaker 1: over travel wise, that mean it's just no, you're gonna fly,
Speaker 1: You're gonna stay at this hotel, You're gonna do this,
Speaker 1: that and the other thing. And that's just the way
Speaker 1: it is, and that's the way it's gonna be. And
Speaker 1: and Madden was such a great order of the NFL.
Speaker 1: They were like, wow, it's John Maddie. All right, well
Speaker 1: look the other one. This is John Maddie. And uh,
Speaker 1: it's crazy, crazy that he was able to do that.
Speaker 1: And and then that became his thing. As I talked about,
Speaker 1: I was a kid and I still remember seeing the
Speaker 1: Madden Cruiser. That is dope. And you think you see
Speaker 1: the very first broadcaster who got um multimillionaire contract with
Speaker 1: every single thing he wanted. That's a good question. I
Speaker 1: he was the highest paid NFL broadcaster. But and really
Speaker 1: the Fox el cemented that cemented that because Fox paid
Speaker 1: him like whatevery, they basically gave him a blank check,
Speaker 1: and because they were so desperate to get John Madden.
Speaker 1: Otherwise that would have sullied the uh the deal they
Speaker 1: got when they got the CBS contract. But um, I'm
Speaker 1: too young for Howard Cosell was he I'm sure he
Speaker 1: got paid a lot. Did he have the kind of
Speaker 1: pull that Madden had? I know a little bit about Cosell.
Speaker 1: He was before my time, But I he was not
Speaker 1: the highest paid guy. But the salaries aren't anything like
Speaker 1: a Madden made more than Cosell. Yeah, I mean, and
Speaker 1: now it's just you know, cuckoo for cocoa puffs with
Speaker 1: Tony Romo and all these guys are making like eighteen
Speaker 1: million dollars a million dollars a game, basically insane and
Speaker 1: that nuts crazy nuts were the other duos that come
Speaker 1: to mind. They're Madden and Pat Summer. All they were
Speaker 1: a soundtrack in a lot of ways. Especially being in
Speaker 1: the in Northern California for a while as kid, because
Speaker 1: they called a ton of forty games and a ton
Speaker 1: of Cowboy games. Obviously, um they were the a team
Speaker 1: they had the game of the Week for for Fox.
Speaker 1: But also I guess as a little kid, the other
Speaker 1: duos that come to mind for me would be like
Speaker 1: dick Enberg and Dan Fouts. Um, you know. I it
Speaker 1: got me thinking of some of the best duos in
Speaker 1: the booth that we grew up with. Yeah, dick Enberg, Yeah,
Speaker 1: very nice guy. I met dick Enburg at a Padre
Speaker 1: Dodger game. He was getting soft served that's a plumb
Speaker 1: pussy right the press box, and he was very very polite.
Speaker 1: But Enburg remember I like more of the obscure broadcasters
Speaker 1: because I remember Charlie Jones from Oh Yeah Yeah, Um
Speaker 1: Don Crickey who always did really shitty games, as I remember,
Speaker 1: but it was it was something about Don Crickey hit
Speaker 1: this very distinctive delivery. Yeah, and I used to mimic
Speaker 1: it when I was a kid because I'm a nerd
Speaker 1: and I remember Don Cricky doing those games. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of some of the other the well. Hank
Speaker 1: stram On radio. He did radio, he did TV also,
Speaker 1: Hank Stram, like Monday Night with Joe Buck. They were
Speaker 1: pretty good back in the day. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: it's funny that we both brought up dick Enberg because
Speaker 1: he is one of the voices where no matter what
Speaker 1: game he was calling, it sounded more important because he
Speaker 1: was on the call. He could yeah, yeah, he could
Speaker 1: make a twenty yard completion sound like a world championship.
Speaker 1: It's guys, like I guess NBA version would be Marv
Speaker 1: Albert a big three pointer. Uh, you know, he could
Speaker 1: make a game sounds so much more important and then
Speaker 1: maybe it was. And I think about like al Michaels
Speaker 1: to me is like the one of the last guys.
Speaker 1: You hear al Michaels do the open, It's like a
Speaker 1: big deal. But I think that's because we grew up
Speaker 1: with those guys. I wonder like if the kids today
Speaker 1: are they gonna have that same experience when Joe Buck
Speaker 1: does a game, is it Is it the same experience
Speaker 1: as Jack You know, I I reminisced about Jack Buck
Speaker 1: back in the day, one of the guys I looked
Speaker 1: up to. But but Joe Buck, I mean, he's been
Speaker 1: around for our Jim Nance at at CBS. I mean,
Speaker 1: these are the these are the guys that people have
Speaker 1: grown up with and how many more years are they
Speaker 1: gonna be doing it? Yeah? And you know, so much
Speaker 1: of the talk about the kids nowadays, they obviously just
Speaker 1: know John Madden from the video game. They were not
Speaker 1: really aware of him as a broadcaster, and certainly we're
Speaker 1: not aware of him as a head coach in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And even a lot of adults were like, wow, I
Speaker 1: had no idea he had a winning percentage like that
Speaker 1: and dominated the uh, the division he was in for
Speaker 1: so many years. That was kind of nice to go
Speaker 1: down Raiders memory Lane with all those famous games. Games
Speaker 1: he coached were so famous they have names for the
Speaker 1: games like the Sea of Hands and uh Ghost to
Speaker 1: the Post and all those kind of games, the Holy Roller,
Speaker 1: Immaculate Reception and all. You know, that's pretty cool because
Speaker 1: besides Tuck Rule, how many games from the past thirty
Speaker 1: years do we have like a name for the game
Speaker 1: that we refer to. Yeah, and part of that is
Speaker 1: also the era, right, I mean they don't. They don't
Speaker 1: do that anymore. Yeah, I don't. I don't think so,
Speaker 1: because yeah, you're right. It was very much NFL films.
Speaker 1: And you know, we watched the NFL in a in
Speaker 1: a different way than we do out. Yeah. Now it's
Speaker 1: like you you're soaking in for maybe forty eight hours,
Speaker 1: and then you're onto the next game. Right, It's like
Speaker 1: that game has died, moving on. It's like playing Donkey
Speaker 1: Kong the next game. You forget about the old game.
Speaker 1: And uh uh yeah, I mean it was. It was
Speaker 1: much different, and it's all social media and consuming stuff obviously,
Speaker 1: all right, So I wanted to hear a little bit
Speaker 1: of John Madden. He gave one of the great Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame speeches. So I'm not sure how much of
Speaker 1: this we're gonna play, Danny, but and and we'll react.
Speaker 1: I can pause this and and we can play it
Speaker 1: and react to it. We'll see how this works. But
Speaker 1: this is way back in twenty oh six, John Madden.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna play the full speech, but is Pro
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame in Triman ceremony. So just imagine
Speaker 1: a sunny day Canton, Ohio. Al Davis had introduced John Madden.
Speaker 1: So I was still around, and uh, here is some
Speaker 1: of what madness. He thanked everyone I'm not gonna play
Speaker 1: that part. He started out thinking everyone like the people
Speaker 1: that live in cant Ohio, like everyone. Uh, And then
Speaker 1: he went into something he experienced at the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: and this this is I thought. The first a few
Speaker 1: minutes was pretty good, you know. I was. I was
Speaker 1: reading the the NFL stats in history book. And and
Speaker 1: that's what when you you do when you write a
Speaker 1: bus when you don't fly, you read, you know, big, big,
Speaker 1: old thick books like that. But they had a chapter
Speaker 1: on history and the first page and the chapter of
Speaker 1: history was a list of the Hall of Famers. And
Speaker 1: I said, that's right, they got it. That is our history.
Speaker 1: The players that played before us, the players that played
Speaker 1: when they didn't have face masks, when they had leather helmets,
Speaker 1: when got this thing started. The players that played in
Speaker 1: smaller stadiums, you know, didn't have the medical thing, didn't
Speaker 1: have anything. They laid the foundation for this great game
Speaker 1: and we should never forget it. I say the NFL
Speaker 1: teams that you want to honor your history more. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we tend to get caught up in the players and
Speaker 1: the games. Now honor your history, bing bring back the
Speaker 1: Hall of Famers, Bring back their teammates. Let the fans
Speaker 1: show their appreciation to the history, because I know that,
Speaker 1: you know, going in with these guys is is so special,
Speaker 1: and you know, we'll always talk about immortality, all right.
Speaker 1: And this next part, this is the classic John Madden
Speaker 1: about what happens at night He took a page. Remember
Speaker 1: that movie Night at the Museum. Yeah, Robin Williams back
Speaker 1: in the day. Well, John Madden must have seen that
Speaker 1: movie because his next this next part of the rand,
Speaker 1: this was I would say this is the signature part
Speaker 1: of John Madden Hall of Fame. In frame speech, some
Speaker 1: some of us think maybe we will be immortal, that
Speaker 1: will live forever, but when you really think about it,
Speaker 1: we're not going to be. But I say this, and
Speaker 1: this is overwhelming whelming and mind blowing that through this
Speaker 1: bust with these guys in that hall, we will be forever.
Speaker 1: And you know, when you think of that, it just
Speaker 1: blows your mind that it's forever and ever and ever.
Speaker 1: And you have to stay with me a moment on
Speaker 1: this one. This is a little goofy here, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna say, oh, there's old Matt and being being goofy again.
Speaker 1: But I started thinking about this after I got voted
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. And the more I think
Speaker 1: about it, the more I think it's true. And now
Speaker 1: I know it's true, and I believe it. Here's the
Speaker 1: deal I think over in the Hall of Fame. During
Speaker 1: the day, the people go through and they look at everything,
Speaker 1: and then at night to the time when they all leave,
Speaker 1: and all the fans and all the visitors leave the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, then there's just the workers. And the
Speaker 1: workers start to leave, and then it can center is
Speaker 1: just one person. That person turns out the light, locks
Speaker 1: the door. I believe that the busts talk to each other,
Speaker 1: and I can't wait for that conversation. I really can't.
Speaker 1: The Vincla Marts do rock me? To you, to Reggie,
Speaker 1: to Walter Payton, to the to the guys that you
Speaker 1: want to say? What to all my players, Max players? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we will will be there forever and ever and ever
Speaker 1: talking about whatever, and and that's that's what I believe,
Speaker 1: and that's what I think is gonna happen. And no
Speaker 1: one's ever gonna talk to me out of that. Well.
Speaker 1: They have you ever been to the Pro Football Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame? No, it's on the bucket list. I would
Speaker 1: love to go there. It's funny he was talking about
Speaker 1: the bust in all of them there at Canton, because
Speaker 1: that was really my only complaint. As I look at
Speaker 1: his I don't think they did a very good job
Speaker 1: on his bronze statue. The likeness. You don't think that
Speaker 1: looks like John Madden. It's like it's a younger John
Speaker 1: mad I guess so I think that's I think that's
Speaker 1: Madden when he was coaching. Yeah, it's not. You're right, though,
Speaker 1: we don't know John Madden like that. We know the
Speaker 1: old John Madden. We know the old, fun loving broadcasters.
Speaker 1: We don't know the young uh, you know, up and
Speaker 1: coming coach John Madden. That guy's foreign to us like that,
Speaker 1: Who the hell's that guy? Exactly? He's one of the guys,
Speaker 1: just like Betty White, who we talked about before the
Speaker 1: holiday where you know you killed her by the way,
Speaker 1: congratulations Betty White. You were magazine. You were responsible for
Speaker 1: the demise of Betty White. How dare that was the
Speaker 1: That was the People magazine cover curse that killed her? Um,
Speaker 1: but we only knew her as an old person. I
Speaker 1: mean she was old on the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Speaker 1: The same with John Madden. When I was a little kid,
Speaker 1: he was already old as a broadcaster. So you're right,
Speaker 1: I never saw him as a young person on television. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I did see. I was watching small game shows
Speaker 1: because I'm a loser, and they put some old uh
Speaker 1: what was it the and there's old celebrity game shows
Speaker 1: where they have you know, celebrity panel and you can
Speaker 1: pick the celebrity and the answer of the question. And
Speaker 1: so Betty White was on that and that's why they
Speaker 1: replayed them. And I looked at the other celebrities, and
Speaker 1: everyone else had died at least forty years ago. She
Speaker 1: outlived everybody. And these people were her contemporaries, and you know,
Speaker 1: they were dropped it in the in the or the eighties,
Speaker 1: you know. And sah, her husband was a famous host
Speaker 1: of one of those games show, Alan Lundon, Right, is
Speaker 1: that the is that Lundon or something like that? Is
Speaker 1: that the one? I know? It was Alan? Uh? He
Speaker 1: died in and you can see here she talked about
Speaker 1: how she couldn't wait to be with him again. Uh
Speaker 1: when she finally passed on. Yeah. So, and there was
Speaker 1: a report that came out a few days ago saying
Speaker 1: that that was her last word his name. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: because she wanted to go join him. Uh. But when
Speaker 1: I was reading that he passed away in nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 1: I was like, holy sh it, what a long time
Speaker 1: to long for your partner. Yeah. In a way, it's
Speaker 1: like that movie The Green Mile where um Tom Hank's
Speaker 1: character got a little touch of everlasting life and lived
Speaker 1: past everybody. His family all passed on and he was
Speaker 1: still alive. Yeah, it is a it's a weird thing.
Speaker 1: You want to live as long as you can. But
Speaker 1: then at some point, and we've talked about this before,
Speaker 1: like a big part of life is your friends and
Speaker 1: your you know, your social network and your your family.
Speaker 1: And if if you're alive and you outlive everyone, God,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be awkward, right, I mean, that's it's a
Speaker 1: blessing and a curse. It's at the same time, it
Speaker 1: really is. Anyway, we gotta get out of here, Danny,
Speaker 1: But we will be back with a brand new Saturday podcast,
Speaker 1: a never before told story. I will debut I did
Speaker 1: not speak about this on radio. I did not tweet
Speaker 1: about this. I did not do I'll explain why I
Speaker 1: didn't do that stuff. But I'll get into all of
Speaker 1: that a never before told story on the Saturday podcast.
Speaker 1: If you're a fan of The Mallard Show on the Overnight,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna want to miss it. But anyway, thank you,
Speaker 1: Danny appreciate that, and we will catch you next time.
Speaker 1: See Yes, Saturday