Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hey you know, Welcome to another episode
Speaker 1: of Good Balls, joined by producer Travis Hansen. Audio Joe Madrid.
Speaker 1: We are we are still doing zoom. I imagine until
Speaker 1: we get to uh in person, we'll be doing zoom.
Speaker 1: Thanks Joe for coordinating all this and uh and let's
Speaker 1: let's get right into it. Joe. Um, something happened today
Speaker 1: that both Travis and I have not had in a while.
Speaker 1: But what happened to you? To got sick at the gym?
Speaker 1: Find the second day back in you threw up after
Speaker 1: working out? What kind of workouts? Kick lots of kicks today,
Speaker 1: and kicks just kick your ass, ma'am. You're kicking a lot.
Speaker 1: It's just exhausting and I'm just not in shape. COVID
Speaker 1: killed me, which is interesting because I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people have gone the other way, Like I'm down
Speaker 1: fourteen pounds nice since since COVID, which is which is
Speaker 1: I'm actually like at a probably the lowest. I like
Speaker 1: to stay around one ninety and now I'm like one six.
Speaker 1: So are you really that small I was this morning?
Speaker 1: That's pretty impressive. I think that goes really hand in
Speaker 1: hand with our personalities though, like you, you really embraced
Speaker 1: the working out at home and I need the social
Speaker 1: you know, I need the raw rods in the background. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm thinking about canceling my my gym membership because
Speaker 1: I've just been working out at home and jump rope
Speaker 1: and I can do almost everything. I may keep it
Speaker 1: just in case. But the gym what your gym open, Joe,
Speaker 1: which will any what are the protocol so no jiu jitsu? Um,
Speaker 1: they're My gym is kind of a smaller mom and
Speaker 1: pop gym, so it doesn't it's not really not huge corporate,
Speaker 1: so it's pretty much the same. A lot lot less
Speaker 1: people in the gym, though way less. Like yesterday we
Speaker 1: did a boxing class and it was like three people.
Speaker 1: Usually there's like I think people are going to because
Speaker 1: my gym, Equinox here in Santa Monica is opening up
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and there's just so many Obviously that's a
Speaker 1: big right, this is a big corporate chain of gyms,
Speaker 1: and there's so many rules. Now you have to actually
Speaker 1: make an appointment through the app um. You you have
Speaker 1: to maintain social distancing guidelines, wear a mask, unless you're,
Speaker 1: um extracizing vigorously. So I think Joe you would have
Speaker 1: fallen into the exercising vigorously because you vomited. Um. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see what people define as
Speaker 1: exercising vigorously because for me, like, if I go to
Speaker 1: the gym, I'm gonna wear the mask unless I'm on
Speaker 1: the treadmill, unless I'm doing some kind of cardi like,
Speaker 1: I I don't if I see like to me, that's
Speaker 1: a rule, Like I think if if that's the rule
Speaker 1: exercising vigorously, you can't be on like bench pressing and
Speaker 1: not wear the mask. I don't consider that, Like, yes,
Speaker 1: you're exercising yet, but you're not. You're not going to
Speaker 1: get winded from benching like you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like you're not unless you're just going for reps reps, reps, reps,
Speaker 1: reps and you're going low weights. Um. I just think
Speaker 1: it's got to be some form of cardio. Maybe we
Speaker 1: should create a rule that defines vigorously. That way you
Speaker 1: could actually throw a flag at somebody in the end.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it goes I think your
Speaker 1: heart rate, right, it's got to go with with your
Speaker 1: heart rate has to reach a certain bpm. What is that?
Speaker 1: You know what is the resting heart rate? For Joe,
Speaker 1: You're you're clearly you know, a highly too de athlete.
Speaker 1: You know what is your resting heart rate? Um? And
Speaker 1: uh and we can go from there. That's a good,
Speaker 1: that's a really good and see it now. Excuse me, sir,
Speaker 1: I don't think you're working out vigorously. You need to
Speaker 1: put that mask on. You need to do that on you.
Speaker 1: Let me check, let me check your pulse, is it? No,
Speaker 1: everybody should have to wear you can't someone that's not
Speaker 1: social distancing, know what everything. Everyone should have to wear
Speaker 1: a heart rate monitor with like with an LED display
Speaker 1: on their chest, Like, oh, that dude's working out, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get you're gonna get tested, right. I think part
Speaker 1: of that is the is the temperature check and you
Speaker 1: know that. That's just part of the deal right now.
Speaker 1: And I think it's and everybody, look, it's just wear
Speaker 1: a mask. It's not that hard ship to wear a
Speaker 1: mask when you go out. I'm also a member of
Speaker 1: Bay Club. I just canceled it though, but they're doing
Speaker 1: the same exact as equals. You have to set an appointment,
Speaker 1: I'm like too much. So it is a lot, and
Speaker 1: so I would imagine you're not gonna have as many people.
Speaker 1: I don't not I don't necessarily like to have to
Speaker 1: set the appointment, but it is what it is. If
Speaker 1: I want to stay at the gym, that's what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to do, and I'll deal with it, and
Speaker 1: you just that's part of the new norm. So okay,
Speaker 1: that's what we gotta do. I'd like to completely never
Speaker 1: say the new norm ever again. Well then what are
Speaker 1: we gonna call it? This is life, the stupid time,
Speaker 1: the world's world we live in. That's my favorite phrase.
Speaker 1: This is the world we live in today. This is
Speaker 1: what it is. Speaking of the world we live in.
Speaker 1: What an unbelievable chain of events. UM with NASCAR over
Speaker 1: the weekend, and obviously, right NASCAR is one of our
Speaker 1: um you know, our inventory and Fox Fox Sports and
Speaker 1: we broadcast the races and things like that, and obviously
Speaker 1: have Bubba Wallace, who's who's an African American racer and
Speaker 1: has been very outspoken and has has pushed um in
Speaker 1: terms of like black lives matter and everything else with
Speaker 1: with everything that's going on today. And then the race
Speaker 1: is a tale Talladego, which is in Alabama. Someone left
Speaker 1: a noose in his garage. Garage, I guess it was
Speaker 1: Sunday night before the race, and obviously, um, you know
Speaker 1: it's is it surprising, No, it's not surprising. Unfortunately, it's
Speaker 1: it does it's not shocking. It's not surprising. Um. And
Speaker 1: what was you know, the kind of the the shining
Speaker 1: moment that came out of it was all of the
Speaker 1: racers got behind Bubba and pushed his car to the
Speaker 1: front before the race and actually even Richard Petty Senior,
Speaker 1: who's kind of like the godfather of Nascar, UM, was
Speaker 1: there showing their support for Bubba. And uh, and it
Speaker 1: was one of those kind of seminal moments. But I
Speaker 1: think just the act itself, UM, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: I I don't think that way. But it doesn't surprise
Speaker 1: me because and it and it what what kind of
Speaker 1: what's interesting? Is right? We don't want to you don't
Speaker 1: want to brush with broad jokes. You don't want to
Speaker 1: because we I feel like we do throw the word
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, hillbilly or redneck, we throw those
Speaker 1: words around and and it's okay, right, it's it's okay
Speaker 1: to to say those words. You're not going to get
Speaker 1: um a lot of backlash. And so we're treating a
Speaker 1: certain group of people that we feel like act a
Speaker 1: certain way. And uh, and this to me, it's like
Speaker 1: you think about someone that would leave a noose in
Speaker 1: a an African Americans, persons anywhere, and what is that person?
Speaker 1: What do you picture? Right? Like, what do you picture
Speaker 1: in your mind? Joe dope one. But but you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I'm picturing the same and you're and
Speaker 1: you're you're. What we're doing what this person is doing
Speaker 1: is you are you are again, you're perpetuating this idea
Speaker 1: that right, people from the South or whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call have this mentality and not all people think
Speaker 1: that way, right, not all people think that way. But
Speaker 1: what it's doing is it just continues. It's just it's
Speaker 1: and the fact that somebody would would would think that,
Speaker 1: and that would do that, and would god forbid, has
Speaker 1: children and is teaching their children that And that's the
Speaker 1: messaging at home. Um, that's the problem. That's why we're
Speaker 1: on the cycle. That that's why we're on the cycle
Speaker 1: that that person whoever did that thinks that way and
Speaker 1: is exposed to children, family, whatever it is, and those
Speaker 1: children are brought up with that ideology and then we
Speaker 1: just continue this over and over and over and nothing changes.
Speaker 1: The other thing is sad about it is like it
Speaker 1: could possibly be one of those guys that was walking
Speaker 1: out pushing the car, because there's so many limited people
Speaker 1: that can be at these events right now that it's
Speaker 1: probably someone that's close to him, who has had conversations
Speaker 1: with him and and but has access to the garage,
Speaker 1: right So it's not some it's not some random fan
Speaker 1: that that snuck in. It's somebody related to NASCAR. It's
Speaker 1: somebody in the garage, somebody in the in that that organization, family,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. And you're right, Travis, like,
Speaker 1: could that person or somebody that one of those people
Speaker 1: in that kind of procession, this, this beautiful moment, be
Speaker 1: the person or know the person that actually did that
Speaker 1: that kind of heinous act? I don't is heinous? Do
Speaker 1: I have to say H on heinus? There is an
Speaker 1: h that henis? I said it right, right? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't want to say it without the age, and that's
Speaker 1: sounds something like something else an Yeah, you don't want
Speaker 1: to say that Travis Henis, We're gonna get censored my
Speaker 1: version years Okay, So but like the bigger picture, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just okay, I didn't grow up
Speaker 1: in the South. I don't And but I don't think
Speaker 1: everybody in the South thinks that way. Um. I just
Speaker 1: it's I don't know, it's it's kind of mind boggling.
Speaker 1: But it's not surprising. And this is what black people
Speaker 1: have been saying for a long long time. But this
Speaker 1: is what we deal with, you know, every day, you know,
Speaker 1: on some level. And now you're just waking up, um
Speaker 1: to this reality. And uh and maybe we are, and
Speaker 1: and we we've got to kind of figure it out
Speaker 1: because this is you know, I was talking to my
Speaker 1: son and who's nine, and he was mentioning, um, the
Speaker 1: riots after after Rodney King and he you know, and
Speaker 1: and all of that. And he said, he was like,
Speaker 1: you know, how does that happen in and we're in
Speaker 1: and we're still having these issues. And I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: nothing has changed, right, nothing, nothing has changed. And and
Speaker 1: that's you know, it's it's the hope is that what
Speaker 1: we're seeing is that the youth in this country are
Speaker 1: stepping up and that's going to be the next generation
Speaker 1: and uh, and they have to kind of push this
Speaker 1: and we all do, we all have to do our part,
Speaker 1: but it's going to be that next generation that that
Speaker 1: that has to make changes because you know, we don't
Speaker 1: want to be going through the same thing in um
Speaker 1: you know. And for me, it's easy for me to
Speaker 1: say that, right because I don't. But for black people
Speaker 1: in this country, UM, they're the ones that are gonna
Speaker 1: have to go through it. And and we've we've all
Speaker 1: got to work together to make sure that doesn't that's
Speaker 1: the truth. Yeah. The Feds have also one gotten involved
Speaker 1: and they're going to take a look at this as
Speaker 1: well as they've both been a case on it to
Speaker 1: find out if it's any kind of federal law that's
Speaker 1: been broken here by these people. Well, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the law. Could that be considered a hate
Speaker 1: crime or does a hate crime have to be something?
Speaker 1: What can be a death threat at a at a
Speaker 1: federal level like that? So so I think that that's
Speaker 1: how they're getting involved. Yeah, that's right. Could yeah, it
Speaker 1: could be a death threat. Although I probably there's some
Speaker 1: people in my time I'm at the NFL that that
Speaker 1: we're guilty of death threats towards me on Twitter. Um.
Speaker 1: But but that's the thing, like it is, it's just
Speaker 1: it feel it's it's cowardly. It's like, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna leave this and then and then this anonymous thing.
Speaker 1: It's like people online, and there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: online that just feel like they can say whatever the
Speaker 1: heck they want, insult people and treat people a certain way.
Speaker 1: And and and that's not right either. Um and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. That's the world we live
Speaker 1: in now. The keyboard warriors, that's the world we live in.
Speaker 1: They call them keyboard warriors. Is that what we call them?
Speaker 1: Keyboard warrioring warriors? I haven't heard of that. Yeah, behind
Speaker 1: your computer screen, you need to put blast out whatever
Speaker 1: you want. Look, the internet has. Right before the internet,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't you had to go out and and and
Speaker 1: if whatever message you wanted to get out, you have
Speaker 1: to get out in front of people and speak and
Speaker 1: talk and and you know, congregate. Now with the Internet,
Speaker 1: you can, I mean the messaging you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: good or bad. It's very easy to reach people. And
Speaker 1: and there's a whole generation of kids that are that.
Speaker 1: That's how they get there. They get their content, they
Speaker 1: get their news, they get their their social um interaction.
Speaker 1: It's it's on the Internet, and it's very easy for
Speaker 1: someone that has a message of hate to um, you know,
Speaker 1: to distribute that message online. You know. I was watching
Speaker 1: a documentary on Netflix. Um uh call I believe it
Speaker 1: was the Age of Rage, and it was it was
Speaker 1: about the ault Right and and then this other guy
Speaker 1: that was part of Antifa. It's just it's scary and
Speaker 1: fascinating at the same time as to what, you know,
Speaker 1: how the internet allows um, you know, a group like
Speaker 1: you know, and and not not to I'm not an
Speaker 1: expert on the alt right, but there are there are
Speaker 1: groups out there that that do push hate and do
Speaker 1: push a lot of um, you know, ideology that that
Speaker 1: you know, I don't agree with. I don't think you
Speaker 1: guys agree with. And they use the Internet to to
Speaker 1: recruit people and to get them to buy into this
Speaker 1: message and they and then they use the Internet to
Speaker 1: distribute it and uh. And it's scary. It's really scary
Speaker 1: what we're what we're dealing with today. The thing I
Speaker 1: think about what this news is if it's one of
Speaker 1: these guys that's involved with the NASCAR, which he probably
Speaker 1: is because the like we talked about before, the access
Speaker 1: they had, Like the person who did it probably told
Speaker 1: somebody else. And if if the FEDS are involved in
Speaker 1: NASCAR has got a heavy investigation and it too, that's
Speaker 1: gonna come out who did it? And yeah, and then
Speaker 1: how is there not a camera? There's cameras everywhere everywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I bet there is. I have to think there has
Speaker 1: to be something. Yeah, I would imagine there's cameras everywhere.
Speaker 1: And I would agree with Travis, like, unless this is
Speaker 1: one person and they kept a mouth shut, somebody else knows.
Speaker 1: And it'll be very interesting to see if it does,
Speaker 1: if they do find out who did it or a
Speaker 1: group of people whatever it is, what what ultimately what
Speaker 1: NASCAR does? Um? If it is somebody associated with the
Speaker 1: driver or you know, a driver themselves. Um, and then
Speaker 1: obviously what you know, what law enforcement would would you
Speaker 1: know what kind of like you said, whether it's a
Speaker 1: death threat of terroristic whatever, It'll be really interesting. But again,
Speaker 1: you know, it was good to see because look, the
Speaker 1: bottom line is NASCAR. People look at NASCAR a certain way,
Speaker 1: right you look at again, think of in your mind,
Speaker 1: Joe Travis, what do you what's your average NASCAR fan?
Speaker 1: Look like you don't have to describe it, but yeah, right,
Speaker 1: what we're talking about, and so that is it is
Speaker 1: a relatively white sport. It is a relatively you know,
Speaker 1: a white fan base, and it is there is there
Speaker 1: are there are regions in this country that are that
Speaker 1: are more you know, inclined to to watching NASCAR. And
Speaker 1: there's no way you can't kind of beat around the
Speaker 1: bush with that thing. And and and it is what
Speaker 1: we're seeing, right, Why did Nascar, no other sport has
Speaker 1: to has to ban the Confederate flag or hey, no,
Speaker 1: no other sport has because they don't fly the Confederate
Speaker 1: flag at other sporting events like they do at NASCAR.
Speaker 1: Because because of where, you know, the people that are
Speaker 1: grown up in the South and grown up with that
Speaker 1: history and grown up and and look, I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that everybody that flies the Confederate flag is
Speaker 1: a racist, but it does represent some really bad things
Speaker 1: that have happened in this country and some really you know,
Speaker 1: bad things that have happened in the history, especially as
Speaker 1: you think about African Americans. And it's just you know it.
Speaker 1: It just shouldn't be a part of what we're trying
Speaker 1: to do to day. Ide I'm seeing a NASCAR statement now,
Speaker 1: oh just right now. Yeah, So so just a little
Speaker 1: more news coming out and says the FBI has concluded
Speaker 1: its investigation at Tallie against Superspeedway and determined that Bubba
Speaker 1: Wallace was not the target of a hate crime. The
Speaker 1: FBI report concludes, and the photographic evidence evidence confirms that
Speaker 1: the garage store pole rope fashion like a news has
Speaker 1: been positioned there since his early as last fall. This
Speaker 1: was obviously well before the forty three team's arrival and
Speaker 1: in garage assignment. We appreciate the f guys quick and
Speaker 1: thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was
Speaker 1: not an intentional racist act against Bubba. Warm and steadfast
Speaker 1: in our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment
Speaker 1: for all for all who love racing. So, okay, that
Speaker 1: is that is news. That's interesting. Um So, what they're
Speaker 1: saying is that that was just the way the rope
Speaker 1: was positioned for the garage the pulley, that it looked
Speaker 1: like a news Yeah. And then like they're previously even
Speaker 1: before the forty three car was to sign that garage.
Speaker 1: So okay, so you know, there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of people that think that that, you know, that are
Speaker 1: cynical like me, that are gonna not necessarily not I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I don't believe that, okay, if that's what
Speaker 1: they came up with, but they're gonna all be a
Speaker 1: lot of people that that don't believe that that's the
Speaker 1: case for sure. And that's interesting. I mean, we got
Speaker 1: we go through this whole thing, this whole conversation, and
Speaker 1: now that's what they figured out that it was not
Speaker 1: a news at all. That's it's gonna be interesting people's reactions. Um,
Speaker 1: did they state this is not a news or is
Speaker 1: it saying it's been there forever? It sounds like from
Speaker 1: what Travis read, right, Travis, you're you're looking at it,
Speaker 1: that this was the rope was there that at least
Speaker 1: since last fall. So my question is are they saying
Speaker 1: it's not a news or this rope has been there
Speaker 1: since last fall? It's well, I mean it says fashions
Speaker 1: like a news, so so it's a pole rope. So
Speaker 1: maybe it was fashion like news to say you could
Speaker 1: grab it because you're gonna be pull it. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen any photos of it. It's just wow. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's very there's there's a lot of coincidence there to
Speaker 1: say that that was that it looked like a news
Speaker 1: and it was there since last fall. And Bubba, while
Speaker 1: I think is the only African American driver at that race,
Speaker 1: you know that his his garage. I don't know. And
Speaker 1: that's what if. That's what they say, that's what they say.
Speaker 1: It's just it's gonna be interesting to see how people
Speaker 1: react to that. Every person that's ever taken a picture
Speaker 1: of that garage is going to be going through their
Speaker 1: phone looking for it in the background. So it'll come
Speaker 1: out that's interesting. All right, Well there you go, um
Speaker 1: another layer to the story. Wow. So we'll kind of well,
Speaker 1: we'll kind of see, we'll see where it goes from there. Interesting,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm I don't know. This reminds me
Speaker 1: about the time that that dude put the canoeis in
Speaker 1: your dressing room, my fox, Oh my god. That See,
Speaker 1: it always comes back to the Italian American discriminate by
Speaker 1: no means, By no means. Are we saying that someone
Speaker 1: putting a cannoli in my dressing room is the same.
Speaker 1: Speaking of cannoli, I have in my freezer right now
Speaker 1: Ben and Jerry's Cannoli ice cream, which I will be
Speaker 1: trying tonight. You got a live tweet about that. Yeah. Again,
Speaker 1: when I found with these Ben and Jerry's is doing
Speaker 1: these um limited flavors, these new flavors, and what I
Speaker 1: found it's much ado about nothing. It's a lot of hype,
Speaker 1: not a lot of substance. And I always go back
Speaker 1: to I always go back to the King, the top
Speaker 1: of the heat, the chairman of the board. F Baked okay,
Speaker 1: but there have been some that have been like, okay,
Speaker 1: not bad for for a pint, you know, a one off?
Speaker 1: What's that Netflix and chilled isn't bad? Yeah, but like
Speaker 1: you said, it isn't bad. Half baked is life changing,
Speaker 1: and um peanut butter half baked is pretty solid too.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's no matter what comes out, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like your first love that's always gonna be
Speaker 1: top of the food chain for you. It is, it is.
Speaker 1: What was? Okay, let's Travis, what was your first love?
Speaker 1: Doesn't have to be a person? What was the first
Speaker 1: thing you remember loving? Probably baseball to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: Like I was just a kid who just I looked
Speaker 1: up to my older brother who started playing baseball before me,
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to pick up a bat and
Speaker 1: the ball and start playing. Um. I remember as a
Speaker 1: kid going to like my dad's softball games, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's just like such great memories of running around
Speaker 1: in a park and and just kind of having freedom
Speaker 1: as a kid running around and seeing the game, of
Speaker 1: being around the game. Joe still looking, still looking so
Speaker 1: waiting for the way in my py Uh. Mine's probably
Speaker 1: baseball too, but I can't stand baseball anymore. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of weird. Doesn't really want to know. Said I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna complete the Holy Trinity. For me, it
Speaker 1: was baseball to um all the signs of change. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we my dad loved baseball. He got us
Speaker 1: into baseball. That's why I'm a Dodger fan growing up
Speaker 1: in New York, because he grew up in Brooklyn and
Speaker 1: stated Dodger fan when they moved to l a UM
Speaker 1: and that's what I remember. I remember, you know, being
Speaker 1: young and and watching Dodging games and um going out
Speaker 1: in the yard and playing baseball. It was definitely my
Speaker 1: first love question. Yeah, we talked about you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about the tape all this weekend. We had a
Speaker 1: whole tapeball discussion. Oh yeah, how we and all the
Speaker 1: different games, right, all the different What's great about what
Speaker 1: what's great about baseball is that you can as a kid,
Speaker 1: you can play different variations of the same game. Right,
Speaker 1: you can play stickball, you can play whiffleball, you can
Speaker 1: play tape ball, because all these different It's a bat
Speaker 1: in a ball, right, somebody throwing it, and you can
Speaker 1: do And we used to have we used to play
Speaker 1: running bases. You're play running basis? No, what's that? So
Speaker 1: it was almost like so you'd have you have two
Speaker 1: you'd have two bases at either end, and two people
Speaker 1: with gloves like and everybody else would get in the middle,
Speaker 1: and you throw the ball back and forth and you
Speaker 1: have to run back and forth to the basis and
Speaker 1: you could like slide in and have a play at
Speaker 1: one base and then if you you know, if you
Speaker 1: got caught, then you were one of the people with
Speaker 1: the glove. And so we used to play that for hours. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we play stoop ball where you throw the
Speaker 1: ball off the stoop and try to hit it into
Speaker 1: the street for home run. There's so many variations of baseball.
Speaker 1: You guys ever played cup ball? This is when we
Speaker 1: always played. You'd be at the ballpark and maybe your
Speaker 1: game got done in your brother was playing, or another
Speaker 1: family member someone was playing. You'd waught up a plastic
Speaker 1: cup or a paper cup, and then you just use
Speaker 1: your hand as the bat. That's no, that's that's that's
Speaker 1: really that, Travis. I don't yeah, I mean that feel
Speaker 1: actually feel better for you now. Actually. In recent news,
Speaker 1: Dean Blandino donates one thousand whiffleballs and baseball bets to
Speaker 1: the city of Casper, Wyoming. I'm gonna stand for those
Speaker 1: poor children that grew up like Travis hitting Dixie cups
Speaker 1: around the baseball with their hands. You make, you make
Speaker 1: do what you have you do. And on that note,
Speaker 1: let's take a break. We co come back. We'll get
Speaker 1: an update. Where are we with the four major sports
Speaker 1: as we prepare for a return next on good Calls?
Speaker 1: All right, we're back on good call. Let's uh, let's
Speaker 1: get an update. Let's talk a little bit about the
Speaker 1: latest and strong the NFL um obviously look, we're getting
Speaker 1: more cases of COVID, more testing. As these players, uh
Speaker 1: start to get tested more and more, we're getting you know,
Speaker 1: more positive results. And that's that's the reality that's going
Speaker 1: to happen. Um. I think you know, everybody's experiencing that.
Speaker 1: We're experiencing spikes in certain states where people have have
Speaker 1: gotten you know, opened up and and you know, reading
Speaker 1: that Florida and UM, I think the concern always has been,
Speaker 1: you know, not just the cases, but you know, the
Speaker 1: hospital and overloading the hospitals and then what you know,
Speaker 1: how serious are these cases? Are these people are symptomatic?
Speaker 1: What you know? What what what is going to result
Speaker 1: from this? So it's all still I mean, it feels
Speaker 1: like right, everybody wants to get back to normal. And
Speaker 1: I think with all of the George Floyd, everybody I
Speaker 1: think focused on that, you know properly, but but COVID
Speaker 1: didn't go away, and and and I think we're back
Speaker 1: to um everybody kind of realizing that, hey, this is
Speaker 1: this is still a thing, and uh and we have
Speaker 1: to we have to figure this out. So I know,
Speaker 1: the nfl UM nfl p A medical director Tom Mayor
Speaker 1: UM released a statement saying that that players shouldn't be
Speaker 1: practicing together, but of course who was practicing? Travis? What
Speaker 1: what are we calling him? He's the habitual line stepper
Speaker 1: is what I called him earlier today. Um, just Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: He's he and at least a dozen teammates were out
Speaker 1: working out together, so he's speaking of speaking. He put
Speaker 1: the heat, put the photos out with it with no excuses.
Speaker 1: I saw the one, and I like Tom and and
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, I just we just need
Speaker 1: to be smart about this because and I think, look,
Speaker 1: they could be working out and and practicing social distancing, right.
Speaker 1: They don't have to be you know, you're throwing a football,
Speaker 1: you're running round, you don't have to be on top
Speaker 1: of each other. You could be six ft apart and
Speaker 1: talk and understand what they're trying to accomplish. So I
Speaker 1: think they can be smart about it. So so I
Speaker 1: wouldn't jump jump to any conclusions. What I will do
Speaker 1: is I sent you guys a video and I'd like
Speaker 1: for you to watch it now. Um. This was a
Speaker 1: video of Novak Djokovic, who who um put this tennis
Speaker 1: tournament together with no social distancing guidelines, and it was
Speaker 1: just reported that he tested positive for COVID and watch
Speaker 1: the video. This is the after party, So pull that up, Travis,
Speaker 1: you're listening, just google YouTube Novak Djokovic party. Wow, Well
Speaker 1: he tested positive. He did he? Which one is he?
Speaker 1: There's a dozen shirtless dudes. He doesn't. He has a
Speaker 1: shirt line. So now, oh my gosh, it's like the Worm.
Speaker 1: Who is that? I don't think. I don't think Novac
Speaker 1: does the Worm. But there's one point. No, he's wearing
Speaker 1: his shirt and he's and he has he's on stage
Speaker 1: and he has like I don't know if they're glow sticks,
Speaker 1: but there's some kind of glow apparatus. Oh yeah, what
Speaker 1: are those? Those are? They look like glow torches? Almost, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he has some kind of glow. Again, being a former WIDO,
Speaker 1: I know all about the glow sticks and I definitely
Speaker 1: want whatever he has. But but so, needless to say,
Speaker 1: he's tested positive. And his wife, who has also at
Speaker 1: this event, and his wife, they're they're clearly not not
Speaker 1: practicing social distance in this video. And this is the
Speaker 1: difference between this is there's there's you can be responsible
Speaker 1: and you can be irresponsible. This is irresponsibility at its
Speaker 1: finest here and we're not out of this yet, and
Speaker 1: if we want sports to return, we have to do
Speaker 1: the right thing. And we can't have because what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen is if we're not practicing social distancing guidelines, then
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a spike in cases and and we're
Speaker 1: not gonna have the sports return, and we're gonna be
Speaker 1: stuck back like we were, you know, in April, um
Speaker 1: in May, and it's gonna suck. So well, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna say it. I really wish I was at that party.
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to look in a different
Speaker 1: world if we didn't live in the world we live
Speaker 1: in today. I want to party with Novak Djokovic, like like, no,
Speaker 1: no ads of bus about it, like I want in.
Speaker 1: I just want to. I just don't want a party
Speaker 1: like that in the middle of a pandemic. That's all
Speaker 1: we can. We take that move, hopefully get everybody vaccinated
Speaker 1: and and I'm in. I'm in for the tournament. I'll
Speaker 1: buy a ticket. I want to go to the after party.
Speaker 1: I'm in because it looks like a good time. But yeah,
Speaker 1: not the right time to be doing it, for sure,
Speaker 1: just not the right time. Um So back in the NFL,
Speaker 1: NFL and the NFL p A will have a call
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, uh and UH, and that's to go over
Speaker 1: the guidelines. I think some of the clubs are still
Speaker 1: concerned about UM. The NFL put out guidelines in terms
Speaker 1: of personnel and their access in the facility two players UM.
Speaker 1: They put them into tiers Tier one, Tier two three,
Speaker 1: Tier three, Tier one, like coaches and UM strength and
Speaker 1: conditioning coaches, people that that have hands on with the
Speaker 1: players there in tier one, Tier two UM, or even
Speaker 1: people as important as a GM, a team president who
Speaker 1: will will not have as much access on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: you know, close proximity with players there in tier two
Speaker 1: UM and then tier three or or everybody else UM.
Speaker 1: I think some of the clubs are just concerned with
Speaker 1: the numbers because you know, just talking to a couple
Speaker 1: of clubs, there are clubs that have their facility and
Speaker 1: their stadium right in the same you know, compound, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna split. They're gonna split. They're gonna have part
Speaker 1: of their team in the stadium and part of their
Speaker 1: team in the facility, so they can practice social distancing
Speaker 1: because there's lockers, right there's lockers in the stadium, there's
Speaker 1: lockers in the facility, and if you're gonna be six
Speaker 1: ft apart, most of these, whether it's a stadium or
Speaker 1: the facility on its own, doesn't have the space to
Speaker 1: handle that. So they're gonna be split. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to You're gonna have to basically have have maintenance personnel
Speaker 1: that's gonna have to clean and disinfect, um and do
Speaker 1: all of that. And I think some clubs are concerned about, Okay,
Speaker 1: if I have a max of let's say eight people
Speaker 1: in Tier one, are my cleaning people? A part of
Speaker 1: that is that going to count? Whereas you know, I
Speaker 1: also have people that are on the medical side that
Speaker 1: need access to the players when they're recovering from you know,
Speaker 1: from injuries. Whether it's a chiropractor, whether it's a mussus,
Speaker 1: whether it's the athletic trainer. Um can they can they
Speaker 1: be flexible with those numbers. So I think that's something
Speaker 1: that we'll see UM coming out of this call, and
Speaker 1: the league is going to have to clearly define you know,
Speaker 1: who has access to players UM and UH and what
Speaker 1: you know, what they can do because because again think
Speaker 1: about it, there's still there's still they're waiting for training
Speaker 1: camp start dates. They're waiting for the protocols there, um,
Speaker 1: travel protocols, media put protocols, um who you know who
Speaker 1: can be a practice? Are there going to be practices
Speaker 1: where the media can come like in in a normal world.
Speaker 1: All of these things have to be figured out. And
Speaker 1: then obviously the testing, what happens when somebody tests positive, Um,
Speaker 1: it's a lot, it's a lot. And and and I
Speaker 1: think everybody's optimistic that the NFL will play, and I
Speaker 1: and I'm optimistic. I do feel like the NFL has
Speaker 1: a greater chance than college football, just because college football
Speaker 1: there's so many layers we've already seen. I think one
Speaker 1: college was about a Bowden. Bowden College has already canceled
Speaker 1: fall athletics. It's a small Division three college. Obviously that's
Speaker 1: not how state. But it is a possibility that other
Speaker 1: colleges could allow suit if they're not going to have
Speaker 1: students on campus, if they're concerned about about the social
Speaker 1: distancing and everything else. So it's it's gonna be interesting
Speaker 1: to see how that how that plays out. Hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: have more information, but again, in all of this, it
Speaker 1: couldn't have happened at a better time for the NFL,
Speaker 1: right just the end of their season. They have all
Speaker 1: off season to work through this, where the other sports
Speaker 1: obviously have been impacted greater um and jumping to the
Speaker 1: other sports. MLB a lot of news, a lot of
Speaker 1: news on MLB. So the owners, the owners did put
Speaker 1: forth a schedule, sixty game schedule. That's what they're gonna play.
Speaker 1: And look what this means is unless the players strike,
Speaker 1: which would be completely just insane, we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: baseball season. Right unless the players strike, or obviously something
Speaker 1: happens with COVID where it just makes it it's just unsafe.
Speaker 1: But if if that doesn't happen to COVID aside, then
Speaker 1: then we're gonna have a baseball season sixty games. Um.
Speaker 1: What's interesting is that, right that the owners we're proposing
Speaker 1: all these different deals and and basically what it came
Speaker 1: down to was the players are gonna get thirty seven
Speaker 1: percent of their out of their salary. And when you
Speaker 1: think about thirty seven, thirty seven percent of their salary,
Speaker 1: Mike Trout, who's the highest paid player in baseball for what,
Speaker 1: what do you think Mike Trout is gonna make thirty
Speaker 1: seven percent of his annual salary seven million, how much
Speaker 1: Travis and I don't remember what his number is. Fourteen,
Speaker 1: he'll make fourteen out of its thirty seven roughly thirty
Speaker 1: seven and a half million dollar annual salary. He'll get
Speaker 1: fourteen million the major league minimum at thirty seven percent,
Speaker 1: will will still be two eight thousand dollars. So so again,
Speaker 1: that's that's a that's still a good salary for most people. Um,
Speaker 1: but you think about major league baseball players making two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year that you know into twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: that seems unheard of. How is he supposed to live
Speaker 1: off of that kind of money? Dean, what do they
Speaker 1: expect two hundred If you can't live off two hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year. Trout, he doesn't. Trout doesn't strike
Speaker 1: me as the guy that's living the extravagant lifestyle. He
Speaker 1: just doesn't. He see, he's from Philly, blue collar. Just
Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't strike me as somebody that's driving around and
Speaker 1: like you forget it, like it even for me, Like
Speaker 1: I grew up very blue collar. But if I was
Speaker 1: making thirty seven million dollars a year in the High life.
Speaker 1: Let me do you I wouldn't. I wouldn't be driving.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be driving a Tesla Ji. I wouldn't. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be driving. Uh. You know, I wouldn't be living in, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a two bedroom condo. I'd be in a
Speaker 1: being a much too much nicer spot. But anyway, so
Speaker 1: that's the deal with salary. But what's interesting about sixty
Speaker 1: games schedule? UM playoffs will still be ten teams, So
Speaker 1: you're still gonna have your You're still gonna have your
Speaker 1: ten teams UM in in the playoffs. But some of
Speaker 1: these rules that that I've read that are going to
Speaker 1: be implemented for UM, it looks like the universal d H.
Speaker 1: So the N I will have a DH for only,
Speaker 1: which I hope and pray that that's it, because I
Speaker 1: hate the d H and I want the d H
Speaker 1: to never be in the NL. Well, originally they wanted
Speaker 1: it for this season, and one season they players said
Speaker 1: no way, thank you players for that, Thank you M
Speaker 1: L P p A. So it will be for this season. UM.
Speaker 1: First health and safety, right and uh and then UM.
Speaker 1: But the one that's really interesting that that I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if a lot of people know this is for
Speaker 1: the regular season. They're going to use the minor league
Speaker 1: extra innings rule, and so after the ninth inning, if
Speaker 1: the score is tied, each half inning will start with
Speaker 1: a runner on second base. So that's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the major leagues this year. In the regular season, it'll
Speaker 1: be it'll be the guy that made out the last inning,
Speaker 1: he will be the runner. He'll start on second base,
Speaker 1: so it's nobody out man on second and if that runs,
Speaker 1: if that run scores, it's an unearned run. It's like
Speaker 1: he got on. So just just imagine every half inning
Speaker 1: will start with a two base error, like a guy
Speaker 1: getting and and that's gonna be. So they don't want, right,
Speaker 1: they don't want the players, they don't want fifteen sixteen,
Speaker 1: seventeen in the games. Um. So from that perspective it
Speaker 1: makes sense. But it's so gimmicky, like it's just like
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch I don't want to watch
Speaker 1: a guys start on second base and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into which I like small ball, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: now we're gonna bump them over to third and then
Speaker 1: and then sat or the run and then the next
Speaker 1: next team is gonna do that, and we're gonna go
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to another at stranding and then it's
Speaker 1: just so it definitely doesn't cut down the probability of
Speaker 1: the game ending sooner or quicker. That's the idea though,
Speaker 1: I know, but but but the scenario you just played
Speaker 1: out like that is what teams do. Like if you
Speaker 1: get a guy in second, you almost think like we're
Speaker 1: going to score, Like you think we're going to score
Speaker 1: on a a second nobody out. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: percentages are, but I would imagine it's a pretty good
Speaker 1: percentage of score. Right, you still gotta right, you gotta
Speaker 1: get him to third and then right man out third,
Speaker 1: one out, you right, if you if you're playing baseball
Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to be played, you hit the
Speaker 1: ball on the right side or you get you know,
Speaker 1: you get it in the air to the outfield and
Speaker 1: you not comment and you get you get the RB.
Speaker 1: I right, So, but it's it is, it's just it's
Speaker 1: just crazy to think baseball is always like they've had rules, right,
Speaker 1: you have rules like the the All Star Game decided
Speaker 1: the World Series, which I would have thought, which I
Speaker 1: thought was so crazy. Thank thankfully they got rid of that,
Speaker 1: but they're not. They're not scared to kind to go
Speaker 1: outside the box and try different things. So, um, kudos
Speaker 1: to them. It was our first love, right, all three
Speaker 1: of us. So I like this rule, but not in
Speaker 1: a shortened season where every single game is gonna mean
Speaker 1: so much like maybe it's gonna count, right, every every
Speaker 1: one of those sixty games is gonna be huge, as
Speaker 1: they like to say huge, and and it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: And then we talked about teams, right that are the
Speaker 1: does does a sixty game season? Which teams doesn't help,
Speaker 1: which teams doesn't hurt? And to me, you know, you
Speaker 1: always look at the best teams, right, the best teams
Speaker 1: over a hundred and sixty two games season will will
Speaker 1: play out, right, the cream will rise to the top. Right,
Speaker 1: so you have your you know, who are the favorites
Speaker 1: going into even before this, right, not because I'm a fan,
Speaker 1: but the Dodgers had to be one of the favorites too, right,
Speaker 1: the you know, the Astros. I'll hate to say, um,
Speaker 1: but you have you have certain teams that that are
Speaker 1: you know, favored to be um, you know at the
Speaker 1: end of the season, And I think it hurt those
Speaker 1: teams in a sixty games sprint if you think about, right,
Speaker 1: you get an injury, you get a bad right, you
Speaker 1: just you know, the team goes cold, you get a
Speaker 1: bad start. If the team, if the team goes you know,
Speaker 1: like a team starts out. You know, five and five
Speaker 1: and twenty, right, hundred sixty two games season, you can
Speaker 1: you can about five in a sixty game season, you've
Speaker 1: already played over a third of the games. You gotta
Speaker 1: go on some kind of tear. So it is going
Speaker 1: to I think the start is gonna be key. And
Speaker 1: if any one of those favorites stumble out of the gate,
Speaker 1: it could mean that we're you know that we're looking
Speaker 1: at um, we're looking at some teams that maybe people
Speaker 1: didn't think about. And it always happens, right, you look
Speaker 1: at in a it's like a short series in postseason, right,
Speaker 1: the five team series. The better teams sometimes you get
Speaker 1: a hot picture, you get a team that's hitting the
Speaker 1: ball really well. Those those teams that aren't as good
Speaker 1: on paper can win those five games series. Where you
Speaker 1: think a seven game series usually the best team is
Speaker 1: going to play out and with But so it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how that all plays out. Yeah, you've
Speaker 1: got to think it favors the teams that have like
Speaker 1: veteran pitching staff. Who you know, these guys who have
Speaker 1: gotten a little extra time to recover the during the
Speaker 1: during the COVID, like they'll be able to, you know,
Speaker 1: like a natural national team. Like their chances repeating are
Speaker 1: probably a little bit better now when you have a
Speaker 1: Strasburg and and uh what kind of thing of his
Speaker 1: name here? S Yeah, you have those two guys, like
Speaker 1: those two veteran pitchers who have had a lot of
Speaker 1: time to rest now and if they come out just
Speaker 1: pitching lights out, like, well, I'm gonna win every every
Speaker 1: couple of games. Think about your pitching staff, right, you
Speaker 1: don't you don't have to save people's arms, right, sixty
Speaker 1: games there's no innings counts. Right, you don't have to.
Speaker 1: You don't have to give guys extra rest. You can start,
Speaker 1: you can start on your normal five days rest, um,
Speaker 1: and pitch. You don't have to worry about in a
Speaker 1: sixty games season. Um, some of these veteran pictures, like
Speaker 1: you said, they can they don't have to. They don't
Speaker 1: have to save themselves in the postseason because they were
Speaker 1: in the stretch run like you're already because you think
Speaker 1: about if we're playing a sixty game season, a hundred
Speaker 1: two games in, you know, where are we We're like
Speaker 1: in August, right, you know, we're we're already, you know,
Speaker 1: nearing towards the end of you know, the latter part
Speaker 1: of the season. And uh, it's gonna be interesting, uh
Speaker 1: to see how it all plays out. I just hope, pope,
Speaker 1: hope that we do get a season. Um, well, the
Speaker 1: players have agreed to we it's more breaking news during
Speaker 1: the show. This is maybe our new favorite time to record,
Speaker 1: it said, the mL B p A has agreed to
Speaker 1: report to camp on July one to play the sixty
Speaker 1: game season. Yeah, I mean that was that. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's a surprise. Like I said, they would have
Speaker 1: had the strike and that would have been completely disastrous, catastrophics.
Speaker 1: Let's go, they're gonna report the camp and it looks
Speaker 1: like you know, and that's the thing, if they if
Speaker 1: they had, if they had gotten the labor stuff out
Speaker 1: of the way, we might we might have been steeing
Speaker 1: real games on July four instead of you know, the
Speaker 1: end of July August, Like we are gonna now contest
Speaker 1: is still going on though, So we're good with that.
Speaker 1: No fans though, No fans of the hot dog eating contest.
Speaker 1: No fans. Oh, the hot dog eating contest is still
Speaker 1: going on. Yeah, it's six ft apart. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: six ft apart. It is gonna be. It's interesting cause
Speaker 1: I'm not traveling every year. I usually going back to
Speaker 1: New York on July fourth last couple of years, and
Speaker 1: this will be my first four in California for a
Speaker 1: little bit. Um, so that'll be case somebody's interested. That's
Speaker 1: my Travis MLB okay uh NHL. Not a ton they are.
Speaker 1: I'm reading that they're narrowing down the two hub cities. Um.
Speaker 1: It sounds like to me, if I had to, if
Speaker 1: I had to put money on it, I like Vegas
Speaker 1: and I like to ront them as my two Toronto
Speaker 1: in the east Vegas in the west. Um, but it
Speaker 1: sounds like there's still there's still a lot to be
Speaker 1: decided there. They're supposed to announce the two hub cities
Speaker 1: in a week or so. Canada does present some issues, Um,
Speaker 1: Canada has you know, they have restricted travel over the
Speaker 1: border in and out of Canada until I believe July's
Speaker 1: nineteen twentie somewhere and there, So that obviously will be
Speaker 1: something to keep an eye on. And uh, you know
Speaker 1: players testing positive. Austin Matthews, Um, who you know? Superstar
Speaker 1: Toronto maple leafs um is uh was tested positive. So
Speaker 1: again you're just gonna have to keep monitoring this and
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear about these tests. Um. That's the other thing. Um,
Speaker 1: are you guys okay you're okay with me saying huge?
Speaker 1: Are you okay that the Toronto maple leafs floral are
Speaker 1: not the leaves? Are you cool with that? I've never
Speaker 1: even thought about that. That's it's not quite right, is it.
Speaker 1: I'm not okay with that? You're not you'd rather than
Speaker 1: be the maple leaves. Well, it's dramatically correct. I think
Speaker 1: we have to stick to that, right, I think. But
Speaker 1: they've always been the maple leaves. You never realized. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I've never even thought about that. And then this is
Speaker 1: the first time. Yeah, they're the maple leaves. Well, I
Speaker 1: know their name, but I never thought about Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I had never thought about that until this week. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of breaking news in this show. July one
Speaker 1: is the is the day the restriction is lifted between
Speaker 1: so they might not affect them unless they extend it.
Speaker 1: I've got a question for you, Dean, since we talked
Speaker 1: a little about the hot dog eating contest? What do
Speaker 1: you think the over under is on the winner? Sixty travel?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say sixty five? Seventy one and a half?
Speaker 1: Good god? How many did he eat last time? Well? Not, well,
Speaker 1: now you're you're asking me questions. I'm not any four. Well,
Speaker 1: Joey chest Out has won the last However many What
Speaker 1: did he eat last year? Let's see hot dog eating
Speaker 1: record four? No, but he didn't eat seventy four last year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: contest hot dogs in ten minutes nineteen? Who won the
Speaker 1: hot dog eating contest twenty nine? Well, I know he
Speaker 1: won it. I'm looking for seventy one. Speaking of thrown
Speaker 1: up after workout, you consider this a workout? And do
Speaker 1: you throw up after this? Who could have to throw up?
Speaker 1: I'd love to see. I want to see if you
Speaker 1: could eat seventy one hot dogs in twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. Couldn't four years. I don't think I could.
Speaker 1: I did. The way they do it, and that the
Speaker 1: competitive eating is fascinating because it's a it's a whole,
Speaker 1: it's a whole like thing. It's a movement. And they
Speaker 1: go and there's all these records like you could if
Speaker 1: you if you look, you could google you know most
Speaker 1: most um hard boiled eggs in in ten minutes, most
Speaker 1: you know, chili peppers, and it's insane. They do they
Speaker 1: set these records and they actually work out, they expand
Speaker 1: their stomach. There's a there's a science to this because
Speaker 1: the the the human stomach is not designed and neither
Speaker 1: is the human stomach. Oh, stomach has a silent age.
Speaker 1: Nobody makes it makes a deal about that. But the
Speaker 1: it's not it wasn't made to take in seventy hot
Speaker 1: dogs and buns in what is it, twelve minutes, ten minutes,
Speaker 1: ten minutes. That's seven hot dogs in a minute. And
Speaker 1: think about think about the advances in hot dog eating
Speaker 1: when it when I think it was Koba Yashi who
Speaker 1: started the technique of wetting the buns to allow for
Speaker 1: easier you know, intake Like it's not you know, maybe
Speaker 1: that's what we should do for the fourth of July.
Speaker 1: Me you know, I'm not going to be a hot
Speaker 1: dogs and just see if you could do seventy in
Speaker 1: a day, I'm the three of us. I don't think
Speaker 1: could do seventies. Three dude, we could definitely do hot
Speaker 1: dogs if I if I go to barbecue and I
Speaker 1: have two hot dogs with bonds and then I'm full, like,
Speaker 1: I'm like good, Like did you say Mayo? What did
Speaker 1: you say? Mayo? No mustard? Okay, I thought you said Mayo.
Speaker 1: I was gonna We're gonna go down on the path
Speaker 1: anything Mayo should be like band, there's nothing good, there's
Speaker 1: no redeeming quad. Another interesting fact about the hot dogging.
Speaker 1: He's a minus eleven hundred favorite. That's a huge favorite.
Speaker 1: He's there's nobody that touches him. Now, it's not even
Speaker 1: it's not a it's a question of whether he can
Speaker 1: break his own record. That's it. I might get into this,
Speaker 1: but still minus eleven hundred is that that's still not
Speaker 1: the biggest underdog in history, the biggest faith one Tyson. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it started there. I think it went off of
Speaker 1: whatt I landed at thirty six. I'll look it up.
Speaker 1: But we talked about it before. Okay, Um, all right, well,
Speaker 1: who let's let's next week. Let's lay some. Let's Joe
Speaker 1: put some that's out for us on the hot dog
Speaker 1: eating contest, and next week we'll make some predictions. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to break. When we come back, I don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about stuff. I don't know what we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about. We're gonna talk about this stuff. Show forty
Speaker 1: two next on Good Calls. All right, we're back on
Speaker 1: Good Calls. And in honor of our forty second show,
Speaker 1: we want to discuss who was the greatest player to
Speaker 1: wear a number forty two? UM, so many great players.
Speaker 1: But I think, and I'll be sleep as we think
Speaker 1: about what's happening in the country today. It certainly is appropriate.
Speaker 1: But to me with forty two, it starts and ends
Speaker 1: with Jackie Robinson. I mean, if you think about how many,
Speaker 1: how many players, UM have a day in their sport
Speaker 1: where everybody wears their number right on Jackie Robinson Day,
Speaker 1: when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball, UM, everybody wears forty two. I believe now
Speaker 1: that the number is retired across the sports. Correct And uh,
Speaker 1: And you know so for me, I think we take
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson out of it and and and he kind
Speaker 1: of at the he's at the top, and then we
Speaker 1: kind of say, okay, who who is the next best
Speaker 1: to wear forty two? And there there were some legit
Speaker 1: forty two's and just to name a few, Ronnie Lott,
Speaker 1: Mariano Rivera, Sid Luckman, James Worthy, Paul wall of Field,
Speaker 1: Bruce Sutter, mo Van Pat Tillman. I mean, out of
Speaker 1: that group you're talking about, I mean, that's the cream
Speaker 1: of the crop right there. Um. You know, I think,
Speaker 1: staying with baseball, you probably for me, of that list,
Speaker 1: it's tough, but I think it's for me, it's between
Speaker 1: Lot and Marianna. Yeah, I think those are the two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those are the two favorites for me as well. I
Speaker 1: think you look at obviously James Worthy was an unbelievable players,
Speaker 1: Sid Luckman, Um, Paul Warfield, Bruce Suitter, who was who
Speaker 1: was you know, really you think about the age of
Speaker 1: the closer, and Bruce Suitter was one of the first
Speaker 1: great closers, um along you know during that you know exactly, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, ma Vaughn great player. I don't think more
Speaker 1: Vaughan is in the category, um of some of these
Speaker 1: other guys and certainly Pat Tilman. I think Pat Tilman
Speaker 1: as a symbol what what heat repres zended. I think
Speaker 1: that's um. You know, certainly a great player played at
Speaker 1: Arizona State, played for the Cardinals. But I think what
Speaker 1: he represented somebody in the prime of their career going
Speaker 1: off to to serve his country and ultimately paying the
Speaker 1: greatest sacrifice. UM is certainly the symbol. UM is amazing
Speaker 1: in the person that he was. But if we're talking
Speaker 1: about on the field performance, it's Rivera and Ronnie Lot right,
Speaker 1: and these are two, um, two guys that that are
Speaker 1: in the are I don't think it's a debate with Rivera, UM,
Speaker 1: and it's probably a maybe there's a debate, but I
Speaker 1: still think he's number one at their position, right, Maria
Speaker 1: Mariano Rivera, As much as it pains me to say,
Speaker 1: because I hate the Yankees, is the greatest closer revolves,
Speaker 1: without a doubt unanimous Hall of Fame, the only player
Speaker 1: that's gone into the Hall of Fame unanimously, Which is
Speaker 1: crazy that there's only been one, right, Like that's crazy,
Speaker 1: Like baseball writers, get your shipped together. Stop being an asshole, seriously,
Speaker 1: because because if if if guys like William Mays and
Speaker 1: Sandy Kolfax and and and Ted Williams and and you know,
Speaker 1: Hank Aaron aren't getting in unanimously. But what what are
Speaker 1: we doing? Like? What is that about? So but Marion
Speaker 1: ribera Yes, um, greatest closed of all the time, Ronnie Lot,
Speaker 1: you know who who? Who else would you put in
Speaker 1: the same category from a safety perspective? You know better
Speaker 1: than Ronny Lot, you know, just trying to think of
Speaker 1: you know, Paula Mallo, I think Ed Reid, You've got
Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to think of of of players
Speaker 1: from from that era seventies and eighties, UM into the
Speaker 1: into the nineties. UM, you know probably you know, I
Speaker 1: think those are those are so guys, those are some
Speaker 1: of the guys. I just want to let me see
Speaker 1: how Google Night Trying Lane was he had was he
Speaker 1: he was a quarter back? He was Sean Taylor was
Speaker 1: a corner to Was he a safety? Sean Taylor was
Speaker 1: It was a safety. And I don't know if Sean
Speaker 1: Taylor played enough. I'll tell you what you know. Finn
Speaker 1: Jim Finn, who was on the show. He's a friend
Speaker 1: of mine. And when I asked him, who was the
Speaker 1: nastiest duty's ever faced. He said, without a doubt, Sean Taylor. J.
Speaker 1: Taylor was monster doud. I mean Sean Taylor was on
Speaker 1: was on those those Miami you know hurricane teams. UM.
Speaker 1: Some of the guys listed here. You know you've got
Speaker 1: Jack Tatum Um probably more remembered for the Daryl Stingley hit.
Speaker 1: Brian Dawkins played, UM played more recently. Doron Cherry was
Speaker 1: a great player with the Chiefs. UM, Willie Wood Um
Speaker 1: old man Willie Um. You've got some Ed Reid. We
Speaker 1: mentioned Steve Attwater, great player. Remember they hit on on
Speaker 1: Christian McCoy U. Joe mentioned Troy Palamalo, Larry Wilson played
Speaker 1: with the Cardinals Hall of Famer. UH, Paul Krausse played.
Speaker 1: I have a question for going through my list, it's
Speaker 1: maybe three or four guys. Here's my question, and since
Speaker 1: you have some inside NFL information, was the cutting of
Speaker 1: the fingers off thing? Is that a true story? Is
Speaker 1: that a math? It's a true story. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you running a lot of story. Here's here's my Ronnie
Speaker 1: lot So. Yes, it's a true story. UM. One of
Speaker 1: the greatest stories it was. You know that he was
Speaker 1: either you know, he wasn't gonna be able to play.
Speaker 1: And then they said, okay, just and it's not his
Speaker 1: whole pinky, it's it's you ever me running a lot.
Speaker 1: It's it's part of the pinky. It's like the top half.
Speaker 1: So he has like a nub um and yes, like
Speaker 1: you know, just get rid of it and and and
Speaker 1: he can play. Here's my my running a lot story.
Speaker 1: Ronnie lot Um was on. There was a there's a
Speaker 1: group called the Player Safety Advisory Panel UM, which is
Speaker 1: a group of former players, coaches, um, medical people that
Speaker 1: John Madden shares with the NFL and they they advised
Speaker 1: the commissioner and the Competition Committee on issues related to
Speaker 1: obviously players safety. Righty Lott was on this was on
Speaker 1: this panel. And uh and so you know I used
Speaker 1: to be on conference calls with them and worked with
Speaker 1: coach Matten on it and meetings and and I remember
Speaker 1: it was two thousand ten, two thousand eleven, and then
Speaker 1: this was when the league really started to look at
Speaker 1: hits on defenseless players, especially hits on receivers. And if
Speaker 1: you remember the Steelers at that time, you know, we're
Speaker 1: coming off the Super Bowl championship, they had, you know,
Speaker 1: James Harrison and some of these guys in the secondary,
Speaker 1: Ryan Clark and some of these Troy Palamalo, big big hitters,
Speaker 1: and and there was just some high profile hits that
Speaker 1: were illegal in the league really started to crack down
Speaker 1: on those hits. And it was a big, big bone
Speaker 1: of contention with the players, especially the defensive backs and
Speaker 1: the safeties. Um saying that, how how do you expect
Speaker 1: me to make that play? When the receiver right, the
Speaker 1: receiver jumps to catch a pass, my aiming point is
Speaker 1: in the chest, and then the receiver comes down to
Speaker 1: the ground and I end up getting him in the head.
Speaker 1: How am I supposed to adjust at full speed? And
Speaker 1: and it was interesting now here. I am like, right,
Speaker 1: I'm in officiating. I can't tell Troy Palamalo or Ryan
Speaker 1: Clark or Brian Dawkins. I can't tell them what they
Speaker 1: can and can't do, right. I can only tell them
Speaker 1: what the rule is and what you have to avoid.
Speaker 1: So hearing from me was only gonna go so far.
Speaker 1: But Ronnie Lot Ronnie Lock got up and said, listen,
Speaker 1: he said, early in my career and this is running.
Speaker 1: Lock played right in the in the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 1: This was we're talking about two thousand and ten and beyond.
Speaker 1: He said, early on in my career, I realized that
Speaker 1: I had to change the way I played or else
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna play in the National Football League very well.
Speaker 1: I was. I was going to injure myself and I
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna play. So that carried so much weight when
Speaker 1: somebody like Ronnie lots Is, Hey, I changed the way
Speaker 1: I played. I was able to do it. You can too,
Speaker 1: and and and it was just like, okay, like, you know,
Speaker 1: screw that Blandino guy, Ronnie a lot. You know, this
Speaker 1: is a guy that is, you know, consider the greatest
Speaker 1: safety of all time, considered one of the toughest, biggest
Speaker 1: hitters of all time. And he said, look, you can't adjust,
Speaker 1: and you have to adjust or you're not gonna stay
Speaker 1: in this league very long. And that really hit home.
Speaker 1: And I remember him telling me, Ronnie telling me that,
Speaker 1: telling it to the players, and uh, and it was
Speaker 1: really important to to to hear that, because again, those
Speaker 1: players safety rules are there to not just protect the
Speaker 1: player getting it, but there to protect the player who's
Speaker 1: who gets who delivers the hit, And uh, and so
Speaker 1: that was you know, I thought Ronnie Lott stepped up
Speaker 1: and uh and really made an impact there. So that's
Speaker 1: a that's a great story. Like we didn't know going
Speaker 1: into this show when I was putting the rundown together,
Speaker 1: like that was gonna come out of it. Like the
Speaker 1: stories that you have are just it's amazing. And one
Speaker 1: thing I take away from that Ronnie lot stories, it
Speaker 1: just shows you the great player just make adjustments and
Speaker 1: and these guys who always make make excuses about stuff
Speaker 1: like yeah, they just they just they go away and
Speaker 1: they were And then Mike Tomlin made another comment in
Speaker 1: a meeting where you know, this is a guy that
Speaker 1: you know, was coaching a team that was you know,
Speaker 1: that was winning. Um because of how physical they played
Speaker 1: and because of the you know a lot of you
Speaker 1: know a lot of what they were doing on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of all. They had good offense as well,
Speaker 1: um with Roethlisberger and and and and and some of
Speaker 1: the guys on the offensive side, but defense was what
Speaker 1: was doing it. And that's always been the Steelers kind
Speaker 1: of calling card um. And we kept hearing over and over,
Speaker 1: how am I, how am I supposed to make that play?
Speaker 1: If I if I if I can't hit that guy
Speaker 1: in the head because of where my body is positioned,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't not hit him in the head.
Speaker 1: How am I supposed to make that play? And Mike
Speaker 1: Tomlin stood up, and this is a guy who has
Speaker 1: a lot riding on on these games, and he said,
Speaker 1: you know what, sometimes you just can't make that play.
Speaker 1: You know, you just can't make playing that That's that's
Speaker 1: the reality of it. If you if you've got to
Speaker 1: hit him in the head, you can't make that play
Speaker 1: that way because you're gonna hurt yourself, you're gonna hurt
Speaker 1: the player, you're gonna hurt the team. And we've got
Speaker 1: to figure out another way to do it. And and
Speaker 1: that's the the amazing part about what NFL athletes. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's for other sports, but my experiences with
Speaker 1: NFL players, they adjust whatever rule change you throw at them,
Speaker 1: they adjust, and the fouls may you may get an
Speaker 1: uptick initially, but they tend to level off because players adjust,
Speaker 1: coaches adjust, and they know what they're doing. They know
Speaker 1: what techniques to teach, they know how to coach bad
Speaker 1: technique out of the game. And you still see fifteen
Speaker 1: and sixteen fouls a game historically, even with all the
Speaker 1: players safety rules that have been added over the last
Speaker 1: however many years. And that's that's because the players and
Speaker 1: coaches know what they're doing and they know how to
Speaker 1: adjust and uh and and that's you know, that's what
Speaker 1: it is. But um so, if we're gonna say Mary
Speaker 1: Anno versus Ronnie Lott, who's the greatest forty two outside
Speaker 1: of Jackie Robinson, I'm voting for a lot. Dude cut
Speaker 1: his finger off, can't lose. You can't see Mariana River
Speaker 1: being cut off my finger. Let me go pitch. Nor
Speaker 1: is his left hand? Maybe listen? And he pitched one
Speaker 1: inning a game. I'm sorry. He was great at what
Speaker 1: he did. But you pitched one in a game. Bro,
Speaker 1: this guy's out there, did you just wrote? Marianna River wrote,
Speaker 1: so toughness factor record the day, toughness Factor. And you
Speaker 1: pitched one inning. Bro, Let's put it on a shirt, Bro,
Speaker 1: you pitch one in in Bro. If I was negotiating
Speaker 1: his contract and his agent came, was like, we want bro,
Speaker 1: you pitch one inning. Let's extract it like that. Of course,
Speaker 1: the whole scene, I think Stein Burner said that to
Speaker 1: them one time, to his agents, like, Bro, he pitches
Speaker 1: me and Steinbrenner got a lot in coming, Travis, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with Ronny a lot
Speaker 1: because when you think of big hits, and if you
Speaker 1: pull up the tape on that guy, the hits are incredible,
Speaker 1: Like he just hits people. They go down and he
Speaker 1: kind of just doesn't look like he's even phased. We
Speaker 1: had him recently on one of the FS one shows
Speaker 1: in the in the highlights that were playing when he
Speaker 1: was talking, the guy just leveled people and it just
Speaker 1: never seemed to face and he cut his finger off.
Speaker 1: And you know you pitched, Bro, you pitched one inning.
Speaker 1: I think I don't. And look I am I am
Speaker 1: as I am as anti Yankee fan as you will
Speaker 1: ever find um. And I always I do recognize the
Speaker 1: greatness of Marianna Rivera, and he does. He did only
Speaker 1: pitch one inning, Bro, but it was the most important inning.
Speaker 1: And if we if anything, if anything, if anything history
Speaker 1: has taught us about baseball is the hardest three outs
Speaker 1: are the last three ounds. And those Yankee teams didn't
Speaker 1: have to worry about then ninth inning especially in the postseason.
Speaker 1: He was to worry about the last three outs I've watched,
Speaker 1: I've watched. I'm a Dodger fan, whatever team it is,
Speaker 1: you don't it was over, like it was over. The
Speaker 1: closest that I experienced that from my team was when
Speaker 1: Eric Ganyer, and we know that that he wasn't doing it,
Speaker 1: you know, cleanly. But when Eric Ganyer, you know, saved
Speaker 1: whatever the record was, saves in a row like it
Speaker 1: was the lights out. He came in and the game
Speaker 1: was over. And that's what rap Rivera was throughout his career,
Speaker 1: especially in the postseason. All that said, screw the Yankees running. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my cat, the Yankees is there to revent. Mariano Rivera
Speaker 1: closed that way to when he gains against my Twins
Speaker 1: of days. Twins crushed me every because I want the
Speaker 1: Yankees to lose. It's like, oh, the play Twins, playing
Speaker 1: the Twins, and it's like it's not even like a series.
Speaker 1: Now have won a game in New York in thirty years, right, it's, oh,
Speaker 1: my god, like it. And they've had good teams all right.
Speaker 1: The other here's one that I wanted to throw at you.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this the other day. Um the
Speaker 1: timing right. We have an hour, and I broke up
Speaker 1: the hour into four fifteen minutes segments, which fifteen minute
Speaker 1: minutes segment in the hour goes longest, feels the longest,
Speaker 1: and which feels the shortest the longest in our strongest. No,
Speaker 1: in life, when you when you're sitting there and you
Speaker 1: have an hour, right, it's coming to say, it's coming
Speaker 1: up on four o'clock is four to four fifteen, four fifteen,
Speaker 1: four thirty, four thirty to four forty five or four
Speaker 1: forty five to five o'clock, which feels like the last one,
Speaker 1: the last one feel the longest, Yeah, because you start
Speaker 1: to get that anticipation like I'm almost getting ready to leave. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to go down with something fun. Well, you
Speaker 1: have to you have to tell us that I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of ji. I just think on it on on. In general,
Speaker 1: for me, the one that feels the longest, I don't
Speaker 1: know why is thirty. I don't know why, Like, what
Speaker 1: is going on in your head? Do you actually think
Speaker 1: about these things? Quarrantine dude? So here's the other thing
Speaker 1: for me, how do you picture how do you picture
Speaker 1: time in your mind? I don't or or or dates.
Speaker 1: How do you picture that? Or days of the week?
Speaker 1: See I picture it. I pictured day days of the week.
Speaker 1: There's boxes and it goes from right to left and
Speaker 1: Monday is the Sunday is the first box, and then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and it gets progressively the shading changes as you go
Speaker 1: through the week. Wow, you draw? Can you put this together?
Speaker 1: And I want an need to see this? What are
Speaker 1: you like, rain man? Now? What's going on? That's what
Speaker 1: I picture in my mind. The same thing for the
Speaker 1: calendar in the month. It starts at one and it
Speaker 1: goes right to left and it works its way up
Speaker 1: and each It's like a calendar, but it's not like
Speaker 1: what you would normally picture a calendar. It's one line
Speaker 1: that goes across. Okay, it's a timeline. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: a timeline. You know how I picture of a calendar.
Speaker 1: Just open up your iPhone. It looks exactly like that
Speaker 1: goes the longest. For me, I've never once even considered
Speaker 1: thinking about that. Yeah, I have to. I have to
Speaker 1: go with Joe on that. Like the only thing I
Speaker 1: would instantly think of. I wouldn't think of the fun
Speaker 1: things I'm doing. It's like you're not watching the clock.
Speaker 1: When you're doing that. It's like when you're thinking about
Speaker 1: getting out of work and you're like, Okay, can I
Speaker 1: duck out of here a little early? All right? So
Speaker 1: you're you're thinking about getting out of work. You have
Speaker 1: an hour left, you have an hour left in your day,
Speaker 1: and you know you can leave at five o'clock. It's
Speaker 1: now four o'clock. Which one of those fifteen minutes segments
Speaker 1: is going to go the quickest? And which one? And
Speaker 1: you're doing the same thing, whatever your job is, you're
Speaker 1: doing the same thing. Which one is going to feel
Speaker 1: the quickest and which one is gonna feel the longest.
Speaker 1: I have to think the longest is just the last
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. See, I don't think that way because at
Speaker 1: that you're already at the end. I kiss. Yeah, you see,
Speaker 1: you're on the downslope of it. Maybe that four four
Speaker 1: thirty you're like, oh man, that's like, I just get
Speaker 1: the four thirty. I'll be, I'll be. I'm in the clear.
Speaker 1: I'm on the slope. But I want to get to
Speaker 1: four five because now i'll start packing up. You convinced me,
Speaker 1: so now I'm packing. So four thirty to four five
Speaker 1: is the biggest hump. See which set of your intensive
Speaker 1: exercise or whatever it was, is the hardest. It's always
Speaker 1: the last. No, it's not. It's not the last because
Speaker 1: you're you can see the light at the end of
Speaker 1: the tunnel. That's this might be a poll. We should
Speaker 1: put this out because I think it's the end. I
Speaker 1: agree because when I'm doing these workout classes with my wife,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to talk about it earlier. I do
Speaker 1: these thirty minute workout classes my wife now in the garage.
Speaker 1: I don't throw up after him. But I tell you
Speaker 1: what when that when that instructor on YouTube tells me
Speaker 1: ten seconds left, I'm like, gripping hard. I'm going, I'm going,
Speaker 1: and I'm down ten pounds two Dean. Nice workouts with
Speaker 1: your wife. Huh yeah, all right, that's cool. We're going
Speaker 1: to motivate her and she motivates me. Where are the
Speaker 1: eight kids when you guys are working out the two kids?
Speaker 1: This is the one time in the day when their
Speaker 1: naps will line up and we're able to get outside
Speaker 1: for a half hour. All right, cool? All right, well,
Speaker 1: let's you got a bonus. Let's go. Let's do bringing
Speaker 1: Blendino people that smoke indoors? Okay, people who smokes indoors anymore?
Speaker 1: My aunt, my aunt does who smokes anymore? Period? Who smoked? No,
Speaker 1: there's people still smoke, but who people that smoke indoor
Speaker 1: is our next level? Like that's next level if you like,
Speaker 1: there's something. I'm not a smoker, and kids, remember don't smoke, okay, right,
Speaker 1: but there's some there's kind of like a badass tery
Speaker 1: element to somebody that just lights just in in your
Speaker 1: living room like a guest and just lights one up.
Speaker 1: There's just like like that's that's giving absolutely no And
Speaker 1: and that was the norm for how long. Like we
Speaker 1: could smoke on airplanes back in the day. On airplanes,
Speaker 1: you could smoke in an office. You could smoke. Like
Speaker 1: there wasn't a boardroom in America where people weren't just
Speaker 1: right smoking eaters Like you're pretty you're pretty old, Dean
Speaker 1: was did you ever? Were you ever on a plane
Speaker 1: when people were smoking? No? God, how horrible that would be.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember I remember bars. I remember bars,
Speaker 1: and I remember smoking section in restaurants. Restaurants, Remember the
Speaker 1: way in the non smoking section was too long. I'd
Speaker 1: be like, all right, I'll go sit in the smoking
Speaker 1: section and then I'd get a pack of Marlboros from
Speaker 1: the from the cigarettes machine. Horrible. I don't even like
Speaker 1: doing Vegas casinos anymore because just a hard to breathe. Well,
Speaker 1: remember what your clothes smelled like after night out at
Speaker 1: the bars and get smoking bars clowes smell like an amstrap. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what I always just always thought of, like asking
Speaker 1: people like how long is it until Vegas has smokeless casinos?
Speaker 1: Like will that happen? Like I don't know, because then
Speaker 1: because they would that would that would eliminate a big,
Speaker 1: big portion of their of their customs. Yeah, there's one
Speaker 1: at every table, and and there's like just people that
Speaker 1: sit at the slots with their bucket and there and there,
Speaker 1: you know, the parliaments and they just go at it
Speaker 1: like pulling that we pulling that lever and smoking cigarettes. Um.
Speaker 1: But I do think that anybody that smokes indoors is
Speaker 1: is next level, Like without question, where did you even
Speaker 1: come up with this? Like who's doing that? You've seen
Speaker 1: this recently at my aunt nuts my even my brother
Speaker 1: doesn't smoke inside that He'll go outside of the house
Speaker 1: and he doesn't give a half about a Yeah, my
Speaker 1: brother would even go outside. Now he's actually moved to
Speaker 1: the vaping. And then then then that's a whole new thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, well it doesn't smell, is it okay? If
Speaker 1: I do it inside? Now just go outside, dude. They
Speaker 1: want to do it that, they want to do it
Speaker 1: in the tesla. Come on, bro, now they're coming no
Speaker 1: way right, No, the Tesla. Tesla, I think, doesn't tesla
Speaker 1: have an automatic ejection seat if it smells, No, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't know. But it does have a clean air
Speaker 1: filter filtration. It definitely does. Elon Musk is putting something
Speaker 1: and like you you if you smoke in a Tesla,
Speaker 1: they zap your life force and you live on top
Speaker 1: of the smoking. You live like an additional five years.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we talked about the testa because I was
Speaker 1: gonna bring it up earlier. When you're talking about the cameras,
Speaker 1: because the I mean, the Tesla's got cameras all over them.
Speaker 1: They're constantly recording. If you scratch my car, I'll know
Speaker 1: what it was. You see now, although you're although you can't,
Speaker 1: you can't charge you Tesla at the Fox Lot for
Speaker 1: all the for all the great the great technology it has.
Speaker 1: You can best prank you've ever played. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was a prank. I don't know, that might
Speaker 1: have just been karma. All right, this has been good Calls,
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