Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandina, a production of
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Speaker 1: The crew is all here social distancing again. We had
Speaker 1: that one. We had that one in person episode and
Speaker 1: it was me. It is the greatest two hours of
Speaker 1: our lives. Highlight. It was the highlight of my post February.
Speaker 1: It was really just in Travis's garage, hanging out, talking
Speaker 1: about all the cool stuff I have in there, just
Speaker 1: going Scott, you weren't there, you missed out, But we're
Speaker 1: back to We're back to zoom. Scott, what's the latest?
Speaker 1: Give us what's the latest on covid gets. Let's start
Speaker 1: California and then and then let's go countrywide. What what
Speaker 1: what's the latest? I mean, I've kind of just given
Speaker 1: up at this period, and uh, well know, you know
Speaker 1: this will seg nicely into everything we have to talk about.
Speaker 1: But it was interesting. People were doing maps where it's like,
Speaker 1: where are cases still kind of going up and they're
Speaker 1: not doing so well? And where are they playing college football?
Speaker 1: And it's basically one for one, all right, But why
Speaker 1: why does California I mean weird? I feel like the
Speaker 1: state has been very active. Why are cases still going up?
Speaker 1: It's I mean, I think it's just like the population size.
Speaker 1: But what are you guys hearing? So what are you watching?
Speaker 1: What I'm hearing like kids? And then I just heard
Speaker 1: like a roar or something. Are you watching wild wild
Speaker 1: country over there? There's like some animals sounds. I don't
Speaker 1: hear anything. Do you hear still? You don't hear that? No,
Speaker 1: You're you're own might be like connected to a speaker
Speaker 1: or something, because it sounds like this is our audio guy,
Speaker 1: We're hearing what you were looking at on your phone
Speaker 1: right now, you know, huh. And we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: mark this n So I thought it was I thought
Speaker 1: it was me for exathing, Like, am I going crazy?
Speaker 1: What's going on? They've got a notification that they might
Speaker 1: they might um suspend right Well that I got that
Speaker 1: today too. That's that's not related to COVID. That's uh
Speaker 1: Uber and Lift because he's based on the employee. Yes,
Speaker 1: California has legislation that's gonna possibly make contract workers like
Speaker 1: that have to be covered more like like as an
Speaker 1: actual employee. So Lift and Uber are threatening to leave
Speaker 1: California if that goes through I mean right now, but
Speaker 1: they they can't leave. Well. Also, it's like the timing
Speaker 1: isn't really like there's not a lot of leverage for
Speaker 1: them threatening to leave where it's like, all right, no
Speaker 1: one's using them. Anyone was using them now, but we're
Speaker 1: all gonna like hopefully in in you know, whatever time,
Speaker 1: we're gonna need him again. And because I don't want
Speaker 1: to start calling Calves no, yeah, yeah, all right, so NFL.
Speaker 1: Um so really not you know, not a ton going on.
Speaker 1: Camp started in terms of right, they've padded practices this week, UM,
Speaker 1: knock on wood. The news, you know, testing this protocol
Speaker 1: seemed to be going well, and uh so not a
Speaker 1: ton going on there. There wasn't some officiating news, um
Speaker 1: the league, you know. It was um reported that the
Speaker 1: league has done away with the full time officiating program.
Speaker 1: Look this thing. When I was at the NFL, you know,
Speaker 1: and I I was head of officiating two thirteen, and
Speaker 1: we we had full time officials, like a program in place.
Speaker 1: We started to go through an application process, we started
Speaker 1: to interview, we were in the process of hiring full
Speaker 1: time game officials. Um, it's gone back and forth. The
Speaker 1: league wanted to um, incorporate that in their new cb
Speaker 1: A with the with the officials, and they actually hired
Speaker 1: um ten full time officials this offseason. They had an
Speaker 1: application process, they had an interview process, and there were
Speaker 1: ten officials that were gonna be full time and then
Speaker 1: basically they just pulled the plug. They cited costs, UM
Speaker 1: and so UH, there will be no full time officials
Speaker 1: in the NFL this year. There we'll see, you know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna cite costs as this COVID related UM. I
Speaker 1: would imagine anytime the league cut costs, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: related to UH to COVID UM and UH. And so
Speaker 1: that's the deal with that. They did have five officials
Speaker 1: opt out for the season. They had to hire additional officials.
Speaker 1: What's gonna be interesting is you're gonna have no preseason.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have an official coming directly from college that
Speaker 1: has never worked in the NFL game is going to
Speaker 1: be out there Week one, working in the NFL game,
Speaker 1: NFL rules, and not having that preseason. So it's going
Speaker 1: to be a steep, steep learning curve for these officials
Speaker 1: and all of the officials without a preseason. UM. But
Speaker 1: everybody's in the same boat. Players, coaches, no one has
Speaker 1: the preseason, so five did opt out. It was funny
Speaker 1: of one of the five that opted out that the
Speaker 1: league UM let go UH several officials in the offseason
Speaker 1: based on performance and the you know, the the the union,
Speaker 1: the NFL are A represents the game officials. Day filed
Speaker 1: the grievance on two of those officials. UM the union
Speaker 1: won that grievance, and so two of those officials were
Speaker 1: reinstated for the season. And one of those officials that
Speaker 1: was reinstated it out. So this guy went from being
Speaker 1: fired to guarantee a job in because of COVID. That
Speaker 1: is using, that is making the best of a bad situation.
Speaker 1: That's I feel like that's something Joe would Joe would
Speaker 1: would pull off. Joe would be like slick like that.
Speaker 1: But that's the deal. Some people maximize their opportunities, maximize.
Speaker 1: I can't be upset with the guy. No, I don't
Speaker 1: blame him. I don't blame him at all. But look,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. Everybody, full time game officials, it's not
Speaker 1: there's there's a misconception there game officials the benefit there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, NFL officials work right. Baseball umpires work. They
Speaker 1: worked the games that they're scheduled. NBA referees worked the
Speaker 1: games their scheduled, NHL referees worked the games that their scheduled.
Speaker 1: It just happens to be more games every week. There's
Speaker 1: more games in those other sports. NFL officials worked the
Speaker 1: games that their scheduled once a week and during the week,
Speaker 1: and that's the way football has always been. So during
Speaker 1: the week, what are they gonna do sit around though
Speaker 1: they're gonna have other jobs, right and you know, yeah
Speaker 1: they can watch film. Yeah, you know, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: have game officials, NFL officials working practice every week. Hey,
Speaker 1: this year they can't even work practice. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: You're not gonna have additional people of practice under these protocols,
Speaker 1: but you can't. We're gonna be working practice and then
Speaker 1: working games. UM, that creates that familiarity can create issues.
Speaker 1: They are as full time as they're gonna get and uh,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. Labeling them full time, UM, to
Speaker 1: me is more of just a pr thing. And and
Speaker 1: you're still gonna have officials that, um make mistakes, and
Speaker 1: you're still gonna have officiating issues, whether they're they're deemed
Speaker 1: full time or not, but they do put in, um
Speaker 1: a lot of time into their craft. They spend full
Speaker 1: time hours on officiating all all during the week and
Speaker 1: uh and you know, and then on the weekends they're
Speaker 1: they're gone and they're at the state, they're at the
Speaker 1: city and putting in the work. So it's I don't
Speaker 1: know what full time officiating gets us personally, but that's
Speaker 1: just how I am. Joe's a part time audio guy,
Speaker 1: and he's one of the best in the business, the best, right,
Speaker 1: the best. Um college football, So college football, Scott, you
Speaker 1: were saying, right, so the a c C is planning
Speaker 1: on playing U n C. Who's in the a c C. Right,
Speaker 1: they were gonna have kids on campus, and then there
Speaker 1: was a rash of positive tests. Now we're gonna be online.
Speaker 1: But UNC has said we are going to participate. What
Speaker 1: what else is going on? M Notary Dame right seeing
Speaker 1: bo Yes, yeah, so U n C. Uh, they weren't.
Speaker 1: They're being a little coy about actually the total number
Speaker 1: of cases. But U n c s school paper had
Speaker 1: a headline that said, uh, you know, this is a cluster,
Speaker 1: but we can swear on this, right, it just has
Speaker 1: the market explicit unfortunately that like the headline was like
Speaker 1: it's a cluster fuck so market explicit. Yeah in the
Speaker 1: student paper like even then, so uh yeah, and now
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, Um, you know they actually I think the
Speaker 1: president of Notre Dame run in editorial, had an editorial
Speaker 1: run in the New York Times like a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago saying, hey, we're gonna have kids on class on campus.
Speaker 1: But then you know, Notre Dame's moving to I believe
Speaker 1: a uh distance learning for two weeks now because of
Speaker 1: undergrad outbreak. So um, you know these are schools that
Speaker 1: have football plans too, So um yeah, Notre Dame is
Speaker 1: gonna play in the a SEC. Obviously North Carolina is
Speaker 1: in the a SEC. Um, this is you know, we're
Speaker 1: coming to crunch time where uh you know, the SEC,
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve in the SEC, and the a c
Speaker 1: C are gonna have to make some decisions pretty time,
Speaker 1: pretty soon. Um. The y SEC is scheduled to start September,
Speaker 1: so they pushed back. Um I think the Big Twelve
Speaker 1: released part of their schedule. Um don't Travis, you can
Speaker 1: find out when they're scheduled to start. Um bcly I
Speaker 1: think is pushed back but hey, the sun Belt is
Speaker 1: scheduled September five, baby, yeah, the Belt football? Yeah. Oh.
Speaker 1: And one other thing is uh, I believe it was
Speaker 1: the Alabama a d tweeted tweeted out the other day.
Speaker 1: It's like a photo of people I believe it was
Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa, of people just kind of waiting in line,
Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, these people don't want or the
Speaker 1: exact thing is who wants college sports this fall? Question mark?
Speaker 1: Obviously not these people, because it was just a big
Speaker 1: pack of people. And I will say I think that's
Speaker 1: really the big concern. I think because student athletes also
Speaker 1: we're tweeting. I believe it was Auburn student athletes that
Speaker 1: were like, hey, we're back on campus and no one's
Speaker 1: wearing masks. And for a lot of these guys, I
Speaker 1: do think they'll follow the rules. We joke about, Hey,
Speaker 1: they're gonna go out and party, but they want to play.
Speaker 1: I believe the majority will follow the rules. But what
Speaker 1: can they do if they have to go to a
Speaker 1: class where someone has been just partying all weekend and
Speaker 1: has it and is spreading it in the classroom, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of out of their hands. A lot,
Speaker 1: because even though they'll mostly stay together, they'll mostly be
Speaker 1: eating together. You can't walk around a college campus a
Speaker 1: campus not everybody's gonna buy by the rules. And I
Speaker 1: agree with you, Scott. I think I think these student
Speaker 1: athletes they want to play. There's so much you look
Speaker 1: at what what's happening with the Big Ten and and
Speaker 1: Justin Fields from a house state, and they're putting together.
Speaker 1: He put together a petition over which, injuring fifty signatures,
Speaker 1: parents want to go to the Big Ten office and
Speaker 1: meet with Commissioner Kevin warrent Um. There's been some some
Speaker 1: you know, obviously high profile coaches like Jim Harbaugh and
Speaker 1: UH and and others um that that want to play
Speaker 1: Scott Frost and UH and then there was some even
Speaker 1: some some some confusion as to whether the Big Ten
Speaker 1: presidents even voted UM to you know, postpone the season.
Speaker 1: And there was some questions. And I know the president
Speaker 1: of Minnesota had come out and I can't remember her
Speaker 1: name right now, but she had come out so and
Speaker 1: it was an interesting quote because I think she said,
Speaker 1: I want to be perfectly clear, I'm unclear as to
Speaker 1: whether we actually had a vote, and and UH and
Speaker 1: so it just seems to be so much going on.
Speaker 1: And these these kids they want to play football. There's
Speaker 1: a lot riding on this. Think about not just the
Speaker 1: small percentage that are going to go play in the NFL,
Speaker 1: but if if this is your if this is your
Speaker 1: last year of eligibility, right to to to not be
Speaker 1: able to experience that and go out and play your
Speaker 1: last your last season, that's a big, big deal. And um,
Speaker 1: and I agree, those kids are gonna They're gonna bide
Speaker 1: by the rules of the majority of them, but not
Speaker 1: everybody on a college campus. And obviously from that picture
Speaker 1: I saw that picture, I mean, no one's social distancing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the problem too is just that's why you know, as
Speaker 1: administrators in these colleges, they are choosing to forego students
Speaker 1: on campuses certain schools because, um, I mean, college students
Speaker 1: are not gonna you It's it's impossible to tell. Like
Speaker 1: you know, if you have a full campus, it's like
Speaker 1: thirty thousand students, No one go out and party like
Speaker 1: all stay inside out right Like it's it's impossible. It's
Speaker 1: impossible to you know, you've got in dorm rooms, they're
Speaker 1: not no, not you don't have one person per dorm,
Speaker 1: you know, like before um sweet mates, the whole deal.
Speaker 1: So that that's not I mean, that's not easy to
Speaker 1: social distance. And I'm not and I'm not really even
Speaker 1: blaming this this students. It's like, look, you're sending us
Speaker 1: off and these are that this is the first time,
Speaker 1: uh you know, a fourth of those people will ever
Speaker 1: have been away from home. What do you think is
Speaker 1: gonna happen? And it's not even necessarily like nefarious, it's
Speaker 1: just like they're on their own. They've got a lot
Speaker 1: of time on their hands. You can't expect them to
Speaker 1: stay in a room the whole time. That was the
Speaker 1: shock for me when you know, going to college, like
Speaker 1: the time you have, right, you think you're in high
Speaker 1: school and you you you go whatever you see, like
Speaker 1: eight am to three o'clock, right, you're in school. And
Speaker 1: then if you're doing if you're doing after school activities,
Speaker 1: if you're playing sports, right, you're doing you go to
Speaker 1: college and it's like, Okay, I got I got this
Speaker 1: class Tuesdays and Thursdays for an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: And I got this class. If I'm doing fifteen even
Speaker 1: a full force load fifteen credits, how many hours am
Speaker 1: I doing a week? Right? Yeah, you could legitimately have
Speaker 1: Mondays and Fridays off that four day weekends. You know that.
Speaker 1: That's how I scheduled my schedule. Of course, like I's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm like I'm doing no classes on Friday, no classes
Speaker 1: before eleven am. So you could go out like you said,
Speaker 1: and then you're and then you're like, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to go to class. Right, It's not like high school
Speaker 1: where you know, it's you could just not show up. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you you know, you can't drew up five, not show
Speaker 1: up five six times in a row. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: pass the class. But you could you could take you know,
Speaker 1: take one one class off every couple of weeks and
Speaker 1: it's not a big deal. You're on your own. I
Speaker 1: would say History major. I barely showed up to any classes.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is read the books, and
Speaker 1: I didn't even do that. Really well, we went to
Speaker 1: we went to college in different eras. Like when I
Speaker 1: was in school, you know, the the internet was not
Speaker 1: readily available where you had to go. Do you have
Speaker 1: to actually go to the library get the book or
Speaker 1: go to the micro feach okay, which which if you
Speaker 1: don't know what that is. Google it, because now you
Speaker 1: can google it. When I went to school, I was
Speaker 1: I was still in school when you know the but
Speaker 1: I had there were there was just books. That was
Speaker 1: the option. But I just mean, you know, if you're
Speaker 1: a liberal arts major, you can kind of slack off.
Speaker 1: I had all those friends who were you know, they
Speaker 1: had hard science and I'm like, you're studying a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a broadcast major. We you had to go
Speaker 1: to class. I went to a small school. You had
Speaker 1: to go to class, but it was not difficult. Just
Speaker 1: being there was was pretty much a grade. Yeah, so's
Speaker 1: not to break up the nerd talk, but n I
Speaker 1: know I was gonna say that. I was gonna say
Speaker 1: former Dodger as Dean's wearing his Dodger had current twins picture. Yes,
Speaker 1: I loved he was a great for No No going
Speaker 1: in nine. So they're letting him finish it out to well,
Speaker 1: it's it's the bottom of the eighth, they're they're batting.
Speaker 1: But I don't see why we're gonna talk a little
Speaker 1: baseball later. Let's before we go to break, Travis, can
Speaker 1: we have a moment of silence for the CFL one
Speaker 1: of years of the great it's it's a sad day
Speaker 1: with their long with their long end zones and they're
Speaker 1: they're they're they're wide receiver that starts running before the play. Like,
Speaker 1: I think that's the coolest thing. Yea, I wish the
Speaker 1: NFL would allow that. Yeah, why don't they allow the
Speaker 1: receivers to be in the running start the scrimage? You
Speaker 1: know how hard that is? You know what what what
Speaker 1: type of like the CFL. It's a different athlete, right,
Speaker 1: the CFL, the receivers, the skill position players, it's a
Speaker 1: completely different athlete. If you allowed NFL receivers a running
Speaker 1: start like that, I would you imagine in the in
Speaker 1: the shorter field, you know what defenses would do, the
Speaker 1: type of collisions and things and a ship show. It
Speaker 1: would be an absolute ship Could you imagine Randy Moss
Speaker 1: with a running start against Steve's back in the day
Speaker 1: and an insane it since the first five yards would
Speaker 1: be an absolute battle because you would try to you
Speaker 1: would try to get a jam and it would be
Speaker 1: it would be so cool. All right, SEC start date
Speaker 1: is the SEC we're what is the Big twelve? Tentatively
Speaker 1: scheduled UM stand by you obviously weren't listening, because that's
Speaker 1: the one I actually had the sec I was, I
Speaker 1: was looking at the Kennemata. You know it as a
Speaker 1: Twins fan, you guys yet when I was watching the game,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a no hitter. Yeah, but it was
Speaker 1: the game where they were thrown at the Astros. But
Speaker 1: you you also literally turn around like you just leave
Speaker 1: this the shot. You're just doing whatever. We don't know
Speaker 1: where you are, all right, Well, when travels will figure out,
Speaker 1: let's go to break. When we come back will happened
Speaker 1: for us? And I do want to talk a little
Speaker 1: NBA when we come back next on good Quil, We're back.
Speaker 1: Gravis finally found in the accus scheduled to start of
Speaker 1: the Big twelve, Big twelve September two. I was, I
Speaker 1: was still looking at the Kennebeta. All right, kenn of
Speaker 1: my ada is pitching a no hitter right now in
Speaker 1: the ninth inning. Okay, So non conference games for the
Speaker 1: twelve of September, okay, yeah, and then the twenty six
Speaker 1: is when they'll start their conference game, Like non conference games.
Speaker 1: How are they gonna play nonconference games? Well? I think
Speaker 1: there's they're the SEC the big twelve M A C C.
Speaker 1: I think they didn't mention they want to play one
Speaker 1: one conference game. All right, Well, moving on, you want
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs? Um, you know, I'm I'm excited, late, Joe.
Speaker 1: I think your Lakers might be in trouble. No, they're fine.
Speaker 1: I think Dame Dame Lillard is he's on the hypecreen
Speaker 1: right now. He looks here losing right now. Blazers aren't
Speaker 1: you know, the Blazers are bad? Could could they? Could
Speaker 1: this be the upset? Like Laders have not looked good
Speaker 1: in the bubble. I mean, I know they were playing
Speaker 1: for anything, they were locked in, but I'd love to
Speaker 1: see the Blazers. I mean, the Bucks lost today. The
Speaker 1: Bucks did lose today. That there are a fifteen point favorite,
Speaker 1: and I think they lost by twelve. That's crazy, That's
Speaker 1: that's wild. That would be an incredible upset by three
Speaker 1: and in the third quarter. So I think I think
Speaker 1: they're in trouble. Um. But the game that got caught
Speaker 1: my attention from an officiating perspective, that got a lot
Speaker 1: of people going was the MAVs Clippers game one UM
Speaker 1: with basically Christops porzingis former Nick who didn't want to
Speaker 1: play in New York, So I don't calm as a bit.
Speaker 1: But he got teed up early. Um, and you know,
Speaker 1: he had a clean block and look the officials quall
Speaker 1: did he had a clean block. He reacted and got
Speaker 1: teed up. Can you hear this? Monica? Actually streets of
Speaker 1: sm Probably, I don't know, bro, somebody might have fell
Speaker 1: down a flight of stairs or a Botox emergency alert.
Speaker 1: It's every life, every thesa Monica and it feels like
Speaker 1: they're all in Santa Monica, everyone and it's it's another
Speaker 1: life alert to save. Um. So Porzingis gets t up
Speaker 1: for I didn't. I look, I don't. I'm not an
Speaker 1: expert in the NBA. Those guys have a hard job. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it's one. I think it if not the
Speaker 1: most difficult, it's one of the most difficult sports. Like
Speaker 1: the guy's circling my block right now, like he's not
Speaker 1: even though he's just stopped at your front door. And
Speaker 1: it's a really hard sport to officiate. It's a hard
Speaker 1: game to officiate. But I think that the technical fouls,
Speaker 1: I think I thought it was a soft technical. He reacted,
Speaker 1: he thought he got a clean block, and then you
Speaker 1: come back and there's a little bit of a kind
Speaker 1: of a tussle, and he comes over and and he
Speaker 1: pushes um Marcus Morris and Um ends up getting a
Speaker 1: second technical and out of the game. That's your second
Speaker 1: best player in a in a really close game. And um,
Speaker 1: you know they NBA Twitter went off. And it's what's
Speaker 1: interesting is how NBA players are allowed to go on
Speaker 1: Twitter and critique off initiating in the NFL. You can't
Speaker 1: do that in the NFL. If you started like you
Speaker 1: will get fine for that. But NBA like players, they
Speaker 1: went off. That's a soft tech. Patrick Mahomes chimed in,
Speaker 1: he said, that's trash. Well, Patrick Romes won't get fine
Speaker 1: for talking about NBA fishal he did that for NFL official,
Speaker 1: he would get he would get fined. Hen afford it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he can afford it, but I have but you know,
Speaker 1: I've never seen a guy that that a better guy,
Speaker 1: a better player, that signs a contract that is gonna
Speaker 1: give him and his family's lifetime and security. That took
Speaker 1: more ship for that contract that he could have got more. Um,
Speaker 1: but anyway, and then he went and bought part of
Speaker 1: the Royals too. He did Who's gonna win the NBA.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna win the championship this year? Clippers, Clippers, that
Speaker 1: got um you know who I have? You know, I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't really like a lot of these teams. So
Speaker 1: to be honest, I'd love it if the Blazers just
Speaker 1: went on a run. I think that'd be fun. I
Speaker 1: think for me, don't sleep on the defending champs. And
Speaker 1: I know they lost Kauai. But Toronto the East actually
Speaker 1: is now weird because uh Ben Simmons is out potentially
Speaker 1: for the entirety of the playoffs. Gordon Hayward they just
Speaker 1: announced out for at least three four weeks. The Raptors
Speaker 1: are good. The East is kind of open if the
Speaker 1: Bucks are not locked in, you know, so if the
Speaker 1: Bucks get knocked to help in this first round, that
Speaker 1: would be and a. And as much as I hate
Speaker 1: the guy, Jimmy Butler, I mean he's he's clutched, the
Speaker 1: heat looked good today. So yeah, no the heat, I
Speaker 1: mean bam uh theo um. They've got a good squad,
Speaker 1: the Gore and Dragic, I mean they've got I think
Speaker 1: they could win that series. You know you know that,
Speaker 1: I I said Toronto before this whole thing started, right
Speaker 1: did you know? It was on the episode you said
Speaker 1: what's the best value and I said Toronto, And now
Speaker 1: you're talking on that was the in person episode we
Speaker 1: did talk about good value. Yeah. Either way, the no
Speaker 1: hitter just got broken. Yeah, yeah, Eric, so keep talking
Speaker 1: about it soft liner away. Now, if they just lose,
Speaker 1: it'd be fantastic. No, we want the Twins to win,
Speaker 1: so they can lose the Yankees. Yeah, that's fine, just
Speaker 1: get there. Um yeah, you know, there's another theory that
Speaker 1: some people think about these technicals also. It's just that
Speaker 1: without the crowd noise, uh, the players can are heard
Speaker 1: a lot easier. So even like uh you know, even
Speaker 1: you know, swearing under their breath, it's gonna be loud
Speaker 1: and they're gonna the officials are gonna hear it. It's
Speaker 1: more Yeah, it's more evident as to what they're doing, um,
Speaker 1: without the crabs. But they're they're actually doing a pretty
Speaker 1: good job. I saw, you know, with the virtual fans
Speaker 1: when they're shooting free throws and you're on the road.
Speaker 1: Technically the fans are like wave in and being distract them,
Speaker 1: which which is interesting to trying to make it as
Speaker 1: as closed to real real life as possible for you know,
Speaker 1: real environment as possible. Um, all right, let's let's can
Speaker 1: we can we can we throw out the baseball on
Speaker 1: written rule book? Can we just throw it out? Can
Speaker 1: we can we be done with it? There's a few things,
Speaker 1: and since there was a no hitter going on, there's one.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't bunt to break up a no hit. That
Speaker 1: that one, I feel like it's an unwritten rule. You can,
Speaker 1: but you can every time a guy gets up that
Speaker 1: pulls the ball. You can throw nine nine fielders on
Speaker 1: one side of the fad. That's so I still think
Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. You can. You can shift and take basics
Speaker 1: away that have been base hits forever, and and you
Speaker 1: bunt and if I want to beat the shift or
Speaker 1: a bunt to beat an later, that's that's unwritten. Or
Speaker 1: a bunt bunt to beat the shift. Yeah, I'm okay
Speaker 1: with that bunch of bid to break up the no hitter.
Speaker 1: That's kind of sea. Yeah, I mean, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: I'm with Travis, just that specific one. But yeah, they're
Speaker 1: on the time. But the reason we got into this
Speaker 1: conversation is that the three oh grand slam. They're up
Speaker 1: ten three bases loaded, three oh pitch, right, and he hits,
Speaker 1: he takes, he swings and he hits. He hits a
Speaker 1: grand Slam. And the Rangers then they throw at Machado
Speaker 1: the next at bat, and the Rangers manager made a
Speaker 1: big deal and even the Padres manager kind of and
Speaker 1: I think he kind of backtracked because he said that
Speaker 1: Tattoos missed the take sign and it's a moment for him.
Speaker 1: It's a learning moment for him that you can't miss
Speaker 1: those signs. Wait, wait, what was the score of the game?
Speaker 1: And three bases loaded in the eighth inning? There up
Speaker 1: ten three, they're up ten three, and it's a three
Speaker 1: oh pitch and he swung at a three oh pitch
Speaker 1: and he eat a grand Slam and the Rangers Scott
Speaker 1: butter and but I'm just like he so he's supposed
Speaker 1: to literally just intentionally not get a hit. Well, no,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be taking it three. You're supposed to
Speaker 1: take the pitch. No, I understand that. But they were
Speaker 1: pissed that he also hit the grand slam. Like they
Speaker 1: were pissed because it's like the game's out of reach,
Speaker 1: even though it's not well. I think that they're just
Speaker 1: pissed and he swung three oh and there. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing, is that, why is that an unwritten rule?
Speaker 1: Why do I have to take a three oh pitch?
Speaker 1: I don't think, definitely don't believe that that's really I
Speaker 1: played baseball many years. I don't really think that that's
Speaker 1: an unwritten rule. I think you're allowed to swing, then
Speaker 1: you get then the pitture has basically can groove one
Speaker 1: and I can't swing. I think what they're saying is
Speaker 1: that at three oh, when you're up seven, the games
Speaker 1: pretty much how to reach it. You shouldn't be giving
Speaker 1: the batter of the green lights. But yeah, the manager said,
Speaker 1: the padres said that they gave him the take sign.
Speaker 1: But to me, it's all bullshit. Ten three in the
Speaker 1: eighth inning. So I did a little research. Okay, uh,
Speaker 1: what do you think? What do you think is the
Speaker 1: is the the some of the best comebacks? What do
Speaker 1: you think is the best ninth inning comeback in in
Speaker 1: Major League history? Twelve runs ninth in? Okay, I mean
Speaker 1: it's gotta be big because I've seen I've watched a
Speaker 1: lot of baseball, and it's like teams you can really
Speaker 1: get going a rally. Uh yeah, I'll go. I'll go, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll go one higher, I'll go thirteen runs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so thirteen runs is a bit much. But there's been
Speaker 1: four times. I wasn't gonna say the stame answer as
Speaker 1: everyone else. Four times. There's been four four times in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball history that a team has overcome an
Speaker 1: eight run for deficit in the ninth tents. Okay, so
Speaker 1: eight runs are more in the ninth inning? Right? In
Speaker 1: ninety two, the Cubs were down eight two with two
Speaker 1: outs and nobody on in the ninth inning and they
Speaker 1: won nine nothing. You know what their winning percentage was
Speaker 1: down eight to with two outs and nobody on. It
Speaker 1: was point zero zero one and they won the game.
Speaker 1: At he We're down eleven three going into the ninth
Speaker 1: inning and beat the Dodgers twelve eleven. The yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what's what's the record for the number of RBIs
Speaker 1: number of runs batted in and one inning by one player.
Speaker 1: You know with that record, seven, isn't it? It's eight?
Speaker 1: Uh So they were up they were up ten three,
Speaker 1: which is seven runs, and the record for one batter
Speaker 1: in one inning is eight runs. You know who that
Speaker 1: you know that record is held by Reggie Jackson, Kevin Mitchell. Nope,
Speaker 1: I have no get how about how about the guy
Speaker 1: that's sired, Fernando Tattis Jr. How about Fernando Tatis did
Speaker 1: two Grand slams against the Dodgers, Right, yeah, it's so
Speaker 1: it comes down to, though, it's like, why are we playing?
Speaker 1: Why do people like sports? Because there's all you think
Speaker 1: you've seen it all, and then once in a million,
Speaker 1: something crazy happens, like a crazy comeback, which is why
Speaker 1: you never let your feet off the gas, foot off
Speaker 1: the gas. And the other thing is I get it
Speaker 1: if this is a high school game or it's or
Speaker 1: it's a you know, it's a team that's so clearly
Speaker 1: outclassing the other team. These are professional baseball players, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not even high school literally maybe literally right, professional baseball players.
Speaker 1: You know what the you know what, the most runs
Speaker 1: in the modern day era, the most runs in one inning? Score?
Speaker 1: What are you think? One of fifteen? No more than that,
Speaker 1: It's more than that, right, DRIs take a guess? Nine
Speaker 1: a nineteen seventeen runs in one any so, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Ten three is not insurmountable can I can I ask
Speaker 1: a question. I don't know, what are the tiebreakers for
Speaker 1: this season? Who were on a shortened season, You're gonna
Speaker 1: have less games? Like is run differential a tiebreaker to
Speaker 1: get into the postseason? Just say if they had that,
Speaker 1: then yeah, let's let's uh, let's more compliment. But but anyways,
Speaker 1: like getting back to the core of this argument, which
Speaker 1: is unwritten rules, Baseball is by far the worst of
Speaker 1: the sports because every sport has quote unquote unwritten rules,
Speaker 1: every living life has those, but baseball they're the most bizarre,
Speaker 1: and I think it in this era especially, they stick
Speaker 1: out the most because most of the unwritten rules tend
Speaker 1: to be silly and like, uh, you know, against I
Speaker 1: guess for lack of better term fun, you know, where
Speaker 1: it's like it's about some weird sign of respect. And
Speaker 1: the other weird unwritten rule is if you like is
Speaker 1: let me throw the ball at a guy because they
Speaker 1: did it to us, Like it's these weird accelerating things
Speaker 1: where it's not good for the game really, And then
Speaker 1: this this just brings a weird spotlight to baseball, where
Speaker 1: what are the unwritten rules, Like, what what are the
Speaker 1: ones that the unret they mentioned right, the bunt to
Speaker 1: break up the no hitter. Um, the you know, the
Speaker 1: back flips that watching watching your home run not running
Speaker 1: it out, Um that you know that gets pictures upset. Um,
Speaker 1: those types of things. I think the big lead, yes exactly,
Speaker 1: don't like don't Basically it's like, don't rub it in
Speaker 1: their face that they're losing. But you know what that
Speaker 1: cells man. There's a reason Connor mcgrevery all want gets
Speaker 1: watched by everybody because and the and I agree with you, Joe,
Speaker 1: because the other thing is in sports, you need a
Speaker 1: hero and you need a villain, and it's not fun
Speaker 1: if you like why are like the bad boys like
Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons, It's like the University of Miami college
Speaker 1: football team. They you need people to quote unquote like
Speaker 1: rub it in people's faces because it it makes a
Speaker 1: more compelling story. If everyone was and I apologize to
Speaker 1: Mike Trout, I know he's a big fan of this podcast,
Speaker 1: but if you're if every player was Mike Trout, it
Speaker 1: would be I mean, but it already kind of is.
Speaker 1: Baseball is to me pretty boring. There's a lack of personalities.
Speaker 1: Mike Trout is will go down as one of the
Speaker 1: greatest players in the history of the game, but already
Speaker 1: in his young career, Fernando Tattoos Jr. Is way more
Speaker 1: interesting than the Mike Trout, I mean just and in
Speaker 1: that and not nothing against Mike Trout, and we're telling
Speaker 1: you don't be anything that you aren't. But to Joe's
Speaker 1: point about Connor McGregor, right, Connor McGregor is as big
Speaker 1: as he is. Yes, he's had to back it up
Speaker 1: um in the ring, but he's not the best fighter
Speaker 1: to ever grace the UFC octagon. You know he's not,
Speaker 1: but he has easily surpassed. He's the most marketable and
Speaker 1: he's the most lucrative fighter to ever be in the
Speaker 1: UFC because he combined that talent with that bravado and
Speaker 1: that image and Mike Trout that's just not who Mike
Speaker 1: Trout is. And yeah, there's nothing wrong with that, but
Speaker 1: it's just it is just a thing where um, it's
Speaker 1: a it's just a little bit like it goes against
Speaker 1: how sports are these days, which is like bigger, larger
Speaker 1: than life entertainment and a Grand Slam is really fun
Speaker 1: and it's cool to hit a home run, so it's
Speaker 1: very confusing. I think for people where they're like, wait,
Speaker 1: why are people angry? Especially really, as I think Joe
Speaker 1: has already said, ilse, it's like, you're a pro athlete.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to lose, just be better or
Speaker 1: else keep It's like, why why are you complaining? Because baseball?
Speaker 1: Baseball has been you think of look at baseball, you know,
Speaker 1: the average fan, and that it's it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: been the perception. I don't personally buy into that, but
Speaker 1: that it's a dying sport. It's no longer the past,
Speaker 1: time and everything else. This this sport is gonna be
Speaker 1: carried by people like Fernando Tattoos Jr. And people that
Speaker 1: young people can get behind and watch and find interesting
Speaker 1: and and cheer for. So you don't want to tamper that.
Speaker 1: You don't want to temper that. You want to you know,
Speaker 1: you want to encourage it. And that's why, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people came to his defense. Um, even Johnny Bench,
Speaker 1: who's you know, Hall of Famer, one of the greatest
Speaker 1: catchers and players of all time, who came and said that,
Speaker 1: you know, tweeted that, and I love that Johnny bench
Speaker 1: Is on Twitter tweeting, um that you know, what are
Speaker 1: you supposed to do? You take three one pitch? You
Speaker 1: take the three? Oh pitch now is three and one.
Speaker 1: The picture makes a great pitch on on three and one.
Speaker 1: Now you're three too, and then you hit into a
Speaker 1: double play. You know what? What do you what? Why
Speaker 1: is that? Okay? I don't think there's anything wrong with
Speaker 1: that at all. You know, it's interesting. I actually played
Speaker 1: baseball high school baseball with the Rangers with the manager
Speaker 1: of the Rangers, Chris Woodward. He was our short stop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the one that's caused all this issue? Is he
Speaker 1: the one that's all fired up? That's all but hurt.
Speaker 1: So our high school baseball coach was really big on
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, and him and our high school
Speaker 1: baseball coach were like almost like father and son. When
Speaker 1: he got when he got when he got um, when
Speaker 1: he got the job. He wrote this big old thing
Speaker 1: about how our high school baseball coach, you know, help
Speaker 1: help him get there, and he that he was like
Speaker 1: always on the field with him and hanging out with him,
Speaker 1: you know, on the weekends and everything. Because this is
Speaker 1: information you could have added so much earlier in the conversation.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't know serious pertinent in from Asian, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I guess what. I didn't want to name drop Rangers.
Speaker 1: I used to play with them and like, well, like what, well,
Speaker 1: I I don't like to name drop like you. I mean,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I name dropped when Travis Travis talk
Speaker 1: to him. Well, because I've hung out at sevest salone house.
Speaker 1: By the way, the Twins game has got tied us
Speaker 1: fantastic one. The one unwritten rule that I was involved
Speaker 1: in at the NFL, which I thought was kind of
Speaker 1: bullshit was when UM Tampa, when Greg Shianna was at
Speaker 1: Tampa and on the kneel down when they tried to UM.
Speaker 1: It was happening against the Giants first and they were
Speaker 1: taking a knee at the end of the game, and
Speaker 1: he had the defensive lineman play full board, like go
Speaker 1: full in try to try to get the ball, and
Speaker 1: it started a fight, and I thought that was kind
Speaker 1: of that. That was kind of bush lee Um. But
Speaker 1: other than that, I don't have problem with any Why
Speaker 1: don't they just make a rule, a real a written rule.
Speaker 1: It says, hey, if you're gonna if you're gonna kneel
Speaker 1: like there should be like a sign, talk about it,
Speaker 1: talked about it, but ultimately they didn't want to They
Speaker 1: didn't want to like legislate that play. Um. They just
Speaker 1: they just said, listen, it is what it is. You
Speaker 1: gotta be ready to play. Well, I think, why don't
Speaker 1: they just like how they do the intentional walk now
Speaker 1: instead of actually throwing the pitch and say, hey, we're
Speaker 1: I think what I think where people had a problem
Speaker 1: with and I know, you know Tom Coughlin had an
Speaker 1: issue with, which which I tend to agree and I
Speaker 1: love Greg Shiano and I think he's a great guy,
Speaker 1: but that hadn't been done in the NFL ever. And
Speaker 1: now he comes in as a college coach, no one
Speaker 1: is expecting it, and they do it. And it was
Speaker 1: just kind of the reaction like it's gonna cause a fight,
Speaker 1: like it's going to it's gonna be an issue. And
Speaker 1: they did it. They did it more than once the
Speaker 1: first time. They rent it once and then they rented
Speaker 1: on the second one. It's like you're asking for it
Speaker 1: there and the likelihood that you're gonna they likelier that
Speaker 1: you're gonna get the ball because you can't interfere with
Speaker 1: the snap. If you interfere with the snap, that's a foul.
Speaker 1: So the likelihood that you're gonna get get the football
Speaker 1: is so miniscule. Um that I thought was was it
Speaker 1: was uncalled for in that situation. Then when everybody knew
Speaker 1: it was, it was an issue, like they were gonna
Speaker 1: teams were ready. Like I remember talking to Jeff Fisher
Speaker 1: and he's like, you know, if they try that, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go into a kneel down and and we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna run like an option pass out of it,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna we're gonna pitch to the to the
Speaker 1: back and we're gonna throw and my end is gonna
Speaker 1: go deep and we're gonna score a touchdown in a
Speaker 1: game that's already out of reach, you know. So it's
Speaker 1: just gonna led to that type of stuff. The one,
Speaker 1: one last thing, the one underwritten rule about don't admired
Speaker 1: her home run. That one gets me so angry because
Speaker 1: it's just like just like that, like especially it's just
Speaker 1: like you you let him hit a home run, it's
Speaker 1: your fault, as the picture. So like it's it's very
Speaker 1: weird that pictures get to be angry yeah, I agree
Speaker 1: with you, and not to mention. If you're a great player,
Speaker 1: you get fifty a year, why not admire it. I mean,
Speaker 1: have you ever seen Dean after he blows his hair out?
Speaker 1: He just stars? Yeah, and we understand when he goes
Speaker 1: off the air after a great hit. I get way
Speaker 1: more than fifty of those a year. That's the whole point.
Speaker 1: If the strange sixty five days in a year, there's
Speaker 1: I get three d and fifty really good hair days. Wow,
Speaker 1: all right, let's go to break. We come back. Joe's
Speaker 1: got some big news. All right, we're back on good glass,
Speaker 1: and don't Joe has some news for us. Joe is
Speaker 1: Joe is a very positive guy. He is oh boys
Speaker 1: positive and he's the guy that like, he's the hype guy.
Speaker 1: He's always gonna make you feel good. He's very liberal
Speaker 1: with his compliments. I'm not good with compliments. Um, and
Speaker 1: now I don't know if you can hear I got
Speaker 1: a skateboarder outside. But anyway, Um, but Joe got some
Speaker 1: news and he is negative. Joe, would you like to
Speaker 1: would you like to? Would you like to share? Yesterday?
Speaker 1: Yesterday was my birthday, and thank you and for my birthday,
Speaker 1: Happy to Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson, Okay, And for my birthday,
Speaker 1: I decided to get a COVID test and I got
Speaker 1: the results this morning, and I'm I'm COVID free. Boys, congratulations,
Speaker 1: so you might have. I definitely don't feel great. I
Speaker 1: definitely don't feel great. I don't know why we've got
Speaker 1: to be different. Everybody else is getting COVID. He's got
Speaker 1: to get him model. I don't know. I just I
Speaker 1: have a sore throat and a little bit of achy muscles.
Speaker 1: Swollen lymph nodes. Swollen lymph nodes. That's not good. It
Speaker 1: does sound like motto. Well, thank god that you're a
Speaker 1: history major and not a doctor. I can tell you
Speaker 1: the history of motto. Please please. All right, So I
Speaker 1: think I told you guys. I've upped my Ben and
Speaker 1: Jerry's half baked intake to two points per week, and
Speaker 1: I feel like I can. I've been eating pretty healthy,
Speaker 1: my portion control has been really good, so I can
Speaker 1: have the two points. And I'm I'm actually really struggling
Speaker 1: with this. How do I spread it out like I wanna?
Speaker 1: I want to spread it out and not have too
Speaker 1: big a gap between the pints. Because it's something I
Speaker 1: legitimately look forward to when I wake up and I
Speaker 1: know it's half Faith night, it's like legit changes my day.
Speaker 1: So I was thinking, um, you know, initially I was
Speaker 1: thinking Friday Monday. Okay, that was my first start. Friday Monday.
Speaker 1: It gives me one. It gives me one weekend night
Speaker 1: like Friday. Let's kick off the weekend to get crazy
Speaker 1: and then a short window and then I get Monday
Speaker 1: to kick off my week and then you know, I
Speaker 1: kind of then I have the four day wait to Friday.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, well, maybe maybe Saturday Tuesday
Speaker 1: works better. I think a Sunday Wednesday is ideal. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why I love. I love eating ice
Speaker 1: cream Sunday night, like to cap off my week, like
Speaker 1: almost like that glass of wine that some people have,
Speaker 1: like I'm done with the week. Give me the Fridays.
Speaker 1: You're done with the weekend, you know, with the week
Speaker 1: as well. But I'm with I actually like Joe's because
Speaker 1: Friday Monday is too close. I initially thought that, but
Speaker 1: it's like you the between Friday and Monday, like Friday,
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, it's not too long after I eat
Speaker 1: that pint. I don't have to wait a long time.
Speaker 1: And just to clarify too, this is your scheduling the
Speaker 1: day that you can just eat the whole pint, right
Speaker 1: that there's no yes, yes, and Scott, that's come on,
Speaker 1: I really don't need any other dessert like that. That's it,
Speaker 1: Like you know, like after dinner, I don't eat. That's it,
Speaker 1: So eat the whole pint. So Sunday Wednesday, so that
Speaker 1: would mean I have to wait. I have a pint.
Speaker 1: That means I have to wait till tomorrow. Yes, So
Speaker 1: you go tomorrow and then you do and you can
Speaker 1: and if you really are if Saturday night is really lonely,
Speaker 1: you can do a Saturday night instead of Sunday. So
Speaker 1: you can do Wednesday Sunday or Wednesday Saturday in the
Speaker 1: event that Saturday is just not really you need a
Speaker 1: little flex schedule and I need it, yeah, like so yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that because it's like if you if you're
Speaker 1: really you just you you need it, you can flex
Speaker 1: it on the weekday too. So it's it's just like
Speaker 1: it's a like Sunday night football exactly. Like so it's
Speaker 1: like you have one for sure during the Monday through
Speaker 1: Friday week and you have one on that weekend or
Speaker 1: I guess, say Monday through Thursday, and then you know
Speaker 1: you have one Friday through Sunday. You want to try
Speaker 1: to stick to a given date. But like Joe said,
Speaker 1: you know you had a rough Saturday. There's something the
Speaker 1: Dodgers lost. You can just go in it and think
Speaker 1: about this during football season, it will be like Sunday night,
Speaker 1: you had a long day in the Cube. You get
Speaker 1: to look forward and we might be recording Sunday nights again.
Speaker 1: You have to look forward to that point. Once we're
Speaker 1: done with a good Calls episode. Yeah, why don't we
Speaker 1: get along the cube? Why don't we get ice cream
Speaker 1: for the Cube too? Like I think that's an addition
Speaker 1: for this this year. No, dude, I I can't. No, No,
Speaker 1: We'll just buy some points and put them in the
Speaker 1: freezer and we'll eat him at some point during the day.
Speaker 1: I like the flex though, I'd like the Wednesday and
Speaker 1: then Saturday or Sunday because you would be like, oh, okay, Saturday,
Speaker 1: I got this movie. I want to watch her Sunday.
Speaker 1: You remember, you want to watch a movie you can
Speaker 1: just like look forward to and you can get you know,
Speaker 1: the hump day, and you kind of get and nothing
Speaker 1: good happens on Wednesday, except now something good it does
Speaker 1: up on Wednesday. I like that. I kind of like that.
Speaker 1: I feel my day my Wednesday. I don't mind. My
Speaker 1: Tuesday has always been my kind of like any day,
Speaker 1: you know. So I just thought you should know that. No, no,
Speaker 1: no lakers, I think. And there's one other thing about
Speaker 1: the ice cream, I deein. I really want you to
Speaker 1: expand your horizons flavor wise. It doesn't always have to
Speaker 1: be half baked. Look, I've tried other flavors. It's not
Speaker 1: the same. It's just not And I'm not gonna waste
Speaker 1: a point on, you know whatever, whatever else it is. Well,
Speaker 1: so do you are you? Are you against any other
Speaker 1: ice premium brand ice creams? And no, I'm not against it. Um,
Speaker 1: I just I am partially Ben and Jerry's I used
Speaker 1: to be a big um like Look growing up, it
Speaker 1: was it was like briers in a half gallon m
Speaker 1: or friendlies and you go to friendlies and you guys
Speaker 1: don't know friends least, but friendlies and you get like
Speaker 1: a half gallon of ice cream or a big tub
Speaker 1: of ice cream. Um and Then Ben and Jerry's came
Speaker 1: around and it was like, oh, cookie dough, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Then they had chucolate fudge browne. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. You know, it would be even more amazing
Speaker 1: if they combine those two into one pint and lo
Speaker 1: and behold, there comes half into my life. I do
Speaker 1: understand where you're coming from, because I have a talent
Speaker 1: to the other night like a chocolate coffee and I mean,
Speaker 1: just down. But it just wasn't about those Vermont cabins.
Speaker 1: I don't know what about what about? I mean, there's
Speaker 1: one in your in your areas. I don't love them,
Speaker 1: but salt and straw, I know they do. You never
Speaker 1: had there's one in your neighborhood, Scott. We don't do
Speaker 1: the trendy stuff like that, dude. We just if it's
Speaker 1: not a seven point, it's not that trendy. It's just
Speaker 1: it's just another ice cream spot. You can't buy the
Speaker 1: seven eleven. We're not you. You can get you can
Speaker 1: get it at Whole Foods. And I know Dean is
Speaker 1: a big Whole Foods guy. So you haven't gone. I
Speaker 1: haven't gone the Whole Foods in a long, long time
Speaker 1: I've I'm sorry, I'm going to either Bristol Farms or
Speaker 1: now I'm just like, screw it. I'm just going to
Speaker 1: ns oh Man. Just a regular old grocery store. Wow,
Speaker 1: he's slumming it at Vans and the grocery store is
Speaker 1: the closest one go to. The closest one is pretty
Speaker 1: close Bristol Farms usually as this is great podcast, I'm
Speaker 1: sure everyone across the country's loving what grocery stores we
Speaker 1: like in you know, in West l A. You know what,
Speaker 1: the pandemic last week's episode really inspired me. This week
Speaker 1: I went shopping at a Theory I bought some beautiful stuff.
Speaker 1: You you inspired that. You You were telling me how
Speaker 1: much you like theory last week on the on the podcast,
Speaker 1: and it happened to be at a theory outlet, and uh,
Speaker 1: I got a black button up. We talked about that
Speaker 1: on the button too. You know what. You know what
Speaker 1: else I did there was a shock waves at least
Speaker 1: in my life. Um, the dog is as has stopped
Speaker 1: his giving up his rap career. Who's Z Dog? Can
Speaker 1: you explain who Z dog is? The dog is this
Speaker 1: Utah jazz super fan and he is famous and he
Speaker 1: he went semi viral for a a dis video. Um
Speaker 1: and Utah Jazz, I believe, I believe they were playing
Speaker 1: the Rockets in the playoffs and he and he recorded
Speaker 1: a disc track against the Rockets and I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: it for you now. But here's the dog and uh
Speaker 1: and just listen. Yeah, yeah you got here. You know
Speaker 1: who it is. Clippers. It's so ugly man DeAndre Jordan's
Speaker 1: shouldn't be an all star Clippers also public they smell
Speaker 1: like the l A is the worst city ever. Not
Speaker 1: it's the King and Tom Jazz. Yeah, Clippers fans part,
Speaker 1: that's even. They smell like they smell like chickens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go Jazz. Playoffs, playoffs, baby, it's what rights. Clippers
Speaker 1: are the worst team in the n b A. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they have to have a coach like
Speaker 1: Don Rivers. Dr Rivers is a cry baby. His son
Speaker 1: Austin River smells that we Clippers. You're so physical, but
Speaker 1: you're the worst team and the trashiest team in the
Speaker 1: n b A. But my chaff on the best team
Speaker 1: in the NBA. They have their number one fan and
Speaker 1: they don you know that's me, that's me. Ze Donkey
Speaker 1: Nazi caddy Zy Donkey Dass number one fan die Hard. Well,
Speaker 1: the Clippers like making love to the referees. They don't
Speaker 1: deserve all the calls. I hope like Griffin, Chris Paul
Speaker 1: and Jonathon Jordan will leap the Clippers. Clippers are the
Speaker 1: worst team in LA, but my chads will sweep up,
Speaker 1: end up play yay yes, Ze Dogg Alert Jazz Nason
Speaker 1: Jazz Nason Jazz Ion What okay, we didn't probably have
Speaker 1: to listen to that whole thing. Huh, absolutely, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? The best? The end was the best,
Speaker 1: but he he did get his wish. DeAndre Jordan's has left,
Speaker 1: Chris Paul has left Lake Griffin has left. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: all gone. When the first time I saw that, I was,
Speaker 1: and it gets better every time. He's he's giving up
Speaker 1: his rap career. Wait wait, did he officially retire? That's
Speaker 1: the tweet I sent you he gave up his rap career.
Speaker 1: That was so good. That was the I don't want
Speaker 1: the rundown I kept putting on there because I had
Speaker 1: no idea what it was. But we just never talked
Speaker 1: about it was weeks ago, Joe, you muted me I
Speaker 1: was dying, I know, because since you and Dian are
Speaker 1: on the same channel, every time you laughed, it would
Speaker 1: cut the audio to the to the Z Dog. Now
Speaker 1: that was smart audio engineering if I noticed that also,
Speaker 1: So that was you know, that's what I went to
Speaker 1: school for all those years. I can't like, it's so amazing.
Speaker 1: It's so amazing. Z Dog. Oh my god, z Dog,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss you. It's it's it's really a tragedy
Speaker 1: that he's gone. He's still twoeting, he's definitely still a fan.
Speaker 1: Oh he's not. He's done rapping though, and that's unfortunate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know how those musicians they always say they're
Speaker 1: done and then they come back with a new single.
Speaker 1: All right, ready it hurts random Blendino Go Goes Blended
Speaker 1: Carlisle versus Heaven is a place on Earth blended Carlisle.
Speaker 1: Oh Okay, if you grew up in the eighties, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. Does anybody remember remember when
Speaker 1: Belinda Carlisle, when The Go Goes stopped and then there
Speaker 1: was a delay, and then Belenda Carlisle showed up and
Speaker 1: do It did a solo album. Yeah, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna be on your own on this one.
Speaker 1: Did you by the way, Dean, did you just watch
Speaker 1: that Go Goes documentary that Showtime did. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: brought it up. Okay, So, like the Go Goes were amazing.
Speaker 1: I love the Go Goes, but they were like kind
Speaker 1: of like this, you know, this poppy, fun group of
Speaker 1: girls just you know, it's we're gonna have fun and
Speaker 1: all this stuff. And then Blenda Carlisle comes out, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a solo album and she was like she went
Speaker 1: from this like poppy, happy, you know, girl band, too
Speaker 1: sexy a f like unbelievable because I didn't want to
Speaker 1: say as fun and I should just said as fun.
Speaker 1: But um, well just just that entire line. Why no,
Speaker 1: I know, but watch the watch the the Heaven is
Speaker 1: a place on our video she looks. Everybody was like,
Speaker 1: is that be Linda Carlisle from the Go Go Go Goes?
Speaker 1: And I was watching that documentary and I just made
Speaker 1: me think of that. Um and she's still performing today.
Speaker 1: Do you like that song Heaven is a place on Earth?
Speaker 1: So it's a great song. I don't think I know
Speaker 1: that one. You know, she's beautiful, you know it Joe,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you've heard it. I really was trying to
Speaker 1: get Dean the thing at Verse for us, but I
Speaker 1: think so well that it would be a copyright infringement.
Speaker 1: Um you've you've heard it, uh As. I'm sure when
Speaker 1: you were a young man you heard it in the
Speaker 1: mother the other artists speaking of me my solo and
Speaker 1: we're like completely like, whoa what what just happened? Well, Timberlake,
Speaker 1: I guess you could say Beyonce, you know, yeah, But
Speaker 1: and but I think like Beyonce to me, like I
Speaker 1: always like you knew she was gonna be big. I
Speaker 1: knew she was gonna be big, and she was always
Speaker 1: but like it was like the be Linda Carlisle go goes.
Speaker 1: It was like one of those movies where it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, one of those team movies where it's kind
Speaker 1: of like the nerd and then she's wearing glasses and stuff,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden she takes up the
Speaker 1: glasses and left down her hair and you're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, she's amazing. And that's what it was like
Speaker 1: during that time. I just remember everybody being like, whoa,
Speaker 1: we Linda Carlisle looks not that she didn't look. She
Speaker 1: was just it was a different vibe. It was like
Speaker 1: this cute ce pop thing and it was still pop.
Speaker 1: But she was like, you're telling me that there was
Speaker 1: the talk of Long Island when she went my high school. Man,
Speaker 1: no question, dude speak Okay, speaking of music, have you
Speaker 1: guys heard this the new card this new Cardi B
Speaker 1: song Everyone's now No, of course, I like how this
Speaker 1: is like this is a fish really like it's a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks now and it's gonna be like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is such an old man like, have you heard
Speaker 1: this song that's really making some You don't listen to current?
Speaker 1: You need to listen to it. Do you remember when
Speaker 1: we were young? Like remember the two Live Crew songs
Speaker 1: were like the whole like, oh my god, I can't
Speaker 1: believe what they're saying. Listen to the listen to the
Speaker 1: new the new Cardi B song. I like it. I've
Speaker 1: seen it to us. I've seen stuff on Twitter about
Speaker 1: it and I've seen like, but I haven't listened to
Speaker 1: this song, so I don't know. I heard it the
Speaker 1: first time on Saturday, and I was like, wow, a girl,
Speaker 1: a girl told me about it. Two Live Crew speaking
Speaker 1: to two Live crew. You want a little name dropping, um,
Speaker 1: Super Miami. I listen to this crew was speaking of
Speaker 1: a two Live crew at the Super Miami. I was
Speaker 1: hanging with Michael IRV and Lawrence Staff and Luther Campbell
Speaker 1: in Miami. Now I could say something very I could
Speaker 1: say something things in Miami. Okay, I got the text.
Speaker 1: I guess who I'm hanging out with. There's your Chris
Speaker 1: Woodward for you. Okay. That had to a better, really
Speaker 1: quiet crew to hang out with her. No, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone didn't want to be the first to talk, right, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I was just listening basically per usual, per usual. Hey,
Speaker 1: you got two years in one mouth for a reason.
Speaker 1: I like that. Wow, Okay, I like that a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use that. Use that, Travis. When you're kissing
Speaker 1: a little older, you tell him that, you tell him.
Speaker 1: Uncle Dean said, So, you know what Uncle Deane always says,
Speaker 1: years in one You know, you know, my mom called
Speaker 1: me yesterday and was like saying, her and her and
Speaker 1: her husband were watching old football reruns and now that
Speaker 1: they met you, they get so excited when you go on,
Speaker 1: oh my god, there's that boy. Dean Joey's friend there
Speaker 1: you go on that note. Now your mom's name dropping me.
Speaker 1: There you go. There is all right. This has been
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