Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast, Eat some toilet paper Badly.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition to Be Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas. I'm coming to you from
Speaker 1: a city filled with heroes in bunkers. Mark Sesler, Chris Wesling,
Speaker 1: and Greg Rosathal. What is up? Boys? Hey? Dan, Hey, gang?
Speaker 1: Days have no meaning anymore. I took out my garbage cans,
Speaker 1: put them on the street last night, a full twenty
Speaker 1: four hours early. That was a mistake. You can't really
Speaker 1: tract the days anymore. They're all essentially the same. Uh.
Speaker 1: And that is just one of the many burdens faced
Speaker 1: right here. Good good garbage material, you know. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like that's a man of the people's stuff. It's
Speaker 1: just like a slice of regular life. Do you put
Speaker 1: Do you put your garbage out on the corner? Greg Um? Yes?
Speaker 1: Sometimes I always take it in. We share the same
Speaker 1: garbage canisters with the two apartments behind us, so it's
Speaker 1: a group effort. I'm I always taking them. Ever, any
Speaker 1: heat with that. Now, sharing trash could lead to, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, neighborly squabbles. I often just take it out
Speaker 1: into the streets, you know where there where it's there
Speaker 1: all the time in the alley. Don't even mess with
Speaker 1: the doesn't feel like a great time to be sharing. Uh,
Speaker 1: refuse with other people, Greg, but you know you have
Speaker 1: your own plan and direction. Um, Wes, how are you, buddy?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. We had another neighbor happy hour last night.
Speaker 1: We made a trip to CVS with our masks and
Speaker 1: gloves on. Um, anytime you get to a store and
Speaker 1: you don't have to stand in a like a hundred
Speaker 1: yard line, it's a good situation. So CVS was walked
Speaker 1: right in. Strange because my local drug store is the
Speaker 1: same way. You would think they would have some of
Speaker 1: the traffic issues. Not at the same level as the
Speaker 1: grocery store, but for instance, the shopping center right near me,
Speaker 1: it's a fifty ft line to get into vans and
Speaker 1: then um, you have right aid right next door, walk
Speaker 1: right on it. Yeah, Trader Joe's is almost right next door,
Speaker 1: and that was a long line. I've been in Trader
Speaker 1: joe several times since this all started, and there's never
Speaker 1: been food on the shelves. So I would advise people
Speaker 1: to maybe try somewhere else. And Greg, there's Greg's beautiful children.
Speaker 1: Look at the look at that, look at that Hi Ellis,
Speaker 1: Ellis Troublemakers. I mean it plays better on video than
Speaker 1: an audio podcast hillas mode of communication. They're saying hi
Speaker 1: to you guys, if you want to say hello Ellis
Speaker 1: and Walker Rosenthal Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Okay
Speaker 1: bye bye. Wow, little potty talk in a big spot.
Speaker 1: A young Howard Stern in the making. Wow. A lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of poop talk over here, um bhoop
Speaker 1: talks huge with the kids. Man. Yeah, they love a
Speaker 1: lot of They're learning about their bodies. Why would it
Speaker 1: not be a you know, speaking of Howard Stern. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady gonna be on Stern next week, which is suddenly
Speaker 1: free for all listeners. I'm curious to listen to that.
Speaker 1: Brady is going on Stern. W is um April eighth.
Speaker 1: I saw them and apparently whatever Stern is on, they've
Speaker 1: made it free to all listeners. So I am. I
Speaker 1: am really curious because he's he's gonna get some stuff
Speaker 1: out of time. Uh, well, Howard is starting. I'm a
Speaker 1: Howard fan going back twenty years. He's really softened up. Um,
Speaker 1: even in the last five years or so, i'd say,
Speaker 1: with age and moved away from reputation and how he
Speaker 1: built his career, and he's really put a lot of
Speaker 1: focus on the celebrity interview angle. I think he's trying
Speaker 1: to massage his legacy a little bit here in the
Speaker 1: back end of his career. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: we're gonna get the if Howard Stern interview Tom Brady
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. Uh. First of all, Tom Brady's not
Speaker 1: going on the show. Uh. Second of all, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a very different line of questioning. So I anybody
Speaker 1: that's expecting some type of raunchy, no holds bar to
Speaker 1: interview with Brady, you might be disappointed, but it could
Speaker 1: still be a very good interview because Stern does his
Speaker 1: prep and and he's very good at that. I'm not
Speaker 1: that interested in any you know, him diving deep into
Speaker 1: the Gisel relationship or not. I mean, that'd be fine,
Speaker 1: but read you want to, I bet he'll get some stuff.
Speaker 1: He'll he'll bug him about his actual relationship with Belichick
Speaker 1: in a way that maybe he'll actually get some answers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that need help. Stern doesn't know anything about sports,
Speaker 1: but he has guys on his team, like Baba Boo
Speaker 1: that should be able to help out. That's an important interview.
Speaker 1: We've been waiting all along for Baba Booy to get
Speaker 1: to the bottom of this, and it feels like it's
Speaker 1: a perfect pairing. There you go. Um, all right, today's show,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get caught up on some news and uh,
Speaker 1: including the return of a player that had similarly been forgotten.
Speaker 1: Uh and now he is back in the mix in
Speaker 1: the NFL after years in the desert. Um. And also
Speaker 1: we're going to talk a little bit. Uh. We've this week,
Speaker 1: we've mixed it up a little bit and and thrown
Speaker 1: around some um opportunities for each of us to come
Speaker 1: up with a theme of the day, something to talk
Speaker 1: about for a segment or a show. West. You you
Speaker 1: had a good idea for today, which is, well, we
Speaker 1: open every show is the room full of heroes. But
Speaker 1: it's with a wink. We are not heroes. We know that, UM.
Speaker 1: But now we have you know, friends and listeners in
Speaker 1: the hospital battling COVID. We have healthcare workers dedicated to
Speaker 1: fighting the virus and some of them are listening to
Speaker 1: our podcast during down times between those shifts. We're finding
Speaker 1: out what heroes really are, So we're gonna talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about heroes today. Sounds good. But before that, yes,
Speaker 1: let's get caught up on the news. There are plenty
Speaker 1: of things we cannot do right now, but let's focus
Speaker 1: on what we can do. We can adapt, we can adjust,
Speaker 1: and we can make better decisions right now for the
Speaker 1: betterment of the future. As I tell our team, let's
Speaker 1: keep stringing good days together and we will get through this. Yeah, Bill,
Speaker 1: who's that fired up right out? Who's not ready to
Speaker 1: run through a wall? What? What? What a gifted? In
Speaker 1: terms of charisma, I've always found a belt. Well he
Speaker 1: is the proof though, I mean, one of the great
Speaker 1: motivators and um unquestionably one of the greatest coaches in
Speaker 1: the history of professional football. Uh, not a guy that
Speaker 1: you would think you'd be running through a wall for
Speaker 1: strictly based on the cadence of his voice. Nickname Doom
Speaker 1: is that true doom walking around the corner? Here comes Doom.
Speaker 1: Go to Pro Football Reference and we'll have eight other
Speaker 1: nicknames that none of us have heard of. That said,
Speaker 1: that site seems to be off on their own project
Speaker 1: when it comes to nicknames that simply are not grounded
Speaker 1: in reality. For players and coaches. Alright, let's get into
Speaker 1: it some news. Terry Henry signs his ten boy two
Speaker 1: million dollar franchise tender. Uh that site has been operating
Speaker 1: without jurisdiction for too long. I just, I guess I'll
Speaker 1: just I'll lay it out there again because you did
Speaker 1: bring this up about two months ago. I wrote an
Speaker 1: article about this on our website. I reached out to
Speaker 1: the people there and they said that they basically put
Speaker 1: up almost anything that's sent to them, and it's a
Speaker 1: bit of like an inside joke between the readers and
Speaker 1: the website. Well not all, not everyone is laughing. I
Speaker 1: do I seem like I'm laughing about this. No, you
Speaker 1: are not laughing at all. Derrick Henry, the Titans running back,
Speaker 1: the rushing champion. He signs that franchise tenderest MS ESPN
Speaker 1: is Adam Schefter added that the two sides are still
Speaker 1: committed to working for a long term extension before June.
Speaker 1: But we don't have to worry about it, seems any
Speaker 1: type of holdout because he is now under contract. He's signed.
Speaker 1: He's not going to use it as leverage and uh,
Speaker 1: West it is a tough situation on some level. For
Speaker 1: Henry because when you look at what other skill players
Speaker 1: and other playmakers in the league are making compared to
Speaker 1: what he's gonna make this year, potentially, if he doesn't
Speaker 1: get that long term deal, it's stinks. But it's just
Speaker 1: the it's the way of the beast. Yeah, every once
Speaker 1: in a blue moon, you'll see a player under the
Speaker 1: franchise tag maybe draw a hint of interest around the league,
Speaker 1: But this is not the off season for that, first
Speaker 1: of all, and he doesn't play the position for that. Secondly,
Speaker 1: I do think you know, I've talked about how nobody
Speaker 1: feels sorry for fullbacks and they're practically extinct, but there's
Speaker 1: this outcry for running backs, and I do think it's
Speaker 1: unfair the way running backs are treated. I would have
Speaker 1: liked to have seen that addressed in some way. Uh
Speaker 1: in the c B A um that their greatest years
Speaker 1: earning years are in college in their first year or
Speaker 1: two in the NFL when they're underpaid severely. So there
Speaker 1: is no mechanism for running backs to get paid what
Speaker 1: they're worth, and I don't see a way out of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the rookie wage scale UH keeps obviously their number down,
Speaker 1: and then as as much as it stinks like something
Speaker 1: like what happened with Todd Gurley. Greg Uh, You're an
Speaker 1: absolute superstar out of college. You're one of the best
Speaker 1: players in the league. So the Rams say, all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna rip up that contract and pay him like
Speaker 1: a superstar and make him a cornerstone, and then that
Speaker 1: blows up in their face. So that just is yet
Speaker 1: another caution sign that it doesn't seem like getting paid
Speaker 1: as a running back is something that's coming anytime soon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. I think it's just market dynamics. Same thing
Speaker 1: with inside linebackers and safeties, depending on the position you play.
Speaker 1: But him signing it got me thinking, all these players
Speaker 1: are signing their tag early, and I do wonder if,
Speaker 1: because there's so much uncertainty out there, they want to
Speaker 1: theoretically lock up the money. And I've thought about free
Speaker 1: agents that are out there right now, like Jadevan Clowney,
Speaker 1: whether they're starting to get a little nervous because what
Speaker 1: if this se as it is delayed, What if it
Speaker 1: affects um your salary moving forward? What if the NFL
Speaker 1: doesn't pay all their players this year? Do you want
Speaker 1: to lock in your contract like it's complicated, But there's
Speaker 1: reports with the NBA that some of their you know,
Speaker 1: weekly salaries might stop sooner than later, and that has
Speaker 1: to start playing into the minds of how all these
Speaker 1: deals are getting done and you love this stuff, Greg
Speaker 1: with agents leaking stories to further contract negotiations. First thing
Speaker 1: I came to mind when I saw the headline that
Speaker 1: Clowney has dropped his price a couple of million dollars.
Speaker 1: That seemed like a situation where despite the report that
Speaker 1: we heard uh that clown he might wait till training camp,
Speaker 1: Connie probably would rather figure out a way to get
Speaker 1: paid sooner rather later. In this climate and just in general,
Speaker 1: everybody wants to get paid rather than be left hanging right.
Speaker 1: You get a signing bonus, and who knows what if
Speaker 1: in two months they start, you know, talking about delay
Speaker 1: in the season or something, and he's just like unsigned,
Speaker 1: that's that's money you're not getting back. Well, I think
Speaker 1: what's different about Clowney is we know he has an
Speaker 1: injury history. He's got a microfracture knee surgery, and that
Speaker 1: is the type of thing that your own medical doctors
Speaker 1: are are gonna want to check out before you part
Speaker 1: with twenty million dollars a year. And last note on this,
Speaker 1: Henry again, ten point two million. If he doesn't get
Speaker 1: the deal done, that's what he'll make this year. Just
Speaker 1: for some perspective, Robbie Anderson a perfectly fine wide receiver
Speaker 1: but by no means a star. Just signed a deal
Speaker 1: with the Panthers that is essentially a one year, twelve
Speaker 1: million dollar deal. And if you can tell me that
Speaker 1: Robby Anderson is half the playmaker and is important to
Speaker 1: his team as Derrick Henry is, that is something's a
Speaker 1: little bit off. But it doesn't seem like we're getting
Speaker 1: a change anytime soon, considering the CBA just passed. I
Speaker 1: would wonder if you're if you're plugged in in your
Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen years old and you're seeing this. I don't
Speaker 1: think the mindset at that age is just thriving whatever
Speaker 1: you can do well. But why become a running back
Speaker 1: when you probably have the athleticism to play a different
Speaker 1: type a position, or why stick around until you're a
Speaker 1: senior unless you're clogged up by a bunch of people
Speaker 1: starting over you get out of get out of college
Speaker 1: as a freshman or sophomore. I mean, how else do
Speaker 1: you maximize your earnings and hit the NFL at a
Speaker 1: different age, Like it's going to create some sort of
Speaker 1: reaction from human beings choosing that career. When a career
Speaker 1: dries up. Uh, you know, money wise, people make they
Speaker 1: make changes. So are running backs just going to accept
Speaker 1: this for the next twenty years? Please? Let's let's move
Speaker 1: on the un There's something about your size today, Mark
Speaker 1: that are there. I'm just trying to throw a comment
Speaker 1: when I can. I don't know. It's like I I
Speaker 1: don't deal with the the You guys got the financial
Speaker 1: stuff down perfectly. I enjoyed it, but it's do you
Speaker 1: believe that? It's like if I were like a star
Speaker 1: running back in high school, but I can play multiple positions,
Speaker 1: like we go play cornerback, go play cornerback. Those guys
Speaker 1: are getting ridiculous contracts, you know, two or three deals
Speaker 1: down the road. I'm not that option is available to
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. Well, this is what this is what you
Speaker 1: want to be. You want to be a backup quarterback
Speaker 1: in the NFL. If you could just navigate your way there,
Speaker 1: you don't get any of the beating and you get
Speaker 1: a pretty nice pay day. Blaine Gabbert has resigned with
Speaker 1: the Bucks on a one year contract. There and yes,
Speaker 1: thank you Gabert, who missed most of twenty nineteen with
Speaker 1: a bad shoulder, he'll now be It's historically, with the
Speaker 1: exception of one season, the easiest job in pro football
Speaker 1: is to be Tom Brady's backup quarterback because Brady plays,
Speaker 1: that's all he does. He just plays relentlessly. He never
Speaker 1: misses a week, even though he's turning forty three in August.
Speaker 1: But Gabbertt, he'll be the guy behind Brady, and God
Speaker 1: forbid something happens to Tom terrific because Gabert can't play.
Speaker 1: I mean, Mark, we know that you know one person
Speaker 1: I think does believe that Blaine Gabbert can play, as
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians, who began the I thought the PR camp,
Speaker 1: not PR campaign, but like the working with Blaine Gabbert,
Speaker 1: where you shifted away from ultra draft bus slash disappointment
Speaker 1: to floating some comments out there when they were with
Speaker 1: the Cardinals for a little bit saying I believe in
Speaker 1: this guy. I think he can he can fling it
Speaker 1: and like Arians kind of dug him and so that's
Speaker 1: where I drew the connection was that this was a
Speaker 1: known quantity. Um. I couldn't agree more that Blaine Gabbert,
Speaker 1: like if you base it on history, will be paid
Speaker 1: an incredible amount of money to go to these like
Speaker 1: the workplace cafeteria and probably get a lot of free
Speaker 1: garb and you know, shoes and sweatshirts to do essentially nothing,
Speaker 1: um when it matters. But that said, he also the
Speaker 1: flip side is if Tom Brady ever went down, you
Speaker 1: become one of the most annoying on field presences of
Speaker 1: all time because not a single person in Tampa who's
Speaker 1: you know, gonna drop a ton of extra money to
Speaker 1: go get these season tickets ever thought they'd see Blaine
Speaker 1: Gabbert doing a single thing. So if he hits the field,
Speaker 1: we've got major issues. In other Tampa Bay Buccaneers news.
Speaker 1: Brady needs a place to live down there in Florida.
Speaker 1: Uh now that he's a buck and he will live
Speaker 1: in style. He's renting Derek Jeter's waterfront mansion in Tampa. I. Um,
Speaker 1: remember this was something when this place was being built,
Speaker 1: it was tabloid fodder in New York because Jeter wanted
Speaker 1: a wall. It's basically on the waterfront it's massive as
Speaker 1: you imagine. You would imagine thirty thousand square feet. Jeter
Speaker 1: wanted to put up an extra like two ft high
Speaker 1: on the wall for privacy reasons, and it was known
Speaker 1: as St. Jetersburg. And I guess no one's living there.
Speaker 1: So here comes Tom who moves into the nicest house.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, Tom Brady, you gotta, you gotta, Well,
Speaker 1: it's not easy to be happy for Tom. Brady has
Speaker 1: had so much greatness in his life. But this coundnot
Speaker 1: have been a better setup for Brady. Not only is
Speaker 1: he get to start over, he gets the head South,
Speaker 1: better weather, play with a coach who's actually nice to him, Um,
Speaker 1: get that new challenge in his life, have great playmakers
Speaker 1: around him. And oh, it just so happens that one
Speaker 1: of the most famous American athletes, he builds one of
Speaker 1: the nicest houses in the country and it's available for
Speaker 1: you to live in. Uh, fifteen minutes from the Bucks facility.
Speaker 1: This is a perfect setup for the guy. Oh and
Speaker 1: he got number twelve. God when moved off twelve, I
Speaker 1: just wondered, does it come with like free the free
Speaker 1: gift baskets that Derek Peter used to give out to
Speaker 1: the women that would come to his apartment, probably left over.
Speaker 1: There's just like a button that you press and that
Speaker 1: pops out of a vending machine or something. I I
Speaker 1: in my in my single days in New York, I
Speaker 1: heard that story before. It was the story, Yes, the gifts.
Speaker 1: I never got a gift basket, unfortunately, but I was
Speaker 1: dating a girl whose close friend got a gift basket
Speaker 1: from Jeter, and I remember being blown away by it.
Speaker 1: And then when it showed up in page six a
Speaker 1: couple of years later, I felt like I was on
Speaker 1: the ground floor of something special. He had been doing
Speaker 1: it for probably a decade, and those were your early
Speaker 1: days of you know, operating as a media inside or
Speaker 1: before you were being paid to do so. You were reported,
Speaker 1: and that actually goes back to my my My one
Speaker 1: thought on Brady is you know you were hungry. You
Speaker 1: were living probably um with other people in an apartment, crafting,
Speaker 1: gaining your skills. Now you've got a mid forties quarterback
Speaker 1: who everyone just assumes is gonna go thirteen and three, um,
Speaker 1: who's twenty years older than most of the people on
Speaker 1: the roster, living in in in a mansion where what
Speaker 1: at best he takes up twelve feet of space with
Speaker 1: all his objects. You're in a gigantic um like Largesse
Speaker 1: compound away from human beings a family, right, Well, I
Speaker 1: mean maybe, but I thought the family also lives in
Speaker 1: Manhattan and has all these like school obligations. And also,
Speaker 1: I mean this, this is a super wealthy, famous celebrity.
Speaker 1: There's there's probably a chef on site, maids, all all
Speaker 1: sorts of people that need to keep the grounds, uh
Speaker 1: groundskeeping the whole thing there. Gabt's in the guesthouse, he's
Speaker 1: in the Cato kalin Hut. Well, I mean when you
Speaker 1: throw in the fact that Abert needs a living space,
Speaker 1: all my issues have gone away. So you're right. Is
Speaker 1: anyone else feeling like this is just being the red
Speaker 1: carpets being rolled out for everything to go right, And
Speaker 1: it's like that's almost how it never works in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And I want to show everyone's mics off and just
Speaker 1: have Mark do the next thirty minutes. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: if you have so many great takes right now, I
Speaker 1: just I just there's a little bit a little bit
Speaker 1: of an issue buzzing inside my mind about how everything
Speaker 1: is just so perfect, Like I just don't. We'll see.
Speaker 1: I hope it goes well for him. I just want
Speaker 1: to make I mean, the setup. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen when this is very believable. I hope it
Speaker 1: goes well for them. I actually don't have I don't
Speaker 1: have an axtagrind with Tom Brady, but I do think
Speaker 1: that like, you know, you've arrived like a king. You know,
Speaker 1: you've arrived like a king, and you're and that is
Speaker 1: not not every athlete on that roster is going to
Speaker 1: respond to say what does he what do you want
Speaker 1: him to do? What has he done? Personally? How about?
Speaker 1: How about like, how about I don't need to read
Speaker 1: stories about you moving out on him? Like the biggest
Speaker 1: mansion out I'm feeling marks take on this one. I mean,
Speaker 1: you move in, you might as well throw down a
Speaker 1: drawbridge and higher guards when you're moving into that place
Speaker 1: that How often does something like that just work out perfectly? Well?
Speaker 1: Tom and Uh we're gonna I'm going I'm going for
Speaker 1: the Tom and Gazel did build that big place out here.
Speaker 1: They spent like, you know, tens of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: for two or three years, and then they just never
Speaker 1: even lived in it. They're like, Oh, I guess we're
Speaker 1: not gonna live out here's an investment them. That's what
Speaker 1: they say. That's what they say. I just love that.
Speaker 1: Like literally a week ago Mark went on and on
Speaker 1: and on about Martha Ford's like massive estate and how
Speaker 1: he'd do anything to live there. And now Tom Brady
Speaker 1: in this castle. That the distinct, uh, the point of departure,
Speaker 1: there's that benefits me. And I'm not like, I don't
Speaker 1: need to worry about Tom Brady. Is fine if I
Speaker 1: were suddenly living in a mansion with someone that would
Speaker 1: be probably thinking about who were the people that mattered
Speaker 1: most with me? When you know, when you forgot about me,
Speaker 1: who mattered most? This Mark Sessler character is in here
Speaker 1: helping doing chores. Plus, it's like, you know, what did
Speaker 1: Tom Brady do to earn earn that sort of money,
Speaker 1: just like you know, the greatest player in the sports history,
Speaker 1: Martha Ford was born into the Ford family. I'm not
Speaker 1: I like, I'm not saying that Martha Ford should have
Speaker 1: as much money as she has. That's not the Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I've said. What I need to say. I think was
Speaker 1: born in Indonesia, be poor, we're pushing here. I was
Speaker 1: into tomorrow. We're just talking Brady's about the rest of
Speaker 1: the show. The Cowboys have brought Alden Smith back from
Speaker 1: the dead, signs the former Niners pass rusher to a
Speaker 1: one year, two million dollar contract. Smith still waiting to
Speaker 1: be reinstated UH from the NFL. He had various off
Speaker 1: the field issues, including um A domestic abuse plea deal
Speaker 1: some d U. I is just a total mess, and
Speaker 1: it ruined a career that had started, as you know,
Speaker 1: one of the more are productive pass rushers we've seen
Speaker 1: in recent times, and he basically just put a stick
Speaker 1: of dynamite under his own career. Well, now he's back,
Speaker 1: he's gotta pay dah as modest as it is. And
Speaker 1: you would imagine Greg that the Cowboys expect this suspension
Speaker 1: to UM be lifted. If they're gonna pay this guy
Speaker 1: two million dollars, Yeah, they probably got an indication. He
Speaker 1: has more sacks in his first two seasons than any
Speaker 1: player in NFL history. So if he if his head's
Speaker 1: on straight and he doesn't have the substance abuse problems,
Speaker 1: which is really what derailed him first. UM I had
Speaker 1: like nineteen sacks is a twenty two year old. It
Speaker 1: was something absurd. I remember, I think he had thirty yeah, thirties,
Speaker 1: thirty something in his first two years, thirty three, I think,
Speaker 1: which is outrageous. Okay, but let's okay, this has never
Speaker 1: happened before. Right, he'll be thirty one in September. The
Speaker 1: last time he was the old and Smith. We remember
Speaker 1: where he was impacting games, he was twenty four years old,
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be six to seven years between when
Speaker 1: he was a star and when he's gonna be playing
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. The only guy I thought of was
Speaker 1: Roger Staubach, who had a four year Navy mission and
Speaker 1: could not play in those four years. I can't remember
Speaker 1: anybody taking six years off or six years between major
Speaker 1: impacts in the NFL. There's no guaranteed money in the deal,
Speaker 1: So for for the Cowboys, they probably look at it
Speaker 1: is like there's zero risk from their perspective. Who was
Speaker 1: that troubled Jaguars receiver that came out about Blackman? Justin Blackman? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember when he was having his issues. One of
Speaker 1: the reports that eventually came out was that one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why he wasn't getting a second shot beyond
Speaker 1: his off the field issues, was that he had been
Speaker 1: away from the game for so long that that's scene
Speaker 1: is something that guys just can't come back from. If
Speaker 1: you disappear, it doesn't matter if you're still physically in
Speaker 1: your prime. It's hard to get back that Burston explosion,
Speaker 1: you explosion you once had. Aldon Smith, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a challenge for him. You no doubt Alden Smith has been,
Speaker 1: you know, working out NonStop in the space of time
Speaker 1: that we've not him on the field. Based on what
Speaker 1: we know, I feel like it's got to be seven
Speaker 1: get the body right operations. Speaking of doom, I mean well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like it's a if he makes Debbie Downer.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not rooting for Aldon Smith, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. So if you're if you're premonition that
Speaker 1: he might be seventy pounds, is uh true? I don't
Speaker 1: think that. I just like, when we it's like suddenly
Speaker 1: we're gonna lose him for three, you know, three months
Speaker 1: to a soft tissue injury. I won't be stunned. I
Speaker 1: mean we've been it's were three weeks into the bunker cast,
Speaker 1: So I think it's having mar you're killing me today.
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor, he's the front runner to be the charge
Speaker 1: of starting QB in week one, and that's coming straight
Speaker 1: from the horse's mouth Anthony Lynn, the head coach of
Speaker 1: the l A Chargers. Uh. Here's what Anthony had to
Speaker 1: say on Wednesday. I brought him in last year and
Speaker 1: I knew that we if we needed him to start.
Speaker 1: If something happened to Phil. Phil Rivers since departed, uh
Speaker 1: not dead, he's on the cult stale, then he could
Speaker 1: go in and start. I'm very familiar with Tyrod. I
Speaker 1: would say, right now, it looks like he's in the
Speaker 1: driver's seat, but no position is final until we get
Speaker 1: to training camp. Right now, coach speak West. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think anytime a coach leaves himself and out there are
Speaker 1: plans to use it at some point. So to me,
Speaker 1: that he's leaving himself and out, that door is open.
Speaker 1: How is Cam Newton Greg not a better option here?
Speaker 1: It makes no sense to me, But it really sounds
Speaker 1: like they're not interested in Cam Newton. The out I
Speaker 1: think is that they're going to draft someone, whether it's
Speaker 1: with the number six pick or whether they move up
Speaker 1: to to draft someone I think they're drafting someone with
Speaker 1: that pick, and I'm with you, and I like I
Speaker 1: I Anthony Lynn's fascination with Tyrod Taylor tracks back to
Speaker 1: the Rex Ryan Bills, and I think it's to me
Speaker 1: it kind of vibes Jacoby Brissette like, we like this guy,
Speaker 1: we like this player. But without the full year of
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor, it may never happen. If they don't pick
Speaker 1: a quarterback or move up to get the quarterback they
Speaker 1: want in the draft, I would be would anyone else
Speaker 1: not be shocked? I would be shocked, shocked, shocked. That's
Speaker 1: what they're doing. So this is just that, you know,
Speaker 1: this is whistling Dixie until in case everything goes wrong, Well,
Speaker 1: if they don't have much time to practice, though, he
Speaker 1: I could see Tyrod like when he was with Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield starting early in the year. Uh, you missed the
Speaker 1: whole off season. It's tough. He's been in that system.
Speaker 1: And then they bend him in Week four and finally uh.
Speaker 1: Some college football player news. Mike Gara Folo NFL Network
Speaker 1: reports that alabam Alabama quarterback to Ah with the hip injury,
Speaker 1: underwent another medical check um and received quote over whelmingly positive.
Speaker 1: Close quote news. Uh, he has fulfilled all medical obligations.
Speaker 1: UM rap sheet adds, and it just seems like this
Speaker 1: guy is gonna be a full go Maybe. I guess
Speaker 1: we've heard that he might be. It might be a
Speaker 1: situation where he could be a potential redshirt guy as
Speaker 1: they want to ease a gifted first round prospect into
Speaker 1: the NFL mix. We'll see how that plays out. But
Speaker 1: in terms of teams having a reason to be concerned
Speaker 1: heading into draft day, market seems like TWA is in
Speaker 1: the clear. Yeah. I mean, the reports are pretty glowing
Speaker 1: and I think we can trust how the process went
Speaker 1: and it it opens the door. And at this point,
Speaker 1: anyone like knocking down a what will be a franchise, exciting,
Speaker 1: team altering quarterback because of an injury that's fading away.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that team would be. It just
Speaker 1: seems like all bets are on for the Dolphins or
Speaker 1: someone else to come grab this guy. That's what's happening
Speaker 1: in the new is actually one more a little developing news? Well,
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's head toward to the studio for some
Speaker 1: developing news. He's on the radar. The Orlando led Better
Speaker 1: checking in on Twitter. Here's the tweet. Hey guys at
Speaker 1: around the NFL, thanks for shout out on the top
Speaker 1: thirty QB podcast. Got my steps in this morning listening
Speaker 1: to you all. Great job at Dan Jansas, at Greg
Speaker 1: Rosenthal and at Chris Wesling d Orlando led Better of
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Journal Constitution. A lot to unpack here, guys, Uh,
Speaker 1: where do we want to start? Greg? Wow? Well, I
Speaker 1: think you know the first thing. It's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a great feeling to have that sort of respect and
Speaker 1: nowhere connecting with some as great as as d Lead.
Speaker 1: But you just had to notice whose name was was
Speaker 1: missing there? The man um Mark Sessler, who's who's reached
Speaker 1: out to de Lead and mentioned what it meant, what
Speaker 1: a hero he is to him. It's justice in terms
Speaker 1: of context. On a show earlier this week, I talked
Speaker 1: about how I kind of looked up to Matt money
Speaker 1: Smith and Dave damn Check certainly when I first started
Speaker 1: this company and was getting to know them, and then Mark,
Speaker 1: you had chimed in with the Lead as somebody that
Speaker 1: you looked up to. Where are you at right now
Speaker 1: when you see this tweet and the thoughts on your
Speaker 1: name not being in there. Do you think there's something
Speaker 1: more to this? Do you think it was just an
Speaker 1: honest mistake? Take us through your thought process right here. Really,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm really mentally because I thought of anyone
Speaker 1: attached to our our product. I made it clear that,
Speaker 1: you know, dating back to early combines, I went to
Speaker 1: that this was someone I'd see across the room UH
Speaker 1: operating as a PFW A lieutenant doing a great job
Speaker 1: wrangling UM pool reports from people. It's clear in the
Speaker 1: past that I wanted to join that organization. They said
Speaker 1: no to me. So I I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: attached to UM like an organizational PFW A wide UH
Speaker 1: band on my work, or if it's more personal UM,
Speaker 1: or if it's an oversight because we do get tweets
Speaker 1: occasionally where UM and I don't see them because my
Speaker 1: name is left out of the group where the others
Speaker 1: are thanked for their service. So I I'm baffled UM.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I mentally am catching up to the
Speaker 1: whole thing, certainly emotionally UM. But I I'm not going
Speaker 1: to draw any final conclusions until I have more information,
Speaker 1: because I am at the at the I am a
Speaker 1: reporter myself. So I want to deal in facts, and
Speaker 1: what I have to work with was what was this
Speaker 1: whe There's probably a second part to this, the omission
Speaker 1: of Mark's name on purpose or accidental. Oh, it's on purpose.
Speaker 1: I don't understand what the motivation would be. I mean,
Speaker 1: he heard the words come out of Mark's mouth and
Speaker 1: then the one person not mentioned in the tweet is
Speaker 1: the person who was talking about him. I'd say that
Speaker 1: to draw your own conclusion, situation. My conclusion is it
Speaker 1: was done on purpose. Now what that purpose was, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. Well, he'm leading, I'm leaning towards west side.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a wink and a nod. Hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: I'm listening, and I see smart Alec. I think that's
Speaker 1: kind of the smart Alec I mean is that it's
Speaker 1: basically like, Hey, stinky Davis, I'm right here. Well, and
Speaker 1: this isn't the first time, you know, d led a legend.
Speaker 1: Um his name has been mentioned lately. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: there was a ranking that Mark put out a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Um that upset we We know Peter Schraeger,
Speaker 1: a trusted UH man in the industry for his own
Speaker 1: mission and d lad did make that list, but maybe
Speaker 1: maybe he wasn't thrilled about his placement on that list either. Well,
Speaker 1: so we wanted to be higher. I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: that that's a fair place to start from the argument.
Speaker 1: But I feel like my b line through this has
Speaker 1: been ray you know, like pointing to his work is
Speaker 1: something that's you know, a great part of our industry.
Speaker 1: And what's the action step here, Mark? I mean my
Speaker 1: move is like again, I'm gat I'm in the gathering
Speaker 1: information portion of this, so uh, not a lot of
Speaker 1: proactive I'm not I'm not engaging. I'm just gonna see
Speaker 1: where we are a week from now. It's just like
Speaker 1: with many things in our country, Dan, Well, the one
Speaker 1: short thing about this situation is it is your move.
Speaker 1: Well that the onus he gave you the onus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: have to do anything at all, but I'm I am
Speaker 1: I All things are on the table as possibility. We
Speaker 1: know he's he's aware because I mean I think since
Speaker 1: we even started taping this, he he liked a tweet
Speaker 1: where you know, I just said thanks the lead. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to recognize his tweets so the interactions happening,
Speaker 1: he's listening to the show, he's he's interacting on Twitter.
Speaker 1: It's it's a conversation. Yeah, that part of it. I
Speaker 1: don't like at all that he that you're all raising up,
Speaker 1: you know, a steam wise in his eyes. And I
Speaker 1: have been left, uh in a perilous place, a bad place, frankly,
Speaker 1: and I know I'm confused as to what have we
Speaker 1: ever done? Like three minutes of the show that is
Speaker 1: more just for us. I'm gonna right now to eggs
Speaker 1: d lead you demand as the producer of the show.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you listening. Well, see that's you know,
Speaker 1: you want to see Stinky Davis references. They're they're all
Speaker 1: over the place. That's you're just pouring salt into the
Speaker 1: theoretical wounds. It's ghastline on the fire. Really. Um, all right, well,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll continue to track this developing story. As we
Speaker 1: get more information, we will bring it to you the listener,
Speaker 1: d lad game, let it fully lead it all right, West,
Speaker 1: it's cut the funny business. Let's get real, go ahead,
Speaker 1: less take it over. Well, this is a sports show.
Speaker 1: And I think I would start out by saying, picture
Speaker 1: of the closing seconds of a tightly fought championship game basketball, football, baseball,
Speaker 1: the camera in that to belief find some ten year
Speaker 1: old bawling his eyes out, because at that age you
Speaker 1: worship your sports heroes. You want to emulate them, and
Speaker 1: you go out in the backyard. If you're my age,
Speaker 1: you know, you literally pretend you were Michael Jordan's or
Speaker 1: Pete Rose or Johnny bench Um. If you're younger, maybe
Speaker 1: uh Lebron James or Lamar Jackson. And for Freud would say,
Speaker 1: we're fixiate. We're fixating on ideals of masculinity as we
Speaker 1: try to develop our own identities, and eventually we grow
Speaker 1: out of that phase. And with the exception of some
Speaker 1: generational icons like Jackie Robinson or a Muhammad Ali, we
Speaker 1: tend to shift our hif focus to heroes who take
Speaker 1: a personal risk for the common good, often while others
Speaker 1: remain passive. That's what a hero is, and it's a
Speaker 1: concept is deeply valued across cultures. The earliest campfire tales
Speaker 1: gave us stories of heroes, you know, sort of like
Speaker 1: modern lighthouses, helping us find our way in the dark,
Speaker 1: you know, as long as we look out for them.
Speaker 1: And the key to hear wis m is a concern
Speaker 1: for other people. It doesn't happen in the absence of
Speaker 1: compassion or self sacrifice. I know you guys all remember
Speaker 1: the Stanford Um prison experiments psychologist named Philip Zimbardo. Uh.
Speaker 1: He noted that there is a banality of evil. Under
Speaker 1: certain conditions and pressures, ordinary people can commit acts that
Speaker 1: would otherwise be unthinkable, And after three years, three decades
Speaker 1: of studying evil, he became entranced with the flip side
Speaker 1: of that coin, sort of a bin binality of heroism,
Speaker 1: where anybody can be a hero, of us coming out
Speaker 1: of the womb, with the potential u for both good
Speaker 1: and evil, depending on circumstances and character. Think about your
Speaker 1: greatest your favorite films, TV shows, uh, theater, literature. You
Speaker 1: place a human being in a crucible and see how
Speaker 1: he or she reacts. Circumstances shape our lives, and you
Speaker 1: don't need to be a superhuman to be a hero.
Speaker 1: Many heroes feel sort of a moral tickle in the
Speaker 1: brains where you you can't ignore it anymore. It keeps
Speaker 1: grinding away at you until you act out on that.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of us are reluctant heroes.
Speaker 1: The bell curve has villains on one side, heroes at
Speaker 1: the other, and a bunch of us as bystanders in
Speaker 1: the middle. Um. And to me, this is where the
Speaker 1: experts come in. We live in a country with a
Speaker 1: steep history of anti intellectualism, and it's getting worse with
Speaker 1: the prevailing sentiment across cable news that my ignorance is
Speaker 1: as valid as your knowledge. UM. So I want to
Speaker 1: take this time to thank our scientists, doctors, nurses, some
Speaker 1: of our greatest experts. I'm here today because of their expertise.
Speaker 1: If I have been diagnosed with esophageal cancer in an
Speaker 1: earlier generation, this podcast would feature Dan Mark, greg and
Speaker 1: an attractive female in the fourth chair. UM. And I think,
Speaker 1: right now, while I'm crying out for more attention for
Speaker 1: our experts, we have a leadership vacuum. We have top
Speaker 1: down chaos right now. Um. During the Corona's coronavirus pandemic,
Speaker 1: we have a governor of Georgia who said, just in
Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours, we didn't know until these
Speaker 1: last twenty four hours that individuals could infect people before
Speaker 1: they ever felt bad. Um, we knew, we knew, Um,
Speaker 1: some of our experts. UM. Some of our politicians did
Speaker 1: not know, but our experts did. And I think one
Speaker 1: good thing that we're seeing coming out of this is
Speaker 1: the ordinary Americans are filling in the holes of that
Speaker 1: leadership vacuum. UM. And I think about a guy who's
Speaker 1: been on this podcast, UM, Zach Goldman, and he's a
Speaker 1: hero to me. UM. He has been apoplectic about Americans
Speaker 1: congregating in public for the past five weeks, stressing the
Speaker 1: importance of flattening the curve, thinking beyond yourself, showing compassion,
Speaker 1: that even if you are not showing symptoms, you can
Speaker 1: carry this disease and it can affect other people. UM.
Speaker 1: You know Zimbarda, the psychologist I talked about with the
Speaker 1: with the Prisoned experiment, He noted the heroes generally possessed
Speaker 1: an expanded worldview and greater positivity than the rest of us.
Speaker 1: And I think that describes Zack Goldman. He does have
Speaker 1: an expanded worldview. He is setting an example. UM. He
Speaker 1: he Engender's wisdom in respect for expertise, truth telling, and compassion.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's what we need from heroes,
Speaker 1: because heroism is a chain. When we see other people
Speaker 1: doing it. We do it ourselves, so UM, I would um,
Speaker 1: I want to put Zack up as a hero and
Speaker 1: see if any of you guys have heroes. Well, Zach
Speaker 1: is yeah, definitely an enlightened dude. UM. And I think
Speaker 1: the more people that take this as seriously as Zack is,
Speaker 1: the better. Unfortunately, that hasn't necessarily been the case. Going
Speaker 1: back to a lot of things that you're saying, I
Speaker 1: think it's yeah, I think it's it's maybe on the nose,
Speaker 1: but it has to be said that the all the
Speaker 1: medical professionals that are out on the front lines here
Speaker 1: and don't have the right enough supplies, uh, don't have
Speaker 1: the necessary protection, are completely overwhelmed and it's only getting
Speaker 1: more and more overwhelming with each day as we approved
Speaker 1: approached the apex of this. UM. It's it's frightening because
Speaker 1: if we if we lose, if we lose these people,
Speaker 1: what what happens after that? That's what part of what
Speaker 1: makes us really scary. And my mom um is retired now,
Speaker 1: but she was a registered nurse and she used to
Speaker 1: tell me stories when she was working in the er um.
Speaker 1: That is not an easy job in the best of times.
Speaker 1: That is a that is a unforgiving. The hours are difficult,
Speaker 1: the people that you deal with UM sometimes it's not
Speaker 1: the best situation. So now you take all that, you
Speaker 1: crank it up from a ten to a one hundred
Speaker 1: at a ten and you and you understand what these
Speaker 1: people have and and like us, we we struggle with
Speaker 1: UM the challenges of working from home. You know a
Speaker 1: lot of these people have families at home UM. So
Speaker 1: that to me is is really where where I think
Speaker 1: UM people need to keep these medical professionals in mind
Speaker 1: because they don't have the choice to stay home and
Speaker 1: they are putting their lives at risk. Yeah, it's well said.
Speaker 1: Like in Italy, which has been hit you know, per capita,
Speaker 1: probably worse worse than anywhere, I think fifteen of their
Speaker 1: cases of coronavirus our healthcare workers. And you're starting to
Speaker 1: see that here too. You're starting to see that in
Speaker 1: a lot of these public jobs. There's more you know,
Speaker 1: police and firemen with COVID nineteen in New York than
Speaker 1: entire states have in New York City alone that entire
Speaker 1: states have UM. And so they're on the front lines.
Speaker 1: But it really stands out to me like what's essential
Speaker 1: and not essential in these times, and how many of
Speaker 1: the essential jobs are some of like the lowest paid,
Speaker 1: and you you think. I think about like the lady
Speaker 1: Beatrice that at Bonds across the street that I see
Speaker 1: every single morning, who I spoke with, and she she's worked.
Speaker 1: She's I think she said like twenty six straight days
Speaker 1: when I talked to her, and she's just showing up
Speaker 1: every shift. I mean not everyone is. She's healthy and
Speaker 1: she just keeps doing it like we were thankful to have,
Speaker 1: like you know, delivery um or or pick up for restaurants.
Speaker 1: If you're doing that like that that cooks in the kitchen,
Speaker 1: you know, and they are not getting paid like the
Speaker 1: people keeping the restaurants open. They are losing money on
Speaker 1: those restaurants. Like they're like this delivery and makes they're
Speaker 1: getting absolutely killed, but they're keeping it open and they're
Speaker 1: cooking for you. Uh and they're and they're putting themselves,
Speaker 1: uh at risk. Yeah, I would. I would add to
Speaker 1: that just that you know, you guys mentioned CVS and
Speaker 1: I feel like I've um use CVS as a as
Speaker 1: a gag in the past, but I've been there like
Speaker 1: every day because I don't want to do the longline
Speaker 1: grocery store thing. We were lucky enough to live in
Speaker 1: l a where you can, UM with a nice tip,
Speaker 1: have groceries delivered to your house on a five or
Speaker 1: six day lag, and so we've used that just based
Speaker 1: out of UM not one to spend hours doing that,
Speaker 1: but going into CVS, if seen two or three of
Speaker 1: the same people that are logging UM insane long hours.
Speaker 1: They're not getting paid well, but they are providing essential services.
Speaker 1: We're talking about like people's medicine. We're talking about, uh,
Speaker 1: what there is still water. They're that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But another thing that hit me UM a little bit
Speaker 1: more personally because I I think that we're talking about
Speaker 1: these people have been put in this tough position. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of like a lot of like school
Speaker 1: children and children in general, who don't have the UM
Speaker 1: worldview that we're talking about that many heroes would have,
Speaker 1: where you kind of get the larger struggle. Their world's
Speaker 1: very small. UM. They have a lot of fears that
Speaker 1: they don't really enunciate or able to even kind of unpack.
Speaker 1: And I like when we found out the kids are
Speaker 1: gonna be home for at first weeks and then a
Speaker 1: probably months, UM in our house. We were very concerned.
Speaker 1: We have been told and I'll just be real about this,
Speaker 1: like Bier pediatrician that Artiel children are in quotes active
Speaker 1: um and which is a code word for a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot to handle and um they are delightful.
Speaker 1: But the the other side is when we've got into trouble.
Speaker 1: It's when we've had too much cabin fever. And so
Speaker 1: our success in the past has been to get everyone
Speaker 1: out of the house and go do lots of stuff
Speaker 1: and split them up and then bring them back together.
Speaker 1: And there's none of that, and so we were very
Speaker 1: concerned and as were many other parents, just with the
Speaker 1: overall combustible nature of having um kids home where parents
Speaker 1: are trying to work. My little boys, and I think
Speaker 1: this is true with a lot of kids I've seen
Speaker 1: have adjusted really well and they've been um adaptable and
Speaker 1: super positive, and they've kind of surprised me. I think sometimes,
Speaker 1: like a hero, equality is you didn't really know if
Speaker 1: you had it in you or someone else close to
Speaker 1: you has it in them. And I'm kind of um
Speaker 1: thrilled with how uh it's helped our family because they've
Speaker 1: been kind of in there at seven and nine, really
Speaker 1: stepping up to be team mates versus just served me
Speaker 1: this and that all day long, but logging on like
Speaker 1: with their homework and seeing fifteen or sixteen other are
Speaker 1: kids in a zoom chat room who are also doing
Speaker 1: the best they can and try not to just give
Speaker 1: into fear and not knowing what's happening to America. Credit
Speaker 1: to them, because I don't. I can't imagine um being
Speaker 1: a child at a certain age where you realize that
Speaker 1: if you do that, how much the country has changed.
Speaker 1: Maybe they don't understand, but if they do, they're handling
Speaker 1: better than a lot of um people I see on
Speaker 1: Twitter and adults in general. You know, Ellis found out
Speaker 1: you after any of my daughter that school is canceled
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. I mean, you could
Speaker 1: have Center to the moon. She was damning you know.
Speaker 1: This part of it, they like, some of the aspects
Speaker 1: are quite eightful from inside the house. Yeah, the innocence
Speaker 1: of youth is on wild display during this entire catastrophe,
Speaker 1: because the less they understand of the real world, the
Speaker 1: better and all they they're really getting to hang out
Speaker 1: with their family and their mom and dad, who are
Speaker 1: the coolest people in the world. When you're in the
Speaker 1: age of my kids and your and your the age
Speaker 1: of your children. So that's a cool thing. Um, anything
Speaker 1: else you wanted to add West before we uh say goodbye?
Speaker 1: Is there anything Ricky wants to Ricky? Sorry, I just
Speaker 1: want to echo the sentiments that you guys have been saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just blown away whenever I go to
Speaker 1: the grocery store and like you said, Greg, people are
Speaker 1: are still there, and it's like the people that get
Speaker 1: paid pretty much the lowest on the totem pole. Besides,
Speaker 1: you know, healthcare workers are the ones that are literally
Speaker 1: keeping us all alive. I mean, the grocery stores are open,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're happy, they're trying to make people safe.
Speaker 1: I think, um, the airline workers who are showing up
Speaker 1: with masks and whatever to get people to where they
Speaker 1: need to be for safety, like essential travel, I think
Speaker 1: is so brave. Um. A lot of these people can
Speaker 1: afford to take time off, and I just feel so
Speaker 1: fortunate that we're able to work from home. We're not
Speaker 1: worried about our jobs. Like, there's so many people and
Speaker 1: so many families that are scared right now, and it
Speaker 1: just like gives me a totally new perspective and appreciation
Speaker 1: when I wake up every morning, like I just I
Speaker 1: want to do whatever I can to help, and it's
Speaker 1: it's just there's only so much that someone like me
Speaker 1: could do. Um And I'd like to say that like
Speaker 1: a lot of people I'm seeing on Twitter, like, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's all necessarily about money, but I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people that are, like, hey, if if
Speaker 1: you're a waitress, like let me send you a twenty
Speaker 1: dollar tips to go get your coffee or whatever. I
Speaker 1: just feel like to see all these people like coming
Speaker 1: together to help other people. And like West you said,
Speaker 1: with the whole top down thing in our government, like
Speaker 1: I do feel really discouraged sometimes about humanity and how
Speaker 1: people think and how people feel, But there is a
Speaker 1: positive that comes out of this. I think the reason
Speaker 1: why I was attracted this topic is because I have
Speaker 1: a serious craving for some some monce of leadership right now.
Speaker 1: And you can find all kinds of definitions for heroes.
Speaker 1: There is not one definition, but what they do have
Speaker 1: is they improve lives and they inspire positive change, and
Speaker 1: heroism is really the high water mark of human behavior.
Speaker 1: So for me that that really nourished something that I
Speaker 1: needed to be nourished to read about heroes and think
Speaker 1: about heroes. And where you're reading it, it sticks out
Speaker 1: to me is is often in these newspapers. And I've
Speaker 1: thought a lot about journalists the last could months, like
Speaker 1: how how invaluable and like heroic some of the work
Speaker 1: that that journalists are doing. Like I think back to
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, they're reporting from the New
Speaker 1: York Times inside of Buhan during what at the time
Speaker 1: seemed like an incredibly dystopic future that no one could
Speaker 1: possibly imagine. And I was like, I can't believe this
Speaker 1: is actually existing in the world. And now you know
Speaker 1: it's come to us. It's not you know, quite um
Speaker 1: as uh draconian, I guess is what happened there. But
Speaker 1: you see the like the reporting from whether it's the
Speaker 1: l A Times or or New York Times or or
Speaker 1: where wherever, Like the people that are out there doing
Speaker 1: that reporting it really is a public service and and
Speaker 1: it's not easy and they're putting themselves on the line too.
Speaker 1: Um okay, And just one final thought I had, it's
Speaker 1: we are at as of this morning, five thousand people
Speaker 1: have died in this country alone, including one thousand in
Speaker 1: one day. Yesterday, I saw a New York City city
Speaker 1: councilman said he has five people he knows and our
Speaker 1: friends with who have died already in the Tri state
Speaker 1: area have now have now you know, lost their lives
Speaker 1: than in nine eleven. I mean, that is outrageous. My
Speaker 1: family is all based in New York where I come from,
Speaker 1: in Rockland County. UM, as of yesterday, there were fourteen
Speaker 1: hundred confirmed cases, which is more than thirty three states.
Speaker 1: My sister lives there, her husband, two kids, my brother. UM,
Speaker 1: so it's very scary and I I just wanted to
Speaker 1: shine a light on one of the victims. And people
Speaker 1: that know me know that I love music and I
Speaker 1: love alternative rock and UM. One person who died uh yesterday,
Speaker 1: in fact, was Adam Schlessinger of Fountain of Wayne. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was the songwriter. UH. He's fifty two years old
Speaker 1: and UM he died from complications of the coronavirus. And
Speaker 1: this guy was UM a gifted UH like power pop
Speaker 1: songwriter type of guy that I would imagine other songwriters
Speaker 1: envied for his ability to write a hook. And he
Speaker 1: wrote for movies, he wrote for television, he wrote for Broadway,
Speaker 1: and um, he had one kind of big radio hit,
Speaker 1: which was Stacy's Mom in two thousand three that um,
Speaker 1: a lot of people know, but if you actually, um
Speaker 1: want to listen to some great alternative like post grunge,
Speaker 1: alternative power pop pull up like the greatest hits of
Speaker 1: Fountains of Wayne and uh and and remember uh this
Speaker 1: guy that way because he Uh. It's just an example
Speaker 1: of how people are getting struck down. And it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter how old you are, um uh. And it's
Speaker 1: just so sad and it's going to continue to mount.
Speaker 1: The number is in the amount of people that are
Speaker 1: going to die. And I think that is the one
Speaker 1: thing that me and I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are not really able to fully process yet, how many
Speaker 1: people are dying right now. UM. So I just wanted
Speaker 1: to mention him and and uh and the show by
Speaker 1: playing out one of his most well known songs, which
Speaker 1: is actually from the movie That Thing You Do. He
Speaker 1: wrote the song, um, the title song from that movie,
Speaker 1: and it's one of his more beloved compositions ever. So, UM,
Speaker 1: I thought that was great stuff from everybody there and
Speaker 1: everybody listening that has reached out to us and said
Speaker 1: thank you for doing it every day. Well, I guess
Speaker 1: it's just doing our part to kind of help during
Speaker 1: all this. And um, but obviously, like West said, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're actual heroes involved here. Now we don't get that.
Speaker 1: We don't get that corner anymore. How do we get
Speaker 1: the corner back? It's gonna take a lot. It's it's
Speaker 1: not happening anytime soon. Should we be fa heiros until
Speaker 1: this is over? I mean we've kind of been that
Speaker 1: with the whole time. I would argue that was our role,
Speaker 1: but we we had our serious discussion. Now we can
Speaker 1: go back to frivolity, right, I mean it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're doing a lot. I mean, who's breaking down
Speaker 1: QB rankings like us? Nobody? Nobody. All right, we'll we'll
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow with more fun talk. So take it away. Uh,
Speaker 1: Fountains of Wayne Dan hands a signing off for the
Speaker 1: Quiet Storm, the Mailman, the Old Boss, and Rick Hollywood
Speaker 1: from her apartment until Friday, tomb breaking to a million
Speaker 1: like you always do. Don't need to found I can't
Speaker 1: go with through and try and try to forget you there,
Speaker 1: but's just so hard to do every time you do
Speaker 1: that thing you do