WEBVTT - LISTEN | Bob Wischusen and Marty Lyons Talk COVID-19 and Jets Draft (4/10) 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.159 Jets Fans Welcome Jets podcast powered by Amazon Web Services. 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:10.159 Another tearful reunion between myself and Marty Lyons and all 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:13.480 of the special surprise guests coming up in about five 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:15.440 or six minutes. With Marty. First of all, I want 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.680 to know how many marbles you still have rolling around 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.840 in your head right now. We're all still in for 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:26.160 the foreseeable future, trapped in our houses, you know what, Bobby, 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.880 I don't know how many marvels I had before this started. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.280 But I'm doing well, you know. I get up every morning, 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.640 I have an hour conference call with the people who 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.920 from the Lantech group and make sure that we're trying 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.560 to do as best as possible for all our employees. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.920 Then I'll go out and walk anywhere from four to 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.120 seven miles, and I keep track of how many days 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.159 I've been out of the office because I try to 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.320 walk every day, so I know I've been out twenty 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.880 three days. So always well, you know, and it gives 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.200 you time to reflect, and every time they turn the 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.520 TV on, you get a whole new appreciation aition for 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.360 the doctors and the nurses and the volunteers and everybody 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.720 is on the front line. Uh going out there trying 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.480 to do the best that they can to protect us. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.080 And I think if all of us can do the 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.880 best that we can by staying at home and staying 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:21.039 you know, away from other individuals and we're doing our party, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:22.920 that's all you can do right now as we make 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:27.520 it through the difficult time. Four to seven miles, yeah, 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:31.160 forty seven miles a day, and you know, I just 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.360 uh started walking and all of a sudden, you know, 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.560 I went from two miles to four miles to six 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.840 miles and you just keep walking. It's one of those 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.600 things that you know, as long as you can keep counting, 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.280 and I count in paces of fifty and then I'll 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.880 go back to one, and you know, I just keep 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:55.200 the legs moving. You're like the forest gump of walking. Yeah, 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.040 you know I might be, but it's a it's a 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.960 what else am I gonna do? You know, you've got 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.640 to find something about I started reading a couple of books, 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.800 and then you start to watch different shows on the TV. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.880 And I always find myself tuning into you know, Fox 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.320 News or CNN, and you jump back and forth, and 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.280 you know, you can get depressed, but I I have 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.800 to commend that you know, Governor Cuomo and Governor Murphy 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.280 have done an excellent job trying to keep the people 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.639 of are of New York and the people of New 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.280 Jersey safe. I have to commend them. Yeah. Great, they've 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:31.840 done a great job. And I mean I played golf 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.960 with you. When you play golf, you welcome minimum of 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:39.359 nine miles with where you hit it. So it's probably 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.600 right about you know. I mean yeah, but it wouldn't 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.680 be nice if you give me a mulligan every now 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.200 and then on a t shot. That would be helpful. Yeah, 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.920 Long and Wrong is your nickname for a reason, you 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.799 know what, you know, it is amazing, and I'm sure 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.720 Jet fans and anybody listen to this podcast, everyone's kind 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.959 of going through the same thing. You know. I we're 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.600 not in prison, but it kind of feels like that, 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.120 I I kind of compared to what everyone's going through 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.760 right now, it's almost like it's a medium security prison, 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.200 like you're allowed to walk around outside and maybe visit 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.520 with people who are twenty feet away. But you know, 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.160 it's just it's it's unbelievable not being able to live 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.000 your life, and on top of that, so slow and 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.680 fast time goes there's that unbelievable movie that people haven't 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.680 seen at the movie in the Name of the Father 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.840 with Daniel day Lewis. He plays that character Jerry Conlin, 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.440 who was wrongly convicted of a crime and spent about 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.400 twenty years in jail. And there's this one scene where 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.160 he's talking about kind of the concept of time and 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.560 it's like, drip, drip, drip. You like, can't believe how 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.120 long it takes for five or ten minutes to go by, 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.280 and all of a sudden, you blink and years have 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.800 gone by. It's just we're all kind of in that 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.720 in our own weird way right now. I can't believe 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.200 we've been doing this for a month, you know, it 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.360 was it was almost exactly a month ago. I was 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.160 in Kansas City at the Big Twall basketball tournament and 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.720 they canceled it and sent us home. And now a 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.520 month later, we're still in this same cycle of having 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.640 to sit home. And I guess you're right to our part. 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.560 But week based at least the numbers that the governors 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.040 are talking about in both of our two states, and 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:24.080 we're the two hardest hit states in the country right now, Um, 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:28.040 we're having an impact we're definitely having a positive impact. Yeah, 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.039 you know what, Bobby gives you a chance to reflect 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:34.479 and just realize how fortunate we really are, both you 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:36.719 and I to be doing what we're doing doing it, 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.760 you know, be associated with the New York Jets, and 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.440 you kind of look back and say, wow, where did 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.599 nineteen years go? And and all of a sudden, you 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.359 know what, reality sets in that all these people dying 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.920 from coronavirus or dying alone, and you think about how 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.840 sad that is, and you think about a guy that 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.640 we have worked with for nineteen years, Dave Shapiro. He 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:03.039 lost his father and mother there within seven days of 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.640 losing one another. I mean that, and you don't have 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.839 a chance to have awake, you don't have a chance 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.240 to have a funeral, and there's no real closure because 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.279 you never had a chance to say goodbye. And that's 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.560 the hard part that this deadly diseases doing to every 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.920 one of us. So I think for all of us 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.240 staying at home, we need to take time to reflect 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:29.000 and realize, you know, just how fortunate we are and 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.040 realize that all the gifts that we have around us, 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:36.320 uh use them to the best of our abilities. Yeah, 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.280 I was you I was gonna complain about being stuck 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.360 in my house. But you know, you're good at that 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:45.839 making me feel like a jerk. It's kind of your specialty, 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.560 Mr Party, Mr Foundation, And I'm the idiot that that's 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:54.359 another is you know what we've already We've already canceled three, 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.440 maybe four fundraisers, and you know, if I can't get 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.400 get the golf tournament in in the second Monday in 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.640 July and foundation, I'm going to be in trouble. You know, 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.040 we're a mom and pops shop. At last year we 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.760 were a little short on bringing in money and started 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:17.400 January we had eighty one kids in the pipeline. And 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.400 with all these you know, charity events being canceled, I 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.760 think I'm just like every other nonprofit. Everybody's struggling at 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.400 this point. And you know, if I can't get that 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:32.240 big golf tournament off in July, then we're gonna have 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.840 some problems. Well, we will use the jets and my 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.880 vehicle and your vehicle to get the word out there. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:43.440 If that's the case of try and draw. Yeah, I actually, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.839 uh just did kind of spur of the moment go 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.919 fund me and if Jet fans are out there. You 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.480 can go on go fund me and search my name 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.440 and you'll find it. I mean, I was able to 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.679 raise about seven thousand dollars and I don't know, seventy 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:02.760 two hours to bring food to area hospitals. And it's easy, 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.040 you know. I mean, people donate and then you're able 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.880 to kind of spend the money around and go to 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.840 some local restaurants. It's a win win because the restaurant 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.360 gets some take out orders, which of course that's the 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.560 only thing that a lot of member subsisting on right now. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.840 And I'm able to bring that up to some area hospitals, 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.040 and uh, I guess the good time to bring in 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.400 our surprise guests by the way, because um, I'm married 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.440 to her. My wife, Julie is sitting right here, and 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:32.520 she about three weeks ago decided as a registered nurse 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.520 that she was frustrated because she felt like she wasn't 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.600 doing anything. And so all right, leaning here, honey him already. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.880 I just miss you. I love you, I love Christine, 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.000 and um, I love the Jets, and I'm really happy 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.640 to be here with Bobby. This is like an exciting 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.080 event right now. We've just been kind of like here 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.960 every night looking at each other and decided what kids 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.680 yell at? And you know what movie are we gonna watch? 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.280 And you know, now we have events. We're here with 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.360 you and I'm so glad. Yeah. Like three weeks ago, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:13.120 you know, I'm sitting with Bobby, We're walking the news 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.360 and UM saying I've got to do something. I'm a 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.160 registered nurse. But um, about five years ago, I opened 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.440 a performing arts studio in scotch Plains, New Jersey with 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:27.000 my good good friend, UM Stagecraft Studio. It's spectacular, we 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.679 love it. Um, but that's what I've been doing. And 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:32.920 I said, you know, I really need to help now. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.120 I feel I kind of feel like a jerk. I'm 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.560 like in home, in my nice safe house while my 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:42.560 other fellow nurses and healthcare professionals are out on the 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:47.160 front lines. And UM, I ended up seeing my other 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:52.160 great friend, Kathleen Ollen and jet fan herself and she's 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.280 also registered nurse. I saw her in the shop right 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.440 and she said, Juel, you we gotta. I got in 0:08:56.480 --> 0:09:02.080 touch with UM the Medical Reserve Corps and UH for 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:06.720 our county, and UM, she hooked me up with this 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.800 lovely woman. Her name is lovely Randall and the next 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.040 thing I knew about two days later, we were at 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:19.839 the Kane University COVID nineteen testing site, which they had 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.880 one week to put together. The National Guard in our 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.440 county officials put this together and now it's become the 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:31.240 gold standard of the of the entire state. They have 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.000 other people from other counties coming to see what we've 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:38.400 done and it's it's unbelievable. I was going to say, 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.960 I feel um proud to be a part of it. 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:47.240 It's a very safe and well coporation. Last yesterday we 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:51.319 saw five hundred patients. I my team of three nurses 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:56.200 saw three uh one hundred patients. UM, it's a very 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.800 well run system. Basically, the cars pull up after getting 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:05.360 a health screen UM through a phone call the day before, 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.280 and then they are told to show up. They get 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:12.239 registered at the front of the line. UH. They basically 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.680 match up their ID and their slipped to get the test. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.400 It's tucked into their windshield. They get an X made 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.760 out of soap on the car window. That's UH the 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.320 designated person to receive the test. And they wind through 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.400 this line and then the National guardsmen send them into 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.120 one of the tents and We're in the tent and 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.840 it's a team of three nurses and we communicate with 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.400 the patients holding up signs because we don't want them 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.960 opening their window. If they don't have to, their windows 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.560 are closed of the time. We swab them and out 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.319 they go. They get the results in about three days. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.400 It's a very efficient system. But at the same time, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.200 the whole thing is surreal. Every day and we're out there, 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.320 we're looking at each other saying, I cannot believe we're here. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:04.800 This is absolutely bizarre. We're in a testing site. It's 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.520 like being in a science fiction movie. We are well protected, 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.440 we are in full ppe. Our safety is there, you know, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.040 the natural guard in the county. That is their main 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:19.760 focus is our safety. And uh, it's been going well. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.760 I'm proud to be a part of it. I'm humble 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.160 to be a part of it. I can't believe they 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.240 put it together so quickly and so efficiently. It's smarty, 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:32.240 you're you're like the foundation. So we both felt guilty. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:33.839 We were sitting here like schlunkers. So I had to 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.280 start to go funding and she had to go to 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.199 the drive up testing site. And now we're both volunteering 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.480 and I don't know. I guess we all feel like 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:41.920 we're doing our part to trying to get through this. 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.680 You know what, Julie, what was the what was Bob's 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:49.200 first reaction? Because you're now you're putting yourself in harm's 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.840 way with the beautiful family that you guys have. I 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.040 commend you for doing that, and you know it doesn't 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.600 surprise me that you're doing it. But what was Bob's 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:04.439 first reaction when you said, hey you he wasn't happy? Yeah, yeah, yes, 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.160 I can understand that. My friend. Yeah, he was with 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.640 me when I saw my girlfriend Kathleen in the in 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.640 the shop, right and we hatched this plan and he 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.920 was like he made He kept looking at Kathleen. He 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.680 was like, shut up, Kathleen. Yeah, thanks a lot, Kathleen. 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.600 Yeah great, Okay, let's go. We gotta go get more 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.040 or more serial let's go. And you know, when he 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.240 was kidding, because obviously I think he knew that it 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.240 was gonna I was I was kind of kidding, yeah, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.800 kind of kidd And I swear, like, you know what, Julie, 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.319 when your heart opened up when that earthquake happened back 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.320 in two thousand and ten over in Haiti. He tried 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:42.920 to talk Bob into maybe adopting some baby from over there. So, 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.760 like I said, what happened. I mean, I'm not completely 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.680 that really just you know, makes me think of you, 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.200 because honestly, I didn't go to Haiti on those health 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.280 missions until you went, you and fired me, and that's 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:07.600 why I've been there. Well yeah, but you know what, Julie, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.480 it is. It is inspiring to go over there and 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.680 see the the type of world that those kids have 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.400 to grow up into and the environment that they have 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.720 around in and it just kind of makes you feel 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.880 good that, you know what, even if you're over there 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.319 for a day or you know, a couple of days, 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.880 you know you're making a difference. And when you leave, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.959 you you realize that it wasn't You didn't just make 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.520 a difference for them, You made a difference for yourself. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.760 You come back and you look at everything a little 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.040 bit differently, and you feel better about it, and you 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.720 can share that experience with the kids. I'm trying to 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.040 What I'm trying to do is I want them to 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.840 feel like good things happen when you're brave. You know. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.920 That's like the the thought that I want to try 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.400 and get across the hint to them. But the thing 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.719 with Haiti and with the thing that's happening now, what 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.400 I said to Bobby was that it's um this heightened 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:07.040 sense of all of your feelings. When I'm in Haiti, 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.440 and as I when I'm in the testing site, You're 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:17.880 feeling um, nervous, You're feeling um confused sometimes about what's 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:21.560 going to happen next, You're feeling hopeful for the people 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.360 that you're taking care of, your feeling inspired by the 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.160 other people that you're working with. You're feeling all of 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.440 these emotions all at once. And that's how I feel 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.440 when I'm in Haiti, and that's how I feel now. Honestly, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:39.640 it's uh and that and that's exhausting that, you know, 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:43.320 to be feeling all those emotions um at once, at 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.440 such a heightened level. And I felt a lot better 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.240 about it once I saw what they were, you know, 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.840 strapping them into when they went to this, And that 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.720 made all the difference when they when they first went, 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.200 we didn't know and they didn't know what they were 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.360 walking into. I mean, all right, all right, we're gonna 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.120 go volunteer to drive up test things. So Okay, well, 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.200 we're registered nurses, let's go help. And then they sent 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.280 me a picture and they've got the face shield on, 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.360 they've got the full you know, gown on, they've got 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.920 three or four pairs of gloves on, they're taped in. 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:17.160 I mean, they they we actually feel more endangered at 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.440 the grocery store than I think they feel the testing 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:23.040 site we did. Yeah. Yeah, wait, Julie, being that you're 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.280 on that front line, how much longer do you think 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:31.680 that America is gonna be, you know, running these tests 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.840 before we can really get back to having a normal 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:38.680 day and normal life. Right. Yeah, that's of course the 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.360 million dollar question. I mean, and that adds to, you know, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.520 the confusion and the uncertainty of it. But I mean, 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.040 I definitely think it's we have a lease another two months, 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.440 another two months at least. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.160 don't know if we're gonna be locked down for another 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.440 two months, but I think they're gonna be testing people 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.880 pretty regularly for for the four seeable future. And I 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.320 hope we don't. But I can't wait for this job 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.560 to end. Yeah, you to do it, but I can't 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.240 wait for it to be over. And this will just 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.520 be the you know, it's a main parking lot of 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:16.160 this beautiful school and I just there and there's no kids, 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.920 and it's just, you know, it's like just another level 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.560 of all the weirdness that's going on. Well, I think 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.960 I speak for a lot of us, a lot of 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.280 the jet fans, and just two people that maybe you 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.560 don't hear from every single day. But thank you for 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.520 what you're doing, and you know, we really do appreciate it. 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.920 Make sure that you tell all the doctors and nurses 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.120 how much we appreciate them, and you know, we'll just 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.280 keep praying. There's a lot of jet fans at the 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.360 testing site. There's a lot of jet fans, a lot 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.760 of jet stickers on the cars, lots of fans. I 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.840 don't get a Jenny chance to talk to them because 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.280 I basically am like, okay, open your window, let me 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:05.199 swab get a minute. Yep. And these are these are 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.360 now and these are now Julie's people in a way 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.480 that she never expected that they would be, because she 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:15.040 legitimately has become a lunatic jet fan over the last uh, 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.160 you know, twelve to fifteen. You and I've been doing 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.680 this for eighteen years. I would say the first two 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.679 or three years that did this, she was, you know, 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.760 kind of a fan and grew. But by the time 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.920 we were like three or four years in, I mean 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.520 she became a borderline face painter. Like I think she's 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.800 on that level. I didn't grow up in an NFL house. 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.960 My dad loved Notre Dame. My brother went to Virginia Tech. 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.159 I went to the Lenovo. We are college sports people. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.080 I didn't have that feeling when Bobby got the job. 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.440 I was like, that's nice, Sonny, here's some spaghetti and 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.480 met Paul's good for you. I'm so happy. And now 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:57.479 it's like, uh love that. Well, you know what Julie 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.800 throw into the mix with Katrina singing the Nashoy anthem 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.200 the way that she has the last couple of years, 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.320 that's Christmas present. That's been my Christmas presents for the 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:11.960 past two years. Off the most. That's just an unbelievable moment. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.000 It's amazing. My you know, Bobby's you know, giving her 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.000 the thumbs up out the press window and she's down 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:24.080 there and that girl, man, she's got some pipes. Yeah, 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.320 I wish you to give her the volume. I don't 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:27.919 know where the rest of it came from, but I 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:32.639 definitely want at least accounted for projections. What she probably 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:37.120 doesn't see is seeing Bob wipe his eyes. Yes, well 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.199 I'm up there, you know, but I've got enough of 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:40.720 a buffer that she might not be able to see 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.560 the full emotion on me. But but I want to. 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.880 I want to thank my bride for everything that she's 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.800 doing and for joining us here on the Official Jets Podcast. Julie, 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:55.280 stay safe. I love you, thank you, love you. Marty. 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.439 We gotta do a little football here because you know, 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.399 this is a football podcast as well, and the draft 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.960 is a couple of weeks away, and I mean right 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.360 now it's our escape to talk about football free agency 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.360 and who the Jets might take, and sitting there at eleven, 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.840 I don't know. I mean from everything that you've read, 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.399 everything that you've heard, whoever you've talked to, Like, what 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.040 do you right now, if you had to make your 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.959 best guess at what you think they are going to do? 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:22.720 What do you think it's gonna be? You know what 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:24.679 I mean. I'm thinking that they're gonna go with a 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.920 wide receiver. I know that they've rebuilt the offensive line. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.040 They already have four new offensive lineman that they got 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.040 during the free agency period. I think they got to 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.880 give Sam some help on the outside. You've got Paraman 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:42.240 coming in, but you still need somebody to compliment him. 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.640 So I would hope that they would, you know, lean 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:49.080 to the offensive side, get a wide receiver. Maybe in 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.520 the second round you can get an offensive tackle, and 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.560 then of course you need to get a pure pass 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:55.600 rush or you've got to get somebody off the edge 0:19:56.160 --> 0:20:00.600 that can beat the tackle one on one and without 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.040 blitzing a lot. So you know, I think that uh, 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.480 Joe Douglas has done a fantastic job. He hasn't gone 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.400 out and opened up the bank and overspent. I think 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.080 he's bringing in some quality players. There's gonna be good 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:17.480 competition at both the offensive line in the middle linebacker 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:19.840 position because they got quite a few players in there. 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.679 And I think if you have that open competition and 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.960 you fit into the system and you don't make a 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.400 lot of mental mistakes, and the biggest issue is you've 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:32.920 got to stay healthy. I mean, look how many players 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:36.120 the team ended with I R last year. I remember 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:38.320 talking to Chris Johnson at the end of the season. 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:39.840 I said, Chris, I don't know what it is, but 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:44.840 I've never seen this many players on an IR list 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.199 at the end of the year. Something's not you know 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:50.480 what I mean. I know that you know they've ended 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.359 up with you know whatever, winning six out of the 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.399 last eight and ended up with seven wins. If you 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:58.080 would have told me at the start of the year, 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.080 these are the injury these these are the guys who 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.640 are gonna be out, and here has cumulative how long 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.280 they'll be out for. I would have thought they would 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.640 have been a four win maybe a five win team 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:11.480 losing all of those guys for the time that they 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:13.280 lost them. So I agree. I think they did well 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.080 last year to be as competitive as they were. Having 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:20.000 said that, um, let me put it this way, because 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:21.960 I'm not a hundred percent sure that I agree that 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:24.040 they're gonna go with a wide receiver in the first round. 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.119 I guess I think going with a wide receiver in 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.680 the first rounds and no brainer if all four of 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:35.280 those tackles are all off the board by the time 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:38.240 they get to eleven. But let me put it this way. 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:42.240 Let's say that their number one tackle is on the 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:46.560 board at eleven and their number one wide receiver is 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.080 on the board at eleven, they just get lucky. And 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.960 however they have the tackles graded, their number one guy 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:56.600 actually drops to them at eleven, and you still have 0:21:57.200 --> 0:21:59.800 whoever Jerry Judy or Stedey Lamb or whoever their number 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:03.240 one receiver is. Given that, do you still think they 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:05.200