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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. We'll celebrate West proudly in Tybee.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansons. I come to you from

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Speaker 1: a virtual room filled with some heroes. Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal. Yes, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not that we're going to time. We are back

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Speaker 1: from Tybee. An incredible weekend, boys and girls. Ricky Hollywood

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Speaker 1: jumping in right now as well. Um, we all flew

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Speaker 1: out a whole bunch of us, a whole mess of us,

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Speaker 1: l A folk, Tybee folks, Cincinnati folk, and we have

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Speaker 1: a big old party. Uh. It was less a memorial

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Speaker 1: to West, although there were certainly elements of that, but

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Speaker 1: a more a celebration of a great man, a great friend,

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Speaker 1: a great father, a great husband, a great brother, a

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Speaker 1: great son. And we had a great time. We did

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Speaker 1: five days on tye Be. We got their Thursday right,

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Speaker 1: we all left Monday. Um, only West like could bring

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Speaker 1: in the Westling brothers, and then there was us of

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Speaker 1: course Colleen and John, but also you know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people from the you know NFL, like Matt Taitton.

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Speaker 1: I got a good story I actually do want to

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Speaker 1: say in the podcast with him later. UM, and you know,

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Speaker 1: omar Ruiz and everything, and then the Tybee crew who

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Speaker 1: was just so amazing setting up this UM softball field dedication.

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Speaker 1: And just like they they're all very different and some

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Speaker 1: of them, you know, I gotta you know, I realized,

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Speaker 1: like you know, West brought them together, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, Like they it's not like they all of

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Speaker 1: had such um an amazing ability. I mean I and

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Speaker 1: I thought about, I know, we all have he brought

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Speaker 1: you brought the three of us together in a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways too, but just seeing like all those disparate people,

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Speaker 1: chance to stay in a group house together, and UM,

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Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, I've I've sounded like the

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Speaker 1: person that's been hesitant to get back into things, not

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Speaker 1: this kind of thing. I mean, UM, what was happening

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Speaker 1: and it kind of had some flagship elements to hanging

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Speaker 1: out with West. Like, yes, Greg, you mentioned like we

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Speaker 1: met all these new people Um. Even inside our group,

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Speaker 1: I think like we talked, talked, you know, to each

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Speaker 1: other in ways we haven't been able to like in

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Speaker 1: an ages in person Um. There were plenty of spirits

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Speaker 1: happen around West, like on Sunday night. Um. For those

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Speaker 1: that have ever wondered, like who listened to this, what

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Speaker 1: would it be like to hang out with this cast

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Speaker 1: of characters? I mean we got a version of dan

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Speaker 1: Um operating humor, various lines of humor, I mean like

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Speaker 1: Dan times nineteen and there was I think my jaw

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Speaker 1: and face were like hurting by the end of the

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Speaker 1: night and the next morning from just laughing NonStop for

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Speaker 1: like three and a half or four hours. Um, it

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Speaker 1: was a truly great time. It was hard to leave.

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Speaker 1: Like when those things happened, part you just forget about

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Speaker 1: the whole rest of the world. We didn't sit around

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Speaker 1: talking about work. We just did it up the way

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Speaker 1: West would want to have things were. It wasn't it

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Speaker 1: was really it was a beautiful thing. And there is

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Speaker 1: this hole in the center because being in Tybee and

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Speaker 1: this great island with these friendly people and everything is

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Speaker 1: so wonderful and lived in. The people on the island

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Speaker 1: that organized various elements of the weekend did such an

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Speaker 1: amazing job doing it. The only thing missing was West

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Speaker 1: and and so there's that part of it that keeps

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Speaker 1: it bitter sweet. But everything else about it was frankly

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Speaker 1: It was so much fun and you know, as you

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Speaker 1: can you can here by my voice. There was one point,

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Speaker 1: other like loving and it was we're playing we're playing

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Speaker 1: route you know, beer pong, where your voice was next

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Speaker 1: level though it was like it was an adolescent boy

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Speaker 1: know that many time? Dan loves adolescent boys. It was

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Speaker 1: such an awesome, awesome weekend and I couldn't have you know,

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Speaker 1: morning of the softball game, starts putting on the bows speaker,

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Speaker 1: put me in coach, and he's blasting it. And we

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Speaker 1: powers that be put the softball game very very early

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Speaker 1: in the morning after we've been up drinking and uh,

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Speaker 1: Jet was like asleep in the room and Dan busts

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Speaker 1: put me in coach, like it was just it was

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Speaker 1: I just am so in love with you guys and

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Speaker 1: all the people that loved Wes and it's just like

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Speaker 1: my heart is so full after this weekend. Well, it

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Speaker 1: was fun to see like the combat. You know, I

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Speaker 1: no chriss you know, brothers in a different It was

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Speaker 1: a big Tim Wesseling weekend for me at least, I

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Speaker 1: feel like he was like a star of Westlings. And

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Speaker 1: seeing for instance, our our producer on the TV side,

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Speaker 1: something rotten. But the Terminator just barely edged us out. Right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But you, I have to say, Erica before we get

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Speaker 1: Let's do some news. The citizens of Toby Island dedicated

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Speaker 1: to West a man who loved the game called this

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Speaker 1: little island home. Let's awesome, awesome job by the people

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Speaker 1: if if this really spends forward, because we know there

429
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 1: are many many gay um players in the NFL right

430
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 1: now beyond Karl Lass, if he opens the floodgates and

431
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:32,240
Speaker 1: more people follow him down this path, yeah, that's that's

432
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 1: my hope. And not because you know everyone. I just

433
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,000
Speaker 1: want everyone to be who they are and be who

434
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 1: you love, and you can still play football and you

435
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,439
Speaker 1: can still be a great player. So I think the

436
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,479
Speaker 1: Michael sam thing, like you said, so long ago, was

437
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 1: so long ago, even though it was only seven years

438
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 1: and it's it's the personal aspect that Mark said, Like

439
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 1: if I check into a hotel with Jet, they're still

440
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 1: asking me, do you want to full beds? I have

441
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 1: to come out essentially every single time I go somewhere,

442
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 1: and I am still scared, even in a big city

443
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:10,399
Speaker 1: like l A or a place like Tybee Island where

444
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: it's Georgia and it's like Jet and I have to

445
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 1: be like, well, we got We're with everyone we love,

446
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 1: but we got to be careful here. And there's that

447
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 1: that goes through my head every day, and growing up

448
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 1: it was like if my friends or family find out

449
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,880
Speaker 1: about this, they will not love me. I will not

450
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,360
Speaker 1: have anyone. I will not have my friends, I will

451
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: lose everything. So for him, when he said it was

452
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 1: agonizing over this, he literally is coming out through the

453
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: public to be like, hey, this is me. I'm still

454
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 1: going to play football, knowing very well that there's a

455
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: huge population that is essentially going to write him off

456
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: and his career could be affected, his livelihood, his his

457
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,159
Speaker 1: every single thing. And it's so brave to me. It

458
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 1: is so brave for what he did, and I hope

459
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,360
Speaker 1: that so many other players, if they feel that way,

460
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: feel comfortable, like it's about time. It's like, just let's

461
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 1: all there's been so much progress, I think, especially in

462
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 1: this last year, around so many different issues, and I

463
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: think the world, as crazy as it has it has been,

464
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 1: has also made so many steps in the right direction.

465
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: It's interesting to me. And that's so well said Ricky

466
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: and in your personal stories, Um, I don't know, puts it,

467
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: puts it into perspective, and I'm thinking about the football

468
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: part of it just a little bit. It's sort of fitting.

469
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:40,160
Speaker 1: He's on the Raiders. No, like no one did more,

470
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,399
Speaker 1: um in terms of like an ownership level or a

471
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: friendship level of like breaking barriers in terms of civil

472
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 1: rights and players and coaches and black coaches and players,

473
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 1: and seeing black quarterbacks, like seeing seeing them differently than

474
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,640
Speaker 1: Al Davis. So it's it's kind of cool to see

475
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 1: Mark Davis Um and John Gruen of course with like

476
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,880
Speaker 1: a quick statement, very supportive and everything. And it totally

477
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 1: fits um with the other side of like the Raider's

478
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 1: image everyone thinks of them is kind of like the

479
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: bad boys and all that, But they were pretty ahead

480
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: of things in the sixties and seventies compared to the

481
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: rest of the culture. And they handled that very well.

482
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: They got out there right in front of it. And UM,

483
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: good for the Raiders, great for Carl Nassa and the

484
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 1: whole movement. Ricky, that's awesome. Good times for Ricky found

485
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 1: a woman she loves. She had great times to their

486
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: friends and Tybee yep, massive the baby. Alright, good stuff,

487
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on. Hey. Uh another social news. UM,

488
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 1: the NFL p A, the Union and UH the NFL

489
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,400
Speaker 1: H jointly agreed to a policy on COVID nineteen protocols

490
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: and the policy, which which applies to training camp and

491
00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:02,199
Speaker 1: the preseason, heavily restricts unvaccinated players while allowing vaccinated players

492
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: to return two near normalcy the way things were before

493
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: coronavirus turn the world upside down. Cole Beasley, as we

494
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: all know UM, is a UM successful wide receiver for

495
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. He's also very outspoken UH in his

496
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 1: feelings on the COVID vaccine and he's not for it.

497
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: So after speaking with the NFL and the Union about

498
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 1: the policy, which he believes to be unfair, he had

499
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,400
Speaker 1: this to say, in what he called the public service

500
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 1: announcement on social media. I will be outside doing what

501
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: I do. I'll be out in public. If you're scared

502
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 1: of me, then steer clear or get vaccinated. I may

503
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: die of COVID, but I'd rather die actually living. Mark.

504
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,880
Speaker 1: He also said went on to say, I'm not gonna

505
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 1: take a med take meds for a leg that isn't broken. Um.

506
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: And he goes on and on and on. This is

507
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: a situation. We've been strong in our feelings on this podcast.

508
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: Were we our opinions. That's what we do here. We

509
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: are all pro vaccine. That's why we're all together on

510
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: Tybee Island because we're all vaccinated having fun. Cole Be

511
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: Easley speaks for another segment of the population that's bigger

512
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: than I think people realize. Some people, depending where you

513
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: are in the country. Um. And it's it is an

514
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: issue in the NFL because there is a schism here,

515
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,439
Speaker 1: uh in locker rooms as we turned towards a season

516
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: that they're trying to move away from COVID nineteen. But

517
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: this vaccine situation is causing some ripples. Yeah. I mean

518
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: I think, you know, for for some of the more

519
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: outspoken coaches like a Bruce arians Um, yeah, I think

520
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: it puts them into a tough spot and it is

521
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: a carryover from last year being tough and a lot

522
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: of spots where it is a personal choice. UM. But

523
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 1: this is a workplace and there are advantages to teams,

524
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: especially in terms of just preparing for games, practicing, UM,

525
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: growing as a team. If everyone gets vaccinated, you don't

526
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 1: have to continue to do the same rules as last year.

527
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: I mean, the thing is like I when when it's

528
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: all plain out on Twitter and stuff, UM, for me personally,

529
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 1: I just sort of stay away from it because I

530
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: made my own decision, and Cold Beasley can make his

531
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: own decision too. I don't. I don't really agree with

532
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: some of the way he's sort of framing this in

533
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 1: terms of like I don't if you know, I don't

534
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: need to get surgery on my leg before something's wrong.

535
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: So this is this is essentially I mean what I

536
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: view it as as a way to protect other people

537
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: and to protect yourself. UM. There are people that question

538
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 1: vaccines in general. We know that. I wonder if cold

539
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: Beasley's um point here extends to all vaccines or if

540
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: it's you know, suspicion around this one. I really don't

541
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: have a lot of energy to go flame him or

542
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: destroy his decision. But it's complex. Um. I think it's

543
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: a problem for teams. If you've got a big chump

544
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: of chunk of people doing this and you've got reaction

545
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: inside the locker room, um, probably almost a biby reaction.

546
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: Then Karl Nassat, this thing goes on. But that's where

547
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: I leave it. That's where I leave it for the

548
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: the The incentives to get vaccinated in the NFL now

549
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: are huge, and we've seen as mini camps are wrapping up,

550
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: more and more players were getting them. The coaches were

551
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: indicating that that the Steelers mentioned sort of like they

552
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: had the league lead in in vaccination rate, and Tomins

553
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: really pushed it hard. And you get a lot of

554
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: benefits if you can get over the cent number. And

555
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: I think a lot of teams believe before camp and

556
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: before the season, these guys are gonna get vaccinated because

557
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: of some of those incentives. You can't leave town during

558
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: the bye week. You have to go to the facility

559
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: every week, every day during your bye week instead of

560
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 1: instead of traveling. But for the ones that don't, you know,

561
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: the thing that gets that, I'm with you, Mark, I

562
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: didn't have I felt like I wanted to comment on

563
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: Twitter or care about everyone dunking on him, Like what's

564
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: the point? But I do you know, and I'm feeling

565
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,719
Speaker 1: I heard Baumanti Jones say this is like, at what

566
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: point can we be judgmental? So it's like these players

567
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: who play through torn A c l s and their

568
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: warriors of the game, and we're gonna do everything we

569
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: possibly can to be there for our teammates and to win.

570
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: You're making the choice I might not be available when

571
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: it matters. So that's ultimately what NFL players are gonna do.

572
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: Some players have you know, gotten covid lately, you know,

573
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: Buddha Bagger chasing on Jackson what they missed? MANI camps

574
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: this or that. But you're you're just kind of deciding,

575
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: like it's quite possible. I'm just gonna like let my

576
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: team down in a big spot. And that's part of

577
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: I'm not saying like that that has to be your

578
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: number one concerned, but you're making that decision. I mean,

579
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of amazed that that Chris Paul, for instance, like,

580
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: isn't isn't taking worry? I actually think people are being

581
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: quite sensitive to everyone making their own decisions because it's like,

582
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: if you missed the conference championship for any other very

583
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: easy reason that you could have avoided, like people would

584
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: kill him. If people kill Lou Williams for going to

585
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: get hot wings, you know it's to me, it's not

586
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: it's not too different. Um. Major League Baseball is a

587
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: good um case to study on a parallel lane here,

588
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: because they have thirty teams in that league, and twenty

589
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: two of the teams and it's the same percentage that

590
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: they ask you to hit to relax the protocols. And

591
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: at the beginning of June, two of the thirties thirty

592
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: had hit that threshold, and then they checked in on

593
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: it this week and it's still twenty two. And so

594
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: that's stalled out. And I would not be surprised if

595
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: it that turns into a similar percentage um in the

596
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: NFL because to what and I don't agree on any

597
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: level with Cole Beasley, um, But what he did also

598
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: say is that there are a lot more people like

599
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: me in the league than people realize, and he's trying

600
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: to give them a voice. So I think there are

601
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: a lot of Cole Beasley types in the league that

602
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: are not going to get the vaccine. And it's gonna

603
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: make things not just more difficult for them, but their

604
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: teammates beyond the chance of missing games and getting sick.

605
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: All these restrictions that are going to be in place

606
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: all season. How does that, as Mark said, how does

607
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: that not potentially create issues in a locker room during

608
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: a long season? Uh, which is a gauntlet with the practices,

609
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: the games, the rehabs. You finally get a bye week

610
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: and you won't be able to even go home potentially.

611
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: So they always say, like the locker room is what

612
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: they missed the most when they retire, and the two

613
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: locker room experiences in are going to be very different

614
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: for vaccinated unvaccinated. I was thinking about that because some quarterbacks,

615
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: you know, that seems like Lamar, it's not just the

616
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: ones that I've gotten, you know, Lamar's expressed hesitancy. Sam Darneld.

617
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: Of course, there's been a few. It just we'll see.

618
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: I think it will be a little bit of a

619
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: different world in July when the training camp comes. I

620
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: think a lot maybe, but I don't. I don't think

621
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: it was just based around time frame. We'll see, all right.

622
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: In other news, Tom Brady, that's it. That's another name

623
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: in this conversation. Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady appears on the

624
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: new episode of The Shop Colon Uninterrupted on HBO. I mean,

625
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: in general, with a show title, if you're gonna put

626
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: a colon in there, I mean, it's really got you know,

627
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: it better be there for a reason. It's got to

628
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: be there for a reason. Just call off the shop

629
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: or just called uninterrupted. You called the shop on the

630
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: company they're trying. They're trying to extend the Lebrin movie brand.

631
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: You're right, it's bad. It's not a great bad. I understand.

632
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: I'm just making a statement myself. It's no. Yeah, maybe

633
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: this one has ripples like Cole Beasley. Maybe it's a

634
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: huge news story. But that's how I feel. Get the

635
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: colon's out of there. I couldn't agree more with you,

636
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: by the way. It makes my head spin stuff like that,

637
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: And I don't care about the the corporate interests. It

638
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: does not roll off the tongue. It stops you. It

639
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: doesn't work anyway. So Brady was in the barbershop talking

640
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: to Lebron and the boys, and uh. He was asked

641
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,719
Speaker 1: about last a spring a last March, when he was

642
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: a free agent for the first time in his NFL career,

643
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: and he had this to say about one unnamed NFL

644
00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: franchise during his hunt for a new team, one of

645
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: the teams, and they weren't interested at the very end,

646
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: I was thinking, you're sticking with that, alright, So the

647
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: question is why didn't he just say the forty Niners. Uh,

648
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo, you think that, Yeah, you think that's car

649
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: came to mind, But I think Derek Carr and the

650
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: Raiders popped in my head as well. But Mr Bisky,

651
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: the Bears. The Bears had interest in Tom Brady and

652
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: they stuck with Mitch Drobisky. You know, everyone went hot

653
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: on Jimmy G out of the gate on this and

654
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: you know Tennessee, Um, they flirted a little bit with

655
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and they stuck with Ryan Tannehill. And maybe

656
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: if you're Tom Brady, you're thinking, what are you doing there?

657
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: Although Tannehill has been good. Um my mind. The other

658
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: one other than Jimmy G that popped up in you

659
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: said car, but and maybe wouldn't use this word, but

660
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: I think it's the one that was the most likely

661
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 1: to happen, or the closest was the Saints. You know,

662
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: I think Sean Payton really wanted really knocked into we've heard.

663
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: I mean, they looked into it and they were seeing

664
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: if they could forcibly like they went into the last

665
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: offseason thinking I believe that Drew Brees was gonna retire,

666
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 1: and then it got it got it got a little.

667
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 1: Harry and Brady probably wouldn't have said that. I don't

668
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: think that's the sliding doors the Saints. They wanted Patrick Wahmes,

669
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: they didn't get him, and they wanted Tom Brady and

670
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: they didn't have the guts to do it. And you know,

671
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 1: Saints fans are dying that they didn't when the Bucks

672
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: end up winning the Super I think Tom Brady has

673
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for Drew Brees. I think he

674
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: viewsed him equal in a lot of ways, or close

675
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: to it. So I don't think he would even refer

676
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: to him off handedly or in a joking matter, even

677
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: in the shop good point. I don't think he went

678
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 1: with Jimmy G there though. I think here's the thing. Well,

679
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,280
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Jimmy G was like a little brother

680
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: in his own locker room, and he was the guy

681
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: that was the source of a lot of drama in

682
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 1: New England about uh, you know, potentially Belichick and Robert

683
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: Craft coming um two uh not blows, but they had

684
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: a disagreement about who they should go in with that

685
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 1: whole story. We don't need to go down that route.

686
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: And then you have in San Francisco. This is why

687
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,919
Speaker 1: to me, it's Jimmy j San Francisco. If you think

688
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: where they were last year, they're coming off the Super Bowl.

689
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: Even though they might have some misgivings about Jimmy G,

690
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: it wasn't to me as clear that they needed to

691
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: get better at the position. I think going into lessons

692
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: and you still felt like Jimmy G could be their

693
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 1: guy long term. And I under Brady, I think, could

694
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,280
Speaker 1: you know he always wanted to be drafted by the Niners.

695
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: He that's where he grew up. That just seems to

696
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: me what it is. But you know, it's fun. This

697
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: is a good June story. Here's the thing, though, I

698
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: like it stops me what he actual said, Tom Brady,

699
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: how how often does he do you hear him drop

700
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: f bombs? I mean he referred to the player as

701
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: a mother f bomb. Um that's how he's in the shop. Though, Mark,

702
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: I get it. Maybe it's platform is a little different,

703
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: but getting they were whispers that he and Jimmy G

704
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: were not necessarily the best of friends. Um and you

705
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 1: and you point you painted the scenario of of how

706
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 1: that all ended. But I feel like he's got You've

707
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: got to, Um, look at what the type of player

708
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: he's talking about. Jimmy G had just been to the

709
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. He's being paid a ton of guaranteed money.

710
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: The Bears couldn't pull this off, and at some point

711
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,280
Speaker 1: where got back. We're comfortable with Mitch Drabinsky, We're sticking

712
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: with him, and Tom Brady has no relationship with Mitch.

713
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:31,760
Speaker 1: Robisky is probably thinking, what on earth are you doing? Chicago?

714
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: Not right, you know, because I don't think the Bears

715
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: were sold on Mitch Drobiski going into last season. They

716
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: had gotten Nick Foles in the building. They knew they

717
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: probably had messed up, but they were going to give

718
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: him one more chance, and then they quickly benched him.

719
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: I think they were If they could have gotten Tom Brady,

720
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 1: I think they would have they would have went to that.

721
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: How about this next level? What if it was actually

722
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: about Nick Foles, who he is not. He does not

723
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: like what happened between him and Nick Foles on Super

724
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday one. I like a little bit more Drew

725
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: lock up there in Denver because the Broncos, you guys

726
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: thought they did a lot of Broncos fans of my

727
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: mentions thought they had a young franchise. QB. Jimmy Gas.

728
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: Where are you, guys? I don't I don't remember what

729
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,240
Speaker 1: happened about that. I know they're married down. I actually

730
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: think like the roster is great, and they don't want

731
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: to they don't want to hear that now that now

732
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: they've gotten too far the other way. I mean, Jimmy

733
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: G famously only went to San Francisco because the forty

734
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: niner is called wanting Tom Brady, and the Patriots called

735
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 1: back being like you want Jimmy G. Also, Jimmy G

736
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit hotter than Tom Brady,

737
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: and I think that was on Brady's radar because well, yeah,

738
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: well that's why that's why the holder stuff. I don't

739
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: you can't just say Jimmy G is hotter than Tom Brady.

740
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: That's we have a solid like three minutes of podcast

741
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: content and on this very topic in fifty and I

742
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: think Ricky how about this progress even on this podcast,

743
00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: just openly like who's hotter? Like which dude is better looking? Uh?

744
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: Tom Brady or Jimmy G. You you you're a big

745
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 1: Patriots fan. Where you come down on that? You know?

746
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 1: I gotta go Tom here. I do love the dark

747
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: haired you know, Jimmy G look um, but something about

748
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 1: his jawline to me, it's it's TV. It's t V twelve. Okay,

749
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think Jimmy G is a little

750
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: too swarthy from my from my liking nobody plugging on

751
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: those cheekbones. Che are great, But you know I need

752
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna have a man, it's got to be

753
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: a man, you know. All right, here we go, Ricky,

754
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: just come out of straight. Just now? What just happened there?

755
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,879
Speaker 1: I don't as happening. No, no, no, it's just like

756
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 1: if I have to, you know, if I have to

757
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 1: pick right, I don't know. Yeah, I understand where you Yeah,

758
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I don't know what half to means. That

759
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: feels sorted, but that seems like a tough situation. All right,

760
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:02,439
Speaker 1: let's let's move on, all right, rams Co. It's Sean McVeigh.

761
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a love affair there in Los Angeles

762
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: with a new quarterback. Um, and here's what McVeigh had

763
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: to say about Matt Stafford about to start his first

764
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: season with the Rams after that long run with the Lions. Bro,

765
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: who was he talking to? Bro? Let me just let

766
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: me cite this correctly on SI dot com. Bro, This

767
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,720
Speaker 1: dude's a bad m effort. Whatever people say about him,

768
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 1: as good as it can be. He's even better than

769
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: advertised sizzler. How about that? I mean, the the the

770
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 1: hype train is rolling. Yea, it is I and I

771
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 1: know that again, Sean McVeigh keeps saying, this isn't you know,

772
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 1: these aren't comments as a reflection of Jared Goff. But

773
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: if you're Jared Goff reading this, this is sort of

774
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: like getting into a new relationship listing everything that your

775
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: last partner lacked. And you know, Um, Ricky, I want

776
00:40:58,360 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 1: to just play this one little thing. This is what

777
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: of minded me of when I read the quote. Can

778
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: we bring this up? Ricky? Has happened to you about it? Yeah?

779
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:17,800
Speaker 1: That moment which we you know, which was a truly

780
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: strange moment in our society where Tom Cruise is you know,

781
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 1: on the Oprah Couch talking about Katie Holmes and he's

782
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: out of his mind. He's just he has fallen deeply

783
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: in love and coaches do this have I that's how

784
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: you read that, Tom Cruise. That's the first thing that

785
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 1: I thought of was just that there's this level of

786
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: um zeal and fascination between these two. And what Stafford's

787
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 1: teammates have said about him in Detroit, um it checks out.

788
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: Like t J. Hockinson said, he was the basically the

789
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: best player he's ever been around as a person. So

790
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to higher like emotional i

791
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: Q going on with Stafford and the field stuffs all

792
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: there is in heaven. He well. I I thought this

793
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: story is funny just because it's been like a plotline

794
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: this year is Sean McVeigh getting annoyed at reporters who like,

795
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: notice how happy he is. He's just like everyone says,

796
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: I'm in a happier mood this season in off season,

797
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: I am. I think Sean McVeigh just kind of that's

798
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: how he is. It's the off season, he's blowing smoke

799
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 1: about the quarter. I'm sure he is happy, uh, And

800
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: everyone's taking it as this funny story I I am intrigued, though, Mark,

801
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 1: about your interpretation of the Tom Cruise moment, because I

802
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 1: thought that was such a classic moment in the end,

803
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: because it was kind of like, Hey, I'm Tom Cruise.

804
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 1: I am trying to be as human as possible. How

805
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: do I convey that I actually am in love with

806
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: this other human? Uh in the way that will convince

807
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: the most people? Uh? And then he just like kind

808
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,240
Speaker 1: of went a little too big, like the director needed

809
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: to come in and be like, Okay, let's let's take

810
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: it down a notch here here, Tom, that doesn't quite

811
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: work for us. But it was like a live interview

812
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: show and he had no idea what was happening. I'd

813
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 1: love to hear Dan's take on this, cub. I think

814
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: that there is a part of that that now was

815
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: that was that marriage completely authentic? I I don't. I

816
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: don't know the answer to that one. But he is

817
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: nothing if not um ceremonial and um built of like

818
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: total internal fire, and he's gonna I think that it

819
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: sort of is Tom Cruise because there's like, if you

820
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: go look up Tom Cruise interviews, there's twenty or thirty

821
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: where he loses his cool. He's got a little cruise

822
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: to him, like endless energy and optimism and in a

823
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: big force of personality. I think, first of all, I

824
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: love Tom Cruise, the actor. I love about fourteen of

825
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 1: his movies at a high level, So let me say that. Um. Secondly,

826
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: with the Oprah interview, I think he called his crisis

827
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: his crisis management team. Before the interview, He's like, guys,

828
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: we gotta figure out how to make me human? What

829
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: do I do? And then they gave me advice and

830
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: then he went way too broad with it, and then

831
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: he had to call the crisis management team right back

832
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 1: after the interview, is like, guys, um, they have they

833
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: all know I'm a maniac. What do I do? How

834
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: do we fix this? And the crisis management team was like,

835
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm gonna. It's like that cartoon

836
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: sounded like the feet running they ran away. I think

837
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: his whole life has been a performance for like thirty

838
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: five forty years, so it's hard to discern what is

839
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: real or not. In other news, it's been about three

840
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: months since the allegations connected to Texans quarterback DeShawn Watson.

841
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: Watson first went public. The Texans will report for training

842
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 1: camp next month. The NFL has not made any decision

843
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,720
Speaker 1: as of yet on whether Deshaun Watson will be allowed

844
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 1: to report to training camp or if he'll be put

845
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: on leave. There are twenty two active lawsuits pending against

846
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: Watson connected to alleged misconduct during numerous massage sessions, and

847
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: Watson's attorney, Rusty Harden, told KPRC TV in Houston that

848
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: the NFL has not yet interviewed Watson regarded regarding the allegations. UM,

849
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 1: this is interesting greg to me because this is a

850
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 1: Mondo story. This is a top five quarterback in the NFL,

851
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 1: and the these allegations are big, and they're everywhere, and

852
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: you would think the NFL this is something that and

853
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,959
Speaker 1: maybe there's something we don't know and um, and they're

854
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: kind of keeping things on the down low. But I

855
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: don't know why Rusty Harden wouldn't be honest about it.

856
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: Why hasn't the NFL begun this process of figuring out

857
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do with the Shawn Watson. I think

858
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,759
Speaker 1: I think they're along the way, But this story, to

859
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,959
Speaker 1: me is interesting that it's so far from being over.

860
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: I guess in these situations they've traditionally talked to the

861
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: accused last, so what you know, talking to Watson, I

862
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: guess would be the last thing that they did. Um,

863
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: this civil case has a while, it doesn't seem like

864
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: there's any settlement coming anytime soon, and the fact they

865
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: haven't talked to Wattson indicates to me that the NFL

866
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: is part of it is possibly even longer and so

867
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: that's just the timeline of it all. Just feels like

868
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 1: they're not close and they there, there's no real expectation

869
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: to think they will be close, you know, based on

870
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: a football calendar, based on training camp, or based on

871
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: week one or anything, and it just feels like the

872
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: most likely outcome in the short term is continued uncertainty

873
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: for a while like that there just won't be an

874
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: answer and they'll put them on some list or whatever

875
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 1: they decide to do. But that's it. Yeah, Commissioner's exempt

876
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: list would be you know, Yeah, there's different ways to

877
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: do it, so that I'm not that interesting that but

878
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: it just doesn't even seem like it's close. It just

879
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it's something that doesn't that feel like

880
00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:00,720
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be the fine they would say it wouldn't

881
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: be their final thing, you know, it's just a holding pattern.

882
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: Just doesn't to me that I don't that's I don't

883
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: know who who's happy with that ending other than the

884
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 1: NFL making this guy disappear for a while. Well, that's

885
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 1: also training camp two. I think it's a good point, Dan,

886
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: because I think week one, when he actually is getting

887
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: paid real money, I mean training camp, you're not getting

888
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: paid money really, Um, you might be onto something that

889
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,959
Speaker 1: That's where the money aspect of it also really comes

890
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: into play. And the Texans they are going to have

891
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 1: their feelings about that in the in the NFL might

892
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: two and the battle might be brewing there too. I mean,

893
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: it's complex. Wasn't it always though a long shot that

894
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: a case like this was gonna have a full robust

895
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: investigation completed by July just because training camp needs to start.

896
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: You're right, you know, I thought there was a chance

897
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: there might be a settlement and all that and then

898
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 1: I'll move along. Um, but it doesn't seem like it.

899
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:56,839
Speaker 1: I mean, he is, yes, he is denied wrongdoing in

900
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: all these cases. There's so I just my my whole

901
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,760
Speaker 1: point is if you just take him off the field,

902
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: because it's an ugly thing. And then he misses a season. Um,

903
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: you can understand from his perspective why he would be

904
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: upset that you're you're benching me in in the middle

905
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,280
Speaker 1: of my prime. I didn't, according to him, I didn't

906
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: do anything. Um. But yes, there's a there's a messiness

907
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: to this. I guess the other the other way to

908
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: look at it is you let him play as the

909
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: legal process continues to play out, and then maybe this

910
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: gets settled down the line ahead of maybe next season.

911
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,839
Speaker 1: But I understand why that isn't necessarily the prudent way

912
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: to go on this because these allegations are very serious.

913
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: But the other note, he also doesn't want to play

914
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 1: for the Texans, So there are like multiple like that ship, right,

915
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: that ship has to have sailed at least for one, right,

916
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't have any trade value right now, right,

917
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: But the Texans I think are also. I think that's

918
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 1: at this point there that's mutual and it would be

919
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: shocking in any scenario. I think if he ever put

920
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: on their uniforming. M hmmm, we'll see about that. That's

921
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: It's wow. What a situation, all right. In other news,

922
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,479
Speaker 1: Blotterer time, remember the college newspapers. Always the best part

923
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: of any university or college uh newspaper was the blotterer.

924
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:19,240
Speaker 1: You could see who got arrested for you know, peeing

925
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 1: in the quad, not even arrested. You would just get

926
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 1: like sited by campus police. But your name ends up

927
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: in the blotterer on the on the news. That happened

928
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,839
Speaker 1: to Greg many times. Down in New Orleans. He had

929
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 1: a pretty uh you know, hazy dark period down there.

930
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: Man found in diaper in Orleans Paris prison. I mean,

931
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: that wasn't in the in this campus newspaper. That was.

932
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: I kept my eyes open. One of my one of

933
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: my friends slept. I was impressed in a in a

934
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 1: thank you know, a room full of thirty thirty people. Um. Anyway,

935
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: this is not good news for the chiefs defensive end.

936
00:49:55,880 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: Frank Clark arrested Sunday night in Los Angeles for felony

937
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: a legal possession of a firearm. According to a police report,

938
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: Clark had an oozy in a Duffel bag in his stu.

939
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 1: I mean, what is he a bad guy in an

940
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,320
Speaker 1: eighties action movie? What do you gotta louzy for? Listen?

941
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: Call me out of touch or not not connected to

942
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: what's going on with Frank Clark in his life? Well,

943
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: do you guys know what I mean? I do, and

944
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: I I mean he The thing that's crazy, though, is

945
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: since this story came out, they were they looked around

946
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: and realized he had another gun arrest in March. So

947
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 1: he said to um, and there's been a Yeah, it's

948
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: it's that time a season, you know, year where you

949
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,280
Speaker 1: just hope where you don't want any of these players

950
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: to pop up. But this was like the first the

951
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 1: first week of the off season basically, and this popped

952
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: up for him. And then Zavin Collins of the Cardinals

953
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 1: had one too. But yeah, Clark having two charges, I

954
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know if that's something the NFL,

955
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 1: like one thing is like now, this this could be

956
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 1: just nonsense, but his attorney says that the sudden machine

957
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:05,360
Speaker 1: gun UM is the property of Clark's bodyguard. But I

958
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: am with you, din Like, when I read this headline

959
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 1: cops say NFL star had oozy and Lambeau suv, It's

960
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 1: like people are living different lives that will never be

961
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 1: written about us ever. We will never be caught in

962
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: a situation like that. And I don't know what an

963
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 1: UZI is needed for at this point either, but is

964
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: only needed if you're going to the top of the

965
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: Nagatami tower or whatever in Century City. Uh, in die

966
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: Hard and you're trying to kill Bruce Willis. So we

967
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 1: don't need that in our in our car coun control.

968
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: Take it off the list. What else? What other social

969
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: issue do we want to hit on before the all right? Uh?

970
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 1: And finally in the news forty nine seconds lost. I just,

971
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 1: you know, whenever I could do that to give Greg

972
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 1: a little tweak, I like it. That's Eli Manning to

973
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,919
Speaker 1: Oxco Burris and Joe Buck with a very so so call.

974
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 1: Super Bowl forty two. Uh, the undefeated Patriots season goes

975
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 1: by the boards. Eli Manning retired a couple of years

976
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: back after the twenty nineteen season. Now, the forty year

977
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: old has rejoined the Giants Greggy. He's back at the

978
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: organization in a business operations and fan engagement role. He

979
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 1: will also work on original content development, which includes a

980
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: new lifestyle series that premieres Greg this fall. You don't

981
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: have to wait until the comer. Is it kind of

982
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: be on like Local in New York. I think it

983
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: will be simulcast on all the major networks I would assume,

984
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: and all the major streaming platforms. I mean, I find

985
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:49,280
Speaker 1: Eli Manning's Twitter and social and just like TV presence, um,

986
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: you know, quite likable, quite endearing. I like him more

987
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 1: than Payton. He doesn't seem to be trying as hard.

988
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 1: He is sneakily caught up as like um the Manning

989
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: that it would always drive West crazy because people would

990
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: act like Peyton Manning was so funny because he was

991
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: an athlete, but really it was just like a low

992
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,799
Speaker 1: bar like Eli, I isn't trying this hard, and I

993
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: think he's clearing the bar. I I like it. I

994
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: don't have supported You're all grown up. I'm really I'm

995
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: really taken by that. I don't know Greg, like how

996
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 1: how you like how many negative feelings could be stirred

997
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: up by him taking a position with the team, like

998
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: thousands of players do the same sort of thing. Let's

999
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: see if you do. I've noticed him on Twitter and stuff.

1000
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: He has a little funny comment you know, he's he's

1001
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: again Mark before you just like rush us Off is

1002
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: some you know, little paycheck just to get him at

1003
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: the old timer's day or whatever it is. Um he

1004
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: is uh in a business operations and fan engagement role,

1005
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: and he also will work on original content development, including

1006
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 1: a new lifestyle lifestyle series that premieres this fall. This

1007
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,839
Speaker 1: is not some hollow title. This is a guy that's

1008
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:05,280
Speaker 1: him back to work. I don't doubt that lifestyle. That's

1009
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 1: the only thing to me if the show takes off.

1010
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:10,919
Speaker 1: But are you are you telling you think he's gonna

1011
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: go spend like fifteen hours a week with fans? I

1012
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: don't think. What is he doing with the lifestyle series?

1013
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 1: So he's building up. I'm sure trailer is going to

1014
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: drop at some point this summer day. We gotta figure

1015
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,439
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah, again, on it all right, that's what's

1016
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: happening in the news. Do we want to touch on

1017
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: anything else? No, I'm taking off so I'll see you

1018
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 1: guys in the morning to Massachusetts for a week and

1019
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 1: a half. So you're getting back on the Eastern coast

1020
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:41,799
Speaker 1: with me. I like, I know, it was a short

1021
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,400
Speaker 1: it's a short trip back here in l A. So

1022
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: you guys will will carry the load here for the

1023
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: for the show. And you're doing another podcast, right, you're

1024
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 1: doing now you're doing a TV show on Friday. I

1025
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: don't know talk about it, but we have some conversations

1026
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: to have privately, but we do. The TV show is

1027
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: coming back Friday with very special guests and yes, um

1028
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:08,240
Speaker 1: second runner up in the Tybee Cornhole Tournament Colleen Wolf

1029
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 1: filling in. So that's gonna be a fun show. Are

1030
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: you going to get big weekend for Colleen and John?

1031
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: You know they were they were stars or very nice performance,

1032
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 1: but that's there every weekend. You know there you know

1033
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: they got the two dogs. But otherwise it's like, all right,

1034
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: where are we going to have fun this weekend? Now?

1035
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: What's to do? So yeah, they're fine, what do we

1036
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:35,359
Speaker 1: can do for fun after that? Well? Not the way

1037
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: it is here? I mean with your family, what do

1038
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 1: you well, there's a lot of responsibilities, you know, Greg

1039
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 1: with the boys, many tasks tracking we're Gonzo and Colleen

1040
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: were by the time that we left. I think a

1041
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 1: detox wouldn't be the worst thing to do for a

1042
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,320
Speaker 1: couple of days on some level, in whatever form that

1043
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 1: would fit them. Yeah, that would that would help? All right,

1044
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: good stuff, So yes, I think we'll be back with

1045
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: another pod this week. The TV shows back on Friday, UM,

1046
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: and thank you to everyone, and we're sorry We kind

1047
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 1: of had to keep it under our hat the whole

1048
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 1: Tybee Island adventure. We would have loved to hang out

1049
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 1: with anybody that wanted to shoot down there. I know,

1050
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:13,840
Speaker 1: I know if West was with us, he would have

1051
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: been totally fine with it, But we wanted to keep

1052
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 1: it a little more uh intimate. Uh, And that's why

1053
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: we kind of didn't mention anything. But we went. We

1054
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: enjoyed it, we loved it. Now we're back and uh,

1055
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:30,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna enjoy the rest of the summer. And that's

1056
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 1: it for now. This is Dan Answer signing up for

1057
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 1: a quiet storm the Old Boss and Ricky Hollywood behind

1058
00:56:39,680 --> 00:57:00,840
Speaker 1: the Virtual Glass until Thursday. Either clock s