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Welcome to episode ten of The Rosenthal

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and jessel Nick Vanity Project r J, where

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old acquaintances are never forgotten, ripped

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open, they died with the final breath. They hailed the

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King, the King of Kings. Oh

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yeah, we're back. We're

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here after the Christmas holiday,

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a few days before New Year's Anthony.

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We keep trucking. The best

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time of year. I don't know, is it the best time of year,

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not at all. It's it's kind of like everything's

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kind of dead, it's kind of slow. It's a good time for movies,

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good time to catch up with family and friends. So

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it's my least favorite time of the year

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by a mile. We get to catch up, you know. We had

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that birthday dinner we talked about and then a little Christmas

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action. Yeah, we did get to uh we got

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to hang on Chris his birthday dinner. Did

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We talked, We talked about birthday, We talked about the birthday because

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it was afterwards. I'm in a much better shape

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this week than I was last week. I've not drank since

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Christmas Day. That had like

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I had like a four or five day bender. That was rough. That ended.

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Uh shortly after I saw you on Christmas Day,

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I went to UH. I went to Greg's house to

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have a little Christmas brunch with with

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his wife Emica, and then and the kids walk around UH

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and I let's give him their Christmas presents, let him and wrap

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them, hang out. The first time I ever got a hug from

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your daughter that I was I was. I was very excited

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about She gave me a present which

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was a I still have it. It's one of my favorite

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things. It's a she called it a telescope. It

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is a toilet paper roll that

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no toilet paper on it. It's been it's been emptied. And then

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she painted it and put a couple of stickers on it, and it's

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a telescope. It was all her idea.

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She came up with the whole content. I was very excited

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about it. I was very happy she gave me a present.

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I did not get you guys a present. I didn't get either one

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of you a present. You know, you guys gave me a bottle

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of wine in a book, which was very nice of you.

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Well that was yeah, it was more of your birthday Christmas

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combo. I felt a little left out when some people

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gave you some stuff for your birthday at your birthday

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dinner. But yeah, it was funny. We were talking

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last night about this show and

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you were like, yeah, I didn't even realize

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that at the time, but I was in pretty rough

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shape at at Christmas.

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I was like, no, you you realized that. You

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mentioned it incessantly and it was very

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obvious how rough shape you were in. Like

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when you got there, you just looked like absolute

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hell and and uh did not have

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a lot of energy. But uh

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we you know, we put some prosecco

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on you, and you started livening up by the time

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you left. Yeah, I got a little better. I got to I ate

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like one piece of your wife's keysh which

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was delicious, but I couldn't get any more

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than that. And then I went to my friend Kamal's house

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and just drink whiskey all all evening

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and like I barely eat At the end of the night. We had

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a couple pieces of pizza. But was just just

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in rough shape. After a nice, nice four

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day bender at my age now at seven,

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I can't I can't do it, but you seem to do it. You

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seem to do it every now and then. This one sort of

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made sense. You had your birthday, and then there

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was kind of Christmas parties for you and back

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to back days after your birthday, and then it's

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Christmas, which you know, of course you got a party

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in Christmas, I guess, of course. And that's that's

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why Jesus was born to party. You

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gotta fight for your right, as Jesus did for

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thirty three years for it to cut him off. Um,

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you know, it was a fun Uh, it was a fun Christmas

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Day. I had a good time, and I wanted to ask you

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do does Ellis play with the puppets? I

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got her sort

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of, Well, we play with them a little bit, and

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they really like it when we When

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we play with him, Walker loves it. Walk You

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saw that like Walker enjoyed it. But I wanted

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her to be able to tell stories with the puppets.

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Your daughter likes to tell stories, like to talk to herself.

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I thought these puppets will help her kind

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of visualizing stories. But I think there might be too big

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for her. So well, now I think she'll get into it. Sometimes

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it takes a little time. I mean, he livens

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up his day. He's been very sick, and

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she likes playing with it. To him to

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make him laugh. So that's very that's

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very cute. Yeah, that that's great.

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She does speak talk to herself for at least two

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hours alone every night. Just

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strange. I don't think it's strange. I think it's good. I think she's

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gonna be a hell of an artist someday. Definitely

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much more than her father. Um.

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Speaking of Greg's art. Before

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I left, I was there for a couple of hours and I

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was like, I gotta get out of here. I gotta go. I started

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the real drinking and uh, and I said,

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take some pictures of me with the guy. Yeah,

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day, and Greg took a bunch of photos. It's

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hard to kind of get two kids to sit in

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the couch together with me. Gregg took

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a bunch of photos and we looked at them and

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they all had one thing in common. I did not have

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a head in anything. I don't know how you can stand.

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But you had a head, and sometimes just the forehead

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we had. Sometimes you didn't never head, but the

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others just the four the forehead hair

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was up, Anthony, this will shock

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you. Brandon was very upset about

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this that any photos were taking of him that didn't

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include his prized hair. What

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I'm upset about is that you could stand four feet away

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and have three people in a picture and

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completely eliminate one. I was trying to make

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the you know, rookie move mistake.

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I guess I was trying to make the kids laugh, you know,

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make you know. I wasn't really looking at the camera.

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I was, you know, trying to look at the look at the

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kids, get them to look at my direction, because they

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were clearly uncomfortable around you, So I was trying

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to make them a little more comfortable, not looking into

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the camera. It's not a rookie mistake. That's

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just a huge mistake. Great photographer, great photographer.

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That's Brandon, our producer, coming in for

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no reason. Um. I was

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actually introduced about seconds

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ago. You're not listening to anyone,

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No, not at all, Not at all. I've

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cut Brendon's head off metaphorically in

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my head. Um. Speaking of cut,

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let's going to what was cut from last

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week? What was cut? We

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had a couple of things that have been cut several times, um,

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and try to get through it this week. A couple

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of weeks ago, we had a song that

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we played that had a lot of children singing

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like a children's chorus, and I made

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a joke about Goodell gathering the

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children in a room and I don't even know

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what I said, but I think just getting Goodell

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and kids in a room together. Something

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happened where it had to get cut and then

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got cut again. We'll see what happens this week. And

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then we talked about the

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song wan my least favorite song of all time, fifty

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nine miles to jackson Um

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fifty nine Moss to Jacksonville, A terrible

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song, A terrible a terrible sign to

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see us

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so bad. I'm in a joke about the

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commissioner producing that track and

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that the woman who got the job must

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have had must have done something uh

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with them in order

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to get that job. We'll

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see, We'll see what happens there. We may be talking

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about that again next week. Greg

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greg messed up. Greg Um talked

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about an NFL employee

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who had stabbed some one with scissors in

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his past, which is kind of a public story, but since

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it's kind of a professional courtesy,

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we we took it out. Um

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And this was my favorite cut of the week because this was

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a midweek cut. If you heard the podcast,

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maybe day of maybe a couple of days in you heard

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this joke, and if you listen to it later on, you're listening

6:55

to it later. This was taken out, or even

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if you download it later. I did not get this call

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till Monday afternoon. Yeah,

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it was it took out.

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I mean I talked about um. We

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we had played a lot of xylophone last week, and

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I said that Goodell, with his xylophone, had

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scored the movie Concussion, and

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then I joked that he also scored

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um. Uh said

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the same joke again. It's not a joke. It's

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a description of one

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of the players in the movie Concussion who passed away.

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Edited for Mama say Mama Saw. I

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don't know if that would helps

7:35

anything. That's one of my favorite jokes of this

7:37

entire podcast. It was a good one. It was in off the cuff

7:40

reference um, which I'm known for. It

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was good and that that was what was cut. But it's an interesting

7:45

time here at the Rosenthal

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and justly mc vanity project, and

7:50

that the season's almost over, which

7:53

means you only have like four or five weeks to try

7:55

to convince me to do this

7:57

again next year. It's a week ten

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what abo at the off season? I mean we could go straight through,

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and people keep starting that there's no way you're gonna

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get me to do that. There's no way you're coming

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here in the off season. This is this is a lot

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of work for someone like me. When I say someone

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like me, I mean like a star. Um.

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I don't feel really appreciated by

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the NFL, And I think that's part of the that's

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part of what we do here as we want to fly under the radar

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um. But also, like you know, it's

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when I whenever I come into the lot, it's something

8:24

like they know I don't get treated the way I usually get

8:26

treated when I show up to work. They harass

8:28

you there. They never does no matter what I do ahead

8:30

of time, they seem like they won't have a spot for

8:33

you. And the NFL did

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not get me. Uh did not get

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me a birthday or Christmas present. They didn't

8:39

get me anything. They don't even don't even acknowledge

8:41

that I come in here and lay

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it all on the line as if I was one of the players,

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as if I was one of the best players in the league. They couldn't

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have gotten me a football, you

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could, They couldn't have gotten me like a t shirt

8:52

with a logo on it. Like I those commercials

8:54

where they're sending around jerseys to everyone

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who ever moved and uh and

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I don't get anything. Yeah, they have days where they just

9:01

have free merch Brandon's probably seeing that,

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and those people passed around some free

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merchandise, you would think, you know, some old

9:07

like rich eyes and podcast sweatshirts or whatnot.

9:10

I mean, something exciting like that. Anything.

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I mean, if they just handed me a football, I was like, here,

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here's a football, I would have been like, oh cool, Like thank you

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for just knowing that I'm here. That

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that we'll see. We'll see if I come back next year. But there's plenty of

9:21

time. There's plenty of time for me to either

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quit the show too, gets

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canceled, or for you guys to convince me

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that maybe maybe come in in the off season.

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That would be crazy, that would They'd have to That's

9:33

something big would have to change. We all have to step

9:35

our game up. I think Brandon that's included.

9:37

Well, he knows that because Sydney has been hot on his trails

9:41

and I even I've even been feeling a little bit of a

9:43

pressure. This is one of the worries I had going into

9:46

this. Could it Could it be a strain

9:48

on our own friendship because now I'm trying to make

9:50

you happy as a coworker, and you're a very you

9:52

know, demanding star. That's

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impossible. I would never not that I'm not

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demanding, as I'm as undemanding

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as a star can be. Like people are very I'm

10:02

gracious when I work with people, um compared

10:04

to what is out there, there's if you switched me out

10:06

with any other comedian or performer

10:08

of my level of fan and would be a night mare in

10:10

here. But our friendship would never be affected

10:13

by andy. But I would happily, of

10:15

course. But I would happily walk away

10:17

from this and never look back. Well remember it. Let's

10:19

get the headlines and dad photo

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whoop and not a clip and pick a sap. That's

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right today, I put you win the picket, shoot

10:26

fry. That's like.

10:29

That was Vince Staples, one of the hot new

10:32

up and coming hip hop macs, and I've been a big fan of his for

10:34

a year or two. Now. I was telling some mixtapes.

10:36

I met a woman at a Christmas Eve party

10:39

and I said, what do you do? And she said, I I

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make things. I make y

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because I I make things. And I was like, what does that mean? Like

10:47

people? And I said, I make things? Like are you an engineer?

10:49

Are you an artist? That's the most that's the most

10:51

ridiculous. I

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don't know what the word for it is obnoxious.

10:56

It's a description, a little bit of pretentious, but it's

10:59

a way to kind of get get away without

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saying like I make I make films that I'm not doing exactly

11:03

what I want to be doing. If you sit next to me on a

11:05

plane, I would never tell you I was a comedian. I would just make

11:07

something up. Um, because if you tell him

11:09

on your comedian like, oh my cousin does improv,

11:12

We're like, oh you've ever done this? Or what

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about I don't want to deal with that conversation at

11:16

all. I tell I tell my right, football, but I'm

11:18

never sick of talking about football. And then people

11:20

just start talking about football, and that's fine with

11:22

me. That's much better. That's much better for you. I

11:24

just tell people that I'm a child mortician. Um.

11:28

But she said she worked She worked with Edward

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Staples at this new hip hop robber. She they

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did a movie with him, and I was like, do you mean Vince Staples

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And she's like, oh my god, I called him Edward

11:37

Staples from the entire shoots and I was like, well,

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that's why you make things nice, woman.

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It was really hard, by the way to find uh,

11:44

because I just got that that album I near recommendation

11:47

and it's great. Uh and

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uh it's very hard to find even a nine second

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clip without an end

11:54

bomb or some swears or whatever. But that's

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this album, his original mixtape, when the

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first mixed type he came out with, I was on my favorites all

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to bring that in. We'll play some jams. So let's

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talk a little headline. So we have to start, you

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know, with the elephant in the room, the

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big fat, steaming turd

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that the Steelers put on the field

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last week against the Baltimore

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Ravens. The rat Birds really

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there, arch rival the

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worst raven season in I

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think forever, And somehow

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the Ravens are going to come out of the season feeling

12:28

pretty good because they swept

12:30

your Steelers, possibly knocking

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them out of the playoffs. Mike

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Tomlin said Tuesday the Steelers

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this week, they need to get the stench off

12:40

of them after that big

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loss to Riot mallet

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in the Ravens. Yeah, I wish you didn't sound as

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happy as you do. Um, it doesn't baffle

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me, like I like the Steelers. Fine, I'm not against

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the Steelers. I'm enjoying the

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fact that you're Yeah, I guess I'm

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enjoying the Yeah, totally,

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thank you, Brandon. But I would think that if

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Greg and I weren't friends, you would like the Steelers

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more like there's something there's something

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that No, you've always hated them. See, that's not

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true. I'm a big Ben Raethlisberger fan.

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Um. Out of these teams, I certainly

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would rather see them in over the Jets. I like them

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fine, plus plus the Patriots have kind of had their

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number anyways. But you're you're right, I

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it still gives me some happiness. I'll let

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you well. Yeah, I mean, I know Ben won you over off

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the field, but the Steelers

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lost the Ravens. It's it's they're a nemesis.

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I mean, I hate them more than any of the team, but

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I could reprospect them because they always

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do this dust and the Steelers always kind of fold

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down the stretch. You kind of hope your position for one

13:35

seed, so you only fall down to like a four

13:37

seed before the playoffs for them, like the fact that we

13:39

were like hanging on to six, I knew it's spelled trouble

13:42

for these two games. We always do this. We can't be

13:44

hanging around hoping for a six. We're gonna

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blow a late game at least one. And Baltimore

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again is our nemesis. They're just built to beat

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us no matter how bad they are, you know, if

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they have an awful season, like they're still just looking at

13:55

us on the schedule the entire year, and

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that a f C North is so tough this week against

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Cleeve and I'm worried about you know, it's like

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Boston College playing Notre Dame. At the end of every season

14:04

of college football. The Notre Dame will be undefeated

14:06

and BC will be like four and seven and BC

14:08

will still win. Like there's no way BC should

14:10

ever win. But those Dorgs are like five against the

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Irish. I hate it. But the

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Ravens this year, these weren't even the Ravens.

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This was literally a guy who

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we were making fun of a few weeks ago because

14:22

he couldn't show up to a plane on time

14:24

and made up some nonsense, traffic

14:26

excuse. Ryan Mallett has barely been

14:28

on the team, throwing two other guys

14:30

like Chris Gibbins, who's barely been on the team.

14:32

I went through their offensive roster

14:35

and I think five or six of you

14:37

know, their main guys in that

14:39

game were literally not on the team

14:41

in September. So it's just this wacky

14:43

team that John Harbaugh's put together,

14:46

and somehow the Steelers blew it. And I put

14:48

it more on the Steelers than giving the Ravens too

14:50

much credit, because Mike Tomlin does this every year.

14:52

I mean, you mentioned it the Ravens. Uh.

14:55

Looking back in two thousand thirteen, they

14:57

lost to the Vikings, and the Raiders,

14:59

who had four and five wins, respectively,

15:01

didn't make the playoffs. Uh. In two thousand

15:03

twelve, they lost to a number of bad teams.

15:06

For some reason. The Steelers

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always beat the good teams, like they just

15:10

did with the Bengals and the Broncos, and then they blow

15:12

it. They get over confident, maybe

15:15

too much celebration on the sidelines from their

15:17

coaches or something, and they lose to the terrible

15:19

teams. That's those are very underhanded.

15:21

Dig I don't appreciate it. I think

15:23

it's just the way the NFL is, I mean things

15:25

with the Steelers, it happens more under the Mike

15:27

Tomlins Steelers. There's something to it

15:30

and uh they act. We actually talked

15:32

to Ike Taylor about it when

15:34

it was happening on Sunday because I was on this NFL

15:37

Now show and he was just like, it's been

15:39

happening since Kauer was there, Like we always

15:41

lose to the bad teams. I don't know what it is, and I think

15:43

it's just they're always like a cocky, sort of

15:45

confident team. They don't stay maybe

15:48

super grounded. So what right when it's at the point

15:50

where everything looks great, it's like they kind of

15:52

slip up. I don't know if I agree with

15:54

that, because I mean, you can't get the

15:56

only sixteen games in a season. You gotta

15:58

get up for every one of them. And the Steels hate the Ravens.

16:00

They wanted to beat the Ravens at home. They wanted to embarrass

16:03

them, and then it just fell apart. Like I but I agree

16:05

with you. We're much better against good teams than

16:07

we are against against the bottom feeders,

16:09

which is tough, but almost I would rather. I'd

16:12

rather be that than be a team that could only

16:14

win against the worst teams. I'd

16:16

rather be a team that that was amazing against

16:18

the best of the best. But wou'd fold sometimes,

16:21

you know, we'll see I mean your team. Yeah,

16:23

your team didn't exactly help us out this week

16:25

either. People been trying to tell me

16:28

to the core too

16:30

many clicks in the down, how

16:32

my cities will now cool? I

16:35

was pushing T talking about just

16:37

trying to find a lyric ten seconds of a song without

16:40

it's something objectional, that's a push a T. The

16:42

song is called Fifa, my favorite song from

16:44

his new album, which is a great album, one of my favorite hip

16:46

hop albums of the year. Checkout Push a Tea.

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And we're allowed by the NFL to play

16:51

two songs uh every

16:53

show up to ten fifteen

16:56

seconds something like that. Ten seconds and

16:58

then after that that's it. And so

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the rest of the show we're gonna have NFL

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licensed, NFL commercially viable

17:06

music produced by Roger Goodell, Bruce

17:09

by Goodell for Goodell, and Brandon has

17:11

picked that for us. We don't know what he's gonna play, but he'll

17:13

be playing that for the rest of the episode, edited

17:16

for Big Willie style all in it. You

17:18

know, I still have to love of football, but you know, I'm

17:21

not quite as up and down like as

17:23

I used to be as as a Patriots fan, like

17:25

the good the big games. Yes, but

17:27

a little bit of it, it's a little less. I mean, I've

17:29

noticed that a lot of your passion has died out since you've

17:31

gotten married. What is Christmas?

17:36

What is Christmas? Christmas?

17:38

Is Chrismus

17:43

Christmas? I

17:48

wish I had. I mean, of course

17:50

that was Roger Goodell and uh and a

17:52

couple of kids, random kids off the street.

17:54

Uh. Goodell was singing a Christmas carols.

17:56

He loves Christmas carols even though he is very Jewish.

17:59

Um. Uh, not true. I should

18:01

have said, I should have said, come

18:05

on with that hair. He should have said. I should

18:07

have said, no Christmas music after Christmas. But we're

18:09

gonna, I'm I gotta feeling we're gonna have a lot of Christmas

18:11

music coming up. When when you don't

18:13

give Brandon any lines

18:16

to color, you know in between, he's just gonna

18:18

go crazy. See I thought that a

18:20

different way I thought anything, it's gonna be like, hey, he just did

18:22

that. On Christmas, he was feeling the Christmas spirit

18:25

and decided to actually make that on Christmas.

18:27

You thought that I would think that you were like getting ahead of the curve,

18:29

and on Christmas Day you started putting together music for

18:32

the podcast next week that Goodell was putting it

18:34

together. Oh,

18:36

I thought, because that sounds like Goodell, Like like it

18:39

sounds like Goodell's earlier stuff. He

18:41

was kind of more crowd pleaser. Yeah, because he's gotten

18:43

more experimental, as we'll see I think later

18:45

on in the show. Um, I'm surprised.

18:49

I'm very well good be Uh what's the next

18:51

headline? Yeah, we've been talking and I like it really

18:54

to start the day, it's like we're having real football talk,

18:56

which is a little different. Usually we just kind of picked these wacky

18:58

stories and your make can jokes. But you

19:00

know, we've been talking some real a f C playoff

19:03

picture. I'm sure one of the reasons I've gotten sick of this. Yes,

19:06

Steelers, Steelers of

19:08

course need uh some help to get into the playoffs

19:10

this week. But now let's switch gears to to some of

19:12

those weird stories. Like last week, one

19:15

of my favorite stories was Johnny Hecker the Rams

19:18

punter took a cheap

19:20

shot against one of the best pass worshers

19:22

in the league, Cliff Avril, on

19:25

a special teams play. Avril

19:27

wasn't looking after Hecker

19:29

punted. He just kind of shoulders him

19:31

and knocks him down and tries to be

19:33

tough. And then Avril, uh

19:36

then kind of goes back at him

19:38

and Hecker next

19:40

time, next time. Well, but even on that play,

19:43

Avril starts running after him

19:45

immediately, and Hecker cowers down.

19:47

And then on the next play that

19:50

Hecker is down there, Avril

19:53

he goes after Hecker a little bit, has

19:55

him just fall on the ground afraid.

19:57

And another one of his teammates, Michael Bennett,

20:00

who's even bigger, goes after a huge

20:02

Michael, but and Ben it just stands up, but it just kind of walks

20:04

up as if like, you know, what could happen? I

20:06

mean, Benna must have been dying laughing.

20:09

Afterwards. The quote was that they said that I

20:11

got to hear they said that he squealed like a

20:13

little girl when

20:16

he fell to the ground. Of what so

20:19

funny. Hecker is a great name for punter.

20:21

I love on punters when they when they

20:23

get tough with cheap shots his name. If a punter makes

20:25

like an awesome hit on like a kickback, it's it's

20:27

always pretty. But these aren't even like it wasn't

20:29

like he's really going after him with a cheap chat.

20:31

It's just kind of like pushing him from behind, and like if you

20:33

get pushed by anyone behind that blue, you're not

20:36

expecting you're gonna fall down. He he's not even

20:38

really going at him. I mean, not me. I've got my

20:40

center. Gravity's insane and no one could ever knock

20:42

me down. But this reminded me of my favorite puncher

20:44

story of all time. Greg. I'm gonna take

20:46

you all the way back to

20:49

the legend, the legend of a Pittsburgh

20:51

master of punting named Josh Miller

20:54

who started playing for the Steels in ninety six.

20:57

He the Steelers punter, won the hearts

20:59

of the city by getting in

21:01

so many fights in one game. Did

21:04

he actually lost money against

21:06

the Oilers in Pittsburgh And anyone remembers

21:08

this, you can look it up. You got find more than

21:10

his game. Check here exactly he got into.

21:12

He got in like three fights in the game. We got kicked

21:14

out, but got fined like the got with

21:16

like two or three fines after him and

21:19

lost money. And when Steelers people, Steelers

21:21

fans found that out, they worshiped

21:24

him for that because we didn't know it was possible. We didn't

21:26

know you could play the game and lose money playing

21:28

it. We loved him for like four or five years. When

21:30

they lost him, were like, what the hell? But it's like, he's

21:32

a punter, who cares? Was it he did

21:34

he have a did I think of another punter? Did

21:36

he have a drinking problem? You're thinking of Jeff Reed?

21:39

Yeah, he had a lot

21:41

of crazy things going on to what is it

21:43

with the Pittsburgh I

21:46

think special teams man, they don't care Johnny

21:48

Johnny Hecker though it cracks me up.

21:51

Someone went back and looked, and he's done

21:53

this again and again. He's gone

21:55

after uh like a Saints defender.

21:58

In two thousand and thirteen, he

22:00

went after one of the Ravens players like this

22:02

is his thing, is taking little cheap

22:04

shots, And the Ravens actually

22:06

responded with the tweet

22:08

saying like, oh, I guess he got you too, Cliff Avviell

22:11

pointing out that he did it to one of their safeties

22:13

earlier in this year. I don't know why Johnny Hecker

22:16

thinks he can get away with this that week after

22:18

week, this spunner is just pushing down

22:20

bigger players, and then and then it doesn't

22:23

have the presence of mind to do anything but literally

22:25

cower in fear, like what did he expect was

22:27

gonna happ thinks he gets I think he gets caught up in the moment

22:29

he gets tough. I'm sure Jeff Fish is pumping him up

22:31

on the sidelines, you know, their defensive coordinators

22:33

being like, hey, do anything you can, it's illegal on

22:36

the field, and uh and uh,

22:38

and he gets two pumped up. But then when the reality

22:40

faces him down, you know, I mean, it's

22:42

like, you talk a big game against me, but if

22:44

I actually stood up, if I stood up

22:46

and slapped the microphone away from your face, you'd be

22:48

crying like a little girl. That

23:05

was again Roger Goodell with the Roger Goodell

23:08

Orchestra. And when I say the Roger Goodell Orchestra,

23:10

what I mean is, I don't know how the

23:12

technical term in music, but it's called layering, where

23:15

he's actually playing all the instruments in the orchestra

23:17

and singing all the parts. He doesn't just sing

23:19

alto and baritone and the other

23:21

ones. Uh, there are four of them. He

23:23

sings them all, but he just lays him down

23:25

and loops and kind of puts it together.

23:27

It's more of a studio guy than really, because

23:29

that's tough to pull off live. You don't want to see him

23:31

live. Not want to see him live. It's

23:34

it's it's a little dicey. It's like going to

23:36

see It's like I want to see Morrissey. You never

23:38

know what. You would be a great show. He could be a little

23:40

moody, but that is a that is a good

23:43

song. Next is another big one

23:45

of the big stories of the week. Not a goofy one. Uh,

23:47

but we're gonna make a goofy. Peyton Manning is

23:51

furious and disgusted over

23:53

reports of h G h US. Yeah.

23:55

Al Jazeera America didn't

23:58

undercover probe, which

24:00

posted on Sunday their entire

24:03

documentary, although Huffington's

24:05

post kind of get a lead

24:07

on it. They watched it early and on

24:09

Saturday night they posted, really

24:12

a recap of what you know was in

24:14

this report. Now, Peyton Manning really wasn't

24:16

that big of a part of the documentary.

24:18

It was very small part, but he

24:20

has the big name and H G. H is

24:23

involved, and that's what you know, people really

24:25

latched onto. And as part

24:27

of it, uh, there was essentially

24:30

accusations from a guy that worked

24:33

at this clinic that he had been

24:35

sending H G. Hum

24:38

to the Manning's house to

24:40

Ashley Manning, Peyton Manning's

24:42

wife, and so that was the reason. You

24:45

know, within twelve hours of this coming

24:47

out, Peyton Manning is on ESPN

24:49

with a furrowed brow in a long

24:52

interview, getting very upset about

24:54

the allegations. There were statements

24:56

from Manning and the

24:59

Broncos and cults for some reason,

25:01

and you know, all sorts of people. Ari

25:04

Fleischer, this big pr executive

25:06

type, was releasing statements for Peyton

25:08

Manning and that the stories died

25:11

away a little bit. His reaction that was very was very

25:13

strange. And the whole story with his wife being involved

25:15

a strange. I think it's it's a little strange. The wife thing

25:17

makes sense to me, you know, and and we'll get

25:19

the Peyton's interview in a second. The wife

25:21

thing, to me, it always creeps me out when

25:24

you see the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and

25:26

they always do a section where it's players and their

25:28

wives. Like it'll be a player in a swimsuit

25:30

and his wife in a bikini, and the wife

25:32

is always jacked, like

25:35

prison yard jacked. And it's because

25:37

of h G. Like h G is a big thing in

25:40

the world. I

25:42

don't know. Mark McGuire was

25:45

one with his wife. I remember. I remember.

25:47

I remember Roger Clemens and his wife, and his

25:50

wife had like like these abs that

25:52

were bigger than anyone's biceps. It was crazy.

25:54

And I think that like the actress will use it, like Tom

25:56

Cruise will use h G H to get ready for a role.

25:59

Uh swept alone? What uses

26:01

it all the time to get ready for stuff? So actress will

26:03

use it. And I think if you're a model, you can so

26:05

I will believe. I'll believe

26:07

that the h G H was going to his wife if

26:09

she can point out the photo shoot

26:12

that she used it for, Like that's what I would believe, because

26:14

you look at Peyton Manning, you know that's not h

26:16

G H. That's sweet, that's sweet, sweet

26:18

Papa John's that's getting him through,

26:21

that's getting him through the season. It's not like he would

26:23

remember when we had a broken neck at the time, by the

26:25

way, when he sat up for a year, when

26:27

Ray Lewis came back like like Jesus

26:29

off the Cross from a torn triestep

26:32

in two weeks and the most like heaven, like he had

26:34

h G H written on his helmet, and people just let

26:37

it go. Last game. It

26:39

didn't matter at all Peyton Manning

26:41

though, I mean, you wouldn't. That's the thing is,

26:43

I don't think people are even that upset because

26:45

you wouldn't necessarily blame him that much

26:47

when he's out for a year on four neck surgeries

26:50

to get a little help to recovery. There's an argument

26:52

to be made that you should just be allowed to

26:54

use it. I mean, in twenty years

26:56

it will be totally legal. It'll be like it'll be like

26:58

Cortison shots. I absolutely

27:01

believe that once they figure out how safe it is. But right now

27:03

it is cheating. Uh. Here's the thing about

27:05

the interview though, the interview that he gave to

27:07

ESPN, which I thought ESPN's journalistic

27:09

integrity may be a little suspect because the story

27:12

had just broken, but the documentary hadn't

27:14

come out. It's like they showed both sides. They

27:16

just kind of Chopine. All of this was off of

27:19

what's ultimately like an aggregated

27:21

report. Just bizarre.

27:24

It was an article, but it was just someone I that watched

27:26

it reported writing about it. But his he

27:28

was kind of mannic in the interview. He was clearly

27:31

not prepped. You know, he just kept saying the same thing

27:33

over and over again. He wasn't prepared. It

27:35

wasn't like a publicist read a statement. Would

27:37

you would You can never really believe. But it kind of reminded

27:39

me of Brady's interview

27:42

right after the flate Gate when he came out, when he

27:44

was just seemed kind of like just he seemed

27:47

bothered. He seemed like he did too much coffee and

27:49

some He was clear that someone had told him before

27:51

you go out where this hat Tom

27:53

Brady because he's wearing like a stocking

27:55

cap with a little pomp pomp thing on it.

27:58

I know, but it looks ridiculouf. You're trying to say like

28:01

I had nothing to do with this. These accusations

28:03

are basis. He just looked stupid, but it seemed

28:05

like maybe this will make you look more casual. So

28:08

it's like there's something there's something almost

28:11

uh deliberate in how unprepared

28:13

he was. You think Tom Brady went

28:16

out of his way to look like a twelve year old

28:18

kid in a Christmas story to somehow,

28:21

I think was like, Thomas

28:23

will help put this on. I think if he

28:25

was wearing like Peyton was wearing, like googly

28:27

eyeglasses, it would have been kind of the same

28:29

thing. I think Peyton Manning was

28:31

almost probably overprepared,

28:34

Like I was convinced

28:36

by him. But then again, you know, the thing that

28:38

that got me was he was obviously

28:41

ready for this and then some because

28:45

within within minutes

28:47

practically of that just random

28:49

blog post going up, he had

28:52

a statement. You know, we we weren't even going to

28:54

report on it. Uh, the NFL

28:56

media wasn't until Peyton Manning released his statement,

28:58

because we're like, we haven't seen anything. But suddenly Peyton

29:00

Manning released his statement, Denver Bronco's

29:03

release his statement. Ari Fleischer is

29:05

in the mix as someone he's hired

29:07

as a consultant. He has this huge interview

29:09

set up the next morning, and

29:12

I think it was all set up that, like he was

29:14

waiting for this to come for weeks and he was

29:16

ready to just battle it and weirdly.

29:18

That's the thing that makes me think, well that

29:20

that just doesn't make you look as innocent,

29:23

you know what I mean, when you're just that ready to just

29:25

battle it. The other thing that really made me laugh was

29:27

he kept calling the guy who

29:29

made the accusations and then quickly recanted

29:32

the accusations. I mean, he's already recanted

29:34

them. They were they were taped on a on

29:37

a you know, he didn't know they were being

29:39

taped. It was, you know, an undercover operation, and

29:41

he recanted what he alleged.

29:43

But he kept calling the guy over and over

29:45

a slapstick because he wanted

29:47

to say slap, but he just decided

29:50

to change it. And that made me realize this is all planned

29:52

out, because you do not just start saying slapstick

29:55

over and over. He's like, I want to call this guy a slap

29:57

but I'm gonna call him a slapstick. That doesn't

30:00

work. He said it five times. Do you think he was with this publicist

30:02

being like, how about slap because I've

30:04

never heard anyone call that in my entire life. That's

30:06

a football It's a football word people love, they

30:08

called slappy's. I wish he had said slappy's

30:10

slappy would have been another thing. If you called him a JABRONI

30:13

that would have been great. The reason I'm not that we're

30:15

worried about the timing of Manning's like apology

30:17

and we're not apology, but denial is that

30:19

if you know two things about Peyton Manning, you know like a throw

30:22

touchdown passes, and he loves Al Jazeera.

30:39

That was Roger Goodell. If you if you've ever

30:41

seen Goodell driving, and then the first time

30:43

I heard that song, I'll tell the story. Goodell

30:45

pulls up, he's bumping that hardcore. I

30:47

mean, he's got the base. It's I thought he was gonna

30:49

break a window. You would not believe

30:51

how many people get out of his car. And he finally

30:54

pulled up. I mean it was it

30:56

was like a whole roster. Did he recognize him? I

30:58

didn't recognize any of them. A lot of them looked at the

31:00

same they were both all they're alla to makeup. But but

31:03

one of them, one of them was the singer of

31:06

Jaxeville. Let's go, this

31:09

is what you've done to us, And so, by the way, with

31:11

this music, it's your fault.

31:14

Uh. Tevin Coleman, the Atlanta Falcons

31:17

back up running back got

31:19

a concussion last week and missed

31:21

the Falcons game by slipping in the shower,

31:24

which sounds so terrible and

31:27

uh and so painful, you

31:30

know what I mean. I mean, that seems like the worst thing

31:32

that could possibly ever happen to you

31:34

in a shower getting it does not sound

31:36

older right now. Um talking about

31:39

like your fears of slipping in the shower, Now, that's

31:41

I'm afraid of slipping in the shower. But it got

31:43

me thinking. It got me thinking of the worst

31:45

moment that I've ever had in the shower,

31:47

and it was recently, and it was it

31:50

was I was, I have the liquid soap thing,

31:52

you know what I mean. You got the liquid soap and the

31:55

dispenser. Y, yeah, the dispenser and I

31:57

squirted it and it was like six thirty in the

31:59

morning, and for some reason that day, that

32:01

thing just shot out like a laser beam

32:03

right into my eye and it was

32:06

it which sounds like, Okay, it's not a big deal some soap

32:08

community, right, But it felt like I had been shot by

32:10

like a like a sniper. And

32:12

it was in a cold, dark house

32:15

at like six ten in the morning where kids are sleeping

32:17

and I can't make a sound, so the pain

32:19

is all mine. I have to just like take it, and

32:21

it was it was tough. I had to step

32:23

out. I had to end the whole thing right there,

32:25

like I really wanted to cry, and it like stopped

32:27

and and stopped and just almost ruined my day

32:30

for like minutes. I mean, then it then it, then I recovered.

32:32

It was okay. It was a tough thing. I mean,

32:34

these players go through a lot, but it's a pretty bad

32:36

ass how you handled that eye full of axe body

32:39

wash. But uh, I

32:41

mean I understand this. You know, you're running in place

32:43

in the shower like I do. I'm always

32:45

burning calories. Sometimes you slip, you get a

32:47

concussion, you fall. I'm just glad the protocol is

32:50

there. This reminds me. I want to talk

32:52

a little bit about the movie. The

32:54

movie Concussion that sweeping the nation. Everyone's

32:56

either talking about Star Wars or Concussion, oftentimes

32:59

in the same sentence. Uh, kind

33:01

of a big hit with people people.

33:04

I mean, it's it's made hundreds of millions

33:06

of dollars dollars.

33:08

It couldn't I mean, this is Tevin Coleman story. Couldn't

33:11

have come in a worse time for the movie Concussion. But

33:13

I'd like to just talk about the movie a little bit. I've seen it. How

33:15

many times have you guys seen it Concussion? I

33:17

haven't seen it, Brandon zero

33:19

times. It seems crazy. I've seen

33:22

it eight times.

33:24

It's it's what as we're taping. This is

33:26

December thirty, so it's only been out

33:28

for five days. So I was.

33:31

I was at the premiere and then

33:33

twice a day for a couple of days, and then I

33:35

just took some time off. Um, it's it's great,

33:37

but I didn't love it. I

33:39

want to I want to read a couple of reviews that kind of sum

33:41

up my feelings. And I'm play a couple of clips

33:43

from the movie. Let's let's play this first clip from

33:46

the movie. This is This is Will Smith in in the movie Concussion.

33:50

Welcome to Earth. See that

33:52

was that was Will Smith and

33:55

the movie punches a player in the head

33:58

and then says welcome to Earth. The players he's

34:00

like, I've got a concussion. I don't

34:02

even know what planet I'm on, and Will Smith

34:05

punches him in the face and

34:07

then says, welcome to Earth. All right, This

34:09

is why this is this This review makes

34:11

sense to me. Gene Siskel called

34:13

the movie Concussion a miscarriage

34:16

of justice. If Lady Justice

34:18

tried to have an actual baby named

34:21

Concussion. That's

34:23

on the poster for the movie Concussion.

34:25

You know Brandon play will more clip plane of the clip for

34:27

me. I want to read another quote,

34:31

you know what the difference is between you and me? I

34:36

make this look good and

34:39

not the ridiculous scene from the movie where

34:42

Will Smith is talking to a play who had a concussion

34:44

and the guys complaining about how he's ruined his

34:46

life. He doesn't he can't talk to his family, he's drinking

34:48

too much, he is, he's having a problem, and Will Smith just puts

34:50

on sunglasses and kind of says, you know

34:52

what the difference between you and me? I make this look

34:54

good? And then it hits himself in the head with a hammer. It's

34:58

it's one of the weirdest moments from movie I've

35:00

seen all year. And this is why Roger Ebert said.

35:03

Roger Ebert said, if you can only see one movie

35:05

after you die, don't pick Concussion.

35:08

I don't know why I did that. Apparently

35:13

that's one of the rules. Uh, and Ebert

35:15

picked concussion. He was upset about it. Um

35:19

play given to the clip Brandon from

35:21

the movie. First of all, I would like to reiterate

35:23

that you make one ugly womany what

35:26

what an insensitive thing to say

35:29

to a player who is obviously going

35:31

through a lot at the time. The guy's in a hospital

35:33

bed, and and Wilsmith

35:35

just walks and just says that out of nowhere, which

35:38

I think is why Stanley Coffman of The New Republic

35:41

a famous. Um, I don't know Stanley

35:43

coffinan I know Stanley

35:45

Coffin is a fantash you've mentioned.

35:47

Yeah, just gonna, of course, legendary

35:50

to this day. Stanley Coffman is a hundred years old,

35:52

still writing, still reviewing for The New Republic. Uh

35:55

said, it's like someone wiped my ass

35:57

with a concussion. And that was

35:59

all he wrote. Like the title of review was just

36:01

the word this in all caps with

36:03

an arrow pointing down, like someone

36:06

wiped my ass with a concussion. Play,

36:08

Brandon, play one more clip for me. I want to play one more review.

36:11

Don't never let somebody tell you you

36:13

can't do something, not even me.

36:16

All right, all right, now,

36:19

this that was one of the most unbelievable

36:21

scenes in the movie. A player gets concussion. He's on the

36:23

sidelines, and Will Smith walks up

36:25

and says, you shouldn't play the game anymore. You should

36:27

walk away. This isn't safe. And

36:30

then the guy turns around. Will Smith turns him

36:32

back around and then delivers that

36:34

quote. He said that you should never let anyone

36:36

tell you what not to do, and even me. And then the guy

36:38

goes back on the field. He goes

36:41

back on the field, scores a touchdown and dies. That's

36:43

that's what's having you go back eight times despite

36:46

these reviews. I mean, you almost go you almost

36:48

hate watching you know what I mean. You're watching it like it's it's

36:50

a lot of people in the theater were laughing,

36:53

but Pauling Kale was not one of them. Pauling Kale,

36:55

uh the famous, the

36:57

most famous critic and history said this,

37:00

this is our exact quote. More

37:02

than I expected, more than anyone ever expected.

37:05

Concussion is filled with the sense

37:07

of humor that is both crude and rude, with jarring,

37:10

jarring shifts in tone. One moment,

37:12

a doctor is seriously trying to explain a medical condition

37:14

to his patient, and the very next scene

37:17

the patient has taken off his diaper and is

37:19

beaten the doctor to death with the diaper,

37:21

and we don't even get to see it. The action happens

37:23

on screen and the audience is only informed

37:26

for the beating by two nurses, both of them football

37:28

players, who were then beaten to death by

37:30

the diaper brands by Mike Webster's ghost.

37:33

A lot of spoilers.

37:49

That was Roger Goodell. Great thing about

37:52

that song is that I remember when he first wrote

37:54

it. He was like, I don't know who my muses

37:56

yet. I don't know who I'm going to get to sing it. I

37:58

don't know who's going to be glorious to fan, that's who

38:00

was trying for a while. I don't know who this girl is.

38:03

Sounds like a young Nina Cherry. But

38:05

she was great. She was really Uh she

38:07

was she's the uh like

38:09

Aaliyah to his Timberland. Yes,

38:14

yes, she died in a plane crash. Speaking

38:17

of concussions, Um and

38:19

parts of the show that might get headed out, Johnny

38:23

manzel Um suffered

38:26

a concussion during last week's game

38:29

and uh rough performance for for

38:31

Johnny in Kansas City, but he didn't

38:33

know it until Wednesday morning, he showed up uh

38:36

not feeling well, reported to the Browns. But that's

38:38

not why we're talking about him today. We're

38:40

talking about the video again that came

38:42

out of him uh and his

38:45

coach was forced to, you know, answer

38:47

questions about it that was

38:49

posted on on a website of him

38:52

on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, you

38:54

know, rapping and drinking

38:57

for loco, which I believe

38:59

has been in I think at least

39:01

it wasn't New York. Definitely in New York. It's

39:03

cool in Ohio. But either way, you know, it seemed

39:05

relatively harmless. But once again

39:08

Johnny Manzel questioned about his off field

39:10

and Mike pett and his coach has to answer questions

39:13

about it, and he should and I don't. I mean,

39:15

when you publicly go to rehab, you cannot be shown

39:17

on video drinking. You have to be a little better than that. He's

39:20

clearly at his house with like two friends,

39:23

and I would feel bad for him. I would legitimately feel

39:25

bad if it wasn't for the fact that in all of these

39:27

videos he is rapping directly

39:29

into the camp. It's not like someone's

39:31

from the side, like, oh, Johnny is trying to be careful, but somebody

39:33

snuck like a picture. He knows it's

39:35

happening, he sees it going on, and

39:38

he's involved. He's like, I'm I'm

39:40

not gonna be passive. I'm gonna let everyone

39:42

know that I like this song and that I

39:44

have a major drinking problem. I don't care

39:46

who knows about it. Please put it

39:48

on camera. If I was drinking, if you

39:50

and I were drinking together and we started rapping

39:53

along to a song and you pulled out your camera and put that

39:55

away right now, going to embarrass

39:57

me. Plus it's for Loco. I mean, if you're trying

39:59

to that you're maturing, you're growing up, you're

40:01

ready to take care of the franchise.

40:04

For Loco is the last thing that

40:06

that you would want to be drinking. It's just like the most

40:09

dufest thing possible. And and like,

40:11

don't you wish you loved something in

40:13

the world. Like as much as

40:15

Johnny Manzel loves rapping into

40:18

a camera, he just loves it. That's

40:22

damn right. I mean, that's

40:25

like that's his thing. I mean, he just he sees

40:27

that camera and he has to go straight to

40:29

it. That's why he's a star. That's

40:31

what Johnny Johnny football is a star. I

40:34

wouldn't want to dance without

40:37

you. Without you,

40:39

I would rather be alone and

40:43

unless my arms canna hold you, and

40:47

I'm really it twiced as happy. That

40:53

was again Roger Goodell. That song. It's

40:55

not a popular song, but the video was popular. Remember

40:57

the video for that, the Goodell shot. Remember what

40:59

was the name of the the R and B star. He had an album

41:01

come out this past year. Um, but he was

41:03

famous. He had a vangel D'Angelo remember

41:05

the famous How did I get that from that description? Because

41:08

you only know three black people? Um? It

41:10

was. It was just like the d'angela video. But it's Goodell

41:12

singing that song as the camera kind of

41:14

pans up and down. Edited

41:17

because parents just don't understand. But

41:19

the camera, it just it plays with the angles. It

41:21

was. It was pretty. It was pretty

41:23

sexy. Maybe that'll get edited, but it was pretty.

41:26

It was pretty sexy. Brand then definitely showing off

41:28

Goodell's versatility today, a lot of

41:30

different types of sounds. I mean, I came to play.

41:32

I know that Anthony needs everyone to step

41:34

up, So now I was giving Goodel credit, I

41:36

know, but I got with Goodell to make

41:38

sure that he puts out a masterpiece. Yeah, I feel

41:40

like you did get me about their president brand Kirk

41:44

Cousins this week helped

41:46

the Redskins win the NFC

41:49

East. But really the most memorable thing he did

41:51

was right before halftime. They had

41:53

six seconds to go. He was supposed to throw

41:56

I fade to the end zone. He

41:58

inexplicably, instead of throwing

42:00

that pass, or at least just spiking

42:03

the ball and moving on to the next play, he inexplicably

42:06

took a knee and time

42:08

ran out at the end of the half. It was one of

42:10

the most amazing, just

42:12

improbable, dumb things I've

42:15

ever seen on a football FA. Yeah, I took three points

42:17

off the board for sure. Yeah,

42:19

yeah, or seven, but definitely three. I mean certainly

42:21

three. That was That was a give me field goal from there. What

42:24

I like about this? And you were like, should we even talk about

42:26

It's not that big a deal. The fact that it's not that big a

42:28

deal is what's a big deal to me. Because they

42:30

won the game. Kirk Cousins is being

42:32

praised. I've seen people be like, oh, how amazing

42:34

he didn't fall apart in the second half. Yeah,

42:37

Like, are you kidding? Me like that. I love about

42:39

the NFL, and I most sports in general, but definitely

42:42

the NFL, where if you make a bone

42:44

head play and your team still wins, you are

42:47

forgiven across the board. Now, can

42:49

you think of any examples of someone

42:51

making a like just an idiotic play like

42:53

on that level and getting trashed for

42:56

it when they still won the game. People remember

42:58

Garrow? Garrow, You're premium. He

43:01

was the kicker in the

43:03

Dolphins perfect season. I believe

43:06

that, uh you know, he fumbled. He fumbled

43:09

the field goal and then he tried to get

43:11

up and just throw the ball, but it slipped out of his hands

43:13

and the other team returned it for a touchdown. I think that was a super

43:15

Bowl they at that at that point, I believe they had a shutout

43:18

and it was their perfect season, and so they were

43:20

gonna have a shutout in their perfect season. And still

43:22

to this day, his teammates talked trash

43:24

about him for doing that, So people remember that. I feel

43:26

like that's more of a leon Let, How about leon Lett?

43:29

That's true, leon Lett, I think, but but leon Lett.

43:31

I mean in the Super Bowl, Don Beeby knocks the knocks

43:34

the ball out of his hands. And he's about across the end zone. I

43:36

think he got more crapped for that because

43:39

of the Dolphins game where he screwed

43:42

out he screwed the Cowboys out of it again. Yeah, and he's

43:44

it was like it was a double thing. And the name leon Lett

43:47

just sounds like you want to make fun of him. What I mean, if

43:49

someone else had done that, I don't know if they would have gotten as

43:51

much goff. Well, you're right. I always used

43:53

to think about this. One part of my job for Rhoda

43:55

World. My old job was, you know, reading

43:57

every newspaper article essentially about its

44:00

team, and if you won, all

44:02

four or five of them are totally positive

44:05

and extolling the virtues of everything

44:07

that happened well that day, and if you lost,

44:09

all five of them are negative and just hammering

44:12

or picking on, you know, whatever went wrong, and

44:14

there was no in between, like there's no recognition

44:17

of it was close. Some things went pretty well,

44:20

but it was just unlucky that they lost or whatever.

44:22

When luck means so much, there's

44:24

like no gray, it's just all black and white. Who wasn't

44:26

had to quote He was like, if you listen to people up in the stands,

44:29

pretty soon you'll be sitting with him. It was

44:31

a coach. I don't know if it wasn't. It sounds like a

44:33

Parcel's type thing to say a basketball

44:35

couldn't like a pat Riley. But whatever it was,

44:38

it's clear that your job is pointless. Wow.

44:53

Wow. That was a part

44:55

of Roger Goodell's techno Bathtime. That

44:58

was a huge, huge the kids,

45:00

Um god, that was I mean, that was

45:03

that's a bad song and they were like, you know what we need is

45:05

a little bit laughter, a little bit of laughter.

45:08

Um, here's that. That album was

45:10

really like his uh his eight

45:12

oh eights in Heartbreak, you know what I mean that contin

45:14

Condie came out with that and it totally

45:16

changed, you know, the momentum of what he was

45:18

doing. A lot of people were just like, what is this

45:21

Rodrigodell? But now people look back on it and think

45:23

that's Oh it's glad as his mom just died. Um

45:26

next up, next

45:29

story is about It's about

45:31

family. Too edited

45:36

for your home, Smell you later. Oh,

45:38

I've been looking for kind of the origin story

45:41

of why You're such a jerk for fifteen

45:43

years and now I know it. That

45:55

was another uh cut off of bathtime

45:58

with Goddell. I wish you'd left to play a little long because

46:00

when the when the beat drops out, it is the

46:02

beat drops in. I don't know, I don't know this

46:04

kind of music, but whatever happens is magical.

46:07

Yeah, great song to dance too. Here's our last

46:09

headline. This is a long show. Yeah, it really

46:12

is. Well, we can cruise through the rest.

46:14

But there's lots of good stuff

46:16

to talk about this week, including Eric Wettele, the

46:19

Charger's safety who just started

46:21

mentioning before his daughter, uh

46:24

was getting down, you know, speaking a great dancing

46:26

at halftime of the Chargers

46:29

game over. I think it was a week and

46:31

a half third last game, which was two weeks ago now,

46:33

but it just came out in the in the news that wet

46:35

All was fined by the team

46:38

ten thousand dollars for conduct uh

46:41

dnri beats to the team, essentially for

46:43

not going in with the team

46:46

to halftime because he wanted to watch

46:48

his daughter. And there there's a little bit of a backstory

46:51

here. They he's been mad that they

46:53

haven't offered him a new contract. He's a five

46:55

time All Pro. Uh, he's

46:57

you know, been there a long time and it's

47:00

it's kind of they're gonna have a divorce and it's

47:02

getting a little messy. He wanted to watch his daughter

47:04

perform at the last time they were ever going to be playing

47:06

there, and they find him ten thousand dollars.

47:08

Not only that, they've stuck him on injured reserve this

47:11

week and won't allow him to travel to

47:13

their last game. So there's a lot going on here.

47:16

Uh, and it's it's to me, it's such a jerk move.

47:18

I mean, how much time are you ever going to have to see

47:20

your daughter perform at an NFL

47:22

halftime show? He knows it will never happen

47:24

again in San Diego and that they're about to leave

47:26

town after being there ten years, And it seems

47:29

very petty by the Chargers. Yeah,

47:31

but in their defense, his daughter's dancing was garbage.

47:45

Uh, we're even hiding that that

47:48

was great. That was that was Goodell hitting us

47:51

with the funk. A lot of people kind of were

47:53

mad at him for doing that voice. But I think, you

47:55

know, if the song calls for, the song calls for, and Goodell

47:58

nailed it. Let's take it into recommen

48:00

dation station greg Our weekly

48:02

feature where we recommend something. Yeah, we recommend

48:04

something. Usually we try to pick up I try to

48:06

make us stick to a topic, either books or

48:09

movies or TV shows whatever. I don't even

48:11

care about any of that. All I'm recommending

48:13

right now is Hatefulate. The movie

48:15

The Hatefulate is so good. If you're listening

48:17

to this podcast, you will be a fan. I would. I mean,

48:20

I can't believe any women would want to see this movie.

48:22

It's a very It's one of the most masculine

48:25

movies that's ever been made. More than Yes,

48:28

more than kill Bill because that's like about like a daughter

48:30

like this is and even though Jennifer

48:33

Jason Lee's and maybe one of the best performances

48:35

in the movie. It is such a great badass

48:37

western that and the revenue coming out like

48:40

they did together is unprecedented.

48:43

But go see The Hateful Anything anything bad you've

48:45

heard about it is a lie. It's incredible.

48:47

Greg, What do you got? I'm gonna go with

48:49

three things that are connected. They all led to each

48:52

other. For me, I watched Listen Up Philip before

48:55

you but you know before what you do? This is

48:57

one of the reasons that I want to quit the podcast. But go ahead, what

49:00

go ahead? A time. What's one of the reasons I'm not taking

49:02

my time. Uh, listen up Philip

49:04

on Amazon that I don't know how

49:06

that fell under the radar. That's an incredible

49:09

movie. Jason Schwarzman's such a jerk

49:11

and it he's so great. It's probably my favorite role

49:13

he's ever done. The whole movie. It's it's a little

49:15

offbeat, but it's it's enjoyable. I agree.

49:17

I like the movie a lot, but I it's hard to recommend

49:19

to people because I mean from me anyway, because I

49:21

can see someone not like but I'm not

49:24

surprised. So that got me in the mood a little bit to read

49:26

some Philip Roth. If you're a Philip Roth fan, you'll especially

49:28

love that book because it was a movie that was

49:30

sort of based on him, yet it really wasn't.

49:32

But if there was a book it was based on, it was probably The Ghostwriter

49:35

by Philip Roth, which is one of my favorite books

49:37

by his. So I went back and read that book. That's

49:40

a great book. And in that book he

49:42

imagines that Anne Frank lived

49:44

and ended up moving to uh America.

49:47

I'm not really giving anything away here, and

49:49

Uh became, you know, a writer

49:51

essentially, and it's one of my favorite Philip Roth

49:54

books, and it it got me thinking, I've never read the

49:56

Diary of Van Frank. I know this is a very weird

49:58

recommendation, but the Diary a Van Frank.

50:00

I decided to read that after reading the Philip

50:03

It's an amazing book. It's one of those things that people

50:05

recommend to you in school and you're like, okay, I

50:08

guess I never got I never I was

50:10

forced to read it in school. I just seemed like one of those things

50:12

you would never want to read. Like, it's an incredible

50:14

book and incredibly written. It's very

50:16

positive. Actually it's not a hard I mean

50:18

it's a little bit of a downer, of course, but it's

50:21

very positively and she's like an incredible writer

50:23

just as a piece of art. I recommend

50:25

it very highly, even as an adult. Yes, that

50:27

is shocked. That's what I'm saying. No one would ever say

50:29

that, So someone's got to say it. I'm

50:32

you're giving me the one to back. She's got a museum.

50:34

Like if everyone has talked about Anne Frank

50:36

and you're but you're the one who's uh taking a stand

50:38

against the Nazis, Greg, I'm

50:41

saying I'm saying no, I don't. I don't hear

50:43

people are really talking about as like that's that's something that

50:45

they would actually enjoy it reading. It's just something

50:47

like everyone says they read or whatever. I never

50:50

I never one. It's a it's

50:52

a really great book. I've got it on tape. God,

51:08

that was so good. That was that was again? That was Roger Goodell.

51:11

Uh. That's like when you that's the kind of song that you

51:13

play when you're a little bit closer to Jacksonville,

51:16

you know, and when you're like when you're about like fifteen miles

51:18

away and you just want to chill before

51:20

you really the fireworks really kick off, you play

51:22

that. What's the name of that song? Branded I

51:25

can't really release it. Okay, Okay,

51:27

that's a good improv. Let's go, what's

51:29

the next grec Uh, Let's ask Anthony.

51:32

Of course, Malcolm mc

51:34

sween uh asked their question

51:36

this week, so thanks malcolm. Uh.

51:39

He asked Anthony, if you could do the color announcing

51:42

for a football game, not uh, the

51:44

women's beach volleyball that have Brandon does,

51:46

but if you could do color announcing for a football

51:49

game, who do you want doing the play

51:51

by play. Oh, that's I

51:53

would love to do color announcing for game. I'm sure the

51:55

NFL makes that happen at some point I could. I

51:57

would definitely be better than Tony Siragusa,

51:59

who I like but do not enjoy watching him on

52:01

television. I would want in the booth,

52:04

definitely. I'd want Dennis Miller. I'd

52:07

want Tony corn Haiser. I want those two

52:09

up there. If you get that dream team together, that would

52:11

be incredible. And then Greg Rosenthal. I

52:13

think if I'm gonna be on, if I'm gonna be working with with

52:16

the league, I want Greg Rosenthal to be a part of it. And you

52:18

actually did some

52:20

commentary on football games for T Lane.

52:23

I don't know if you know I remember that. I've never listened

52:25

to them, but I remember you would talk about it. But I

52:27

always liked your joke that you would do where anytime a

52:30

player was a fifth year senior you

52:32

would describe you would say, must be

52:34

an architecture major. I thought that was

52:36

a great running gag that you should have gotten in trouble

52:38

for and did not. I had a lot of running gags

52:40

because they only showed it during the it was on

52:42

tape delay. You know, we'd recorded during the game,

52:44

but then it would just be on student television during

52:47

the week. So Brandon, you're not the only UH color

52:49

announcer that ever did it two

52:52

lane green ways. I think Brandon prefers

52:54

African American announcer. Is

52:56

that what I prefer? Yes, listener

52:58

of the week and I tunes this

53:01

week, uh is from

53:04

the empty She's saying, could be my

53:06

favorite podcast. I listened to a lot of podcasts,

53:09

most of our comedy, music or sports,

53:11

but this has it all. It's very rough

53:13

around the edges with a capital vary and

53:16

it's completely flawed in almost

53:18

every way. It's perfect.

53:20

My favorite part is wondering if they're gonna get canceled.

53:22

Don't change a thing. Touchdown,

53:26

touchdown, and

53:28

there we go. That's our listener of the week. That

53:43

was awesome. That was awesome. That

53:45

was like, I think that was Goodell's

53:48

uh. He calls that song stepping through a waterfall,

53:51

which is which is just badass, Like the steam

53:53

is rising up, but you can just see God.

53:55

I love I love when he goes, when

53:57

he goes, when he mixes genres. Everything

54:00

was coming together for him at that point in his career.

54:02

It was kind of the commercial, the art.

54:05

It was all happening. Um, just

54:07

like it's all happening for our hot

54:09

take of the week, usually

54:13

my uh my corner of the show where

54:15

I, I, you know, take someone to task

54:18

for their opinion that

54:20

I don't necessarily agree that

54:22

you had a really passionate feeling

54:25

this week. Yeah, I think that this the hot take

54:27

that the hot take that I loved this week

54:30

was from the wife of Dolphins cornerback

54:32

Brent Grimes. His

54:35

wife, Miko Miko Grimes

54:38

went to Twitter, went to her private

54:40

Twitter account. I don't know how these got out, went to a

54:42

private Twitter account and had some opinions,

54:44

had some hot takes that were hilarious,

54:48

absolutely hilarious. Greg, we're running

54:51

on time. Just try we got plenty

54:53

of time picks up podcast. Yeah, we

54:55

sure. I was just trying to keep things flowing. See

54:58

how many of these that you can read? Read me some your

55:00

favorite tweets for Mico Grimes

55:02

hot takes. Okay, well, first she's talking

55:04

about um three reporters

55:06

on the that cover the team, the Triple

55:09

as Armando, Andrew and Adam

55:12

Edited from Miko Grimes getting grimy.

55:17

That's that's a good one. So according to these

55:20

boys y'all call reporters,

55:22

the d has to hold teams the twelve points per games

55:24

since that's what our offenses offense

55:27

averages lately. Uh.

55:30

She said, I should have known we were gonna lose. This is my favorite

55:32

one and this one can absolutely stay in the podcast.

55:34

Is no swearing in it at all, but it's actually

55:37

the most cutting. I should have known we were

55:39

gonna lose when I heard we didn't sink

55:41

complete a single pass in

55:43

two minute drills this week against the practice

55:45

squad defense. So good.

55:48

Here's why I love this hot take for these hot takes from

55:50

Miko Grimes is that Mico was throwing

55:52

everyone under the bus. She's throwing

55:54

reporters in the bus, She's throwing her quarterback

55:56

under the bus. She's throwing her own own team under

55:58

the bus, and her husband because

56:01

no one sees that and thinks anything other than her husband

56:03

told her about practice and she's going

56:06

out and tweeting it. She knows she's getting him in trouble.

56:08

I I love this. I love when wives just

56:11

completely act out and and kind of lose

56:13

their minds and get their husbands in trouble. Because no one knows what to

56:15

do. If Miko was his girlfriend should be gone.

56:18

No one and no one on that team,

56:20

or at least Brent Grahmes seems to care. This morning,

56:23

Wednesday morning, he did an interview and

56:25

everyone's been asking

56:27

about this. They're calling him Miko Gate in

56:31

Miami. First of all, Ryan Tannehill

56:33

made this really serious, uh

56:36

comment that it's a distraction to him

56:38

and the team. So he joins now Kirk

56:40

Cousins and Andy Dalton has quarterbacks.

56:42

That just, oh, that is such a reveal

56:45

for Ryan Tannehill. Yeah, do not

56:47

do not talk like that, Brent Tanheill. I just Brent

56:50

Grimes this morning. So he was getting

56:52

interviewed by the team and like all

56:54

the other guys around him were just like laughing

56:57

and cracking up, and some were taking seal

57:00

fees of themselves because they

57:02

thought this whole topic was so ridiculous. And

57:04

the team actually posted the interview

57:07

on their website before realizing there was

57:09

a disaster, and then took it down after

57:11

like ten minutes. This all that says

57:13

to me is that Mico Grimes must be smoking

57:15

hot. That

57:26

was a b side from Goodell. That was kind

57:28

of an earlier track. I think that turned into

57:30

something later on. I think that's like an early

57:32

cut. It's kind of like a on the double

57:34

album. Kind of sucks though, that he got a phone call during

57:37

the song. Did you hear that?

57:39

Kind of sucks? You made a joke during my podcast. Oh

57:44

that's the hot stuff. That's a Mico Grimes

57:46

level stuff. I mean, Miko had some other hat ones.

57:49

I was almost I was just ready to give him out.

57:51

I couldn't have predicted that. But you can't predict

57:53

predictions. Let's get into that. This

57:56

this new segment of predictions I have. It's

57:59

called Guess What. Um Greg's

58:01

gonna do a couple of three or four predictions

58:04

and I'm going to, Uh, I'm gonna tell

58:06

you to guess what. I'm

58:08

gonna start with the Chargers. Broncos

58:11

go big early in this segment.

58:14

I think this is the upset of the week. I think the

58:16

Chargers, who have been playing great

58:18

defense lately, no one's noticed over the last

58:20

month, given lots of teams problems. I think they're

58:22

gonna go into Denver. I think they're gonna win

58:24

the game. At the very least, they're gonna scare Denver.

58:27

That they might have to lose the a f C West

58:29

and the Chiefs sneaking the back door end

58:31

up winning that division because the Charges pull

58:33

it off in Denver. You

58:36

know, everyone is saying that Green Bay is gonna take out Minnesota.

58:39

But guess what edited

58:42

from Miko Grimes being a little to Miko, which

58:44

is why people still get confused to this day. Did

58:47

Jesus have a twin brother? We may never know,

58:49

but we'll probably know sooner than

58:51

you think. Vikings

58:57

win. And

59:00

what's gonna make it out of that? The Patriots

59:02

and the Jets, I mean, and the Dolphins are playing this

59:04

week. Patriots need to win in Miami

59:06

to lock up the number one seed. Very banged

59:09

up right now. But as Miko Grimes

59:11

has pointed out, uh, this team

59:13

is just dying. Another one of my I'll

59:15

just let Miko take the words from here. Here's

59:18

one more tweet from her my column

59:20

that's really cracks my column. How many people

59:23

does Ryan Tannehill have to get fired before

59:25

you realize he's the problem. He's gonna get more

59:27

people fired this week Patriots

59:30

win thirty seven to three. I

59:32

like that. Miko Grimes Twitter account is at

59:35

my heart. Miko anyways,

59:37

Yeah, go on, it's guess what. Please

59:41

read that last one, all right, last last Miko

59:43

Grimes. It's like Tannehill drops

59:46

the drop of in y'all mouth like

59:48

a mother feeding her baby birds in her

59:50

nest. I

59:53

love it. And then she has the emojis, the

59:55

crying emojis when people like they want to have

59:58

characters through laughing at the joke. It

1:00:00

just had I think that's fun um. All

1:00:02

right. All the so called experts are

1:00:04

saying that Atlanta is going to ride their momentum and

1:00:06

take out New Orleans. But guess what

1:00:10

Now that fewer and fewer people are choosing to smoke

1:00:12

cigarettes, this is your time to shine. By

1:00:15

cartons of them and throw them wherever. Don't worry. People

1:00:17

know it's you. You're the man. You've got it and

1:00:19

by it I mean m and where I'm from.

1:00:21

You smoke, you got them. Game ends in the tie

1:00:27

by third game Seahawks and Cardinals.

1:00:30

Uh, big game. You could argue these are

1:00:32

two of the best three teams in the entire NFL.

1:00:34

I know, the Seahawks just had a bad loss. Not a

1:00:36

lot at steak for the Seahawks, a lot at steak for the

1:00:38

Cardinals. Who's still going after that number one seed?

1:00:41

And I think the Cardinals, as I've said on this program,

1:00:44

or the best team in the league. I think they're gonna go into the playoffs

1:00:46

on a ten game winning streak and take care

1:00:48

of business over Seattle at home. You

1:00:52

know, everyone and their mother believes

1:00:54

that Washington is gonna be Dallas this week. But

1:00:56

you know why they play the games right? For statistics.

1:01:00

It's not money. Sure, they pay these guys to practice

1:01:02

and work out in the off season, but everyone plays

1:01:04

the game for the stats. Who can

1:01:06

write down the most stats? Me over here,

1:01:08

I'll do it. Not so fast, interception,

1:01:11

just another stat no idea. Who's

1:01:13

gonna win this game? Too close to even predict?

1:01:17

Wow? Uh, your predictions

1:01:19

just getting worse and worse as we

1:01:21

go. Uh. The Jets and the Bills.

1:01:24

Uh this week? Could the Jets

1:01:27

actually open up the door for Seattle,

1:01:29

I mean Pittsburgh to get into the place. I think

1:01:31

they could. I think the Bills are gonna scare

1:01:34

them. You're gonna be watching this game. You're gonna

1:01:36

be watching the Steelers, and the Jets

1:01:38

are gonna win at the very end. On another

1:01:40

Ryan Fitzpatrick late drive. I think

1:01:42

it's gonna be a really good game. It's gonna be a tense,

1:01:45

fun Sunday afternoon early

1:01:47

games. Yeah, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be

1:01:49

getting drunk at ten I am. I'll tell you that right now. Will

1:01:51

you be here? Will you be here at the network up? Yes? Watch

1:01:53

the game? Can I come here? And if I came, if I showed up

1:01:55

with like a case of for local, would they let me just watch games?

1:01:58

If they would let you on the old the NFL

1:02:00

now catch and you can drink for a local on that, I

1:02:02

think they've drank on that, you really could. A

1:02:05

lot of people think the Steelers are gonna beat the Browns

1:02:07

and stay in the race for the final wild card spot in

1:02:09

the a f C. But guess what, chicken

1:02:12

button Steelers winning a blowout.

1:02:25

Goodell wrote that, Now,

1:02:27

Greg, before we leave, this has been a long one. I'm sure we have to

1:02:29

edit out huge chunks of this, giant

1:02:32

swaths of the podcast this week. But

1:02:34

before we go, I want to take a little time. How

1:02:36

our presence aside? How are my god kids?

1:02:39

How are your son and daughter? Walker? And ellis

1:02:41

doing well? You made a big impression on them. When

1:02:43

you came over for Christmas. Happy Yeah

1:03:05

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1:03:07

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