Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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(01:14):
something really fun tonight. Uh when it comes to release day, right,
something that that that that nowhere the show's done. Uh. Now,
whenever I hear the I think of the Titans schedule
release Was it last year or two years ago where
they asked the people on the street, Hey, what logo
is this team?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, the man on the street thing. Then they would say,
you know, week one, who's this?

Speaker 1 (01:35):
They got the Miami Floridians, and then they would show
the Dolphins logan here and it was hysterical, like you
knew it was coming every single time, Right, who's that team?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh, oh, that's uh that that's absolutely the Cowboys. It's
absolutely the Cowboys. And then you hear the it would
be the Cults logo.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, I feel like I want to walk around with
a group of musicians and then just bust that out
as I encounter different people on the street.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Think that would be fun. That's the uh oh that's
the Seahawks. Yeah, Seahawks, absolutely, Seahawks. Yeah, Atlanta Falcons. Right,
I mean, at least you try. Every time I hear
that sting, I think about the Titans fans. But yes,
NFL schedule release day is here and everybody's checking what

(02:27):
they've seen. All right, are you going through? Okay, we'll
win this game? We'll lose this game. Oh we're going
twelve and five, we're going to the playoffs. Are we
doing all to seventy two tonights? Yeah, we're ranking them
all one through two seventy two. That's what we're doing today. No,
I got my markers pens out. Let's got that out.
We're not going to do it, but just think about that, like,
does anybody do that? Rank one? When the schedules comes out,

(02:49):
we're gonna rank how good the game is, how desirable
it is of a game to watch, what the stakes
are likely going to be, and we rank them from
one to two seventy two. Give me enough energy drinks
and have that done by tomorrow night show. How many
of those how many of the games between two fifty
and two seventy two would involve the Jets? How many? Well,
there are those five teams that have no primetime games,

(03:11):
which tells you exactly what the NFL thinks that because
that gives you a zero primetime game, which means they
don't even think you're worthy of a Thursday night football.
You know, because you know there's people that say, listen,
I don't think everybody should vote when it comes to elections,
because if you're not fair, why should I vote? Where
If I spend a lot of time looking at the
issues and I vote with a conscience, and I vote
I actually did some work, you pay taxes, why should

(03:33):
all those things? Why should my vote count as much
as someone who has no idea what they're doing and
is randomly you know, I say, it's the same thing like, well,
should everybody be on on on primetime? No? Not everybody
needs a primetime game? No, not everything. I don't want
to do it. I don't want to see it. No,
you don't need to have that. We don't need that.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
It's like when pitchers were hitting, a lot of them
didn't want to do it. Don't you need to see
them way the three balls or just standing there with
the bat on their shoulder.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
The worst is when they would have them in the
All Star Game? Why is the picture batting in the
All Star National League Park?

Speaker 4 (04:02):
We've gotta be be beholden to the arcade rules.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
What are you talking about? Come on, man, But what
we're gonna do tonight part of what we're gonna obviously
there's big games to break down, which we'll we'll get
to the games coming up in a couple of minutes.
But you're probably one of the best things you can
do today, right, to be honest, this is positivity Thursday.
It's all listen because you know the Knicks are off.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
We need something at the NBA is so important right
now in this round of the playoffs that they scheduled
zero games for today, you know, the extra day off
for the Tea Wolves and the Spurs so they can
play a doubleheader on a Friday night.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Now, there is a really big takeaway from what you
just said, which we'll get There is a big takeaway
from that. But the most fun thing you can do
today is what Because every team now knows we can't
mail it in when we come to our schedule releases.
We have to do something. We have to go for
it right. And that's why I love everything that the

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teams do, even if some of them are terrible, because
we're still going out there. We're not just mailing it in.
We're not just hey, here are the games, here's the schedule.
It's what you want to know anyway, No, do something fun, right.
It's a fun day for the fans, right, and that's
a fun thing. So watching all the releases, we're gonna
give you the official grades the best and the worst

(05:24):
of the schedule releases. Okay, and what makes a good
schedule release, Well, you gotta make me laugh. It's gotta
be fun. It's got to be entertaining. I like the
hidden messages or having to have a repeat viewing of it.
Like it's a really layered movie where oh I didn't
get that joke the first time, but but I got
it the second time. I got here, I got So
there's different things, but sometimes just what hits you right, like,

(05:46):
oh it hit you? I like that, you know what?
That was? Just okay? Ah, you know yeah, So I
gotta say we'll do a couple right now because it
gave me my biggest laugh because it gave me my
biggest let. The whole thing was funny, but it gave
me my biggest laugh. Getting an A plus and I
don't how many eight pluses I'm gonna give out. Okay,

(06:07):
get out the big of the A plus the Colts,
because the Colts went through the entire release with the Simpsons. No,
I was that was well done welling all of those
moments from so many years. Yeah, all these different scenes
from the Simpsons that they're putting in has to do
with whatever team they're playing that week. Homer does says

(06:27):
something does something right, but he gets right off the jump. Yeah,
oh sure. But the best because when it gets to
week eighteen and it says week eighteen the Browns, and
it's a scene where Homer's in the stands at a
sporting event and everybody's quiet, and it just says week
sixteen Browns and it just sounds and then you Homer
stands up and you just hear boring. That was a

(06:51):
nice punctuation mark. Absolutely was the best one. I could
watch that over and over, obviously being the Simpsons. How
are you gonna how you're gonna go wrong with that?
But I don't know that I'm giving out another right.
We'll starting to show with the bank. I don't know
that I'm giving out another A plus. But that moment
where you just in a game and you hear nothing
you see Week sixteen at Brown's are just boring. And
then they go to week seventeen. We just cut right

(07:13):
off it and go do it now.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
There's something to be said for let's let's go where
we know we have the popularity, get the rights and
build it in I find it funny that all of
them end up by saying, hey, head to Ticketmaster, the
official ticketing partner.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, oh you'r a NFL some of that. Yes, I mean,
you gotta take care of some business. It can't just
be all sunshine, lollipops and rainbows.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
I mean, I'm not gonna lie. The uh Low Steelers
present on was pretty good.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
That was good. See because now now here's the thing
is that this is why this is so more inegro e.
I'm gonna give this Steelers an A minus. The entire presentation,
I believe, is in Spanish. It's like the credits for
a Spanish western uh. And they're showing all the players
who are going to be playing this year, and everything
is in Spanish, and you see the tag is Low Steelers,

(08:00):
and you and I are watching it. We're going, is
there an English or is this it?

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Like?

Speaker 1 (08:05):
No, I think this is it. And it's the old
cp A tone from the seventies, and and you I
don't know what anybody is saying and how they're you know,
some of the words I get because I took Spanish
in high school. I was really good at it, But
some I don't understand. Okay, here's Jalen Warren, here's DK Metcalf.
So I kind of dig that. I'm gonna give the
Steelers an am I we started the big grades, first,
big grates. First we started with positivity. A plus for

(08:26):
the Colts, a minus for the Steelers.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Pretty good and the Steelers Uh. Then they had another video,
uh in English with Billy Gardell walking as a security guard,
kind of wandering around.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
So then so you got it. So the fact that
the Espanolo was fad, that's kind of the grindhouse of
schedule releases because we got two movies for the price
of we we got double up. We got Death Proof
and Planet Terror. Okay, a nice.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
Yeah, so that's a nice little win. Roma Donday as
as Bob Ross.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
See solid. See here's the thing. And here's the thing.
I liked it, and it's not and it's and and
I feel I feel bad. But it is gonna be
a rough night for you because you have the toughest
schedule in the end. No, it's not good. But I
traveled the fewest miles again, so that's good.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
In the last couple of years, more penalties have been
called on opponents than any other team uh in the NFL,
So that that's good. I'm gonna give the Bears a
c because I love the premise.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Roma Dun says Bob Ross. He's got the all the
hair and he's doing the happy little clouds. It's pretty cool.
But after the first like thirty seconds, right we're drawing up,
you know, we're drawing this cloud is white right here
that you know, webody says we're gonna have here. It's
better best. Here's some cats down here, and okay, a
week for if we screw up a bird, we could
we could take it into a jet. But they're going

(09:42):
out out of order for the game. I know it
was all over. So that's why I'm like, okay, And
after the first thirty seconds, I'm like, okay, I need
something more than this. I'm a little bored right now.
I'd mean, it looked good. They put a lot of
work into it to put it, but I was a
little boards. I'm gonna I'm gonna give the Bear I'm
I'm sorry, but yeah, it's just something a little different
because you don't really see a lot of Roma Donze

(10:05):
as the marketing center for this guy a little bit,
you know, and against the grain there, and I will
tell you this, we are ahead of the curve for
this take right? How long? Right? How long until hey?
Radio team? And I have people in mind? How long
until it's going to be? Hey? How do you not
have Caleb Williams? He's your guy? How do you not

(10:27):
have him as Bob Ross doing that? Caleb Williams? Do
they still like him? Do his teammates like him? Is
he still as good as we think he is? How
do you not have Caleb?

Speaker 4 (10:35):
You get designs on his fingernails of the schedule release?

Speaker 1 (10:40):
If he's the painter, he's already got his fingernails painting.
Why was he not there? Did he not show up?
Eight seven seven ninety nine? Did he say he didn't
want to do it? There's problems in Chicago because you
had you had problems, man, you got problems now.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Either that or he's working too hard in the lab
to get that much better. I think I think the
DJ More interception killed him, and now who knows, probably
have to trade him before the seasons could end up
terribly about it? One that I wish they had gone
against the grain. As we watched the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
with the whole bay Watch thing. Yeah, but it was
just a weak excuse, Like if Priser had actually kept

(11:13):
his shirt on, I would have been more impressed, Like
if he was in a three P suit will everybody
else was running around the beaches doing what they're doing.
Tampa Bay does a Tampa Bay bay Watch and it's
Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
In the very beginning. He's the the Charlie's Angels Charlie. Yeah,
I'm giving you the assignment while I'm holding a baby. Uh,
and it's some of it's fun. A couple of the
linemen and they're getting asked and they looked good. The
same camera work for I'm gonna give that a B minus.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
Well, I raise it up to a bee just because
you used the theme song, which meant we were able
to play it at full volume.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
That's true. Yeah, but that's come on, you're in after
after the kid from the Falcons is flying the kite
and and he walks over and cuts the That was
that was the peak. That was the highlight for us. Yeah,
you know what, honestly, I could have used more slow motion.
That's a thing like not not to you know, I
don't want to watch run around. Nobody got slow motion yeah.

(12:08):
But but for the esthetic, I think you needed that
a little bit. I think you needed some slow motion there.
So in order, so far Colt SAT plus Steelers ain't
minus Bears get to see B minus for the bucks
if you want to be nice, if you're one of
those greater and this is why, see your this goes

(12:29):
against your grain because you don't want to. If you
were a teacher, you wouldn't curve grades at all. If
the kid came down, you would say, no, you got
a seventy nine. That's a seventy nine. No, I'm sorry.
The highest kid, the kid in the kid in the
class of the highest grade was in eighty four. Eighty
four is his grade to Okay, not rounding that up
to one hundred.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
And no, you just give it a be because no, no,
you gave it a B minus. I give it a
bee because the song made me smile. God, But is
it that simple with the song for you? Is it
that simple? Well, I mean, look, there's there's only one.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
A plus plus plus. We know what team that is.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
Yeah, okay, win every year? Yeah, okay, but I mean
but what you mentioned the Titans again? They did the
Man on the Street. Yeah, yeah, that was pretty good. Oh,
that that's the Uh, that's the the the the new
New Brunswick, New Brunswick, New bruns that's all. That's the Argonauts.
That's the Argonauts. But they but they used the fox
by going, hey, is that are you? And then it

(13:27):
was let's match up. You know a guy who was
bald and walking around, are.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
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Speaker 3 (13:32):
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(14:15):
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I'm listening to Maximum Metallica station and they're playing Yes,

(16:10):
I know, I just found it a month ago. Okay, no,
it's been around almost a year. I just found it. Uh.
And they were playing a version of Fade to Black
that was this like bluegrass country version, and I'm like,
oh my god, this is either the greatest thing I've
ever heard or the worst thing, and I never want
to hear it again. But I'm just listening the whole thing. Yeah.

(16:31):
Well not no, not till I get home, man, No, don't,
don't drive and then do it now. Brownie's at Home
was the one by Iron Horse. I think that it's
almost like, hey, Mumford and Sons, we're gonna let you
do a Metallica song. Okay, We're do Fade to Black.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Oh okay, And they keep yelling not your fuck but.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Listening, God, I got a cut? Is this real? Like
it's one of those times where you have like a
moment where you go, am I still on Earth? Am
I did I get into the multiverse? Is this is
this a real thing? Is this is his song? Really
a real wonder? It was postmodern juke box screwing with you?
Am I gonna look up and see, like, you know,
there's gonna be UFOs in the sky flying around and
I'm like, okay, I'm in you know, I'm on Coruscant now,

(17:11):
like what.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
We did that two weeks ago, Remember it happened, They
admitted it existed, and nobody cared.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
At this point, I really think the government could come
out and say, here's evidence that UFOs exist, here's an
alien and we're gonna interview them and talk to him.
People would go, yeah, okay, I mean really, that's where
I can't believe that's where we're at with aliens, but
that's where that's where well.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
But just in general, all of a sudden, they pulled
back government. You know, the fake wall, you know, and
it's just a Hollywood studio. Remember all the stuff that
were conspiracy theories, politicians there's all the binders. Politicians just
want to keep trying to make UFOs happen, like, hey,
we get that every day is bad news and there's
things happening, and so hey, so here's aliens because everybody

(17:55):
loves stories about aliens. No, no, no, no, they keep
trying to make aliens happen. I feel like you're trying
to sell a product that I think maybe we're past aliens.
I showed you they were celebrating a good look by
Grogu on the red carpete for the Mandalorian and grog.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Maybe because we get we get aliens everywhere, whether they're invaded.
We've seen them invade Earth plenty of times.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
That's the thing we've seen many times conditioned.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
You know, I'll take it from your call. Yeah, okay,
to all aliens. But this is a real one, not
not like you know, made on a on a stage
the NCU. Yeah okay, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (18:27):
Instead of pinching your skin to see if it's real,
do you like eat a hamburger?

Speaker 1 (18:30):
You know it's really I don't now something I'm in
the brought a hamburger. I'm sure he pants from the matrix.
I know the steak isn't real, but it's so good.
All right? Did you mean a liquid hamburger? Oh? I
don't know. That's that's blended, blend that thing up after
an oral So no, why would I do that? I
don't liquid burger. I don't get the taste of having

(18:51):
a burger. No, why would have fast to be there? No? No, no,
I want the feeling of eating the burger. Well, see
now you're talking textures. These are two very different. That's
why text is a big deal. Every single every single
cooking show you ever see, person gets sent home. Why
are your texture? The texture? Oh? Texture and presentation? Oh okay,
Oh that's good. Yeah, I'm going home.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Because of that, I was reminded one of the great
competitions that we should be watching as part of our
our evening perusal of the sporting world at large, is
is it cake? It feels like we used to see
that in with regularity here and suddenly it's gone. And
I was reminded of that show today, and I'm like,
I need to go catch up on a few seasons

(19:31):
of that and see if I can't fake you out
by having you eat a handbag instead of a cake.
So with today, being NFL schedule release day, right, every
big deal, every like we're gonna continue to grade the
best of the and the worst of the NFL schedule leases.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Right, nobody does that. We just gave out four big
grades out of the top and our first A plus
went out a few minutes ago. Boring, but uh, for
the games themselves, right, Certainly we now see games taking
front and see interstage. And some we knew. We knew that,
we knew that the Thanksgiving Day games were here, we
knew what we were gonna get first game of the
regular season with the with the forty nine ers in

(20:08):
the rams. But there's some games that are absolutely huge
for a couple of different reasons. And the first one
I'm gonna give you Week one, we found out today
and of course the NFL having a sense of humor. Uh.
And this is a big game because these are two
teams that are gonna be fighting hand over fist for
that number one overall pick and the Tankathon for next year,

(20:31):
Tankathon Jets and the Titans. They're sending the Jets to
play Robert Solo, their former head coach, who signed a
bunch of their old players. The NFL's got a sense here.
Of course, let's send the Jets play the Titans. These
are gonna be two of the bottom and the only
way you can make this any better is if the
Dolphins were involved. We'll get them later on. These are
gonna be two of the worst teams in the NFL

(20:51):
and'll be looking for And I know the Titans are
gonna say, man, we're looking for another guy next year,
because lukam Ward was just not good man. He just
was saying, I have hope for him. If if you
don't know why, Robert Salis's head coach, that's how I
know Robert Sallis's head coach will know for long and
it won't be cam Ward's fault. I've not seen it. No,
no quarterback has played well with Robert sala as his
head coach, so I know cam warden is not going

(21:12):
to be good. See. The real sense of humor would
have been to just schedule this for week eighteen. No,
you gotta have it. You gotta make it week one,
where at least, hey, there's football and it's new for everybody.
Got football week eighteen. Well the first week is it's
not it's it's it's not later on, But this is
gonna be a big game that's gonna go really because

(21:32):
these are two teams that are gonna be terrible. They're
gonna be in the bottom three of the league, and
you're gonna come down to the end when arch Manning
is picking up his Heisman Trophy and you're gonna say, man,
we gotta have that number one pick. But ah, we
beat the Jets week one. We got that advantage over
the Jets, and we're not gonna pick that early or
vice versa. This is a huge Tankathon game, maybe the

(21:54):
biggest Tankathon game of the season. All right.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Week one that is the lowest over under currently said
thirty eight and a half points with the Titans at
two and a half point favorite. I'm telling you, man,
this is this is good a field goal kick. You're
you're gonna go back and say, wow, you see, you
see why the Jets have the number one pick. It
was that Week one nineteen sixteen win that the Titans

(22:16):
had that's keeping them from getting arch Manning number one,
which means.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
So they're giving us game two seventy two right off
the jump, which means then they'll take Dante More at
number two and he'll be in All Pro for ten
years and arch Manning will be in the CFL in five.
So I mean that's how it's gonna go for the Jets.
Whatever the Jets do is gonna be wrong. Is the
Blue Bomber is a rough rider? Uh so that's a
big one. That's a big one right off the bat.

(22:41):
That's a big one. No, that's a that's a good start.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
That is how you start things with the bang because
you know, my theory on all of that is that
you don't need to everybody's been so thirsty for football,
we don't need any exotic matchups off the jump.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Now, we also know we are getting the Patriots and
the Seahawks week one. Now to dive into this because
this is more than just a Super Bowl rematch, right,
first time since twenty twelve where we've had a Super
Bowl rematch being the first game of the next year.
Uh yes, should in all likelihood the Patriots have a

(23:17):
bit of a rollback this year?

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Should they? Should they come back to earth little bit? Yeah,
the schedule last year was really easy. This is the
Super Bowl champs opening up at home. Yeah, it just
should be a Seattle Seahawks win. But this is where
the Patriots are gonna continue or the first time they're
gonna realize, Man, the Verbel stuff is just gonna hang

(23:41):
over our team forever. Because right now, what have we
got in the last week. There's been no video drops
of any new videos with Rabel and Diana Rossini. I
was told there were more photos in one mind. I'm
sure we're waiting. We're waiting. They'll be there, chargers chargers release,
but we haven't had anything in a week, which means
we're probably a week away from from some more videos.

(24:02):
But there is been no talk from the Patriots about
the status of Mike Rabel. They are just hoping that
this thing goes away. It's clear that that is their strategy.
And as long as nothing that implicates Rabel in a
sense where the Patriots or the Titans got any sort

(24:23):
of favorable coverage that resulted in a difference on the field,
like the Julio Jones story from a week and a
half ago, where hey, maybe Diana Rossini put out some
messages that scared some teams off about going out and
bidding on Julio Jones, So Julio Jones became a Titan
like if more stuff like that comes out, then the
Patriots are gonna be forced acted as much as they
don't want to, as much as they don't care about
the controversy. Their coaches live in and and and their

(24:47):
owner lives in and their quarterbacks live and they don't care.
I get it. But as long as they're gonna have
to deal with if something like that comes up, because
that's where the NFL will get involved. Whoa, whoa, what
was a competitive advantage on the field? You know what
would have would have really he helped in that case
to kind of push the needle if Julio Jones had
been what was that word good? Good?

Speaker 4 (25:08):
He was hurt and he couldn't stay on the field,
So any advantage that was perceived years later, you go, well,
that really didn't move the needle at all. So that
really doesn't matter. So for the NFL, who very quickly
washed their hands of all of it, pending other information.
Of course, uh, the Julio Jones being the thing everybody

(25:30):
wanted to bang the drum about, it didn't hold a
lot of water because he was a non factor.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
So that's the only way it doesn't come out. So
let's just say for argument's sake that doesn't come up, right.
So now let's let's take a look for the Patriots
going through. Hey, they were in the off season. Now
we finished the mini camp. Vrabel's not been around. It's
a dead time we come back. There's gonna be other
stories and and this is hopefully gonna recede, and they're

(25:56):
gonna see that over the course of the summer. While
they can control the narrati where it's training camp, and
they can control who asks what and what they what
kind of access they give to people for practices. Okay,
we're trying to keep as much of a lid on
it as possible. Now it still is not gonna happen,
but they're gonna try to say, what, let's just get
through the summer, right. We're holding it back as much
as we can. But if we just get through the summer,

(26:18):
then we're gonna wind up being okay. But they're gonna
get to game one week one and then suddenly on
social media, it's gonna be everywhere. The questions are gonna
be asked everywhere about Mike Rabel. It's it's gonna become
part of the Patriots' identity, is Mike Rabel, Diana Rossini
and the affair allegedly and how it's been mishandled from

(26:40):
the beginning. And that's when the Patriots are gonna realize
we're never gonna get past this. That's and they're gonna
know this Rabel thing is just going to hang over
us and hang over him the rest of the time.
He is our coach. The memes are gonna come out
every Sunday. It doesn't matter. If we lose a game
to the Jets, it's gonna be Mike Rabel holding hands
with Gino Smith on the roof. It's gonna be if

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we lose a game to the Dolphins, it's gonna be
Malik Willis next to him at the pool, the video.
They're never gonna get past it. And this is when
if things don't get really crazy for Rabel job wise
over the summer, because that's when that's what that's when
Rabel can lose his job as if it comes out
that hey, Dianna Rassini and her coverage gave him a
competitive advantage, that's a thing for Rabel's job. When the

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Patriots realize this week one, with all the attention on
this game, and it's verbel front and center, and who
knows what's gonna happen. They're gonna say, Okay, if this
season goes bad, we're moving on from Vrabel. They're gonna
they're gonna they went to the super Bowl, So really,
we can't just fire the guy if we don't really
have a reason to where the NFL doesn't make us,
but it's gonna make this year a winner go home

(27:45):
year for Vrabel, where if the Patriots struggle and they
go six and eleven, it's gonna be okay, well we
got to the super Bowl, but we regressed, we have problems,
and now the Verrabel thing isn't gonna go away, and
now we need a new head coach. That's how the
next few months are gonna go for the Patriots and
playing this game that's gonna be the marquee game of
the week opening week. This is gonna put more of

(28:07):
a spotlight and the Patriot's gonna realize we just no
matter how much we can't keep this away, we can't
unring this bell, and we're gonna have to deal with it.
And he again, he's gonna be coaching for his job either,
hoping the other shoot doesn't drop with something as far
as his coverage from Dana Rassini or not winning enough
games this fall, going to the Super Bowl three and
a half months ago, and now he's coaching for his job.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, I mean some of it comes back to I
think we get a big spider Man meme of coaches,
insiders and everybody else in terms of what constitutes getting
favorable coverage. Right, there's a very big spider web if
we want to go down that path for a very boy.
I mean, it's just the basic math of you're now

(28:50):
playing an advanced schedule, whereas last year you weren't. Right,
you were playing it your easy schedule or as easy
as it's gonna be based on the you're finished the
year before, the number of times they faced teams where
guys and key contributors on either side of the ball,
we're not being able to play. So taking full event

(29:11):
the fact that the Jets and the Dolphins are in
the division, I mean, come on, it's it's right there,
there's four games on your schedule right away. But they
do buy all metrics have what the fifth to seventh
hardest schedule have seen. The rankings depends on if you
just go based on pass record or you're starting to
extrapolate into the way things will play out based on

(29:32):
how things are constituted now. But you know, once we
get to week one, I just ask you this, if
nobody had the stones to ask JJ Reddick about rujy
hachimuras Is and then the sip in a beverage when
he needed a three point shot, which of these guys
are gonna stand and go hey Mike, Oh no, no, no,

(29:52):
let's go, let's go back.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Everybody is weighing in on this is so I can't
weighing in. But once they're actually in front of him,
do you feel that you weren't prepared enough because of
all the stuff that went on this summer? Do you
feel that maybe if you didn't spend enough time holding
hands with Dana Rossini on a rooftop or at dinner
with her in twenty twenty when she was pregnant, that
maybe you would wait, wait, wait, why am I being
taken out? Why have I been taking it out? It
might be taken off because it was a dry heat

(30:18):
in Sedona, Arizona. He's gonna be frustrated. I'm telling you,
it's gonna be in awe, It's gonna be but.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
He always looks frustrated anyway, I know, but that's his
natural state. The Pats are gonna think we could just
whistle through the graveyard on this and I'm sorry you can't.
And then that's when it's gonna come come home. We
can try to control it all summer and all right,
we're gonna sweat and we're okay.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Now the games are here, good, good games are here.
We're all good. No no, no games is when this
is just gonna get started games when it's just because
I guarantee you. However, this has been getting out now
where we've had this reveal won every couple of weeks
or so. You don't think people whoever's got this is
holding stuff until the first week in the regular season,
where here's another video bam, right before the first game, bam,

(30:59):
here's another vide.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
Start ramping up and handing it out like you're the
Riddler in the Batman by Matt Reeves. But yeah, we
we go week to week and and the way you
laid it out was also, if we make it through
the summer. Immediately I started rewriting the Merle Haggard classic.
If we make it through December, exit out about a
Fresca exit. Swallowing down the Jason Smith Show with my

(31:21):
best friend Mike Harbon. Time to find out what's trending
right now in the wide world of sports. From someone
who's just spent the last half hour on repeat watching
the Saints reveal, it's brem eurea.

Speaker 7 (31:30):
I actually was watching the Falcons reveal because I thought
it was the Office, but it's actually like a this
is Sports Center one.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
We'll get to the Falcons.

Speaker 7 (31:37):
We got the Falcons, yeah, okay, okay, and the Rams
one I think was the best one. Just want to
throw that out there. You guys didn't talk about that,
so just like we.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Got four hours, you know, it's a four hour show,
four hours, we got we got a long way Togo.

Speaker 7 (31:52):
I hate the Rams. I just wanted to throw it
out there. That's like, that's gonna be my only like
you know much. We'll call it contribution, so that like
a release.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
Well it's thirty one teams. The Jets have already been
a limited there you.

Speaker 7 (32:04):
Go, okay, and their news are revolving this schedule release.
You guys talked about the Patriots and Seahawks. That is
the season opener and for the first time ever there
will be a Thanksgiving Eve game between the Packers and
the Rams in LA and then for Thanksgiving out the
Bears at the Lions, Eagles at the Cowboys, and the
Chiefs at the Bills. And then for Christmas, it's the

(32:26):
first tripleheader ever that's happened on Christmas. And they're all
playoff teams, So the Packers at the Bills, the playoff
rematch between the Bills at the Broncos, and then the
NFC Championship remax between Remix or Remix rematch between the
Rams and the Seahawks. The Rams lead the way with
seven primetime games in twenty twenty six. Packers, Chiefs, Bills,
and Seahawks have six primetime games, and the Jets, Titans, Raiders,

(32:49):
Cardinals and Dolphins they have zero primetime game. And rightfully, rightfully,
so I'll say that to Fernando Mendoza, that's so sad okay.
In the NHL Playoffs, the Canadians have a take in
a three to two series lead after defeating the Sabers
six to three. Right now, the Golden Knights are outscoring
the Ducks three to zero. Just ending that first period
in Anaheim. They are trying to close out the Ducks.

(33:11):
In baseball, Kyle Schwarber hit his MLB leading eighteenth home
run of the season as the Phillies defeat the Red
Sox at three to one. The Cubs avoid the sweep
and shut out the Braves two to zero, and the
White Sox they beat the Royals six to two, and
they have swept them and they're on a five game
win streak.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
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(34:41):
and I love putting this content out for you every
single night. Well, we got more from the NFL schedule
release day coming up in a couple of minutes. But
first it's time for the Play of the Day and
it's I don't think it's going to be an NBA
play because there is no games tonight.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
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(35:23):
the day.

Speaker 6 (35:26):
And Russell Wilson is picked off for the seventh time.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
In a row.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
Today Jets get absolutely jackhammered here in Tennessee and have
officially been a laymenated from playoff contention. Wow, final score
fifty six to nothing. So he's gonna start the Jets Radio.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
He's starting week one. How about that?

Speaker 6 (35:47):
It's Radio Jason.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
He's gonna beat out Genosmith and start we gonna read them. Yeah,
oh sorry, Bob was shooesing Jets radio right there there
we go. Yeah, Bob was shoes now to watch this
fruition voice of the Jets.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Right if he can speak that in new existence, I mean,
that's some next level stuff.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
I don't science now.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Now.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Now here's the thing. Right, So the Jets schedule release
like every and I gotta say this for every for
every team, they all went for it again. These grades
that we're giving out is just about you know how entertaining,
but everybody went for production value for every team is terrific, right,
every It's not like anybody mailed it in and just
said oh okay, you know like the Bills did last

(36:26):
year when when Josh Allen said, oh use ai and
they just had Alan iverson schedule, right, Yeah, but uh
the Jets release, which is like, uh, like they're there.
They are combining paints on a palette and it's all
crazy colors for the different teams.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
And insulting the different teams, right, And I thought, okay,
that's interesting.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
But you know, and I thought, okay, and it's it's
just like there's not a lot of vocalization to it.
It's just mixing the colors and you see the you know,
the colors that take shots at the other teams. That's
all they do. And I so I said, that's kind
of fun. The Dolphins one was fun, yeah, because you
have of this because here's all the different colors. It's
del Boca Vista and Finkle and they mix it all

(37:11):
together and they and then they do the smear. Yeah
uh yeah, be minus be minus be minus with that
that's a bit generous. Yeah, there's not a lot to it.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Yeah, once you once, you do it once. Yeah, all right,
I see what the bid is. Yeah, but there's I
have to really pay attention.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah. But the thing, the thing I'm gonna say is
that there's so many other things gonna be bad for
the Jets this year that I feel like, give them
a B minus on this one. Okay, Yeah, you know
I could give him a C plus.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
You know it's gonna get worse that this is the
best effort you're gonna get.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
From him this year. You're gonna get. Uh the Raiders
schedule release, Raiders schedule release.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Now here's the thing. This is where justin Frossberg, you
have to give a legitimate opinion here, because I like
you give the grade right one are your favorite moves?
He's a step brothers. It's a step brothers. Fernano Mendoza
meeting Kirk Cousins where they had some stuff much like
the movie, and they're acting like each other in the movie.
And then there's a schedule reveal. Sounds like they got

(38:12):
your click suckers.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
I just want to know, I mean, how many takes
they did to get to those best takes to include
in the video.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Because Fernando is.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
No, But here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Banana Mendoza is stiff. Kirk Cousins is fantastic. Oh yeah,
I know he plays it up, but that's exactly how
I think he is in real life. Like they're playing
this out like okay, that's exactly what Kirk Cousins is like,
like he's playing Yeah, so I would give what I
would give now, But Frostburg gets the official grade, being
the official producer of the Los Angeles Chargers. What what?

(38:46):
What do they get it?

Speaker 4 (38:46):
What's Fernande Lorian was a pretty good line, though, it's
a it's an A to F grade. What are you
giving him?

Speaker 6 (38:51):
You think I clicked on that garbage.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Because I'm gonna get Okay, if you didn't watch it,
I'll give it. I will give the Raiders a B
plus B plus because I enjoyed Kirk Cousins that much.
I want to take your class. I enjoy Kirk Cousins
that much. How good Kirk Cousins was takes away from
how wooden and stale. Fernando Mendoza was with me, come on,

(39:18):
come on, let's have a little fun with it. Let's
a little bit, let's do some fun. Okay, yeah, maybe
maybe My brand of quirkiness is a lot better than
your brand of quirkiness, Fernando. Okay, he's got fifteen years
to grow into it. Like if you are, if you
are picking the Raiders quarterback for Week one just based
on the schedule release, well then it's obviously going to

(39:40):
be Kirk Cousins because yeah, yeah, I mean I think
they just said, hey, just be yourself. Okay, that's what
I'll do. Don't touch my drum set. Yeah, but I
did like when he said, you gotta call me the
Fernando loris appropriate today because that's all that goes into
the high grade because obviously with all the stuff going
on the premiere of Mandalorian and Grogu and okay, they

(40:02):
knew the day it was coming.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
That smart her cousin who was wearing a Yoda shirt. Yeah,
that smart stuff right there. This may be the highest
grade the Raiders get all year.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
One hundred and twenty dollars bibblehead pre sale for tonight
as the Dodgers continue their street giving something away if
you go to the ballpark. Now, I feel like I'm
giving I'm giving higher grades to the teams that I
know that are stink, that are gonna stink, and this
might be the bests we get from them all year, the.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
Virtual hug for their for their staff knowing that their
team is going to stink.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Like if it was an if I was a non
Jets fan, they'd probably get to see if you know,
Frostburg would get the Raiders an F for an F
minus if he could. But I feel like these teams
that are not good this maybe it, maybe I'm curving
it a little bit for them. But I just enjoyed
Kirk Cousins that much. He was good. I really did.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
It's like I'd watch more of him in his Little
Harry Potter Idaway. It's like when you watch it when
you see a movie and you say, how is the movie? Well,
the movie was okay, but wow, the star was fantastic.
But that's me with one battle aft or another. I
liked all the individual performances. I didn't care for the
movie performance exact performance performances like this, Oh but it
sounded like j Jonah Jamison as I said that too,

(41:10):
Spider Man.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
But like when when whoever is when you say, oh wow,
that person's gonna get nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress
because they they rose above the movie which was just
an okay movie. So how do we get Captain Kirk
into a movie?

Speaker 3 (41:22):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Well, and did he build the Harry Potter Nook? He
is in Nevada, He's We got more on Kirk Cousins
for Mendos. Uh. We continue to celebrate NFL's schedule release
day and tell you why the NBA is really missing
out Tonight. That's next, Jason to Mike.

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Speaker 3 (42:39):
What's happening, man, The Graine got a lot of nice girls. Yeah,
all right, well we.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Got what's up, buddy. We've got NFL schedule release today. Man,
the Bears have the toughest schedule in the nflar banging
his head against the wall Bears.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Yeah, well you knew the opponents before this.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Yeah, but it's all about the sequencing, Jacob. The sequencing
doesn't work for the Bears.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
It's not particularly good at least at least this you're
not leading the league and air miles by double like
said the forty nine ers are going to do this year.
Like having to go Melbourne and Mexico City, Like that
was a big mistake by college him. When you complained

(43:27):
about getting the Melbourne game and said like there's no
reason for us to go there at all. It's like, okay,
well let's invite you to go to Mexico City too.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
Well, you got that, and you're battling that pesky substation.
It all adds up.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Yeah, well yeah, the electrons from the substation. They're gonna
throw the entire season off. They're actually it's going to
dry out all their musculature of any kind.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Hey, I'm gonna tell you the Jake call the forty
nine is are going to push this forone and go, hey,
this year we get to see the world. They're gonna
you're gonna look back at this year in the NFL.
That was my favorite year league. That was my favorite
year in the league. I got to go play in
every time. We even played a game in Antarctic. At
the end of the year, we got flexed.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
That's like Antarctica. That's great. We're playing the Polar Bears.
That's not just the Chicago Bears. So d that'd be
brilliant if they if they turned in this into like
the worldwide around it, around the world in eighty games.

(44:34):
Could you do that way?

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Hey, patent that idea. And they're all each on a
different streamer. Roger Goodell is gonna go, oh, I'm gonna
make eighty games, eighty international.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
Game stars exactly what it's.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Call starkist Yeah, this is Chuck reminding Bill to shut up,
to shut up, but like maybe Goodell would do that.
Then around the world in eighty games, we go from
ninety international Games to eighty international games.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
They're gonna they're gonna barnstorm this thing like crazy, especially
when they get to like playing twenty regular season games
because the Union is fuckless. But yeah, that's another that's
something else.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
I say, what is that a decade from now? But
j Cole, that's my favorite thing about.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
The three years. That's three years. That's three years. Yeah,
they bully the Union at ever. You have just to
get more games. Oh we need more inventory. Oh you
mean you guys have no knees left. Not really a problem.
We'll get some other guys, we promise.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
No in the NFL is saying, hey, we're selling off
all these games from one hundred million dollars a game,
can we sell off that much inventory? Yeah, because we're
just gonna add it when we add games to the
regular season next couple of years. It's awesome.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
We're going eighteen games. Never made notes. Union Union is
powerless to stop it. And there and they're allowed to
go to twenty events quote unquote, which means like, Okay,
let's just do away with the preseason thing and let's
go straight the games. We'll have a time. It'd be awesome.
That's all they're going to do anyways, as a schedule. Look,

(46:06):
I love the schedule because of the party atmosphere to it,
and I do love the competition among the teams to
have who gets like this is when the PR departments
get to really geek out. Oh yeah, have a good time,
Like they just go crazy that, you know. So I
do love that part of it because they get to
they get to be creative. But but all really people

(46:28):
people are really doing is you know, they're having some
fun with the discussion about will the Bears make it
to make it based on their on their schedule or not.
You know, like we're going to freak out for a
day or two. But the most important thing is like
you got to buy your airline tickets, you know, because
which games are you going to? And if you're playing Vegas,
you know, how many tickets can you buy for the

(46:48):
Vegas game right away? You know, so that you can
fill up that stadium and make it a home game
for your team.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
No, And that's the beautiat it, right it's all all
the airlines should get in on it, and in the
hotel chains and everybody, every other partner.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
This should be Marriott and Delta. This is just the
Marriott and Delta present the NFL schedule.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
See look at you, Roger Goodell's going to hire you
to do things.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Man.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
You're you're, you're, you're you're thinking forward.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Yeah. I get along with Roger, but I think it's
because he keeps me at arm's length. Okay, there's just yeah,
just here, don't get too close, Just don't get I.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Gonna tell you my my Goodell story, the one at
the time I met him, we were for NFL Network.
We were doing a uh our shows in New York
City because I I hosted the fantasy show there and
we're getting Goodell on stage was a big deal for us.
He was coming to it. It's a really big deal.
It's like, okay, great. So they're going over what I'm
gonna ask him before, and like, okay, ask him this asthma.
So I said, okay, I go, can I ask you

(47:49):
if you play fantasy football? He just me goes no.
New I said, okay, can I ask you about fantasy football?
Goes yes.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
Yes, like, okay, great, all right, Can I now ask
you about all the different gambling partners.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Yeah, it's a much different in conversation. This was back
in the day where this is back in the day
where wait, Tony Romo can't go to Vegas and do
some sort of fantasy football thing.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
No, no, no, that this is Roger took money out of
my pocket that that week when he canceled.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Yes, he definitely said he was. He was willing to
do that. He didn't care about your pocket too much.
He cares about his though a whole lot. He really does.
That's why he's made, you know, billions of dollars doing this.
My my favorite story about Roger is when I told
him that I told my youngest son that he was
the officiant that Roger was the offficiant at my my

(48:40):
wedding to my wife. Wow, during half during halftime of
the Pro Bowl. Because for my second marriage, and boy,
that's two out of three am pads I am not along to.
I am not allowed to bring up the fact that
I am betrothed to somebody like I've been banned from

(49:04):
from discussing.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
From getting married again.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Well now I'm married again. But she has banned me
from bringing her up as a topic.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
I am not.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
I'm not allowed to say the letters W, I F
E in concert. Let's just put it that way.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
Let me let me ask you this. I'm not if
I had to ask you this. What's what's greater the
number of times you've been married or Jets wins this year?
What number is going to be greater?

Speaker 3 (49:34):
Well, I'm at three, so that's higher. Anyways, the story is, yeah, yeah,
after the second after the second marriage, we got married
in Hawaii. We went to a little during Pro Bowl week.
So we went over there, you know, and went to

(49:57):
this really beautiful botanical garden over on the north out
of the island. And but then I told my son that,
you know, my youngest son, he was probably eight or
nine at the time, and I said, I called him
and I said, yeah, we're going to get married at
halftime of the Pro Bowl, and Roger Goodell is going
to be the efficient He's going to be there. And
so I told and then I saw Roger, you know,

(50:20):
months later, at the at the owner's meetings were we
were at the dinner and I said, I go, I
just wanted you to know that I did this Yeah,
I told my son that you were the officiant at
our wedding during the Pro Bowl. So if that ever
gets back to you somehow, it is true that I
told him that, and that I lied to my own son. Yes,
I did that, But he laughed.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
About it, and he called him father Goodell for the
longest time. But he was that. He must have liked that.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Roger the pastor. Oh, Roger, you know you're talking to me, Roger,
Roger the shrubber.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
You know you're talking to a guy who actually did
officiate a wedding like I've I've done that, like i
I've actually I'm that guy. Do you believe that someone
actually had this guy do it? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (51:04):
Was it in Vegas?

Speaker 1 (51:06):
It was in Arizona. And I didn't bring up the
Mets or the Jets once in the wedding.

Speaker 4 (51:11):
That was a condition, and there was someone standing there
with a machete.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
I did bring up Corbyn Carroll.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
With a gun.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
I did bring up Corbyn Carroll and the final play
of the Rose Bowl when Michigan beat Alabama. Those are
the two sports things I brought up. But it made sense.
It made sense. It's like Will when Will Arnette and
blades of glory. Yeah, we do this whole thing with
JFK and marilynd Roe in the past. When you see
it on ice, it makes sense. Oh okay, yeah, it
made sense at the time to do it that way.

(51:42):
They made complete sense.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
I could see you as an officient of a wedding.
That could be fun. You would use your play by
play voice. I think I'm that one.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
The side hustle. It's my side hustle. So riddle me
this jole.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Yes. Back to actual NFL stuff, Well.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
I mean, just it. It's fun because in between all
of these schedule release stuff, we get noticed that the
Dolphins have decided to build around Devon Eachan with his
sixty four million dollar extension to tank for twenty twenty six.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
Well, let's bottom out and let's pay a running back
a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
I'm confused.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
I yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not really smart. Yeah, that's yeah.
I don't get it either, because here's the other thing,
is like, is he not good? Like I understand when

(52:40):
you have you know, somebody who changes the nature of
how you'll like Derrick Henry. Derrick Henry deserves to get
paid that kind of money. No, not now, But when
he got traded to to Baltimore and to extend him
in the you know, because you're building around him as
a complimentary piece. He provides a quality in that offense

(53:03):
that opens everything else. What does a can do that?
Does that? Does that? Especially if you're not going to
play up tempo football and you've got a bunch of
you know, slug bake quarterbacks. Did I say that? Yeah?
I kind of that's unfortunate, but it's not it's not inaccurate.

(53:25):
But like, why are you paying anybody that kind of
money when you have you know, maybe you just have
to because the cap is so high, you have to
spend the money. I haven't taken a look at their
their cap to really understand it, but like, he's the
kind of guy you want to build up his value

(53:45):
and try and trade him for something big in season.
He's not the guy that because he's not a big
guy who you think is going to make it through
that contract. So I just don't understand it. And and
do you really think that you're going to be that
good at the end of year three the way things
are going? I mean, really the betting odds are are
you going to have the number one overall pick? And

(54:07):
are you going to get Arch Manning next year? Is
that like or whoever the top quarterback is in the draft.
That's that's really what you're looking at. And by the time,
you know, whatever quarterback you take a year from now
becomes good, a chance is not gonna probably not good.
So this really doesn't make a lot of sense. I

(54:27):
will agree with you on that wholeheartedly.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That is
at Jason Cole sixty two, thirty third team, a Pro
Football Hall, a very good voter. That was a very
good interview with Jason.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
I can't even argue with a very good thing anyway.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Just ye, just part of who you are now, yeah,
you're that you know, you know what's going to happen
is one day you'll be walking down the street. Someone's
gonna hear your voice and they're gonna go, oh my god,
you're Andrew Locke. No, I'm Jason Cole, and they're gonna go, oh,
you're the very good guy. That's gonna that's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (54:59):
Well, I will't mind being a very good guy. That's
that's that's okay. I'm not again, there are many women
in my life. Who would say that's not true?

Speaker 1 (55:07):
Well, two, maybe three, okay.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Yeah, I made them. The current wife, you know, she's like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
She's kind of doing the head bob and shrug right now.
She's been listening to this interview or not. It depends,
I know.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
Yeah. Now she's known me for forty something years. She knows,
she knows well enough what I am.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
That's everybody we'll talk to. That will be good, goes
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