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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We could look on this game in five years, the
awakening of the of the Detroit, of the Detroit Lions.
This could even have more cultural impact this specific.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Game, because what if we become a dynasty.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
What if we say, let's pump the breaks, Let's pump
the break. Welcome to Games with Names. I'm Julian Edelman, There,
Jack and Kyler, and we are on a mission to find.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
The greatest game of all time.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
On today's episode, we're covering the Week one, twenty twenty
three season opener between Detroit Lions and the Kansas City
defending Super Bowl banner dropping Chiefs with actor, comedian and
star of Transformers one in Theater September twentieth.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Keegan Michael Key. Let's go. We get into talking with Keegan.
Life is in a diehard Detroit's fans.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
When I was a young kid, we still hung our
hats on. Well, we won the nineteen fifty seven championship,
but you can't do that in the twenties.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
We also talk about how crazy of a east Calvin
Johnson was.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
You can't be that big and be that fast. He
is an impossible human.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
We decide which NFL stars are Transformers characters who's a
Megatron of the NFL?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Right right now, Evans, what about TJ. Watt? Oh? TJ
Watt's even better. That's better.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
And then we wrap it up Pyrecapan the freaking live show.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
We haven't even talked about the movie, bro, So you
gotta stick around to the very end. Let's go now.
Games of Name is a production of iHeartRadio.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
September seventh, twenty twenty three, Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Mazur It is the NFL kickoff and the defending Super
Bowl champs are hosting My Lions, but mc DC and
the boys from d Town are so back. This is
the Arrowhead Await.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, welcome to Games with Names.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
We have a very special guest today.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
We are looking at Week one of the twenty twenty
three football season.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Opening the season a Thursday night football.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Game between the Lions and the defending Super Bowl champs,
the Kansas City Chiefs here with Keegan Michael Key.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Welcome to the studio, Bro, Thank you for having us.
It's my pleasure. I feel like he should be having us.
That's what I say. Thanks for having us.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh that's very sweet. Now, I'm I'm I am so
happy to be here. I'm beside myself with pleasure, and
I'm thrilled. I've watched your career and I just think
you're you were such a fantastic player. You had such
a great career, and I'm I'm happy to be here. Also, frankly,
I love athletes. I love talking with athletes. I like
sometimes one thing I like to do is compare the

(02:56):
industries a little bit. Because of performance based, you know
what I mean, there's a little more check subjectivity in
our industry. But still, I still think a person you
have to kind of lock in and get up for
the big moment, and you've done that so many times
in your career.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
I appreciate that. Man.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, we're so excited to have you talk about the
Detroit Lions here in the nuthouse. It's such a you know,
I've been so pro Detroit before the MCDC run, but
just in general because you know, my father is an
auto mechanic, you know, the automotive industry is so close
to me, like as far as the big three four

(03:32):
GM Chrysler, like, I always like Detroit.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
It was a tough town.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
And you know, this game that we're about to talk
about exemplifies the start of where this you know, this
tough era is going. So can you describe to us
in one sentence why you picked this game?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, I picked this I actually picked this game because
it was a perfect example of what Dan camp philosophy is,
which is grit it it it. It is a perfect
it's a it's an actual personification and active personification of
that philosophy. And that's why I wanted to pick this game.

(04:12):
There are a couple other games that I could think of,
even from the previous season, when you go, oh, I'm
starting to see the feeling or I'm getting a feeling
of hope. But this game is actually showing something. It's
like rolling out the blueprint and showing some of the architecture.
It's like, if this is a roller coaster ride, we're
building the roller coaster. Yeah, this game shows that architecture

(04:33):
before it's almost before the ride begins.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
This is this is the this is the framework, this
is what the car. You know, the car is gonna
be on. This is what this is. This is this
is the blueprint, and now let's build this house.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, because you guys, you guys scouted, you guys scouted
the roller coaster. Last year, you guys were kind of
like looking into like what style roller coast.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, we gonna have a lot of cork screws, We're
gonna have huge you know, zero g what what exactly
are we gonna do?

Speaker 1 (04:59):
And then you know, aning Camp organized team activities, Mini camp.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
You guys started putting the blueprints and we were building
off of what we really wanted. So you got it.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
You got the analogy is freaking opening day.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Opening Day is open day, and wally World open. It's
not closed. It's not closed, it's not let's go round there.
It's funny in the country. It's funny that it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I don't even I don't know that I meant to
do this, but ironically speaking, I just picked an amusement park.
I you know, I grew up in Detroit, which is
very close to a place called Sandusky, Ohio. Yes, Cedar
Point uh has been in time and you can fact
check this.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
I think I'm right about this.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
It I think second best has been ranked in the
past second best amusement park in the world, behind some
amusement park in Japan. I can't remember where it is,
but they like they, you know, like people test different
kinds of rides and cedar points like the place one
of the places. And so that's why that that analogy
comes to my mind.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
So I went to Kent State, oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
and so we would go to see your point in
the summer with the boys. Yep, electric amazing. But is
so like to the Midwest people.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
So it is true. You guys like to raise banners
for like second place. We're the second, the second. This
is it the Indianapolis Colts of Theme Park Park. So,
I mean it's very respectable. They always have a really
good player.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
But you know, you go into the AFC Championship, you
lose and you throw a band throw second pla. It's
the same thing.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
When LA won the Super Bowl a couple of years ago,
everybody in Detroit.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Would yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Because math Stafford, Matthew Stafford left and we were so
happy for him, Like we're super Bowl adjacent.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
We're super Bowl Now. Is this the greatest game of
all time?

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (06:43):
It is? This is I will say this.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
I think this may be the greatest game of all
time for the Detroit Lions franchise. I think this is
bigger than when Barry Sanders, like, uh just went out
of his mind against Dallas in ninety ninety one, ninety two.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, and that game was huge.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
But the nineties is somehow, I mean, it's just math, right.
The nineties is certainly closer to the fifties than the
aughts are to the fifties, or the twenties are of
the fifties. So that thirty that gap, that over thirty
year gap is huge. And the fact that if you
were a young when I was a young kid, we
still hung our hats on well, we won the nineteen
fifty seven championship, you know what I mean. But you

(07:24):
can't do that in the twenties, not in this news.
It was just too long of a drought and too
significant of a drought. This was so harrowing. I thought
to myself, Okay, after the previous season, after beating Green
Bay first of all, winning a divisional game in Lambeau
against Aaron Rodgers ending on a pick, it was the

(07:45):
hope was so high? Could you could taste it? And
then I was deflated when I saw the schedule come
out and go, what it's us, We've got to play
Casey in Arrowhead, And I thought to myself, may I
afforded myself just a small hint of hope. I mean,
I believe in Dan, I believe in Brad Holmes, our

(08:06):
general manager. I think we can win this game. The
fact that they came out with the victory. I think
this is such a market change in the culture of
Detroit football. Those games that we would lose, those games
that when we get into overtime, they're going, Oh, they're
just gonna march down the field and get a field
goal and win. Those games where you're like, all we
need to do is stop them here, you know, Yeah,

(08:27):
Detroit's big one of our big signature things was always
it's like two thirty two in the fourth quarter, You're like, oh,
they're just gonna get whatever first down they need, and
the team would always get the first time form at
an offense and we'd always collapse and they would just
seal the deal. And this game, this game is going

(08:48):
to be one of the most important games, if not
the most important game in the annals of Detroit Lions
football history, because of seeing this blueprint in action, seeing
the culture literally change. We needed this win, I I
can I can see that.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
I don't think you're crazy for saying that like that
is going out and beating the defending Super Bowl champs
after playing your best football at the end of this
at the end of the year, after a rough, rough start,
you know, the end of the year, they were playing
really good ball, really good ball. To go out and
then we'll get it, we'll dive into the game. But
to to to go out and beat the defending champs

(09:25):
on a platform where everyone is watching, that gives your
team confidence and to do it that, that's like a
that's like a switch that like, guys, a we believe
actually what we're preaching here now, that's that's a confirmation
on everything that the coaches were saying from that point
on after the season, you know, after the great ending

(09:47):
of their season, that right there, with everything that they
were you know, preaching, to have that come out and
start the season the way they did, that's that. I mean,
I don't think you're crazy for saying that.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
No, I I appreciate it says it says so much
about the direction that the team was going in. And
I remember, I mean I was jazzed when we were
on Hard Knocks and I thought that HBO made a
really good choice, that that was the right time to
do it. We were the right time to pick. It's
like pick a team when it looks like there's going
to be a significant culture change. And I want to

(10:21):
give a lot of credit to Shila Hamp, to Shila
Ford Hamp who's our team owner who and and also
to Missus Ford, who is our team owner emeritus, you
know Sheila. I thought Sheila took a very big swing,
a very courageous big and I thought it was a
shrewd and a smart swing. When she got Matt Patricia,
I could see that in her mind, she's going, let's

(10:44):
go somebody with somebody who's been in a culture, in
a winning culture for a long a person you know
very well who's been in a culture for a very
long time. I think he might be able to make
the shift. She made the right The thinking was right,
The thinking was right, So I thought, I I was
really I started feeling hopeful when Sheila kind of took
over the reins for her mom. Martha is a passionate

(11:07):
football person. She loves her team, she loves the staff.
I think it was right for her to kind of go,
I'm gonna give the reins over to my daughter. I
think she's got good ideas I think she's moving in
the right direction. So I have to give her kudos
for that. Matt Patricia Higher and then you know, I
think that Dan, unless you're in the league or a

(11:29):
real huge sports Maven Dan was not a completely unproven
quantity because I thought he did really good stuff in Miami.
But he again was the right choice. She just went
swinging for the fences.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Again. The shrewd choice was Brad Holmes. It was so funny.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I go, oh, I think this guy might be the
this might be the piece. So somebody who's whose career
was has been spent scouting scouting, scouting scout, and for
him to say we're gonna build this team through the draft,
it's just balls. It takes balls. We're not gonna spend
a ton of money. We're gonna be the word is shrewd.
We're gonna be shrewd, and we're going to make make

(12:12):
informed choices to build a future for this team. That's
another thing I love about our team is that we're
building a team that could be good for a decade.
It's not let's go try to win a Super Bowl
in one year. Let's spend all their money, bankrupt ourselves,
go for what if you don't win, what if you
don't get the stan Kronky, What if you don't get
the Stafford effect and you don't win the Super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (12:34):
And then and then what happens? Then what happens?

Speaker 2 (12:37):
So I just shout out to.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Shila hamp Yeah, they've definitely gone foundational.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Foundational. This is absolutely and that starts from the leader.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
And you know, I'll get into more of the lines
and where I believe in them, We'll get in there.
But you know, mcdc is a great fit for that city.
I mean the toughness and you know, to show what
he's shown, everyone kind of thought he was just a
big old mead heead, but you know the guy, the
guy knows football.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
They didn't know and he knows football. They didn't know
what he meant.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
I don't think they knew what he meant when he
said grit, because when he says grit, I think part
of grit is also mental fortitude. Not just testicular fortitude,
but mental cerebral fortitude.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
It's both.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
It's like you said, people thought he was a meathead
and he's you know, he got the passion, got the
best of them, and he said the kneecaps thing and
blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's the mental fortitude on hard knocks.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
He did that thing where he shook out the jeans,
the dust out of the clothes and said, we've got
to get this off. We're not that team. But just
because you're here in Allen Park, Michigan, in this training.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Facility, let it. You gotta let all that go at
the door. We're not.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
We're different. It's it's been amazing to watch it is that.
It's that that the culture and the philosophy is actually working.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
It is, you know. And and he's just he's a
Detroit guy.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
He is played there, pretty blue collar, you know, let's
just put our heads down and work.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
He is you know.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, Now, what's what's your sport? What's your sports hierarchy
with with all your your teams that you follow? Do
you follow the Red do you follow all the Detroit teams?
I know Penn State? You went there?

Speaker 3 (14:18):
The coach? Yeah? Like what how do how?

Speaker 4 (14:24):
So?

Speaker 1 (14:25):
My clearly you you love sport. I mean the way
you talk about the Lions. Yeah, are you like this
with every sport? Almost almost every sport?

Speaker 2 (14:33):
So I have a I have a very strange hierarchy,
right for this, this is a very weird hierarchy. Okay,
so uh in Detroit, the city of Detroit, football hands
down my number one, far and away my favorite number
one sport. Yeah, and I will make this clarification for
the rest of the list.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
American football.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
American football is my my favorite sported okay nowadays nowadays,
definitely Detroit Lions. Then the I would say probably after that.
I pay in Detroit sports. I paid the most attention
to the Tigers, even though I'm more of a basketball
fan than I am a baseball fan. I pay attention
to the Tigers. They win because they went, yeah, they win.

(15:14):
Then they're back.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
In like they always sneak a freaking World Series here
and every now and again.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
They probably like what the hell, lion, I mean the Tigers, Yes,
and then right now they're happy, like you know, they're
at five hundred. They were, they were, they were having
a rough like July, and all of a sudden they
started winning games. Yeah, They've been winning games for the
tour back end of the season. So I'm really happy
that it looks like they're gonna have a strong ending. Yeah,
tied there in second time for second are the Red Wings.
So I know we're kind of in We've been in
a little bit of a rebuild for almost a decade now,

(15:42):
but you know, we were We were the Yankees of
hockey for a while there. I mean it was nuts
winning President's Trophies every year. So I I was swept
up in that. And I used to go when when
they were bad before Steve Eiserman in the early eighties,
I used to get like nine fifty were eleven dollars.
You just walk into Joe Louis Serena and kind of

(16:04):
sit where you wanted. It was insane.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh that's like a Panthers taket. Now. Yeah, it's like a.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
We're talking with Darren McCarty. I think he's gonna come
on the show. We're gonna do the Fright Night and
the Joe. We're gonna try to get Claude Lemu on too.
Oh you Claude lam you and McCarty together grind. Yeah, Oh,
that would be amazing.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
McCarty by the way, doing a great job in our
local Detroit media. He's great, really knowledgeable about football, really
good sports head.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
And and then the Pistons. Now I was just like
everybody else, the Bad Boys, all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
I was. I love the Bad Boys.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
I stay in contact a personal friend with Isaiah Thomas,
which is really great. My wife kind of orchestrated that
for me, one of the one of the many things
I love my wife for. And Zeke is amazing again
another we have three sports right now that are looking
to the Lions.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
I think with.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Inspiration in their hearts as they move forward. Then I
think right after that, uh uh, Liverpool. I'm a huge
Liverpool up the Reds base, Yes, go Reds. Yes, you
never walk along. I'm a huge Reds fan.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
I O y s.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, I love Tottenham guys. Oh you're oh hurricane kan
A Kane, who's what real Madrid? But he was great
at sports and then what's his name son? Yeah he's
a badass. Soon he's amazing and yeah yeah, so Premier

(17:34):
League like Premier League, I watched a lot of Champions League.
Liverpool is my team has been my team since the nineties.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
I had to clarify that as a soccer fan, when
nowadays you have to clarify that you were pre soccer fad. Yeah,
if you're nineties Liverpool fan from America, you're yeah, yeah, yeah,
you're what do they call it a hexagonhead?

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Oh yeah, the little heads guts on the ball, right
right right. Seamhead is baseball, punkhead is hockey, Mexican head.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah yeah, So Liverpool, that was good.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Liverpool is my Liverpool.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Then staying with international football after them, I watch a
lot of my great grandparents and my and my grandmother
or Belgian. I watched the Belgian national team. They just
got worked by France because everybody does, because France is amazing.
But so I whenever I can't, I watch their like
you way for the Nations League games, World Cup qualifiers.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
That's my team, Flemish or French.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
My great grandfather spoke Flemish before he went to trade
before you and and then of course you have there's
the Walloon area, there's so and then some people speak German.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
So that's my family family in Belgium. Did you really Antwerp?
I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah they're still there too, but yeah, shout out to
shout out to the Belgians.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Love those waffles. So so yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
So uh, I watched the Belgian national team because of course,
even though I'm a Liverpool fan. You know, one of
the greatest midfielders in the world is Kevin de Boyne.
Blister Man used the Beast, absolutely, very very frustrated right
now with the new lineup in his team. He's not
at man City, but at Belgium, we can't. They're in
this rebuild. They've kind of gone through their golden generation

(19:29):
and a lot of those players have have kind of
sloughed off, and they've got a whole brand new squad
and a brand new manager, and it's the whole.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Thing, gotta start over, gotta start over.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
So I've been watching them and then and then I'm
uh and and so it's that's kind of last Penn States.
Penn State comes mixed. Penn State's like tied with Liverpool, Okay, yeah, yeah,
cide with Liverpool because I gotta I try to keep
track of I mean, now with the Big ten, it's like,
oh my god, we got eighteen teams. But yeah, so

(19:58):
I my alma mater, it's like Lions, Nitney Lyons, the Reds,
and then and then it and then and then everything
else kind of falls.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
A lot of a lot of cats.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
I got double double Lions, double Lions.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Honestly, always thought that was so cool.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
About Detroit that the baseball and the football team had
kind of, you know, the same city.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
What other cities are like that.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
I don't think there's other cities that have like you're
you're saying similar, similar, connected, connected.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Has the same color scheme.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Arizona or Cardinals were Saint Louis and baseball and football back.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Oh, that's right there, that's right, the Cardinals, which is great,
same name, that's right. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
And the Lions were named the Lions because of the Tigers.
I can't I just read the history of how the
Tigers got their name and it's something very fun and
it's very kind of interesting. Historically, I can't remember what
it was, but the Lions were the Portsmouth Spartans from Ohio.
And then that one of our big there was a

(20:59):
big smith, Port Smith, the Portsmouth Spartans and little town
of Portsmouth, Ohio. And then we had a big radio,
right yeah, I mean it has to be on the
on erie. Yeah, and they uh And then who was
the His name was Edwards, George Edwards.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
He was all right, yeah, I think so he was.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
He was a radio mogul in Detroit and he bought
the team and moved it to Detroit nineteen thirty four,
and they changed the name and they said we should
we should be like another big cat or like we
want to be the Kings of the league. And then
they thought it made sense because the Tigers were there,
so they called them.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
That's what.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
That's funny that you noticed that that's where they named
it the le that Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
I like connected tissue with the pro sports are Baltimore
producer saying Orioles Ravens.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Too, Orioles Ravens. That's good, that's smart, ol Orioles Ravens.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
But one's a different, like one's like a beautiful bird.
One wants to like rip your face off.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
You can't name a football team after.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Watch those YouTube videos about Crows and Ravens.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Man, how smart they are? I don't, but my daughter does,
and she's terrified of it. Too smart, way too smart. Yeah, yea.
You've got to tell something non Detroit people get wrong
about Detroit.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Something something that you know, Detroit has had a lot
of challenges throughout the years and has suffered a lot.
I think something that people need to keep in mind
about Detroit is that for in the last few years,
something that's been really rough about Detroit is that we've
been dealing a lot with with abandonment issues. And I
think people think people thought because it was really bad

(22:35):
in the eighties during the crack epidemic, which was striking
cities all over the the country and ravaging cities all
over the country, But Detroit's not. Detroit's nowhere near as
violent a city. I think our bigger issue in Detroit
is dealing with infrastructure because so many people had moved
out of the city, so people think. I think one
thing that people think about Detroit is that it's a

(22:55):
dangerous place and there's bullets flying all over the place.
It's not. It's not that way. It's not that way.
The biggest the bigger issue is that there's is that
we have what is known this phenomenon known as urban prairies,
which is lots of buildings being torn down, and that
there being lots of areas without without housing. But then
the tax space is tough because you still pay for

(23:17):
those areas, but there's no one living in there to
pay for the tax space. That's that's pretty negative. I
think something that people need to know about Detroiters. The
Detroiters are lovely, lovely Midwestern people who look out for
each other. It's it's that that's that's the part of
Detroit that people don't talk about because it's not sensational.
You have to understand the Detroiters, like anybody else who

(23:39):
lives in Indiana or Illinois or Ohio or Wisconsin, were
very very neighborly people like You'll like sometimes I'll go
home Detroit and I'll be in an Uber and then
you're like, I'm having a conversation and you'll have a
conversation with the Uber driver the entire way right where
that doesn't always happen in New York or Los Angeles.

(24:00):
And I'll go, oh, that's right, I'm home. We're gonna
have a conversation or two people stop on the street
and then just talk for twenty five minutes, and it's like,
I had some place to be, but it was so
good to see you that I wanted to have a
you know what I mean? That kind of that, that
notion of being neighborly with people is something that I
experienced my whole life growing up.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Not in a rush, not in a rush.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Not in a rush.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
It's yeah, everyone people come out here, everyone's in a
rush and get nowhere.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
And we also in a rush to get nowhere.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah's in a rush and get Ohio. I went to
school in Ohio, so I get the Midwest people.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
I love them.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know, people that are just hard working people that
you know, they're content with their lives.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
They don't really complain that much.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
They like going home, they like working their their job
whatever it is, and then going home and watching their sport.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
That's pretty much it. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, that's
that's wrong with that. There's nothing life.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Maybe I love that. It's nothing.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
It's very simple, something wonderful and simplistic about it, you know.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Also, the other think about your Troy is we have
fantastic restaurants and fantastic restaurants, and we have our own cuisine.
Our thing in Detroit is if you ever go to
go to Detroit, you gotta have a Coney dog, which
which is.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
A chili dog.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
You know, a chili dog with what we call chili
sauce is supposed to just chili on the dog. It's
it's there's some different ingredients chili sauce and onions and
cheese American. So it's like you can have there's some
Coney islands serve chatdar, some serve American and some corn
islands have like the like the liquid like like cheese.

(25:36):
It's fantastic. And then chili fries with cheese. You got,
you got, you gotta get your fries. That's your base.
Then you drop my favorite, you drop a nice slice
of American cheese in there that's melted on the fries.
Then chili, then another slice. It's just sublime, Manna.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
I'm a big chili dog guy. There's two Coney Islands.
You go to Detroit sometime if you ever.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
They're Gilian and you guys are doing something there. There's
there's a there's buildings are right next to each other,
is a split right down the middle. They're called Coney Islands.
One's called Lafayette Coney Island and then one's called American
Coney Island. Two separate owners. They're literally next door to
each So I am an American Corney Island guy like it.
But Lafayette's been there for way, way longer. So when

(26:18):
you bring people to Detroit, people some people do you
have to go to Lafayette Cony Island. I prefer American
corn Island.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Now I'm going to get in trouble with.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Certain neighborhoods in the city, because when you bump into people,
you can go Lafayette.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
American. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
You're like, oh man, okay when you talk to you
and yeah, so I'm.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
A Carney's guy out here. Oh, Corne's is great. Corns
is great.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, I think he's better than Pinks and Carneis is
better than Pinks.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
My daughter likes the snappiness of the hot dogs. Sho's dad.
They're snappy. That's a good word.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
I like snappy, exact exactly.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
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Speaker 3 (27:47):
Go check it out now, Big Transformer guy. When you
were a kid, Yes, love Transformers. I did, too. Loved
Transformers when I was a kid. I used to come home.
It would air in the weekdays.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah, you know, like three thirty, you know, you get
home from school and then there's that little block of cartoons.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yep. I would watch Transformers. Was. I loved it.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Went to go see the movie, the nineteen eighty six
animated movie, Oh wow. And I remember, I mean some
people was someone talking to the other day and They're like, Oh,
you're too old for that. I'm like, I mean maybe
I was, but I loved it.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
So was I too old for it?

Speaker 2 (28:26):
I mean maybe I wasn't a very mature fifteen year
old because that that movie came out in eighty six
and I was fifteen. I remember, I love I loved
the show. I almost loved the commercials for the toys
as much as I loved the show.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
And I Optimus pro Optimal meet.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
The Yeah, yeah, Transformers, Yeah, robots and this thing.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
You were in a commercial with Transformers. You were it
was a NERF spot, We Nerve spot.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
What was the when? What was the premise?

Speaker 5 (28:55):
It was Nerf House. There was an animated thing. It
was during COVID and it was Nerve commercial. But Transformers
played a role in it. Bumblebee actually Mumblebee.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Oh my god. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
I so so honored to be part of this franchise
and to be entrusted with this character who's.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Such a beloved character. You know.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, everybody loves Bumblebee and and so I love Transformers
when I was a kid.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
That's gotta be crazy.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Like you've done a lot of cool roles and like
classic type roles, but to do Transformers, like as a
what do you you're probably a little older than me,
older than you're yeah, but like in that our age
group that was so big, and like the reboots and
stuff that they did with Michael Bay, Like, Transformers.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Is like as a if you're a boy, you loved.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
For a boy, it's an American institute, it is, And
I mean lots of girls that like Transformers. And I
think there's a character in this movie that's played by
Scarlett Johansson. Yeah, the character is called Elita. One think
a lot of girls, very kind of empowering character. And
I think girls are really gonna dig hell yeah, I
think girls are really gonna You take your daughter is.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Definitely gonna bring her. Oh yeah, so much. She's at
the age now where she likes like she she likes
little action and stuff. Oh she does. Oh good, okay,
yeah good. Yeah, so she'll enjoy it. She'll enjoy it.
I really did, I really did.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
It really sparked my imagination as a kid, and you
play with the toys. I wanted all of them. I
think I had like one of them, but I wanted
all of them. I just I just thought it was
so great. And then the world that the fact that
the world kept going, and that Michael Bay put his
stamp on it, and it just it's just it's it
really is part of the fabric of entertainment in our society.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
It's definitely an American novelty. What is it called all the.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Franchise franchise A franchise, it's one of it's one of
the top franchise is Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yeah, for like a long time.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
So aniversary forty anniversary, Yeah, forty anniversary of the coming up.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
So we thought it'd be kind of fun to do
NFL football players and transform them current guys, past guys,
and let's transformer into guys and uh transformers.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
That we have. Yeah yeah, yeah, like a Megatron.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
I came up with, like, who's a Megatron of the NFL?

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Right right now? Mike Evans. Mike Evans, I like that one.
Mike Evans is a Megatron. What about t J Watt?

Speaker 2 (31:24):
Oh, t J Watt's even better.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
That's better. That's better. But tjat.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Miles Garretts, you're still kind of bad guys.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
So it leans to defense as an offense guy.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
As an offensive guy, right, yeah, yeah, no, you're right.
It's funny. I was thinking to inside the box. I
went with another big dominant receivers.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
T J.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Watt and Miles Garrett are very good examples.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
I would receiver wise, I would say, uh, DK Medcalfe
because he's a specimen.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
He's always fighting other guys.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
You know, it's very aggressive, he's always he's flag flag
flag number four Is he fourteen?

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Yeah? Yeah, number fourteen? Sound Wave? Who who would be soundwave?

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Soundway by the way my favorite transformer. Yeah, oh my god,
let me say I liked him because he is he
because he's like four Transformers in one.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Because when his little chest would open, the little little
the little mini bots and many cons would come out
of his chest. And he also he was different than
every other Transformer because he had a robot voice and
every other Transformer had a regular voice.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
So, but he was also a radio, and he was
a radio. He was like a boombox. I love that.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
You you think that his voice would be compatible to be
whatever he wanted.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah, that's true. He could Yeah, you're right, he could
have just he could have changed it. He could have changed,
but he never did. It was always like this and
the robot voice, you know, whatever you say, Master Megatron,
that was his voice. I loved that he had that voice.
Let me see sound Wave. Who would sound wave be?

Speaker 1 (33:00):
He is a loyal soldier to Mega Tron, a communication officer, a.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
Little spy action maybe a cornerback, like a sauce gardener.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Sauce gardener, your cornerback, you spy on the quarterback? Yep?
He spots Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Mentioned with this communication because he's trying to get that
ball out to someone else.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Like the corners good, Yeah, sauce gardner, a corner would
be good. I mean who else is that? Or a
safety or like a like certain Oh yeah, yeah, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
Paid, What do you think, Jack?

Speaker 4 (33:31):
I like I like the sauce gardener angle. I think
it's got to be a corner, a.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Guy that somebody something. Yeah, he's keeping an eye on,
loyal guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like it.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
Or Kirkpatrick, maybe a Kirkpatrick or a print McDuff mcduffee
and duffy. And now we're talking chiefs.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
All right, let's go to Optimist Prime. I thought for
Optimist Prime, it's kind of like.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
It's got to be Travis Kelsey, Travis Kelcey for me,
I mean Captain America.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
And also like the spirit of the team, the spirit
like like like like like an intrinsic leader. So it's
not a quarterback, it's just he's the he's like the
spiritual leader of of of that team.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
And if Taylor Swiftly gonna date any Transformer, Defin.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Would come on one hundred hundred. Oh my gosh's go
Bumblebee your character.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
So Bumblebee would have to get because he's like the cheerleader.
Trying to think, who's a cheerleader, Not like a cheerleader,
but but like a support like a really supportive player
of other players.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
I think he's like a third down running back. They're
done running, so like all time, maybe like a Darren Sprolls.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Darren sproll would be like a bumble bee, you know
what I mean, get out the backfield giving.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Route. Scatty.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, scatty because he's a scatty yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
I mean, no one's better than Darren Sprolls. He was
the Barry Sanders, well, the best of the best of
all time, the best of all time?

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Is he the greatest of all the time or the
best of all He's the boat? Is he the goat?

Speaker 2 (35:07):
I think he's the goat. I think he's the goat
because he ran as many yards east and west as
he did north and south, and so I.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Wish they would have had GPS monitors back then to
see his like run charge.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Run the run exactly to see exactly where he was.
I mean he was.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Six yard run forty six yards, but the good like
the third and.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Four but exactly. Yeah, that took a minute and a
half off o'clock. According to his dad, he's the third
best running back of all time.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yes, it's Jim Brown. And who did he think was
the second self? Himself himself?

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Oh my god, he goes he's the third best after
me and Jim mister Sanders.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
He was comparing himself to Jim Brown, better than Walter Payton.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Oh my god. He also hated Oklahoma State.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Barry's dad he he loved Oklahoma and hated Oklahoma State.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Doesn't matter that the Sun ran for four thou crazy
just saying there's g hater.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Really complicated relationship there.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Made for a great running back. Alpha Tian Alpha Tryant.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Okay, so he's like Alpha Tryan is like an older,
kind of wizened veteran, right, yeah, he is.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
He's Andy. I mean he's and it's got the beard.
He's got the beard. You know. It's Andy Reid. It's
one hundred Andy Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers. He's the oldest guy
in the lead, the oldest guy in the league.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yeah maybe Aaron Aaron, but he has more he does,
He's got more largess about him. That's why I think
Andy Reid's the especially and also more Andy circa Philly,
even than even now.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
I think because he was. I mean, he's wise now, but.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
There's he There was some when the stash was a
little more hell. It was looking like a little more
red and it you know, I don't know, maybe maybe
it is, but Andy Reid now, maybe he's more now
because when you see the movie, you'll see this guy's
like got some mileage on him. I'm wrong, it's now.
It's Andy Reid.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Now. You're gonna eat those nuggies. You can eat those nuggies.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
He's one of the best I've ever I couldn't believe
how good he was in that conversion. You can let
me the fingers is a little fat?

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Could you?

Speaker 5 (37:32):
Could you imagine a commercial with Belichick, Tom and Gronk
like those three are on now?

Speaker 4 (37:37):
I don't think it would be as good.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
No, I don't think. Here's the thing I will say this,
Gronk could do it.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Gronk.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
You know, my wife and I have worked with Gronk
a lot, and he's always He's always game for everything.
You know, which is the best that he's always game for.
The thing about Belichick is this, if you cast him correctly,
And a reason I say that is because look at
Nick Saban Nick Saban on the Affleck commercials. They cast
him correctly and that the air is the airbnber verbal

(38:09):
verbal so perfect, that is like perfect in the verbal,
so you could if you can get if you can.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Will hasn't embraced his assholeness yet, like even his him.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Out right now you see him on inside the NFL
now and he's all smiley, and you're like, this guy, you.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Want to see the real bill.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
You get the fifteen most shitty plays of the week
and you put him in a dark room and have
him watch that.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
That's when you see real that's the real Bill. Dolleck,
Oh my god. Well that that was a fun segment.

Speaker 5 (38:41):
Before we move on, this is a Lions episode. Megatron,
we have to just say Calvin.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
I mean, you have to say Calvin John if we're
going historically, yes, one hundred yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
But I don't I don't look at Megatron.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
You're looking at the personality of Mega.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
I don't think he's a I don't think he's I
think he's Megatron as far as because he's a huge
ass R bought that's dominant in like that. But like
I don't get the septicon vibes from he was such
a selfless dude.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Selfless. He's guys more optimist prime qualities.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah, you're right, he does. He does because he's more.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
He is.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
He was very practical and also he was very pleasant.
He was a he's a very pleasant guy.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
He never asked to be a leader, no people, he
just led because people followed him.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
They followed He help it. That's optimist prime. He's he
was a born leader. Yeah, he didn't. He didn't have
a choice because his greatness, the greatness was not thrust
upon him.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
He was born great.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah, he's just been great his whole life. That guy,
he is an impossible human. It's not you can't be
that big and be that fast. You can't be that
rangy and be that controlled.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Now you're talking to Megatron's attitude wise.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
No attitude wise, no attitude wise No. But I mean
as a specimen, because whoever blurted that out of their
mouth the first time, it's just the same thing with him.
I used to there are people who I watched in college,
you know, when you get that man amongst boys, feel
him plexical Buris were these guys who.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Just robbed it that in the league.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Ye right, rob looked like a man, a man amongst boys.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
Yes, it's crazy. Rob would just be six guys on him,
just bro when you would run.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
I remember running next to Rob and it sounded like
you were next to like a Clyde deal. You can
hear his feet hitting the ground because they're so big,
and you could feel the weight.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
And he'd be like giggling, like like when a guy
would like hit him.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Be like like stiff arm him to the ground.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
He'd be laughing while he was doing well, he was
doing it.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
It was literally like a high school kid playing with
second graders. Yeah, till the guys figured out to just
they were torpedo in his legs.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
I was just to say, that's the only way to
get him down, the only way to get him down. Yeah,
he was jumping over him and ship early in his career,
like he he was one of the most dominant dudes
I've ever seen. He was. He was unbelievable. He's another person.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
He's not like not a human, like the way Miles
Garrett is now in defense like what are you but
he's a mutant. You can't Yeah, you can't. I mean yeah,
I mean Rob was just a juggernaut.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
But so is Uh so is Megatron. Oh yeah, megal Beasts.
So let's let's jump into the game. Yes, run through
these Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
This was week one, so we're talking in the future,
they would go eleven and six this season.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
This was Andy Reid, Matt Naggy.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
Spags, had that defense turned up, maybe bags beast And
this was a Chiefs team that I mean they won
the Super Bowl but considered kind of a down year
for the Chiefs in a weird way.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Yeah, yeah, for them in a way. Yea, yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
Mean but when the AFC West for the eighth straight season. Uh,
and like we said, worst record than Mahomes era eleven
and six. I mean it just shows how good it is. Yeah,
great to be a Chiefs fan.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
This was Rashie Rice's rookie year, Valdez Scantling, Canarius Tony
but chack O man. Does he run hard? Oh go god?

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah, nobody runs like he runs angry stumps the ground.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Yeah yeah, and super high knees. He's attacking the ground
like like if it's like he's got claws down there.
It's like a pile driver. He's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
I don't want to be the ground. Yeah, don't unscrew
the guy. You're trying to attack the ground.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
The ground. Now, what are your thoughts of these chiefs? Man?

Speaker 1 (42:19):
These guys are pretty insane. But going into this game,
what were your thoughts about the Chiefs?

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Well, I thought, I thought, and and mind you, Kelsey
wasn't playing.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Yes, that's what the hyper extended. We do have to
put that in on. That has to be part of
that has to be an asterisk. That is part of
the game, Chris Jo. But we're still dealing with It's
part of the game. You have to play without this player.
They returned a bunch of people. Now, the interesting thing is, right,
this is the first year after Tyreek left, so you
kind of go, okay, all right, maybe who Rashi is
an unknown quantity.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
And a rookie. But I I.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
This organization is run so beautifully that they they know
they're strong on every every aspect, every facet. They know
how to draft, they know how to keep people healthy,
they know they run great schemes. So I was I
was intimidated and I was scared. I didn't know. I
thought this will be a test, and I did. I
initially most of my being was thinking to myself, Okay,

(43:19):
we'll give him a good run for the money. We
might lose by a field goal. We'll go into our
season with some motivation. I just thought it was such
a huge there was a huge spotlight on the beginning
of that season. Like you said, a Thursday night game,
a night game.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
A Thursday night game, Susan's banner dropping night, so that
the Detroit Lions are there for the whole standing, there.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
For the festivities and the yeah and the super Bowl
banner coming down.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
And I've played in a lot three of those. Like
the other team, they got to.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Watch all that happen against the very dominant twenty twenty
two team. Yeah, And so I, I mean I was
shaking him the boots.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
I just thought, this is not this is not gonna
I mean, I don't know how this is going to
go for us.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
I liked it.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
I liked it going into this game, you know, I
I was I think I don't know if I did,
but did I call them. I believe the NFL ill
it maybe the whole tyreegue thing. And you know, I
it wasn't like anything against the Chiefs, but you know,
when you have to rebuild the team, I wasn't worried
about them as a team as a whole for that year.

(44:27):
You're smart enough, which they've proven these last three years
to learn how to win ball games during the season
while collecting wins. So but I knew this would be
a tough one. You guys were playing your best ball.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
At the end of the momentum, it was a lot.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Yeah, Now I got to ask also ask about the Chiefs,
Like what's up all the celebrity Chiefs fans, like, you know,
like Hollywood people, like they get like such a quaint
like they're like the cream of the crop kind of
Hollywood fan, you know. And then you look at like
Detroit fans you got like you got rock.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
Tim Robinson, Tim Robinson, Sam Richardson, like Bob, Jeff Daniels.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
How do you guys look into your like Jeff Daniels,
Jeff Daniels. That's a great one. Like what do you
guys think about the other celebrity groups. Do you guys
have a text chain a little like Chiefs text chain.
There's you know John ham and Paul rud and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
we heard.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
It, you know, because they've been winning. What's the Detroit
text change? You don't have one.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
I don't I think we need to start one. We should.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
I'll put you on it. Yeah, we don't. We need
to start our text chain.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
We really do.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Because it's now I can. I can text Tim and
Sam nice whenever I want. I know Jeff a little bit.
I remember when we were doing Kempeel and I went
to I went to work one day and they were
shooting Newsroom that Aaron Sorkin show at the stage next
door stage like across the lot, and a friend of
mine from Detroit was was playing like a featured extra

(45:58):
role on the news Room because he had done plays
at Jeff Daniels Theater in Chelsea, Michigan. There was a
little theater called the Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea, Michigan,
was about forty minutes forty five minutes outside the trades,
just outside of ann Arbury.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
They even cast the extras from Detroit to get the
real that's in Hollywood. That's good. So he came.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
So my friend, his name is John John Hawkinson, and
he came out there, big Lions fan. John and I remember,
and I remember us sitting there and talking and I
went just went it, like I got to just I
decided to knock on the trailer door just to say
hi to Jeff, and and introduced myself. And then I
think we had like a fifteen minute conversations like go
red Wings, you know what I mean, go Lions, because
we and we talked. And then who was there that day? Oh,

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Aaron Rodgers was there.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
Aaron Rodgers was there and he.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
And I remember Aaron Rodgers happened to be on set
that day, and I remember him saying talking about how
gifted Stafford was and that I think it's very, very
possible that Matt Stafford will be a first ballot Hall
of Famer. Oh yeah, so that was that was still
on the Lions at least be still playing for the Lions.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Right, yeah, Now what women?

Speaker 2 (47:03):
But what was your Oh we don't have the text chain,
the text chain, but I I should we should start
When I should? I need to get Jeff Daniel's phone
number and be on that che text chain. The other
thing I've I can't believe this.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
What would the text group named be?

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Well, you know, if if it was up to me,
because I'm a nostalgia guy, I would call it restore
the Roar, because that's what they used to say in
the nineties, we used to say, after anytime we had
like a halfway decent season, like under Jim Caldwell, we
had some good seasons where we made into the remember,
and we'd say, restore the roar, restore the roar, restore
the roar.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
That would be my thing.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
That or ten claws out or something like that, you know,
something like that, and then I would get Jeff on there.
I've never met Marshall. I've never met him, and i've
never met him. I don't know when it's gonna happen.
It's got to happen. I haven't met him yet. Got
to meet him, I mean, and he would get him
on there. We've never met, we've never met. We got
to work it out so that I meet Eminem and

(47:58):
then I've never met.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Him either though, and then Mummy neither.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
And I would put him on there. And also some
of our business leaders, like you know, like Mike Binder
or maybe uh Smart who owns the That's that's right,
that's a businessman right there, who owns Quick and Loans.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Oh, I know what you mean. The Cavaliers. Dan Gilbert Gilbert,
thank you Dan Gilbert. Is he from Detroit? He's from Detroit.
Oh so yeah, is he secretly rooted for the Detroit team.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
I think I think maybe he does anything crazy that
he owns the Cavaliers Detroit. Yeah, I just outed U
Dan Gilbert but quick quick and loans Rocket Mortgage and
uh and so yeah, so that's who would be on
that text chain. But definitely Tim and Tim and Tim
and and Sam are my buddies.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
They're my buddies.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
That would be great, Jack. Let's break down the Detroit line.
Let's get into these guys. Come on now, Uh, this
was again they would go twelve and five. This is
Dan Campbell, Ben John to Aaron Glenn, the team, Matt
hard Knock season. That's a lovable coaching staff, lovable coach guy.
My boy, I love me some cool guys. This is
the third year of the Dan Campbell era. And you

(49:11):
gotta you gotta remember this is Jamiir Gibbs and Sam
Laporta rookie rookie season, rookie season.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
And said earlier in the interview, build him through the draft,
build into the draft. That's that's that's how you win.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
So smart in both phases, both draft and our pickups.
Because that's the season we got David Montgomery from Chicage
from the Bears, and people aren't looking at hey through
the draft though Hutchinson and a Seoul east Al they're
called the best at his position, hands down, so athletic,

(49:46):
so aggressive, he's unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
And we got and who else we got? We GOTJ. CJ. Gardner.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Johnson came in there and Camp Sutton, Camp Sutton, and
so we were trying again to re tool and stack
our secondary because that's where we were finding some of
our weaknesses were and people could pass on us, and
so they were trying to fix up the secondary there.
So those guys were great. And then of course I'm
a wide receiver. I love wide receivers. I've always wanted
to be a wide receiver. I was the buildboard, but

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that would have been my position. I grew up at
a time like Lynn Swan and Stalwart and Drew Pearson
and oh my god, these carry Rice Larry Rice loved
them all Lofton Still, that's when I grew up, so
Ama Ra Saint Brown. It's like you and Welker and

(50:38):
that guy. These guys who can run in the slot,
run all over the places. I love that guy.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Yeah, And for him, and what does he do.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
He knows all the people, was it seventeen seventeen wide
receivers picked or for him? He knows every single one
of their names and where all of them went to school.
And I think he reads that list before he goes
out on the field every game in terim does Germany?

Speaker 3 (51:00):
I think German?

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, he's yeah, he's a great
football player.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
He's you know when you just said that, That's another
thing Dan Campbell does. Dan Campbell recruits and drafts football players,
football players, not special ty players. He he drafts. And
this is something I was really I was speaking about
Liverpool earlier, something I really love about soccer and about Liverpool.

(51:27):
They have a new coach. He's a Dutchman named Arnest
Slot and they had a German who was their coach
for years named Jurgen Klop, and Jurgen klops philosophy was
like eleven water carriers, like everybody's willing to do whatever
job they've got to do. My favorite thing sometimes is
I'll see somebody will be like a little little crossing
route and it'll be amen, Rah. It's watching the other

(51:50):
wide receivers block their asses off for him. That's what
gets me excited. It's eleven football players. It's eleven football
players on the on the field.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
And there's they have a mentality and a lot of
times teams take the personality of their head coach. And
the Detroit Lions this is the kickoff of when they
did it this specific game. You know they were getting
hints of it the year before, but you know they
didn't really they didn't.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
They started too slow, too slow, I can't do that.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
But the best time to play your best football is
the end of the year, and it carried over into
this year, into the season, this season.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Jack, let's hear about this game. Let's run through this
game real quick again. All right, banner. I but the
fake punt the first was the first.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
I know something's up in this night narrowhead fake punt
first quarter.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Even worse, even worse, m C d C is letting
them hang to night baby ball. So that's a lengthy scrotum,
holds them, holds them in there.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
That's the sack, if you will, the container, if you will, Yes,
And that leads.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
To a great I'm in ross Saint Brown touchdown gets
him on the board early. He did a little hingel
mccringleberry too little.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
Hinga mkringleberry, Yeah a little bit, yeah, only two.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
Yeah, oh my goodness. And the Chiefs follow up of
the Rashi writes tdd yep.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
And then a bad.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
Fumbled by Josh Reynolds in the first half leads to
another Kansas City touchdown, which.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Is also very which was very uncharacteristic. Great possession receiver,
great at getting first downs. Yeah, yeah he's gone now though, right,
he's gone, which makes me really it's all.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
But then Nett Williams kid, look good. Williams looked great.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Nice, and Khalif Raymond got a couple of Khalif Raymond
has to pick up the slack where Josh Reynolds left off.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
But he's gonna be fine. It's gonna be great. Got
faith in him. Down fourteen to seven and a half.

Speaker 4 (53:38):
Start the second half hot with O'Brian Branch another great
rookie pick six six, fifth the yarder. Welcome to the NFL, baby,
Patrick Mahomes' fourth ever pick six. So it's pretty cool.
Not many guys can say that. Two field goals, but
some bad drops there in the third down twenty to fourteen.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Now, ye, bad Kansas City drops. That'll be a little foreshadowing.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
Lions comeback, put together a big nine place, seventy five yard,
five minute drive capped off by David Montgomery rushing TD
had a big Josh Reynolds catching there. He made up
for that foomble go up twenty one to twenty and
that would be our final score. Some big stops in
the fourth quarter from the Lions when it mattered most
Unna say.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
I was gonna say the the defense did they They
did hold, But let's just say it was not Kadarius Tony's.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
It was not Day.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
It was not and so we have to keep in
mind there were drops, there were crucial drops, but they
they kept it. They kept everything in front of them
and kept them out of I mean, I couldn't believe
it as I was watching the game, how things were
stalling for them. And I guess at that point you
kind of have to say, we're no Travis.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
But they were drop drops, Like, yeah, they were. He
was open.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
It was bad, and he should have been catching.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
He should have caught those walls. It was bad. It
was bad. It was tough. But you know that one
play didn't define the game.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
It did not right, It did not define the game.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
You can never just get on one play like a miskick,
or there's like a trillion plays that compound into it. So,
you know, I feel bad for Tony because but it
was week one and they found out a way to
do it later on this year.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
But that's right, that's right. They certainly did. Yeah, they
certainly did.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
But they were crucial drops.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Hated to see it, hated to see it even I
hated to say. I mean, you feel for the guy,
even if you're rooting for the other team. I'm happy
for the circumstance, but you feel for the guy. You know,
you go, like you said, you went through spring, had
your OTAs, you went through all the preseason.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
You're working.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Nobody's trying to drop passes. No, one's not trying to
dog it.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
Yeah. So so after the game, how are you thinking?
I was. I was in a dream state for a while.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
I couldn't believe that that they had risen to the
occasion the way that you said that you felt that
they would. Now, I don't know if you were feeling
that way technically, I was feeling emotionally.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
Are they gonna be able to handle this situation?

Speaker 2 (56:03):
And I was like, I started, I'd already been drinking
the kool aid from the end of the last season,
but I went, oh, this is this is real, this
is actually happening. He's got them believing that they can
keep themselves mentally tight and that they can weather the storm.
Because it's weathering the storm against the best quarterback arguably ever,

(56:24):
even like they just have to kick a field goal
to win this game. I thought to myself, situation, Yeah,
oh yeah, my god, Oh my god. And then I
guess I just thought to myself, I thought we're gonna
go far. I really think we're gonna go deep, have
a deep run. I mean we got stopped early in
the season when we got destroyed by the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Hard to playing Lamar and you have seen him, when
you have when you haven't seen him, yeah, nfc, he's
got like one loss in his career.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
Yeah, because they never see him. Then it's like you.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
Can't prepare for you can't prepare for that. I played
him twice yere and you can barely play. Yeah, we'll
be right back after this quick break. We gotta name
this game, Kegan, we gotta name game. What would you
name this game? Because we have some stuff up there.
But you, I know, you have something in your head.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
I was gonna say, I was gonna say, like, this
isn't this isn't great. What I was workshopping is the
dulling of the arrowhead. Only unsharpening of the arrowhead. I
mean the unsharpening because because for them to be in
that hostile territory when they're dropping the banner, what else
could I say, or the banner betrayal.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
Something? There's that the banner awakening, arrowhead awakening. The arrowhead
awakening is good. I just saw that there. MotorCity. Listen.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
It doesn't have any like alliteration to it. It's not
very poetic, but it was a motor City statement. We
were putting the whole league unnoticed that we're.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
Here, motor City foundational statement, game.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
The motor City, the motive. It was MotorCity madness. I
guess that would have to have happened in the Motor City.
I do like the arrowhead awakening. Let's awakening because it
is the awakening of a new philosophy for our franchise.
Yeah awakening, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
All right, let's score the game.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
This is brought to you by Transformers one in Theater,
September twentieth. Is this the greatest game of all time?
Let's score it zero to ten stakes of this week
one game on banner drop night decimals okay, one to ten.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
The stakes Okay, so the steaks.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Mainly the stakes are for the Lions, but also camp
you know, Kansas City wants to show up. So I
think the stakes of this game, oh gosh, I think
I'm giving this like an eight point.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
Five, eight point five.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
I really am, because because they have to prove that
they're going to come back and do it again, which
they did, and then they have to and then Detroit
has has the opportunity, like are you going to take
advantage of this opportunity?

Speaker 3 (59:00):
And they did? Yeah, and they did, and in dramatic fashion.
It's a one point win. Yeah. I think that's that's
a good score. I'll give it to a six point eight.
Six point eight. Okay, six point eight, six point I
went low? Sorry you went six or six?

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Oh you guys went low?

Speaker 3 (59:14):
I'm sorry. Regular season game six point eight? All right,
I got a I mean we've done super Bowl. No,
it's good, I got it. But you're you, you have
a better perspective. I hadn't been in in.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Actual super bowls where especially, I mean especially your biggest
super Bowl. That game was insane because you were to
be trailing the way you were trailing, and then it's
it's like, are they the dominant team? Is this happening?
Is this Atlanta going to be a team for the agency?
That whole thing?

Speaker 3 (59:40):
I scored too high. I scored too high. Let's go
star power of this game.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
People in the building, people in the field, hall of famers,
what's your star power?

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Zero to ten decimals? Okay, I guess star power was seven.
I think that's a very I'll go seven.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Seven, just just a straight seven's approachriate.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
You still got four or five Hall of famers.

Speaker 3 (01:00:04):
Yeah, in the building, newcomers.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
We could talk about this game in five six years
and there could be a couple on the detroits.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
That's true. That's true.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
If we if we, if we won the Big One, yeah,
or even won the Big One a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
Yeah's gameplay the gameplay zero to ten, that was okay, game.

Speaker 5 (01:00:20):
Uns pick six yeah, great, the internight start kick off
of the season losing on a drop.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
It's not great. That's not great game play.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
This may also and maybe I'm going I think this
also might be a seven. Seven, I think a seven. Yeah,
it's a it's a decent game, but it was kind
of sloppy, little sloppy.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
It was a little roped.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Out get the rust, get the rust out game. Even
though the stakes were high, in my opinion, it was
still a bit of a rust get the rust out game.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
For the slop. I'll give it a Gronk six point nine, six.

Speaker 4 (01:00:53):
Point nine, Gronk seven point nine. I was going high.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
I like the seven. Well did you like the game play?
I remember watching it right here. Yeah, we will pit
some money on this one. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Now, the name of the game, the Arrowhead Awakening. We
got to score the name of this game.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
I think I I think the name is really solid.
I'm gonna give the name a nine very It's a great, great,
great use of a literation.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
And and another thing, we could look on this game
in five years and the awakening of the Arrowhead of
the Detroit the Detroit Lions. This could even have more
cultural impact this specific.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Game, because what if we become a dynasty, if we
let's pump the breaks, let's pump the break, making it
the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
First, I know, let's go. I'll give it an eight,
an eight, okay, okay, see scored it before I knew
the name. Four. Oh geez I stand by four? Two?
All right? Where are we ranking here? Six? Five?

Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
That puts us right above out The Club game twenty fourteen,
Week eleven, pats versus coach what we did with Robin?

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
And then right behind the club he drove him back.
Oh that's right, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 5 (01:02:17):
And then right behind Miraklen Morgantown ninete ninety nine, Mike
vic Virginia Tech.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Oh my god, that game was insane. It was That
game was insane.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
He was watch unbelievable to watch. He's one of those
people that you go, you know, when we're old men.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
You go.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
And then Mike Vick, you don't know from football, like
Mike like seeing that game. Was that game and also
the game they played against Florida State that the national championship.
The watching him in those games is like was like
watching Michael Jordan's whole career. Like you get to say
that you were alive when Michael Jordan played basketball, that
you were alive when Mike Vick played football.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
Ridiculous. I went to Virginia Tech because of Mike Vic
kind of I went to gradual.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
I kind of went to Penn State because of football.
I went to Penn State because I'm like, wait, man,
that's Rosie Grare and Franco Harris and Capelletti. That's why
I kind of went.

Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
I went to school. I know the feeling.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
I went to Kent State because I found out that
they were going to play Virginia Tech.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
We missed anything about this game, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
I don't think we are because you reminded me of
one of the more important things, which was the banner drop.
Is that I forgot about that part of the ceremony
because we've never experienced it in Detroit. Is that sense
of it's a day of celebration.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
We rained on that parade. It would be.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
Really rained on that parade. So I don't think we
missed anything. Thanks for mentioning that, because that that's really
actually important component to the drama of that of of
how that game unfolded.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Without a doubt and in your perspective on you know
where this could go. You know that I didn't really
think of that that this is this could be a
statement game for this organization going forward.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
I think so, I really do, because now it's because
I believe. Maybe it's a little I'll pump the breaks again,
but I'm gonna say it anyway. Look at how we
won against the Fashion in which we won against the
Rams in week one of this season. It's the same thing.
It's that it's a close game. It's a grind. How
do we figure out how to come out of here

(01:04:18):
with a win? They did, and they did it again,
and they did it again. Given any circumstance and all circumstances,
what do we need to do to win?

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
You know what? You gotta do anything it takes to win.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
Anything it takes, just like Transformer One's gonna win in
the theaters this September twentie Yes, yes, Michael Key over
here as Bumblebee. This episode is airing on the inaugural
Transformers Day. Happy Transformers Day. This is the fortieth anniversary

(01:04:51):
of Transformers. Stay tuned for special announcements. Check out Amazon
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Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
Thank you so much. You want to plug anything else?

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Know that that the one other thing that I'd like
to plug is uhh We have a book.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
My wife and I have a book.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
My wife is my my my creative partner, and and
we wrote a book called The History of Sketch Comedy
and uh, and it's it's it is available uh in
hard back. It's a great book. It's and it goes.
It's pretty extensive.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
It goes.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
It's not just kind of TV sketch comedy, goes all
the way back to the Greeks and ancient history. And
the the audiobook is coming out very soon, So I
just want people to have that on their radar. But
as we also come into the holiday season, it's a
great gift. And if you're if you're a comedy fan,
this is it's a really it's a really terrific I'm
clearly I'm biased, but I think it's a terrific Does

(01:05:46):
it come in audiobook? The autobook audiobook is coming out sooner.
Audiobook is audiobooks coming out of Reader.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
For coming This was great.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Man Hegan knew a lot about the Detroit Lions. He's
a lifer, real fan. He sure did bro real his hierarchy. O.

Speaker 5 (01:06:10):
I love when someone has like a very specific sports
fandom hierarchy.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
That's how you know that they're in it. He gave
us a real answer to.

Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
Yeah, optimist jacket optimist stays on, all right, I'm just
kidding you. Now, I'm like a catcher after he's going
to meet with a pitcher over here, Buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
I think you're more like the gladiator when he is
about to talk to he's about to.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
Talk to the bad guy. What's the emperor? What's his name?
Commodores this joint?

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
Yeah, I think it is about denel Orry. He goes off,
he takes it off. He goes Maximusrelius. What is his
last name? I think it's Maximus Aurelius, father of the
murdered child, husband to a motood wife, seeking his a
vengeance in this life for the next. That's what it

(01:07:01):
reminded him. That's acting right there. Bro got in the
new movie. What you should do that a year ago?
Maybe you got a new movie. But that was great.
He was great.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
Lions talk, A lot of lions talks, always fun. And
and just Detroit people, they're awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
M c d c oh.

Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
I'm so sick of having chiefs talk like. It's a
great game. I'm glad he picked it, but like.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
How about those jeeves?

Speaker 5 (01:07:27):
Yeah, Yeah, Chiefs were awesome, are great, But how many
Chiefs games have we done?

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
Done? A lot of Chiefs sceness have done a lot
of Pats games.

Speaker 4 (01:07:34):
When you win, there's a lot to talk.

Speaker 3 (01:07:36):
When you win, there's a lot to talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
That was awesome, I like, I mean, that is a
certified ball nowhere. He knows ball, came in here, he sports,
he knows sports bro. I mean that's why he's he
like hosts s didn't eve get as Yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
You know, and he he came and did a big
thing at our Fox ceremony.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
He came in like performed for us and he lit
it up. That's so sick. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
He's got a bunch of raps and ship like he
wrapped the Eminem's lyrics to like the kickoff of the season.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
He's really talented, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
I hate we didn'tet to ask him about the Obama
DAP ups getting.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
I know we didn't ask him Obama dap ups. Dude.

Speaker 4 (01:08:12):
When I met him, I went in for the I
was kind of going for the DAP but I went
for the shake. I went for the shake and then
the pat on the shoulder. You got a shake, Yeah,
I guess I guess he gave. Maybe I just got it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
I think you got it like that, bro, Kyler, what'd
you get? I think I just got a handshake? Yeah,
definitely handshakes. Dude. I thought I had.

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
Enough ri is to get the damn adapt Bro.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
I don't know, man, I guess you just gotta have
the mule. What is it called the mewing cut? This cut?
This editor? Oh no, cool, twelve year old TikTok stuff
So cool, bro.

Speaker 4 (01:08:51):
But also I got to point out for all you
keeping track at home of our sartorial scoreboard, if you will,
first blazer and the nuthouse, that is showing reverence to
the nuthouse.

Speaker 3 (01:09:02):
Baby, that that is showing reverence. I like it. We
gotta fact check that is that true? Very very wore.

Speaker 4 (01:09:08):
Tucks facts facts correction correction said, though we said guest, yes, yes, yes, yes,
the guest Kyler, he did.

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
It's not always about the tucks. Okay, we get James Bond,
we wore tucks and rock you wore tucks. He looked cute.
But for guests, it was our first blazer.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
But we'll be pin and everything. What a guy, what
a guy?

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
But man, I can't wait to see it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:34):
I can't either. Fun for the whole fam. Everyone's I
mean it looks awesome. Steve in a Transformers movie.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
Let's freaking go, Let's go.

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
The Booche baby gotta love it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Well, we really haven't talked about our live show on
the Oh, that's right.

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
How cool of an experience was that unbelievable? I still
am I'm still riding the high Man.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
It was pretty cool. It was awesome venue, the Wilburg Over.
Everyone that runs it is amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
That's just you know, I've been to shows there and
it was a little surreal to have our own get
up there, you know. And and the support from everyone
that came from the fans, but even the guys that
came and helped.

Speaker 4 (01:10:17):
With the show, Danny unbelieve, Rob Slater, Ernie, Ernie, Erniel.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
Meil. They were so gracious with their time. It was
incredible and it was fun. It was really fun.

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
It was it reminded it felt like the locker room
back and you know, it really did.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
We had so many of us in there, and it
was a group that kind of hung out, that group
a little bit like that specific group. I mean, Ernie
wasn't in there. As much, but he would be walking
through sometimes.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
Bro Ernie was cracking jokes. He was in there hanging
you see how slate though lower octave. Oh yeah, fellows,
you know, serious joke, serious talk slower you know, just
asked about something.

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
You're trying to get better. One day at a time,
take a week to week.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
Yeah, a good group of young guys in there.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
I can't believe he pulled it off.

Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
I can't either. Two in one night, back to back
sold it out. It was incredible. I mean, you guys,
I wouldn't even I hate to gas myself up.

Speaker 3 (01:11:22):
I wouldn't get that nervous. Do you guys get nervous nives?
Not yet?

Speaker 4 (01:11:26):
I mean I was at first a little bit, but
we didn't show it. I don't think I had a.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
Show to put on. I wasn't nervous. I was just stressed.
It was we had a busy week. We'd recorded a
lot that week. We had a fresh in the hockey
jersey though. Camille took your other one. You know what
it was meant for Billy, but she can have it.

Speaker 4 (01:11:45):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
Yeah, if it's good enough for a Camille, it's good
enough for us. Shout out to the I t people too.
Who was that group? Yeah, guy Element, they knocked it out.
The show was having for like all them.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
He I give one thing though second second show wasn't
as good.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
We're not. That's not what we do, right, we don't
do live show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
So I think that like first show had like it
was almost perfect time wise, you know, we I don't
know if a you know, people started drinking a little
too much. The energy levels, I mean, slates past his bedtime.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Dola, gronk past his bedtime, gronk past his bedtime. In
the back ernie, I think.

Speaker 4 (01:12:31):
He was taking a nap ernie with the smelling salts
bro Yeah, he said, hey, anything to get out there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
By you get out there, you give us fifteen come on,
you know, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
But he played tired, he did, he fight through, fatigued,
you know, first sixty.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
And the resilience. It was a good show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
I'm just saying, if I want to be nitty pitty,
the second show, you know, and lost his steam alone
and that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
Didn't lose his steam. But it's just different energy, different energy.
Yeah what uh oh it was were you blazer too?
Fuck Blazer talk shows.

Speaker 5 (01:13:03):
We have to decide, we have to decide if live
show should be included in our top game, Cannon.

Speaker 4 (01:13:12):
I think you got to.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
It's not public yet.

Speaker 5 (01:13:14):
Now there will be content that comes out and some
we'll see about how much of the show and what not.

Speaker 3 (01:13:19):
But it all looks good. What do you guys think outside?
We'll let them.

Speaker 5 (01:13:23):
Yeah, yeah, sound off in the comment about if the
live show should be included in Cannon.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
We did the.

Speaker 5 (01:13:28):
Chiefs excuse me, We did the Seahawks Patriots for Super Bowl,
and then we did the twenty eighth to three Falcons
Patriots Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
Yeah, and then.

Speaker 5 (01:13:35):
The Falcons superseded became our new another one.

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
We got to do a couple more. No, we're not.

Speaker 4 (01:13:41):
I don't know that we're going to become the Beatles
and invest in the tour bus right away, but.

Speaker 3 (01:13:44):
I want to. I think we got Can we get
to the Oasis first? Before we just started throwing fucking Beatles,
Let's get a year under our bat.

Speaker 4 (01:13:53):
You're trying to maybe hit that Oasis reunion concert.

Speaker 3 (01:13:57):
When is it? It's like I think this summer. Yeah, I
definitely got it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:01):
We gotta go over the pond.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
Though, I think you gotta go over pond. Yeah. I
don't think. I think meadow Lands is. People are saying it,
but I don't think it's confirmed it. You got to
bring it over to me. You gotta do it for
a lead, baby, you know two day it's going on
that day.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
You can't just if you're gonna do that and only
do it in the UK, like then it ain't that big, bro.
We gotta go the cross that pond. When you want
to be it real, you don't drop.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
On the concret. You want that American culture behind you, buddy.
I was just doing a deep dive on the conquerent
and with your community.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
Yeah, they're bringing it back, are they? The concord is
coming back. I think next summer.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
Yeah it is. But that's so sick is the sound,
because the.

Speaker 5 (01:14:40):
Sound it burns so much fuel and like it doesn't
it's a smaller plane, so it doesn't like travel many people.
It's almost like you'd rather be in the first class
now and have like lie down and like a better
situation and burn two hours than being like cramped not
have the internet and just like go.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
They'll have the internet on that thing, the new ones.
The new one's gonna have internet. They're that thing's gonna
be badass. It'll probably be a little bigger. It's twenty
twenty four that she went down thirty years ago. Yeah,
that was what is thirty last one was probably in.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
The nineties, two thousand, mid two thousands, mid twenty that's twenty.
We got computer chills three three.

Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
Concord made his last ever flight November twenty six, two
thousand and three, departing he throw landing in Bristol, Ingland.

Speaker 3 (01:15:24):
That's not far.

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
Jeez. Hold on July twenty fifth, twenty twenty five, Wembley Stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
That would be sit oasis. The boys were there, that'd
be sick. That'd be so sick.

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
Guy, before we two days never back to you.

Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
Yeah, I wonder wall dude, you gotta wrap this up. Yeah,
I was gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:15:45):
Hold on before we before we jump. This was a
really special night.

Speaker 3 (01:15:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:15:49):
There was so many people there, came out in support.
We took over the Wilbur so cool. Like see you
guys in person.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
It's amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:15:56):
Dap you up and wave and hang out and get
to say what's up to the people before we get off.
It would love to do a little rose and thorn here.
What was your guys's high points. Hey, maybe a little
constructive criticism.

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
What could you do better? If you're your thorn? If
you will my rose? Yeah? Was your rose? Okay? Your
your favorite part? What's your rose? It's pretty cool. I'm
more of an arena.

Speaker 4 (01:16:20):
My style plays better for arenas like twenty thousand. But
when you get a big laugh from an intimate crowd
like twelve hundred and fourteen hundred whatever, that's a great feeling.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
Man, yess, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (01:16:32):
Coming out there, getting to pump up the crowd, get
a couple of chest bumps and some flexes on them
when you're wearing the knock the track suit, Like.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
That was cool. That was great. I really liked that.
That was my rose.

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
I think I think my rose was like when all
our our guests came out, they got a big round
up clause, and I think it made them they enjoyed that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
I like the Ernie Chant was. Ernie was awesome. Ernie
Chant was like a rose.

Speaker 4 (01:16:56):
Ernie Ernie still echoing what.

Speaker 5 (01:16:59):
About yours, Taylor, I'm gonna be so terrible, I'm gonna
be so terribly on But like, honestly, the tam afterwards,
just like the bar we went through just to.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
Be like exhale. We did it. The show was.

Speaker 5 (01:17:13):
Good, it was a good environment, it was good fun.
People seemed to like it. There was a lot of
stuff going on, Like I didn't realize how much that
show was. We don't do live shows where cameras and
edit type of people until actually like put it off,
Like the moment after where we did it. The exhale
was my favorite part because I think it went off
really well. I think you guys I didn't talk so much,

(01:17:35):
but you guys like crushed it on Mike, like all
the guests crushed it. The show and off all the
people was great. So for me it was at the
end being like a deep breath. We fucking pulled it
off well.

Speaker 3 (01:17:46):
I had another rose. Jack's outfits were pretty fire.

Speaker 5 (01:17:53):
Jack has been talking for like a year and a
half about merch, just merch, merch.

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
When are we gonna get more? How are we gonna
get merch?

Speaker 5 (01:18:01):
People want merch, all the merch merch birds mers and
he comes out wearing like a fucking track suit with
like no fucking.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
Merch that tracks. He was swaggy dough.

Speaker 4 (01:18:08):
Hey, I had to do it for drizzy baby, big score,
We love you, sign me a knocked the deal come
out now. Hey, I had the Nut House had on.
I had the Nut House had on. But you're right,
I did kind of. I repped metal Wood and I
rep Knocked over the boys. I don't think I wore anything.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
I wore a hat. You were the hat.

Speaker 4 (01:18:22):
You look great, bro real ripped real defined.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
I like that fit. Yeah, it wouldn't be a day
without a glaze. We also got some cool gifts.

Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
So our meme, Lord Dollin, he sent like somethinghere he
brought got to meet him actually in person. He brought
a ton of T shirts that were so cool. And
also our friend Gabby from Germany, her friend from Germany,
she came. She got all these like awesome German stuff.
They're actually back here, so shout out to her Deutsch.
Love the support. It was great, kind of being in
person with the fans.

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
It was it was fun. It was a great night. Thorn.
We're we gonna do with Thorn already kind of saent
my Thorn late show, different energy.

Speaker 5 (01:19:02):
Yeah, I think it was like three hours of being
on for you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
That's a lot. It was late in the day, like
a lot going on. Lot Oh, my my thorn.

Speaker 1 (01:19:13):
Was my thorn was two days before when I didn't
take any out over the fucking green monster.

Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
That's my goddamn thorn. You had a couple of stand
up doubles off the wall.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
You're good, yeah, but I mean, I mean they give
us fucking pitch machine.

Speaker 3 (01:19:26):
I was lame.

Speaker 4 (01:19:27):
What what are we doing Toronto full pitch machine?

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
No, but at least Toronto. Let us throw, let us
get in the cage. Nothing, nothing but love the red.
If you I was mistimed on that thing, you didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:19:40):
Get any warm up swings. You didn't get to get
looped up.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
I mean, shout guy, who's my guy that gave me
the gloves? Oh? A little stud? These are the baseball guys.
They look so young that they were.

Speaker 1 (01:19:54):
I mean that you could sell. They're all jacked up.
They're like studs, a little young studs. But the like
their their faces looked young.

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
To me.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
I was like, I just always remember the big leaguers
looking like the baseball players always looked like men. Yeah,
you know, he always looked at a baseball that's man.

Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
Now I must be old. They really did.

Speaker 4 (01:20:14):
Look very they were ripped young men. Addison Barger was
that maybe the third basement I'm trying to place a
face for I was.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
I was like in so much of a like it
happened real quick, and I was I gave love.

Speaker 3 (01:20:28):
In Francis the picture.

Speaker 1 (01:20:29):
Yeah, Spencer, he gave me his batting gloves and his
bat and he's like, go ahead, go out, And I
didn't get I was just kind of getting ready to
focus up for the swings. I wanted to take a
couple of dingers out because you know, last time I
was there, I took out like six, and so Kyler
gave me an over under on two.

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
I'm like, I'm gonna smoke this joker.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Over dented that fucking monster.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
That's my thorn, my Thorne.

Speaker 5 (01:21:00):
I think is that we spent a lot of time
trying to make the show as awesome as possible, so
like a lot of like pop.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
And like we did a lot of stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:21:09):
Was like when we brought out Dola and we brought
out Ernie and just NonStop like stuff happening, and I
almost like felt bad, like in the middle we knew
there was like conversations like oh right, this is still
just a podcast.

Speaker 3 (01:21:21):
Like I felt like this was like a whole like extravaganza.

Speaker 5 (01:21:23):
So it's just kind of like we built up and
did so much stuff that was almost like, oh, we
might have like I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
It was a good show. Good show. Maybe we'll do
one in New Orleans this year, a big easy down
and did we do that Super Bowl? Yeah? I don't
know if we can get anyone there. There's anyone interesting. No,
I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
Fans have an empty ass, have empty set out there.

Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
And we sold out twenty four hundred and that's in
Boston though, you know they're different in Boston, but it's
a football crowd there. Has a lot of podcasts happening.
It's our market. Juvenile in the nuthouse, were good, bro,
many juvenile.

Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
That's when Lil Wayne came out when he was like
thirteen years old with the with the fucking.

Speaker 3 (01:22:10):
Manic can't dann it?

Speaker 4 (01:22:11):
Yeah, big man, Bro, we should we really should get
Master p on this pod.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
Mego, no, no, he's a hooper, mego say.

Speaker 4 (01:22:26):
No no, no, no, no no no.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
Remember his little son Romeo? Oh bro, how could I forget?
He was on the USC basketball team? Man?

Speaker 4 (01:22:36):
Yeah, little Romeo Beace I c d C College. I
fucking loved master p Well what a game. Thanks again
to Keegan.

Speaker 1 (01:22:46):
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Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
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Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
It's gonna be a blast hit. Just win that game,
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