CFB conference dominoes start to fall, NFL test results encouraging, and a tribute to America’s grandpa.

CFB conference dominoes start to fall, NFL test results encouraging, and a tribute to America’s grandpa.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, A production of
I Heart Radio. He won't do another episode, Blandino A
lot to get to as always. Travis Hansen, Travis changing background,
changing locations. He's in his backyard, now he's in the bedroom.

(00:24):
You know it's the Travis. What happens? Give me a word?
Two kids asleep? That's what you do to describe it
as as you said before the show, with the magic happen,
It's right. I knew and he wouldn't he wouldn't resist.
Joe Madrid, Joe handling the audio. Joe, what's up? Just
hanging out and Stace here. You have a notice. Do

(00:48):
you remember this hat? This was the hat that uh
remember this hat doesn't want to cow bomb me. We're
hanging out on Third Street at one time. Yeah, Dean,
Dean's sun bomb me. This happen. This podcast is brought
to you by Nike UM. We've got big, big sponsors.
Scott is on a beach somewhere where do you where
do we think that beaches? Caribbean or Hawaii looks Caribbean?

(01:09):
It does look Caribbean. I wish he was there going.
Let's a lot, a lot has happened. UM. You know
this week obviously you know we had we had seen
some of our the smaller certainly FCS conferences in college

(01:32):
football had announced they were postponing to the fall. Conferences
like the you know, the SWACK, the MEAC, the Ivy League,
UM all postponing until till the spring. And but this
week we finally got um some real big fish UM
two power five conferences. The Big ten announced first UM

(01:53):
on Tuesday that they were postponing the fall season, canceling
fall sports UM with an eye to the spring. And
then the PAC twelve followed soon thereafter later on Tuesday
to basically say the same thing. So what does that mean?
Right now, you've got the of the of the autonomy.

(02:13):
So if you think about FBS, right, FBS, there's there's
there's ten conferences in FBS, there's your autonomy five. And
what that means is those are your those are your
Power five. There that's your CFP, Big ten, PAC twelve,
Big twelve, A C, C and the SEC. Then you
have your group of five. Right, so your group of

(02:35):
five is is your conference USA, your MAC, your sun Belt,
your Mountain West. And I'm missing one day a A C,
so right now and then you have your independence like
Notre Dame and by U. But but right now we
have to autonomy five pushing to the spring. UM. You've

(02:57):
got several of your group of five Mac Mountain, West, UM,
Big Twelve, SEC, A C C are all still moving
forward the Big twelve and said, okay, we're playing. They
announced their schedule a part of their schedule, A c
C saying their medical people are telling them that they
can play. They're gonna push forward. SEC is still planning

(03:18):
on playing. They've they've pushed back to late September. UM,
but who knows what's gonna happen right All I know
is I'm gonna quiz you guys right now is the
sun Belt is hanging in strong and we're all gonna
be watching sun Belt football. Can't wait, So so let's
start to brush up with our sun Belt our sun

(03:40):
Belt knowledge. Can any of you name one sun Belt
team without gooding it? One sun Belt team Southern Alabama
You're just you're just throwing. This is the same guy
that you'll like, this kid who went to SMU and

(04:05):
he was just like we were watching the SMU geame
he and he he Joe leans over to me like
an hour into it, and he's like, what is this
a news stand for? Like he was like, Southern Dory,
you know, South Michigan, what is it? So? Um? So
it's it's not necessarily southern Alabama, but the University of

(04:27):
South Alabama is in the sumber and you really, you
you couldn't really miss that far throwing Alabama just giving
it a direction. Meanwhile, if you go to a directional school,
it's not you didn't You didn't do that well in
high school was a long saying that went there. I

(04:51):
got I got Troy because my guy DeMarcus Ware went there. Um,
longtime cowboy player, like good the Sun Belt program that
we should know, this is a this is a small
school that tends to beat the it's the it's the
David to the Goliath at times. Come on, think about it.

(05:13):
Appalachian State beating up on Michigan. That's a Appalachian state.
So um. But the raging Cajuns down there, we're gonna
be watching her names Shandon clearsa Arkansas state, I mean
Georgie's state, Louisiana, Lafayette, right, the raging Cajun. So it's
gonna be if some Belts can hang in there. I

(05:35):
feel like I'm watching a lot of Sun Belt strength
of schedule. Though they're not gonna They're not gonna make
it to the National Championship. I'm just gonna go out
on a limb there. So the CFP, and it was
interesting Bill Hancock, who's the who's the executive director of
the CFP, did come out and say they're hopeful to
still play a four game you know, college football playoff

(05:57):
with three of your your you know, two of your
our five dropping out. It's it's interesting how that would
play out. Uh. Again, when you look at this decision
and in the n c A, and I think we've
talked about this, the college football was always going to
face bigger challenges than professional football. You're dealing with student athletes, right,

(06:18):
You're dealing with you know, the campus, the the the academics,
everything that goes into it. These are not professional athletes
that are paid, that are players union back and yeah
they're not. They're not collectively you know, represented, And to me,
it comes down to a couple of factors and in
no particular order. And I don't know each conference has

(06:41):
made their own decision, but you think about, right, the
health and safety of of not just the student athletes,
but but everybody involved in college football. UM. Then there's
certainly an economic consideration. I mean that's why, UM, these
conferences that haven't pulled the plug, you know, are continuing
to try to play a season because there is just
so much money UM at stake. And then there there's

(07:03):
the the amateur status. UM. As you think about the
the the the voice that these college athletes, these these
players have started to you know, come out. The pack
twelve got together players from from different schools around the
conference and and created a coalition UM to talk to

(07:23):
Larry Scott, the commissioner, and voice their concerns big ten players,
UM others. So you think about this, you know, does
the n c A hey really want to see these
players start to organize and potentially you know, use that
power UM, because look, this system is UM, it's built
on the backs of these student athletes that that don't

(07:48):
get paid. They they don't they don't even have the right.
You know, that's a big the image and likeness UM
debate has been going on and hopefully that that that
moves forward. But UM, you know, the scholarship is great
but you know, think about the time that's spent obviously
having to to to also deal with school and grades

(08:08):
and everything else, and then practice and working out. I mean,
it's it's a it's an insane time commitment. And UM,
I think these athletes should be compensated in some way.
I just don't know what the what the what the
right answer is. UM. But again we'll see a lot
of people. What's fascinating to me is UM kind of

(08:30):
the the you know, I don't think the Big Ten
if you, if you, if you look at the coaches
and the players, and it's not a popular decision. It's
not an easy decision, but it's not a popular decision.
You know, these coaches, these players, they want to play.
Nebraska has gone so far as Scott Frost has gone
so far to float out the idea that will will
play outside the conference. UM and and Kevin Wawren, the

(08:53):
commissioner of the Big Ten, who was in his first
year after replacing Jim Delaney, who was a longtime Big
Ten UM basically said well, they could play, but they
will no longer be a member of the Big Tent.
So so that that's a pretty pretty strong rebuke for
for Nebraska. UM, and you know, obviously it would be

(09:16):
I think it would send shock ways through the whole system.
Nebraska decided to go off and and play in another conference,
or or or plays an independent. I don't know, it's
just UM, it's gonna be interesting to see how this
all plays out. I saw the tweet from Steve Sprayer.
Did you see that one? I did not. What did
he say? And he said, well, with with with the
Pack twelve and the Big Ten. Postponing said, the national

(09:41):
championship will will remain where it belongs, either in the
SEC at a SEC because five or the last six
have won the national championship team from those from those
one of those divisions. Spur also was, you know, he
coached in the Alliance of American Football and it's been
I've been through to Spring League since then. So I

(10:03):
can't even remember what teaming coached. UM. It was somewhere
in the South, maybe in Florida, but they had the
best record. Was in Orlando. They had the best record.
And when the season that I live in the loudest
area in your I live in I'm two blocks from

(10:26):
the beach of one blocks from the promenade. You could
not be in a better location, but it is loud
between sirens and people unlike Joe, who have cars that
have engines that go room room like to drive really
fast and really loud past my place. So um, but yeah,

(10:46):
it was was Steve Spurit trudging in Orlando Apollos. He
was the Orlando Apolos and they were and they weren't.
They were undefeated, and so he crowned them the champions
of the a F when the league folded. Um. So
but here and I'm interested in your guys thoughts on
spring football because you know, I know for a fact

(11:06):
that when the Big Ten, you know, as they were
looking at this a month ago, two months ago, if
you looked at the options spring, playing in the spring
was the last option. It was a last resort option.
It was if everything else fails. Um, the spring is

(11:28):
the is the last option. No one, No one wants
to play in the spring. No one thinks that playing
a full schedule in the spring and then turning around
in a short window and playing in the fall is
a good idea. I mean, there's so many issues with that.
And ultimately, this is where we are right this is

(11:48):
where the virus has taken us, and I think it's
gonna be interesting to see if they can play in
the spring, because to me, um, i'd love to see
if a spring season. I just don't think you can
a full seasons in the spring. I think you maybe
maybe you play a short season, maybe you play six
or eight games, um, and then you know, and then

(12:08):
you give these these these guys a chance to rest
their bodies, um and go out and and and get
ready for the fall. The other thing is, is you
if you're somebody who's you know, in their last year
of eligibility and and you're gonna be in the NFL draft,
are you gonna play You're gonna waste that time and
play in the spring? Are you just gonna go out
and and uh and and get ready for the draft?

(12:29):
Like Michael Parsons from from Penn State. I mean, he's
gonna be a top ten pick and he you know,
he's already said I'm out, I'm done, and I'm gonna
start preparing for the NFL Draft. Yeah. I don't know.
I don't know what you know what that looks like
at this point, But I don't know what you guys
think in terms of spring, Well, I'm just confused how
eligibility is gonna play out. I mean, that's been one

(12:51):
of the least pressing issues. But if the bait can
and back twelve, which have not canceled but postpones, there's
season as far as I understand, if they don't play
at all this fall and then let's say they just
roll into whatever the next season is um but then
other leagues play maybe the spring. But if it's not

(13:14):
a full season, like, how is eligibility effected? And then,
like you said, I don't. I just think, like, if
you're splitting the Power five conferences from who plays you doesn't,
it's just a it's just a big mess right now. Yeah,
And I think and it is, and I think it

(13:35):
kind of underscores or just really highlights the issue with
college football and how you you have the n c A,
but you all you have these conferences that have they're
almost like these little fiefdoms and they have their own
little deal. And now, like you said, like the the
n c has left it up to the right. First
they said, okay, we're gonna leave it up to the

(13:56):
divisions in terms of fall sports fall championships. So the
in two and three were like, we can't we we
we we can't play fall sports. We can't play fall championships.
They don't have the resources. And then Division one you're
kind of like on your own in terms of right
if if the SEC obviously we'll have the resources and
they decide o our medical people and our health and safety.

(14:17):
You know, people are telling us we can play and
we have the resources to test and and and to
do all these things. Um, we're gonna do it, whereas
the Big Tenant Pact twelve have said no. So so
it is it's so um fractured, and UM, I think
it's it just kind of highlights the the issue with
college football and you have haves and have nots, and

(14:39):
um that's why that's why every year we watch Alabama
and Clemson UM in the championship game, right and and
when there isn't and we watch Ohio State and Oklahoma
and and four or five teams playing in a college
football playoff UM every year and uh, there isn't a
lot of um, you know, the lack of a better word,

(15:01):
of quality around the around the college football landscape. As
a as a football fan, you want to see that.
I want to see spring football I just don't think
it's gonna happen. To me. It was like a pipe
dream that the media like has nothing else to write
about us. Working in the media, we're excited about it.
We see all these reports, stories, and then you hear
you know, I'm listening to press conferences yesterday of all

(15:22):
the different A D s and people saying, you know,
we we look at we can look at spring football,
but I just don't know how feasible it is and
who really benefits from that. We're gonna lose, you know,
a lot of our best players who are going to
go to the NFL Draft, they're gonna they're gonna opt out.
And I see, like the people who benefit most from
this are the guys who aren't going to be playing
professional sports. You know, it's their last year, they get

(15:43):
their last year of college sports, and then they go
on to through the real world. And I think it's
I think that's great. I think that's an important point.
I think there's a couple of things. I think certainly
there's an economical there's an economic um aspect to this
that if you can because these conferences, right, they've got
big network deals. Um, you know, we we broadcast. We lost.

(16:07):
We lost two out of our three conferences. On Tuesday,
I was filing se right, so you know, I'm hopeful
that the Big twelve hangs in there and they can
do it safely. And you know, we're gonna be working
a lot of Oklahoma State in Texas and Texas Tech
and Baylor, and I'm brushing up on my Big twelve stuff,
getting ready because you know, that's that's what we got.

(16:28):
And you know, but it is a Baylor That's what
I'm talking about. We've had many of those games in
the past three years. And you're telling me, you're you're
heartbroken that you're not gonna get to do an eight
pm u c L a Colorado Football broken pactall after
I'm not broken about tact after dark, I do. I

(16:49):
am heartbroken. Um early early window Big ten just you know,
you know, late October in an arbor or in you know,
in in Iowa City or Lincoln, Like that's kind of cool,
Like what when you think of the fall and you know,

(17:12):
my my seasons have gotten all screwed up since I've
moved to southern California. But you know, when I've grown
up on the East Coast, and you think of the fall,
you think of the weather starts to change, you get
that chill in the air, the leaves start to turn,
and it's it's college football, right, It's it's you. You
know that, that's a part of it's the fabric of

(17:32):
of of our you know existence. And it is gonna
be It's gonna be weird. It's gonna be really weird.
Not to not to to have that. Um but I
will absolutely not miss cal Utah nine pm kick on
Friday night like that. I won't miss that at all.

(17:54):
I'm sorry, nothing against I mean, our most fun we
have this year was Cal games. But but not at
eleven pm Pacific? Was it? I'm sorry to continue to digress,
but was it in Cal Washington that had that four
hour Was it delay whether delay or something? Yes, yes, Cal,

(18:15):
it was that was We've we hold the record that
will never be broken. We the There's never been a
rules analyst hit later or earlier, depend on how you
look at it, than that. One seventeen a m. Pacific.
We went on and talked about a targeting call Pacific.

(18:39):
That means on the East coast. It was four seventeen
in the morning. It was Cal at Washington and it
was two and a half hour rain delay, lightning lightning,
lightning delay. That was insane. The best part about the
college rule and it was we were all over it
because it was amazing. Every time there a lightning strike

(19:01):
that's within a certain distance of the stadium or visible,
you add a thirty minute, you had half hour to
the to the clock, and it was like it gets
to like six minutes and then boom lightning another thirty minutes,
ten minutes, boom lightning another thirty minutes. That was what
do we have that night? What do we order? Do

(19:22):
we get taco? Was that one of the last times
we had taco bell? That was the Taco Bell night.
Can we talk about taco bell for a second. Can
we let's talk about with taco bell? First thing it
were to the double about this the first thing you
were to the double decker Taco. And then they bring
in some like bootleg like after the fact, this this

(19:45):
Derrito it's basically a double deck of taco, but they
branded it with like Derrito's and I'm like, no, I'm
not going for that. And then Scott drops the bomb
today that they're they're not serving anything with potatoes. It's
sounds like everything that has a potato in it is
basically being removed. I don't remember them having much of

(20:07):
a potato is this now? Now I'm gonna say one
of two things, like we do we have a potato shortage?
Or did's putting the potato industries say something racist and
they're getting canceled, Like, what's happen? I know there was
an article earlier in the year where they had to
just throw away potatoes because there were there was a

(20:29):
surplus of potatoes too many. Yeah, so they are getting
rid of here's am here's a list right now starting Thursday,
so tomorrow, I guess as a record time they're getting
removing from the item. I mean removing these items from
the main the grill. Yeah. There, it looks like there's yeah,

(21:00):
at least at least three. But well, what's it called? Um? Well,
you think of anything on the menu with potatoes. Wyoming
Place has Well, there's cheesy fiesta potatos, there's the cheesy

(21:24):
potato loaded griller. That might be it, right, potato taco
instead of Okay, I didn't to me. Potatoes are not
a big staple in the Mexican food In Mexican food.
Well they aren't. But it's Taco Bell is not traditional Mexican.
It's it's Taco Bell. You know they're getting rid of
the Nacho Supreme that's leaving the menu seven layer burrito.

(21:50):
Who's making these decisions? I don't know. We gotta Taco Bell.
Did Taco Bell did the did the guy that runs
runs Taco Bell? Did he have like a son that
was like kind of a like a goofball? And then
and now he's running. Now he's running Taco Bell. We
reached out to that goofball, but he wasn't availed. Mark
King is the CEO of Taco Bell. Well he's ruining.

(22:13):
It's like a Tommy Boys situation, Like what's happening? The
funny thing is he got in August of twenty nineteen,
and I get to tell you, if Dean's make if
Dean's giving an evaluation, I think awful. Probably Twitter it's
been awful. What's going on? We gotta get this day

(22:33):
to find out. I want to Let's let's do the research.
I want to find some third on this guy so
we can get him out. Let's start a Twitter battle
with him canceled? Can we get him canceled. But however
the menu and find something racist on the menu. However, Dean,
he's also the Windys, the Windys guy, and you love Wendy,
so wen't make Taco Bell great again, right, He's the

(22:56):
Wendy's guy that hold on Mark King. Oh no, he
came from he came from Adidas. Okay, I'm reading it wrong,
because because the Young and Taco Bell at the same time,
If you Go to if you Go is a different guy,
Todd Penneger, Yeah, because that the the top the stock
ticker for Taco Bell is under yum, why you am

(23:19):
Young Brands, which is like Pizza Hut Taco Bell. Yeah,
because you can go in New York. I don't I've
never seen it here, but in New York City you
can like one stop shop. Yeah, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut.
There's a whole song like combination Pizza Hunt and Taco Bell. Yeah. Uh,

(23:42):
that's racist, that exis, but that's a thing. Yeah, Yeah,
combination Pizza Hunt and Taco It's a great song's great anthem.
But I I'm I'm very upset right now because the
Taco Bell that I knew is being destroyed and uh,
it's not good for you know, a lot of Americans

(24:05):
out there also strictly speaking about potatoes, I have many
vegetarian friends who like to go to Taco Bell who
sell meat for beans, but also they can get like
a loaded potato barrenas. When I was a vegetarian, That's
that's why I was my go to. I did, and
they're losing out because now like all the other fast

(24:26):
food taco places in l A still have those options.
And then Taco Bell is just saying like we don't care. Wait,
have you have Dann or Scott? Have you guys had
a vegetarian uh stent in your life? Yeah? Yeah, I
mean not a not a not a full. My ex
was vegetarian and so whenever we went out, we'd go

(24:52):
to like vegetarian vegan and I mean it was fine
in l A. It's not a problem. It's very easy.
Or city it was like you can get it's you know,
and what what's good if you go to What was
great about New York City is that you didn't necessarily
have to go to a vegetarian vegan restaurant, but you
could go to certain certain types of restaurants that just

(25:13):
felt like we used to go to this great Ethiopian
restaurant that that there just wasn't a lot of meat
and it was amazing, and you you could go to
different ethnic restaurants like that and just have a great
meal and not really be in a place that was
specifically vegetarian. One of my yeah, I am not a
vegetarian at all, and I've never been, but one of

(25:34):
my favorite tipe places in l A is all vegetarian
and vegan, and I'm like, the flavors are amazing. Obviously,
Indian food is always a great go to also Indian
of Indians, but you know, Taco Bell I'm taking off
the list. Sorry on that note, let's go to break.
When we come back with Alright, we're back on good calls.

(26:08):
What's up to NFL? Mhm, you know, as as opposed
to COMPLI, which there seems to be just a lot
of chaos not going would the NFL. It's been um,
you know, obviously we're still you know, training camps just started. Um,

(26:31):
not a lot of contact yet, but it's it's been quiet,
which is good. And there was you know, Dr Allen Sills,
who's the chief medical officer for the NFL, didn't release
um the latest testing UM the results and the and
the numbers, Travis, what was that? I know, uh, Kevin
Cfort from ESPN had tweeted at night, and I had

(26:52):
seen some other some other tweets, But what was it?
The number was? Actually looks it looks really great. It's
a hundred nine just over a hundred nine thousand total
tests of all personnel through Tuesday overall at zero point
four six percent positivity rate UM. That includes just over
or just under ten thousand people tested league wide UM
at the start of training camp, a hundred and seventy

(27:14):
new positive tests one and fifty three players at one point.
So that that seems pretty great. Yeah, And and obviously,
look we haven't started you know, blocking and tackling yet,
and and that's that's obviously um you know, or as
you know, kind of ratches it up a little bit.

(27:34):
But I think what what a lot of teams are
doing is they're creating right bubbles within their own little world, right.
I know the Saints have talked about okay, it's it's voluntary,
but they're gonna have hotel space and you'll be able
to go to hotel and versus doing you know, going
doing your normal routine. There are there are restrictions in
place where you know, players can't go to UM, they

(27:56):
can't go to indoor nightclubs or or indoor UM then
use with fifteen and more people there there's you know,
gatherings are limited to a certain number of people. So
again it still is the honor system to some extent.
But but violations will be helped, will be dealt with
with fines and and and discipline. Um. But so far,

(28:19):
so good, and it's gonna be Um, We're just gonna
have to continue to watch this because now we'll start
to you know, we'll start to start hitting in camp
and not that there's a ton of pettit practices really anymore.
Um and uh, and we'll just these these numbers are
going to be something we obviously we obviously continue to
look at. But there's gonna be right there. There's gonna

(28:41):
be positive tempts and that's that's just the reality of it.
And then it's how, you know, how do they deal
with it? Um? Can they? Because you know, I know,
we we have looked at some of those protocol documents.
It's extensive. Try you know, I know Joe didn't Joe
didn't really look at it, got got kind of pruised.
There a lot of restrictions in there, and uh, you

(29:02):
know it's but I'm encouraged by the testing so far.
And obviously the NFL has the resources. Um, the testing
protocols that they're using are our top of the line.
I did get just this is just sidebar. UM. I
had to two friends of mine that were in um
that we're in Miami. UM, they went to uh they

(29:25):
went to the stadium. I guess that's a testing location.
They went, got tested in within an hour they got
their results. UM. And these are just two people off
the street. So that level of testing is available to
the general public. You got to think that the NFL
is in um, you know, in a good spot with
with what they're doing. I agree. I mean it's there's

(29:53):
not much to say where it's like and I don't
need to be negative, but yeah, there's a very low
percentage right now. But it's like they barely reported you know,
well this. Yeah, Scott is Scott is our you know,
Scott's the guy that likes he wants to report the
negative news. He claims to be the realist. He's the realist.

(30:14):
Travis is is Joe positive. Joe is he's our resident
kind of Um, what's the word. Oh, I'm so excited
you're you're a resident. I don't multiple personality disorder. Sometimes

(30:36):
you're up, sometimes you're down, like sometimes you're you're generally positive.
I'm an emotional guy. You want to say you're you're
definitely emotional. There's no question, you're definitely emotional. Um. It
was interesting. Yet, the other news that came out was
on the game officials. Right, the officials have their protocols. Obviously,
they're they're they're represented by the union and uh, and

(30:59):
so they an opt out option and that opt out
is for Thursday, August thirteenth, is the deadline. From what
I'm hearing is at least five officials on field officials
have opted out and uh and so what the league
then has to do is they have to they have
to replace those officials. And I know everybody kind of

(31:19):
everybody gets a little worried when you start saying replacement officials.
I mean, but we're not talking about replacement officials. We're
talking about college officials that were that we're going to
come into the league at some point. These were the
top rated college officials that have been scouted and have
been in the Officiating Development Program, which is the program
that the NFL uses to to scout and develop officials

(31:41):
UM college officials. So so new hires are happening, you know,
this week, and uh, you know, I know of at
least two that UM college officials that were hired this week.
And uh, and yeah, but those officials that opt out UM,
basically they'll get a thirty thousand dollar UM fee for

(32:03):
and they're guaranteed they're they're officiating employment in UM. So
you know, if you have a you know, an existing
condition or you have a family member, UM, then it
makes sense. And I know some of the officials that
opted out to have family members that have issues, and uh,
you know obviously that's that's first and foremost replay officials

(32:24):
can opt out. Replay officials would get a ten thousand
dollar fee UM for and then guaranteed their position in one.
I don't know if any replay officials have opted out yet,
And but it is when you think about it, UM,
you know, you already had your normal turnover and four
or five officials new officials being hired. Now you're an

(32:45):
add another maybe four or five UM and officials this
year and that with the number of new officials leave
the last couple of years, and you have a you
have a um unless staff and and and that's certainly
something that uh you know with these younger officials that

(33:06):
they just have to continue to get reps and continue
to get better. Um. So you know, but that's the
that's the latest on on the game officials. Um, you know,
the I guess from a positive test standpoint, who's the
biggest name to test positive that Doug Peterson really, um yeah,

(33:27):
Matt Stafford as a player, and I mean to watch
it hard, not right right, And and the the lines
were pretty salty in their in their statement about it.
I don't know if he saw that. They they were
just like they were just saying, and now this guy
had to miss time because of a false Positively I
don't remember the exact warning, but when I read, I
was like, oh, they seem a little bit salty about this.

(33:49):
You know, the quarterback has to sit outwhining, and the
statement just maybe a little bit maybe that maybe that's
just my opinion, but this this that that a week
he's missing right now is really going to make the
difference from them getting seven wins or eight this year? Right,

(34:09):
that was not me. I did not say that. I'm
thinking eleven. I'm thinking eleven wins playoffs. I mean it's
like the NFC North is what it is. We know
the Packers are gonna be pretty good, the Vikings are
gonna be pretty good, and the Lions will surprise us
in ways how they look. It is what it is,

(34:35):
only in Detroit. It's it's very sad, it's so dan.
Then what do you think this if there's an outbreak
though within a team, Like if you if you see
what's happened with the Cardinals who haven't played baseball in
two weeks now, Like how how do how do these guys?
How does this happen? How does it even happen? First off,
like you know, all these same guys on the team,

(34:57):
they get tested every day and then all of a sudden,
all these positive starts showing up, Like well, how does
one guy get past the security and like all the testing?
Like well, I think that's the issue with Yeah, I
think that's what the NFL has. That's how they've chosen
to deal with this. That you in in theory, right,
you you have somebody that leaves the facility and they right,

(35:19):
they get exposed to somebody outside the facility that has COVID,
they they then they then carry it, right, but that
the incubation period is what three to five days, so
so they could come in, they could test negative, go
out and practice and spread it around, and we still

(35:40):
don't know that that person is positive. Right. So so
that's why I mean, I'm not Scott's are resident medical
experts yet all the asymptomatics, how that's how I see
it happen, if it happens, and certainly you're going to
that and that's where that incubation period kind of kind
of screws screws with us a little bit in these
in these in these scenarios and uh, you know, and ultimately,

(36:03):
but that's that's why you have, right, they have the
trace the tracing mechanism where okay, if somebody does with
a positive, then they can trace you know, who have
they've been around. Obviously they're supposed to social distance, um
during the you know, when they're in the facility, and
it's really gonna be that you know, when they're actually practicing,

(36:24):
when they're actually you know, playing games where where you know,
you hope it's outdoors. Um, you know we're not in
a in a in a closed enclosed space that that
you don't get that transmission. But like I said, I
don't if if the experts disagree on this, on this virus,

(36:45):
I certainly don't know what the you know, the answer
is a question to um just to jump back, because
you know, this is a podcast about officiating first and foremost, UM,
if is there I didn't read through like the COVID
official things, But if an official uh get sick or decides,

(37:08):
can they opt out in the season? And how many
is there enough replacement officials if an entire crew is
basically having to miss a week because obviously these crews
go from city to city or they get shuffled a
little bit. But what happens if like three or four officials,
like from multiple games have to be quarantined? Yeah, I

(37:29):
mean this is something that I've dealt with in the past,
just in terms of your normal attrition during the season.
You could have injuries, you could have illnesses, you could
have other things that come up. UM, And we've dealt
with everything from from you know, the ligaments or muscle
injuries to actual you know, heart condition or or something significant,

(37:52):
somebody diagnosed with something and and now they can't work.
So you always have you know, you have seventeen crews
of officials, UM and on any given Sunday UM. You
we like that, right, you the most, the most you
can play since you have thirty two teams or sixteen games,

(38:15):
so you always have one crew that's off right, and
then when you when you factor in bies, you could
have multiple crews that are on Thursdays and Monday right,
and then you have your Thursday night and your Monday
night crew that are also especially your Thursday night crew
could double up right Monday night. It's a little bit
tougher depending on where it is, but Thursday night you
could work Thursday and then double up. Welcome on Santa Monica,

(38:41):
leaning on the horn like they're in midtown Manhattan and
the delivery truck is blocking the entire side street road
out there, and that's what we're doing right now. What
that was necessary? What's crazy too, is I know where Dean,
if there's no reason on either the cross streets that

(39:04):
is that for anyone to be honking like that because
there's a lot of room where you can just go
around the street. Is so wide. There's no tone worn
like that, like you're you're a douchebag and good segue
not a segue, but foreshadow and we're gonna talk about
douche beggary after the break. But um, and I lost

(39:27):
my train of thought where was and and so so
you're always gonna have additional officials, um that can work. Um.
This year, you know they're gonna look at there, they're
they're certainly going to be there's gonna be a regional
aspect to to the Cruise. I think you're gonna see
Cruise mixed and matched throughout the year. So you're gonna

(39:48):
have Because you think about football officials in the NFL,
it's it's very think about hotspots for football in the country. Right,
That's how it's That's how football officials, that's that's kind
of where they live. Right. You have a lot of
officials that live in you know, the Midwest, that live

(40:08):
in Ohio, or live in Pennsylvania, or live in the southeast,
right Florida, Mississippi, or out west, they live in California. Right.
You don't have a ton of NFL football officials that
live in the Northeast, right, But there are a lot
of NFL teams that are in that Northeast, So it's
it's gonna be interesting to see the regional concept and

(40:30):
how you're going to um, you know, mix and match,
or maybe certain crews are gonna work certain teams more
than normal Normally, the restriction is you can you can't
work on a team more than twice during the same season.
I think they're gonna break that. I think they're gonna
break that consistently. Um. The reason you do that is
because you don't want to create a situation where um,

(40:54):
you know, there's a familiarity that can that can create issues.
There's you know, you just increase the opportunity be for
something controversial to happen. And now you've got to go back.
You know, if we screw up a call in Philadelphia,
now I have Philadelphia three more times. You know that's
a problem. So you just try to move people around
and uh, but you're always gonna have additional officials. UM.

(41:15):
What I'm more concerned about is a crew gets to
the city. So the way they're gonna be tested is, um,
Sunday game, They're gonna be tested on Thursday before they
leave for the game, and then and then when they
arrive on Saturday, they will get tested again in the
league city. UM, negative negative, We're good, right, no issues.

(41:40):
But if I think the biggest concern is negative on Thursday,
and then for some reason we get to we get
to Atlanta on Saturday and four officials test positive on Saturday.
And now you've got to figure out, Okay, how are
we going to get four replacement of fisials to Atlanta

(42:01):
UM in twenty four hours? Right, you know, and that
before that kickoff. And I think that's gonna be a challenge.
I think you're gonna have to have people on the ready,
You're gonna have to have people within driving distance. UM,
you're gonna try to limit the number of times people
have to get on airplanes because you know you can
get infected that way, Whereas if you're in your car,
less chance of something happening unless use the frequent truck

(42:24):
stops and and and you know socialized and misery. I
don't know, is there an opportunity then for you know,
music playing and then you know, like, hey, is that
Mike Pereira's music. He's coming out of the booth, out
of the field. Awesome, that's number seventy seven. That is
that's number seventy seven. If it really mean he's got

(42:45):
like like like Obie Oglethorpe in well he tears he
tears his suit off and underneath it suit off just
it strikes, goes out and officiates the game and kicks
nine halls in the game as Joe and Troy sitting
next time, Wait, Mike, where are you going? It is?

(43:05):
It is? Um, I don't think Mike being out there,
but it's certainly feasible where we're gonna we're gonna have
late last second replacements and uh and and you think
about it, it's you know, you could have you could
have a replay, official will go down you There's a
lot of things that could happen. Um, So the behind
the scenes stuff is gonna be it's it's you know,

(43:26):
I can't imagine. I mean I don't when I was
in that role with the logistics, and I had a
really good person that worked on the schedule and managed
that for me, and she was awesome. But this is
a this this never dealt with anything like like this
is um you know, can you hear that music? It's

(43:47):
like a mariachi man. Yeah, Like I don't know. It's
it's amazing. It's um yeah that music. Take us a break.
This is a from a logistics standpoint, it's a nightm eber.
Before we go to break, I do wanna, I do
want to take a quick moment to to recognize, Um,
Howard Mud passed away and the sad long time, longtime

(44:10):
coach in the NFL. This is a guy that's been
around forever and uh and and he just recently passed,
so condolences to his family. And uh, you know that's
a guy that when you when you saw Howard Mud,
like that's a football coach. Like when you looked at
him like that, that guy was like I just pictured

(44:32):
him back in the day in the remember the bike
shorts in the all the socks, the long socks, and
the the polo shirt and the whistle around the neck,
and like he he was a football coach, a football
guy and and and a pretty good guy. So um,
I just want to take a moment to that. And

(44:53):
oh and lastly, um before we go to break. We
talk about spring football earlier. But wait, wait, can you
maybe can you smell what the rock might be cooking
in this? Yeah? I got to steal on that. Is

(45:15):
it possible that we could have some jibrones playing football
in the spring the XFL. Is it possible, Like I
was reading some stuff, I'm like, I don't feel like,
now you know a little bit more logistically, would it
be possible to spin it up in time for summer?

(45:36):
Or is that still just too much of a tight
time frame when we're looking at like two well not
for XFL. From what I'm hearing is spring. Wow, Okay,
that's a tight turnaround. Yeah. I don't know for sure,
but that's the idea bubble concept um. I think, what's

(45:58):
fascinating about this? And you obviously you have the right
The Rock obviously has the w W E connection and
you go from Vince McMahon to the Rock, And all
I did, if I if I'm lucky enough to get
the opportunity to continue to work with the XFL, all
I'm doing is changing my my text message shifts from
Vince to the Rock. I mean, is you know when

(46:19):
we when we talk about the xf So I think,
what's really what's fascinating about this is it's actually Danny Garcia,
who's the Rocks ex wife that's going to be running
running the XFL and this is the first time um
in I don't know if all professional sports history, but
in certainly in North American sports where um, a female,

(46:43):
you know, a woman will be will be running a
sports league, which is awesome. And um, you know, and
like Travis mentioned, they got it. What a deal. Fifteen million.
I thought that was a deal too. I feel like
we should have just bought it. Yeah, because all we
need if we pulled all our money together, we need
another one millions something. But yeah, I think it's I

(47:10):
think it's exciting too. And ultimately, as heartbroken and as
sad as you I know I was, I think we
all were upset, even Joe was. You know, watch that
last weekend. Was was pumped about XFL football. I think
what as as sad as it was, I think the
silver lining those five weeks proved that if you do

(47:32):
it right and you have the right people and the
right broadcast partners, spring football can work. And and and
I think that is why this group has come in
and they see that and uh and I think, um,
I like the fact that they're not looking to reinvent
the wheel, that they're sticking with the XFL brand and
UH and We're just gonna go XFL three point oh

(47:54):
and uh and let's see where it goes. Run it back, baby,
I'm excited. All right, let's go to break. When we
come back, talk about a great American actor who has
left us. Thank al right back And it's easily quiet

(48:25):
in Santa Monica right now at this point, not not
a lot of background noise. Um. I do want to say,
I have a confession. I went I want a really
good stretch from April to June without having one single
peanut eminem um. I am so off that wagon, like

(48:46):
I I picked up a Now I'm gonna kind of
school you on eminem portion sizes. Right, there's there's the
little baby packs right which which or other you can
get them in the you know, the individual packs they
have like four eminem z a right trash, don't even
wait that it's my theory. Treat you get, yeah, the

(49:12):
trick or treatment, um my theory. And I talked to
you guys about this, and I'm sure it's true, but
I don't have any you know, science find it the
smaller the bag, the worst the eminem Okay, so those
are the worst. Then you have those those individuals they're
not individual, but they're like the bigger one, I don't
know what you call it, like regular regular size. There's

(49:34):
two types of checkoutlines. There's the small one and then
there's what they call the sharing size. I guarantee do
not my recommendation, and I'm a pet and eminem connoisseur.
Never get anything smaller than the sharing size, okay, never
Eminem's are never as good. Okay, sharing size okay. Then

(49:57):
there's then there's a there's a sharing size outline, and
then there's an aisle sharing size, which is bigger and
it has the it has the snap you know the
thing that snaps together. You know that you pull apart,
you're gonna have to tear it. Yeah. And then and

(50:18):
then after that, right, there's there's a family size, right,
which is that's where I start to share. As the
family size. Everything less than that I won't share, but
the family size you start to share. Then there's the
mac Daddy, which is the party size. So on Monday

(50:41):
I bought a family size. Okay, I ran through that
by Tuesday, and then on Wednesday I picked up a
party size to hopefully get me and the boys through
the weekend. So are you you're sharing with the boys.
That's good. At least party size you can you can share.

(51:04):
So that's where I'm at. And I'll say I didn't
I was skeptical, but I am a believer in what
Dean has said. Now where the bigger the bag, the
fresher they are versus you don't know how long those
smaller bags have been on the shelves or whatever. The
bigger batch bags they do taste better. We had a

(51:27):
little bit of a taste test this last fall, and
uh like, I'm on board. Yeah, I don't know if
it's I don't know if it's packaging, If it's what
you said, Scott, some of those other smaller ones, the
air gets in. I don't know, but it's a real thing. Um.
Wilfred Brimley passed away. Wilfred Brimley. We were talking about
this and I want to talk and Scott, you did

(51:49):
a little research. I just want to talk about pages
of actors. Wilfred Brimley. How old was he Travis when
he passed? Oh, I'm not sure. I think he has
been America's grandpa for fifty years. He died August one,
and he was eighty five years old. And if you

(52:09):
asked me when I was ten, Wilfred Brimley was eighty
five years old. He's looked the same for for years forever,
Like in Cocoon, Scott how old was WILFERH. Brimley and Cocun? Okay,
so Cocoon the first film was so he's born in
thirty four, so, which means he was basically wait, yeah,

(52:35):
but like you know, with filming and everything, it's like
he was probably fifty in it. Yeah, he was like
and google Wilfred Brimley, he was two years older than
I am, right now, Okay, so the quickly it says
he was forty nine when cast turned fifty in the
middle of filming of The Fight. Wilford Brimley was a

(53:00):
grandfather in co Mm hmm. Yeah, he's one of those
guys who just always and he's always like Wilford Brimley
could sell me anything. What was the other ads he
used to do. He used to do like insurance or something,
diabetes something. No, he was the diabetes diabetes guy. M

(53:20):
he the guy is he? Whatever? He said? It was
like you could not not trust Wilford burn Oh, you're right.
He he was in Liberty Medical yeah, remember that. Yes,
and he was probably doing liberty medical commercials for people
over sixty as one of them at fifty two. He

(53:46):
think he unbelievable. Wilfer Brimley. What else was he him?
He was in so much stuff. He was in the
one movie I love him in is the thing? Uh
Russell Flickers was Uh no, no, who am I fucking? Yeah?
That's Jack Palace. I'm thinking that Jack Palence. But but hey,

(54:09):
we in not um like not on the podcast. In
a text message, I also pointed out that in the
movie City Slickers, the midlife crisis that Billy Crystal's character
is going through is that he turned thirty nine nine,
And you're like, for whatever reason, I always thought he
was much older also, and now I just turned thirty nine.

(54:32):
Where are we gonna go? Guys? But we're gonna go
herd cattle. Well, we've got We've got Travis just had
a birthday, Joe has a birthday coming up. We are
going to do I'm hoping to plan uh you know,
a birthday dinner next week sometime. If we maybe we
can all just get our masks and go somewhere and
have a nice meal. I mean, I love to just

(54:54):
see what the Blandino chef can wip up too. You know,
I can make him birthday? Was dude, make a birthday? Um?
What's it called? Gordon Ramsey? Oh, you want to do
a birthday beef Wellington? Bro? I love that. I was
in I was in Tahoe this week and I gotta go.
I don't know, I gotta go get a beat. I
gotta go get a tenderline. I gotta see if the
butcher has it. Dude, I was in Tahoe and they

(55:17):
have a Hell's Kitchen there and you couldn't get a reservation.
I wanted to go so bad for the Wellington. Yeah, well,
Luca and I want to go to the one in Vegas.
Um track, But hopefully when things open up we can
do that. But r F P. Wilford Brimley. Um, just

(55:39):
like I said, America's grandfather for a very long time.
You know we got how there's a crap street. Yeah, exactly.
The up sports books, Joe talk a little bit about that.
Just how COVID has impacted sports was it was it
July July was the first month since two thousand thirteen

(56:02):
that Vegas took a took books in Vegas took took
a loss. So think about that, all you all you
sports gaming, all you all your people that bet they
hadn't taken a loss since two thousand thirteen. What happened
in two thousand thirteen? Because I was reading that article
and that the year or this The reason this one
was a loss was because of all the futures bets

(56:26):
for football futures bets? What what happened in I don't
know what would it? What would have been the issue
in I? I don't know. You gotta you gotta tell you,
gotta ask me this question. You gotta give me a
minute to prepare. Look at me. We talked about the
future bets that the bigger point is is like you,
you're you're chasing it's a pipe dream. The house always wins, right, Well,

(56:54):
it's the reason the house always wins is because I mean,
you're flipping a coin a SENTI really, and you're paying
a dollar ten when you lose, and you're paying about
you're making a dollar when you win. A simple math.
But people think that, you know whatever, everybody has a shot.
I guess everybody has a shot. Um, I'm A quick

(57:17):
article suggests that the UH they're the bad month basically
was the British Open. Books lost a lot of money
during the Yeah, British bhil Micholson was to one long

(57:37):
shot to win and he won. Uh. The NBA Finals,
we're uh, let's see here was that bron and the
heat Well apparently was game favorite to win the game
Ron James and they should have won. That's that series

(58:00):
and real hit the three Lebron hit three. Uh yeah,
and so people were betting in during that game as well.
First look like they had it handled. So I'm sure
make game action was getting crazy. Amazing how one game
and one golf tournament. But I could see Michelson because
he's so popular and like, I like, I don't know

(58:21):
a ton about golf, but if I if I had
to bet on it, like, I'll throw some money on Michelson.
I'll throw some money obviously on one You're just like,
I'll throw a little bit down. And he's easy to
cheer for too. The one this week that Colin Morrikawa.
He people we went crazy on that dude. They lost.
They probably lost a lot of money this month on
on that win because he was like a huge dog huge.

(58:46):
A lot of people like them. People love betting underdogs.
It's like, it's like betting on Rudy, you know, is
he gonna make it on the field. Everybody wants to
about Rudy. And I did not know this, and I'm
upset that I know it. Now. Have you ever heard
Joe Montana talk about Rudy? Yes, you know they played
with Rudy. Yeah, And he didn't. He didn't come out

(59:10):
and and necessarily debunk the whole thing. But he didn't
really like he was like, look, we know it's a movie, right,
so I get it, it's a movie. But he was
just kind of like, you know, it wasn't we just
gonna make fun of him, you know, you know, And
I was like, I'm not not listening, and but it

(59:35):
was just interesting to hear him talk about it, and
and I guess you know he did, right, he did.
They did carry him off the field. Um, he played
like more than I think he played three or four plays.
He did get a sack. Um. But it was just,

(59:55):
you know, isn't carrying him off the field the way
that like I it was a terrible athlete in high school.
But everyone was like, hey, Scott guy, Like that's what
Joe Montana kind of made it out to be like
it was like it was kind of like a funny thing.
We were carrying Rudy off the field like as a
funny thing, Whereas I'm watching a movie and I'm literally

(01:00:18):
it's the most inspirational thing I've ever seen, like with
with Charles Dutton, like like sitting there and the whole
and it was. And what was fascinating was that, um,
I'm just checking the Dodger score. Um, was that they
filmed it. Obviously, they filmed it at halftime. They filmed

(01:00:39):
parts of those part of that scene, the last game
scene at halftime of an actual Notre Dame game. You tell,
if you watch the movie again, you can tell the
scenes that they filmed during halftime, and then you can
tell the scenes that they didn't and they had like
because it's just a very like narrow perspective and just

(01:01:00):
have a little bit of the stands and you see
the coach on the sideline, but then when you get
a wider view, you have all the fans and everything else,
and and uh, you know it's but yeah, listen to
Joe my time I talked about it was was fascinating,
But again, it doesn't. It's it's Rudy. I mean, the

(01:01:21):
guy he went through so much. He's a tax fround
right his best friend died. Is they completely glossed over
the fact that his brother started dating his girlfriend who
he was supposed to marry. Um he comes home for
like Thanksgiving a Christmas and his older brother comes home
with with his girlfriend. I was like, that's not cool.

(01:01:43):
And he goes to Holy Cross. He doesn't get in,
doesn't get in, doesn't get in, finally gets in, thinks
he's gonna get in the game because one coach tells
him he is, and that coach leaves the new coach
doesn't want to help him. Um, it's all right, you
convinced me. I'm getting watch Rudy tonight again. Yes, um,

(01:02:05):
you know I read that this is kind of embarrassing.
But I read the Rudy's Rules for Success book when
I was young and my friend never My friend said,
he's always getting the hang out with me, and he
would he would make fun I mean, Rudy Rules for Success.
Would you learn this? Any is one standout? I don't remember.

(01:02:28):
But my buddy he used to make fun of me
is still living with his mom, So there you go, Hey,
so the rules worked for you. I don't know. Yeah,
of course you're not living he's not living with his mom.
How are you, Joe? You're do you have um? You're
pretty good with like fashion and stuff, and do you
have anybody that you follow or you just is it

(01:02:48):
just a sense that you would have. You know, for
a minute, I thought you were serious and I was like, wow,
that's a really nice thing. No, no, no, no no, I'm
being serious. Like you've got like, is there anybody you filed?
Because I've started, I've got like a mentor? Now you
do I have a mentor? Yeah, it's not mentor, not you,
I've got a mentor. I don't really know. I don't.

(01:03:08):
I just I just like when I like, it comes
to you, like those outfits that you'll throw together, that's
just that's just natural. Yeah. You walk into a store
and to say that, you see the mannequin, You're like, yep,
that's it. I'll take never never in my life. That's
the worst thing you could do, actually, TRAVI, I want

(01:03:29):
exactly what's on that mannequin right there? No, I try
to get what most dudes don't like. If you were
if you were Joe, you already give Travis fashion tips,
knowing what how he dresses ahead. I don't just say
sized down a little bit. Let's pretend Travis. Let's pretend
Travis is single and he's you know, he's ready to mingle.

(01:03:52):
Where do you were? What do you size down? Down?
The size you just a little big and um no
more plaids. Plaids. That's his dad plaid though. If he
didn't have if yeah, if you weren't, if you were
just a single guy, no kid, and you were just

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eating back out there. Yeah, that that's pretty really, Joe.
I think that as only reason probably you'd want to
work on later and just get some good patterns to
be good. I think earth tones would look good on
you with your with your skin tone, and all right,
you know, the shoes we gotta work with work on
the shoes. But other than that, you're good man, You
look great. You mostly only see what I wear to

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the office, Like, if you see me now, it's it's now,
it's T shirts, bill shorts and time time. That's Travis's
very dad trap dude. We're talking single trap jump kicking
dudes out of the club. Yeah, you know, some skinny
jeans or some like joggers with some Jordan's on with

(01:04:56):
backwards that you can kill someone boom mind me dressed dude,
the drop kick, that other guy it looked like a
Caucasian rattlesnake coming out of nowhere. So yeah, so I've
I started, you know, I I like to before bed, um,

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I like just kind of get on YouTube and just
watch random videos maybe you know whatever. And I started
like why, I don't know why, but I kept this
guy kept coming up in my in my YouTube, um
and like with like grooming tips. And he's a he's
a male model, and his name is Weston Bouche and

(01:05:41):
he's from southern California, and he's got like his own
Amazon page and he just the dude is super cool
and he just gives like advice to regular people, like
regular dudes about like like grooming tips and and and
moisturizers and other stuff. And I'm like like, I'm like
teach me, Weston, Like what do you got for me? Yeah?

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I mean I'm looking at this guy. Dude, he could
look this dude to look good at anything. He's shredded
and like a perfect jawline. He's a male model. Yes,
we understand. He's a good look he gives he gives
diet advice, he gives workout advice, um, just general life advice.
And he's like super cool and down the earth, and

(01:06:25):
you know what, I'm gonna start another one of these
for the normal man who doesn't look like a male model,
just a regular dude. He's trying to help. He's yes,
he looks like a male model. He's a good looking guy.
He has all of these things. But the stuff, the
way he does it like anybody could do it, like
anybody could do it. Now, in fairness, it does look

(01:06:46):
like he lost a lot of weight, got got a
better haircut, and got like ripped. So he didn't you know,
this is six pack is made in the gym and
the kitchen. It's not natural. So let's give a shout
out to Weston who she heard it for the first time.
What he's saying. I'm just watched one of his videos.

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He does tend to talk a lot, but I'm I
like it. I'm in. I mean, yeah, you don't good looking, dude,
and you don't you dress nice though, Dean, Even when
you don't, even when your stylent aren't dressed, you dressed well.
But I think what you I've kind of noticed your wardrobe,
and I think you just go in to like the
really expensive place and buy like the expensive ship and

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you're like, well, if it's expensive, it's gonna be cool.
So interesting you say that. I've always I think I
do have that. I do have that mentality sometimes where
like if I'm going on right, I had to my
vacuum brook, So I went on Amazon to buy a
vacuum and I didn't even like read the reviews. I
was like, Oh, that one's cost more than that one,

(01:07:51):
that one must be better. I'm gonna get that vacuum right,
which is the worst way to do it, Like, absolutely
worst way to do Why wouldn't you call me? Do
I know all about vacuums? Do you really? Oh? Yeah,
dice in from Costco, diycon from Costco is a way
to go. You can return it anytime, which one is
just get a dice in from Costco and every two

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or three years swap it out for the new one.
Because you're not frugal, like I'm frugal like that, and
I'm not, by the way, I'm not I'm not talking
ship like you don't you're not wearing like Dotty Versacchi
over the topics of stuff. I'm like, you wear a
nice pair of jeans. It's not like ugly, you know,
it's not really like is uh theory I love theory

(01:08:33):
stuff and it's it's kind of expensive, but it's really good.
If you could, if you could as good as Travis
with Old Navy, then you got you know, you're doing right. No,
not to you know, make fun of everyone, but where
we went on a derailed conversation about the best vacuums,
this is definitely old band territory. Well, Travis, Travis Scott

(01:08:57):
is building his own PC so this is this is
a hyker in cordless vacuum. That's the one I ordered.
I don't know brand of Landino. Guy wants to be
friends on Venmo. He also wants to face time everyone
dude w t F Yeah with who Actually there's a

(01:09:21):
guy that he tried to I wanted to be friends
on Venomo, Like I didn't even know you could be
friends on Venomo. But it's to me that's taking this
virtual friendship thing to to way too far like Venmo
Like what also can I add? Just why ever have
Paul Blake Venmo. Why always always pride it? Why? Why

(01:09:45):
that's the other thing? Yes, why do people pick public?
I didn't know there was an option. I think mine's
always been public. No, of course there's an option. You
got no idea. And I was just wondering why why
am I able to see what people are sending each
other like but in my people contact, like I'm looking, Okay,
I'm on venmo right now, and it's insane that all
these people are doing like this. Okay, Thai Dai Joggers,

(01:10:10):
Reughing August seventh, ninth weekend, Grassis Golf, Purt Kurt's money River,
please give to z to give to Maxine. Yeah, it's
like I don't care, like they're treating the feed as

(01:10:31):
if it's like this social feed. It's like, no, I
don't even look at friending me on venmo Venmo. I
love venmo to pay, you know, to pay that way,
but I don't want it to be public. And then
do you do you have any do you ever have
a friend that just wanted to FaceTime my brother today,
I'm just sitting here. There's no reason, young people, that's

(01:10:53):
a young thing. There's no reason to FaceTime with my kids.
If I'm traveling, there's no reason into FaceTime. When I
see people walking down the street face timing someone. If Joe,
I will face time you if I'm trying to fix
something and I think you can help me, right, it's
that's it. There's no reason to face No, dude, that's

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a young people thing. People young, if you're like under
thirty two, they don't even call. They FaceTime everybody. It's like, dude,
I don't want to I'm walking through them all. I
don't need you to watch it walking with me. Just
you want Can I complain about old people real quick?
Which is when they have a call and they're holding
the phone like this speaker phone it's what you're talking,

(01:11:37):
but just put it. If it's that close to your face,
just hold it to your head and then you don't
need the speaker phone part on because I swear it
is mostly like older people who do without questions like
where where am I going? Wherever? He is just people
that talk on speaker phone in general. They never have,

(01:11:59):
they never have. It's alway own ring right, that's all
of last year that the studio the hit and Luther's
phone is ringing, and it's and it's and it's or
rocky or rocky or just just a ring ring. I

(01:12:19):
will never ever even even Pereira has his phone on
and he's like, I'm gonna be He's gonna go on
here and it's ringing, ringing. What would be like a
funny challenge is like everybody gets you get to pick
your friends ring tone and you have to keep the
ringer on it. Now, I mean that that doesn't sound

(01:12:41):
funny to be hilarious, that's not bad. I like that.
I like that. Let's do that. Okay, next time we
can be in public, let's do that. Is that gonna happen?
So it was did you even tell us who the
guy was he wanted to face some or that's two
separate things. The guy the guy that always wants to
face time the guy wanted to I didn't even I
just wanted to. He friended me on venmo or send

(01:13:03):
me a friend request on Venmo. Doesn't know I'm not
friending anybody on Venmo. And another friend that just just
face time all the time. Okay, so that was too.
We really gave you guys to right and blindings in one. Yeah,
I'll face time with like obviously, with my parents and

(01:13:24):
then like and then like friends who I want to
see them and their kids, like just because then I
don't live near them. Yeah, that's that's different, right, I
just call If I just called Dean right that, like tomorrow,
I'd be like I would literally and I would I
would text you the rest of you and like it's
so weirdough and he's out of the group. What about

(01:13:49):
like like this kind of group call, Like if you
just send a FaceTime call out just randomly to a
group of friends, is that out too? It's only cool
if you like planning, like, hey, guys, let's let's all
grab a beer, especially with cod let's let's quarantine. I
certainly look, I get it. I get during the quarantine,
and now, like I could, I can see why FaceTime

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would be right, and you want to see people that
you know. But in a normal world, if I gotta
call Scott, I'm not facetiming like now now I think also,
if I out of nowhere FaceTime you guys, and I
had something really funny or something to show you then,
But like if I'm just a Jean just wanted to
see your face, no, the problem, like the first time

(01:14:33):
you you abuse it. It's done if you face time
out of the blue and I pick it up and
there's not like an emergency, okay, So when is it
okay to when there's something you need to see or
some sort of an emergency, think, I think I think
people that you don't, people that live in another state, family, kids,
you're traveling. I think that's okay. So I think family,

(01:14:54):
Like I FaceTime with my mom sometimes and FaceTime so
that she can see her grandkids. Right, total, that's totally
totally against, totally inbounds. That's inbounds. That's what about. What
about if I use the restroom and it looks really
funny and I gotta show that's a picture text, okay,
fair enough, fair enough? Picture text is different exactly. That's

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the other thing. So even even if you see something funny, right,
the picture text is still the first thing to do.
Then it would have to be something actually movement that
you would that the picture, the still picture would not
capture that you could face time. Like here's an example

(01:15:37):
that I probably still just send a video of it.
But like if I saw Pereira out at a bar
and he's dancing, you would really you would video it
and then send them yeah, and then rather than like, guys,
you gotta see this, I agree, because then we can
we could we could have lots of fun with that
later on down the road, we could make gifts and

(01:15:58):
the faith of moms. You thinking FaceTime there isn't even
when there's something funny. I don't think FaceTime is appropriate
unless you need that person or you you interact or
add to what's going on. Yeah, yeah, like I don't,
you know, I don't see another reason or like I FaceTime.
I FaceTime bondo um because I had something was going

(01:16:23):
on with my camera that I brought and and he
was gonna help me fix it, so I FaceTime him
so you could actually see it. But other than that,
I don't. That's that's within the rules for sure. But
if you're gonna just FaceTime and you'd be like, hey,
I just thought it would be cool to see your
face and talk like this, I'm just you're weird. No,

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I'm not doing it. I'm I'm in agreement with you.
We're all in agreement. I think. All right, Well that's it.
That's a rule, is the main jud calls. Well Dean
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