Ep 35 -Remembering Don Shula, UFC 249 breakdown with Shane Fazen, and we settle the best #34 debate.

Remembering Don Shula, UFC 249 breakdown with Shane Fazen, and we settle the best 34 debate.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of
I Heart Radio. Hey, what's up? Dean Blandina, Welcome to
another episode of Google Calls. Episode I believe we agree
that it's episode thirty five. We'll get into that a

(00:22):
little bit later. As always joined by his hair has
grown in a little bit in the last week. The
Caucasian Rattle Snake. Travis Hanson, Travis, what's up? What's happening? Dean,
Good to see you. Good to see you. Always like
the yard and the backdrop, always looking very very comfortable there.
And then Joe Madrid. Joe, who's stressed not to mention

(00:44):
the fact that we're in quarantine, and he's a very
social guy. He's very upset about the audio quality of
the podcast recently and feels like we have much better
quality when we're together in the same room, but unfortunately
we can't do that. Joe, what's up? This is true?
I just I set a high standard for myself. Yes,
all of us. You sound great, Joe, you sound amazing.

(01:07):
Think you do sound amazing. Let's let's get started, um,
so let's talk a little bit news. So on Monday,
uh NFL great Don Shula passed away. When you think,
I believe he was ninety nine years old, And when
you talk about just icons of the sport, Don Shula

(01:28):
immediately comes to mind. You think about his career and
obviously the winning is coach in NFL history, the only
coach to have a perfect a perfect season in the
super Bowl era in the nineteen seventy two Dolphins, and
and looking at his career, he coached thirty three years
in the NFL, one one to a super Bowl and

(01:48):
one a championship in NFL Championship before the super Bowl
came into existence. But in thirty three seasons. Guess how
many losing records losing seasons Don Hula had already three?
Take a guess first six, Travis, It's it's I want

(02:09):
to say three, but it might even be less than that.
I'm gonna say ahead, Yeah, I'm gonna say three, but
I have a feeling it might even be the last.
I think it might be one. So it's actually two
two using seasons in thirty three. And when you think
about that, you think about who who many considered the
greatest coach in NFL history, who's obviously still coaching, Bill Belichick.

(02:33):
Bill has coached twenty eight years, and in comparison, Bill
has had four losing seasons in twenty eight Now all
of those were with Cleveland, four out of five years.
But still, when you think about the longevity and the
success that Coachula had, it's it's just unparalleled. And and
also many people don't know this, but Don Shula was

(02:54):
was a big part of the NFL's Competition Committee for
a long long time, and for many years he chaired
that committee. He was involved in rules changes and shaping
the game during a time when the game when you
think about the sixties and seventies into the eighties, I
mean that was the time when the NFL really started
to grow in popularity, and a lot of it was

(03:15):
the rules changes you think about illegal contact that opened
up the passing game, that made the NFL what it
is today, and Don Shula was a big, big part
of that. So not only his contributions were as the
coach of you know, both the Colts and the Dolphins,
but also as an executive working with the Competition Committee.
And one of the things I remember, I never had

(03:37):
the pleasure of meeting him. I had seen him at
different events, but never had a chance to talk to him.
But I remember the first year Adam Gaze got the
job in Miami and he was the head coach for
the Dolphins, and I went and in the spring we
would go and visit all the coaching staffs and go
over points of emphasis and rules changes. And I remember
sitting in in Gaye's office, which obviously was coach who

(03:59):
was all off was um at one point prior to that,
and I noticed I was sitting in a chair in
front of his desk, and Gates was like so much
higher up, like he was like legitimately, not a little,
it was like noticeable, like almost like on a throne.
And I was like, dude, what why are you so high?
Like what what's the deal? And he said, that's that's

(04:21):
the way Coachula wanted it. That chair. He wanted to
be higher than everybody when they came into his office.
He had that chair and that was they and you
weren't going to take it out of Coachula's office. So
Gates was like, this is the chair I'm sitting in
and uh. And so that was the kind of funny story,
interesting story that I had about about Coachula. But again,
you know, honestly, one of the one of the amazing

(04:45):
people in the NFL and obviously contributed a lot to
the game and obviously well his thoughts and prayers out
to his family, UM and UH and everything everybody that
was close to him. UM. I definitely talked about say,
we definitely talked about Mount Rushmore's of of sports figures
and he's wanted the coaching in the NFL. Yeah, I'm

(05:05):
the whole Mount Rushmore thing. Like it's it's all like
Mount Rushmore of this. I get it. Like I get it.
There's four paces, you can only have four. But how
many of us who would be on the Mount Rushmore
of this podcast? Well, yes, we're all in. So we're
all in by the four that's not great, you know.

(05:29):
The NFL not speaking of the NFL, the schedule is
will be announced, I believe on Thursday, and uh, and
so a lot of things some unknowns about the schedule,
but one thing we do know is the NFL has
already announced that there will be no international games on
the schedule and UH. And that's obviously due to the
COVID nineteen and everything that's happening, um in the country

(05:51):
and around the world. And I think that makes sense.
But the schedule is going to have I think there's
gonna be some flexibility in the schedule. So I'm interested
to see how what it looks like and UH, and
how they can they can open it up because you know,
they're talking about everything from pushing the season back to uh,
you know, an October start, potentially playing on saturdays. You know, Travis,

(06:11):
you had mentioned that to me during the week that
you know, if college football gets pushed back or or
potentially moved or canceled, than than the NFL would consider
playing on Saturdays and UH. And so I'm interested to
see how the schedule, whether what it's gonna look like
going forward. Um, this week that will be that will
be released. Yeah, let's change gears. Let's talk a little
bit about the NFL league office and UH and some

(06:34):
of the news that came out there. Dean, I know
you have a lot of friends. Are you still talk
to I have friends and still work at NFL network
furloughs and pay cuts. You probably have more information on that. Yeah,
I mean that's the reality of the situation today, right.
And it was obviously going to have MLB in an
NHL and NBA have already been impacted because they've they've
they're missing games. Now, the NFL hasn't missed any games yet,

(06:56):
so it's somewhat of a surprise. And I think the
people that I talked to and some NFL employees are
are pretty upset right now, and understandably so when you
think about the NFL hasn't missed a game yet, and
they and they haven't. I don't know all the economics, certainly,
but it would appear on the surface that they haven't
lost any revenue yet. That's not to say that they
won't and that the draft was awesome this year exactly

(07:19):
the draft. They're being proactive, I get it, but it
just you think about the timing, and this is what
people are upset about. Free agency went off without a hitch.
Team spent a lot of money, you know, hundreds of
millions of billion dollars in players salaries. The draft went
off two rave reviews, like you said, record ratings. It

(07:39):
was different, it was unique, and a lot of people
put a lot of time and effort into that to
make it go um without a hitch, and they had
to plan in like a month and a half essentially, absolutely,
and when you think about the draft going off. You
know it probably again I don't know all the details,
but it probably cost less to put the draft on
this year because you're not flying people around, You're not

(08:01):
you don't have event costs exactly exact constructions going so
so from a from a cost perspective, it's it's less.
And so now you have all these people working so
hard to make this happen. And then a couple of
days later after the draft, these announcements hit that they're

(08:21):
gonna there's gonna be salary cuts. Um, there's gonna be furloughs.
And I think one thing that people are really upset
about is the pension reduction. Now, the NFL has a
they contribute fifteen percent of an employee's annual compensation to
their pension every year. That's a great perp Not a
lot of companies do that, and the NFL now is
reducing that from fifteen percent to ten percent. And people

(08:44):
are piste off about that because that's permanent. This this
current situation is not permanent. It's temporary, and the NFL
is on the verge in two years of signing what
will be the most lucrative TV deals and if not,
North American sports, in all sports across the world, and
to make that permanent change. People don't understand why. And

(09:06):
I get it from that perspective. I get it from
the NFL's perspective. We have to be proactive, and we
may lose revenue if we push back the season, if
we don't have fans. But you have a lot of
people in the NFL office that put in a lot
of work and uh and they feel like that that
this is how they were repaid, and morale is not
very high right now. Look, it's reality. It's not just

(09:27):
the NFL office right down right now. We're all stuck
at home. We're all exactly, We're all stuck at home.
All of our lives have changed drastically, except for traffic
trass really hasn't changed that drastic. But speaking of the pension,
mine took a huge hit obviously because of the stock market.
So I would be pissed if I was at the
league office, like, Okay, now, it took a huge cut

(09:47):
because of the stock market, and then on top of that,
you're gonna take the amount that you're putting into it. Yeah,
i'd because you know what, you should just be happy
that you have a pension because most of us normal people,
we don't have pensions. It's it is, it's just the
reality situation. But hopefully, hopefully, hopefully we're coming out of this.
So let's switch here, is Travis, what's happening in terms

(10:09):
of sports? UM, what's coming up you know in the
near future. Do you want to talk about that or
do you want to talk about the newsom announcement today
that like on Monday, that was the one that was
was pretty big here in California. So they were going
to move into phase two of the of the reopening,
which which I don't know if you saw that story

(10:30):
in that I did. I saw the story. But what
are what what in terms of phase two? Look get
into a little more detail in terms of what does
that mean. It's it's reopening lower risk workplaces including non
essential manufacturing, toys, furniture, clothing, et cetera, UM schools, which
I thought they were gonna be closed all year. So

(10:50):
I'm interested to see, UM when when later in the week,
when that comes out, what things are gonna do? Child
care facilities are possibly going to open in the in
the stage to re tell businesses for curbs I pick up,
which I think a lot we're already doing. Yeah, so
and then offices where working remotely as I possible, um,
but can be modified to make the environment safer for employees.

(11:12):
So those are some of the things that we're listed
in the article that I read, and more details we're
gonna come out. Are gonna come out on Thursday, UM
and possibly on Friday as well, when when Newsom holds
another press conference. People are starting to lose it, like
people are gonna start writing if they don't start opening
stuff up because people were just retiring of it. Sure.

(11:32):
I mean, you guys saw the videos of all the
people up in Sacramento and and police barricades keeping them
away from the Capitol building. It's it's people are upset
and and so so I think he was feeling a
lot of pressure from from people and it potentially probably
the White House on top of that. Well, I think
the reality is that we talked about it, and look,
I want to preface this by saying nobody I don't

(11:55):
want to see people, certainly people that are sick, people
that are dying. It's awful, it's a tragedy, But at
what point do we decide, you know, the quarantine and
the social distancing, what's the collateral damage? You know, we
have kids that aren't in school. We have kids that
and you have kids. Think about kids in lower income

(12:15):
and in higher risk neighborhoods that, Okay, now we're not
in school, we're cooped up in whether it's an apartment
or whatever. What are they doing? What are they doing?
Are they now going to get into some stuff that
they wouldn't have gotten into otherwise because they'd be in school,
And maybe it just puts such a pressure. And what's
your school programs? Right? The after school programs. They're talking

(12:37):
about eliminating after school programs in in in my school district,
which is Santa Monica and Malibu, which is a very
very affluent community. And if they're eliminating they're talking about
eliminating after school programs here for I imagine, imagine yeah
for good and imagine what they're talking about in the
same communities without the resources that they have here. So

(12:58):
so again, we've got to just kind of manage this.
And I understand that people are you know, we need
to protect people that are compromised and and have you know,
the immune systems that won't be able to handle this
and I'm not I'm not an expert. I'm not a doctor.
I don't understand all the medical science. But like you said, this,
what are the long term effects to us keeping things

(13:19):
shut down? Kids not in school, and the economy not working. Um,
we just got to figure it out. Yeah, it's definitely
gotta figure it out. But it is some good news
too though. So if if they feel that that we're
able to get out and start start living our lives
a little bit more normal, then that's that's good because
that means other things that grow open. So, like you
mentioned before, we have other things that are gonna be

(13:41):
opening up. Some of the sports that are gonna be Hey,
they do they happen to mention if they're opening up casinos?
I haven't seen. I haven't seen that. I haven't seen
that either. Imagine what the casinos are losing on a
daily basis. Nuts they do say Gym's right. Did they
see Jim's opening? Um, I have not seen that. I

(14:05):
had heard in a couple of states Jim's we're going
to open. I don't know if that's in California. Jim's
are interesting. Jim's are very interesting because I don't see
I mean personally, I wouldn't have a problem, but I
think a lot of people would be hesitant to go
to a gym using equipment you talk about how this
virus works and then like touching things. Um, it would

(14:25):
be I know a lot of people. Jim's would probably
probably be a great time to go to a gym
because there wouldn't be a lot of people there. Um,
But you know, I do I do think a lot
of people even if Jim's do open, you're gonna see
less people there than would normally go. Yeah, good, well
you guys are more jim guys. I haven't been in
a gym in years, so I I don't know. Really,

(14:49):
it doesn't really offend me. Um, but do you if
you guys were able to go right now, would you
be going. I think Joe would definitely be going. Yeah,
I go to Jim I would I would go. And obviously,
you know, I would imagine there would have to be
there's probably gonna be guidelines in place for a gym
to open that they're gonna have to, you know, certain rules,
and they'll keep the equipment clean. Uh and who knows

(15:11):
you gotta you know, people wiping it down after every
after every usage. But I would imagine there would be
restrictions and guidelines in place in terms of a number
of people that could even be in there at one time.
And uh, and maybe it's and maybe it's a schedule.
Maybe you have to sign up. You know, you go
online and you say okay, and and there's a max
of thirty people that can be at the gym between

(15:31):
these hours and you have to go online and sign up.
Who knows that's going to be a ship show. Like,
it's gonna be real interesting to see how this plays out,
because that's insane they have that. They have that at
one of my gym's. That's like, you gotta sign up
for this class, and it's like, I don't like to
sign up for classes. I just want to go. And
you can't get into this this class unless you just

(15:52):
you can't just show up out eleven. You've got had
to sign it like two days before. And that's just
not my style, it's not your All right, let's go
to break. When we come back, we're gonna talk a
little more about the UFC. We're bringing our friend, friend
of the show, Friend of good calls Mr Shane Phasing. Next.

(16:23):
All right, welcome, back to good calls. Excited. We're not
we're no longer calling him a guest. Okay, he's not
a guest. He's been on. This will be his second time.
He's a friend of the show. He's a friend of ours.
Mr Shane phasing from Fight Tips, fain shame? What's up?
Am I a regular? Can we use that word? You're

(16:43):
a regular? Yes, you are a regular. Now he may
be on the Mount Rushmore of the show now because
now you're the fourth person. We were looking for a
fourth person for the Mount Rushmore and you're at him
and Scott are gonna have to duke it out. Oh
that's right, that's right. I don't know the Scott and

(17:04):
Shane make it one of YouTube Joe and trying after
the you know what, after earlier performance, I'm gonna have
to take old Travis out of the equation. Sorry, bro?
Why am I alt that hair? That's why? Al right? Whatever?
So Shane, how are you so? Obviously you've got an
extremely successful YouTube channel Fight Tips. Um, you've been doing

(17:28):
this for a long time. How have you in terms
of social distancing and quarantine? Has it changed what you've
been doing? What have you added? And uh and kind
of what what's new with you right now now? To
be honest, I'm pretty fortunate. Um, My wife and I
already home bodies and we work from home. Um, we
both work on fight tips, so it's not much a

(17:48):
change for us. Um. The one thing that has changed
is the inability to go to gyms and train with
teammates and partners and that kind of thing. And a
lot of my buddies that own gems it's a shane man,
It's it's really sad. But a lot of them are
being forced to shut down at this point. It's been
a couple of months of no income. And yeah, even
just like the people that I follow on Instagram, it's

(18:09):
like one day after another, just people are like, we
have unfortunate news that Jim is shutting down. We're selling
all of our equipment. Send us a message if you
want to buy anything. And it it sucks, man, it
really does. But like I said, we're fortunate, we're doing well,
and we're doing everything we can to help help other
people out. But there's only so much that we can do, YEA.
So we're grateful, We're we're saying optimistic, we're counting our blessings,

(18:30):
but yeah, strange times, you know it is. And I
just who sent me? Somebody sent me the text that
Gold's Gym filed for banks for bankruptcy, That Gold's gym.
And when you think about Gold's Gym, I mean, growing up,
just the kind of that name, it was kind of iconic.
You think that that Gold's Gym wouldn't be around anymore. Um,

(18:52):
it's just crazy. And like you said, Seane, we were
just talking about it before the break. Even when the
gym's open up, you know, we don't think that people
are just gonna rush to Jim's. There's gonna be some
people that just are gonna stay away just because of
what happened. You know, the contact you come into other
people with equipment. So even then, even as it opens up,
it's gonna take a while for it to get even

(19:13):
you know, it's full membership back, which, like you said,
it's just crazy times and we've all got to kind
of weather. But it's good to know that, you know,
you're you're still going strong. Have you seen like an
increase in a number of viewers through this or can
you even quantify that right now? You know what a
lot of people keep asking me that, Um, not like

(19:34):
a surplus. There hasn't been like many spikes. It's it's
been consistently growing ever since the quarantine happens. Like I
guess that's what it's related to. I know there's just
a surplus and live streaming because you know that, like
that's the only way that people can train now is
this virtual virtual workouts and that kind of thing. So yeah,
I mean, like I said, we're we've we were steady
doing good. We're continuing to do good. So there hasn't no,

(19:57):
there hasn't been like a huge spike and gets or anything. Dean. Dean,
I have a funny story for you. So I do
the fight camp thing. They put these trackers in your
gloves and you you know, you beat up the bag
and it tells you how hard you punch it, how
many times you punch. And I was literally losing sleep
because like, dudes are doubling what I'm doing. That that
score and I'm like this is crazy, Like how can

(20:19):
someone be doubly? So I go, Shane, do one, because
I know you're you're in better shape and you're you know,
you've been doing this for your whole life and you
dedicate your whole life. I want to see where you
where you stand. So he did one I did. We
won't you know. I went all out and he crushed me.
He crushed so he was never It wasn't quite double,
but it was definitely When I looked at the nub,

(20:41):
he threw faster punches and probably about thirty more, which
was very tip of my cap. It was pretty incredible
because I was dying. That's not surprising. He's kind of
a professional. This is what he does. But I just
feel like, you know, I don't know. I was hoping
one would be harder like I throw. You can pick
harder punch a hundred pounds more than the dude, almost right.

(21:03):
I didn't want to say anything, Joe, but I mean
I trained with you and your punches. I haven't said
it before, but they're not that hard now now now
you know, now we are well next time. Next time,
I'll make sure I don't use it. I ease up
on you because you know, I don't want to hurt
that pretty face when you're on TV. Bro, I'm the
guy that makes you appreciate that. I do appreciate that.
I can't. I can't have black eyes on tea so anyway,

(21:25):
tip of the Captain Chane, he's the real deal. He
beat me pretty I I took twelve. I was number
twelve on out of like eight d fifty people. So
it wasn't terrible. This is Shane. This is also the
same guy that thinks that of all the females in
the world, he would never lose a fight. I did
not say that. Your said you and I guys said,

(21:49):
there's there's how many what how many billion? You're not like,
you're not going three billion? And know you're just not.
I can I can think of five off the top
of my head, that right, five that are like local too.
I could call him up right now, I would. I

(22:10):
would need to see that. I would tell that would
make for great television right now, that would be right.
That would be what was it Billy Jean King? And
uh what was the guy's name? Bobby Travis the tennis
match that was like the first big By the way,
By the way, I invited Shane and Maria to our
Jersey Shore trip. Oh so yeah, so when quarantine ends,

(22:33):
hopefully we can get out this summer, We're going to
uh Bell mart New Jersey, Jersey Shore and Shane Shane
or you're both right, your Maurice from Philly too, right,
yep from so they obviously they know you guys know
the Jersey Shore and I'm gonna pull out the red carpet.
This is gonna be, This is gonna be Bell Martin.

(22:57):
I've been to Belmar a handful of time. Oh yeah,
uh Bell Mark Pleasant, Oh yeah, okay, he's got family
Point Pleasant perfect really okay, cool, cool, we'll it. Jenkinson's
on the boardwalk. We're gonna hit DJ's bar a. It's
gonna be, it's gonna be. Amen. I can't wait. All right,

(23:18):
So let's talk. We've got a we've got a combat
sport event coming up that we're all excited about UFC
to forty nine. Um. And this has taking place in Florida,
in Jacksonville, And obviously Florida has has said that, um,
you know that these are considered essential industry. The w
W has been doing live events from there for a
couple of weeks. What are we thinking, Shane, UFC to

(23:40):
forty night. What excites you about the card? It's a
great card, obviously the main event. You know, what are
your thoughts on the card? What do you think in
terms of Ferguson, Engauge and give me your thoughts. Yeah,
I mean, well, well, first of all, it's exciting that,
like I mean, I think there's gonna be some great
dealership just for the fact that it's the only sporting
event going on right now. You know, I think people
who weren't usually ends are gonna be tuning into this

(24:01):
and they're in for a treat because there are some
stacked fights on this card. Yeah, Gauge versus Ferguson, I mean,
right off the bat, I'm leaning towards Ferguson for multiple reasons. Um,
but gaug is always game. He comes to knock people out,
he comes moving forward, he's hard to put it, he's
hard to put it away. Um, so you can never
count him out. But the one, the one tell for

(24:23):
me that kind of said like I'm going to lead
towards Ferguson was the fact that Gauge had admitted that
he was scared. He admitted that he was fearful going
into a fight against against someone like Ferguson. And although
every fighter going into a fight no matter who you are,
Tyson's admitted that he got scared before fights too. I
don't think that's something that you should publicly say. And
I think that that kind of is foreshadow of what

(24:46):
could happen. You know, if you already start planning that seed,
and you already started letting it grow within your mind,
you may take a hit that normally you would walk
through and keep coming forward, but you may when it
happens in the fight after admitting it publicly. Um, when
that hit land, maybe like that's the one that's putting
me away, and psychologically it does, and then soon after
you get finished. So for that reason, I'm definite leading

(25:06):
towards Ferguson in the main of them. Yeah. I like
Ferguson too. I think he just has more weapons. He
said Gates, He's always game. He's gonna go in and
try to knock the guy out. Um. I just I
think Ferguson just has He just has more ways to win.
Um And I just I also I want to see
Tony win because I want to be disappointed when him
and could be get canceled for the sixth time for

(25:27):
the for the lightweight the lightweight title. You mentioned going
going scared into a fight. I remember one of the
biggest fights when I was a kid growing up. It
was Michael Spins and and Tyson and I can't remember
a fighter looking more scared, like a deer in headlights
and Michael spins and it played out. But obviously Mike
Tyson was you know, he was the baddest man on

(25:48):
the planet at that point. And everybody you know was
intimately dated. But he looked like, you know, it looked
like almost like an amateur somebody that that wasn't a
world champion going into that fight. And it was what
it was like in the seconds and he got knocked out,
and uh and you know, and so there was a
video I know, Joe, you sent us the video of
Mike Tyson um training and hitting hitting paths just recently.

(26:10):
Did you see that chain? What do you think it
looked like? He didn't He hasn't skipped a beat man
like a rotational power duties. He's still got it. And
I heard there's talks from him that he once did
he wants to come back, he wants to take another fight.
I thought. But so even how what percentage of heavyweights

(26:33):
you think Tyson could still take out like like current
boxing heavyweights. Uh? Majority, I mean once once you start going,
I mean you talk about the guys who people are
familiar with now the Tyson Furies and and Deontay wild Well, actually, yeah,
I still think Deante Wilder, I think Tyson. I think

(26:54):
the guys who have their youth, who have their skills,
were at the top of their game. They beat they
beat Tyson know they're they're either weather the storm and
outlasted him or they out jack him whatever. And based
on his age. But we're talking like the ones that
were not familiar with man like him against uh maybe
like Ruise Andy Ruise. That would would be interesting, I think,

(27:15):
But even so, I don't think that's really interesting. Both
like kind of shorter guys. Both guys just like to throw.
I mean, I think Tyson's probably still I mean from
that video he looked like technically he's still very sound.
But I would agree with you Shane that probably the
top guys he's not gonna be And again the weather,
the storm and who knows where where where Tyson's gas
tank is right now, I would you know what he's

(27:38):
you know, be fun if he did like a three
round fight, he did like a three round match with
any of these guys. I think I think he's got
three solid rounds in them, and that would be interesting.
He looked good, man, He did look good. But again
that's it's a short burst. And you look at guys
that have fought at that, and I think the two
guys that come to mind, I mean George Foreman, Um,
George former won a title. I think he was in

(27:58):
his late forties. Then Bernard Hopkins forward into his fifties
and and was successful. So certainly there's there's precedent for it, um,
But I mean Tyson has been the guy's been just
through so much, just mentally and emotionally, and and and
to think that he wants to come back now and
fight it would be again, I agree, three rounds type

(28:21):
of exhibition that would be fun to watch. I mean,
I'm not taking anything away from Tyson, of course, legend
of legend, absolutely legend. But I mean we spilled a
lot of ten second clip that and everyone looks good
on pads. Who knows the last time he sparred. Who
knows the last time he's had a punch thrown at him.
So but it's it's fun to entertain. Look, he's fifty three,

(28:43):
he'll be ju this year. So what do you think
of the Judo fight. That's the other one. I was
really I mean that I like Huo, but Cruiz has
always been a real interesting dude to watch these so
like his angles are a trip and so non traditionally,
I feel like he always has a shot. But Hudo
is just a He's just a monster, and he's really

(29:04):
technically sound, especially on takedown you know, and his takedowns
and his ground stuff. We're gonna be a very interesting fight.
Anytime Cruise is fighting, it's going to be an interesting fight.
So Hudo, I really like he's made a huge, drastic
evolution in his career very quickly. Um, who's the favorite?
So Whudo is the favorite? Yeah, he's a pretty pretty
good favorite, pretty big favorite. Although I think I think

(29:26):
Cruiz is probably like favorite, but fans and this one
so Hudo doesn't have many fans kind of remind remember
when remember when Diego got all weird, Diego Sanchez got
all weird, like kind of after the Ultimate Fighter, where
like I feel like who on that Sanchez is not
is there's definitely a screw loose. Yeah, I feel like
who is like in the same boat. He's just kind

(29:47):
of weird. Whenever, like I fall him on Instagram and
some of the stuff he does is just like, what
are you doing? Bro? Well, you know, and I'll say
this now because he's starting to become a little bit
more transparent. But I talked to him in person and
that was one of the first things I I was like,
so this this cringe thing that you do? Is that
is that natural? Is that just coming out? And he
admitted to me, he's like, you know what I talked
to Uh. I took to d C, to Daniel Cormier

(30:10):
and he's like, d C said, uh, you know you
you're kind of already a little bit cringe. Just turn
a dial up, just crank it up. And I promised, like,
you're going to get more attention by doing that. So
it's it's it's a bit of an act um and
I get it and it works, you know, Like it's
kind of like Mayweather, Like Mayweather knows more people hate
them than they do support him, but either way they're
gonna pay the one. Yeah. Yeah. So so in that fight, um,

(30:35):
I predict you know, we're going to see that that
footwork from Cruize, but I think that, um, I think
so Judo is going to try to negate it with kicks.
I think we're gonna see a lot of kicks from
sudo um to the legs to the body to the
head and when you're moving a lot, when you're moving
the feet and the head, that's usually the strategy that

(30:56):
when you want to use against someone, the other thing
is too. Suhodo's got really good accurate see and if
you watch his training, like in the Instagram videos that
he shares, he does something like really intense specific type
training that works accuracy in reaction time. Like his coaches
will throw a rod that's two different colors. It'll be
green on one end and red on the other, and
they'll throw it in the air and mid air they'll

(31:17):
say left hand green, and he's got to react and
catch it with which hand and he's part of the stick.
So that's like, I'm a big fan of that type
of training because it's thinking on your feet, it's quick
reaction time, it's good accuracy. We're going against the guy
who's a moving target. It's it's gonna be cool to
see like the guy who moves a lot and the
guy who's very accurate, who's going to win that battle? Yeah,

(31:37):
that'll be a good one. And then you know they'll
go ahead. And I'm sorry I was gonna say the
last one I want to ask you about just because
I see who got her hat on, and I know,
I know she's a friend of yours Waterson and as
spars as spars as a local girl too, right, she's
a Torrance check right, yeah, yeah, And Vince, I was
talking to Vince about this fight. Vince's is pulling for
a Carlo on this one. He's wrestled with her and

(31:58):
he said he is and absolute beast when it comes
to her wrestling. Um. And if she can, if she
can get in close on on Michelle on the karate
hottie and take her down, I think she has an
advantage there. But Michelle is no joke. I'm biased, of course,
but I think she I think she definitely leaves in
the striking in that fight by a long shot. I
think she's gonna be able to use her range, her distance,

(32:21):
her kicks, and then if if it, if it does
come to a clinch, I could see I could see
Michelle even winning on the on the takedown on the ground.
I'd be curious to see. Of course, I know I
know she's savvy, She's got a good camp trains at
Jackson Wink. Her husband Josh is a great coach and
they're always game for for whoever. So I think that's
gonna be. I think that's gonna be a barber and
I think that's gonna be a really good fight. Yeah,

(32:43):
I think the whole car like that. Jeremy Stevens is
on that card, You've got you've got mcgona, who fighting
in heavyweight, You've got Greg Hardy is on the main card,
and it's so it's gonna be. It's just gonna be
fun to watch again in the UFC, is right, They're
putting on what three events in eight days, So Dane
is not wasting any time. He figures, well, let's get

(33:03):
back into it. Let's get these fighters work and uh
and Travis, you were saying that the fighters are gonna
be quarantined in a hotel. Is that is that part
of it? Yeah, they're steal off in a hotel. All
all twelve pairs of the fighters are being stealed off
in a hotel and their temperatures taken every day. So
they're gonna take all the measures that they have to
make sure that these fighters are healthy when they're in

(33:25):
the ring and it'll be it'll be interesting. It'll be
an interesting experience to watch without fans right to watch.
It's almost like you think about the ultimate fighter and
and it would be more of you'll hear everything the
coaches are saying, you'll hear what the you know, the
referee saying, because you're not gonna have that crowd reaction
and just the energy will be different. Um, I'm really

(33:46):
curious as to how it's gonna feel, you know, just
without the the energy of the crowd, it'll be interesting.
You know. One f C did a fight right as
the quarantines were starting, and they held it in Singapore,
and that is it. That was an event that they
did whe there was no one in the crowd. And
it was interesting because the headliner or the comin event,
Stamp Fairtex her her thing like her when she walks

(34:10):
out to the ring. She's known for dancing and like
getting hyped up with the crowd and she dances with
the crowd. But it was interesting to see her walk
out there and she's dancing by herself and she's looking
up at the crowd for like some feedback and get nothing. Uh.
And she lost that fight to My Girl with Janet
todd Um. But it was it was It was eerie,
especially the walkouts to see just no one there and
just completely quiet. That's an interesting point you have the entries.

(34:33):
Do you think that a fighter that feeds off the
energy of the crowd, especially like pre fight, do you
think that that really like you said, she lost that fight?
Is that is? Could that be a real thing? Could
that be a factor? Do you see a fighter um
on the card, you know, on on Saturday having you
know that being an impact. Don't confuse tradition with superstition.

(34:54):
I heard once and yeah, like we have our fighters
have their rituals going into fights, and if they don't
have what they're used to, if everything's not set perfect.
Of course you're told to be able to roll the
punches and adjusting a situation. But if they're used to
get that that walk, it's an intense walk and they've
got all eyes on you and hear your name being
shoot and you're looking around and everyone's all eyes are
on you. So it breaks some people and for other

(35:16):
people that's where they get their energy. And if they
don't have that, yeah, I think certain people, whether they
know it or not, they're gonna find out on May nine. Yeah,
that's interesting. I'm excited and excited for it. Um excited
that you're still doing well and and uh, and we
just talked about, hey, maybe we can do something. We
can do something Saturday and do a live stream and
get a couple of people together and watch watch the fights.

(35:39):
You know, socially distant, but watch it together and and
maybe comment on it. If you guys will be up
for that, that would be super cool. Yet, watch it live.
This way we can do our commentary, we get feedback
from everyone watching, and everyone continue and watch the fights together.
I think that sounds like a lot of fun. All right, cool,
we'll talk about that. We'll we'll post some details to
Twitter and uh Instagram and figure it out on YouTube.

(36:02):
And uh, hey, Shane, thanks again for joining us. We'll
have you on again. You're a regular. You're on Mount Rushmore.
We're still were installing you. Right up there next to
was me for sure. And I don't know one of
these two guys. It might be two people up there,
is all. It might just be two of us. But
thanks for joining us, man, and best of luck with everything. Mom.

(36:23):
I made it. I made it a regular. Al Right, guys,
well thanks for having me on until next time. Take
care of be safe, stay healthy. Hey, Shane, you Bobby
Riggs was the name Dean Bobby Riggs. Battle of the Sexes. Yeah,
but Joe, he could take down any lady. But I

(36:44):
love how Shane says he has five right here in
l a that that could Yeah. I mean, I know
he would have said Jackie the one that he referenced,
and and she could definitely beat me in a kickboxing match.
But you know, I'm taking her right to the ground.
I'm putting all this mass on her. She's a tiny
little girl. All right, Let's go to enough master. All right.
On that note, let's go to break and we come back.

(37:06):
We'll talk about some other events that are returning suit
and we'll get into we'll get into some social distancing
tips from our main social distance or Joe mad It
next on Good Call. Alright, we're back on Good Calls.
Thanks again to see Phasing for joining us. Let's get

(37:28):
right into it. Last week was episode thirty four, So
in honor of episode thirty four, we discussed who the
best player to wear number thirty four is U. We
came up with four people alright, the four ward shack
Old Jackson, Walter Payton, and Nolan Ryan. Now I want
to present my case for each person, and then we're
ultimately going to decide who the best thirty four was. Now,

(37:50):
I'll give you a couple of a couple of just background.
I did post a poll on Twitter, and I asked
Twitter who was the best US thirty four? And uh
on Twitter decided said Walter Payton, um second was shock
with third was bo at twenty and Nolan Ryan was seventeen.

(38:12):
That was sev twenty four people voted. Then my brother
chimed in, we all know my brother. Here's my brother's
take on on number thirty four. We really need to
hear brother back on the show because I want to
hear his take on corn teen and coarandine we're definitely

(38:33):
gonna We're definitely gonna get But here's what he said.
Where let me find it. Let me find it here. Okay.
I listened to podcasts about best athlete wearing number thirty four.
It is hands down Bo Jackson. Athlete means athlete. I
don't think Nolan Ryan could do anything else but throw
a ball hard. Maybe he could play golf too, and

(38:54):
Walter Payton was not even the best running back of
all time. Barry Sanders blows them all away, and the
next bunch is a crap shoot, crap shoot. Bo did
it all every sport, hands down, best athlete of all
time forget number thirty four, and he did it before
NFL got left up with replay. Sad part is, Bow
wouldn't be as good if he played today because he's
direct shot. Wait, but sad part is Bow wouldn't be

(39:17):
as good if he played today because he would have
got flagged for running people over because you know, we
need that player safety thing. That's my brother's take. Good
to know he hasn't changed during quarantine. Yes, so here's
what and it's not. We didn't say best athlete, who
is the best player to wear number thirty four? So
here's here's the parameters that came up with individual accomplishments,

(39:41):
How he compared to his peers, was he ever considered
the best at the sport when he played, success right, championships,
career learn longevity, and then the quality of play in
terms of when that player played during their era. So
so that's what I came up with a couple of
questions we gotta answer. First, Shack only wore thirty four
were with the Lakers. Should we count only those years?

(40:05):
What do you think? I think yes, I think that
you maybe could take points away for even changing your
number throughout your career. I agree, I don't think you can.
To me, he's still it's the best player to wear
number thirty four. So whether he wore thirty two like
he did with Orlando and then with the Heat, he
wore thirty four with the Lakers, but he was he

(40:26):
was still the player that he was, So I think
we could take some points away. But I don't think
we discount his years in Orlando, his years in Miami,
which were the two he played for other teams Phoenix,
but those were the only two others that he really
did anything. You know, you really proved your greatness right there.
You really broke that down. Well, so I'm gonna I'm
gonna yes, I think that's still the Other question that

(40:48):
came up was should Bo Jackson's baseball career count because
he didn't wear thirty four as a baseball player, he
wore six team Well, I mean, nobody else is playing
two sports that exactly, so, so I I don't think
I think we have to count baseball because they think
he that encompasses What made Bow so great was the

(41:09):
fact that he played two sports right, just at such
a high level. So so I don't think we discount
his baseball career. And then and then lastly, Nolan Ryan
that this is the picture debate, right, and you've you've
heard this before. We with m VP, because he didn't
play every day, should he lose points for not being
an everyday player unlike the other guys? What do you think?

(41:31):
It's the argument of kenne Picture being m v P.
And I always say yes, they can because if they
go out in the fifth day and they're shutting people
down and you guarantee of victory that day, like then yeah,
there's still athletes there. Just because they don't play every
day doesn't doesn't take it. I think a picture, although
they only play every fifth day, some you know, some

(41:52):
you know will pitch on short rest, but they control
that day they play. Nobody has more impacture game than
they do. And I'll tell you what I mean. I
understand the argument. But for Noran Ryan, the dude played
like fourteen seasons. So let's get into that. Let's get
into that because I want to do this quickly. Let's go. Okay,
So so here's shacks resume. All right, So you talk

(42:13):
about Shack. He played. He played twenty years. Two thousand
eleven he was with the Lakers and two thousand and four.
He won four championships, three with the Lakers, one with
the Heat. Okay, when he his rookie year with the Magic,
the Magic won twenty more games than they did the
previous year, and he took them to the finals. In
his third season, he obviously won Rookie of the Year.

(42:35):
He was a three time Finals m v P. So
the three years he won with the Lakers, he was
the Finals m v P. There was another guy on
those teams. Skip Skip, keep going, all right. He was
the MVP of the league once, fifteen time All Star,
eight times All NBA First Team to second team, four

(42:56):
All NBA Third Team. He was a two time scoring champion.
He was named to the fiftieth Anniversary and if n
NBA Team. He's eighth on the all time scoring list,
fifteenth and rebounds, which was surprising. I thought he'd be
higher up in rebounds, eighthan blocks. His number thirty four
was retired by the Lakers. He's in the Hall of Fame.

(43:16):
And if you just if you want to take one
thing against him, alright, his his career free throw percentage,
which is a big part of the game, was fifty
two point seven percent. Now, when you think about was
he the most dominant player when he played, to me, yes, absolutely,
he was the most dominant player in his prime when

(43:36):
he played. And you're thinking about, I mean he played earlier,
he played with Michael Jordan's, he played with guys like
Tim Duncan in that. But I think when you talk
about dominance and not being unstoppable shock, there was a
point where Shack was pretty unstoppable and the only way
you could stop him was to foul him because he
was bad at the free They kind of changed the

(43:58):
rules a little bit for him. Okay, so let's go
to bub alright, Bo he talked about baseball. Now, he
played nine seasons in the in in Major League Baseball.
He was an All Star once. He was the m
v P of that game in four home runs and
consecutive at bats, which was a record. Last was off
Randy Johnson, future Hall of Famer. He was Comeback Player

(44:20):
of the Year with the White Sox. He hit thirty
home runs once, he had twenty home runs four times.
He stole twenty basses twice, and he had one our
one one RBI season. Okay, that's baseball football. He played
four seasons. He only played thirty eight games in his
football career. Okay, and when he started, he was a
part time player. Marcus Allen was the starting running back,

(44:41):
but he eventually supplanted Marcus. He never had a thousand
yard rushing season, but he did average five point four
yards per Russian which is which is a good number.
He made one Pro Bowl and obviously the hip injury
one cut his career short. And when we think about
bow was he the best player at the position during
the time, No, we can't say that he was. But

(45:04):
in terms of the best athlete on the planet, to me, yes,
at that time, he was the best athlete on the planet.
Can't even argue that in my opinion. Again, I said,
I don't even think that's arguable. That dude was a monster.
And when when I hear his staff, there nothing to
write home about but watching him, it was just electric dude.
And I think that's the thing, Like he had these moments,

(45:25):
he had these moments when you think about he running
up the wall, making a catch and running up the
outfield wall the game, the Monday night game against the Seahawks,
he ran for two one yards still on Monday Night,
on Monday Night football record, ran over Bosworth in the
end zone when there was all that talk. So the
moments that he had were iconic. But when you look

(45:46):
at his career, he doesn't have the career the Shack has.
But let's keep going, all right, Walter Payton. Think about
thirteen seasons seven, he won one Super Bowl, he was
went to the Pro Ball nine times. He was first
team All Pro seven and he was second team All
Pro once. He was m VP the league once, two times,

(46:08):
NFC Offensive Player of the Year. He led the league
in rushing once, led the league in touchdowns once, led
the league in rushing attempts four times. He was named
to the NFL All Decade Team in this nineteen seventies
and the nineteen eighties. He's second on the all time
list in terms of rushing yards. When he retired, he
broke the record. Emmett Smith has since surpassed him. He's

(46:29):
eleventh all time in touchdowns. He holds the Bears records,
the Chicago Bears records for most rushing yards, receptions, and touchdowns.
He's on the NFL seventy fifth Anniversary team, he's on
the NFL's a hundredth anniversary team. He's had his number retired,
and he's in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And
when you talk about was he the best running back

(46:50):
at that time? Think of the running backs that were
in the league when he played. I'll give you a list. O. J. Simpson,
Frank o'harris, Earl Earl Campbell, Billy Sims, Tony Dorset, John Riggins,
Marcus Allen, and Eric Dickerson. Can we say Walter Payton
was head and shoulders better than those guys? I don't think.

(47:12):
I don't think you can. But but who can you
say out of all those guys head and shoulder above
the rest of the crew. I agree? I agree. I
just think that when you I would lump Walter Payton
into that group, I wouldn't consider him separate from that group. Okay,
we'll answer this question. You do you have one running
back to pick out of that hole? Everyone you just said,
who do you take him? Me? Eric Dickerson, me too?

(47:36):
So all right. So that's Walter. Now let's get to Nolan.
All right, Nolan, you talked about his career twenty eight seasons,
sixty six. He won one World Series. He was an
All Star eight times. He led the n L and
e r A two times. He led the league's in
both leagues and strikeouts eleven times. Okay, his the asked

(48:00):
was the Rangers have retired his number thirty four. He
wore thirty with the Angels. They also retired that number.
All right. He's in the Angels Hall of Fame, the
Astros Hall of Fame, the Rangers Hall of Fame, and
the Pro Baseball Hall of Fame. He was elected first
ballot ninety eight point seven nine percent of the ballot.
He's on the All Century Team. He has the most

(48:21):
career strikeouts five thousand, seven hundred and fourteen. The next
closest is Randy Johnson at four thousand, eight hundred and
seventy five. He struck out the most most batters in
one season three three. He's at two hundred and fifteen
double digit strikeout games. He's had twelve career one hitters.
He's at fifteen two hundred strikeout seasons. He's had six

(48:42):
three hundred strikeout seasons. He's pitched seven no hitters, which
is three more than any other picture. He's had the
fewer fewest career hits per nine innings six point five,
lowest batting average allowed for career two oh four. But
also when you think about the longevity now, on the
down side, he's has the most walks in Major league history,
he's given up the most Grand slams, and he's had

(49:04):
the most stolen bases against him. As as a picture,
he's also had two hundred twenty two complete games. Do
you know what active picture bar Tolo Cologne? How many
bar Tolo Cologne has? That's the most of an act
active picture today? Take a guess, travist what thirty eight?

(49:28):
And again, different game today. Just don't pitch complete games.
But he pitched two hundred twenty two complete games. He
won three hundred twenty four fourteenth all time sixty one shutouts. Okay,
so there it is there. You're really you're really tone wise,
you're really pushing for No. One because, if I recall,
you're the one no no in America. Right, Let's let's

(49:55):
do this. Let's do this democratically. I think if we
had to a limit eight one right off the back.
Based on these parameters, who would it be? You know,
One thing I do want to say one thing is
gonna be a very Travis like statement though. One thing
about all these guys, they're all they were all seemed
like really good dudes, like they're there, you like them,

(50:16):
they were very like, well, they're very cool, They're they're Yeah. Absolutely,
But again that's not that that's not part of the discussion,
but all good dudes. But I think we gotta eliminate.
And then to me it comes like, honestly, for me,
I'm eliminating Walter and it's between Shack and Nolan. That's
that's me. I don't know what about you guys. I

(50:38):
could agree with that. I'm fine with that. You're looking
at longevity, you're looking at championships, that's for Shack. You know. Records, Yeah,
like the numbers you rattled off with Nolan Ryan. It's
just it's so impressive. So I'm okay with losing losing
Walter there, and I think yeah, and I think here's

(51:01):
and I'll here's the argument against Nolan um is it's
tough to compare him and say he was the most
dominant picture of his era because he pitched through so
many different eras, like he pitched from the sixties to
the nineties, and obviously that's a testament. But I don't
think I don't think there was a point where, you know,
there might have been a couple of of of points

(51:23):
in his career where he was definitely one of the
top pictures. But I think just his consistency and certainly
the strikeouts were such a big was such a big
thing um for him. But but you notice something that
I didn't say that he won. He never wont to
ci Young, which which is the best picture in baseball
that year, and obviously they moved it used to be

(51:44):
just one and then they moved it to both leagues.
So to me, that being said, I'm going shock, Shock
to me was the best thirty four. That's that we've
finally got him. Boys, I'm gonna agree with shock too.
But it's like for most of his career were thirty two.
But I think just two championships, and how dominant he

(52:06):
was as a player, like you, you had to incorporate
a new rule because because of that he was dominant.
He was dominant, He was a dominant force. And he
he hadn't seen anything like him at that size, with
that type of agility, and I think I think had
he been a better free throw shooter, um, I think
he you know, he's in the he's in the debate

(52:29):
for best player of all time. But my my opinion
doesn't count because you guys already. But I'm gonna go
Nolan strictly because he wasn't He didn't have the physical
gifts at Shaq had and shockin from what I've read
about Shock, and I'm I'm a laker, you know, I'm
a laker for life. But I heard he was lazy
and not bugs me, although I'm pretty lazy. When you

(52:52):
have that type of talent um, sometimes you're gonna rest
on your talent and maybe not work this hard. Um
that that's something that he is is that you've heard
a lot of you know a lot of people, a
lot of a lot of athletes have have relied on
their talent and didn't make half the career that checked
it and uh and again it's it's a good I
really feel like it's between those two. You could go

(53:14):
either way, but ultimately I think Shock just being the
dominant force study was I think he's the guy. All right, Well,
there it is. Let's let's set up real quick episode
thirty five. Who's the best player to wear number thirty five?
So let's let's did you google it? Did you look?
Thirty five is not an easy one. What I did

(53:34):
have one I thought of it before I googled it,
and I came up with the big hurt That's what
I had to Okay, so let's do this collectively. Big
hurts on the list. Let's come up with four big
hurt is on the list. And if I'm looking, I
gotta go, we gotta enter. If you think about I'm
adding Tony s Posito. Now, if you're not a fan,

(53:56):
you may not know, but Tony s Posito, I'm putting
him in. Okay, that's I'm executive decisioning. I'm putting Tony
spit on. All right. Another guy, another guy I first
thought of when I when I heard thirty five was
a guy I used to watch in the nineties. You
guys remember him, Christian Nikoya. He's not gonna be on
anyone's list, but just like a guy that was just
like a crazy running back. He was a monster. He

(54:20):
was good. Nigeria nightmare. That's a good um. But I
don't think he makes the list. I think he gotta
put Ricky Henderson out there, but he didn't where he
was he wore thirty five though in his career so
so and and this is where we get into these debates.
If he wore the number, we've already decided. If he

(54:41):
wore the number at some point, then he enters into
that number. What about k D I think, I think
to me, durants on the list too, So I think
that's the four I think. And Henderson, I think he
wore it like, let's at least you're working at it
right now. He wore it from seventy that he bore
in one for the A's than two to eighty four,

(55:04):
and then again for the Mariners in two thousand and
then also for the Red Sox in two thousand two. Yeah,
I mean his career, twenty four is the number he'll
most be remembered for. Then there should be we have
to we have to implement a rule here. Could it
be like it's got to be more than half of
your career? Oh okay, if you're in the Hall of Fame,

(55:28):
what number which Jersey did you go in with that's
the one. That's the one. Well, I don't know if
every Hall of Fame makes you a number or jersey
that's like a baseball thing and then maybe your career
because you can't have them, right, you can't have like
justin Verlanders career, Joe Jogi Barah wore thirty five at

(55:55):
one point, but they're not known for that number. And
so that's why I think we allowed Shack because Shock
was most successful in thirty four. So so do we
want to say that that the number if if you
wore that number and that was not your most successful
point in your career, that it doesn't you can't use him.

(56:16):
That's I think that's too subjective, and we don't want to.
We don't like to. We don't like to review subjective plays. Dean, Yeah,
you show it out with past deference, So I think
it needs to be the rock solid. Hey, if you
played twenty years, you played ten of them in thirty two,
so you have that, you have that half of your
career at that note. That's what I think. Okay, that

(56:39):
sounds fair to me. So did Shack make it? Let
me say, hold on, I just threw the red flag
out on you hold on after further review, hold on,
I think you played eight seasons with the Lakers. Hold on?
Are in Miami? Also? Right? You were thirty two with Miami. Yeah.

(56:59):
The other he didn't wear he didn't wear thirty two
with the Lakers because it was retired was magic um.
So he played twenty years and oh no Lakers nine?
He played nine seasons with the Lakers. How many twenty years?
What do you want? I said, we round up? I said,

(57:20):
we round up. You know what I mean on the
show man, Let's round up. I can't I can't go.
We can't go through that rule will the rule will
start now? Alright? So the rules starting now? All right?
So Ricky Henderson's out. So Ricky Anderson's out. Just like

(57:40):
we put in hacker Shack, we're putting in a rule
after shock now again, So it's Frank Thomas, Tony Esposito,
I think Verlander now and and who and who's the
fourth k D? So that's our four. So we'll put
that out. Well, we'll make a post and we'll talk
about it next. I mean, what about Chris Kaman though
the ugliest man in the NBA. Let's let's move on.

(58:02):
Let's move on. Last dance, nobody watched, nobody cares anymore.
I'm not talking about it. He had a hambling piction.
He left the NBA, and then he came played baseball,
and then he came back, and then he left the
Bulls and then he played for for Washington. Blah blah blah.
I'm done with that, um, Joe. Anything that you do
with social distancing wise different, I've got it. Just two

(58:23):
quick quick tips. Instacart. I've started the Instacart thing. It's amazing.
They bring it right to your door now. They even
just drop it off. So if you're not doing the
Instacart thing for your growth, there's lines. I don't understand
these lines. It's insane Instacart. The other one, I go ahead,
but I also like to pick up. I like Ralph's pickup.
That one's great too. The order online and you try

(58:44):
to pick it up. It's nice. I can't have one self.
I can't have just that. Ha, Travis, this is Joe thing.
Your life hasn't changed much. The other one and this
is for the parents out there, especially people in l
A or high traffic areas. Take advantage of the lack
of traffic. I took my kids driving through downtown l A,

(59:05):
pinted out the buildings, took him through Malibu, showed him,
you know, the ocean. You know, just did some cool
stuff and in the car. That's a great point because
you're not because once this is over, you're not. It's
you're never like on a Saturday saying hey, let's take
a drive to Koreatown like like kill me, like like
in dealing with that traffic. So those are my too smart.

(59:25):
Good tip. That's a good tip. What are we watching, Travis? What?
What's the latest I got? I got through four episodes
of Waco so far fascinating. Waco is insane. Wait until
you wait, until you watch the last episode. Just wait.
I have so many questions. I don't want to ask.

(59:46):
I don't I don't want to look anything up because
I can't remember it. I was too young to remember it.
I didn't follow it all that closely as a kid.
And I'm just I want to know how closely it
is to the truth, and and I just I'm I'm
so interested to find out. So, yeah, you'll do some research.
There's definitely Look, there's two sides to what happened. You
have the Branch Davidians version and then you have the

(01:00:07):
FBI's version. Um, I think I think the documentary does
a pretty good job. They're definitely they're definitely presenting it
from the inside, but they do a pretty good job
of kind of presenting the issues. But it is it's
really good. So watch WAGO. It's really good. They do
a great job. And uh, the last episode is unbelievable

(01:00:29):
looking forward to it. How do you get through the
so fast? It's still amazing to me? You just watch
I started watching The Last Kingdom as anybody watched that
on Netflix. It's been around, It's been around for like
four seasons, and I just started watching it. It's like
kind of like, um, medieval style Game of Thrones style,
and uh, I really like it. It's good if you

(01:00:49):
like Game of Thrones type stuff without without all the
you know, the kind of the fantasy stuff and the
and the White Walkers and all that. It's really good.
I like it. Um. The other thing I watched, I
watched it just earlier today was Castaway with Tom mas
I mean, I've seen it a million times, but I
watched it and I have to takeaways from the movie. Um,

(01:01:12):
Tom Hanks was like mud Geyver in that movie. The
fact that that movie would have been twenty minutes long
if it were have been any one of us, because
we would have just not survived, and and he was unbelievable.
And the other thing. If I told you there's a
movie where a guy is going to become best friends
with a volleyball, and then when he loses that volleyball,
you're gonna be upset, you would tell me I was crazy,

(01:01:35):
and you are upset when he loses Wilson, like I
was legitimately sad when he lost Wills. Did you watch that?
Because it's you feel like it's the life or Curly
Liv's where I told you I called I call my
Alexa babe the other day, like like it is seriously,
this is I feel like that's the life that we're

(01:01:56):
living right now. And uh, but Tom Hanks man and I,
you know, I haven't ordered an update. I know Tom
Manx was one of the first celebrities him and his
wife Rita was one of the first celebrities that that
and asked that they did test positive for corona. So
I don't know. I think he's recovered. I thought I
thought I saw when he hosted the The The the
SNL from from Remote from Home. He was, he said,

(01:02:20):
they he's recovered, finding his wife has recovered as well.
The other show. I think you'd like Dean because you
love Ricky Gervais if you watched Afterlife. I've seen, yeah,
this new season, I've seen Afterlife. I do like a
lot of Rickey Gervais's stuff. I watched one season of
Afterlife and then I think I got sidetracked. Um, but
I do go back to season two. It's it's it's good.
I'm watching that right now too. It's it's such a

(01:02:42):
dark comedy. He's got such a great, such a great
way of uh of of going about his his problems.
He he deals with depression and in his just his
his delivery on jokes is just so good in that. Yeah,
you know, he's really good. I've seen him. I've seen
him twice live do stand up and really enjoyed it.
Um and the other thing that I saw and it's

(01:03:04):
on like like queebo queeby it's it's I guess it's
like a streaming platform. New episodes of Reno nine one
one on on starting to starting on May four. Reno
nine one one on Queeby and a new episode, a
new episode every day, and I think they're short episodes.

(01:03:24):
I think this is an online platform that I think
they do maybe ten minutes segments. And so Reno number
one and it's all. The entire cast is back. So
like Junior and Dangle and Garcia and everybody. It's so
if you haven't watched that show, A lot of those
guys from from Kids in the Hall, right, Yeah, they're

(01:03:47):
all gonna it's starting to stand up. And but Joe,
even during quarantine, quarantine, Joe is not a TV guy,
so he's he's out of this conversation. Let's bring him
back in and let's do brain of Blandino before we end. Sorry, man,
I just I got other stuff going on. I guess
I don't know you hear me. I'm do you hear what?
You hear what I'm doing. I'm punching, punching bags against
against Shane. I'm challenging pros's editing the show, making the

(01:04:11):
audio sound good. So we just we just covered an
hour of your day. What about the other tree it's
hard making you guys sound good. Here we go, Brandon Blendino,
Thank god, we don't have to memorize numbers anymore, right,

(01:04:32):
So do you remember like you? And that's why I
think about like our generation in terms of we talked
about what generation acts and and like early millennials, because
we we we know both worlds. We know pre cell
phones and we know post cell phones. You know, during
cell phones, you have to memorize your own number, Like
I still I'm trying to remember my old number. Dude,

(01:04:52):
I could remember. I still have numbers that I still remember, right,
like friends, birthdays or I mean friends phone, no birds. Yeah, Mike,
I remember you used to have to remember the number
to call and do the rotary phone. If we have
to remember numbers, no one, we would never be communicating.
We would never If you have to remember everybody's number

(01:05:13):
every time you texted, it would never. It wouldn't happen.
Sometimes I won't put a new person's name in my
phone for a while. I'll just let it the number
pop up to see if it'll it'll just be like
burns of My memory doesn't work anymore. Not in the
day everyone's number. You used to have used to rememberize
everyone's number, and I used to be really good at it.
And then now it's like no way, like I can't

(01:05:37):
like just to have like what if you lose your
cell phone, like Joe, what if you lose your cell
phone and you have to call me and d I'm
stuck somewhere, Dean, I need and you and you gott
you know what I don't even know are what's that?
I don't even know your area six or six? You
gotta find a pay I have no idea, I neither

(01:05:58):
one of you. I couldn't tell you the area coach
three one out after that. I'm no change. I don't
even know anyone's number but my ex wife number, that
was it, and she's changing the number, so you don't
have I don't know. I know my wife number by heart.
I know my ex is number pretty much. That's it.
I don't even know my mom's number off the top
of my head anything. I don't know mine either. They

(01:06:19):
got rid of their house phone five years ago, and
I think I think everybody probably has one number that
they can still memorize. That's it. That's that's the capacity
right now. That's sad. It's really sad. And your own, yeah,
and my own exactly. I just don't check to actually
know my mom's number. By heart. It's a very easy number.
So I got one. I know your mom's number. Two.

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