Ep 44- NFL safety protocols breakdown, why the Mahomes deal makes sense for both sides, and Dean’s top 5 man crushes.

NFL safety protocols breakdown, why the Mahomes deal makes sense for both sides, and Dean’s top 5 man crushes.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of IR.
Welcome to another episode of Good Calls. I'm Dean Blandino,
be joined by Travis Hanson, Jil Madrid and and our friend,
our good friends, Scott Tamil Scott, thanks for joining us today. UM.

(00:23):
I don't know what this is week whatever, quarantine. I
feel like we're going backward now. UM. Number of cases
are spiking right states? Some states opened up, opened up
too early. You think about Texas, Arizona, Florida. Um, certainly
the holiday weekends people were out and about. You know,

(00:44):
I'm sure you guys all saw that video. Where was
that Michigan? Was there like a party in in somewhere
some lake, um, Traverse City or something like that. I
don't want to get it wrong and offend anyone, but
it's you know, it feels like a lot of younger
people are not taking this too seriously and that's and

(01:05):
that's causing complications. Um, where are we at? Where's everybody
in COVID right now? Travis? Where are you? I'm at home, man,
I'm sitting in my No. No, it's it's it was
more of a metaphorical are not physically we're a click
well you know where. Yeah, I'm okay. You know, it's
it's starting to wear on me a bit, but I'm

(01:29):
getting by. You know, you were testy today. You got
the hat on backwards, you were firing away on text messages.
No one was safe. We got on before we're starting
to record, and you were just just throwing dark. I
dropped a song lyric when you guys were talking about
the Oxford comment common I think it's a Vampire weekend.

(01:52):
You guys familiar with that song Vampire? The song is
that the band that's the best band? Yeah, so clearly
Dan is not a playlist. I'll check it out though,
I'm always up for new music. I might like it.
But yeah, Travis was was firing away, um fired up.

(02:15):
But again, yeah, it's where where what Scott? What are
you're kind of the I feel like your go to
and where where are we right now? What should we
be doing right like as a society? Yes, I mean
we need to go back to social distancing of you know,

(02:36):
the middle of May. I mean I don't even I
don't even want to get started because it just at
this point, you know, most of the United States is
just kind of given up or they you know, for reasons.
There's a lot of reasons. But you know, we like sports.
And I think I forgot who was speaking. It was
a baseball player. Just see the day. It's like sports

(02:58):
are reward for a engining society. So we should be
trying to you know, sort of prevent this because I
would love to have a football season this yearning. Well,
what you know, you watch, you watch what's happening in
Europe and and and elsewhere where they're playing sports. There
doesn't seem to be. Yeah, there's positive tests, and but
there doesn't seem to be whether it's you know, European

(03:20):
soccer leagues or um, you know, other other sports rugby,
Australians football, they seem to be doing okay. And is
that a result of the social distancing and the precautions
that they took? UM And I know, right we were
behind um, Europe and we were behind Asia and are

(03:41):
we just you know, do we need to just catch up?
And how are we going to catch up if we
keep you know, opening up before we're really supposed to. Um. Well,
you know, I'm not a health expert, but but you're
the only year the closest one we have on this show. Okay,
so now we'll step up and start giving us some

(04:03):
health advice. I mean, I'll just say if whether you boot,
you can believe whatever you want to believe on how
serious this is. Uh. But you know, according to the numbers,
there's been about a hundred and thirty thousand deaths. Even
if you think that's wildly inflated, you cut that in half,
it's sixty five thousand deaths. Uh. And then you look

(04:26):
at a country like South Korea or something, they have
under three hundred deaths. So it's like, I get it,
they're smaller, it's a different country, different stuff. But it's
like we're doing something wrong. And that's mostly just we
did the right thing where we killed the curve early on. Uh.

(04:48):
But the point would be we're supposed to be testing
more and more and then we're supposed to be uh
like slowly going back to quote unquote normal. But basically
we wasted like sixty days and then everyone, like a
portion of people, and rightfully so because people need to
make money, they need to survive, they're like I gotta

(05:10):
go back. So um, uh, it would be good if
you could, like you know, other countries are doing support
for workers and stuff, so maybe they we can see
this unemployment thing extended. Things like that. But it's a
little scary just because you know basic and I'm sure
we're gonna talk about it. But baseball is trying to

(05:31):
get going, and uh, a lot of it seems like
it keeps running into those jumps into that. Right, let's
jump into sports returning and we can start with baseball,
since you know, baseball is on the cusp of returning.
And I believe of the three sports, you know, take
football out of it. The three sports, the hockey, basketball,

(05:52):
and baseball, baseball schedule to start the earliest, UM. But
you keep, you know, you keep seeing pause the test
tests from over the weekend that I know, the Giants
San Francisco, you know, I had to close down their facilities.
It's it's just, you know, are you gonna study the Astros? Also, yeah,
you're gonna start a season and two weeks later have

(06:14):
to shut it down. I don't think that's you know,
I think that's worse than than waiting and delaying UM.
And I think that's that's part of the just the
the issue what we're dealing with. And again, this is
you know, we haven't dealt with anything like this. We
you know, we've got to try to and we all
want sports. But I think you're right, you know that
sports are reward for a functioning society, and maybe we're

(06:36):
not functioning um right now the way we're supposed to,
and and maybe we're not supposed to have sports yet
until we get the self figured out. I feel like
there's the issue of of every state's kind of doing
things differently, Like if everything in any entire United States
was doing the same thing, like that might be more

(06:58):
beneficial for our country. I like other countries maybe doing
that a little bit better than ours. But we are right,
that's the whole, the whole premise, the whole foundation of
this country is the fifty United States. So you know,
there's state laws and things like that that that don't
necessarily that aren't aren't under the supervision of the federal laws,

(07:18):
and uh, and that's part of it. And then that's
why you see. I think California, I feel like it's
done a really good job. I don't think they've opened
up you know, yeah, we started open up some things,
but I think it's been a step approach and and
whereas in other places it seemed like, Okay, we're gonna
we're gonna turn the key all in one day and
and and open everything back up, and then we have

(07:39):
to shut shut back down. I don't know, I was
just wondering, you know. I know we've talked about this
a little, but with the nfl s plans so far,
obviously it's still a few months away, but it sounds
like they're going to probably leave it up to the
states to decide, uh song, like the state regulations, like

(08:02):
there will be crowds. Yeah, yeah, And I and I look,
you know, and as we you know, let's talk about
the NFL, and when we we've been saying this right
for a long time off you know, the NFL still
got months still months away. Guess what it's it's now
less than two months right before we would be getting
gearing up for the first weekend of NFL football, three

(08:25):
weeks to training camps, you know. So so it's here
and this is why this is being all ramped up.
And as I talked to you know, I talked to
a lot of people I know around the league, and
this would be the coaches, everyone would be on vacation
right now. Everyone would they have all the schedules would
be done weeks ago, everything training camp, travel, when the

(08:49):
players are going to return, everything through the preseason would
be done. That that teams are very structured and and
and their habit you know they're there or creatures of
habit and everything is right. None of that is really
has been has been finalized. And so that's why you
know the league sent out I have it in front
of me and I was combing through it. This this

(09:11):
forty page document um in terms of protocols, and it's
it's you know, it's too much to go through right now,
but just like as I'm looking at it now, just
some highlights. Right. So it's the NFL and the NFL
Players Association, you know, both through their through their infectious
disease experts are going to develop. They're gonna develop material

(09:33):
that club medical staffs can use to educate everybody. So
everybody at a club level has to be educated on
things like symptoms and what do you do if you
have symptoms? How do you prevent infections? Um? You know
all the social distancing guidelines things like that. You know
protective equipment, UM, you know, healthy habits, preventative measures all

(09:56):
of that. There's gonna be this extensive educational, um, you know,
uh kind of process. And then and then it gets
into kind of what the breakdown of club personnel. And
they've they've done it into tiers, right, and so there's
facility access and facility accesses is going to be restricted

(10:18):
during training camp to a limited number of essential personnel
and based on the job, you're gonna be put into
a tier, right. And restricted areas are basically you know,
the practice and the stadium, playing fields, the sidelines, the
locker rooms, the training rooms, the medical exam rooms, the
player meal and meeting rooms, player lounge areas, and weight rooms.

(10:42):
That's a restricted area. And you you if you're in
Tier one, which is going to consist of players and
essential football personnel who need direct access to players for
more than ten minutes at a time, you have access
to that restricted area, right. Everybody else it's gonna be limited. Right.
So so when you talk about Tier one, right, those

(11:02):
are players, those are coaches, those are athletic trainers, positions,
strength and conditioning coaches, and equipments. Right, they will have
access to restricted areas on a n asmeda basis. Tier two, right,
which are non playing personnel who do have to have
some contact with with players and coaches, but don't have

(11:23):
to have it at extensively. Right, They're not gonna have
access to those restricted areas. Um, and it's going to
be limited. And that's like the facility staff, which is
like cafeterian food service people. UM, it's gonna be people
like ownership general managers, football operations staff. And there's gonna
be limits to the number of people you can have

(11:45):
in each tier Tier one sixty people on a daily basis,
Tier to forty people on a daily basis, and then
there's even lower tiers like tier Tier two M which
are media people, and Tier three which are essential facility
of the workers, but they don't have to have access
to the players and the Tier one people. So it's

(12:05):
crazy to think you have to go through all of
this tear these people up, because before training camp starts,
each team is going to have to submit who is
in each group and then and then kind of then
you get into the cleaning, the disinfecting, everything that has
to be wiped down all of the limited these guys

(12:27):
are gonna be working out in in in weight rooms,
limited to ten or fifteen people, small groups. There's no fans,
no visitors to training camp at any time. Um. You know,
teams can hold club fan events at their stadium, they
have a limited too, but you no fans, no visitors
are gonna be allowed of training camp. Um. So there's
so much that goes into this, and like Travis said,

(12:50):
we're three weeks from the start of training camp and
then it doesn't need and then this document gets into
travel protocols. Okay, when they go on the road, what
do they have to do? You know, all of this
it's it's it's it's very extensive, and these are the
things that teams are gonna have to gonna have to

(13:11):
go through. And then write somebody tests positive, where somebody
comes down with symptoms, they're gonna have to be quarantined.
Then they're gonna have to be retested. People that had
close contact with them are gonna have to be tested.
It's a lot of stuff. It's going to be a massive,
massive undertaking to start to see. And that's the reality

(13:31):
of what where we are in the world today. My
favorite saying, and we're seeing some of the breakdowns and
that with some of the baseball players who who have
gone back to work and started training again, and how
they're upset with you know, they get tested on Friday
and the results had and come through, and now people
are starting to test and then facilities are closing because
the positive tests you know, you know, on Monday. So

(13:53):
so I think, you know, people are fed up with it,
and they're not they're not being you know, it's it's
not being handled the way that it was it was
promised to them in their agreement. And I think it's
unreasonable to expect, No, we haven't dealt with this in
our lifetime. This is this is new. It's unreasonable to
think that this is gonna this is gonna go flawlessly,

(14:14):
or hey, this is not this is not gonna happen
that way. There's gonna be bumps, there's gonna be and
what what we just hope and pray doesn't happen. Obviously,
the health and safety of the people involved. That's that's
the key. You don't want to have any any any
catastrophes like that. But you don't want is just it's
just a rash of positive tests and then they just
shut it down and and now we're back to you know,

(14:36):
no sports um, and we're kind of trying to figure out, Okay,
what's gonna can we even get one season? And I
don't I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, go ahead, Scott, Oh, yeah,
I was I just saw something over the weekend too, though,
that the athletics and the Nationals speaking baseball were are

(15:00):
upset because there was like, uh, I think delaysed with
testing and you're writing it is complicated, but that I
think there's a concern that you know, the MLB was
kind of saying too, it's like, what was the holiday
weekend and like, you know, they were fed x in
tests and if they didn't take that into consideration that

(15:21):
it's a holiday weekend. Yeah, but it'll be interesting because
you know, testing right now across the country, they're running
into supply issues like do we have enough supplied tests?
And you know, for some of the sports things you
hear they want to test a couple of times a
week and if it's a football team, we're talking with

(15:42):
all the operational people. Man, it's been the minimum. You know,
that's like a couple of hundred people a couple of
times a week, you know, four yeah, times, thirty two times,
you know, twenty five thirty weeks. It's it's a lot,
you know. And uh, and that's on top of you know,
all the people in in any given state who are

(16:05):
trying to get tested and things like that. So there's
a lot of logistics that every leaguest to figure out
right now. Yeah, and I know, the one thing I'm
hearing on the college football side, and look, this is
even I think we're gonna see, we're gonna see different
conferences doing different things. Um, I think you might see

(16:26):
some of the bigger conferences shortening their seasons. Maybe they
don't play out of conference games, maybe they just play
their conference schedules, they start the conference schedule earlier and
they end earlier. Because I think because I think there's
a you know, obviously there's gonna be on at least
the college side, the unknown of hey do we you know,

(16:48):
let's get done before it starts to get cold across
the country because that brings on a whole another right
flu season and everything else. You know, the weather gets colder,
people start to get sick more, and who knows how
this thing is gonna morph. Um, So I think, you know,
I think we need to be prepared for that. And
you know, the IVY League already announced potential that that

(17:10):
they may uh, you know, they may push football, including
you know, off fall sports, including football to the spring.
Who knows what's gonna happen there on the college side.
And I think we just have to um again, it's
it's coming quickly though. This is you know, this is
gonna be. College football starts right Labor Day weekend, even

(17:31):
the week before, there's games that week zero and uh,
and this is gonna be It's gonna be interesting to
see how this all plays out. Let's uh, let's talk
a little bit. Let's talk the other big NFL news.
And obviously this has been kind of piggybacking on on
what's what's been happening obviously around the country in terms

(17:52):
of the social justice But the Washington right, this is,
this is a franchise. The name UM has been has
been basically the connotation is that it's an it's a
Native American slur. Many people who were offended by this name.
It's been the name since what the Washington has been

(18:12):
around since n twenties. UM. And I think finally with
all of the real push that what's happening in the
country after George Floyd, I think the renewed um conversation
and ultimately came down to FedEx and other sponsors saying
they're gonna you know, they're they're pushing for the name
change and uh and the team announced that they're going

(18:33):
to review the name. And I think this is gonna
lead to a name change. And I think it could
lead to a name change before the start of if
we have one, um and, I think there's gonna be
some people that that sit there and say, well, what
took you so long? UM? I think, yeah, I get it,
but at least it's it's changing. And that's how I

(18:53):
look at it, that yes, you can you can really
rise at the reasoning, you can really rise at what
took so long. You can do all those things. But
the bottom line is is if it changes um And Look,
and you guys know me, I'm not one. I don't
get offended very often. But I just think that that
is so and and and not dealt with it at
the league office and dealt with you know, I had

(19:15):
a referee, to his credit, you know, he didn't want
to work Washington games, and and and and we honored
that request because you know, because of the name, and
you know, but it's if it changes then regardless of
the reasons. I think that's a good thing and we
can kind of move forward. But it's gonna be interesting
to see what are they going to change with if
they do change to the nickname, are they going to

(19:37):
change the Braves? And I think you know that, I
think the Braves have already said and I think there's
a different braves chiefs. I think I think we can
all look at those names and say that's different than
what was happening in Washington. You know, it just did.
And and when you're when you're highlight whether it's the seminoles,

(19:58):
whether you're highlighting Native American you know, history, culture, whatever,
I think that's good. I think that's important. The first,
you know, when I got interested in Native American history
was like I think I told you guys, that played
my first little league baseball team when I was whatever
seven years old. Um, the whole league was Native American
names and I played for the Apaches, and I was
interested in and I wanted to read up about it.

(20:20):
And that's been something that I've done, you know, since
that point. So I don't think Braves, you know, I
think the one team that that could change is Cleveland.
I think the you know, the Indians. I think that
you know, they've changed their mascot, their logo that things
like that. But I think that could be uh a
name that that I think they have to review um
and again and this isn't you guys know and not

(20:41):
don't think any of us are our ultra PC but
it is. Then the Washington name is. You can't sit
there and talk about social justice and equality and have
that be one of your thirty two franchises. I just like,
and they happened to be in the nation's capital and
yeah it's it's and yeah, there's that picture, isn't there

(21:05):
a This might be either from a Cleveland Indians game,
but there's like a guy where there is a Native
American man outside the stadium and then there's like a
white guy in like crazy paint and he's like with
like that, he's like, hey, this is cool and it

(21:26):
is and it's like and you talk about right is it?
You can't sit there and say that's not a you know,
I'm not Native American. I don't know what you know,
how you know, most people Native Americans would feel about that.
But you've got to think that there's an element of
that that would be similar to black face, right like
like that's that's that's how I would look at it,

(21:48):
that that that you're this is my culture, this is
my my history and all those things, And I don't
see that as a tribute, right and I wouldn't see
it as a just that's how that's all. I well,
I think, um, you know, you brought up like with
Florida's state, they the college there one instance where they've

(22:10):
worked with local like seminole tribes and gotten official approval,
uh whereas and then the other thing I guess is
just you know, back to teams in college for decades
have been switching from some sort of Indian related names
something else, and there's always pushback, but after a few years,

(22:34):
it just is what it is and it will be
part of this team's history. It's not gonna go away.
If you look up the history of the teams super
Bowl winning teams, it won't be like what happened, there's
nothing there, so you know, just moving forward, I think whatever,
you know, they're gonna probably switch a name this season,

(22:55):
I would imagine, but um, I think moving forward, you'll see,
you know, put fact. But things move on and things change.
I think the thing about it is people will call them,
you know, hypocrites because they said they weren't going to
change or do anything about it. But I think, I
think this is how I would feel, and this is
how they should feel too, is you know, you'd rather
be a hypocrite and stay the same forever then And

(23:18):
and that to me is just maybe it wrong and
say we're changing it. Let's let's move on and make it,
you know, make it a a quick swift change and
you move on and you forget about it. But that
and that's my thing, Like I can't I don't like
when people If somebody is willing to listen and change,
then don't break them over the coals. Just they're willing
to sit and listen and change, they're gonna change, they

(23:40):
don't sit there and break them over the coals. But
you know, yes, I can't control what happened in the past,
right I can learn from it and and move on.
But you know, and that's people want to be you know,
a lot of people want to play you know, they
want to be offended. They want to you know, play
a victim role and and this. You know, we all

(24:01):
at some at some point or another, I felt sorry
for ourselves and and and fallen into that place. But
you know someone's willing to listen and change, and let's
support them, make the change and move on and not
make it a negative thing. Um. And because the thing is,
we've got a long way to go. And you saw,
I mean I was reading today right to Sean Jackson

(24:21):
his comments right this, this is you know, we've got
to educate all. We all have to continue to educate
ourselves on on what it means, what what hate speeches?
What you know, what how much our words matter? And
and and I know Sean is um you know, come

(24:42):
out and apologize and things like that, and making you know,
when you when you reference Hitler, when you reference things
like that, Um, that's it's hard to sit there and
say it's not anti semitic. I mean, it's just that's
and and again, and continue to educate ourselves. And nobody's perfect.
We all make mistakes, and we all say dumb things.

(25:02):
And social media is we were talking about it, right,
I've told these guys like it is you can I
mean I can ruin my career right now with this
thing I have in my hand. I can go on Twitter,
and I can and I can ruin my career and
ruin my life by by saying the wrong thing or
saying something stupid and uh, and that's a big, big

(25:23):
responsibility everybody, anybody with a public you know, with the
public platform, has to be mindful that their words matter.
And I think that's part of the reason why the
guy in the White House right now shouldn't be in
the White House, because because words are important and things
that we we we say, especially when we have a
platform and we have a following, um and uh, you know,

(25:44):
it's it's tough. I think the rule number one of
social media is anything that involves Hitler, stay away from it.
That's a good rule. Like who you don't need a quote, however,
can you? Okay, let's let's come up. Let's go to break.
When we come back, we're gonna we're gonna come up
with the list of people you cannot quote. All right, good, great,

(26:24):
all right, we're back on good calls. And so let's
let's talk about some bad calling. Let's talk about we'll
talk about the Sean Jackson quoting Hitler. Okay, we understand
Hitler's probably at the top of the list. Um, stay
away from anything Hitler, right, just stay away from it.
Like you can't even you can't even like shape. You

(26:46):
can't even go near the mustache like you can't if
it's too tight. You can't do that. You can't. The
name aid Off is out. You can't name your kid
aid Off. You can't do anything Hitler related for very
good reasons. Who else is on the list? Any dictator,

(27:07):
any dictator at all? Can you not? Who? Can you
not quote? Any dictator? Yeah, just stay away from dit
If Saddam Hussein had like amazing, like something where you're like, wow,
that's like Oscar wild dish and and you can't you
can't use it because it was Saddam. Yeah, stay away,
stay away from Ben Lawden. I threw up to quotes.

(27:30):
If I threw up a quote and I said, this
is either Hussane or Wild even if it's amazing, I
can't use it. If it's Hussan, probably not in your
best interest. You know it's been big. I don't. I didn't.
I don't think bi Laden was big in the in
the quote in the quote world. Yeah, you just behind

(27:50):
the scenes, you just gotta be careful because um, like
you said before we went to break, you just gotta
do a little research. You gotta be careful, little research
and then like you said, anything you type into your
phone or whatever, you can just start off. It's like,
do I need to put this out there? Especially if
I have a platform, if I'm just Seeman Jackson, question

(28:14):
why I really anytime I tweet and I don't tweet
all that often, you know if yea, if somebody asked
me about a football question, then yeah, I'll respond, But
even then I read it. I make sure there's no
you know, I'm not spelling anything wrong or anything like that.
But do you need to put that out there? I remember, um,

(28:34):
I remember when Colin when Kaepernick, you know, got a
lot of crap for wearing a skivera um T shirt,
right because a lot of Cubans, um no was it
was it? Or no, no, no, no, no no, it wasn't
shake overa it was he he made a comment about
Castro and a lot of Cubans that were had left

(28:58):
had left Cuba who were living in the United States,
especially in South Florida, were upset because of the comments
he made about Castro and that's to me. And this
is a guy that is educated, that has obviously been
a driver in in civil rights and social justice. But
you gotta, like you said, you gotta educate yourself before
you you start quoting people and start talking about stuff,

(29:21):
because it is it's a mine field out there. He's
not the only one. A lot of politicians have screwed
up in Florida when they're trying to appeal to one
side or the other. And you know, obviously the people
who left Cuba, they have strong opinions on that. And
sure he's not the first and he won't be the last.

(29:42):
Just kind of really made a mess and act, you
know what. You know what was going on but not
widely publicized. But the night that the you know, Castro
took control, there was actually a party at at at
the President's this big gala, and Michael Corleone was there

(30:02):
with Fredo, and Michael realized that Fredo was the one
that portrayed him with Hyman Roth, and he kissed them.
I said, I saw I saw that documentary which I
knew it was you, Fredo, and then and then and
then Governor Cuomo, you know, called that an Italian slur

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ninety years later, whatever it was. Let let me ask
you this dean, is is Trump on this list of unquotable?
And do you I mean, I here's the thing. I
think you can get in trouble. Trump is a very
divisive character, obviously divisive figure. I think if you're if

(30:45):
you work for in certain industries, I think you can
get in trouble for aligning yourself with Trump, um, without
question um. And like I said, look, I don't agree.
I think you're you're the President United States, act like
it like a decent human being, and don't and don't
promote you know, crap. But you know, I don't think

(31:06):
Trump is unquotable. Like if I retweeted something from Trump,
I would probably get a lot of I'd probably get
a lot of backlash on Twitter, But I don't think
i'd lose my job depending on what it is. Well,
but I think the thing is, you know, there's a
rule like it's it's just a Hitler rule. You don't

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that's a that's an absolute, that's yeah, and you don't
bring it up like you're at a party, and then
you you put in a quote of Hay like, hey, guys,
you know said that actually trouble. Who got in trouble.
It was a football coach. I forget what it was,
but he talked about he said it. He prefaced it
by saying, obviously I don't agree with what he did,

(31:49):
but the guy was a great leader because he got
everybody to follow him. And he got annihilated like he
I think he lost his job. He was like a
college football coach. Yeah, I just I just looked it up.
It was uh not to drag his name through the
dirt here, but Morris Burger at Grand Valley State University.

(32:10):
He he gave props to Hitler. Can't do that. You
just it's off, it's off the table, like, it's just
you can't do it. Well, I will say, an enemy
of yours though Michael Jordan's he tried to bring back
the mustache. You remember that. Oh yeah, he had the
little He tried to and not even Michael Jordan's could

(32:33):
really make it work. Michael Jordan can't make it work. Then,
you know Tom Selleck though it's let's let's be honest here, No,
Tom Selleck, it was a little bit bush here. Yeah. Yeah,
but is there anybody is are we missing anybody else?
I think stay away from World War Two dictators Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini,
like stay away from them. Like, but there's people that

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I don't think Stalin and Mussolini, like Mussolini is is
a is a well loved figure for some Italians, Like
he's not what there's some people of Hitler too, like
that just you just stay away from you just said,
like that's just fascism. You're you're Mussolini's you're guy. But um,

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I I don't know, but I think Hitler is at
the top of the pyramid. But I just I don't
know if there's anybody white can can challenge him for
that throne. You just it's like, no matter the situation,
it's just never a good time to bring him up.
That's that's just the rule. You just don't. You're on
a first date, you're at a company party, those things

(33:39):
to bring up on a first date. I mean, you know,
I remember I had a conversation with um Terry Bradshaw
one time after on a Sunday after games No, and
he's he not not that, but he's a he's a
very big history buff and he studies this stuff. And
we were talking about World War Two and he knows

(34:01):
his stuff, and we're talking about World War two and
Hitler and things like that. Um, so it's obviously it's
a part of history. And uh, but again it's like
you said, first date. Things you can't talk about on
the first date Hitler, Holocaust. Um what else can you
not talk about on the first date. Well, I wouldn't

(34:22):
bring up any prior prior girlfriends, exes, spouses, boyfriends. Probably
not a good to go into much detail about that,
help anything anything health related. I think that's probably a
taboo topic. And also, I know true crime is very popular,
but you probably don't want to lead off on a
date with like you just read about this cool murder. Yes,

(34:46):
serial killer, Like yeah, serial killer stuff probably not good. Yeah,
your favorite show is Dexter. The starting a bad first
date is like going talking about Hitler and ordering like
really really saucy chicken wings, Like that would be like

(35:07):
just bad, just you know, not enough wet, wet wet wipes.
It would just be a bad deal. You don't want
to see me chicken wings. I'll be sweating. Yeah, really
hot ones, like the super hot ones, like oh you
know what, you know, you know who I really you know,
we're really like a lot of his His politics was

(35:28):
Adolph Hitler. By the way, we're gonna we're gonna order
the hottest wings on the menu. They have a hot
wing contest here. So what do you like to do
in your spare time? So the date is at Buffalo
Wild Wings. The date is that if yeah, if you
if you go to a if you take yes, exactly?
Can you ever have a first date at b dubs?

(35:51):
If it's just like a meat up, have a couple
of drinks. But if you Hey, I'm taking you to
dinner and you don't tell and just look where we're all.
I'm taking you to dinner, I'm not gonna tell you
where and you just beat ups? Is that acceptable now?
Or like, hey, there's a there's a Buffalo Wild Wings

(36:13):
near us. You want to meet there, have a drink
and then maybe we can figure it out. That yeah,
that that's fine as long as you said at the bar.
Maybe too, if they're a sports fan, that's helpful. Then
it's not so weird. It would it would be weird too.
So you better if you met her at a poetry
class and you're like, yeah, I know this place. They
they play all the big ten games on Saturdays. It's

(36:35):
a Michigan bar like No, Speaking of football, what do
you guys think of Patrick Mahomes. This contract has gotten
a lot of attention on for obvious reasons. Um, what
do you think of the deal? I mean, anytime you're
getting anywhere near half a billion dollars, it's a it's

(36:57):
a great deal. Like you're not gonna get a ton
of guaranteed money like uh in NFL, like you do
in baseball and other sports. So I think anytime you're
talking about half a billion dollars, it's a good deal.
And he's he's now tied to that franchise, and I
think that helps. I think that helps like players, when
you're with one franchise for entire career, I think that

(37:18):
helps your marketability. And I think in the long runs,
it's it's going to be a deal that that that
we're gonna look back and say this is a good
deal for he's gonna they're gonna win moremionship and he's
and he's right. I think he's he's the best player.
You can argue position, but he's the best player in
the NFL. He won a Super Bowl. Um, he is,

(37:40):
he is. I haven't heard anyone say a bad word
about him as a person, right he is. He could
not be a more likable person. Um. So as for
a face of a league and a face of a franchise,
you could do much, much worse. Um. But like you
said this, you know what's interesting about the contract. You

(38:00):
talk about guaranteed money, Um, Ryan Tannehill got similar guaranteed
money in a four year deal that then Mahomes is
gonna get in what a ten year deal. Obviously, Tannehill
was in a different position. Tannehill was was a free agent.
Mahomes still had two years left on his rookie deal.
Kansas City didn't have to give him a new contract.

(38:22):
I think this is a good deal for Kansas City too.
It's a good deal, right, you get the security for Mahomes,
but it's a great deal for Kansas City because you
could talk about five million dollars, but they don't. They
don't have to pay out this entire deal. Right. He'll
be a chief as long as the chiefs want him
to be a chief. That's the bottom line. So it's
gonna be interesting. I think it's seven when that deal,

(38:46):
that that one year hit goes up to sixty million. Obviously,
if he's still playing, which it's likely he will be
still playing at this level, they're not gonna mess around.
But if he's not and they're gonna take sixty million
UM off off of you know, a cap hit and
one player, they may need to restructure that so or

(39:07):
they may need to go in different directions. Obviously we're speculating,
but I think it's a good deal for Kansas City
to to to lock him up because again, the bottom
line is other than that guaranteed money, which is what
sixty million um. You know, the Chiefs can cut him
at any point, right you know, they they if he's
not performing. And that's the reality of football with uh

(39:29):
you know, yes, you you got to perform to stay
with the Chiefs the rest of your career. The Chiefs,
um the organization really you know, holds the cards at
a certain point, you know, once you get into the
you know, the the latter part of that deal. But
I'm happy for him. I'm happy. I hope that they
stay together. Um you know, Andy Reid is one of
the best people out there, and and obviously win in

(39:51):
the Super Bowl. The key now is can you know,
can they can they continue, can they repeat? And uh
and do it again and and I don't see there's
any reason why they. Um, you look at what's happening
around the week, especially in the a f C with
with New England, um, with Brady no longer there and
that team was you know, was probably on the downside. Anyway,

(40:11):
who's gonna who in the a f C is going
to challenge the Chiefs? You know at this point, um,
do you need to see X amount of Super Bowl
wins to justify that con Well, if not for a
bogus roughing the passer that keeps probably go to the
Super Bowl two years ago and uh, well a lot

(40:31):
time right the game side, and then and also probably win.
They probably beat the Rams. They probably be the Rams.
I think everyone agrees that. And also it's like people
are looking at that half a billion that looks huge,
but when you do year by year, you know, it's
more like I think I saw like forty five forty

(40:52):
seven million a year. And then you look at a
guy like Jared Goff who was getting a guaranteed like
thirty three million a year, It's like, yeah, it's ten
million more. It was. It was Russell Wilson was that
thirty five a year, this is average is out ten
like forty five, so ten million more. But again it's
you know, there the chances and and he's a guy

(41:16):
that could. But I'd be shocked if he's on this
same contract nine years from now. He's not gonna be
on this contract four years from They're going to restructure
it when you know a lot of these other contracts
with that team are are going away, and they'll be like, oh,
we need to free up some space so we can
keep our our team together. Because I imagine that when
another super bowler two in the next and what he

(41:37):
said too, because yes, he probably he probably could have
gotten more money if he waited. Um, but when you're
talking about that kind of money, we don't and we'll
never none of us will ever be in that position.
Um maybe maybe Joe, but you know, to be sitting
there and sign a deal that is going to set

(41:59):
you for life and your children and your children's children,
and to be that type of life changing and to
have that type of security. Who's default you know, Patrick
Mahomes or any player that's going to sign that type
of contract, good for him. Yeah, every every few years,
it's it's always a QB that gets a big contract
because the money keeps going up. Then we're like, this

(42:20):
is crazy, this is so much. And then a couple
of years later, a new hot QB. It's a huge contract,
and it's gonna keep going up because, right, COVID is
gonna end new television deals, new money, higher salary cap.
The the NFL is not gonna go you know, they're
not gonna lose, They're not gonna you know, go down,
and revenue every year it's gonna go up. And and

(42:42):
so that that money will be, you know, in a
part of a bigger contract. Right, it's whoever it is,
whether it's whether it's a guy like you know, whether
it's Trevor Trevor, you know, right the Clubs Lawrence quarterback
Trevor Lawrence who comes in and maybe he you know,
maybe he does the same thing that Mahomes has done,
or you know, McCaffrey. Running backs I think have a

(43:04):
shorter shelf life. So I don't see him getting that
type of money um long term. But again, it's good
for him, and I'm happy to see that he's gonna
at least stay with the Chiefs for UM, because that's
an organization. It's it's a sorgization that you know was
part of the part of the a f L. It's
been it's been a one of the franchises in the

(43:27):
NFL that is kind of a good standing franchise and
and uh, and we'll see how it goes being in
Kansas City. To the other thing is like, he's not
going to have the media scrutiny that other markets will
have if he were to go to a different team.
And he's won a super Bowl there, nearly went to
another super Bowl in his first two seasons as the starter.
So it's like he's he's he's a hearing an icon

(43:48):
in that city. Like he's he's not gonna it's it's
gonna be we should be pretty smooth failing for him.
Is that still a thing? Though? I know it's still
a thing, But is it's still because of social medium,
because of the changes is the home market media, Like
I was saying, oh, you if you can't play in
New York, you know a lot of guys can't play

(44:09):
in New York because of the media. Is that still
as important today as it was twenty years ago? Because yes,
I think the amount of people that cover you is
is just more in those cities, Like you're gonna have
four different beat writers and two calumnists from the New
York Post, and maybe at the Kansas City Star you've
got a columnist sent a beat writer, Like you're not
gonna have the amount of people asking the amount of

(44:31):
questions to get the content that they need. And so
maybe that for that reason, I think that's a good point, Travis.
Like I said, you're you know what you're talking about.
I think I think generally it doesn't matter as much,
but I do think specifically l A and New York
there is still a little bit more of a spotlight
because that's where these news organizations are based. And New

(44:55):
York specifically, you know, the Post has you know, tableau
aid sports headlines, so there is just a little bit
more pressured. But like at this point though, you know,
it's like if you're a superstar, Like when Lebron went
back to Cleveland, the media followed, so it didn't you
know what I mean. Like, so I agree, it's not

(45:16):
as big of a deal as it was pre Internet.
But I think if you're in New York City and
people hate you, the city will let you know in
a way that others don't sure. Oh yeah, I mean
if you're there, And I would agree with that, having
lived in New York City and New York most of
my life. It's if you're loved by right you think
about someone like Derek Jeter. You know, when you're when

(45:38):
you can perform there, you are good for life, like
your golden If you can't perform there, you're like persona
non grata, or say you're like James Dolan. Yeah, like
you will. You will walk down the street and get
MF and you will get your own building with your
own franchise. You will you know, fire Dolan, chance, get

(46:00):
rid of doll and chance, those types of things. So, um,
I do agree. In New York is probably a different
a different beast. But it's uh, you know, I think
Mahomes is gonna you know then that there's gonna be
right with a contract like that, there's gonna be additional scrutiny.
You know, is he like because the Homes You know,
if he takes a step back next year and maybe
he doesn't have as good a year, Oh they overpaid

(46:22):
blah blah blah. We we are a what have you
done for me lately? Society Uh. You know, that's why
I'm still waiting for Joe to do something for me.
It's been years and it's never nothing lately, nothing in
the past, maybe in the future. Joe, what do you mean,
I do all sorts of things for you. I just
wanted to wake you up because you haven't been saying anything.

(46:43):
I'm just playing on. Like. The thing about that deal, though,
is they paid. I think what they did is they
paid for that Super Bowl. It's been fifty year drought
with Kansas City. They're like, let's pay this guy. Let's
thank him because the money that came in for that
was probably just no. I just think it was a
smart deal. I think it's a smart deal because you're
gonna pay, you know, if he keeps playing it. But
if he keeps playing the way he's playing, Yeah, you're

(47:04):
you're getting a discount for these next two rookie contract years.
But after that you put him on the on the
open market, you're gonna get him. Yeah. I think it
was a smart deal, man. I mean, the dude's the
best best quarterback in the league. He's gonna get better,
and you you you just locked him up for his
whole prime. Yeah, well for the next level quarterbacks to

(47:26):
like Dac and Watson and market doesn't know they shouldn't,
but now they will. And it's like this, he set
the market for these other like quarterbacks. I'm all for
them getting everything they can get, but Dad should not
be making more. Absolutely not stop. But I'm Jerry, and
I'll call Jerry and tell him, Jerry just to say stop.

(47:49):
That's a name drop. But you's have the longevity there.
You know, you look at the best qub's in the league.
They've been around most of them. Like, no question, Dean,
can't you just can't You just tell Jerry? Uh, will
you see him on the party bus this weekend? I'm
not Ever since COVID the party bus has been shut down.

(48:10):
There's actually social distancing guidelines on the party busy. It's
a little bit different because it's bigger though. So you
just can't have too many people in one area of
the yat. That's where you need to go, and you
gotta wear man's the yacht is. That's that's my next
that's my next goal, getting on the yacht. Party goals,

(48:31):
Party goals. All right, let's take a break. When we
come back, we're gonna talk about Joe's love affair with
Bradley Cooper. Next boy, all right, we're back on good

(49:03):
Calls and you guys saw did you guys see? Um
Stars Born? The most recent Stars Born with Lady Gaga
and Bradley Cooper. I haven't seen it. You haven't seen it,
watching a ton of movies too, but maybe I'll watch it. Um.
So Bradley Cooper, right, has been around a long time.
Bredley Cooper is a good actor. He's been good looking guy,

(49:24):
likable guy. Um some wedding crashers can wedding crashers. He
played the he played the jerk, but still right, you
know the guy was you look at the and why
am I drawing a blank? Now? The Hangover, Hangover, the Hangover,
the Hangover movies? Right, So now he sings, he plays

(49:46):
the guitar, he actually speaks French. And Joe went on
a tirade about how much he hates Bradley Cooper because
nobody should have that many like good qualities. See is
the direct The direct quote was say some of the
rest of us like, oh, now he sings and now
he plays the guitar. So I didn't realize how jealous

(50:06):
Joe was of Bradley Cooper, and like, do you have
a problem with someone that that is doing well for
themselves and has a lot of good qualities? Are you?
You know, are Joe one of you and Bradley Cooper
ever been in direct competition for anything? For a job,
a woman, anything, wearing a competition for life? Okay, Bradley

(50:30):
Cooper doing well in life is taking away from you,
is negatively impacting. I'm really happy for the guy. I
was just giving him his props, Like the guys really
got he was not a friend that he was like
fuck that guy, and he was not happy with Bradley Cooper.
It's look, you're tall, you got a great jawline, you're

(50:50):
a great actor. You speak French. I didn't know this.
Like the dude's a good looking guy. It's like, hey,
you know what he's not. He's you know, he's in shape.
It's like, hey, all right, we don't need the world
to know that you play the guitar and seeing too, bro,
like you could have kept that on the back burner.
Don't tell your first we came up with some things
we thought Bradley Cooper might not be good at to
make Joe feel better. So we don't think Bradley Cooper

(51:12):
is a very good dancer, and so that made Joe
feel bad. I feel better because I could dance. He's
probably not that good of an athlete, right, I don't
remember any of the scenes and wedding crashes where he
showed off to this athletics c they played football, fame
anything else. We landed on not a good dancer, dancer,

(51:33):
and he's been on so twice. So that's something Joe
has up one up on. Bradley Cooper. Guitar out me
thinking and I want you don't I want you guys
to chime in here, But I got me thinking about
my man crushes over the years. So one of my
first man crushes, and I've had a man crush on

(51:55):
him since forever, is Brad Pitt. Yeah, bit is the
coolest brat I started for me in and I don't
know which one. I don't know. I think I'm not
sure which one came out first. I think it was
Legends of the Fall, which if you haven't seen Legends
of the Fall, watch it. I mean unbelievable cast. I

(52:16):
mean that cast is ridiculous. It's it's a little slow
in the beginning and it picks up. But Brad Pitt
I wanted to be Brad Pitt in Legends of the
Fall Tristan. He had the long flowing hair. There he
was riding horses in Montana. He was like, I remember,
wasn't there in the trailer there's like a shot where

(52:37):
he like tips his cap or something like he's wearing
like a like a cowboy hat or something like tempts
and it's like it's like there's like water. It's like perfect, yes, yes, perfect.
So Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall was my
first man crush. And I've had a man crush on
Brad Pitt forever. And I mean, and now what thirty

(52:58):
years later, He's going in Once upon a Time in
Hollywood and still did like the coolest grade out there.
So Brad Pitt, for sure, it is like one the
other man crushed I've had for a while. Um. And
it started with and and he was unbelievable in a
time to kill Matthew McConney. And that's where and I

(53:20):
remember talking to my dad. My dad was like, this
guy is gonna be a big actor. Like this guy
is good. And then what did he do? He started
doing all these rom coms, and then he did this
rom com, which I'm fine with, you know, get the
money to do something easy. And then he kind of
went back and then he won an oscar and and
did some other things. But the movie that did it
for me with Matthew McConney was How to Lose a

(53:42):
Guy in Ten Days? Like I wanted to be him
in that movie so bad. He was a big like
ad executive in Manhattan, in New York City. He ends up.
He ends up with um, what's her name? Who's awesome? Um,
come on, Kate Hudson. And he's a big Knicks fan

(54:04):
and the Knicks were in the finals against the Kings
in the movie, you know, in the finals in the
nineties several times. You know what's funny, Dean. I remember
remember Boomerang. I remember thinking I want to be Eddie

(54:25):
Murphy and Boomerang if I'm ever Eddie Murphy since since
like Saturday, and he was in New York City, had
a I think he was an ad exact also, and
he was just he was just smooth, Eddie Murphy. Eddie
Murphy grew up was originally from Long Island, not far
from where I grew up so many Murphy's always I've
always had Eddie Murphy's like might be top you know,

(54:47):
I don't know about depending on how you how you
define talent or when it comes to the entertainment world
top five most talented people in that in that world,
well does he sing and play the guitar? Though he sings?
He single, he had a hit single. My girl likes
to party all the time. So any anybody and I

(55:13):
do have a new man crush, more recent one. I'll
get into that in a second, but anybody, come on, Travis,
I know you've had a man crush. Well, Brad Pitt
was one of mine for sure, and and like for
for the reasons you said, he's just such a great actor.
He seems like such a cool guy to hang out with,
right Waterson Waterson? Yeah, Waterson? As soon as you met
Waterson and days again, fuse you loved him. And like

(55:34):
Matthew McConaughey, I'm saying like that, I have one. I'm
trying to think like Michael Jordan loved the guy when
I was a kid, like he just wanted to be
like Mike. I know, I know I felt like I
should hold that back, but It's like you wanted to
be like Mike. He did everything you wanted to. You
wanted to be an asshole who Well, you didn't see
that as basketball and was a team as a kid.

(55:56):
You didn't see that. You just saw it as a
laugh under a shroud of secrets. See is that what
you want to be? Yes? Yes, I think Brad Pitt's
a little short eleven. Here comes Joe, and Joe he's
got to break him down. He's a little yeah, five
amazing friends. Like he'd be like he called me and

(56:16):
he'd be like, Hey, what are you doing. I'm watching
I'm I'm breaking down the replays from the from the
Big Ten games, which game the Michigan game that was
a great call at the end of the third I'd
be like, yeah, So you'd be like Leo in Once
upon a Time and he'd just be like, I brought
there can come over? Yeah, you come over, And then like, dude,
you can you pick me up? We're gonna go, We're
gonna go to the studio. Yeah, I'll drop you off. Yeah.

(56:38):
And when you're crying after blowing a call on air,
he's like, I'm like, I'm like giving in the mirror
You're better than that. How could you say that was
a catch? What you gotta have? You can't have three
whiskey sours. You have that be Matthew McConaughey would be
more of the guy that you'd be watching football. I
like that with don't be annoying, not freaking. And I've

(57:02):
never been in the same place as Brad Pitt. I
have rubbed elbows with Matthew McConney. I've never I've never
been in the same Matthew mcconnee and I've I've I've
rubbed els elbows with him, and I've acknowledged him. I
haven't said any words to him, but I've acknowledged him,
and he was probably like, oh, who's that cool guy?

(57:22):
But Brad Pitt, I've never been and Bred Pitt. I
think either has a place in Santa Monico or resides
here at times. I don't know, you know, I don't
know what I think. He's right here. He's back with
Jennifer Aniston, all right, that's THEO. I don't. I haven't
followed his personal life. We have, we have all that

(57:43):
information out our fingertips. And somebody like Joe who's your
man crush? And it has to be it's gonna be.
And you can't say like like Chuck Zito, Chuck Zito back, yes,
Chuck Zito and and and their last name can't be gracy,
So pick somebody else. Um, I've always liked John Mayer,

(58:10):
whoa i'd a left field, always been a John Mayer fan, Like, dude'
an amazing guitarist. He's funny, He's really funny. Um he's
a little like he's I think he's a little dorky.
But because he's such an amazing, uh you know, artist,
it makes him cool and he's like, oh I could
be cool now, but um, yeah, I think I'm a

(58:32):
John Mayor fan John Mayer. Okay, Scott Well, I mean
you've already said Brad Pitt he always is cool and
it's it's annoying and that he seems to be eating
cool alert as time goes on, you know who. Here's
the thing with Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt is kind of

(58:52):
following like Clooney gets cooler. It's kind of like that,
Paul Newman, Steve McQueen getting cooler as they get older,
Sean Connery like Denzel like, you're getting cooler as you get.
I think Cluney is Cluney was up there on mine too.
I think he's he's a pretty cool dude. Yeah, Clooney.
Clooney is good at like by all accounts to he's

(59:14):
a pretty chill dude. Like when there's like, you know,
kind of tyrants on set or whatever, he defends other
people and things looks good. But actually, as far as
like a character actor guy, I've actually I don't know
if he's a man crusher. I just I think he's
very enerrated. Is Steve's on? You know who that is? Yeah?

(59:35):
Oh yeah, Steve in a ton of movies. I feel
like he shows up in your movie. You're like, Okay,
there's some watching fun going on. I'm watching a Steve's on.
I'm watching one of my favorite episodes of Modern Family
is Steve's on, and and they moved next door? Like absolutely,
Steve Steve's on movie I'm watching. He's a Marshall Minnesota guy.

(59:57):
That's why you like him Minnesota. But I definitely you've
seen him in a ton of stuff he was in
he you know, he was in a lot of those
like in the nineties, like us in reality bites that
thing you do I a movie I like a lot
any with the one with Jack Black and uh and

(01:00:17):
what's his name? From Saving they kidnapped a man to Pete? Yeah, yes,
and then they that movie I don't love, but they're
they're Neil Diamonds. They're Neil Diamond. Is called Diamonds in
the rough, That Neil Diamond. You know what, I want

(01:00:39):
to take mine back? My all time Randy Cotor. Okay,
see Randy Cotore. Dude, is he's bad? Go ahead, I
know what you want to say. Go ahead, Well, I
know Randy there it is. Tell you another one him
at the gym if you want. But yeah, I've been
waiting for my invite. I have yet to get it.

(01:01:02):
Super cool guy um and obviously has accomplished a martial artist,
a mixed martial artists as you're gonna get um uh
And actually I watched where was I. I was just
telling you this story, Joe, when I was in Vegas
and him and Brock lessner um that when when Brock
when Brock knocked him knocked him out? Was that bad?

(01:01:23):
That fight? Um? And I was heartbroken because I thought
he was gonna win. Yeahtre is a bad dude. Man.
Oh you know one that everyone will say and everyone
I think will agree is Bill Murray. I don't but
Bill Murray like man crushes different, Like I don't want
to be Bill Murray. Like that's what I that, That's

(01:01:44):
how I look at I'll say this for all us
ugly guys out there, he's aspirational because you're like, he's cool,
he's funny, he loves sports. He's a big Chicago sports guy.
But no one would ever be like, this is leading man,
handsome Bill Murray. Yet he has gotten to be a
leading man. So for all the ug goes out there,

(01:02:06):
like myself, it gives you what was the one he did?
He did the one movie with was it Scarlett jo
Hansen or yeah, that's with her? Yeah, and that was
that was leading mannish and that was a romantic yeah,
And that's when he was doing he was kind of
transitioning into more serious stuff. But it's just like he's

(01:02:28):
had a great career. Every like if he shows up
at anything, people love him. He's he constantly like shows
up at people's ways in top five Top five small
role ever is him in in uh in kingpin Oh?
He was great in that his hair, his hair and

(01:02:49):
that was so big like that, like for a small
small part in that movie, he's unbelievable. Ernie McCracken, Yes,
no one. I was thinking that kind of is on
that same vein like it was just funny. Like Adam
Sandler was always a guy like he's not what you think.
That's the way. You don't think of him as like
the man crush, like you want you want to be him,

(01:03:10):
like all the girls want to be with him, Like
he doesn't fall into that, but he's still just like
he was the lovable loser kind of guy who always
growing girl and Billy Madison. He like he's growing as
an actor. He was always playing funny songs. Like he's
growing on me for sure, and I like him, whereas
I was like I was kind of like, but I
really like him now and he's definitely growing on me. Um,
but he like for me, that's not a man, Like

(01:03:32):
I don't I don't want to be Adam Sandler in
in Uh not None or the one with Kevin Gardner,
the one we don't jams. That's yeah, that's the worst.
That's the worst life ever. Like I don't want that.
I want the opposite of the life he had. There

(01:03:52):
that was one big ball of like anxiety. I thought
it was cool. He's moving and shake and all the
time there's always something that is going. It was cool,
just way too much. There was a way too much.
I love his love his girlfriend in the movie, but
way too much. And his wife was awesome too. Um
but no, no, not a not did we get your

(01:04:17):
top five or do we get like three years? Here's
the new one? This is an unknown and this is
like and I think I mentioned to you this show right,
the Last Kingdom. The dude that is the lead actor
in the Last Kingdom, his name is Alexander drama dude
and Joe, he might land on your This dude is
is leading man, handsome. He's a great actor like he

(01:04:39):
and he's and that's not an easy he's you're playing
like you can't take certain actors and play that type
of role, right, you can't. You can't just take you know,
like think about has George Clooney playing played like a
braveheart period leading man? You can't just that's different, right,

(01:05:00):
So he's good, good, you know, leading man, handsome, great actor.
He comes from a martial arts background. Joe, he grew
up Travis. I got one for you. Grew up in Wyoming,
part of his part of his life road horses in Wyoming,
and then moved his family like moved to like Europe
or Germany whatever so speaks German fluent German French English

(01:05:25):
and uh, and the dudes like like a stunt and
and he plays Ughtred on Last Kingdom. And I want
to be what's his name, Alexander Draymond real quick Dean.
I hope I'm not stealing it thunder. I do want
to say I've always thought Kiana Reeves as awesome. God

(01:05:48):
is that bad? He's a humanitarian. He you you love movies.
He said speed is great. No, I just he's the
best worst actor ever, like he see. I disagree with
that premise. I think people miss cast him. They tried
to make him do stuff that he wasn't good, you know.

(01:06:11):
And And for me, I like, I want you to
be able to I want you to be able to morph.
I want you know, Christian Bale, I want you know,
Russell Crowe. I want Russell Crowe to play Maximus and
then play you know, put on sixty pounds to play
you know, the vice President to play Cheney. Or I
want to see de Niro put on sixty pounds to play,

(01:06:33):
you know, Jacol motto, Like, that's what I want to say.
So your big thing is they can gain weight. Yes,
I think we're missing Italian American. I think we're missing
the obvious one to hear guys, and we've we've focused
a lot on actors, but we didn't mention Tom Brady.
Like if any of us say they don't crush on
I like Tom. I don't have a man crusha. I

(01:06:54):
like him. He's got it all. I feel like I
don't like him. I like him, I don't have a
man crushaurt him. No, listen, I'm gonna tell you that
he does have something wrong with in Travis. He's a
terrible dancer. I witnessed this firsthand. Okay, you've been to
the super Bowl party with him? Okay, I think that
the most obvious one. It all comes back to Joe's
dancing and what he has on guys and that, and
that's where we started. Kobe Kobe Bryant answer, Kobe Bryant

(01:07:19):
is the big one. I mean, dudes are getting his
his picture tattooed on it. No, that's for next week.
Next week, we're gonna talk about the rules of getting
a celebrity tattooed on your body when that's acceptable. Scott's
face is exactly an agreement with me. But next week
we talk about that one. I remember. Yeah, So here's
the thing I want to talk about, dude. Wakeboarding is

(01:07:42):
the hardest thing ever in the world. Like I'm I've
always been a pretty good athlete. I can do a
lot of different things physically. I we try to try
to wait for it over the weekend. I didn't my
first time, and I only tried, like what, I don't
know seven or eight times. I can't get it. I
couldn't get up on the board. Like, that's hard, Travis.
Travis is like surfer, dude, but that's hard. Have you

(01:08:06):
have you surf? Have you done? Just like, yeah, that's surf.
I find surfing to be harder. It's like wakeboarding. I
thought was was a little bit easier, but surfing is
more challenging because there's so many more variables with surfing
that that you don't have with with I just couldn't
get up with damn boar. You just didn't keep your
arms back then, you just didn't keep your weight back

(01:08:27):
in your arms. Back. I know, I kept falling forward
and broke with pull away. Yeah, you gotta up your
arms back. I'm surprised Joe didn't teach you this. Maybe
it was busy. They did try to teach me. And
and I'll go again, and I think I'll get it eventually.
But that that ship is hard. You weren't you weren't
starting in the optimal Well, first of all, what I
agree because I watched the video since and I definitely

(01:08:50):
was not starting in the optimal position. And you also
wis my feet were not right? You also went after
guys who are really good, who they make it look easy.
They just stand up on the like they literally just
get up you. What you need to do is you
need to get in like a like a fetal position,
your knees at your chest and just let the boat
pull you. And it's also in your defense, we're on
a river, so the water is not still. If you're

(01:09:12):
on like a lake and the water is just flat,
you could literally just lay there and you don't move.
But when you're on a river, it's moving constantly. Well,
then we need to go on a lake because that
ship was hard. I mean, are you going to post
the video on Twitter so we can see it. There's
nothing to see. It's me. It's me bobbing my head
in the water from a rope, pulling away from my
arms and me like smashing my hands against the water.

(01:09:33):
And you just hear my question for you. Did you
get a bloody nose doing it? No? No, then then
you were Yeah? Then then your hard was my first
time as I got pulled over, smashed face right, Oh, yeah,
that's the is. And then just the same thing. You
let your arms get all the way extended and then
the boat just takes you forward and you smash straight down. Yeah,

(01:09:53):
you got a bloody nose. But my first I didn't
get up my very first try. Um, but I did
get up out. Sorry, I'll try it again. The other
thing that that Joe got to witness. Here's the Did
you guys know that there's an arrow in the FedEx logo? Yeah,
Scott did get space. Yeah, there's yes, I had no idea.

(01:10:17):
I did some graphics. Now you can't let me see it.
See it one of the greatest logos of all this listening.
There's an arrow between right and yeah, well the D
and the E and X and the X. There's an
arrow and it's pointing to the right. It's it's insane, dude,

(01:10:40):
So I know the insane they let me tell you, guys,
the live version of Brain of Blandino. It is amazing,
like the things this dude. We we hung out for
a couple of days over over Fourth of July weekend
and he just the random stuff that goes on in
this dude's mind. Driving he calls me, here's a guy.

(01:11:05):
I was following Joe, and there was a guy that
passed us on the left in like a pickup truck
and he had a you know how they do the
it's not I don't know what the actual way they
do it, but it's like an engraving on the back window,
and it was a yeah, and it was of the Joker,
the the heath Ledger Joker Jesus with with the words

(01:11:28):
you why so serious? Okay, He's on the back of
this dude's pickup truck. So as he's passing, I called
Joe and I was like, how proud was this dude
when he got it done? And then he like drove
to all his friends houses and didn't say anything at
first and hoping they'd notice on their own called like

(01:11:49):
he called me. He's like, dude, how stoked was that
guy when when he got that stick or put on
or whatever. And I'm just like, this is what's going
on in your head? Like all these cars and that's
what's happening in your mind. And there was a couple
of other ones too, right there, there's a couple other
like just weird, random Brandon Blandino thoughts. And I was like,
this is the live version of Brandon Blandino. It was

(01:12:11):
just incredible to just be part of it. In the
moment started talking about the celebrities and when is it
okay to tattoo a celebrity on your body? Like when
is that ever? So that was like, so we'll talk
about that next week. I think we should get somebody
to tattoo the Dean Blandino on them, Like give a
pretty handsome prize, send a tattoo with Dean on you. Yeah,

(01:12:34):
that would be I bet there's someone out there consider that.
But there's speaking of brand of Blandio, let's do one
rules to wearing a black dress shirt? Oh yes, so
somebody had mentioned it was you, Joe, some some guy

(01:12:58):
Joe's like neighbor asked him to borrow a black dress shirt,
like a button down, long sleeve black dress shirt. And
I was like, where's he going? Like where's where is
he going through? Like a mafia funeral? Like when? When
is it acceptable? Where? Okay? Where would you where would
it be acceptable to wear a button down black dress shirt?

(01:13:19):
Where are you going to? Where? I want to hear
your catering event? At a wedding. Even then they wearing
the black you might not you known't wearing a black
shirt like black on black. That's a very strong like,
that's a very strong like message. That's aggressive. You need
to be You need to be very cool to pull

(01:13:41):
off a black dress shirt with like a black like
sports code or black tie. You have to be like
Keana Reese, that's pretty cool. I did have. But where
where are you going? Like? Where is that guy going? Like?
Where is he going with a black dresser? I mean said,
you ever want a black dresser? I probably have, but

(01:14:03):
I don't know. Wedding, I don't know. I'm not sure
black dress shirt to a wed maybe not. I don't know.
I'm trying to think. I think I might have won
one back. Actually, I grew up in Long Island, so
I was former Guido, So I probably wore one like
a sweet sixteen. Yeah, I probably wore one to a
school dance. Probably was like a black silk one. But
that's probably the last time I don't know, you were

(01:14:23):
rocking a black silk dress shirt to a slow dance.
Oh yeah, did you get any You definitely cut well.
I probably won the school dance contest, and I probably
I probably like got a you know, a chicken pack
after the dance from my lady friend or definitely maybe
at the roller rink back in the day girls were
in the class like three eight how many I mean

(01:14:48):
my graduating classes in a small hook up to get
everybody hooked up with everybody black. But I think a
black shirt is better if it's like the less formal part,
like you're of the entire outfit, like you're wearing a
suit jacket or a sport coat, but there's no color.

(01:15:08):
Can you can you wear with that? You were like,
you can wear like a charcoal I think, or like
a blue, like navy blue. But it looks weird, it's
very it's a coggressive. But black dress shirt is a coggressive.
I think you have to look like a model if
you want to pull it off. Otherwise usually just look
like like you said, like a mafia hit man going

(01:15:30):
to a funeral and just talk to the wardrobe folks,
and you know what that's I'm gonna text. I'm gonna
text Victoria and ask her when because I know they don't.
I've never they've never put out on like I've ever
seen that any of our talent. You've got a fashion
good right, and they're not and they're not shot at
like they you know, they're not conservative. Um, but a

(01:15:53):
black dress shirt is I don't know. I don't say it.
You don't say it very often. I think you could
get away with it with like mean, if you're going
to a club in Vegas or something maybe, I mean
if you're going to a nightclub. But then but then
you're that guy, like you're like, we've all seen that
guy in the nightclub. He's got his caller outside of
his jacket. Yes, the dress shirt that I did have

(01:16:18):
is black, but it's button up. I wouldn't even call
a dress shirt. I mean it's short sleeve. It's a
Lululemon black different short short sleeve casuals different. I don't
have a long sleeve black. Black is a good color.
Like I think black. I like black the swimming color.
Especially on those half bake nights. Stains night is a

(01:16:40):
half bake night, baby. I have two half bake nights
a week. I have not had the peanut M and
M since May seven, but I have two half pint
to half baked pint days a week. I try to
spread them out. One during the week, one on the weekend.
Tonight's the night baby days amazing. I eat ice cream

(01:17:01):
almost every night, but you have but you can control. Yeah,
I ate a pint every night. You know my cholesterol.
I just died. I got my wife breathing down my neck, going, hey, hey,
don't eat the whole thing, don't eat that whole thing.
Like so I have to. I have to, you know. Yeah,
I'm on the Dean that I'm on the Dean wagon.

(01:17:22):
If you're gonna open it, just eat the whole thing. No,
I don't do that putting it back. That's a lot
of self control starting starting a pint of Ben Jerry's
and then putting it back. Especially I'll say this month
I got I guess June kind of fell off the
wagon because I was buying not the pint, but like
the big container of ice cream that's old school. But

(01:17:47):
half a quarter half gallon, half gallon. And here's what
I've been doing half their space half gallon of vanilla
ice cream. I know, But because I've been making my
own cold brew, I do a couple of scoops of
that and then just pour over a little cobounds coffee
and then it almost like crystallized on it. It's so good.

(01:18:09):
Gallant though, I remember it's like a box. All right,
can we can? We can we finish this thing? We're
way over now. You've got me thinking about Friendly? Does
anybody ever remember Friendlies? That just the East coast thing?
Might be? Might know something I brought. They go as
far west. I know they go as far west as Ohio. Um,

(01:18:33):
but I've never seen a Friendly is out here. But
the half used to get the box, the half gallon
of Friendly's ice cream. Friendly's fribble. If anybody's listening and
you've got a fribble, d M. We could just talk
about fribbles all day. I don't know. It's so good.
One thing I did bring back basically though, I got
some and w root beer and vanilla. I's been the
root beer float very underrated. Oh my god, it's been

(01:18:56):
so good to last week ship white. Yeah, I'm man
w root here. Oh man, have you ever done it
with ginger le? I have floats. I've done floats with
every kind of burners. Baby, Yeah, we've We've done floats
with every kind of uh soda pop or pop as

(01:19:18):
we used to say. Yeah, all right, I think we've
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