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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandino, a production of
I Hear Radio Anyway, you know, another episode of Good Calls.
The crew is all here. It's been a much better
mood today, more talkative. He went to work out war friends, going, well,

(00:23):
I'm excited. Scott is doing his fantasy football draft. So
we're we're multitaskingum, which is a myth. By the way,
you can't do more than one thing at a time.
You can, you can try, but you're you're always gonna
fall short. Um. So what's going on, Dravis? Just give
us the update on how is kicking our ass? Like,

(00:46):
just how is it? What? What? What is? Give us
the rundown last week? I mean, so we had with
all kinds of stuff going on, not just uh, not
just COVID, and I think you put it. I think
you put a rule on it that on even days,
and we talked about because it's social justice, and then
odd days we talked about COVID. We had all kinds

(01:06):
of shutdowns last week for uh, for social justice with
the Jacob Blake shooting, which in my mind shut it down.
Let's let's let's make some noise. Let's let's see what happens.
It's interesting the whole thing, right. So obviously it started
with the Bucks close to home right in Wisconsin, SA

(01:28):
mo or less walking out on that game. Um. And
then and then there were other other games that were
you know, across whether it was the NBA baseball, Um,
there were other NHL followed detail. UM. I think the NBA.
You think about the NBA acting on the fly and
really because now you have a unprecedented or you know,

(01:49):
the situation that in recent years, I can't remember anything
like this, and so a team walks out, they're not
gonna play. And I thought the NBA did a really
nice job of rather than getting into all the you know,
forfeits and everything else and this and that, they just
postponed all the games right first in the next day,
UM to kind of reset and uh. And obviously look, um,

(02:13):
and you know what's interesting is that just when you
think about logistics, the fact that they're in Orlando in
the bubble, it makes it much easier to write to
postpone games and do that. Imagine, you know, everybody's in
at the arena Milwaukee, and everybody's in Houston or l
A or wherever, and trying to postpone those games with
fans and paying ticket holders, it becomes you know, that

(02:37):
much more difficult. Not saying they couldn't have done it
or they wouldn't have done it, but it's just I
think the Orlando bubble made it, made it easier, you know,
without fans and certainly the other you know, the NHL
is playing in a bubble Baseball there's no fans, um.
But look, here's the deal, right, this is this is
a a you know and I'll ask you this, Scott.

(03:00):
I mean, it's a symbolic gesture because is protesting a game,
you know, is that enough or you know? Or is
there more that has to be done? Right? What? What
is protesting the game on its own? Get us other
than this? This obviously this symbolic thing. Where where do
these players? Where do we go from here? Well, I

(03:22):
mean that was kind of like the big debate, like
there were people who are saying, you know, you can't,
how is this going to help or how is it
going to hurt? Because by not playing, some people were
saying like they were not being able to use their
platform as much. But obviously, as we know, because there's
less kind of sports going on, this there's a bigger

(03:45):
focus on this. So I think you know you the
I mean, this is the million dollar question because you're
asking these athletes, um two appeal two people's like, you know,
their morality, their conscience or whatever. But then at the

(04:07):
same time, you know, you're asking them to entertain as well.
So it's this difficult thing. And then of course there's
people who are going to discount both of those just
the way how like um people say, stick to blank,
stick to acting, stick to sports, stick to whatever. Um

(04:28):
So I think and the one thing that I think
gets lost in the shuffle for a lot of these guys,
uh black athletes in America right now is many of
them if they live in that community like the bucks. Uh.
You know, they have players who have had like the
police abuse them if you remember, um, you know, they're

(04:53):
in pain. They feel this pain that's going on in
the country, you know, and they see someone being killed
old all the time. So they've got that going on
with them, and they're away from their families and all
that stuff too. So you probably saw those videos from
the last couple of days. Families were finally allowed to
re enter the bubble with them, So you know, there's

(05:14):
there's just so much going on. Uh, And I can't
really Obviously no one has the right answer, but I think,
like Travis said, I don't have any problem with it because, uh,
you're right, they're probably in a little bit better situation
because they there wasn't crowds. They could kind of just
be like, we're just not playing. There was slightly less

(05:34):
outside pressure. Yeah. Yeah, And it's like they were playing
the Magic and the Magic didn't even know what was
gonna happen because the Magic were still out there with
three minutes before there was supposed to tip, and you know,
they didn't know. And I think then, you know, they
all then they all got together, and there was so
many stories coming out of that meeting with the players.
There were they were representatives from coaching staffs, there were ownership,

(05:56):
you know, Michael Jordan apparently was a um was ad
of a conduit between ownership and the players, and you know,
and two teams actually voted not to continue the season,
not to continue the playoffs, the Clippers and the Lakers.
But but the rest of the teams in the playoffs
wanted to play. And uh, and I think comes out
of that question is, you know, your platform. And that's

(06:19):
why I think it is. It is a you know,
these athletes have a platform and and they that when
they use it, it's very powerful and and I think
that's the biggest thing. But you see what's what's happening
in this country, and you look at and if you
look at these incidents in a vacuum, right, Bryan or
Lacker came out and made some comments that were you know,

(06:40):
about about the Jacob Blake situation, saying that well, oh
there was a warrant and and and he had a
domestic violence warrant and all these things. But but it's
not like if you take these things in a vacuum
and you pick apart the person, he's still there's no
no reason this man should have been shot seven times
in the back. But I think there's the other side

(07:02):
to it, where you know, are those police officers intentionally
shooting this man because he's black, or are they put
in a situation that they're not properly trained for and
they panic and they think their life is at risk
and they end up, you know, we end up in
this completely you know, just tragic event. And I think

(07:24):
that's the that for me is like you know, how
can I sit here and say black people are telling
us this is a problem. I don't think any one
of us are in a position to say it's not
like we don't we don't go through the same things. Well, yeah,
they and it's the same thing of like whether you
want to believe them, like if you're like that, if

(07:45):
you think it's bogus you when you see them in pain,
you know, like you said, I I now I apologize
because I forgot that baseball player's name. Il was it
a guy in the Mets? They asked it, Yeah, it was, Yeah,
it was you see you see someone pouring their heart out.
And of course, you know, don't look at the internet

(08:06):
comments because they were awful. But but it was like
to just be like this is just b s what
it's crazy, just or just do not listen. But a
lot of the comments were just like that. Of course,
the bad ones you see exactly where just like this
guy is not even a man. And when I see
when you see somebody in pain and you can't you

(08:28):
can't discount that. That's why I truly believe. But I
also think that I always try to see, you know,
the different perspectives and the different sides of any of
any of any situation. And I think, you know, if
we think about solutions, the police are also under attack
and and and and it it's there if they're not
properly trained, which many of them aren't, to handle these

(08:51):
situations and d escalate and they're just given a badge,
a uniform and a gun and they're told you can
use your gun in in if your life is threatened. Well,
in these situations, whose life are they going to lean
towards the person that they're they're they're confronting or trying
to arrest or their own and and and ultimately that's

(09:13):
that's what happens in a lot of these situations. And
so if they're not trained to deal with these situations,
why are we throwing them out there with firearms and
and and obviously it's ending up in in with tragic results.
And I just we've got to look at that. We've
got to look at at what's happening in these communities

(09:33):
systemic you know, um issues that have that have been
in play for many, many years, and and you know,
I think it's I think it's important that these NBA
players and these athletes are are stepping up and using
their platform, and now it's it's taking the next step
and actually, you know, rolling up our sleeves and figuring

(09:54):
out how to how to correct these these you know
what's happening. But two of the stories that enough to me,
it's like, you're absolutely right with all that. Like we
as you know, four white or non black men sitting
here talking about it aren't really qualified for because every
time you hear all these guys talking, like Brian Flores
came out in the media and said, I've had a

(10:14):
gun pointed at my face, And it's like every single
black person that we hear from has either had this
happened to them or someone they know like directly, has
had this happened to them. Listening to Jim Jackson talk
about this during the NBA um when the NBA postponed
the other night, he was talking about how he's old school.
He says, I carry my wallet in my back pocket,
but when I get in my car, I put it

(10:35):
next to me so I know that if I ever
get pulled over, I have my things ready to go
and I'm not making any sudden moves. And it's like
those are things that I would never think about and
you guys have probably never thought about we get to
we get to go through life into that to that,
you know, to that extent unconscious, Right, we don't have
to think about those things, right. I think that's I
think that's part of the issue. But it goes back

(10:56):
to sports. And Scott mentioned something and and you know
Fox Sports, does you know they do these these polls
and they talk to people and and it was interesting,
like why why do you guys watch sports? Like why
do you, Joe, why do you watch sports? Um? Going

(11:17):
into the conversation forget about forget about any type of
sports and gaming, but why do you watch What are
some of the reasons you watch? Well, if it's not
from sports gaming, I don't do a whole lot of
sports watching. I mean I do. I watched UFC because
I love martial arts, Um, but I'm I don't watch
I do like the the NBA playoffs. Obviously I watched

(11:37):
football with with you guys in the studio, but I
never watched baseball. Can't stand it, Okay, Travis, why do
you watch sports? I watched just because I love the competition.
I love to see, um guys go out and play
a game that was you know, we love these kids
and that they get a play as as adults and
kind of live that dream that every kid had and

(11:58):
being a professional athlete and and being able to go
out and see something different every day. You can watch
a game baseball, for example, you can watch a game
every day and you'll see something new in that game.
It doesn't it doesn't matter, you know, if it's a
if it's a one nothing game or something, you're gonna
see something strange. You're gonna every football, every football weekend Sundays,
we see something that's like wow, I can't believe that

(12:19):
just happened, and you watch it for those exciting moments. Well,
but I'm a little bit which I was where it's
like it is just it's theater. Like we there's rules
around every game that make the structure of it. But
you it's just mellow drown. It's it's just like a
dramatic event because and I realized some sports have ties.

(12:40):
But basically, there are very few things in our life
where you you immediately are this person one and this
person lost. Sports leaves very little gray area. And and
now people can argue about was this rule fair, blah
blah blah, blah blah. But at the end of the day,
like Travis said, you see crazy stuff every game that

(13:02):
every year, there's in every sport there's something insane that
happens that you're like, how has this never happened before?
And you when you're watching sports, right, are you thinking
about do you go to do you watch sports to
get you know, political views? Do you watch sports to
to think about what's happening in the world, or you go,
why are you going to sports to just kind of escape? Yeah? Well,

(13:26):
I think there's something cool about watching anybody that's the
best at what they do. That's why the Olympics yea
so fun? Um and and and to answer the the
the escape, I don't know if I necessarily escape because
it is just another realm of stuff. But um, I think,

(13:51):
uh now this is me saying this, but it's like
I think every action, everything has extra weight. There's a
reason why, like the Miracle on Ice had so much
symbolic weight, and people weren't saying, like, don't politicize this.
There's it's baked into everything we do, you know, like
that's why you hate they you know, it's like why

(14:12):
there's good villains in sports It's why some people grow
up hating the Yankees and they don't know why why.
I mean again, watching somebody no matter what, it is,
just who's the best at what they do. That's why
I always really enjoy watching Pereira when he comes on
in the studio. That was a good one, Joe. That

(14:35):
was hilarious because you have that immediate contrast. You're like, okay,
this is how then and here's this other guy. You remember,
remember the movie Vision Quest with Matthew Modeen. Obviously remembers
that one, you mean Johnny Drama. So do you remember
the scene There was a scene when Matthew Modeen went

(14:57):
he you know, the guy who worked with at the hotel,
and he went to see him, and the guy was
getting all dressed up, and he asked why he was
getting dressed up, and he went into the story about
how he watched Plee and you know, and and how
it kind of watching another human being which he happens
to be a member of the same of that same
you know species, um do something so amazing, right, And

(15:20):
it was like that was his like reason why he
was going to see Matthew Modeen wrestl. And I think
that's why you know, that's what we do. We go
to see these these amazing athletes. And and in the
point I'm trying to make, what you guys aren't helping
me make because you're all kind of watching sports for
weird reasons. Um, is that the majority of people, there's

(15:42):
there's a very there's a silent majority of sports film. Okay,
there's no this is this is this is the research,
this is what Fox sports and this is what they're
telling that that most people watch sports to just watch sports.
They don't go to watch sports for you know, some
some you know, political or right. They don't know why

(16:05):
they like when they add when they're asked, they say,
I don't know, I just do it. Yeah. They they're
not like, there's there's that majority of people that are
watching sports just to watch sports. They're not there to
to watch protests or they're not. And then there's a
very vocal minority on either side of the spectrum. There
there are there are people that think athletes should yes,

(16:27):
I want to see the social statements. I want to
see that, that activism, I want to see that. And
then there's others that, like you said Scott earlier, shut
up and driven right. So, and what Fox Sports and
I'm sure other networks are doing is because going into
this football season, part of the broadcast is going to
be around these social elements. And what they're trying to

(16:51):
figure out is how much is your is your viewer
going to want to see because because then I don't
care what it is, I don't care what what element
you're gonna add to a broadcast, there's always a point
of of becoming too much. Well, well, here's what the
NFL fan is saying. The NFL fan is saying, the

(17:11):
overwhelming majority saying we're okay with that. Right. We don't
feel strongly one way or the other, but we're okay
with those elements in the game in the broadcast. As
long as you don't it doesn't completely override the game itself,
which is why we're watching. So when I was gonna say,
when it's gonna happen, is gonna be in your pregame

(17:32):
show and you're gonna touch on it in the game,
a bit like that brings up the thing that we
saw earlier this week that they're going to have things
painted in the end zones. I think Scott said racism.
They're gonna have other things. But I think that's what
I think what broadcast networks like ours are trying to
figure out it's important this is we're no longer, We're

(17:54):
no longer in a world where it's stick to sports,
right everything is, you know, and it's not. And if
you look at our history right there, this isn't the
first time athletes have you know, you think about Muhammad Ali,
you think about Jim Brown, you think about some of
these others. You think about the Olympics um with with
you know, the raised fist and in all of these things.

(18:17):
This is not the first time. But now we're seeing
it on such a grand scale. And I think broadcasters
are saying, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna add these elements
to our show, but to what extent? And I think
that's kind of where, you know, whether it's Stocked Sports
or any other network, Um, I think it's gonna try
to find that right balance. It's gonna be interest. It

(18:39):
can't be overlooked at this at this point anymore. Like
then it was one athlete being the spokesperson. Now it's
every single person of color is saying we're not going
to stand for this anymore. This has to stop, and
so you can't ignore it during the broadcast. Before you
you might be able to, like with just Kaepernick, you
could kind of say like, well, we're not gonna show
the national anthem, We're not going to show the guys kneeling,

(19:00):
We're not going to show that stuff. And they just
that's what they did because it was because it was
it felt like it went off right. It was it
was Kaepernake, and then it was you know, and then
it may be a handful of others, but it wasn't this.
It wasn't a group, you know, entire teams and things
like that where you can't ignore it. Right. I think
let the guys up a fox. The big wigs know

(19:22):
that if they need me as a consultant, I'm available
because I have some I have some good, strong opinions
on this. What what's your hourly rate? That's you're selling
yourself short. I know I'm doing it. I'm doing at
a discount because Dean's my friend friend. Um. The other thing, right,
the other continues to kick our asses. You know, we've

(19:44):
lost some some you know some people recently, uh you
know Chadwick Boseman, Um obviously, you know, for me. I
liked Black Panther. I thought it was a good movie.
But I for me, why I like Chad Bozeman so much?
Um was forty two? Like, I loved him as Jackie Robinson.

(20:05):
I really loved that movie. Haven't been at the Dodger
fan having having read and really studied the history of
Jackie Robinson and and coming from you know, you know
where he came from. I I thought forty two was
was amazing, and uh, you know, unfortunately, you know, here's
a guy that was was acting and and doing all
this with wow, battling cancer. It's it's it's unbelievable when

(20:30):
you think about that. It's it's what's sad is the
timing of it, Like on a day when the Major
League Baseball was celebrating Jackie Robinson Day, he passed on
that day. And then you look at things that were
going on in his life with with you saying, going
through chemo while he's taping his you know, filming his
last like four or five films, like and he's like sick,
and people are like, this is just how awful of

(20:52):
society is, with people on social media calling him out like, oh,
why are you losing so much weight? What are you
sick or something? The media is successibul like I'm conveyed
like I am. If I if I didn't have to
be on Twitter, like I get, I'm not gonna I'm
not gonna go that far. I do get. There is
good engagement on social media to some extent, like it's
it's fun sometimes, But if you sit there and you

(21:15):
read some of these comments and you think about what
is so bad in your life that you are taking
time out of your day to trash somebody on on
social media? Like what what like anybody that goes out
of their way to trash somebody that they've never met.
Um again, I know there's exceptions. I know some people
are just complete that act idiotic and need to be

(21:38):
called out. But I apologize ranks alone, I'm sorry. But
the trolls out there that it's like people they've never
met and like calling somebody out for losing weight when
and you have no idea what's going on in their
life or or you know, And because I get stuff

(21:59):
on social me and I'll never block anybody. I'll never
block you, I'll never give you the time of day.
I just won't. But it sounds when you read, you're like,
what is so bad in your life that you have
to go above and beyond um to do that? Like,
I just don't understand that. And then you meet people
in person and they're not like that, or at least

(22:20):
you know, the people that I meet are I think
a lot of like not to to puff you up
too much, but you know you're you're a celebrity. You
know you got a cameo account. I must see level right,
Oh we're up to see now, up to see. But
like when you've I know, with you and Pereira, sometimes

(22:40):
someone will send a message and they'll be rude to
put it lightly, but then if you respond, they'll be like, oh,
I didn't even think you read this, which they they're like,
oh love your work like they they I think for
some people, like celebrity, like they just assume it's like

(23:02):
they're not writing these or it's just they're not looking
at these there. Yeah, I also think it's I also
think it's like a not I wouldn't go as far
as they cry for help, but it's a it's a
it's it's kind of like, hey, what about me? Like
do I matter? Like can I even if it's in
a negative way, Right, Do I matter enough to have
somebody you know, read my tweet and respond to it

(23:24):
or whatever? And and you know, just tweet tree me
about like something fun like ice cream or Peter at
M and M's. I think they do it just to say,
like I want to get this person's attention. What do
I have to do to get it? And I like
how you throw out stuff on Twitter, like oh yeah,
like you throw out fun stuff like all the time,

(23:45):
like your poll question will get too later and and
things during the season You're like get to that quick. Um.
Things like during the season you'll throw out there like
tell me something that I should be watching, or like
you'll just throw that out there and just to say
because you're always get you always get that. Or two
that will be like you know, like the like the
poll that we put out, I put out and one

(24:05):
guy was like, nobody gives us you know, ship, And
I'm like time out of your day, So time out
of your day to respond, So obviously you give a ship.
You're following me like what are you doing? Like you know,
it's just I just want better for people, and I
don't know, and Joe, I want better for you so

(24:26):
let's go to break, let me come back. I want
you more involved, you know, I just stay away from
the political stuff. It's about college football and acts on
good calling, back on good call with what all? Yeah,

(25:06):
I could start talking. Thanks. I can't even hear it.
I can't hear a word he's saying over the music, Joe,
what are you doing as an audio guy over there?
Um Travis update on NFL COVID testing. It seems pretty encouraging.
Over the last Like some from the August twenty one
and the twenty night, there were fifty eight thousand, six

(25:28):
one tests um UM on players and club personnel and
only ten positives with four players and six um team personnelity.
So it seems pretty good. I mean, they're not traveling,
they're not going to hotels. We talked about that last week,
but people, you know, so again there is going to
be certainly the test of the travel. There are you know,
I know, talking people around the league. The league had,

(25:51):
you know, the league had previously sent I think it
was something like four teen pages worth of travel protocols. Um.
They just last towards the end of the last week
revised those protocols and sent a whole bunch of more. Um.
So this is something I think in the initial I
think the number of in your travel party that was

(26:12):
initially decided upon has now been reduced. So teams are
gonna have to to cut down even more, you know,
cut out even more people, um when they travel. And again, look,
this is the season. This is going to be a
season unlike any other. Um. But I do you know,
knock on wood, these these these numbers are encouraging and uh,

(26:35):
you know, and I think I think we'll all feel
more comfortable as each week passes right the week without
some kind of you know, outbreak, I think we'll get
more comfortable and more comfortable and and uh and we'll
kind of go from there. I know something that will
make Scott and Joe a little upset. There's no mascots
and no cheerleaders this year either on the side lot mascots,
no cheerleaders. Um, I know where will they be allowed

(26:58):
in the stadium? Now? I'm serious? Like, will like a
mascot be running around in the stands by himself and
the austin Yeah, because that's such what you see in baseball,
Like the mascot's kind of like running around out in
the out. I don't. I don't know that would be
interesting if they just had the random like the San
Diego Chicken, well and hey, let me just queue you up.

(27:22):
You know they will there be a mascot to interact
with fans in the stands. Well there. Well, So speaking
of that right last week and Roger Goodell did there
was you know, competition committee met or virtually met. I
think they had a call and they discussed it, and ultimately,

(27:43):
I know Roger came out and said that there's no
competitive advantage disadvantage to fans in the state, you know,
fans in the stadiums some fans and some stadiums others
being empty. Um. I think that's probably oversimplifying it that statement.
I get what he's saying. We talked about it last week.
I think I agree it's probably overblown what the advantage

(28:05):
would be. I don't think you can say there's no impact,
but I don't think that. Look if if the Chiefs
go and play on the road in Miami, um, and
there's fifteen thousand fans, I don't think the Chiefs lose
that game because there's fifteen thousand fans. Well, there's probably
fifteen thousand Chiefs fans there because Miami fans don't go.

(28:27):
But but that's the thing, Like, I don't think the
number of the fans in the stadium are gonna be
the reason the Chiefs would lose that game. It would
be other um, but the competition committee has determined that, UM,
it is no competitive advantage. The other thing that they're doing,
and I have talked to people from clubs, UM coaches
and other people. You know, they're gonna pipe in this
kind of crowd noise, this ambient crowd noise. And from

(28:49):
what I'm hearing from clubs at least what they've been
practicing with, they feel like it's too loud. Uh and UH,
I think you know, and when you think about a crowd,
and if you know we're watching baseball games basketball, you
watch an NBA game like I was watching today, um
that Milwaukee uh Miami game. You know, if you didn't

(29:10):
know we were in and the way they've they kind
of present, you know, it's kind of dark in the
arena outside of the outside of the court. You would
think that there's fans in the crowd at least in
in certain moments like when there's no like real high
you know thing happening, like some crazy thing happening where
you hear that that crazy roar. But I think the NFL,

(29:31):
where if there's ebbs and flows, the crowd is gonna
get really excited and then there's gonna be more that
kind of like that baseline noise. I think that's what
the league is looking for more of, just so it's
not complete silence and you're hearing every little thing that's
said on the football fields their own baseline sound. Uh.

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I guess Travis or any of you do we know
are the uh studio is still gonna kind of sweeten
sound the way like they do with like the Premier
League and stuff like that, where they add crowd noise
as well, like just for the broadcast. I think that's
the plan because I think it's it is very weird

(30:13):
when it's too quiet. It just is it's it's like
we're so used to it that like now, when you
like when the w W E came back and for
like one or two weeks they didn't have any noise
and it was just too weird, it's definitely weird. It's
it's definitely so I think we need that type of

(30:34):
background noise Um, I think baseball is not a good
job with it and uh, you know just watching dodging games. Um,
but it's again, I think you know, you don't want
it to be too loud, right, they can't hear the
call the quarterback camp you know, you know, have his
cadence that that you know the linemen are gonna hear

(30:54):
whatever else is gonna happen. So, UM, I think that
was good. But hey, even bigger news. I never thought
I would say this, But did you see the Austin
p Central Arkansas game on Saturday night? I tuned in
for a bit. I did, Yeah, I only saw the highlights.
Twitter image seventy five ye r t D. College football

(31:18):
is back. College football is back, and um, when you
think about that, the college football season I think is
going to be a roller coaster. I mean it is
when you think about where we are right now with
six UM FBS conferences playing, which are you know are

(31:42):
planning to play? Right, A Big twelve, A C C
A A C SEC, UM, the Conference USA and some
fund right, so those are you? Then you then you
have um, a couple of FCS conferences that are playing UM,
how Valley, UM, Southland, UM, it's and then you hear

(32:08):
kind of, you know, reading some of the things about
the Big Ten, you know, saying that they were going
to push to the spring and now kind of talking
about maybe maybe they're gonna move it up to a
winner season so they can get a season in and
and allow allow these student athletes too that that are
going to go potentially to the pros, go to the combine,

(32:29):
graduate and do all those things. Um, and then you
could have a spring season with maybe the Pack twelve
and some of these the MAC and some of these
other Group of five conferences. You know, I love it,
you know, hopefully COVID you know, agrees, but we could
have college football sting now until April. It's it's it's

(32:53):
insane to think about what what could happen with this
college football season. I mean, as a fan, it's exciting,
it's but knowing what COVID has done this year, like,
I have very little confidence that it's going to go
as smoothly as that schedule would would play out. You know,
I can't imagine we're not going to have any road

(33:14):
you know, right, Like what was that Iowa story that
that Scott sent out that there was a massive outbreak
within the within the team there, Scott, I don't think
it was the team. It's just that her capita, like
Iowa State, which I believe today which is I believe
aims Iowa. They just walked back like a couple of
days ago, the Iowa state president was like, Hey, we're

(33:36):
gonna have fans, and because of the amount of people
coming down diagnosed wise, they're like, actually, for the opening,
we're not going to have any fans because, um, you
know the stat I saw which I forgot who tweeted
this out, but it was something like, you know, the

(33:58):
state of Iowa. Uh, I'm sorry miscoding, but the state
of Iowa had like ten deaths yesterday. Germany, the entire
country of Germany had eight and they're not allowing fans
in the stands for German soccer. This fault. So just
as like a perspective, but yeah, it's it's and like,
didn't the Georgia QB just say today that he's not

(34:21):
going to be playing this fault left it out on
Wednesday yet Yeah, and I think you're gonna see I think,
But honestly, I think as as these is, these kids
realize what's at stake. Um, because we started to see
this couple of years ago, where with with players that
that we're gonna be high draft picks sitting out Bowl games. Um,

(34:42):
I think I think it's gonna be very interesting to
see what happens post COVID if we don't see a
sure fire top ten pick sitting out his his last season, um,
you know, and just preparing for the preparing for the draft. Um,
you thought you'd see more for Nick Bosa? Did it
a couple of years? I think you know, you know,

(35:04):
Nick Bose obviously had been injured and so you're thinking
about recovering, you know, rehab and all that. But but
I think certainly COVID has allowed these It's it's a
it's a valid reason. It's a valid reason, um to
do this. And uh, you know what was also going
back to the Big Tent for a second, that was interesting.
The President called Kevin Warren, the commissioner of the Big Ten.

(35:27):
Think about Kevin Warren, who replaced Jim Delaney. And I
know Kevin, I know Jim, um, you know, replacing long
time Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney in his first year,
and now he has to deal with this, right, He's
dealing with and it's like, you're damned if you do,
damned if you don't. You're making decisions two based on

(35:50):
health and safety of these student athletes. And so they
have all the information and they postponed the season and
then they get ripped apart by their own school. You
know that that o how state players and and and
and Nebraska and everybody else in the president calls you, Um,
but what Travis, what is that conversation? Like, like, that's

(36:11):
what I was gonna ask you first. I was gonna
ask you what was there any is he Is there
any validity to the case that the Nebraska parents wanted
to to sue the Big Ten for not allowing their Like,
I mean, we do live in a litigious society, so
it is me that that there would be some lawsuit
that you know, they're taking away there the kids opportunity
to whatever play in the NFL. UM. But again, it's like,

(36:34):
you can't win, Like, you cannot win in that position.
You're trying to do the best you can with the
information that you have. And uh, and you're gonna get
second guest because if the Big Ten, right, they push
they pushed the season back, and if the other conferences
who decided to play. They don't have any issues. Everybody's
gonna say, well, look, Big ten, why didn't you? But
if these conferences do have issues, then you're almost like justified.

(36:58):
It's crazy, It's it's absolutely crazy. But I can't imagine.
I can't imagine being on that call. Yeah, I was
gonna ask you. You're you're the comic, You're the you're
the first of the CroV guy. First I'd be like, like, who,
come on, who is this? I mean who? Like, Okay, Heydean,
I'm gonna patch a call through real quick. This is

(37:19):
the president? Are you doing Joe? Who? Who is this?
And then I'd be like and then I realized, oh shit,
this is really him, Like this is for me though.
If the President called me like, I would just we
I do like all in New York with him. I'd
be seeing huge. He'd be saying huge, I mean we
just like That's how I would talk to him. I'm like, well,

(37:40):
Mr President, this is a huge decision and I don't
think we can take it lightly. And we have to
take those student athletes and their health and safety, and
I don't think, you know, we can make this a
political decision. This has to be about the health and
safety of our of our you know, of our student athletes. Um,
I'm sure heat that would go over well. And uh,
you know, and then I just you know, we talked

(38:00):
about restaurants in New York City. It's all my favorite places,
his favorite places, Sabarro, McDonald's. You know, you know Yo's
brother Jerry. One time with a straight face, Joe, I
know exactly what you're gonna say, great face. He was like,
He's like, dude, you you know, you guys got Sabarro

(38:21):
in New York, like like it was the best pizza ever.
I understand growing up in l A and you don't get,
you know, necessarily great pizza. But and I'm not, like
I said, I'm out a pizza snob. I'll eat Sabarrow
if I'm in an airport or if I'm in a mall,
I'll go I've I've got many a slice of Sabarrow

(38:43):
in and oh here, we're not over hair because I'll
do deep dish there, but many a slice of of
Sabarrow in like Hartsfield in Atlanta or you know, even
in like JFK. It's it's easy. You get the little
pizza sized box. UM, the slice size box. So it's
I like, never mention I would think that we're talking

(39:04):
pizza because I have a very special brain in Blandino
for you today that has to do with pizza. We'll
talk about that later. UM. But again back to college football.
I want I want college football to go so bad.
Our schedule UM starting to starting to get more clear
in terms of what we're gonna be doing. We're gonna
be in the studio, UM September eleventh to kick off

(39:28):
s m U TCU Joe SMU. What school is that
SMU Southern Methodist, very good? What school is? What school
is TCUA, Texas Christian? I know that one very good,
very good. UM kicking off the season and uh and
hopefully will be the first week of many weeks this
uh this fall, we get Pereira in the studio with us,

(39:50):
so we get the long underwear, we get the uggs UM,
we get high end catering, high end cateringtering, we get rabbits.
I do not like when prayer is in because Travis
gets uptight and I like like relax Travis. I like,
you know, I like dropkick. I like dropkick obviously in

(40:13):
a pair of flip flops. But we don't get that,
Travis from Praiers. It might be different this year without
the monitors, you know, he definitely, he definitely will. Mike
will be less uptight because the monitors aren't there making moves.
I believe September eleven, that's that's Pereira though, right or

(40:35):
is that you? That's that's me? Oh wow, wait, this
is you know, how did you forget? Well? Anyway, let's
take a break. When we come back, we're gonna have
We're gonna have, We're gonna have the debate, debates we're
gonna talk with when we're gonna do a Brain of Madrid. Right,

(40:59):
it doesn't have quite the ring to it. Art. We're
back on the calls and we're gonna settle a debate. Uh.
The other night I was watching UM I like to

(41:20):
kind of just sit down at the end of the
day through on the TV and watch movies or anything
else that's on and back to back. We had Dazed
and Confused followed by Fast Times at Ridgemont High. So
I texted the group, UM, what's better? Which movie is better?
Dazed and Confused? Fast Times? Both kind of you know,

(41:41):
cult classics both just over the years of kind of
grown and stature and and uh and I actually did
a Twitter poll. Um, and so the Twitter poll and
I'll pull it up. The results of the Twitter poll.
We hadd um Almost eight people voted, and Days and
Confused came out fifty two to for Fast Times. Um. So, Scott,

(42:09):
where are you? Where are you in the debate? Um?
I'm definitely Dazed Days and Confused. I just I think
if we're talking purely like as a movie, it's it's
just a tighter film. It's got a tighter plot. It
takes place obviously, it's supposed to take place over the
course of just like a day, basically the last day
of school, and just the kind of lived in nature

(42:33):
of it. Now, you said something controversial. You said Fast
Time says the better soundtrack. I completely disagree. I think
the soundtrack in Days makes the film Uh both grack.
Oh yeah. And I'm not saying I I don't think
either movie is bad. I just think Dazed and Confused
is just the better film overall. But it's like picking

(42:56):
your favorite child, you know, I can do that right,
just changes by week. Though. No, I definitely agree with Scott.
I said Days Confused right away, I said, I said,
quote as a clumsy script with Fast Times and the guy.
I can't remember the guy's name in the film or
or what his what his real name is. I should

(43:17):
have looked it up. I just feel like he was
just he wasn't very good as an actor. He wasn't believable.
He didn't like in Fast Times. You didn't like the
moan the moan. Yeah, he just he was terrible. He
was a horrible actor. And wow, I'm sorry, Robert, if
you're listening, Yeah, yeah, um and and and m right,
Romanus Scott. Yeah you look. You look at the cast

(43:38):
that in Days Confused. In the lines that just are
used over and over and over. It's like common common
day vernacular for for people that grew up in that era.
And and I'm one of those. I can alright, alright, alright,
like everyone knows, have you seen either movie? I definitely

(43:59):
have seen Days and Confused. I'm pretty sure I've seen
Fast Times at Regional as well, but only like once,
It's not like multiple times. But I do remember, I
do remember, like McConaughey and Days and Fuse, So I'll
go with Days and Confused. Yeah, So here's the thing,
and I agree the Day and Confused script is better. Right, it's, um,

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I think Fast Times it's kind of like there's there
just seems to be a lot going on and it
and it's it kind of all over the place. Um,
iconic though iconic might have other than if you think
about Days and Confused, right, obviously, all right and right,
all right McConaughey. Is people know that when you think

(44:43):
about Fast Times, think about the Judge Reynholm Phoebe Keats.
See that is most people know that scene. Right when
you think about Fast Times, I think your hands, think
about Mr Hand, you think about Sean Penn. So here's um,
but I think better ripped. I think we can agree.
Days and Confused soundtrack is tough. Yeah, I like, I

(45:06):
just I like having grown up in the eighties and
you know that's just my music. But certainly Days and Confused,
which again, Days and Confused takes place when what seventy five,
seventy six? It is, yes, seven, it's the it's the
uh yeah, yeah, seventies six, last day of high school Austin, Texas. Um,

(45:30):
now you're right, it is for soundtrack. It is more
just personal preference. I think I think it's personal preference.
I think more of it's obviously it's a seventies soundtrack.
Um it's supposed to take place in the seventies the
movie was made, and I guess the early nineties, ninety three. Yeah,
you know Fast Lives was was took place in the eighties,
came out in the eighties. Um it, it's a it's

(45:53):
a high school in California. I assume like Richmond, like
you guys know California better than me, is that is
that an actual places that in the valley was just
a made up a made up town in California. I oh, yeah,
go ahead, Joseph, Joe isn't so cow guy, right? I
don't know. I believe I know the shooting locations for

(46:15):
like the mall and stuff where Sherman Oaks. I think
rich On High might just be a made up school.
But it's obviously and and and it did definitely and
I'm not you know, I'm thirty four, so I didn't
grow up in the eighties really, but it did set
the template for like all those movies, like you know,
like Valley Girl and stuff where it's like it really

(46:36):
established the type of so cal life. Well then it's
Cameron Crow, I mean a hackerling who did who did
a lot of those movies. But let's so soundtrack personal preference.
Let's talk about casts. Because I went in, I did
a little research. This is tough now, Now there's some
rules here. I don't because what I did was I

(46:58):
kind of put together a you know, we're in the
middle of the NBA playoffs. I put together an NBA
style roster where we have our starting five, we have
our six man, and then we have the bench. Most NBA, right,
they don't go there. If most don't go you know,
nine d So we've got nine from each cast. Now

(47:19):
here's the thing. What I did was it didn't matter
how big your role was to be on the team.
But if you had a smaller role, you might be
a bench player, but you might be the might have
ultimately had the better career. Does that make sense? So
let's start with days, right, like I think Karl Malone

(47:41):
and the Lakers stairs right. So yeah, so think about
the days to confuse. Here's your starting five, at least
in my view. Matthew mcconnie. Yes, okay, Joey Adams, I
knew you love Scott, Mila, Jo Djokovic Um and this
form me was and I kind of went back and

(48:03):
forth between these two. For me, I wasn't sure it.
Did I want Adam Goldberg on my starting five or
Parker Posey. When I think about Parker Posey and what
she's done, I've ended up putting Parker Posey in the
starting five and Adam Goldberg was my sixth man. I
agree completely that Parker Posey like a comedy powerhouse, powerhouse

(48:26):
like you don't think about, like she all those Christopher
guest movies. I think she's amazing actress. But I will
say that Joey, it shouldn't be on the starting five
or wait was it? What was your starting five? Again?
I had Joey, I had um Joey Lawn Adams on there. Okay,
and that was for you and we can talk about

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we can talk about because here's my betch and I
only went three deep on the bench. Cole Houser, Yes,
And you know he's like that guy that you never
know his name, but you're like, oh, I've seen that guy.
He's he's kind of like he's and I don't know
if they're he's like that. Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, crew,
Casey Affleck, um So col Houser, Anthony rab who who

(49:14):
was actually in um, What's the Broadway play? Rent Rent
And and Rory Cochrane who I did a million things,
million things and he has one of my favorite scenes
and Days when he's talking when their highs buck and
they's talking about Martha Washington, how they were aliens and

(49:38):
how she used to she used to tend the narjuana
crop for George, Like that scene is amazing. But that's
my that's my days and confused squad. Now we can
move people around. But am I missing anybody from the cast?
Did you say Adam Goldberg? They said, yeah, yeah, I
mean you pretty much got him because I mean, and

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there you could potentially the uh what Randall pick for?
Like Jason Lundon's in London. He had a run, he
had the hell of a run. But I had him
on the list and then I took him off because
looking at his overall, I know he's like he's like
the lead in Days more or less, but I just
didn't think his career overall matched up with these other

(50:24):
Oh no, I agree, it's like he had that run,
but like then that's why you include someone like Ben
Affleck who really is barely in the movie, but you
can't discounts he's arguably, other than mcconnie, he's arguably the
most accomplished actor on the list. Well, and you know
Oscar with the with the directing stuff too, So yeah, yeah,

(50:47):
I buy that completely, all right, So let's go Fast Times.
So obviously Sean penn Um, Jennifer Jennifer, Jason lay Um, Judge,
Ryan hold Um, and now we're Fast Time. It's interesting
is you have actors that have very small roles but
end up going on to great careers. Um, Forest Whittaker, yes,

(51:11):
his age, Eric Stolt's, Anthony Edwards, they're all in Fast Times,
Phoebe Kates and Um, I threw him on because I
like him. And Vincent Chiavelli, who is a great character
actor who you've seen. Um, he was in Ghosts. He
was he always plays that weird character. But I struggled

(51:33):
with those were my my my top nine. But I
struggled with like the starting five there because it's hard
to have when you have like Forest Whittaker not in
the starting five, but he didn't have a big role
in the movie. Yeah, Anthony Edwards is in it too
deep on this thing? And Anthony Awards I got, yeah,

(51:54):
well he he was. It was him and Eric Stolts
as Spolis Stonner but he's okay there. And Nicolas Cage
was friends with Judge Reynolds. Very small role, but you
can't discount Nicolas Cage. It's part of a cast. Looking
overall casts, it's close. You've got a lot of Academy Awards,

(52:14):
You've got a lot of nominations, You've got a lot
of big box office things. And who who? Who is
the best actor in both casts? Who is it? I mean,
Matthew McConnaughey. I I gotta give it up to McConaughey.
I'm I went back and forth. I kind of lean

(52:36):
Sean Penn. I don't know. I love Matthew McConney, but
I don't know. Sean Penn in Carlito's way is might
be my favorite role. That one thing you know in
the game was really good too. Remember that. Yes, he
was the first time I saw the game, Like can
you can you guys remember the ending? Weren't you like

(52:58):
like I was like spoiler alert. I was just like
like confused. Once you tell like when when I was
the best ending to a movie I think I've ever seen.
It was so like, what the hell just happened? Like
so much happens in the last seven minutes, You're like,
what is going on? That was a really great movie.
Now I was gonna say, are we I think this

(53:19):
happens all the time. We underrate the difficulty of being
good at comedy, which is why Also I would totally
put Parker Posey in the conversation as because because it's
when it's so easy, like she does it so easy,
and all those Christopher guest movies that you kind of forget,

(53:40):
it's like they're all working really hard to be the
funniest people on earth. Yeah, I think and and I
think first has been like he I like him and
everything he's in, Oh his his his Run on the
Shield for a couple of years. That's a show that
I think is very under rated. So, I mean, I'm torn.

(54:02):
I don't know which is the better cast. It's it's yeah,
you should do another poll, Like, Okay, we've decided this
is the better movie. What has the better cast? I
think he's this the better movie. Um, I don't know
if it has the better cast. I still think Fast
Times probably has more. I think it has more memorable

(54:25):
scenes maybe for me, um, but you know because you
have Sean Penn and Mr hand just just you know,
the pizza getting delivered was like you know when when
with Forest Whitaker's um little brother and Sean Penn in
the car and and he's like, you know, my my

(54:45):
dad's a you know, a handyman or whatever. He's got
a two two box and you can fix it. Like
I just I think the ending to Fast Times also
just where when he uh goes to the convenience store
Judge Reynolds there, he throws the coffee on him and
then Sean Penn's just like awesome. You know that's how
it ends. You're like, okay, did it did it invent

(55:07):
No it didn't, because even like Animal House, I was
gonna say, it has one of those endings where it
has like the text where it's like Dean went on
to blah blah blah blah blah. No. I think it
didn't invent it, but it was definitely uh yeah, we
receive that more now. Um, all right, let's good debate.
Let's move on. Um, let's what happened what's the deal

(55:32):
with Rocky for in the Robots? Scott So as a
big Stallone fan. I follow him on Instagram. He posted
a picture like yeah, he he posted, you've been to
his house. We'll say it again, Dean has been to
Stallone's house. Um, Rocky four, I guess is getting a
director's cut anniversary, and it's unclear how it's getting released,

(55:56):
but it will be getting released. But something that's very
anny to me is in the comments. People are like,
are you gonna do more with the robot? And he's like,
I hate the robot, responded, He responded to random multiple
people he responded to, and he's like, I hate the robot.
It's getting cut. Like and if you don't know, in

(56:18):
Rocky for uh, for Polly's birthday, they buy a weird
robot for you and uh, evidently we still don't have
that today. No, yeah, it could it could do things
that um you're talking about. I got a robot the
vacuum with my floors. But this robot was like this

(56:39):
robot was like having conversation with Polly of like, hey,
how are you? Like? It was it was ai before
way before anything even exists, and and I need to
shout out one thing Carl Weathers when he when he's
he's at Rocky's house and the robot comes out to
like the pool, He's literally like, what the hell is that?

(57:03):
Like it feels like a real reaction, like what is that?
And I probably should know this, but did Carl? Was
Carl Weathers nominated as a supporting actor during any of
those movies? Uh? I mean if it was up the
key was awesome, like those Rocky wanted all all first

(57:24):
three are not dominated without him. Oh no, he's it's
it does not work. The first one doesn't work because
you buy Apollo as being so charismatic and it all
makes sense. And even in four where he gets killed,
you're kind of like, this sucks because Apollo is so

(57:44):
much more fun than Rocky. Yeah, so so Nita has
to say there's a director's cut coming out and the
Robot's going to be removed, which is annoying because I
like their butt. And then also Rocky, for by the way,
is literally like seventy nine minutes and there I swort

(58:05):
of got thirty five minutes of that is like montages.
So I'm interested to see what added stuff he has,
you know, Scott just there's no easy way out, so well,
there's no shortcut home, there's not. Don't make fun of
the montages. Those always bring it tear to eye. I
love him, but that's what I'm like, Where will he

(58:25):
add footage? Ever since Quo Team in the Pandemic, I
jump rope every day and part of my jump rope
is to no easy way out? And I pretend I'm rocky.
But anyway, are you still doing that? Still doing that?
Good for you, buddy? Um? So, apparently there was a

(58:48):
man at JF JFK and l A X on a
jet pack. Drivis, you live near l A X. What
is that? What happened? I didn't actually see the story
Scott sent this one. I I just put in this
note because I m to hear about this thing as well.
It was he was wearing like a rocketeer type thing
flying around Scott. What was so? Two commercial pilots said

(59:11):
they saw someone who appeared to be on a jet
pack out near l A X. And now the FBI
is looking into it. What is going on? What is like?
Now there's people of jet packs riding around. I've seen some,
but I've always thought they were like too clunky, to
kind of like, you know, it's more of like a

(59:32):
gimmick thing of like, hey watch this guy take off.
But okay, yeah, according to this, the exact quote is
Tower American, which is the plane idea we just got.
We just passed the guy in a jet pack, is
what they said to the air traffic controller. And that
so my mind immediately goes to like it's some Marvel

(59:55):
villain that that now we're gonna have to get like
Iron Man or flour to fight this guy. And that's guy.
I have a confession to make. It was I made
a jet pack in my garage in the freaking while Dean.
While Dean was jumping rope, I was making jet packs.

(01:00:16):
That's what you've been doing. Jack, believe I took I
took your advice to heart. You should do something good
with this time, something different. It's an opportunity. I'm glad
that you took you took my advice speaking to you, Joe,
let's go. We normally do Brandon Blendi. You know I
want to I want to do mind of majority. Scott
Scott coined the term mind of majority. Let's hear it

(01:00:39):
all right, so here it is. Can I get a
drum roll too. Yeah, so I don't have like a
you know what, let me do that again. I'll fix that.
So so here's the thing. So I was talking to
a friend who's from the East Coast and he started

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telling me about how the pizza you know, I was like,
how do you like it out here? Blah blah blah,
Well the pizza sucks. And it just got me to
start thinking that, like, there are people that have grown up,
born and raised here in southern California that I've never
been to New York, and they think, like, the pizza
here is a good pizza. Could you imagine never having
like a New York slice of pizza in your whole life?

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Is like, oh, Fresh Brothers is the ship or Sabarrows
the ship? Is this that's supposed to be funny? That's yeah,
that's all I got. Um No, it's it's like, okay.
So I think there's a difference. And I don't know

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obviously don't know this from from experience, but I think
there's a difference between being born blind and going blind, right,
Like the point I'm trying to because you don't know
what you're missing, sure, Like if you're born blind, if
you're born in l a or born in California, and
that's the pizza that you're used to, then you don't
know what else is that, of course, And that's the

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point is like you're you're over here thinking that Paisanos
is the best life of pizza in the world. It
is easily easily in the in the lowest tier of
of pizza. But I you know what, I know exactly
what you're saying, because this is this is gonna make
it sound like I'm this really rich person. I assure

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the listeners I'm not. But you know, I had poke
a here well and then and then when I went
to Hawaii, it blew my mind, like it was like
I cannot do it. You know, It's okay that Scott's
private chef prepares for him and his in Kauai. Yes,
that's different than the poke he gets. So now I

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have a guy fly it in over every morning for me.
So that that was that was my thought, just thinking
there's people out there that think this is as good
as the pizza gets and and just Italian food in general.
So I'm going out. I'm went out to Italian food
the other night, and I'm just like I don't generally
eat Italian food because my grandfather used to make it
from scratch and the home I grew up in, and

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I'm like, it always sucks. When I go to New York,
I always eat Italian food because it's fantastic. Never been
to Italy, I think, having grown up in New York,
the Mexican food here in l A. Is so much
better than the Mexican But you want here's a good example,
and maybe Travis you can talk about this too. I
grew up in Minnesota. The the fancy exposure to Italian

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food was for me probably all of d oh, nothing
wrong with you, there's nothing but like that, Like in
my worldview, for a certain period of time, it would
be like fancy, like it's grandma's birthday. We're going to
Red Lobster. We're taking her to Red Lobster. This is
the most fancy exotic sea food we have available. Didn't

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you understand that was that was like a big night.
I was, dude, I think I went to Red Lobster
for like my senior prom night. Well, but you know,
you're in the when you grow up in the middle
of the country, you're limited on certain things. So it's
like I didn't know what like seafood really was, so
like the idea of like if you walk into a
restaurant and it has an aquarium with like the lobsters,

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I'm like, this place must be the most expensive place
on earth, you know exact because you just don't know.
But I mean, my my exposure to Mexican food growing
up was taco about like I thought that was I
thought the Mexi melt was as good as it gets. Yeah,
that that's what I thought. And and obviously that's not

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the case. And you come out here and it's like
the little hole of all and the food is amazing. Yes,
my favorite. I man like that would be one of
the hardest parts if I leave l A is streaked
tacos because I live by a great spot. Now. Uh
if anyone's out in Ego Rock anytime, come by. It's

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right in front of Target off Eagle Rock Boulevard. You'll
have a good time. We've got some good You went
to an Italian you go to an Italian Delhi or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
very good. It's it's they say it's an exciting time
for food. I'm just but growing up in in uh
In Minnesota. Did you did you have really good um

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fallu core? No, wait, did you guys have the what
are those like pork loins? Those big old porkloin? Like
that's one thing. Actually, you you go to a grocery store,
unless it's like a good butcher, you can't really get
a pork loin here, whereas like in like Iowa. I've

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talked with friends who have moved here from Iowa. From Minnesota.
You can't get him. Yeah, my buddies from Iowa, that's
all they talked about. And I went there one time
and they give you the world's biggest piece of meat. Yeah,
it's pretty awesome. I mean there's no you know, there's
no meat raffles at the bars out here, and it's
very disappointing. I remember watching Yeah, they have meat raffles

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in in bars in Many, in Many, in Minnesota. Yeah,
and it's and we're not talking just in rural like
in Minneapolis, there will be bars that have meat raffles.
Could you imagine like coming home from the bar and
with a freaking hamhock like you just like you wanted
at the bar. That's a dream. That is the dream.
Joe not bad mind of Madrid. It got us talking,

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so that's fine. That's all that matters. Um, let's uh,
let's wrap it up. Anything else. Travis, you okay, You're
gonna be all right? Yeah, I'm good man. I went
to the zoo on on Tuesday. Yeah I didn't. I
didn't need zoo. Right, that's exciting. Zoo is open. Let's
talk about next week. Let's talk about Travis. Travis's trips
to the Jesus Travis, but it's the zoo dot com.

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