December 12, 2023 • 45 mins
Will Selva and MJ Acosta-Ruiz are back for another episode of El Huddle! Another week is in the books and the playoff dream is still alive for many teams. First, we look at the Eagles-Cowboys clash and ponder if it’s time for Eagles fans to be worried. We then examine the Chiefs-Bills game along with the call that changed the games trajectory.
Next, we're joined by Z100 DJ and host of the Life As A Gringo & The Street Stoic Podcast, DJ Dramos! We talk about his inspiration behind the creation of his podcasts, what it’s like to be a gringo in Latino America and the cultural impact of Bad Bunny.
Finally, Will gives his Perro Macho and M.J. gives out her Platano Power player of the week!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
That's how it sounded in Texas between the Cowboys and
the Eagles. Olal, what's good, everybody, uestrajente. Great to have
you here with us, Great to be alongside my Ermana,
my Prima, my prima, Rmana, MJ. Casa Ruiz. I am
Will Salva And this is the l Huddle Podcast. And
(00:52):
if you are a Cowboys fan right about now, you
are feeling pretty good, excellent, pretty pretty pretty good good.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
My ad D was going off because watching that back,
all I could focus on was the Panuelo on there,
because it's one of those things that don't translate apples
to apples, right because flag is bveda. But in terms
of football, we're saying anyway, yeah, there's a lot of
things that sound weird and like you can't you can't
(01:21):
translate it literally.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, there are worse words, right, absolutely, But.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Anyway, that's where my brain, that's where we are at
this point in the season. My brain's like, oh cool,
panuelo and the inna is there, Like it's just cool to.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
See, yeah, to see those We always love hearing those
calls and we always play them throughout the podcast. But
the Cowboys right now are rolling since they got annihilated
by the forty nine ers, they just seem to be
a different team. Credit has to go to Mike McCarthy
calling these plays. Credit goes to Dak Prescott, who is
back there and being surgical, and he is making the reads,
(01:59):
he's making the throws, great touch, great vision, and he
is rarely in the MVP conversation right now where we
had Jalen Hurts for a majority of the season.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Correct, And I'm so glad that you brought that same energy,
Will because I think it's real easy for folks, especially
sports media are present company excluded, of course not me,
but folks can like really really beat down on Dak
real easy. But once he gets going, nobody wants to
give him the proper credit. So I'm very happy for Dak,
very happy for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
This was a huge, huge.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Primetime game for them, and it was a day when
the cheerleaders were having their anniversary and their reunion there you.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Know, I got to throw.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, they had women back from like the sixties that
cheer So it was like a perfect ending really for
this team. But moreover a big punctuation, a big exclamation
point for the Cowboys and sort of I don't want
to say a question mark for the Eagles, but I
would say more of an ellipsis.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Hmm, what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, let's take a B and less pause, because now
they've lost two consecutive games against top two NFC teams.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Do you think people should worry? I am not overly concerned.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
For the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, I'm still not overly concerned yet. I do think
something is off where they have to make some sort
of adjustment there. With the offense. It feels like the
offensive line hasn't been as you know, as strong as
it was in previous weeks. It looked like Jalen Hurts
(03:37):
was hurried a lot, and he was under duress a lot.
It just felt like this was a game that from
the start they just did not look like they were
in sync. Also turned the ball over a lot too,
and that you're not going to beat any team at all.
And so I think they're still squarely in the mix
(04:00):
along with the forty nine ers and the Cowboys. I
think the forty nine ers gained some separation. They officially
clinched a spot in the playoffs. We were knew that
was going to happen, but now they're the number one
seed and they just seemed to be the team still
to beat. I mean, they beat the Seahawks in a
game where it wasn't perfect for them, but they had
over five hundred yards in total offense. I think sometimes
(04:24):
run defense betrayed them a little bit, but overall, it's
a game they had to win, and they did win
at home.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I think also for the Eagles defensively, what's going on.
We saw some flashes right of like key guys who
always step up.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
But thirty three points, Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That's a lot, and that's not the type of football
that we're used to seeing them, certainly not from the
Eagles defensive last year, shutting people down left right.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So it's just it's a curious time.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But I also think it's just a consequence of the season,
of the schedule of opponents of this time.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
In the year.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So if it's going to happen, and obviously this will
still be a playoff team, better than it happens right now,
perhaps they can recorrect before you get to the deep
January games where everything is on the line and you
only get one.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Shot of course, correction.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
So yeah, and you see the Lions, who was everybody's pick,
They just did not have it against the Bears. Jared
Goff again did not look like he was just in
command of things. And the Bears, I mean, keeping their
faint playoff hopes, if you will. This is the crazy thing.
(05:39):
They have that number one and the number five pick
currently and yet they are one game out of a
wild card spot. I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
There were quite a.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Few games like that too, where for example, I didn't
think the Jets Texans game was going to be that
lobsided at all. That Brown's Jaguars game was an interesting
one as well. It's that point in the year, right,
And yes, y'all I can. I can take my medicine
as well, because the one of the two Monday night games,
(06:15):
I guess both didn't really and the way people predicted.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
No, no, but well you know what, Well let's do
a deeper dive on that a little bit later. How
about this.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Thank you for letting me collect myself?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, so so, so I'll let you collect yourself. But
then there's now the Chiefs that don't seem like the
invincible Chiefs that we've seen in years past, where Patrick
mahomes to see him literally have this meltdown, right, yell,
get I stay home. But that's what my parents would say, right,
like something happened with him and Kadarius Tony had been
(06:50):
offside by the way a few times in that game,
and those are the source of things that have just
killed this offense. They have receivers that are just not
catching the ball, not ones that you can really really
rely on outside of Travis Kelcey and to a certain extent,
Rashid Rice. It's just it's not there and you can't
(07:13):
just go in there thinking Kelsey and Rice are going
to bail you out.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Certainly not against the Bills team, which as.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Much as they have underperformed for what was expected of
them this season, it's still the Bill squad and they
are still a very difficult team to go up against. It.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I don't think that the.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Chiefs overlooked that by any means, but for Patrick to
be that upset over that call, and I get it,
calls can be very very frustrating. It still wasn't this
game where they were if it's coming down to a
call for you to drop a game that was a
three point situation, you know what I mean, Like you
got to evaluate the overall performance of the team. They
didn't score any points in the first quarter. I mean,
(07:50):
come on, so it wasn't this thing like this is
why we lost. I think there were a lot of
things that led up to that moment that.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Didn't seal the game for them. So to your point,
just something to keep an eye on and to evaluate
for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah. No, And that's why it's like now the Bills,
they were left for dead and buried. Now all of
a sudden, they still have to keep winning though they
still have to keep winning either way, though, we are
going to delve into the Miami loss if you will.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Are you gonna be okay, I'm okay, I'm okay, okay
as a Dolphins fan unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, And we but we have a guest as well.
You want to tell people who who we're going to
have on.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
We've done a fun little podcast swap for those of
you in the New York area.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You'll you'll recognize his voice.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
From G one hundred. He's the host of Life as
a Greeno. He's got the Streets, a podcast doing a.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
DJ that almost joins us.
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Speaker 5 (09:48):
In Miami, Prasa, you say, Derek, Henri making town stray,
Henry Sevete, I'll touch down the di.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And we're just gonna keep rubbing salt in that wound
for me today. But you know what, I can take it,
and I.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Have someone here who's gonna turn the mood around for me.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yes, please welcome podcast the host of Life as a
Gringo and the Street Stoic Podcast.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
My good friend.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
We were just chatting it up for what seemed like
a month because we had so much to talk about.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
DJ that almost is.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
In the house with us.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Yeah what, DJ, thank y'all for having me. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
We're so high and I'm so happy DJ that now
Will gets to meet you because I was.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
No, no, not what happened here?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You know what I mean? What's up?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
See?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
That's what I'm gonna let you start off. You get
the first question.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Okay, So I have to ask you with life as
a gringo because I growing up in San Francisco. I
had brothers who all had the Spanish surnames. I was
the one that did not have it. You know, It's
like Franciscos and Will right, And so for me, I
felt like I was undercover Latin brother. Right.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
People were calling me Guillermo all the time because I
couldn't believe that. My parents said, hey, little Will here.
So for you, is that how you felt like growing up?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:23):
You know, for me, a lot of it was like
when I would go back to Puerto Rico and visit
the family, right. And I was brought up by a
very proud Puerto Rican. My father is like the mayor
of proud Puerto Ricans everywhere, right, Like and like, so
I grew up with a great sense of pride. But
then I would go back to the island. I'd hang
out with my family and my cousins, and they would
(11:44):
like make it very clear, like, nah, you're from the States.
They would call me a gringo, you know, and kind
of like the story that sticks out that was like
kind of the real thing that made me name the podcast.
That was like, once I got to like eighteen nineteen,
I could kind of start going out to clubs in
Puerto Rico, right, And my aunt is only a few
years older than me, which is like a whole nother story, right, but.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, right, the grudges were real.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Oh yeah, So like we go out to the club
and we're going to meet her friends and things like that,
and like I see one of her friends and I
like fall in love with her. So I'm like, you know,
put in a good word for me all these things,
and I'm trying to like kick it to her. I
think I got like my New York swag going on,
and she and she's like, okay, so this is my nephew.
You know, he's from the he's from the States, and
then this girl just says to me, oh, so you're
(12:34):
a gringo, and that was like confidence just went out
the window at that point. You know what I'm saying,
I spoke my broken Spanish, didn't help me at all,
And ever since then.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
That's kind of stuck in my head.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
So once I kind of started doing the whole podcast thing,
that was sort of the the thing that inspired me.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
If you will, I love it, But is it something
that that made you less confident throughout your life at all?
Like did you feel like you had a chip on
your shoulder? If you will?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
I mean the thing is, you know, both my parents
speak Spanish fluently, but they never talked it to me,
so like I wasn't able to kind of participate in
that part of the culture, right. So you know, once
we kind of left the Bronx and I'm doing school
in the suburbs of New Jersey, it was like where
do I fit in, right? Because I'm very much other
right And when my friends would come to visit the house,
(13:22):
it smells like, you know, Sofrito and Latin cook and you.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Know, and things like that.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
But you know, I didn't wasn't able to kind of
speak to the culture in that way. You know, the
Latin kids at the school didn't kind of see me
as one of their own, and you know, my friends
who were white kind of saw me as other as well.
You know, so it was kind of this weird thing
of like where do I exist?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Right?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
So that's kind of the inspiration I guess behind that
as well.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
What's funny is when you're talking about your dad and
he's a very proud I have yet to meet a
Puerto Rican who isn't hella.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Proud Pto Rican.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm married, as I told you, DJ a new Eurekan
and we have this ongoing we have this ongoing joke
of how do you know I was Puerto Rican? Meantime
he's wearing a Puerto Rican jersey, a Puerto Rican make
an air Force.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Once, like you're gonna know somebody's Puerto Rican or not.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It is hysterical. But same thing that he understands Spanish.
She can speak it, but doesn't like to speak it
because it is more of a broken Spanish for sure.
But I Spanish was my first language. The first three
of my life were spent in Santo Domingo, and it's
funny because there is that duality, right, Like in New York,
(14:29):
everyone's like, oh, she's hella Dominican.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
But if you were not born on the island.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Every time I would go back to dr every summer,
all of my cousins would say.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
La gringa, which I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I can't imagine, like if you can picture it, well,
anybody calling me gringa?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Right, But yeah, no very much.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
But for me, it was almost like an endearing thing.
It was almost the opposite of you, Like, it didn't
make me less confident. And I think that may be
because I did speak the language right, Like, I'm like,
I get there, what are you talking about?
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Right?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Like I could go right into it without skipping a beat.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
But there is that aspect to me though, No for
sure for sure, but I think like there's there's that
part that it's it's a micro question. But amongst like
our own community right about speaking the language, like where
you're for many folks they still feel like if someone
does not speak fluent Spanish, they're not Latino enough. And
(15:18):
so we hear we see these movements now right of
the no kids who are speaking quote unquote broken Spanish,
but they're still very much proud of their Latinidad and
their culture. And I think that's still evolving because the
old school way was, oh, you have to speak the language,
but then you have situations like yours where they did
never even taught to so like are you supposed to
know what's not your fault?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Well they used to make fun of me. That's the thing.
Like my parents.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Would would laugh when I tried to speak in Spanish
growing up, right, Like, and I.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Tell my mom, I like argue with them till this day.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
It's like, oh, we thought it was cute, but like, yeah,
but that like took away my confidence in speaking it right.
And and I think that probably had a lot to
do with it. And and yeah, I think, you know,
it's interesting when you talk about the no kids and
these things, like I love traditions still. I think that
it's a beautiful thing to speak Spanish to keep that
tradition going.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
My whole thing is also, we can't.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Sort of create this hierarchy system within our own community unnecessarily, right.
It just doesn't make sense right to make you an
outsider because you don't check some certain box, right, rather
than than like celebrating you and maybe encouraging you to like,
you know, embrace it and get better at it.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I think that's sort of where the problem lies.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
But totally I do think it's like now we're a
little bit more inclusive and right where I know growing up,
you know, my parents would say Leespanol. But I also
had a lot of friends who were like yourself who
did not grow up speaking Spanish because there was actually
shame there because if there was an accent then then
(16:55):
it felt like you you would stand out, but in
a bad way. So is that was that kind of
the thing in there with with your parents a little bit?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
I think in their mind they were also giving me
a better opportunity, right, like we got out of the Bronx,
we got into the suburbs. As like the American dream, right,
the dream for all of our families who migrated or
immigrated to the States is you know, to have the
house and the white pick offence and all that kind
of stuff. And yeah, I think I wasn't even allowed
to have like a Caesar haircut with the fade back
in the day, Like I wasn't allowed to get that
(17:28):
haircut because.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
You want parents that haircut.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Oh, so I wanted this so bad, but like my parents,
they had a problem with it because they felt like
it might get me stereotyped as some sort of way,
you know what I mean. And it's a shame obviously,
But like most things our parents kind of do that
maybe don't don't aren't things that we want to keep
on doing, we want to unlearn as we get older.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
They were just trying to protect me. So I think
that was a part of it, for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, I think there's also I think as you grow older,
it's also a double edged sword, and you can take
that either where you want. Because when we spoke last CJ,
you were talking about by the way, our boy here
is also on Z one hundred and so for all
our people in New York. I know you've heard his
voice before, yo, But I remember something that stuck out
to me about our conversation because you mentioned the word privilege,
(18:15):
which we don't often correlate with our culture and with
you know, with our background, but you said that there
was a level of it within your radio career.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Right, So I keep thinking of the code switch. Right,
all of us do it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Let's keep it real, like we speak one way amongst
inns and another way.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
In front of HEFE and corporate environments.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Right, And for you, was it a situation where you
felt like, Okay, yes, this is helpful to be able
to do this, But did you also feel like it
just like chipped away a little bit at your soul
some day?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (18:46):
I mean I think you know it's it's it's tough because,
like you said, there's the code switching thing. And for
someone like me, it did work to my benefit in
certain ways because I could kind of fall in in
the middle of things, right, people didn't know what I was,
so I could kind of like fit into any crowd almost,
you know. But yeah, I think you know, there's a
(19:07):
small part of you that that dies, you know, within
letting that kind of happen too much, or when you
find yourself in a room full of people that don't
know about your cultural background and they have maybe some
some weird connotations about your culture.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Sure, it's then like all right, yeah exactly.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
So then it's like, all right, now I have to
kind of like step out and defend that or do
I kind of just keep doing what's working for me
right now? Right because we're all trying to survive out here,
you know. So it definitely kind of creates a bit
of an identity crisis, the constant code switching, for sure.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
But does it does it help to connect though? Like
if you see somebody who's from the LATINX community, do
you automatically gravitate toward them?
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Yeah, there's there's a natural kind of warmth there now,
you know. And and I think, you know, it was
also me letting my guard down of being like I
was always I lived in fear of being judged by
them almost, you know. So I also kindind of like
made myself an outsider on purpose because I was scared
that if I kind of tried to enter the circle,
(20:11):
I wouldn't pass kind of the prerequisite test that they
would have if I was Latin enough, you know. So
I isolated myself a bit for my community, you know.
And it's only now that I've kind of embraced knowing
that I have a place within the community that it's like, man,
I've been missing out on this warmth and this love
because you know, me being authentic, me being myself, I
(20:32):
am being embraced by it. But it was definitely something
where like I created this barrier from my own previous
experiences and my own sort of insecurity of authenticity.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
This feels like a therapeutic session is not not exactly
what I thought.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
No question.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, we all have that similar storyline, right like, it's
there are so many overlapping nuances, right whether it was
in New York, whether it was in San Francisco, whether
it was in Miami, right like, we all have this
shared lived experience. What I have found owned perhaps to
your point DJ, about not passing the certain tests that
(21:10):
our own culture puts together, I find that sometimes and
I won't speak because of course we always say this,
we are not a monolith, but in several of the
experiences I've had, like if it's specifically in a Dominican setting,
right like, there are certain things that are not only required,
but are expected to pass, that pass the checklist, if
you will, Right. And then when I go outside of that,
(21:33):
if I am hanging with LEAs or with Anikata witnesses
or with the Salt of These or whatever Mi Mechicanos,
there's less of a prerequisite where the only prerequisite is
you are one of us, come through and we're just
looking for community, Especially when you're outside of those pockets
when you're outside of New York and the Heights, when
you're outside of South Florida, Miami, you.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Like, that's what I found, and I think it is
getting a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Like if you run into a Mica you've never had.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Platannels like what like maybe they didn't grow up in
a place where platannels were easy access, but like you know,
so it's an if we hold our own community to
the fire more so than others do.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Have you had experiences like that?
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Yeah, I think, you know, I think it also just
kind of starts with with yourself as well, Right, I
think I don't I don't ever want to place too
much blame on the community.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
As a whole or those who I've interacted with.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Because I think, like I said, I had a wall
up as well, Right, I created a bit of that
with my own insecurity. And but to your point, like
I you know, I was in Miami recently and you know,
my Uber driver was Cuban and there was an immediate
connection right there with him just call me.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Like like hey, Poppy, how is your flight type of thing?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Right like that Immediately, like I felt I thought at home,
I felt comfortable.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
I felt safe right there.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Right, So, yeah, to your point, there is that that
sort of thing where we just all regardless of the
country that we come from, our ancestors come from, we
we kind of like have this common collective sort of
I don't know, this love for one another as well,
which I think, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
It's great because I'm trying to teach that to my
kids as well and to let them know what and
who they are, right, And that's why I think some
of it is like you know, with her parents, God
blessed them, you know by the day you speak to
something on men. However that was an effect on us rights.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, look, your parents could have done the best that
they could. I've still caut a little bit of trauma too,
like both things can exist at the safe time, ye, right, Well,
our parents lived in a bubble though more so than
we do now, right, Like.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Yeah, so it's like I'm a New York and like
my parents, you know, my dad was from Puerto Rico
and then moved to the Bronx.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
My mom was born and raised in the Bronx.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Like, they grew up around primarily Puerto Ricans, right, So
that's that's who they connected with who they spoke and
they visited Puerto Rico. That's the only vacation they would
ever take with Puerto Rico every year, right, So they're
insulated in their own bubble. Whereas you know, our generation,
the younger generations, like, we're all connecting via social media.
The blessing that we have with the jobs that we do,
we get to travel, we get to go different places,
(24:12):
meet different people. So we're far more open and we
have the ability to I think, see our our common
you know.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Sort of just love for for culture.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
And love for the family, you know, type of dynamic right,
that warmth, and we see how universal actually is and
it allows us to be far more open minded.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I think as a community at large.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
If we call him doctor DJ dramas that too many
da because like school, it's a church, therapy all the
things we can't have a New yeor weekan New York
native here in the house and not talking about New
York sports.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yes, I'm looking my wounds, but I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Remind me if you did tell me you were a
Giants fan or if you are a jetsman.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I guess both of you know.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Ironically, I am way outside of the box.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
A Bus fan. Yeah, me, okay, what's going on?
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Football was not a must watch sport in my family
growing up, right, so I was left to kind of
just fan for myself out there. So as a kid,
when the Bucks switched to the red colored jerseys, Red's
my favorite color, and that was kind of what got
me there, and ever since then, I've just genuinely become
a fan of the Buccaneers.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Well, what did you think of the Tom Brady era?
I'm the Buccaneers.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Ye oh yeah, oh yeah. I hated Brady prior to that,
but obviously not him.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You know, you hate, but you love him when he's
on yours.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
We were having me, we were having the other.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Not.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It wasn't even a debate. It was more of a
this is how it is in New York. Typically for
most folks that grew up Yankees fans, they were also
Giants fans. And if you were a Lets fan, you
were typically a jetsman. Yes, from your immediate surroundings, first
of all, which is your baseball team, because it's very
important to.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Know, Oh Yankees all day.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Thank god, it was gonna be very.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
But did you I mean, I don't know, walking every
it was either like all in the house you had
Jats and you had Mets, or you had Yankees and
you have giants, Like that was the separation of like
the two bubbles, because New York Market has multiple teams
all over the place.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah, your house lie outside of you.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
We're Yankees for sure. I mean we're like you know bros.
My grandma, you know, who was a part of my
I stayed at a lot growing up. Literally was like
around the corner from Yankee Stadium, you know. So I
can remember just like leaving school and or just hang
out in the street and you could hear the roar
of the stadium like we were that close, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
So I'm a Yankee fan for sure.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I love that all right.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Well, last thing, because you obviously are surrounded immersed in
music all day every day. What do you make of
Bad Bunny and the influence he's had on music? And he,
by the way, was awesome on Saturday Night Live that
we talked about. He's a pretty good actor as well
as a performer. What do you think of his impact
(27:14):
right now?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
First of all, I love this question. I love I love.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Because this is the thing, right, Like we're old enough
to remember the Latin artists that we're able to break
through prior right, the Selenas of the World, Mark Anthony,
you know, but these are artists exactly say, but they
had to change their They had to go and make
music in English, right, They couldn't make it in their
native tongue in order to break through to that mainstream audience.
(27:43):
Like that was the prerequisite make an English album if
you really want to break through.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
And someone like Bad Bunny especially like kind of the.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Topic of conversation of this this show in general we've
been having is authenticity, right, and this is somebody who
refused to change who he was.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Right, he said, you're gonna come to me.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
I'm gonna be so great that I'm gonna make the
mainstream come to me rather than me going to the mainstream.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Right. And I think that.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Is is such a beautiful thing in general for like
a creative and artist in music. But I also think
it speaks to the greater dynamic of like us as
Latinos in entertainment in general. Right, like we don't have
to change who we are, we don't have to play
by other people's rules. We have something to offer that
is very much universal. Given the right opportunity that the
(28:26):
key to somebody who his success speaks to that, and
I think it, you know, as we look upon it
years and years later, we're going to see how this
began to kind of just break down that barrier in
so many ways beyond just music, but just culturally people
being able to embrace him, because I mean, this dude
is like doing arenas in Kansas, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
So it's not like all Latinos, you know, so like
he's very much universal.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
So I think it speaks the idea that our culture
can be universal. We can share our stories and our
music and all those different things, and it can be
enjoyed by by the masses, just like anybody else's culture.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I think the.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Biggest cultural moment for him and what really reinforced that
he went ten toes down on the authenticity and that
he unapologetically was not going to change.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
What's the Grammys? Are you kidding me? He went out
there tip like.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Such a non to Puerto Rico and the festivals that
they have over there. He had a whole Dominican band
playing mid ang get Tipico from the island. Like I
was screaming in my living husband and I rewatched it
seventeen times in a row. I never never thought that
I would see that on the grammar. You got a
little Taylor Swift out there, brough le blonde hair dancing
(29:36):
are as she should be. I mean, I felt like
more of the room should have leaned in. But you know,
everybody's fine.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
But that's the thing, like people don't know behind the scenes.
You how many people he probably had in his ear
that were like, play it safe. You're on the main stage,
and he was just like, Nah, this is my moment
and I'm going to do it the way I want
to do it.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
And that's not an easy thing to do.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Like, we all worked really hard to get different places
in our career and it's nerve racking to think one
misstep could like derail us from where we want to go.
And to stay that sort of like tunnel vision on
who you are as a person, what you want to represent,
and refuse to change that for anybody, I think is
incredibly inspiring.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
A listen to us all for.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
We scribe for every day the one misstep thing, not
me feeling all something in my stomach floor, I can't
do it, not today, I'm feeling with it up, DJ,
Thank you for this, Thank you for coming through.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We can talk to you all freaking day.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Please come back and and and rock with us because
these are the conversations that we love to have and
that our community needs even more so.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Proud of you. Congratulations, We will talk again.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Appreciate you, Yes, thank you guys so much. I appreciate you.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
Sanna own ship, Bernie breaking out the squabble.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
That's what it's all about. That's that's the thing. Now,
it's not the gritty. I feel like the greed has
come and gone.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I buried the gritty a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Okay, literally the kids still were. We're doing it. Yeah,
it's just like the flos. Yeah that was that was
the same.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It's not for us, Well, it's not for us, it's not.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
But that they're the forty nine ers with that win
over Seattle. Now they have the Cardinals ahead, so that
could potentially be a trap game because they have the
Ravens after that, and that is going to be a
fun game to watch there for.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Us to watch it.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yes, it is sure.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It's going to be physical.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
It's gonna be physical, very physical.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
That's that's going to be good.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
And the two number one seeds a f C NFC.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I just like to think.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Deebo Samuel, he is a big part and give me
third of your point and I have them in both
my legs. Smart it only really matters in one because
I'm three and ten in the other way, so the
points are there. Regardless. That was on the good side.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
The good side if.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You're a Titans fan, was last night one of the
two very class Look.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
I'm the yeah, because look I can I can take it.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Journalists hat on for the moment, and the Titan showed
up and did what they had to do. I thought
there was some questionable things that happened throughout the game.
That's my fan side.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, it was. It was a really from the Dolphins because.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
But again there's some hits, some call some injuries. I'm
not going to go into it because I think they
played them hard. That was a physical game, really physical game.
But what really, I'm still not over it. It hasn't
even been twelve hours. Dolphins being up to touchdown with
three minutes left and losing.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, house.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Listen, Yeah, Well, it was upsetting to see Tyreek go
out because you never want to see any of these
stars go out and again, we just saw Justin Herbert.
He's now out for the remainder of the year, So
this is another situation where another star goes out. We'll
have to see what the deal is with his ankle,
but clearly they missed him. And if anything, I think
(33:32):
that Tyreek proved why he is an MVP candidate because
the team was not the same without him, right, and
the team really relies on him and now it's incumbent
upon guys like Jalen Waddle, Cedric Wilson, h Chen Mostert.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Jalen got beat up too, Yes he did.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
He did. But that has been the issue with the
Dolphins especially. It's like these injuries are starting to pile
up and you can't outrun them. I mean, it's really difficult.
And here's the other thing, and sorry to even bring
this up, but they have the second hardest schedule for
the rest of the season right now, so they still
have to play the Ravens. They still have at the
(34:15):
end of the year a game against the Bills that
could decide the division. At this point in time, I was.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Really hoping that they would get to ten wins last night,
that they would sort of really step.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Up into that position.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Because there is a lot to be said about momentum,
about confidence going into this. I'm very curious, first of all,
so shout out to the NFL film squad that's going
to have to turn around this Hard Knocks episode for tonight,
which I will be watching closely because I'm very curious
to see what it sounded like and felt like and what.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Really was going on.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And Tyree's been part of it than the Tyreeks because
we saw him go back in towards the latter part
of the game, but obviously was not at full capacity.
The reason they have him there is to and we
heard this throughout the broadcast.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Broadcast team did a great job.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
The reason that he is so powerful outside of his
tremendous skill set is because he has the thing that
other just can't teach.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You're either fast or you're not, and nobody is as
fast and as accurate as he is.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
So if he's not doing that, it's really hard to
you know, put him in there, Okay as a decoy, sure,
but like that's.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Not going to get you the results that you need.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
And still they were able to get down there and
score enough to be up by fourteen more points and
then to drop it.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I think that is what hurts.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
That is I had to put you know, the group
chats are going right, but me and my dophins. But
I was like, I gotta put the phone down. I
gotta put the phone down because I'm so upset.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, I'm so upset.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
I was wearing my two A shirt. Gunny kept looking
up at me like, Mom, relax. I've been very calm
and excitable for most of the season and he's just
looking at me like, is mom, okay, No, my beautiful
little puppy, I'm not all right. Emotional support was needed
from the dog. Yeah, He's like, please stop squeezing me,
let me go.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
And here's the thing is like they've got the Jets next,
and the Jets seem to have found a little bit
of this mojo thanks to want exactly.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Will see in a scenario where they lose.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
To the Jets, that's that would be rough.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
But I won't be on the podcast the week, like
defense won't find me. Yeah, I'll be in a whole somewhere.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Ram just no, yeah, sorry. So either way we were
able to talk through that, let's now talk through yeah,
well of course, okay, and thank you for listening to
the no, we still have more, we still have more pod.
What we have right now is of course our perro macho,
(36:34):
and so for me, senoris, for me perro macho. Again,
this is the common theme that runs through the league
at this point in time. These are the backup quarterbacks.
But in Cleveland, speaking of the dog Pound right there,
they've got Joe Flacco, forty two, forty five year old,
(36:59):
eighty two year whatever, Joe, folks, this is insane. So
the step into that situation, A lot of credit has
to go to Kevin Stefanski and preparing him. A lot
of credit goes to having a guy like Joe Flacco
come in. He's a veteran, he knows what he needs,
what he wants from an offense, and he's able to
(37:19):
do RPOs. This is a system, a scheme that when
he came into the league, they were really running, you
know where. He was putting that that pigskin into the
stomachs of guys and taking it out, faking and then
throwing the ball. So he's a perromancho. He definitely keeps
that team going and their playoff dreams and push alive.
(37:42):
The other one and we mentioned him Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 10 (37:46):
Huh, Tommy DeVito, he's a made man. He's a front
of ouse.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Okay, it's a front of ours.
Speaker 10 (37:57):
We like Tommy now three and one, MJ three and
one pretty good.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
He has has stepped into the situation, leaned into the
whole good fellas. His agent is getting mentioned and has
gone viral and seems to be a very shy man
that does not want to.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Have any.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Just trying to blend.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
But he's like dressing this suit is like that.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
It's amazing. Yeah, I love this. It's exciting.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
It's a Jersey kids, a Giants fan base that didn't
think they would have anything to cheer for halfway through
the season, and now there's this.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
There's origins of energy.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, characters quite literally characters because Sean Stillato, who's the agent,
is literally look, I think someone said earlier right out
of Central Casting.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Agent that guy, no question immediately.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
All right. So let me ask you this though, because
your hebby obviously is a huge Giants fan. Five and
eight flickering playoff home. I don't think anybody is thinking
that they will make it, but this is an incredible
carpet ride that they're on. Do you think that there
should be a discussion about Tommy DeVito and Daniel Jones
and who should be the starter? Is that even a
(39:17):
legitimate yambo?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yes, yes, because I mean, are you convinced with Daniel Jones?
Has anyone really been? We've had this conversation since he
entered the lead.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
You just signed that.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Whether it's fanfare or the moment or the fact that
there were no expectations for Tommy DeVito, I think it's
a legitimate thing to say. Okay, well let's see where
this goes. Let's see how much more we can grow.
Let's see if we can really make this guy leg
because what you've done with the quarterback that you paid
handsomely has not really worked out, right, So yeah, I
think yes, more more or less? Okay, good stuff stuff,
(39:56):
all right, Yeah, I need a little bit more as well,
So I got let's get into Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
And I know we're very quarterback centric. That's fair. I
think given this weekend.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
And Cowboys fans, my block donnel power goes to dak Okay,
I said it before, we got to bring that same
energy for him. The man was twenty four to thirty
nine to hundred seventy one pass yards two tugs, but
he already has over thirty five hundred passing yards on
the season. What he did also in just the power
(40:34):
of resilience, right, taking the criticism, taking the bad games
at the beginning of the year, and being able to
right the ship and really show us no, no, no, no, no,
I am that guy and I can do it even
through adversity and really get And I think the connection
with him and Ceedee Lamb has been beautiful.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
This is what we wanted to really really really wanted
to see for.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
The past what two three seasons between the two of them.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
So I think this is great.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Lots of Blattanto's there for him and with yeah we
don't talk about those stones.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
And yeah we don't. We need to talk more about
are great.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
You can eat anything.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Really, it's the perfect vessel for any protein. If you
don't know what I'm.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Time about, google it.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Yeah you got to. That is a great, great choice.
Because the team has scored over like the last few weeks,
like at least thirty points a game, so that's been
a big difference. But so we've mentioned brock Purty, We've
mentioned Tommy DeVito, and now Dak Prescott. Do you know,
(41:33):
like over the last four weeks in terms of completion
percentage and and really the passer rating, if you look
at it, it's like it's Brock Parties one, Tommy DeVito
over the last four weeks two and then Dak is three.
Isn't that crazy for for the passer rating? So it's fantastic,
(41:57):
it's uh so, it's amazing to see.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Welcome to the NFL.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Yeah, no, welcome definitely to the NFL. So that's this
takes us now to eat Punto And I know I
had mentioned it in Eat Punto's past, but this is
just the year again of the backup quarterbacks. On Thursday night,
we're gonna see it again because we mentioned Justin Herbert
and now out for the year. So now you're gonna
(42:21):
have Easton stick against Aidan O'Connell. You know what I mean.
It's like, now you have that, but these quarterbacks have
stepped in and now you know, you have Mitch Trubisky
who is trying to keep the Steelers there in the
playoff chase. You know, we mentioned Joe Flacco, you know,
and Gardner Minshew and Jake Browning. You know, it just
(42:42):
is worth mentioning again because these guys are keeping their
teams afloat. They're keeping them afloat when when it seemed
like hope was was lost. I mean Tommy DeVito, we
were just talking about Tommy, you know.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Crazy, And I think we always say you can't discount, like, oh,
he's just a backup or whatever.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
He's a backup until he's not right.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
And in a year like this where we just lost
another starting QB to an injury, Justin Herbert just this morning,
Like it's crazy, these guys have to stay prepared. The
hope is that they don't have to call on them,
but year after year, and I think this year.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Maybe more so than usual, we've had to lean on
these guys.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
So shout out to the backups, more so the backups
who are really stepping up again.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
It's like, this is my moment, this is what I've
traded for.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
I take reps with all the time, so when the
number is called, they do what they gotta do.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
May you know what, It's just gonna be a love
letter to the Dolphins fans right now, you guys, It's
gonna be Okayna, It's gonna be Okay, all right, let's
have a little more trust. And I'm talking to myself.
I'm looking in a mirror here, I'm looking in a mirror.
I know it feels familiar for years past.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
But let's not fall into this trap. Okay, let's push
by our team.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Let's send them hire that they need to finish strong
the rest of the year and go into the post
stronger than ever.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Fins up, baby tears. We're gonna be all right.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Well either way, I feel like this entire episode has
been very therapeutic for us.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
We're very open and vulnerable here.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Yes, we are a safe space and there's nothing wrong
with that at all. Premana, and that's why I love
you and so glad you're part of the podcast with
me doing this, and we love our audience as well.
Make sure to download subscribe like lente okayos set that
(44:50):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
That's how it sounded in Texas between the Cowboys and
the Eagles. Olal, what's good, everybody, uestrajente. Great to have
you here with us, Great to be alongside my Ermana,
my Prima, my prima, Rmana, MJ. Casa Ruiz. I am
Will Salva And this is the l Huddle Podcast. And
(00:52):
if you are a Cowboys fan right about now, you
are feeling pretty good, excellent, pretty pretty pretty good good.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
My ad D was going off because watching that back,
all I could focus on was the Panuelo on there,
because it's one of those things that don't translate apples
to apples, right because flag is bveda. But in terms
of football, we're saying anyway, yeah, there's a lot of
things that sound weird and like you can't you can't
(01:21):
translate it literally.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, there are worse words, right, absolutely, But.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Anyway, that's where my brain, that's where we are at
this point in the season. My brain's like, oh cool,
panuelo and the inna is there, Like it's just cool to.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
See, yeah, to see those We always love hearing those
calls and we always play them throughout the podcast. But
the Cowboys right now are rolling since they got annihilated
by the forty nine ers, they just seem to be
a different team. Credit has to go to Mike McCarthy
calling these plays. Credit goes to Dak Prescott, who is
back there and being surgical, and he is making the reads,
(01:59):
he's making the throws, great touch, great vision, and he
is rarely in the MVP conversation right now where we
had Jalen Hurts for a majority of the season.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Correct, And I'm so glad that you brought that same energy,
Will because I think it's real easy for folks, especially
sports media are present company excluded, of course not me,
but folks can like really really beat down on Dak
real easy. But once he gets going, nobody wants to
give him the proper credit. So I'm very happy for Dak,
very happy for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
This was a huge, huge.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Primetime game for them, and it was a day when
the cheerleaders were having their anniversary and their reunion there you.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Know, I got to throw.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, they had women back from like the sixties that
cheer So it was like a perfect ending really for
this team. But moreover a big punctuation, a big exclamation
point for the Cowboys and sort of I don't want
to say a question mark for the Eagles, but I
would say more of an ellipsis.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Hmm, what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, let's take a B and less pause, because now
they've lost two consecutive games against top two NFC teams.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Do you think people should worry? I am not overly concerned.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
For the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, I'm still not overly concerned yet. I do think
something is off where they have to make some sort
of adjustment there. With the offense. It feels like the
offensive line hasn't been as you know, as strong as
it was in previous weeks. It looked like Jalen Hurts
(03:37):
was hurried a lot, and he was under duress a lot.
It just felt like this was a game that from
the start they just did not look like they were
in sync. Also turned the ball over a lot too,
and that you're not going to beat any team at all.
And so I think they're still squarely in the mix
(04:00):
along with the forty nine ers and the Cowboys. I
think the forty nine ers gained some separation. They officially
clinched a spot in the playoffs. We were knew that
was going to happen, but now they're the number one
seed and they just seemed to be the team still
to beat. I mean, they beat the Seahawks in a
game where it wasn't perfect for them, but they had
over five hundred yards in total offense. I think sometimes
(04:24):
run defense betrayed them a little bit, but overall, it's
a game they had to win, and they did win
at home.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I think also for the Eagles defensively, what's going on.
We saw some flashes right of like key guys who
always step up.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
But thirty three points, Yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That's a lot, and that's not the type of football
that we're used to seeing them, certainly not from the
Eagles defensive last year, shutting people down left right.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So it's just it's a curious time.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But I also think it's just a consequence of the season,
of the schedule of opponents of this time.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
In the year.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So if it's going to happen, and obviously this will
still be a playoff team, better than it happens right now,
perhaps they can recorrect before you get to the deep
January games where everything is on the line and you
only get one.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Shot of course, correction.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
So yeah, and you see the Lions, who was everybody's pick,
They just did not have it against the Bears. Jared
Goff again did not look like he was just in
command of things. And the Bears, I mean, keeping their
faint playoff hopes, if you will. This is the crazy thing.
(05:39):
They have that number one and the number five pick
currently and yet they are one game out of a
wild card spot. I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
There were quite a.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Few games like that too, where for example, I didn't
think the Jets Texans game was going to be that
lobsided at all. That Brown's Jaguars game was an interesting
one as well. It's that point in the year, right,
And yes, y'all I can. I can take my medicine
as well, because the one of the two Monday night games,
(06:15):
I guess both didn't really and the way people predicted.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
No, no, but well you know what, Well let's do
a deeper dive on that a little bit later. How
about this.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Thank you for letting me collect myself?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, so so, so I'll let you collect yourself. But
then there's now the Chiefs that don't seem like the
invincible Chiefs that we've seen in years past, where Patrick
mahomes to see him literally have this meltdown, right, yell,
get I stay home. But that's what my parents would say, right,
like something happened with him and Kadarius Tony had been
(06:50):
offside by the way a few times in that game,
and those are the source of things that have just
killed this offense. They have receivers that are just not
catching the ball, not ones that you can really really
rely on outside of Travis Kelcey and to a certain extent,
Rashid Rice. It's just it's not there and you can't
(07:13):
just go in there thinking Kelsey and Rice are going
to bail you out.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Certainly not against the Bills team, which as.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Much as they have underperformed for what was expected of
them this season, it's still the Bill squad and they
are still a very difficult team to go up against. It.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I don't think that the.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Chiefs overlooked that by any means, but for Patrick to
be that upset over that call, and I get it,
calls can be very very frustrating. It still wasn't this
game where they were if it's coming down to a
call for you to drop a game that was a
three point situation, you know what I mean, Like you
got to evaluate the overall performance of the team. They
didn't score any points in the first quarter. I mean,
(07:50):
come on, so it wasn't this thing like this is
why we lost. I think there were a lot of
things that led up to that moment that.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Didn't seal the game for them. So to your point,
just something to keep an eye on and to evaluate
for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah. No, And that's why it's like now the Bills,
they were left for dead and buried. Now all of
a sudden, they still have to keep winning though they
still have to keep winning either way, though, we are
going to delve into the Miami loss if you will.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Are you gonna be okay, I'm okay, I'm okay, okay
as a Dolphins fan unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, And we but we have a guest as well.
You want to tell people who who we're going to
have on.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
We've done a fun little podcast swap for those of
you in the New York area.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
You'll you'll recognize his voice.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
From G one hundred. He's the host of Life as
a Greeno. He's got the Streets, a podcast doing a.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
DJ that almost joins us.
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Speaker 5 (09:48):
In Miami, Prasa, you say, Derek, Henri making town stray,
Henry Sevete, I'll touch down the di.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And we're just gonna keep rubbing salt in that wound
for me today. But you know what, I can take it,
and I.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Have someone here who's gonna turn the mood around for me.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yes, please welcome podcast the host of Life as a
Gringo and the Street Stoic Podcast.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
My good friend.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
We were just chatting it up for what seemed like
a month because we had so much to talk about.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
DJ that almost is.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
In the house with us.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Yeah what, DJ, thank y'all for having me. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
We're so high and I'm so happy DJ that now
Will gets to meet you because I was.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
No, no, not what happened here?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You know what I mean? What's up?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
See?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
That's what I'm gonna let you start off. You get
the first question.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Okay, So I have to ask you with life as
a gringo because I growing up in San Francisco. I
had brothers who all had the Spanish surnames. I was
the one that did not have it. You know, It's
like Franciscos and Will right, And so for me, I
felt like I was undercover Latin brother. Right.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
People were calling me Guillermo all the time because I
couldn't believe that. My parents said, hey, little Will here.
So for you, is that how you felt like growing up?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:23):
You know, for me, a lot of it was like
when I would go back to Puerto Rico and visit
the family, right. And I was brought up by a
very proud Puerto Rican. My father is like the mayor
of proud Puerto Ricans everywhere, right, Like and like, so
I grew up with a great sense of pride. But
then I would go back to the island. I'd hang
out with my family and my cousins, and they would
(11:44):
like make it very clear, like, nah, you're from the States.
They would call me a gringo, you know, and kind
of like the story that sticks out that was like
kind of the real thing that made me name the podcast.
That was like, once I got to like eighteen nineteen,
I could kind of start going out to clubs in
Puerto Rico, right, And my aunt is only a few
years older than me, which is like a whole nother story, right, but.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, right, the grudges were real.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Oh yeah, So like we go out to the club
and we're going to meet her friends and things like that,
and like I see one of her friends and I
like fall in love with her. So I'm like, you know,
put in a good word for me all these things,
and I'm trying to like kick it to her. I
think I got like my New York swag going on,
and she and she's like, okay, so this is my nephew.
You know, he's from the he's from the States, and
then this girl just says to me, oh, so you're
(12:34):
a gringo, and that was like confidence just went out
the window at that point. You know what I'm saying,
I spoke my broken Spanish, didn't help me at all,
And ever since then.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
That's kind of stuck in my head.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
So once I kind of started doing the whole podcast thing,
that was sort of the the thing that inspired me.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
If you will, I love it, But is it something
that that made you less confident throughout your life at all?
Like did you feel like you had a chip on
your shoulder? If you will?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
I mean the thing is, you know, both my parents
speak Spanish fluently, but they never talked it to me,
so like I wasn't able to kind of participate in
that part of the culture, right. So you know, once
we kind of left the Bronx and I'm doing school
in the suburbs of New Jersey, it was like where
do I fit in, right? Because I'm very much other
right And when my friends would come to visit the house,
(13:22):
it smells like, you know, Sofrito and Latin cook and you.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Know, and things like that.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
But you know, I didn't wasn't able to kind of
speak to the culture in that way. You know, the
Latin kids at the school didn't kind of see me
as one of their own, and you know, my friends
who were white kind of saw me as other as well.
You know, so it was kind of this weird thing
of like where do I exist?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Right?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
So that's kind of the inspiration I guess behind that
as well.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
What's funny is when you're talking about your dad and
he's a very proud I have yet to meet a
Puerto Rican who isn't hella.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Proud Pto Rican.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm married, as I told you, DJ a new Eurekan
and we have this ongoing we have this ongoing joke
of how do you know I was Puerto Rican? Meantime
he's wearing a Puerto Rican jersey, a Puerto Rican make
an air Force.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Once, like you're gonna know somebody's Puerto Rican or not.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It is hysterical. But same thing that he understands Spanish.
She can speak it, but doesn't like to speak it
because it is more of a broken Spanish for sure.
But I Spanish was my first language. The first three
of my life were spent in Santo Domingo, and it's
funny because there is that duality, right, Like in New York,
(14:29):
everyone's like, oh, she's hella Dominican.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
But if you were not born on the island.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Every time I would go back to dr every summer,
all of my cousins would say.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
La gringa, which I don't.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I can't imagine, like if you can picture it, well,
anybody calling me gringa?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Right, But yeah, no very much.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
But for me, it was almost like an endearing thing.
It was almost the opposite of you, Like, it didn't
make me less confident. And I think that may be
because I did speak the language right, Like, I'm like,
I get there, what are you talking about?
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Right?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Like I could go right into it without skipping a beat.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
But there is that aspect to me though, No for
sure for sure, but I think like there's there's that
part that it's it's a micro question. But amongst like
our own community right about speaking the language, like where
you're for many folks they still feel like if someone
does not speak fluent Spanish, they're not Latino enough. And
(15:18):
so we hear we see these movements now right of
the no kids who are speaking quote unquote broken Spanish,
but they're still very much proud of their Latinidad and
their culture. And I think that's still evolving because the
old school way was, oh, you have to speak the language,
but then you have situations like yours where they did
never even taught to so like are you supposed to
know what's not your fault?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Well they used to make fun of me. That's the thing.
Like my parents.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Would would laugh when I tried to speak in Spanish
growing up, right, Like, and I.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Tell my mom, I like argue with them till this day.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
It's like, oh, we thought it was cute, but like, yeah,
but that like took away my confidence in speaking it right.
And and I think that probably had a lot to
do with it. And and yeah, I think, you know,
it's interesting when you talk about the no kids and
these things, like I love traditions still. I think that
it's a beautiful thing to speak Spanish to keep that
tradition going.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
My whole thing is also, we can't.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Sort of create this hierarchy system within our own community unnecessarily, right.
It just doesn't make sense right to make you an
outsider because you don't check some certain box, right, rather
than than like celebrating you and maybe encouraging you to like,
you know, embrace it and get better at it.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I think that's sort of where the problem lies.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
But totally I do think it's like now we're a
little bit more inclusive and right where I know growing up,
you know, my parents would say Leespanol. But I also
had a lot of friends who were like yourself who
did not grow up speaking Spanish because there was actually
shame there because if there was an accent then then
(16:55):
it felt like you you would stand out, but in
a bad way. So is that was that kind of
the thing in there with with your parents a little bit?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
I think in their mind they were also giving me
a better opportunity, right, like we got out of the Bronx,
we got into the suburbs. As like the American dream, right,
the dream for all of our families who migrated or
immigrated to the States is you know, to have the
house and the white pick offence and all that kind
of stuff. And yeah, I think I wasn't even allowed
to have like a Caesar haircut with the fade back
in the day, Like I wasn't allowed to get that
(17:28):
haircut because.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
You want parents that haircut.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Oh, so I wanted this so bad, but like my parents,
they had a problem with it because they felt like
it might get me stereotyped as some sort of way,
you know what I mean. And it's a shame obviously,
But like most things our parents kind of do that
maybe don't don't aren't things that we want to keep
on doing, we want to unlearn as we get older.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
They were just trying to protect me. So I think
that was a part of it, for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, I think there's also I think as you grow older,
it's also a double edged sword, and you can take
that either where you want. Because when we spoke last CJ,
you were talking about by the way, our boy here
is also on Z one hundred and so for all
our people in New York. I know you've heard his
voice before, yo, But I remember something that stuck out
to me about our conversation because you mentioned the word privilege,
(18:15):
which we don't often correlate with our culture and with
you know, with our background, but you said that there
was a level of it within your radio career.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Right, So I keep thinking of the code switch. Right,
all of us do it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Let's keep it real, like we speak one way amongst
inns and another way.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
In front of HEFE and corporate environments.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Right, And for you, was it a situation where you
felt like, Okay, yes, this is helpful to be able
to do this, But did you also feel like it
just like chipped away a little bit at your soul
some day?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (18:46):
I mean I think you know it's it's it's tough because,
like you said, there's the code switching thing. And for
someone like me, it did work to my benefit in
certain ways because I could kind of fall in in
the middle of things, right, people didn't know what I was,
so I could kind of like fit into any crowd almost,
you know. But yeah, I think you know, there's a
(19:07):
small part of you that that dies, you know, within
letting that kind of happen too much, or when you
find yourself in a room full of people that don't
know about your cultural background and they have maybe some
some weird connotations about your culture.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Sure, it's then like all right, yeah exactly.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
So then it's like, all right, now I have to
kind of like step out and defend that or do
I kind of just keep doing what's working for me
right now? Right because we're all trying to survive out here,
you know. So it definitely kind of creates a bit
of an identity crisis, the constant code switching, for sure.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
But does it does it help to connect though? Like
if you see somebody who's from the LATINX community, do
you automatically gravitate toward them?
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Yeah, there's there's a natural kind of warmth there now,
you know. And and I think, you know, it was
also me letting my guard down of being like I
was always I lived in fear of being judged by
them almost, you know. So I also kindind of like
made myself an outsider on purpose because I was scared
that if I kind of tried to enter the circle,
(20:11):
I wouldn't pass kind of the prerequisite test that they
would have if I was Latin enough, you know. So
I isolated myself a bit for my community, you know.
And it's only now that I've kind of embraced knowing
that I have a place within the community that it's like, man,
I've been missing out on this warmth and this love
because you know, me being authentic, me being myself, I
(20:32):
am being embraced by it. But it was definitely something
where like I created this barrier from my own previous
experiences and my own sort of insecurity of authenticity.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
This feels like a therapeutic session is not not exactly
what I thought.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
No question.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, we all have that similar storyline, right like, it's
there are so many overlapping nuances, right whether it was
in New York, whether it was in San Francisco, whether
it was in Miami, right like, we all have this
shared lived experience. What I have found owned perhaps to
your point DJ, about not passing the certain tests that
(21:10):
our own culture puts together, I find that sometimes and
I won't speak because of course we always say this,
we are not a monolith, but in several of the
experiences I've had, like if it's specifically in a Dominican setting,
right like, there are certain things that are not only required,
but are expected to pass, that pass the checklist, if
you will, Right. And then when I go outside of that,
(21:33):
if I am hanging with LEAs or with Anikata witnesses
or with the Salt of These or whatever Mi Mechicanos,
there's less of a prerequisite where the only prerequisite is
you are one of us, come through and we're just
looking for community, Especially when you're outside of those pockets
when you're outside of New York and the Heights, when
you're outside of South Florida, Miami, you.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Like, that's what I found, and I think it is
getting a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Like if you run into a Mica you've never had.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Platannels like what like maybe they didn't grow up in
a place where platannels were easy access, but like you know,
so it's an if we hold our own community to
the fire more so than others do.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Have you had experiences like that?
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Yeah, I think, you know, I think it also just
kind of starts with with yourself as well, Right, I
think I don't I don't ever want to place too
much blame on the community.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
As a whole or those who I've interacted with.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Because I think, like I said, I had a wall
up as well, Right, I created a bit of that
with my own insecurity. And but to your point, like
I you know, I was in Miami recently and you know,
my Uber driver was Cuban and there was an immediate
connection right there with him just call me.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Like like hey, Poppy, how is your flight type of thing?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Right like that Immediately, like I felt I thought at home,
I felt comfortable.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
I felt safe right there.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Right, So, yeah, to your point, there is that that
sort of thing where we just all regardless of the
country that we come from, our ancestors come from, we
we kind of like have this common collective sort of
I don't know, this love for one another as well,
which I think, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
It's great because I'm trying to teach that to my
kids as well and to let them know what and
who they are, right, And that's why I think some
of it is like you know, with her parents, God
blessed them, you know by the day you speak to
something on men. However that was an effect on us rights.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, look, your parents could have done the best that
they could. I've still caut a little bit of trauma too,
like both things can exist at the safe time, ye, right, Well,
our parents lived in a bubble though more so than
we do now, right, Like.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Yeah, so it's like I'm a New York and like
my parents, you know, my dad was from Puerto Rico
and then moved to the Bronx.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
My mom was born and raised in the Bronx.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Like, they grew up around primarily Puerto Ricans, right, So
that's that's who they connected with who they spoke and
they visited Puerto Rico. That's the only vacation they would
ever take with Puerto Rico every year, right, So they're
insulated in their own bubble. Whereas you know, our generation,
the younger generations, like, we're all connecting via social media.
The blessing that we have with the jobs that we do,
we get to travel, we get to go different places,
(24:12):
meet different people. So we're far more open and we
have the ability to I think, see our our common
you know.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Sort of just love for for culture.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
And love for the family, you know, type of dynamic right,
that warmth, and we see how universal actually is and
it allows us to be far more open minded.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I think as a community at large.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
If we call him doctor DJ dramas that too many
da because like school, it's a church, therapy all the
things we can't have a New yeor weekan New York
native here in the house and not talking about New
York sports.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Yes, I'm looking my wounds, but I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Remind me if you did tell me you were a
Giants fan or if you are a jetsman.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I guess both of you know.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Ironically, I am way outside of the box.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
A Bus fan. Yeah, me, okay, what's going on?
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Football was not a must watch sport in my family
growing up, right, so I was left to kind of
just fan for myself out there. So as a kid,
when the Bucks switched to the red colored jerseys, Red's
my favorite color, and that was kind of what got
me there, and ever since then, I've just genuinely become
a fan of the Buccaneers.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Well, what did you think of the Tom Brady era?
I'm the Buccaneers.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Ye oh yeah, oh yeah. I hated Brady prior to that,
but obviously not him.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You know, you hate, but you love him when he's
on yours.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
We were having me, we were having the other.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Not.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It wasn't even a debate. It was more of a
this is how it is in New York. Typically for
most folks that grew up Yankees fans, they were also
Giants fans. And if you were a Lets fan, you
were typically a jetsman. Yes, from your immediate surroundings, first
of all, which is your baseball team, because it's very
important to.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Know, Oh Yankees all day.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Thank god, it was gonna be very.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
But did you I mean, I don't know, walking every
it was either like all in the house you had
Jats and you had Mets, or you had Yankees and
you have giants, Like that was the separation of like
the two bubbles, because New York Market has multiple teams
all over the place.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah, your house lie outside of you.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
We're Yankees for sure. I mean we're like you know bros.
My grandma, you know, who was a part of my
I stayed at a lot growing up. Literally was like
around the corner from Yankee Stadium, you know. So I
can remember just like leaving school and or just hang
out in the street and you could hear the roar
of the stadium like we were that close, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
So I'm a Yankee fan for sure.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I love that all right.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Well, last thing, because you obviously are surrounded immersed in
music all day every day. What do you make of
Bad Bunny and the influence he's had on music? And he,
by the way, was awesome on Saturday Night Live that
we talked about. He's a pretty good actor as well
as a performer. What do you think of his impact
(27:14):
right now?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
First of all, I love this question. I love I love.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Because this is the thing, right, Like we're old enough
to remember the Latin artists that we're able to break
through prior right, the Selenas of the World, Mark Anthony,
you know, but these are artists exactly say, but they
had to change their They had to go and make
music in English, right, They couldn't make it in their
native tongue in order to break through to that mainstream audience.
(27:43):
Like that was the prerequisite make an English album if
you really want to break through.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
And someone like Bad Bunny especially like kind of the.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Topic of conversation of this this show in general we've
been having is authenticity, right, and this is somebody who
refused to change who he was.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Right, he said, you're gonna come to me.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
I'm gonna be so great that I'm gonna make the
mainstream come to me rather than me going to the mainstream.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Right. And I think that.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Is is such a beautiful thing in general for like
a creative and artist in music. But I also think
it speaks to the greater dynamic of like us as
Latinos in entertainment in general. Right, like we don't have
to change who we are, we don't have to play
by other people's rules. We have something to offer that
is very much universal. Given the right opportunity that the
(28:26):
key to somebody who his success speaks to that, and
I think it, you know, as we look upon it
years and years later, we're going to see how this
began to kind of just break down that barrier in
so many ways beyond just music, but just culturally people
being able to embrace him, because I mean, this dude
is like doing arenas in Kansas, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
So it's not like all Latinos, you know, so like
he's very much universal.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
So I think it speaks the idea that our culture
can be universal. We can share our stories and our
music and all those different things, and it can be
enjoyed by by the masses, just like anybody else's culture.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I think the.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Biggest cultural moment for him and what really reinforced that
he went ten toes down on the authenticity and that
he unapologetically was not going to change.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
What's the Grammys? Are you kidding me? He went out
there tip like.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Such a non to Puerto Rico and the festivals that
they have over there. He had a whole Dominican band
playing mid ang get Tipico from the island. Like I
was screaming in my living husband and I rewatched it
seventeen times in a row. I never never thought that
I would see that on the grammar. You got a
little Taylor Swift out there, brough le blonde hair dancing
(29:36):
are as she should be. I mean, I felt like
more of the room should have leaned in. But you know,
everybody's fine.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
But that's the thing, like people don't know behind the scenes.
You how many people he probably had in his ear
that were like, play it safe. You're on the main stage,
and he was just like, Nah, this is my moment
and I'm going to do it the way I want
to do it.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
And that's not an easy thing to do.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Like, we all worked really hard to get different places
in our career and it's nerve racking to think one
misstep could like derail us from where we want to go.
And to stay that sort of like tunnel vision on
who you are as a person, what you want to represent,
and refuse to change that for anybody, I think is
incredibly inspiring.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
A listen to us all for.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
We scribe for every day the one misstep thing, not
me feeling all something in my stomach floor, I can't
do it, not today, I'm feeling with it up, DJ,
Thank you for this, Thank you for coming through.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We can talk to you all freaking day.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Please come back and and and rock with us because
these are the conversations that we love to have and
that our community needs even more so.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Proud of you. Congratulations, We will talk again.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Appreciate you, Yes, thank you guys so much. I appreciate you.
Speaker 9 (30:52):
Sanna own ship, Bernie breaking out the squabble.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
That's what it's all about. That's that's the thing. Now,
it's not the gritty. I feel like the greed has
come and gone.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I buried the gritty a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Okay, literally the kids still were. We're doing it. Yeah,
it's just like the flos. Yeah that was that was
the same.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
It's not for us, Well, it's not for us, it's not.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
But that they're the forty nine ers with that win
over Seattle. Now they have the Cardinals ahead, so that
could potentially be a trap game because they have the
Ravens after that, and that is going to be a
fun game to watch there for.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Us to watch it.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yes, it is sure.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It's going to be physical.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
It's gonna be physical, very physical.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
That's that's going to be good.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
And the two number one seeds a f C NFC.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I just like to think.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Deebo Samuel, he is a big part and give me
third of your point and I have them in both
my legs. Smart it only really matters in one because
I'm three and ten in the other way, so the
points are there. Regardless. That was on the good side.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
The good side if.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You're a Titans fan, was last night one of the
two very class Look.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
I'm the yeah, because look I can I can take it.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Journalists hat on for the moment, and the Titan showed
up and did what they had to do. I thought
there was some questionable things that happened throughout the game.
That's my fan side.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, it was. It was a really from the Dolphins because.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
But again there's some hits, some call some injuries. I'm
not going to go into it because I think they
played them hard. That was a physical game, really physical game.
But what really, I'm still not over it. It hasn't
even been twelve hours. Dolphins being up to touchdown with
three minutes left and losing.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, house.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Listen, Yeah, Well, it was upsetting to see Tyreek go
out because you never want to see any of these
stars go out and again, we just saw Justin Herbert.
He's now out for the remainder of the year, So
this is another situation where another star goes out. We'll
have to see what the deal is with his ankle,
but clearly they missed him. And if anything, I think
(33:32):
that Tyreek proved why he is an MVP candidate because
the team was not the same without him, right, and
the team really relies on him and now it's incumbent
upon guys like Jalen Waddle, Cedric Wilson, h Chen Mostert.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Jalen got beat up too, Yes he did.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
He did. But that has been the issue with the
Dolphins especially. It's like these injuries are starting to pile
up and you can't outrun them. I mean, it's really difficult.
And here's the other thing, and sorry to even bring
this up, but they have the second hardest schedule for
the rest of the season right now, so they still
have to play the Ravens. They still have at the
(34:15):
end of the year a game against the Bills that
could decide the division. At this point in time, I was.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Really hoping that they would get to ten wins last night,
that they would sort of really step.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Up into that position.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Because there is a lot to be said about momentum,
about confidence going into this. I'm very curious, first of all,
so shout out to the NFL film squad that's going
to have to turn around this Hard Knocks episode for tonight,
which I will be watching closely because I'm very curious
to see what it sounded like and felt like and what.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Really was going on.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And Tyree's been part of it than the Tyreeks because
we saw him go back in towards the latter part
of the game, but obviously was not at full capacity.
The reason they have him there is to and we
heard this throughout the broadcast.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Broadcast team did a great job.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
The reason that he is so powerful outside of his
tremendous skill set is because he has the thing that
other just can't teach.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You're either fast or you're not, and nobody is as
fast and as accurate as he is.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
So if he's not doing that, it's really hard to
you know, put him in there, Okay as a decoy, sure,
but like that's.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Not going to get you the results that you need.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
And still they were able to get down there and
score enough to be up by fourteen more points and
then to drop it.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I think that is what hurts.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
That is I had to put you know, the group
chats are going right, but me and my dophins. But
I was like, I gotta put the phone down. I
gotta put the phone down because I'm so upset.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, I'm so upset.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
I was wearing my two A shirt. Gunny kept looking
up at me like, Mom, relax. I've been very calm
and excitable for most of the season and he's just
looking at me like, is mom, okay, No, my beautiful
little puppy, I'm not all right. Emotional support was needed
from the dog. Yeah, He's like, please stop squeezing me,
let me go.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
And here's the thing is like they've got the Jets next,
and the Jets seem to have found a little bit
of this mojo thanks to want exactly.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Will see in a scenario where they lose.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
To the Jets, that's that would be rough.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
But I won't be on the podcast the week, like
defense won't find me. Yeah, I'll be in a whole somewhere.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Ram just no, yeah, sorry. So either way we were
able to talk through that, let's now talk through yeah,
well of course, okay, and thank you for listening to
the no, we still have more, we still have more pod.
What we have right now is of course our perro macho,
(36:34):
and so for me, senoris, for me perro macho. Again,
this is the common theme that runs through the league
at this point in time. These are the backup quarterbacks.
But in Cleveland, speaking of the dog Pound right there,
they've got Joe Flacco, forty two, forty five year old,
(36:59):
eighty two year whatever, Joe, folks, this is insane. So
the step into that situation, A lot of credit has
to go to Kevin Stefanski and preparing him. A lot
of credit goes to having a guy like Joe Flacco
come in. He's a veteran, he knows what he needs,
what he wants from an offense, and he's able to
(37:19):
do RPOs. This is a system, a scheme that when
he came into the league, they were really running, you
know where. He was putting that that pigskin into the
stomachs of guys and taking it out, faking and then
throwing the ball. So he's a perromancho. He definitely keeps
that team going and their playoff dreams and push alive.
(37:42):
The other one and we mentioned him Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 10 (37:46):
Huh, Tommy DeVito, he's a made man. He's a front
of ouse.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Okay, it's a front of ours.
Speaker 10 (37:57):
We like Tommy now three and one, MJ three and
one pretty good.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
He has has stepped into the situation, leaned into the
whole good fellas. His agent is getting mentioned and has
gone viral and seems to be a very shy man
that does not want to.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Have any.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Just trying to blend.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
But he's like dressing this suit is like that.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
It's amazing. Yeah, I love this. It's exciting.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
It's a Jersey kids, a Giants fan base that didn't
think they would have anything to cheer for halfway through
the season, and now there's this.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
There's origins of energy.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, characters quite literally characters because Sean Stillato, who's the agent,
is literally look, I think someone said earlier right out
of Central Casting.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Agent that guy, no question immediately.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
All right. So let me ask you this though, because
your hebby obviously is a huge Giants fan. Five and
eight flickering playoff home. I don't think anybody is thinking
that they will make it, but this is an incredible
carpet ride that they're on. Do you think that there
should be a discussion about Tommy DeVito and Daniel Jones
and who should be the starter? Is that even a
(39:17):
legitimate yambo?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yes, yes, because I mean, are you convinced with Daniel Jones?
Has anyone really been? We've had this conversation since he
entered the lead.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
You just signed that.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Whether it's fanfare or the moment or the fact that
there were no expectations for Tommy DeVito, I think it's
a legitimate thing to say. Okay, well let's see where
this goes. Let's see how much more we can grow.
Let's see if we can really make this guy leg
because what you've done with the quarterback that you paid
handsomely has not really worked out, right, So yeah, I
think yes, more more or less? Okay, good stuff stuff,
(39:56):
all right, Yeah, I need a little bit more as well,
So I got let's get into Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
And I know we're very quarterback centric. That's fair. I
think given this weekend.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
And Cowboys fans, my block donnel power goes to dak Okay,
I said it before, we got to bring that same
energy for him. The man was twenty four to thirty
nine to hundred seventy one pass yards two tugs, but
he already has over thirty five hundred passing yards on
the season. What he did also in just the power
(40:34):
of resilience, right, taking the criticism, taking the bad games
at the beginning of the year, and being able to
right the ship and really show us no, no, no, no, no,
I am that guy and I can do it even
through adversity and really get And I think the connection
with him and Ceedee Lamb has been beautiful.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
This is what we wanted to really really really wanted
to see for.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
The past what two three seasons between the two of them.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
So I think this is great.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Lots of Blattanto's there for him and with yeah we
don't talk about those stones.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
And yeah we don't. We need to talk more about
are great.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
You can eat anything.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Really, it's the perfect vessel for any protein. If you
don't know what I'm.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Time about, google it.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Yeah you got to. That is a great, great choice.
Because the team has scored over like the last few weeks,
like at least thirty points a game, so that's been
a big difference. But so we've mentioned brock Purty, We've
mentioned Tommy DeVito, and now Dak Prescott. Do you know,
(41:33):
like over the last four weeks in terms of completion
percentage and and really the passer rating, if you look
at it, it's like it's Brock Parties one, Tommy DeVito
over the last four weeks two and then Dak is three.
Isn't that crazy for for the passer rating? So it's fantastic,
(41:57):
it's uh so, it's amazing to see.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Welcome to the NFL.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Yeah, no, welcome definitely to the NFL. So that's this
takes us now to eat Punto And I know I
had mentioned it in Eat Punto's past, but this is
just the year again of the backup quarterbacks. On Thursday night,
we're gonna see it again because we mentioned Justin Herbert
and now out for the year. So now you're gonna
(42:21):
have Easton stick against Aidan O'Connell. You know what I mean.
It's like, now you have that, but these quarterbacks have
stepped in and now you know, you have Mitch Trubisky
who is trying to keep the Steelers there in the
playoff chase. You know, we mentioned Joe Flacco, you know,
and Gardner Minshew and Jake Browning. You know, it just
(42:42):
is worth mentioning again because these guys are keeping their
teams afloat. They're keeping them afloat when when it seemed
like hope was was lost. I mean Tommy DeVito, we
were just talking about Tommy, you know.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Crazy, And I think we always say you can't discount, like, oh,
he's just a backup or whatever.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
He's a backup until he's not right.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
And in a year like this where we just lost
another starting QB to an injury, Justin Herbert just this morning,
Like it's crazy, these guys have to stay prepared. The
hope is that they don't have to call on them,
but year after year, and I think this year.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Maybe more so than usual, we've had to lean on
these guys.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
So shout out to the backups, more so the backups
who are really stepping up again.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
It's like, this is my moment, this is what I've
traded for.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
I take reps with all the time, so when the
number is called, they do what they gotta do.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
May you know what, It's just gonna be a love
letter to the Dolphins fans right now, you guys, It's
gonna be Okayna, It's gonna be Okay, all right, let's
have a little more trust. And I'm talking to myself.
I'm looking in a mirror here, I'm looking in a mirror.
I know it feels familiar for years past.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
But let's not fall into this trap. Okay, let's push
by our team.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Let's send them hire that they need to finish strong
the rest of the year and go into the post
stronger than ever.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Fins up, baby tears. We're gonna be all right.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Well either way, I feel like this entire episode has
been very therapeutic for us.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
We're very open and vulnerable here.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Yes, we are a safe space and there's nothing wrong
with that at all. Premana, and that's why I love
you and so glad you're part of the podcast with
me doing this, and we love our audience as well.
Make sure to download subscribe like lente okayos set that
(44:50):
has been another l Huddle podcast in the books showing
us next week, we'll do it.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
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