May 31, 2020 • 18 mins
Dave Dameshek waves goodbye to the DDFP while looking back on all the great memories and folks involved with the show over the years as he moves on to his next venture! Thank you to all our listeners and look out for Shek in the near future!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Damage. Second is under center. He looks over a nickel
secondary right. Now it's third and goal with the seven.
Damase crops back to throw, prints and tackle. Cuts to
his right. Now cuts his fires a line drive into
the Damasek with a bell tight crap underneath the cross bar,
heavenly covered, and then cup the league. The Dave Damaschick
(00:26):
Football Program available on the Apple Podcasts and at NFL
dot com slash DDFP. Now here's your host day high in. Hello,
football fans. I hope all's well wherever you are now
more than ever Here in not Studio sixty six at
year old pal Dave Damaschik. Welcome to the Dave Damashek
(00:49):
Football Program. Much to get to today. Couple of quick
programming notes for you coming up on Monday on Chris
Long's Great podcast. I'm sitting in there. I think we
do about ninety minutes worth of hot music talk. Check
that one out. Also, go and check out the new
Daves of Thunder that's up there for you at Daves
of Thunder dot com or wherever you track down your podcasts,
(01:12):
and it's also on YouTube these days. And while you're
on YouTube, make sure you check out the latest NFL
what if. This is the extended execution of the the
NFL series. This is with Baldy and Jeremiah and all
the rest of the gang um chopping up the biggest
what ifs in pro football history. This week. The new
(01:32):
one is the Immaculate Reception. So make sure you're checking
that one out. And let's talk to the game of
life a little bit, shall we. How you doing there,
Eddie Spaghetti, I'm good, I mean, you know, and right
now in Los Angeles, Uh, I don't a more positive note.
The restaurants you could dine in, so now I could
game back all the way I try to lose over quarantine.
So we're gonna start sitting in places, have a couple
(01:54):
of drinks. Uh, you know, order double meals now, so
try to all back. All right, good luck with that,
I mean, listen, be careful as usual. Who am I'm
I'm not getting up on maupious to tell you what
to do with yourself. But I remain a little bit cautious.
But you do you and you know, wear a mask
and all that kind of stuff. And I also would
(02:15):
say to you, Eddie Spaghetti and everybody else because I
know you're you're the sword who's like the world is
so messed up. I'm gonna avoid social media if nothing else.
This is U s history and it's an ugly chapter
and all of that. But this is one of those
kinds of things. If I may draw a a line,
and I don't mean this glibly, but I've said to
(02:36):
my parents, what was it like in the sixties, What
was it like when the Beatles came up? What was
it like when um Woodstock was going on in Vietnam?
But my old man uh served and all that kind
of stuff. But those pop culture kind of things, like
what was it like during Watergate and everything? And on?
Some of those things are kind of like, yeah, I
wasn't really tuned into all that stuff. I wasn't really
tuned in, And so I'm encouraging my kids to to
(03:00):
pay attention to it ugly as it is, like I say,
just because this is a moment in time that I think,
you know, for the for the rest of your days,
people are gonna look back on and ask questions about
um But it is, like I said, it's crazy and
it's and it's weird and who knows. But I will say,
in football terms, It's good to see some of the
(03:21):
prominent football guys out there, like Carson Wentz, especially Carson
Wentz picking up, whereas former teammates Malcolm Jenkins and the
afore mentioned Chris Long left off. I I was just
talking to too Long, like I say, and I did
say to him, and I didn't want to be cheesy
with him. But I I still consider the greatest sports
image of the twenty first century when he reached out
(03:41):
and put his arm around Malcolm Jenkins who was raising
a fist. And that's when I declared a couple of
few years ago the Eagles to be America's team, the
true America's team. UM. And Chris Long is uh is um,
you know that that's what we need. Um. And you
know he comes from a for privilege. He would tell
you that. But those sorts of acts, I feel like
(04:04):
go a long way. And speaking of privilege, UM, you know,
I I am certainly of privilege, and I'm thinking about
my privileges versus other people's. And but you know, before
we get into it here, spaghetti, I have I have
no high minded thoughts to share. As usual, I'm assuming
(04:25):
you wouldn't expect anything better more of me anything better
of me. But you ever, you know the movie Ratatui
and the gost Chef, he always he's the guy who
teaches the rat how to cook, and he says, anyone
can anyone can COOLK. I always have felt like, um,
anyone can talk into a microphone. I'm just one of
the people who got lucky enough to get paid to
(04:47):
do it. And you know, I don't want to get
up on moupieus about this, but it is worth repeating,
uh that while I sit here, I mean, obviously I
would have to be something less than lucid than not
understand this, But I do feel obliged to say that
while I sit here doing the decidedly in essential work
of flapping my gums about sports in the game of
life and otherwise, still a shout out remains to the
(05:10):
true essential workers, uh, the people who go into hospitals
and have for the last few months and legitimately have
risked their lives, especially in New York and some other
big areas there people these people have chose to do
something with the with their lives with a doctor, nurse
e mt. These are people who are doing something important.
(05:33):
What Spaghetti and I are here doing today and what
we have been doing UM with with the d d
FP is fun um and I hope it entertains you,
but essential at the end of the day, it is not.
And I guess I'm thinking about those essential workers that
I mentioned because I grew up with Mo Damna Check
a nurse you know, from steel Town, went and uh
(05:56):
and became a nurse and and help people on level
and a father who was a doctor and an oncologist
and treating people who had cancer and all the worst
of that. And I'm not trying to necessarily draw a
direct line um and basking they're reflected honor. I'm just
telling you who they are. So I am aware of
(06:18):
the difference between what we do and what important people do. Um.
But as it pertains to me or at least teenage
or younger, Vain Dave. Vain Dave cared more about the
fact that old Mo was always listening to my stories
and that obviously informed where I sit now and why
I do what I do for a living. Is that
(06:39):
she encouraged and indulged all my all my dumb stories.
So you can blame her, and you can also equally,
if not more, blame my old man forgetting me into sports.
He's the number one reason why I am the die
hard sports fan that I am taking me to all
manner of the games. I didn't fully appreciate it when
I was growing up. It was just my state of
(07:00):
being again referring to the privilege um that that I've
had versus other people. But you know, when it was
a hockey night in Pittsburgh, if it was a Tuesday
or Wednesday night, my old man would go from downtown,
he would, you know, do his work. He would leave downtown,
come to our house, picked me and my sister Amy up,
then drive us back downtown to the Igloo. And sometimes
(07:22):
Moe would would boost us a ride down there instead
so we could meet up with the old Man to
go to a game. And we went to every pit
football game and every pit basketball game, and every Steeler game,
and my parents showed up to every little league game
I ever played. Um And And you know, I don't
want you to think I just had a one track
mind though, just talking about just thinking about sports, because
(07:43):
when I wasn't watching sports, I was I was I
was reading novels and doing my homework, and I wasn't
doing those things. I'm just kidding about that. I was
watching tapes of Letterman episodes that I had recorded from
the night before, and so I was I was a
two track mind, I guess. UM. So it's crazy for
me twenty years after I moved out to Los Angeles
(08:06):
that I've either been writing on a late night show
or talking about sports and getting paid to do those things.
It's it's uh, it's been a crazy opportunity. Um. And
in light of that, I want to go back right
around this time on the calendar, in almost to the day,
back in nine three. It's easy for me to remember
(08:29):
when I'm thinking of because I know it was when
the Pittsburgh Penguins, two times Stanley Cup champions, were in
the playoffs, going for their third straight Cup, and I
was in Pittsburgh debating where to go now that my
driver's license had just turned over to say that I
was officially a grown up. And on one hand, I
(08:50):
was considering signing a lease in Pittsburgh with my pals
Richie and Brett, and Brett was a bartender at a
bar called Ossie's at the time, and they had great
wing and and Richie and I would go there and
we'd watch the Penn's road playoff games, and Brett would
slip us beers and wings and it was just it
was the height of living um for us. And then
(09:10):
on the other hand, my pal Reggie, who I went
to Indiana University with, he and I were thinking of
signing at least on the north side of Chicago, and um,
you know, listen, we've debated all manner of things, which
quarterback is better and which which uniform is the best
of everything else, But kind of like a debate of
in and out versus five guys, there was no bad
(09:32):
choice for me here. Either stay in Pittsburgh with Richie
and Brett and get a crib, or moved to Chicago
and do the same with Reggie. And uh, you know,
these are things that as always, as I always say,
I don't need the I don't need your high minded thinking.
I like the follower. My heart and gut tell me
to go. The apartment in Chicago was cool as a
(09:54):
block north and a block easter Wrigley Field. It really
was a cool place. But then I was thinking, do
I leave Pittsburgh while sixty six Lamu is on a
collision course to play Gretzky in the final and yes,
major life decisions dictated by Spectator Sports. You can say
what you what about me, but I have my priorities
in order. Meantime, the Pens got taken to a seventh
(10:16):
game by the bum Islanders, and I went to that
game and I watched there in agony when the Islanders
David Volock scored in overtime of Game seven in Pittsburgh,
and I took it as a sign from the sports
gods it was time for me to move on from Pittsburgh.
If the Pens playoff run was over, then this was
a signal that I was supposed to move to the
(10:36):
Midwest and go to Chicago. So off I went. And
it was indeed great, a lot of booze, a lot
of fun, good times. I can't imagine there's a more
fun place to live in your twenties than the North
Side of Chicago. But I still have to figure out
what I wanted to do with myself. You know, I
had to make some scoots, make some money beyond the
(10:58):
bartending gig that I got. But I do remember all
the time, me and Reggie and our other pals sitting
around late at night and we would talk about At
that age, we talked about the actual gig that the
nature of the work is besides the point. The goal
that we determined was to get to work with our pass.
We wanted to work with each other, and in fact
I concocted a great plan that we didn't enact. But
(11:20):
I encourage you. If you're lik in college now, maybe
i'd love to hear I'd love for like a group
of of of friends to enact my plan that I
came up with forever ago. It is you you all
agree to move to the worst city, to the worst
town in a mayor. Can't be like a big city.
(11:41):
We can't take over Dallas, Texas. It's too big already.
But you choose like a smaller town. And then like
four or six of you all moved to that town
and it'll be terrible because it's the worst town. But
then you can take it over and you rule the
town in about a decade or two, and then you
won't just be surviving, you'll be living. But anyway, it didn't,
(12:01):
it didn't happen. It didn't go that way. But do
drop me a line if you ever try this out,
because I think it would be an interesting thing to do.
But um, I instead ended up getting a sales job
in downtown Chicago, and it's stunk. I really didn't like
it and I wasn't working with my pals besides, So
I ended up moving to l A and I got lucky. Um.
(12:25):
I don't mean that kind of lucky though. UM. I
got lucky that I met my pal Sal and after
that I met his cousin Jimmy, and I made made
great friends with those guys. And I got a job
writing on The Man Show and then Jimmy Kimmel Live.
And yes, that was the best. That was an awesome time. Um,
(12:45):
But not the actual work part of it. As it
turns out. It turns out these creative jobs, these writing
jobs that p oh I. I don't want to do
accounting and I don't want to do this. I want
to go out to Hollywood and have a life of whimsy.
The great irony is that those jobs are hard. I
I sat. I did both. I sat in a cubicle
for a few years in Chicago and did corporate sales.
(13:07):
And as the movie Office Space tells you, you only
really you know can you can get by doing about
like eleven minutes of work a week. But when you're
making pages, and you're sitting at a table with world class,
funny guys and and women and you're trying to crack Wise,
those jobs are hard, and you cannot show up and
be like, yeah, I just couldn't come up with anything today. Boss,
(13:28):
You're you're working harder on some level. But that's besides
the point. The thing that made it great was I
was working with my pals as I wanted to do
UM when I was talking with with my guy Reggie
back in Chicago, so I felt like I was I
was making it because of that. And then from there
I got on the radio UM and enjoyed flapping my
(13:50):
gums talking about sports for the reasons that I've already said.
And then I got a call from Tom Brady, not
not the one who um is the retiree down in
the Tampa St. Pete area, Um, the Brady who was
starting some stuff up at NFL Media. And so that
was ten years ago, and over the last decade it
(14:12):
has again been a who. And yes, again it's very
fun to talk about sports, but more it's fun talking
about sports and fruit and movies and donuts and doing
it with handsome Hank and that money Smith and the
times kibbitzing with Handsome and my guy I Taylor and
Maurice Jones drew four guys who I always like to
(14:34):
say to those guys when we would go out to
dinner or after we would do a D d FP
or whatever I would say. I mean, really, I don't
want to make too big a deal about it, especially
with what's going on in the world, but maybe there
is something to glean. I don't know, but four guys
who really had absolutely positively nothing in common with with
each other. An Englishman who like Dan Marino and Cricket
(14:57):
and a buy you guy and Ike and a Pitts
guy with a nasally voice uh and Maurice Jones drew
from from the East Bay, and yet we got along famously,
and boy was it fun because they were our pals.
And speaking of good times, obviously, gotta thank you Eddie
Spaghetti and your predecessor, the great m A VP. And
before m A VP there was Black Tie, of course,
(15:20):
and Kent Brown's mom's son, and Ryan Bartlett and the
Queen of the Pie off Terra Slash Tara Deeker and
Rank and our ongoing champion and pal Mark Brady, and
all of our wall of famers. I can't tell you
what I mean. Just just last year, Colleen Wolfe and
Maurice flew all the way to Austin, Texas to be
(15:42):
a part of our dumb DDFP show on South By
Southwest and Um, like I say, I know, inessential is
the work that we do. But the best part, the
most fun, has been doing stuff like football baby with
the with the little boy, doing at games and bring
an Oprah and Jean Claude Van damage check into the studio.
(16:05):
So yes, I'm again I am privileged. And uh, I
know this more than ever again because of some of
the pals I've mentioned already and some that I haven't,
over the same decade have gone through awful stuff, stuff
like chemo treatments and you know, hideous things like this,
and some are going through those right now and some
(16:28):
are already gone, and so now in order to not
just merely survive, but to live without, you know, again,
it's time for me to jump. Um. You know, I
was thinking about like it's kind of the Tom Petty songs.
Time to move on, time to get going. The difference
is what lies ahead. I do have a way of knowing,
(16:50):
except that this dang nine team has delayed what I've
got coming up, so so please do stay tuned on
social media and otherwise. But what I can and tell
you now is that it's gonna be with my pals,
and that's what I'm looking forward to. And I know
the old nurse and doctor uh sitting there in Pittsburgh
sequestered still will be listening and watching just like they
(17:13):
always have, and that, more than anything, is what makes
me still feel privileged. And it's been a privilege to
have you listening, Czech Republican beyond, and I hope you'll
keep listening and watching. And remember when football resumes, I
hope your team wins unless they're playing my team. I
raise a glass of rose to you all cheers, and
(17:34):
I guess thanks ultimately to David Bollock for scoring that
goal back in n Or else I wouldn't be sitting here,
although I don't know if I had it to do
over again, if I wouldn't have a abuse score and
advance and play the Canadians and then beat Gretzky, and
how that life might have turned out. But listen, let's
not play what if? Now play the music one last
time there, Eddie spaghetti and I will go out with this.
(17:57):
We'll talk to you soon in the meantime, Thanks so much,
football fans. It's been a thin slice of he
Damage. Second is under center. He looks over a nickel
secondary right. Now it's third and goal with the seven.
Damase crops back to throw, prints and tackle. Cuts to
his right. Now cuts his fires a line drive into
the Damasek with a bell tight crap underneath the cross bar,
heavenly covered, and then cup the league. The Dave Damaschick
(00:26):
Football Program available on the Apple Podcasts and at NFL
dot com slash DDFP. Now here's your host day high in. Hello,
football fans. I hope all's well wherever you are now
more than ever Here in not Studio sixty six at
year old pal Dave Damaschik. Welcome to the Dave Damashek
(00:49):
Football Program. Much to get to today. Couple of quick
programming notes for you coming up on Monday on Chris
Long's Great podcast. I'm sitting in there. I think we
do about ninety minutes worth of hot music talk. Check
that one out. Also, go and check out the new
Daves of Thunder that's up there for you at Daves
of Thunder dot com or wherever you track down your podcasts,
(01:12):
and it's also on YouTube these days. And while you're
on YouTube, make sure you check out the latest NFL
what if. This is the extended execution of the the
NFL series. This is with Baldy and Jeremiah and all
the rest of the gang um chopping up the biggest
what ifs in pro football history. This week. The new
(01:32):
one is the Immaculate Reception. So make sure you're checking
that one out. And let's talk to the game of
life a little bit, shall we. How you doing there,
Eddie Spaghetti, I'm good, I mean, you know, and right
now in Los Angeles, Uh, I don't a more positive note.
The restaurants you could dine in, so now I could
game back all the way I try to lose over quarantine.
So we're gonna start sitting in places, have a couple
(01:54):
of drinks. Uh, you know, order double meals now, so
try to all back. All right, good luck with that,
I mean, listen, be careful as usual. Who am I'm
I'm not getting up on maupious to tell you what
to do with yourself. But I remain a little bit cautious.
But you do you and you know, wear a mask
and all that kind of stuff. And I also would
(02:15):
say to you, Eddie Spaghetti and everybody else because I
know you're you're the sword who's like the world is
so messed up. I'm gonna avoid social media if nothing else.
This is U s history and it's an ugly chapter
and all of that. But this is one of those
kinds of things. If I may draw a a line,
and I don't mean this glibly, but I've said to
(02:36):
my parents, what was it like in the sixties, What
was it like when the Beatles came up? What was
it like when um Woodstock was going on in Vietnam?
But my old man uh served and all that kind
of stuff. But those pop culture kind of things, like
what was it like during Watergate and everything? And on?
Some of those things are kind of like, yeah, I
wasn't really tuned into all that stuff. I wasn't really
tuned in, And so I'm encouraging my kids to to
(03:00):
pay attention to it ugly as it is, like I say,
just because this is a moment in time that I think,
you know, for the for the rest of your days,
people are gonna look back on and ask questions about
um But it is, like I said, it's crazy and
it's and it's weird and who knows. But I will say,
in football terms, It's good to see some of the
(03:21):
prominent football guys out there, like Carson Wentz, especially Carson
Wentz picking up, whereas former teammates Malcolm Jenkins and the
afore mentioned Chris Long left off. I I was just
talking to too Long, like I say, and I did
say to him, and I didn't want to be cheesy
with him. But I I still consider the greatest sports
image of the twenty first century when he reached out
(03:41):
and put his arm around Malcolm Jenkins who was raising
a fist. And that's when I declared a couple of
few years ago the Eagles to be America's team, the
true America's team. UM. And Chris Long is uh is um,
you know that that's what we need. Um. And you
know he comes from a for privilege. He would tell
you that. But those sorts of acts, I feel like
(04:04):
go a long way. And speaking of privilege, UM, you know,
I I am certainly of privilege, and I'm thinking about
my privileges versus other people's. And but you know, before
we get into it here, spaghetti, I have I have
no high minded thoughts to share. As usual, I'm assuming
(04:25):
you wouldn't expect anything better more of me anything better
of me. But you ever, you know the movie Ratatui
and the gost Chef, he always he's the guy who
teaches the rat how to cook, and he says, anyone
can anyone can COOLK. I always have felt like, um,
anyone can talk into a microphone. I'm just one of
the people who got lucky enough to get paid to
(04:47):
do it. And you know, I don't want to get
up on moupieus about this, but it is worth repeating,
uh that while I sit here, I mean, obviously I
would have to be something less than lucid than not
understand this, But I do feel obliged to say that
while I sit here doing the decidedly in essential work
of flapping my gums about sports in the game of
life and otherwise, still a shout out remains to the
(05:10):
true essential workers, uh, the people who go into hospitals
and have for the last few months and legitimately have
risked their lives, especially in New York and some other
big areas there people these people have chose to do
something with the with their lives with a doctor, nurse
e mt. These are people who are doing something important.
(05:33):
What Spaghetti and I are here doing today and what
we have been doing UM with with the d d
FP is fun um and I hope it entertains you,
but essential at the end of the day, it is not.
And I guess I'm thinking about those essential workers that
I mentioned because I grew up with Mo Damna Check
a nurse you know, from steel Town, went and uh
(05:56):
and became a nurse and and help people on level
and a father who was a doctor and an oncologist
and treating people who had cancer and all the worst
of that. And I'm not trying to necessarily draw a
direct line um and basking they're reflected honor. I'm just
telling you who they are. So I am aware of
(06:18):
the difference between what we do and what important people do. Um.
But as it pertains to me or at least teenage
or younger, Vain Dave. Vain Dave cared more about the
fact that old Mo was always listening to my stories
and that obviously informed where I sit now and why
I do what I do for a living. Is that
(06:39):
she encouraged and indulged all my all my dumb stories.
So you can blame her, and you can also equally,
if not more, blame my old man forgetting me into sports.
He's the number one reason why I am the die
hard sports fan that I am taking me to all
manner of the games. I didn't fully appreciate it when
I was growing up. It was just my state of
(07:00):
being again referring to the privilege um that that I've
had versus other people. But you know, when it was
a hockey night in Pittsburgh, if it was a Tuesday
or Wednesday night, my old man would go from downtown,
he would, you know, do his work. He would leave downtown,
come to our house, picked me and my sister Amy up,
then drive us back downtown to the Igloo. And sometimes
(07:22):
Moe would would boost us a ride down there instead
so we could meet up with the old Man to
go to a game. And we went to every pit
football game and every pit basketball game, and every Steeler game,
and my parents showed up to every little league game
I ever played. Um And And you know, I don't
want you to think I just had a one track
mind though, just talking about just thinking about sports, because
(07:43):
when I wasn't watching sports, I was I was I
was reading novels and doing my homework, and I wasn't
doing those things. I'm just kidding about that. I was
watching tapes of Letterman episodes that I had recorded from
the night before, and so I was I was a
two track mind, I guess. UM. So it's crazy for
me twenty years after I moved out to Los Angeles
(08:06):
that I've either been writing on a late night show
or talking about sports and getting paid to do those things.
It's it's uh, it's been a crazy opportunity. Um. And
in light of that, I want to go back right
around this time on the calendar, in almost to the day,
back in nine three. It's easy for me to remember
(08:29):
when I'm thinking of because I know it was when
the Pittsburgh Penguins, two times Stanley Cup champions, were in
the playoffs, going for their third straight Cup, and I
was in Pittsburgh debating where to go now that my
driver's license had just turned over to say that I
was officially a grown up. And on one hand, I
(08:50):
was considering signing a lease in Pittsburgh with my pals
Richie and Brett, and Brett was a bartender at a
bar called Ossie's at the time, and they had great
wing and and Richie and I would go there and
we'd watch the Penn's road playoff games, and Brett would
slip us beers and wings and it was just it
was the height of living um for us. And then
(09:10):
on the other hand, my pal Reggie, who I went
to Indiana University with, he and I were thinking of
signing at least on the north side of Chicago, and um,
you know, listen, we've debated all manner of things, which
quarterback is better and which which uniform is the best
of everything else, But kind of like a debate of
in and out versus five guys, there was no bad
(09:32):
choice for me here. Either stay in Pittsburgh with Richie
and Brett and get a crib, or moved to Chicago
and do the same with Reggie. And uh, you know,
these are things that as always, as I always say,
I don't need the I don't need your high minded thinking.
I like the follower. My heart and gut tell me
to go. The apartment in Chicago was cool as a
(09:54):
block north and a block easter Wrigley Field. It really
was a cool place. But then I was thinking, do
I leave Pittsburgh while sixty six Lamu is on a
collision course to play Gretzky in the final and yes,
major life decisions dictated by Spectator Sports. You can say
what you what about me, but I have my priorities
in order. Meantime, the Pens got taken to a seventh
(10:16):
game by the bum Islanders, and I went to that
game and I watched there in agony when the Islanders
David Volock scored in overtime of Game seven in Pittsburgh,
and I took it as a sign from the sports
gods it was time for me to move on from Pittsburgh.
If the Pens playoff run was over, then this was
a signal that I was supposed to move to the
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Midwest and go to Chicago. So off I went. And
it was indeed great, a lot of booze, a lot
of fun, good times. I can't imagine there's a more
fun place to live in your twenties than the North
Side of Chicago. But I still have to figure out
what I wanted to do with myself. You know, I
had to make some scoots, make some money beyond the
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bartending gig that I got. But I do remember all
the time, me and Reggie and our other pals sitting
around late at night and we would talk about At
that age, we talked about the actual gig that the
nature of the work is besides the point. The goal
that we determined was to get to work with our pass.
We wanted to work with each other, and in fact
I concocted a great plan that we didn't enact. But
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I encourage you. If you're lik in college now, maybe
i'd love to hear I'd love for like a group
of of of friends to enact my plan that I
came up with forever ago. It is you you all
agree to move to the worst city, to the worst
town in a mayor. Can't be like a big city.
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We can't take over Dallas, Texas. It's too big already.
But you choose like a smaller town. And then like
four or six of you all moved to that town
and it'll be terrible because it's the worst town. But
then you can take it over and you rule the
town in about a decade or two, and then you
won't just be surviving, you'll be living. But anyway, it didn't,
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it didn't happen. It didn't go that way. But do
drop me a line if you ever try this out,
because I think it would be an interesting thing to do.
But um, I instead ended up getting a sales job
in downtown Chicago, and it's stunk. I really didn't like
it and I wasn't working with my pals besides, So
I ended up moving to l A and I got lucky. Um.
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I don't mean that kind of lucky though. UM. I
got lucky that I met my pal Sal and after
that I met his cousin Jimmy, and I made made
great friends with those guys. And I got a job
writing on The Man Show and then Jimmy Kimmel Live.
And yes, that was the best. That was an awesome time. Um,
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But not the actual work part of it. As it
turns out. It turns out these creative jobs, these writing
jobs that p oh I. I don't want to do
accounting and I don't want to do this. I want
to go out to Hollywood and have a life of whimsy.
The great irony is that those jobs are hard. I
I sat. I did both. I sat in a cubicle
for a few years in Chicago and did corporate sales.
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And as the movie Office Space tells you, you only
really you know can you can get by doing about
like eleven minutes of work a week. But when you're
making pages, and you're sitting at a table with world class,
funny guys and and women and you're trying to crack Wise,
those jobs are hard, and you cannot show up and
be like, yeah, I just couldn't come up with anything today. Boss,
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You're you're working harder on some level. But that's besides
the point. The thing that made it great was I
was working with my pals as I wanted to do
UM when I was talking with with my guy Reggie
back in Chicago, so I felt like I was I
was making it because of that. And then from there
I got on the radio UM and enjoyed flapping my
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gums talking about sports for the reasons that I've already said.
And then I got a call from Tom Brady, not
not the one who um is the retiree down in
the Tampa St. Pete area, Um, the Brady who was
starting some stuff up at NFL Media. And so that
was ten years ago, and over the last decade it
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has again been a who. And yes, again it's very
fun to talk about sports, but more it's fun talking
about sports and fruit and movies and donuts and doing
it with handsome Hank and that money Smith and the
times kibbitzing with Handsome and my guy I Taylor and
Maurice Jones drew four guys who I always like to
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say to those guys when we would go out to
dinner or after we would do a D d FP
or whatever I would say. I mean, really, I don't
want to make too big a deal about it, especially
with what's going on in the world, but maybe there
is something to glean. I don't know, but four guys
who really had absolutely positively nothing in common with with
each other. An Englishman who like Dan Marino and Cricket
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and a buy you guy and Ike and a Pitts
guy with a nasally voice uh and Maurice Jones drew
from from the East Bay, and yet we got along famously,
and boy was it fun because they were our pals.
And speaking of good times, obviously, gotta thank you Eddie
Spaghetti and your predecessor, the great m A VP. And
before m A VP there was Black Tie, of course,
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and Kent Brown's mom's son, and Ryan Bartlett and the
Queen of the Pie off Terra Slash Tara Deeker and
Rank and our ongoing champion and pal Mark Brady, and
all of our wall of famers. I can't tell you
what I mean. Just just last year, Colleen Wolfe and
Maurice flew all the way to Austin, Texas to be
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a part of our dumb DDFP show on South By
Southwest and Um, like I say, I know, inessential is
the work that we do. But the best part, the
most fun, has been doing stuff like football baby with
the with the little boy, doing at games and bring
an Oprah and Jean Claude Van damage check into the studio.
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So yes, I'm again I am privileged. And uh, I
know this more than ever again because of some of
the pals I've mentioned already and some that I haven't,
over the same decade have gone through awful stuff, stuff
like chemo treatments and you know, hideous things like this,
and some are going through those right now and some
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are already gone, and so now in order to not
just merely survive, but to live without, you know, again,
it's time for me to jump. Um. You know, I
was thinking about like it's kind of the Tom Petty songs.
Time to move on, time to get going. The difference
is what lies ahead. I do have a way of knowing,
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except that this dang nine team has delayed what I've
got coming up, so so please do stay tuned on
social media and otherwise. But what I can and tell
you now is that it's gonna be with my pals,
and that's what I'm looking forward to. And I know
the old nurse and doctor uh sitting there in Pittsburgh
sequestered still will be listening and watching just like they
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always have, and that, more than anything, is what makes
me still feel privileged. And it's been a privilege to
have you listening, Czech Republican beyond, and I hope you'll
keep listening and watching. And remember when football resumes, I
hope your team wins unless they're playing my team. I
raise a glass of rose to you all cheers, and
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I guess thanks ultimately to David Bollock for scoring that
goal back in n Or else I wouldn't be sitting here,
although I don't know if I had it to do
over again, if I wouldn't have a abuse score and
advance and play the Canadians and then beat Gretzky, and
how that life might have turned out. But listen, let's
not play what if? Now play the music one last
time there, Eddie spaghetti and I will go out with this.
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We'll talk to you soon in the meantime, Thanks so much,
football fans. It's been a thin slice of he
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