Ep. 10: 808s and Steelers Heartbreak

In episode 10, Gregg Rosenthal and Anthony Jeselnik discuss the meltdown by the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 16, Peyton Manning being accused of taking HGH and courageous punters. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to episode ten of The Rosenthal and jessel Nick
Vanity Project r J, where old acquaintances are never forgotten,
ripped open, they died with the final breath. They hailed
the King, the King of Kings. Oh yeah, we're back.

(00:31):
We're here after the Christmas holiday, a few days before
New Year's Anthony. We keep trucking. The best time of year.
I don't know, is it the best time of year,
not at all. It's it's kind of like everything's kind
of dead, it's kind of slow. It's a good time
for movies, good time to catch up with family and friends.
So it's my least favorite time of the year by

(00:52):
a mile. We get to catch up, you know. We
had that birthday dinner we talked about and then a
little Christmas action. Yeah, we did get to uh we
got to hang on Chris his birthday dinner. Did We talked,
We talked about birthday, We talked about the birthday because
it was afterwards. I'm in a much better shape this
week than I was last week. I've not drank since
Christmas Day. That had like I had like a four
or five day bender. That was rough. That ended. Uh

(01:12):
shortly after I saw you on Christmas Day, I went
to UH. I went to Greg's house to have a
little Christmas brunch with with his wife Emica, and then
and the kids walk around UH and I let's give
him their Christmas presents, let him and wrap them, hang out.
The first time I ever got a hug from your
daughter that I was I was. I was very excited
about She gave me a present which was a I
still have it. It's one of my favorite things. It's

(01:33):
a she called it a telescope. It is a toilet
paper roll that no toilet paper on it. It's been
it's been emptied. And then she painted it and put
a couple of stickers on it, and it's a telescope.
It was all her idea. She came up with the
whole content. I was very excited about it. I was
very happy she gave me a present. I did not
get you guys a present. I didn't get either one
of you a present. You know, you guys gave me
a bottle of wine in a book, which was very

(01:55):
nice of you. Well that was yeah, it was more
of your birthday Christmas combo. I felt a little left
out when some people gave you some stuff for your
birthday at your birthday dinner. But yeah, it was funny.
We were talking last night about this show and you
were like, yeah, I didn't even realize that at the time,
but I was in pretty rough shape at at Christmas.
I was like, no, you you realized that. You mentioned

(02:16):
it incessantly and it was very obvious how rough shape
you were in. Like when you got there, you just
looked like absolute hell and and uh did not have
a lot of energy. But uh we you know, we
put some prosecco on you, and you started livening up
by the time you left. Yeah, I got a little better.
I got to I ate like one piece of your
wife's keysh which was delicious, but I couldn't get any

(02:37):
more than that. And then I went to my friend
Kamal's house and just drink whiskey all all evening and
like I barely eat At the end of the night.
We had a couple pieces of pizza. But was just
just in rough shape. After a nice, nice four day
bender at my age now at seven, I can't I
can't do it, but you seem to do it. You
seem to do it every now and then. This one
sort of made sense. You had your birthday, and then
there was kind of Christmas parties for you and back

(03:00):
to back days after your birthday, and then it's Christmas,
which you know, of course you got a party in Christmas,
I guess, of course. And that's that's why Jesus was
born to party. You gotta fight for your right, as
Jesus did for thirty three years for it to cut
him off. Um, you know, it was a fun Uh,
it was a fun Christmas Day. I had a good time,
and I wanted to ask you do does Ellis play

(03:20):
with the puppets? I got her sort of, Well, we
play with them a little bit, and they really like
it when we When we play with him, Walker loves it.
Walk You saw that like Walker enjoyed it. But I
wanted her to be able to tell stories with the puppets.
Your daughter likes to tell stories, like to talk to herself.
I thought these puppets will help her kind of visualizing stories.
But I think there might be too big for her.

(03:40):
So well, now I think she'll get into it. Sometimes
it takes a little time. I mean, he livens up
his day. He's been very sick, and she likes playing
with it. To him to make him laugh. So that's
very that's very cute. Yeah, that that's great. She does
speak talk to herself for at least two hours alone
every night. Just strange. I don't think it's strange. I
think it's good. I think she's gonna be a hell

(04:01):
of an artist someday. Definitely much more than her father. Um.
Speaking of Greg's art. Before I left, I was there
for a couple of hours and I was like, I
gotta get out of here. I gotta go. I started
the real drinking and uh, and I said, take some
pictures of me with the guy. Yeah, day, and Greg
took a bunch of photos. It's hard to kind of
get two kids to sit in the couch together with me.

(04:22):
Gregg took a bunch of photos and we looked at
them and they all had one thing in common. I
did not have a head in anything. I don't know
how you can stand. But you had a head, and
sometimes just the forehead we had. Sometimes you didn't never head,
but the others just the four the forehead hair was up, Anthony,
this will shock you. Brandon was very upset about this
that any photos were taking of him that didn't include

(04:42):
his prized hair. What I'm upset about is that you
could stand four feet away and have three people in
a picture and completely eliminate one. I was trying to
make the you know, rookie move mistake. I guess I
was trying to make the kids laugh, you know, make
you know. I wasn't really looking at the camera. I was,
you know, trying to look at the look at the kids,
get them to look at my direction, because they were
clearly uncomfortable around you, So I was trying to make

(05:04):
them a little more comfortable, not looking into the camera.
It's not a rookie mistake. That's just a huge mistake.
Great photographer, great photographer. That's Brandon, our producer, coming in
for no reason. Um. I was actually introduced about seconds ago.
You're not listening to anyone, No, not at all, Not
at all. I've cut Brendon's head off metaphorically in my head. Um.

(05:26):
Speaking of cut, let's going to what was cut from
last week? What was cut? We had a couple of
things that have been cut several times, um, and try
to get through it this week. A couple of weeks ago,
we had a song that we played that had a
lot of children singing like a children's chorus, and I
made a joke about Goodell gathering the children in a
room and I don't even know what I said, but

(05:47):
I think just getting Goodell and kids in a room together.
Something happened where it had to get cut and then
got cut again. We'll see what happens this week. And
then we talked about the song wan my least favorite
song of all time, fifty nine miles to jackson Um
fifty nine Moss to Jacksonville, A terrible song, A terrible
a terrible sign to see us so bad. I'm in

(06:12):
a joke about the commissioner producing that track and that
the woman who got the job must have had must
have done something uh with them in order to get
that job. We'll see, We'll see what happens there. We
may be talking about that again next week. Greg greg
messed up. Greg Um talked about an NFL employee who

(06:37):
had stabbed some one with scissors in his past, which
is kind of a public story, but since it's kind
of a professional courtesy, we we took it out. Um
And this was my favorite cut of the week because
this was a midweek cut. If you heard the podcast,
maybe day of maybe a couple of days in you
heard this joke, and if you listen to it later on,
you're listening to it later. This was taken out, or
even if you download it later. I did not get

(06:59):
this call till Monday afternoon. Yeah, it was it took out.
I mean I talked about um. We we had played
a lot of xylophone last week, and I said that Goodell,
with his xylophone, had scored the movie Concussion, and then
I joked that he also scored um. Uh said the

(07:21):
same joke again. It's not a joke. It's a description
of one of the players in the movie Concussion who
passed away. Edited for Mama say Mama Saw. I don't
know if that would helps anything. That's one of my
favorite jokes of this entire podcast. It was a good one.
It was in off the cuff reference um, which I'm
known for. It was good and that that was what

(07:43):
was cut. But it's an interesting time here at the
Rosenthal and justly mc vanity project, and that the season's
almost over, which means you only have like four or
five weeks to try to convince me to do this
again next year. It's a week ten what abo at
the off season? I mean we could go straight through,
and people keep starting that there's no way you're gonna

(08:03):
get me to do that. There's no way you're coming
here in the off season. This is this is a
lot of work for someone like me. When I say
someone like me, I mean like a star. Um. I
don't feel really appreciated by the NFL, And I think
that's part of the that's part of what we do
here as we want to fly under the radar um.
But also, like you know, it's when I whenever I
come into the lot, it's something like they know I

(08:24):
don't get treated the way I usually get treated when
I show up to work. They harass you there. They
never does no matter what I do ahead of time,
they seem like they won't have a spot for you.
And the NFL did not get me. Uh did not
get me a birthday or Christmas present. They didn't get
me anything. They don't even don't even acknowledge that I
come in here and lay it all on the line

(08:44):
as if I was one of the players, as if
I was one of the best players in the league.
They couldn't have gotten me a football, you could, They
couldn't have gotten me like a t shirt with a
logo on it. Like I those commercials where they're sending
around jerseys to everyone who ever moved and uh and
I don't get anything. Yeah, they have days where they
just have free merch Brandon's probably seeing that, and those
people passed around some free merchandise, you would think, you know,

(09:07):
some old like rich eyes and podcast sweatshirts or whatnot.
I mean, something exciting like that. Anything. I mean, if
they just handed me a football, I was like, here,
here's a football, I would have been like, oh cool,
Like thank you for just knowing that I'm here. That
that we'll see. We'll see if I come back next year.
But there's plenty of time. There's plenty of time for
me to either quit the show too, gets canceled, or
for you guys to convince me that maybe maybe come

(09:29):
in in the off season. That would be crazy, that
would They'd have to That's something big would have to change.
We all have to step our game up. I think
Brandon that's included. Well, he knows that because Sydney has
been hot on his trails and I even I've even
been feeling a little bit of a pressure. This is
one of the worries I had going into this. Could
it Could it be a strain on our own friendship
because now I'm trying to make you happy as a coworker,

(09:51):
and you're a very you know, demanding star. That's impossible.
I would never not that I'm not demanding, as I'm
as undemanding as a star can be. Like people are
very I'm gracious when I work with people, um compared
to what is out there, there's if you switched me
out with any other comedian or performer of my level
of fan and would be a night mare in here.
But our friendship would never be affected by andy. But

(10:14):
I would happily, of course. But I would happily walk
away from this and never look back. Well remember it.
Let's get the headlines and dad photo whoop and not
a clip and pick a sap. That's right today, I
put you win the picket, shoot fry. That's like. That
was Vince Staples, one of the hot new up and
coming hip hop macs, and I've been a big fan
of his for a year or two. Now. I was

(10:35):
telling some mixtapes. I met a woman at a Christmas
Eve party and I said, what do you do? And
she said, I I make things. I make y because
I I make things. And I was like, what does
that mean? Like people? And I said, I make things?
Like are you an engineer? Are you an artist? That's
the most that's the most ridiculous. I don't know what
the word for it is obnoxious. It's a description, a

(10:57):
little bit of pretentious, but it's a way to kind
of get get away without saying like I make I
make films that I'm not doing exactly what I want
to be doing. If you sit next to me on
a plane, I would never tell you I was a comedian.
I would just make something up. Um, because if you
tell him on your comedian like, oh my cousin does improv,
We're like, oh you've ever done this? Or what about
I don't want to deal with that conversation at all.
I tell I tell my right, football, but I'm never

(11:18):
sick of talking about football. And then people just start
talking about football, and that's fine with me. That's much better.
That's much better for you. I just tell people that
I'm a child mortician. Um. But she said she worked
She worked with Edward Staples at this new hip hop robber.
She they did a movie with him, and I was like,
do you mean Vince Staples And she's like, oh my god,
I called him Edward Staples from the entire shoots and

(11:39):
I was like, well, that's why you make things nice, woman.
It was really hard, by the way to find uh,
because I just got that that album I near recommendation
and it's great. Uh and uh it's very hard to
find even a nine second clip without an end bomb
or some swears or whatever. But that's this album, his
original mixtape, when the first mixed type he came out with,

(12:00):
I was on my favorites all to bring that in.
We'll play some jams. So let's talk a little headline.
So we have to start, you know, with the elephant
in the room, the big fat, steaming turd that the
Steelers put on the field last week against the Baltimore Ravens.
The rat Birds really there, arch rival the worst raven

(12:21):
season in I think forever, And somehow the Ravens are
going to come out of the season feeling pretty good
because they swept your Steelers, possibly knocking them out of
the playoffs. Mike Tomlin said Tuesday the Steelers this week,
they need to get the stench off of them after
that big loss to Riot mallet in the Ravens. Yeah,

(12:46):
I wish you didn't sound as happy as you do. Um,
it doesn't baffle me, like I like the Steelers. Fine,
I'm not against the Steelers. I'm enjoying the fact that
you're Yeah, I guess I'm enjoying the Yeah, totally, thank you, Brandon.
But I would think that if Greg and I weren't friends,
you would like the Steelers more like there's something there's
something that No, you've always hated them. See, that's not true.

(13:07):
I'm a big Ben Raethlisberger fan. Um. Out of these teams,
I certainly would rather see them in over the Jets.
I like them fine, plus plus the Patriots have kind
of had their number anyways. But you're you're right, I
it still gives me some happiness. I'll let you well. Yeah,
I mean, I know Ben won you over off the field,
but the Steelers lost the Ravens. It's it's they're a nemesis.
I mean, I hate them more than any of the team,

(13:29):
but I could reprospect them because they always do this
dust and the Steelers always kind of fold down the stretch.
You kind of hope your position for one seed, so
you only fall down to like a four seed before
the playoffs for them, like the fact that we were
like hanging on to six, I knew it's spelled trouble
for these two games. We always do this. We can't
be hanging around hoping for a six. We're gonna blow
a late game at least one. And Baltimore again is

(13:49):
our nemesis. They're just built to beat us no matter
how bad they are, you know, if they have an
awful season, like they're still just looking at us on
the schedule the entire year, and that a f C
North is so tough this week against Cleeve and I'm
worried about you know, it's like Boston College playing Notre Dame.
At the end of every season of college football. The
Notre Dame will be undefeated and BC will be like
four and seven and BC will still win. Like there's

(14:09):
no way BC should ever win. But those Dorgs are
like five against the Irish. I hate it. But the
Ravens this year, these weren't even the Ravens. This was
literally a guy who we were making fun of a
few weeks ago because he couldn't show up to a
plane on time and made up some nonsense, traffic excuse.
Ryan Mallett has barely been on the team, throwing two

(14:30):
other guys like Chris Gibbins, who's barely been on the team.
I went through their offensive roster and I think five
or six of you know, their main guys in that
game were literally not on the team in September. So
it's just this wacky team that John Harbaugh's put together,
and somehow the Steelers blew it. And I put it
more on the Steelers than giving the Ravens too much credit,

(14:50):
because Mike Tomlin does this every year. I mean, you
mentioned it the Ravens. Uh. Looking back in two thousand thirteen,
they lost to the Vikings, and the Raiders, who had
four and five wins, respectively, didn't make the playoffs. Uh.
In two thousand twelve, they lost to a number of
bad teams. For some reason. The Steelers always beat the
good teams, like they just did with the Bengals and

(15:11):
the Broncos, and then they blow it. They get over confident,
maybe too much celebration on the sidelines from their coaches
or something, and they lose to the terrible teams. That's
those are very underhanded. Dig I don't appreciate it. I
think it's just the way the NFL is, I mean
things with the Steelers, it happens more under the Mike
Tomlins Steelers. There's something to it and uh they act.

(15:31):
We actually talked to Ike Taylor about it when it
was happening on Sunday because I was on this NFL
Now show and he was just like, it's been happening
since Kauer was there, Like we always lose to the
bad teams. I don't know what it is, and I
think it's just they're always like a cocky, sort of
confident team. They don't stay maybe super grounded. So what
right when it's at the point where everything looks great,
it's like they kind of slip up. I don't know

(15:53):
if I agree with that, because I mean, you can't
get the only sixteen games in a season. You gotta
get up for every one of them. And the Steels
hate the Ravens. They wanted to beat the Ravens at home.
They wanted to embarrass them, and then it just fell apart.
Like I but I agree with you. We're much better
against good teams than we are against against the bottom feeders,
which is tough, but almost I would rather. I'd rather
be that than be a team that could only win

(16:14):
against the worst teams. I'd rather be a team that
that was amazing against the best of the best. But
wou'd fold sometimes, you know, we'll see I mean your team. Yeah,
your team didn't exactly help us out this week either.
People been trying to tell me to the core too
many clicks in the down, how my cities will now cool?

(16:34):
I was pushing T talking about just trying to find
a lyric ten seconds of a song without it's something objectional,
that's a push a T. The song is called Fifa,
my favorite song from his new album, which is a
great album, one of my favorite hip hop albums of
the year. Checkout Push a Tea. And we're allowed by
the NFL to play two songs uh every show up

(16:55):
to ten fifteen seconds something like that. Ten seconds and
then after that that's it. And so the rest of
the show we're gonna have NFL licensed, NFL commercially viable
music produced by Roger Goodell, Bruce by Goodell for Goodell,
and Brandon has picked that for us. We don't know
what he's gonna play, but he'll be playing that for
the rest of the episode, edited for Big Willie style

(17:17):
all in it. You know, I still have to love
of football, but you know, I'm not quite as up
and down like as I used to be as as
a Patriots fan, like the good the big games. Yes,
but a little bit of it, it's a little less.
I mean, I've noticed that a lot of your passion
has died out since you've gotten married. What is Christmas?
What is Christmas? Christmas? Is Chrismus Christmas? I wish I had.

(17:49):
I mean, of course that was Roger Goodell and uh
and a couple of kids, random kids off the street. Uh.
Goodell was singing a Christmas carols. He loves Christmas carols
even though he is very Jewish. Um. Uh, not true.
I should have said, I should have said, come on
with that hair. He should have said. I should have said,
no Christmas music after Christmas. But we're gonna, I'm I

(18:09):
gotta feeling we're gonna have a lot of Christmas music
coming up. When when you don't give Brandon any lines
to color, you know in between, he's just gonna go crazy.
See I thought that a different way I thought anything,
it's gonna be like, hey, he just did that. On Christmas,
he was feeling the Christmas spirit and decided to actually
make that on Christmas. You thought that I would think
that you were like getting ahead of the curve, and
on Christmas Day you started putting together music for the

(18:32):
podcast next week that Goodell was putting it together. Oh,
I thought, because that sounds like Goodell, Like like it
sounds like Goodell's earlier stuff. He was kind of more
crowd pleaser. Yeah, because he's gotten more experimental, as we'll
see I think later on in the show. Um, I'm surprised.
I'm very well good be Uh what's the next headline? Yeah,
we've been talking and I like it really to start

(18:54):
the day, it's like we're having real football talk, which
is a little different. Usually we just kind of picked
these wacky stories and your make can jokes. But you know,
we've been talking some real a f C playoff picture.
I'm sure one of the reasons I've gotten sick of this. Yes, Steelers,
Steelers of course need uh some help to get into
the playoffs this week. But now let's switch gears to
to some of those weird stories. Like last week, one

(19:15):
of my favorite stories was Johnny Hecker the Rams punter
took a cheap shot against one of the best pass
worshers in the league, Cliff Avril, on a special teams play.
Avril wasn't looking after Hecker punted. He just kind of
shoulders him and knocks him down and tries to be tough.
And then Avril, uh then kind of goes back at

(19:38):
him and Hecker next time, next time. Well, but even
on that play, Avril starts running after him immediately, and
Hecker cowers down. And then on the next play that
Hecker is down there, Avril he goes after Hecker a
little bit, has him just fall on the ground afraid.
And another one of his teammates, Michael Bennett, who's even bigger,

(20:01):
goes after a huge Michael, but and Ben it just
stands up, but it just kind of walks up as
if like, you know, what could happen? I mean, Benna
must have been dying laughing. Afterwards. The quote was that
they said that I got to hear they said that
he squealed like a little girl when he fell to
the ground. Of what so funny. Hecker is a great
name for punter. I love on punters when they when

(20:23):
they get tough with cheap shots his name. If a
punter makes like an awesome hit on like a kickback,
it's it's always pretty. But these aren't even like it
wasn't like he's really going after him with a cheap chat.
It's just kind of like pushing him from behind, and
like if you get pushed by anyone behind that blue,
you're not expecting you're gonna fall down. He he's not
even really going at him. I mean, not me. I've
got my center. Gravity's insane and no one could ever
knock me down. But this reminded me of my favorite

(20:44):
puncher story of all time. Greg. I'm gonna take you
all the way back to the legend, the legend of
a Pittsburgh master of punting named Josh Miller who started
playing for the Steels in ninety six. He the Steelers punter,
won the hearts of the city by getting in so
many fights in one game. Did he actually lost money

(21:06):
against the Oilers in Pittsburgh And anyone remembers this, you
can look it up. You got find more than his game.
Check here exactly he got into. He got in like
three fights in the game. We got kicked out, but
got fined like the got with like two or three
fines after him and lost money. And when Steelers people,
Steelers fans found that out, they worshiped him for that
because we didn't know it was possible. We didn't know

(21:26):
you could play the game and lose money playing it.
We loved him for like four or five years. When
they lost him, were like, what the hell? But it's like,
he's a punter, who cares? Was it he did he
have a did I think of another punter? Did he
have a drinking problem? You're thinking of Jeff Reed? Yeah,
he had a lot of crazy things going on to
what is it with the Pittsburgh I think special teams man,

(21:47):
they don't care Johnny Johnny Hecker though it cracks me up.
Someone went back and looked, and he's done this again
and again. He's gone after uh like a Saints defender.
In two thousand and thirteen, he went after one of
the Ravens players like this is his thing, is taking
little cheap shots, And the Ravens actually responded with the

(22:08):
tweet saying like, oh, I guess he got you too,
Cliff Avviell pointing out that he did it to one
of their safeties earlier in this year. I don't know
why Johnny Hecker thinks he can get away with this
that week after week, this spunner is just pushing down
bigger players, and then and then it doesn't have the
presence of mind to do anything but literally cower in fear,
like what did he expect was gonna happ thinks he
gets I think he gets caught up in the moment

(22:29):
he gets tough. I'm sure Jeff Fish is pumping him
up on the sidelines, you know, their defensive coordinators being like, hey,
do anything you can, it's illegal on the field, and
uh and uh, and he gets two pumped up. But
then when the reality faces him down, you know, I mean,
it's like, you talk a big game against me, but
if I actually stood up, if I stood up and
slapped the microphone away from your face, you'd be crying
like a little girl. That was again Roger Goodell with

(23:07):
the Roger Goodell Orchestra. And when I say the Roger
Goodell Orchestra, what I mean is, I don't know how
the technical term in music, but it's called layering, where
he's actually playing all the instruments in the orchestra and
singing all the parts. He doesn't just sing alto and
baritone and the other ones. Uh, there are four of them.
He sings them all, but he just lays him down
and loops and kind of puts it together. It's more

(23:28):
of a studio guy than really, because that's tough to
pull off live. You don't want to see him live.
Not want to see him live. It's it's it's a
little dicey. It's like going to see It's like I
want to see Morrissey. You never know what. You would
be a great show. He could be a little moody,
but that is a that is a good song. Next
is another big one of the big stories of the week.
Not a goofy one. Uh, but we're gonna make a goofy.

(23:48):
Peyton Manning is furious and disgusted over reports of h
G h US. Yeah. Al Jazeera America didn't undercover probe,
which posted on Sunday their entire documentary, although Huffington's post
kind of get a lead on it. They watched it
early and on Saturday night they posted, really a recap

(24:12):
of what you know was in this report. Now, Peyton
Manning really wasn't that big of a part of the documentary.
It was very small part, but he has the big
name and H G. H is involved, and that's what
you know, people really latched onto. And as part of it, uh,
there was essentially accusations from a guy that worked at

(24:33):
this clinic that he had been sending H G. Hum
to the Manning's house to Ashley Manning, Peyton Manning's wife,
and so that was the reason. You know, within twelve
hours of this coming out, Peyton Manning is on ESPN
with a furrowed brow in a long interview, getting very
upset about the allegations. There were statements from Manning and

(24:58):
the Broncos and cults for some reason, and you know,
all sorts of people. Ari Fleischer, this big pr executive type,
was releasing statements for Peyton Manning and that the stories
died away a little bit. His reaction that was very
was very strange. And the whole story with his wife
being involved a strange. I think it's it's a little strange.
The wife thing makes sense to me, you know, and
and we'll get the Peyton's interview in a second. The

(25:21):
wife thing, to me, it always creeps me out when
you see the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and they always
do a section where it's players and their wives. Like
it'll be a player in a swimsuit and his wife
in a bikini, and the wife is always jacked, like
prison yard jacked. And it's because of h G. Like
h G is a big thing in the world. I

(25:42):
don't know. Mark McGuire was one with his wife. I remember.
I remember. I remember Roger Clemens and his wife, and
his wife had like like these abs that were bigger
than anyone's biceps. It was crazy. And I think that
like the actress will use it, like Tom Cruise will
use h G H to get ready for a role.
Uh swept alone? What uses it all the time to
get ready for stuff? So actress will use it. And

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I think if you're a model, you can so I
will believe. I'll believe that the h G H was
going to his wife if she can point out the
photo shoot that she used it for, Like that's what
I would believe, because you look at Peyton Manning, you
know that's not h G H. That's sweet, that's sweet,
sweet Papa John's that's getting him through, that's getting him
through the season. It's not like he would remember when

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we had a broken neck at the time, by the way,
when he sat up for a year, when Ray Lewis
came back like like Jesus off the Cross from a
torn triestep in two weeks and the most like heaven,
like he had h G H written on his helmet,
and people just let it go. Last game. It didn't
matter at all Peyton Manning though, I mean, you wouldn't.
That's the thing is, I don't think people are even

(26:44):
that upset because you wouldn't necessarily blame him that much
when he's out for a year on four neck surgeries
to get a little help to recovery. There's an argument
to be made that you should just be allowed to
use it. I mean, in twenty years it will be
totally legal. It'll be like it'll be like Cortison shots.
I absolutely believe that once they figure out how safe
it is. But right now it is cheating. Uh. Here's

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the thing about the interview though, the interview that he
gave to ESPN, which I thought ESPN's journalistic integrity may
be a little suspect because the story had just broken,
but the documentary hadn't come out. It's like they showed
both sides. They just kind of Chopine. All of this
was off of what's ultimately like an aggregated report. Just bizarre.
It was an article, but it was just someone I

(27:25):
that watched it reported writing about it. But his he
was kind of mannic in the interview. He was clearly
not prepped. You know, he just kept saying the same
thing over and over again. He wasn't prepared. It wasn't
like a publicist read a statement. Would you would You
can never really believe. But it kind of reminded me
of Brady's interview right after the flate Gate when he
came out, when he was just seemed kind of like

(27:46):
just he seemed bothered. He seemed like he did too
much coffee and some He was clear that someone had
told him before you go out where this hat Tom
Brady because he's wearing like a stocking cap with a
little pomp pomp thing on it. I know, but it
looks ridiculouf. You're trying to say like I had nothing
to do with this. These accusations are basis. He just
looked stupid, but it seemed like maybe this will make

(28:06):
you look more casual. So it's like there's something there's
something almost uh deliberate in how unprepared he was. You
think Tom Brady went out of his way to look
like a twelve year old kid in a Christmas story
to somehow, I think was like, Thomas will help put
this on. I think if he was wearing like Peyton
was wearing, like googly eyeglasses, it would have been kind

(28:29):
of the same thing. I think Peyton Manning was almost
probably overprepared, Like I was convinced by him. But then again,
you know, the thing that that got me was he
was obviously ready for this and then some because within
within minutes practically of that just random blog post going up,

(28:51):
he had a statement. You know, we we weren't even
going to report on it. Uh, the NFL media wasn't
until Peyton Manning released his statement, because we're like, we
haven't seen anything. But suddenly Peyton Manning released his statement,
Denver Bronco's release his statement. Ari Fleischer is in the
mix as someone he's hired as a consultant. He has
this huge interview set up the next morning, and I

(29:12):
think it was all set up that, like he was
waiting for this to come for weeks and he was
ready to just battle it and weirdly. That's the thing
that makes me think, well that that just doesn't make
you look as innocent, you know what I mean, when
you're just that ready to just battle it. The other
thing that really made me laugh was he kept calling
the guy who made the accusations and then quickly recanted

(29:32):
the accusations. I mean, he's already recanted them. They were
they were taped on a on a you know, he
didn't know they were being taped. It was, you know,
an undercover operation, and he recanted what he alleged. But
he kept calling the guy over and over a slapstick
because he wanted to say slap, but he just decided
to change it. And that made me realize this is
all planned out, because you do not just start saying

(29:54):
slapstick over and over. He's like, I want to call
this guy a slap but I'm gonna call him a slapstick.
That doesn't work. He said it five times. Do you
think he was with this publicist being like, how about
slap because I've never heard anyone call that in my
entire life. That's a football It's a football word people love,
they called slappy's. I wish he had said slappy's slappy
would have been another thing. If you called him a
JABRONI that would have been great. The reason I'm not

(30:14):
that we're worried about the timing of Manning's like apology
and we're not apology, but denial is that if you
know two things about Peyton Manning, you know like a
throw touchdown passes, and he loves Al Jazeera. That was

(30:39):
Roger Goodell. If you if you've ever seen Goodell driving,
and then the first time I heard that song, I'll
tell the story. Goodell pulls up, he's bumping that hardcore.
I mean, he's got the base. It's I thought he
was gonna break a window. You would not believe how
many people get out of his car. And he finally
pulled up. I mean it was it was like a
whole roster. Did he recognize him? I didn't recognize any

(30:59):
of them. A lot of them looked at the same
they were both all they're alla to makeup. But but
one of them, one of them was the singer of Jaxeville.
Let's go, this is what you've done to us, And so,
by the way, with this music, it's your fault. Uh.
Tevin Coleman, the Atlanta Falcons back up running back got
a concussion last week and missed the Falcons game by

(31:22):
slipping in the shower, which sounds so terrible and uh
and so painful, you know what I mean. I mean,
that seems like the worst thing that could possibly ever
happen to you in a shower getting it does not
sound older right now. Um talking about like your fears
of slipping in the shower, Now, that's I'm afraid of
slipping in the shower. But it got me thinking. It

(31:44):
got me thinking of the worst moment that I've ever
had in the shower, and it was recently, and it
was it was I was, I have the liquid soap thing,
you know what I mean. You got the liquid soap
and the dispenser. Y, yeah, the dispenser and I squirted
it and it was like six thirty in the morning,
and for some reason that day, that thing just shot
out like a laser beam right into my eye and

(32:05):
it was it which sounds like, Okay, it's not a
big deal some soap community, right, But it felt like
I had been shot by like a like a sniper.
And it was in a cold, dark house at like
six ten in the morning where kids are sleeping and
I can't make a sound, so the pain is all mine.
I have to just like take it, and it was
it was tough. I had to step out. I had
to end the whole thing right there, like I really

(32:26):
wanted to cry, and it like stopped and and stopped
and just almost ruined my day for like minutes. I mean,
then it then it, then I recovered. It was okay.
It was a tough thing. I mean, these players go
through a lot, but it's a pretty bad ass how
you handled that eye full of axe body wash. But uh,
I mean I understand this. You know, you're running in
place in the shower like I do. I'm always burning calories.

(32:46):
Sometimes you slip, you get a concussion, you fall. I'm
just glad the protocol is there. This reminds me. I
want to talk a little bit about the movie. The
movie Concussion that sweeping the nation. Everyone's either talking about
Star Wars or Concussion, oftentimes in the same sentence. Uh,
kind of a big hit with people people. I mean,
it's it's made hundreds of millions of dollars dollars. It

(33:08):
couldn't I mean, this is Tevin Coleman story. Couldn't have
come in a worse time for the movie Concussion. But
I'd like to just talk about the movie a little bit.
I've seen it. How many times have you guys seen
it Concussion? I haven't seen it, Brandon zero times. It
seems crazy. I've seen it eight times. It's it's what
as we're taping. This is December thirty, so it's only
been out for five days. So I was. I was

(33:31):
at the premiere and then twice a day for a
couple of days, and then I just took some time off. Um,
it's it's great, but I didn't love it. I want
to I want to read a couple of reviews that
kind of sum up my feelings. And I'm play a
couple of clips from the movie. Let's let's play this
first clip from the movie. This is This is Will
Smith in in the movie Concussion. Welcome to Earth. See

(33:52):
that was that was Will Smith and the movie punches
a player in the head and then says welcome to Earth.
The players he's like, I've got a concussion. I don't
even know what planet I'm on, and Will Smith punches
him in the face and then says, welcome to Earth.
All right, This is why this is this This review
makes sense to me. Gene Siskel called the movie Concussion

(34:14):
a miscarriage of justice. If Lady Justice tried to have
an actual baby named Concussion. That's on the poster for
the movie Concussion. You know Brandon play will more clip
plane of the clip for me. I want to read
another quote, you know what the difference is between you
and me? I make this look good and not the

(34:39):
ridiculous scene from the movie where Will Smith is talking
to a play who had a concussion and the guys
complaining about how he's ruined his life. He doesn't he
can't talk to his family, he's drinking too much, he is,
he's having a problem, and Will Smith just puts on
sunglasses and kind of says, you know what the difference
between you and me? I make this look good? And
then it hits himself in the head with a hammer.
It's it's one of the weirdest moments from movie I've

(35:00):
seen all year. And this is why Roger Ebert said.
Roger Ebert said, if you can only see one movie
after you die, don't pick Concussion. I don't know why
I did that. Apparently that's one of the rules. Uh,
and Ebert picked concussion. He was upset about it. Um
play given to the clip Brandon from the movie. First

(35:22):
of all, I would like to reiterate that you make
one ugly womany what what an insensitive thing to say
to a player who is obviously going through a lot
at the time. The guy's in a hospital bed, and
and Wilsmith just walks and just says that out of nowhere,
which I think is why Stanley Coffman of The New
Republic a famous. Um, I don't know Stanley coffinan I

(35:44):
know Stanley Coffin is a fantash you've mentioned. Yeah, just gonna,
of course, legendary to this day. Stanley Coffman is a
hundred years old, still writing, still reviewing for The New Republic.
Uh said, it's like someone wiped my ass with a concussion.
And that was all he wrote. Like the title of
review was just the word this in all caps with
an arrow pointing down, like someone wiped my ass with

(36:07):
a concussion. Play, Brandon, play one more clip for me.
I want to play one more review. Don't never let
somebody tell you you can't do something, not even me.
All right, all right, now, this that was one of
the most unbelievable scenes in the movie. A player gets concussion.
He's on the sidelines, and Will Smith walks up and says,
you shouldn't play the game anymore. You should walk away.

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This isn't safe. And then the guy turns around. Will
Smith turns him back around and then delivers that quote.
He said that you should never let anyone tell you
what not to do, and even me. And then the
guy goes back on the field. He goes back on
the field, scores a touchdown and dies. That's that's what's
having you go back eight times despite these reviews. I mean,
you almost go you almost hate watching you know what

(36:49):
I mean. You're watching it like it's it's a lot
of people in the theater were laughing, but Pauling Kale
was not one of them. Pauling Kale, uh the famous,
the most famous critic and history said this, this is
our exact quote. More than I expected, more than anyone
ever expected. Concussion is filled with the sense of humor
that is both crude and rude, with jarring, jarring shifts

(37:10):
in tone. One moment, a doctor is seriously trying to
explain a medical condition to his patient, and the very
next scene the patient has taken off his diaper and
is beaten the doctor to death with the diaper, and
we don't even get to see it. The action happens
on screen and the audience is only informed for the
beating by two nurses, both of them football players, who
were then beaten to death by the diaper brands by

(37:31):
Mike Webster's ghost. A lot of spoilers. That was Roger Goodell.
Great thing about that song is that I remember when

(37:53):
he first wrote it. He was like, I don't know
who my muses yet. I don't know who I'm going
to get to sing it. I don't know who's going
to be glorious to fan, that's who was trying for
a while. I don't know who this girl is. Sounds
like a young Nina Cherry. But she was great. She
was really Uh she was she's the uh like Aaliyah
to his Timberland. Yes, yes, she died in a plane crash.

(38:16):
Speaking of concussions, Um and parts of the show that
might get headed out, Johnny manzel Um suffered a concussion
during last week's game and uh rough performance for for
Johnny in Kansas City, but he didn't know it until
Wednesday morning, he showed up uh not feeling well, reported

(38:37):
to the Browns. But that's not why we're talking about
him today. We're talking about the video again that came
out of him uh and his coach was forced to,
you know, answer questions about it that was posted on
on a website of him on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve,
you know, rapping and drinking for loco, which I believe

(38:59):
has been in I think at least it wasn't New York.
Definitely in New York. It's cool in Ohio. But either way,
you know, it seemed relatively harmless. But once again Johnny
Manzel questioned about his off field and Mike pett and
his coach has to answer questions about it, and he
should and I don't. I mean, when you publicly go
to rehab, you cannot be shown on video drinking. You
have to be a little better than that. He's clearly

(39:20):
at his house with like two friends, and I would
feel bad for him. I would legitimately feel bad if
it wasn't for the fact that in all of these
videos he is rapping directly into the camp. It's not
like someone's from the side, like, oh, Johnny is trying
to be careful, but somebody snuck like a picture. He
knows it's happening, he sees it going on, and he's involved.
He's like, I'm I'm not gonna be passive. I'm gonna

(39:41):
let everyone know that I like this song and that
I have a major drinking problem. I don't care who
knows about it. Please put it on camera. If I
was drinking, if you and I were drinking together and
we started rapping along to a song and you pulled
out your camera and put that away right now, going
to embarrass me. Plus it's for Loco. I mean, if
you're trying to that you're maturing, you're growing up, you're

(40:01):
ready to take care of the franchise. For Loco is
the last thing that that you would want to be drinking.
It's just like the most dufest thing possible. And and like,
don't you wish you loved something in the world. Like
as much as Johnny Manzel loves rapping into a camera,
he just loves it. That's damn right. I mean, that's

(40:25):
like that's his thing. I mean, he just he sees
that camera and he has to go straight to it.
That's why he's a star. That's what Johnny Johnny football
is a star. I wouldn't want to dance without you.
Without you, I would rather be alone and unless my
arms canna hold you, and I'm really it twiced as happy.

(40:52):
That was again Roger Goodell. That song. It's not a
popular song, but the video was popular. Remember the video
for that, the Goodell shot. Remember what was the name
of the the R and B star. He had an
album come out this past year. Um, but he was famous.
He had a vangel D'Angelo remember the famous How did
I get that from that description? Because you only know
three black people? Um? It was. It was just like
the d'angela video. But it's Goodell singing that song as

(41:13):
the camera kind of pans up and down. Edited because
parents just don't understand. But the camera, it just it
plays with the angles. It was. It was pretty. It
was pretty sexy. Maybe that'll get edited, but it was pretty.
It was pretty sexy. Brand then definitely showing off Goodell's
versatility today, a lot of different types of sounds. I mean,
I came to play. I know that Anthony needs everyone

(41:34):
to step up, So now I was giving Goodel credit,
I know, but I got with Goodell to make sure
that he puts out a masterpiece. Yeah, I feel like
you did get me about their president brand Kirk Cousins
this week helped the Redskins win the NFC East. But
really the most memorable thing he did was right before halftime.
They had six seconds to go. He was supposed to

(41:55):
throw I fade to the end zone. He inexplicably, instead
of throwing that pass, or at least just spiking the
ball and moving on to the next play, he inexplicably
took a knee and time ran out at the end
of the half. It was one of the most amazing,
just improbable, dumb things I've ever seen on a football FA. Yeah,

(42:16):
I took three points off the board for sure. Yeah, yeah,
or seven, but definitely three. I mean certainly three. That
was That was a give me field goal from there.
What I like about this? And you were like, should
we even talk about It's not that big a deal.
The fact that it's not that big a deal is
what's a big deal to me. Because they won the game.
Kirk Cousins is being praised. I've seen people be like, oh,
how amazing he didn't fall apart in the second half. Yeah, Like,

(42:38):
are you kidding? Me like that. I love about the NFL,
and I most sports in general, but definitely the NFL,
where if you make a bone head play and your
team still wins, you are forgiven across the board. Now,
can you think of any examples of someone making a
like just an idiotic play like on that level and
getting trashed for it when they still won the game.
People remember Garrow? Garrow, You're premium. He was the kicker

(43:03):
in the Dolphins perfect season. I believe that, uh you know,
he fumbled. He fumbled the field goal and then he
tried to get up and just throw the ball, but
it slipped out of his hands and the other team
returned it for a touchdown. I think that was a
super Bowl they at that at that point, I believe
they had a shutout and it was their perfect season,
and so they were gonna have a shutout in their
perfect season. And still to this day, his teammates talked

(43:24):
trash about him for doing that, So people remember that.
I feel like that's more of a leon Let, How
about leon Lett? That's true, leon Lett, I think, but
but leon Lett. I mean in the Super Bowl, Don
Beeby knocks the knocks the ball out of his hands.
And he's about across the end zone. I think he
got more crapped for that because of the Dolphins game
where he screwed out he screwed the Cowboys out of
it again. Yeah, and he's it was like it was

(43:44):
a double thing. And the name leon Lett just sounds
like you want to make fun of him. What I mean,
if someone else had done that, I don't know if
they would have gotten as much goff. Well, you're right.
I always used to think about this. One part of
my job for Rhoda World. My old job was, you know,
reading every newspaper article essentially about its team, and if
you won, all four or five of them are totally
positive and extolling the virtues of everything that happened well

(44:08):
that day, and if you lost, all five of them
are negative and just hammering or picking on, you know,
whatever went wrong, and there was no in between, like
there's no recognition of it was close. Some things went
pretty well, but it was just unlucky that they lost
or whatever. When luck means so much, there's like no gray,
it's just all black and white. Who wasn't had to
quote He was like, if you listen to people up

(44:28):
in the stands, pretty soon you'll be sitting with him.
It was a coach. I don't know if it wasn't.
It sounds like a Parcel's type thing to say a
basketball couldn't like a pat Riley. But whatever it was,
it's clear that your job is pointless. Wow. Wow. That

(44:55):
was a part of Roger Goodell's techno Bathtime. That was
a huge, huge the kids, Um god, that was I mean,
that was that's a bad song and they were like,
you know what we need is a little bit laughter,
a little bit of laughter. Um, here's that. That album
was really like his uh his eight oh eights in Heartbreak,
you know what I mean that contin Condie came out

(45:15):
with that and it totally changed, you know, the momentum
of what he was doing. A lot of people were
just like, what is this Rodrigodell? But now people look
back on it and think that's Oh it's glad as
his mom just died. Um next up, next story is
about It's about family. Too edited for your home, Smell

(45:37):
you later. Oh, I've been looking for kind of the
origin story of why You're such a jerk for fifteen
years and now I know it. That was another uh
cut off of bathtime with Goddell. I wish you'd left

(45:59):
to play a little long because when the when the
beat drops out, it is the beat drops in. I
don't know, I don't know this kind of music, but
whatever happens is magical. Yeah, great song to dance too.
Here's our last headline. This is a long show. Yeah,
it really is. Well, we can cruise through the rest.
But there's lots of good stuff to talk about this week,
including Eric Wettele, the Charger's safety who just started mentioning

(46:21):
before his daughter, uh was getting down, you know, speaking
a great dancing at halftime of the Chargers game over.
I think it was a week and a half third
last game, which was two weeks ago now, but it
just came out in the in the news that wet
All was fined by the team ten thousand dollars for
conduct uh dnri beats to the team, essentially for not

(46:44):
going in with the team to halftime because he wanted
to watch his daughter. And there there's a little bit
of a backstory here. They he's been mad that they
haven't offered him a new contract. He's a five time
All Pro. Uh, he's you know, been there a long
time and it's it's kind of they're gonna have a
divorce and it's getting a little messy. He wanted to
watch his daughter perform at the last time they were

(47:05):
ever going to be playing there, and they find him
ten thousand dollars. Not only that, they've stuck him on
injured reserve this week and won't allow him to travel
to their last game. So there's a lot going on here. Uh,
and it's it's to me, it's such a jerk move.
I mean, how much time are you ever going to
have to see your daughter perform at an NFL halftime show?
He knows it will never happen again in San Diego
and that they're about to leave town after being there

(47:28):
ten years, And it seems very petty by the Chargers. Yeah,
but in their defense, his daughter's dancing was garbage. Uh,
we're even hiding that that was great. That was that

(47:49):
was Goodell hitting us with the funk. A lot of
people kind of were mad at him for doing that voice.
But I think, you know, if the song calls for,
the song calls for, and Goodell nailed it. Let's take
it into recommen dation station greg Our weekly feature where
we recommend something. Yeah, we recommend something. Usually we try
to pick up I try to make us stick to
a topic, either books or movies or TV shows whatever.

(48:10):
I don't even care about any of that. All I'm
recommending right now is Hatefulate. The movie The Hatefulate is
so good. If you're listening to this podcast, you will
be a fan. I would. I mean, I can't believe
any women would want to see this movie. It's a
very It's one of the most masculine movies that's ever
been made. More than Yes, more than kill Bill because
that's like about like a daughter like this is and

(48:32):
even though Jennifer Jason Lee's and maybe one of the
best performances in the movie. It is such a great
badass western that and the revenue coming out like they
did together is unprecedented. But go see The Hateful Anything
anything bad you've heard about it is a lie. It's incredible. Greg,
What do you got? I'm gonna go with three things
that are connected. They all led to each other. For me,

(48:53):
I watched Listen Up Philip before you but you know
before what you do? This is one of the reasons
that I want to quit the podcast. But go ahead,
what go ahead? A time. What's one of the reasons
I'm not taking my time. Uh, listen up Philip on
Amazon that I don't know how that fell under the radar.
That's an incredible movie. Jason Schwarzman's such a jerk and
it he's so great. It's probably my favorite role he's
ever done. The whole movie. It's it's a little offbeat,

(49:16):
but it's it's enjoyable. I agree. I like the movie
a lot, but I it's hard to recommend to people
because I mean from me anyway, because I can see
someone not like but I'm not surprised. So that got
me in the mood a little bit to read some
Philip Roth. If you're a Philip Roth fan, you'll especially
love that book because it was a movie that was
sort of based on him, yet it really wasn't. But
if there was a book it was based on, it
was probably The Ghostwriter by Philip Roth, which is one

(49:36):
of my favorite books by his. So I went back
and read that book. That's a great book. And in
that book he imagines that Anne Frank lived and ended
up moving to uh America. I'm not really giving anything
away here, and Uh became, you know, a writer essentially,
and it's one of my favorite Philip Roth books, and
it it got me thinking, I've never read the Diary
of Van Frank. I know this is a very weird recommendation,

(49:59):
but the Diary a Van Frank. I decided to read
that after reading the Philip It's an amazing book. It's
one of those things that people recommend to you in
school and you're like, okay, I guess I never got
I never I was forced to read it in school.
I just seemed like one of those things you would
never want to read. Like, it's an incredible book and
incredibly written. It's very positive. Actually it's not a hard
I mean it's a little bit of a downer, of course,

(50:20):
but it's very positively and she's like an incredible writer
just as a piece of art. I recommend it very highly,
even as an adult. Yes, that is shocked. That's what
I'm saying. No one would ever say that, So someone's
got to say it. I'm you're giving me the one
to back. She's got a museum. Like if everyone has
talked about Anne Frank and you're but you're the one
who's uh taking a stand against the Nazis, Greg, I'm

(50:41):
saying I'm saying no, I don't. I don't hear people
are really talking about as like that's that's something that
they would actually enjoy it reading. It's just something like
everyone says they read or whatever. I never I never one.
It's a it's a really great book. I've got it
on tape. God, that was so good. That was that

(51:09):
was again? That was Roger Goodell. Uh. That's like when
you that's the kind of song that you play when
you're a little bit closer to Jacksonville, you know, and
when you're like when you're about like fifteen miles away
and you just want to chill before you really the
fireworks really kick off, you play that. What's the name
of that song? Branded I can't really release it. Okay, Okay,
that's a good improv. Let's go, what's the next grec Uh,

(51:30):
Let's ask Anthony. Of course, Malcolm mc sween uh asked
their question this week, so thanks malcolm. Uh. He asked Anthony,
if you could do the color announcing for a football game,
not uh, the women's beach volleyball that have Brandon does,
but if you could do color announcing for a football game,
who do you want doing the play by play. Oh,

(51:53):
that's I would love to do color announcing for game.
I'm sure the NFL makes that happen at some point
I could. I would definitely be better than Tony Siragusa,
who I like but do not enjoy watching him on television.
I would want in the booth, definitely. I'd want Dennis Miller.
I'd want Tony corn Haiser. I want those two up there.
If you get that dream team together, that would be incredible.
And then Greg Rosenthal. I think if I'm gonna be on,

(52:14):
if I'm gonna be working with with the league, I
want Greg Rosenthal to be a part of it. And
you actually did some commentary on football games for T Lane.
I don't know if you know I remember that. I've
never listened to them, but I remember you would talk
about it. But I always liked your joke that you
would do where anytime a player was a fifth year
senior you would describe you would say, must be an
architecture major. I thought that was a great running gag

(52:37):
that you should have gotten in trouble for and did not.
I had a lot of running gags because they only
showed it during the it was on tape delay. You know,
we'd recorded during the game, but then it would just
be on student television during the week. So Brandon, you're
not the only UH color announcer that ever did it
two lane green ways. I think Brandon prefers African American announcer.
Is that what I prefer? Yes, listener of the week

(52:59):
and I tunes this week, uh is from the empty
She's saying, could be my favorite podcast. I listened to
a lot of podcasts, most of our comedy, music or sports,
but this has it all. It's very rough around the
edges with a capital vary and it's completely flawed in
almost every way. It's perfect. My favorite part is wondering

(53:21):
if they're gonna get canceled. Don't change a thing. Touchdown, touchdown,
and there we go. That's our listener of the week.

(53:42):
That was awesome. That was awesome. That was like, I
think that was Goodell's uh. He calls that song stepping
through a waterfall, which is which is just badass, Like
the steam is rising up, but you can just see God.
I love I love when he goes, when he goes,
when he mixes genres. Everything was coming together for him
at that point in his career. It was kind of

(54:03):
the commercial, the art. It was all happening. Um, just
like it's all happening for our hot take of the week,
usually my uh my corner of the show where I, I,
you know, take someone to task for their opinion that
I don't necessarily agree that you had a really passionate

(54:24):
feeling this week. Yeah, I think that this the hot
take that the hot take that I loved this week
was from the wife of Dolphins cornerback Brent Grimes. His wife,
Miko Miko Grimes went to Twitter, went to her private
Twitter account. I don't know how these got out, went
to a private Twitter account and had some opinions, had

(54:44):
some hot takes that were hilarious, absolutely hilarious. Greg, we're
running on time. Just try we got plenty of time
picks up podcast. Yeah, we sure. I was just trying
to keep things flowing. See how many of these that
you can read? Read me some your favorite tweets for
Mico Grimes hot takes. Okay, well, first she's talking about

(55:05):
um three reporters on the that cover the team, the
Triple as Armando, Andrew and Adam Edited from Miko Grimes
getting grimy. That's that's a good one. So according to
these boys y'all call reporters, the d has to hold
teams the twelve points per games since that's what our

(55:25):
offenses offense averages lately. Uh. She said, I should have
known we were gonna lose. This is my favorite one
and this one can absolutely stay in the podcast. Is
no swearing in it at all, but it's actually the
most cutting. I should have known we were gonna lose
when I heard we didn't sink complete a single pass
in two minute drills this week against the practice squad defense.

(55:47):
So good. Here's why I love this hot take for
these hot takes from Miko Grimes is that Mico was
throwing everyone under the bus. She's throwing reporters in the bus,
She's throwing her quarterback under the bus. She's throwing her
own own team under the bus, and her husband because
no one sees that and thinks anything other than her
husband told her about practice and she's going out and
tweeting it. She knows she's getting him in trouble. I

(56:08):
I love this. I love when wives just completely act
out and and kind of lose their minds and get
their husbands in trouble. Because no one knows what to do.
If Miko was his girlfriend should be gone. No one
and no one on that team, or at least Brent
Grahmes seems to care. This morning, Wednesday morning, he did
an interview and everyone's been asking about this. They're calling

(56:28):
him Miko Gate in Miami. First of all, Ryan Tannehill
made this really serious, uh comment that it's a distraction
to him and the team. So he joins now Kirk
Cousins and Andy Dalton has quarterbacks. That just, oh, that
is such a reveal for Ryan Tannehill. Yeah, do not
do not talk like that, Brent Tanheill. I just Brent

(56:50):
Grimes this morning. So he was getting interviewed by the
team and like all the other guys around him were
just like laughing and cracking up, and some were taking
seal fees of themselves because they thought this whole topic
was so ridiculous. And the team actually posted the interview
on their website before realizing there was a disaster, and

(57:10):
then took it down after like ten minutes. This all
that says to me is that Mico Grimes must be
smoking hot. That was a b side from Goodell. That
was kind of an earlier track. I think that turned
into something later on. I think that's like an early cut.

(57:32):
It's kind of like a on the double album. Kind
of sucks though, that he got a phone call during
the song. Did you hear that? Kind of sucks? You
made a joke during my podcast. Oh that's the hot stuff.
That's a Mico Grimes level stuff. I mean, Miko had
some other hat ones. I was almost I was just
ready to give him out. I couldn't have predicted that.
But you can't predict predictions. Let's get into that. This

(57:56):
this new segment of predictions I have. It's called Guess What.
Um Greg's gonna do a couple of three or four
predictions and I'm going to, Uh, I'm gonna tell you
to guess what. I'm gonna start with the Chargers. Broncos
go big early in this segment. I think this is
the upset of the week. I think the Chargers, who

(58:17):
have been playing great defense lately, no one's noticed over
the last month, given lots of teams problems. I think
they're gonna go into Denver. I think they're gonna win
the game. At the very least, they're gonna scare Denver.
That they might have to lose the a f C
West and the Chiefs sneaking the back door end up
winning that division because the Charges pull it off in Denver.
You know, everyone is saying that Green Bay is gonna

(58:38):
take out Minnesota. But guess what edited from Miko Grimes
being a little to Miko, which is why people still
get confused to this day. Did Jesus have a twin brother?
We may never know, but we'll probably know sooner than
you think. Vikings win. And what's gonna make it out

(59:01):
of that? The Patriots and the Jets, I mean, and
the Dolphins are playing this week. Patriots need to win
in Miami to lock up the number one seed. Very
banged up right now. But as Miko Grimes has pointed out, uh,
this team is just dying. Another one of my I'll
just let Miko take the words from here. Here's one
more tweet from her my column that's really cracks my column.

(59:22):
How many people does Ryan Tannehill have to get fired
before you realize he's the problem. He's gonna get more
people fired this week Patriots win thirty seven to three.
I like that. Miko Grimes Twitter account is at my heart.
Miko anyways, Yeah, go on, it's guess what. Please read
that last one, all right, last last Miko Grimes. It's

(59:44):
like Tannehill drops the drop of in y'all mouth like
a mother feeding her baby birds in her nest. I
love it. And then she has the emojis, the crying
emojis when people like they want to have characters through
laughing at the joke. It just had I think that's
fun um. All right. All the so called experts are

(01:00:04):
saying that Atlanta is going to ride their momentum and
take out New Orleans. But guess what Now that fewer
and fewer people are choosing to smoke cigarettes, this is
your time to shine. By cartons of them and throw
them wherever. Don't worry. People know it's you. You're the man.
You've got it and by it I mean m and
where I'm from. You smoke, you got them. Game ends
in the tie by third game Seahawks and Cardinals. Uh,

(01:00:30):
big game. You could argue these are two of the
best three teams in the entire NFL. I know, the
Seahawks just had a bad loss. Not a lot at
steak for the Seahawks, a lot at steak for the Cardinals.
Who's still going after that number one seed? And I
think the Cardinals, as I've said on this program, or
the best team in the league. I think they're gonna
go into the playoffs on a ten game winning streak
and take care of business over Seattle at home. You know,

(01:00:52):
everyone and their mother believes that Washington is gonna be
Dallas this week. But you know why they play the
games right? For statistics. It's not money. Sure, they pay
these guys to practice and work out in the off season,
but everyone plays the game for the stats. Who can
write down the most stats? Me over here, I'll do it.
Not so fast, interception, just another stat no idea. Who's

(01:01:13):
gonna win this game? Too close to even predict? Wow? Uh,
your predictions just getting worse and worse as we go. Uh.
The Jets and the Bills. Uh this week? Could the
Jets actually open up the door for Seattle, I mean
Pittsburgh to get into the place. I think they could.
I think the Bills are gonna scare them. You're gonna

(01:01:34):
be watching this game. You're gonna be watching the Steelers,
and the Jets are gonna win at the very end.
On another Ryan Fitzpatrick late drive. I think it's gonna
be a really good game. It's gonna be a tense,
fun Sunday afternoon early games. Yeah, I'm gonna be I'm
gonna be getting drunk at ten I am. I'll tell
you that right now. Will you be here? Will you
be here at the network up? Yes? Watch the game?
Can I come here? And if I came, if I

(01:01:55):
showed up with like a case of for local, would
they let me just watch games? If they would let
you on the old the NFL now catch and you
can drink for a local on that, I think they've
drank on that, you really could. A lot of people
think the Steelers are gonna beat the Browns and stay
in the race for the final wild card spot in
the a f C. But guess what, chicken button Steelers
winning a blowout. Goodell wrote that, Now, Greg, before we leave,

(01:02:28):
this has been a long one. I'm sure we have
to edit out huge chunks of this, giant swaths of
the podcast this week. But before we go, I want
to take a little time. How our presence aside? How
are my god kids? How are your son and daughter? Walker?
And ellis doing well? You made a big impression on them.
When you came over for Christmas. Happy Yeah high in

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